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After fireworks erupted between Deacon and Rayna's husband Teddy (Eric Close), the singer began to march down the worst-case scenario -- firing her longtime bandleader, whom she clearly still has feelings for.
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The Hollywood Reporter: What kind of fallout will there be from Deacon and Teddy's issues?
Charles Esten: For the first time, Deacon and Rayna don't have each other in the way they have had before. It won't stay that way forever, I'm sure. Deacon knows what Rayna's facing and what she has to do but he's angry now and he's been hurt a little too much recently. Deacon has enough pain, damage and demons -- even with Rayna -- and she's always helped him keep those in place and since he got clean, he's been able to keep that at bay. But without her, he's going to slip and go to a darker place than he's been at in a while. This episode is great because Deacon is two people: who you want to be and who you find out sometimes that you are. The best of Deacon can come out and is right there for who needs him -- he's loyal and cares -- then the worst of Deacon is that darkness and that self-destructive side.
How will Deacon begin setting boundaries with Rayna?
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I'm certain. They're just laying out the cards and peeling back the layers of what's gone on for them as individuals and as a couple. It's exciting to see what's buried in everybody's pasts. Everyone has things haunting them; it's country music, you have to write from some place of pain and everybody has some of that.
In the pilot, there's a definite vibe that one of Rayna's daughters might belong to Deacon. Anything you can tease there?
I was taken off-guard by that as everybody else. They're keeping us in the dark on that. That could be there and when you get the kids involved, that's going to be really difficult; Rayna and Deacon don't want them to get hurt and that's what Rayna is trying to do: navigate all this without causing more pain because she's received some from her parents. She doesn't want to pass that on because she has feelings that are eating her up for Deacon.
How will Rayna respond to learning that Deacon is seeing Juliette?
She can't say much, she's married! She always expects more out of Deacon and thinks so little of Juliette even though Deacon has gotten to know her. She has layers and Rayna hasn't even seen Juliette's heart yet and she has talents and gifts that right now seem very pop and bubble-gummy but she's got a deeper part that she's about to tap into in her writing and performing. Rayna doesn't understand it yet and it's a strange but interesting dynamic between Juliette and Deacon.
There's the self-destructive part of it and then the heart wants what it wants. There's a line in the first episode that says, "There's only one thing that was ever going to make me happy and I lost that a long time ago." That's where he is; he's given up on the booze, pills and he's filling it with other things that are maybe not the best for him but Deacon has got to do something to get by (laughs).
How will his decisions impact his future?
The trick and wisdom is making those changes from the past so they don't lead you around. Right now, he's still under the influence of an awful lot and he hasn't processed and knows the language of healing but clearly hasn't done it all.
Rayna nixes a co-headlining tour with Juliette. How will Deacon play a role in getting them out on the road together?
Deacon's role and impact with Rayna has been receded but he will be part of their lives but won't be pivotal in making them work it out. Whether they do or not, they're grown women and they'll find their way to or from each other.
Is Deacon is a weak person or is he a stronger character than what we've seen so far?
There's something he's strong about -- if you need help, protection or something like that, he'll be there and be strong. But as Oscar Wilde says, "I can resist anything but temptation." That's a little bit Deacon. There are things that he should stay away from and doesn't and he has a weakness for things and certain people.
What's been his favorite song so far, or is it yet to come?
It's hard to chose but I confess I love the duets like "Undermine" with Hayden and "No One Will Ever Love You" with Connie because you're always acting as well but especially when you're singing across from somebody, we get to say so much more in the song than we do in the scenes.
Has he seen reaction to the show in Nashville since it started airing?
More and more we're starting to see that. This is a friendly town anyway but the great part is we feel as though we've gotten the approval. People come up and say they were worried about how we were going to portray Nashville and they now seem to not only approve of it but are very excited by it all. They've always known they have a great city but now they get to see just how beautiful it is. A bunch of us went to the CMAs and that was an experience; when you see some of the actual artists and they enjoy the show as well. Kelly Clarkson tweeted she was a big fan of Nashville and someone said John Taylor from Duran Duran.
A lot of music business insiders say Nashville is the closest a show has come to what working in the industry is really like. What examples have you experienced when changes were made for authenticity?
What kind of direction do the actors get during musical segments?
The direction we get is from the scene they set and they set it so authentically and intimately and small that if you have any inclinations to get big and showy, you're already going to feel it yourself that that doesn't fit. What I found about Nashville coming in is it's about these small performances. It can be on a big stage but detailed, small, heartfelt, real performances from musicians and singers. So if you try to do something bloated or showy, the directors dial us in and let us know.
Is there a trick to lip-synching convincingly?
(Laughs) No, you just know the song really well. If you know your song extremely well, like a song you hear on the radio, you sing along to it so well you don't even think about the fact that you're matching it up. The biggest trick is that it isn't hard when you love the song to get to know it.
What are you looking forward to seeing for Deacon? Are you Team Rayna or Team Juliette? Hit the comments with your thoughts. Nashville airs Wednesdays at 10 p.m. on ABC. | 2019-04-24T16:02:43 | https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/nashville-charles-esten-deacon-387330 |
0.999998 | Help me identify an obscure 50s/60s sci-fi movie?
This was an amusing little B-movie on a rainy weekend when I was a kid, but I have only one really specific memory by which to search for it.
This was a black and white, super low-budget film (more on that in a second), and I would put its production somewhere in the late 50s or early 60s. The setting for this film was not quite dystopian, but did suggest a present/near-future in which there had been significant radiation accidents that led to mutated creature(s?) terrorizing ordinary folks somehow.
That could probably be dozens of movies, I know. Here's the specific part. As it dawns on two of the characters how serious things are and what's really happening, one of them admits that he worked for the military on some atomic weapons research. Different animals had been exposed to heavy doses of radiation and morphed into monstrous shapes. The ex-military guy says that they were not allowed to take pictures of the creatures, but they were allowed to draw sketches, and - what luck! - he has those sketches with them. ("Why would they let you draw sketches if they...never mind...") We are shown a series of them with ominous music going in the background. But the sketches are terrible. They're clearly rough concept art that had been pitched for the movie, but which the super-low-budget could not realize. At best, they look like an elementary school kid's sketchpad before learning about perspective or anatomy. So, unintentionally hilarious, but cheesy and fun.
Do you recall what any of the monsters that appears in it were / looked like?
Not really, aside from big buggy-eyes and lots of extra limbs.
Elements of Tarantula (1955) here, but I'm not confident that's it - did you see this in the US?
Yes, in the US. And an American cast, which I presume would imply an American crew and production.
Downl...uh, buying a copy of Tarantula now.
No, in the end, it wasn't Tarantula. Thanks for the suggestion, ryanshepard. | 2019-04-20T19:19:10 | https://ask.metafilter.com/331059/Help-me-identify-an-obscure-50s-60s-sci-fi-movie |
0.999718 | ...there is conjecture that Obama is ready to let Iran keep its nuclear capabilities in return for Tehran's aid in cutting back its subversive role in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen and elsewhere in the Middle East and beyond.
But what if Israeli intelligence has now uncovered the final terms of the nuclear agreement being concluded by Washington and Tehran? And what if that deal is an American capitulation to Iran allowing the Ayatollahs to preserve their facilities for breaking out for A-bombs? After the US has agreed to lifting the economic sanctions and allowing Iran to get back on its feet, there is conjecture that Obama is ready to let Iran keep its nuclear capabilities in return for Tehran's aid in cutting back its subversive role in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen and elsewhere in the Middle East and beyond.
This would be an Obama attempt for a short term gain - allowing him to reach 'a peace in HIS time' with Iran until he leaves office. But this would be at the cost of a long term strategic blunder as a whole, while also putting Israel in peril. It would be tantamount to a twenty-first century Munich.
Take this one step forward: Israel would then have to decide whether to go it alone and attempt to destroy Iran's facilities. The Jewish state, even including its Left wing leaders such as Yitzhak Rabin and Ehud Barak, concurred that the Jewish people must 'never again' be faced with a second Holocaust. If an Obama sell-out to Iran is in the works, Netanyahu has made clear that he would follow the preventative strike policy of the Likud's Menachem Begin in destroying Saddam Hussein's nuclear facility in 1981, and Left-winger Ehud Olmert in 2007, who reportedly ordered the Israel Air Force to bomb the secret reactor that North Korea was building for Syrian President Bashar Assad.
If this scenario is true, Netanyahu might be planning to reveal to the U.S. Congress its secret intelligence about the nuclear deal with Iran. Perhaps he is still hoping that it's not too late to persuade America not to capitulate. Otherwise what is the alternative? Israel will be faced with going it alone. I, for one, believe there would be an Israeli consensus for attacking Iran to prevent Iran from going nuclear. In other words, Netanyahu may be going to Washington to stop Israel from launching a necessary pre-emptive military strike to prevent Iran from producing nuclear weapons.
If this scenario is true...Netanyahu may be going to Washington to stop Israel from launching a necessary pre-emptive military strike to prevent Iran from producing nuclear weapons.
But what of the argument that Iran's moderate President Hassan Rouhani is not just a smiling con artist out to dupe Obama, but is really succeeding in guiding Iran on a more moderate track. Nearly all the experts agree that Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and the Revolutionary Guards are still calling the shots. Just look at the new Iranian budget - even though the sanctions have caused economic hardship, food subsidies, and civilian services have been further slashed, the military budget, particularly for the hard line Revolutionary Guards, has been sharply increased.
"The Americans are begging us for a deal at the negotiating table."
This jibes with the statement of a senior administration official, who actually disclosed after the President's re-election. that a deal with Iran would be the crowning glory of Obama's second term. What kind of message did that send to the Iranians about Obama's eagerness for a nuclear accord?
What is also apparent is that Iran, although suffering from the current sanctions, has still not budged an inch on its nuclear weapons facilities. They insist on maintaining their centrifuges for producing enriched uranium, have barred UN inspectors from their nuclear testing sites such as Parchin, while their long-range missiles for nuclear warheads are off limits.
U.S. should walk away from Iran negotiations?
Writing in the National Interest Magazine, Tom Nichols, Professor of National Security Affairs at the U.S. Naval War College contended that it's time to call it quits. His article is entitled: "Enough is Enough: Time to Ditch the Iran Nuclear Talks"
"It's time to walk away from the Iran negotiations. They have failed in their purpose and they are putting stress not only on our alliances, but on our own politics, beyond whatever worth there may be in a nominal deal at this point. We had one goal - to extinguish Iran's ability to build a nuclear weapon - and we will not achieve it. Is the 'process' really worth the price now?"
Nichols then provides a critique of where the U.S. has gone wrong in coping with Iran and what it should do now. Worth reading. | 2019-04-18T23:13:16 | http://www.isracast.com/article.aspx?ID=1601&t=IS-NETANYAHU-GOING-TO-WASHINGTON-TO-PREVENT-ANOTHER-MUNICH |
0.999997 | How do I open a screw down caseback?
Opening the back of the watch is simple as long as you have the right tools for the job.
You can tell if a watch has a screw-down caseback by looking at the back of the watch. If the caseback has notches evenly spread out on the back of the watch, then you know that the watch has a snap-down caseback.
Before you start, you may need to remove the watch band/bracelet so that your tools can fit on the watch back.
Place the watch case on a secure surface to prevent it from moving by using a watch holder or similar device to protect it and hold it steady during your work.
Make sure the case wrench fits securely in the notches of the caseback. Using your thumb screw control between the tips, open the wrench's notches wider than the case of the watch. Then, with one finger on the notch, tighten the wrench until both tips fit snuggly in the notches of the caseback.
When your fingers are securely in place on the watch caseback notches, you can begin to unscrew the watch back. Grip the watch holder to keep it from moving and begin turning the case wrench counter-clockwise to open the watch case.
Once the case back has been significantly loosened, you can remove the wrench and lift the back off with your fingers. | 2019-04-25T13:49:57 | https://help.jomashop.com/articles/7159-how-do-i-open-a-screw-down-caseback |
0.998 | Radiation therapy uses high-energy x-rays to kill tumor cells. Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as etoposide, carboplatin and cisplatin, work in different ways to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing. It is not yet known which radiation therapy regimen is more effective when given together with chemotherapy in treating patients with limited-stage small cell lung cancer. This randomized phase III trial is comparing different chest radiation therapy regimens to see how well they work in treating patients with limited-stage small cell lung cancer.
OUTLINE: This is a 2-part, multicenter, randomized study. Patients are stratified according to gender, weight loss 6 months prior to study entry ( 5% of body weight vs > 5% of body weight), ECOG performance status (0 vs 1 vs 2), radiotherapy technique (intensity-modulated radiotherapy vs 3-dimensional conformal radiotherapy), radiotherapy start time (at first cycle of protocol chemotherapy, after one cycle of prior non-protocol chemotherapy vs at first cycle of protocol chemotherapy, without prior non-protocol chemotherapy vs at second cycle of protocol chemotherapy, without prior non-protocol chemotherapy) and chemotherapy backbone: carboplatin vs cisplatin.
To determine whether administering high dose thoracic radiotherapy, 70 Gy (2 Gy once-daily over 7 weeks) or 61.2 Gy (1.8 Gy once-daily for 16 days followed by 1.8 Gy twice-daily for 9 days), will improve median and 2-year survival compared with 45 Gy (1.5 Gy twice-daily over 3 weeks) in patients with limited stage small cell lung cancer.
Arm I: Patients undergo standard-dose (45 Gy given in 30 treatments) thoracic radiotherapy twice daily, 5 days a week, for 3 weeks. Patients also receive cisplatin IV on day 1 or carboplatin IV and etoposide IV on days 1, 2, and 3.
Arm II: Patients undergo higher-dose (70 Gy given in 35 treatments) thoracic radiotherapy once daily, 5 days a week, for 7 weeks. Patients also receive cisplatin or carboplatin and etoposide as in arm I.
Arm III: (discontinued as of 03/10/13) Patients undergo mid-dose (61.2 Gy given in 34 treatments) thoracic radiotherapy once daily, 5 days a week, during the initial 16 days (approximately 3 weeks) of treatment and then twice daily, 5 days a week, for the final 9 days (approximately 2 weeks) of treatment. Patients also receive cisplatin and etoposide.
In all arms, treatment with cisplatin and etoposide repeats every 21 days for 4 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
Part 2: An interim analysis was conducted after accrual of 30 patients per arm and one experimental arm based upon a comparison of treatment-related toxicity was selected. The most toxic experimental arm was discontinued, and the trial continues comparing standard therapy (arm I) to the selected experimental regimen (arm II) as described in part 1. Please see the Arms section for more information regarding Part 2.
Prophylactic cranial irradiotherapy (PCI): Within 3-6 weeks after completion of chemotherapy, PCI should be offered to all patients with a complete tumor response (CR) or near complete response (nCR) with only residual chest abnormalities of indeterminate nature following completion of combined modality therapy.
After completion of study treatment, patients are followed up at least every 3 months for 2 years, every 6 months for 3 years, and then annually for 5 years or until disease progression. At disease progression, patients are followed up every 6 months. | 2019-04-21T17:09:24 | https://www.centerwatch.com/clinical-trials/listings/43492/lung-cancer-radiation-therapy-regimens-treating/?geo_lat=41.4847&geo_lng=-81.8018&radius=10 |
0.999075 | Set S contains 26 distinct natural numbers. When the elements are sorted in ascending order, the first 23 numbers are consecutive, and their average is 24. What can be the value of the highest element in S such that the average of all the elements present in S is 30?
We can find that the 23 consecutive numbers start from 12 through 35.
Since the first 23 numbers add upto 552 the remaining 3 numbers should add upto 228. As the first 23 numbers are from 12 through 35, out of the remaining 3 numbers in order to make a number highest possible value we have to make the other two numbers to the lowest possible value.
The lowest possible values of the 2 numbers among 3 are 36 and 37.
228 - 36 - 37 = 155 is the highest possible element in S.
First since its consecutive numbers and their average is 24 we can get two things. They add up to 24*23=552 and the numbers go from 13 to 35.
Then we focus on the average that we want to get, 30 with 26 distinct numbers. So those numbers will have to add to 30*26 = 780. So the 3 numbers will have to sum 780-552= 228.
Since they ask for the highest number, we choose 36 37 and another one. So 228-36-37=155 and this is our 3rd numbers.
Let n1 to n23 be the 23 consecutive natural numbers, arranged in ascending order. Let n24, n25 and n26 be the remaining three numbers, in ascending order.
We know that for consecutive numbers, mean = median.
Now, to find the maximize n26, n24 and n25 must be 36 and 37 respectively (since all numbers are distinct).
please see my solution you would understand why first term has to be 13..
• Set S contains 26 distinct natural numbers.
• When the elements are sorted in ascending order, the first 23 numbers are consecutive, and their average is 24.
• The average of all the elements present in S is 30.
• The value of the highest possible element in S.
Now, when the elements are arranged in ascending order, the first 23 elements are consecutive integers and their average is 24.
• Hence, there should be 11 consecutive integers before 24, and 11 consecutive integers after 24.
• Therefore, each of the remaining 3 numbers must be greater than 35.
Now, to maximise the value of the highest element, we should minimise the value of the other two elements. | 2019-04-22T00:42:30 | https://gmatclub.com/forum/set-s-contains-26-distinct-natural-numbers-when-the-elements-are-292441.html |
0.999999 | A POSITIVE COMMENT BASED IN THIS ARGUMENT?
Karen Bass was elected the 67th speaker of the California State Assembly on May 13, 2008. Assemblywoman Karen Bass is the first African American Woman to be elected speaker in California. Ms. Bass attended California State University, Dominguez Hills where she obtained her Bachelor's degree in Health Science. She also went to the University of Southern California School of Medicine where she earned her Physician Assistant Certificate. Karen Bass has also worked at the university as a Physician Assistant, nurse, and also an instructor (Black Past, 2015). Ms. Bass past experiences dealing with unfortunate individuals lead her in 1992 to find the non-profit organization Community Coalition. The organization was founded after the Los Angeles riots and its purpose is to improve the lives of the people in South Los Angeles.matts and grocery stores in the area for residents.
Karen Bass began her journey in politics in 2005 when she won California's State Assembly seat and became the representative for the 47th district of Los Angeles. Ms. Bass has done quite a bit of work as a house speaker. She has proposed legislation that focuses on California's budget and mortgage crisis. On a local level she has spent over six hundred million dollars to reconstruct the Los Angeles School District, eighty-two million to improve California's Foster Care System, and had lead legislation that promises children Health Families Insurance Coverage. Ms. Bass is also the deputy chair of California Legislative Black Caucus. Ms. Bass has been instrumental in the creation of the State of Black California Report, "Which examined the social and economic conditions of African American communities throughout California for the purpose of influencing legislative proposals. In addition, Bass serves on the Legislative Women's Caucus, Committee on Health, Committee on Utilities and Commerce, and Select Committee on the Prevention of Youth Violence, among the host of others "Ms. Bass' ended in 2010. (Black Past, 2015).level she has dispensed over six hundred million dollars to reconstruct the Los Angeles School District, eighty-two million to improve California’s Foster Care System, and had lead legislation that promises children Health Families Insurance Coverage. Ms. Bass is also the vice-chair of California Legislative Black Caucus. Ms. Bass has been instrumental in the creation of the State of Black California Report, “which examined the social and economic conditions of African American communities throughout California for the purpose of influencing legislative proposals. In addition, Bass serves on the Legislative Women’s Caucus, Committee on Health, Committee on Utilities and Commerce, and Select Committee on the Prevention of Youth Violence, among a host of others” Ms. Bass’ term ended in 2010. (Black Past, 2015).
Karen Bass has been re-elected four times since 2010 to represent the 37th Congressional District. Ms. Bass serves the following committees and organizations: the House Committee on Foreign Affairs where she is Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organizations. As a member of the House Judiciary Committee, Congress member Bass is also working to craft sound criminal justice reforms as well as protect intellectual property right infringements that threaten the economic health of the 37th District (Bass House, nd). | 2019-04-23T03:05:54 | https://www.bestessaylab.com/a-positive-comment-based-in-this-argument/ |
0.999999 | Description: You play as a brave sailor. The action takes place in 1570. After Columbus discovered the new land they called New England, people began to steadily spread through the area. The central part of the mainland began to develop rapidly. And in this part of the world hastened to new ships from all over the world. Your task is to establish trade relations with coastal New England town. You are given a starting sum of $ 500. You have to trade goods with the best course for you. Remember, the more goods in the city so it\'s cheaper. Come in different ports, improve your ship, play dominoes with the sailors. The most important thing is to feel a sense of the old life and captivating plot. | 2019-04-20T03:21:53 | https://mostplays.com/play/pirates-of-the-caribbean-2-38015 |
0.999987 | How important is knowing the product for a new hire?
I riffed yesterday about how JetBlue is leaning into a pretty serious shortage of pilot candidates by expanding the talent pools and significantly increasing their investment in training and development in order to essentially 'build' the candidates they are having trouble finding otherwise. And while 'airline pilot' seems like one of the last kinds of job ads you'd see with a 'no experience required' listed in the job req, JetBlue is trying to make it work in order to meet their recruiting goals.
I thought about that case study/experiment again this morning when I saw the announcement of the newest appointee to the Twitter Board of Directors, (not quite having the responsibility of an airline pilot, but hang in their with me for a minute). Turns out the newest member of Twitter's board is not really a user of Twitter.
Twitter's board is swapping Pepsi CFO Hugh Johnston for ex-Google CFO Patrick Pichette.
Johnston is leaving Twitter to join Microsoft's board, he said in a series of tweets Tuesday. Pichette is joining Twitter's board after retiring as Google's CFO in 2015 and completing a two-year sabbatical.
Ok, so the dude was a successful C-suite exec, had a high-profile gig at one of the world's most admired companies, and then cashed out to take two years having fun and whatever it is people with lots of cash and time on their hands like to do. He didn't have time to Tweet at all, but then again, being CFO of Google probably consumes a ton of time and energy and those two-year sabbaticals can be exhausting. I mean, just think about how you feel after your two-day sabbatical at the end of every week. Then multiply that feeling by 350 or so.
The point is the newest member of the Board of Directors for Twitter, a company that has been around for a decade, and for better or worse, has been a pretty significant influence on news, politics, social causes, and more for most of that time, has never really used Twitter.
Which is certainly his prerogative. I imagine there are lots of successful, accomplished, smart types who have decided not to engage on or otherwise use Twitter. But usually those kinds of people don't get appointed to executive or board-level roles on Twitter. And this isn't a knock on Mr. Pichette and his ability to do a great job on Twitter's board. His CFO experience might be just what Twitter needs right now.
But just like the JetBlue story, the appointment of Pichette, seemingly a person who does not know all that much about the product of Twitter to the Board speaks to the increasing importance in tightening labor markets of taking a more expansive view of the addressable talent pools.
Train someone to be a commercial airline pilot who has never flown a plane of any kind?
Put someone on the Board of Directors of a company who has never used or experienced the product?
Interesting post. I guess Twitter will be overflowing with employees who know the 'product' inside out. As you've rightly said, what Twitter might lack is the knowledge and experience Pichette will bring as former CFO of a major (one of 'the' major) highly successful tech companies out there - it's likely this knowledge that will be incredibly valuable to Twitter. | 2019-04-26T12:16:41 | http://steveboese.squarespace.com/journal/2017/9/20/how-important-is-knowing-the-product-for-a-new-hire.html |
0.999998 | Key Takeaway: Ukraine is entering a period of high political instability as pro-Russia and populist actors exploit the growing discontent of the Ukrainian public with the government of President Petro Poroshenko. Russia and pro-Russia actors may take advantage of this discontent and halt or reverse Ukraine’s efforts to integrate with the West. The situation threatens the survival of the Poroshenko government.
Hundreds of Ukrainians gathered outside the Ukrainian parliament and National Bank of Ukraine on November 14 in highly-orchestrated protests against the Poroshenko administration and the Bank. The number of protestors grew to 6,000 on November 15, and nearly 2,000 people continued to protest on November 16. Demonstrators expressed conflicting reasons for their attendance. Some claimed to receive payment for their participation, and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) reported a group of about 30 young men preventing demonstrators from leaving the protest, suggesting orchestration of the protests by outside elements. The pro-Russian Opposition Bloc and Yulia Tymoshenko’s Batkivshina (Fatherland) party have called on citizens dissatisfied with the government to join in protests. The Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) accused Russia of orchestrating the protests. The current demonstrations are much larger than similar protests over the past two years, suggesting that the anti-western parties orchestrating the protests are increasingly confident of their ability to exert pressure in Kyiv. The Ukrainian government deployed over 5,000 law enforcement personnel into Kyiv to maintain order, but there have yet to be any provocations or incidents related to the protests.
Reformist politicians in Ukraine continue to withdraw support from Poroshenko’s government, weakening its credibility. Mikheil Saakashvili, the prominent governor of Ukraine’s Odessa region, along with National Police Chief Khatia Dekanoidze and Odessa Customs Chief Yulia Marushevska, resigned from their positions in November, citing widespread corruption in the government. Pro-reform politicians have been leaving the Ukrainian government for similar reasons since Aivaras Abromavicius resigned as Economic Minister on February 3. Saakashvili announced the creation of a new political party on November 11 and advocated for early parliamentary elections.
Localized political violence in Ukraine continues, contributing to the overall atmosphere of volatility. The right-wing Azov Battalion established its own political party, “the National Corps,” on October 14. The volunteer militia also participated in minor protests in Kyiv in September and stormed the regional police headquarters in Cherkasy on November 05.
Internal tensions in the Ukrainian parliament are high. Physical altercations between the leader of the populist Radical Party Oleh Lyashko and members of the pro-Russia Opposition Bloc occurred on November 14 and 15 after Lyashko accused the Opposition Bloc deputies of taking orders from Moscow.
Ukrainian hackers released emails from Vladislav Surkov, a top advisor to Vladimir Putin, on October 25 indicating that Putin plans to destabilize Ukraine in order to put a more pro-Russia government in power between November 2016 and March 2017. The emails revealed detailed plans to mobilize dissent and anti-government action in 10-15 regions of Ukraine throughout November.
The victories of pro-Russia parties in elections in Moldova and Bulgaria and the arrival of a new U.S. presidential administration may threaten Ukraine’s position in the international community. Ukraine is unsure of the future of its partnership with the United States as a new administration takes office.
The continued dissatisfaction of the Ukrainian public with the level of corruption and slow rate of reform has created a political situation highly susceptible to destabilization by pro-Russia actors.
The most likely scenario is that the current crisis in confidence will gradually escalate and undermine President Poroshenko’s government, leading to its inability to govern without support from pro-Russia, pro-reform, or populist parties. Government dysfunction, or refusal to implement necessary reforms, could magnify public discontent and drive support for snap elections in coming months. Snap elections present an opportunity for pro-reform parties to gain more influence in government if they successfully coalesce behind one party and platform, but also threaten to enable the more unified pro-Russia and populist parties.
The most dangerous scenario is that pro-Russia actors play on public dissatisfaction and mobilize support for snap elections before pro-reform and pro-western forces can consolidate, resulting in the victory of a consolidated pro-Russia/populist coalition. A decisive victory for pro-Russia forces would return Ukraine into Russia’s political orbit and undermine the efforts to reform the country’s government and economy made since the current pro-western coalition came to power in 2014.
Potential indicators that the crisis will continue to escalate are the continuation or expansion and spread of protests across Ukraine, particularly in the Kharkiv, Odessa, and Zaporizhzhia Oblasts, resignations by pro-reform officials and increasing dysfunction and tension within the Ukrainian parliament. If pro-Russian forces are unable to draw populist parties into their coalition, it is likely that the Poroshenko government will maintain power if it increases its cooperation with pro-reform parties in response to increasing public dissatisfaction. Russia may act to continue or exacerbate the crisis in Ukraine to give its political proxies time to consolidate and delegitimize pro-western actors in Ukraine. Russia could generate public clashes between pro-Russia provocateurs and other factions, fund and orchestrate large public protests in politically volatile regions, leak negative information about pro-western politicians, or surge the activity of its proxy forces operating in eastern Ukraine. | 2019-04-21T19:15:29 | http://iswresearch.blogspot.com/2016/11/ukraine-warning-update-november-7-2016.html |
0.999939 | What were they like the first day?
The way we all were.
What was the first thing they did?
What we all did: opened the window. Helen opened it, the bedroom window: the lace curtain fluttered out into the cold air like a waving handkerchief, and they saw.
What did they think it was?
A mistake of their clock; a power outage in the night; the work of Louise's diabolical sleeping pills (which felled her nightly like an ax to a tree, making her into a sleepwalking clock-changer); a cloud. They spent half an hour trying to figure out if they had lost their minds; they were old women, so it was not impossible; each of them had lost things before, had spent a secret hour in a hotel room searching for keys, only to discover them right in her pocket. But very soon the radio told them they had not gone insane. The sky had.
"How could particles in the air do this?" Louise wanted to know. She sat on the sofa, perhaps too frightened to look outside again. Every light in the house was on, a parody of morning.
Helen sat bravely by the window. "They say it happened after Krakatoa, all those years ago," she said. "The ash was so thick that for three whole days it was utter darkness."
"But nothing's happened. They don't say anything's happened."
"They said it isn't dangerous. The sun just isn't out."
"Are you going to school?"
"I don't think so. Were you going to work today?"
Helen stared out at the gloom, shivering. All down the street the young people wandered beneath the still-unlit streetlights, some with flashlights or lanterns, laughing. No old people out on the street at all, not in this kind of confusion, not with the sidewalks as loud as a carnival and the crash of police lights everywhere. In the apartment across the street, Helen could make out a couple sitting down to a candlelit breakfast. And below, in front of the building, stood an old Russian woman and her son, hand in hand, nearly indistinguishable in fur hats, looking straight up at the sky.
It was nine o'clock in the morning and as dark as the inside of an eye.
"It's nothing, I'm sure of it," Helen said. "It isn't time to worry yet."
But she looked over at Louise on the sofa, her dear _Louise, her sweet white-haired girl, rubbing a spot out of the coffee table; and though it was not time to worry yet, she began to cry, because there was no helping it.
What did they do the second day?
Called friends. They could not be alone—Helen said it felt like her grandmother's house in the war, with blackout curtains and the roar of military planes along the California coast and the threat of something happening—and so they invited friends over for lunch and made what they could from the pantry; for some nameless reason they did not dare go outside, though the city had put the streetlights on and the throngs of young people had lessened with the dimming novelty of it all. Louise made pasta by dropping eggs into the crater of a flour volcano. She did this in silence, flour puffing into the air as if she had burst the seeds of a milkweed. Helen thawed and roasted a chicken. Then, her hostess's instinct intact, she thawed and roasted another.
At noon, she heard a rattle from the living room, which was Louise drawing the curtains. She understood; they were not Aleuts; they could not bear constant night. Then she heard—like an exhalation of relief—the sound of a match. Candles.
Only two people came: an elderly colleague of Helen's at the college and a kindly, nervous painter Louise had met at an artists' colony. They were good, intelligent talkers at a party; neither was suitable that day. They had clearly come out of loneliness. Helen and Louise found themselves smiling and dutifully filling wineglasses and listening for a doorbell that never rang. What was meant as an afternoon of solace had become one of duty.
"I hear they are turning to rations," said the colleague, a professor of Victorian realism with a waxed gray mustache.
Louise wanted to know what kinds of rations.
"Gas," he said. "And fresh food and meat. Like in the war." He meant World War II. "Who knows? Maybe nylons, Helen."
Helen would not have it; "Ridiculous," she said, regretting the company of this pompous man. The curtains blew open to reveal the unearthly blackness, like the Roman servants who marched beside victorious generals and periodically reminded them of death.
Louise said she could not remember the war.
The painter spoke up, and what she said chilled them: "I think they've done something."
Helen quickly said, "Who? Done what?" Louise gave her a look.
The painter winced at her own thoughts, and her jewelry clanked on her wrists. "They've done something and they haven't told us."
The old man salted his chicken. The optimistic second chicken still sat in the kitchen, glistening and uncarved. "You mean a bomb?"
"An experiment or a bomb or I don't know. I'm sure I'm wrong, I'm sure—"
Just then, they heard a roar. Instinctively, they went to the window, where in her haste to open it, Helen knocked a little terra-cotta pot over the sill and into the afternoon air, which was as red-dark as ever, but they could not hear its little crash above the din: the streetlights had gone out and now the city was alive with cries.
Why did the streetlights go out?
It's unclear. Perhaps a strain on the system; perhaps a wrong switch thrown at the station. But it was a fright to people. That was when the blackouts began, the rolling blackouts, meant to conserve electricity. Two hours a day—on Louise and Helen's block it was at noontime, though it made little difference—with no lamps, no clocks, just flashlights and candles melting to nubs. It was terrifying the first few days, but then it was something you got used to. You knew not to open the refrigerator and waste the cold; you knew not to open the window and waste the heat. "Temporarily," the mayor said. "Until we can determine the duration." Of the darkness, he meant, of the sunless sky.
When he said this over the radio, Helen glanced at Louise and was startled. As a child, she had noticed how sometimes, in old-fashioned books, full-color illustrations of the action would appear—through some constraint at the bindery—dozens of pages before the moments they were meant to depict. Not déjà vu, not something already seen, but something not-yet-seen, and that was what was before her: a woman in profile, immobile, her hair modern and glacially white-blue, her face old-fashioned as a Puritan's in its fury; her eyes blazing briefly with the demonic retinas of a snapshot; her hand clutching the arm of the chair in a fist; her lips open to speak to someone not in the room. A picture out of sequence.
Then it was gone. Her girl turned to her and blinked, saying, "What on earth does he mean by 'duration'?"
Why did their good friends never come?
They were afraid. They were all waiting for someone to come to them. They sat alone in the darkness, reading by candlelight, panicked as pigeons, waiting for someone to come, and yet they would not stir an inch. Young people will never understand this.
When did they decide to leave?
After the riots, about two weeks later. Louise and Helen were out to dinner that night, Midtown, only the second time they had gone out to eat since the first day of the darkness, and they were still unsure if they were right to do so—if it was frivolous to be seen in a room with chandeliers and mirrors and poor people fussing over wealthier people. Louise felt everyone should be in mourning.
"The mirrors should be covered," she said to their dinner companions, who were Louise's agent, her husband, and their friend Peter. "Our garments should be rent. Don't you think? Shouldn't there be wailing somewhere?"
"If you covered the mirrors we'd have nothing," Peter said. He was an antique sort of comic type still seen only in old movies: the amusing bachelor. Despite his fastidiousness and absolutely secret private life, he seemed convincingly heterosexual; and despite the gray in his conical Victorian beard, and the lines now permanently tooled across his forehead, he appeared all the more boyish, as an adolescent actor appears all the more innocent costumed as an old man.
The agent shook her head. Light gleamed off her glasses. Light gleamed everywhere: off cutlery and plates and crystal, sequins and earrings and pearls; it was indescribably beautiful. Perhaps like the aviary of some rare bird, the last of its kind.
"We have a blind friend," the husband said. He was a scientist, a physicist working with lasers.
Helen found herself laughing. "Oh I hadn't thought about the blind! Aren't they lucky?" She absently drank from Louise's wineglass and Louise gave her a look.
The husband went on seriously; he was a very serious, very emotional man. "She says she can't help it but it's satisfying. She says she hates herself for feeling it, but it amuses her that the rest of us think the world is going to end. Because it's the same world for her."
"It can't be," Louise said. "She can tell there's no sun, and the plants—"
"For her, it's the same world."
"That's stupid." Louise said. "I'm sorry, Frank. But it is."
Her agent put her hand on Louise's wrist. "Louise, don't be a bore."
Louise turned to her lover. "Helen?"
A moment later there was glass all around them in great shards and a hundred, much more than a hundred young men running down the street, and . . . it seemed like torches, and lanterns, and certainly things were already set on fire in the street before the awestruck diners had the sense to stand up and run to the back of the restaurant. It happened all at once and yet took an extraordinarily long time; there was no way to remember it right. All Louise knew was that, when she awoke from the scurry of action, she found herself against the wall with Helen and all of them, her napkin in one hand and her fork in the other. Like the net and triton of Neptune, she would later say to others. I am a useless woman, she told herself.
They spent the night at her agent's place on an inflatable bed. Peter slept on the living room couch. Outside, they could hear the low moan of the rioting streets as if a monster were being tamed. "It feels like intergalactic warfare," Helen whispered, kissing her lover.
"I've never felt so much like an old woman."
"Enough. You're five years younger than me."
"Do you know the Byron poem?"
"Get some sleep. We'll see how things are tomorrow. If they've suspended classes, we can drive out to Nathan's." This was Louise's son.
"'I had a dream,'" Louise said quietly, "'which was not all a dream. The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars . . .' Something. I can't remember."
"'I had a dream, which was not all a dream . . .' Oh, what is it?"
In the morning, things were no better, and so they left.
How did they meet, Helen and Louise?
They met twice before they fell in love. The first time was when they were very young, in their twenties, and they both taught at an all-girls school in Connecticut; they had the brief kind of passion trapped young women have, kisses in the back room of the library, then it was forgotten. The second time was many years later, when Louise was married to Harold Foster, the composer, and they saw each other at a fund-raiser for Helen's college; Helen wore a black spangled pantsuit and stared at the woman in the pink dress who, although clearly in the midst of an argument with a tall, sour-looking man, smiled merrily; Helen stared at this woman as if called upon to perform a feat of memorization, and at last Louise turned, startled, and met Helen's eyes for a breathless moment—it was almost, for Helen, as if she held something bright and fantastic in her palm, a thimble of mercury—until the president began to speak. When it was over, Helen discovered that her former colleague had been taken home by her husband because she had not been feeling well. Only the sour old man remained.
The third time was on the street in New York City and it was winter, the air as cold and tense as the skin of an apple; the leaves had already brightened and browned and fallen, so the trees that had shaded the avenues in summer were now invisible—and this is how Helen thought of herself as she walked down Second Avenue, the kind of woman who could not seem to hail a taxi, was always leaping out of the way of trucks, getting knocked aside by young people racing down the street; this is how she thought of herself: an invisible old thing in a brown plaid coat.
The light changed; a car leapt right for her, and she braced herself. And then there was Louise.
She did not see Helen at first. Louise was standing on the corner in a long white wool jacket, with embellished little buttons, holding a bouquet of out-of-season irises and trying to hail a cab. Short little Louise, her tiny hand dangling from that great coat sleeve, like a butler ringing a dinner bell in a too-loud room, so hopeless.
Louise did not hear her or, more likely, didn't consider that anyone on Second Avenue could be talking to her.
More loudly: "Louise. I found you."
She turned. Astounding how life is, how it will shift ever so slightly and reveal something in the fold of its garment that you hadn't noticed before, something there all along, how it will turn just like a person turns and show you a face you once had memorized amid the chatter of a tedious party, memorized as if for a test, and here it comes, years after you expected it: the test.
"Helen," she said. With no surprise at all. A pale, polished face with the craquelure of age, that haughty upturned nose, the brightly colored lips no longer full as a boarding-school teacher's, and all of her gone soft with a little fat, a trick photograph of the woman to whom Helen had made a promise so many years before. She would no longer have cared to meet that young woman, that foolish young woman who turned away from her in a snow-bright room, married an older man, and wore a pink dress to a formal party like a fool; Helen was too old to care about a woman like that. But of course that woman no longer existed. Only this woman existed, Louise, here on the sidewalk with a bouquet of flowers and no surprise in her face at all: "Helen."
"Who are the flowers for?"
"For me." She laughed. "No good reason."
A month later she moved into Helen's apartment. They did not explain themselves to anyone; when friends asked, in private, how they had met and joined their lives so suddenly, each acted as if it were something that had been decided long before.
And in these memories, of course, they would always later place one more object in the scene. Ridiculous to have thought of then; almost like remembering that your lungs filled and emptied themselves of air each moment, or that your heart dutifully pumped its ration of blood. Glowing dimly in every memory: the sun.
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0.999982 | The article below first appeared in the Guardian's Comment is Free.
The chaotic scenes of hundreds of people turned away from polling stations unable to vote on 6 May were not the only democratic scandal of the general election. A further invisible 70,000 people were denied even the possibility of exercising their democratic right, after the government failed to overturn the unlawful blanket ban on sentenced prisoners voting.
In March 2004, the European court of human rights ruled that it is a breach of the European convention on human rights for the UK to disenfranchise all sentenced prisoners from parliamentary and local elections. Six years later that absolute ban remains in place. As the crossbench peer David Pannick QC has said, the fact that the government was prepared to go into the election in clear breach of the European convention is a constitutional disgrace and undermines the legitimacy of the democratic process. Whatever government emerges from the political horse-trading of the next few days should seek to comply with the European court's judgment as a matter of urgency. A coalition must not be an excuse for further prevarication and delay.
A recent judgement in April by the European court clarifies that the vast majority of prisoners will need to be given the vote for the UK to comply with the European convention. In the case of Frodl v Austria the court ruled that the 2005 decision makes it unlawful for Austrian law to disenfranchise all prisoners serving a sentence of more than one year in jail. The court emphasised that a decision to deny a prisoner the vote "should be taken by a judge, taking into account the particular circumstances". Moreover, "there must be a link between the offence committed and issues relating to elections and democratic institutions". This means that disenfranchisement may lawfully be imposed only on a small number of prisoners who have been sentenced for electoral fraud or a related offence.
The persistence of the ban is not only legally and morally inexcusable but has also undermined efforts of the prison service to rehabilitate offenders. The president of the Prison Governors Association, Paul Tidball, has said that the ban runs counter to resettlement work which aims to ensure that prisoners lead a responsible, law-abiding life on release. As the former chief inspector of prisons, Lord Ramsbotham, said in the House of Lords in April, in a last-ditch effort to amend the constitutional reform and governance bill: "What message does that attitude to the law send, not just to criminals but to young people who may be tempted to turn to crime?"
Before the election the committee of ministers at the Council of Europe, which oversees the execution of judgments by the European court, repeatedly warned the UK authorities of the implications of failing to comply with the Convention. The UK is now one of only a small handful of Council of Europe countries that still deny people in prison the right to vote. In March, the committee "strongly urged" the authorities to "rapidly adopt measures, of even an interim nature, to ensure the execution of the court's judgment before the forthcoming general election".
It also reiterated its "serious concern that a failure to implement the court's judgment before the general election and the increasing number of persons potentially affected by the restriction could result in similar violations affecting a significant category of persons, giving rise to a substantial risk of repetitive applications to the European court". The committee said it would revisit the issue after the election at its next meeting in June.
Pannick estimates that the European court could award each prisoner in the region of £750, and possibly more in the light of the delay in implementing the original ruling. The cost to taxpayers of government foot-dragging is likely to be high.
This issue should never have been allowed to get blown out of proportion. As we set out in our Prison Reform Trust briefing Barred From Voting, voting is both a right and a civic duty. Prison governors see it as an ordinary part of rehabilitation. The Electoral Commission sees no practical difficulty in enabling prisoners to vote. The former home secretary Douglas Hurd believes that giving people in custody the vote would encourage elected representatives to take a more active interest in what goes on behind bars. This disproportionate punishment of civic death, dating back to the Forfeiture Act (1870) has no place in a modern prison system and should be swept away as part of wider constitutional reform. | 2019-04-22T10:27:13 | http://www.prisonreformtrust.org.uk/WhatWeDo/ProjectsResearch/Citizenship/BarredfromVoting/Endthisbanonprisonersvoting |
0.998813 | I'm kind of like the mirror-image of this question - I'm an Instagram Newbie trying to stop my account FROM following people I don't want to follow. Details and a list of the steps I have already taken inside.
I have a bare-bones Instagram that I rarely poke my nose into. But a couple times - once a few months ago, and once just now - when I've peeked back in, I've noticed that my account has signed itself up as a "follower" of a couple hundred random strangers that I neither know or care about; mostly personal trainers, makeup tutorial sites, random dudes in other countries, etc. The first time it happened, I changed my password and unfollowed them all.
But it happened again today - and this time even after changing my password and unfollowing them, some of those accounts I unfollowed started popping back up in my "following" list. I changed my password AGAIN, set up two-factor authentication, logged out, and then logged back in - and removed people again. And AGAIN they kept popping up. Then I tried BLOCKING people I wanted to get rid of. After a certain point, blocking people wouldn't "take". Curious!...I've since heard that Instagram has a natural failsafe for if users try to unfollow a bunch of people because they think that that act is ITSELF a hack, so I've just left things alone for now. I'm also following someone's recommendation to just disable my account for a couple days to let the dust settle before trying again; then I'll unfollow people about 20 at a time each day until the list is whittled down.
I have also further withdrawn any 3rd-party permissions from my Instagram account. I only had the one (my OKC profile), and that is now gone.
a) Is there anything ELSE I could do to prevent this kind of hack from happening again? I'm pretty sure that changing my password 3 times, disabling the account for a couple days, setting up 2-factor authorization and withdrawing any 3rd party access is pretty exhaustive, but want to be sure.
b) There IS one app that people have pointed to as a likely culprit - Gramblr, which lets you post to Instagram from your computer. I have been using that, because I don't regularly use my phone for Instagram and instead use it to share photos I've taken with my digital camera (and want to do more of that in the coming year). But other discussions point to Gramblr as a weak link in this particular chain. (however - I didn't see Gramblr listed in my list of 3rd-party aps when I was disabling them, and I think I set it up on my computer so that it didn't have constant access to Instagram.) Is there another, safer such program I could use instead?
thanks, all - doing more photos is one of my 2019 resolutions, and I'd really rather not have to unfollow "pixieunicornhair105" or "BigGrillaz" every five minutes each time I post something.
Yeah, that's the very reddit post I took my cues from. But I didn't see Gramblr listed in my "apps with 3rd party access" in my Instagram account page, and I haven't used it since October. The new "following" incident was more within the past couple weeks.
But - again, assuming that Gramblr is the culprit after all, what is an alternative?
I would bet money that this is Gramblr. You can just do some hacky stuff to be able to do it through Instagram with no third parties involved - here's a page that explains how - basically you tell your browser to tell Instagram that you're on a phone, and it works just fine.
Thanks, brainmouse; I'm going to uninstall Gramblr as soon as I get home, and then wait a day before re-enabling the IG account. Then follow the instructions on that page.
Okay, I'm back - I've read thatpage that tells your browser to tell Instagram that you're on a phone 3 times, but it's showing you how to do it if you're on a Mac. I have a PC, and can't find any of the features that this link is telling me to follow. Help?
Presenting a photo I uploaded from my computer to Instagram by convincing Chrome I was really on a phone. Boom. | 2019-04-26T00:53:13 | https://ask.metafilter.com/330021/Dont-IG-Ahead-of-Me-I-Dont-Want-To-Follow |
0.999997 | Make a list of the five hottest directors in Hollywood right now, and Taika Waititi would almost certainly be on it. Thor: Ragnarok, his first major blockbuster, was a massive hit at the box office, and he was praised for revitalizing the Thor franchise with a bright, cosmic action-comedy. So, it makes sense that he'd probably have his pick of projects in the future. As the buzz for Ragnarok spiked, a fan suggested that Waititi replace Colin Trevorrow to helm Star Wars Episode IX, to which the director replied that he prefers to "complete [his] films."
Waititi's comments apparently made their way back to Lucasfilm head Kathleen Kennedy, because she'd like to throw a potential movie his way anyway.
Speaking with New Zealand's NewsHub while promoting Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Kennedy assured the publication that she's a huge fan of Waititi's work on Thor, and would love to have him cross Disney franchises to come aboard Lucasfilm.
"I think he has exactly the right sensibility. It was very exciting to see him step into the Marvel universe and do such an amazing job with Thor."
According to NewsHub, she even urged the publication to "let him know" that she's interested, and when pressed if she was actually ready to make a real offer to Waititi, she said, "Yeah," with a laugh.
What makes this a little more interesting is that, after saying on Twitter that he wouldn't do a Star Wars film, Waititi clarified to Uproxx that he was only kidding.
"Look, I’m not an idiot. Who would actually say no to Star Wars? Of course, I didn’t send that idea very seriously, it’s more that in light of all the things that were happening over the last couple of months, it would make me a little nervous."
It's not clear if, or when, this fan-favorite partnership would ever actually happen. Waititi is presently working on a World War II film called Jojo Rabbit, and he's also been reportedly tapped to reboot Akira for Warner Bros. That's a very big project that'll likely be in pre-production and design for some time. A Star Wars film could be many years off, but if Kennedy and Waititi can actually set up time to chat, there might be a creative spark.
What do you think? Does Star Wars need Taika Waititi? | 2019-04-23T10:30:19 | https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/kathleen-kennedy-taika-waititi-direct-star-wars-film |
0.998312 | DSDT with graphics and Audio patches for GA Z77X-UD3H.
Try with -xcpm boot flag in chameleon.Boot.plist.
Try with amd64 -v and see what happens.
The problem is your graphics card, I have E6550 with same graphics and I can't boot without an external graphics card, put inside some cheep GT210 and it will boot with GraphicsEnabler=Yes OOB. Cheers.
I patched this DSDT for my Acer Veriton M661, it's fully working for me.
You have to had patience, hackintoshing is a patience game. Try to boot with -v USBBusFix=Yes. And I recommend to install Niresh Mavericks or ML, there's a auto post install optimisation on them.
I installed Niresh Mavericks on my Acer Veriton 661, everything is working but sleep. The machine is going to sleep mode but the fans stays working and no wake, need to restart it. My specs are: Acer Q35T-AM Motherboard Intel Core2Duo E6550 Processor Ganward nVidia GeForce 210GT 1024 Mb GDDR3 Graphics 4GB DDR2 800MGHz Ram Can somebody help me patch my DSDT? Thanx in advanced!!! Edit: I pached my DSDT and turned off every option for usb waking in BIOS and now I have a fully functional Hackintosh.
OS X 10.9.5 Mobo: Q35T-AM Processor: Intel Core2Duo E 6550 2 Gb DDR2 Ram Gainward nVidia GeForce 210GT 1024MB DDR3 - GraphicsEnabler=Yes First boot with USBusFix=Yes -v Sound works with VoodooHDA Clover bootloader - had problem with iCloud log in on Chameleon Sleep not working properly, fans stays working after display and HDD sleep Edit: Sleep problem SOLVED with DSDT patching and BIOS settings.
i5 3330 - Processor Gigabyte GA-H61N-S2P -Mobo Geinward nVidia GeForce GTX 560 TI 1024 GDDR5 -Graphics -works OOB, Graphicsenabler YES - connected to VGA 8Gb DDR3 - Transcend 2x4GB - Memory Presonus Audiobox USB - Suond - The default sound from the Mobo is also working Chameleon bootloader Thanx to Niresh!!! Cheers Edit: I replaced the GA H61M-S2P motherboard with GA Z77X-UD3H on this rig, and it's booting without reinstalling the system. The only things I was needed to fix are the ethernet kext and the sound kext. | 2019-04-23T17:55:19 | https://www.hackintoshzone.com/profile/10523-attila-peth%C3%A5%E2%80%98/ |
0.999627 | Roughly 65 million years ago, the Chicxulub bolide, a mountain of rock 6 miles across, struck the Earth. The asteroid's origins are unknown, but fate had tied the destiny of our home, Earth, to that of the rock. When the rock struck, our Earth was changed forever.
The impact left several legacies: the enormous Chicxulub crater just off the coast of the Yucatán Peninsula, a layer of iridium-rich clay that forms the boundary between Mesozoic and Cenozoic in the Earth's rock strata, and the complete extinction of all of Earth's large animal species.
In short, the impact marked the end of the Mesozoic with the great Cretaceous-Tertiary (or K-T) extinction. The impact was by no means the only calamity to befall the creatures of Earth during the turbulent end of the Mesozoic, but it was the final straw, ushering in a new era in the evolution of vertebrate life on Earth. Many groups of organisms, the ammonoid cephalopods, the bennettitale plants, and the enantiornithian birds were completely obliterated by this, the greatest extinction in over 100 million years. Others, like the great dinosaurs, pulled through with only a tiny fraction of their former diversity left intact, never to be regained. The mammals, those furry, lactating therapsids, the creatures that had lost the original battle for ascendancy after the last great extinction to the dinosaurs, suddenly found all the doors open and diversification beckoning.
In the wake of the K-T extinction, mammals exploded into dazzling array of giant forms. Within 10 million years, almost all of the modern groups of mammals (and then some) had already appeared. The mammals conquered the land, The water, and even the air (although the last remaining dinosaurs, the birds, are unquestionably dominant in at least the last of these niches and actually possess more species than all other amniotes combined). Today, furry creatures occupy every continent and, only 65 million years after the asteroid struck, have produced organisms of astonishing variety, from blue whales to shrews, from hyenas to humans. The (non-avian) dinosaurs, once the largest land animals on the planet, have been reduced to mere stone and imagination.
But what if none of this history was true?
What if the rock had missed?
The Gargantuan Reptilian organisms also interested me when I was young (6-9 years.). My favorite out of the many Dinosaurs was the Ankylosaurus which was protected on the top from head to tail. The Body had a whole shell, while the tail had attached spike bones.
In short, the impact marked the end of the Mesozoic with the great retaceous-Tertiary (or K-T) extinction. The impact was by no means the only calamity to befall the creatures of Earth during the turbulent end of the Mesozoic, but it was the final straw, ushering in a new era in the evolution of vertebrate life on Earth. Many groups of organisms, the ammonoid cephalopods, the bennettitale plants, and the enantiornithian birds were completely obliterated by this, the greatest extinction in over 100 million years. Others, like the great dinosaurs, pulled through with only a tiny fraction of their former diversity left intact, never to be regained. The mammals, those furry, lactating therapsids, the creatures that had lost the original battle for ascendancy after the last great extinction to the dinosaurs, suddenly found all the doors open and diversification beckoning.
Very interesting stuff here - thanks for sharing!!
Scientists now know that T-rex, the Raptor species, and many other dinosaurs had pelt or feathers. Makes one wonder about "plumed serpent" mythology.
Interesting stuff, however we don't know if this is true.
That was the one that had the tail like a medieivel mace! Quite deadly.
What's really curious is a few years back it seemed they'd actually discovered some intact biological material (non-fossilized) of a dinosaur..skin IIRC. For the longest time it had been declared such finds were impossible, yet that took place. I think there's still many surprises as to dinosaurs.
It missed some important points which are important to us now. For instance, before this meteor hit earth, mammals were mostly noctural creatures, living at higher elevations. The earth's atmosphere was almost 35% oxygen, as opposed to about 20% now. Temperature on earth was warmer with tropical-type plants extending much further North and South. Then the meteor struck 65 million years ago and the Mesozoic ended.
Afterward, the whole planet changed. Earth became colder, with less oxygen. Plants which once grew only in the mountains moved downward and took the place of the tropical plants which retreated to the equatorial region. Mammals, who were used to the cold and difficulities of breathing at altitude, became the dominant animals. Dinosaurs had no diaphragm. They were simply unable to breath in this new world. The exceptions were the birds which were small and had powerful breathing muscles and somewhat adapted to altitude.
Our modern earth is comparable to the mountainous earth of the Mesozoic. It has never bounced back and now is in a new state of equlibrium. Geographers and botanists might call this situation "sub-climax" but it is now a situation kept in balance by other geological forces described by Lovejoy.
Why are we afraid of a little global warming? | 2019-04-21T01:02:23 | https://forums.skadi.net/threads/9706-The-Speculative-Dinosaur-Project |
0.999188 | If ever a group set out to be teeth-grindingly annoying it is Gorillaz, Damon Albarn's 'other' band. In fact they're less a band than a virtual supergroup comprising four cartoons conceived by the Blur frontman and his one-time flatmate, illustrator Jamie Hewlett. Worse, they labour under names like Noodle and 2D and converse in character when they give interviews, most of which boast little else save knowing doggerel. You couldn't make it up - except, sadly, someone has.
Still, all of it would be just about forgivable had their eponymous debut been magnificent. It was not. Its conceit - that a group of animated characters render our obsession with an artist's age and looks redundant - was marginally more interesting than the actual songs, which notwithstanding the spring-heeled, colourful 'Clint Eastwood' were demos with pretensions. Not so this new album.
Where its predecessor was the work of a core group of musicians, Demon Days is Damon with some help from umpteen friends. Of these the most notable is hip hop's Danger Mouse, the producer whose namesake is a Seventies cartoon and who shares Albarn's disregard for musical apartheid, as evidenced by his highly prized Beatles-based Grey Album.
It, however, pales beside the bulk of Demon Days, which juxtaposes hip hop's youthful brio and invention with an intimacy that evokes Blur's most recent album, Think Tank, and a funky, sad-eyed strain of electronica. Of course such eclecticism is nothing new, but here, in contrast to its skeletal precursor, the songs are fully realised and pregnant with ideas.
Take the impossibly rich 'Dirty Harry', for instance. It is host to the San Fernandez Youth Chorus, rapper Booty Brown from LA crew the Pharcyde, Albarn's increasingly comely delivery and, naturally, some violins. It should be a mess. It rocks. Better still is the nimble liquid pop of 'DARE', on which Shaun Ryder manages to roll back the years, and the crazed 'Fire Coming Out of the Monkey's Head'.
Improbably, the latter's star is Dennis Hopper, who narrates a psychedelic nursery rhyme for adults that suggests David Lynch, Prince and David Icke have put aside their differences and formed a supergroup. 'There was only fire, and then nothing,' thunders Hopper, serving to underline the album's central message: that mankind's clock is edging ever closer to midnight. A point reinforced, head-spinningly, on 'All Alone', wherein Tricky's ex Martina Topley-Bird supplements Roots Manuva's rap with ghostly sighs.
For all its preoccupation with mortality, however, Demon Days oozes life from first note to last. So impressive is it that you wonder why Albarn still feels the necessity to keep it surreal and hide behind the flimsy, time-worn concept of Gorillaz. This - rather than Think Tank, or Parklife - may prove to be the Blur man's masterwork. | 2019-04-22T03:15:34 | https://www.theguardian.com/observer/omm/10bestcds/story/0,12102,1465865,00.html |
0.999999 | The Open Field task is a simple sensorimotor test used to determine general activity levels, gross locomotor activity, and exploration habits in rodent models of CNS disorders. Assessment takes place in a square, white Plexiglas box. The animal is placed in the arena and allowed to freely move about for 10 minutes while being recorded by an overhead camera. The footage is then analyzed by an automated tracking system for the following parameters: distance moved, velocity, and time spent in pre-defined zones. The Open Field test is useful for phenotyping transgenic strains of mice and evaluating the effect of novel chemical entities on general activity. | 2019-04-25T10:09:54 | http://med.stanford.edu/sbfnl/services/bm/sm/openfield.html |
0.998743 | A combination of 4 different medications that treats hepatitis C infection.
Viekira Pak (ombitasvir, paritaprevir, ritonavir, and dasabuvir) is a drug regimen consisting of four pills; it's effective against genotype 1 hepatitis C virus, but may not be the best option if you have severe liver problems.
Viekira Pak (ombitasvir, paritaprevir, ritonavir, and dasabuvir) effectively treats 95% to 100% of people with genotype 1 Hepatitis C.
The common side effects are manageable and include feeling nauseous, tired, itching or rash.
Viekira Pak (ombitasvir, paritaprevir, ritonavir, and dasabuvir) can also be used to treat genotype 1 hepatitis C if you have a liver transplant.
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Viekira Pak (ombitasvir, paritaprevir, ritonavir, and dasabuvir) can only treat genotype 1 hepatitis C and must be taken twice a day.
You might have to take to take Viekira Pak (ombitasvir, paritaprevir, ritonavir, and dasabuvir) with an additional medication called ribavirin. This may not be a good option if you are uncomfortable swallowing pills.
If you take medications containing ethinyl estradiol (an estrogen), you will need another form of birth control during and for 2 weeks after using Viekira Pak (ombitasvir, paritaprevir, ritonavir, and dasabuvir).
Your doctor will need to take frequent blood tests during the first 4 weeks and periodically after to monitor your liver function.
Viekira Pak (ombitasvir, paritaprevir, ritonavir, and dasabuvir) is a combination of drugs that stop the hepatitis C virus from making copies in your body. There are three drugs that work directly against the virus and a fourth one that increases the effect of the others.
The placebo bar shows how common a side effect was for people taking a sugar pill instead of Viekira Pak.
Before you can start taking Viekira Pak (ombitasvir, paritaprevir, ritonavir, and dasabuvir), your doctor will test you for hepatitis B. If you've ever had hepatitis B, taking Viekira Pak (ombitasvir, paritaprevir, ritonavir, and dasabuvir) can cause a hepatitis B infection to start up again, which can be very dangerous if it's not caught in time. Tell your doctor if you've ever been treated for hepatitis B.
Viekira Pak (ombitasvir, paritaprevir, ritonavir, and dasabuvir) has many drug interactions which can result in more side effects from your medicines or decreased effect of Viekira Pak (ombitasvir, paritaprevir, ritonavir, and dasabuvir). Be sure to let your doctor know about all of the medicines you are taking. Some of them might have to be changed or stopped altogether.
Do not drink alcohol within 4 hours of taking Viekira Pak (ombitasvir, paritaprevir, ritonavir, and dasabuvir).
Viekira Pak (ombitasvir, paritaprevir, ritonavir, and dasabuvir) can cause increase an enzyme in your liver called ALT. For women, this is more likely to happen if you are on birth control containing estrogens. These medications should be stopped before starting Viekira Pak (ombitasvir, paritaprevir, ritonavir, and dasabuvir) and you should talk to your doctor about alternative birth control options while you are taking this medication. Speak to your doctor right away if you experience fatigue, weakness, lack of appetite, nausea, yellowing of the eyes, or discolored feces as these may be signs of liver damage.
Speak to your doctor if you've had a liver transplant and are on cyclosporine as your doctor may need to check your blood drug level and adjust the dose while you're on Viekira Pak (ombitasvir, paritaprevir, ritonavir, and dasabuvir). | 2019-04-23T21:54:14 | https://www.iodine.com/drug/ombitasvir,-paritaprevir,-ritonavir,-and-dasabuvir |
0.998936 | How can I redirect command error output /dev/null on a Linux or Unix-like system using Bash shell? no, do not subscribeyes, replies to my commentyes, all comments/replies instantlyhourly digestdaily digestweekly digest Or, you can subscribe without commenting. Some more common use case command > /dev/null 2>&1 & run command in background, discard stdout and stderr command >> /path/to/log 2>&1 & run command and redirect stdout and stderr to And avoid redirection in the command itself.
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more stack exchange communities company blog Stack Exchange Inbox Reputation and Badges sign up log in tour help Tour Start here for a quick overview of the site Help Center Detailed When does bugfixing become overkill, if ever? Some more common use case command > /dev/null 2>&1 & run command in background, discard stdout and stderr command >> /path/to/log 2>&1 & run command and redirect stdout and stderr to STDERR) if a number isn't explicitly given, then number 1 is assumed by the shell (bash) First let's tackle the function of these. | 2019-04-26T07:49:31 | http://portaldelfreelancer.com/Tennessee/linux-redirect-error-output-to-dev-null.html |
0.998672 | 1) Give emphasis to a neutral room by adding a few smart hits of color.
2) When buying a sofa, make sure its neutral enough to use in your future homes.
3) Give a living room depth by mixing materials and textures.
4) Clear furniture doesn't take up as much space visually.
5) Silk pillows can add a luxurious feel to a room.
6) Paint is a very inexpensive way to change a room.
7) Changing your window treatments is also a very inexpensive way to change up your room. | 2019-04-22T04:14:23 | http://livewellnetwork.com/Home-With-Lisa-Quinn/episodes/A-Dated-Mural-and-Mirrored-Walls/8583086 |
0.999999 | A very good day lots of friendly people. I was given a list of other contacts as well. Bob. | 2019-04-23T04:13:26 | http://brandonclassics.co.uk/oilyrag.php?news=85 |
0.999993 | Who won 'Dancing with the Stars' last night? Donald Driver!
Green Bay Packers football star Donald Driver won the 14th season of 'Dancing With the Stars' on Tuesday, Cha-cha-cha-ing to victory on the strength of perfect scores from the show's judges and voting support from fervid fans.
An ecstatic Driver leapt for joy, then rolled around on the dance floor seemingly unable to contain himself.
Dancing with professional partner Peta Murgatroyd, Driver was cited by the judges for his intensity and determination in the competition, as well as his willingness to listen and learn from them during the course of the TV ballroom dance competition.
Driver, 37, triumphed over finalists Telenovela star William Levy who placed third and runner-up, classical music singer Katherine Jenkins, a season-long standout.
"Amazing, this is awesome!" Driver exclaimed before accepting the coveted mirror ball trophy, which he raised aloft, whooping and screaming.
Driver's cliffhanger win followed a season that host Tom Bergeron on Monday called the hit series' most competitive ever, with a razor-thin single point margin out of a possible 60 separating the couples after Monday's dances brought several perfect-30 scores.
On Tuesday all three couples got perfect 30s for their one last dance. The two nights' numbers were weighted equally with fan votes to determine the winner.
For Levi the final dance was a Salsa, leading judges to laud his star quality, while Jenkins did the Jive.
Driver, wearing an oversized, sleeveless deep-pink shirt - which he doffed seconds into his final dance - and matching pants, turned out his spectacular Cha-cha-cha.
Ironically that was the same dance that gave the wide receiver his lowest score of the competition, a 21, earlier in the season. But he came on strong for the finals, with 30s for that as well as his Freestyle on Monday.
The competition had seemed like it was Jenkins' to lose, after she dominated many weeks throughout the 14th season, winning strong fan support and going into Tuesday's final dance with a perfect 60 from the judges.
Goodman called her "one of the most technically advanced dancers" the show had ever seen, and "the complete package."
"It's been an absolute dream," she said afterward, offering her congratulations to Driver and saying "Well done Donald, we love you."
All 12 competitors from the season, all the way back to tennis star Martina Navratilova, who was the first eliminated, returned to dance on the live two-hour finale.
Other dancers included soap star Jack Wagner, singer Gladys Knight, talk show host Sherri Shepherd, actress Melissa Gilbert and musician Gavin DeGraw, as well as Disney Channel star Roshon Fegen, actor Jaleel White and TV host and actress Maria Menounos.
Highlights of the finale included musical performances by "American Idol" winner Kelly Clarkson, and Gladys Knight.
"Dancing With the Stars" has been among the top-rated U.S. TV shows of this season and is ABC's most-watched program, drawing 18 million viewers on average this season.
But ratings for the seven-year-old program have slipped in recent seasons, and an All-Star edition featuring past contestant favorites has been ordered for fall. | 2019-04-23T12:54:15 | https://www.metro.us/sports/who-won-dancing-with-the-stars-last-night-donald-driver/tmWlew---e8ILF9HjMZzrM |
0.998972 | Dan LeFebvre tells the real story behind movies "Based On A True Story"
LeFebvre's podcast is more listenable and information-packed than most radio productions made by a team of paid professionals. How does he do it?
How did you get started? Where did the idea for "Based on a True Story" come from?
I was trying to think of ideas for a podcast I could do on my own, I recalled a conversation I had with my wife. We'd gone to see Les Miserables, the musical, and on the ride home I spent the entire trip researching and recounting how much of the French Revolution, that Les Miz is set during, actually happened.
From there, it didn't take long for the idea for diving into the true stories behind movies to evolve. I built a list of about a year's worth of movies that could be episodes just to make sure there was enough content there for a podcast, then I got started on the first episode.
What are you hoping to accomplish with your podcast? How do you define success for this project?
I've gotten feedback from listeners who had never seen the movie that they want to go watch now. Or, sometimes I'll get an email from someone who was completely unaware of a story in history that they want to go research more on their own now.
That's why I always try to mention at least one book that I used in my own research at the end of each episode.
How many people are involved in the production of your podcast and what are their roles?
I have three or four friends who have volunteered to listen to every episode before it goes live just to make sure I didn't make any obvious mistakes, but as far as the writing, research, production, etc. — it's just me.
How do you monetize your podcast?
Like many podcasters, my primary monetization comes from patrons on Patreon. I've never sought out advertisers. I've had sponsors reach out, but I always turn them down.
Why did you turn down sponsorship?
Well, as the old adage goes, "Time is money." I'm fortunate to have a full-time job that pays bills and to find freelance work that, quite honestly, is much more consistent than sponsorships. Since there's only so much time in the day, looking for sponsors or tracking them down to make sure they've paid isn't how I want to spend it. My goal for monetizing the podcast at all is to get rid of the freelancing element that I'm using to fund the podcast. That'd free me up to spend more time on the podcast.
How do you promote your podcast?
I use all the typical social channels, but my background in marketing keeps me from posting a lot about the show.
Usually one announcement post when a new episode is out and maybe a couple sporadically throughout the month. Most of my social channels are through relevant content — movies and history.
People are smart. You don't have to have every single post about your podcast for them to figure out you have one. Usually, when every post is about the podcast, it has the exact opposite effect.
From time to time as budget allows, I'll buy an ad on another podcast I want to support that helps bring in listeners. A huge portion of traffic on my podcast's website comes through SEO thanks to my transcripts that get posted for each episode.
I'll also post to YouTube and I've gotten a lot of folks reach out who have mentioned that's where they found out about the show. It is, after all, one of the biggest places in the world for people who want to look for content.
I work for the founder of Digital-Tutors. He's a public speaker that focuses on trying to help leaders build better corporate cultures. We have a small team, which means on any given day I get to do anything from videography to photography to content marketing to web development.
Your podcast seems really research-intensive. Even if you are just reading one book per episode that seems like a lot of work. Do you skim through content? Are you a speed reader?
Ha! Yes, it is quite research-intensive. But, research isn't anything new to me. Before starting up the content marketing team for Digital-Tutors, I held the role of Director of Research & Development. So, obviously research was a big part of that.
I always try to read at least one book per episode, although every episode is different and sometimes there are more needed. My "trick" is audiobooks. I have about an hour commute to work one-way, and I listen between 2x and 3x (depending on narrator). So, I have a lot of time to listen to audiobooks.
If there's a part that I want to refer to later on as I'm writing the episode, I'll add a bookmark. If the book works with Whispersync, I can jump right to that point in the eBook version. Admittedly, that does mean buying both the audiobook and eBook versions so the cost is a little higher, but it saves a ton of time.
Twenty hours to create an episode. The average duration for an episode is 49 minutes. I try to shoot for an episode duration between 30 and 45 minutes, but sometimes there's more to the story.
Do you worry about burning out? What are you doing to prevent it?
No, I'm not too worried about burning out. I'm not sure if it comes through or not, but I'm very methodical about my process.
When I started the podcast, I released every other week because I knew there'd be a lot of other things to create outside the podcast. Submitting to podcast directories, building the website, creating an initial list of topics to cover, starting up social media, etc.
That lasted for about three months, and in that time I also built up some episodes.
Then, after I got to the point where I was confident I could take on more episodes, I went to a weekly schedule. | 2019-04-20T13:16:57 | https://votable.net/mediafilter/1/dan-lefebvre-tells-the-real-story-behind-movies-based-on-a-true-story/ |
0.989655 | would someone let me know how the alliance rankings are worked out and what you get points for etc please?... or is there a list somewhere?
Let me summarize the thread he linked.
Person 1: "Hey, how does this work? Like this?"
Person 2: "No, I think it works like this."
Person 1: "No that can't be it. It changes sometimes for no reason."
End thread. It really couldn't be clearer.
Summarizing it says: Nobody is sure but it has to with the amount of clicks of your top clicker, amount of attacks and amount of intelligence missions.
That's not entirely true. The alliance's top cflicker is supposed to get 1 point per each 20k clicks. I have noticed many times it did not.
Eh, based on the beta, the formula fury gave is no longer being used. The scores on the beta when everyone had rigged account makes it obvious that total stats are indeed taken into account.
Maybe top strike/defense/spy/sentry in the alliance / something in addition to everything else listed before. | 2019-04-26T13:04:19 | http://www.giveupalready.com/archive/index.php/t-76792.html?s=2a7bda848dc32c3e5cb26f2ad5ddadc4 |
0.999956 | Metathesis is usually a sporadic change.
While I can't think of examples off the top of my head, it can be regular.
@Knit Tie: I find that reasonably plausible myself.
Slavic liquid metathesis was regular as all hell.
Even the top version, without any schwas?
Sure. I understand the motivation for the schwas: it makes the resonants non-syllabic. But the phonemic status of syllabic resonants in English is sufficiently blurry that I don't have a problem buying that they become non-syllabic when moved to an environment where English does not usually have syllabic resonants (i.e., after vowels).
Yeah, that's probably the most plausible option. I do wonder, though, what would the nasals vocalise to? Rhotic will turn into a low vowel, the lateral into a back vowel, but what about the nasals? Nasal vowels? Just /a/?
I do wonder, though, what would the nasals vocalise to? Rhotic will turn into a low vowel, the lateral into a back vowel, but what about the nasals? Nasal vowels? Just /a/?
I guess the simple answer is "pretty much anything", I mean just look at the different results of the loss of syllabic resonants across Indo-European. I myself would be inclined towards something line a nasalised schwa, but it's really up to you.
-əl either merges into -əw (back when I didn't have a Gameboy but heard people talking about Pokemon I picked up that there was one called /bijdrijəw/) or becomes -uw. The rest seem stable for now, unless you're assuming nonrhoticity, which I wouldn't for future AmEng because sociolinguistics. So it's out of projecting existing trends forward and into pure conshit, so you can do whatever.
Here there's l-vocalization, which I've described before, and some final /n/ elision (which could be interpreted as [n̩] > [ɘ̃]), particularly before vowels, but rhoticity seems quite stable except in certain words with multiple rhotics where one of the rhotics is lost (e.g. caterpillar), which is a feature shared with much of NAE.
How could I achieve that /x/ is lost, but /h/ is preserved, and later becomes /x/? This is admittedly a weird change, one would expect /h/ to get lost easier than /x/; hence, some intermediate steps are probably necessary to do the job. All this would have to go its course in at most 2,000 years. Also, there are labialized and palatalized counterparts of /x/ and a labialized /h/. These labializations and palatalizations must be preserved. Any ideas?
@WeepingElf - Middle English had /x/ and /ç/ as allophones of /h/ in coda and lost them both or, sporadically, merged them with /f/. So perhaps you could restrict them to different positions and then just nuke the one that has /x/? If you want to preserve palatalised and labialised /x/s, I think you could just go /xʲ/ → /ç/ → /ʃ/ and /xʷ/ you can easily change into any of /p/ /b/ /f/ /v/ /w/ or even /ʍ/.
BTW: If you haven't guessed it by now, what I am working on aren't really conlangs (though it has repercussions on my main conlang family); it is a hypothesis about the PIE laryngeals of mine we are currently discussing in the Great PIE Thread at L&L. The two daughter languages mentioned above are, of course, Hittite and Late PIE. People so often have good ideas about what kind of sound changes are plausible and what is attested that I thought they could say something on this, too.
BTW2: I've just got an idea. The glottal fricatives harden to glottal stops; then the velar fricatives get lost; in a third step the glottal stops become uvular stops, which yet later fricativize. Does that make sense?
Are there sound changes besides dropping the last consonant or vowel of a word that could happen to the last syllable of a word?
Similar sound changes might be applied to the other stops but I wanted to see if it was feasible for this change specifically first. Thanks!
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Both fortition (final fortition in German, Dutch, Polish, Russian, etc.) and lenition (English s > z finally in many words) frequently occur word-finally or, more broadly, syllable-finally.
This would be syllable initial but in the final syllable of a word. I hope that clears up what I meant.
One could have lenition of unstressed onsets combined with an trochaic word structure where the final syllable of a polysyllabic word is always unstressed.
Yes that is more than doable and should work quite nicely. Thanks.
Final consonants can debuccalize, as in English and some other languages. Final vowels can lengthen/break (presumably under stress) or shorten/reduce (as in English).
Speaking of stress, I'd like to do some stress-based lentition/fortition of consonants too. How does /w/ → /gʷ/ → /g/ → /ɣ/ and /j/ → /ʒ/ in the onset of stressed syllables and /m/ → /w̃/ → ∅ in codas of unstressed syllables sound? If I go full-bore with the stress-consonant interaction and divide the entire phonology into two sets of phonemes, one of which can only be founf in unstressed syllables and one in stressed ones, would that be too much?
g > ɣ is the sort of change I would expect in the onsets of unstressed syllables (especially when intervocalic) or in codas, not in the onsets of stressed syllables (or at least not at the start of an utterance).
You could have g > ɣ in all syllables instead.
divide the entire phonology into two sets of phonemes, one of which can only be founf in unstressed syllables and one in stressed ones, would that be too much?
Then they might be considered allophonic sets rather than two phonemic sets.
would it be reasonable for nasal+stop clusters to become nasal+/j/ or at least more generally nasal+approximant?
The general patterns I have seen is that nasal+stop clusters voice the stop and preserve stop-ness and rather voiced stops (which you could have allophonically) tend to lenite when by themselves.
Yes, but I'm trying to go in a different direction than Japanese (which basically what you said at an early point) and looking for ways to include more nasals in general. So I was wondering if this looked reasonable, even if not the most likely. If not I'll just make them long nasals.
You could make them voiceless nasals. | 2019-04-22T16:16:06 | http://www.incatena.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=36496&start=2775 |
0.998561 | Why does Eintracht prefer to sell Jovic to Madrid?
Once Eintracht execute the purchase option for Luka Jovic, it will give preference to Real Madrid in case the sale of the striker goes forward.
According to 'AS', the relationship between Real Madrid and Frankfurt's Eintracht is better than good. A few recent transfers can confirm it is indeed the case, and now Luka Jovic is the latest to be scouted for the Spanish team.
Real loaned Jesús Vallejo to Eintracht, where he gained some experience in the field of play before returning to back to the Spanish capital. They also sold Oscar Mascarell (later recovered) and Lucas Torró to the German club. Real Madrid and Eintracht are clubs with clear ties; this would mean that if the Spanish are interest in Jovic after his great season in Germany, he could be joining their ranks this summer.
On loan from Benfica, Eintracht's wish would be to buy the player so that when the moment comes, they can cash in on his talents as a footballer. Since his name is on the agenda of several large clubs, profits should be high.
And if the Eintracht has to choose the highest bidder, Madrid should not have any trouble in making that offer, as their recent track record would suggest.
Certainly, Madrid gets along well with several German clubs. Dani Carvajal was loaned to Bayer, Achraf is on loan to Borussia Dortmund... Even James Rodriguez plays for a direct competitor, Bayern Munich.
If added proof was needed, Eintracht are also invited to play in the Bernabeu Trophy in 2020. | 2019-04-25T05:47:28 | https://www.besoccer.com/new/why-does-eintracht-prefer-to-sell-jovic-to-madrid-617232 |
0.997831 | The restitution is to pay for several police officers, firefighters and street maintenance workers being called to the protest.
Four people arrested last month while protesting outside the Iowa Air National Guard base at the Des Moines airport have been ordered to pay more than $3,000 to the city, court records show.
They were arrested June 28 after blocking McKinley Avenue near the air base entrance while protesting the base's operation of military drones overseas.
Ruby Montoya, 27, Jesse Horne, 20, and Jessica Reznicek, 35, all of Des Moines, and Spencer Kaaz, 21, of Memphis, Tenn., were charged with disorderly conduct and interference with official acts. They were released from jail the day after they were arrested.
They've pleaded guilty and were ordered last week to pay a joint restitution amount of $3,241.01 to the city of Des Moines, in addition to other court fees, records show.
The money will pay for the work of several police officers, firefighters and city street maintenance workers who were called to the protest, which blocked McKinley Avenue for more than two hours.
Court records show a breakdown of the city's costs in responding to the protest: $1,222.18 for police labor costs, $1,141.56 for firefighter labor costs, $47.32 for city-owned vehicle response and $829.95 for street maintenance.
A larger group of people participated in the protest, but only Montoya, Horne, Reznicek and Kaaz refused to leave when police asked them to stop blocking the road. All four of them sat in the road with their arms in concrete barriers that they had set up. The fire department had to cut the concrete barriers to clear the road.
Police and fire officials on scene that morning described the protest as peaceful. Several of the protesters repeatedly said that they are nonviolent and promote peace.
The group of about 20 protesters was organized by Frank Cordaro, a former Catholic priest affiliated with the Catholic Worker House, who said he wants the Air Guard base to stop flying military drones, which he believes are killing innocent people overseas.
The protesters held signs that included the phrases "End war" and "End drone warfare."
Cordaro was not arrested that day, but he had previously been arrested outside the air base for trespassing. He and others had protested there regularly since May.
The 132nd Wing of the Iowa Air National Guard started using remotely piloted aircraft in October 2013, a switch from piloting F-16 aircraft, Iowa National Guard spokesman Col. Greg Hapgood said in a statement after the protest. The unit remotely operates MQ-9 Reaper aircraft overseas from the Des Moines air base, Hapgood said, adding that "the vast majority" of flight missions are focused on gathering intelligence and imagery about enemies.
Guard members "serve proudly to uphold the free expression rights" of protesters, Hapgood said, but he added that contacting U.S. senators and representatives would be more effective than protesting locally.
"Protesting here does nothing to effect change with respect to the national defense missions," Hapgood said.
The protesting has continued on a smaller scale compared with the June 28 road-blocking and arrests. Court records show Horne was arrested again outside the air base on July 1. He was cited for trespassing. | 2019-04-24T04:29:03 | https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/crime-and-courts/2017/07/21/des-moines-drone-protesters-ordered-pay-3-200-police-firefighter-costs/499832001/ |
0.977309 | What is a yard ? Definition and examples.
A yard is a unit of length in the customary system of measurement that is equal to 3 feet or 36 inches. One yard is slightly smaller than 1 meter.
1 yard = 0.9144 meter.
Suppose a full-grown person stretches one of his arms as shown above.
Then, the distance from his nose to the tip of his finger is approximately 1 yard or 36 inches.
Other things that measure approximately 1 yard.
Suppose your height is 5'10", then 1 yard is about the distance from your waist to the floor.
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London - The Public Accounts Committee is continuing to attack big companies like Amazon, Starbucks and especially Google over their allegedly avoiding tax. Do they want to drive them out of Britain?
Last month, the Public Accounts committed lambasted Google over its alleged avoidance of corporation tax. This has continued this month with a verbal assault on the spokesman for Amazon. It is right that in this age of austerity every company should pay its fair share of tax. Or is it? To begin with, if these enormous multinational companies were doing anything illegal, a specialist police team would have long been called in. But the suggestion that they don't pay enough tax is an entirely different issue. They certainly do pay tax. They employ people in the UK and have premises here; Starbucks is said currently to have over 1500 stores in the UK. There are over 50 in the centre of London alone. All these stores have paid staff, which means the company pays national insurance. It will also pay VAT, rates and other expenses. It is generating wealth, providing people with livelihoods, and is evidently doing something of which the public approves, otherwise it would have gone bust long ago. In a relatively free market, the consumer is sovereign.
Similarly, Amazon is a massive company selling books and all sorts of other stuff on-line; it has premises all over the UK, which again means that it is generating wealth and affording people livelihoods.
Google is in a different bracket from the other two; it has relatively few employees in the UK; currently it has three offices in Central London and one in Manchester, so one would not expect it to pay a great deal in the way of tax, but even if it paid not a cent, the benefits Google delivers to this country are worth far, far more than the mere £6 million it is said to pay in corporation tax.
In addition to the free e-mail service it gives us - totally free - Google provides all manner of information with a few keystrokes; it can even help you find the shortest route when you are driving. But it is also helping fund the Endangered Languages project as well as continuing to scan and put on-line literally hundreds of thousands of books. If the British Government and other governments decided Google's excess profits should be confiscated - ie stolen - the company would not have been able to invest in these magnificent projects, projects which benefit all mankind. Instead, this money would have been stolen from Google and disappeared down that black hole known as the Treasury in order to "pay down the deficit" a tiny fraction as David Cameron likes to put it.
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0.999979 | Planes are flat, right? And the Material Plane is infinitely large?
I typically describe the sky material plane in a manner similar to that of the Earth: there's a sun in the sky and clouds and things, and at night the sun goes down and there's a moon that has phases and stars. I feel like I have some in-book support for a moon, given werewolves and certain magic items and such, and Pelor is literally the God of the Sun (and there is a Sun domain), but recently I had a player point out that the Sun must smash its way through the whole of the Underdark and there should be a massive tunnel to go exploring in. That idea was cool, so the party is now doing that, but I don't really think that such a catastrophic geography is good for every campaign. Is there any other reasonable explanation as to the location of the sun at night? Is there any explanation given in official material?
This question is campaign setting specific. Fortunately, thanks to the Spelljammer campaign setting, the answer is actually known for some of the major published prime worlds.
Krynn (Dragonlance) and Toril (Forgotten Realms) are both planets that orbit around their respective suns and spin on their axies as they do so; At night, their suns are in the same places they are during the day, just illuminating the other side of the world.
Oerth (Greyhawk) is unusual in that it is part of a geocentric planetary system; Its sun is actually its third satellite. It's still a planet, though, and it being night still just means the sun's currently illuminating the other side.
That second point actually answers the general case: The Greyhawk campaign setting's geocentric model is specifically called out as a departure from the norm of a system's primary body being a sun that everything else orbits around. It seems clear that the default assumption is that most campaign settings take place on spherical planetary bodies that orbit suns unless explicitly stated otherwise (as it is in the case of your homebrew setting).
Oh, and to clarify something, "a flat surface" is just one of the many meanings of the word "Plane." It can also mean a device for smoothing wood, a kind of heavier-than-air flying machine, or a level of existence or thought. It's that last definition that we're dealing with here, so just because the Prime Material Plane is infinite doesn't mean that any of the surfaces it contains are.
In a fantasy setting, the sun does not need to be a 100% physical entity, nor obey any laws of physics that get in the way of a good tale. Your physical fireball that must pass through the earth at some mystical location is nicely self-consistent (ignoring real-world physics of it) and pretty cool, although I don't think anything like it is referenced in D&D source material.
Before humans understood enough to explain the sun's behaviour, many mythologies sprung up around how it functioned, including where it might go at night. Most of these myths have the world as a finite place, but you can still adapt them to explain the route of the sun, and what might happen to it in at night. If you run an epic level mythologically-charged campaign, you could easily borrow from these ideas.
A lot of the myths have the sun as a physical object or simple creature that can be stolen, tamed or bound. Many more of the myths explain the sun's disappearance as a re-enactment or divine compact explained by a kind of just so story (one deity steals the sun and it gets returned but under some agreement where it must only be in the sky at certain times etc). The sun is obviously of huge importance to humans, so pretty much every civilisation has had a go or three at understanding and explaining it. There is a collection of some myths in Sun Lore of All Ages, and there may be other analyses too.
This, or variations of it where you start with a "target" cosmology and try to figure out more detail, would be a really nice question for https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/ by the way.
For an infinite, flat material plane, the sun can still appear to go around overhead without actually going through the plane itself.
If you want to get in to the geometry of it, you just need to make your world four (or more) dimensional. The people on it still only experience three dimensions, but if you take a 2D plane in a 4D space, you can have the sun go around the plane without ever passing through it.
I don't know of any real world cultures that thought the world was infinitely big, so I can't compare this to any real mythologies. But, if you play Minecraft, this is how this sun there looks.
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0.999562 | When asset prices fall and financial market volatility rises, monetary policymakers face a dilemma. An interest rate cut would reduce downside risks to the economy and support economic growth. But it could also fuel risk taking, leading to higher asset valuations, more leverage, and other buildups of financial vulnerabilities, raising future risks. So when is the right time for monetary easing in response to tightening financial conditions and how can policymakers communicate this choice?
A promising way to measure and communicate such tradeoffs is by employing a measure of financial stability risks called Growth-at-Risk (GaR). GaR gauges possible bad future macroeconomic outcomes from financial conditions and financial vulnerabilities. Specifically, GaR is the 5th percentile of the distribution of forecasted real GDP growth conditional on current growth, inflation, and financial variables. It focuses attention on the lower tail of the distribution of forecasted growth – outcomes that could include a recession – because the lower tail is more sensitive to financial conditions and financial vulnerabilities than the upper tail. In addition, there is a term structure for GaR that indicates an intertemporal tradeoff for risks to GDP growth when financial vulnerabilities are high. That is, while looser financial conditions can reduce the risks of weak growth in the near-term, such as four quarters ahead, they may significantly increase these risks further in the future if the financial sector is not resilient, and adverse shocks force firms to deleverage and fire sale assets.
We use the GaR framework to interpret the financial stability implications of recent changes in financial conditions. Financial conditions had tightened notably late last year– including a sharp drop in stock prices – in part because of higher risks to U.S. growth from weaknesses abroad — and became less supportive of growth. By mid-February, as stock prices rebounded and volatility compressed, financial conditions had fully reversed the tightening in late 2018 (Figure 1), and moved back to being very accommodative by historical standards, near levels of the mid-2000s and mid-1990s.
The loosening of financial conditions resulted in an improvement in GaR, indicating the risks of very weak growth outcomes fell. Figure 2 shows the distributions of forecasted real GDP growth for four quarters ahead based on financial conditions at the end of 2018 and as of mid-February. Note that the GaR in mid-February (in orange) when financial conditions were looser suggests a better outcome for the economy than when financial conditions were tighter at year-end 2018 (in blue); the orange dot in Figure 2 is to the right of the blue dot. That is, the loosening of financial conditions since year-end 2018 significantly reduced the left skewness – the chances of bad outcomes — in the distribution of forecasted growth four quarters ahead. Forecasted median real GDP growth also rose (moved to the right on the chart) with looser financial conditions, but the increase in the forecast of median real GDP growth is smaller than the increase in GaR (the 5th percentile). In other words, the median forecast for four quarters ahead improved only a little, while the chances of very weak growth declined more.
Looser financial conditions, however, may also affect the distribution of expected growth beyond four quarters because such conditions can create incentives for greater risk-taking and increase vulnerabilities in the financial system. To evaluate whether current looser financial conditions have increased financial stability risks in the medium term, we forecast the distribution of real GDP growth out 12 quarters. As shown in figure 3, GaR (the 5th percentile of the distribution) is higher over the forecast quarters for the looser financial conditions (orange line) than when financial conditions were tighter at the end of 2018 (blue line). We interpret the upward shift in the term structure of GaR as an indication that looser financial conditions reduced downside risks for the full projection horizon even beyond four-quarters ahead, although the gains are smaller (and the standard errors are larger) further out the projection horizon.
These estimates are conditioned on the U.S. not currently being in a credit boom. Growth of total nonfinancial credit-to-GDP and for nonfinancial businesses (eight-quarter moving average), shown in Figure 4, are not at high levels relative to historical standards. While there has been rapid growth in leveraged loans and debt ratios for some businesses are high, making them highly vulnerable to weaker growth or a rise in interest rates, credit for the business sector overall has been growing only moderately faster than GDP. It does not suggest that the economy is in the midst of a broad-based credit boom. More broadly, as the Federal Reserve reported in its February 2019 Monetary Policy Report and in its November 2018 Financial Stability Report, and the IMF in its April 2019 GFSR, U.S. financial vulnerabilities overall are not materially elevated. Asset valuations are higher than historical averages and liquidity mismatch for corporate bond and loan funds has increased. But the banking sector has more capital and liquidity, financial sector short-term funding risks are reduced, and bank lending standards do not suggest over-exuberance.
However, if credit boom conditions or other financial vulnerabilities were to become significant, a similar loosening of financial conditions would suggest much greater downside risks to growth in the medium term. Credit boom conditions, an indicator in our model for high financial vulnerabilities more broadly, could arise if market participants were to expect that monetary policymakers would always loosen in response to bouts of market volatility and came to believe they would be protected from severe losses, and, accordingly, become more willing to increase leverage. Substantial loosening of financial regulations also could contribute to an increase in financial vulnerabilities. To illustrate the effects of high financial vulnerabilities, Figure 5 shows the hypothetical term structure of GaR if the economy were in a credit boom given current loose financial conditions (dashed line). Conditional on loose financial conditions and a credit boom, GaR would be higher in the near-term (risks of weak growth are lower) but significantly lower in later quarters, indicating a substantial increase in risks of weak growth over that longer projection horizon. For example, GaR estimates for forecast quarters 7 and later are estimated to be 0 percent or lower growth, which can be interpreted as the probability of negative growth at those quarters is 5 percent or more (since GaR is the 5th percentile). That is, if there were a credit boom, there would be a significant tradeoff between a reduction in downside risks to GDP growth in the near term and increased downside risks two and three years later.
By linking current financial conditions and current measures of financial vulnerabilities to downside risks to growth in the future, the GaR framework is a way to assess and communicate the effects of loose financial conditions to future financial stability risks, which can be used by both monetary policymakers and financial regulators. To date, there has not been a rigorous way to estimate financial stability risks and translate them to meaningful macroeconomic variables that policymakers can use. We believe this framework is a step forward and should continue to be developed and enhanced.
This framework offers some implications for policymaking although more research is needed on the determinants of financial conditions and financial vulnerabilities. First, while monetary policymakers can consider financial stability risks, financial stability need not be a new separate mandate. Rather it is measured as a downside risk to its output (employment) target, and risks to output growth is already part of its objective function. Second, policymakers will want to consider how monetary policy may interact with financial policies to affect financial conditions and financial vulnerabilities; when vulnerabilities are high, loosening financial conditions would substantially increase the risks of bad outcomes in the following couple of years.
In summary, current GaR estimates for the U.S., using existing methods which will continue to be refined, suggest that the recent loosening of financial conditions has reduced downside risks to economic growth in the near term, and, conditional on current financial vulnerabilities, has not increased future risks to financial stability. The challenge for monetary policymakers and macroprudential regulators will be to continue to monitor and ensure that financial vulnerabilities do not become significantly elevated and thereby increase risks to financial stability in the medium-term, especially as loose financial conditions provide incentives for them to build.
Adrian, Tobias, Federico Grinberg, Nellie Liang, Sheheryar Malik (2018), “The Term Structure of Growth at Risk,” Brookings Hutchins Center Working Paper #42, Aug. https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/WP42-NL-updated.pdf, and International Monetary Fund WP 18/180, Aug 2018; Adrian, Tobias, Nina Boyarchenko, and Domenico Giannone (2019), “Vulnerable Growth,” American Economic Review (forthcoming).
Real GDP growth forecasts are from quantile regressions of real GDP growth on current real GDP growth, inflation, financial conditions, growth in nonfinancial credit, and credit boom (the interaction of loose financial conditions and high credit-to-GDP growth). Quantile regressions differ from least squares because they compute different regressions for various percentage points of the distributions to get a more complete characterization of the data. For this exercise, we used the Chicago Fed financial conditions index, although we use an alternative index in the working paper to be more comparable to what is available for 21 other countries. Results for the U.S. are not materially different with the two alternative indexes (Adrian, Grinberg, Liang, Malik, 2018).
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0.999998 | (Sharecast News) - US stocks looked set for a flat to slightly firmer open on Monday as earnings seasons got underway, with banking giants Citigroup and Goldman Sachs slated to report their first-quarter numbers before the opening bell.
At 1215 BST, Dow Jones Industrial Average futures were up 0.2%, while S&P 500 and Nasdaq futures were flat.
Sino-US relations were in focus again after US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said over the weekend that he was hopeful talks between the two would soon come to a close. According to <em>Reuters</em>, Mnuchin said on Saturday that a deal between the two nations would go "way beyond" previous agreements and that the two sides were "close to the final round" of negotiations.
Analysts at <em>Rabobank</em> said:"The US has been pushing China to not only make concessions as regards its current trade imbalances with the US, but to open up to greater US investment that is free from Chinese influence and make sweeping amendments to domestic practices that for many years have seen Chinese firms helping themselves, quite openly, to US intellectual property.
"Agreement over the weekend that the US would also be subject to Chinese enforcement should the US not stick to its side of the agreement was significant given this has proven a major sticking point during negotiations between both parties. The agreement that enforcement would be a two way street was read as an important signal that the discussions are indeed edging ever closer to a final deal, boosting market sentiment."
On the corporate front, first-quarter earnings from <strong>Citigroup</strong> and <strong>Goldman Sachs</strong> will be scrutinised ahead of the opening bell, particularly following the impressive numbers from <strong>Wells Fargo</strong> and <strong>JPMorgan Chase</strong> at the end of last week.
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0.999111 | Michael Sandel's Anti-White Populist Strategy to Defeat "Right-Wing Populism"
I believe in diversity and hate European populism, and that makes me profound and original.
The rise of nationalist populism has shaken the globalist establishment far more than the rise of Islamic radicalism did in the 1990s and after. Muslim terrorism merely encouraged globalists to bring more "moderate" Muslims to the West to show undisturbed confidence in the value of diversity. The more Muslims have bombed the West the more power "moderate" Muslims have gained by way of grants, affirmative action, spread of businesses, regulations against "Islamophobia" and endless eulogies about their "indispensable" contributions. What globalists abhor are whites who affirm their national identities and call for limits to immigration. When a lone white nationalist commits a terrorist act the entire white race is condemned without a single journalist caring to write a story about a potential "backlash" against "moderate" white identitarians.
Even for Neocons the enemy is no longer Islamic radicalism. The post-9/11 hysteria is over. Right and left-wing globalists are now singularly focused on defeating the "xenophobia and strident nationalism" of white populist parties. The right side wants to talk a bit more about the drawbacks of "high levels of immigration" as a way of defusing the "anti-immigration sentiment [that] was crucial to the election of Donald Trump". These words come from David Frum, a key advocate of the destruction and maiming of Iraq in 2003.
He calculates that "reducing immigration, and selecting immigrants more carefully" will facilitate the transformation of formerly white nations into racially diverse nations with greater ease while disenfranchising the "fascists" who would like Western nations to remain majority European. A "staunch supporter of Israel," Frum believes it is possible to defuse white populism through carefully orchestrated sloganeering about "reduced immigration," hard working immigrants who make white nations prosper, and immigrants who commit "less crimes" than native whites.
But it is the left wing strategy I like to examine here via an examination of a generic article by another supporter of the racially nationalist state of Israel, Michael Sandel, with the title "Right-wing populism is rising as progressive politics fails – is it too late to save democracy?" This article regurgitates standard leftist ideas reframed to defeat a new phenomenon: white populist movements. Sandel has long been known as a liberal theorist. Like many academics, he carries a big title, "Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government Theory at Harvard University Law School". Wikipedia informs us that his course "Justice"
was the university's first course to be made freely available online and on television. It has been viewed by tens of millions of people around the world, including in China, where Sandel was named the "most influential foreign figure of the year."
Odd, but true: Sandel is "a phenomenon" in China, "greeted by vast crowds," with a popularity “usually reserved for Hollywood movie stars.” Sandel loves the Chinese back, advising this racially homogeneous nation (where immigration is prohibited and eugenics is a state program) how it should use its ancestral moral Confucian values to adorn its capitalist practices.
For Sandel the most ominous threat to "liberal democratic values" are whites who wish to limit immigration and who have pride in their cultural ancestry. Like every other academic clone, he assumes the Western liberal tradition demands that all white nations must be diversified and that any white who questions diversity is inherently a Nazi planning to gas six billion immigrants. "These are dangerous times for democracy," he warns. "Hungary and Poland" are too proud of their ancestral identities and are not willing to accept millions of Moslem immigrants; they are "falling into authoritarianism," their governments and the majority of their people are reluctant to embrace the enriching diversity of Paris and Lost Angeles.
But for Sandel it would be a mistake to condemn this "anti-immigration backlash" as "racist" without understanding "the complacencies of establishment political thinking that opened the way to Trump in the US and to right-wing populism in Britain and Europe." It would be "a mistake to see only the bigotry in populist protest, or to view it exclusively as an economic complaint." The ascendancy of right wing populism was a result of the "failure of progressive politics" to mount its own populist socialist movement.
The Democratic Party in the United States has become a party of a technocratic liberalism more congenial to the professional classes than to the blue-collar and middle-class voters who once constituted its base.
The left across the West failed to promote stronger socialist policies challenging the right wing arguments that "market mechanisms are the primary instruments for achieving the public good." It failed to develop a socialist-driven version of globalisation against the "market-driven version" of the conservatives, leaving Western workers susceptible to right wing populism.
We are supposed to believe that if only leftist parties in the West had pushed socialist populism further, rather than caving in to the Reagan-Thatcher reaction of the 1980s and embracing the promotion of "market-driven" global trade agreements during the 1990s, as well implementing cutbacks in welfare spending during the Clinton years, things would have worked just fine. If only Obama had not "bailed out the banks on terms that did not hold them to account for the behaviour that led to the crisis and offered little help for ordinary citizens who had lost their homes," but had instead promoted higher spending on black schools, higher wages for whites, higher welfare for everyone, further environmental regulations, white workers would have quietly accepted their replacement by foreign immigrants.
These observations are completely out of tune with the actual historical data. Socialist populism, for one, was common across the West before the 1980s (never mind for the moment Obama's claim that he was a real populist). The data "shows that public spending increased remarkably in the 20th century, as Western governments started spending more resources on social protection, education and healthcare." The Reagan-Thatcher governments were a reaction against out of control government debts and stagflation, and even these reactions did not stop the growth of governments. Left-wing populism was the force behind "the steep growth of social spending in the second half of the 20th century [which] was largely driven by the expansion of public funding for healthcare and education".
Could this populist "steep growth of social spending" have continued at an even higher pace without the Reagan-Thatcher slowdown, notwithstanding the fact that between 1964, when Lyndon Johnson declared the "war on poverty," and 2012, after Obama's first term, the "federal government spent roughly $12 trillion fighting poverty, and state and local governments added another $3 trillion"? How can the left be blamed for not being socialist enough after such massive government expenditures pursuing equality?
Since Sandel is a socialist who favours diversity and thinks that minorities are held back by white racists, the renewed populist movement he has in mind involves even higher proportions of social spending earmarked exclusively for blacks and immigrants, notwithstanding the fact that the these two groups have been the disproportionate beneficiaries of welfare at the expense of whites for many decades. He says that the way to fight white populism is to increase the fight against income inequality "by retraining workers whose jobs have disappeared due to globalisation and technology; improving access to higher education; and removing barriers of race, ethnicity and gender" — as if affirmative action has not been in effect for decades.
Sandel offers zero economic analysis preferring the fluffy language academics impose on their naive students with no intellectual obstruction. He is correct that of the Americans "born in the bottom fifth of the income scale, 43 per cent will remain there, and only 4 per cent will make it to the top fifth." But once we break these numbers according to race, we get a very different picture, with poverty intensifying among blacks due to the fact that 72 percent of blacks are born out of wedlock, and blacks and Mestizos can't compete educationally with whites and Asians. Sandel's solution is the removal of "barriers of race," for which he blames whites while hiding from his students the statistical reality that "Asian Americans are the highest-income, best-educated and fastest-growing racial group in the United States."
Sandel is most ridiculous when he attacks the Democratic establishment for its "relentless emphasis on creating a meritocracy...The notion that the system rewards talent and hard work encourages the winners to consider their success their own doing." Here we have a Harvard professor, a member of the 1% income elite in the US, a man who has spent his entire adult life teaching rich kids PC politics, contriving a false appearance of populist goodness for white workers! Academics dislike white workers whom they continually accused of being bigoted and intolerant against their dearest students, that is, international students who are guaranteed citizenship, affirmative action, and worship by academics whose official mission is promotion of diversity across all universities.
This charlatan even talks about the "populist" need to restore "the dignity of work" against an economic system that "accords less respect to the kind of work the working class does." This is a key component of the renewed leftist strategy: persuade white workers that 10-hour-a-week-academics really care for them when all they care about is to accumulate cultural capital while promoting a globalist immigration agenda.
Another component in Sandel's conniving scheme is to include "patriotism and national community" into leftist populism. "Free trade agreements and immigration are the most potent flashpoints of populist fury," he observes. To fight the "ugly, intolerant expression...hatred of immigrants, a strident nationalism that vilifies Muslims", leftists must use a language that gives whites a sense of community "in a global age". They should not automatically condemn patriotism, but softly employ a "public discourse" in which whites are made to view their national identities within the context of a politics that "aspires to a cosmopolitan ethic of universal human concern".
He calls upon the Western world to "reimagine the terms of democratic discourse" by speaking of liberal values beyond the efficiency of markets, using "moral and spiritual convictions," with the proviso, however, that such discourse avoids "the danger that the majority may impose its values on the minority". Read: manipulate whites into never thinking in terms of their majority rights and interests but only in terms of the interests of immigrant "minorities" and blacks.
"How is it possible to discuss the meaning of work and its role in a good life without debating competing conceptions of the good life?" he asks in grandiloquent Aristotelian terms. In truth this is a typical academic misuse of Western moral concepts to manipulate well-meaning white students into believing that the Western intellectual tradition requires all white nations to be diversified. Never mind Aristotle's view of the good life, which was ethnocentric to its core, liberal values only require the recognition of the equal rights of historical minorities already inside a nation. The claim that liberalism requires racial diversification is a result of the infiltration of liberalism by conniving cultural Marxists.
When Sandel says to his students that he wants to "disentangle the intolerant aspects of [white] populist protest from legitimate grievances," he is warning them that if they dare to believe in pro-European populism he will identify them as "intolerant" promoters of a "vengeful nationalism," a view that will not be tolerated in academia and will result in failure at a university in which the median grade is otherwise an easy A-. This is what the new discourse of leftist populism is about, violation of the civil rights of critics of diversity and manipulation of the minds of students. It is what makes it new from the populism of the pre-1980s, which was actually sincerely nationalist, rather than treacherous and intolerant of intellectual diversity. | 2019-04-25T21:48:05 | https://www.eurocanadian.ca/2019/03/michael-sandel-anti-white-populist-strategy-defeat-right-wing-populism.html |
0.999764 | Anybody see the problem with this picture?
I'll give you a hint: count the avatars. Anybody see the problem with [url=http://deviance.duckish.net/pictures/oh_noes.png]this picture[/url]? I'll give you a hint: count the avatars.
It's an ambush! Someone's about to unpredictably post right after we noticed!
Yes! I know! It's been that way for days! It drives me insane!
It's probably a bug, something like an unconfirmed comment not showing but counted, or a spam comment counted yet removed. Or something. It happens, I guess. Yes! I know! It's been that way for days! It drives me insane! It's probably a bug, something like an unconfirmed comment not showing but counted, or a spam comment counted yet removed. Or something. It happens, I guess.
I think there was some weird spam that got deleted. I think there was some weird spam that got deleted.
Maybe it is the Third Sign, etched into our own reality by the Firstborn, in order to usher in a new era of existence. His Unraveled Ones will latch on to this probiscosis and use it to pass between the Great Ether unto our own world and they will consume our very sense of appreceivance. And as we see our reality twisted and turned into a horrifying edifice in which our very ideas of time and space coil upon our minds in non-euclidean shapes where an infinite line wraps around to meet its end and where a triangle's inner angles no longer sum to 180 degrees, we shall all fall into a state of Everdeath, a dimension of agony in which our minds are suspended for all eternity and then used as the foundation on which the Exalted will build their new realm of unknowledge and return the Firstborn to his rightful throne as the Lord of the Sphere-Domain, ruler of the Eternal Shards as they flow through a sea of un-time.
Or the deleted spam thing, yeah. I guess that works, too. Maybe it is the Third Sign, etched into our own reality by the Firstborn, in order to usher in a new era of existence. His Unraveled Ones will latch on to this probiscosis and use it to pass between the Great Ether unto our own world and they will consume our very sense of appreceivance. And as we see our reality twisted and turned into a horrifying edifice in which our very ideas of time and space coil upon our minds in non-euclidean shapes where an infinite line wraps around to meet its end and where a triangle's inner angles no longer sum to 180 degrees, we shall all fall into a state of Everdeath, a dimension of agony in which our minds are suspended for all eternity and then used as the foundation on which the Exalted will build their new realm of unknowledge and return the Firstborn to his rightful throne as the Lord of the Sphere-Domain, ruler of the Eternal Shards as they flow through a sea of un-time. Or the deleted spam thing, yeah. I guess that works, too.
Damn well time, too. [quote="Crazy"]Maybe it is the Third Sign, etched into our own reality by the Firstborn, in order to usher in a new era of existence. His Unraveled Ones will latch on to this probiscosis and use it to pass between the Great Ether unto our own world and they will consume our very sense of appreceivance. And as we see our reality twisted and turned into a horrifying edifice in which our very ideas of time and space coil upon our minds in non-euclidean shapes where an infinite line wraps around to meet its end and where a triangle's inner angles no longer sum to 180 degrees, we shall all fall into a state of Everdeath, a dimension of agony in which our minds are suspended for all eternity and then used as the foundation on which the Exalted will build their new realm of unknowledge and return the Firstborn to his rightful throne as the Lord of the Sphere-Domain, ruler of the Eternal Shards as they flow through a sea of un-time.[/quote]Damn well time, too.
We still haven't done that? Where do the eons go? [quote="Amarth"][quote="Crazy"]Maybe it is the Third Sign, etched into our own reality by the Firstborn, in order to usher in a new era of existence. His Unraveled Ones will latch on to this probiscosis and use it to pass between the Great Ether unto our own world and they will consume our very sense of appreceivance. And as we see our reality twisted and turned into a horrifying edifice in which our very ideas of time and space coil upon our minds in non-euclidean shapes where an infinite line wraps around to meet its end and where a triangle's inner angles no longer sum to 180 degrees, we shall all fall into a state of Everdeath, a dimension of agony in which our minds are suspended for all eternity and then used as the foundation on which the Exalted will build their new realm of unknowledge and return the Firstborn to his rightful throne as the Lord of the Sphere-Domain, ruler of the Eternal Shards as they flow through a sea of un-time.[/quote]Damn well time, too.[/quote]We still haven't done that? Where do the eons go?
Eek! It says 8 now! Eek! It says 8 now!
Eek! It says 8 now!
I know! They're breeding! [quote="Amarth"]Eek! It says 8 now![/quote]I know! They're breeding! | 2019-04-19T18:56:44 | https://www.instantkingdom.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3879 |
0.999999 | What is gravitational and potential energy?
Every object may have Potential energy but Gravitational Potential energy is only stored in the height of the object. Any time that a heavy object is kept high up, a force or power is likely to be holding it up there. This is the reason why it stays up and does not fall. It is important to note that the heavier the object, the more its potential energy.
Consider Mr Green throwing a bag of gold coins to Mr Red, who is up a tower. As Mr Green throws the bag from A to B, potential energy is transferred from Mr Green into the bag, which now has kinetic energy.
As the bag moves upwards, kinetic energy decreases, and gravitational energy increases. At the highest point (B) Kinetic energy is zero, and Gravitational potential energy is highest.
As the bag did not get to Mr Red, it starts falling from point B downwards due to gravity. It starts falling slowly (kinetic energy is low) and then speeds up downwards.
At point A, the bag is at full speed and kinetic energy is highest, whiles gravitational energy is nearly lost.
When the bag of gold coins hits the ground, kinetic energy is converted into heat and sound by the impact.
It is worth noting that the higher the gravitational energy of an object moving downwards, the lower the kinetic energy, and the lower the kinetic energy of an object moving upwards, the higher its gravitational energy. | 2019-04-26T01:50:15 | http://www.eschooltoday.com/energy/kinds-of-energy/what-is-gravitational-energy.html |
0.999999 | The Kyoto treaty may boost - not hurt - economies. New studies counter Bush's view.
Keep your eye on the climate, but your hand on your wallet.
That's the attitude the Bush administration takes in rejecting the Kyoto climate treaty: It will cost American jobs, causing as much as a 2 percent drop in US economic output over the next decade.
But a series of studies in the US, Europe, and Japan released in recent days suggests that if the Kyoto guidelines are implemented, the US and other industrial nations are likely to see only a slight decline of as little as 0.15 percent, or a modest economic boost of as much as 1 percent.
The studies may breathe new life into a global-emissions reduction plan that is in trouble without US participation. The US alone accounts for 25 percent of the world's carbon emissions.
How could such divergent conclusions be reached about Kyoto's impact?
Until now, "the economic debate has not been conducted with a full deck of cards," says Florentin Krause, director of the International Project for Sustainable Energy Paths and a participant in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a UN working group looking at the economics of climate change.
Dr. Krause, along with Stephen DeCanio, a senior staff economist on the President's Council of Economic Advisers under President Reagan, have tried to gauge the impact of the Kyoto accord on the US economy and on its international trade position.
They find that while some sectors, such as the coal industry, would be seriously affected, the US economy as a whole stands to gain from ratifying the protocol. They arrived at this conclusion by altering five widely cited federal and university economic simulations so that the models take advantage of the full range of approaches the IPCC recommended to soften Kyoto's potential economic blow.
Until now, Krause says, each study analyzed the impact of Kyoto and assumed the US adopts some of IPCC recommendations, but no study shows the effect of adopting all of the approaches. These include a carbon-trading scheme within the US, continued voluntary energy conservation, efficiency, and technology R&D programs, using the revenue from domestic carbon trading to offset cuts in taxes, and participating in international carbon-trading markets.
When these approaches are fully used to offset the cost of implementation in the five economic models, the US economy shows a 0.5 percent to 1 percent gain in gross domestic product, instead of ranging from 0.09 percent growth to a 4 percent drop. President Bush's Cabinet-level task force cited a projected 1 percent to 2 percent drop in GDP in its criticism of the protocol's effect on the US economy.
The new results land in the same ballpark as those the Clinton administration derived when it analyzed the effect of implementing Kyoto, says Ian Bowles, a research fellow at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and a top member of Mr. Clinton's negotiating team sent to The Hague last November.
"Our models were pretty brittle," he concedes. "They couldn't factor in technological innovation over time." Overall, the Clinton administration came up with an implementation price tag of about $20 billion a year, about one-third smaller than the annual cost of implementing the Clean Air Act, he says.
A separate study by the Dutch consulting group ECOFYS Energy and Environment in Utrecht, Netherlands, projects that the European Union could meet its targets at a cost no greater than 0.15 percent of GDP by 2010, while a post-Kyoto Japanese GDP grew about 0.9 percent faster than otherwise - if companies continue to develop more energy-efficient technologies. If not, the picture was more gloomy. Both studies were commissioned by the World Wildlife Fund, an environmental organization.
The importance of dollars, yen, and Deutschemarks in the debate over proposed ground rules was underscored yesterday, when the Japanese delegation here outlined its position on the use of forests to soak up carbon emissions - so-called sinks - to help the country meet its emissions targets as cheaply as possible.
Faced with the prospect of having to cut carbon-dioxide emissions by 28 percent to reach its assigned benchmark of 6 percent below 1990 levels, Japan's ambassador for global environment issues, Kazuo Asakai, said, "To achieve that, we must have domestic sinks" - and under more generous conditions than those proposed by Jan Pronk, the Netherlands' environment minister and chairman of this round of talks.
But the not-so-bad economic studies don't leave Glen Kelly sanguine. Mr. Kelly, director of the Washington-based Global Climate Coalition, which supports Bush's position, cites yet other government and private studies that suggest Kyoto could cost the US economy as much as $210 billion by 2010 and 2.4 million jobs.
"The only way to meet Kyoto targets is to cut energy usage and raise taxes," Kelly contends. "Both sap productivity and impose costs on consumers, businesses, and communities."
If contentious results from economic models sounds a bit like contentious results form climate models, it's because the challenges the two face are similar, notes Henry Jacoby, co-director for the Joint Program in the Science and Policy of Global Change at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass.
Both are called on to yield results governments can use to help make decisions. Yet both yield results based on assumptions fed into them. Both are subject to uncertainties. And different models have different biases in how they treat certain features of the economy.
"The debate over economics reflects the uncertainties that policymakers face," Dr. Jacoby says. "Nobody knows what economic growth will be 10 years from now. In 1990, could you have foreseen the Clinton growth years?"
Michael Grubb, professor of climate-change and energy policy at Imperial College in London, whose work suggests that implementing Kyoto would impose a cost on industrial countries of no more than 0.1 percent GDP growth a year through 2010, notes that when economic models project changes in GDP of less than 1 percent, that means the effects are likely to be so small as to get lost in the "noise" of an economy's natural variations. | 2019-04-20T20:49:18 | https://www.csmonitor.com/2001/0719/p1s1.html |
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0.999974 | This article is in relation to recent killing of a 20 year old Indian boy Adnan Patrawala.
A girl called "Angel" probably got Adnan to add her as a friend in Orkut .The short friendship resulted in Adnan getting kidnapped and was eventually killed by his abductors.
Angel is the prime suspect. Her profile is now filled with abuses from other orkut members.
Mumbai is in shock after the kidnapping and murder of 16 year old Adnan Patrawala allegedly by young men who befriended him through a social networking website.
Three of the alleged killers are in custody and the Mumbai police is looking for two more suspects.
Police sources had first said Adnan was kidnapped and murdered by three friends Sujit Nair, Ayush Bhat and Khimesh Ambavat, who he met on the social networking site Orkut about six months ago.
However, others investigating the case now claim there is no Orkut connection and that Adnan became friends with the three at a gaming centre in the Mumbai suburb of Malad six months ago and the Orkut exchanges came later.
Though, the Orkut angle hasn't been ruled out. The search is still on for a fourth suspect who was chatting to Adnan on Orkut under the name of Angel, most likely a fake ID.
On Saturday evening when Adnan disappeared, he had received several messages from Angel suggesting they meet up. What the police are clear about is the sequence of events.
Police say the brainchild behind the kidnapping was the oldest of the group, 28-year old Sujit Nair, a former BPO employee who had been out of a job for nearly a year.
Nair had planned to flee to Dubai on Monday after getting the ransom. But police claim that when the boys found out the news had been flashed across the media they got scared.
Also they heard rumours that the investigations into the kidnapping may be handed over to the CBI. So on Sunday night they gave Adnan an alcoholic drink heavily laced with sleeping pills and strangled him inside his car.
But the father of one of the accused 18-year old Ayush Bhat a college student says, his son has been framed. He says Ayush was home on Saturday when Adnan disappeared.
''My son is cooperating with the police. The police had come to our residence on Sunday with two people called Adil and Aafreen and since then my son has been cooperating. I don't know why Ayush has been booked in the case,'' said Arun Bhat, father of the accused.
The incident has once again put focus on the social networking sites and whether there is a need for greater safeguards on the Internet.
Grazie per essere passata dal mio blog. Peccato che non capisco nenche una parola di inglese.. :-) Un abbraccio da Esilio. | 2019-04-22T20:58:30 | https://www.sundeepmachado.com/2007/08/orkut-can-kill.html |
0.999973 | Nothing is better than a nice cup of coffee. Well, the only thing that can be better is a nice cup of coffee accompanied by a delicious coffee dessert. So whether you are looking for some ideas to add to and brighten your coffee break, or you are searching for a mouth-watering dessert for a romantic dinner date, I have put together 6 recipes which use coffee as an ingredient that will help sweeten up your days.
1- Whisk the egg yolks, sugar and milk in a medium saucepan until combined.
2- Cook over medium heat, whisking all the time, until it reaches boil point. Continue cooking for one more minute. Leave to cool for about 30 minutes at room temperature followed by 1 hour in the fridge.
3- Once the egg yolk mixture is cold, whisk in 1 pound of room temperature mascarpone cheese.
4- Line a 9X5 loaf pan with plastic wrap.
5- Moving as quick as possible dip one third of the lady fingers in the cold coffee, one at a time, and place them on the bottom of the pan in a single layer. You might need to break a few to fit perfectly into the pan.
6- Spread almost one third of the mascarpone filling over the lady fingers.
7- Place a second layer of coffee dipped lady fingers and spread some more mascarpone cheese on top.
8- Dip the remaining lady fingers in coffee and arrange them over the mascarpone cheese.
9- Spread the remaining mascarpone cheese, cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate over night.
10- Gently remove the tiramisu from the pan, sprinkle with cocoa powder and grate chocolate on top.
1- Preheat oven to 375F.
2- Grease and flour two 9″ cake pans and line with parchment paper.
3- In a large mixing bowl, sift together flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt.
4- In a medium mixing bowl, whisk together water or coffee, oil, vinegar, and vanilla.
5- Stir until the dry mixture is just moistened; some lumps are okay. The batter will turn lighter in color.
6- Pour quickly into prepared pans.
7- Bake for 25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
8- Allow to cool in pans for 10 minutes.
9- Loosen sides of cake from pans, then flip them out of the pans and onto cooling racks.
10- Cool completely before frosting.
12- Cream shortening and butter.
13- Add powdered sugar, coffee mixture, and 1 tablespoon vegan milk; beat with a fork until blended.
14- Add more vegan milk, a tablespoon at a time, until you reach your desired consistency. Use less milk for dense frosting, and more for a whipped consistency. If you'd like it to be particularly fluffy, beat with a hand mixer instead.
15- Frost and decorate cake as desired.
1- Preheat oven to 350F. Line two large baking sheets with parchment.
2- In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, sugar, brown sugar, baking powder, coffee granules, cinnamon and salt. Using a pastry cutter or 2 knives, cut in the butter until the mixture is fine and crumbly.
3- Stir in chocolate chips, walnuts, eggs and coffee liqueur (if using) until the dough is just barely moistened. Turn out onto a lightly floured surface, and knead lightly until the dough is soft and slightly sticky, about 8-10 times.
4- Using floured hands, divide the dough into quarters. Shape each quarter into a 9" long roll. Place two rolls 4 inches apart on each of the prepared cookie sheets, gently flattening each one into a 2" wide slab. Brush the top and sides of each log with egg wash.
5- Bake ire rack to cool for 10 minutes.
6- Once the slabs are cool enough to handle, cut crosswise into into ½" thick slices. Place slices upright, ¼ inch apart, on cookie sheets.
7- Place the slices on the baking sheet, cut sides down, and return to the oven to bake for 10 minutes. Turn cookies over, and continue baking for another 10 minutes (the cookies should be just a bit soft in the centre - don't worry, they'll harden up once they cool). Transfer to a wire rack to cool completely, then store in airtight containers.
1- Start by grinding 20g of Maria cookies so that it is as thin as possible. Set aside.
2- Add the butter to room temperature, sugar and 1 tablespoon of dissolved coffee. Make sure you get an homogeneous cream. Set aside.
3- Soak the remaining biscuits in dissolved coffee slightly and make alternate layers with the cream previously made.
1- Prepare the cheesecake pan by rubbing the inside of each cheesecake well with a lightly oiled paper towel.
2- Preheat oven to 350*F.
3- Make the crust- Melt the butter in a small bowl. Place the oreo cookies in a large ziplock type bag, and crush using a rolling pin. Place crushed cookie crumbs in a medium sized bowl and combine with melted butter. Add about 1 tablespoon of the crust mixture into each of the 12 mini cheesecake wells. Pack down the crumbs using a shot glass or glass spice bottle. Bake crust for 10 minutes in preheated oven.
4- Make the filling- Melt chocolate in a small bowl and set aside. In the bowl of an electric mixer, blend cream cheese until very smooth. Add sugar and continue to blend until fully incorporated. Add egg and vanilla, and continue to beat, scraping down the sides of the bowl as needed. Add melted chocolate, and blend. While blending, add Kahlua. Beat an additional 30 seconds or so.
5- Reduce the oven temperature to 250*F.
6- Open a large ziplock bag and place it in a large glass, pulling the sides of the bag down over the glass. Add the cheesecake filling to the bag, then close the bag. Snip off one corner of the bag, and fill each well of the cheesecake pan a bit more than 3/4 full with filling. If there is a bit of extra filling, you can bake it in a small ramekin for a little "tester"
7- Place cheesecake pan in the 250*F oven and bake cheesecakes until the filling is set, 22-25 minutes. Place the pan on a wire cooling rack and allow to cool to room temperature, then place entire pan in the refrigerator about 4 hours before removing cheesecakes from the pan.
8- Once cool, carefully remove the cheesecakes from the pan (pressing up on the removable bottom of each well). Keep the cheesecakes in the fridge until ready to serve. Garnish with whipped cream, a chocolate covered espresso bean and a sprinkle of cinnamon or cocoa powder.
1. Place 1 cup walnuts and 1 cup almonds in food processor and process until finely ground.
2. Add the cocoa powder or cacao, espresso powder and sea salt. Pulse to combine and then transfer to bowl and set aside.
3. Add the dates to the food processor and process until small bits remain. Remove from bowl and set aside.
4. Add nut and cocoa mixture back into food processor and while processing, drop small handfuls of the date pieces down into the food processor spout. Process until a dough consistency is achieved, adding more dates if the mixture does not hold together when squeezed in your hand.
5. Add the brownie mixture to a small parchment lined cake pan or loaf pan and add remaining 1/2 cup roughly chopped walnuts. Toss to combine and evenly distribute, and then press down with your hands until it is flat and firm.
6. Place in freezer or fridge to chill before cutting. Store in an airtight container to keep fresh. Will keep in the fridge for at least 2 weeks and in the freezer for at least 2 months.
For more information about the world of coffee, please visit http://www.kofime.com/blog. | 2019-04-21T20:56:48 | http://our-sweet-tooth.blogspot.com/2014/11/6-coffee-dessert-recipes-that-will-make.html |
0.980853 | Use unsweetened chocolate or 1 cup cocoa powder, unsweetened. In a saucepan, combine 2 cups boiling water, 2 cups sugar, salt and chocolate or cocoa. Cook and stir over medium heat until smooth. Cool then add 1 teaspoon vanilla extract. Pour into covered jar and store in refrigerator. Yield: 3 cups syrup. To make milkshake, place 2 tablespoons crushed ice, 2/3 cup milk and 2-1/2 tablespoons chocolate syrup in a shaker and shake until well mixed, or beat with rotary beaters until smooth. Add 1 to 2 scoops of ice cream if you prefer. | 2019-04-21T18:31:53 | http://www.drinksmixer.com/drink1wx6276.html |
0.999262 | 2. Loosen the light assembly retaining screws with a philips head screwdriver.
3. Remove the rear combination light assembly from the body of the vehicle.
5. Remove the bulb from the socket by pressing it in and rotating it counterclockwise until the tabs on the bulb align with the slots in the socket.
6. Insert a new bulb by inserting it into the socket and rotating it until it locks into place.
7. Install the socket in the assembly by aligning the tabs on the socket with the slots in the assembly and turning the socket clockwise.
8. Reinstall the light assembly to the body of the vehicle.
Follow the steps 1 to 3 from the previous page.
4.Remove the socket from the assembly by turning the socket counterclockwise until the tabs on the socket align with the slots on the assembly.
5.Pull the bulb out of the socket.
6.Insert a new bulb into the socket.
7.Install the socket into the assembly by aligning the tabs on the socket with the slots on the assembly and turning the socket clockwise.
8.Reinstall the light assembly to the body of the vehicle. | 2019-04-23T02:12:29 | http://www.kisouman.com/rear_combination_light_bulb_replacement-355.html |
0.999998 | Uncomfortable infant faces compared to sad adult faces evoked greater activation in the bilateral fusiform gyrus, precentral gyrus, postcentral gyrus, posterior cingulate cortex-thalamus, and precuneus. Link to publication in Scopus. According to Iverson and Goldin-Meadow 36 , although blind speakers can learn something about the use of gesture from their own sensory experiences and from explicit instructions, the information they obtain from these sources is minimal at best. A striking example taken from our study, which contradicts the claim that congenitally blind subjects can learn these expressions, is the family of a blind-from-birth subject whose biological mother abandoned him 2 days after birth Fig. Neutral infant faces activated larger brain responses in the left fusiform gyrus compared to neutral adult faces. Baby schema modulates the brain reward system in nulliparous women.
Facial expressions of emotion in mother-infant interaction.
And to be real, it makes great television. This research project …" [more]. As far as depression in general is concerned, two types of disruption to the perception of emotional facial expressions have been reported on many occasions. Steve Baker , CC BY-ND Perhaps even more surprising is that infants prefer the faces of their own race by three months of age, and have trouble distinguishing between faces of other races by nine months. Do you want to read the rest of this article? Classification of the congenitally blind subject to his family, based on his facial movements' repertoire and frequencies, was performed by using machine learning tools, including the support vector machine classifier 42 , which aims at distinguishing between two classes of data.
10 Facial Expressions That Describe Exactly What It’s Like To Be A Mom - What The Flicka?
Since humans are inherently social beings, they often imagine themselves in social situations even when they are alone. But the communications of babies have a special creativity and message power. The combination of the individual's typical movements creates an individual facial expression signature that conveys unique information about a person's identity 23 and is sufficiently strong so that individuals may be accurately recognized on the basis of their facial behavior. The face you wear matters The good news is that exposure to people from other races on a daily basis can erase this effect. Although the facial neuro-motor system is immature in infancy, it can generate many expressions that compare closely with those by which adults transmit emotions and control engagements and relationships.
Steve Baker , CC BY-ND Perhaps even more surprising is that infants prefer the faces of their own race by three months of age, and have trouble distinguishing between faces of other races by nine months. Here's looking at you, kid: Face coding is bilateral in the female brain. A test with a time perception task. Post-partum depression affects between 6. Compared to unfamiliar adult faces, unfamiliar infant faces activate the fusiform gyrus FFG and precuneus PCU , which are involved in face processing, attention, theory of mind ToM , and empathy [ 2 ]. This special type of brain cell responds to behavior or emotion observed in other people by imitating or "mirroring" that behavior or emotion. | 2019-04-23T10:42:23 | http://ltv-travel.info/cheerleader/facial-expression-of-mothers.php |
0.999999 | The older man grinned a funny grin, as if he were about to make a confession. Then he quietly said, "Whenever I read a book, I kinda pretend like that's me in the story."
My senior citizen friend didn't need to confess. Without asking, I already knew. How did I know? Because whenever any reader begins a novel, to some degree that reader becomes the main character. Sure, the protagonist might be named Ishmael and sail aboard Captain Ahab's Pequod. Or the hero might be an Amish woman who pulls an unconscious pilot from a crashed airplane. But regardless of the gender, location, and time period, whenever a reader follows--word after word--the adventure of a character in a book, that reader begins to identify with the hero. Questions arise. Am I missing clues to the serial killer? What would I do in that situation? In other words, the hero's journey also becomes the reader's journey.
I believe this fact helps to explain why relatively few men read romance stories written from a woman's point of view. Not so many men care to "become" a woman who is falling in love with a guy. That's simply not a journey they care to take. However, take the same male reader and give him a copy of The Hunger Games, and yes, he just might join the tomboy Katniss as she stares fate in the eye armed only with her bow and arrows.
No story universally appeals to everyone. However, when you keep in mind that the reader becomes the hero and joins the journey, you begin to understand why certain books appeal to various readers. People who read fiction often long for an experience of transcendence. That is, they want to belong in some other place, if only for a while. For some, that longing might be for a simpler life in a small house on the western prairie, or perhaps an Amish community. For others, that longing might be for action. Their yearning could compel them to pick up a novel that places them in the thick of battle, or on the bridge of the USS Enterprise. Others yet find satisfaction in "joining" imaginary friends on a dangerous trek across Middle-earth.
The goal of a story might be to win something, or to escape a situation, to retrieve a valuable object, or simply to stop an event from occurring. However, regardless of the actual goal, the writer who keeps in mind that he or she is penning the reader's journey (as opposed to just a story) stands a far better chance of hooking a reader's attention and holding it all the way to THE END.
Excellent post, Rick. Thanks for the reminder.
I've read a mystery trilogy where I believe the female lead is the main character, but I relate to the male lead, an Anglican priest/seminary teacher. And association with that character has really helped.
So that book has two equally balanced lead characters? That in itself is unusual. The normal school of thought is for one person or the other to be considered the main leading character. Interesting.
No, I do think the woman is definitely the lead character in the series. But all of them give plenty of time to the male character.
This is why I avoid horror. Life is scary enough, I don't want to journey there for "pleasure". Good thoughts for authors.
Me, either, Mary. Don't watch it, either. Can't do it! I am way too empathetic a soul to watch anything get hurt or read about it.
Karla, maybe that simply means you're an out-of-the-box type person who looks for uncommon adventures to share? In general, though, my impression is that more women read books by men than vice versa. Perhaps that makes the ladies more open minded? | 2019-04-20T12:24:03 | http://hoosierink.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-readers-journey.html |
0.997568 | For his son, the computer scientist, see George Coulouris (computer scientist).
Coulouris was born in Manchester, Lancashire, England, the son of Abigail (née Redfern) and Nicholas Coulouris, a merchant of Greek origin. He was brought up both in Manchester and nearby Urmston and was educated at Manchester Grammar School. He attended London's Central School of Speech and Drama, in the company of fellow students Laurence Olivier and Peggy Ashcroft.
Coulouris made his stage debut in 1926 with Henry V at the Old Vic. By 1929, he made his first Broadway appearance, followed by his first Hollywood film role in 1933.
A major impact on his life was Orson Welles, whom he met in 1936 when they both had roles in the Broadway production of Sidney Kingsley's Ten Million Ghosts. Welles invited Coulouris to become a charter member of his Mercury Theatre, and in 1937 Coulouris performed the role of Mark Antony in the company's debut production, Caesar, an innovative modern-dress production of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.
"Even 'Friends, Romans, countrymen' sounds on his tongue as if it were a rabble-rousing harangue he is uttering for the first time," noted John Mason Brown in the New York Post.
In 1938, he appeared in the Mercury stage productions of The Shoemaker's Holiday and Heartbreak House, and became part of the repertory company that presented CBS Radio's The Mercury Theatre on the Air and its sponsored continuation, The Campbell Playhouse (1938–40). Also for CBS, in 1944 he starred in the radio series Suspense, in the episode "Portrait without a Face".
In Citizen Kane (1941), Coulouris played Walter Parks Thatcher, a financier similar to J. P. Morgan. Coulouris and Welles each received a 1941 National Board of Review Award for their performances.
Coulouris was the first actor to star in the title role of the Bulldog Drummond programme on the Mutual Broadcasting System.
Coulouris returned to Britain after 1950, living first in Putney and later in Hampstead. He appeared in more films, theatre and television productions. His stage work was the most well regarded and included the title role in King Lear at the Glasgow Citizens' Theatre (1952); the lead (Dr. Stockmann) in An Enemy of the People (1959) at the Arts Theatre, Cambridge; Peter Flynn in Seán O'Casey's The Plough and the Stars at the Mermaid Theatre (1962); a part in August Strindberg's The Dance of Death; and Big Daddy in Tennessee Williams's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1970).
Later film roles included parts in The Heart of the Matter (1953), Doctor in the House (1954), Papillon (1973), Mahler and Murder on the Orient Express (both 1974). He had rare leading roles in the British horror movies The Man Without a Body (1957) and The Woman Eater (1958).
He played in over 80 films, but radio roles were also numerous, and his television roles included parts in Danger Man and The Prisoner ("Checkmate", 1967). Other notable appearances included the recurring role of science writer Harcourt Brown in the ABC serials, Pathfinders to Mars and Pathfinders to Venus, which were sequels to earlier serials; Target Luna and Pathfinders in Space. He appeared as Arbitan in the Doctor Who serial The Keys of Marinus (1964).
Coulouris was married to Louise Franklin (1930–1976) and Elizabeth Donaldson (1977–1989) and was the father of computer scientist George Coulouris and artist Mary Louise Coulouris.
Coulouris died in London on 25 April 1989, of heart failure following Parkinson's disease.
In Me and Orson Welles (2008), Richard Linklater's period drama set in the days surrounding the premiere of the Mercury Theatre's production of Caesar, Coulouris is portrayed by Ben Chaplin.
George Coulouris's Broadway credits are listed at the Internet Broadway Database.
A Day to Remember (1953) as Foreign Legion Captain.
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^ "Ten Best 1941". National Board of Review Magazine. Vol. XVII no. 1. National Board of Review. January 1942. p. 6. Retrieved 3 February 2016.
^ a b Phil Davison,Mary Louise Coulouris obituary, heraldscotland.com, 17 February 2012.
^ McCarthy, Todd (6 September 2008). "Film Review: Me and Orson Welles". Variety. Retrieved 7 September 2015.
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0.998257 | December 11, 2006 By Helen Pearson This article courtesy of Nature News.
Could childhood infections double cancer risk?
Younger brothers and sisters are usually considered pests for their whining and fighting. Now it seems they could also be a factor in whether older siblings grow a brain tumour.
The cause of brain tumours is a long-standing and impenetrable mystery, because they are very rare and it is difficult to collect together enough cases to find a common cause. But one idea is that viral infections are involved, as they are in causing cervical and other cancers.
To explore this, a team led by Andrea Altieri of the German Cancer Research Centre in Heidelberg, studied the number of brothers and sisters a person has as a surrogate measure for the number of infections they suffered. The idea, used by epidemiologists before, is that a greater number of snotty siblings generally exposes a child to more viruses.
The team found that people with four or more siblings (either younger or older) were twice as likely to have developed certain types of brain and nervous-system tumours than those with no siblings.
Sibling count is "one of the highest risk factors we know for nervous-system cancers," Altieri says.
The team analysed more than 13,600 cases of nervous-system tumours in a Swedish cancer database, one of the largest family cancer registries in the world.
Children who had three or more younger siblings were up to 3.7 times more likely to develop certain tumours when they were children or young teenagers compared with those with no younger siblings. Having lots of older siblings did not produce the same risk.
The result suggests that infections passed from younger siblings to older ones, perhaps during late childhood, may somehow increase susceptibility to these cancers. Infections passed from older siblings to younger ones, on the other hand, may not.
Another explanation could be that first-born children face different risks than third- or fourth-born children because they are exposed to a different milieu of maternal hormones or other factors during pregnancy.
The study the largest yet to look at links between siblings and brain tumours is published this month in Neurology1.
Altieri stresses that the evidence is too provisional to try and prevent cancers through frequent hand washing or other measures that fight infection.
The idea that children swapping infections might play a large role in some cancers has been posed before (see ' Common infections blamed for childhood leukaemia'). But studies into childhood infection and brain cancers have been inconsistent.
The real challenge, says Faith Davis who studies the epidemiology of tumours at the University of Illinois, Chicago, is to pin down whether one particular virus or bacterium specifically increases susceptibility to cancer. Alternatively, she says, it may be that infections generally alter the developing immune system so that it does not fight off cancerous cells normally.
There are established links between the state of the immune system and brain cancer, Davis says. People who suffer allergies or asthma, for example, seem to be at less risk of certain types of tumour. "What we need to do is tease out what's underlying it," she says.
There is a link between the immune system and cancer, Davis notes. People who suffer allergies or asthma, for example, seem to be at less risk of certain brain tumours. "What we need to do is tease out what's underlying it," she says.
Few risk factors have been definitively pinned down for brain tumours, although family history, certain rare inherited disorders, high doses of radiation and HIV are thought to increase risk.
Altieri A., et al. Neurology, 67 . 1979 - 1983 (2006). | 2019-04-19T13:27:26 | http://www.bioedonline.org/news/nature-news/younger-siblings-up-odds-brain-cancer/ |
0.999797 | The government has announced that the labour market has had a record breaking year.
'labour market has finished a record breaking year with unemployment down by over 100,000 people and the rate running at 4.8%'.
'This year will be remembered as one when so many records were made - employment has consistently been running at an all-time high with more women, older workers and ethnic minority groups in work than ever before. | 2019-04-22T16:46:32 | https://www.dekm.co.uk/news/latest-news-for-business/archive/news-article/2017/January/latest-statistics-show-unemployment-at-48 |
0.999999 | "The last thing I saw was her mouth wide open before everything went black"
Editor's note: This article was updated after "Eaten Alive" aired.
(CNN) -- "Eaten Alive"? Not quite.
To many viewers' disappointment, Rosolie was constricted by the snake but never consumed.
"Ultimately, after the snake constricted Paul for over an hour and went for his head, the experiment had to be called when it became clear that Paul would be very seriously injured if he continued on. The safety of Paul, as well as the anaconda, was always our number one priority," Discovery said in a statement.
Viewers ultimately recoiled at the special after it aired Sunday and took to social media to blast the network for overselling the program's title.
"Awful. No way that snake could have eaten someone his size. I was just hoping it could squeeze him to death at least but no such luck. Sorry to say I cheered for the snake, but frankly it had 10X more charisma than those lame excuses for humans had," said one CNN commenter.
Before the special, Rosolie claimed that he spent an hour inside the snake, which was difficult because he's claustrophobic.
"She got me right in the face," Rosolie said. "The last thing I saw was her mouth wide open before everything went black. As this happened, she wrapped around me and took me off of my feet. I felt the suit cracking. It felt as if my arms were ripping out of their sockets."
Rosolie didn't say much more about his experience in the western Amazon, which was filmed in advance, because he wanted everybody to tune in.
"The last 30 minutes of the program shows him wrestling with the snake then trying to get but never getting eaten -- all of this is punctuated by overproduction (i.e., loud music, short scenes and shots cut together like an action movie, etc.) to add drama where there really is none. When all is said and done, I've been swallowed by as many anacondas as he has," wrote one viewer.
In other words, #EatenAlive will be the modern equivalent of Geraldo opening Al Capone's vault.
The Discovery Channel said that it was Rosolie's "absolute intention to be eaten alive" but that his and the snake's well-being were of the utmost importance.
Some animal rights organizations complained, but Rosolie says the snake came out fine. "I would not have done this if there were any real chance of hurting or stressing out the snake," he said.
"During an earlier expedition in the Amazon, we encountered a 26-foot-long anaconda that weighed hundreds of pounds," he said. "The snake for the 'Eaten Alive' project was big, about 18 feet long, but we know that there are even larger anacondas out there."
CNN's Sarah LeTrent contributed to this report. | 2019-04-24T09:01:44 | http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/06/showbiz/discovery-channel-anaconda/index.html?hpt=hp_t4 |
0.998171 | BAGHDAD -- The Iraqi government launched an investigation yesterday into the apparent torture of detainees in a secret Interior Ministry jail after the US military found 173 prisoners inside who appeared to have been abused, Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari said.
It was the first time that the country's US-backed government installed in April had acknowledged the possible abuse of prisoners at one of its facilities. The detainees appeared to have been mostly Sunni Arabs, a group that has long contended that Shi'ite Muslim militias close to the political parties that dominate Iraq's ruling coalition are carrying out a shadowy campaign of vendettas against perceived political and sectarian foes.
The discovery Sunday of the makeshift prison, with prisoners held in murky circumstances, lent credibility to those charges. The new scandal also threatened to exacerbate sectarian rifts at a time when the US military and Iraqi government had been taking steps to mend them.
Soldiers of the US Army's Third Infantry Division and Iraqi troops found the prisoners when, acting on a tip and searching for a missing teenager, they demanded to enter the bunker-like building hidden away in a quiet, well-to-do neighborhood near Baghdad University.
The injuries were significant enough that medical care was summoned to the site. The deputy interior minister, Major General Hussein Kamal, said some of the prisoners had been paralyzed by the beatings they had received, and in some cases their skin had been peeled off by abusers. Jaafari said there were apparent ''torture marks" on some detainees.
Journalists have not been given access to the prisoners, who have since been moved to another, more suitable location, according to the government.
Facing parliamentary election next month, Jaafari's Shi'ite-led government appeared to want to move quickly to mitigate the impact of the reported abuse and address the question of whether other such sites exist.
The US Embassy and multinational forces congratulated Jaafari for his quick promise to investigate. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad and General George Casey, the two ranking US officials in Iraq, have discussed the condition of the detainees in the Interior Ministry jail with Iraq's leaders ''at the highest level," a joint statement said.
The statement called the mistreatment of detainees ''totally unacceptable" and said that the US government, including officials from the FBI and Department of Justice, would give technical help ''to investigate, prosecute and bring to justice" anyone responsible.
Amnesty International, responding to the report, said it welcomed the government's investigation and asked that it be expanded to include all allegations of torture in Iraq.
Standing outside the facility in the Jadiriya neighborhood last night, Kamal blamed the alleged prisoner abuse on inexperienced and untrained officers who were brought into the police force during the chaotic days following the ouster of former president Saddam Hussein.
The low-slung building, which appeared from the outside to have been constructed as a bomb shelter during the Iran-Iraq war from 1980 to 1988, covers about an acre of southern Baghdad. It is hidden from the main road behind houses and apartment buildings and surrounded by garbage-strewn earthen berms.
''We have pictures and evidence of the prisoners that were harmed, and every Iraqi citizen has the right to punish those who mistreated those prisoners," Kamal said. ''Those cases have been handed over to the Iraqi court to decide."
Kamal, who is the ministry's undersecretary for security, said that prisoners should never have been taken to such a facility.
''This place is not suitable for holding people. It was a shelter," he said. There were no cells, and people were held in ordinary rooms, he said.
It was not clear why the prisoners had been arrested in the first place. Most detainees are suspected of supporting the Sunni Arab insurgency.
Saleh al-Mutlaq, a Sunni politician, said that torture is widespread in Interior Ministry detention centers and that the force has been infiltrated by the Badr Brigade, the military wing of Iraq's largest Shi'ite party.
''Some Iraqis are having their heads opened with drills, then their bodies are thrown in the streets," Mutlaq said. ''This shows that the United States should stop these acts since it is the force that occupies Iraq."
Ahmed al-Barak, a human rights lawyer working for the government, blames the legacy of the former regime for the abuses. Unlike the Iraqi Army, which was disbanded after the Ba'athist government collapsed and is now being rebuilt from scratch, many Iraqi police are holdovers from the old regime.
''The idea of human rights is a new issue for Iraqi society," he said. ''The majority of Iraqis were raised in a culture of violence, and I think we need time to make people understand that there's another way."
The allegations follow the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal last year, in which US troops were found to have physically abused and sexually humiliated detainees at a notorious prison on the western outskirts of Baghdad. At least eight low-ranking US soldiers have so far been court-martialed for their part in the abuse, which angered Iraqis and fueled the two-year-old insurgency.
Also yesterday, the US Army said it was looking into whether US forces in Iraq put prisoners in a cage with lions in 2003, but Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld called the accusation by two Iraqi men ''far-fetched."
Two Iraqi businessmen, Sherzad Khalid and Thahe Sabbar, made the allegation as part of a lawsuit against Rumsfeld and top US military commanders in Iraq filed by two rights groups, the American Civil Liberties Union and Human Rights First.
The men contend US jailers took them to a cage containing lions on the grounds of a presidential palace in Baghdad during an interrogation seeking some sort of a confession, forced them into the cage entrance, then pulled them back and shut the cage door when the lions approached.
Material from the Chicago Tribune and Associated Press was included in this report. | 2019-04-20T01:12:05 | http://archive.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/11/16/iraqis_probe_allegations_prisoners_were_tortured/ |
0.999999 | Young African-Americans embrace computers as integral to their futures, but they may be missing out on key opportunities to learn to code, develop apps and software, and innovate with technology, concludes a new national survey.
Clark, Arizona State University women and gender studies professor Kimberly A. Scott, and consultant Victoria J. Rideout are the authors behind "The Digital Lives of African American Tweens, Teens, and Parents: Innovating and Learning with Technology." The study, released this month, is based on a national survey of more than 1,000 pairs of African-American teenagers and their parents, as well as focus groups. The emphasis was primarily on young people's use of computers and the internet outside of school.
The researchers found that young African-Americans are passionate about their smartphones. Eighty percent of survey respondents described them as "very important" to their everyday lives. "It's their immediate connection to everyone and everything—always on, always with them, and easy to use," the report says.
But when it comes to completing schoolwork or preparing college or job applications, young African-Americans reported strong preferences for computers over mobile devices, an important insight for school administrators weighing whether to buy laptops or tablets for their schools. And while more than three-fourths of survey respondents said they used a computer or mobile device to edit pictures and videos and watch online tutorials, fewer than 1 in 5 said the same about creating an app or website or writing computer code themselves.
The researchers attributed those disparities to a lack of exposure and opportunity, both inside and outside of school.
At home, they found, African-American children from low-income households, as well as those whose parents do not have a college degree, were less likely than their peers to report learning about computers from their friends or fathers. African-American parents also reported being far more likely to restrict computer and internet usage for girls compared with boys.
"What schools can take away from this is that African-American parents are very much engaged and concerned about their children," said Scott of Arizona State.
"But we know that [African-American] girls are not provided the same opportunities to play, to innovate, and to use computational thinking skills, and that may cause a problem."
Takeaway: Young African-Americans frequently use technology to learn and create content, but far fewer write their own code.
Takeaway: "Young people’s passion for their phones was obvious," the researchers conclude.
Takeaway: African-American parents are substantially more likely to restrict girls' than boys' computer and internet use.
“How Should Reading Be Taught in a Digital Era?,” November 9, 2016.
“Do 'Digital Natives' Prefer Paper Books to E-Books?,” November 9, 2016. | 2019-04-21T06:08:00 | https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2016/11/16/african-american-teens-missing-out-on-digital-innovation.html |
0.999993 | What's a reverse? A reverse is a number written backwards from another number. So, 256 is the reverse of 652. There is a neat little trick dealing with the subtraction of reverses.
When you subtract two three-digit reverses, a pattern emerges with the difference. The difference is usually a three-digit answer, except in one case, where it is the number 99.
The first digit of the difference is the difference in the hundreds places, minus 1.
The center digit is 9.
The last digit is the number you need to add to the first digit of the difference to get 9.
The first digit is the difference in the hundreds place, minus 1: 7 - 4 - 1 = 2.
The last digit is the number you add to the first digit to get 9, or 9 - 2 = 7.
Therefore, 764 - 467 = 297.
The first digit is the difference in the hundreds place, minus 1: 4 - 3 - 1 = 0. Since it's 0, you don't write anything.
The last digit is 9 - 0 = 9.
Thus, 423 - 324 = 99.
Also, watch out for problems where you are subtracting a smaller number minus a larger number. The process is the same, using the bigger number as your starting point. Don't forget to put a negative sign on the answer.
You have to think of this one backwards. You still subtract the hundreds places, minus 1: 7 - 3 - 1 = 3.
The center number is 9.
9 - 3 = 6.
Therefore, 357 - 753 = -396. Don't forget the negative. | 2019-04-25T06:15:18 | https://mathmusic.org/subtracting-reverses.html |
0.999999 | Make a story with the following lines and give a title. Marium is the daughter of a poor parents. At the age of fifteen, her parents gave her marriage with a poor boy. He is very lazy. He does not any work. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 2019-04-23T18:52:56 | http://onlineeducare.com/category/story/page/2/ |
0.987102 | I work at a high tech company and like many tech companies my employer has granted me stock options over the years. With the stock market crashing in 2008 many of my options have been worthless for some time. But now that the market has recovered significantly I find my options are "above water" again.
One of the toughest things about stock options for myself and many others is deciding when to exercise them. In the past I've simply held on to the options until they expired and then I would exercise them shortly before that or let them expire if they were worthless. This hasn't been a very good strategy for me thus far.
Right now my options are worth about $12,000. If I had cashed in my options several years ago I would have pocketed about $20,000 more than they are worth today. But I got greedy or simply timed it poorly and I hung on to the options and rode the tide of the stock market until it crashed again. Hindsight is 20/20 and I don't expect to sell at the exact perfect moment to maximize my profit.
I need to have a plan to exercise the options once the price hits certain levels and try and ensure a certain amount of gain. If I don't have a plan to exercise then I may miss peaks in the stock value or I may be tempted to wait too long for the stock to go up in value.
Figure out realistic expectations for what the stock value may be over time.
If you have 1000 options that are at a grant price of $9 and they expire in 2012 then its not unrealistic for the stock to hit $12 before the options expire. The options would be worth $1,000 if you exercised them today and if the stock did hit $12 then you could cash in for $3,000. Based on this kind of expectation of the future stock value I could set an order to exercise the options at $12 and settle for that. If the stock hits $12 before they expire in 2012 then I'll profit $3000. If the stock never hits $12 then I can always sell them for market value shortly before they expire.
I've got some options at a higher price and some at a lower price. Using the example of the stock value at $10, say you've got some shares at $8 and another option at $9. If the stock goes up to $12 then your shares at $8 are worth $4 each and the shares at $9 are worth $3 each. You might be inclined to cash in the $8 shares first since they are worth more. Instead I would prefer to hang on to the $8 shares since they are going to be "above water" longer in case the stock value happens to go down again. If you're at $12 then the stock can either go up or down or stay the same. If the stock goes up then both your $8 and $9 shares are going to go up equally. If the stock stays at $12 then theres no difference.. But if the stock goes down then you could potentially hit the point that the stock goes to $9 and the $9 shares are effectively worthless, however your $8 shares would still be worth $1 each.
I've got shares that expire in 2012 and some others that expire in 2013. It makes sense generally to exercise the older shares that expire in 2012 first. If I exercise the 2013 shares first then that leaves me with the 2012 shares and only 2 years timeframe for the stock to potentially go up. If you instead exercise the 2012 shares first then you're left with the 2013 shares that will last 3 years. Thats another year of potential growth of the stock that you could stand to profit from.
Bottom line: The key strategy that I think I'll use for deciding when to exercise my stock options is to set a target price based on a reasonable expectation of the stock price and then exercise once I hit that price. | 2019-04-20T02:39:41 | http://www.freeby50.com/2010/04/deciding-when-to-exercise-stock-options.html |
0.999996 | They didn't talk to me that much in class but out of class they'd confide in me.
Many are also in class every other Saturday and for three weeks over the summer.
Many students at this university take a class in political theory, but exactly what students are expected to learn in the class is rarely communicated.
I'm in an advanced math course. There are just four in the class, so we're going to get individualized attention.
We would need more context to tell you is one is more appropriate than the other in a particular utterance.
As 'class' is a noun and nouns always take some determiner. So I would say 'in a class', in the class, in my class, in your class, in her class but never 'in class'.
That's not always the case, because I hadn't heard anyone say that until after I left school in the UK. | 2019-04-24T03:52:20 | https://www.englishforums.com/English/Grammar/bngjlk/post.htm |
0.998972 | I'm often asked this question: "If I were to only do one thing to relieve stress, what's the best thing to do?" This is a great question, because not everyone has the time or energy for an attitude and lifestyle overhaul in a short amount of time, especially when they're at their most stressed (which is usually when they start looking for answers with stress management). The "best stress reducer" question cuts to the heart of stress management: "Is it possible to effectively relieve stress by just changing one thing?"
Chronic Stress Relief: Breathing exercises can mitigate the effects of chronic stress. The danger of chronic stress comes from a body that’s always under fire and a stress response that’s constantly triggered. Breathing exercises can put your body back into equilibrium with the relaxation response.
Clearer Thinking: When your stress response is triggered, some of your body’s stress response-driven changes make it more difficult to think clearly. When you’re not thinking clearly, there’s a cascade of additional stress that can be created because you may make mistakes that cause more stress, or fail to see creative solutions that could relieve stress.
Lower Overall Stress: When you’re already stressed, you may feel more emotionally reactive to additional stressors. Using breathing exercises as a stress reducer can help you to feel less stressed overall, and therefore less reactive to future stressors.
Here's how to get started with breathing exercises.
Outlet: Exercise provides you with a physical outlet for frustrations and stress. When you're pounding the pavement with a good jog, or kicking your frustrations out in martial arts classes, you get better exercise than you probably would if you were punching a pillow at home, and it's usually more effective because you're using your whole body to release frustrations.
Distraction: Exercise can work as a distraction tool, to get you out of the environments that cause stress, and into more controlled environments (nature, spin classes, surrounded by others who also want to relive stress) that are more conducive to stress relief. Just getting out of a stressed space can do wonders for your mood!
Natural High: Exercise also releases endorphins, which can help you feel good—or great! Changing the physiological mix inside your body can be a very powerful stress reducer tool because it can change your whole experience of stress.
Long-Term Stress Relief: Exercise can actually make you less reactive to stress in the long run, so you feel less stressed overall.
See this for ideas on getting started with exercise as a stress reliever.
Perspective: Optimists are less reactive to stress because they see things differently. One very important factor that determines how stressful a situation seems to be is whether it’s perceived as a threat or a challenge. Threats tend to trigger our stress responses and put us in a state of reduced creativity and greater tension; challenges tend to engage our creative problem-solving abilities as well as our motivation. Optimists see stressors as challenges.
Success: Optimists see opportunities where pessimists see losses, so they remain more hopeful and less stressed, and they are able to turn negatives into positives.
Changes: Optimists are more likely to believe they can make changes, so they try more often, and actually do make more changes and meet more challenges. This is a key ingredient to their success. By becoming an optimist, therefore, you may be able to make other stress reducer habits stick more easily.
Read more about the traits of optimists, and find ways to become more of an optimist.
Perspective: Those who meditate regularly become well-acquainted with a quiet part of themselves, and become adept in shifting their perspective from being heavily focused on the challenges they face to being focused on the present moment. When people stop worrying about the future and fearing what might happen, they can often come up with more creative solutions and confidence to carry them out, because they are operating from a place of strength rather than from a stressed state.
Reduced Stress Reactivity: Studies on those who practice regular meditation have found actual changes in brain reactivity and stress response that enable frequent meditation practitioners to be less reactive to the stressors that they experience. That’s part of what makes this stress reducer so powerful — meditation reduces stress in the moment, and in future moments.
A Host Of Other Benefits: Meditation can bring a host of other physical and psychological benefits as well. See this article on the benefits of meditation for a more thorough list.
In order to take advantage of the stress reducer benefits of meditation, you need only have a few uninterrupted minutes to sit. This list of meditation techniques can help you to get started.
Job Satisfaction: Job stress is a significant source of overall lifestyle stress because we spend so much time at work, and a negative experience on the job can put us in a bad mood when we get home, and instill a feeling of dread when we wake up in the morning. That’s no way to live! Read on for more about job stress and how to manage stress at work.
Relationship Stress: Our relationships can be our greatest source of support and meaning in life, but can also cause the greatest levels of stress. If you have an unhappy marriage or if your other relationships are conflicted, it can color your experience in life. Altering or eliminating stressful relationships in your life and replacing them with harmonious, supportive ones is a very valuable stress reducer strategy. It may take a little work, but the payoff is huge. Here are some communication skills to try.
Too Busy: Many of us are busier than we’d like to be, and, even when we’re busy with exciting activities, if we stay too busy for too long, it can become too stressful. If you have an already-busy schedule and there’s an emergency or unexpected additional demand that comes up, things can become overwhelming quickly. If you live your life on the verge of being overwhelmed, it’s probably time to cut some activities out of your schedule to make room for quiet moments, spontaneity and stress relief. Here are some strategies for creating a new life plan.
The following research was used in this article on stress reducers. For more recent research on stress, as well as links to more resources, please scroll down.
Have you ever wondered how to truly bring greater happiness to your life with research-proven strategies? What do the studies actually say about happiness and stress? Read more about happiness and stress research.
Stress has a major impact on health, and research can show you exactly how. Read on for the wisdom of numerous research studies on stress and health. | 2019-04-24T08:34:12 | https://www.verywellmind.com/five-simple-stress-reducers-to-try-now-3145067 |
0.99963 | What is a text file and how do I open a text file?
Unformatted content with ASCII text saved as files in the TEXT extension are more commonly referred to as plain text documents. These .text files can be created, opened or viewed and modified using any text or word processing application for Mac-based systems and popular text editing programs for Microsoft Windows-based computers, such as Microsoft WordPad and Microsoft Notepad. The TEXT format is mostly used when the text content does not need to be implemented with page layout attributes and formatting elements. An advantage of these .text files is to have text files in smaller sizes, so that uploading these text documents to a Web server or attaching these files to email messages will be quicker and easier for users. Program developers also use these plain text files as README files or as text documents referenced by their applications. A more popular file format for plain text documents is the .txt extension. Even word processing applications like Microsoft Word can be used to create, view and modify the content stored in files in the .text format. | 2019-04-18T16:34:13 | https://www.openthefile.net/extension/text |
0.999999 | A YEAR ago, conservative talkmeister Rush Limbaugh was on top of the world.
His syndicated daily radio show was reaching almost 20 million listeners a week. His television talk show and newsletter were flourishing. His autobiography was selling at a record pace. And Americans across the country were gathering at ``Rush Rooms'' in restaurants to share the Limbaugh experience.
Here in Washington, the Rush Room at Blackie's House of Beef closed three months ago - ``It was getting quiet,'' says a Blackie's employee - and radio listeners have declined in some major markets. But in other ways, the Limbaugh juggernaut rolls on. His radio show is now on 659 stations, 40 more than last year, and his TV show is now on 250 stations in the United States and Canada. Nationwide listenership is at 20 million weekly, says Kit Carson, Mr. Limbaugh's chief of staff. By comparison, conservative talker Pat Buchanan reaches 428,000 people a week and has just been canceled by WRC-AM radio here in Washington, a market no political talk show wants to miss.
But for Limbaugh, life on top has brought changes: To an increasing degree, he has to be careful about the truthfulness of his statements.
Mr. Harrison says the two forces Limbaugh has to be most careful of are himself and ``the liberals who have begun to coordinate their efforts to wage a public opinion war'' against him.
Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), a liberal, New York-based media watchdog organization, hit pay dirt in June when it published a report detailing alleged factual errors and contradictory statements by Limbaugh on the air. Limbaugh, for example, had claimed that students at Chelsea Clinton's school were assigned an essay called ``Why I feel guilty being white.'' Limbaugh had claimed his source was CBS News, but CBS never reported on it. FAIR's objection was that Limbaugh reported a false story and misstated his source. The New Republic magazine also has published two articles since May alleging Limbaugh inaccuracies.
The allegations have reached mainstream consciousness. The Benchmark Company, a media research firm based in Austin, Texas, recently surveyed 538 talk-radio listeners across the country and found that 78 percent of respondents were aware of the so-called ``truth detector'' controversy. But 65 percent said it had not changed their opinions. Ten percent said their opinion had changed for the worse, and 3 percent said they thought better of him.
Overall, Benchmark concluded that public opinion on Limbaugh was polarized. Sixty-five percent of respondents said he does not always tell the truth, while 28 percent said he always tells the truth.
Perhaps as a reflection of this changing view, The Washington Post published last Sunday an anti-Limbaugh article by conservative commentator Cliff Kincaid, the biggest attack on Limbaugh from the right to date.
Mr. Kincaid questioned Limbaugh's credibility as a critic of Clinton on issues such as the Vietnam draft (Limbaugh managed to avoid it) and marriage (Limbaugh's on his third). He charged Limbaugh with manipulating the so-called Christian Right, moderating his tone (no more references to ``feminazis,'' for example), and consorting with the ``Hollywood Left'' he had railed against by appearing on the sitcom ``Hearts Afire,'' which is produced by friends of the Clintons.
Kincaid seemed to have personal reasons for trashing the talk show host: Last November, Limbaugh had said unkind things about him on the air and has yet to apologize, he charges.
When asked to comment, Mr. Carson, Limbaugh's aide, said he was not familiar with the content of Kincaid's column.
William Kristol, director of a Republican policy group and former Vice President Dan Quayle's former chief of staff, says he feels Kincaid was judging Limbaugh by ``extreme standards'' and that he's not aware of any conservative unhappiness with Limbaugh. ``He's plenty conservative for me,'' says Mr. Kristol.
Kristol repeated a common conservative refrain, that Limbaugh is very useful to their movement as a purveyor of information, almost a Wall Street Journal editorial page of the airwaves.
``He's right now the leading transmitter and popularizer of conservative ideas and themes,'' says Kristol.
Vox News Has Rush Limbaugh finally gone too far? | 2019-04-25T18:44:43 | https://www.csmonitor.com/1994/0902/02072.html |
0.999999 | I've just noticed the new and improved immersion section!
Sorry, I think I need to improve my wording, I meant that how does Duolingo decide if an article is easy or hard? To me it seems like they do it by the length of the article.
This doesn't depend on article length directly, so if you notice a correlation between difficulty and length it just means that longer articles tend to have longer sentences (or words).
We'll most likely experiment with other measures of difficulty in the future.
Ok, have you guys considered the differences in languages? For example, German words tend to be longer than English words. If not, I'm pretty sure there are readability tests for specific languages. I don't know how flexible the Flesch-Kindcaid scale is.
There's a version of the Flesch Reading Ease test for German as well as another German readability test called the Wiener Sachtextformel.
I don't know about tests for other languages though.
Thanks for the link! I'll keep it in mind the next time I'm working on this.
Matt, I've noticed that you cut off the bibliography section when importing Wikipedia articles. I know that translating references is not much fun, but often there are bits that can and should be translated. Here's an example: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin-Luther-Ged%C3%A4chtniskirche At the very least, the "Weblinks" section should be translated, but it was cut off along with "Literatur" and "Einzelnachweise". Can I suggest that you don't cut these sections off, but make them optional (article - bibliography = 100%)?
If we agree that titles shouldn't be translated, then the rest of the job (e.g., translating place names and dates) is rather mechanical and I think it is best done automatically rather than through crowdsourcing. So my plan would be that if and when we start auto-publishing Duolingo translations into the target-language Wikipedia, we would auto-translate the bibliography as part of this process.
Should titles in Weblinks be handled differently from titles in the bibliography? It seems like the same arguments would apply to both cases.
I agree that titles should not be translated, but the thing about the "Weblinks" section is that it doesn't actually contain unique titles, but short descriptions of the linked websites or documents. I do believe that these descriptions should be translated manually. It would be a shame if they were butchered by machine translation or remained untranslated.
Ok, I agree that Weblinks (and similar sections in other languages) should be translated. We'll preserve that section in the future.
@Matt: Maybe you could let the uploader decide which parts to translate automatically and which should be kept for manual translation. All we need are very basic editing capabilities when uploading a document. E.g. to mark tables and opus lists to be kept, bibliographies to be auto-translated, etc. I think you'll need a human somewhere in the loop. Even highly standardized texts like Wikipedia articles are too diverse to let these decision be taken entirely automatically.
I think that the website does that for you.
Wow! Much better! I'd given up on translating!
On the left there should be a section that says "difficulty" and give you the options of easier, medium, or hard. | 2019-04-24T18:16:13 | https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/911243 |
0.999931 | 42. Can you tell me how to make chocolate from cocoa beans?
43. How can I keep white chocolate (after the conching process) in liquid form to store for further processing?
I think that is a question better answered by someone in the chocolate manufacturing business. I know that companies such as Callebaut and Belcolade ship chocolate to some of their customers in tankers in a liquid form - it might be worth contacting one of those companies.
44. I'm trying to make raw chocolate that's stable at room temperature. I'm using raw cacao butter, cacao powder and agave syrup. Because I'm using agave to sweeten it instead of using pre-made chocolate which contains sugar, is the tempering process different? Does the sugar in chocolate help create the hard, shiny qualities that traditional chocolate has?
I'd be concerned that the agave syrup - being liquid - would cause the cocoa liquor to seize and would therefore not give you a product that can be tempered.
45. I am trying to make chocolate using 100 g of cocoa butter, 2 tablespoons of cocoa powder and 2 tablespoons of honey. But the honey will not mix into the melted cocoa butter with the cocoa powder, it gets thick, and will not unmold. What can I do to fix this?
When we make real chocolate we conch the cocoa nibs with the sugar. This turns the sugar into an amorphous form. This is almost impossible to duplicate by simply adding sugars to cocoa powder and cocoa butter. | 2019-04-20T08:23:27 | http://www.thechocolatedoctor.ca/bean-to-bar-or-making-chocolate-from-scratch.html |
1 | It was seven o'clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke up from his day's rest. He scratched himself, yawned, and spread out his paws to get rid of the sleepy feeling. Mother Wolf lay with her four little cubs, and the moon shone into the mouth of the cave where they all lived. "Augrh!" said Father Wolf. "It is time to hunt again." He was going to spring downhill when a little shadow with a bushy tail crossed the threshold and whined: "Good luck go with you, O Chief of the Wolves."
Answer the following question based on the reading paragraph given here.
Who is the main character of the above story?
How many cubs did Mother Wolf have?
Where did the Wolf family live?
Where was Father Wolf going?
The emperor's palace was the most beautiful in the world. It was made of porcelain, and was very costly. In the garden could be seen the most beautiful flowers. Pretty silver bells were tied to the flowers. The bells tinkled so that every one who passed could not help noticing the flowers. There was a big forest behind the palace with lofty trees. Trees were sloping down to the deep blue sea. The great ships sailed under the shadow of the tree branches. In one of these trees lived a nightingale, who sang so beautifully that everyone would stop and listen.
What does the year 1844 represent in the story?
The silver bells were tied to the _________.
Who sang the beautiful songs?
What was the emperor's palace built of? | 2019-04-25T19:40:57 | http://mytestbook.com/test_questions.aspx?test_id=578&topics=Reading%20Fiction&subject=LanguageArts&grade=2 |
0.998386 | Felicity Huffman has agreed to plead guilty for her role in the college bribery scam.
The actress is among 14 parents who on Monday agreed to admit to the charges. The next step in Huffman's case is a plea hearing which is yet to be set. She will then be sentenced.
The maximum sentence for her charges is 20 years in prison, three years supervised release and a fine of $250,000.
She was charged with conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud for paying someone to alter her 18-year-old daughter's SAT results in December 2017.
Other parents, namely Lori Loughlin and her husband Mossimo Giannulli, are yet to make deals or enter pleas.
In a statement, Huffman said she had 'betrayed' her oldest daughter, Sofia, by paying $15,000 to have someone else alter her SAT results to improve her chances of getting into a good school.
'I am pleading guilty to the charge brought against me by the United States Attorney's Office.
'I am in full acceptance of my guilt and with deep regret and shame over what I have done, I accept full responsibility for my actions and will accept the consequences that stem from those actions.
'I am ashamed of the pain I have caused my daughter, my family, my friends, my colleagues, and the educational community.
'I want to apologize to them and, especially, I want to apologize to the students who work hard every day to get into college, and to their parents who make tremendous sacrifices to support their children and do so honestly.
'My daughter knew absolutely nothing about my actions and in my misguided and profoundly wrong way, I have betrayed her.
'This transgression towards her and the public I will carry for the rest of my life.
'My desire to help my daughter is no excuse to break the law or engage in dishonesty,' it read.
It is the first public remark she has made on the scandal since her March arrest.
The 13 others who also agreed to plead guilty are Jane Buckingham, Gordon Caplan, Robert Flaxman, Agustin Huneeus, Marjorie Klapper, Gregory Abbott, Marcia Abbott, Peter Jan Sartorio, Stephen Semprevivo, Devin Sloane and Bruce and Davina Isackson.
Fifty people were charged in total.
Coach Michael Center, 54, of Austin, Texas, who was the head coach of men’s tennis at the University of Texas at Austin, also agreed to plead guilty.
Huffman paid $15,000 to have someone alter he daughter Sofia's SAT scores in December 2017.
It was one of two ways the scheme's mastermind, Rick Singer, operated.
They planned it over the phone after meeting at her house and their conversations were detailed in the indictment.
'According to [Singer], he advised Huffman and her spouse that he “controlled” a testing center, and could arrange for a third party to purport to proctor their daughter’s SAT and secretly correct her answers afterwards,' it read.
The test was in West Hollywood and was one of two where Singer had administrators on his payroll.
The first step to achieving their goal was to convince the board to let Sofia sit her exam with extra time, over two days.
That allowed her to take it in the designated test center.
They ran into trouble when her school tried to insist on providing their own proctor, something Huffman also described in emails.
'Ruh Ro! Looks like [my daughter’s high school] wants to provide own proctor,' she wrote.
They ironed it out and arranged for her to sit the test at their desired location.
Once she was finished with her December 3 test, the 'proctor' - Mark Riddell - looked at her exam and changed wrong answers to boost her score.
She achieved a 1420, 400 points more than she had in her practice test.
Sofia is still a teenager and is not thought to have left yet for college.
It is not known where she was planning on applying but schools including USC, the worst afflicted by the scandal, have said they will not allow anyone in that is connected to the indictment.
Huffman paid $15,000 to have someone change Sofia's answers once she was finished with her SAT exam.
She considered using the scheme again for her younger daughter Georgia but decided against it in February 2018.
Her husband William H. Macy has not been arrested or charged. He did not join her when she made her most recent court appearance.
Instead, she entered the court holding hands with an unidentified man.
Macy was pictured on Los Angeles on Monday while his wife's intended plea was announced.
The fraudulent scheme was run by Rick Singer, 58.
He collected more than $25million in bribes from parents who were desperate to get their children into prestigious schools.
He either got them in by having someone alter their test answers or, in some cases, sit the entire test for them, or by pretending they were star athletes being recruited for their sporting ability.
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0.999999 | What factors determined the use of film as a television technology in the development of aesthetics in the action-adventure television genre of the 1960s? The use of film on television, instead of in the cinema, led to a debate about ‘technical quality’. Celluloid’s superiority to video gave rise to a cultural understanding of TV aesthetics that could be built on notions of fashion, art, and conspicuous consumption. The action-adventure genre of the 1960s deployed these pop aesthetics and a comic strategy to appeal to an audience fascinated by glamour and youth, and amused by the ideological eccentricity of The Avengers and The Prisoner . The absurd narratives of both of these series refused to different degrees to engage with the real world, but The Prisoner represented an attempt to produce entertainment that relied more on notions of ‘seriousness’. The two series reflect the way television, with its endless dialectic of variation/replication, continued to produce new developments in the action-adventure genre.
Inherently like film, yet antithetical to it. Contradictory theories abound regarding what television can and cannot do, about what it does best. In the early years British television was governed by Reithian values of 'public service' and 'high culture'. But the emergence of a transatlantic market in television programmes in the 1950s — together with the use of celluloid — opened up the televisual in Britain. This process will be examined by focusing on two examples of the action adventure genre, The Avengers and The Prisoner. The article will explore the material industrial processes involved in the creation of a new set of conventions in the genre.
When Radio City Music Hall in New York was opened with a seating capacity of 6200 by RKO in December 1932, it became the world's largest motion picture house and marked the acme of film's development as a big screen theatrical presentation.
By the mid-1950s, corporate interests in Hollywood had their eyes on the potential of filmed drama on the small screen. By now, the contrast between the relative poverty of the studio-based 'live' image and the potential of film was readily apparent. Live plays were often characterised by disaster striking in many forms, from the leading man falling sick to the side of the camera falling off and hitting the floor during a whispered love scene.7 In the U.S., shows were sponsored by advertisers and each live play typically had three acts interrupted by the sponsor's 'message'. The advertisement was often in the form of a slickly-edited piece of film and the quality of the image and the pace of the editing reflected badly on the studio-bound play that contained it. The new television industry was slowly being positioned in relation to its significant economic 'others' – the advertising industry, and later, the motion-picture industry. The dominant interests in television's commercial development had succeeded in producing a synthesis of old radio's programming and merchandising goals with the persuasive tools of Hollywood's film-making, ensuring that the new television medium would not ignore sales-making opportunities by ignoring the value of 'entertainment'. The major Hollywood studios, encouraged by the advertising industry, turned over much of their spare studio capacity to making the filmed action adventure series to meet the networks' seemingly insatiable demand.
A report by Philip Mackie on the widespread use of film on American television appeared in Sight and Sound in 1954. Mackie made a useful distinction between two styles of TV film. One school of producers tried to reproduce on film the virtues and limitations of the 'live' show, perhaps best exemplified in Groucho Marx's comedy. The other school 'made their film look like films, with chases and running fights shot against location exteriors'.9 Such films would continue to proliferate and the mid-1950s saw a big expansion of filmed western series, the entry of Alfred Hitchcock into telefilm production, and in Britain, the opening up of ITV, whose sharpest entrepreneurs quickly recognised the economic possibilities of using film. ABC's Robin Hood was an early British example of the quickly-filmed action series that copied the American technique of industrial television production using film: repeatable and exportable, it became a profitable commodity.
The use of celluloid in television opened out the televisual experience and helped to rescue television drama from its theatrical affiliations (where it would have continued to be a relay device for a pre-existing, live performance). The popularity of the western in America, and even more so the action adventure genre in Britain — in series such as ITC's Danger Man, The Prisoner, and ABC/Thames Television's The Avengers — suggests that film medium gave to early television audiences a sense of the 'epic' and a feeling of the width of cinema that was in sharp contrast to the confined world of the 'live' studio drama. The sense of scale was achieved because it was inscribed into the iconography of the genre as it developed. Patrick McGoohan's protagonist, John Drake, in Danger Man was frequently called upon to intervene in the internal politics of islands in the Caribbean, and in the episode Colonel Rodriguez (1960), he facilitates the release of an American from the island of Montique. The settings and place names could carry resonances of the genre's epic space. However, what was evoked was an imaginative rather than an actual geography. The imaginative space was evoked through every aspect of costume, set design and mise-en-scene, no matter the budget restrictions.
To understand how the debate on celluloid aesthetics on television in Britain took on a particular character, it is necessary to consider the relationship between the technology of film and the technicians using it. Although television is an electronic medium, it has often relied heavily on the film for a large proportion of its programme origination. Throughout the 1970s and 80s, with the ascendancy of video, a variety of questions around an implicit hierarchy of mediums appeared. Film began to look like a messy, outdated mode. It is reasonable to ask why it had not disappeared altogether. However, film appears to have fulfilled the needs of the programme makers, and it continued to be used, not only for technical and economic reasons, but also for aesthetic and cultural ones. Frank Watts, cameraman on television's Hammer House of Horrors, has stated that atmospheric shadows, silhouettes, movement of both camera and cast, and lighting levels, are largely responsible for the success of a good horror movie. Shooting on video, on the other hand, appeared as a real limit to creative potential.
Much has been said and written about the look of images on film. Attempts have been made not only to define it, but also to reproduce it by using videotape. It is doubtful that there is any one factor that produces the 'film look'; rather, it is the product of techniques and technology that have evolved over a period of more than one hundred years.
Stuart Hall in the 1970s asked whether there was a formal aesthetic which could embrace the heterogeneous contents and occasions of television within a single coherent language. 'Despite its massive heterogeneity, there does seem to us a single, coherent language of television to which all its different practices can be referred. The language is, for all practical purposes, indistinguishable from the cinema.'11 Although television continually cannibalises and hybridises the content and presentational forms of other media and events or occasions, the universal set of practices by which this heterogeneous raw material was transformed into television was a set of conventions that, according to Hall, derived from the cinema.
For Hall, there was the danger of regarding television as unmediated, because it appeared that what made television distinctive was the relatively low level transformation of the bulk of its contents, and the very high proportion of television's raw material that was itself the content of another medium, e.g. live theatre or a cinema film. He blamed this on the lack of a 'social aesthetic' on television because of the institution's often innate conservatism. He believed that television did not lack an intrinsic form, but that its powers to transform its content were subjected to a sort of collective repression by the staff involved in the creation of television programmes. For Hall, television's use of a set of conventions taken from the cinema was on one level an acknowledgement that they shared many similarities, but also a condemnation of what he believed was television's formal underdevelopment.
However, it can be argued that television does not represent a different medium, but should be understood rather as a continuum with cinema. As such, it can be best described as a single medium that has undergone a constant process of renewal since the invention of moving pictures. The modes of transmission may have changed from the theatrical to the domestic, but the cinema viewer has become a television viewer as programmes have been reduced in terms of size and scope but expanded in terms of information and activity. Instead of assuming cinema's pre-eminence, as the bearer of a greater cultural capital, it can be argued that false distinctions are often made between cinema and television, and that there has often been a convergence in their development. The latter has involved a two-way process in which the existing modes of representation were updated in both cinema and television to secure further relevance within moving images.
The creation of a specifically televisual rhetoric using celluloid for a domestic rather than a theatrical cinema can be assessed by examining how far the issue of 'technical quality' — the degree of control over the visual style — took second place to the scripting of action and narration in a show such as The Avengers. In 1967, The Avengers was at the point when it ceased to be shot on video and in black and white and was updated by the 'new medium' of colour and 35mm film. The decision to shoot on film led to a more frequent use of exterior shots, and production teams coming to the series sought to create a 'film look' that was more artistically pleasing in the quality entertainment/drama field.
The 'hard work' of making a genre series shot on film needs to be understood in relation to the industrial and economic context of the series. An examination of the conditions of production of the series (rather than, say, an analysis of the role of professional ideologies in the organisation of a television production) will help to clarify the situation here. Firstly, it will tell us about the existing ideologies with which the production team were concerned, and secondly, it can also expose the contradictions between an ideological project conceived by the programme makers and the final programme as it is read and consumed by audiences.
This operates against the notion of literary works conceived of as 'created' and 'finished' products and towards the analysis of literary texts as they are re-inscribed in a variety of different institutional and ideological contexts. Studying a particular text does not require elevating it and isolating it from its history of productive consumption, but looking at everything about it, 'everything which has collected on it, become attached to it – like shells on a rock by the seashore forming a whole incrustation.'13 In other words, the production of a fictional work is a process, and the labour involved in that process can transform the ideology held by its producers and may be symbolised within the finished text. The ideological is given a visible form within a programme and the conditions of production reformulate its particular articulation.
A fictional work is a process, and the collaborative nature of film-making can allow a solution to a technical problem that can lead unexpectedly to the creation of a scene content that is artistically more interesting than that envisaged by the script. Of course, the degree of difference could amount to a complete break from the script, but Hume makes it clear that a crew's overriding purpose was to maintain the integrity of the script, and to serve it rather than alter or replace it. Nevertheless, the diligence of the 'professional' crew should be seen as opening out the televisual experience as much as the use of film as a technology. One reason for setting up a film company in the 1960s to produce for television was the degree of flexibility in working practices that it made possible. For the producers of The Avengers the experience, first at ABC and later Thames Television, demonstrated that freelance working could produce a change in the social relations of production, which can affect the final textual meanings that are being offered in a programme. Instead of the often alienated workforce of permanently staffed technicians in the television studios who were unlikely to work consistently on a long-running drama series, Thames' employees producing The Avengers had the chance of a closer involvement with the programme as a whole and crew members were rarely unwilling to work overtime because they were more actively involved in a production.
By the end of the third season in 1964, The Avengers was on the verge of a major technological change. Until that point , the series had been recorded on videotape, which was difficult to edit, and so the performance had often to be done in a single take with only a handful of exterior scenes shot on film. These technical limitations were overcome by the use of interior sets, close shots and a visual style that used low-key lighting and expressionist angles to create an unreal world that was marked off as different from the realism of a near-documentary series like Z Cars. For the fourth series in 1965, however, The Avengers moved onto film, which was more expensive, but allowed a greater use of location filming, exterior sequences and a more expressive use of visual style. The reason for the change was in large measure due to the desire to sell the series in America where filmed entertainment had been established much more firmly than in Britain.
The move to film necessitated changes in the production base of the series and its personnel. If there was a moment when The Avengers can be said to have changed decisively, this was it. The production base of The Avengers moved to British National Studios at Elstree. Julian Wintle, a former film editor turned producer who had co-founded Independent Artists in 1958 and whose credits included Tiger Bay (1959) and This Sporting Life (1963), was brought in as supervising producer. Yet the credos of actual personalities such as Wintle and Thomas were not as important as a set of complex 'signature' codes that suggests both authorial and cultural importance. From the critical tradition of authorship came the still-dominant popular view that individual, artistic directives were at the heart of the creative enterprise in film. However, the personalities of each studio in the classical era of Hollywood were not a priori to the film, but added in because of the controlling oversight of the studio bosses.15 This worked because specific production modes distinguished each studio. Similarly, ITC and ABC/Thames utilised a 'house' mode of production; they also shared 'house styles' with other filmed entertainment on the lot.
Television programmes are industrial products produced for a mass audience, and therefore the study of popular TV demands that the critic recognises that programmes do not stand alone, but are produced and consumed in runs and sets, groupings that may be understood in terms of generic qualities, or the casting of stars, or shared iconographic elements. Rather than the discrete programmes, it is the continuities across groups of films that the audience recognises, and that become the principal focus of critical attention. The primary object of study is not the single programme, but the series that was shaped by several factors; occupational ideologies that influenced the use of film on television; the cultural understanding of television aesthetics and technology. Steve Neale has argued that 'genres cannot be systematically characterised and differentiated from one another' on the basis of abstracted formal properties — a set of codes and conventions — as if such properties 'constituted specific generic essences'.16 Rather, he argues, genres can more usefully be viewed as sets of expectations through which the possibilities of understanding a text are organised. Such expectations are neither lodged within nor produced by the properties of individual texts or even groups of texts viewed in isolation. The determination as to which genre rules will be operative in organising the possibilities of reading is thus linked to a production culture, rather than a fixed set of conventions within a text.
As television production moved to involve an international market, there was a growing Americanization of the action adventure genre. This relied on the industrialization of the aesthetics of film that had happened in America. In The Avengers the comic strategy of the series also operated to recruit new audiences. The parodying of some aspects of post-imperial ideologies such as consumerism and fashion, combined with the buttressing of others, was not only endorsed by British audiences, but also allowed The Avengers to engage with international audiences. This, in turn, fed into American views of the British class system as an outdated anachronism, and served as an amusing ideological eccentricity when used in the service of the West (i.e. the United States). In this way The Avengers can be understood as linking together American and British audiences.
The importation of the American filmed television series whetted British audiences' appetites for this style of entertainment, and the imposition of quotas on foreign material that could be shown on British television stimulated the production of the filmed series in the UK. It was Lew Grade who first began to finance the production of the TV film series under the BFPA (British Film Producers Association) agreements, after convincing the unions that this would not affect the production of television programmes within ATV (Associated Television), but would allow him to break into the American market, and provide an additional source of employment. After his TV series Danger Man was shown successfully in the US, but not networked, Grade sold his first TV series to America in 1965. The Saint, which had cost ATV £50,000 a show to make, was bought by NBC, and was the first British-made TV series to be shown on the American network. It ran in the US for 117 episodes. Meanwhile, in 1965, Howard Thomas, at ABC, switched The Avengers from tape to film and scored a notable success, including an American network sale.
The main aesthetic that appeared in the new filmed version of The Avengers was the pop ethic. By then the action adventure genre had become the dominant fictional form of the 1960s pop ethic, because the genre had become additionally coded with discourses related to tourism, conspicuous consumption and sexual pleasure. In particular, the action adventure successfully appropriated the new pop aesthetic of the designer gadget. The use of the gadget, omnipresent in The Avengers, Danger Man and The Prisoner marks a radical break with previous conceptions of modern technology and instead, the micro-electronics of the gadget foreshadowed a future in which advanced technologies were to be consumer products on a mass market. Pop art became the freeing of the art of technology from its military-industrial connotations. The gadget was deployed without brute force, but coolly in the hands of a professional individual.
The gadget is designed for a precise, functional use and plays an important role in the accomplishment of the mission of the protagonist. The use of miniaturised, concealed cameras, listening devices, tape recorders and closed-circuit video enabled Drake, the main character in Danger Man, to gather information that would otherwise be beyond the resources of a lone agent. The deployment of gadgets allowed the secret agent to overcome the passivity of his fellow lone operator, the private eye. In Danger Man, the information giving role is transferred to the gadget, freeing encounters with others for ideological rather than narrative ends, and enabling the planting and monitoring of electronic bugs to become an 'active' process which slows down the narrative to the strains of cool bass lines and jagged harpsichord notes. The series testifies to an art/technology combination.
In the episode Parallel Lines Sometimes Meet, there is a condensation of the pop alliance between the worlds of fashion and advanced technology. Drake is always impeccably dressed, his clothes barely ruffled even after fights and chases: most episodes could also be read, at least in part, as a prolonged demonstration by a male model. At the same time, he is also a skilled manipulator of gadgets and instruments. As well as his technical skills, his missions also demand a vast general cultural understanding in order to appear convincing in his various impersonations. Drake thus assembles within his character, the roles of technician, artist and intellectual that form different aspects of the new middle class. The art/technology mix is also a blend of the old and the new. Drake is a carefully crafted design of the new, modern person, running a line of continuity between yesteryear's spy of morality and patriotism, and the ironic view of the old that is receptive to the new. He is emblematic of the modern individual, the spy of technical and social skills that can avoid having his cover blown by not making mistakes.
Pop irony and moral seriousness are constantly in tension, the signs of consumption and technology straining against older values. The positioning shots of London and other capitals are a sign of pop's cosmopolitanism in which the foreign is able to signify the modern and the progressive. Continental values are similarly marked as signs of stylish consumption in Danger Man. Drake's presence in foreign cities, rather than reinforcing his Britishness, is a chance for him to show off his cosmopolitanism and his ease in another culture. By the end of the 1960s, the action adventure genre had fissured into two distinct forms. On the one hand, filmed entertainment of playboys who carried out vague missions in tourist playgrounds against mysterious international organisations; on the other, the ultra-realist genre and the return to a 'live' studio-bound mode in Callan (1967-74), in which unglamorous, shadowy characters went about their way in a morally ambiguous world.
The Avengers and The Prisoner were both nominally espionage-related dramas, and both deconstruct the spy genre, though in different ways and with different intentions. They incorporated sci-fi elements, helped to create the hybrid genre, spy-fi, to feature strange robotic menaces, and strayed from the standards of their genre as they became politically charged and consistently satirical.
The achievement of The Avengers was to contain within itself the pendulum swing from realist aesthetics based on a 'live' mode of television to surrealism based on notions of entertainment associated with film. This demonstrated the flexibility of the television series as a form and the centrality of its style to the way it was marketed. So, for example, a series like The Avengers could reach a key demographic for advertisers — 18 to 35 year olds — by offering entertainment that was sensitive to all these different demands, and which exploited television as a medium and film as a technology within television.
During the 1960s the primary point of cultural reference for a television programme remained the first moment of transmission. Unlike cinema, television programming was heavily tied to specific times that were used to construct a sense of intimacy with a domestic audience. Consequently, regardless of the genre or the fact that it was 'popular' or 'serious', programmes usually made reference to a common present moment and involved programme makers and audiences with shared assumptions. For example, the representation of fashion in The Avengers, which became more evident in series four, was manifestly of the moment. The Emma Peel outfit was the first publicly available clothing collection designed for TV and the retail sales it inspired followed a show at the Courtaulds Fashion Theatre in August 1965. Diana Rigg would soon be associated with her iconic target beret, and the signs and images that denoted conspicuous consumption were used to place the characters of Emma Peel and Steed and enable the audience to relate to them as being emblematic of pop style, youth and glamour. It is worth stressing that this everydayness of TV, where references are constantly being made to a common present moment, can present additional problems of textual and generic interpretation that may not exist to the same degree in cinema.
One of the pop elements deployed by The Avengers was a series of inter-textual references and quotations from other media, often referred to as 'bricolage'. The show was more rigorously 'pop' than Danger Man, which presented 'pop' style within a framework of political dilemmas. Foregrounding the pop obsession with designed surfaces, later episodes of The Avengers eliminated all trace of psychologically realistic characters from its content. These features were an integral part of another style of series that began in America at the beginning of the 1960s, exemplified by The Man From Uncle, which eschewed the 'realistic' illustration of social and psychological truths in favour of glamour and consumption. The focus on surface appeared thematically and we see 'speed' and 'modernity' revealed in a number of forms. Certain clothes become 'as fast and slick as a jet plane'.17 The reduction or flattening out of the idea into real objects was integral to pop style, for instance, in the episode, The Interrogators, an undercover informant is shot dead while kicking a football (bucket).
Psychological identification with characters was dismissed as unsophisticated. The pop gaze established a new regime for the television series, no longer based on the outside world but on the higher reality of design. The development of modern consumerism meant learning to pay attention to detail. This type of fetishism invested objects with systems of signification, and the inability to read surfaces correctly amounted to a lack of 'sophistication' on the part of the audience.
With The Avengers, the enjoyment for some people is tied to the fact that less sophisticated viewers will view it as alien. The quality of the text worked as a social marker rather than providing an objective basis. The pure gaze of the cultivated, sophisticated arbiters of culture defined itself by its opposition to the simplicities of the popular. The analysis of television drama as both a quality and popular form opened up a means of linking the aesthetics of television drama to the dialectics of sense-making and taste-making. In Britain, Stuart Hall argued that the general rule is that the more serious or 'high culture' a dramatic production is, the less it will be conceived for television and the more television will borrow forms from other media. Television will either transmit a 'serious' play as a piece of theatre or else transmit a popular piece of drama as a piece of cinema instead of finding a form more appropriate to television. However, The Avengers challenges this simple dichotomy. The distinction between a popular and the high aesthetic was bound up with the struggle between a populist, and classless American television that came to be associated with filmed entertainment, and a much more class-based British form of television with aspirations to art and seriousness more associated with 'liveness' and the single play on television. It is precisely because The Avengers exemplifies technological changes in the television industry, moving from 'live' performance to film and from black and white to colour in 1965-67, that it also exemplifies stylistic changes that occurred in the action adventure genre in television from a low-key, realist mode of representation to a more colourful, fantastic style strongly influenced by pop art and fashions of the time. It is as a product of the 'high sixties' that The Avengers is most celebrated. As such, it made visible the ideologies of consumerism, in the process 'opening out' the televisual experience on celluloid.
With film recording, television programmes began to acquire the definitiveness and fixity that is normally associated with a separate text, and repeats of viewers' favourite programmes came to occupy a significant part of the schedule. With repetition, recorded programmes also acquired the status of commodities or 'tradeable goods'.19 Filmed drama, and eventually, the new technology of magnetic recording after 1958 meant an enormous expansion of television's programme base. Stockpiled recordings could be used not only for delayed or repeated transmission but as goods that could be traded among broadcasters.
With its foregrounding of signs of expensive consumerism and conspicuous consumption — the cars, clothes and champagne drinking — The Avengers was well placed to become a highly commodified text, taking full advantage of the new market in programmes. Not only could the series be traded among broadcasters; it was also the first television series to employ an 'exploitation manager' to sell product placement to companies anxious to have their commodities showcased. Props such as Emma Peel's sporty Lotus Elan were signifiers of modernity, just as Steed's vintage green Bentley reinforced the character's links with other fictional agents and advertising totems such as James Bond. The prominence accorded to designer clothes and other consumer items was an integral element of the series' production strategy. The Avengers was 'packaged' to present an image of England as a place of high-living and sophistication that would appeal to affluent overseas audiences who might wish to invest in British consumer culture.
In the mid-1960s, at the time of programmes such as The Avengers and The Prisoner, popular culture was enjoying unprecedented prestige and influence. 'The characters often had elaborate biographies, couched in a weirdly serio-comic style, the fruit of earnest script conferences,' records one contemporary journalist.20 Meanwhile, on television, programmes like Armchair Theatre, and the Wednesday Play, and topical magazine programmes such as Panorama and Huw Wheldon's Monitor continued to be shaped by social realism — and the still prevalent Reithian patrician principle of public service broadcasting. The popular genre of the action adventure series with its various sub-categories was all too often dismissed as imitative of American television, and lacking the social realist import or the literary pedigree seen as the hallmark of the 'best' (meaning the most critically respectable), British television. When a popular genre did receive some critical acclaim, it was not done on the basis of its own generic characteristics, but through its perceived relation to the realist tradition (as in the case of Doctor Who).
The cultural status of the action adventure genre is controlled by attitudes to high and popular culture, and what constitutes art and quality. The Avengers, like many popular shows, was not taken seriously by most television critics of the 1960s, and was believed to be ephemeral because it privileged style over content and refused to engage with the 'real' world. However, Kingsley Amis suggested a different way of appreciating The Avengers that was not determined by conventional notions of narrative logic. For Amis, the absurd narrative was a sign of a sophisticated production strategy.21 In fact, the desire to avoid social reality was a deliberate production strategy of the series from 1965 onwards. Bruce Merry argues that while 'espionage fiction trips over itself to play the game of culture', it does so only to debunk the game, to deflate the signs of culture and knowledge which the text displays precisely by foregrounding them as a 'paraded literariness'.22 According to this view, a show such as The Avengers could be read as a subtle anti-literalising device, a parading of signs of value which reveals them as valueless, and furthermore calls into question the making of signs.
The Prisoner was broadcast in 1967-68 and ran for only seventeen episodes. It centres on a secret agent who resigns from his job and is then abducted and held in a mysterious 'village' where the authorities try and make him reveal the reason for his resignation.
Contemporaries did not know what to make of The Prisoner. When it began it was welcomed as a bold and innovative experiment that offered a different entertainment pattern from the formulaic norms of popular television. However, the appeal to aesthetic value was linked to a strong emphasis on the generic elements of The Prisoner as an action adventure series.
It adopted in many ways the generic conventions of the 1960s television spy series found in earlier series such as Danger Man and The Avengers. These series pitted their spy protagonists against villainous individuals and organisations, combining elements of the detective and thriller genres in the use of intriguing narratives and action-packed denouements. In the first episode, The Prisoner promised to fulfil all of these generic expectations. The opening credits showed McGoohan driving into London, entering a building and resigning. The central London setting, the costuming of McGoohan as Number Six, and the man he resigns to in a dark suit suggested a government agency. A shot of a vast underground filing system confirms this is a powerful and large, secret organisation. The exotic location to which Number Six is kidnapped to is also in keeping with the conventional use of exotic locations in Danger Man. However, although The Prisoner sets up these generic expectations, they are consistently undercut and unfulfilled. The identity of the organisation from which Number Six resigned is never revealed, and references to the spy genre are only implied rather than asserted. The Village that the prisoner is taken to may be run by a villainous organisation or by a government. Number Six may be a spy concealing information. The Village may be set in a foreign locale, but this is never confirmed.
In the 1960s, television was still a relatively new form of mass entertainment. Although it had become a force in its own right, the medium had not yet become self-reflexive. Few programmes addressed the nature and effects of television itself. The Prisoner was the first television series to be about television. It explored the technical and expressive possibilities of the medium, and probed the viewer's status as watcher. The portrayal of technology was anything but attractive and consumer-oriented – a condemnation of technology-oriented Western materialism. The essential purpose of The Prisoner was to raise questions about the relationship between self and society in the technocracy of the global village.
In Danger Man, and particularly The Prisoner, McGoohan's professional identification with the television industry was evident in his very 'visual signature' and use of the latest television technology. The earlier classic realism of Danger Man had been overwhelmed by the over-proliferation of authorship. However, the institutional rather than the personal or biographical logic of authorship in production became the key factors here. Television needs to be viewed as an industrial — rather than artistic — practice and a television production could demonstrate authorship to be unavoidably collective, and contested.
In some ways, The Avengers and The Prisoner both used an aesthetics that occupied a space beyond ideology, that of pure pleasure. The extreme self-conscious use of style attributed to both these series in the late 1960s, is explained not only through reference to individual aesthetic or cultural influences, but through attention to the transformation of the TV industry into a new transatlantic form of entertainment that depended on celluloid television. Television is a process that brings the social and technological together. The notion of ideology as the chief mediator between the televisual and the non-televisual which implies that television technology is ideologically complicit assumes that there is such a thing as a neutral technology. Although technology is not ideological in itself, it is ideological in its use in specific historical situations, and therefore, an historical examination of a technological development is required.25 Television's specificity cannot simply be defined in terms of the 'film look' and the similarity of the television genre to film genre, but must be seen in terms of the ideologies used to create such cult shows as The Avengers and The Prisoner, a combination of imperial decline, notions of Britishness, and conspicuous consumption represented by the worlds of fashion and art.
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9. Philip Mackie, 'Six Hundred Hours a Week', Sight and Sound, 24 (1954), 45–48 (p. 48).
10. Quoted in D. J. Kimbley, 'Survival of celluloid in the age of the microelectronic in television', The Journal of the Royal Television Society (September–October 1981), 21–24 (p. 21).
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12. Pierre Macherey, A Theory of Literary Production, (London: Routledge, 1978), p.49.
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Spellerberg, James, Technology and the Film Industry: The Adoption of Cinemascope (Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms International, 1980), n.p. | 2019-04-25T07:59:13 | https://dandelionjournal.org/article/id/224/ |
0.99999 | What Is Hertz in Electricity?
You hear the term hertz in electricity as well as when discussing the transmission of electromagnetic waves – of which light and radio waves are examples – and the speed of computer processors. The common factor in all these phenomena is that they involve some type oscillation, and the hertz unit is used for measuring of the frequency of these oscillations. It has a simple meaning. One hertz is simply one cycle per second. It's usually written in its abbreviated form, which is Hz. Thus, instead of writing 100 cycles per second, scientists write 100 Hz.
The electricity that powers homes worldwide is known as AC – alternating current – electricity. Rather than flowing directly between a pair of terminals, AC current oscillates, and the number of cycles per second is expressed as hertz. The frequency of generated electricity isn't the same in every country, but it is a uniform 60 Hz throughout North America. In general, electromagnetic energy consists of oscillating waveforms, and the frequency of the oscillations, expressed as Hz, determines the characteristics of the radiation.
The hertz is named after Heinrich Hertz (1857–1894), a German physicist with credited with demonstrating the existence of electromagnetic radiation. His discoveries confirmed the theories established by James Clerk Maxwell and laid out in the four famous equations that established that light and heat are electromagnetic phenomena.
Along the way, Hertz was also the first researcher to confirm the existence of the photoelectric effect and the first to detect radio waves. Not a practical man, Hertz did not believe these accomplishments would have any use in the world, but in fact, they laid the groundwork for the modern wireless age. For all his accomplishments, the scientific world honored Hertz in 1930 by naming the unit of frequency after him.
Why is Generated Electricity Cyclical?
Power stations around the world generate electricity by electromagnetic induction, a phenomenon discovered by physicist Michael Faraday and studied by physicists throughout the 19th century. The basis of this phenomenon is that a changing magnetic filed induces an electric current in a conductor. Generating stations make use of this principle by using steam to rotate a large conducting coil in a strong magnetic field. Because of the rotation of the coil, the generated electricity changes polarity with each rotation of the coil. It is known as alternating current, and the frequency of the polarity shift, measured in Hz, depends on the speed of rotation of the turbine.
The North American standard of 60 Hz goes back to Nikola Tesla, who engineered the first electric power station at Niagara Falls. Tesla discovered that 60 Hz was the most efficient frequency for energy distribution along power lines. In Europe and parts of Asia, where the standard frequency of AC current is 50 Hz, electricity transmission is 15 to 20 percent less efficient.
In any type of wave phenomenon, frequency and wavelength are reciprocal quantities. Because all electromagnetic radiation travels at the same speed – the speed of light – the frequency of the radiation goes down as the wavelength goes up. When developing the concepts behind quantum physics, Max Planck discovered that the energy (E) of a wave packet of light – a quantum – is proportional to its frequency (f). The equation is E = hf, where h is Planck's constant.
The radiation with the highest energy is that with the highest frequency, and it's often measured in megahertz (106 Hz), gigahertz (109 Hz) all the way up to peta hertz (1015 Hz). Radiation with frequencies in the petahertz range may exist in the cores of black holes and quasars, but not in the everyday terrestrial world of human beings.
All About Circuits: Why Is the US Standard 60 Hz?
Deziel, Chris. "What Is Hertz in Electricity?" Sciencing, https://sciencing.com/hertz-electricity-5838113.html. 06 November 2018.
What Are the Uses of Direct Current? | 2019-04-21T22:25:43 | https://sciencing.com/hertz-electricity-5838113.html |
0.999567 | What if the 2004 Red Sox hadn't rallied against the Yankees in the ALCS?
Since the Red Sox just disposed of the Yankees in four games, I figured it's a great opportunity to start this weekly "what if" column where I explore alternative realities in Boston sports.
What better excuse to go back to October 2004?
Most Red Sox fans don't ever consider what could have happened after the 19-8 thumping the Sox took in Game 3. The local nine could've easily rolled over and dropped Game 4, ensuring a devastating sweep at the hands of the evil empire. They could've still won Game 4 in the same way and then not been blessed with another David Ortiz walk-off in Game 5.
Let's even say the Red Sox win Games 4 and 5. Imagine this: Curt Schilling's ankle doesn't hold up in Game 6 and the Sox lose the series 4-2.
Does the bloody sock become its own curse?
Hell, imagine if the Sox won three straight to eventually lose the seventh game and come oh so close to completing the greatest comeback in sports history just to have the curse strike at the worst time.
It's an uncomfortable consideration for Sox fans. But at the time, all of those scenarios were still more likely to happen than what actually took place.
If the Red Sox were to fall to the Yankees in the 2004 ALCS, it would've been crushing for Sox fans no matter the way they lost. Getting swept or forcing a Game 7 just to lose it would've been equally crushing. For the sake of this piece and your time, I'm going to just go with the Red Sox getting swept.
Had the Sox been swept by the Bronx Bombers, history would be very different.
For one, fans would've begun to give up. If 2003 was a gut punch, 2004 would've been the bullet through the temple. Aaron Boone's walk-off blast in Game 7 was enough to put many fans in a winter depression. But even then, there was a glimmer of hope heading into the 2004 season with the signing of Schilling.
If 2003 didn't break the curse, 2004 surely would.
With 2004's sweep, fans would have a rough time swallowing the reality of just how much better the Yankees were than the Red Sox. Red Sox fans would've looked to the hallowed grounds of Foxboro as an opportunity for more positivity: a young, stud quarterback named Tom Brady and mastermind Bill Belichick gunning for their third title in four years.
That would be a much more attractive safe space for Red Sox fans than the depression of Fenway.
In response to this, the Red Sox would've placed a much greater emphasis on 2005. Pedro Martinez has said in the past that if the Red Sox didn't beat the Yankees in 2004, he'd retire. But if this scenario were to have played out, the Red Sox would've done everything they could to keep Pedro from jumping ship.
Also worth considering is that the moves from the previous offseason would've been examined under a totally different microscope.
The failure of the Alex Rodriguez-to-Boston trade would dominate the minds of fans, columnists and players. During the winter heading into the 2004 season, the Red Sox had a deal in place to send a package of Manny Ramirez and young pitching prospect Jon Lester to the Rangers for A-Rod. To free up shortstop for Rodriguez, the Red Sox also planned on shipping Nomar Garciaparra to the Chicago White Sox for Magglio Ordonez.
None of that ended up happening after the MLBPA shot down the A-Rod trade for contractual reasons. However, Sox fans would point to this as a major reason why their beloved team couldn't finally squeak past the curse. A-Rod would've ended up sweeping them in the ALCS, Nomar went out the door for a lesser player than Ordonez (Orlando Cabrera), and Manny wasn't all that effective in the series.
The hiring of Terry Francona would be heavily questioned as well. Even though Grady Little had his major gaffe leaving Pedro in too long in Game 7, he still managed them within a game of the World Series despite a glued together bullpen.
From losing in seven to being swept in four, fans would've seen the Little fire and the Francona hire as a step back for the franchise.
Lastly, if the Sox were to be swept by the Yankees in 2004, Ortiz's legend wouldn't be nearly what we think of it today. His walk-offs in Games 4 and 5 would never have happened. Yes, Ortiz had a clutch double in Game 4 of the 2003 ALDS, but nothing like what he accomplished against the Yankees in 2004.
At any rate, 2004 stitched together the open wound of the prior 86 years for the Fenway faithful. Just imagine if it had kept on bleeding. | 2019-04-22T12:29:59 | https://weei.radio.com/blogs/weei/what-if-2004-red-sox-hadnt-rallied-against-yankees-alcs |
0.999447 | Most of you must have faced the situation that you deleted purchased or default Apps by accident. In most cases, some important messages, data are lost with the Apps too. What are you going to do if you are confronted with this situation? You should be cautious for once you take a wrong step, your data and messages will be in danger or missing forever.
So, finding a suitable and reliable method is the ultimate solution. The passage explains you the ways about how to restore Apps on iPhone in details. Just check out the professional programs to help you restore iPhone Apps data and even backup iPhone data as profession.
Many of you who are new users of iPhone may feel panic when accidentally delete your important applications from your iPhone. Actually, there are various kinds of methods helping you restore Apps on iPhone, among them, App Store offers two easy and quick ways to deal with this situation.
As a matter of fact, you can download the lost App again in the App Store to restore Apps on iPhone, which must be the easiest way. Remember to use the same iTunes account when restoring, because only in this way you will not be charged again if your deleted App is a paid one. Here is the detailed process to restore deleted iPhone Apps from App Store for iOS 11.
Step 1. Click the "App Store" icon, and then in the "Today" menu, you can login your account for the purchased iPhone Apps.
Step 2. When you access to your account, you can click the "Purchased" menu to check all the purchased Apps.
Step 3. Check the Apps you have purchased, and then click download button to restore deleted iPhone App from App Store.
Apart from reinstalling the lost Apps from App Store, there is another way to recover it through App Store. If you know the name of the purchased App, you can simply search and restore App on iPhone as below.
Step 1. Turn on your iPhone and launch the "App Store". And then go into the "Search" menu to search for the deleted App.
Step 2. And then you can enter the name of the deleted App, or simply enter the key word to find the purchased App on iPhone from Apple Store.
Step 3. Once you locate the deleted App, you can find the download button to restore App on iPhone. Finally you can get back the App for your iPhone again.
Step 1. Turn on your iPhone, and direct into the "Settings" area. Drop down until the button "General" appears, click it and go into another page.
Step 2. Slide down and click "Restrictions", and get into this page. You will find all the default applications are in this area.
Step 3. Then turn your lost Apps into ON, which will restore default iPhone Apps, such as Safari, Camera, FaceTime and more.
If you have ever backed up iPhone to iCloud, you can here restore apps from iCloud backup easily.
Nowadays, Smartphone plays more and more important in our life. And some data you saved on your iPhone, such as photos, text messages, App data, etc. should be carefully backed up and restored in case of being deleted or getting lost. To avoid the trouble, you are supposed to find a powerful and reliable method to backup Apps on iPhone in a correct way. iOS Data Backup & Restore is a highly recommended program for you.
The iOS Data Backup & Restore allows you to back up the part or the whole data from your iPhone and restore data you want back to your iDevice. It's convenient for all of you for the steps are easy to follow. In the process of backing up and restoring iPhone App, the software promises no loss of all data. So, it is very trustworthy. Don't worry about how to backup and restore App data on your iPhone, the part takes WhatsApp for example and give detailed steps to help you understand.
Step 1. Download and install iOS Data Backup & Restore on your computer. At the same time, connect you iPhone. Launch the iOS Data Backup & Restore, and click "iOS Data Backup" button.
Step 2. To back up the data, you have to select the data of WhatsApp, including photos, messages, videos and files. It will take a few minutes to finish the whole process to backup all Whatsapp data.
Step 3. After finishing, the program will tell you the result. Click "View Now" to look at your files. Then, all the backup files will be listed on the screen and you are free to click and view it.
Step 1. If you have already backed up the files for WhatsApp Data, you can connect your devices and click "iOS Data Restore" this time. And then you can restore app for WhatsApp from iPhone.
Step 2. You are allowed to view and choose the data of WhatsApp you want to restore first, have more details about the files you want to extract from the backup, and then tap "Restore" to start restoring.
Step 3. After finishing, check the Whatsapp Data you have just restored on iPhone. You can save the files to you computer and transfer the files back to iPhone with AirDrop or Bluetooth accordingly. You can also rely on it to recover deleted notes on iPhone.
In case of losing important information and useful Apps, you'd better back up your data ahead of time. But if you get your data deleted, don't worry and follow the steps and methods of how to backup and restore Apps or data on your iPhone in this article, which will help you solve the problem completely. | 2019-04-21T08:04:13 | https://www.apeaksoft.com/recovery/restore-apps-on-iphone.html |
0.996411 | The jitterbug dance is a type of swing dance which has been a rage in the US parties since the 90s. In the early 20th century it became associated with swing dancers who danced without any knowledge or control. People could dance the way they wanted to, which made this dance to evolve through many stages. When people became addicted to jitterbug dancing, they were termed as "jitterbugged".
The jitterbug dance steps are tons of fun if you think you have two left feet. If you want to start of with an easy dance style, then these dance steps are for you. Learning these steps is more fun if you take classes, or else read the steps mentioned below and train yourself. The basic dance steps are counted in six counts of music.
For new comers let's start off with some basic and easy dance steps.
1-2: Step on the left side with the left foot with a slow step in two beats of music.
3-4: Step in place with the right foot with a slow step in two beats of music.
5: With the left footstep back of the right heel, perform this in a quick step in 1 beat of music.
6: Step in place with the right foot in a quick step with 1 beat of music.
1-2: Step on the right side with the right foot with a slow step in two beats of music.
3-4: Step in place with the left foot with a slow step in two beats of music.
5: Step back with right foot off the left heel, make it a quick step in one beat of music.
6: Step in place with the left foot, make it a quick step in one beat of music.
After you have mastered the basic, let's learn the advanced dance steps. These steps can keep the fun part going on and make your body flexible and agile.
In this step, the follower walks forward more than side to side, and the dancing partners often change positions. While the dance steps have to be open or closed, the cuddle step gives a lot of movement space and is a type of "sideways hug" in the middle of a step.
Triple step basically means, that you take two triple steps instead of two initial steps. The outcome is that you take six small steps instead of two basic steps.
Once you have enough practice of the dance moves, move on to some jitterbug turns. A practice of some turns can make your dance moves attractive and at the same time a lot of fun.
Learning jitterbug dance steps is not at all difficult. You just need some regular practice and a little dash of confidence. A good option to join a class if you are really interested in mastering this dance form. | 2019-04-23T02:58:31 | https://dancepoise.com/jitterbug-dance-steps |
0.996821 | Breast cancer is on the minds of many this October, and three local sisters have a story that could save generations.
BALDWIN HILLS, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Breast cancer is on the minds of many this October, and three local sisters have a story that could save generations.
Three-year-old Sophia doesn't always watch her elbows, and about seven months ago, she bumped her aunt in the chest. That's when 43-year-old Minerva Brambila noticed a lump.
"So as time went on, it started getting bigger, bigger, bigger, bigger; it never shrank," Brambila said.
A mammogram later revealed an aggressive form of stage 3 breast cancer.
"In a way it's a good thing she kicked me because if she wouldn't have kicked me, I don't know when until I would have got another mammogram," Brambila said.
Brambila's aunt on her dad's side died from breast cancer, so doctors prompted her to get tested for two known breast cancer mutations. She was positive for BRCA2.
Her youngest sister, 33-year-old Adriana, got tested next. She was positive. She did a mammogram.
"That's where they saw a small clump of calcifications, and they biopsied and it came back positive," she said.
Adriana underwent a double mastectomy.
On that day their other sister, 39-year-old Maricela, also got tested for the BRCA2 mutation. She also tested positive. Maricela has decided to get a prophylactic mastectomy.
The sisters soon discovered their father carries the mutation.
"Just knowing that our aunt had it was enough to get the ball rolling once we found out that my sister had cancer," Adriana said.
"It so happened that three people in the same family got tested. All of them had it, but it was a 50/50 chance each time; it's like flipping a coin," Kaiser Permanente genetic counselor Monica Alvarado said.
Everyone carries BRCA1 and 2 genes. They are tumor suppressors. But when there's a genetic mutation, genetic counselors like to use the analogy of brakes in your cars.
"As you get older, you're going to wear out that one set of brakes that you had, and eventually you have no brakes," Alvarado said.
Nothing to stop the cancer from growing. As Alvarado points out: knowing now can help generations to come.
Sophia's chance of inheriting the gene mutation is 50/50. But that little bump she gave her aunt will someday save her own life.
"Find out family history," Brambila said. "Family history is a lot."
"And educate yourself as much as you can," Adriana said.
The sisters were treated at Kaiser Permanente Baldwin Hills. They asked various family members to get tested. It turns out, two of their cousins and one of their nieces are also positive for BRCA2.
One in 400 people carry a mutation. | 2019-04-24T11:48:53 | https://abc7.com/health/sisters-breast-cancer-story-could-save-generations/1018777/ |
0.999417 | What is a sexual harassment policy?
A sexual harassment policy is a policy that is focused on the prevention and management of sexual harassment in the workplace. It is the responsibility of the employer to put a sexual harassment policy into place. It can form part of the general employee handbook. It can also be written in partnership with employees and trade unions. Some employers incorporate information on sexual harassment into a general workplace harassment policy which covers other forms of unlawful harassment (such as harassment on the grounds of race, disability, sexual preference or age). Others decide there is a need for a stand-alone sexual harassment policy, particularly if sexual harassment is a common problem within the workplace. Both options are valid.
If your workplace does not have a sexual harassment policy, you should petition for one. You should get the support of your trade union or HR department for this. The workplace violence policy should be consulted whenever there are concerns about violence in the workplace.
The policy should be translated into relevant community languages where required so, it is accessible to employees from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. It should be periodically reviewed to ensure it is operating effectively and contains up-to-date information.
An outline of the organisation’s objectives regarding sexual harassment.
What is an example of a sexual harassment policy?
Below is a very basic example of a sexual harassment policy, which could be adapted for a specific workplace.
The management of ___ (insert company name) is committed to providing a work environment in which all individuals are treated with respect and dignity. (The workplace could list their objectives regarding workplace sexual harassment here).
Workplace harassment will not be tolerated from any person in the workplace (The workplace could list the sources of sexual harassment). Everyone in the workplace must be dedicated to preventing sexual harassment. Managers, supervisors, and workers are expected to uphold this policy, and will be held accountable by the employer (If the policy applies to other people in the workplace, they could also be listed).
Workplace harassment includes unwelcome and unwanted sexual advances, requests for sexual favours, and other verbal or physical contact of a sexual nature that creates a hostile or offensive environment. (The workplace could list examples of unacceptable behaviour).
This policy is not intended to limit or constrain the reasonable exercise of management functions in the workplace (The workplace could include examples of work functions that would generally not be considered sexual harassment).
Workers are encouraged to report any incidents of sexual harassment (The workplace could provide more information about how to report incidents and could emphasise there will be no negative consequences for reports made).
Management will investigate and deal with all concerns, complaints, or incidents of sexual harassment in a fair and timely manner while respecting workers’ privacy as much as possible (The workplace could provide more information about how incidents of harassment will be investigated and/or dealt with).
A worker also retains the right to exercise any other legal avenues that may be available. | 2019-04-25T16:08:53 | https://mywage.org/southsudan/labor-law/fair-treatment/sexual-harassment/sexual-harassment-policy-south-sudan |
0.999996 | The standard unit for the measurement of volume is liter. Volume of a liquid is measured in milliliters, liters and kilolitres.
To obtain the volume of oil in liters how much quantity of oil is required in a container, which already contains 45 liters 900 milliliters of oil?
45 liters 900 milliliters of oil becomes 46 liters when 100 milliliters is added to it. | 2019-04-18T18:38:56 | https://studyadda.com/notes/2nd-class/mathematics/measurement-length-weight-and-capacity/measurement-of-volume/7916 |
0.99922 | Kuraly's OT goal lifts Bruins past SenatorsWith the Senators taking an early 2-0 lead into the game, Sens Army would have been forgiven for beginning to celebrate. Not only was that Stone's first career playoff goal, but it also ended a 19-game slump stretching back to February 19.
Clippers' Griffin to miss rest of playoffsFor Rivers, the return to Salt Lake City and the building that was formerly the Delta Center brings back another set of memories. Offensively, defensively, his presence. "We don't have one person over there that we're like, 'Oh, Blake's out, put him in'".
Kelly: Trump will deal with nuclear North Korea before his second termShe again emphasised that North Korea needed to shut down its "illegal nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs". Mr Turnbull meanwhile said it was "self-evident" China had the capacity to bring more pressure to bear on North Korea.
Polls open in French Presidential electionPolls state that the top two contenders of the race are touted to be Macron and Le Pen, with the former leading by some points. The elections, however, are very closely contested and the results of the first round of polls can change the whole ball game.
Hazard, Costa out for Chelsea vs. SpursWe must be proud to see his commitment and to see the level that he played at in this type of game . Pochettino has said that his side a are underdogs for the Wembley clash but Conte disagrees.
After Fox Fired O'Reilly, Bill Shine Should Be NextBut most importantly, I'm a father who cares deeply for my children and who would do anything to avoid hurting them in any way. After the report advertisers including BMW of North America, Allstate Corp, French pharmaceuticals maker Sanofi SA and T.
More than 1 000 Palestinian prisoners begin hunger strikeIn reaction to that, wrote Barghouti, Palestinians were responding with the most peaceful form of resistance that there is. There are approximately 6,500 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons, according to Palestinian figures.
Twelve People Killed in Venezuela in Overnight ViolenceThe chaos turned deadly when looters entered a bakery protected by an electric fence and tried to remove a refrigerator. Nearly daily since protests began, the president has accused Borges of being the "boss" of a coup attempt.
Bill O'Reilly to return with new podcast episode MondayFrom October 1996 until April 2017 - an unprecedented two-decade run - O'Reilly became the face and voice of Fox News Channel. With a profit center gone, 21st Century Fox stock fell nearly 1 percent Wednesday in heavy trading.
Paddy McGuinness tweets tribute following death of Take Me Out ladThe presenter tweeted a tribute to the man, only named as Charlie in the programme, while it was being broadcast on ITV. Tweeting his 251K followers, Paddy said: "Tonight's Take Me Out is in memory of Charlie". | 2019-04-20T01:07:12 | http://www.nikejordan11bred.com/air-jordan-1-i-fluff-white-black-red-for-winter.html |
0.999999 | A woman who turned up at her own funeral after surviving an attempted assassination plot ordered by her partner has been forced to move away from her home in Melbourne.
Noela Rukundo has started a new life with her eight children after some members of the local community blamed her for the jailing of her husband Balenga Kalala.
Mr Kalala is serving nine years in prison for incitement of murder after paying $7,000 to a gang of hitmen to murder his wife while she was attending her mother's funeral in Burundi.
Now one year on, Noela Rukundo recalled the moment she was abducted and learnt of her husband's betrayal before secretly returning to Melbourne to seek justice.
'Kill her.' The chilling words Noela never thought she would hear her husband say down the phone.
The order which was supposed to seal her fate had come just 24 hours after her partner had been comforting his wife after she arrived in her native Burundi for the funeral of her mother.
Struggling with the humid temperatures, Noela took a nap in her hotel in the Burundian capital of Bujumbura before the phone rang.
Her husband was on the line and after a short conversation, Mr Kalala suggested she go for a walk and get some fresh air.
Recalling the moment of her kidnapping, Noela described how she opened the hotel's gate and was confronted by a man with a gun.
'He just told me, 'Don't scream. If you start screaming, I will shoot you. They're going to catch me, but you? You will already be dead,' she told the BBC.
She was driven to a building, where her captives phoned 'the boss' and curiously asked her what she had done to him.
Confused by the question, Noela asked them who they were talking about before they revealed it was her husband of 10 years who was paying them.
She couldn't believe what they were saying and initially she thought they were tricking her. It was only when they called 'the boss' that she heard her husband's familiar voice.
'I heard his voice. I heard him. I felt like my head was going to blow up. Then they described for him where they were going to chuck the body,' she said.
Yet unbeknownst to Mr Kalala, his vile plan failed. After extorting more money out of him for the job, Noela's captors told her they did not kill women and were going to release her.
They gave her a memory card with the incriminating phone conversations with her husband as well as the bank transfer receipts in order to allow her to exact revenge.
Two days after her release, Noela secretly returned to Melbourne on 22 February, only confiding with a pastor about what had happened.
Mr Latalala had already informed the local community about her supposed death, telling people that she had died in an accident in Burundi.
Seeing the mourners and well-wishers entering her home, Noela waited until her husband was alone before approaching him.
At first, Mr Kalala refused to admit he had taken out a hit on his wife, but Victoria's Supreme Court was told he admitted he had paid for her to be killed and pleaded with Ms Rukundo to forgive him in a phone call on February 28, which was secretly taped by police.
The husband said he had wanted to get back at his wife for her alleged infidelity.
'He say he wanted to kill me because he was jealous. 'He think that I wanted to leave him for another man,' Ms Rukundo said.
'Sometimes Devil can come into someone, to do something, but after they do it they start thinking, 'Why I did that thing?', later,' the Congolese forklift operator said as an explanation for his actions.
Kalala pleaded guilty to one charge of incitement to murder and and was sentenced to nine years in prison on 11 December 2015.
After her ordeal, Noela moved away from her old home after some members of the local African community criticised her for her husband's conviction.
'My situation, my past life? That is gone. I will stand up like a strong woman,' she said defiantly. | 2019-04-26T06:52:40 | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3433882/Wife-turned-funeral-catch-husband-thought-hired-hitmen-killed-says-neighbours-want-away-liked-HIM.html |
0.998767 | A Little Song, a Little Dance : Matthew Broderick's immediate future is a bit of a blur: He's starring in his first musical, directing his first movie, and he'll see two more films open this fall. Doesn't this guy know how to stop.
"I don't know what I was thinking--I thought I could whip off a musical in between shooting and editing a film," Matthew Broderick says with a laugh during a break in the second week of rehearsals for the La Jolla Playhouse revival of "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying," which opens today.
"A roll, of course, can be a positive thing or a boulder going downhill," adds the 32-year-old actor, who also has featured roles in Alan Parker's "The Road to Wellville," which opened Friday, and Alan Rudolph's "Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle," out Dec. 21 in Los Angeles.
As if that weren't enough, Broderick is also making his directorial debut this year with "Infinity"--a film in which he also stars--about Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman, based on a script by Broderick's mother, Patricia Broderick. "Infinity," which also stars Patricia Arquette, wrapped in early September, leaving Broderick just enough time to catch a plane to San Diego to begin rehearsals for "How to Succeed." When the musical closes on Dec. 4, Broderick will race to Los Angeles to spend six weeks editing "Infinity," then it's off to Washington, where previews for "How to Succeed" begin Jan. 28. That will be followed by an engagement of the play on Broadway, where it is to open March 6.
"How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying," a scathing attack on corporate America based on the 1952 best-selling novel by Shepherd Mead, finds Broderick cast as J. Pierrepont Finch, an unctuous young man who approaches brown-nosing as an art form. The musical, with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser, opened on Broadway in 1961 and made a star of Robert Morse, who also starred in David Swift's 1967 movie of the play.
The part demands a lot of Broderick, who is called upon to sing and dance onstage for the first time as he portrays a character who could easily come off as repulsive if not given the proper shading.
The fact that he has a daunting year of work stretching ahead of him may account in part for Broderick's subdued demeanor at today's rehearsal. This isn't to say that Broderick isn't up to the job; when director Des McAnuff gives the signal and the cast springs into action, Broderick lights up like a Christmas tree.
He is, however, clearly a man who knows not to squander his energy, to speak softly, pay attention and give what is asked of him with as much precision as possible. He is, in short, a team player, and the team he's working with here seems quite fond of him.
"Matthew is a total delight, and I'm having a great time with him," says McAnuff, a director known for his ability to breathe new life into threadbare material. "I felt no trepidation at all about his ability to carry a musical, either, because he has a beautiful singing voice and he's a tremendous actor. The greatest performances in musicals have generally come from actors, not from singers who act, and he's done tremendously well so far.
"Bobby Morse gave one of the great performances of the time in the original production, but Matthew brings a different style of comedy to the role," McAnuff continues. "He has a truthful acting style that elevates the play, he's mercurial, impish and bold in his comedy choices, and he infuses the play with sophistication and charm. Without a lot of charm, this character wouldn't be interesting. Matthew has charm to burn, but he's also a man of substance, which the character he's playing definitely is not. . . . An actor needs some distance from his material, and the fact that Matthew is so unlike Finch is part of what makes him great for the part."
A fascination with Finch isn't what attracted Broderick to the play. He's here, he says, simply because "I've always wanted to do a musical and was attracted to this one because it's really funny and it has great songs."
"Bobby Morse got discovered with this play, and people keep saying to me, 'He was such a phenomenon in the part; aren't you afraid to try to follow him?' " adds the actor, nibbling at the tuna sandwich that will sustain him through five more hours of vigorous rehearsing. (One would imagine he'd be training like an athlete for this grueling role, but he says he's just relying on lots of coffee to get through the day.) "My career isn't gonna end or be made on this play, because I'm a known entity.
"I've always wanted to sing and took loads of voice lessons before we started because I had a lot of apprehension about it. I tried to do some singing for 'The Lion King' (Broderick was the voice of Simba), and after three attempts they fired me and got somebody who sounded like me to do the singing. That didn't do much for my confidence. Then my singing teacher, Keith Davis, died four days before we started rehearsing."
Though the play is obviously a creative risk for Broderick in many ways, the real risk it presents lies in the fact that the boyish, bubbly Finch has a lot in common with Ferris Bueller, the title character in the 1986 film "Ferris Bueller's Day Off."
"I think I've almost gotten past being typecast as Ferris Bueller, but this play isn't going to help that, because it's basically the same role. Nonetheless, if I have to put a gun to their heads, audiences will accept me in adult roles," he says with a laugh. "Actually, adult roles are the only thing I've done for the past few years--nobody's noticed though, because none of them have been too successful."
True, Broderick has been playing adults of late, but they've all been adults of a certain type. What type might that be? Nice is a word that comes to mind. . . .
"I haven't consciously avoided playing evil characters or being in violent films, but I tend to not like those scripts when I read them and don't like seeing those kinds of films," he says. "I think I could play evil characters, but the way this business works is, if you're successful at something, everybody wants you to keep doing it again--you know: 'Let's get that Ferris Bueller guy.' A couple of times I've been sent evil characters, but even then, they're usually lovable boyish types who happen to murder women."
Broderick does move in a slightly darker direction, though, in "Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle," Alan Rudolph's revisionist view of writer Dorothy Parker and the other legendary New York wits of the Algonquin Round Table. Broderick, cast as writer Charles MacArthur, a notorious rake who broke Parker's heart, employs his boyish charm here to suggest something dark and manipulative.
"Charles isn't evil, but he's weak; he's a cad basically and is an alcoholic, as everybody in the film is. This should be a winner--a bunch of suicidal alcoholics," Broderick says with a laugh. "Anyhow, getting the part was a nice break for me because I don't usually get these kinds of roles."
"He has it in him to be one of the most rounded acting talents of his generation; he has the depth and charm of the classic Hollywood legends. He was a huge star before he was 25 years old, and we've just seen the tip of the iceberg of what he's capable of."
Broderick's character in "The Road to Wellville"--the film based on the novel of the same name by T. C. Boyle--is more in keeping with parts he has played before. The fictionalized account of life at the San, a health clinic built in Battle Creek, Mich., at the turn of the century by corn flake magnate John Harvey Kellogg, finds Broderick cast as Will Lightbody, a sexually frustrated husband with a gullible, gorgeous wife played by Bridget Fonda, who leads him around by the nose.
"It's a reactive role, but it had so much to react to," Broderick says of Will Lightbody. "I envisioned the character as a whining 5-year-old who was always throwing tantrums. In fact, I have a picture of myself making a painting when I was 5 years old, and I have paint dripping all over my legs and look like a crazy man--I wanted some of that in this performance."
Parker wanted Broderick not so much for ability to telegraph craziness but because, he says, "Matthew's capable of great subtlety, and you never see the joints in his acting. He brought a gentleness to this part too that was better than how it was written, and I think that's a big part of why he's a movie star--there's a gentleness to Matthew that people simply like. I hate to gush, but he really is an extraordinary gentleman and is a delight to work with. He's extremely unspoiled considering that he's been doing this since he was very young."
Broderick was born in New York City in 1962, the youngest of three children. He essentially grew up in the theater: His father, James Broderick, was an actor, and his mother, Patricia (Biow) Broderick, a playwright and director.
"I had an arty upbringing," he says. "My mother is well read, so the conversation in the house was pretty cultured, and I went to the theater when my father was in it. We went to museums a lot; I spent time in Europe, and for a period I considered becoming an artist--I used to love drawing and still do.
"Initially I thought I might want to have some kind of backstage job because the first thing I fell in love with was the environment of the theater more than acting itself. I was a shy kid who didn't like being the center of attention. Well, actually, part of me loved it.
"The first movie that made an impression on me was Charlie Chaplin's 'Modern Times.' I thought it was hilarious and romantic and loved everything about it. I idolized Chaplin and loved the way he moved--in fact, I used to make paintings of him. I started out wanting to be a comedic actor, and it never occurred to me to also pursue directing, as Chaplin did. And now, having done it, I'd think twice before attempting it again. Making 'Infinity' was rough, and I barely got through it."
After he graduated from high school in 1980, Broderick auditioned for Uta Hagen at Herbert Berghof's H.B. Studio in New York City. He was accepted, and that year he made his theater debut in an Off-Broadway production of Horton Foote's "On Valentine's Day," playing opposite his father.
"I was terrified and wasn't very good. It was my first play, and I had trouble acting with my father--I couldn't get past the fact that my father was yelling at me in this Southern accent," he says.
Broderick must have been better than he remembers because things happened fast for him after that. In 1981 he was cast in Harvey Fierstein's "Torch Song Trilogy," and the year after that his career really took off.
"In 1982 I did Neil Simon's 'Brighton Beach Memoirs' on Broadway, and when it was opening, my first movie, 'Max Dugan Returns,' came out," he recalls. "That film wasn't too successful, but then 'WarGames,' which was successful, came out right when I won the Tony for 'Brighton Beach' in 1983.
"One would assume I look back on this as a great time, but this was all happening around the time my father died, so mostly it was a terrible time for me," he says softly. "I was very close to my father, and I found out he was dying the night of the first preview of 'Torch Song Trilogy.' Then when I was shooting 'WarGames' and 'Max Dugan Returns' in L.A., I was flying back weekends to be with him.
I guess I dealt with his death by staying busy, but I don't know. . . . Would it have been better not to work and to have been home all the time? I hoped he'd like seeing that his son was going to make a living, and he was very excited about 'Brighton.' This sounds like a movie, but he managed to live until I had the first reading of the play and called him from L.A. and told him it had gone well. He died the next night (Nov. 1, 1982).
"I don't know how it changed me, losing him. I've thought about that a lot, and I think it made me shut down for a long time. A big part of my life was just not dealt with because I couldn't deal with it, and it took a couple of years for me to even admit what had happened and get upset about it. It's funny what time does, though. It's been 12 years since my father died, and you kind of get over it even without knowing you are. It just sort of fades away, which is sad."
Broderick completed 10 films in the next eight years, all of which were successful enough to keep him in the game. His stock went up considerably in 1986 with the release of "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," and he got the co-star of his life in 1990 when he was cast opposite Marlon Brando in the Andrew Bergman comedy "The Freshman."
"When I met Marlon Brando, I was pretty shaken up for a while, but I got over that and just grew to adore him. He was great," says Broderick, who turned in what many consider the best performance of his career in that film.
Broderick made "The Freshman" after a serious automobile accident in Ireland in 1987. He suffered a severely broken leg and other injuries when the car he was driving collided with another, killing its two occupants. Broderick was charged with manslaughter and reckless driving but was cleared of both.
"I feel more like an adult now," he says, reflecting on how the accident affected him. "Obviously, it was extremely difficult coming to grips with what happened, but in time I felt better about that terrible experience. I went to a therapist, and he helped. Unfortunately, my therapist died of cancer about a year after the accident.
"I've experienced a lot of death," he adds, "but experiencing it doesn't make you any more comfortable with it. I wish I had some holy, accepting attitude about it, but I don't--I just wish it didn't happen. Yes, you get over it and move on, but you're not the same and they're not there. They're really not there."
O ne would assume that trau matic experiences of this sort are made doubly difficult by being in the public eye, however, Broderick appears to have made peace with the vagaries of life as a public figure. "Fame has a life of its own that has little to do with the person himself: We're like fictional characters that get into peoples' consciousness, and I don't see that as good or bad. That's just the way it is.
"People have been staring at me when I'm in public for about 10 years and I've learned to tune it out, but I have no idea how it's affected my personality. At first it was exciting, then for a while it pissed me off and I was nasty to people, and now I'm a blank--I'm polite but I don't connect to anybody. It's ironic, because when people approach me, they usually want to tell me they like my work, and that's exactly what you want. But something inside shuts down that prevents you from being engaged by those encounters.
"People who don't know me often assume I have a swollen head, and I find myself endlessly trying to prove I'm normal. The most widely held misconception about famous actors is that they're all in love with themselves--lots of actors are extremely self-conscious. My girlfriend (actress Sarah Jessica Parker) goes to the gym and comes home moaning that she's out of shape, and she has a beautiful body."
Speaking of Parker, how come she keeps talking to the media about her struggle to get the actor to marry her?
"I love it when she does that," he says wryly. "I don't know why she does that--want to call her? It's become a shtick almost. My love life is fine, but I'm not gonna blab about it. I'll leave that to Sarah."
In parting, one asks Broderick what he feels is the most rewarding part of all the work with which he is currently deluged. What's the payoff?
"There's a rush from being the new guy, which is what happened for me in '82 with 'Brighton Beach,' " he replies after a long, thoughtful pause. "I loved the part; I felt fully used and could sense myself flying into something. I'd get huge laughs and big applause--I just felt great. But after you've done this work for a while, you have to find your fun in a different place because you're no longer anybody's 'discovery' and you're probably gonna get your fair share of negative criticism.
"You have to love the work itself, and I do--it's my life really," he says. "I can remember the first play I did when I was 15. Nervous as I was onstage, I could feel I belonged there. This isn't to say I'm the best actor in the world, but I do know that I'm an actor." | 2019-04-22T16:38:44 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-10-30-ca-56525-story.html |
0.999988 | Technology Services for the Financial World!
When should a company use servers in a cloud and what basic features should one look for before buying such services? To a customer, the main advantage of using cloud servers is that the basic day-to-day tasks of keeping the server running, such as providing properly air-conditioned and secure data room, redundant power, and network connectivity, are all outsourced to the service provider, and the customer pays a monthly fee to receive that service. The service provider can provide additional services, for a fee, to upgrade the server resources, install the server software and keep it up-to-date, protect it from viruses and security attacks, backup the data stored on the server, and so on.
For small firms who want to reduce their initial capital expense usually choose Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) model offered by cloud services. Midsize firms should evaluate their available IT resources and the cost structure to determine the best approach.
Contact CAPITAL at [email protected] for information about selecting cloud services for your business.
Software as a Service (SaaS) model has finally arrived for Office tools, but it may be difficult for users to decide which office product best suits their needs. The leaders in this space are Microsoft Office 365 and Google Apps for Business.
Microsoft Office 365 gives you a complete set of tools, so you can work offline as well as online. It offers packages that include full versions of Microsoft Office products in their subscription. Google Apps for Business offers basic set of tools, but does not include software like Microsoft Office. Companies that rely heavily on Microsoft Excel may want to stay with Microsoft so their spreadsheets do not run into compatibility issues with Google spreadsheet application.
Google Apps for Business costs $5 (per month per user), whereas Microsoft Office 365 offers several packages at different costs: basic package at $6, package with corporate Active Directory integration at $10, and enterprise package with Microsoft Office Professional software at $24.
Contact CAPITAL at [email protected] for information about selecting online office software products.
Blackberry is still the preferred choice for most business users, but Apple iPhone is rapidly gaining share in this market. RIM, the maker of Blackberry, provides server solutions so enterprise-wide policies, especially policies pertaining to security, can be applied for all users.
Apple currently does not provide such a robust policy engine for iPhone. For this reason, the IT departments prefer Blackberry for their users, as it gives them much better control over the devices.
Contact CAPITAL at [email protected] for information about selecting mobile devices for your business. | 2019-04-22T22:02:52 | http://capitaltechllc.com/techtips.html |
0.998409 | The question you could ask first is – Who are monuments for?
Only when this has been asked and the many questions and claims, which will arise from this first question, have at least been acknowledged, can anyone begin to talk about what that monument might look like, be like, achieve or change.
Liverpool has historically prided itself in being a diverse city, but prejudice and discrimination have been commonplace alongside that inclusive rhetoric. In addition, the shape of Liverpool’s ethnic profile has shifted radically over time, and the city has often been out of step with patterns in the rest of Britain. Most of the groups and individuals making up Liverpool’s ethnic mix were directly or indirectly connected to the development and activity of the port, which created a constant interchange of people.
James Clarke is distinguished by being the only black man in Liverpool to have a street named after him. James’s great gift was swimming and he was respected by everyone for his skill. As an adult he lived in Elizabeth terrace in the parish of St Sylvesters, where he taught many of the local children to swim.
Samuel Cole was a seaman from Sierra Leone who settled in Liverpool during the First World War. He has many descendants living in the port with various surnames, obviously according to the marriages of his daughters. Samuel served in the Merchant Navy as a ‘donkeyman’ one of the most dangerous jobs, as the engine rooms were a prime target for enemy u-boats. He also worked for several shipping firms.
The family of Marcus Bailey, a seaman born in Bridgetown, Barbados, 1883, have an astonishing history of service to what they felt to be their country. Marcus married in Fleetwood and found his way to Liverpool, where his three children were born. He served on no less than 34 merchant ships and ships from the fishing fleet before joining the crew of the Royal Naval vessell HMS Chester as an able seaman after recieving his certificate in 1912. HMS Chester was known for taking part in the famous battle of Jutland during World War 1, during marcus’s service.
A beautiful statuesque woman Mrs Emily Orgill, the great grandmother of Mary Jane Sweeting (1912) – (1994) was born in Liverpool in the first half of the ninetheenth century, Emily’s descendants know that she was half Portuguese, but are uncertain where her black parent came from. It is possible that he too was Liverpool born.
An early Liverpool black man to have his life and subsequent lineage recorded.
Although the names of many Liverpool black men of the older black community (and it is men rather than women, owing to most early settlers in Liverpool being male) are known to us by being recorded in parish registers, at present we know very little about their lives. James Brown is an early example of a Liverpool black man’s life being archived. Although not much is known about James as an individual, his family and descendants are vey well documented and portray an astonishing Liverpool black dynasty of successful entrepreneurs and academics.
Liverpool-born Black female college principle and Chief Executive of Blackburne House Women’s Technology and Education Centre.
For her work, Claire Dove was awarded the MBE and how has the distinction of being the Deputy Lord Lieutenant of Merseyside, assistant to the Queen’s representative in the area.
Liverpool-born Black musician. Known as ‘The Black Beatle’.
just a few of the names of Black Loyalist still to be found in Liverpool. | 2019-04-20T06:47:22 | http://makinghistoriesvisible.com/portfolio/black-monuments-in-liverpool/ |
0.998318 | So, the 'Notorious' Irishman has made headlines for his encounter with the law, yet again! This time for allegedly strong-armed robbery and misdemeanor and criminal mischief against an English civilian during his stay in Miami, Florida.
According to MMA Fighting, Conor McGregor, the former UFC two-division champion, was charged on two counts for allegedly smashing the civilian's phone on Monday, outside a famous Miami Beach hotel as confirmed by the Miami Beach Police Department.
Based on the arrest affidavit, both McGregor and the English citizen named Ahmed Abdirzak were exiting the hotel around half-past-five in the morning when the latter tried to capture the fighter's image with his phone. Displeased with the incident, McGregor decided to deal with the fan on his own.
He snatched the phone out of the hands of Abdirzak, threw it on the ground, stomped on it a couple of times while causing a great amount of damage to the device and finally picked it up and walked away with it.
Conor McGregor got arrested for stealing and smashing a fans phone. This is no way to treat Dillon Danis.
"Mr. McGregor sir, do you think i can get a pic with the champ champ?"
Alternative headline: Conor McGregor gave a fan a surprise phone upgrade first thing this morning in Miami.
Conor McGregor has now more arrests than wins in the last 3 years.
No stranger to police stations, massive fines and bad media, McGregor was charged with two counts of felony in Brooklyn for throwing a dolly out through a bus window and ended up pleading guilty to misdemeanor disorderly conduct in order to avoid jail time last July.
He is also currently undergoing a 6-month ban and has already paid a hefty fine worth $50,000 for the widely covered altercation with his opponent, Khabib Nurmagomedov that took place last year. After losing to the Russian via submission in the fourth round, Nurmagomedov leaped out of the octagon and attacked McGregor's entourage as a response of months of bullying and unfriendly behaviour displayed by Team McGregor towards Khabib, his coach and the rest of his squad. | 2019-04-24T06:32:36 | https://fundayforum.com/blogs/entry/45107-millionaire-conor-mcgregor-got-arrested-for-stealing-a-phone-ufc-fans-canapost-stop-laughing/ |
0.999995 | Transience - The speaker claims that the lord considered her as a ‘plaything' (line 12) whom he could treat how he liked without any regard for her feelings. Much like the ‘silken knot' (line 12) he wore around his neck (a cravat or tie), he treated her as a fashion accessory he could use and then cast away, rather than as an individual with her own needs.
Glove - The speaker recognises that the lord ‘changed me like a glove' (line 13). He used her and moulded her into a shape that suited him and then, like a glove that no longer pleases, dispensed with her completely. A glove is an intimate and personal object that fits itself around its user. By describing herself as a glove, the speaker acknowledges that she lost sight of her own needs and desires in an attempt to please and suit the lord.
More on gloves: Gloves often appears as a symbol of lost innocence in 19th century literature and art, eg. in Holman Hunt's The Awakening Conscience.
In Cousin Kate, the dove image draws on these ideas of hope and fulfilment and is a symbol of purity that stands in direct contrast to the contaminated state the speaker finds herself as she describes herself as ‘an unclean thing' (line 15). However, she acknowledges that the tenderness associated with the dove is no match for Kate's ‘stronger wing'.
Entrapment – Like a hunter, the lord ‘f[ound]' the speaker ‘out', ‘lured' her, then ‘chose' his next victim in Kate, whom he ‘watched', then picked up (‘lifted') and ‘bound'. Both women are referred to as birds, with Kate seeming to be trussed and bound by her fine clothes and wedding ring.
Coronet - In the last verse, the speaker demonstrates her pride in her son when she tells him, ‘Your father would give lands for one / To wear his coronet'. A coronet is a small crown worn by members of the nobility and varying in form according to rank, so it represents his title. The fact that it is passed from father to son reflects the values of a society in which men were more highly valued and praised than women. By suggesting that the lord would ‘give lands' for a legitimate son to whom he could pass on his wealth, his titles and his standing in society demonstrates the importance of inheritance and ongoing power for the nobility.
What do you associate with the idea of doves?
Why do you think that the speaker tells her cousin, ‘You had the stronger wing'?
Do you think that she is right?
How does the imagery contribute towards your feelings for the speaker?
Does her description of herself as a ‘plaything' increase your sense of sympathy for her plight?
Many Victorians considered marriage to be at the centre of a stable society. It was widely believed that a happy family contributed to the well-being of the country. In Cousin Kate, the foundations of marriage are shown to be less based on love than on the greed of the male. It seems that he only marries Kate because she refuses to have an affair with him as the speaker had done. The speaker resents this and feels angry that she had been used and then cast aside.
In the last stanza, the speaker claims that, despite all her clothes and her ‘wedding-ring', Kate remains unhappy since she has no children. Rather than accepting the romantic idea that marriage led to happiness and contentment, the speaker recognises that the cares of a married life are still difficult to deal with.
The speaker suggests that, because Kate was ‘so good and pure' and did not allow the lord to seduce her away, he ‘bound' her ‘with his ring' (lines 25-6). The word ‘bound' indicates being confined within certain boundaries or limitations. By describing a wedding ring as something that ‘bound' Kate, the speaker depicts marriage as a trap or a prison. Certainly, she suggests that being married to the lord would be like being imprisoned in a lifestyle in which any individual choice was taken away.
Do you find anything surprising about this presentation? | 2019-04-22T08:44:20 | https://crossref-it.info/textguide/christina-rossetti-selected-poems/28/1821 |
0.999724 | What is our approach to cultural differences?
In the United States, there are a lot of cultures that live under one roof. There have been many people that immigrated to America in the past and the tradition continues. The various cultures and ethnic backgrounds of many different people have shaped many aspects of countries and continents, from traditions to holidays such as Saint Patrick's Day to food.
America was once referred to as a melting pot, and that title has not changed. America to this day is still a host to many different cultures and many different people all living together. It's interesting to consider how the country deals with racial and cultural differences. When you ask the question, "what is our approach to cultural differences", it's not easy to come up with a black and white answer.
Recently a police officer in Alabama assaulted an Indian man after an individual called in to report a black man. In this case, there was an inability to distinguish between two very different cultures and backgrounds. Or maybe it was used as an excuse. But the call was about a skinny African American man carrying a toboggan and peering into people's windows, and this man did not respond to the officer's questions or commands.
The Indian man did not speak English and could not respond properly or even engage in conversation. He was slammed to the ground and the officer later was arrested and fired. So, the approach to cultural differences can vary. A police officer might be more susceptible to making instantaneous decisions and in certain geographical areas, consider many cultures and ethnic backgrounds to be similar or even interchangeable.
Every individual's thoughts and beliefs about their culture and others varies. Some people are brought up to believe that their culture is superior to all others, a belief that becomes a problem when interacting with people of other cultures. After all, if the only culture that you respect is your own, an inclination towards the negative towards any other culture that does not mirror yours is probable.
There are many individuals and many geographic locations where this type of belief or thought process is predominant and has been passed down among many generations. Though this is the case in many areas, the opposite is also true. Cultural differences are intriguing to many people and celebrated.
When you are exposed to people of different cultures and make friendships, get to know them, and form bonds, it's often the case that people from different cultures are seen simply for what they are: people. Our approach as a nation to cultural differences cannot be set into stone. It is as varied and unique as the cultures that we encounter.
Culture is a combination of tradition, geographical location, ethnicity, history, and shared experiences as a people. America can arguably be viewed as defensive of other cultures simply because its own is one of the youngest on Earth. Perhaps with time, America's culture will grow in strength and its citizens will be comfortable with its young but shared traditions. Our approach to cultural differences as individuals may vary, but hopefully with time, we will embrace the difference instead of targeting it. | 2019-04-23T02:06:56 | https://www.fine-art-bender.com/what-is-our-approach-to-cultural-differences.html |
0.999999 | The purpose of this thesis is to answer the following question: Given the control polygons of two B�zier curves, what restrictions should be imposed on the control points of the second curve to ensure that the two curves combine with a specified degree of continuity? Geometric continuity is a relatively new research area, and the concept causes a lot of confusion for those not familiar with it. A thorough explanation of geometric continuity is given. B�zier curves are studied, and three different approaches for constructing curves are defined. It is proved that these three construction methods are equivalent, and that they can be used to construct so-called B�zier curves. Their derivatives are also required to investigate the continuity of B�zier curves, and these are calculated using Bernstein polynomials. Investigating the continuity of composite B�zier curves, this study shows that certain restrictions on the control points of the curves will ensure that they combine with a specific type and degree of continuity. | 2019-04-21T04:28:01 | http://nrfnexus.nrf.ac.za/handle/20.500.11892/9911 |
0.999999 | Question: Since Vincent (Malcolm's ex patient who shot him) can also see ghosts, is there any connection with him and Cole or is it just an amazing coincidence?
Chosen answer: There is no direct connection between Cole and Vincent, and it is not really a coincidence. Cole and Vincent did not know each other, but they shared the same ability to see and hear ghosts. After Malcolm was shot and killed, he sought out Cole without understanding that he himself was dead. Vincent was Malcolm's patient and had been deeply troubled because he also saw ghosts. Malcolm is somehow driven to find and help Cole understand and to accept his ability to see and speak to the deceased.
Question: Does Cole know for the whole movie that Malcolm is dead? If he does, why isn't he afraid of him like he is of the other dead people in the movie?
Answer: Cole knew that Malcolm was dead as early as the first few scenes. When he opens his door to the house he doesn't immediately step out. Almost as if he didn't want to go out that day. After he finally muster up the courage, he waits for Malcolm to look away as he hurriedly makes his exit. He also picks up his pace as Malcolm begins to follow him. He knew from the very first time he saw him, and yes he was just as afraid of Malcolm as he was of the other ghost.
Chosen answer: Yes, of course. Remember that Cole tells us that these ghosts only "see what they want to see". To avoid giving away the whole plot twist of the movie, we see Malcolm as he sees himself - no injury, and dressed as would be appropriate for where he sees himself. But we know Cole can see dead people, and he sees them as they truly are. The young blonde boy with the back of his head blown out should make this clear. As for the second part of your question, I think Cole is scared of Malcolm at first. You can see his fear when Malcolm walks past him in the church to sit in the pew in front of where he is playing. His tension slowly eases during their conversation, but he still looks wary as he leaves the church. I get the impression that Cole spends large portions of his time in this building, yet he leaves this time within a few minutes of arriving; he doesn't want to stay near this new ghost. He becomes comfortable with him later of course, and Malcolm eventually wins his trust through honesty about his own problems, but this is not true from the start.
Question: Why does the female ghost in Cole's house keep on opening the drawers and cupboards?
Chosen answer: She lived in the house and is repeating actions she took so many times during her life, as if trying to relive it.
Question: Through most of the film Malcolm is dead. All the other ghosts still have scars from how they died but why doesn't Malcolm have his mark which should be a bullet wound?
Chosen answer: Because as Cole tells us in the middle of the movie, "They only see what they want to see." The movie shows us Malcolm as he perceives himself. He can't actually put on an overcoat, or change clothes. He sees what he expects to see. He goes outside in the cold to visit Cole, so he sees himself wearing an overcoat. He doesn't know he is dead - he doesn't see his wound. To preserve this misdirection throughout the movie, we are shown Malcolm as he sees himself.
Actually, we do see Malcolm and Cole sees him. The entry wound in his abdomen is tiny, and the large, obvious exit wound is on Malcolm's back, which we never see.
Question: If Malcolm is dead how does Cole's mother see him in the movie?
Chosen answer: The answer is simple: she doesn't. If you watch the movie carefully, you'll note that the only one who actually ever acknowledges Malcolm's presence is Cole. For the rest of the movie, you only assume that everyone sees or acknowledges Malcolm simply because of the way the scenes are shot. When a scene starts by showing Malcolm sitting in a room with Cole's mother, we as a movie-going public have been trained to assume that means they have been talking. However, we never actually see that happen.
Answer: It is established that ghosts "gloss over" evidence that they are dead. Malcolm probably has a general sense that he spoke with the mother, and would only realise he didn't if he deliberately thought about it or if Cole had pushed him to remember.
Question: What happened to Cole in the room that he got locked in at the party? We hear the ghost but as far as we saw during the movie, none of the ghosts actually hurt Cole, physically at least, so what could've happened to him?
Chosen answer: Near the end of the movie, when Cole tells his mother his secret, he is explaining to her about the ghosts, and says "They're the ones that used to hurt me". This informs us that the ghosts are responsible for his injuries in the movie, and that this problem has stopped. In this specific case, however, Lyn removes Cole's unconscious body from the closet. The movie does not specifically answer your question, however it seems reasonable speculation that he was injured by the ghost inside the closet with him, and that he thrashed about violently trying to escape. Since the hospital checked him for signs of seizure, I expect he lost consciousness not from physical trauma, but because the experience was too much for him and he, for want of a medical term, fainted.
Question: Why did Bruce Willis refuse to help Haley Joel Osment after he told him he sees ghosts? As a psychiatrist, surely he's used to patients with hallucinations. And what made him change his mind?
Chosen answer: Spoiler alert: Psychiatrists help their patients in a variety of ways. Generally, they begin by developing rapport, establishing an empathetic relationship, and trying to understand the patient's perspective and how he views the world. Some therapeutic approaches are based on the notion that the relationship between therapist and patient is the prime source of healing. Many psychiatrists would also prescribe medication to ameliorate what they would almost assuredly view as psychotic symptoms. But in this case, I think Dr. Crowe has a sense, throughout, that his young patient's experiences are more than hallucinations. Cole's stories resonate with him at a deep level, as he is also struggling internally and subconsciously with his own (as we will later learn) ambiguous position between life and death. I don't think there's a point where Dr. Crowe changes his mind, per se. He develops. And in the process, he definitely assists Cole in overcoming his fears, as well. During the film, they heal one another.
Question: If Malcolm was dead, how did he know all about Cole, and that he needed help? Where did he get all the info?
Answer: It's never explained in the film, but the implication seems to be that he was just sort-of compelled to help Cole. Given the film portrays the dead as only "seeing what they want to see" and trying to resolve unfinished business from life, it's entirely possible that Malcolm falsely believes he was assigned to Cole's case, even though he wasn't. It's just his way of trying to move on.
I'd like to add that despite the ghosts not knowing they are dead, they do know they can interact with Cole and others who can see them, they are even drawn to them, for help. This happened with Malcolm too and him being child psychiatrist connected with his ability to communicate with Cole, not asking Cole for help but helping Cole help himself. The info he has is probably a collection of his previous encounters with him, perhaps even being there at past psychiatrists. Its also possible he was his next patient, before he got shot. The dossier could have already been at his house and he remembers it.
Chosen answer: The dead need to finish things on Earth before they can move on. In Malcolm's case, he needs to help Cole - making up for his failure to help Vincent Grey. In order to do this, he needs the relevant information, so it is supplied to him by whatever agency controls these things. As the dead are unaware of their condition, Malcolm receives the information as if it were another case file for him to work on.
Question: Crowe thinks his wife resents him for putting his work before her. But since nobody but Cole can see him, what work does he have?
Chosen answer: Child psychologist - or so he thinks. Remember that Bruce Willis' character doesn't comprehend that he is actually dead, and certainly doesn't grasp the fact that Cole is the only person who can see him. Dr. Crowe's perception is that life goes on as does his professional role as a therapist for children. When he is around his wife, he misinterprets her melancholia and somber expressions as evidence that she resents his priority on his work, and that she is behaving coldly towards him as a result. In fact, she is in mourning for Malcolm, her dead husband - something he doesn't realize until the film's end.
Chosen answer: First, be clear that Cole was afraid of Malcolm at first. He is tense when Malcolm first walks into the church. He relaxes with him over time. Remember too that we learn that Cole's grandmother visits him sometimes, and he indicates no fear of her (though I'd guess he was scared at first). More than once in the movie he indicates or infers that not ALL the ghosts he sees are scary. Keeping in mind this is fiction, and not every possibility can be addressed, the flow of events shows that the "solution" is to help the ghosts through listening to their problem(s). The ghosts are lingering due to some issues they wish to see resolved in some manner. It seems Kyra wanted her father to know the truth of her death - indications are this was to protect her little sister who was already being targeted by the step-mother. Things are slightly more complex for Malcolm because his anchor to this life is coincident with helping Cole find the solution to these ghosts. So Malcolm is both persistent and has the training to pierce Cole's resistance and fear; while Cole possibly talks to some ghosts, the ones who aren't scary, he doesn't necessarily "listen" to them in the sense that Malcolm advises later in the movie. Thus, that key conversation leads Cole to the confidence to deal with the ghosts without fear, and also resolves Malcolm's guilt over Vincent.
Answer: At the beginning of the money, as Malcolm reviews his notes, Vincent's name is on top, however, on the next shot when the paper is shown up close, it now has Cole's name. There is a direct connection. Because of this scene, I thought Malcolm was trying to keep his promise to help Vincent. Both Vincent and Cole have the same gray streak in their hair. There is a direct connection.
Question: I'm unclear about the mother of the young girl who died. Did she intentionally kill her daughter or was it accidental? That is, was this supposed to be a Munchhausen by Proxy Disorder situation where the mother only intended to keep her daughter sick enough so she was under constant medical supervision?
Chosen answer: At best, it was Munchhausen by Proxy. However, it could have been a well-planned murder of one, and then the other child. But the mother's reaction when everyone is looking at her seems a little more mental than criminal.
Question: Maybe this is just an assumption of mine, but since Malcolm is dead why can't he see the other dead people, ie the three hanging in the school?
Chosen answer: Cole explains this. During the hospital scene when he tells his secret, he describes the dead people he sees as "Walking around like regular people. The don't see each other. They only see what they wanna see. They don't know they're dead". This explains many things in the movie, including why Malcolm can't see the ghosts, why he can't see his blood-stained shirt (till the very end), why he doesn't see the table blocking the basement door, etc. I believe that Cole sees him just how he looked when he died - blue work shirt with the massive blood stain at the back, while we see Malcolm throughout the movie as he perceives himself - no blood, overcoat when he's outside, etc.
Question: Vincent Grey says "I know why you're scared of the basement." What is it that he knows?
Answer: He doesn't say "I know why you're scared of the basement." He says "Do you know why you're afraid when you're alone? I do. I do." He had been trying to get Malcolm to understand that he can see ghosts but Malcolm never believed he actually could and just thought Vincent was suffering from psychosis.
Question: Why could Malcolm not open the door with the red knob?
Answer: In Malcolm's spirit-mind, which was in denial, it was somehow stuck and simply wouldn't open. But in reality as shown in the final twist, it's because his wife had blocked the door with a heavy desk, which Malcolm was "blocking out" and refusing to allow himself to see.
But he did get into the cellar. The first time he tries to open the door it immediately cuts to him walking down the stairs. How did he get in if it was blocked?
Question: How did Cole know about "Stuttering Stanley"?
Answer: The most likely scenario is that a ghost at the school told him.
Answer: Near the end, it is revealed that Cole has seen the ghosts of teachers that died in the fire at the school when "Stuttering Stanley" was a student, so it would make sense that one of them told him.
Question: Could Anna see ghosts? Why was she shivering in the closet and then ran out of it in fear? Also in the end why was she shivering and answering Malcolm? Was she ignoring him all the time?
Chosen answer: No, she can't see ghosts...no one but Cole can. But it is established that everyone can feel the "chilling" effect of the ghosts, and feel an inexplicable coldness in their presence. Naturally, this freaks them out, so it's natural Anna (and everyone else) would run from it. At the end, she wasn't answering Malcolm, just as throughout the film what appears to be her ignoring him is simply her not being aware of his presence. She's merely talking in her sleep, and Malcolm, as he does every other time, mistakes this for a direct interaction...until he realises the truth.
Actually I do believe she was answering him. Cole told him to go talk to her while she slept. After finding out ghosts come to him for help, this is Cole helping Malcolm. It's possible Cole knew it is possible for ghosts to communicate with other people this way.
Question: Why was Vincent (the guy who shot Malcolm) in his underwear? Couldn't he have shot Malcolm wearing his clothes?
Chosen answer: There's no explanation but someone being dressed only in their underwear while they are in someone else's home to shoot them would indicate a severe mental problem, which was the case with Vincent.
Answer: May be to show the scars on his body given by ghosts.
Question: At the climax of the movie when Malcolm talks to his wife while she was sleeping, a ring from her has fallen down to the floor, what does it mean? Is his wife married to another man?
Answer: It's his own wedding ring. He recognizes it and sees she is still wearing hers and he isn't wearing his own, so at that point he realises he is dead.
Answer: The ring was Malcolm's - she kept it after he died. When it falls Malcolm realises that he hasn't been wearing it even though he sees it on his hand.
Cole Sear: They see only what they want to see.
The tape is labelled "Vincent Grey" in the first shot, but the label disappears in the next shot.
For his role as Vincent, Donnie Wahlberg lost so much weight that, between when he met M. Night Shyamalan and when he arrived on set for filming, Shyamalan found him completely unrecognizable. | 2019-04-20T14:13:43 | https://www.moviemistakes.com/film1170/questions |
0.999997 | For questions relating to emails.
Any suggestion for a better email subject?
“Via a phone call” or “with a phone call”?
What should be the subject line to use in an email asking to join a research lab?
I want to send an Email to my professor, and say "Should you have something that I can do, please feel free to assign me task." I assume that "Should you" = "If you", is that correct?
In an email I want to send to school where I work is this correct to ask 'any news for new courses?' can I say courses or better to say classes? is preposition for correct?
I want to send an email to the place where I work Hi...., I hope you are doing well. Just a quick email to let you know that I got my driving license so I can go to work also by car.
Which of the following sentences is more formal for the end of the e-mails?
How to politely ask for clearer explanation when getting lost in workplace?
“I look forward to receiving your updates”, is it right?
How to start a letter to 2 persons?
Is it correct to start a cover letter like this: "Dear Sir / Madam..." with a forward slash, or would you rather use "Dear Sir or Madam..." when you don't know your recipient's name?
“Respected Sir” - is it correct to use in emails?
When I write emails, how do I say my name?
“Please Find Attached or ”Please Find Enclosed" in a formal email?
How do I formally say in an E-mail: “Don't call again”?
“ I have to go home so I need to leave early” is it correct?
" I have to go home so I need to leave early" is it correct when we are asking for early leave permission in mail.
Email Subject - Is it correct to write “Regarding xyz…” in the email subject?
Phrase Usage:- “Works like a Charm”, can it be used formally?
Did I ask a name properly this way?
It's about an e-mail. Please be advise that if the port is the damage, we need to replace the MB. Please be advised that if the port is damaged, we need to replace the MB.
How can I say “I am sorry for sending you the consequent emails” in more professional and proper way?
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0.998679 | Best way to cover imperfect walls?
Having had my flat for 4 years I am finally getting round to some decoration/DIY. Some of the (interior) walls are very pock-marked, and even bulge in places. I assume this is the result of very poorly applied plaster at some point (this is a 1900 tenement). I was thinking that textured paint of some description would be the easiest/cheapest way to address this. I don't think there's anything to be done with the bulges though. I am on a horrendously tight budget... Any other suggestions?
Use Polyfilla or similar for the pock marks. Paint with matt emulsion as it is quite forgiving. Vinly silk emulsion would highlight all the defects as it is somewhat reflective.
Try hanging some pictures and mirrors. They'll cover and distract.
Sand high spots and fill low ones. It might take a few goes at filling the larger lows. Use a wide scraper to ensure anything you fill you leave reasonably flat.
Textured wallpaper is excellent for hiding blemishes. And of course you can paint it any colour you want assuminmg it's not vinyl-covered.
how deep is the average pock mark?
I'm thinking a bag of plaster is yours for a fiver, a fiver more should get you a float, bucket, some pva (to apply diluted to the marks before you plaster them). Seriously this is an excellent opportunity to "have a go" at patch plastering.
If you're on a tight budget, I would go with matt emulsion. If you want to spend a little more time and effort, take an afternoon with some fine filler and some sandpaper to fill the pock marks and lessen some of the ridges prior to painting. You might be surprised at what a decent coat of pale emulsion covers up.
The risk with textured paint is that instead of having a crappy wall, you have a crappy wall covered in textured paint. Think back to when godawful woodchip wallpaper was the fad for covering dodgy plasterwork. A few years later, everyone sees woodchip and thinks, "Oh, dodgy plasterwork".
You can always add a picture or a vase of flowers afterwards.
Thanks for all the feedback. I'll look into Polyfilla and maybe textured wallpaper.
Someone earlier mentioned that Polyfilla do a product for this purpose. I have used it and it is brilliant. It is called Smoothover and comes ready mixed in a rectangular tub. It is worth spending a bit more and getting the proper tool for applying it. Obviously it won't disguise the raised areas but that's what sandpaper's for.
On Jan 22, 10:53 am, "Tinkerer"
mmm if we're going that far.... what's the ready mixed skim plaster like? Wickes do it ISTR???
Very likely a similar product by another name. Probably cheaper too being from Wickes.
French Drains, Best Cover Material?
Any special techniques in taking pictures on projects?
Any thoughts for covering internal bricks walls?
Good vines for awning supports? | 2019-04-21T20:01:44 | https://www.homeownershub.com/diy/best-way-to-cover-imperfect-walls-21682-.htm |
0.999982 | 1: What happens when a student doesn't have any interest in these specialized areas?
A student will still be assigned or placed in an academy based on their past elective choices.
2: Is a general 4-year college prep course being offered?
College preparatory courses will be offered in every academy.
3: How will a students aptitude for a particular course of study be determined?
Students have been engaging in surveys; discussions and inventories that help them judge their primary areas of interest and educational preference. They will continue to take part in activities that help them make this choice and then their final decisions will be made with their parents/guardians during registration.
4: What if I change my mind about my career choice?
A student that decides to change career academies once they have made their choice will be allowed to do that, although those changes may be restricted to the beginning of a semester or school year.
5: How quickly can a student change Academies if their interests change?
A student would be able to transfer between Career Academies either at the beginning of a school year or between semesters within a school year.
6: How do Academies impact 10th graders?
The transition to Career Academies affects 10th graders substantially because they will have two years in the program prior to graduating in 2010. It will affect their choices of both academic and elective courses. However, since they are last class to graduate under the old graduation rules, their requirements for graduation will not change.
7: If a student wants to accelerate the courses in which s/he is enrolled, can s/he graduate early? Is there anything being done for the high leveled students to help them graduate early?
A student at Camden County High has a choice from 18 current Advanced Placement classes, which allow them to earn college credit while they are still in high school. This means a student can leave high school and enter college, potentially as a sophomore, if they take advantage of these opportunities. This has the same effect as graduating early and allows a student the opportunity to gain valuable skills before entering the collegiate classroom.
8: Are students attending the NGC going to be determining which Academy they will enter?
When they first enter the NGC, students are placed in the Freshman Academy. At the end of their freshman year, they will make choices about their desired Career Academy.
9: Is there a specific GPA that must be maintained in order for students to remain in their academy?
10: Is there a plan if a parent doesn'tt want their child to participate in the academy program? Would this even be an option?
All Camden County High School students will participate in Career Academy programs.
11: What about the student who does not have the initiative to enroll in one of the Academies on their own? How will we recruit them - or will we make an intentional effort to do so?
Students will be enrolled in Academies as part of their registration for classes. They will be given several opportunities to do self-inventories that will help them choose an academy experience that suits their preferences and interests prior to making their choice.
12: Will the credit be the same as currently set for high school?
Currently Camden County requires a student to earn 28 credits for graduation. That is unlikely to change. Even though the state Board of Education has recently approved a set of diploma rule changes, those changes will only change how we name and identify our diplomas.
13: If you want to be a chemist, in which Academy would you enroll?
You would enroll in either the Engineering or Health/Environmental Science academy depending on ones interests beyond chemistry and on the particular aspect of chemistry in which one was interested.
14: Are the list of Academies and the offerings going to be placed online for parents to research? If so, when?
Yes, they will be place online. The final course selection guide is in process and will be published electronically as soon as it is finalized. Because the registration process involves more variables and substantial changes this year as a result of the proposed transition to Career Academies, it will happen later in the spring of 2008 than one would anticipate.
1: The success of this program could ultimately depend on partnerships with employers, community and higher education. How can we make sure from year to year that the community efforts continue?
Camden County schools partnerships with community institutions have been ongoing and sustained for many years. The high school is an active partner with our Chamber of Commerce, Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base and local businesses in their efforts to create and support economic growth through jobs, quality development, and a work ready employee force.
2: What businesses are participating?
All of the schools current business partners will be participating and additional business partnerships will be sought to further broaden student opportunities for interaction. We currently have a strong relationship with the Chamber of Commerce as well as Trident Refit Facility and the KBNSB command.
3: What will be the involvement of businesses and industry?
1: Are teachers prepared to put the additional time and effort in creating these new programs and changes that would occur?
The Career Academy transition is supported by the High Schools That Work school improvement initiative. This initiative is faculty driven, with decision-making and program development power resting with teachers and staff. This staff and school has a history of seeking what is best for Camdens students: implementation of block scheduling, meeting AYP standards through NCLB, implementing new AP courses each year, and supporting a strong system for extra help and credit recovery programs.
2: Do you have qualified instructors?
All Camden County High School teachers meet the states requirements to be Highly Qualified. This means that they are certified, by education and/or experience, to teach the classes they have been assigned to teach.
3: If not, how will they get their training?
All teachers receive ongoing training as a part of their certification and re-certification process. They are required to complete 10 hours of training every five years. Teachers have already received 24 hours of training in preparation for the SLC conversion.
4: How will teachers stay current to new techniques and processes in industry?
Teachers stay current through ongoing training offered in the district through its Professional Enhancement Conference, through seeking advanced degrees, and through attendance at professional conferences related to ongoing advances, research and action in the educational profession.
5: Why are Career Academies being instituted in the first place?
The research and data on schools that promote excellent performance have used Career Academies to help students find teachers and classes that help students feel more connected to their studies.
6: What will the students learn that is any different than they are currently being taught?
Students will still be required to meet state and local graduation requirements in order to graduate. The primary differences will come in that students will focus on course work that meets their interests and career preparation goals, as well as, over time, academic content will be adjusted in order to provide additional relevance to the career academy theme(s).
1: Is there reliable evidence that the Career Academy approach will affect the graduation rates or the transition to secondary education and employment outcomes?
There is considerable research and published data regarding the efficacy of schools that transition to Career Academies. On the whole, schools that implement smaller learning communities for their students demonstrate continued improvement in test scores, graduation rates and post-secondary employability and access to further education by graduates. Current data shows that Camden High as maxed its potential for improvement beyond incremental measures. Converting to SLCs can provide more concentrated improvement to smaller instructional groups.
2: What are the advantages to SLC?
Students have the advantage of working with a smaller group of core adults that share similar interests. Teachers have the advantage of being able to integrate instruction and linking their content to the content in another subject area.
3: What are disadvantages to SLC?
For students, it will be that all their friends may be in different academies. Extracurricular events however will be common to all students. For teachers, the initial process of collaboration with teachers in other content areas will be different from the traditional departmentalized organizational structure of the past.
4: Is there a certain class (age group) that the changes will affect more than others and why?
The change to Career Academies will affect current 10th and 11th grade students the most. It will affect next years ninth-graders and seniors the least.
5: Statistically, the schools that have academies, do the students tend to have higher SAT scores?
Yes, although it depends somewhat in what state they are in and whether that state requires the SAT for college or university admittance. They also graduate in higher numbers and pass graduation tests and end of course tests in higher percentages.
1: How does the concept work?
Essentially, students are allowed to choose an academy which fits their interests and career goals and take classes with teachers and administrators that are more personally invested in their academys students. The primary goal of Career Academies is to promote smaller learning communities within a larger educational institution, much as colleges and universities do on their campuses.
2: Does the student stay in the academy the entire day?
That will depend on a students classes. Some classes, in the arts, foreign language and physical education, will be offered to all students, regardless of their career academy assignment. Strengthening a students senior year will be more heavily promoted through joint and dual enrollment and the ACCEL college enrollment program. These programs along with options for work-based learning may reduce the school day at the high school but expand options off site for juniors and seniors.
3: Will the School Day change for the academies?
At this time, there are no plans to change the school day schedule. The Zero period was introduced this year and will still remain an option for those students who wish to enroll.
4: Is there a minimum number of students for each academy? A maximum?
There will not be minimum or maximum numbers of students for each academy, but efforts will be made to balance the student numbers between the five academies.
5: If I'm a senior, will I be able to take the classes I need to complete my planned course? Will I get first choice for the classes I need?
All students will be able to complete their four year educational plan. Seniors that need specific courses in order to graduate are always given preference for admittance to those classes. Seniors are encouraged to seek dual enrollment and work-based learning options.
6: Will I be restricted to only the classes in the academy I choose or can I cross between academies?
Students will be able to cross academies as necessary to take courses that are offered as umbrella courses.
7: Will there be AP and honor classes within the academies or will there be a common group of AP / honor classes that all academies share?
Depending on enrollment, students may have both options.
8: Will there be Honors/Gifted classes in all of the academies?
There will be Honors/Gifted classes in all academies. If a class is not offered that a student needs or wishes to take that is not offered in his/her academy, they will be able to do so in another academy.
9: Will any of the Academies effect the ACCEL Program?
No, the transition to Career Academies will not affect the ability of a qualifying student to enroll in the ACCEL program.
10: If you are a junior in the 11th grade and in the Engineering Academy, can you still go to band? Yes, any student that wants to play in the band may do so (based on the bands admission criterion); regardless of what academy they have chosen. Their participation in band will simply be one of their electives and will count toward graduation just as any other credit does.
11: Are you offering IB classes with more rigorous course offerings for free?
Georgia virtual school is offered as a school day option at no additional cost up to one class per semester for student that desire to take those courses. A student must be screened to see if they are a viable candidate to take a virtual course prior to enrollment. A student can enroll in additional Georgia Virtual School courses at their discretion for a cost of $600 per class per semester.
13: How will the Academies alleviate scheduling problems for those students who currently desire to take courses that are full?
Scheduling via the academies model will hopefully open more classes for students in each academy.
14: If a student takes 2 AP classes, a foreign language course and 4 academic core classes, will they still be placed in an Academy?
Yes, based on their preferences and prior electives.
15: Are core classes focused on the Academies?
Eventually, it is anticipated that all core classes will reflect the content and interest of the academy theme in which they are taught. This may not happen immediately but is expected to grow out of students and teachers common interests.
16: If a student is enrolled in the Academy do they get the first choice of the core classes? How does it affect them if they cross into another Academy; do they have to wait until those students select their classes?
A student in an Academy will get first choice of classes for that academy, whether they are academic or career tech. If a student is taking a class outside of their academy, they may have to wait until students in that academy have chosen their classes to see if there is room.
17: What will the cost be for updating the different career academies?
While there will be some additional costs for the transition to career academies, additional expense is not projected to exceed current spending for growth in student population.
18: Are there separate facilities for these academies?
While there will not be specific separate facilities for all academy classes, specialized labs and workshops already exist for many career and technical programs. In addition, more classroom, lab space, and technology are being planned for the school that will be used to enhance the experience of students in some classes and some academies.
19: How are these academies being funded?
The academy programs will be funded from traditional school funding sources, including federal, state and local funds. In addition, the school is actively seeking additional funding from potential state and federal grant programs.
20: What kind of equipment will be in these academies?
The equipment in all the academies will be typical of equipment found in most schools. Some of the equipment being added to the new addition will be highly technical and used in classes to provide extensive experiences with state of the art technology.
1: Will there be a need for more or less teachers with the restructuring?
The possibility exists that a small number of extra teachers might be required, but that issue will depend on the academy's enrollment and enrollment in umbrella courses.
2: When are the Academies going to be implemented?
The current plan is for the Career Academy plan to be completely implemented at the beginning of the 2008-09 school year. This means that planning for the transition is ongoing and will include aspects of this year's course registration and advisement.
3: Is the construction of the new Academy going to impact the start date of school?
At this time, those construction plans are not anticipated to impact the start of school. The transition will take place whether final construction on the addition is done or not.
4: If an ACCEL student wants to take summer classes, does it count toward their credits as those earned ACCEL credit during the school year?
A student cannot take an ACCEL class during the summer due to state regulations. A student could take a collegiate level class during the summer, but it would not count for high school credit. Only those credits earned during the school year in ACCEL or Dual enrollment count in both places.
5: Are there going to be provisions made for more career exploration in the middle school?
This is a desired curriculum decision that we will attempt to have included in the middle school program of study. The state has these types of programs in their middle and high school course guide and we have taught them before.
6: Where will the academies be located?
New classrooms are being added to the west side of the Ninth Grade Center. However, most academy classes will be located primarily within the confines of the existing building.
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1 | You are given a rooted tree that consists of $n$ nodes. The nodes are numbered $1,2,\ldots,n$, and node $1$ is the root. Each node has a color.
Your task is to determine for each node the number of distinct colors in the subtree of the node.
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0.998668 | How do I stop a boy at a playgroup from biting my son?
You've raised your child to not bite other kids, but that doesn't mean other kids won't do the same. What do you do if another child is biting your son?
If your child is old enough to speak then it may be a perfect time to teach your child how to deal with bullies. My neighbour's son is aggressive with pushing, pinching and yelling, etc (he had ASD). I was torn about keeping her completely away from him to protect her until I started thinking of what coping skill was I teaching her. I told her that his behavior was unacceptable and that she should use her words to tell him to "stop", "don't do that" or "I don't want to play with you anymore if you push". I never let her play near him unless I'm there to supervise but am very proud of how she has chosen to deal with him. On days where is is aggressive, she tells me she doesn't want to play with him because he's in a bad mood and on his good days they play sports together. My favorite was when he wanted to play tag and tagged her a bit more firmly than she would have liked and she yelled at him "No, no, no hitting J, go to your room!!". Some moms may disagree with my way of handling the situation but I gave this a great deal of thought and firmly believe that it is my responsibility to teach my daughter how to deal with adversity with courage while reaffirming to her that mommy ALWAYS has her back if she needs me to step in which by the way I have.
I have to agree, my son was bitten (on the face) a couple of times at school and we had the discussion that if another child got into his space which is the area he can hold his arms out then he can put his arms out and say no get away or you are in my space. He is only 3 but it has seem to work and he hasn't been bitten again.
Being on the other side of the situation, im a little sensitive on this subject. My oldest son was a biter. he started at about 15 mo. My husband and I had talked to our sons dr about it because it was out of aggression and anger. After watching his actions before his biting happened it was always a defense issue. Either someone had taken something from him or hurt him. He was only trying to protect himself. Granted it wasnt the best way to go about doing it, it was his way. I always watched him very closely around other children though so I could supervise the situation. If I knew he was going to bite I would stop him. I found if I was more supportive of him rather than frustrated or getting angry for his biting he was less likely to even get to the point of biting. He did grow out of the biting phase at about 2 1/2 when he was able to express his anger or fright through words.
With all that being said, I would talk to the mother first. If she isnt even aware of her child biting how can she correct it? If that doesnt work, then sit with the children while they play. Maybe there is an issue or miscommunication between the children that can be solved easier by an adult being present. I think it is important to teach your children that just because the other child has one small issue that you shouldnt drop all friendship with that person. I do however believe all children should stand up for them selves also.
know this sounds harsh, but bite the kid back. That's how I have taught all my kids not to bite. Once they realize it hurts, and isn't fun to be bitten, they usually stop the behavior.
does not necessarily work. My Mother did that to my son who was two at the time and he just laughed! He thought it was a game!
This worked with my daughter but with my son he thought it was a game, he just put his arm back out to me again!...like 'come on', with a smile on his face after he tried to bite me again!
I agree with talking to the other child's parent. (I had the same issue at my playgroup with a boy hitting my daughter in the face). If the parent fails to act, I see no problem in disciplining that child yourself. You shouldn't have to be forced to leave a playgroup where you have found/made friends due to lazy parenting.
There is a problem with disciplining another parent's child...the kid isn't yours and you could be looking at legal action. I agree that lazy parenting is annoying, but if the problem persists, they'll be the only parent left in the playgroup. If someone else attempted to parent my child owing to a disagreement with me - I'd be furious! I had a mom once, that didn't think I was feeding my daughter well-enough (she thought all babies should be fat), so she started giving my (then) one year old pizza bread & she's allergic to gluten!
I don't see how legal action would be involved in disciplining another's child. You addressed the situation to the other parent, and they ignored it. You are protecting your own child. I don't see how a timeout would escalate to a legal matter.
I agree - speak to the child's parent, legal action is a definate if you discipline a child that is not yours. Is there not a person that runs the playgroup? like a council member or a co-ordinator, someone you could also address the problem to? If there is no one in that position, then as mothers do, sit down with all mothers of the playgroup and discuss a course of action. Have you spoken to the child's parent, they might be horrified to learn their child is bitting (I know I would!) I don't believe that you need to change playgroups because of a bitting child. Another way of getting around this problem is to talk firm to the child (once a bitting situation has occured) You Cannot physically touch the other child, but get down to their level and firmly say "No bitting" - perhaps you could say it loud enough for the child's parent to hear and this might prompt them to do something. If you physically touch the child (even pushing their had away) it is a form assault, and would lead onto legal action, words are always best. Good luck!
I have to agree with Ashley since I do it myself. I don't hit the other child but I will be firm in my speech and advise that child that their behavior is not acceptable. Some kids listen, some don't. The ones that do we are fine since I'm not laying a hand on them and they get the picture. The ones that don't listen to me I walk them to the parent and I talk to the parents about what happened. Most of the time the parent is fine, some aren't, they don't like being told their child is bad, but I would rather have a parent correct my child appropriately than let my child hit someone. In the bigger picture it's all of our responsibility to protect all children and to be sure we're steering them in the right direction. If you spare the rod you ruin their future. Discipline is very important to me, but that's my personal view of it.
I agree that if you have tried talking to the other childs parent and he or she is still biteing, then inform the parent that their child needs a time out, if they get upset then tell them the next time it occurs you will have your child bite him or her back.
I am not afraid to get stern and tell someone else's kid that it is not okay to bite, hit, kick, or anything. Short of putting my hands on someone else's child, it will be handled.
tell the parent that their kid is biting your kid you teach your child that it is not ok to do that and do they tell theirs it is ok? as far as you are concerned your kids not a happy meal so they better either feed their kid something before group or be more diligent with what their child is doing.
I know you have taught your child not to bite , But it is time for your child to bite the kid back . Or exclude the child from play group explant to the parent this is unexcepatable behavior and the child will be allowed back when it dose not bite anymore . If you have a biter it has to be dealt with .
We dealt with this issue with my son. He was only around his sister so she is the one who he bit. We tried biting him back....but it didn't really help. Anytime she took something from him or pushed him he would bite her. I have gotten pretty good at interception. I watch my son closely to make sure he is controlling himself. When he doesn't, he gets to sit in his room or take a nap. He does not usually bite anymore. It just takes a lot of supervision. It works the other way too. My children have been hit and pushed also. If the parent was not watching and taking care of it then I have asked that child to stop. If that doesn't work, I tell my children to find a different child to play with.
It's an extremely unfortunate phase that so many toddlers go through! When I worked at a daycare center, I saw so much of this. The biter feels he has no other way to communicate his anger. Speak with the caregivers and ask that the boy be "shadowed". This is not always possible at every given moment, but it's effective most of the time. Chances are, your son is not the only"victim", and they have spoken to the parents already. Keep an eye on your own son because he may turn from victim to biter quickly, and you'll find yourself on the other side of the fence! Good luck.
talk to the other childs parent/s you'll probably find they are embaressed about it and are trying to deal with it sometimes theese thing do not change overnight.
the first time my daughter got bit she was 2, she pushed the biter down and told her that "that was not nice". My daughter was also taught that if someone hurts you "it is not ok", i did end up talking to the other mom (at her daycare), and was told at that time that the little girl had bitten multiple children recently (they were trying everything to stop her from biting) . If there was a biter in the daycare room with my girl should i be informed (or was to much of me to ask?) . In todays world words can only get you so far before the other guy is gonna freak out with the punches..... If my children get hurt, they have every right to defend themselves.
In EVERY group of kids there is a biter! Its a very NORMAL toddler behavior. That being said, its about being present, watching closely if something starts, then you have to be there to stop it. We had a child in our group who had the same problem and with all of us watching, and helping him it has stopped. Children bite when they dont have enough language to cope, or feel threatened! Its about helping them choose words and defusing a situation!!! hope that helps!
I used to be a shy little girl & everyone would pick on me & hit me. Until my mom got tired & told me that if i didn't start defending myself, I would get a spanking from her too. I was only 5 & I will never know if she really meant those words but it worked. She taught me that picking fights was not ok but there was nothing wrong with self defense. I teach my kids the same thing, & guess what, no one picks on my 6 & 4 yr old sons anymore because the other kids know they will get hit....with a closed fist.
We don't really do play groups in my area due to not being able to control how a lot of people (LOTS of drug abusers reproducing here) raise/control their kids. We had the biting issue (my son being the bitee twice) in daycare and one time the biter bit my son right on his cheek and broke the skin. But when your child is at risk of being hurt (like mine was) I would definitely consult with the other parent that it happened. When it happens in a place like preschool and daycare the teachers can't tell you who the other kid is, just that it happened and proper action will take place or already has taken place (at least where I live).
Talk to the other kids parents. If that parent is unresponsive and/or the biting doesn't stop - find a different playgroup.
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0.999998 | India is the national sport hockey, but in terms of popularity, cricket is far ahead of hockey. Cricket is a game that has played in every street-mohalla of India There is hardly any Indian who has never played cricket in his life, whether he knows the rules of the game or not. In schools, children are often asked to make a project over cricket. You can use this information related to cricket in your project.
Cricket is a game that is played between two teams Each team has 11 players and some other players Before the game, tosses between the two teams, and the winning team gets the opportunity to select batting or bowling. Firstly, the batting team gets the other team a target. If the other team in the fixed hour chases the target then it is declared the winner and if the first team gets out before the other team gets the goal then the first team is called victorious.
A team battles in cricket and the other team is bowling. The batsman tries to make maximum runs for his team and the bowler tries to dismiss it. A boundary line formed around the ground If the ball goes straight out of the boundary line, the batsman gets 6 runs and if the ball crosses the boundary then it gets 4 runs. Apart from this, batsmen can also make runs by running between wickets. The bowler has only one goal - to dismiss the batsman The batter can be out in this game in many ways, including catch-out, stumping, run-out, hit wicket, clean bowl.
Test cricket - Test cricket is the oldest format of this game A test match is played for 5 days. It gives both teams a chance to play two innings The special thing about a Test match is that there is no limit to the number of overs for any team. Approximately 90 hours of play is played every day for five days.
Fielder - All the players of the bowling team are standing in the field. These players were told to stop the fielder.
Umpires - two umpires All judges like getting out in the match or making runs take the umpire Third umpire - sometimes the umpire can not decide whether the batsman is out or not, or the ball is a stage outside the boundary line or inside The third umpire is held to take such decisions He helps in making the computer while sitting in Pavilion.
Man of the match - This title was given to the best performer during the whole match. Records- When a player gets extraordinary achievement during the match, it is called a record.
Century - When the batsman completes 100 runs, he is called a hundred. In the same way, there are half-centuries and double centuries in the game too. Over-Cricket has an oval of 6 balls How many overs are bowlers in a match, it depends on cricket format.
Duckworth Lewis Rule - This game is one of the most intriguing rules of this game. When the match has been turned off due to bad weather or any other reason, then the Umpire Series - Many matches played in series World Cup - This is the most popular and enhanced tournament of cricket. In this tournament, the world's best team competes for the championship title. | 2019-04-21T20:27:27 | https://www.onlinecricketcoaching.in/2017/11/cricket-information-for-project-in.html |
0.999936 | in the 2000–01 National Basketball Association playoffs, Allen Iverson played an average of 46.2 minutes a game, leading the Eastern Conference?
Allen Iverson is the only player who led the NBA in steals for three consecutive seasons?
Allen Ezail Iverson (born June 7, 1975, in Hampton, Virginia) is an American professional basketball player who is on leave from the Philadelphia 76ers for the remainder of the 2009-10 NBA season. The 76ers selected Iverson with the number one pick in the 1996 NBA Draft. He was named the NBA Rookie of the Year in 1996–97 season. Iverson is an eleven-time NBA All-Star which includes winning the All-Star MVP award in 2001 and 2005.
Winning the NBA scoring title during the 1998–99, 2000–01, 2001–02 and 2004–05 seasons, Iverson has become one of the most prolific scorers in NBA history, despite his small (listed at 6 feet, 0 inches) stature, with a career scoring average of 26.7 points per game, being sixth all-time. Iverson was also the NBA Most Valuable Player of the 2000–01 season and led his team to the 2001 NBA Finals the same season.
Iverson represented the United States at the 2004 Summer Olympics, winning the Bronze medal.
Iverson also played for the Denver Nuggets, Detroit Pistons and the Memphis Grizzlies, before returning to Philadelphia for part of the 2009-10 NBA season.
As a high school junior, Iverson played quarterback for the Bethel High School football team, leading the team to the state championship.
On February 14, 1993, Iverson and several of his friends became involved in an altercation with a group of white teenagers at the Circle Lanes bowling alley in Hampton, Virginia. Iverson's crowd was raucous and had to be asked to quiet down several times, and eventually a shouting duel began with another group of youths. Shortly thereafter, a huge fight erupted, pitting the white crowd against the blacks. During the fight, Iverson allegedly struck a woman in the head with a chair. He, along with three of his friends who are also African-American, were the only people arrested. Iverson, who was 17 at the time, was convicted as an adult of the felony charge of maiming by mob, a rarely used Virginia statute that was designed to combat lynching. Iverson and his supporters maintained his innocence, claiming that he left the alley as soon as the trouble began. Iverson said, "For me to be in a bowling alley where everybody in the whole place know who I am and be crackin' people upside the head with chairs and think nothin' gonna happen? That's crazy! And what kind of a man would I be to hit a girl in the head with a damn chair? I rather have 'em say I hit a man with a chair, not no damn woman."
After Iverson spent four months at Newport News City Farm, a correctional facility in Newport News, Virginia, he was granted clemency by Virginia Governor Douglas Wilder, and the Virginia Court of Appeals overturned the conviction in 1995 for insufficient evidence.
In spring 1994, Georgetown basketball coach John Thompson visited Iverson at Hampton's Bethel High School.
At Georgetown, Iverson won two Big East Defensive Player of the Year awards, All Rookie Tournament 1st Team, and a gold medal for his win at the World University Games in Japan in 1995. Iverson led all USA players in scoring and assists, averaging 16.7 points per game and 6.1 assists per game. He ended his college career as the Hoyas' all-time leader in career scoring average, at 23.0 ppg.
Iverson was the first of just two basketball players, Victor Page being the other, to leave Georgetown early for the NBA under Thompson.
After two seasons at Georgetown, Iverson was selected first overall by the Philadelphia 76ers in the 1996 NBA Draft. He played with the Sixers for 10 years. During his tenure he was Rookie of the Year, League MVP, 2x All-Star MVP, and led the league in scoring for four years. After his rookie season, during which he led the 76ers in points, assists and minutes, Iverson was named the 1996 NBA Rookie of the Year and was a member of the NBA All-Rookie First Team.
During the offseason, Iverson and his friends were stopped by policemen for speeding late at night and was arrested for carrying a concealed weapon and for possession of marijuana. He pleaded no contest and was sentenced to community service.
After the 1998–1999 season, during which he averaged 26.8 points, earned his first scoring title and was named to his first All NBA first team., Iverson made his first trip to the playoffs. He started all ten playoff games and averaged 44.4 minutes per game despite being hampered by a number of nagging injuries. Iverson led the Sixers to an upset over the Orlando Magic, before losing to the Indiana Pacers in the second round.
Prior to the next season, Iverson signed a six-year, $70 million contract extension. That year, Iverson averaged 28.4 points and again led the 76ers into the playoffs. In the process, Iverson was selected to the Eastern Conference All-Star team for the first time of what would be 11 straight appearances. In the playoffs, Iverson averaged 26.2 points, 4.8 assists, 4 rebounds and 1.3 steals per game, with a high of 40 points in the first round opener at Charlotte on April 22, 2000. Philadelphia advanced past Charlotte, but was eliminated again by Indiana in the second round. That season, he was the only player other than Shaquille O'Neal to receive a NBA Most Valuable Player vote.
In the 2000 off-season, the 76ers actively tried to trade Iverson, and had agreed to terms with the Detroit Pistons before Matt Geiger, who was included in the deal, refused to forfeit his $5 million trade kicker.
During the same offseason, Iverson recorded a rap single named 40 Bars. However, after being criticized for its controversial lyrics, he eventually was unable to release it. Going under his moniker, "Jewelz", the album was alleged to have made derogatory remarks about homosexuals. After criticism from activist groups and NBA Commissioner David Stern, he agreed to change the lyrics, but ultimately never released the album.
That season, Iverson led his team to wins in the first ten games of the season, and was named starter at the 2001 NBA All-Star Game, where he won the game MVP. The Sixers also posted a 56–26 record, the best in the Eastern Conference that season. He also averaged a then-career high 31.1 points, winning his second NBA scoring title in the process. Iverson won the NBA steals title at 2.5 a game. Iverson was named NBA Most Valuable Player, and named to the All NBA First team for his accomplishments.
In the playoffs, Iverson and the Sixers defeated the Indiana Pacers in the first round, before meeting Vince Carter-led Toronto Raptors in the Eastern Semifinals. The series went the full seven games. In the next round, the Sixers defeated the Milwaukee Bucks, also in seven games, to advance to the 2001 NBA Finals against the defending champion Los Angeles Lakers.
Iverson led the Sixers to their first finals since their 1983 championship. In game one of the 2001 NBA Finals, Iverson scored a playoff high 48 points and beat the heavily favored Lakers 107–101. In the game he notably stepped over Tyronn Lue after hitting a crucial shot. Iverson would go on to score 23, 35, 35, 37 in games 2–5, all losing efforts though the Sixers were not swept like many predicted. Iverson enjoyed his most successful season as an individual and as a member of the Sixers during the 2000–01 NBA season. In the 2001–02 season, the Sixers failed to repeat their success. Iverson and others struggled with injury, and despite Iverson averaging a league high 31.4 points per game the Sixers fell to the sixth seed in the 2002 Playoffs, where they fell to the Boston Celtics in the first round.
Iverson began using a basketball sleeve during this season during his recovery from bursitis in his right elbow. Other players, including Carmelo Anthony, and Kobe Bryant, have adopted the sleeves as well, as did fans who wore the sleeve as a fashion statement. Iverson continued wearing his sleeve long after his elbow had healed. Some believe that the sleeve improved Iverson's shooting ability, while Steven Kotler of Psychology Today suggested that the sleeve may act as a placebo to prevent future injuries.
For most of the early portion of Iverson's career, his head coach with the Sixers was Larry Brown. Iverson often praised Brown, saying that he would not have achieved so much in the sport without Brown's guidance. However, the two frequently clashed; for example, when the 76ers were defeated in the first round of the 2002 NBA Playoffs, Brown criticized Iverson for missing team practices. Iverson responded by saying, "We're sitting here, I'm supposed to be the franchise player, and we're in here talking about practice," and went on a rant that included the word "practice" 14 times.
In the 2002–2003 season, Iverson once again put up stellar scoring numbers (27.6 points per game), was named an NBA All-Star and led the Sixers to the playoffs. This time they were eliminated by the Detroit Pistons in the second round after a 6-game series. Brown left the 76ers in 2003, following the playoff loss. After his departure from the 76ers, both he and Iverson indicated that the two were on good terms and genuinely fond of one another. Iverson later reunited with Brown when Iverson became a member and co-captain of the 2004 United States Olympic men's basketball team.
During the latter part of the 2003–2004 season, Iverson bristled under the disciplinarian approach of the Sixers' new head coach Chris Ford. This led to a number of contentious incidents, including Iverson being suspended for missing practice, fined for failing to notify Ford that Iverson would not attend a game because he was sick, and refusing to play in game because he felt "insulted" that Ford wanted Iverson to come off the bench as he worked his way back from an injury.
On February 24, 2004, Iverson urinated in a trash can at Bally's Atlantic City casino in full view of staff and patrons. He was told by casino management not to return.
In 2005, league commissioner David Stern instituted a dress code that required "business casual" attire for players on league or team business, and banned, among other items, t-shirts, jeans, and large jewelry worn over clothes.
The 2005–06 NBA season would be the last full season for Iverson in a Sixers uniform. He averaged a career high 33.0 points per game, but the Sixers missed the playoffs for the second time in three years. He had also begun to clash with coach Jim O'Brien, who was fired after the season.
On December 9, 2005 after the Sixers defeated the Charlotte Bobcats, Iverson paid a late-night visit to the Trump Taj Mahal. After winning a hand at a three-card-stud poker table, Iverson was overpaid $10,000 in chips by a dealer. When the dealer quickly realized the mistake and requested the chips back, Iverson refused and a heated head-turning argument between him and casino staff began. Atlantic City casino regulations reportedly state that when a casino makes a payout mistake in favor of the gambler, he or she must return the money that they did not legitimately win by playing.
Also in 2005, Iverson's bodyguard Jason Kane was accused of assaulting a man at a Washington DC nightclub after the man, Marlin Godfrey, refused to leave the club's VIP section so Iverson's entourage could enter. Godfrey suffered a concussion, a ruptured eardrum, a burst blood vessel in his eye, a torn rotator cuff, cuts and bruises, and emotional injuries. Although Iverson did not touch Godfrey himself, Godfrey sued Iverson for the injuries caused by his bodyguard. In 2007 a jury awarded Godfrey $260,000. The U.S. Court of Appeals upheld the verdict in 2009.
On April 18, 2006, Iverson and Chris Webber arrived late to the Sixers' fan appreciation night and home game finale. Players are expected to report 90 minutes before game time, but both Iverson and Webber arrived around tipoff. Coach Maurice Cheeks notified the media that neither would be playing and general manager Billy King announced that Iverson and Webber would be fined. During the 2006 off-season, trade rumors had Iverson going to Denver, Atlanta, or Boston. None of the deals were completed. Iverson had made it clear that he would like to stay a Sixer.
On November 29, 2006, following a conflict at practice, Iverson stormed out of the gymnasium. That same evening, Iverson missed a corporate sponsor night at Lucky Strike Lanes in Philadelphia. All the 76ers besides Iverson attended this mandatory event. Iverson was fined an undisclosed amount by the 76ers. Iverson claimed he overslept after taking medication for pain related to having two abscessed teeth pulled but it was reported that Iverson told teammates earlier in the day he planned to blow off the event and was simply going to take the fine.
On December 8, 2006, Iverson reportedly demanded a trade from the Sixers (although he would deny that). As a result of the demand and missing practice prior to a matchup against the Washington Wizards, Iverson was told not to play nor attend any further games. During that game, which was televised nationally on ESPN, Sixers Chairman Ed Snider confirmed the trade rumors by stating "We're going to trade him. At a certain point, you have to come to grips with the fact that it's not working. He wants out and we're ready to accommodate him."
On December 19, 2006, the Philadelphia 76ers sent Iverson and forward Ivan McFarlin to the Denver Nuggets for Andre Miller, Joe Smith, and two first-round picks in the 2007 NBA Draft. At the time of the trade, Iverson was the NBA's number two leading scorer with teammate Carmelo Anthony being number one.
On December 23, 2006, Iverson played his first game for the Nuggets. He had 22 points and 10 assists in a losing effort to the Sacramento Kings. In Iverson's first year as a Nugget they made the playoffs. They won the first game and lost the next four to the San Antonio Spurs.
Iverson was fined $25,000 by the NBA for criticizing referee Steve Javie following a game between the Nuggets and Iverson's former team, the Philadelphia 76ers, played January 2, 2007. During the course of the game, Iverson committed two technical fouls and was ejected from the game. After the game, Iverson said, "I thought I got fouled on that play, and I said I thought that he was calling the game personal I should have known that I couldn't say anything anyway. It's been something personal with me and him since I got in the league. This was just the perfect game for him to try and make me look bad."
Former referee Tim Donaghy supported the claim that Javie had a longstanding of hated for Iverson in his book, Personal Foul: A First-Person Account of the Scandal that Rocked the NBA, which a Florida business group published through a self-publishing arm of Amazon.com after it was dropped by a division of Random House, who cited liability issues after reviewing the manuscript.
In a December 2009 interview with 60 Minutes, Donaghy said he and fellow referees thought the punishment was too light. Before Iverson's Nuggets played the Utah Jazz on January 6, 2007, Donaghy said he and the two other officials working the game agreed not to give Iverson favorable calls as a way to "teach him a lesson". Iverson attempted 12 free throws, more than any other player on either team. On 12 drives to the basket, he drew five fouls, three of which Donaghy whistled himself, and did not receive a call on one play in which he was obviously fouled by Utah's Mehmet Okur.
Iverson returned to Philadelphia on March 19, 2008 to a sell-out crowd and received a standing ovation in a 115–113 loss.
On November 3, 2008, Iverson was dealt from the Denver Nuggets to the Detroit Pistons for guard Chauncey Billups, forward Antonio McDyess and center Cheikh Samb.
Iverson, who had worn a number 3 jersey his entire NBA career, switched to number 1 for the Pistons. The number 3 was being worn by Rodney Stuckey, and although Stuckey stated that he would be willing to give up the number, the NBA ruled that a change in numbers could not take place until after the season.
On April 3, 2009, it was announced by Pistons President of Basketball Operations Joe Dumars that Iverson would not play the remainder of the 2008–09 season. Dumars cited Iverson's ongoing back injury as the reason for his deactivation, although two days prior Iverson stated publicly that he'd rather retire than be moved to the bench as Piston's coach Michael Curry had decided.
On September 10, 2009, Iverson signed a one-year contract with the Memphis Grizzlies. Iverson stated that "God chose Memphis as the place that I will continue my career," and that "I feel that they are committed to developing a winner."
However, Iverson again expressed his displeasure at being a bench player, and left the team on November 7, 2009 for "personal reasons." On November 16, the Grizzlies announced the team terminated his contract by "mutual agreement". Iverson played three games for the Grizzlies.
The New York Knicks initially showed interest in signing Iverson, but team president Donnie Walsh announced on November 20 that he would not offer Iverson a contract.
Iverson in December 2009, after his return to the 76ers.
On November 25, 2009, commentator Stephen A. Smith published on his blog a statement attributed to Iverson announcing plans for retirement, which also said, "I feel strongly that I can still compete at the highest level."
Less than a week later on November 30, Iverson and his representatives met with a Philadelphia 76ers delegation about returning to his former team, and accepted a contract offer two days later. General manager Ed Stefanski declined to go into the terms of the agreement, but an unnamed source told the Associated Press that Iverson agreed to a one-year non-guaranteed contract at the league minimum salary. Iverson would receive a prorated portion of the $1.3 million minimum salary for players with at least 10 years of experience, and the contract would become guaranteed for the remainder of the 2009-10 season if he remained on the roster on January 8, 2010, and with a portion of his salary coming from a league pool, the 76ers would pay Iverson up to around $650,000. Stefanski said the team made the decision to pursue Iverson after starting guard Louis Williams suffered a broken jaw and was expected to miss at least 30 games.
On February 22, 2010, Iverson left the 76ers indefinitely, citing the need to attend to his 4-year-old daughter, Messiah's health issues. He had missed five games earlier in February and missed the All-Star Game after he was voted in as starter. On March 2, Stefanski announced Iverson would not return to the 76ers for the rest of the season.
In his Philadelphia Inquirer column published March 7, 2010, Stephen A. Smith wrote that according to "numerous NBA sources", Iverson would "either drink himself into oblivion or gamble his life away", and that Iverson had already been banned from casinos in Detroit and Atlantic City. Smith also wrote that Tawanna, his wife of eight years, had separated from him and filed for divorce, seeking custody of their five children, as well as child support and alimony payments.
Iverson was a member of the gold medal winning 1995 World University Games Team that finished 7–0 in Fukuoka, Japan. Part of a team that included future NBA stars Ray Allen, Tim Duncan, Kerry Kittles, Othella Harrington, Austin Croshere and others. Iverson led the USA in scoring, assists and steals averaging 16.7 points, 6.1 assists and 2.9 steals a game, while shooting 56.0 percent from the field overall and 37.5 percent from beyond the 3-point line.
On being selected to playing for USA Basketball in 2003, Iverson said,"It's a great feeling to be able to represent the USA. It's an honor. It's a tribute to all the coaches I've had in my life - Coach (Larry) Brown, Coach (John) Thompson and my high school coach, Mike Bailey. I feel good about being able to make a team like this - it's really one of the great things I've done in my life. It makes me feel good about the person my mom raised."
Iverson helped the USA to a 10–0 record, the gold medal and a qualifying berth for the 2004 Olympics at the August 20–31 FIBA Americas Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Puerto Rico. Started all eight games he played in, and averaged a team second best 14.3 ppg., 3.8 apg., 2.5 rpg., 1.6 spg., while shooting 56.2 percent (41–73 FGs) from the field and 53.6 percent (15–28 3pt FGs) from 3-point and 81.0 percent (17–21 FTs) from the foul line.
In the USA's 111–71 victory over Canada on August 25, he accounted for an USA Olympic Qualifying single game record 28 points and made a single game record seven 3-pointers. Playing just 23 minutes, he shot 10-for-13 overall, 7-for-8 from 3-point, 1-for-1 from the foul line and added three assists, three steals and one rebound. All seven of his 3-point field goals were made during the final 7:41 of the third quarter.
He finished the tournament ranked overall tied for 10th in scoring, tied for fourth in steals, fifth in 3-point percentage, tied for seventh in assists, and ninth in field goal percentage (.562). Iverson also missed the USA's final two games because of a sprained right thumb which was suffered in the first half of the August 28 Puerto Rico game. In a game against Puerto Rico, he recorded 9 points on 4-for-6 shooting from the field overall, and added five assists and three rebounds in 26 minutes of action in the USA's 101–74 exhibition game victory on August 17 in New York, N.Y. He was also named to the 2003 USA Senior National Team on April 29, 2003.
The team's performance at the Olympic Games, however, would ultimately prove to be a disappointment. During the exhibition period prior to the Games, Iverson and LeBron James were benched for a game for having arrived late at a practice session. The United States' team had played a dismal game versus Germany, which had failed to qualify for the Olympic competition. Iverson did succeed in keeping the game from going into overtime with a half-court shot in the closing seconds. Despite the win, the team continued to struggle. After losing to the Puerto Rican team during round robin play, they would ultimately claim a bronze medal.
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Allen Ezail Iverson (born June 7, 1975), nicknamed A.I. and The Answer, is an American professional basketball player for the Philadelphia 76ers of the National Basketball Association.
If Coach tells you that I missed practice, then that's that. I may have missed one practice this year but if somebody says he missed one practice of all the practices this year, then that's enough to get a whole lot started. I told Coach Brown that you don't have to give the people of Philadelphia a reason to think about trading me or anything like that. If you trade somebody, you trade them to make the team better...simple as that. I'm cool with that. I'm all about that. The people in Philadelphia deserve to have a winner. It's simple as that. It goes further than that ... If I can't practice, I can't practice. It is as simple as that. It ain't about that at all. It's easy to sum it up if you're just talking about practice. We're sitting here, and I'm supposed to be the franchise player, and we're talking about practice. I mean listen, we're sitting here talking about practice, not a game, not a game, not a game, but we're talking about practice. Not the game that I go out there and die for and play every game like it's my last but we're talking about practice man. How silly is that? ... Now I know that I'm supposed to lead by example and all that but I'm not shoving that aside like it don't mean anything. I know it's important, I honestly do but we're talking about practice. We're talking about practice man. We're talking about practice. We're talking about practice. We're not talking about the game. We're talking about practice. When you come to the arena, and you see me play, you've seen me play right, you've seen me give everything I've got, but we're talking about practice right now. ... Hey I hear you, it's funny to me too, hey it's strange to me too but we're talking about practice man, we're not even talking about the game, when it actually matters, we're talking about practice ... How the hell can I make my teammates better by practicing?
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0.998579 | danieLion wrote: See Scientific Realism and Antirealism.
Thanks. I got it from my phil. of science prof. in Y2K and keep coming back to it. I'm uncertain about NOA, though. Maybe I'd like it more if it was just NA?
In many cases, the Buddha was not asking the same questions as his opponents, or indeed as the successors of his opponents in India down the centuries. He did not always follow the unspoken rules of what philosophy, or systematic thought, was supposed to be about. Naturally, this led to misunderstandings after his death, even well before Buddhism became implanted in countries beyond India. Another salient example may clarify this. The orthodox tradition, Vedic thought, was much concerned with ontological questions: what exists?
The Buddha said that this is a wrong question. But this was too much for his followers. One major school, the abhidharma, gave his teachings a realist interpretation; another, the Vijñãnavãda, an idealist interpretation; it is possible to derive both these interpretations from the early Canon, particularly if one highlights certain texts and ignores others. There are indeed also texts which, if taken in isolation, seem to be ambiguous on this matter.
[W]e are dealing with a [doctrinal] system [of the Buddha's anatta teaching] which is not merely coherent but interlocking. It is perfectly understandable, but to understand it correctly you have to know how the entire set of key terms is being used. [F]or the Buddha, 'the world' is the same as 'that which we normally experience'.
In sum..., the Buddha made the following uses of fire as a metaphor.
1. [F]ire can go out without having an agent to put it out, simply because the fuel is exhausted.
4. [L]ike fire, the processes which constitute experience are non-random.
I certainly do not intend to claim that the Buddha anticipated all the main discoveries of modern psychology.... Nevertheless, the similarity between some of his ideas and the picture painted by modern cognitive psychology is certainly striking. Nowadays perception is regarded as an activity, a kind of doing. Moreover, 'perception is inherently selective' (FN 4: Ulrich Neisser, Cognition & Reality, 1976). Both of these propositions would have the Buddha's complete assent.
Modern psychology further holds that every action is an interaction with the world and affects the actor. The Buddha did not perhaps say exactly this about perception or cognition, but he certainly problematized the dividing line between actor--for him, the synergy of five sets of processes--and the environment.; we recall that in the first khanda, the rupa khanda, are included not only the senses but their objects.... This is as fundamental for the Buddha as it is for most of us; for were there no distinction between a person and the world, including other people, his entire soteriology would make no sense at all. We are the heirs of our own karma; my karma and yours cannot be the same. By the same token, if you achieve nirvana and I do not, it is I who continue to be reborn, not you. That these distinctions were blurred in Mahayana thought has misled many students of earlier Buddhism.
By contrast [to Brahmins], the Buddha intended his teaching to be accessible to all. He was not a teacher to keep anything concealed in his fist--we would say, up his sleeve.... He rejected the use of Sanskrit and the brahmins style of chanting the scriptures, for that would have ritualized preaching, drawing attention away from content to form. His teaching was exoteric, and he did all he could to democratize access to it.
The Buddha's doctrine of kamma...gave the central role to individual conscience. Yet we must understand even this doctrine, radical innovation though it was, within its historical context.... In [the Kalama Sutta] the Buddha preaches that everyone is to make up his own mind about religious doctrine; one is not to take a teaching on trust but to test it on the touchstone of one's own experience. This is indeed a remarkable sermon. But a careful reading will show that the Buddha is confident, to say the least, that following his advice will lead his audience to accept his teaching. His appeal is that of the new man who finds himself at variance with accepted authority; it contains no implication that his own understanding of the truth might be either defective or valid only subjectively. To use the formulation of Steven Collins: the Buddha is not saying 'Make your own truth' but "Make truth your own' [Selfless Persons, Cambridge: 1988.].
It looks like Gombrich's new book contains some decent analysis.
Thank you DanielLion for the detail description of Realism. I'd take a step back and do what typical engineers would do when tackling a problem: defining its scope. I'd suggest we go back to Daniel's list and redefine the scope of this thread, what kind of "realsim" are we talking about, else people will just go in different directions, describe the kind of realism according to their own background and education..
From the Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, 2nd Ed.
ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY: an umbrella term currently used to cover a divers assortment of philosophical techniques and tendencies.... Whatever...it is, [it] is manifestly not a school, doctrine, or body of accepted propositions.
ANTI-REALISM: is any view which rejects one or more of the three theses of metaphysical realism [below], though if (a) is rejected the rejection of (b) and (c) follows trivially (If it merely denies the existence of material things, then its traditional name is 'idealism').
DIRECT REALISM: the theory perceiving is epistemically direct, unmediated by conscious or unconccious inference. Direct realism is distinguished, on the one hand, from indirect, or representative realism, the view that perceptual awareness of material objects is mediated by by an awareness of sensory representations, and, on the other hand, from forms of phenomenonalism that identify material objects with states of mind... [see naive realism below].
METAPHYSICAL REALISM: the view that (a) there are real objects (usually the view is concerned with spatiotemporal objects), (b) they exist independently of our experience or knowledge of them, and (c) they have properties and enter into relations independently of the concepts with which we understand them or the language with which we describe them...[see also David A. Armstrong's work].
MODAL REALISM: David K. Lewis' [view that] other possible worlds and the objects in them are just as real as the actual world and its inhabitants.... [O]bjects exist in at most one possible world, and for which the necessity of identity fails. Properties are defined with the set of objects that have them in any possible world, and propositions as the set of worlds in which they are true.
MORAL REALISM: a metaethical view committed to the objectivity of ethics. It has (1) metaphysical, (2) semantic, and (3) epistemological components.
Metaphysical: the claim that there are moral facts and moral properties independent of people's beliefs and attitudes about what is right or wrong.
PERCEPTUAL REALISM: A causal theory of objects that holds that the perceptual object, what it is we see, taste, smell, or whatever, is that object that causes us to have this subjective experience.
REDUCTION: The replacement of one expression by a second expression that differs from the firt in prima facie reference.... Logical positivists talked of the reduction of theoretical knowledge vocabulary to an observational vocabulary, first by explicit definitions and later by other devices.... In the philosophy of mathematics, LOGICISM claimed that all of mathematics could be reduced to logic.... In contrast, we take scientific theories to tell us unequivocally, that water is H2O and that temperature is mean transitional kinetic energy. Accounts of theory reduction in science attempt to analyze the circumstances in which a "reducing theory" appears to tell us the composition of objects or properties described by a "reduced theory."
SCIENTIFIC REALISM: the view that the subject matter of scientific research and scientific theories exists independently of our knowledge of it, and that the goal of science is the description and explanation of both observable and unobservable aspects of the world. Scientific realism is contrasted with logical empiricism and social constructivism.
The question of the nature and plausibility of realism arises with respect to a large number of subject matters, including ethics, aesthetics, causation, modality, science, mathematics, semantics, and the everyday world of macroscopic material objects and their properties. Although it would be possible to accept (or reject) realism across the board, it is more common for philosophers to be selectively realist or non-realist about various topics: thus it would be perfectly possible to be a realist about the everyday world of macroscopic objects and their properties, but a non-realist about aesthetic and moral value. In addition, it is misleading to think that there is a straightforward and clear-cut choice between being a realist and a non-realist about a particular subject matter. It is rather the case that one can be more-or-less realist about a particular subject matter. Also, there are many different forms that realism and non-realism can take. The question of the nature and plausibility of realism is so controversial that no brief account of it will satisfy all those with a stake in the debates between realists and non-realists.
Therefore I declare the founding question of this thread to be overly broad, a lack of specificity that as yet hinders this discussion.
Or, you could take the middle path. From ignorance comes fabrications. I think there is something in the suttas about that. I saw it a few times.
Sylvester wrote: All this talk about the so-called "holes" in Early Buddhism leads me to wonder if the "holes" are subjective to the thinker.
"Subjective" insofar as the scholar pre-occupied with trying to account for effects that seem to be unmediated by something already goes beyond, by assuming as a zeroth premise that the Buddha was interested in that "something".
In which case you would - if asked - have to admit that either the Buddha or school xyz didnt answer a question or wasnt interested in a certain subject. And this was exactly what I'm saying, namely that there might not be an exact answer to the question of Realism or to other things - which I called holes - and therefore to be truthful to the school you have to just admit that.
You don't see theoretical physicists grieving like Sarvastivadins or Yogacarins in an attempt to find a mediator for the peculiar effects of Quantum Entanglement. If it works mathematically and is demonstrated empirically, why assume that a mediator is required?
Even if a mediator is required, why assume that the mediator is limited by one's imagination and limited familiarity with the laws of the universe?
Thats a rather distorted remark. First of all physicists, when they encounter a problem, usually do start to investigate where it comes from and if they encounter an unknown force they try to figure out what it is. The ominous black matter might be a good example for this. If physicists would just accept holes in their theories then physics would probably be long dead already and we might not have things like the LHC or soon the Holometer, maybe not even computers or the internet or lightbulbs.
But what is especially striking is that you actually compare science and religion. Religion has not given us anything we didnt have before, it didnt make us able to do things we couldnt do without it. And especially - none of the basic theses of Buddhism have been scientifically proven so the only thing they could do was logically derive stuff - which was what all the schools did; including Theravada which also did its share to fill the gaps and - in their view - construct the most logical system. The Kathavatthu shows this in the most obvious way.
Likewise, Sarvastivadins and Yogacarins flopping around in pre-industrialised India are limited by their agrarian imagination and cosmology. Why must we accept their limited imagination as posing the right question or assuming the right premises that a mediator which fits their world-view is needed for these "spooky action at a distance/temporal seperation"?
I dont know what you have against the Sarvastivadins or Yogacarins - they are irrelevant to this thread; I only gave some of their critics as examples and hoped Tilt would nvestigate them by themselves instead of using them as a diversion tactic.
Retro asked for the Theravadin view so the Theravadin view should be given; doesnt matter if its 2011 and Theravada is old and dusty now. And if there is no Theravadin answer for this question then this should just be accepted.
Thanks santa100. It was provided in that spirit.
I agree that the way Retro OP'd it and chownah made and effort to refine the OP were too vague, but the references I've provided were done with the aim of attacking the "overly broad" issue. I think it is possible (and fun) to "plug" the Buddha & all Theravada's parts into the Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy (or any comparable source) of definitions. E.g., IMO, the Buddha, by CDP definition was definitely a moral realist and the parts of the Gombrich citation on kamma demonstrate how and why. All the divisions of Theravada I'm aware of would fit into this definition too. The Suttas seem pretty clear to me on the ethical points too.
In the Buddha's case (and probably most of Theravada's) ethics are REAL. But they are real not based on a REALIST view of objects or their properties. They are based on an non-formalized but nonetheless entailed epistemology where, as Gomrich puts it, "things" are substituted for processes. One way of putting it is that for the Buddha, and by implication (not to mention textual and historical evidence) Theravada, there is a necessary connection between yathabhutadassana and the silakkhanda (sammasankappa, sammavaca, sammakammanta).
danieLion wrote: In the Buddha's case (and probably most of Theravada's) ethics are REAL. But they are real not based on a REALIST view of objects or their properties. They are based on an non-formalized but nonetheless entailed epistemology where, as Gomrich puts it, "things" are substituted for processes. One way of putting it is that for the Buddha, and by implication (not to mention textual and historical evidence) Theravada, there is a necessary connection between yathabhutadassana and the silakkhanda (sammasankappa, sammavaca, sammakammanta).
You might enjoy comparing Buddhist ethics to moral particularism as it pertains to the way the Buddha chose to produce and develop the Vinaya (through a highly contextualized methodology rather than via a list of moral principles - he even told Sariputta that he refused to lay out rules prior to their contextual necessity).
danieLion wrote: I think it is possible (and fun) to "plug" the Buddha & all Theravada's parts into the Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy (or any comparable source) of definitions.
Buddha (awake) begins where that dictionary ends.
daverupa wrote: How might those engaged in this thread thus far explain the term yathābhūtadassana, "seeing things as they really are"? | 2019-04-20T06:12:16 | https://dhammawheel.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=9607&start=240 |
0.999962 | What kind of scientific study was it?
Isradipine, a drug commonly used to treat high blood pressure, could slow down or stop the progression of Parkinson’s disease, reported newspapers.
This study was carried out in animals and these findings cannot be directly extrapolated to humans.
The disease that was treated was also “Parkinson’s like”, and not actual Parkinson’s disease and we would need studies in Parkinson’s disease in humans before we could draw conclusions about the effects of oral isradipine, a calcium channel blocking drug, on this disease.
The research was conducted by James Surmeier and his team at the Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois, USA. The research was published in a peer-reviewed medical journal, Nature .
This research was a study conducted in a laboratory in mice. There were two parts to the study. In the first, slices from adult mouse brains were exposed to a pesticide (rotenone) which is believed to cause "Parkinson’s-like disease". Some of these slices had been pre-treated with isradipine. The effects of the toxin on the "treated" brain cells were compared with those that had not been ‘treated’.
In the second part, live mice were given isradipine for seven days while others were given placebo control pellets. The mice were then given a Parkinson’s-like disease by repeated injections with a toxin. The effects of treatment on dopamine-containing neurons and movement control were compared between treated and untreated mice.
The researchers reported that isradipine "rejuvenated dopamine-containing neurons" in mice.
The authors conclude that the observable "rejuvenation" of dopamine-containing neurons "points to a new strategy that could slow or stop the progression" of Parkinson’s disease.
Parkinson’s disease is thought to be caused by a deficiency of the chemical transmitter dopamine in specific parts of the brain. As this research was conducted in animals, findings shouldn’t be extrapolated to humans.
Mice were exposed to toxins that are believed to cause Parkinson’s-like disease because of their effects on dopaminergic neurons and behaviour. It is not clear whether the unit of analysis in statistical tests was the mouse or a sample of brain tissue. Here we would expect to see similarities between samples if they came from the same mouse.
The research should be seen as a hypothesis-generating study as it provides information on which to design further studies. We need studies in humans before we can draw conclusions about the effects of oral isradipine on Parkinson’s disease.
Drug that treats blood pressure could curb Parkinson’s disease.
Blood pressure drug may help stall Parkinson’s say researchers.
Drugs trial offers hope of Parkinson’s breakthrough. | 2019-04-22T10:12:34 | https://www.nhs.uk/news/medication/isradipine-tackling-parkinsons-disease/ |
0.999988 | What do 100% of mobile users want? No fails!
The rush to make everything mobile has generated new ways to do business, new ways to organize ourselves and new ways to communicate, but mobile apps aren't your father's mainframe, desktop or laptop applications.
Nope, mobile apps exist in a world where not only is the underlying network transport anything from great to non-existent (which leads to all sorts of complexities), but also the polish and brio of leading mobile apps has created user expectations that, if I were to hazard a guess, are an order or two of magnitude greater than enterprises are used to delivering!
The issue of vastly greater mobile app user expectations is, I'd suggest, pretty much all Apple's fault. If only Steve Jobs hadn't been so obsessive about design values and perfect execution, all of the mobile app development shops would have a much easier time of it. But no, Apple DJ (During Jobs) produced the iPhone, the iPad and iOS, and along with those platforms the idea that apps should be slick, polished, responsive and beautiful became the norm.
If you doubt that users feel that way, consider a recent survey: The 2012 Mobile App Review by Apigee, a company that provides API-based services to support mobile apps. This survey (conducted online in October) of more than 500 U.S. mobile app users aged 18 and older, revealed some interesting stats.
First of all, 44% of those surveyed said that poor performance would make them delete an app immediately! Moreover, 18% of them admitted they would delete a mobile app if it froze for just 5 seconds. Just think of that. Five seconds at best, immediately at worst!
What's interesting about this low tolerance is the app could be trying to retrieve data from a slow remote server over a slow network, but if the app appears to be non-responsive, users will more-or-less immediately rate it to be a fail. Apps need to be built to deal with users whose patience has shrunk from minutes in the 1990s to seconds in the 'aughts, and now to milliseconds here in the 'teens.
The survey also found that freezes (76%), crashes (71%), and slow responsiveness (59%) were major deal-breakers, as was heavy battery use (55%).
The survey also found that how the app publisher responds will make a big difference in how users feel about a problematic app. Almost 90% said the No. 1 thing that will make them feel better about a failing app is if the publisher fixes the problem quickly with 46% wanting personal responses and 21% wanting a public apology (it's worth noting that failing to apologize appears to get 100% of Apple execs fired).
So, when you plan to release your next mobile app for your enterprise, whether it's developed in-house, bespoke developed, or a commercial product, think very carefully about how the app looks, feels, communicates, how it might fail, and how you'll handle problems if anything goes wrong. One hundred percent of users will "like" you for making the right decisions.
Gibbs is up on stats in Ventura, Calif. Your percentage satisfaction to [email protected] and follow him on Twitter and App.net (@quistuipater) and on Facebook (quistuipater). | 2019-04-25T16:00:35 | https://www.techworld.com.au/article/440982/what_do_100_mobile_users_want_no_fails_/?utm_medium=rss&utm_source=tagfeed |
0.999967 | Can a business school help one million women in the developing world lift themselves out of poverty? The Street Business School, a tested and effective entrepreneurial training program in East Africa, plans to do just that.
Eleven years ago, three American women with no business training started BeadforLife, a fair trade organization in Uganda that paid women living in poverty to make colorful earrings, necklaces and bracelets out of recycled paper. On the surface, that sounds just like many other social-venture creation stories. What makes BeadforLife's story unique is that these founders knew from the beginning that they didn't want these jewelry-makers to become dependent on them or the organization for their future economic well-being.
What if paper beads stopped being fashionable and marketable? What if the organization had to leave Uganda for some reason? What if the skills these women were gaining were insufficient to allow them to be remain financially independent?
Entrepreneurship is the path out of poverty.
Entrepreneurship was the answer. As soon as a woman enrolled in the bead-making program, she started getting trained to create a business that would be sustainable in the local economy. The program was called Beads to Business -- something the founders thought of as "transformational trade."
Of course, the business training had to be customized, to be relevant to these impoverished women, who typically have little formal education. Customer service and basic bookkeeping -- even the distinction between profit and loss -- were totally new concepts for many of these women. And gaining even basic skills in these areas opened up whole new worlds of possibility.
The organization learned right alongside the participants. By constantly experimenting with the curriculum, testing the results and making necessary changes, organizers refined the program and made it more effective. In the last ten years, BeadforLife has injected substantial revenue into Ugandan communities by buying and selling beads, and has trained an estimated 45,500 women to start 3,250 businesses ranging from vegetable stalls to hair salons to restaurants.
Follow-up studies show that 81 percent of these businesses have remained open after two years, compared to an 80 percent failure rate for businesses in Uganda as a whole.
That's great news, of course, But Beads to Business' ability to scale was limited: The number of women who could be enrolled in its education program was limited by the volume of beads the organization could sell.
After struggling with this challenge, the school's organizers realized that beads were merely a means to an end -- the physical manifestation of the work of empowering women and fighting against poverty. The school had gotten good at business training, and there was no reason that that education had to be tied to beads alone.
Street Business School is born.
This led to the birth of the Street Business School -- a mobile business school that delivers its powerful entrepreneurship curriculum to women who have never rolled a single bead for the organization. The courses are delivered right in the communities where the women live, and take place over a period of six months. In addition to classroom sessions, the new entrepreneurs get one-on-one coaching from BeadforLife's trainers, who visit their businesses several times to make sure the lessons are being applied.
As happened with Beadsfor Life and Beads to Business, success followed yet again, with the founding of Street Business School. But, still dissatisfied with the number of women being served, organizers determined to start a global expansion of the School.
The goal is to train one million women entrepreneurs around the world by partnering with like-minded organizations that want to deliver the Street Business School curriculum in the communities they serve. The first immersion workshop -- a weeklong training, where staff from other organizations learn how to facilitate their own Street Business Schools -- is scheduled to take place September 18-23, with four partner organizations from other East African nations.
For 2018, the plan is to expand, to train organizations on other continents. If all goes well, by 2027, one million women will have been trained by this network of partner organizations.
While BeadforLife continues to sell its jewelry to help fund the Street Business School and its other programs, organizers say they see no limit to the number of women who can change their lives and lift themselves out of poverty through entrepreneurship.
In the photo, Scovia Nantale serves a customer a Ugandan dish called katogo, in her street-side restaurant. Having advanced from a roadside pot of stew to the small room she purchased for her hospitality business, Nantale is now a proud restaurant owner. Through Street Business School, this former stay-at-home mom became the breadwinner for her family. She started small -- by purchasing a cow's head and a lump of charcoal, which she used that first day to cook a traditional Uganda stew and sell nine plates of food. And things took off from there: Eventually, Nantale earned enough to buy a room to house her restaurant. That restaurant is now a staple in her community, and she hopes to obtain electricity soon, so she can offer her customers a particular treat: "cold Coca-Cola from the fridge."
Since graduating from Street Business School, Rose Nakalema has built up her charcoal business to where it's now thriving. That's a long way from where she used to be: selling vegetables, which brought her a mere dollar a day. Taking care of her grandchildren, who stay with her, was a struggle, for both her financial and emotional well-being, Nakalema acknowledges. "I used to be a back-door person that no one noticed," she says. "But now I am a front-door person, and everyone sees me!" To get to that point, Nakalema did some research and identified a strong demand in her neighborhood for charcoal; she then started off selling just one bag of the fuel a day. Today, however, she stocks and sells seven bags each day, producing enough income to comfortably support her family.
The only woman in a male-dominated field, Josephine Nassiwa earns her living as a brick-maker. That's a sharp contrast to her former life, when she used to sit at home with no work or income. Then Nassiwa attended a Street Business School session called "Getting Out of Your Comfort Zone." So she went to a patch of land near her home and made her first batch of bricks, thereby increasing her income to over $200 a month. Despite the heavy labor involved, Wassiwa says, "I am proud of myself. I work hard, I am happy, and I am proud to take my money to the bank. Street Business School helped get me out of my comfort zone."
Before joining BeadforLife, Amina Nalwoga couldn't afford to send her oldest son to school or feed her children three meals a day. For money, she would wash her neighbors' clothes. When she found work, she earned a mere 90 cents to $1.30 a day. On days when she earned nothing, the family went hungry. Once Nalwoga enrolled in Beads to Business, however, she received a $10 loan and was assigned to smart a small business over a weekend. She used the money to purchase supplies and cook some food snacks common to Uganda, then sold them by walking through her neighborhood. And so was born Amina's Snack Shop, a business that today allows her to not only provide for her children but put a little into savings each week.
When conflict broke out in her hometown in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Katiba Apendiki was forced to flee. She headed to Uganda with little but the clothes on her back, leaving her family destitute. Settling in Kampala, she heard about the Street Business School and found her lessons there in business fundamentals to be a powerful inspiration. "At Street Business School, I've learned about profits and what something costs. Now I know the lowest price I can sell it for," Apendiki says. "I know how to save and move towards my dreams." Today, she runs a successful jewelry and fabric import business, which she says has transformed her life.
Shallot Namuhawe recently graduated from the Street Business School as the owner of a successful vegetable stand. Her determination to succeed and support her family was powerful, and in turn was powered by trainings like "Starting Small and Finding Capital." The lessons learned prompted Namuhawe to look around her house for items she no longer used; and, sure enough, she found her wedding dress. She sold the dress for $36 and used the money to rent a small space and purchase vegetables. But the location was poor; business was slow. Listening to yet another lesson, this time about market research, Namuhawe realized she needed to move. Meanwhile, crisis struck: Her family was robbed of all its posssessions. Undeterred, Namuhawe found a new location; and this time things took off: In six months, she went from zero income to running a vegetable business now generating over $100 a month in profit.
Hadijah Namusis once survived on less than a dollar a day. Born into a family with 20 siblings, she worked the fields as a child and was married off at a young age. She cleaned houses, did field work and washed clothes. Then she enrolled in Street Business School. Learning the importance of investing in her own future, Namusis sold all of her unused possessions and spent the $88 she raised to purchase palm leaves and dye. Today, she sells her beautiful bags for $8 apiece and is setting the money aside to buy a poultry farm in the near future.
Judith Among was already an entrepreneur when she enrolled in Street Business School: With the support of her husband, she had started a peanut butter business; she even owned her own shop. But she was faced with stiff competition and few customers. That all changed in July of 2015 when, during a course titled "Growing Your Customer Base," Among learned ways to bring in more customers -- and profit. In her roomy shop, she began offering other products and charging customers to use the grinding machine she used for her peanut butter. Through tactics like those, Among was able to nearly double her weekly income. "I gained confidence and boldness to run my business successfully," she now says with pride. | 2019-04-18T14:22:24 | https://www.entrepreneur.com/slideshow/279003 |
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