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{10})(.{10})(.{10})(.{10})(.{10})(.{10})(.{10})(.{10})(.{10})(.{10})(.{10})(.{10})(.{10})(.{10})(.{10})(.{10})(.{10})(.{10})(.{10})(.{10})(.{10})(.{10})(.{10})$'
[regex]$replace_regex = "`${1}`t`${2}`t`${3}`t`${4}`t`${5}`t`${6}`t`${7}`t`${8}`t`${9}`t`${10}`t`${11}`t`${12}`t`${13}`t`${14}`t`${15}`t`${16}`t`${17}`t`${18}`t`${19}`t`${20}`t`${21}`t`${22}`t`${23}`t`${24}`t`${25}`t`${26}`t`${27}`t`${28}`t`${29}`t`${30}`t`${31}`t`${32}`t`${33}"
Get-Content $infile -ReadCount $batch |
foreach {
$_ -replace $match_regex, $replace_regex | Out-File $outfile -Append
}
Any help you can give is appreciated!
A: The switch statement with the -File option is the fastest way to process large files in PowerShell[1]:
& {
switch -File $infile -Regex {
$match_regex {
# Join the what all the capture groups matched, trimmed, with a tab char.
$Matches[1..($Matches.Count-1)].Trim() -join "`t"
}
}
} | Out-File $outFile # or: Set-Content $outFile (beware encoding issues)
With text output, Out-File and Set-Content can be used interchangeably, but not that in Windows PowerShell they use different character encodings by default (UTF-16LE vs. Ansi); use -Encoding as needed; PowerShell Core uses BOM-less UTF-8 consistently.
Note:
*
*To skip the header row or capture it separately, either provide a separate regex for it, or, if the header also matches the data-row regex, initialize a line index variable before the switch statement (e.g., $i = 0) and check and increment that variable in the processing script block (e.g., if ($i++ -eq 0) {... }).
*.Trim() is implicit called on each string in the array returned by $Matches[1..($Matches.Count-1)]; this feature is called member-access enumeration
*The reason that the switch statement is enclosed in & {... } (a script block ({... }) invoked with the call operator (&)) is that compound statements such as switch / while, foreach (...),... aren't directly supported as pipeline input - see this GitHub issue.
As for what you tried:
As iRon points out, you shouldn't use $Input as a user variable - it is an automatic variable managed by PowerShell, and, in fact, whatever you assign to it is quietly discarded.
As AdminOfThings points out:
*
*$element = $_.trim() doesn't work, because you're inside a foreach loop, not in the pipeline with a ForEach-Object cmdlet (even though the latter is also aliased to foreach; only with ForEach-Object would $_ be set to the current input object.
*There is no need for custom function just for joining the elements of an array with a separator; the -join operator does that directly, as shown above.
Lee_Daily shows how to use -join directly with the $Matches array, as used above.
A few asides:
Join-Str($matches)
You should use Join-Str $matches instead:
In PowerShell, functions are invoked like shell commands - foo arg1 arg2 - not like C# methods - foo(arg1, arg2); see Get-Help about_Parsing.
If you use, to separate arguments, you'll construct an array that a function sees as a single argument.
To prevent accidental use of method syntax, use Set-StrictMode -Version 2 or higher, but note its other effects.
| Out-Null
An almost always faster method of output suppression is to use $null =... instead.
[1] Mark (the OP) reports a dramatic speed-up compared to the Get-Content + ForEach-Object approach in the question (the switch solution takes 7.7 mins. for a 4GB file).
While a switch solution is likely fast enough in most scenarios, this answer shows a solution that may be faster for high iteration counts; this answer contrasts it with a switch solution and shows benchmarks with varying iteration counts.
Beyond that, a compiled solution written in, say, C#, is the only way to further improve performance.
A: Here's the high level of my working code. Note that System.IO.StreamReader use was essential to get the processing time to an acceptable level. Thanks for all the help that led to me getting here.
Function Get-Regx-Data-Format() {
Param ([String] $filename)
if ($filename -eq 'FILE NAME') {
[regex]$match_regex = '^(.{10})(.{10})(.{10})(.{30})(.{30})(.{30})(.{4})(.{1})'
}
return $match_regex
}
Foreach ($file in $cutoff_files) {
$starttime_for_file = (Get-Date)
$source_file = $file + '_' + $proc_yyyymm + $source_file_suffix
$source_path = $source_dir + $source_file
$parse_file = $file + '_' + $proc_yyyymm + '_load' +$parse_target_suffix
$parse_file_path = $parse_target_dir + $parse_file
$error_file = $file + '_err_' + $proc_yyyymm + $error_target_suffix
$error_file_path = $error_target_dir + $error_file
[regex]$match_data_regex = Get-Regx-Data-Format $file
Remove-Item -path "$parse_file_path" -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
Remove-Item -path "$error_file_path" -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
[long]$matched_cnt = 0
[long]$unmatched_cnt = 0
[long]$loop_counter = 0
[boolean]$has_header_row=$true
[int]$field_cnt=0
[int]$previous_field_cnt=0
[int]$array_length=0
$parse_minutes = Measure-Command {
try {
$stream_log = [System.IO.StreamReader]::new($source_path)
$stream_in = [System.IO.StreamReader]::new($source_path)
$stream_out = [System.IO.StreamWriter]::new($parse_file_path)
$stream_err = [System.IO.StreamWriter]::new($error_file_path)
while ($line = $stream_in.ReadLine()) {
if ($line -match $match_data_regex) {
#if matched and it's the header, parse and write to the beg of output file
if (($loop_counter -eq 0) -and $has_header_row) {
$stream_out.WriteLine(($Matches[1..($array_length)].Trim() -join "`t"))
} else {
$previous_field_cnt = $field_cnt
#add year month to line start, trim and join every captured field w/tabs
$stream_out.WriteLine("$proc_yyyymm`t" + `
($Matches[1..($array_length)].Trim() -join "`t"))
$matched_cnt++
$field_cnt=$Matches.Count
if (($previous_field_cnt -ne $field_cnt) -and $loop_counter -gt 1) {
write-host "`nError on line $($loop_counter + 1). `
The field count does not match the previous correctly `
formatted (non-error) row."
}
}
} else {
if (($loop_counter -eq 0) -and $has_header_row) {
#if the header, write to the beginning of the output file
$stream_out.WriteLine($line)
} else {
$stream_err.WriteLine($ |
Pennsylvania' sign. A security sniper ogled the chilly crowd with his night-vision glasses, and a local minister took the stage to offer a benediction that hit the trifecta of guns, gays and abortion. The preacher asked forgiveness 'for so many [who] have shed innocent blood through the course of abortions, and so many [who] would stop the sanctity of marriage between a man and a woman.' With these abominations in mind, the preacher continued, 'Thank you for raising up a woman like Gov. Sarah Palin at a time like this. Bless her for standing against those who would remove the guns from our cabinets, and those who would want to remove the baby from the womb of her mother. Bless her family as they adjust to changes in their lives that are going to be taking place on Tuesday.'"
Ms. Traister writes that "Palin was her down-home bestest, peppering her brief address with references to First Dude's four snow-machine world championships, a lot of gratitude toward the veterans in the crowd, and a lot of folksy, g-droppin' references to how 'the time for choosin's comin' real soon,' a golden-oldie reference to Ronald Reagan's famous 1964 speech in support of Barry Goldwater. Combined with Palin's repeated use of the phrases 'You betcha!' and 'Drill, baby, drill!' and her guess that the crowd was'so doggone proud' of the Phillies, and her environmental justification that 'God has so richly blessed this land with resources' that [we] should probably strip-mine it, Palin seemed to be imitating Tina Fey's imitation of her on 'Saturday Night Live.'"
Toward the end, Palin invoked Reagan again, saying "In the end, what John McCain and I believe in is what Ronald Reagan believes in … we believe that America is still that shining City on a Hill that Ronald Reagan used to speak of."
Now, lest you think Ms. Traister got out of that God-lovin' bunch of folks without incident, think again. Here's how she tells it:
"While I was interviewing some of the attendees, accompanied by another Salon staffer who was holding a video camera, a Palin fan in a newish silver sedan drove by and hit me hard in the back with the side mirror of the car, hard enough to bend the mirror back. Then the car drove off without anybody inside pausing to ask if I was all right. The middle-aged woman in the passenger seat, however, might have saluted me with an un-Christian hand gesture."
Yes — that happened. Traister, a journalist, was hit "hard in the back" by a car, earning a middle-finger salute for her pains from one of the passengers. Talk about being anti-media! Small wonder that Trump's diatribes resonate so well with "God-lovin'" people across the USA.
After the rallies in 2008, I asked my students (I was teaching college at the time) about them. They gushed about Palin. One of my students was especially taken by Palin's husband, whom she considered to be a stud. None of my students had anything to say about the (much smaller and comparatively sedate) Biden rally.
Then and now, the mainstream media and the Democratic Party dismissed Palin as a joke, just as they initially dismissed Trump as a joke in 2015. Yet, as I wrote about Palin in 2010:
Much of what's been said about Palin was also said of another backwoods American whose values were honed on the frontier: President Andrew Jackson. Palin may be no Jackson, but the liberal media's sneering dismissal of her constitutes an indulgent, often self-congratulatory, narrative. It's also a repudiation of our Jacksonian heritage of tough-minded, plain-speaking independence.
Like Jackson, Palin makes no pretense about being a cultivated American. Like it or not, she's seen by her admirers as genuine precisely because she's not a conflicted intellectual — precisely because she doesn't confuse her followers by revealing a fourth side to every three-sided problem. Gosh darn it, she just loves God and loves America and loves our troops and loves her special baby and … well … that's more than enough for her many admirers and followers.
Rural people in "fly-over" country are naturally suspicious of slick politicians who are both too smarmy and too clever for their own good. Palin is naturally "aw shucks" and seemingly content with her knowledge of the world. And, like Andrew Jackson before her, Palin is unapologetic, undeferential, and unabashedly proud to be an American. One simply can't imagine her making a "patronizing apology tour" of European capitals, as President Obama was accused of doing by conservatives.
And which past president does Trump believe he's most like? Andrew Jackson. Trump is, in a way, a male Palin with a lot more celebrity, lots more money, and scads of mendacity.
By selecting Palin as his running mate in 2008, McCain helped to open a door for future populists, a door Trump jumped through in 2015. It may not be McCain's defining legacy, but it is, perhaps, his most negative.
Reference: See David Smith, "John McCain opened Pandora's box – Sarah Palin came out, but Trump was right behind her. The senator regretted his choice of running mate. In 2008, no one could have imagined what it would mean," at The Guardian, which got me thinking about this issue.
Posted on August 26, 2018 by wjastorePosted in US PoliticsTagged 2008, Donald Trump, Election of 2008, John McCain, Pennsylvania, populism, Rebecca Traister, Sarah Palin. 20 Comments
America's Unwinnable Wars
River in rural Pennsylvania. Do I hear banjos? (Author's photo)
Back in January of 2010, I wrote the following article as a thought experiment on whether Obama's "surge" in Afghanistan would succeed or fail. I bet on failure, which wasn't much of a reach. Why? It's not because U.S. troops weren't brave or dedicated. They sure didn't lack weaponry. What they lacked was the ability to enforce their will at a sustainable cost. They were strangers in a strange land, among strange people, and the mission they were given was simply beyond them. I tried to explain this with some role reversal. Eight years later, the Taliban and similar forces are even stronger than they were at the start of 2010. Surprised?
A Thought Experiment for Our Afghan Surge (2010)
Consider the following thought experiment. Give the Afghan Taliban our technology and money, and have them journey thousands of miles to the densely forested hills and mountains of rural Pennsylvania, close to where I currently live. Who's going to prevail? The Afghans fighting a high-tech counterinsurgency campaign, or the PA locals fighting a low-tech campaign to defend their homes and way of life?
My money would be on my "hillbilly" (a term I use affectionately) neighbors who love to hunt, who know the terrain, and who are committed to liberty. My students, male and female, are generally tough, resourceful, love the outdoors, make their own beef jerky, cut and split their own wood, have plenty of guns and ammo and bows and knives and, well, you get the idea. Even in my classes, they're wearing camouflage pants, vests, and hats. They could go from college student to people's warrior before you could say Mao Zedong. And I doubt they'd spare much love for foreign fighters on their turf.
Now, consider an Afghan intelligence officer trying to understand rural PA culture, to blend in with the locals, to win hearts and minds. What are the chances this intelligence operative would be successful? If he speaks English, it's in a broken, heavily accented form, insensitive to local and regional variations. If he can't bargain with words, he might be able to bribe a few locals into helping him, but their allegiance will wane as the money runs out.
As this imaginary Afghan force seeks to gain control over the countryside, its members find themselves being picked off like so many whitetail deer. Using their drones and Hellfire missiles, they strike back at the PA rebels, only to mistake a raucous yet innocent biker rally for a conglomeration of insurgents. Among the dead bodies and twisted Harleys, a new spirit of resistance is born.
Now, if you've followed me in this thought experiment, why don't we get it? Why can't we see that the odds are stacked against us in Afghanistan? Why are we surprised that, by our own assessment, our intelligence in Afghanistan is still "clueless" after eight years and "ignorant of local economics and landowners, hazy about who the powerbrokers are and how they might be influenced … and disengaged from people in the best position to find answers"?
And why would we think that a surge of more "clueless" operatives would reverse the tide?
Would more Taliban forces deployed to the hills and valleys of PA win the hearts and minds of the locals?
I know the answer to that hypothetical: as the PA rebels might say, no friggin' way.
Afterthought (2018): I've done some hiking in the backwoods of Pennsylvania. It can be tough terrain. Heavily forested hills and valleys, rattlesnakes among the rocks (my wife walked past two of them, entwined), quite primitive in its own way. I pity a foreign army trying to force its agenda on Appalachia and |
For example, vaso-occlusion devices are surgical implements or implants that are placed within the vasculature of the human body, typically via a catheter, either to block the flow of blood through a vessel making up that portion of the vasculature through the formation of an embolus or to form such an embolus within an aneurysm stemming from the vessel. One widely used vaso-occlusive device is a helical wire coil having windings which may be dimensioned to engage the walls of the vessels. (See, e.g., U.S. Pat. No. 4,994,069 to Ritchart et al.) Other less stiff helically coiled devices have been described, as well as those involving woven braids.
[0004] Liquid embolics, such as cyanoacrylate glues and fibrin sealants, have also been used in animal and human subjects. See, e.g., Interventional Radiology, Dandlinger et al, ed., Thieme, N.Y., 1990:295-313; Suga et al. (1992) No Shinkei Geka 20(8):865-873; Moringlane et al. (1987) Surg Neurol 28(5):361-366; Moringlane et al. (1988) Acta Neurochir Suppl (Wein) 43:193-197. Of these liquid embolics, only cyanoacrylate glues are currently available to neurosurgeons. However, chronic inflammation is typically seen with cyanoacrylate treatments (Herrera et al. (1999) Neurol Med Chir (Tokyo) 39(2): 134-139) and the degradation product, formaldehyde, is highly toxic to the neighboring tissues. See, Vinters et al (1995) Neuroradiology 27:279-291. Another disadvantage of cyanoacrylate materials is that the polymer will adhere both to the blood vessel and to the tip of the catheter. Thus physicians must retract the catheter immediately after injection of the cyanoacrylate embolic material or risk adhesion of the cyanoacrylate and the catheter to the vessel.
[0005] None of these documents describe use of a material that rapidly expands upon extrusion (with no further expansion over time) for treating and occluding aneurysms.
[0006] Thus, this invention includes novel methods of occluding a selected vessel using rapidly expanding materials not previously used for these purposes.
[0007] In one aspect, the invention includes a method of occluding a selected site in a subject comprising accessing the selected site; and administering a rapidly expanding composition to said selected site, thereby occluding said site. In certain embodiments, the composition comprises at least one foam, for example polyurethane or a dehydrated foam (e.g., a dehydrated foam comprising collagen). In other embodiments, the composition comprises two or more materials that rapidly expand upon contact with each other. In yet other embodiments, any of the compositions for use in the methods described herein are rapidly hardening.
[0008] In any of the methods described herein, the selected site is an aneurysm and the administering comprises extrusion from a catheter. Further, in any of the methods described herein, the rapidly expanding composition may self-expand; expand upon contact with moisture; expand upon a decrease in pressure (e.g., upon extrusion from a delivery device such as a catheter); and/or expand upon contact with an additional material (e.g., where the contact is at the tip of the catheter).
[0009] In other aspects, any of the methods described herein further comprise the step of administering one or more bioactive materials (e.g., cytokines; trace metals, antibiotics and combinations thereof), either before, after or concurrently with the composition.
[0010] These and other embodiments of the subject invention will readily occur to those of skill in the art in light of the disclosure herein.
DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
[0011] This invention involves a methods of occluding a selected vessel in a subject using a material (e.g., liquid or foam) that rapidly expands upon extrusion from a deployment mechanism and does not further expand over time. The material may include additives and/or fillers (such as radio-opaque additives and/or bioactive materials such as cytokines, growth factors, etc.) or the like. As used herein the term "expansion" refers to any increase in volume. The term "rapidly expanding" refers to any material that expands upon, for example extrusion, within a short period of time (on the order of seconds or less than a second) and does not further expand after this initial expansion over time. Similarly, the term "hardening" or "solidifying" refers to any liquid or flowable material that forms a solid mass with a particular expanded volume, either over time, upon contact with another substance or upon application of energy. Furthermore, the term "rapidly hardening" refers to any of these materials that solidify in less than about one hour, preferably less than 5 minutes, and even more preferably, less than about 30 seconds. Thus, the rapidly expanding materials described herein are to be contrasted with materials that take on the order of hours or days to stop expanding and form clots with desirable strength.
[0012] The methods described herein are suitable for both neurological, peripheral and cardiovascular applications as well as in other vessels such as in the Fallopian tubes and the like.
[0013] All publications, patents and patent applications cited herein, whether above or below, are hereby incorporated by reference in their entirety.
[0014] It must be noted that, as used in this specification and the appended claims, the singular forms "a", "an", and "the" include plural referents unless the content clearly dictates otherwise. Thus, for example, reference to "a rapidly expanding material" includes a mixture of two or more such materials and the like.
[0015] Any suitable rapidly expanding material can be used, so long as it is not harmful when implanted in the subject. The material will preferably have certain characteristics: (1) it should be flowable (e.g., liquid, paste or foam) at delivery; (2) it should expand upon extrusion from the deployment mechanism (e.g., catheter); (3) expansion upon extrusion should be immediate or virtually immediate, on the order to seconds or less than a second; (4) no expansion should occur after the initial expansion on extrusion; (5) hardening is preferably rapid, seconds or minutes rather than hours or days; (6) few or no toxic or otherwise harmful by-products should be released; and (7) the resultant expanded material must not significantly expand its volume after initial expansion.
[0016] Thus, non-limiting examples of potentially suitable materials include liquids, pastes, foams and other flowable materials. In certain aspects, the rapidly expanding material is a single component material. Typically, single component materials are those that rapidly expand when released from a pressurized system or, alternatively, upon contact with moisture. Pressurized fluids expand upon exiting the neck of the catheter as they go from higher to lower pressure. Pressure differentials can range anywhere between 10 to 1,000 or more PSI. For example, the material sold under the name Silly String™ expands upon release from a pressurized contained, and, after the initial expansion upon extrusion, does not further expand over time. Preferably, the material also hardens virtually instantaneously upon extrusion.
[0017] In other embodiments, multi-component materials are used, so long as the expansion that occurs rapidly at the site of deployment does not continue over time. Other examples of single component materials include those materials that rapidly expand upon contact with moisture, for example certain polyurethane foam materials (e.g., U.S. Pat. No. 4,2724,250; and Lu et al. (2000) BioMaterials 21(15):1595-1605 describing porous poly(L-lactide acid foams); hydrophilic polymers as disclosed, for example, in U.S. Pat. No. 5,162,430; hydrogel materials such as those described in Wake et al. (1995) Cell Transplantation 4(3):275-279, Wiese et al. (2001) J. Biomedical Materials Research 54(2):179-188 and Marler et al. (2000) Plastic Reconstruct. Surgery 105(6):2049-2058; hyaluronic acid materials (e.g., Duranti et al. (1998) Dermatologic Surgery 24(12):1317-1325); and expanding beads such as chitin beads (e.g., Yusof et al. (2001) J. Biomedical Materials Research 54(1):59-68). A non-limiting example of material that rapidly expands upon contact with moisture is a dehydrated foam, for example a dehydrated foam containing collagen.
[0018] Non-limiting examples of multi-component materials include calcium phosphate cements (see, e.g., U.S. Pat. No. 6,159,655) made by mixing two more components into a flowable paste which then subsequently expands and/or hardens and mixtures of any of any suitable single-component materials. Additionally, one or more of materials can also be used in various combinations.
[0019] As noted above, the rapidly expanding material is preferably in a fluid or foam state for delivery, for example for transport through the lumen of a catheter to the site to be occluded. Additional agents may be present to facilitate delivery of the rapidly expanding material, so long as the additional fluid is not harmful to the subject may be used. For example, the rapidly expanding material can be dispersed in a water-blowing agent (see, e.g., U.S. Pat. No. 6,211,257 and references cited therein).
[0020] The rapidly expanding materials can be |
mathcal{H}^{5}\int {\mathrm{d}}(\bm{k}_{1}, \bm{k}_{2}, \bm{k}_{3})\,\frac{1}{k_{1}^{2}k_{2}^{2}}\bigg\{{1\over2}(1-f)\bigg[ 6\Omega_{m}+f(1-2f) -2f \frac{\mathcal{H}'}{\mathcal{H}^{2}}\bigg]
+{1\over2}(2f-1){f'\over\mathcal{H}}
\nonumber \\
&&{}\qquad \qquad \qquad \qquad \qquad\qquad\quad +\bigg[f\bigg(2f-1+\frac{2\mathcal{H}'}{\mathcal{H}^{2}}\bigg) + \frac{f'}{\mathcal{H}}\bigg]
E_{2}(\bm{k}_{1}, \bm{k}_{2},\bm{k}_3)
\bigg\}.
\label{e19}
\end{eqnarray}
From \eqref{e15}--\eqref{e19}, it follows that:
\begin{itemize}
\item
The potential terms proportional to $v^{(2)}, \Phi^{(2)}, \Psi^{(2)}$ and $\Psi^{(2)\prime}$ in \eqref{odg2} and \eqref{dg2b}, lead to relativistic corrections proportional to $v^{(2)}_{\rm GR}, \Phi^{(2)}_{\rm GR}, \Psi^{(2)}_{\rm GR}$ and $\Psi^{(2)\prime}_{\rm GR}$, which sum up to a term of the form\\
\red{
$ \big[\alpha_1(z)+E_{2}(\bm{k}_{1}, \bm{k}_{2},\bm{k}_3)\,\alpha_2(z)\big]/(k_1k_2)^2$.}
\item
For the Doppler term in \eqref{odg2}, proportional to $\partial_{\parallel}v^{(2)}$, the relativistic correction $\partial_{\parallel}v^{(2)}_{\rm GR}$ leads to a term of the form \\
\red{$\mu_3k_3\big[\alpha_3(z)+E_{2}(\bm{k}_{1}, \bm{k}_{2},\bm{k}_3)\,\alpha_4(z)\big]/(k_1k_2)^2$}.
\item
For the second-order Kaiser term in \eqref{odg2}, $-{\mathcal{H}^{-1}}\partial_{\parallel}^{2}v^{(2)}$, the relativistic correction $-{\mathcal{H}^{-1}}\partial_{\parallel}^{2}v^{(2)}_{\rm GR}$ is of the form \\
\red{$\mu_3^2k_3^2\big[\alpha_5(z)+E_{2}(\bm{k}_{1}, \bm{k}_{2},\bm{k}_3)\,\alpha_6(z)\big]/(k_1k_2)^2$}.
\end{itemize}
\red{Therefore the relativistic dynamical correction to the Paper II kernel \eqref{k2g} is determined by 6 new coefficients $\alpha_I$, and contains terms of order $(\mathcal{H}/k)^n$, $n=2,3,4$.} The revised GR kernel with the relativistic dynamical corrections is given by
\begin{eqnarray}\label{e26}
\mathcal{K}^{(2)}_{\mathrm{GR}}(\bm{k}_{1}, \bm{k}_{2}, \bm{k}_{3}) &=& \frac{1}{k_{1}^{2}k_{2}^{2}}\Bigg\{\Gamma_{1} + {\alpha_1+E_{2}(\bm{k}_{1}, \bm{k}_{2},\bm{k}_3)\,\alpha_2} + {\rm i}\bigg[\left(\mu_{1}k_{1} + \mu_{2}k_{2}\right)\Gamma_{2} + {\mu_{3}k_{3}{\Big(\alpha_3+E_{2}(\bm{k}_{1}, \bm{k}_{2},\bm{k}_3)\,\alpha_4 \Big)}}\bigg] \nonumber \\
&&{} \qquad + \frac{k_{1}^2k_{2}^2}{k_{3}^2} \Big[F_{2}(\bm{k}_{1}, \bm{k}_{2})\,\Gamma_{3} + G_{2}(\bm{k}_{1}, \bm{k}_{2})\,\Gamma_{4} \Big] + \left(\mu_{1}k_{1}\mu_{2}k_{2}\right)\Gamma_{5} +
{\mu_{3}^{2}k_{3}^{2}{\Big(\alpha_5+E_{2}(\bm{k}_{1}, \bm{k}_{2},\bm{k}_3)\,\alpha_6 \Big)}} \nonumber \\
&&{} \qquad + \left(\bm{k}_{1}\cdot \bm{k}_{2}\right)\Gamma_{6} + \left(k_{1}^{2} + k_{2}^{2}\right)\Gamma_{7} + \left(\mu_{1}^{2}k_{1}^{2} + \mu_{2}^{2}k_{2}^{2}\right)\Gamma_{8} + {\rm i}\bigg[\left(\mu_{1}k_{1}^{3} + \mu_{2}k_{2}^{3}\right)\Gamma_{9}
\nonumber \\
&&{} \qquad + \left(\mu_{1}k_{1} + \mu_{2}k_{2}\right)\left(\bm{k}_{1} \cdot \bm{k}_{2}\right)\Gamma_{10} + k_{1}k_{2}\left(\mu_{1}k_{2} + \mu_{2}k_{1}\right)\Gamma_{11} + \left(\mu_{1}^{3}k_{1}^{3}+ \mu_{2}^{3}k_{2}^{3}\right)\Gamma_{12}
\nonumber \\
&&{} \qquad + \mu_{1}\mu_{2}k_{1}k_{2}\left(\mu_{1}k_{1} + \mu_{2}k_{2}\right)\Gamma_{13} + \mu_{3}\frac{k_{1}^{2}k_{2}^{2}}{k_{3}}\,G_{2}(\bm{k}_{1}, \bm{k}_{2})\,\Gamma_{14}\bigg] \Bigg\}.
\end{eqnarray}
The new redshift-dependent functions $\alpha_{I}$ are given in Appendix \ref{A}.
Equation \eqref{e26} shows that $\alpha_1$ is actually a correction to $\Gamma_1$, whereas the remaining $\alpha_I$ are new coefficients. This means that the revised GR kernel has a total of $14+6-1=19$ independent coefficients, which we re-label as follows:
\begin{equation}\label{beta}
\Gamma_1+\alpha_1,\, \alpha_2,\, \cdots,\, \Gamma_{14} \quad \to \quad {\beta_1,\, \cdots, \,\beta_{19}}\,.
\end{equation}
\red{(The $\beta_I$ should not be confused with the RSD parameter $\beta=f/b_1$.)}
Using this re-labelling, the revised kernel \eqref{e26} is rewritten as:
\begin{eqnarray}\label{e26r}
\mathcal{K}^{(2)}_{\mathrm{GR}}(\bm{k}_{1}, \bm{k}_{2}, \bm{k}_{3}) &=& \frac{1}{k_{1}^{2}k_{2}^{2}}\Bigg\{\beta_{1} + E_{2}(\bm{k}_{1}, \bm{k}_{2},\bm{k}_3)\,\beta_2 + {\rm i}\bigg[\left(\mu_{1}k_{1} + \mu_{2}k_{2}\right)\beta_{3} + {\mu_{3}k_{3}{\Big(\beta_4+E_{2}(\bm{k}_{1}, \bm{k}_{2},\bm{k}_3)\,\beta_5 \Big)}}\bigg] \nonumber \\
&&{} \qquad + \frac{k_{1}^2k_{2}^2}{k_{3}^2} \Big[F_{2}(\bm{k}_{1}, \bm{k}_{2})\,\beta_{6} + G_{2}(\bm{k}_{1}, \bm{k}_{2})\,\beta_{7} \Big] + \left(\mu_{1}k_{1}\mu_{2}k_{2}\right)\beta_{8} +
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that these were merely boiler-plate cut-and-paste straw-man B.S. right-wing talking points. In understand that this person clearly hasn't been reading my blog, or it's crossposts on Dkos, Democratic Underground or OpedNews and hasn't seen what I've already discussed concerning The I-Mess or Immigration or Hate Crimes Legislation. (Cuz y'know… Facts are for Pussies!) It's clear that this just typical right-wing radio blather. I know that this is a form of Projection, making accusations of others that are simply fun-house mirror reflections of their own actual positions. (Liberlism is accused of being a "mental disorder", when in all likelyhood it is Rabid Neo-Conservatism that is based on abnormal pathology),
I know he's just a troll!.
I understand all this, but what I've always felt disturbing is how many people are more than willing to eat this stuff up and spew it right back out. Normally I wouldn't care, except for one thing – I'm pretty sure all these deeply deluded people vote!
As I've written before on Hating the Enemy, (namely Liberals) the leaders of the right-wing movement are not at all shy about telling us how they feel and who we should be hating.
Let's do a quick review (thanks to Media Matters) of some of the things that Republicans, including Hannity, regularly say about Democrats and Liberals.
Sean Hannity suggested that the DNC may have been behind the Abu Ghraib prison abuse photos, asking: "Was that a DNC plot too?" (The Sean Hannity Show, 9/10/04)
Laura Ingraham stated that Democratic Sens. John Kerry (MA), Joseph R. Biden Jr. (DE), and Barbara Boxer (CA) are "on the side of" North Korea leader Kim Jong Il because they were opposed to John R. Bolton's nomination as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. (Hannity & Colmes, 4/11/05).
Ann Coulter on Bill Clinton, "he was a very good rapist" and "molested the help" and on Al Gore, "Before we knew he was clinically insane" – "He seemed kinda gay"
Bill O'Reilly says he doesn't do "personal attacks", except of course for when he does.
On The O'Reilly Factor, O'Reilly has referred to media writer and Fox News Watch panelist Neal Gabler as a "rabid dog" and said of New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, "How nuts is this guy?" O'Reilly also said guest Christopher Murray "sounds like a fascist" for saying that that public institutions should not display religious symbols and called former Public Broadcasting System host Bill Moyers a "totalitarian." Students at the University of Connecticut who heckled right-wing pundit Ann Coulter during her campus appearance there earned the title of "far-left Nazis" from O'Reilly. He's also called John Kerry a "sissy", and claimed that Bill Clinton would be welcomed as president by Osama bin Laden.
Jonah Goldberg has distorted comments by Sen. John Kerry (D-MA), called syndicated columnist Helen Thomas a "thespian carbuncle of bile," and accused former President Jimmy Carter of engaging in a "mildly ghoulish exploitation of Coretta Scott King's funeral."
Then of course there's Michelle Malkin whose has claimed that "the vast majority of Hispanic politicians" believe that "the American Southwest belongs to Mexico;" has referred to certain Californian politicians as "Latino supremacists;" and characterized recent immigration protests as "militant racism" marked by "virulent anti-American hatred."
All of these people, are playing The Fear Card. Fear the brown-skins and the darkies. Fear the muslims. Fear the fags. Fear the ACLU. And Fear the Liberals who somehow have this crazy idea that America is supposed to be somekind of "Land of the Free" where all kinds of weird and different and disgusting people are supposed to be able to "Seek the American Dream" or some such nonesense.
John Dean has written about this strategic re-writing of Americas History in his book "Conservatives without Conscience"
In their efforts to present conservatism as an American tradition, conservatives have also reinterpreted the U.S. Constitution. One of the key elements of the Constitution is the establishment of a unique republic, in that a federal system would coexist with state and local governments. Before it was ratified many opponents attacked its progressive and innovative nature, for far from representing teh status quo, the Constitution was dramatically liberal.
James Madison defended it in The Federalist Papers by explaining that the founders "have not suffered a blind veneration for antiquity, for custom" but rather employed "numerous innovations… in favor of private rights and public happiness." Madison sid that "precedent could not be discovered," for there was no other government" on the face of the globe" that provided a model. Madison, the father of the Constitution, clearly saw his work as the opposite of conseratism.
Yet conservatives today continue to exploit xenophobia and paranoia of all things "progressive" all tucked up in nice neat American Flag wrapper of gingoism. Dean also argued that what currently drives the conservative movement is nothing less than Totalitarian Authoritarism. From his appearance on the Daily Show with John Stewart.
Dean: In dealing with that, in the Milgram experiments, where he brought people in off the street, and indeed found that he could get them to administer high voltage — what they thought was high voltage, and it wasn't. I deal with that to show how people can set their conscience aside. In other words, how do people go into the CIA every day and carry out some of the orders for torture? How do people go into NSA and turn that incredible apparatus against Americans? This is a typical Milgram situation. I actually go beyond that to find the nature of the authoritarian personality that will follow a leader who is an authoritarian.
In Milgram it was shown that otherwise normal people would submit their own conscience to the will of an authority figure and would, if continually pushed to do so, administer a lethal level electric shocks despite the screams and protests of the intended victim. Compare this with the definition of a Sociapath.
Sociopaths are very egocentric individuals that lack a sense of personal responsibility and morality. They may be impulsive, manipulative, reckless, quarrelsome, and consistent liars. Sociopaths are usually unable to sustain relationships and have a total lack of remorse for their actions. The sociopath may also be very prone to aggressive, hostile, and sometimes violent behavior. This aggression may or may not lead to criminal behavior and often takes the form of domestic violence. Along with these other actions, sociopaths often engage in self-destructive behavior such as alcoholism or addiction to drugs. This, of course, usually worsens many aspects of the sociopathic behavior. Despite these previous symptoms, the sociopath may be an excellent actor, always appearing charming, calm, and collected. They usually have a normal or above normal intelligence level and good verbal fluency. It is these qualities that sometimes place the sociopath in leadership positions within their social groups and often make it hard to spot their "black side".
Essentially Sociopaths have no conscience, no morality as we would describe it. Whereas Dean discusses the ability for ones conscience to be selectively suppressed under specific situations and in regards to specifics types or groups of individuals when directed by a "trusted authority". Clearly, a true sociopath doesn't need to be directed by others – and frankly wouldn't allow it – yet their behaviors remain markedly similar.
We can see it in the way the Bill O'Reilly can be so charming at one moment and then a raging lunatic the next. We can see it in Douglas Feith as smilingly twists reality and facts regarding Saddam and Al-Qaeda into logical linguini. We can see it with Bill Kriston, Michelle Malkin, Katie O'Beirn and Ann Coulter. These people are the standard bearers of the right-wing. The "Authorities" to which many for which many of our fellow citizens are willfully neutered their own conscience in aquiesence to. Here's an example from Dr. Bob Altemeyer, one of Dean's primary sources, intoducing his new book – The Authoritarians.
For example, take the following statement: "Once our government leaders and the authorities condemn the dangerous elements in our society, it will be the duty of every patriotic citizen to help stomp out the rot that is poisoning our country from within." Sounds like something Hitler would say, right? Want to guess how many politicians, how many lawmakers in the United States agreed with it? Want to guess what they had in common?
Or how about a government program that persecutes political parties, or minorities, or journalists the authorities do not like, by putting them in jail, even torturing and killing them. Nobody would approve of that, right? Guess again.
The idea that "All Men are created equal, and are endowed by their creator with inalienable rights" is lost on these people. All rights become optional, based on whether that person passes the proper litmus test. Maintaining Habaes Corpus is "giving terrorists special rights." Monica Goodling did "nothing wrong" when she attempted to achieve ideological purity within the Justice Dept, that's the way it should be. Tim Griffin did nothing wrong by systematically caging the votes of African-American Troops while their |
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NEWZFIRST
09 May 2012 12:05:15 PM IST
IDINTHAKARAI -People's Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE) today launched three campaigns against the Koodankulam Nuclear power Plant that is being set up amid strong opposition of residents of the region and to uphold the citizens' dignity that is being dishonored by governments.
Collection of signatures by villagers who oppose the nuclear plant and surrender of voter identity cards will be observed in 60 villages belonging to three neighboring districts while'respect India' campaign will be observed throughout the country.
Explaining the objectives of the campaigns Mr. V Pushparayan, member of struggle committee told newzfirst.com, "There are two Indias today, the rich and powerful India whose life is deemed to be important and valuable; and the poor and powerless India whose life is condemned as unimportant and dispensable. The dirty ordinary Indians are forced to sacrifice their lives for the holy extraordinary Indians."
"Until the governments understand and start respecting every citizens by words and actions we will carry on this awareness campaign by joining hands with likeminded people's movements. Just as the freedom fighters asked the colonial rulers to 'Quit India,' we, the People's Movement Against Nuclear Energy fighters, request the corrupt and communal ruling class in India to 'Respect India,' respect the Indian citizens' lives, rights and entitlements." he added.
Briefing about surrendering voter identity cards, he said, "We want to make Governments understand that these citizens are not mere voting machines, they too deserve respectful lives, rights and entitlements. Until the Governments respond positively to the genuine demands of people of this Koodankulam Nuclear Plant region, all the voters will surrender their voter cards voluntarily."
"Signature campaign too will continue in these three districts for about a week, where all the villagers who do oppose the setting up of nuclear plant will sign the appeal and that will be the mandate against KKNPP in the courts." he elaborated.
About 20 thousand voter identity cards from nine villages – Idinthakarai, Thomaiyapuram, Perumanal, Kuduthalai, Vairavikinaru, Kuttapulli, Kuthankulli and Avaidaiyalpuram were collected today and will be surrendered to respective Tahsildars after completing collection at rest villages, according to Pushparayan.
While, 30 thousand people from thirteen villages of Idinthakarai, Kudankulam, Kuthankulli, Uvari, Kuttapulli, Kamaneri, Thomaiyarpuram, Vijayapathi, Vairavikinaru, Thillaivananthopu, Kurinjikulam, Kuduthalai, and Periyathalai have signed against the KKNPP.
READ FULLSTORY HERE
Immediate Release-STOP work at SHAI, SUSARI and KONDHANE DAMS
by kracktivist in Advocacy, Announcements, Health Care, Human Rights, Justice, Kractivism, Law, Minority Rights, Press Release Tags: Kalu Dam, KIDC, Maharashtra, Ministry of Environment & Forests, Press release, Thane District, The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act 2006, White Paper
IMMEDIATELY STOP WORK ON SHAI, SUSARI AND KONDHANE DAMS
We welcome the announcement of the Chief Minister that a White Paper will be prepared on the construction of Dams during the past ten years in Maharashtra. We hope that this White Paper will assess the extent of corruption and diversion of public money that has plagued the Irrigation department. We also hope that the White Paper will look into the alleged nexus between the politicians, officials and contractors who have been awarded contracts in violation of the norms. The White Paper needs to also examine whether the required permissions were obtained prior to construction, whether the stated objectives are being achieved and the status of rehabilitation of the project affected.
However, pending the release of the White Paper we demand an immediate stoppage of work on all dams (including Shai and Susari dams in Thane district and Kondhane dam in Raigad district) that are being illegally constructed without the required permissions. Most of the dams ( more than 10 ) within the jurisdiction of the Konkan Irrigation Development Corporation have been awarded to a single firm, viz. F.A. Enterprises, which is in violation of the Department's own guidelines and conditions, thus exposing a strong nexus between the politicians, officials and the contractor. Work has begun in violation of laws including the Forest Rights Act, The Forest Conservation Act, the Land Acquisiton Act, the Panchayats Extension to the Scheduled Areas Act etc. The Mumbai High Court has already stayed work on the Kalu Dam as it had started without clearance from MoEF.
We therefore additionally demand that a High Level Inquiry Committee ( headed by a Retired High Court Judge ) be immediately appointed to inquire into the allegations of corruption and violation of laws and procedures into all the dams in the KIDC region, and more specifically those that have been awarded to F.A. Enterprises.
We reiterate our strong opposition to the Shai, Susari, Kalu, Balganga and Kondhane dams and demand that the police protection that has been provided to the contractor for constructing an illegal dam be immediately removed.
Shai Dharan Virodhi Sangharsh Samiti
Susari Dharan Virodhi Sangharsh Samiti
Kalu Dharan Virodhi Samiti
Shramik Mukti Sanghatna
Kashtakari Sanghatna
Shoshit Jan Andolan
Samajwadi Jan Parishad
Jagatikikaran Virodhi Kruti Samiti
Date : 9.5.2012
Immediate Release – -MoEF Rejects Forest Clearance to Kalu Dam in Maharshtra (kractivist.wordpress.com)
Immediate Release-Curfew orders Clamped, Arrest Alert # Koodankulam
by kracktivist in Advocacy, Announcements, Censorship, Human Rights, Justice, Kractivism, Law, Press Release Tags: Anjugramam, Fort St. George, India, KKNPP, Koodankulam, nuclearpower, Tamil Nadu, Tamil Nadu government
Urgent Message from Idinthakarai
Arrest Alert
Curfew orders have just been promulgated in our area once again right after our planning meetings with the youth, women, community elders and the Idinthakarai village committee on May 8, 2012. Thousands of police personnel are being posted in and around Koodankulam in haste. We get reliable tips that the authorities are planning to clamp down our protest and arrest all of us, possibly tonight. Such a pre-dawn operation that the government usually does could be bloody as thousands of men, women and children from several villages are sleeping around the Church at Idinthakarai.
This action may be planned to cover up a recent accident at the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP). It is said that two young men, Sivakumar and Esakkimuthu, were injured on May 4 in an alleged blast at KKNPP and they were admitted in a private hospital at Anjugramam. Dr. Tamilarasu who treated the men confirmed the accident according to a newspaper report (The Indian Express, May 8, 2012). One of the young men's fathers talked to the Puthiya Thalaimurai television on May 8, 2012 that he was not even allowed to see his son.
On May 8, 2012, we also held a Press Meet at Idinthakarai at 4:00 PM in which we produced the ledgers with tens of thousands of signatures of people from some 60 villages opposing the KKNPP. This is a clear proof that the central and state governments are acting against the will of the local people and are thrusting the dangerous nuclear power project down our throats in an authoritarian and arrogant manner. We also produced some 24,000 voter ID cards that the people had surrendered in protest against the governments' callous attitude towards the 302 women and 35 men indefinite hunger strikers. As the Indian government and the state governments do not respect ordinary people's lives and interests in India, we also launched the "Respect India" Campaign along the lines of Mahatma Gandhi's "Quit India" campaign of 1942.
The Tamil Nadu police have been harassing local people when they close their shops in support of our protests or when they travel to neighboring villages. The police take individual pot shots of the people, shoot group photos, take down the vehicle numbers, abuse with foul language and intimidate them. When a curfew was imposed earlier on our area by the Tamil Nadu government on March 19, 2012, the authorities divided the local communities by announcing a Rs. 500 crore bribery package to the local bodies, stifled news reports on us by silencing the media and isolated the people by distancing the Church.
It is so strange and unfortunate that the central and state governments treat us, nonviolent and democratic Gandhian activists, as some kind of dangerous extremists. The hunger strikers are very weak and feeble but they refuse to give up without getting our demands fulfilled. Instead of talking to us, the Tamil Nadu government seems to be preparing for a |
, it can put strain on everybody as plans are disrupted and space is at a premium
By Marina Gask 5 December 2021 • 5:00am
For Jo and Jeremy Slessor, having their son Jamie back in the house took some getting used to Credit: Jack Fairey
"Don't get used to it," friends warned me when my 22-year-old son moved out last year for the second time. "He'll be back." And sure enough, he is. And with him come a whole load of mixed emotions. Because much as we want to do what it takes to help steer our grown-up kids onto the right path, their return to live in the family home – often multiple times – after a period away can throw a spanner into the domestic works. In some cases, this scenario can even cause a significant decline in their parents' quality of life and wellbeing, according to a London School of Economics report on the impact of the so-called "boomerang generation" on family life.
In many ways having my son's company and noise in the house again is a joy. But it's also a big adjustment we hadn't planned for. After all, it's only a few weeks ago that we'd settled into a new rhythm once his younger brother had left for university. The heartache that accompanied the end of this chapter was closely followed by a new-found sense of freedom to focus on ourselves for a change. And just living without the stress, worry and irritation that inevitably comes when you share space with young people had been liberating.
But now we feel like we've taken a step backwards. Psychologist Dr Linda Papadopoulos says: "When your children start to find their way in life, psychologically you have the satisfaction as a parent that you've succeeded in creating a self-sufficient child who can stand on their own two feet. And in this process, you have your own existential thoughts about what you want to do next, and this feeds into your identity. So, when you're blindsided by your children's 'failure to launch', or change of tack, their return to the family home can feel disruptive."
Of course, it's not a craving for home cooking and their childhood bedroom that's bringing our young adult kids back – they have their own challenges to overcome. The LSE study showed that grown-up children are increasingly driven back home by rising housing costs, financial hardship and job insecurity, as well as the impact of Covid. A survey by the Resolution Foundation found that the proportion of young people living at home for at least some of their 20s and early 30s has increased significantly over the past two decades and now appears to be a permanent feature of UK society, with 23 per cent of 20-somethings living with parents earlier this year.
For some parents having their adult children back in the family home can be a source of friction, can lead to escalating household costs and even a feeling of violation of their new-found freedom. Young adults who returned to live with parents during the coronavirus lockdown added around £2,700 on average a year to the household's costs, a Barclays survey found.
In some cases, it can mean a loss of space. For Jo Slessor, 59, downsizing after her son, Jamie, 22, left for university has meant their smaller house is a bit of a squeeze since he's moved back home. "We'd been through the process of figuring out our life mostly without children at home and made some big life changes. I'd given up my job and retrained as a life coach. I saw this shift in our lives as a really exciting time".
But once Covid hit, Jamie's university life was over and his plans to travel curtailed, so moving back home was the only option. "We had to get used to being back together in a small house. And now he's doing an apprenticeship locally, he is likely to be at home for the next two years at least. We love having him here but it's probably not quite where any of us thought we would be. And, of course, there are differences in the way we're used to running our lives. We've gone from living as a couple to living as a family again, and my husband's back down the pecking order."
Jo and Jeremy Slessor had made some big life changes when son Jamie had left, but now he is back home and everything has changed Credit: Clara Molden
Like many parents in the same position, Jo and her husband, Jeremy, are happy to help their son get started on his career path – but cohabiting in the long-term was not in their plans. "We're often jostling for space. There's a fight for who gets into the shower first, and I come down in the morning to find packed lunch stuff left out in the kitchen. Trying to do Zoom yoga in the kitchen/diner while Jamie is cooking is something of a challenge. And as a couple we're having to take another person into consideration, and inevitably that means we're not giving each other as much attention. But, of course, I'm also aware it's not easy for Jamie, having been independent for three years, to lose that independence as well as his privacy. Ultimately, we love having him back home but it's taking some adjustments all round."
For me, since our eldest son returned to the family home for the second time, it just feels plain weird to be back to niggles like "Great, he's used up all the milk," and struggling to doze off through post-pub banging of doors – the kind of irritations we'd happily consigned to the past. But it's emotionally disruptive too. Having gone from hardly seeing him (sometimes for weeks on end) I feel like I'm back on "mum duty".
And while I don't resent this, making room for myself isn't easy. Plans have stalled and it's a struggle to find my focus. Emotional distraction is the only way I can describe it. Jo concurs: "There is that mental space they're taking up when in your home, unlike when they live away. And you can't help but be aware of their comings and goings, and worry if it's late and you haven't heard their key in the door".
Psychologist Honey Langcaster-James says: "For the primary caregiver, whether that's Mum or Dad, having spent many years organising your life around your children, once they move back home, there tends to be a resurgence of the old role dynamics, leading to both an increased practical load as well as a cognitive load".
For a harmonious household it's important to renegotiate your roles in the family, communicating your needs and boundaries as to what you're prepared to do in this new dynamic. "Part of feeling adult is paying your way, so let your child contribute to household costs if possible and add to family life, rather than being a burden."
And don't beat yourself up if you have ambivalent feelings. Langcaster-James says: "If you feel a little resentment at your loss of freedom, it doesn't mean you don't love them… If you feel guilt over your feelings now that they're back under your roof, try to let that go."
How to cope with domestic tensions
Negotiate expectations
"Make sure you're not infantilising your adult child. They are perfectly capable of taking their role in the home, and it's healthy for them to do so," says Langcaster-James. "Have an open conversation as a family and negotiate the boundaries and expectations around the new living arrangements. Avoid falling into old patterns. They don't need you to do their laundry or plan their meals."
Ask how it feels for them
Moving back home could well have left your young adult child feeling disempowered. "It may have been a particularly difficult period for them that led to the move back, and they may miss living with friends and having that feeling of independence," says Langcaster-James. Avoid setting curfews or asking questions about how they spend their free time.
Avoid parent-child interaction
Whatever age you are, spending time with your parents typically brings up feelings of childhood, and it can be easy to fall back into those roles of old. "For a young adult who's trying to find their way in the world, it can be frustrating to get treated like a child by their parents again," says Papadopoulos. Try to relate as adults and respect their tastes and opinions.
Stick to your plans
Keep your new life plans intact. "Resist the urge to give up social groups, hobbies and work opportunities in order to shift your focus back onto your offspring," says Langcaster-James. "Put a stake in the ground and say 'This is what my life consists of now'."
Support each other
Recognise that for the primary caregiver this may be a bigger period of adjustment, irritation and conflict than for the secondary caregiver. If one partner's burden of stress has increased, make sure you both take an active role in communication to assert the boundaries and help keep things running smoothly.
How do you run a harmonious household? Tell us in the comments section below
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It was Cúchulainn's voice that had put them into this fluster; who, coming on to the lawn in front of the house, and seeing the door guarded, made a leap at a window of the dining-hall, but fell short almost by the height of a man, to the huge merriment of the guards and other onlookers. At that Cúchulainn let his battle-cry out of him, and, taking a longer run, leaped again at the window, reaching this time to the sill, but, like a bird whose power is spent, fell from that perch even as his foot touched it. Then the guards and the onlookers began to laugh and to jeer, and to throw mud and stones at the hero, so that his anger kindled, and, standing back again, he made his salmon-leap and came flying through the window into the hall.
Mr. Garlic had begun to recover his nerve, and was just about to give the toast, holding aloft a tall tumbler overflowing with whipped cream and iced fruit syrup, when Cúchulainn landed upon the table with a crash and jingle of glass. Very beautiful and fierce he looked, his eyes flashing fire, a long bright sword in his hand, that had been put there by the Morrígu herself as he hurtled through the window. "Swine, stay at your troughs," he commanded, as one or two strove feebly to rise. "And you varlets, back" — this to some servitors that had first thought of interfering but now desisted, fancying from his imperious tone that he must be a financier or monopolist of eccentric habits arrived late for the feast. "I have come for my bride," said Cúchulainn, "and will harm no man that offers me no hindrance. Come, Thalia."
So saying he advanced towards the head of the table, over the white damask cloth, through the silver and the glasses; nor could any man rise up to stop him, no more than if the seat of each one's breeches had been caught between the jaws of a crocodile: though there were a few that strove to do so, and flopped off their chairs on to the floor in the effort. Cúchulainn offered his hand to Thalia, who, taking it, leaped lightly to the table beside him, leaving a yard of her gown in Scallion's podgy fist. The bosthoon dared no more resistance than that, for the sword of Cúchulainn gleamed bright and menacing. But old King Boodleguts at the other end of the board (though he could not rise any more than the rest of the roysterers), being near bursting with choler at the audacity of this intrusion, began bawling for the guards so urgently that these came rushing up from the lower courtyard, a score in number, and covered the hero with their guns, awaiting orders. A moment Cúchulainn stood facing them with Thalia upon his arm: then he brandished the sword above his head so fast and furious that a shaft of sunlight, striking it suddenly, flashed blinding white in every eye.
When they had recovered their sight, the first thing they perceived was that Cúchulainn and Thalia had vanished; and the next was a body that lay wrenched and distorted among the dishes and adornments of the table. It was the disjecta membra of Robert Emmett Aloysius O'Kennedy, now void of the strength and beauty which the spirit of Cúchulainn had filled them with; so that none of the company recognised the thing, nor did it occur to them to connect it in any way with the vision that had flashed upon them a moment before. Indeed, the Major Domo had the Chief Steward consigned to the dungeons for allowing such an object to get upon the table, and ordered the guards to throw it upon the refuse heap, where it was presently found by the Philosopher, by whom it was restored to its owner; who had been having rare adventures in far quarters of the universe, of which I will tell you in another book.
Meanwhile there was hurry and scurry in Boodleguts' halls and the surrounding demesne, of which there was neither hole nor corner, nook nor cranny, that they did not thoroughly poke into and search. When these efforts proved unavailing, King Scallion spoke winged words to King Boodleguts, and rode away with his son in high dudgeon to have the marriage annulled: there was near being a war between Tripe and Onion on the head of it. After they were gone, a pack of private detectives was called in from London, wily sleuths trained in the school of Sherlock, each with a Watson to heel, who, with high power lens and litmus-paper, scrutinised every inch of the place all over again, afterwards extending their operations over a large part of the surrounding country. Nevertheless they found no clue of any sort except a garter of Thalia's down by the river, which she had forgotten to put on in her hasty dressing. Here was a spicy headline for the newspapers, which a million crafty sub-editors made effective use of. I cannot tell how many variants upon the theme were rung in ribbon and triple column measure by these master musicians; but it is said on good authority that there were forty-three thousand photographs of the garter taken besides sketches; which were printed in fifteen million papers for the delectation of two thousand million readers. The more reputable of them were content to publish small-scale reproductions on their back pages for the criminological interest of the clue; others, less chary of their reputations, gave it greater prominence, figuring it large upon their front pages, with suggestive descriptions appended; while one very popular sheet, appearing on the Lord's Day, delighted its readers with a full-page picture of the article in situ upon a very shapely leg, complete with stocking and knicker-frill. Did not all this call for a far higher degree of enterprise, organisation, acumen, and knowledge of human nature than the mere unravelling of the mystery connected with it? as to which, I do not know what conclusion they came to; nor do I care.
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* The Morrígan ("phantom queen") or Mórrígan ("great queen"), also written as Morrígu or in the plural as Morrígna, is an Irish goddess of battle and strife, comparable with the Germanic Valkyries.
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manufacturing employed 380,000 workers. Wages rose along with cotton prices....Egyptians were acquiring European culture.
Egypt's foreign colony -- expats as well as Jews, Copts, and Greeks who had settled there hundreds of years earlier -- helped make Egypt "almost the most cosmopolitan country in the world." Cairo swarmed with fortune hunters, bankers, brokers, and entrepreneurs who invested in tourism, railways, banking, sugar, and, of course, cotton.
Egypt became the poster child for the new imperialism.
William Jennings Bryan, the three-time Democratic presidential candidate, stopped in Cairo on his way back from India in 1906...
... and the then the world-wide panic of 1907. The run on banks that began in New York City in 1907 followed with runs on banks around the world. Cairo was not spared. The Egyptian stock market plunged. Most thought it was temporary but in April the market crashed a second time and, this time, kept going down. This tie full-scale panic erupted.
The Egyptian crash was part of a worldwide phenomenon, just as Cairo was a link in a chin that stretched from San Francisco to Santiago, London to Bombay, New York to Hamburg and Tokyo.
A London banker observed after the fact, "beginning about the middle of 1905, a strain on the whole world's capital supply and credit facilities set in, which increased at so portentous a rate during the next two years that long before October, 1907, thoughtful men i many widely separated markets were discussing, with serious apprehension, what was to be the result."
The even that triggered the chain reaction had taken place on the far side of the world. Besides practically leveling the city, the great San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906 resulted in enormous claims to insurance companies in London. As insurers were forced to sell pounds in order to buy dollars to settle them, the pound started to fall in terms of its gold price. To stem the outflow of gold, the Bank of England raised its discount rate to 6 percent in October, 1906. The result was a credit squeeze for borrowers.
Under the gold standard, when England sneezed, the US caught cold. The New York stock market plummeted in March 1907, and in May economic activity began to decline. The recession set the stage for the last and worst banking panic -- the panic of 1907 -- that focused on the New York trusts. The resulting credit freeze forced thousands of banks and businesses around the US into bankruptcy.
A severe economic downturn continued for more than a year, and business conditions did not fully recover until 1910. In England, and on the Continent, the slump was even deeper and longer. In Cairo, on the other hand, the Panic of 1907 was only a pause.
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Putting The Bakken Into Perspective Again -- High Development Costs -- Remember When The Bakken Was All About The Expense? A $10-Million Well Is Now Considered A Bargain
The WSJ-linked article below is a must-read, to help put the Bakken into perspective.
A reader was kind enough to send me a long response to the long, meandering post on projected productivity of the Bakken vis a vis the Bentek study. He brought up so many points, it will be awhile to get to all of them. Much appreciated.
The reader sent this WSJ link which I can't remember if I've posted before but it helps put things in perspective: triple-digit oil prices needed to sustain oil production.
Underneath their swagger and bravado, global energy chiefs gathered here for their annual U.S. conference expressed a palpable sense of dread over the soaring costs of their signature oil and gas projects.
"All of us are facing new realities and pressures," John Watson, chairman and chief executive of Chevron Corp., told a hotel ballroom jammed with an international assortment of men in suits and the occasional woman.
"Labor and capital costs have doubled over the last decade." To pay for the rising price of extracting fossil fuels, the industry needs triple-digit oil prices, Mr. Watson warned. "The $100 barrel is the new $20," he said—a sobering statement since global oil prices haven't been in the $20 range since 2002.
Look at the Kashagan debacle.
On the other hand, as more and more infrastructure is completed in the Bakken, which, hopefully, will help contain costs there.
And there it is, here in the WSJ-linked article:
While the big projects provoke the most angst, there is widespread recognition that the small scale—especially around the U.S. shale boom—has had significant impact. The one place where cost inflation wasn't at the forefront of discussions was shale energy development and how it has benefited the U.S. To drill and hydraulically fracture a well in Pennsylvania or North Dakota costs $10 million, at most.
So, $10 million/well is now considered cheap? Wow.
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Pricing -- WTI - Brent Spread Narrows; For Investors Only -- New Highs For The Day
The spread between WTI and Brent is only $5.00 (a dynamic link; this will obviously change five minutes from now).
Brent: $104.41
WTI: $99.17
New highs for the day: BHI, EPD, HP. In addition, UNP is near its 52-week high.
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Predicting Productivity In The Bakken
Wow, timing is everything.
Yesterday I posted a long meandering note on predicating productivity in the Bakken.
Now, a four-page internet article on just that being reported at Rigzone.
We recently authored an article in the Musings discussing the impact of the extremely cold winter on oil output in the Bakken basin of North Dakota.
When we examined the EIA's March Drilling Productivity Report, we were startled by the chart showing a steady increase in the basin's oil output and the accompanying forecast for future monthly increases. That shock sent us back to look at all the monthly charts for the Bakken's output projected by the EIA.
Every month showed a projected output increase. Given what we knew about the production output during the winter months obtained directly from the North Dakota Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) that showed a significant drop in production, and especially Bakken output, which is what dominates the state's oil production, we wondered about the EIA's forecasts.
To explore the subject, we plotted the monthly output estimated by the EIA along with its next month forecast. We then looked at what the starting point for production was the next month along with its projected output one month forward. We did that for each month from October 2013 through March 2014, which gave us an estimate of Bakken production for April 2014. Next, we went to the North Dakota DMR web site and got each of the month's preliminary and revised monthly production statistics for the entire state and for the Bakken formation. All of monthly data is presented in Exhibit 2.
As the DMR data is reported with a lag of two months, the last preliminary monthly output figure for the Bakken formation is for January 2014 of 871,672 barrels per day (b/d). That estimate contrasts with the EIA's January 2014 projected output of 1,025,000 b/d made in December 2013. That is a difference of 153,328 b/d, or 17.6% of the DMR estimate and 15% of the higher EIA estimate. If we measure the DMR Bakken production estimate against the EIA's starting point in January, the difference is 15.2%.
A great beginning. And it appears one day after my long meandering article. Gotta love it.
The article ends on an unsatisfactory note.
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KOG continues to be a Wall Street darling. Most of the data points in this article could be applied to most operators in the Bakken:
a twelve-year drilling inventory
2013 production significantly higher than 2012 production
it trades below its peers on a multiples basis
My favorite contributors with regard to the Bakken over at SeekingAlpha: Filloon, Zeits, Fitzsimmons.
And then there are those who like EOG.
On Monday, March 31, EOG Resources announced that five new wells in the Eagle Ford formation were pumping more than 13K boe/day of crude and yielding 91%-97% oil. According to sources, these wells had individually produced between 2,314 and 3,071 boe/day and the crude that was discovered is very similar to the light oil that is produced off the coast of Louisiana.
If EOG Resources can continue to demonstrate significant production-related performance as it continues to develop newer wells, there's a very good chance the company's long-term earnings growth and long-term revenue growth could increase if such performance is sustained. In other words, if EOG can continue to develop wells that yield at least 92% oil while producing an average of 2,500 boe/day, there's a very good chance both earnings and revenue growth could be positively impacted for years to come.
That's a pretty tepid analysis. Let's repeat that analysis: "In other words, if EOG can continue to develop wells that yield at least 92% oil while producing an average of 2,500 boe/day, there's a very good chance both earnings and revenue growth could be positively impacted for |
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being a movement at that point. The various demands from groups and individuals were significantly scattered.
The 1980s witnessed the consolidation of demands from various groups and their organization under a cross-disability umbrella, representing the interests of the disabled. Many NGOs started operating in the disability sector during this decade and this subsequently provided further momentum to the DRM. After a series of petitions and protests, the government passed the Persons With Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995 (or PWD Act), which reserved three percent of government posts for those in the PWD category. So the year 1995 became a benchmark year for the DRM, which stands for the beginning of a new era altogether, in which people suffering from disability found visibility in educational institutions and government services.
In the new millennium, the United Nations adopted the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in 2006. India signed and ratified this convention in 2007. By then, there was a demand for an increase in the reservation for the PWD category by various groups working on disability issues. By 2012, the Union Government of India came up with a disability bill, and after some amendments in the original draft, the bill was tabled in the parliament the very next year. After a wait of over three years, the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Bill, 2016 was passed by both houses of parliament just last week. More than 26 million differently-abled persons in India are waiting anxiously to see the bill officially become a law.
Overall, what started as scattered demands for rights for people suffering from disability has today developed into an issue area that is the subject of many academic works. Though many obstacles still exist in the path of the DRM, the achievements to date are worthy of praise and they need to be highlighted.
Initial phase of the DRM: The 1970s and 1980s
Until the 1970s, most of the people who suffered from any kind of disability were considered as outcasts from the mainstream society and were looked down upon. To put it bluntly, though it may sound politically incorrect, any disabled person was treated like dirt in Indian society. Most of these people were either seen as beggars or in better cases they were associated with the field of music. Even the system thought of them as a liability; these people were considered to be of little use to society and hence their concerns were severely disregarded. Many people thought of disability as the result of someone's previous life's sins and thus held them responsible for their present condition. This absurdity led to various forms of injustices in India.
In contrast, things were changing rapidly and drastically in the Western countries at this time. In the West, the disability rights movement had gained momentum in the 1950s, and by the 1970s it had begun challenging governments with a much greater force. In India, such demands had only started to emerge. Even in Western societies, people suffering from disability were not exactly treated as they should have been. The world was still only 30 years removed from Adolf Hitler's attempt to eliminate the disabled population in Germany, due to his belief was that disabled persons were of no economic use.
In the West, things started to change after World War II, when thousands of soldiers returning home were left with several kinds of disabilities. These soldiers became an initial source of the DRM and they even saw some success in getting their rights, mainly because these soldiers were considered heroes of the war and thus their demands garnered immense public support.
No such thing happened in India. Most offers of assistance from Indian society toward its disabled population were viewed as charity rather than providing legitimate rights to PWD. Even the families associated with a disabled person were looked down upon and scrutinized in many ways by their relatives and neighbors. In many cases, this led to families disowning their disabled family members; disabled children were all too often left in orphanages. A severe kind of "shame" was associated with disability.
Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, the DRM remained largely a battle between a few individuals against the system and society. These individuals were very few in number since few families had the capacity and will to support their "differently-abled" children. The media was also completely mute over this since this issue was never interesting enough to create the hype that other issues could.
For politicians, the rights of disabled persons were a non-issue. Disabled people were not considered as a "vote bank" as they were people with no voice. Unlike the caste movements and women rights movements, the DRM had no leader. This dearth of leadership caused a very long wait for the movement to gain any kind of success.
Also, the society treated those who were born disabled differently from those who became disabled after some injury. Throughout the 1970s, many NGOs across the country were running with the help of foreign aids and charity from the economically well-off sections of the society. The disability sector was ruled and controlled by NGOs with either parents or professionals at the helm of affairs. They worked in silos, with no interaction or connection with each other. Most of them worked only for a particular disability, for instance, NGOs for the visually impaired, for the hearing impaired, for persons with intellectual disabilities, and so on.
Baba Amte, a renowned social activist, dedicated his whole life for the rehabilitation and empowerment of poor people suffering from leprosy. He was a very prominent figure who inspired many others in sensitizing people toward this cause. This resulted in many people realizing the importance and coming forward to become a part of DRM.
The 1980s saw a shift in the policy frame with the welfare model being transformed into a developmental model. This was a phase where the disabled persons, hitherto treated as recipients of charity, became participants in the developmental process. By the end of the 1980s, people also started focusing on disability on medical grounds, with the objective of trying to reduce suffering via medical treatments, medical equipment, and technical help, to make the lives of disabled people "normal." But these ideas were practiced only by a limited section of the society, which was literate, sensitized, economically well-off, and modern in a real sense.
When the United Nations announced 1982-1993 as The Decade of Disabled Persons, it marked another shift in the entire debate on the goals of rehabilitation. The Rehabilitation Council of India was set up by the Government of India in 1986 to regulate and standardize training policies and programs for the rehabilitation of persons with disabilities. The very next year saw the Mental Health Act (1987) come into existence. The Mental Health Act is a civil rights legislation that focuses on regulating standards in mental health institutions.
Despite the existence of this Act for the protection of the person, property, and management of persons covered, until recently, most mentally ill persons were consigned to jails. Those living in mental health institutions were no better off, since the conditions both in prisons and in mental institutions were far below the stipulated standards.
The last decade of the millennium brought drastic changes in the disability sector of India. A distinct self-advocacy movement of people with disabilities, which started during the 1970s, began campaigning for protection and recognition of their human rights. It advocated the enactment of a comprehensive legislation with a rights-based approach, placing special emphasis on social and economic rights.
The government had recognized the need for such legislation in 1980. But since the legislative power regarding disability was kept on the State List, the matter could not be pursued. However, Article 253 of the Constitution of India enables the Parliament to override the federal distribution of powers and to give effect to a treaty entered with a foreign power or an international body, even if the matter of legislation relates to an entry in the State List. With the signing of the Proclamation of Equality and Full Participation of People with Disabilities in the Asian and Pacific Region, the PWD Act was enacted by Parliament in 1995.
The PWD Act was focused more on rights. The substantive provisions of the Act relate to prevention and early detection, education, employment, affirmative action, non-discrimination/barrier free access, research and manpower development, and institutions for persons with severe disabilities. After the PWD ACT, 1995 was enforced, a 3 percent reservation (comprising 1 percent reservation each for those with locomotor disability, hearing disability, and visual disability) was offered to the PWD category in educational institutions and government services.
Different kinds of disability in the Act are classified based on medical grounds and not on social perception of disability. Critics of the PWD Act say that the Act is replete with numerous flaws, as it was passed by Parliament without a full length debate. They say that the Act lacks teeth and provides ample escape routes to the concerned government.
The formal recognition of discrimination on grounds of disability is a recent development. Laws enacted 20 years ago generally did not include disability in the list of prohibited heads of discrimination. For instance, though the Indian Constitution in its Articles 15 and 16 prohibits discrimination in the matter of employment and access to public facilities on grounds of religion, race, caste, sex, and place of birth, it is silent on disability. In fact, until 1995 the Service Rules prevented the entry of persons with disability in higher grades of service.
The New Millennium: The Story After 2000
Disability status was not canvassed in India's census from 1941 to 1971. Thus, PWD were excluded from the population census until the 1980s. The 1981 census included information on three types of disabilities, an utterly inadequate semblance of inclusion. Again, persons with disabilities were totally left out from the purview of the 1991 census. This resulted in growing demand by PWD for their inclusion in the population census of India.
After a prolonged advocacy, a question on disability was finally included in the 2001 census questionnaire at the last minute. With minimal awareness and training, the enumerators found that 2.1 percent of the total population of the country consists |
, the company specifically sent two Sun d'Or planes to Athens to collect passengers who are not Sabbath-observant, so that the El Al plane would not fly on Shabbat.
Clearly this is #FakeNews. Multiple people were told by El Al that they could not leave the plane in Canada. Ycohen wrote that El Al said in Canada that nobody could disembark but that the plane would stop in London and passengers would be accommodated there for Shabbos.
Arutz Sheva also quoted El Al as saying,
Passengers who wished to return to Israel during the Sabbath were referred to another operator's flights. El Al returned on a non-commercial flight as a cargo flight to Israel with crew members only. Sabbath-keeping passengers will return to Israel this evening. El Al does not fly passengers on Shabbat, and so it was this time, as well.
Of course it wasn't really another operator. It was more of a shell game where they had competing Israeli airline Israir fly 2 El Al 737s, that are shared with El Al subsidiary Sun D'Or, to Athens to pick up passengers. Those 737s normally fly on El Al routes.
Commenter "RS" gave a nice play by play of what happened,
I am reluctantly writing as I do not usually join online conversations. I will not use any real names to preserve privacy. I recently moved with my family to Jerusalem and was in Boston for work. El Al cancelled my flight from Boston to Tel Aviv on Thursday so I ended up on flight 008 instead. There are three overarching points worth noting:
1. There were many people who seemed to be sincerely religious people and had legitimate reasons for flying so close to Shabbat including getting rebooked from cancelled flights, family celebrations, visiting the sick, etc. All had the goal of making to Israel in time for Shabbat and most probably knew that there was some risk of needing to spend Shabbat in a place other than their intended destination. That said, I don't think any of them thought that El Al would leave them in Athens 5-10 minutes after candle lighting time.
2. There were many nice things worth noting in the spirit of hakarat hatov. The flight attendants, the staff at the Sofitel, and the people who banded together for Shabbat. See below for more details.
3. There are areas where El Al can improve and I fully expect that they will. A more careful understanding of Jewish law would have helped El Al realize that they should either not have flown onto Athens OR let people get off in Gander. Some commenters seem to think that El Al has no obligation vis-à-vis helping observant passengers. That may or may not be true insofar as its legal obligations are concerned, but I don't think El Al wants to lose its observant Thursday passengers. I suspect this was a simple mistake that requires a mea culpa and an adjustment of policy.
4. Whether El Al should or should not carry passengers on Shabbat in this type of situation is debatable. But the resultant manifest chilul hashem cannot be ignored. El Al ended up flying the 747 without passengers to Israel and ferrying the passengers who wished to get home to Israel on one or two other airplanes (ostensibly operated by Jewish pilots). There was no net saving of work done on Shabbat through this rigmarole. Why was it done? To satisfy some of my coreligionists who value style and pretense over substance and rectitude. It is pretty hard for me to understand why El Al – given the circumstances – could not continue flying its passengers to Tel Aviv. In fact, it is worth a question to a qualified posek. The airline might be disinclined to stop for a medical situation that is not obviously urgent (as was the case here) if they know that they will need to fly 2-3 airplanes instead of one. This reminds me of the famous responsum of Rabbi Feinstein regarding a doctor returning by car from a hospital on Shabbat.
For more details of what happened, keep on reading below:
As has previously been reported, we were supposed to land at 5pm, which would have given us enough time to make it to our various destinations by Shabbat. But we got a late start out of JFK and then had to stop in Gander for a potential medical emergency. The passenger in question was not feeling well but it was not clear if it was an urgent situation. Ultimately, a doctor decided that it was better to get the passenger to a hospital and El Al complied. We were in Gander for a long time and were told that we were flying to Europe, which many of – maybe naively – interpreted to be Paris or London. Only when the plane began departure procedures, did they announce that we were heading to Athens to land before Shabbat.
The El Al flight crew was fantastic. None appeared to be halachically observant but they were compassionate and helpful. Eyal, Nurit, Loren, Liat, Eran, Isabel, and Michal to name a few were fantastic. They found me a bottle of wine, some rolls, and many snacks to get me through Shabbat. Kudos to them. At no point have I ever been disrespected for keeping Shabbat even though the flight attendants mostly are less traditional. They acted – as they always have – with the utmost professionalism.
The airplane doors opened in Athens just after candle lighting time and we quickly boarded a bus to the terminal. We managed to clear passport control right around the time that the sun was setting. El Al then told us that they had arranged for a hotel with rooms, food, and everything else we would need for Shabbat. Approximately sixty people deplaned to spend Shabbat in Athens (with a few later deciding that returning to the plane was a better bet). Some of us decided that going to stay at the airport rather than traveling to a hotel a few kilometers away from the airport where El Al had prepared Shabbat for us. Had we landed 20-30 minutes earlier, we would have gladly gone.
This group of approximately 20 people went to the Sofitel, which is located within the airport. We managed to get the last 5 rooms in the hotel with the help of some terrific staff including Sofia, Alexander, and a few others whose names now escape me. We fit as many people into the rooms as we could (given hotel rules and logistical constraints) and a few people ended up sleeping at the airport (in the lounge).
The hotel was very accommodating throughout Shabbat even though none of the staff had ever heard of Shabbat and few seemed to know about Judaism. They allowed us to book rooms without handling credit cards or cash or signing any papers, they brought extra beds, tolerated Kabbalat Shabbat and Kiddush in the lobby at 11pm, and turned a blind eye to the relatively spirited Shabbat that we conducted on the 8th floor of the Sofitel. We had wonderful minyanim, ate meals together, and celebrated Shabbat as best we could. El Al sent someone over to our hotel on Shabbat afternoon to tell us that they would send a 787 after Shabbat to pick us up and that is exactly what they did. We made it to Israel early Sunday morning.
To sum it all up, thank you to the great flight attendants of El Al, the El Al Athens station, the amazing staff at the Sofitel (highly recommended hotel), and the amazing group of people with whom I was privileged to spend Shabbat at the Sofitel. I hope that El Al can find a way to avoid this type of situation in the future and would suggest open and honest communication with the passengers and offering options that allow passengers to make sure they will always get to a hotel (wherever El Al needs to land) before Shabbat.
I'm not sure how El Al could have been so clueless as to reserve hotel rooms that required a bus transfer from the airport. They knew that they would be landing in Athens just as Shabbos was starting and that a bus transfer would be untenable. All of this drama could have been avoided by landing in an airport like London, Paris, or Zurich and accommodating non-Shabbos observant passengers on other airlines if needed.
It is nice to hear that the crew did the best they could under the circumstances. The same can't said for El Al management.
Luckily, Chabad came to rescue with Rebbetzin Hendel bringing Shabbos food for everyone.
Mark Jackson writes on the DansDeals Facebook page that the entire El Al process was so chaotic that conditions were so poor that many Sabbath observant Jews actually flew back on the Israir operated 737s to Tel Aviv that night. I have no way of verifying that, but the entire story is rather disheartening to hear. Many religious Jews choose to fly El Al as they don't fly on Shabbos, but nothing they did here was of any help to them.
Meanwhile, non Sabbath observant Jews who were flying El Al business and first class on the 747 had to leave that plane and wait to fly coach on the El Al painted 737 later that night, which was operated by Israir. I'm not entirely sure why they couldn't play the same shell game with the 747 by "leasing" it to Israir to operate…
The whole story is rather bizarre and hopefully some lessons will be learned for the future by both El Al and by Sabbath observant Jews. Perhaps they each had majorly extenuating circumstances, but there's simply no way I would accept a booking on an international flight scheduled to arrived just 2.5 hours before |
Note 7 debacle last year. Samsung had got a huge task to do. It was the task of winning back the trust of its consumers, and retaining their own goodwill. And then in mid- April 2017, Samsung launched the Galaxy S8. Its latest Flagship and the successor to the highly praised Galaxy S7, and the Harbinger to a new Smartphone design revolution. The S8 and its larger sibling, the S8 Plus, are without doubt the best looking Smartphones ever made. It has taken the market by storm, and as of now no other Company seems to be near its level of Hype and Popularity. So is it the really the best Smartphone ever? Or has Samsung missed some vital points on other key factors while perfecting the design? Let's find out!
First, let's put the numbers and the specs down here. The Samsung Galaxy S8 models selling in India feature the Exynos 8895 2.3GHz Octa-Core Processor, while countries like the US have their models equipped with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 SoC. Its unfortunate to not have the Snapdragon variant at present, but the Exynos is still a very powerful processor provided by Samsung.
Infinity Display
It has 4GB of RAM, the screen size of the S8 is 5.8 inches while the S8 Plus features a 6.2 inch screen. The Super AMOLED Quad HD+ Display(2960X1440) is touted by Samsung as an "Infinity Display". The screen, and in fact the whole Phone, is protected by Gorilla Glass 5 on both the front and the back. It has a Mali G71(20 Core) GPU. 64GB of Internal Storage with a Dual Sim Hybrid Slot, which means that you can use a micro-sd card with the Phone when using a Single SIM.
The Specs of the Rear Camera do not have much changes compared to the Galaxy S7 & S7 Edge+, as it is the same 12MP Camera with f1.7 aperture. The front camera, however has a little change, and features an 8MP Camera with f1.7 aperture compared to the 5MP Camera in the previous generation models. Along with that, it is also equipped with a Fingerprint Scanner, NFC, and an Iris Scanner.
Also, the S8 and the S8 Plus are the first ever Smartphones to be released with Bluetooth 5.0, which has a lot of improvements in speed and range. Both the models support fast and wireless charging. The other basic features which are boring to be written every time include a 3.5 mm headphone jack, a USB-Charging port, a Mono speaker at the Bottom, 4G with VoLTE support, Wi-Fi and yes, it can also make Phone Calls. By the way, the only differences between the Samsung Galaxy S8 and the S8 Plus are the battery capacities of 3000mAh and 3500mAh in the latter, and the screen sizes as stated before.
Design, Display & Audio
The design has already been talked about so much across the world that there is really nothing left to say. Back in 2016, Xiaomi had launched an almost completely bezel-less Smartphone, the Mi Mix. It looked awesome, but at the same time, it wasn't really a completely stable and functional device, it had some issues, and was actually supposed to be sold in limited quantities in the first Place. However, the design of Mi Mix gave us a glimpse of what could be expected in the Future.
Now Samsung, in 2017, has implemented a safer implementation of the design, still managing to keep the screen-to-body ratio as little as possible, and made the S8 look so spectacular, that one might feel it would be worth its price just for its looks! Not only that, it has managed to make a complex design, without compromising on safety features such as water & dust resistance.
Huge Screen Size
Another amazing element of design is the fact that despite the huge screen sizes of both the models, the S8 is still comfortable to hold in one hand. The reason being that Phone is actually wide, and more tall, as a result of which it has an unusual aspect ratio of 18.5:9, compared to the regular 16:9 in traditional smartphones. As this ratio is not yet implemented on most of the applications, accessing some of the Games and Videos on YouTube results in Black borders being visible at the sides, its not really a problem though, as the view is still good anyway.
Another interesting thing is that the Phone by default, does not work at the Quad HD Resolution, instead it works at 1080p Full HD, though that can be easily changed in the settings. The purpose of this might be to improve battery life, which is reasonable. The S8 also has the feature of an Always-on display, which serves its purpose well, and does not even waste battery life. You ask how? Well, that's because of the AMOLED Panel. These actually don't use any power to display black color, as a result of which only some of the pixels for the White color are used in the Always-on display, the rest remaining black.
As the S8's front is almost completely occupied by the screen, Samsung had to find another place for the Fingerprint Scanner, and they ended up finding a weird place for it. Placed right beside the Camera, using the finger for reaching the Scanner behind is a bit unusual work, and might take a lot of time getting used to. Every time one tries to reach the Scanner, the fingers almost always get placed on the Camera instead, which creates a little bit of Confusion. This problem gets far more frustrating in the S8 Plus.
Because of its tall design, a person might have to actually use two hands in order to reach out and unlock the phone via the Fingerprint Scanner. This problem is not faced with the S8, as it is not as tall as the S8 Plus. There is an alternative form of locking with the use of Iris Scanner. It works pretty well actually, as one does not really have to keep their Phone at the level of the head to unlock it anymore.
Now coming to the audio front, the S8 sadly has just a mono speaker at the bottom, but is still loud enough for normal usage. However, there's something interesting packed in the Smartphone box itself by Samsung, just for the earphone lovers. The S8 and the S8 Plus come with a pair of AKG earphones, worth $99 US Dollars in-the-box! It is uncommon for companies to ever pack in a decent pair of earphones with the Smartphone. So in this case, such an effort from Samsung should be appreciated.
The camera in the Galaxy S8 has the hardware mostly similar to its predecessor, but with little software improvements. To be honest, there isn't really a significant improvement in the rear camera, though it can still be comparable to its rivals, namely the Google Pixel and the Apple iPhone 7 in most shots, but being launched at a later time period, the camera was expected to outshine the competition. Anyway, there is a decent amount of improvement in the Front Camera, which can probably be termed as one of the best in the Flagship segment.
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This is a factor where Samsung might have intentionally tried to play safe this time, probably because of the Note 7 incidents last year. Among the two Smartphones, the S8 Plus holds 500mAh more capacity than the S8 which gives it a marginally better battery life, despite not having really high capacity batteries, both the phones are said to be able to give a fairly decent battery life.
However, the charging speed of the Smartphone more or less makes up for its weaknesses in battery. Both the S8 models have fast-charging support, which can get them fully charged in about an hour.
This is where Samsung has done some heavy changes compared to the previous models. The S8 and the S8 Plus come with Android 7.1 Nougat, on top of which exists Samsung's redesigned Touchwiz UI, now called the Samsung Experience. The UI is visually better than ever, and now has more options for customisation. With the S8, Samsung has also launched its own personal Assistant service called Bixby, similar to Apple's Siri and the Google Assistant.
Well, it seems like Samsung really wants its users to use and love Bixby, so much that Bixby has a dedicated button on the S8, and added to that, the button is completely and only meant for loving Bixby, and cannot be re-mapped to use any other app instead. And here's where things get a little rough, the Bixby assistant, as of now, is capable of showing cards to the user with relevant information, which actually works really well, it also has integration with the Samsung applications, a move aimed at attracting consumers to its Software platform, but other than that, it has nothing much at present.
Voice control and assist, among some other features would be introduced later in an update, but until then, Bixby is pretty much a half- baked cake. Samsung not allowing its users to re- map the Bixby button seems a little unfair in this scenario.
You don't really have to doubt the quality of the S8 in the first place. It is undoubtedly the best looking smartphone ever, and probably the best smartphone made by Samsung till now. It has done well enough in the market to make people forget about the Note 7, and has resurrected the company back from the shadows. Most importantly, the S8 has created a great example |
visit all sorts of borders along the way - not just of territory but class, political allegiance, sanity, even life and death (he writes a fierce, touching account of an aged friend's 'care pathway' between residential homes and hospitals).
But even his most conceptual borders resound to his appreciation of place - Labour Party schisms are conjured in the meeting halls of 1970s Bermondsey; his journey to depression as a young man was in the hop fields of Kent. When he talks about the boundaries of class, the place is Eton, where he has been invited to speak. He begins this excursion into privilege at the grim border zone of Slough, from whence he is borne up a tree-lined avenue to afternoon tea, enjoys a discussion among exquisitely mannered young men in tailcoats, is entertained to supper and gives his lecture on Aldous Huxley's The Perennial Philosophy to a packed, appreciative audience. Then comes the moment when he transgresses, after all his welcome in this elevated country, by asking hesitantly if there might possibly be a fee.
He unpacks literary associations wherever he goes. Huxley, whose biography he wrote in 2002, comes to him often, and literary life is always in his luggage. At times he goes on pilgrimage to writers' places - on the Franco-Swiss border at Ferney he considers Voltaire, who found it helpful to skip jurisdictions here when trouble came his way. On the train past Moreton-in-Marsh he hears the birds of Edward Thomas's Adlestrop as counterpoint to the stabbing he has just witnessed in the unexpected setting of a carriage on the Cotswold Line. We meet the ghosts of Kafka, Lawrence, Joyce, Traherne and many more. At St Asaph he writes sadly of the asceticism of Gerard Manley Hopkins, instructed by his Jesuit rector to refuse all study that might bring him enjoyment, including learning Welsh.
Murray, in a way quite alien to me, cherishes the discomforts of the journey as much as the arrival. Heading into the Balkans he write, 'There was the excitement to come of six borders to cross in the next couple of weeks' (though even his spirit is dented eventually by border bureaucrats, corrupt railway officials and armed guards). He is happy to savour the thought-provoking happenstance of detours and discoveries: 'These idle speculations are what travel is all about.' Deep inside China for nine months in the 1980s he recognises that he can never penetrate the life of such a separate culture; nearer the edges as he travels the few miles from Morocco to Ceuta to Gibraltar he sees how proximity diminishes each neighbour.
He does not ignore present anxieties. Though writing before Trump's travel bans and Brexit's threats to movement, he traces tensions that gave birth to both. He asks whether we want a border-free, homogenised globe or a series of compartments where difference is enjoyed. His instinct is for diversity, but he knows that national borders control movement mainly to deny it, excluding people not just on the grounds of nationality but religion, class and wealth. (The contrasting experiences of Muslim refugees and well-heeled foreign bankers show how differently permeable they can be.)
"I want to see fewer borders, more eager coming and going, more sharing of experience, language, culture, being. [...] But not the borderless world, the realisation on earth of globalisation's dream, of life sans frontières.
The route taken through the essays, like his travels, is unpredictable. Twenty-one under the title 'Crossings' ricochet through journeys, visits and themes; then just four reflect on the author's thirty years 'Living in Border Country' in Radnorshire. It's an unnecessary, unequal division - four-fifths to one-fifth - but then what border divides a territory fifty-fifty?
Murray realises that crossing boundaries helps him understand his life, divided as it is, not least between London and Wales. 'I can feel,' he writes, 'and have always felt, that a frontier fence runs through my own self.' He is one of nature's doubters: uncertain, tolerant, exploratory, questioning. These are qualities that make him a good companion and a thoughtful guide to a tense, pied, and complicated world.
'Contemporary global politics are dominated by the worldwide refugee crisis,' asserts Nicholas Murray in the opening sentence of Crossings, an attempt to produce a multi-faceted meditation on the very idea of the border. Comprising twenty-five essays divided into two uneven sections, the book crosses literal frontiers all over the world and perambulates around the idea of borders in Murray's adopted home county Radnorshire.
Murray is a genial guide, both to places and ideas. His careful prose strikes a warm and gentle tone, easily letting the reader in; it's like reading Paul Theroux without a linear journey. Instead, we cross borders of class and privilege in Geneva and at Eton (where Murray makes the terrible faux pas of requesting a fee), get ripped off by Romanian train ticket conductors on the Transbalkan Express and make the acquaintance of Chinese hyper-capitalists. We visit the literary border country of James Joyce's Trieste, cross the left-right divide in politics and even meditate on the ultimate frontier between life and death.
As the specificities of Europe's crisis – Schengen, the collapse of respect for the Dublin Regulation, the role of Turkey – are argued over in the day-to-day media, Murray's choice to strip back the arguments to philosophical fundamentals is a useful one. What are borders? What function do they serve? Could we do without them?
We begin in Melilla, one of two Spanish enclaves in Morocco. In recent year, the 'tiny thumbprint' has found itself on the frontline of an upsurge in international migration and the often ugly politics that has been its complement. Murray, an erstwhile assistant secretary of the Bermondsey Labour Party, comes across as being firmly on the liberal left when it comes to issues of migration – not that the politics is dominant or overt.
Crossings comes from oblique, unexpected angles and hits a turning point in chapter 13 –'In Praise of Frontiers'– which quotes the unlikely source of Regis Debray. As a former comrade of Che Guevara in Bolivia, the now ageing French intellectual is perhaps an unexpected advocate of the frontier. Murray himself mostly characterises borders as 'divisive, even racist, unnecessary' – but Debray comes form a culture where Utopia comes sans frontières to the extent that he can joke about it only being a matter of time before we have Customs Officials Without Borders. More seriously, Debray tackles the idea that a borderless world would be a homogenous one, and celebrates the idiosyncrasies of feeling allegiance to one's own particular quartier.
In some ways, it's a shame Murray doesn't go further in presenting Debray's ideas or in countering his arguments, perhaps more disappointing still that Debray's book – which seems likely to have been the catalyst for his own - is the only serious reading he seems to have done on the matter. But Crossings is not that kind of book. Instead, it's experiential. Murray's thoughts about borders are not definitive. Relating his own teenage experience of feeling depressed and 'divided', his only real conclusion is that hs own being 'not an easy belonger' has led to his life split between travelling the world and 'the fugitive margins' of New Radnor. Having said that, Crossings is a book to revisit and ruminate on further, especially as world events unfold.
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This impressive collection of short pieces is part travelogue and part meditation on other, metaphysical borders the biographer and poet Nicholas Murray has experienced.
He has traversed various continents, countries and counties. Borders, he muses early on, "are not attractive places. They want to instruct you, as forcefully as they can, about their importance, about what they signify, so everything about them is designed to underscore that meaning …"
On crossing the frontier from North Africa to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, he notes how roughly the Spanish policemen treat the Moroccans: "I have seen farmers deal this way with recalcitrant sheep."
In "The Toxicity of Borders", he argues against Europe's current "war" with migration, pointing out how the movement of people "enriches the collective experience, it is a prophylactic against insularity, complacency, ignorance".
Observing some of the class boundaries that remain entrenched in Britain today, Murray recalls a talk he once gave at Eton and how he made the unforgivable faux pas of asking for a speaker's fee: "In this place, where only the sons of Croesus can afford to lodge, payment is plainly unheard of and to request it an awful solecism."
In "The Last Frontier", Murray poignantly describes the limbo between life and death endured by an unnamed elderly patient in a care home: "cut off from our world, unable to speak or acknowledge her children and friends, in the fathomless, silent place granted to her by a paralysing body dementia … Silently I ask myself: will no one come to lift the barrier and let her through?"
Crossings combines philosophical reflections, the musings of other writers – from Voltaire to Bruce Chatwin – and personal vignettes to terrific effect. And Murray ends with a look back at the 25 years he has lived in |
-fed cattle only accounts for 1 gram of protein, per person, per day, compared to 13 grams from all ruminants, which includes cows, sheep, and goats. Despite this, grass-fed cattle still contribute one-third of all the greenhouse gases produced by ruminants—and the carbon-absorbing pastures they graze in don't do much to offset that. But grain-fed, factory-farmed meat isn't much better for the environment, and it comes with a whole different set of concerns, so a better option is to cut meat from your diet where you can.
3. when you Fly, book coach seats.
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Traveling somewhere by plane is the quickest way to expand your carbon footprint. Just one round-trip flight between New York and Los Angeles produces about a fifth of the emissions your car creates in a year. The best option for the environment is to fly less or not at all, but this is unrealistic for some people. An alternative is to book your seats in coach. Because they're allotted less space, and therefore require less fuel, passengers flying economy are linked to three times fewer emissions than those flying in business class. Look at first class and the difference is even more dramatic: Those flyers account for nine times the carbon emissions of passengers in coach.
4. Shop for clothes at second-hand stores.
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Next time you have a moment alone, check the tags of the clothes you have on. Unless you're a mindful shopper, your wardrobe likely crossed thousands of miles before ending up in your possession. The resources that go into making a single garment also add up: According to a report from Dame Ellen MacArthur's foundation, the fashion industry produces 1.2 billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions a year. Fortunately, there's an alternative to buying clothes from major chains that doesn't involve joining a nudist colony. Next time you need to replenish your closet, head to a second-hand store. Buying gently used clothing is better for the environment, and many thrift stores donate part of the proceeds to charitable causes.
5. Ride a Bike.
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It's easy to see how biking can reduce your carbon footprint. While the typical passenger car releases about 404 grams of CO2 per mile, a bicycle emits zero. If you live in a bikeable city or in an area with mild weather year-round, a bike is a worthwhile investment. Even if a bike can't replace your car completely, for shorter trips it's a great way to be gentle on the environment while saving gas money and getting a cardio workout at the same time.
6. Turn down your thermostat.
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Heating your home in the winter is expensive, and it can also be a major contributor to your carbon footprint. Do the planet and your wallet a favor and turn down the thermostat by a degree or two when you're in the house. At night you should turn the heat down even lower, and when you're away you should turn it off altogether. Investing in a smart thermostat that senses when you're in the house and adjusts itself is another way to reduce your carbon emissions.
7. Hang your clothes to dry instead of using a dryer.
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If you have the yard space for a clothesline, take advantage of it. According to The Guardian, a household that uses a dryer 200 times a year could shrink its carbon footprint by roughly half a ton of CO2 by air-drying laundry instead. Even if you don't have the option to use a clothesline year-round, avoiding the dryer for just half your loads would make a difference.
8. Unplug the appliances when you're not using them.
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Just because an appliance is turned off doesn't mean it isn't consuming energy. According to How Stuff Works, the "phantom energy" zapped up by electronics that stay plugged into an outlet around the clock can account for 10 percent of your electric bill (which, if you factor it out, would be more than a free month's worth of electricity each year). If you can't stand plugging and unplugging every gadget around your home all day, try leaving appliances you don't use on a daily basis, like toasters, desk lamps, etc., unplugged and only power them up when you need them.
9. Reuse items whenever you can.
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Every piece of waste you toss in the garbage adds to your carbon footprint. You may not be able to bring your trash production down to nothing, but you can reduce it by investing in non-disposable goods that can withstand a bit of wear and tear. Reuseable shopping bags, food storage containers, coffee cups, and straws can replace many of the items that are often thrown away every day.
10. Switch out your old light bulbs for energy-saving ones.
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If you still use incandescent bulbs to light your home, it's time to make a change. Incandescents use electricity inefficiently, adding money to your electricity bill and your home cooling expenses, thanks to the excess heat they generate. Energy Star-qualified light bulbs like CFLs (compact fluorescents) and LEDs (light-emitting diodes) are more energy-efficient than the average light bulb and last six times as long. If every household in America swapped just one regular light bulb for one of these options, we could reduce CO2 emissions by 9 billion pounds.
11. Carpool with your work buds.
For trips where biking isn't an option, see if you can find a friend. Car travel isn't great for the environment, but hitching a ride with someone going the same direction as you makes a much smaller impact than driving alone. Next time you're at work, look around the office for potential carpool buddies. And before your next night out with friends, suggest a system that doesn't involve everyone coming in a separate car.
12. Wash your clothes in cold water.
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One way to make your electric laundry machine a little gentler on the environment is to switch on the cold water setting. That simple change can reduce your washer's carbon emissions by 75 percent and save you $60 for every 300 loads of laundry you clean. And for lightly soiled clothing, cold water sanitizes just as well as a warm wash.
13. Use curtains for temperature control.
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Curtains aren't just there for privacy—throughout the year, they can help lower your energy consumption. When the sun is hitting the house, keep your windows clear in the winter to take advantage of that free heat source, and close them during peak daylight hours during the summer (especially when you aren't at home). On winter nights, conserve energy by drawing your curtains closed and blocking the heat inside from leaking out, and either open your windows at night for a fresh breeze or close your curtains to keep the air conditioning in during the warmer months. Keep up these habits year-round and you'll see the difference in your heating and cooling bills.
14. Take shorter showers.
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You don't need to deprive yourself of the pleasure of a hot shower to adopt a more eco-friendly lifestyle. According to Mother Jones, we would save 20.9 billion pounds of CO2 a year if we all shaved one minute off our shower sessions. If that change sounds easy for you, try taking the five-minute shower challenge for a week or two.
15. Plant a tree.
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One of the easiest ways to take care of the planet is also the most fun. Set aside an afternoon to plant a tree in your backyard and the benefits will last its whole life. A young tree absorbs roughly 13 pounds of CO2 per year and a mature tree can absorb 48 pounds. After 40 years, a tree will have sequestered 1 ton of carbon that would have otherwise contributed to global warming.
This list first ran in 2018 and was republished in 2019.
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Eco-Friendly, Reusable Deodorant Containers Are Good for the Earth and Your Pits
BY Shaunacy Ferro
A fair amount of plastic goes into keeping your armpits smelling fresh. Few of us recycle our empty deodorant tube after swiping on that last layer, after all. In many cases, it's not even clear if you can, though there are a few special recycling programs that make it possible. But one company aims to make it easier to both smell clean and keep the planet clean.
Myro deodorant comes in refillable, reusable packaging, as Design Milk reports. The essential-oil-based deodorant comes in pods that you can pop into colorful reusable canisters. Created by the award-winning industrial designers at the New York studio Visibility, the fashionable containers are also made with 50 percent less plastic than most drugstore deodorant sticks, according to the company.
The deodorant sticks aren't fundamentally different than something you might pick up at the drug store, even if they would look more at home on the shelves at Urban Outfitters or Anthropologie than CVS. You use a dial at the bottom of the tube to advance the deodorant stick, and when you reach the end of the deodorant, the pod that held the formula pops out. You can then refill it with one of Myro's replacement pods. If your container needs a deep clean, you can stick it in the top rack of your dishwas |
neither the home nor the workplace, but instead a place where people gather for gathering's sake. A bar, a coffeehouse, a diner, some corner of a park — the particular location isn't terribly important, really. There has to be a where, but it's the who, the why, and the how of the gathering that matters, and that makes for a true third place.
If you check out the Wikipedia entry for "third place," as I did just now when I was feeling too lazy to head out to my secret backyard writing dojo and pull Oldenburg's book off the shelf, you'll see that the characteristics of the third place include: that it be "free or inexpensive"; that "food and drink, while not essential, are important"; that the place should be "highly accessible: proximate for many (walking distance)"; that it should "involve regulars – those who habitually congregate there"; and that it should be "welcoming and comfortable." All that's true, but it misses the real core of the third place, so I'm going to have to pry myself out of this chair and fetch the book from the dojo after all. Hang on.
Okay! I'm back. So. The essential thing about the third place, the thing missing from the Wikipedia entry, is that you can drop in there, unscheduled, and expect to meet some people you know. It's a hang-out, a joint with regulars, but it's important that these regulars don't just arrive there when they've scheduled a meeting of some kind.. It's only really a third place if you're likely to run into some of your peeps without having planned to so do. As Oldenburg puts it, there must be "lack of scheduling and organization, looseness of structure, and fluidity in the composition of those in attendance at the third place. A resulting uncertainty surrounds each visit."
Another important thing about the third place is that it's a venue where the entertainment is provided by attendees themselves. "That entertainment has deteriorated almost entirely in the United States is a great pity," says Oldenburg. "We take it passively, we take it in isolation, and we frequently find it boring." But in the third place, "the sustaining activity is conversation which is variously passionate and light-hearted, serious and witty, informative and silly. And in the course of it, acquaintances become personalities…" It's true, too. When we think of any of the great third places, we think of the great conversations. We think of the café culture of France circa 1911, when the cramped living space of Paris made a welcoming set of public spaces (gardens, markets, cafés) necessary, and out of that necessity came a deluge of chatter, and the blooming of a hundred political movements, a thousand literary, art, and philosophy movements, and high tolerance for surly waiters. All this is passing from France, sadly, as the place starts to look a bit more like America circa 2011 — a time and place of private luxury and public dearth, including a dearth of genuine third places.
There are political and psychological consequences to the dearth of third places. The relative heterogeneity of the crowd in third places, as compared to home or work, makes for an importance place to meet and talk to people unlike ourselves. "As the third place constituency is more varied," says Oldenburg, "so also is its agenda of conversational topics." And the removal from contexts like home and work, where one has responsibilities, matters. Third places are places of play, and such places, according to Johan Huizinga (whom Oldenburg quotes) are "forbidden spots, isolated, hedged round, hallowed, within which special rules obtain." This removal from the rules and responsibilities of the home and workplace allows for a certain liberation and catharsis: "the timidity which the workplace imposes upon those with families to support does not extend to the third place," says Oldenburg, "here one may bellow like a street preacher or wail like a new widow, boast with gusto or assume the authoritarian pomp of a high court judge." I have to think back to a pre-tenure existence to feel the truth of that statement, but it's a real condition Oldenburg describes.
While some environments are richer in them than others, third places seem to exist in some form almost everywhere: from the Roman forum to the café rich culture of France in the early 20th century to neighborhood barbershops to the bench in the mall where the retired guys meet first thing in the morning, people find a way to hang out. And when they don't, people tend to feel the lack of such a place and such a community, though some don't know that the root of their quiet desperation is the lack of a place to hang.
The story of my own third places begins, like yours, with a pre-history of tree houses, "forts," and alleys behind 7-11s where a miscellany of kids would meet between school and home to mess around with skateboards, yo-yos, and slurpees before moving on to the more hard-core world of games like 'truth or dare,''spin the bottle' and 'hey I stole this one beer from dad, let's share it and convince ourselves we're totally drunk.' But I suppose the story really begins in the mid-80s, my high school years, with a bar called Clancy's. This was in Canada, where the legal drinking age was 18, so you could start working your way into bars with a fake ID at 16. I maintained then, and maintain now with even greater certainty, that the Canadian system is superior system to the American model and its puritanically lunatic drinking age of 21. Like much of the stupidity in America, the high drinking age seems to be predicated on the assumption that if you ban, repress, and deny something, it won't become a problem — a system that has failed in every field to which it has been applied (abstinence-only sex education, alcohol prohibition, marijuana prohibition, don't-ask-don't-tell, you name it). Of course these prohibitions create the very kind of problems they're designed to suppress: gay bashing in the ranks, unprotected teen sex, death from alcohol poisoning, and the creation of environments where weed can become a gateway drug, simply because it involves exposure to people who can push harder things your way. And in the case of the drinking age, you get a college culture of moronic binge drinking: the forbidden fruit becomes glamorous, and the partaking takes place in unregulated environments where no bartender, watchful of his license, can cut off a drunken imbecile.
But I digress. I was about to talk about Clancy's, a bar whose very characterless, suburban strip-mall vibe proves that a viable third place need not be remotely cool or interesting to function exactly as Oldenburg describes. I could drop in there at lunch, between classes, or after school, with or without my reprobate friends in tow, and expect to see a mix of other fake-ID-having young idiots, work-dodging city workers, and guys who spent a lot of time customizing their Mustangs. The music seemed designed for this last constituency, consisting almost exclusively of Booker T and the MG's "Green Onions," Golden Earring's "Radar Love" and the occasional Deep Purple track. There, by the dart board and the neon of the Foster's Lager sign, we talked our way through all the necessary banalities of high school life, downed our drafts, and felt like big swaggering men of the world, since we operated without the scrutiny of parents or teachers. We more or less kept to our own peers, though, since encounters with the other, older, mid-day drinkers had a hard-to-define discomfort to them, a discomfort I think I can now see as our aversion from the whiff of failure that kind of hovered around the older regulars like a sad grey haze. I mean, we were young, drunk, and acting stupid in a soulless suburban strip-mall bar, but we were bourgeois enough to know that if we were still doing this when we were their age, we'd have let down all the teachers and parents from whom we were hiding, and let them down pretty badly. And I don't think, spiky hair and Sex Pistols tee-shirts notwithstanding, any of us really wanted that. If any of us ever got a tattoo expressing our true sentiments, I don't think it would have said anything like "Death Before Dishonor." "Hoping for a Good Internship" or a big heart with "Merit Scholarship" written in gothic script would have been more our speed.
If I had to grade Clancy's as a third place, I'd say this was about right:
Unscheduled Encounters. A. You could always walk in and find people with whom to hang.
Conversation. B-. I mean, there's only so much you can do with high school angst and teen male braggadocio.
Varied Constituency. B-. Those older guys were more like a haunting presence of possible failure than people we knew. And we were a pretty homogenous bunch of white and Asian suburban kids from the same university-centered suburb.
Thanks to the aforementioned superiority of Canadian drinking laws, I'd more or less had it with drunkenness by the time I started university, and the nature of my third place changed accordingly. The vast, provincial university I attended had all sorts of designated hang-outs: nicely kitted out lounges for all |
the National Executive Committee as well as the Veterans, Women and Youth Leagues,
SACP and Cosatu leadership,
Father Phumlani Masuku,
Fellow South Africans,
On the 16th of December, we paid a special tribute to the heroes of our struggle who left home and ventured into foreign lands to take forward the struggle for freedom.
We paid tribute to men and women who decided that much more needed to be done to pressurize the apartheid state into capitulation.
Dr Manto Tshabalala-Msimang is amongst those self-less South Africans, who have experienced minimal joy in their lives, due to their decision not to surrender until this country and its people were free from racist oppression.
The first phase of our struggle, to free the country from bondage was won in 1994.
Together, under the leadership of the ANC government, we then established a new Republic of South Africa. We introduced one sovereign, democratic State founded on the values of human dignity, the achievement of equality and the advancement of human rights and freedoms.
It is a South Africa that espouses non-racialism and non-sexism, the supremacy of the Constitution and the rule of law.
The Bill of Rights in our Constitution enshrines the rights of all and affirms the democratic values of human dignity, equality and freedom.
This is the freedom that we fought for. That is the freedom that our stalwarts such as Dr Tshabala-Msimang sacrificed life's comforts for.
In 1994, armed with our progressive Constitution as a basis of our democracy, we began the second phase of our struggle.
We had to begin to undo the legacy of apartheid and colonialism, which had condemned black people to abject poverty and suffering.
Dr Tshabalala-Msimang has always been a part of that tireless pursuit of meaningful change, and the improvement of the quality of life of all, especially the poorest of the poor.
She served diligently in various positions including chairperson of the portfolio committee of health in parliament, as Deputy Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs, and later as Minister of Health and l Minister in the Presidency until early 2009.
Today we are called upon not just to mourn her passing, but to celebrate a life that has unreservedly been dedicated to serving this country and its people.
Comrade Manto touched our lives in her various capacities, as a comrade, a dedicated medical doctor, a distinguished servant of the people, a gender activist and a humanitarian.
We say with no fear of contradiction, that she remains an undisputed hero of our struggle, who dedicated her life to the ideal of a free and democratic South Africa.
Some of her fiercest critics cannot claim to have achieved even a quarter of what she has contributed to this country.
Caring, warm, always prone to teasing others, kind-hearted and intellectually capable, she made her mark in the ANC wherever she lived and worked.
From Tanzania to Botswana to South Africa, she used her skills to assist those in distress, those in need of medical care and those in need of emotional support.
Our Constitution directs us to build a non-sexist society, and she did well on our behalf, in this regard.
As a Deputy Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs, she spearheaded legislation and programmes aimed at improving the status of women.
She worked tirelessly to make the courts in our country understand the elements of domestic violence as a crime.
She is also widely credited for the campaign of 16 Days of Activism against women and child abuse, marked by the country each November-December.
As Minister of Health, she continued with improving the lives of women and children. She uplifted child and maternal health, which were her special interests.
She promoted massive child immunization programmes around the country, to ensure that children were safe from polio, measles and other preventable diseases.
In recognition of her work in the continent, she was appointed the African Union Goodwill Ambassador and Champion for Africa's Movement to improve Maternal Health and promote Child Development in Africa, beyond 2015.
Her commitment to the rights and well-being of children also saw her actively take on the custom of ukuthwala in the Eastern Cape last year, raising awareness of the abduction of young girls who were then forced into marriage.
This she did as Minister in the Presidency in 2008, responsible for children, women and persons with disabilities.
Fellow congregants,
We are gathered here to bid our sister, mother, friend, colleague and comrade a fond, patriotic and comradely farewell.
We are here to register our sincere appreciation of her contribution to the struggle for freedom, and her role in improving the quality of life of our people.
Indeed, a lot of the work she did during her tenure as Health Minister remains hidden, as it was not controversial enough to make it to the media.
Through her leadership of the health department, many remote rural areas and townships have clinics that did not exist before 1994.
Our free primary health care services were expanded and 1,600 more clinics were built in the past few years.
She worked hard to combat malaria, a passion she developed while working in exile. As a member of the SADC Health Ministers committee she contributed meaningfully to the joint SADC action plan on Malaria.
She led from the front in promoting the management of chronic illnesses such as diabetes and hypertension.
The provision of affordable generic medicines became a reality and was supported as a programme during her tenure as Minister of Health.
Many of our health care professionals would testify about her outstanding efforts to stem the emigration of doctors and nurses out of our country.
She took on many developed countries that are hell-bent on poaching our scarce skills.
Many medical interns now stay on in rural areas voluntarily, realizing the need as well as the experience they gain from working in these remote health centres.
Many of us now take it for granted that our public areas are free of tobacco smoke.
It is through our determined Health Ministers such as Drs Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma and Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, that we were able to remove the hazards of tobacco in public areas and improve public health.
That many of her achievements were not highlighted and recognized in her lifetime is sad and unfortunate.
But today is not a day for recrimination or blame. It is not a day to look backwards and think of what should have been.
It is a day for us to unite and celebrate the selfless and patriotic contribution of a great South African, and a distinguished African.
It is a day for us to spend time reflecting on those achievements that we know best, as her friends, colleagues and comrades, including her work in the fight against AIDS.
On the 1st of December this year we announced new far-reaching measures to take the fight against AIDS forward.
We announced new treatment measures, and also emphasized that prevention remains our biggest weapon in the fight against AIDS.
We stated then, and reiterate today, that we are building on the work that had been done by the previous three democratic administrations led by Presidents Mandela, Mbeki and Motlanthe.
Comrade Manto served under all three Presidents.
It must be placed on record that despite the controversies in the media, it was during her tenure as Health Minister, that South Africa developed a comprehensive five year HIV and AIDS plan, and put impressive systems in place for the fight against HIV and AIDS.
Government expenditure on HIV and AIDS has increased substantially during the terms of the first three democratic administrations and has grown in each subsequent fiscal year.
At the time of World Aids Day last year, 93% of public health facilities were able to offer voluntary counseling and HIV testing.
By the end of September 2008, around 600,000 people had been initiated for anti-retroviral treatment. That figure has now increased to more than 700,000, making it one of the biggest programmes in the world.
By the end of last year, over 400 facilities had been accredited to provide anti-retroviral treatment in the public sector.
All these programmes, including a massive national prevention campaign, were rolled out under her leadership.
It is unfortunate that our country has developed a culture of dwelling on the negative and turning a blind eye to achievements.
It is something we need to address quite seriously, in order not to undermine our nation's progress and successes.
In honour of Comrade Manto, we must intensify the fight against poverty and hunger. We must prioritise nutrition programmes and promote the general health and wellbeing of our people.
As she correctly pointed out, despite being ridiculed, most medication, especially anti-retroviral drugs, should not be taken on empty stomachs, in order to improve their effectiveness.
As we prepare for the roll-out of expanded access to treatment in April next year, we will ensure a comprehensive approach, including nutrition, in our response to HIV and AIDS.
Fellow congregants and compatriots,
We have lost a spirited and consummate activist and a pioneer health professional who championed the rights of the poor.
We have lost a resilient activist, a gallant fighter for the rights of women and children, a fighter for justice and freedom.
We have lost a hard working servant of the people who as Minister, went everywhere possible in the country, including the continent, to ensure the success of health programmes.
As Government we extend our sincere condolences to the ANC and its Alliance partners on the loss of a stalwart and dedicated cadre of the movement.
We also extend our condolences to Parliament on losing a longstanding dedicated member.
To Comrade Mendi Msimang, our hearts |
behind school gates.
All 164 seniors at Ballou received diplomas – with dozens of them issued to students with excessively high rates of unexcused absences – and to top that off, every single graduate of the school applied to college and was accepted. This marvel – in an area of the nation that was amongst the lowest in high school graduation rates for years – was celebrated and covered by national media across the nation.
After scrutinizing hundreds of documents, chronic unexcused absenteeism was prevalent for numerous students, with half of Ballou's graduates missing more than three months (60 days) of school.
"We reviewed hundreds of pages of Ballou's attendance records, class rosters and emails after a district employee shared the private documents," NPR reported. "Half of the graduates missed more than three months of school last year, unexcused. One in five students was absent more than present – missing more than 90 days of school."
This fact – in and of itself – should have precluded most students from being eligible to receive diplomas.
"According to district policy, if a student misses a class 30 times, he should fail that course," NPR's Kate McGee informed. "Research shows that missing 10 percent of school – about two days per month – can negatively affect test scores, reduce academic growth and increase the chances a student will drop out."
Ballou High School history teacher Brian Butcher said that during his 20 years of teaching at low-performing schools from New York City to Florida, he never saw 12th-grade students who could not read and write, but admits that this was not the case at the D.C. school, where many students fit this description, yet nonetheless received diplomas and college acceptance.
"You saw kids walking across the stage, who, they're nice young people, but they don't deserve to be walking across the stage," Butcher told NPR. "It was smoke and mirrors. That is what it was."
After speaking with about a dozen current and recent teachers at Ballou, along with four recent graduates, a consistent story was uncovered by NPR and WAMU – that administration pressured teachers to pass students who were chronically absent … a fact of which students were well aware and took full advantage.
Feeling compelled to violate their conscience, Ballou teachers argue that moving students forward who do not deserve to be passed is a huge disservice to the school's youth.
"It's oppressive to the kids because you're giving them a false sense of success," a current Ballou teacher wishing to remain anonymous to keep her job contended.
Another Ballou teacher speaking on the condition of anonymity addressed the problem as a moral issue.
"To not prepare them is not ethical," the D.C. high school instructor stressed, according to NPR.
Over the past two years, Morgan Williams taught health and physical education at Ballou and maintains that even though the gym was always full because students skipping other classes would congregate there, many of her students were chronically absent – despite her ignored pleas to administrators and counselors to remedy the situation.
"They're not prepared to succeed," Williams insisted, noting that students were being set up for failure because of the staff's lack of expectations. "If I knew I could skip the whole semester and still pass, why would I try?"
Playing dumb is rewarded at Ballou – for teachers and students alike.
"Either you want your professional career on paper to look like you don't know what you're doing or you just skate by – play by the game," a Ballou teacher wanting to remain anonymous to protect her job shared with NPR."
And those who stay in the game score a win – at least in their bank account.
"If an evaluation score is high enough to reach the 'highly effective' status, teachers and administrators can receive $15,000 to $30,000 in bonuses," McGee explained. "D.C. Public Schools wouldn't tell us who gets a bonus, but teachers we spoke with didsay the possibility of such a large bonus increases the pressure on teachers to improve student numbers."
Who's accountable?
At a press conference addressing the graduation scandal on Tuesday, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser appeared shocked and upset that students have erroneously been taught that they can move forward in life without making an effort.
"Our biggest responsibility is knowing that showing up half the time doesn't work anywhere in life," Bowser insisted, according to Townhall. "The huge investments we have made in our schools only work if students are sitting in the seats."
The mayor claimed she is "not happy" about belatedly being told about the problems existing in the D.C. school system, maintaining after the superintendents' review that it is "clear" that more in-depth evaluations must be made regarding what is truly going in inside high school gates.
"I'll hold the chancellor accountable," Bowser promised, Townhall reported.
The city is looking to replace Ballou High School Principal Yetunde Reeves after she was put on administrative leave following the scandal, and major changes are being made to reconfigure the faculty at the school, as well.
Local viewers were skeptical and blasted the school system and D.C. leadership in the comment section.
"Dr. Reeves should be prosecuted," a local viewer demanded in the comment section, where many were skeptical about the announced changes that are being made, according to Townhall.
Another commenter lashed out at D.C. leadership and the school system over the scandal.
"Revoke every diploma of every student who failed to meet grad requirements," one comment read. "Otherwise this is a cruel joke that will have a lasting impact on every DCPS graduate."
Some commentators suggested that local parents homeschool their children and give up on the public education system in the nation's capital altogether.
Early signs: Spiked test scores
What was happening at Ballou should come of little surprise to those keeping abreast of the changes – at least on paper – that have been taking place in D.C.'s public education system for some time.
"[On] July 13, 2010. Michelle Rhee, then D.C. schools chancellor, proclaimed at a news conference that Ballou High School was no longer 'a symbol of what was going wrong in public education' in the nation's capital, but a sign of what was going right [because] standardized test proficiency scores had risen from single digits – though to still-failing rates," the Washington Post reported last November. "Rhee's patron, then-Mayor Adrian Fenty, stood at her side and called for 'a big round of applause' for Ballou's teachers."
But claps later turned to jeers.
"Fast-forward to Nov. 29, 2017: A new D.C. schools chancellor, Antwan Wilson, an admirer of Rhee, stood by his patron, Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D), a Fenty ally, at a news conference to defend allegations that many students who did not qualify for a diploma graduated from Ballou in 2017 – including some who could not read or write well," the Washington Post's Valerie Strauss reported at the time. "Neither Wilson – who succeeded Kaya Henderson as chancellor in February – nor Bowser could refute the revelations about Ballou, outlined in an investigation by WAMU and NPR, but promised to investigate."
Manipulating test scores to present a false perception that students were learning and excelling academically was a major component of boosting the graduation rate and padding salaries.
"Started by Rhee in 2007 and carried on by Henderson, the reforms relied on the use of standardized tests to evaluate students, schools and educators," Strauss added. "They also included a groundbreaking performance pay system paid for by philanthropists, and chronic churn in teachers and principals. These reforms have not only failed to fix some long-standing problems in the system, but exacerbated others."
Numbers speak volumes, and education officials in D.C. took full advantage of this fact.
"District officials like to tout rising standardized test scores as evidence of progress – as Bowser and Wilson did repeatedly," Strauss pointed out in late November. "But the proficiency rates of D.C. district students today would still be considered failing in a high-performing district – and the D.C. system retains a stubborn, gaping achievement gap."
Turning performance scores and graduation rates upside down was made possible by Rhee, who also used improved numbers to increase pay.
"A key reform was the employee assessment system known as IMPACT was spearheaded under Rhee by Henderson, her deputy, and initially relied heavily on student standardized test scores to evaluate every adult in the system, including custodians," Strauss noted. "Although changes have been made, IMPACT still rewards teachers with bonuses based on student achievement, which is problematic for a few reasons."
She went on to demonstrate that the evaluations were merely used to work toward the advantage of school district employees – not students.
"Assessment experts have warned against using test scores for high-stakes decisions on teachers, saying they are unreliable for those purposes, [a]nd Wilson, probably unwittingly, underscored another reason during the news conference," Strauss continued. "He said that the Common Core test known as PARCC – given to D.C. students in different grades for annual accountability purposes – doesn't actually assess what students learn in their classrooms. Later, however, he cited the dramatic rise in PARCC scores in the system as proof of progress. Progress of what?"
Turns out, instead of students learning from the tests, they were just used as pawns to forward the school system's agenda to improve scores – and increase pay.
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has proposed the creation of the "Social Media Council" (SMC) — a model for a multi-stakeholder accountability mechanism that would provide an open, transparent, independent and accountable forum to address content moderation issues on social media platforms on the basis of international standards on human rights. The SMC model puts forward a voluntary approach to the oversight of content moderation: participants (social media platforms and all stakeholders) sign up to a mechanism that does not create legal obligations. Its strength and efficiency rely on voluntary compliance by platforms, whose commitment, when signing up, will be to respect and execute the SMC's decisions (or recommendations) in good faith. This proposal was endorsed by UN Special Rapporteur David Kaye, who recommended in April 2018 that "all segments of the ICT sector that moderate content or act as gatekeepers should make the development of industry-wide accountability mechanisms (such as a social media council) a top priority" (UN General Assembly 2018, para. 72).
ARTICLE 19 initially envisioned the SMC as having an ambitious scope: a network of national or regional SMCs entrusted with providing general guidance to social media platforms and deciding individual complaints brought by individual users, operating on the basis of international standards on human rights and coordinating through the mediation of an international SMC. Such multi-stakeholder, transparent, accountable and independent fora could weave freedom of expression within all aspects of online content moderation and distribution across all social media platforms, from integrating international standards in decisions to delete or demote content, to ensuring exposure to the broadest possible diversity of information and ideas through a form of human-rights-optimized algorithmic distribution.
The SMC model puts forward a voluntary approach to the oversight of content moderation.
ARTICLE 19, together with the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression and Stanford University's Global Digital Policy Incubator, submitted this proposal to a working meeting of academics, civil society organizations and social media companies, which generated intense discussions, as the resulting conference report records (Global Digital Policy Incubator, ARTICLE 19 and Kaye 2019). This conference and other subsequent meetings have helped shed light on the questions, big and small, raised by the project of creating an SMC — see, for instance, the comments from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (McSherry 2019). There are different visions of what the exact roles and functions of this new mechanism should be, where it should be set up or how it would interact with other initiatives, such as the creation of an oversight board by Facebook (ARTICLE 19 2019).
A first point of discussion is the choice of rules that should preside over the oversight of content moderation. While there is a growing consensus that international standards on human rights provide the appropriate universal legal framework, there may be different ways to apply this body of rules. The SMC could simply refer to these rules directly, and the authoritative interpretation by international and regional courts and special mechanisms would provide all necessary guidance to inform the SMC's decisions. Another option would be to adopt a code of human rights principles for content moderation. The specific adaptation of international standards to online content moderation through the adoption of a code would ensure that the SMC operates under stricter guidance than the broad reference to international standards. In both cases, as is generally the situation with the application of international standards, a certain "margin of appreciation" — or margin of flexibility — would be part of the SMC mechanism. This flexibility would allow a differentiation in the application of international standards between different companies and their respective products (for example, Facebook is different from Twitter). It would also make room for companies to adopt their own views on the speech that is allowed on their platforms, although market dominance would result in a narrower margin of manoeuvre in this respect.
Another point of divergence is whether the SMC should have an adjudicatory or an advisory role. In an advisory capacity, it would provide general guidance to social media companies on the compatibility of terms of service or community standards with international standards on human rights. In this configuration, the SMC would be an open forum where stakeholders could elaborate recommendations or observations. The alternative would be to give the SMC the power to review individual decisions; the council would then have to decide whether, in the particular circumstances of a case, the decision made by the social media platform conformed to the requirements of international human rights standards. Such a mechanism should be accessible to all. There should also be clear and precise rules of procedure on questions such as admissibility conditions, time limits, admissibility of evidence, elements covered by confidentiality, exchange of arguments and views, elements of publicity, and the adoption and publication of decisions.
ARTICLE 19 discussed the various possible orientations of an SMC, as well as some more technical issues such as the rules of procedure or the funding mechanism, in a background paper supporting a current online consultation.1 ARTICLE 19 considers that the different visions for the SMCs are not mutually exclusive: they could be designed to be complementary. In that perspective, the question is not so much whether SMCs should be set at the global level or the national level — there are strong arguments for each — but how they could all work together. The local SMCs, anchored in the local context, with its members very familiar with the complexities of the linguistic, social, cultural, economic and political circumstances of the country, would bring an increased credibility to the whole system by producing a nuanced understanding that a distant, international forum cannot reach, and it could develop solutions adapted to the local context. And the global SMC would bring a sense of universality to the system: it would elaborate a universal code of human-rights-based principles on content moderation, and it would provide a framework for national SMCs to resolve divergences. It is possible that a local SMC could bring valuable local expertise to the oversight board that Facebook is building, should that particular experiment prove compatible with international standards on human rights; a memorandum of understanding between the oversight board and a local SMC could provide a framework within which the board could seek specific insights from the local body.
At the moment, there are various legislative initiatives that would rely on self-regulatory mechanisms within a legal framework of co-regulation, under the guise of bringing a swift end to the dissemination of often vaguely defined harmful content. The SMC offers a model that can deliver a form of co-regulation that fully ensures the protection of the fundamental right to freedom of expression. Moreover, the SMC model offers a stopgap between the state body charged with overseeing the self-regulatory mechanism and the social media companies, without which companies are likely to apply mechanisms and execute decisions that do not comply with international human rights standards.
The SMC is not the only idea that seeks to deal with the issue of content moderation as a matter of urgent democratic importance — see, for instance, the proposal for a moderation standards council (McKelvey, Tworek and Tenove 2019) and the model from Global Partners Digital (Bradley and Wingfield 2018). Not only is this question dans l 'air du temps, it is also emerging at the exact point of convergence between the goals and interests of human rights groups and those of social media platforms: avoiding the pitfalls of harsh legislative approaches that often come with disproportionate sanctions; contributing to restoring trust from users through transparency and accountability; providing an effective yet adaptable form of regulation that can easily accommodate the constant evolution of tech platforms; and ensuring that moderation of speech is done on the universal grounds of international law. ARTICLE 19 is urging interested members of the public to be involved by exploring its presentation on the SMC and to share thoughts in a public survey.2 Now is the time to help us shape the future of social media regulation.
Views in this article do not necessarily reflect the positions of ARTICLE 19.
Readers are invited to view the consultation paper and complete the consultation survey at www.article19.org/resources/social-media-councils-consultation/; the survey closes November 30, 2019.
Please visit www.article19.org/resources/social-media-councils-consultation/ for more information and to complete the survey before November 30, 2019.
ARTICLE 19. 2017. "Germany: The Act to Improve Enforcement of the Law in Social Networks." Legal analysis. London, UK: ARTICLE 19. www.article19.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/170901-Legal-Analysis-German-NetzDG-Act.pdf.
———. 2018. "Side-stepping rights: Regulating speech by contract." Policy brief. London, UK: ARTICLE 19. www.article19.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Regulating-speech-by-contract-WEB-v2.pdf.
———. 2019. "Facebook oversight board: Recommendations for human rights-focused oversight." March 27. www.article19.org/resources/ facebook-oversight-board-recommendations-for-human-rights-focused-oversight/.
Bradley, Charles and Richard Wingfield. 2018. "A Rights-Respecting Model of Online Content Regulation by Platforms." May. London, UK: Global Partners Digital. www.gp-digital.org/content-regulation-laws-threaten-our-freedom-of-expression-we-need-a-new-approach/.
Global Digital Policy Incubator, ARTICLE 19 and David Kaye. 2019. Social Media Councils: From Concept to Reality. Conference report, February. Stanford, CA: Global Digital Policy Incubator. https://cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/gdpi/content/social-media-councils-concept-reality-conference-report.
McKelvey, Fenwick, Heidi Tworek and Chris Tenove. 2019. "How a |
in the polls, with the top three in terms of number of seats won recognised as national parties which could field candidates in national elections, including for the position of president. The successful parties were Egal's UDUB, Kulmiye and UCID. European Union observers declared the elections — during which 440,000 votes were cast — to be "of as high a quality as is realistic within the prevailing environment".
The presidential polls
In 2003, with the presidential elections fast approaching, President Dahir Riyale Kahin, who had succeeded Egal after the latter's death in May 2002, met with the three national parties and agreed on the composition of the seven-member National Election Commission. The president and the Guurti would each nominate two commissioners while the political parties would pick one each.
The elections were held on 14 April 2003, pitting President Riyale of UDUB, Ahmed Mohamed Silanyo of Kulmiye and Feisal Ali Hussein of UCID. The result was a wafer-thin victory for the incumbent, who won by just 80 votes out of the 500,000 cast. The Kulmiye Party immediately asked for a recount at some of the polling stations but this did not change the original tally. The result was eventually challenged in the Supreme Court which endorsed Kahin's victory. Silanyo conceded and Kahin was sworn in on 16 May.
Many who were uncertain and wary of a disputed election and its consequences, expressed gratitude to the Kulmiye leader, Silanyo, for his incredible decision. A seasoned politician, Silanyo had weighed the situation and seen the turmoil that lay ahead. He sacrificed his own political and party ambitions in order to save the fragile democracy. Given that he had served the longest in the SNM leadership and was from the dominant Isaaq clan, Silanyo's concession removed the latent suspicion that the powerful Isaak would establish hegemony over the other clans.
2005 legislative elections
On 29 September 2005, Somaliland held its first, and so far only, multiparty contest for the 82 parliamentary seats. The 82 members of the house were elected on the basis of proportional representation. UDUB won with 33 seats, Kulmiye garnered 28 and UCID captured 21.
Smarting from their 2003 presidential loss. Kulmiye and UCID blocked or rejected any motion from the executive branch. It was the beginning of political tensions in Somaliland, which crippled the cohesive nature of Somaliland democracy. The parliament elected in 2005 is still glued to their seats because the opposition political majority in the house has continued to filibuster and shoot down any progressive motion pertaining to elections.
He sacrificed his own political and party ambitions in order to save the fragile democracy.
It was only after the 2005 elections that political stakeholders agreed to establish the first voter registry. A law was enacted in 2007 to govern the process and, following some amendments, voter registration proceeded in 2008. It was, however, briefly suspended following suicide bombings in Hargeisa on 29 October 2008, and was also marred by widespread fraud and mismanagement. Nearly 1.3 million names were collected throughout the country, each of which was meant to be validated through a biometric fingerprint system. According to Michael Walls — Co-Coordinator of the international election observation mission for the Somaliland presidential election in 2009 and lecturer at University College London — registration centres permitted more than half of those registering to do so without taking a readable fingerprint and "large numbers were permitted to hold photos in front of the camera rather than presenting themselves for the purpose".
The 26 June 2010 presidential election
With the term of President Kahin expiring in May 2008, the voter registration exercise was meant to facilitate municipal and presidential elections. However, the polls were repeatedly delayed because of infighting within the higher political circles, specifically between the parliament, opposition leaders and the president, necessitating two extensions of his term. As provided for in the constitution, the Guurti approved the president's request for an extension of his term and that of parliament to March 2009 due to the instability in the eastern regions. The second extension occurred at the request of the NEC which needed another year to prepare for the polls due to the prevailing political situation, economic problems and technical issues.
The elections were finally held two years late — on 26 June 201 — and were again contested by Kulmiye, UDUB and UCID. Nearly 540,000 voters cast their ballots across the country on election day, electing Kulmiye leader Silanyo, with 50 per cent the vote. It was now Kahin's turn to gracefully concede and Silanyo was sworn in on July 26 in a ceremony attended by delegations from across East Africa, including officials from Kenya, Djibouti and Ethiopia.
Local government elections in 2012
On 28 November 2012, Somaliland held its second round of local council elections, the results of which, like the first a decade earlier, would determine the three national political parties that could contest national elections for the next decade. Though largely free and relatively peaceful, the elections were marred by multiple voting exacerbated by the lack of a voter register – the previous one having been nullified by parliament after it defied attempts to clean up the voter roll — and the ease with which supposedly indelible ink was removed.
With two of the three national parties in trouble — many of UCID's supporters and MPs had transferred their allegiance to Wadani, a new political organisation, while UDUB, the party of the two previous presidents, was widely thought to be dissolving — there was space for new political formations. Five new formations contested the 2012 elections alongside Kulmiye and UCID. Despite some dispute and violence in the immediate aftermath, the results were accepted and Kulmiye, UCID and Wadani emerged as the national political parties.
Presidential elections — 2017
On 13 November 2017, Somaliland conducted its third presidential election, its sixth popular national voting exercise in 15 years. The election — which had originally been scheduled for June 2015 but was delayed, initially at the request of the NEC and then due to the drought ravaging the country in January 2017 — saw three candidates competing to replace the incumbent Silanyo, who had decided to step down: Wadani's Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi Irro, UCID's Faisal Ali Warabe, and Kulmiye's Muse Bihi Abdi. The polls, which were preceded by the rollout of a new biometric voter registration system, experienced considerable delay caused by technical and political challenges, and drought. Compared to over a million in 2010, 873,000 voters were registered, although only just over 700,000 actually collected the voter cards that would allow them to vote.
Once again, peaceful voting was followed by delays in the tabulation and collation of results, and allegations of malpractice. Violence led to some fatalities and the results were disputed, especially by Wadani which demanded a recount but eventually relented. On 21 November, Abdi was declared the winner with 55 per cent of the vote and became the country's fifth president, cementing a tradition of peaceful handovers of power that is relatively rare in the region.
On November 7th 2020, as the country prepared for the long-delayed parliamentary and municipal elections that are now to be held at the end of May 2021, the National Electoral Commission (NEC) released the timetable for the voter registration exercise that was scheduled to start on November 29th 2020 and end on January 13th 2021. The voter registration exercise targeted those who had missed the 2016 voter registration exercise as well as those who had attained the voting age. The exercise would also be used to clean up the 2016 register. The NEC also gave voters who needed to change voting locations the opportunity to do so and to also replace lost voter cards.
Successes and challenges in the democratisation process
The Somaliland constitution contains fundamental principles strengthening citizens' rights and freedoms, and emphasises the transition from clan-based politics to a multi-party democracy. However, political parties have not transformed themselves in terms of structure, vision and strategy. Rather than becoming vehicles for transmitting the noble constitutional principles of a multi-party system, in practice they derailed it and became clan-oriented in order to secure more votes. For example, they deferred to clan leaders in the selection of candidates, favouring those from the larger, vote-rich clans, ignoring the smaller ones, and generating conflicts and divisions between them.
The heteromorphic nature of Somali politics and democracy
Somali society is considered ethnically homogenous, monolingual and singularly Islamic. However, it is characterised by an entrenched paternal clan system. These clans are communities of relationships that share common ancestral origins and are interrelated. Clan relations extend over clan territories marked by fluid borders. Upon birth, a Somali is given one name — their first name. The second name is their father's, the third their paternal grandfather's and so on and so forth until you arrive at the sub-clan name. Knowing one's genealogy several generations back is of paramount importance in Somali culture; it is a primary identifier for the individual and the clan. This genealogical identity has been used successfully in Somaliland to curb crime, insecurity and terrorism. It is the most successful approach to community policing.
The clan therefore is at the core of politics in Somali culture. Clan groups became the basis of the political parties for the parliamentarian election in 1964, which meant that from the outset Somalia political parties had a strong clan consciousness. The political system adopted in the 1960s was a clan-based parliamentary democratic system that inevitably led to the politicisation of the clan and the death of ideological politics and democracy.
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com operators is no longer limited to increasing the number of mobile subscribers. We need them to automate our education, health, governance, and revenue systems."
Photo: Behailu Shiferaw
While these digital aspirations are decades old, telecom sector liberalisation and privatisation were off limits during the previous governments of Meles Zenawi and Hailemariam Desalegn. So, when Abiy opened the door, international partners came flocking in. Oxford University's Pathways for Prosperity Commission, MasterCard Foundation, the Tony Blair Institute, Dalberg, and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa helped the new administration write the first National Digital Transformation Strategy for Ethiopia (Digital Ethiopia 2025).
The strategy identified agriculture, tourism, manufacturing, and IT-enabled service sectors as primary beneficiaries of Ethiopia's digital revolution. While each uses digital technology in different ways, they all required a telecom infrastructure that neither existed nor could be assembled quickly enough by the state-owned operator alone. As a result, radical telecom sector reform – including privatisation – was put forward by Abiy's administration as a prerequisite first step.
Obstacles and opposition
This first step proved far more complex than the government had anticipated. Existing legal frameworks weren't supportive of a grandiose vision of digital transformation, and the country lacked a regulatory agency with the mandate and/or experience to guide the process. There was also ideological resistance from within the wider government and the general public. The first question Abiy faced as prime minister in Parliament was related to his publicised plans to privatise essential sectors and services. During the 2021 General Elections, opposition parties were relentless in criticising the partial privatisation of Ethio Telecom, the profitable public enterprise that paid a staggering eight percent of the nation's total tax revenue in the previous fiscal year.
Even the Ethiopian Citizens for Social Justice (popularly known as EZEMA), a political party with liberal economic ideology, opposed the move on three grounds. EZEMA argued that the country had neither the legal frameworks nor the technical systems in place to execute such a complex and consequential move at the time. In one televised debate, the party's policy chief, Amanyehun Reda argued: "If the over-a-century-old National Bank of Ethiopia cannot regulate foreign banks, what chance will the two-year-old Ethiopian Communications Authority stand regulating foreign telecom operators?… It's still in diapers!"
Second, EZEMA argued that the unelected ruling party did not have the legitimacy or mandate to make such macroeconomically significant decisions. EZEMA's policy paper on Ethio Telecom's Partial Privatisation asserted that since Ethio Telecom is a public enterprise of historical, economic and political value, the decision to partially sell it must also be made by the people or its democratically elected representatives. It suggested that the decision must wait until after a new elected government took power.
Telecom sector reform in Ethiopia: an issue of national significance. Photo by Kelly L (CC License)
The third argument was that selling shares when the global stock market was being hit by the coronavirus pandemic was not a smart business decision. Therefore, EZEMA argued, the government's move to sell a key government asset with such haste must be due to either pressure from international financial institutions to settle its debts, or a dire need for foreign exchange. Either way, EZEMA's policy chief likened the selling of Ethio Telecom to the hungry farmer who eats the hen that lays golden eggs. When pressed as to whether Ethio Telecom was so valuable, Amanyehun pointed to the fact that the corporation was successful enough to be paying back the loan the government had taken to build new railroads. Ethio Telecom is also possibly the biggest financier of the Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.
EZEMA's critique also pointed to Worku Gebeyehu's research from 2005 that asks "has privatization promoted efficiency in Ethiopia?" Here, experiences so far do not engender much hope. The research argued that even though the Government of Ethiopia has privatised 223 public enterprises since the mid-1990s – with the hope that they would be more efficient, and the sectors' liberalisation would attract foreign direct investment (FDI) – neither goal has been realised. More radical opponents have also argued that data is now more valuable than oil and that data extraction and data colonialism through telecom control are updated versions of Western neo-colonial control.
The IMF and World Bank, advocates of economic liberalisation in Ethiopia for nearly three decades, offered financial and technical support. The International Finance Corporation, a member of the World Bank Group that supports private-sector development, assisted in hiring international law and communication firms to advise and support the government. Other international private sector actors also came in to support liberalisation. The London-based firm, Gong Communications, came to design and implement a communication strategy for the process. Coleago, another London-based consulting firm, helped with spectrum-related technical aspects. Deloitte was recruited as transaction advisor while KPMG East Africa was tasked with the asset and business valuation of Ethio Telecom.
On 12 August 2019, the Communications Service Proclamation established Ethiopian Communications Authority as a regulatory body and provided for the privatisation and liberalisation of the telecom sector.
The market opens
Three decades after Ethiopia had hesitantly adopted a market economy, the lucrative telecom market of Africa's second-most populous country was now open for international operators. On 27 November 2020 the first global'request for proposal' (RFP) was advertised via the Financial Times. Despite pressure not to do business with a government embroiled in a civil war (which had started in Tigray that same month), 12 international operators entered the fray. The Global Partnership for Ethiopia, a consortium of telecom companies consisting of Safaricom, Vodafone, Vodacom, Sumitomo Corporation, and the CDC Group, won the bid offering $850 million for the licence.
The deal was celebrated in some quarters as both a financial and a narrative victory. On 22 May 2021, triumphant Prime Minister Abiy tweeted that "our desire to take Ethiopia fully digital is on track." Totalling more than $8 billion over the following years, the deal marked the single largest Foreign Direct Investment into Ethiopia to date. Others argued that the government could have bargained for another $500 million had it not excluded the mobile money transfer option from the license offerings.
Though widely discussed, this was only the first of three major liberalisation plans. In fact, the most controversial move yet is the partial privatisation of the state-owned Ethio Telecom, wherein the government seeks to sell 40 percent of the equity share capital of the country's monopoly operator to an international operator.
Bumps in the road – but foundations for digital transformation
Even though the RFP for the partial privatisation was advertised in June and September 2021, the process was once again postponed. Some fear that Ethiopia is not ready for a digital economy and might have stepped into the process prematurely. After all, nearly 80 percent of the country's population still lacks access to basic internet connection. Others disagree, pointing to the fact that the country has about 59 million mobile subscribers, and over 23 million people use data and Internet services one way or another. If it is harnessed properly, this is potentially comparable to Kenya where mobile money systems (such as Safaricom's MPESA) have been pioneered and are now widely used. Geographically, 85.6 percent of Ethiopia is covered with 2G service while 66 percent gets 3G connection. Recently 136 cities and towns got access to 4G internet. And, on 09 May, Ethio Telecom launched pre-commercial 5G service in the capital.
Will M-Pesa style mobile money take off in Ethiopia? Photo by Ivan Small, Wikimedia.
All of this shows that the potential for at least a semi-digital economy is present in Ethiopia, and the foundations for more ambitious dreams are being laid. The digital strategy identified three areas as its enabling systems: expanding digital payment options, granting digital identification to residents, and ensuring cyber security. Encouraging starts are under way in each of these areas.
Last year, the government launched the National Digital Payments Strategy 2021–2024, which provides a roadmap to transform the payment ecosystem and help build a cash-lite and more financially inclusive economy. Nearly all Ethiopian banks have launched internet and mobile banking services. In the previous fiscal year, 62 percent of the customers of Commercial Bank of Ethiopia, the largest bank in the country with over 54 percent of the national banking market, did not go to a branch for services. They either used ATM machines or mobile banking services. On 1 April 2022, the Ministry of Innovation and Technology, Commercial Bank of Ethiopia and Mastercard signed a partnership which will allow Ethiopians to access and pay for an initial set of 45 government services digitally for the first time.
The second enabling system requires providing all legal (adult) residents of the country with a digital identification. The National ID Program is de facto operational and has thus far registered over 9,200 residents in its pilot efforts. Aiming to register over 70 million residents, the national ID program is primed to be the largest ever government endeavour – establishing contact with more citizens than thus-far-held national elections or population censuses.
Considering Ethiopia's resource constraints, its cybersecurity apparatus is not to be underestimated either. A recent article by Wilson, Lindberg and Tronvoll (2021) noted that Ethiopia's cybersecurity capacity, as measured by the Digital Society Project, ranks twelfth in the world. In fact, the article argued that every country with higher capacity than Ethiopia on this indicator has a minimum 75 percent Internet penetration, and at least 10 times the per capita GDP. These are all positive signs suggesting that at least a |
CSM) using the SureBP algorithm. A reusable cuff was placed on the left arm. During inflation/deflation cycles the participant performed pronation/supination movements of the left forearm every 5 s. The CSM readings during motion were compared to the average of manual resting auscultatory estimations immediately before and after each motion cycle (bracketing).
Results The CSM recorded a BP reading on the first cycle in 37 participants. It displayed a reading in all 40 participants with one repeat cycle in the other three. The mean±SD for the device minus the manual BP values was 0.9±7.3 mmHg for systolic BP and −3.4±7.9 mmHg for diastolic BP.
Conclusion This study represents a proposal for an automated BP device assessment in the presence of patient-induced motion. The CSM device, which uses an inflation-based algorithm, routinely produced BP values that closely matched auscultatory values bracketed immediately before and after the motion-associated cycle. The CSM should be of significant clinical value in populations in whom resting'still' readings are not usually feasible, such as pediatric and geriatric patients, and patients in pain from injury or illness.
The current USA national guidelines for blood pressure (BP) estimation by noninvasive techniques recommend that the participant/patient be at rest for several minutes, seated, with the arm supported at the level of the heart, back supported, with feet flat on the floor 1,2. This condition may not always be practical, especially in pediatric and geriatric patients. In those populations the patient may be unable to sit still and follow all of the above guidelines. Currently, the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) and the International Organization for Standards (ISO) sphygmomanometer committees are developing an addition to the current standard 3 that will address validation of automated sphygmomanometers under the condition of vehicle-induced motion during patient transport by road, air, and rotary ambulances. That document will become ANSI/AAMI/ISO 81060-4.
There has been no published attempt to date to develop a validation testing protocol for BP estimation in the presence of patient-induced motion, that is, either voluntary or involuntary arm movement during the BP cycle.
After evaluation of hundreds of real-world BP cycles, the algorithm-development staff at Welch Allyn recognized that patient movement during the BP cycle in primary care patients was very common. These movements create significant pressure perturbations in the oscillometric waveform. The most common patient movements were separated into four groups: (a) patients tensing and relaxing their hands, presumably due to cuff compression discomfort; (b) patients repositioning their arm, causing significant shifts in baseline cuff pressure, also presumably due to cuff compression discomfort; (c) patients filling out forms during the BP cycle; and (d) patients who were unable to keep their arm still because of tremor or restlessness. The movement in the patient-motion protocol described in this paper was developed to mimic aspects of these four categories with intentional arm movements that can be repeatedly performed by test participants. This study was designed and implemented by the engineering and research staff at Welch Allyn.
Participants were healthy volunteers recruited by the staff of the Welch Allyn simulation center. The study was performed on a total of 40 participants, 23 of whom were male. The mean participant age was 43.9 years, with a SD of 13.3 and a range of 23–63. All BP readings were done on the left arm with the participant seated per clinical guidelines 1,2. The data were collected from 1 February 2018 to 30 March 2018.
The device used for testing was the Welch Allyn Connex Spot Monitor (CSM) using the SureBP algorithm (Welch Allyn, Skaneateles Falls, New York, USA), which has been validated to the AAMI standard 4. The cuffs utilized were reusable. The algorithm derives its BP estimate while the cuff is inflating.
The motion utilized to test the device's accuracy was serial pronation/supination of the left forearm. There were manual auscultatory readings of both systolic blood pressure (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP) performed 1 min prior to and 1 min after the forearm motion. These values were averaged (bracketed) around each motion-associated inflation/deflation cycle. At the start of inflation, the participant began to pronate then supinate the left forearm every 5 s during the inflation/deflation cycle of the device. There was no attempt to perform manual auscultation during the pronation/supination motions.
The motion was designed to simulate, in a controlled manner, arm movements observed in clinical practice with automated BP devices. It is possible to simulate many different arm movements. However, Welch Allyn has found that pronating and supinating the forearm causes cuff pressure disturbances with characteristics similar to those observed in the clinic and serves as a representative and repeatable device evaluation procedure.
The specific arm movement utilized was pronating and supinating the left forearm. To perform this motion the clinician had the participant rest his/her forearm on the table perpendicular to the body, with his/her hand on the table palm up and fingers extended. When it was time for the motion the clinician instructed the participant to pronate his/her arm, hold for a second, and then supinate his/her arm. The full motion took ∼3 s.
The values obtained during the bracketed manual auscultation were subtracted from the values obtained by the CSM. Thus, if the device values were higher for SBP or DBP than the manual readings the differences would be positive; if lower, the differences would be negative.
The CSM was able to generate a BP value on the first inflation/deflation cycle during motion in 37 of the 40 participants, or 93% of the attempts. The CSM recorded a value in all 40 participants when a second attempt was included. The mean±SD for SBP for the differences between CSM versus manual readings was 0.9±7.3 mmHg. For DBP, the values were −3.4±7.9 mmHg. As can be seen on the Bland–Altman plots, 87.5% of the SBP values and 85% of the DBP values taken during motion were within ±10 mmHg of the manual BP values (Fig. 1a and b).
The current USA BP guidelines 1,2 recommend, for the highest level of accuracy, that the patient be still and in a 'basal' state after several minutes of rest. The need for accurate BP estimation in patients who are ill enough to need urgent transport by road or air has led the AAMI/ISO sphygmomanometer committees to develop rigorous testing protocols to ensure that devices that claim motion tolerance produce BP values that accurately reflect clinical status. That document is well into the development stages and will be issued as ISO 81060-4. The performance of devices/algorithms during patient-induced motion has not been evaluated to date. The performance of automated sphygmomanometers in populations in whom motion cannot be eliminated, especially infants, children, and the elderly, must be accurate if healthcare professionals are to be able to make correct diagnostic and therapeutic decisions.
Welch Allyn researchers developed statistical analyses of an algorithm's performance when the participant was performing a representative arm movement. The key statistics are the accuracy of the readings and the percentage of cycles that result in a BP determination. The goal of the device development team was to limit the statistical error induced by the motion while maximizing the accuracy of readings provided to the clinician. This results in clinically relevant readings in the presence of motion, thus eliminating the need to repeat readings, or series of readings, when clearly erroneous readings or error codes result from seemingly insignificant movements by the participant during the BP cycle.
The engineers at Welch Allyn have developed the CSM in association with the SureBP algorithm 4, which has been shown in this study to give excellent results during a series of controlled arm motions. The participant performed the arm movements using the same arm that was fitted with the BP cuff. The current USA national standard 3 requires that in 85 participants, each of whom has three sets of manual versus device differences measured, the mean±SD must be less than or equal to 5±8 mmHg (criterion 1) in order to be successful. The mean±SD values for the differences between motion and'still' values in this study were quite favorable to the standard's passing criteria. A weakness of the study was the lack of manual BP attempts during motion. It was assumed that the manual resting BP values would not be significantly changed due to the motions being performed. The mean differences between values obtained during motion versus resting confirm this assumption.
The engineers at Welch Allyn have developed a protocol for the assessment of the accuracy of an automated sphygmomanometer, the CSM, during patient-induced motions that occur commonly in the clinic and the hospital. The CSM device, using the inflation-based SureBP algorithm, performed in an excellent manner, with 93% of readings obtained on a first attempt and 100% of readings obtained in only two cycles, demonstrating consistency and reliability of the SureBP algorithm. Low mean±SD differences were consistently observed when compared to bracketed manual auscultatory BP values.
The authors thank Andrea Patters for her outstanding assistance with preparation and submission of the manuscript.
B.S.A. serves as an advisor for Welch Allyn and has received honoraria. T.T.J. helped with the analysis and consults for Welch Allyn. D.Q., M.K., and T.W. are employees of Welch Allyn.
1. Whelton PK, Carey RM, Aronow WS, Casey DE Jr, Collins KJ, Dennison Himmelfarb C, et al. ACC/ |
casual defilement to the next, to the sort of prominence that would make that presidential campaign possible. It would have to be sick in ways that would make it such that long before he inexorably won his party's nomination and then the nation's highest office, nearly every American knew his name. The country would have to be distracted and defeated and deluded enough to believe that this qualified him, and even qualified him in unique ways. It would have conflated not just who Trump appeared to be on TV with who he really was, but its own governance with unusually slow-moving TV programming.
The people that knew Trump's name didn't really know what he was, or anyway couldn't believe the crabbed and pathetic fact of it despite his repeated assertion and performance of it. They knew him as a gilded living metonym for the idea of business success, and elected him president in what amounted to a casting decision. It was his second time in the role of America's Richest Bad Boy, but after trying it on for real and failing badly in the previous millennium Trump flourished when given the opportunity to play it in a more consequence-free way, as a character on reality television. He ran as a sort of hybrid of those two personas, with the implied Olympian mastery of the more recent iteration filigreed with the unvarnished retrograde bigotry and cheesy showbiz thirstiness of the original. They had a complementary aspirational appeal, at least to people whose highest aspiration was to say and do and take whatever they wanted, whenever they wanted it, forever. Trump was admirable, to those who admired him, because he was living proof that a person could be an absolutely replacement-level asshole and also be untouchably rich and famous and respected and, because of how editing works, also always right.
Trump easily superimposed his blowzy fixations and default rich-kid binaries on his new identity as a politician, which makes sense if you have seen what our politics are like. Trump's understanding of the world and way of doing politics mirrors the gossipy TV shit he's revered his whole life—who's hot and who's not, gloating victory and shameful humiliation, feuds and betrayals and shocking sweeps-week plays. This is a pretty narrow and facile way of being in the world, but the damage that leads Trump to see life as an endless series of Entertainment Tonight segments that should by rights all be about him proved jarringly easy to fit onto and over a politics that wasn't really about anything more interesting.
The first time Trump ran, it was as the person who could and would avenge various offenses against his followers' honor in ways that his opponents were too weak to do and too compromised even to attempt. When he ran again, during the second zenith of a plague that he'd alternately ignored and denied, he didn't even bother making that pitch. He did not claim to have fixed the problems he'd done so much to create, or even to have an idea about how to fix them; he ran against those problems as he understood them, which was as if they were petty and jealous rivals unfairly trying to make him look bad, but mostly he ran as The President, and on the demand that what was his must be allowed to remain his, as it was his by right. Trump ran as himself and only as himself, which is to say he ran as the bulletproof avatar of a brutal, arbitrary, and manifestly untenable status quo that had finally collapsed into a grim loop of defiant public protest and unaccountable state violence. He got many more votes the second time around than he did the first, but this time he lost.
One of the most important things to know about Trump is that he never has a plan. He barely has an itinerary. He simply moves from one flubby gilded hustle to the next, dedicating each moment to whatever feels good or whatever he thinks looks strongest. What mess he leaves behind is by definition not his problem, and he's always already somewhere else by the time the stain sets. Trump is used to having other people do what he says, because he is richer and more powerful than them; that people have almost always done just that has made him soft and weak and strange, but also it has seldom led to him being seriously inconvenienced. He'll call that a win.
So of course Trump didn't have a plan for losing the election. He expected that the people working under him—that is, the entire United States government—would find a way to stop the election that he'd lost from becoming official when he gave that order, but he had no sense of how that might work beyond them just somehow doing it. He promised evidence that would show he was right and then told other people to find it. It never came, but at some point he just started acting as if it had been delivered and denied, and began talking about how unfair that was.
It was his opinion that he'd won ten or so million more votes than he'd actually received, a victory that Trump, Trumpianly, called "a sacred landslide." On Wednesday, after he told them to do it, hundreds of people who live to share Trump's opinions overran the U.S. Capitol building on his behalf, because they believed they were doing their patriotic duty or at least serving their own unenlightened self-interest; it is a pillar of Trumpism not to recognize a distinction between the two. They were mostly following through on the promise that has always been at the heart of Trump's appeal, which is that they would get to be a part of his greatest deal ever, and cut in ahead of every less-connected other person when it came time to share the winnings, and enjoy the premium luxury finishes and absolute personal impunity synonymous with the word "Trump."
Trump has used this glib old huckster's promise long before it became the heart of his last and most ambitious grift, to sell real estate seminars and signature neckties and ghostwritten books about winning and any number of other similarly valueless things. Trump has always promised to make the profoundly broken American state work for the people that voted for him, or at least more readily and brutally against the people that those voters didn't like. He really did deliver on the last bit, but Trump's success in unleashing the full idiotic force of American sadism was less a matter of anything he actually did and more a matter of the license he gave others to do as he does—to do whatever outrageous harm they want to do, to demand whatever they want simply because they wanted it.
As the clock ran out on his presidency, Trump began making demands that were more and more difficult and dangerous and degrading to fulfill, and when he stopped getting those things he simply demanded them again, this time more bitterly and with redoubled grandiosity. By Wednesday, the conflations were total—for him to lose the presidency was inherently unconstitutional, it was illegal, it went against God; the only truly patriotic thing to do was to keep the country under his singularly damp command, indefinitely; to save the nation, everything that was not Trump would need to be permanently replaced with him. "We're going to walk down," Trump told his people on Wednesday, "we're going to walk down to the Capitol, and I'll be there with you, and we're going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women and we're probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them." Trump didn't actually walk with his people down to the Capitol, because he doesn't walk as a matter of course and because he doesn't do his own errands. His loyalists rushed the Capitol and briefly, giddily, took it over and defaced it on his behalf; the president was driven home to watch it on television and complain on Twitter about all the people who had let him down.
By the time Trump's people breached the Capitol building, the story in which they saw themselves had expanded far beyond him. He was still very much its central character, and his permanent presidency was still its main aim, but there were by the end a lot of strange things in it that had been brought in from outside. The rot and drift and killing abstraction in American life that had made his first campaign possible—that emptiness and parlousness that Trump correctly adduced as proof of a great and longstanding betrayal of the public trust and incorrectly claimed that he would fix—had only grown, and the stories that people told about Trump on television and online and to themselves metastasized in turn.
Trump's second campaign was something much more like fan-fiction than politics, but while all of it centered upon him, there were variants of it available for every taste. Some of the people that rushed the Capitol on Wednesday did so because they believed in a congeries of brutal and incoherent fantasies about Trump's enemies. They believed that Trump would reveal the cures for cancer and diabetes that those satanic conspirators had hidden; they believed that he would reveal incontrovertible evidence not just of his electoral win but of his enemies' soaring cosmic perfidy; they believed that there would then be summary public executions of these enemies, who happened mostly to be the villains of conservative cable news programming over the last decade and change, and that those executions would be overseen by Trump's allies in the military and law enforcement. These people told and sold each other these things online, over and over and over again, and the stories grew, and the people hearing and telling them changed in strange and terrible ways. Other marauders, who were perhaps less inclined towards the collective online fantasy that mushroomed in lurid parallel with Trump's ongoing neglect but who were just as happy to do violence in his name, believed that when they moved to capture and kill Trump's enemies they would simply be permitted to do so, |
In traditional English—as in the larger American culture—there has always only been two choices for personal pronouns: he/him/his or she/her/hers. Where does this leave people who identify as as neither or both?
Many non-binary people choose to use a different set of pronouns, most typically "they/them/theirs." Here are some examples of how this works:
Today is Chris' birthday. Please give them a round of applause.
Pat just graduated. They hope to become a doctor.
Jayme went to the Humane Society and brought home their first pet.
This may seem a little awkward or ungrammatical, but there is already wide precedent in everyday speech for the use of a plural pronoun to refer to a single person. For example:
It is important to recognize that a person's gender pronouns cannot be assumed from their appearance.
This sentence is not only true, but it illustrates how the pronoun "their" is used to refer to one person when the gender is not specified.
One way of being a good ally is to avoid making assumptions and always ask or provide an opportunity to people you meet to disclose their preferred pronouns. More and more, particularly on today's campuses, it is becoming common practice for people to tell you their preferred pronouns, especially during group introductions. A respectful and affirming practice would be to make this a universal practice, which would go a long way toward helping prevent the embarrassment and stress that can result when a person is inadvertently "mis-gendered."
- From the APA fact sheet, "Non-Binary Gender Identities."
SHORT ANSWER: Because EVERYONE deserves to have equal rights and to be treated with respect.
Transgender people face enormous obstacles with regard to safety and well-being and encounter many difficulties trying to overcome the stigma associated with being transgender.
Discrimination - When surveyed, Ninety percent (90%) of transgender people reported some form of harassment, mistreatment, or discrimination in housing, employment, or health care. Most states and countries offer no legal protections.
Transgender people regularly face Social Stigma: being made fun of, rejected by friends and family, and even having trouble getting basic documents like driver's licenses or passports that other people take for granted and that are required in order to do things like getting a job, enrolling in school, opening a bank account, or traveling.
Poverty - Because of wide-spread social stigma, transgender people are four times more likely to live in poverty. Rates of homelessness, incarceration, and unemployment are twice that of the general population.
Being transgender can be downright dangerous.
Suicide - Transgender people are at high risk for suicide. Estimates suggest that trans people are forty times more likely to try to kill themselves than the general population.
Violence - Transgender people are disproportionately the victims of violence. In 2013, seventy-two percent (72%) of anti-LGBT homicide victims were transgender women.
The ENTIRE COMMUNITY, not just the LGBT community, needs to come to together:
to make it safe to be transgender
to ensure that trans people have equal rights
to take action so that everyone is treated with the respect that ALL people deserve.
SHOULD I TELL ANYONE ABOUT MY FEELINGS AND HISTORY?
THE SHORT ANSWER: If you want to, and only when you are ready and feel safe to do so. There is no need to "come out" just because someone else thinks you should.
Coming out for people who are transgender is the process of sharing both the inward reality of one's experience and the history of one's transition.
The gay/lesbian/bi communities tend to place a high value on coming out for reasons of personal empowerment and political advantage. GLAAD suggests that it may not be this simple for trans people, many of whom want only to live authentic lives as their true selves and not as someone who has "changed" from one "thing" into another. GLAAD puts it this way:
"It can be a disservice to a Trans person to make them feel like they HAVE TO come out. When a transgender person has transitioned and is living as their authentic gender - that is their truth. Unfortunately, it can feel disempowering for a transgender person to be pressured to disclose to others that he or she is transgender. The concern is that when others learn a person is trans, they no longer see the person as a "real man" or a "real woman."
Whether to share one's gender reality with other people is a complicated decision. It is different for everybody. And it can take many forms. But for those who choose to come out, it often follows a pattern:
RECOGNIZING that you have feelings about your gender that are different from other people. For example, a person who is assigned "boy" at birth may have strong desires to dress as a girl. Or a person who is assigned "girl" at birth may wonder why his parents are treating him like a girl when he knows he is really a boy.
ACKNOWLEDGING to yourself that you are having these thoughts and feelings and that they are your own. For example, a trans girl might say to herself, "I don't care what other people say. I am a girl! I just wish my family could see it too." It is natural for people to want to "fit in," to want to be like everybody else. Everyone experiences pressure from parents, teachers, clergy, and peers to do things "the right way" according to what THEY believe and how THEY were brought up. This can leave people who are different feeling like they are bad and they way they feel is wrong. For these reasons, it can be very difficult for some people even to admit to themselves that they are having thoughts or feelings about their gender that do not match what they are taught they are supposed to think and feel.
EXPRESSING your gender identity publically. This involves appearing and behaving in ways that match how you feel inside. It can involve how you dress; how you wear your hair; the way you speak; the way you move; including any medical transition that you might undertake. Expressing your gender publically for the first time can be equal parts terrifying and exhilarating. How, when, and where you choose to express yourself for the first time is completely unique for every person who does it, but most will agree that it is a part of any social transition.
SHARING your gender history and gender identity with other people. For example:
A trans teenager might tell just one person, his best girlfriend, that he is trans. And this might be the only person who knows for a long time.
Another person might choose to tell more than one person at the same time like in an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting; or even on Facebook!
BEING transgender. Some people reach a level of comfort with their gender reality where being openly transgender or openly gender non-conforming becomes a naturally expressed part of everyday life. If the question of being trans comes up, it is a matter of simple fact, like having a southern accent, being 5'4" tall, or having brown hair.
So, should I come out?
The PFLAG pamphlet BE YOURSELF puts it this way:
"There's no need to come out if you aren't ready or you don't want to. Sometimes there are very good reasons not to come out... However, there are also very good reasons to let some people know that you're transgender."
Given the very real social stigma in American society, a trans person might realistically fear coming out for a variety of reasons:
drawing unwanted attention to themself
losing their friends or making things "weird" with their friends
being made fun of
getting kicked out of the family
losing their job
getting beaten up or worse
On the other hand, transgender people express many reasons why they are glad they came out:
HELP & SUPPORT -- "If I hadn't admitted to my mom that I was transgender, it would have taken way longer to get the help and support I needed to be happy."
FIND FRIENDS/CREATE FAMILY -- "Coming out allowed me to find friends that accept me the way I am and to create a family that loves the real me."
DEEPENING RELATIONSHIPS -- "It feels great to be able to be real with my son. I always felt like there was this distance, like I had to keep him at arm's length. Now it's like we can really share our feelings and it's made us feel so much closer to each other. He says he feels that way too."
EDUCATE OTHERS -- "Now that I have more confidence in myself, I feel like I can help educate other people. I think people only fear and hate what they are not samiliar with. I can show the people that know me and liked me before I transitioned that I'm still the same person. It's like I get to show them that there is nothing to fear."
THE GIFT OF TRUST -- "I was surprised when my brother told me he kind of knew all along. He actually thanked me for trusting him. He told me that by trusting him it was like I had given him a gift."
POLITICAL ACTION -- "I've always wanted to make a difference. Now I get involved in groups that are working to make the social changes we need in terms of civil rights. If we don't fight for our rights, who will?"
NO MORE SECRETS -- "At first, all I wanted was just to disappear in the crowd. All I wanted was to do my job and be an ordinary woman. But a friend at church came right out and asked me |
Self-Mastery / Self Realisation in honour of Jeanny RIP
By Philip Wade
In Self-Mastery
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In early December 2018 I was asked if I would be willing to help Jeanny.
Jeanny, living in Norway, had first been diagnosed with blood cancer (leukaemia) in 2008 and was treated with Chemotherapy, Radiation and Stem Cell transplantation on a number of occasions. These proved effective for a period but relapses occurred and the aggressive cancer came back in 2018. It was confirmed by her doctors that the cancer had reached critical levels and that she would not have long to live.
Jeanny had been benefitting from a considerable input from various complementary sources in addition to the medical treatments and was part of a support group.
Jeanny contacted me shortly after the initial request asking for help and, in essence, sharing that she wanted love, peace, surrender, kindness especially for her husband and kids.
Since the focus of my work is Self Realisation my response was that it would beautiful if it was possible to help her and the key for her was to be totally open to what was in her highest and greatest good and that we would approach the support without expectations. This she fully accepted.
The health situation was very critical for Jeanny so we commenced the very next day. In advance, she shared some that there had for her been ongoing trauma in her life since early childhood also adding that she had learned a little about meditation, but never did it regularly and had no special spiritual practice. Also confirming a strong feeling of hatred she could feel inside her.
In all, I had 8 beautiful sessions via Skype with Jeanny and exchanged a number of emails providing her additional resources to use between sessions. Others were also supporting her during this time.
The sessions spanned from answering her questions about life offering profound and in-depth insight into the nature of the highest truth: Infinite Silence, witnessed meditations, experiences of transmuting fear into love, clarifying her understanding, how emotions and energies such as hatred emerge and how they can be released ultimately leading to the clarity that one is already that which is being sought: Infinite Silence, the source of peace.
During this time due to the very aggressive stage the cancer had reached, naturally Jeanny's body was failing fast. Yet despite the pain and emotional trauma she continued.
There were a number of particularly beautiful moments to share with you. In offering deep insight into the nature of ultimate spiritual truth 'I' offered to her that it was nothing to do with believing what was said but about being open to her highest truth. At this point Jeanny quite spontaneously closed her eyes and went within. Very quickly the most beautiful awareness emerged within her. It was beautiful to witness, there was a relaxation in her body and a huge and deep smile that came across her face. It could be seen that she had 'felt' the truth of what had been shared.
At other points, during various meditations she shared quite spontaneously from the meditation space eyes still closed and with a deep awareness in her body "I love the Silence" and on another occasion "I want to go home." It was like a calling home this latter one. No words.
During one meditation whilst deeply immersed in the Silence an image of the innocence of her younger self emerged. The beauty of the scene as she shared this is beyond description. The session continued with her embracing this from within, merging, accepting and loving this as a representation of her truth.
The depth of insight she reached was remarkable in its speed. She asked about the nature of death, what happens in various scenarios. The Infinite Silence is eternal and it is that which we truly are. The physical body may pass but consciousness does not die. Nor is it born. It just is. All of the energetic imprints of the expressions of the Silence in us are all present. The one who has not realised continues in a cycle until that realisation emerges in one body or another. Synchronistically, the same insight popped up in a short specific video on my YouTube feed at about the same time based on the work of Parahmahansa Yogananda. I forwarded it to her as reinforcement of the message.
Notwithstanding the obvious physical pain and emotional suffering, Jeanny continued to ask if we could work on a regular basis. We did so throughout December and her hospitalisation. It became clear that ultimately, it was time for her body to pass. Following her questions, insight was offered as to the nature of the Holy Inquiry or Divine Inquiry. This is the choice of the Silence to embody or not. To know when the life in one form has come to a close and either to move into another or to remain as the Silence.
This is a 'choice' that continues until the Realisation is complete. The union with the Silence is total when one has fully Realised, it is anchored and the message of one's life in the body is accomplished.
Quite to my surprise, on Christmas Day I was contacted to be advised that Jeanny's condition was now truly critical and that she had made a bequest that she asked if I could to honour.
The bequest was to fund 10 one to one sessions with me for people whom I felt would particularly benefit from them.
It was added that she was in a much better place and was in deep gratitude for the support. She had received more help bringing her into the light and had a vision of the garden of eden and another with her deceased child and was ready to pass.
Confirming that it would be an honour and blessing to honour her request Jeanny's final words to me were of deep gratitude for all the wonderful support.
Jeanny passed peacefully into spirit on 28 December 2018.
Undoubtedly this was a sad day for those family and friends close to her and my condolences and blessings are with them.
Jeanny's message:
If 'I' was to summarise the essence of this brief journey with Jeanny and why she made the bequest in my own insight from the brief but powerful and beautiful time we spent together it would be this.
Use this life NOW to Realise the nature of the Self. Your highest truth. Do not hang on to regrets, hatred, lack of trust, suffering. Instead be open to your highest truth that awaits you here and NOW. The highest truth that you already are. The one that is untouched, unmoved, unharmed perfect and complete. The highest truth. Infinite Silence.
So it is with this in'my' awareness to honour Jeanny's bequest in a most powerful way it has emerged to offer the following:
A deep commitment to your highest TRUTH. The invitation to SELF Realisation
The One to One's* with me plus an invitation to:
A 3 month commitment to 30 minutes of Infinite Silence Meditation each day using one of the specified meditations each day. Note it is key element of the programme to use these for you, for Jeanny for truth.**
Approximately fortnightly Live Streams or on catch-up. These Live Streams are publicly available.
Participation in the Community Forum on my website where you can post your spiritual inquiry questions to which I will respond.
One to Ones, Meditations and general resources you are invited to use:~
*The commitment to the Programme is central to the free One to One's and where appropriate this will be for people with low or no income who might not otherwise be able benefit from this legacy.
**You will gain the most benefit by using these specific meditations and resources rather than potentially distracting yourself from a deep dive into Silence with other tools. I also feel it will honour Jeanny this way too for the request came from her based on her experience of the Silence with me.
The reason for this is that the Infinite Silence Meditation emerged directly from the Silence itSELF as part of the Realisation. It IS a direct connection to your highest truth. It specifically does not engage phenomena, activity or mind in any way.
The Infinite Silence Meditation 30 minutes
The International Peace Day Meditation about 30 minutes
Live Stream 21: The Solstice Meditation (Live Stream)
Other resources that could also be used and equally classed as meditations:
Live Stream 6: A letter from God
Live Stream 11: Transmuting Fear into Love
Live Stream 17: The Open Gaze Experience
Live Stream 18: The Infinite Silence Meditation Explored and Experienced
Live Stream 19: Beyond Phenomena from Awakening Experiences to Absolute Self Realisation
Live Stream 20: Being a Mirror to Truth
Listening to any other Live Stream or video also is a Meditation
Other shorter meditations may be issued during the programme for your use
Participation in the Programme
This is an Open Source Programme for those feeling called to their highest truth. It is a commitment to your truth from within.
The majority of my time in supporting this will come free also, this will included not only live streams for the Programme but responding to questions on the forum.
If you are not in the 10 for whom the legacy applies, a donation would be welcome if you wish to have a One to One to help continue to spread the message around the Globe. No one will be turned away on financial grounds.
Below for convenience are the Resources for the Programme. They can also |
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The alchemists spoke of it as 'putrefaction' and 'corruption.' "
And yet, he continues:
"The German gelb and the Latin galbus and galbinus derive from roots meaning radiant and shining, like gold; so the Homeric Achilles and Apollo are yellow-haired, blond, fair, and sunlit. In addition, the most luminous of all hues (least saturated) is yellow and the yellow spot in the middle of the retina is where vision is most acute."
Paul Gauguin, "By the Stream, Autumn"
There is both godlike perfection and earthly corruption in yellow. And yet the beauty of autumn leaves, their radiance is mesmerizing. Nature rejoices in this moment. It is as if for a moment a normally hidden unconscious lumen naturae (light of nature) became visible. From the scientific perspective, as trees stop producing chlorophyll, their green colour fades and other colours, which had been there all along, are revealed. This pertains especially to the yellow.
The bitter sweet melancholy of autumn may be connected with the meaning of the alchemical stage of yellowing, as Hillman says:
"…during nigredo there is pain and ignorance; we suffer without the help of knowledge. During albedo the pain lifts, having been blessed by reflection and understanding. The yellow brings the pain of knowledge itself. The soul suffers its understanding.
…the yellow brings the pain of further knowledge derived from piercing insights, critical, cruel, the slings and arrows of seeing sharp and true, insights that arrive suddenly together with the fire and fear regarding the cowardice, jealousy, choler, and decay that taints…"
The final stage of the alchemical opus is rubedo, where we bring the results of all the insights of the previous stages into the world. We create and manifest. I have tried to find out why some trees turn red in the autumn and apparently it is a totally different process than yellowing. Some trees actively produce the red pigment in autumn and scientists are not sure why. You can read more about that here. While being human always means suffering under the yellow yoke, not all (only few?) of us reach the rubedo stage of individuation.
But what we see around ourselves in peak autumn are all colours, not just the yellows and the reds; the green is not yet gone, some flowers have not withered, there are plenty of colourful fruit around and the sky can be as azure as in peak summer. Alchemy spoke of cauda pavonis – the peacock's tail – the radiant colours which appeared all at once, like the white prism breaking into a rainbow. This is by no means an orthodox interpretation, just my own flight of fancy, but I always thought that the stages of the alchemical opus are not necessarily akin to a ladder that the souls climb. In other words, it is not an evolution but an endless transformation and none of the stages are more valuable than others.
Recently I was astounded to find a book, which resonated with my thoughts. I have not finished reading it yet but here is a quote from the Introduction:
"All life, in order to develop, must pass through an irreducible multiplicity of forms, a whole population of bodies that it dons and discards with the same ease as it changes outfits from one season to the next. Every living being is legion. Each one stitches together bodies and'selves' like a seamstress, like a body artist constantly modifying their appearance. Every life is an anatomical fashion show of variable duration. To think the relationship between this multiplicity of forms in terms of metamorphosis rather than in terms of evolution, progress, or their opposites, is not just to free oneself of all teleology. It means also, and above all, that each of these forms has the same weight, the same importance, the same value: metamorphosis is the principle of equivalence between all natures, and the process that allows this equivalence to arise. Every form, every nature, comes from the other and is equivalent to it. They all exist on the same plane. They each have a share of what the others have, but in different ways. Variation is horizontal."
Emanuele Coccia and Robin Mackay, Metamorphoses
Georgia O'Keeffe, "Lake George, Autumn"
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Salvador Dali, "The Lighthouse at Alexandria"
Seven Sermons to the Dead (Septem Sermones ad Mortuos) is a collection of seven Gnostic texts written and privately published by C. G. Jung in 1916, under the title Seven Sermons to the Dead, written by Basilides of Alexandria, the City Where East and West Meet. They were included in the third part of The Red Book – Scrutinies – enriched with a commentary of Philemon, which was not published in Jung's lifetime. Initially Jung limited the distribution of the text to a carefully chosen audience but in 1962 the full text of the sermons was added as an appendix to Jung's memoirs Memories, Dreams, Reflections. There Jung tells about the quite extraordinary genesis of the sermons:
"It began with a restlessness, but I did not know what it meant or what 'they' wanted of me. There was ominous atmosphere all around me. I had the strange feeling that the air was filled with ghostly entities. Then it was as if my house began to be haunted. My eldest daughter saw a white figure passing through the room. My second daughter, independently of her elder sister, related that twice in the night her blanket had been snatched away; and that same night my nine-year-old son had an anxiety dream. … Around five o'clock in the afternoon on Sunday the front doorbell began ringing frantically. … Everyone immediately looked to see who was there, but there was no one in sight. I was sitting near the doorbell, and not only heard it but saw it moving. We all simply stared at one another. The atmosphere was thick, believe me. Then I knew that something had to happen. The whole house was filled as if there were a crowd present, crammed full of spirits. They were packed deep right up to the door, and the air was so thick it was scarcely possible to breathe. As for myself, I was all a-quiver with the question: 'For God's sake, what in the world is this?' Then they cried out in chorus, 'We have come back from Jerusalem where we found not what we sought.' That is the beginning of the Septem Sermones. Then it began to flow out of me, and in the course of three evenings the thing was written. As soon as I took up the pen, the whole ghostly assemblage evaporated. The room quieted and the atmosphere cleared. The haunting was over."
Gentile Bellini, "St Mark Preaching in Alexandria" (detail)
In his book The Search for Roots: C. G. Jung and the Tradition of Gnosis, Alfred Ribi states that Jung "traced the historical lineage of his psychology back to the Gnostic communities that had existed two thousand years ago at the beginning of the Christian age." The dead did not find what they looked for in Jerusalem, that is in the seat of traditional Christianity. The seven sermons contain instruction from a Gnostic teacher Basilides of Alexandria, the city where East and West meet, and where all kinds of non-orthodox, heretic ideas flourished. Only in Alexandria, "the classical urban alchemical vessel of human creativity" (1) where all cultures intertwined and where "gods and goddesses walked with men longer than in any other city in the world" could such a teaching have been born. (2) Interestingly, as Hoeller tells us, well-travelled as he was, Jung never visited Rome, another seat of traditional Christianity, but he did travel to Alexandria, which he perceived as his "spiritual home," as Hoeller put it. Although Jung's studies of Gnosticism took place before 1945, when the Nag Hammadi Scriptures were discovered by an Egyptian peasant, his knowledge of Gnosticism was profound and astounding, according to Alfred Ribi and other distinguished Gnostic scholars.
Nag Hammadi Codex II, The Gospel of Thomas
Ribi posits in his book that the Gnostics based their teachings on the assumption that "the alpha and omega of every religion is the subjective experience of the individual." In this Gnosticism resembled Jung's psychology of the unconscious, which also emphasised the importance of individual experience, no matter how alien to the collective values. What the Gnostics glorified was the "Promethean and creative spirit which will bow only to the individual soul and to no collective ruling," says Ribi. Thus Gnosticism may be called the "introverted, mystical undercurrent of occidental Christianity." The value of individual knowledge and individual revelation is what distinguishes Gnosticism from mainstream Christianity.
Furthermore, what was recorded in the official Gospels was but a fraction of what Jesus revealed to his closest disciples, said the Gnostics. This emphasizes the value of individual initiation delivered by a spiritual teacher. In the introduction to The Nag Hammadi Library, Elaine Pagels wrote:
"What Muhammad 'All discovered at Nag Hammadi is, apparently, a library of writings, almost all of them Gnostic. Although they claim to offer secret teaching, |
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Those You Neglect
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Under the Big Tree / In the Wings
December 7, 2020 /in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2021 / Kate Angus
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I Am Going to Share a Secret With You
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Playthings
December 5, 2020 /in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2021 / Bailey Bujnosek
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June/ My iPhone Died Three Years Ago and I'm Still Not Over It
December 4, 2020 /in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2021 / Annette Covrigaru
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By Morning / Person, Place and Thing
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Blue Motion: Inhale
Scenes from Ballets Never Staged- Acrylic
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Visual Models-Mixed Media
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Blue Motion-Acrylic
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Breathing The New Society- Acrylic
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The Pineapple Metaphor: Expanding the Narrative
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on the Apartheid regime.
After much debate, by the late-1980s, the United States, the United Kingdom, and 23 other nations had passed laws placing various trade sanctions on South Africa. A disinvestment from South Africa movement in many countries was similarly widespread, with individual cities and provinces around the world implementing various laws and local regulations forbidding registered corporations under their jurisdiction from doing business with South African firms, factories, or banks.[138]
Catholic ChurchEdit
Pope John Paul II was an outspoken opponent of apartheid. In 1985, while visiting the Netherlands, he gave an impassioned speech at the International Court of Justice condemning apartheid, proclaiming that "no system of apartheid or separate development will ever be acceptable as a model for the relations between peoples or races."[139] In September 1988, he made a pilgrimage to countries bordering South Africa, while demonstratively avoiding South Africa itself. During his visit to Zimbabwe, he called for economic sanctions against the South African government.[140]
Organisation for African UnityEdit
See also: Lusaka Manifesto
The Organisation of African Unity (OAU) was created in 1963. Its primary objectives were to eradicate colonialism and improve social, political and economic situations in Africa. It censured apartheid and demanded sanctions against South Africa. African states agreed to aid the liberation movements in their fight against apartheid.[141] In 1969, fourteen nations from Central and East Africa gathered in Lusaka, Zambia, and formulated the Lusaka Manifesto, which was signed on 13 April by all of the countries in attendance except Malawi.[142] This manifesto was later taken on by both the OAU and the United Nations.[141]
The Lusaka Manifesto summarized the political situations of self-governing African countries, condemning racism and inequity, and calling for Black majority rule in all African nations.[143] It did not rebuff South Africa entirely, though, adopting an appeasing manner towards the apartheid government, and even recognizing its autonomy. Although African leaders supported the emancipation of Black South Africans, they preferred this to be attained through peaceful means.[144]
South Africa's negative response to the Lusaka Manifesto and rejection of a change to its policies brought about another OAU announcement in October 1971. The Mogadishu Declaration stated that South Africa's rebuffing of negotiations meant that its Black people could only be freed through military means, and that no African state should converse with the apartheid government.[145]
Outward-looking policyEdit
In 1966, B. J. Vorster became Prime Minister. He was not prepared to dismantle apartheid, but he did try to redress South Africa's isolation and to revitalise the country's global reputation, even those with Black majority rule in Africa. This he called his "Outward-Looking" policy.[146][147][148]
Vorster's willingness to talk to African leaders stood in contrast to Verwoerd's refusal to engage with leaders such as Abubakar Tafawa Balewa of Nigeria in 1962 and Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia in 1964. In 1966, he met the heads of the neighbouring states of Lesotho, Swaziland and Botswana. In 1967, he offered technological and financial aid to any African state prepared to receive it, asserting that no political strings were attached, aware that many African states needed financial aid despite their opposition to South Africa's racial policies. Many were also tied to South Africa economically because of their migrant labour population working down the South African mines. Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland remained outspoken critics of apartheid, but were dependent on South African economic assistance.
Malawi was the first non-neighbouring country to accept South African aid. In 1967, the two states set out their political and economic relations. In 1969, Malawi was the only country at the assembly which did not sign the Lusaka Manifesto condemning South Africa' apartheid policy. In 1970, Malawian president Hastings Banda made his first and most successful official stopover in South Africa.
Associations with Mozambique followed suit and were sustained after that country won its sovereignty in 1975. Angola was also granted South African loans. Other countries which formed relationships with South Africa were Liberia, Ivory Coast, Madagascar, Mauritius, Gabon, Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) and the Central African Republic. Although these states condemned apartheid (more than ever after South Africa's denunciation of the Lusaka Manifesto), South Africa's economic and military dominance meant that they remained dependent on South Africa to varying degrees[clarification needed].
Sports and cultureEdit
Main articles: Sporting boycott of South Africa and Rugby union and apartheid
BeginningEdit
South Africa's isolation in sport began in the mid-1950s and increased throughout the 1960s. Apartheid forbade multiracial sport, which meant that overseas teams, by virtue of them having players of different races, could not play in South Africa. In 1956, the International Table Tennis Federation severed its ties with the all-White South African Table Tennis Union, preferring the non-racial South African Table Tennis Board. The apartheid government responded by confiscating the passports of the Board's players so that they were unable to attend international games.
IsolationEdit
Verwoerd yearsEdit
In 1959, the non-racial South African Sports Association (SASA) was formed to secure the rights of all players on the global field. After meeting with no success in its endeavours to attain credit by collaborating with White establishments, SASA approached the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in 1962, calling for South Africa's expulsion from the Olympic Games. The IOC sent South Africa a caution to the effect that, if there were no changes, they would be barred from competing at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo. The changes were initiated, and in January 1963, the South African Non-Racial Olympic Committee (SANROC) was set up. The Anti-Apartheid Movement persisted in its campaign for South Africa's exclusion, and the IOC acceded in barring the country from the 1964 Olympic Games. South Africa selected a multi-racial team for the next Olympic Games, and the IOC opted for incorporation in the 1968 Mexico City Olympic Games. Because of protests from AAMs and African nations, however, the IOC was forced to retract the invitation.
Foreign complaints about South Africa's bigoted sports brought more isolation. Racially selected New Zealand sports teams toured South Africa, until the 1970 All Blacks rugby tour allowed Maori to enter the country under the status of "honorary Whites". Huge and widespread protests occurred in New Zealand in 1981 against the Springbok tour – the government spent $8,000,000 protecting games using the army and police force. A planned All Black tour to South Africa in 1985 remobilised the New Zealand protesters and it was cancelled. A "rebel tour" – not government sanctioned – went ahead in 1986, but after that sporting ties were cut, and New Zealand made a decision not to convey an authorised rugby team to South Africa until the end of apartheid.[149]
Vorster yearsEdit
On 6 September 1966, Verwoerd was fatally stabbed at Parliament House by parliamentary messenger Dimitri Tsafendas. John Vorster took office shortly after, and announced that South Africa would no longer dictate to the international community what their teams should look like. Although this reopened the gate for international sporting meets, it did not signal the end of South Africa's racist sporting policies. In 1968, Vorster went against his policy by refusing to permit Basil D'Oliveira, a Coloured South African-born cricketer, to join the English cricket team on its tour to South Africa. Vorster said that the side had been chosen only to prove a point, and not on merit. D'Oliveira was eventually included in the team as the first substitute, but the tour was cancelled. Protests against certain tours brought about the cancellation of a number of other visits, including that of an England rugby team touring South Africa in 1969/70.
The first of the "White Bans" occurred in 1971 when the Chairman of the Australian Cricketing Association – Sir Don Bradman – flew to South Africa to meet Vorster. Vorster had expected Bradman to allow the tour of the Australian cricket team to go ahead, but things became heated after Bradman asked why Black sportsmen were not allowed to play cricket. Vorster stated that Blacks were intellectually inferior and had no finesse for the game. Bradman – thinking this ignorant and repugnant – asked Vorster if he had heard of a man named Garry Sobers. On his return to Australia, Bradman released a short statement: "We will not play them until they choose a team on a non-racist basis."[150] Bradman's views were in stark contrast to those of Australian tennis great Margaret Court, who had won the grand slam the previous year and commented about apartheid that "South Africans have this thing better organised than any other country, particularly America" and that she would "go back there any time."[151]
In South Africa, Vorster vented his anger publicly against Bradman, while the African National Congress rejoiced. This was the first time a predominantly White nation had taken the side of multiracial sport, producing an unsettling resonance that more "White" boycotts were coming.[152] Almost twenty years later, on his release from prison, Nelson Mandela asked a visiting Australian statesman if Donald Bradman, his childhood hero, was still alive (Bradman lived until 2001 |
third c to 3b. 0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
COMCOR ENGINEERING 3rd - BARALDI struck out swinging. SCERRATO flied out to rf. POMPILIO struck out swinging. 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
COLLECCHIO B.C. 4th - BATTIONI grounded out to 3b. PASOTTO singled to center field. PASOTTO advanced to second on a throwing error by p, failed pickoff attempt. ZANICHELLI struck out swinging. FOSSA grounded out to ss. 0 runs, 1 hit, 1 error, 1 LOB.
COMCOR ENGINEERING 4th - FRIGGERI singled to third base. MURARI reached on a fielder's choice; FRIGGERI out at second 3b to 2b. MURARI out at second p to 1b to p, caught stealing. VECCHI struck out looking. 0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
COLLECCHIO B.C. 5th - LORI struck out swinging. VALENTI grounded out to p. COFFRINI flied out to rf. 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
COMCOR ENGINEERING 5th - ANGELOTTI struck out swinging. GIBERTINI singled to third base, bunt. GIBERTINI stole second. ALFINITO grounded out to 3b. BARALDI struck out swinging. 0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 LOB.
COLLECCHIO B.C. 6th - MANTOVANI struck out swinging. FLISI walked. FLISI out at second c to ss, caught stealing. BATTIONI struck out looking. 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
COMCOR ENGINEERING 6th - SCERRATO walked. POMPILIO struck out swinging. FRIGGERI struck out swinging. SCERRATO out at second c to ss, caught stealing. 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
COLLECCHIO B.C. 7th - PETRALIA to p for CALERO G.. PASOTTO grounded out to 1b unassisted. Dropped foul ball, E2. ZANICHELLI flied out to rf. FOSSA struck out swinging, out at first c to 1b. 0 runs, 0 hits, 1 error, 0 LOB.
COMCOR ENGINEERING 7th - MURARI struck out looking. VECCHI singled to second base, bunt. VECCHI stole second. ANGELOTTI struck out swinging. GIBERTINI struck out swinging, out at first c to 1b. 0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 LOB.
COLLECCHIO B.C. 8th - LORI doubled to left center. TROLLI pinch ran for LORI. VALENTI struck out swinging. VENTURA to p for PETRALIA. COFFRINI reached on a fielder's choice; TROLLI out at third p to 3b. MANTOVANI singled through the right side; COFFRINI advanced to third. FLISI reached on a fielder's choice; MANTOVANI out at second ss to 2b. 0 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors, 2 LOB.
COMCOR ENGINEERING 8th - TROLLI to c. DALLATURCA to p for YEPEZ. ALFINITO grounded out to ss. BARALDI grounded out to 3b. SCERRATO flied out to cf. 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
COLLECCHIO B.C. 9th - TAMBURRINI to rf for BARALDI. BATTIONI grounded out to ss. PASOTTO lined out to 2b. ZANICHELLI struck out swinging. 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
COMCOR ENGINEERING 9th - POMPILIO lined out to 3b. FRIGGERI grounded out to ss. MURARI flied out to cf. 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
COLLECCHIO B.C. 10th - ZANICHELLI placed on first. PASOTTO placed on second. MELEGARI pinch ran for ZANICHELLI. FOSSA struck out swinging. GANDOLFI pinch hit for TROLLI. GANDOLFI grounded into double play 2b to ss to 1b; MELEGARI out on the play. 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 1 LOB.
COMCOR ENGINEERING 10th - DALLATURCA to p for MELEGARI. FOSSA to 1b. / for DALLATURCA. GANDOLFI to c. MURARI placed on first. FRIGGERI placed on second. VECCHI reached on a muffed throw by 1b, assist by p, SAC; MURARI advanced to second; FRIGGERI advanced to third. ANGELOTTI flied out to cf. GIBERTINI struck out swinging. ALFINITO flied out to rf. 0 runs, 0 hits, 1 error, 3 LOB.
COLLECCHIO B.C. 11th - GANDOLFI placed on first. FOSSA placed on second. FERRARINI pinch hit for VALENTI. FERRARINI reached on a fielder's choice, bunt; GANDOLFI advanced to second; FOSSA out at third p to 3b. COFFRINI tripled to right center, 2 RBI; FERRARINI scored, unearned; GANDOLFI scored. COFFRINI scored on a wild pitch. MANTOVANI singled through the left side. FLISI singled up the middle; MANTOVANI advanced to third. FLISI out at second c to ss, caught stealing. BATTIONI struck out swinging. 3 runs, 3 hits, 0 errors, 1 LOB.
COMCOR ENGINEERING 11th - FERRARINI to 3b. COFFRINI to 2b. ALFINITO placed on first. GIBERTINI placed on second. LABRIOLA pinch ran for GIBERTINI. TAMBURRINI walked; ALFINITO advanced to second; LABRIOLA advanced to third. SCERRATO grounded out to 2b, RBI; TAMBURRINI advanced to second; ALFINITO advanced to third; LABRIOLA scored. POMPILIO singled up the middle, 2 RBI; TAMBURRINI scored; ALFINITO scored. FRIGGERI struck out swinging. POMPILIO stole second. MURARI struck out swinging. 3 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 LOB.
COLLECCHIO B.C. 12th - LABRIOLA to rf. CORRADO to 1b for TAMBURRINI. BATTIONI placed on first. FLISI placed on second. BATTIONI stole second; FLISI stole third. PASOTTO reached on a fielding error by 3b; BATTIONI advanced to third on the error; FLISI scored on the error, unearned. DALLATURCA L. Out by rule Strikeout by rule bunt. DALLATURCA struck out swinging, bunt. FOSSA singled to center field, advanced to second on the throw, 2 RBI; PASOTTO scored, unearned; BATTIONI scored, unearned. D'ANGELO to p for VENTURA. GANDOLFI grounded out to 1b unassisted; FOSSA advanced to third. FOSSA scored on a throwing error by c, unearned. FERRARINI walked. FERRARINI out at second c to ss, caught stealing. No play. 4 runs, 1 hit, 2 errors, 0 LOB.
COMCOR ENGINEERING 12th - MAZZA to p for DALLATURCA. MURARI placed on first. FRIGGERI placed on second. VECCHI walked; MURARI advanced to second; FRIGGERI advanced to third. ANGELOTTI doubled to center field, 2 RBI; VECCHI advanced to third; MURARI scored; FRIGGERI scored. CORBINO pinch hit for LABRIOLA. CORBINO singled through the left side, advanced to second on the throw, 2 RBI; ANGELOTTI scored; VECCHI scored. ALFINITO intentionally walked. CORRADO flied out to p, bunt. SCERRATO walked; ALFINITO advanced to second; CORBINO advanced to third. POMPILIO walked, RBI; SCERRATO advanced to second; ALFINITO advanced to third; CORBINO scored. 5 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors, 3 LOB.
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(),
readLog.getConnectionInfo().getConnectionCreationDuration());
assertEquals(connectionInfo.getConnectionProperties(), readLog.getConnectionInfo().getConnectionProperties());
assertEquals(connectionInfo.getUuid(), readLog.getConnectionInfo().getUuid());
}
@Test
public void testUpdateExecutionAfterInsert() {
final StatementLog stmtLog = insert1Log();
final StatementExecutedLog statementExecutedLog = new StatementExecutedLog(stmtLog.getLogId(), 123, 567L,
"myexception");
repositoryUpdate.updateLogAfterExecution(statementExecutedLog);
final DetailedViewStatementLog readLog = repositoryRead.getStatementLog(1);
assertEquals(statementExecutedLog.getSqlException(), readLog.getSqlException());
}
@Test
public void testUpdateResultSetAfterInsert() {
final StatementLog stmtLog = insert1Log();
final StatementExecutedLog statementExecutedLog = new StatementExecutedLog(stmtLog.getLogId(), 123, 567L,
"myexception");
repositoryUpdate.updateLogAfterExecution(statementExecutedLog);
final ResultSetLog resultSetLog = new ResultSetLog(stmtLog.getLogId(), 321L, 300L, 765);
repositoryUpdate.updateLogWithResultSetLog(resultSetLog);
repositoryRead.getStatements(new LogSearchCriteria(), resultSet -> {
resultSet.next();
assertEquals(1, resultSet.getLong(ID_COLUMN));
assertEquals(stmtLog.getRawSql(), resultSet.getString(LogRepositoryConstants.RAW_SQL_COLUMN));
assertEquals(stmtLog.isAutoCommit(), resultSet.getBoolean(LogRepositoryConstants.AUTOCOMMIT_COLUMN));
assertEquals(stmtLog.getTransactionIsolation(), resultSet.getInt(TRANSACTION_ISOLATION_COLUMN));
assertEquals(12, resultSet.getInt(LogRepositoryConstants.CONNECTION_NUMBER_COLUMN));
assertEquals(resultSetLog.getResultSetUsageDurationNanos(),
resultSet.getInt(LogRepositoryConstants.RSET_USAGE_TIME));
assertEquals(resultSetLog.getFetchDurationNanos(),
resultSet.getInt(LogRepositoryConstants.FETCH_TIME_COLUMN));
assertEquals(statementExecutedLog.getExecutionTimeNanos(),
resultSet.getInt(LogRepositoryConstants.EXEC_TIME_COLUMN));
assertEquals(
statementExecutedLog.getExecutionTimeNanos() + resultSetLog.getResultSetUsageDurationNanos(),
resultSet.getInt(LogRepositoryConstants.EXEC_PLUS_RSET_USAGE_TIME));
assertEquals(resultSetLog.getNbRowsIterated(), resultSet.getInt(LogRepositoryConstants.NB_ROWS_COLUMN));
assertEquals(stmtLog.getThreadName(), resultSet.getString(LogRepositoryConstants.THREAD_NAME_COLUMN));
assertEquals(stmtLog.getTimeout(), resultSet.getInt(LogRepositoryConstants.TIMEOUT_COLUMN));
assertEquals(stmtLog.getTimestamp(),
resultSet.getTimestamp(LogRepositoryConstants.TSTAMP_COLUMN).getTime());
assertEquals(stmtLog.getStatementType().getId(),
resultSet.getInt(LogRepositoryConstants.STMT_TYPE_COLUMN));
assertTrue(resultSet.getBoolean(LogRepositoryConstants.ERROR_COLUMN));
}, false);
final DetailedViewStatementLog readLog = repositoryRead.getStatementLog(1);
assertEquals(resultSetLog.getLogId(), readLog.getLogId());
}
@Test
public void testDeleteOldRowsIfTooMany() {
final StatementLog log = insert1Log();
assertEquals(1, countRowsInTable("statement_log"));
// nothing to delete if not too many rows
repositoryUpdate.deleteOldRowsIfTooMany();
assertEquals(1, countRowsInTable("statement_log"));
assertNull(repositoryUpdate.getLastLostMessageTime());
repositoryUpdate.setLastLostMessageTime(System.currentTimeMillis() - 1);
for (int i = 1; i < 2 * LogRepositoryUpdateJdbc.NB_ROWS_MAX; i++) {
final StatementLog newLog = new StatementLog(log.getConnectionUuid(), randomUUID(),
System.currentTimeMillis(), StatementType.BASE_NON_PREPARED_STMT, "myrawsql" + i,
Thread.currentThread().getName(), i, i % 2 == 0, i % 4);
repositoryUpdate.addStatementLog(newLog);
}
assertNotNull(repositoryUpdate.getLastLostMessageTime());
assertEquals(2 * LogRepositoryUpdateJdbc.NB_ROWS_MAX, countRowsInTable("statement_log"));
repositoryUpdate.deleteOldRowsIfTooMany();
assertTrue(countRowsInTable("statement_log") <= LogRepositoryUpdateJdbc.NB_ROWS_MAX);
assertNull(repositoryUpdate.getLastLostMessageTime());
}
@Test
public void testClear() {
insert1Log();
assertEquals(1, countRowsInTable("statement_log"));
repositoryUpdate.clear();
assertEquals(0, countRowsInTable("statement_log"));
}
@Test
public void testDelete() {
final StatementLog log1 = insert1Log();
final StatementLog log2 = new StatementLog(log1.getConnectionUuid(), randomUUID(), System.currentTimeMillis(),
StatementType.BASE_NON_PREPARED_STMT, "myrawsql2", Thread.currentThread().getName(), 2, false, 1);
repositoryUpdate.addStatementLog(log2);
final StatementLog log3 = new StatementLog(log1.getConnectionUuid(), randomUUID(), System.currentTimeMillis(),
StatementType.BASE_NON_PREPARED_STMT, "myrawsql3", Thread.currentThread().getName(), 3, false, 1);
repositoryUpdate.addStatementLog(log3);
assertEquals(3, countRowsInTable("statement_log"));
repositoryUpdate.deleteStatementLog(1, 3);
assertEquals(1, countRowsInTable("statement_log"));
}
@Test
public void testaddBatchedNonPreparedStatementsLog() {
final StatementLog log = insert1Log();
final List<String> sqlList = Arrays.asList("st1", "st2", "st3");
final BatchedNonPreparedStatementsLog batchedLogs = new BatchedNonPreparedStatementsLog(log.getConnectionUuid(),
randomUUID(), System.currentTimeMillis(), sqlList, "myThread", 13, true, 1);
repositoryUpdate.addBatchedNonPreparedStatementsLog(batchedLogs);
assertEquals(2, countRowsInTable("statement_log"));
assertEquals(3, countRowsInTable("batched_statement_log"));
}
@Test
public void testaddBatchedPreparedStatementsLog() {
final StatementLog log = insert1Log();
final List<String> sqlList = Arrays.asList("st1", "st2", "st3");
final BatchedPreparedStatementsLog batchedLogs = new BatchedPreparedStatementsLog(log.getConnectionUuid(),
randomUUID(), System.currentTimeMillis(), "myRaw stmt", sqlList, "myThread", 13, true, 1);
repositoryUpdate.addBatchedPreparedStatementsLog(batchedLogs);
assertEquals(2, countRowsInTable("statement_log"));
assertEquals(3, countRowsInTable("batched_statement_log"));
final StatementExecutedLog statementExecutedLog = new StatementExecutedLog(batchedLogs.getLogId(), 123, null,
"myexception");
repositoryUpdate.updateLogAfterExecution(statementExecutedLog);
repositoryRead.getStatements(new LogSearchCriteria(), resultSet -> {
resultSet.next();
resultSet.next();
assertEquals(2, resultSet.getLong(ID_COLUMN));
assertEquals(batchedLogs.getRawSql(), resultSet.getString(LogRepositoryConstants.RAW_SQL_COLUMN));
assertEquals(batchedLogs.isAutoCommit(),
resultSet.getBoolean(LogRepositoryConstants.AUTOCOMMIT_COLUMN));
assertEquals(batchedLogs.getTransactionIsolation(),
resultSet.getInt(TRANSACTION_ISOLATION_COLUMN));
assertEquals(0, resultSet.getInt(LogRepositoryConstants.FETCH_TIME_COLUMN));
assertEquals(0, result |
"This action can benefit banks and credit card companies, which bear the brunt when consumers default on credit card debts," says Yates. Last year, 838,885 nonbusiness Chapter 7 bankruptcy filings took place.
Mergers will also help several major banks. For instance, Summit Bancorp combined with FleetBoston Financial in March of this year, and J.P. Morgan joined with Chase Manhattan at the end of 2000, to form J.P. Morgan Chase. "Consolidations promote lower operating costs," says Singer. "Previously, a town might have had three separate banks; now one bank may own all three, close down two branches, and control the same amount of deposits. It could take years to see returns from integrating formerly separate banks, though."
What's more, challenges remain. "Online and ATM banking have not caught on as completely as banks had hoped," Yates says. "Companies still have to keep brick and mortar buildings open, as well as offer online capabilities. That's an expensive infrastructure."
In addition, banks that rely on consumer loans may suffer if the economy worsens. More layoffs could mean fewer people will borrow. "However, fee-based banks, which get most of their revenue from asset management, will continue to do well," Thorndike says.
Brokerages. These got a fuel injection from the 1999 repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933. The Act prevented any single company from offering securities, banking functions, and insurance services. Now, brokerages can provide banking services, and vice versa. "The wall is clearly down, and brokers will be able to operate as banks," says Yates. "Corporate clients like having their bank and brokerage under one house. This development can help increase business for brokerages."
Still, the plunging stock market has stung discount and online brokers. "Brokerages haven't lost clients, but the volume of trades has declined," Singer says.
Brokerages with large institutional customers haven't felt the same hit, however. "Institutions still trade regularly, and big, diversified brokerages, such as Merrill Lynch, barely feel the drop in retail investing," says James F. Catudal, a portfolio manager at Fidelity Investments in Boston.
Insurance companies. Several factors look positive for this category. The Glass-Steagall repeal is one. In addition, insurance companies are buying brokerages and banks, giving them entree into a lucrative business that fits well with their operations.
Because life insurance is a stable sector, it's becoming more desirable as economic growth slows, says Singer. In addition, the tax-deductible limits on 401(k) plans may rise, which would help insurance companies that administer the plans. Also, as baby boomers transfer wealth to their children through insurance and investments, the life insurance group should benefit.
Finally, insurers can earn from invested assets. "These companies control an enormous amount of money, and they can do whatever they want with it until they have to pay it out in claims," says Singer. That will give them an investing edge when the market starts to turn around.
Because a sector fund has such a narrow focus, your stake in one should generally be no more than 10 percent of your portfolio. "However, the financial sector is traditionally less volatile than most; you could safely raise that allotment to 15 percent," says Catudal.
Rather than invest in financial-sector stocks directly, it's safest to do so through mutual funds, which give you a diversity of companies. Here's a look at some we consider promising.
Through the financial microscope
Century Shares Trust leans heavily toward insurance companies, whose earnings have surged thanks to recent premium increases. But the credit for much of its success belongs to analysts' careful scrutiny of companies' financial statements, says Lanny Thorndike, of Century Funds, which owns and runs the fund. "Reserve amounts for banks and financial companies are more subjective than those of companies with physical products, like clothing," he says. "We examine financial information in great depth, to make sure earnings and profits really are what they appear to be."
"In addition, we look for companies whose strategy and execution have led to superior returns over the past three to five years," Thorndike says. It's not easy for stocks to squeak through that barrier—one reason the fund tends to hold only about 50 stocks.
The portfolio's annual turnover rate is only 11 percent. This means that instead of buying and selling stocks frequently, the fund tends to hold on to them, which lowers the capital gains tax investors pay. The fund's 0.82 percent expense ratio is also the lowest among the financial-sector funds.
A key holding is American International Group, one of the world's largest insurance companies. "It's one of the few sizable financial firms with a global footprint in the US, Europe, and Asia," says Thorndike. AIG provides property and casualty insurance, as well as life and health insurance for individuals and groups. The company has grown consistently, and its diverse businesses keep earnings steady even when one group falters. International expansion and domestic price hikes should keep the company humming. AIG's share price has risen from an average of about 23 in 1996 to its current 83.
Another portfolio staple is J.P. Morgan Chase. Although earnings fell last year due to merger expenses, the biggest costs have been absorbed, and earnings should rebound. The company also made major investments in capital markets businesses, which should contribute to strong revenue growth. J.P. Morgan Chase has investment banking, asset management, or consumer banking operations in more than 60 countries.
More than the sum of the parts
FBR Small Cap Financial Fund gathers local stars into a top-performing portfolio. Manager David H. Ellison focuses on small companies, particularly regional banks that do well within their own areas. He also looks for solid growth. "I don't make big bets; I want boring companies with simple and effective business strategies," says Ellison.
FirstFed Financial, the holding company for First Federal Bank of California, is a prime example. The bank has 25 branches in southern California. Business has remained strong, like FirstFed's stock price, which has doubled in the past two years.
Berkshire Hills Bancorp, the holding company for Berkshire Bank, went public about a year ago, and since then its stock's price has risen nearly 50 percent. The company is the largest financial institution in Berkshire County, MA, and it operates 12 offices in western Massachusetts. Berkshire Hills recently expanded into insurance and investment services.
Fidelity Select Financial Services Portfolio favors large companies that indomitably rack up earnings. "We look for corporations with strong growth prospects and balance sheets, and a robust business model," says James Catudal, the fund's portfolio manager. "We stay away from any company whose price-earnings ratio has gotten too high, and we sell a stock when its price reaches the number we targeted, or when the company's earnings or growth rate starts to deteriorate."
Wells Fargo and Company, the San Francisco-based banking giant formed when Wells Fargo and Norwest merged in 1998, fits Catudal's criteria. It's growing by acquiring large and small banks and financial firms. Since the merger, revenues have expanded faster than operating expenses. And wisely, management is integrating the Wells Fargo and Norwest computer systems slowly, to maintain good service and avoid alienating customers. The stock's price has done accordingly well; it has more than doubled in the past five years.
Catudal also holds Fannie Mae (formerly known as Federal National Mortgage Association), the country's largest provider of residential mortgage funds and its third-largest corporation, ranked by assets. Fannie Mae buys, sells, and guarantees mortgages to banks and other lenders, to make sure they have adequate money available for lending. An excellent performer in a steady industry, Fannie Mae's stock has returned an annualized 22.1 percent for the past five years. The corporation is also progressive; last year it was named one of the nation's top 100 e-businesses by InternetWeek, a leading trade magazine.
The little engines that could
Mutual Financial Services Fund focuses on small- and mid-cap companies, which carry more risk than big firms but offer greater potential for growth. The average market capitalization of stocks in the fund is $3 billion, compared with $33.9 billion for Fidelity's Select Financial Services Portfolio.
Portfolio manager Raymond Garea looks for value. The average price-earnings ratio of the fund's stocks is 15.2 percent, compared with 23.3 percent for Century Shares Trust. Mutual Financial Services Fund also keeps 12 percent of its assets in foreign stocks, more than comparable financial-sector funds invest abroad.
Top holdings include Metris Companies and Heller Financial. Metris, one of the nation's fastest-growing direct marketers, went public in 1996 and is now on the New York Stock Exchange. The company markets credit products, extended-service plans, and fee-based services such as debt-waiver programs to moderate-income consumers. In an aggressive move, Metris became the first credit card issuer to offer its products on the new MasterCard Spanish-language Web site, which should reach a large and profitable market.
Heller Financial, an 80-year-old company, provides equipment financing and leasing, working-capital loans, real estate financing, and other loans to middle-market and small business clients in the US and abroad. Its international segment operates in Asia, Europe, and Latin America. The equipment-leasing industry is poised for strong performance, which should help boost earnings.
Covering all bases
T. Rowe Price Financial Services Fund carefully diversifies its holdings, |
you that they like a certain pub because "they serve a nice pint of Guinness" then you know they don't know what they are talking about. It is all the same, Diageo ("the world's biggest drinks group") has spent a lot of money making it that way. Weep.
Nationalise the breweries!
by girarde (Hermit) on Apr 22, 2009 at 13:42 UTC
Well, National was pretty good in Maryland, but the original brewer is gone....
"The Dog" "Broon" "Newkie", Newcastle Brown Ale.
the beer is actually a mixture of two ales - a stronger, dark brew and a lighter blend.
It's certainly well known, and a glass of 'Newkie Broon' goes down nicely if it's ice-cold and carefully poured so that the glass is always half full.
Indeed the makers of Newcastle Brown Ale are so concerned about the temperature their beer was served at that a heat-sensitive blue star is placed on the back label which changes colour with the temperature.
Newcastle Brown Ale is a serious business...
a heat-sensitive blue star is placed on the back label which changes colour with the temperature
I have a "disappearing TARDIS" t-shirt like that. ;-)
by grinder (Bishop) on Apr 21, 2009 at 10:00 UTC
by ELISHEVA (Prior) on Apr 20, 2009 at 06:45 UTC
but if I have to drink wine, I prefer it chilled - whether white or (draws huge breath) red
Trust me. "Room temperature" red wine in the heat of Israeli summer (30-40C) is not something you want to drink.
Best, beth
by gokuraku (Monk) on Apr 27, 2009 at 18:49 UTC
mmm...Newkie Browns
by cdarke (Prior) on Apr 20, 2009 at 08:28 UTC
Any wine I haven't already tried (within reason).
So much wine, so little time...
...quantity over quality!
Hard to choose between red and Amy, but she seems to need the vote more.
... mine distilled :)
....mine distilled
Is it legal in the UK and what does it taste like, Vermouth?
As far as I'm aware, there are no laws against distilling your own spirits. It's the same as brewing your own beer, or making your own wine. The laws only come into effect if you start selling it for a profit. Even then, I doubt the local bobbies will roll if you put half a dozen bottles of your Dandylion & Burdock up for sale at your local Bring&Buy.
As for the taste, it depends what you start with, but commercial Brandy is distilled wine, so that gives an idea of the possibilities.
Vermouth is a "fortified wine"--like Port, Sherry Maderia and Masala--which is just wine with the addition of a small percentage of spirit (often Brandy) to preserve it.
by Not_a_Number (Prior) on Apr 18, 2009 at 19:09 UTC
by ww (Archbishop) on Apr 19, 2009 at 00:11 UTC
Us woodchucks like freeze-distilled applejack...
... or, in a pinch (i.e. before the overnight lows are reliably < 22F), hard cider.
by Erez (Priest) on Apr 17, 2009 at 13:23 UTC
Everytime I read about yet another drugged incident involving Ms. Winehouse, I sigh in relief that she's still with us.
"A core tenant of the greater Perl philosophy is to trust that the developer knows enough to solve the problem" - Jay Shirley, A case for Catalyst.
by punch_card_don (Curate) on Apr 20, 2009 at 00:43 UTC
"A core tenant of the greater Perl philosophy..."
The greater Perl philosophy rents out rooms?
by ramrod (Curate) on Apr 17, 2009 at 13:54 UTC
... quality over quantity.
My early college years this was reversed. I guess you can pick up something positive at these institutes for higher learning!
See also Acme::Drunk
Normally, I prefer red wine, but I did enjoy "Mrs. P's Cashew Wine" when I was in Belize a few years ago. Great stuff :-) (assuming I'm remembering the name of the wine correctly).
by tweetiepooh (Hermit) on Apr 20, 2009 at 13:39 UTC
I like dry wines, had a nice New Zealand dry Reisling at weekend. A good Muscadet sur lie on a hot day.
I love real ciders though. Proper stuff, not too strong or rough but still, unpasturised and made with apples. (Perry is good too, the real stuff again). A local producer makes one with rhubarb in it. Very nice on a hot day.
I like some ales.
I spirits, a good aged rum or metaxa, calvados, cognac.
Nobody could accuse you of being teetotal then!
by papidave (Pilgrim) on Apr 21, 2009 at 18:21 UTC
For myself, Chianti, without hesitation. If the wife is joining me, Johannesburg Riesling. But if switching to beer, one of:
Sam Adams Light
Guinness Stout
depending on the situation.
Grappa. Wow. Bottle of trouble.
by pajout (Curate) on Apr 23, 2009 at 10:56 UTC
Pinot noir or Merlot... Regrettably, Czech country is better for growing white grapes, therefore I cannot select good one whenever I want. So, grappa finally solves it.
by DancesWithBumbleBees (Novice) on Apr 26, 2009 at 06:51 UTC
Really, really.. REALLY cheap boxed Zinfandel.....
Hoping to be able to afford some one day soon.
In a forever search of the not been there, done that (yet)s, especially those rare jewels where no one else has, either..
by herveus (Parson) on Apr 20, 2009 at 12:16 UTC
I'm particularly partial to cheap Iberian red...
by gregor42 (Parson) on Apr 21, 2009 at 13:38 UTC
Beer. Or Barley Wine anyway.
Though I admit that Glühwein is awesome when snowboarding in Austria or Switzerland.
Wait! This isn't a Parachute, this is a Backpack!
Gee... barley wine wasn't on the list. Nor was home made wine. both of which I prefer.
I experimented briefly with running Pegasus Mail in Wine, but it was such a pain, I ended up just switching to Gnus. VMWare is okay if the host system runs a twelve-year-old OS that you never upgrade ever, but as soon as you start running kernel 2.4 or later on the host, you start running into problems, and I don't think there's any way to get VMWare installed on Linux 2.6.
As for the rest of that stuff, I'm not really in that socioeconomic class. Where I come from, there are two kinds of people with regard to alcohol: people who drink beer, and people who don't drink. For me, this has always been an easy decision, because I've never been even remotely tempted to put anything in my mouth that smells anywhere near as bad as beer. I don't really know about wine because, like I said, I'm not really in that economic bracket. We don't buy bottled water, either. I associate wine with hoity-toity people who use funny-shaped glasses that don't have a handle and like as not are actually made out of glass, wear fancy clothes to things other than weddings and funerals, never buy anything off the clearance rack, and probably have a membership at a country club. I'm more in the bracket that saves and re-uses plastic baggies and tries to only buy meat when it's on a pretty good sale.
by stonecolddevin (Parson) on Apr 26, 2009 at 09:34 UTC
Carlo Rossi Sangria. Best $6.00 I've ever spent :-D
by toolic (Bishop) on Apr 20, 2009 at 01:59 UTC
Wine is fine, but whiskey's quicker...
by mr_mischief (Monsignor) on Apr 28, 2009 at 16:58 UTC
That rhymes better with "liquor" in place of "whiskey". ;-)
<pedantic mode>
It ought to be:
"Candy is dandy,
but liquor is quicker."
-- Dorothy Parker
</pedantic mode>
She's also the one who said/wrote:
"Gentleman seldom make passes
At girls who wear glasses."
I'll let you take that up with the Prince of Darkness Himself
by JavaFan (Canon) on Apr 27, 2009 at 18:40 UTC
Swine.
by pileofrogs (Priest) on Apr 22, 2009 at 15:48 UTC
Other: "I wanna go to Palm Spriiiiiings!!"
Istud vinum, bonum vinum, vinum generosum,
reddit virum curialem probum animosum.
--starX
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by bilfurd (Hermit) |
/songwriter. Starting Over has 14 new tracks and is Chris Stapleton's first studio album of new material since 2017. Features the single "Starting Over". Chris has received five Grammy Awards, seven ACM Awards, ten CMA Awards, and five Billboard Music Awards to date and with his first three album he has sold over eight million albums to date, including his debut album Traveller which has sold over four million copies.
Elton John - Jewel Box - Mercury
An in-depth exploration of Elton John and Bernie Taupin's extensive catalogue including early rarities and deep cuts personally curated by Elton John. The release the fans have been waiting for. With an eye watering amount of previously unheard and unreleased tracks this is a treasure trove for Elton John fans. The eight disc box set will be a beautiful hardcover book with discs housed in the back, wrapped in an outer slipcase. The collection spans the period 1965 to 2019. Also Available: And This Is Me [2LP], Rarities & B Sides [3LP] and Deep Cuts [4LP].
The Menzingers - From Exile - Epitaph
Philadelphia-based indie rockers, The Menzingers made great use of their free time during this summer's stay at home order by recording a "re-imagined" acoustic version of their brilliant 2019 album "Hello Exile." Since forming as teenagers in 2006, The Menzingers have shown their strength as rough-and-tumble storytellers, turning out songs equally rooted in frenetic energy and lifelike detail. On From Exile, the band took their lyrical narrative to a whole new level and share their reflections on moments from the past and present: high-school hellraising, troubled relationships, aging and alcohol and political ennui. And while their songs often reveal certain painful truths, they ultimately maintain the irrepressible spirit that's always defined the band. These acoustic interpretations show once again how beautifully crafted these songs really are.
Andrea Bocelli - Believe - Decca
The internationally renowned and beloved Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli releases his breathtaking new album, Believe, celebrating the power of music to soothe the soul. It follows his record-breaking 'Music for Hope' performance at Easter from the historic Duomo cathedral in Milan which was watched live by millions around the globe. It features a previously unreleased track from the late, great Italian composer Ennio Morricone, as well as 'Gratia Plena' – from the critically acclaimed new movie, Fatima –, two duets with award-winning mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli, and for the first time ever Andrea Bocelli has recorded his own interpretations of 'Ave Maria' and 'Padre Nostro' along with familiar favourites such as 'Hallelujah', 'You'll Never Walk Alone' and 'Amazing Grace'. Believe, co-produced by Steven Mercurio and Haydn Bendall, is a collection of uplifting songs that have inspired and sustained Bocelli over the years.
Boris - Amplifier Worship - Third Man Vinyl
Formed in 1992, Boris boldly explores their own vision of heavy music, where words like "explosive" and "thunderous" barely do justice. Using overpowering soundscapes embellished with copious amounts of lighting and billow smoke, Boris has shared with audiences across the planet an experience for all five senses in their concerts, earning legions of zealous fans along the way. First released in 1998, catalog staple Amplifier Worship will see its first-ever reissue with minimalistic album art from the first-press Japanese CD on November 13, 2020 via Third Man Records. The Stoughton gatefold jacket will house both officially remastered LPs, pressed at Third Man Pressing. This will also serve as Amplifier Worship's long-awaited debut across digital streaming services. Amplifier Worship is Boris's most intense and unrelenting album to date. Not for the faint of heart, the group incorporates mythic doom-drones, up-tempo psych-sludge and even a refreshing ribbit into their signature concoction of celestial and heavy music. Amplifier Worship is a critical chapter in the Boris canon. The album is a testament to the group's bullishness in pushing metal to it's uncomfortable and unfamiliar edges. And it is also undoubtedly one of their best.
Boris - Absolutego - Third Man Vinyl
Formed in 1992, Boris boldly explores their own vision of heavy music, where words like "explosive" and "thunderous" barely do justice. Using overpowering soundscapes embellished with copious amounts of lighting and billow smoke, Boris has shared with audiences across the planet an experience for all five senses in their concerts, earning legions of zealous fans along the way. Absolutego is a trek over a staggering mountain of sound. The tension builds with wave after wave of massive feedback, drums leading into a crushing crescendo of full-band repetition and clarity before descending deeper until finally reaching a surreal divebomb purring drone finale. This song takes notes out of the Melvins playbook and pushes the sound to it's absolute logical and visceral extreme. It sets a solid foundation for why Boris is considered to be one of the most important metal bands of the 21st century.
AC/DC - Power Up
John Parish & Polly Jean Harvey - Dance Hall At Louse Point
Lambchop - Trip
Various Artists - Strum & Thrum: The American Jangle Underground 1983 - 1987
The Cranberries - No Need To Argue: Remastered
Sara Bareilles - More Love - Songs from Little Voice Season One
Nas - King's Disease
Keith Richards & The X-Pensive Winos - Live At The Hollywood Palladium: Remastered
Johnny Cash - Johnny Cash And The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Alice In Chains - Facelift
Randall Bramblett - Pine Needle Fire
Jess Gillam - TIME
Parker McCollum - Hollywood Gold EP
George Benson - Weekend In London
Benee - Hey U X
Yves Jarvis - Sundry Rock Song Stock
Phil Campbell & The Bastard Sons - We're The Bastards
Marika Hackman - Covers
Starcrawler - Lizzy B/ w Bet My Brains [Vinyl Single]
Billie Holiday / Sonhouse All Stars - Billie (The Original Soundtrack)
Katatonia - Dead Air
Nick Cave - Idiot Prayer: Nick Cave Alone At Alexandra Palace - Bad Seed Ltd
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The Super Mario Brothers Theme Song
The Lost Woods Theme From The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time
The Rains Of Castamere (Lannister Song From Game Of Thrones)
Toss A Coin To Your Witcher From Netflix Series The Witcher
Harry Potter Theme Main Song
Lost Woods
Imperial March (Star Wars)
Mii Channel Theme
Yoshis Island Lullaby
Yoshis Song Theme
Super Mario Odyssey Theme
Jurassic Park Island Theme
Undertale Megalovania
Concerning Hobbits Lotr
Attack On Titan Intro
We Are Number One
Undertale – Main
Funky Town Lips Inc
In The End Linkin Park
Game Of Thrones Title Theme
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The Lost Woods theme from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time f-A-B-f-A-B-f-A-B-E-D-B-C-B-G-e
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Harry Potter theme Main song a-s-c-b-s-a-s-e-s-s-d-s-s-b-s-s
Lost Woods f-A-B-s-f-A-B-s-f-A-B-E-D-B-G-e
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Mii Channel Theme A-s-C-E-s-C-s-A-f-f-f-s-z-z-z-z
Yoshi's Island Lullaby C-s-B-C-B-s-G-s-A-s-G-A-G-s-c-s
Yoshi's Song Theme d-d-d-d-G-z-d-d-z-G-z-c-d-s-s-s
Super Mario Odyssey Theme d-s-e-s-f-s-d-f-C-B-s-A-s-B-G-s
Jurassic Park Island Theme c-G-s-d-A-s-A-C-s-B-G-A-s-s-s-z
Undertale – Megalovania b-b-A-z-d-z-z-c-z-b-z-a-z-g-a-b
Concerning Hobbits LotR g-a-b-s-d-s-b-s-a-s-g-s-s-z-z-z
Attack on Titan Intro D-s-f-e-s-c-s-d-s-d-f-e-s-c-s-s
We Are Number One d-s-s-A-G-A-G-A-f-s-d-s-z-z-z-z
Undertale – Main c-G-f-c-e-s-e-f-c-f-A-G-s-f-G-z
Funky town – Lips Inc G-G-f-G-z-d-z-d-G-C-B-G-z-z-z-s
In the End – Linkin Park g-s-A-s-A-s-c-s-b-s-b-s-b-s-b-c
Super Mario Sunshine C-D-E-C-z-G-z-e-f-e-f-D-s-s-z-z
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Game of Thrones – Title Theme A-s-s-d-s-s-f-G-A-s-d-s-f-G-e-s
This song is alternatively known as Ground Theme or Overworld Theme. The song was tested, and its initial stage was heard in 1985 at the Super Mario Bros video game on Nintendo Entertainment System.
Tune: e-e-s-e-s-c-e-s-G-z-z-z-g-z-z-z
There is a specific reason behind the title Lost Woods. Because there are multiple paths and by going wrong transport methods directly back towards the entrance zone. You have to simply hear and follow the music. If the beginning is dim, then you're in the wrong direction.
Animal Crossing Island Tune: f-A-B-f-A-B-f-A-B-E-D-B-C-B-G-e
The Rains of Castamere is a popular track from the Television Series Game of Thrones. The song was recorded in the year 2011 and was released to the public on 19 June 2019. This song memorializes the destruction of House Reyne by Tywin Lannister
Tune: a-f-s-s-a-e-s-s-a-f-s-G-s-e-s-s
Toss a Coin to your Witcher is an original song from the popular series on Netflix titled The Witcher. It was released on 22 January 2020. Basically, this song was specially launched for the TV Series, and you will not see it in any novels on which the series is based.
Tune: G-C-E-s-D-C-D-E-s-E-D-C-B-C-s-A
Harry Potter theme Main song is popularly known as Hedwig's Theme. This song was released in 2005, and renowned artist John Willams was a vital member. This song is from Film Music: The Essential Album.
Animal Crossing Island Tune: a-s-c-b-s-a-s-e-s-s-d-s-s-b-s-s
Lost Woods is also one of the popular songs available in the game. Lost Woods has only provided the music of the song. This song is available on Nintendo 64 and Nintendo 3DS platforms.
Tune: f-A-B-s-f-A-B-s-f-A-B-E-D-B-G-e
The Imperial March song is also popularly known as Darth Vader's Theme. It is one of the famous and best symphonic movie themes to today's date. This song has first appeared in The Empire Strikes movie.
Animal Crossing Island Tune: d-s-d-s-d-s-a-f-d-s-a-f-d-s-z-z
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Tune: A-s-C-E-s-C-s-A-f-f-f-s-z-z-z-z
This video game music has a unique challenge on it. It is best summed up with an ambient music pioneer. The last prescription of this song is the most favorite section by many video game developers.
Tune: C-s-B-C-B-s-G-s-A-s-G-A-G-s-c-s
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LEIs of the CSD are part of the information to be reported in settlement fails report by CSDs to competent and relevant authorities and in reports on settlement fails to be made public.
Identification of issuers, offerors and guarantors in the prospectus to be drawn up, approved and published when securities are offered to the public or admitted to trading on a regulated market.
Institutions for occupational retirement provision (IORP).
HK01 section 63(2) of the Banking Ordinance Interim reporting requirements for OTC derivative transactions Derivative transaction reporting: collecting, keeping and maintaining details of certain OTC derivatives transactions by banks (interest rate swap and non-deliverable forward). The interim regime is expected to be replaced by a new regime in 2015. Requested if the entity has one 05.08.2013; amendments made in September 2014 to the HKTR reference manual to remove the flexibility of reporting identify codes other than LEI for transacting parties that are TR members http://www.hkma.gov.hk/media/eng/doc/key-information/guidelines-and-circular/2013/20130628e2.pdf Yes HKMA stated to LEI ROC that Reporting firms are required to provide the HKTR any updates or changes of their own LEIs as well as to verify the status of the LEI(s) of their counterparties regularly to ensure the LEI submitted to the trade repository are up-to-dated. The HKTR performs regular check in the trade repository system to verify the status of the LEIs of the reporting firms.
LEI will be implemented for all participants in the Over-the-Counter (OTC) markets for Rupee Interest Rate derivatives, foreign currency derivatives and credit derivatives in India, in a phased manner Participants in OTC derivative markets Required Several stages depending on the market participants between August 2017 and March 2018 https://rbidocs.rbi.org.in/rdocs/notification/PDFs/NOTI3143399AEE12E684FCF9FEEA7E03E0E9064.PDF#.pdf Yes "Lapsed LEIs will not be deemed valid for Trade Repository (TR) reporting".
Cabinet Office Ordinance on the Regulation of OTC Derivatives, etc.
iii) 3 September 2018 for other counterparties that are trusts or national legal entities, when the sum of the transaction plus the notional amount of all current transactions is more than 35 million UDIS to the date of the transaction http://www.banxico.org.mx/disposiciones/normativa/circular-4-2012/%7B6EE9E8EF-F839-1A10-87D6-9B0C2EC4A008%7D.pdf Yes LEIs "must be in force at the time of the respective Derivative Transactions"
Federal Law No 39-FZ dated 22.04.1996 On Securities Market Bank of Russia Ordinance No. 4104-U, Dated 16 August 2016, On the types of agreements concluded not on organised platforms, the information on which must be reported to repository, persons, that must report such information, process, composition, form and terms of reporting to repository, additional requirements to the process of maintaining the register of agreements by the repository, process and terms of reporting by the repository and also process, composition, form and terms of reporting by the repository to the Bank of Russia OTC derivatives and repo: All OTC derivatives and repo operations must be reported to trade repository. Trade repository will decline to register the operation if the reporting does not contain the LEI of the reporting party.
(SMMD) Monetary policy, statistics: The LEI is requested for the submitting organisation for sterling money market reporting. LEI is also requested for the reporting agent and also counterparty identification. Counterparty identification coverage is determined by MiFIDII. Also includes provisions for branch identifcation.
US05 17 CFR Part 242.
Identification of mortgagers, counterparties, depositories, issuers of stock and bonds in which the insurance company is investing, for reporting to the supervisor. 31.Mar.13 2013 NAIC Annual Statement and 2014 Quarterly Statement Filing |
, purely functional programming language with type inference and lazy evaluation.[28][29] Developed to be suitable for teaching, research and industrial application, Haskell has pioneered a number of advanced programming language features such as type classes, which enable type-safe operator overloading. Haskell's main implementation is the Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC). It is named after logician Haskell Curry.[1]
Haskell's semantics are historically based on those of the Miranda programming language, which served to focus the efforts of the initial Haskell working group.[30] The last formal specification of the language was made in July 2010, while the development of GHC's implementation has continued to extend Haskell via language extensions. The next formal specification is planned for 2020.[3]
Haskell is used in academia[31][32] and industry.[33][34] As of September 2019, Haskell was the 23rd most popular programming language in terms of Google searches[35] for tutorials and made up less than 1% of active users on the GitHub source code repository.[36]
1.1 Haskell 1.0 to 1.4
1.2 Haskell 98
1.3 Haskell 2010
3 Code examples
4 Implementations
5 Notable applications
5.1 Industry
6 Criticism
7 Related languages
8 Conferences and workshops
Following the release of Miranda by Research Software Ltd. in 1985, interest in lazy functional languages grew. By 1987, more than a dozen non-strict, purely functional programming languages existed. Miranda was the most widely used, but it was proprietary software. At the conference on Functional Programming Languages and Computer Architecture (FPCA '87) in Portland, Oregon, there was a strong consensus that a committee be formed to define an open standard for such languages. The committee's purpose was to consolidate existing functional languages into a common one to serve as a basis for future research in functional-language design.[37]
Haskell 1.0 to 1.4[edit]
Type classes, which enable type-safe operator overloading, were first proposed by Philip Wadler and Stephen Blott for Standard ML but were first implemented in Haskell between 1987 and version 1.0.[38][39]
The first version of Haskell ("Haskell 1.0") was defined in 1990.[1] The committee's efforts resulted in a series of language definitions (1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4).
Type classes originated in Haskell
Haskell 98[edit]
In late 1997, the series culminated in Haskell 98, intended to specify a stable, minimal, portable version of the language and an accompanying standard library for teaching, and as a base for future extensions. The committee expressly welcomed creating extensions and variants of Haskell 98 via adding and incorporating experimental features.[37]
In February 1999, the Haskell 98 language standard was originally published as The Haskell 98 Report.[37] In January 2003, a revised version was published as Haskell 98 Language and Libraries: The Revised Report.[29] The language continues to evolve rapidly, with the Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC) implementation representing the current de facto standard.[40]
Haskell 2010[edit]
In early 2006, the process of defining a successor to the Haskell 98 standard, informally named Haskell Prime, began.[41] This was intended to be an ongoing incremental process to revise the language definition, producing a new revision up to once per year. The first revision, named Haskell 2010, was announced in November 2009[2] and published in July 2010.
Haskell 2010 is an incremental update to the language, mostly incorporating several well-used and uncontroversial features previously enabled via compiler-specific flags.
Hierarchical module names. Module names are allowed to consist of dot-separated sequences of capitalised identifiers, rather than only one such identifier. This lets modules be named in a hierarchical manner (e.g., Data.List instead of List), although technically modules are still in a single monolithic namespace. This extension was specified in an addendum to Haskell 98 and was in practice universally used.
The foreign function interface (FFI) allows bindings to other programming languages. Only bindings to C are specified in the Report, but the design allows for other language bindings. To support this, data type declarations were permitted to contain no constructors, enabling robust nonce types for foreign data that could not be constructed in Haskell. This extension was also previously specified in an Addendum to the Haskell 98 Report and widely used.
So-called n+k patterns (definitions of the form fact (n+1) = (n+1) * fact n) were no longer allowed. This syntactic sugar had misleading semantics, in which the code looked like it used the (+) operator, but in fact desugared to code using (-) and (>=).
The rules of type inference were relaxed to allow more programs to type check.
Some syntax issues (changes in the formal grammar) were fixed: pattern guards were added, allowing pattern matching within guards; resolution of operator fixity was specified in a simpler way that reflected actual practice; an edge case in the interaction of the language's lexical syntax of operators and comments was addressed, and the interaction of do-notation and if-then-else was tweaked to eliminate unexpected syntax errors.
The LANGUAGE pragma was specified. By 2010 dozens of extensions to the language were in wide use, and GHC (among other compilers) provided the LANGUAGE pragma to specify individual extensions with a list of identifiers. Haskell 2010 compilers are required to support the Haskell2010 extension and are encouraged to support several others, which correspond to extensions added in Haskell 2010.
Main article: Haskell features
See also: Glasgow Haskell Compiler § Extensions to Haskell
Haskell features lazy evaluation, lambda expressions, pattern matching, list comprehension, type classes and type polymorphism. It is a purely functional language, which means that functions generally have no side effects. A distinct construct exists to represent side effects, orthogonal to the type of functions. A pure function can return a side effect that is subsequently executed, modeling the impure functions of other languages.
Haskell has a strong, static type system based on Hindley–Milner type inference. Its principal innovation in this area is type classes, originally conceived as a principled way to add overloading to the language,[42] but since finding many more uses.[43]
The construct that represents side effects is an example of a monad. Monads are a general framework that can model different kinds of computation, including error handling, nondeterminism, parsing and software transactional memory. Monads are defined as ordinary datatypes, but Haskell provides some syntactic sugar for their use.
Haskell has an open, published specification,[29] and multiple implementations exist. Its main implementation, the Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC), is both an interpreter and native-code compiler that runs on most platforms. GHC is noted for its rich type system incorporating recent innovations such as generalized algebraic data types and type families. The Computer Language Benchmarks Game also highlights its high-performance implementation of concurrency and parallelism.[44]
An active, growing community exists around the language, and more than 5,400 third-party open-source libraries and tools are available in the online package repository Hackage.[45]
Code examples[edit]
See also: Haskell features § Examples
A "Hello, World!" program in Haskell (only the last line is strictly necessary):
module Main (main) where -- not needed in interpreter, is the default in a module file
main :: IO () -- the compiler can infer this type definition
main = putStrLn "Hello, World!"
The factorial function in Haskell, defined in a few different ways:
-- Type annotation (optional, same for each implementation)
factorial :: (Integral a) => a -> a
-- Using recursion (with the "ifthenelse" expression)
factorial n = if n < 2
else n * factorial (n - 1)
-- Using recursion (with pattern matching)
factorial 0 = 1
factorial n = n * factorial (n - 1)
-- Using recursion (with guards)
factorial n
| n < 2 = 1
| otherwise = n * factorial (n - 1)
-- Using a list and the "product" function
factorial n = product [1..n]
-- Using fold (implements "product")
factorial n = foldl (*) 1 [1..n]
-- Point-free style
factorial = foldr (*) 1. enumFromTo 1
As the Integer type has arbitrary-precision, this code will compute values such as factorial 100000 (a 456,574-digit number), with no loss of precision.
An implementation of an algorithm similar to quick sort over lists, where the first element is taken as the pivot:
quickSort :: Ord a => [a] -> [a]
-- Using list comprehensions
quickSort [] = [] -- The empty list is already sorted
quickSort (x:xs) = quickSort [a | a <- xs, a < x] -- Sort the left part of the list
++ [x] ++ -- Insert pivot between two sorted parts
quickSort [a | a <- xs, a >= x] -- Sort the right part of the list
-- Using filter
quickSort [] = []
quickSort (x:xs) = quickSort (filter (<x) xs)
++ [x] ++
quickSort (filter (>=x) xs)
Implementations[edit]
All listed implementations are distributed under open source licenses.[46]
Implementations that fully or |
, Kate Bekinsale is great as Donna his wife, and Christopher Walken is excellent as always as Morty, the Bed, Bath and Beyond Employee. David Hasselhoff, Henry Winkler, and Jennifer Coolidge are funny in their supporting roles in this film. Australian audiences expecting to see Sophie Monk in a major role will be disappointed as she is honestly a very minor character in the film, in contrast to what the Comedy Chanel is running about her on Foxtel/Austar.All in all I do recommend seeing this film, if not to learn a valuable lesson about priorities in life, but to have a laugh and to enjoy a film that is better than what was expected of it.
Must See (by lisa81659)
I have to say I did not expect to enjoy this movie. My son wanted to see it and finally I gave in & said yes. I thought I was going to have to sit through an hour & a half of mindless comedy. WRONG! This movie did not have a slow moment. There were plenty of laughs for all ages. The 10 yr olds with me didn't get the meaning behind the movie but enjoyed every moment of it. When the movie was over people clapped and were saying that was a great movie. You really must see it! I think a movie that keeps the attention of children and adults is absolutely worth seeing. Although it was <more>
full of laughs, keep a napkin handy for a few moments of tears.....
Amazing movie, top to bottom... (by minorchord)
What a pleasant surprise "Click" turned out to be! Based on the trailer, one can assume that Adam Sandler, playing Michael Newman in his latest movie, has made a movie that is just like Adam Sandler's last movie... and Adam Sandler's movie before that... and the one before that... i.e., the comedy at which you groan, shake your head, say "what the...", and yet can't help from laughing out loud. That's what you get in the first hour of this film. That hour is also as much as the trailer shows, and for good reason.Director Frank Coraci, who also worked with <more>
Adam Sandler in directing The Waterboy and The Wedding Singer, makes excellent use of a technique that should be taken advantage of more often by more directors. He sets us up in the aforementioned first hour of the movie for laughs, and manages to do this quite a few times, and not just with the moments seen in the trailer like other comedies. And, based on one's presupposed knowledge of the typical Adam Sandler movie, one expects there to be a spiral out of control for Michael, a realization of the "right thing to do" and everything to end happily with a monologue and one final punchline, all while remaining light-hearted and humorous. However, having this expectation makes the power and the drama of the movie's second hour so much more heartfelt and emotional. This drama never comes off as forced or unnecessary, because the pacing of the transition between the two utterly different tempos is perfect. Steve Koren and Mark O'Keefe, the co-writers of this movie, used a similar technique in "Bruce Almighty", and it worked very effectively there, as well.There's not much to be said about the ending without the possibility of spoiling it for someone, but suffice to say it accomplishes what it needs to accomplish without making you feel like you've just been cheated.Far and away the best movie I've seen all year; likely one of the best I have or will seen for many, many years. There's so much more to see in this movie than what the trailer offers. See it... you won't regret it.
Adam Sandler's best movie (by xnightwingx)
Click is by far Adam Sandler's best movie.. and that ISN'T a cheap shot at his previous films.Sandler has done a ton of comedy movies with terrible jokes and corny plots, and until Anger Management really he didn't have much to his characters other than his goofiness.He reminds me of Jim Carey before The Truman Show - just comedy, no substance.The trailers for Click feature some of the comedic scenes of the movie, but don't worry there are a ton more that aren't spoiled. That being said, this movie isn't all that the trailers portray it to be.If you're going to see <more>
Click solely for a good laugh, you'll love the first 45 minutes and hate the rest of it. The script takes a swerve closer to the end and, unlike any of Sandler's previous movies, the "down" part of the movie where the main character goes through rough times is actually very well done. Click goes from being a comedy to a drama - just for a little while.The dramatic portion of the movie allows Sandler to act as a regular human being; a man who faces the real life consequences of putting his work ahead of his family. It's something a lot of people can relate to, and all of the characters in the movie contribute to the storyline very well.Click provides great comedy and Sandler's best dramatic performance in a movie. It's clean enough for the kids okay, the early teenagers, a good laugh with the guys or girls, and turns out to be a surprisingly good date movie.Thumbs up
Funny & Touching - A Good Combination (by ccthemovieman-1)
This was a funny and - near the end - a touching movie. That's a nice combination to have. My only complaint is that it certainly isn't "family fare" for a nice story and should have been rated "R," not PG-13. There's simply too much sexual material and and f-word for PG-13. With some editing, this could have been a great story for everyone.However, for us adults who like to laugh, there is plenty in here to do that. The jokes come pretty fast, right from the get-go. The premise would good: with a television-like remote control, you could control your life. <more>
You could fast-forward through all the unpleasant scenes in your life, or freeze frame something that is happening now, or you could go back into time with your life. It all sounds good, but as our main character "Michael Newman" Adam Sandler found out, it's not so cool. That's a key message here, too, that avoiding the bad things is not necessarily what's best for us. The major message, however, was that spending time with your family is more important than putting your job ahead of them, as far as priorities go. That theme leads to some touching scenes in the final 30 minutes of this comedy. As funny as this film is, you would be hard-pressed not to have some tears in your eyes at some point near the end of this film.Sandler plays a typical role for him, and utters some great lines and uses sight gags as well for plenty of his laughs. Kate Bekinsale, who plays his wife "Donna," looks absolutely beautiful, the prettiest I've seen her since "Pearl Harbor." She plays a nice lady in here, too. Their little kids - especially the girl Tatum McCann - are cute and funny at times. I won't mention the dog. I can't without being crude. Christopher Walken is here, and that usually means good news as he tends to play fun-and-interesting characters. Unfortunately - just a warning - this comedy, as so many modern-day ones are, has its share of crude moments, some language and the above-mentioned sexual material. Overall, it was extremely, entertaining, however.
Refreshing comedy gags meets heartfelt, reflective story to appreciate life's little details (by nic-165)
Going in to this movie I expected to have the normal 2 hour thoughtless escape from everyday life that these type movies normally deliver. Instead I laughed. I even cried. I left pleasantly surprised. Leaving the theatre I couldn't help reflect upon the need to really appreciate life's little moments and close friends and family more. Walken was outstanding. Sandler was effective and really funny in his toned down approach to this more intelligent comedy than the usual Sandler fare. Kate Beckinsale is very lovable as the wife and mother of his children and Hasslehoff couldn't have <more>
been more perfectly cast as the cluelessly self-absorbed exec/ boss. I liked it a lot and I'm not normally one to feel either way about these type of movies. I'd go see it next time with family and friends that I really should spend more time with anyway!
Surprisingly touching (by FilmLover-4)
This movie surprised us. We cried. Yes, we cried. The trailer barely tells you what the movie is about. There were some unfunny dumb things having to do with dogs, etc. no one in the theater laughed much and some cheeseball stuff, but the emotional core of the movie delivers a wallop that is unexpected. Along the lines of a sort of combination of "Family Man" and "It's a Wonderful Life" -- more "Family Man" -- this movie didn't just bring tears to eyes, it makes you cry. Because of that, I liked it and give it a thumbs up. The annoying stuff is a <more>
relatively small price to pay for the lessons the core stuff teaches. Lastly, Kate Beckinsdale the epitome of domestic beauty in this movie is absolutely a dream and the actress that played her grown daughter had eyes that matched -- well done. Enough said.
Where did the old Adam Sandler go? (by |
public void handleMessage(Message msg) {
switch (msg.what) {
case PublicFunc.HANDLER_CODE_EDIT_OPTION:
final Goods goods = (Goods) msg.obj;
if (goods == null) return;
PublicFunc.getMerchandise(goods.getGoods_type(), goods.getGoodsId(), new Handler() {
@Override
public void handleMessage(Message msg) {
if (msg.what == 1) {
Merchandise merchandise = (Merchandise) msg.obj;
String[] optionArr = goods.getOptions().split("\\|");
if (optionArr.length > 0) {
for (int i = 0; i < optionArr.length; i++) {
String[] optionDetial = optionArr[i].split(":");
for (ProductOption option : merchandise.options) {
if (option.name.equals(optionDetial[0])) {
for (int j = 0; j < option.values.size(); j++) {
String value = option.values.get(j);
if (value.equals(optionDetial[1])) {
option.selected = j;
break;
}
}
break;
}
}
}
}
if (optionPop!= null)
optionPop.show(null);
optionPop = new OptionPop(getActivity(), merchandise, new Handler() {
@Override
public void handleMessage(Message msg) {
switch (msg.what) {
case PublicFunc.HANDLER_CODE_REFRESH_SHOPPINGCART:
goodsList.clear();
goodsList.addAll(DataSupport.findAll(Goods.class));
adapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
break;
}
}
}, OptionPop.STYLE_KEEP,
new OnValueItemClickListener() {
@Override
public void onClick(int optionIndex, int valueIndex) {
}
});
optionPop.setStyle(optionPop.STYLE_KEEP);
optionPop.show(shoppingList);
}
}
});
break;
}
}
};
public static ShoppingCartFragment newInstance() {
Bundle args = new Bundle();
ShoppingCartFragment fragment = new ShoppingCartFragment();
fragment.setArguments(args);
return fragment;
}
@Override
public void onActivityCreated(@Nullable Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onActivityCreated(savedInstanceState);
toolbar.setNavigationOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
@Override
public void onClick(View view) {
if (selectAll.isChecked())
selectAll.performClick();
((MainActivity) getActivity()).onNavigationItemSelected(((MainActivity) getActivity()).bottomView.getMenu().getItem(0));
}
});
rightBtn.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
@Override
public void onClick(View view) {
String viewText = ((Button) view).getText().toString();
if (TextUtils.equals(viewText, "编辑")) {
adapter.setStyle(ShoppingCartItemAdapter.STYLE_EDIT);
adapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
((Button) view).setText("完成");
} else if (TextUtils.equals(viewText, "完成")) {
((Button) view).setText("编辑");
adapter.setStyle(ShoppingCartItemAdapter.STYLE_VIEW);
adapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
}
}
});
selectAll.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
@Override
public void onClick(View view) {
boolean isSelected = selectAll.isChecked();
for (Goods item : goodsList) {
item.setSelected(isSelected);
}
adapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
selectCount = changeButtonState();
}
});
toBuyBtn.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
@Override
public void onClick(View view) {
if (selectCount > 0) {
Bundle bundle = new Bundle();
ArrayList<Goods> selects = new ArrayList<Goods>();
for (Goods item : goodsList) {
if (item.isSelected()) {
selects.add(item);
}
}
bundle.putParcelableArrayList("shoppinglist", selects);
Intent intent = new Intent(getActivity(), ConfirmOrderActivity.class);
intent.putExtras(bundle);
startActivity(intent);
}
}
});
}
@Nullable
@Override
public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, @Nullable final ViewGroup container, @Nullable Bundle savedInstanceState) {
view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.layout_shopping_cart, container, false);
emptyView = (RelativeLayout) view.findViewById(R.id.id_empty_view);
toolbar = (Toolbar) view.findViewById(R.id.toolbar);
titleTV = (TextView) view.findViewById(R.id.tool_bar_title_text);
rightBtn = (Button) view.findViewById(R.id.id_tool_bar_ritht_button);
shoppingList = (RecyclerView) view.findViewById(R.id.id_shopping_list);
selectAll = (CheckBox) view.findViewById(R.id.id_select_all);
toBuyBtn = (Button) view.findViewById(R.id.id_to_buy);
titleTV.setText("购物车");
rightBtn.setText("编辑");
LinearLayoutManager layoutManager = new LinearLayoutManager(getActivity());
shoppingList.setLayoutManager(layoutManager);
getShoppingList();
changeView();
selectCount = changeButtonState();
adapter = new ShoppingCartItemAdapter(goodsList);
adapter.setOnShoppingCartItemSelectedistener(new OnShoppingCartItemSelectedistener() {
@Override
public void onSelected(int id, boolean isSelect) {
changeCheckBoxState();
selectCount = changeButtonState();
}
});
adapter.setHandler(handler);
adapter.setOnRemoveShoppingCartItemListener(new OnRemoveShoppingCartItemListener() {
@Override
public void onRemoveItem(final int id) {
Goods item = goodsList.get(id);
item.delete();
goodsList.remove(id);
adapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
changeView();
changeButtonState();
}
});
shoppingList.setAdapter(adapter);
int space = getResources().getDimensionPixelSize(R.dimen.space_two);
shoppingList.addItemDecoration(new SpaceItemDecoration(space));
return view;
}
private void changeCheckBoxState() {
boolean isAllSelected = true;
if (goodsList.size() == 0) isAllSelected = false;
else
for (Goods item : goodsList) {
if (!item.isSelected()) {
isAllSelected = false;
break;
}
}
if (isAllSelected)
selectAll.setChecked(true);
else
selectAll.setChecked(false);
}
private void changeView() {
if (goodsList.size() == 0) {
shoppingList.setVisibility(View.GONE);
emptyView.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
selectAll.setChecked(false);
selectAll.setClickable(false);
} else {
shoppingList.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
emptyView.setVisibility(View.GONE);
selectAll.setClickable(true);
}
}
private void getShoppingList() {
goodsList.clear();
goodsList.addAll(DataSupport.findAll(Goods.class));
LogUtils.d(MyApplication.TAG, "ShoppingCartCount:" + goodsList.size());
}
private int changeButtonState() {
int count = 0;
for (Goods item : |
teamed up with a toy marketer in pitching Special Forces action figures to grade-school aged children. Kids with the toys can go to a Web site that exhorts them to "Enlist!" -- and by doing so they can "train" and go on missions.
This obviously is an effort by the Pentagon get kids thinking about joining the military well before they're old enough to make that decision. It's a positively Orwellian instance of inculcating militarism.
The Pentagon is hardly the first to do this.
Who can forget the Red Dawn era uproar that Nicaraguan text books taught first graders to count with illustrations of AK-47s rather than apples? Truly evidence Daniel Ortega was planning an invasion up through Mexico way!
Well, not exactly a blind eye. In fact, in the 80s, the mujahideen ran an Educational Center for Afghanistan that had "children's books designed for it by University of Nebraska under a $50 million USAID grant... A third-grade mathematics textbook asks: 'One group of mujahideen attack 50 Russian soldiers. In that attack 20 Russians are killed. How many Russians fled?' A fourth-grade textbook ups the ante: 'The speed of a Kalashnikov bullet is 800 meters per second. If a Russian is at a distance of 3200 meters from a mujahid, and that mujahid aims at the Russian's head, calculate how many seconds it will take for the bullet to strike the Russian in the forehead.' The program ended in 1994 but the books continued to circulate: 'US-sponsored textbooks, which exhort Afghan children to pluck out the eyes of their enemies and cut off their legs, are still widely available in Afghanistan and Pakistan, some in their original form.'"
It's creepy when Sandinistas or madrassas militarize kids in schools; it's creepy when the Pentagon seeks to do so through the marketplace. Of course, one can't look at this effort in isolation. It fits in with a broader, multibillion Pentagon public-relations effort. It's the kinderfront.
Will Charlie Sykes stop humiliating himself by tying stock market performance to Obama?
For months now, Charlie Sykes gets positively tumescent every time the market opens lower.
Because it shows Obama Did Something Wrong. Regardless of whether, you know, that assertion has any connection to reality.
He opened his show Monday pimping that same line.
Unless, you know, a 0.1 percent drop equals mass disagreement with the Obama Administration.
Now, we all know Charlie Sykes finds it difficult to remain married to women who bear him children.
We also know that Charlie runs a balance on credit cards (despite his exhortations to thrift) and gets hoodwinked by solicitations.
On Monday Charlie added to his impressive resume of ineptitude by revealing he can't return rental movies on time.
"I don't like to go to Blockbuster because I never bring it back on time," he said.
From the ayatollah of personal responsibility: Interesting.
Charlie Sykes took Milwaukee Magazine editor Bruce Murphy to task on his "blog" (if that's what you call an introductory sentence that links to Victor Davis Hanson or Charles Krauthammer) and on the air Monday over the cover of the latest issue of magazine.
Yes, it's a major journalism scandal.
"This is what happens when you get a little bit sloppy and a little bit lazy, Bruce," Chuck, ever the clever guy in class who covered his nuts in the locker room shower, snipped.
Of course, the context behind Sykes jumping on this utter nothingburger of a story is that Murphy has repeatedly -- deservedly and fairly almost to a fault -- pointed out that Charlie Sykes is full of crappity crap crap. Murphy pointed out Sykes was full of crappity crap crap when he pointed out Sykes' criticisms of the deep tunnel were off base. Then Murphy ran this expose of how Charlie is such a wuss that he wouldn't talk to fellow WTMJ talker about how Sykes is the kind of guy who would ride a Harley in loafers. Then, when Charlie sought to defend himself -- by attacking the messenger -- Murphy absolutely punk'd him.
The humorous thing is that Sykes -- as he noted on air -- was once editor of Milwaukee Magazine. (Sykes failed to mention he was canned, however.) And you know what? Sykes was not a bad editor (as a reporter/writer I would contend his work suffered from being overly pretentious, wordy and thinking buzzwords substituted for thought or clear writing -- "But particularly as power becomes more diffused in the private sector because of changes in the local economy, the burden of responsibility to move the status quo off dead center will shift inexorably to the public sector, for it alone can mobilize the resources and serve as a central focal point for major initiatives on issues ranging from the lakefront to a new arena to a blueprint for economic development." -- March 1985. Somewhere in there it seems Sykes is advocating for government to play a role in economic development.) He commanded a fairly impressive staff. Michael Wilmington was his movie critic. Jim Romenesko was his media critic. And he had this investigative writer named, whatsit, Bruce Murphy?
Ah, yes. From the March 1986 issue. "The story [MSO's financial troubles] marks Bruce's return to the magazine after an absence of more than a year and a half. [He went to the Isthmus)]... In January, he rejoined Milwaukee Magazine as an associate editor, and his feature, "The Unfinished Symphony," is a forerunner of much more to come. We are delighted to have him back."
Here's the deal: Murphy, while not without flaws (hiring Jessica McBride to write a piece that whitewashes drug trafficker Vang Pao -- after she had defended him on her blog and castigated the feds on her blog for charging some misfits trying to blow up stuff in Laos, f'rinstance), is a first-rate journalist. He puts Charlie Sykes to shame. Charlie has never, in his career, produced anything that rivals the work Murphy did in bringing the pension scandal to light. As he does so often, Sykes is exhibiting inadequacy issues.
And the Brawler suggests Sykes stops reminding people he was once editor of Milwaukee Magazine and a contender for respectability. Instead of a right wing shill and a bum. Which is what he has become.
Meanwhile, the Brawler would note that the photographer who shot the Milwaukee Magazine (and the MKE) cover fessed up in comments on Charlie's blog that the fault lies with him. Presumably Sykes expects Murphy to be familiar with every MKE cover of the past two years -- rich given Sykes often seems ignorant of the topics upon which he's demagoging.
Why is the Pentagon marketing to grade school kids?
So the Brawler was at Target the other day, checking out the toy aisles, and happened upon some military action figures. The thing that separated these from the GI Joe or Bravo Team figures is that one of the packages was emblazoned with the Army logo on them... and upon closer inspection it turned out that all the members of the Freedom Ops Network were licensed to the toy manufacturer by a military branch (you got your Navy Seal frogman, your green beret, etc.).
Not only that, kids can go online, enter the info on the dog tags accompanying the toys to "enlist." Then they can play virtual games -- going through training, going on missions -- with their little toy soldiers. Kind of webkinz... with guns.
A new military invasion is underway across America -- one that teaches children the revered values that make the U.S. Special Forces heroes in the ongoing fight for freedom -- as the innovative Freedom Ops Network line of authentic, licensed action figures launches in top mass-market and toy retailers nationally in January 2009.
Players can log onto the unique Freedom Ops Network website at www.FreedomOpsNet.com to learn about that figure, their training and their special skills. In addition, players can explore their very own training mission with tips for learning the training methods and teamwork-building skills needed to become a member of the U.S. Special Forces.
"The nation's respect for and interest in these heroes is very, very strong and we want to help celebrate their accomplishments," said David Hynes, managing partner of Hooga Loo/RHIP Toyz. "We created this toy line to appeal to boys ages six to 11, as well as collectible items for active and retired military members and military toy collectors. Based on the strong initial retail acceptance of the line, we expect this to be a very popular product."
Given that they're in the same toy aisle as Star Wars figures and right next to GI Joe, the Brawler assumes the primary audience is six to 11 year-olds. And while the Pentagon gets a cut of the sales, the Brawler figures that the Pentagon is more interested in getting into the mindspace of very young kids to make the military look cool.
Indoctrinating an audience that someday will be of prime fighting age -- and may be more disinclined to enlist than previous age cohorts given the lessons of Iraq -- is shrewd. But the fact that the military and warfare is not a game makes it somewhat... questionable from an ethical standpoint.
Given that the military recruiting activities on high school campuses have generated no small amount of controversy in recent years, the Brawler is somewhat surprised that the Pentagon would deploy a pre-recruiting tactic targeting grade-school kids. But |
ra and the fortress Fatehpur Sikri.
In 2013 we had a chance to visit Lucknow and Kanpur on the occasion of an invitation to a wedding of one of our employees.
Uttar Pradesh used to be at the heart of the vast empire called Hindustan, ruled by the Mughals (emperor) Babur, Humayun and Akbar. After 1720, however, wars of succession, the growth of religious intolerance (first Mughal preached religious tolerance) and the beginning of British colonialism had brought their rule to an end. The new ruling family of Awadh, also known as Oudh, became established in the territory of the present State of Uttar Pradesh, originally with British support. Their title was Nawabs (meaning rulers, kings, similarly to the title of Mughals). Their reign lasted from 1719 until 1858 until, as a result of the Indian Rebellion, the government of British East India Company in India was replaced by direct government of the British Crown.
Lucknow and Kanpur played a major part in the Indian Mutiny of 1857 (related to also as Sepoy Mutiny or the First War of Indian Independence.) The rebellion started in the army because of various grievences however culminated when the soldiers were asked to bite off the paper cartridges for their rifles which were greased by animal fat, namely by beef and pork. That was against the religious feelings both of the Hindus and of the Muslims.
Kanpur. The sepoys in Kanpur rebelled in June 1857 against General Wheeler and besieged the European entrenchement. Wheeler was not only a veteran and respected soldier, but also married to a high-caste Indian lady. He had relied on his own prestige, and his cordial relations with the sepoy´s leader Nana Sahib to thwart rebellion, and took comparatively few measures to prepare fortifications and lay in supplies and ammunition. The besieged endured three weeks with little water and food when Nana Sahib made them an offer of safe passage to Allahabad on the provided boats. At the moment of loading on the boats, firing broke out and all finished in a horrible blood shed on both sides. Whether the firing was planned or accidental remained unresolved by both parties blaming each other. Even the British women and children which were taken as hostages and brought to Kanpur were later on murdered when it became clear that Nana Sahib would not be able to hold Kanpur. When the sepoys refused to carry out the order, two Muslim butchers were ordered to carry it out with knives and hatchtes and fill in the well with mutilated bodies.
When the British retook Cawnpore, they organized a retaliation and they hanged or blew from the cannon (a execution method used by moguls) the majority of the sepoy prisoners. Although some claimed the sepoys took no actual part in the killings themselves, the fact was that they did not act to stop it.
Lucknow. In difference to Kanpur, the British Commissioner resident at Lucknow, Sir Henry Lawrence, had enough time to fortify his position inside the Residency compound. The Company forces numbered some 1700 men, including loyal sepoys. The rebels' assaults were unsuccessful, and so they began a barrage of artillery and musket fire into the compound. Lawrence was one of the first casualties. The rebels tried to breach the walls with explosives and bypass them via underground tunnels that led to underground close combat. After 90 days of siege, numbers of Company forces were reduced to 300 loyal sepoys, 350 British soldiers and 550 non-combatants. The attempts to alleviate the besieged were only partially successful. Only early in 1858, a new commander in chief Colin Campbell once again advanced on Lucknow with a large army. He was aided by a large Nepalese contingent advancing from the north, who decided to side with the Company in December 1857. Campbell's advance was slow and methodical, and drove the large but disorganized rebel army from Lucknow with few casualties to his own troops. This nevertheless allowed large numbers of the rebels to disperse into Awadh, and Campbell was forced to spend the summer and autumn dealing with scattered pockets of resistance while losing men to heat, disease and guerrilla actions.
It was a brutal war, with both sides resorting to what would now be described as war crimes. In the end, however, in terms of sheer numbers, the casualties were significantly higher on the Indian side. The rebellion led to the dissolution of the East India Company in 1858. It also led the British to reorganize the army, the financial system and the administration in India. The country was thereafter directly governed by the crown as the new British Raj.
Lucknow – sightseeing. Some monuments that we visited are associated with the most famous period of history of Uttar Pradesh, a rule of Nawabs of Awadh. They were Shia Muslims, who ruled the predominantly Hindu subjects. They were also patrons of the arts, especially of dance, music and of excellent cuisine, which remained maintained in some dishes until today. It was typical for them to have carved a sign of two big fish which they considered to be a symbol of good luck at the entrance gates to the grand palaces and tombs.
Imam Baras (also Imam Barghas ) are actually replicas of tombs dedicated to the Prophet Muhammad and the members of his family, which were built in the year 680 in Karbala on territory of today's Iraq. Bara Imam Bara is a large complex where Nawabs never lived. Its construction was started in 1784, when the king wanted to help his subjects who suffered from hunger after a crop failure and needed another source of livelihood than farming (obviously Nawabs already knew that boom in construction supports development of economy). The complex is still an important religious center, where Muslims celebrate the religious feast of Muharram every year. The main hall is reportedly the largest domed structure in the world, built without any column (50 m long and 15 m high). The stone blocks are wedged into each other without use of any beams. The complex also contains a famous labyrinth that leads up to the top floor and ends with a beautiful view of the city, but it is so complicated that it is not recommended to pass it without a guide (so we better did not risk it).
Bara Imam Bara
Chhota Imam Bara, a similar complex, contains a tomb looking like a smaller replica of the Taj Mahal in Agra. In a big hall there is a collection of chandeliers from all over the world and in the background there is a monumental mosque.
Chhota Imam Bara
British Residence
The history of the resistance of British during siege of their Lucknow residence was already described in the historical chapter above. We visited the places where British held against the rebelling sepoys for 147 days, dying of hunger, disease and constant bombardment. The ruins of houses are still there, including the cemetery, as they had to bury their dead on the spot.
La Martiniere School
The prestigious school, which had during the years some students who became famous, among them the famous pop singer Cliff Richard. It was designed as a palace by the French Major General/architect Claude Martin (his tomb is on the premises). It has an eccentric facade, Romanesque arches, Corinthian columns, decoration partly looking as from a Gothic horror film, partly as from Disneyland castle. However, the college La Martininere in Lucknow is a part of a project which provides a liberal education for children from 5 to 18 years, without distinction of religion - two schools of the same type and name are in Calcutta and three in Lyon, France.
Kanpur - wedding
The wedding to which we were invited took place in Kanpur, two hours drive from Lucknow.
It is an industrial town - there are mainly tanneries and textile industry there. Lucknow was clean and neat. The same cannot be said about Kanpur which also showed marks of poverty. When asked why the city which has such a large industry, is not prospering, the answer was that only the owners of the factories were getting rich, but the city did not have money for sanitation, repair of streets, garbage disposal etc. (probably meaning that the wealthy get even more wealthy because they avoid paying taxes).
It was interesting to get acquainted with the bridegroom´s family who invited us to the wedding. They belong to Sindhis, which are Hindus who lived in Pakistan and had to flee to India after Partition only with a bundle of basic things in their hands. This also happened to bridegroom´s grandfather and grandmother. But they considered themselves lucky that nobody murdered them on the way, because that was happening all the time in this period of both sided exodus, when Hindus organized hunts against the Muslims and Muslims against Hindus. Anyway, they survived and reached Kanpur in 1949 where they were given a small house from the Indian government as compensation. In this house bridegroom´s father was born. We visited the house – it probably did not change too much since 1949, but it was cleanly painted and furnished with care.
In the late afternoon, the wedding procession started to move through the narrow streets of the district. As habitual in the country, the groom was sitting on a white horse, with a small child in front of him, surrounded by people, at the front of the parade a lit float. You have to imagine hundreds of bulbs flashing and recorded Indian traditional music accompanied by drummers beating loudly their drums of all sizes playing at full decibels whilst the procession proceeded slowly forwards. Electricity was procured by a generator with cables connected to the individual attractions which was |
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speculate to their heart's content. There are a large number of 9/11 conspiracy theorists.
Many on both sides of the issue are equally ignorant. Neither side has any shame about demonstrating ignorance.
Both sides of the issue have conspiracy theories. 9/11 was a conspiracy whether a person believes that it was an inside job or that a handful of Arabs outwitted the entire intelligence apparatus of the Western world and the operational response of NORAD and the US Air Force.
For one side to call the other conspiracy theorists is the pot calling the kettle black.
The question turns not on name-calling, but on evidence.
The 9/11 Truth movement was not created by bloggers ranting on their web sites. It was created by professional architects and engineers, some of whom are known for having designed steel high rise buildings. It was created by distinguished scientists, such as University of Copenhagen nano-Chemist Niels Harrit, who has 60 scientific papers to his credit, and physicist Steven Jones. It was created by US Air Force pilots and commercial airline pilots who are expert at flying airplanes. It was created by firefighters who were in the twin towers and who personally heard and experienced numerous explosions including explosions in the sub-basements. It was created by members of 9/11 families who desire to know how such an improbable event as 9/11 could possibly occur.
The professionals and the scientists are speaking from the basis of years of experience and expert knowledge. Moreover, the scientists are speaking from the basis of careful research into the evidence that exists. When an international research team of scientists spends 18 months studying the components in the dust from the towers and the fused pieces of concrete and steel, they know what they are doing. When they announce that they have definite evidence of incendiaries and explosives, you can bet your life that they have the evidence.
When a physicist proves that Building 7 (the stories not obscured by other buildings) fell at free fall speed and NIST has to acknowledge that he is correct, you can bet your life that the physicist is correct.
When fire department captains and clean-up teams report molten steel—and their testimony is backed up with photographs—in the debris of the ruins weeks and months after the buildings' destruction, you can bet your life the molten steel was there. When the same authorities report pumping fire suppressants and huge quantities of water with no effect on the molten steel, you can bet your life that the temperature long after the buildings' destruction remained extremely high, far higher than any building fire can reach.
When the architects, engineers, and scientists speak, they offer no theory of who is responsible for 9/11. They state that the known evidence supports neither the NIST reports nor the 9/11 Commission Report. They say that the explanation that the government has provided is demonstrably wrong and that an investigation is required if we are to discover the truth about the event.
It is not a conspiracy theory to examine the evidence and to state that the evidence does not support the explanation that has been given.
That is the position of the 9/11 Truth movement.
What is the position of the movement's critics? Ted Rall says: "Everything I've read and watched on Truther sites is easily dismissed by anyone with a basic knowledge of physics and architecture. (I spent three years in engineering school.)"
Wow! What powerful credentials. Has Rall ever designed a high rise steel building? Could Rall engage in a debate with a professor of nano-chemistry? Could he refute Newton's laws in a debate with university physicists? Does Rall know anything about maneuvering airplanes? Does he have an explanation why 100 firefighters, janitors, and police report hearing and experiencing explosions that they did not hear or experience?
Clearly, Ted Rall has no qualifications whatsoever to make any judgment about the judgments of experts whose knowledge exceeds his meager understanding by a large amount.
Ann Barnhardt writes: "I gotta tell you, I've just about had it with these 9/11 truthers. If there is one phenomenon in our sick, sick culture that sums up how far gone and utterly damaged we are as a people, it is 9/11 trutherism. It pretty much covers everything: self-loathing, antisemitism, zero knowledge of rudimentary physics and a general inability to think logically." She goes downhill from here.
Amazing, isn't she? Physics professors have "zero knowledge of rudimentary physics."
Internationally recognized logicians have "a general inability to think logically." People trained in the scientific method who use it to seek truth are "self-loathing." If you doubt the government's account you are antisemitic. Barnhardt then provides her readers with a lesson in physics, structural architecture and engineering, and the behavior of steel under heat and stress that is the most absolute nonsense imaginable.
Obviously, Barnhardt knows nothing whatsoever about what she is talking about, but overflowing with hubris she dismisses real scientists and professionals with ad hominem arguments. She adds to her luster with a video of herself tearing out pages of the Koran, which she has marked with slices of bacon, and burning the pages.
Now we come to Alex Cockburn. He is certainly not stupid. I know him. He is pleasant company. He provides interesting intellectual conversation. I like him. Yet, he also arrogantly dismisses highly qualified experts who provide evidence contrary to the official government story of 9/11.
Alex avoids evidence presented by credentialed experts and relies on parody. He writes that the conspiracists claim that the twin towers "pancaked because Dick Cheney's agents—scores of them—methodically planted demolition charges."
Little doubt but there are bloggers somewhere in the vast Internet world who say this. But this is not what the professionals are saying who have provided evidence that the official account is not correct. The experts are simply saying that the evidence does not support the official explanation. More recently, an international team of scientists has reported finding unequivocal evidence of incendiaries and explosives. They have not said anything about who planted them. Indeed, they have said that other scientists should test their conclusions by repeating the research. After calling experts "conspiracy kooks," Alex then damns them for not putting forward "a scenario of the alleged conspiracy."
Moreover, not a single one of the experts believes the towers "pancaked." This was an early explanation that, I believe, was tentatively put forward by NIST, but it had to be abandoned because of the speed with which the buildings came down and due to other problems.
Unlike Rall and Barnhardt, Alex does refer to evidence, but it is second or third-hand hearsay evidence that is nonsensical on its face. For example, Alex writes that Chuck Spinney "tells me that 'there ARE pictures taken of the 757 plane hitting Pentagon—they were taken by the surveillance cameras at Pentagon's heliport, which was right next to impact point. I have seen them both—stills and moving pictures. I just missed seeing it personally, but the driver of the van I just got out of in South Parking saw it so closely that he could see the terrified faces of passengers in windows.'"
If there were pictures or videos of an airliner hitting the Pentagon, they would have been released years ago. They would have been supplied to the 9/11 Commission. Why would the government refuse for 10 years to release pictures that prove its case? The FBI confiscated all film from all surveillance cameras. No one has seen them, much less a Pentagon critic such as Spinney.
I have to say that the van driver must have better eyes than an eagle if he could see expressions on passenger faces through those small airliner portholes in a plane traveling around 500 mph. Try it sometime. Sit on your front steps and try to discern the expressions of automobile passengers through much larger and clearer windows traveling down your street in a vehicle moving 30 mph. Then kick the speed up 16.7 times to 500 mph and report if you see anything but a blur.
Alex's other evidence that 9/11 truthers are kooks is a letter that Herman Soifer, who claims to be a retired structural engineer, wrote to him summarizing "the collapse of Buildings 1 and 2 succinctly." This is what Soifer, who "had followed the plans and engineering of the Towers during construction", wrote to Alex: "The towers were basically tubes, essentially hollow." This canard was disposed of years ago. If Alex had merely Googled the plans of the buildings, he would have discovered that there were no thin-walled hollow tubes, but a very large number of massively thick steel columns.
Alex's willingness to dismiss as kooks numerous acknowledged experts on the basis of a claim that a van driver saw terrified faces of passengers moving at 500 mph and a totally erroneous description in a letter from a person who knew nothing whatsoever about the structural integrity of the buildings means that he is a much braver person than I.
Before I call architects kooks whose careers were spent building steel high rises, I would want to know a lot more about the subject than I do. Before I poke fun at nano-chemists and physicists, I would want to at least be able to read their papers and find the scientific flaws in their arguments.
Yet, none of the people who ridicule 9/11 skeptics are capable of this. How, for example, can Rall, Barnhardt, or Cockburn pass judgment on a nano-chemist with 40 years of experience and 60 scientific publications to his credit?
They cannot, but nevertheless do. They don't hesitate to pass judgment on issues about which they have no knowledge or understanding. This is an interesting psychological phenomenon worthy of study and analysis.
Another interesting phenomenon is the |
together the whole value chain and it will develop sector-relevant innovation clusters across the EU. Call launched in September 2021 with deadline of January 2022.
Clean steel – low-carbon steelmaking: the co-programmed partnership supports EU leadership in transforming the steel industry into a carbon-neutral one, serving as a catalyser for other strategic sectors. By 2027, it will implement at least 2 demonstration projects leading to a 50% reduction in CO2 emissions and achieve technology readiness level 8 by 2030 in at least 12 areas funded by the partnership. The final ambition is to reduce CO2 emissions by 80-95% by 2050, ultimately achieving carbon neutrality. Call launched in October 2021.
Process4Planet:the objective of this co-programmed partnership is to achieve circularity and decarbonisation of European process industries, with a strong focus on competitiveness. Within a cross-sectorial approach, it will develop and deploy the innovations needed for a profound transformation of process industries, e.g., cement, chemical, steel, to achieve the EU Green Deal targets by 2050. The ultimate goal is zero landfilling and water discharge and circular models will be implemented across industrial sectors, value chains and with regions and cities. Call launched in October 2021.
EU Missions: another key novelty in Horizon Europe are EU Missions, a portfolio of actions across disciplines intended to achieve inspirational and measurable goals within a set timeframe that impact on society and policy-making in Europe. Of interest for hydrogen, specific missions will be programmed within the global challenges and European industrial competitiveness pillar, and complement actions carried out under other programmes. Up to 10% of the Pillar II budget for the first three years of the programme could be reserved for Missions. Out of 5 Missions, one is specifically relevant for hydrogen:
Missions on Climate Neutral & Smart Cities, to make cities climate neutral by 2030. The targets by 2030 is to support, promote and showcase 100 European cities in their systemic transformation to climate neutrality and turn these cities into innovation hubs, improving quality of life and sustainability in Europe.
The Cities Mission will involve local authorities, citizens, businesses, investors as well as regional and national authorities to deliver 100 climate-neutral and smart cities by 2030 and ensure that these cities act as experimentation and innovation hubs to enable all European cities to follow suit by 2050.
As foreseen in its implementation plan, the Cities Mission takes a cross-sectoral and demand-led approach, creating synergies between existing initiatives and basing its activities on the actual needs of cities.
The first call runs from 11 January 2022 – 26 April 2022, with an overall indicative budget of €117 million.
The second call runs from 28 April 2022 – 6 September 2022, with an indicative budget of €42 million.
Horizon Europe is structured around a four-year strategic planning document (Strategic Planning 2021-2024) that outlines funding priorities. It includes the content of the specific work programmes, including their timelines, budgets, scope and participation rules. See the work programmes, once published.
Horizon Europe will have a budget of around €95.5 billion for 2021-2027 (in current prices). This long-term certainty ensure complementarity with national, regional, or private investments. This includes €5.4 billion from NextGenerationEU to boost the economic recovery and make the EU more resilient for the future, as well as an additional reinforcement of €4.5 billion.
The Commission provides funding in forms of grants, prizes and procurement to excellent researchers to promote their activities. It also provides funding to develop research infrastructure.
Conditions for application
Funding under Horizon Europe is done through open, competitive calls for proposals (also for European Partnerships and missions), as specified in the biannual work programmes.
Who is eligible for participation?
Any legal entity (natural person or legal person with legal personality), regardless of place of establishment and including legal entities from non-associated third countries or international organisations. This includes researchers and innovators (also individuals), universities, research organisations, companies and consortia.
Legal consortia must include at least one independent legal entity established in an EU country, and at least two other independent legal entities each established in different EU countries or associated countries.
Who is eligible for funding?
Legal entities that are established in an EU country or an associated country.
Entities from non-associated third countries will bear the costs of their participation.
Specific conditions are set out in the call for proposals of the specific work programme and the specific action.
How to apply and when
The timeline for the calls and the application process are defined in the work programmes and the calls. If a one stage submission is the general rule, there is also the possibility of a two-stage submission.
The time to grant general rule is:
5 months maximum for informing all applicants of the outcome of the evaluation of their application since the final date for submission of complete proposals
8 months maximum for signing grant agreements with applicants from the final date for submission of complete proposals
The process may be accelerated via:
The definition of shorter periods for the evaluation of signing of the grant agreement.
The use of a fast-track procedure (FTRI) that allows access to funds for small collaborative consortia in six months maximum, to select research and innovation actions or innovation actions under the pillar 'Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness' and the EIC Pathfinder. In that case support cannot exceed € 2.5 million.
For the European partnerships, once established, each one will have its own programme of joint activities.
Proposals will be evaluated by independent external experts on the basis of excellence, impact, as well as quality and efficiency of the implementation.
For European Innovation Council (EIC) support, the level of risk of the action that would prevent investments, the quality and efficiency of the implementation, and the need for Union support, will also be taken into consideration. The overall coherence of the portfolio of projects is also relevant for the EIC Pathfinder.
The details on the weighting of the proposals, the thresholds, and the way to deal with the ex-aequo proposals, will be provided by the specific work programme and related calls.
Payment modalities
Payment modalities for grants, blending, procurements, prizes and other types of support are defined in the financial regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Union. Financial regulation applicable to the general budget of the Union - Publications Office of the EU (europa.eu)
Specific websites
Specific Work Programmes under Horizon Europe are published on the Funding and Tenders portal
Regulation Horizon Europe 2021/695
Horizon Europe | European Commission (europa.eu)
Horizon Europe Strategic Plan 2021 – 2024
European partnership webpage and partnerships contacts Cluster 5 and Cluster 4
Calls of the Clean Hydrogen Joint Undertaking (formerly the Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking) Call for Proposals | Clean Hydrogen JU
European Innovation Council projects in your region or geographic area
European Research and Innovation Days | Research and Innovation (europa.eu)
Example(s) of supported projects
1) H2020 projects in the Greed Deal Call supporting hydrogen
€90 million Green Deal Call to develop and demonstrate 100 MW electrolyser upscaling the link between renewables and commercial/industrial applications.
Develop and demonstrate 100 MW electrolysers upscaling the link between renewables and industrial applications
Total cost €
€ EU Contribution
REFHYNE II
Clean Refinery Hydrogen for Europe
GreenHyScale
100 MW Green hydrogen production in a replicable and scalable industrial hosting environment
GREENH2SINES
(GREENH2ATLANTIC
100 MW flexible green hydrogen production process sourcing hybrid renewable energy & supplying green hydrogen to multiple end uses
Since there are no projects at this stage yet that have been financed by Horizon Europe, the section below reports as examples the European Green Deal call, which includes as thematic area the demonstration of 100 MW electrolysers, as well as an example of successful large scale demonstration project that has been funded under Horizon 2020.
Call title: The European Green Deal
Description: In October 2020, The European Commission tabled €1 billion under Horizon 2020 to respond to the climate crisis, provide more protection to Europe's biodiversity and habitats under threat, and accelerate a sustainable recovery. The call contains 20 topics spread in 10 thematic areas directly linked with the objectives and work streams of the European Green Deal. In addition to providing concrete, innovative solutions, the call also aimed to improve our knowledge with respect to climate action and sustainability issues as well as to strengthen the engagement of citizens in the European Green Deal objectives.
The call achieved an impressive response from the research and innovation community. 1550 proposals were submitted in total involving over 100 countries across the globe. The total amount requested by the 1550 proposals amounted to over €16 billion.
In total, there are 72 proposals proposed for funding involving almost 1800 participants and requesting an EU contribution of €974 million.
Hydrogen topic: One of the topics under the thematic area 2 'Clean, affordable and secure energy' is the development of a 100 MW electrolyser upscaling the link between renewables and industrial applications. It is expected that selected proposals under this topic will install a 100MW electrolyser as a symbiotic, industrial platform capable of replicating across Europe. This would be a significant blueprint to advance the strategic objective of the European Clean Hydrogen Alliance and contribute to the pipeline of viable investment projects on renewable and low carbon hydrogen.
EU contribution: N.A., since completion of the grant agreement preparation is still ongoing and grant agreement is expected in Q3 2021.
Level of EU funding: N.A. since evaluation is still ongoing
Link to call (closed):the European Green Deal call
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try new things or show off your designing skills as long as they don't make the room look cramped. From bunk beds and alcove beds to artificial nooks and under-bed storage, there are many innovative ways to make your small bedroom look stylish and bigger than it really is. Our selection of these innovative small bedroom designs will surely help you to help you create a bedroom space that may be small in square footage, but is big in style.
This modern bedroom belongs to a modest lakeside cottage nestled into a narrow lot in Tonka Bay. Simple and authentic materials provide a soft and inviting palette for this modern home. Wood finishes in both warm and soft grey tones complement a combination of clean white walls, blue glass tiles, steel frames, and concrete surfaces. The low-bed and small in-built nightstands save a lot of space and look very stylish too. Wall-mounted lamps and sconces save space and also add to the contemporary look of the room. The neutral color palette enhances the simplicity of the design.
Despite the small space, you can make your attic bedroom the most comfortable space in the house. Using some simple tricks you also can make your attic bedroom look spacious and stylish. Instead of a large bed, go for a large day bed. If possible try installing extra storage options in the bed itself. If this is not possible, you can also go for under-bed storage with woven baskets, etc.
What a simple, innovative and effective way to utilize space! This innovative bedroom design makes the best of the small space available by using an elevated bed, side column storage, and the creative use of the staircase. These stairs devoid of stair risers are the perfect way to increase the storage area. You can use it for any kind of storage, especially as a book library as done here. A huge skylight window brings ample light into the room and gives the bedroom a spacious and airy look.
Daybeds are extremely comfortable and spacious despite being smaller than normal beds. They can save a lot of space too, especially if they include extra storage options. Instead of a large bed cramping up the room, the designers installed a comfortable high daybed with storage. This enhances the storage options in the room. Along with the daybed, a small alcove bed by the window provides more seating options. Wall lamps provide ample light and compensate for the lack of nightstands. The fabulous art over the bed brings the attention to the high ceiling making the room look larger than it is.
This bedroom is a true example of Scandinavian minimalism. This bedroom design has only the bare necessities needed in a bedroom. There's a bed, a window for light and air, and a lamp for nighttime illumination. A raised bed also provides an option for under bed storage if needed. Other than that, this bedroom is practically empty. The wooden bed dominates the space and takes up almost three-fourths of the room. It is pushed against the window for better lighting and ventilation. The wooden walls and flooring along with the wooden bed give the bedroom a natural look. Moreover, the closed design of the room gives it a comfortable and cozy feel.
The subtle elements of glamour in this bedroom give it a sophisticated look. The white bedspread, pillows, and headboard complement the white walls nicely. They make the small room look bright, airy, and spacious than it really is. The honeycomb design of the headboard brings in pattern and texture to the decor. The patterned rug brings a splash of color and design to the decor. The golden lamps on the nightstand give a touch of glamour to the decoration. The art displayed on the headboard wall pays homage to silver screen greats like Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Paul Newman, and Liz Taylor. This beautiful bedroom pays homage to the Palm Springs connection to Hollywood Royalty.
When you have a small bedroom space, it is always a good idea to go for bunk beds. Not only do they save space, but they also look good in any form. This particular bedroom design seems inspired by the ocean. The bright blue color certainly reminds one of the clear ocean waters. The beds also have extra storage option below it. Also, the rope design hanging lantern and the length of rope dangling from the ceiling give the bedroom a coastal appeal. All in all the bedroom has a nautical sailor's cabin look which is equally spacious and stylish.
This beautiful guest bedroom is a perfect example of a charming beach cottage bedroom. Pineapple House designed a unique headboard and storage area for this guest bedroom. The headboard is an upholstered wall. The built-in unit surrounds the bed and adds an additional layer of storage and usable shelving. Hence, the whole design looks like a small nook in the wall and has a whimsical appeal to it. The light blue and cream shades of the decor are also a nod to the beach style design of the bedroom.
This beautiful bedroom is certainly designed with great attention to detail. The bed space opens up both outward toward the Rio Grande Gorge and up through the skylight with a clear view of the vast night sky. During the day, you can close the engraved skylight cover to reduce light and keep the space cool. Rolling drawer trays underneath the bed supply plenty of storage for visitors' belongings in addition to the hooks and fold-down desk. Also, individual sconces above the bed and desk provide light for reading or workspace.
The white walls and ceiling of this beach style bedroom make it appear brighter and airier than it really is. The small attic room looks bigger with the white walls and shiplap design. The bed is also painted white to match the walls and give an impression of spaciousness. The white wall lamps save space and add a touch of style to the decor. The light colors and shades of blue along with the shiplap design give the bedroom a coastal look. The weathered look of the headboard and nightstand further add to the coastal appeal of the bedroom. The soft area rug brings warmth to the decor.
When you have a bedroom like this with length but not breadth, placing the bed up against the window can make the room look larger. Although, you should do away with the headboard so that the light from the window can come in easily. A small bed and wall sconces can save you more space. However, if that's not possible an industrial lamp by the bed also looks good. The white walls make the room look bigger and lighter. However, you can go bold with your bedspread in order to bring some color and pattern into the stark decor.
Rustic Bedroom In Sun Valley Family Lodge, Idaho By Miller-Roodell Architects Ltd.
This beautiful family lodge has a rustic farmhouse style appeal. The bunk beds have sliding doors for privacy. This makes them look like alcoves. The raised beds also have drawers beneath them for convenient storage options. Large windows provide ample sunlight while giving a great view of the mountains and the night sky. A simple yet refreshing bedroom to unload and recharge after a hectic day!
This bedroom is part of a tiny 20 square meters apartment that turned into a graceful and multi-functional home due to creative and crafty interior design. The coolest thing about it is the secret storage wall which makes the 20 square meters actually seem spacious. The storage wall consists of a large cabinet full of features including a pull-out dining table which can also be used as a desk, a small pantry, a computer compartment, and a murphy bed. The addition of the Murphy bed greatly reduced the used floor area and made it possible to fit a bedroom, a living room, a dining area and a kitchen in such a tiny space. The transforming elements make a comfortable living, cooking, dining, working, and entertaining all possible, even in a small space.
The cube-shaped bedroom design gives the feel of a separate room despite being in the same room. The 'Sleeping Box' design of this apartment was a request from the owners to save more space. It is a multifunctional cube-like structure which holds the bedroom, bathroom, and closet in one place. The hidden compartments in the design give the look of a small bedroom when closed and work as a closet and bathroom too. A sliding door provides enough privacy in the bedroom from the rest of the house. Recessed lights in the ceiling illuminate the cozy room while a comfortable closed box gives a feeling of safety.
The owners of this house wanted to transform their Broad Ripple Bungalow into a light-filled family space for their creative lifestyle. This bright and simple bedroom is certainly a refreshing change from the hustle and bustle of daily life. The bright white walls and neutral tones of the decor make it feel light and cheerful. A sliding wooden door provides ample security to this open concept master bedroom design. Despite the small space, this bedroom shares space with an open bathroom. Wall lamps provide light and eliminate the need of a nightstand. The soft bed and comfortable bedcovers give the room a warm and cozy look.
This lofted bedroom is the private zone of the condo hidden behind the central wall in the home. Even with the limited space, this bedroom offers enough privacy from the rest of the house. To create more floor space, the queen-sized bed is lofted over a built-in desk, bookshelves, laundry, and closet. Plumbing pipe ladders on either side of the bed offer easy ascent and descent from the loft. You can also use them as additional storage for decorative bedding. The functional design of this home manages to pack in ample storage and high style on a tight budget of money, space, and time.
This one bedroom loft turns into a two bedroom one with this hidden murphy bed in the living room. The secret space has its own identity with an up |
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Imagine how the juices will flow on the high seas for saxophonist Richard Elliot, who says he gets much of his creative inspiration from behind the wheel of his car in L.A. traffic. The Scottish-born musician has been on the music scene for more than three decades and released his 17th solo album, Lip Service, in July 2014. The project features seven original compositions along with three covers of soul and pop hits from the 80s ("Shining Star" by The Manhattans), 90s ("Anytime" by Brian McKnight) and present day ("When I Was Your Man" by Bruno Mars). Richard Elliot got his start at age 19 with the Chapman Stick-based quartet Kittyhawk, played in soul band Tower of Power in the 80s and has continued topping the charts and touring the world as both solo artist and with innovative groups like Guitars & Saxes and, most recently, Summer Horns (comprised of Mindi Abair, Gerald Albright and Dave Koz).
Keiko Matsui
In Japan, it is said that if children begin music lessons on June 1 following their fifth birthday, they will keep studying for a long time. Pianist Keiko Matsui was taken to her first piano lesson on that very day when she was five and she hasn't looked back since. After the release of her 1987 solo debut album Drop of Water, Keiko has become an icon of contemporary jazz, with nearly 1.2 million units sold in the U.S. alone and packed concert halls. Her elegant piano melodies and gentle jazz grooves have enormous appeal and never disappoint her loyal fanbase which Keiko has cultivated with over 20 albums and jaw-dropping live shows. No stranger to the upper reaches of the contemporary jazz album and airplay charts, Keiko was named Top Indie Contemporary Jazz Artist Of The Year by Billboard Magazine in 1996, among many other awards and honors.
Peter White
In a career that spans nearly four decades, over a dozen solo recordings and countless performances, Peter White has maintained a reputation as one of the most versatile and prolific acoustic guitarists on the contemporary jazz landscape. Armed with an unparalleled combination of lyricism and energy, he combines elements of jazz, pop and classical guitar to create a sound that is singular and at the same time accessible to a broad audience. Barely a year after his first professional gig in England at 19 years old, he was invited to join Al Stewart's band. In addition to opening for artists like Linda Ronstadt, Billy Joel and Queen, White worked with Stewart in the studio on The Year of the Cat, which became a huge hit for Stewart in 1976. His 20-year association with Stewart included co-writing Stewart's 1978 hit, "Time Passages." White launched his solo recording career with the 1990 release of Reveillez-Vous. On the road, he has participated in numerous "Guitars and Saxes" tours with players such as Rick Braun, Richard Elliot, Jeff Golub, Lee Ritenour, Kirk Whalum and Boney James, and has established an annual "Peter White Christmas Tour."
Eric Marienthal Music Director
Eric Marienthal
Saxophonist and The Smooth Jazz Cruise Music Director Eric Marienthal has won 2 Grammy Awards and has been nominated 8 times as a member of the Chick Corea Elektric Band, Jeff Lorber Fusion and Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band. Having performed in over 80 countries and played on hundreds of recordings, films and TV shows, Eric also has recorded 15 solo recordings including his latest entitled Double Dealin' with legendary trumpeter Randy Brecker. Eric's recordings have produced several top 10 radio singles including three tunes that reached #1 on its respective chart.
Eric is the recipient of the Berklee College of Music Distinguished Alumnus Award for outstanding achievements in contemporary music and earned the highest proficiency grades in the esteemed history of that institution. Eric was also named one of the top 3 alto saxophonists in Jazziz Magazine's Reader's Poll along with Phil Woods and David Sanborn.
For the past 22 years Eric has organized an annual charity concert for the High Hopes Head Injury Program in Tustin, CA. These concerts have raised awareness for this great organization and have raised over 2 million dollars.
For the past few years, Eric has applied his vast knowledge and experience in the world of jazz to being the Music Director for The Smooth Jazz Cruise and Blue Note at Sea. In that challenging role, Eric is charged with curating the performances, schedules and support for 100's of the top musicians in the world. His ability to perform this task with skill and professionalism has made the quality of the programming on those sailings among the very best in the world.
Driven by the ever-evolving musical vision of core members – Brothers Eric and Billy Mondragon and close family friend Damon Reel – Southern California's premiere R&B, funk and contemporary powerhouse band DW3's deepening artistry continues to transcend a well-earned reputation as a high energy, fun and freewheeling party band. Eric, Billy and Damon all contribute lead and harmony vocals, while Eric plays keys (including synth horns and strings) and Billy adds percussion.
Building on the success of their single, "I Got You" featuring Gerald Albright, (#16 on the Billboard charts) and the On The Floor album that went #1 on the UK soul charts, DW3 has now expanded to nine a piece ensemble. The addition of a horn section really sets the tone for their live shows. The truth is in the twelve tracks of their Vintage Truth CD.
The band also continues to entertain Festival and Entertainment Cruise Productions guests several times a year. The versatile ensemble is rapidly emerging as a multi-faceted recording outfit in their own right.
Marcus Anderson
An incredible fusion jazz artist with ten studio albums on his list of accomplishments, saxophonist Marcus Anderson brings R&B, Pop, Rock, Latin and Funk to make music that puts listeners in another atmosphere. Charting number one in both categories of Billboard's Smooth Jazz and Sirius XM's Watercolors with his exceptional hit "A Cup Of Joe" from the album And Coffee, the Spartanburg, SC native is delivering major music in a humble way. His work with the late Prince and the New Power Generation led him to join stages with the likes of Ceelo Green, where he has become a key contributor to Green's touring band. Whether he is performing for dignitaries such as President Barack Obama, Jesse Jackson and Hillary Clinton or blazing the stage with Sheila E., Anthony Hamilton or Judith Hill in a collaborative effort, Anderson delivers stellar musicianship every time. Lalah Hathaway, Esperanza Spaulding, George Duke, Jennifer Holiday are just a few of the numerous world-renowned artists that Anderson has opened for and with whom he has shared the stage. Both near and far, audiences of all musical tastes have made their way to hear Marcus Anderson. He not only plays the sax but sings and performs choreography as well. High-spirited and welcoming, Anderson is a multi-instrumentalist who is not afraid of "showing out" and is a fan-favorite at highly recognized festivals and on top-ranking shows like The Tonight Show, Arsenio Hall, and Jimmy Kimmel Live.
Larry Braggs
Cut from the same cloth as some of the world's greatest vocalists, Larry Braggs has one of the most notable voices in the business. A vocal range over three octaves and a command of the stage like no other has gained him the respect and praise of his peers and fans all over the world. For the past 14 years, Larry has been the lead vocalist for the legendary soul band Tower of Power. Now as a solo artist, he is becoming one of the most sought-after singers in the business. Touring almost two hundred days out of the year Larry is a powerful force of talent to see. He is now a member of the legendary group The Temptations.
Niki Haris
Though her career has taken her well beyond the jazz circuit, Niki Haris's roots are are in the jazz circuit, but her career has taken her well beyond it. The daughter of Grammy-nominated jazz pianist Gene Haris, Niki and her father released two albums and a live CD before his death in 2000. Carrying on his legacy in jazz, she's released solo albums, toured Europe with her jazz quartet, and starred in the touring production of "Billie & Me," a celebration of the life of Billie Holiday. In addition to 18 years of recording and touring with Madonna, Niki has lent her voice to projects of Ray Charles, David Sanborn, Patrice Rushen, Michael Sembello, Leann Rimes, Michelle Branch, Santana, Kylie Minogue, Luther Vandross, All Saints, Wilton Felder of the Jazz Crusaders, Stanley Turrentine, the Righteous Brothers, Julian Lennon, Anita Baker, Mick Jagger and Whitney Houston. She's also been featured in the soundtracks of Corrina Corrina, The Big Green, Coyote Ugly and 20th Century Fox's Anastasia. Meanwhile, she's pursued other artistic passions with great success as well, including staging scenes for Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct, choreographing for the television series Melrose Place," and appeared with in Al Pacino and Robert De Niro in Heat.
Marqueal Jordan
A Los Angeles native who spent his teen years in Kansas City, KS, Marqueal Jordan has been based in the music-rich city of Chicago since 1995. Moving to the |
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$\sigma_{\mathrm{cont}}$ & 0 & 20 & 50\,--\,0 \\
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$N_{e}$ & \multicolumn{3}{c}{$80\%\,N$} \\
$N_{i}$ & \multicolumn{3}{c}{$20\%\,N$} \\
$\tau_{\mathrm{m}}$ & \multicolumn{3}{c}{20 $\mathrm{(ms)}$} \\
$\tau_{\mathrm{s}}$ & \multicolumn{3}{c}{2 $\mathrm{(ms)}$} \\
$\tau_{\mathrm{out}}$ & \multicolumn{3}{c}{10 $\mathrm{(ms)}$} \\
$\tau_{\mathrm{targ}}$ & \multicolumn{3}{c}{20 $\mathrm{(ms)}$} \\
$\tau_{\omega}$ & \multicolumn{3}{c}{200 $\mathrm{(ms)}$} \\
$b$ & \multicolumn{3}{c}{100} \\
$v_{\mathrm{reset}, b}$ & \multicolumn{3}{c}{-20 $\mathrm{(mV)}$} \\
$v_{\mathrm{reset}, d, p}$ & \multicolumn{3}{c}{-160 $\mathrm{(mV)}$} \\
$v_0$ & \multicolumn{3}{c}{-1 $\mathrm{(mV)}$} \\
$u_0$ & \multicolumn{3}{c}{-6 $\mathrm{(mV)}$} \\
$u_0^{\star}$ & \multicolumn{3}{c}{-6 $\mathrm{(mV)}$} \\
$v_\mathrm{thr}$ & \multicolumn{3}{c}{0 $\mathrm{(mV)}$} \\
$\vartheta_{\mathrm{soma}}$ & \multicolumn{3}{c}{$2.5 \times 10^{-2}$} \\
$\vartheta_{\mathrm{burst}}$ & \multicolumn{3}{c}{$1.25 \times 10^{-2}$} \\
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\subsection{Derivation of the learning rule}
We derive the update rule for the recurrent weights of the network by maximizing the probability to reproduce the target spatio-tamporal pattern of bursts, extending previous approaches used for learning target pattern of spikes \cite{pfister2006optimal,rezende2014stochastic,gardner2016supervised,muratore2021target}.
The first step is to write the probability to produce a burst in the neuron $i$ at time $t$, given the somatic window $\shat{z}_i^t$. We propose the following compact formulation:
\begin{equation}
p(B_{i}^{\star, t+1}| \shat{z}_{i}^t) = \frac{\exp{\left[B_{i}^{\star, t+1} \Phi_{i}^t (\shat{z}_{i}^t) \right]}}{1+\exp{\left[ \Phi_i^t(\shat{z}_{i}^t) \right] } }
\end{equation}
where we have introduced $\Phi_{i}^t (\shat{z}_{i}^t) = a_i^t \shat{z}_{i}^t/\delta v - (1-\shat{z}_{i}^t)\gamma$. By definition, a burst can only happen by means of a basal-apical spike coincidence, represented by the $a_i^t \shat{z}_i^t$ term. When the basal window is open ($\shat{z}_i^t = 1$) the burst probability reduces to the usual sigmoidal function. When the window is closed and $\shat{z}_i^t = 0$, we have $\Phi_i^t \left( \shat{z}_i^t \right) = -\gamma$, we can thus tune the $\gamma$ parameter to model the burst probability. In practice, we work in the $\gamma \to \infty$ limit where $\lim_{\gamma \to \infty} p (B_i^{\star, t + 1} | \shat{z}_i^t = 0) = 0$, which agrees to the intuitive understanding that a closed basal window prevents any burst activity.
We introduce the likelihood $\mathcal{L}$ of observing a given target burst activity $\bm{\mathrm{B}^\star}$ given the basal-to-proximal connections $J_{ij}^{b \to p}$ as:
\begin{multline}
\mathcal{L} \left( \bm{\mathrm{B}^{\star}} | J^{b \to p} \right) = \sum_{it} \left[ B_{i}^{\star, t+1} \Phi_{i}^t (\shat{z}_{i}^t) \right. +\\- \log{ \left( 1 + \exp{\left[ \Phi_i^t(\shat{z}_{i}^t) \right] } \right)} \Big]
\end{multline}
We can then maximize this likelihood by adjusting the synaptic connection so to achieve the target burst activity $\bm{\mathrm{B}^\star}$. By differentiating with respect to the recurrent apical weights, we get:
\begin{equation}
\frac{\partial \mathcal{L}( \bm{\mathrm{B}}^{\star} | J^{b \to p})}{\partial J_{ij}^{b \to p}} = \left[B_{i}^{\star, t+1} -p( B_{i}^{t+1}=1) \right] \shat{z}_{i}^t e_j^t
\end{equation}
where we have introduced the following two quantities:
\begin{equation*}
p( B_{i}^{t+1}=1) =\frac{\exp{\left[ \Phi_{i}^t (\shat{z}_{i}^t) \right]}} {1+\exp{\left[ \Phi_i^t(\shat{z}_{i}^t) \right]}} \quad \mathrm{and} \quad e_j^t = \frac{\partial u_i^t}{ \partial J_{ij}^{b \to p}}.
\end{equation*}
Given the basal window $\shat{z}_i^t$ state, the target burst sequence is uniquely defined by the input projected to the apical distal compartment and can be written as $B_i^{\star, t+1} = \shat{z}_i^t a_{i}^{\star, t+1}$.
If we take the model deterministic limit ($\delta v \rightarrow 0$, where $p (B_i^{t+1} = 1) = a_i^{t+1} \shat{z}_i^t)$ and note that $\shat{z}_i^t \shat{z}_i^t = \shat{z}_i^t$, we can rewrite the previous expression in a cleaner form:
\begin{equation}
\frac{\partial \mathcal{L} ( \bm{\mathrm{B}^\star} | J^{b \to p})}{\partial J_{ij}^{b \to p}} = \left[a_{i}^{\star, t+1} - a_{i}^{t+1} \right] \shat{z}_{i}^t e_j^t.
\end{equation}
This means that the spikes in the proximal apical compartment $a_{i}^{t+1}$ should mimic the ones in the distal one $a_{i}^{\star, t+1}$, when the somatic window $\shat{z}_i^t$ is open.
For simplicity, we discussed this version of the learning rule. However, in this work we used the non-deterministic version of the rule (finite $\delta v = 0.1$)
that can be rewritten as:
\begin{equation}
\frac{\partial \mathcal{L} ( \bm{\mathrm{B}^\star} | J^{b \to p})}{\partial J_{ij}^{b \to p}} = \left[a_{i}^{\star, t+1} - p \left(\mathrm{a}_i^{t+1}=1 | \mathrm{u}_i^t \right) \right] \shat{z}_{i}^t e_j^t.
\end{equation}
where $p \left(\mathrm{a}_i^{t+1}=1 | \mathrm{u}_i^t \right) = \frac{\exp \left(\frac{\mathrm{u}_i^t - v_\mathrm{thr}}{\delta v} \right) }{1 + \exp \left(\frac{\mathrm{u}_i^t - v_\mathrm{thr}}{\delta v} \right)}$.
We stress here how in the derivation we considered the basal-windows state $\shat{z}_i^t |
I picked up this 2011 Topps GARY CARTER Topps 60 Memorabilia Card at my local card shop last week for $2. I saw the price tag and couldn't say no. I could buy one 2011 Topps pack and risk not get anything good or, for the same price I could get a bat card of Hall of Famer Gary Carter. On the front of the card, under the bat piece it says "GAME-USED MEMORABILIA". On the back it says "You have recieved a certified TOPPS 60 MEMORABILIA CARD from 2011 Topps Baseball Series 1". In really small print under that it says "The relic on this card is not from any specific game, event, or season." My question is, was the relic from a specific player, namely Gary Carter? What happened to the good old days when on the back of the relic card it would state something similar to "The enclosed piece of bat is certified to have been used by XYZ player in an official Major League game."?
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Up for grabs is this 2009 Upper Deck Spectrum, Spectrum Swatches IAN KINSLER Jersey Card, a 2008 UD Ultimate Collection PRINCE FIELDER card numbered 286/350, a 1996 Score Board TODD WALKER certified autographed card, a 2003 Fleer Platinum, Platinum Portraits ALBERT PUJOLS card, and I just added a 2002 SP Authentic JOSE CUETO Prospect Signatures Autographed card.
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Up for grabs is this 2009 Upper Deck Spectrum, Spectrum Swatches IAN KINSLER Jersey Card, a 2008 UD Ultimate Collection PRINCE FIELDER card numbered 286/350, a 1996 Score Board TODD WALKER certified autographed card, and I just added a 2003 Fleer Platinum, Platinum Portraits ALBERT PUJOLS card.
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Up for grabs is this 2009 Upper Deck Spectrum, Spectrum Swatches IAN KINSLER Jersey Card, a 2008 UD Ultimate Collection PRINCE FIELDER card numbered 286/350 and I just added a 1996 Score Board TODD WALKER certified autographed card.
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Up for grabs is this 2009 Upper Deck Spectrum, Spectrum Swatches IAN KINSLER Jersey Card and I added a 2008 UD Ultimate Collection PRINCE FIELDER card numbered 286/350.
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I got my Million Card Giveaway cards from Topps yesterday. I had about 30 or so cards in my account, but decided that only 2 were worth the cost of shipping. The cards are miscut, but I was pleased with the overall condition of the cards.
Moe, over at My 2008 Topps Set Blog, sent me some D-Backs cards as part of a recent trade between he and I. He said he would send a Brandon Webb jersey card and a few other Diamondbacks, so I was surprized to see a Matt Williams auto on the top of the stack when I pulled it out of the bubble mailer. He sent over a few Webb cards in addition to the jersey and some other D-Backs as well, including a near complete 2002 Keebler Arizona Diamondbacks set. Thanks Moe!
Only two Spring Training autographs, but they were good ones!
I mentioned in a post yesterday that I had been given some free tickets to todays Dodgers - Cubs Spring Training game at the Dodgers and White Sox Camelback Ranch Stadium. I took the day off work and went to the park early to try to get some autographs and watch a little practice before meeting up with my wife and kids for the actual game.
I struck out in regards to current players, but I did get a couple of autographs from some Dodger greats. Don Newcombe, the only player in Major League baseball to have won the Rookie of the Year award (1949), Cy Young award (1956), and Most Valuable Player award (1956), rolled up in a golf cart and signed for a good 20 minutes. I was about the 5th person in line and got him to sign a ball which I think turned out great! Thanks Mr. Newcombe!
Mr. Tom Lasorda had a table set up where he signed autographs for everyone who wanted one. To be honest, he wasn't very nice about it though. He was rushing people through the line and making snide comments about everthing and everyone. I got him to sign the postcard below. I had written to the Dodgers back in the early 90's and they sent back a couple Tommy Lasorda postcards. I happened to come across them the other day and so that's what I took with me.
So I was a little disappointed that I wasn't able to get Kershaw, Kemp, or Looney, all of whom signed for a few people, but I wasn't able to get. Mattingly didn't sign at all today and Ethier wasn't even there. I could have gotten autographs from others like Rick Honeycutt, Ivan De Jesus, Jamey Carroll, and Jonathan Broxton, but I didn't have anything for them to sign. Next time I'll have to be more prepared.
Every once in a while I get this thought in my head that I want to downsize my collection. You know, have a binder and a couple of boxes with only those cards that I would consider part of my "Personal Collection". Then an opportunitty presents itself that makes me change my mind. I posted a couple of weeks ago about former knuckleballer Tom Candiotti appearing at a couple of Sports 620 KTAR events in the Phoenix area. I went a few Saturdays ago and gave him 6 or 7 cards and had him sign 9 cards for me. Well this past Saturday he was appearing in the parking lot of my local card shop, AZ Sports, so I decided to dig through some more of my cards to see if I could find any more for him to sign. I was able to find a few more. Okay, 13 more to be exact. So between the 2 visits I had him sign 22 cards for me and gave him 6 or 7 for him to keep. If I had downsized my collection, I would've missed out on that opportunitty. A couple of you out there left a comment the last time asking to trade. I'll respond to you soon individually to set up a trade if you're still interested.
He remembered me from before and was really friendly. One of the guys from KTAR also remembered me and gave me 4 tickets to the Dodgers vs. Cubs game tomorrow, so I took the day off and will get to enjoy, if it's not raining, a Spring Training game with the family. I plan on going early to try to get some autographs. A co-worker of mine gave me some free tickets to the Padres vs. White Sox game tonight so we're going to that game as well. It's been raining all day today so I don't know how it'll go and am not planning on trying to get any autographs tonight. Just going to enjoy a ball game with my wife and kids. I love this time of year!
I picked up a 2011 Topps Heritage Jumbo Pack at Wal-Mart this past Thursday. The pack states "16 CARDS PACKS WITH A RELIC CARD CONTAIN 15 CARDS". Well what does it mean when a pack contains 17 cards? Scroll to the bottom of my post to find out. Here is what I got.
I think that my 17th card was one of these Heritage Refractor Paralle cards that are numbered to 562 and are supposed to be inserted 1 in every 24 packs according to the back of the wrapper.
I'm looking for 2011 Topps Gold (#'d to 2011) and Black (#'d to 60) |
tool for investigation and a search for larger meaning. To me, anyway, those are always the very best memoirs, the ones where we not only identify, but where we learn something about the other person and in so doing, ourselves.
So I've been thinking a great deal about stories. Stories as research, stories of lives that overlap and how we affect one another. Deodatta Shenai Khatkhate left a great comment on yesterday's post, he wrote, "There is a thought process that we ought to use our Words with caution, for they become our Actions; then our Actions become our Habits; and our Habits become our Character; and ultimately our Character becomes our Destiny. Thus the creator of one's Words is always the master of one's Destiny." He attributed this idea to Ghandi and Margaret Thatcher; I've also read something similar from Lao Tse. In any case, it is wonderful and reminded me of this idea of autoethnography. The layering of experience, meaning, the overlap and the way we are intertwined with each other's lives as they unfold, affecting change, shifting research, becoming research, becoming change.
*This is a guest post by a friend of mine who is brilliant and thoughtful and compassionate and patient and, well, all-around fabulous.
Now, for many of you who haven't learned anything about musical notation, you are already at a loss. The picture above is literally meaningless to you. There are some horizontal lines and there are dot's connected to vertical lines and there are these weird symbols that look like a lowercase b and a #. If you haven't learned to read musical notation, the only things on this page that you even recognize are some arabic numerals that you have no idea how to interpret and this Italian word at the top "Ciaconna", which the dictionary defines as, "a slow, stately dance of the 18th century or the music for it," a definition which is not particularly helpful. With the resources available to you, you have established that this is an Italian dance from the 1700s. So in order to realize the page I put above you, you need to become fluent in musical notation and have the ear training necessary to understand what the pitches are and how to keep time properly, a process which many people find quite difficult.
So, having learned all you need to know about musical notation, you're ready to perform the Chaconne, right? Well, probably not, as you have no idea how to play the violin. (Violinists, you are playing the piece on the piano. If you are also a pianist, you're playing it on the flute. If you're also a flautist, you are playing it on the musical saw. If you also play the musical saw, you need to just accept the premise of this analogy and move on.) If you are not a violinist, and I imagine that most of you are not, you don't even know how to set up, hold, or tune the instrument, let alone produce a decent sound and then connect those sounds into a meaningful piece of music. So now that you understand what the notation means, you need to tackle the actual physical reality of learning how to play the instrument, a skill that takes years to do competently, decades to do proficiently, and half a lifetime to do masterfully. You need to learn how to hold the instrument and the bow and all sorts of skills about how to make the correct sounds come out of the instrument. Likewise, before you can do any of that, you have to learn to set up and tune the instrument, skills which are quite challenging to the beginning player. (As someone who has attempted to play the violin on several occasions, I can attest to this.) The process usually involves tedious work on many minute elements of technique that are by themselves very difficult, such as using different bow strokes, crossing strings, and pressing the fingerboard in the correct location. Moreover, you have to keep track of all of these elements of technique while attempting to accurately realize a score of music, so in addition to the difficulty of playing the music, you are simultaneously applying the skills you've learned in step one.
Congratulations! Having done that, you have the skills needed to accurately realize the first page of Bach's Chaconne, a skill that will land you zero audiences and communicate very little. What most people don't realize is that very little information is actually given to the musician by the composer. Many elements, such as the subtle ebb and flow of time, the varying loudness of any given instant of music, vibrato, etc., the elements that make music expressive and, if you'll pardon the expression, musical, are not given to the performer by the composer. If the performer performs the work exactly as written on the page, it will sound mechanical and banal. This is why proficient musicians spend a great deal of their time focusing on interpretation. They are trying not only to reproduce the pitches and rhythms indicated on the page, but also subtlety that music needs to be truly compelling and persuasive.
All right, having done all of that, you can now convincingly convey great musical ideas. Musical ideas written by Johann Sebastian Bach. While you certainly bring something of yourself to the table, none of these are ideas that you originally had. The basis for all of these ideas was written almost three centuries ago. In speaking, this is analogous to someone being able to convincing recite a work by Shakespeare. A great skill in its own right, but all the while we've still fallen short of our actual goal, which is to communicate our own ideas effectively to others. Right now we are only equipped to communicate other people's ideas, albeit with our own twist.
I would like to pause here and draw some of the analogies between playing the violin and speaking. First of all, there is the process of developing a rudimentary understanding of what music is, which corresponds to having a crude and basic understanding of the English language. I will discuss the full understanding in just a moment. Next, we have to negotiate the physical reality of playing the instrument. We might have a fantastic conception of what the Bach Chaconne should sound like, but that means nothing if we lack the ability to realize it on the instrument, which is an inherently physical process. This, not surprisingly, corresponds to the actual motor process of forming words. For many of us, those processes seem pretty simple, but imagine what it would be like if they didn't come naturally to you. Imagine if everyone seemed to have this innate aptitude for holding the violin and producing pleasant sounds on it while you are struggling to get notes out. Most people, having able or neurotypical privilege, take this ability for granted, so I want you to imagine a world where, instead of speaking, we communicated by playing the violin, a skill for which many people do not have the natural aptitude. This is where the Social Model of Disability comes into play. For those who find speech easy but playing the violin difficult, this world is fine for them while they would be disabled in the violin world. Likewise, those who find playing the violin easy and speech difficult are disabled in this world but fine in the violin world.
Resuming our violin analogy, there is a lot more to speech than playing the Chaconne by J.S. Bach. As I stated before, most people seek not to reproduce the ideas of others, but rather to convey their own ideas, which they do in real-time. In music, this equates to improvising, a skill that isn't necessarily that difficult provided you don't seek to convey anything that complex. However, there are still things to consider. First, you want to have the semantics of what you are improvising accurately reflect what you are trying to convey. I cannot think of an accurate analogy for this, so please leave an idea in comments if you have one. On top of that, you have the elements of music theory, which is essentially the grammar of music. Certain notes in certain contexts convey specific meanings that might not be conveyed in another context. Without using this correct syntax, what you are trying to convey will start to sound random and disorganized or possibly just "wrong". This process comes very easily to most people, but understanding grammar is no simple task, a fact which anyone who has tried to learn a foreign language can testify. In our native language, we can just say what "sounds right" without having to put too much thought into it. In the same way, a native tonal musician might be able to tell you that a C-Sharp and a G need to resolve to D and F intuitively without explaining the theoretical reason behind this in the same way that you know whether to use "me" or "I" in a sentence. However, just because this process comes to us intuitively doesn't mean it isn't going on and it's something we oughtn't take for granted when thinking about communication.
First, the process that we think of as intuitive and easy is not necessarily that easy or intuitive for others. I don't find playing the piano very difficult, but most people would struggle to play something rudimentary on the piano because they are dealing with all of the things I mentioned above. Moreover, at the piano, you at least have the reassurance that if you press a key, a musically sounding sound will come out, something that isn't guaranteed on a violin or when speaking (which is why I chose the violin for this analogy).
Second, I want people who find things to be easy and intuitive to think about what it might be like for those who don't find the process so intuitive. As many people are not instrumental musicians, I challenge you to think about what challenges you would face in the world if, instead of communicating via mouth sounds in natural language, we communicated by instrumental |
.16 after the company's CEO Edward Lampert cut his stake in the company to 48.4% from 55.4%.
Hot Small Cap Companies To Watch For 2014: ATA Inc.(ATAI)
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Industrials stocks gained Friday, with ATA (NASDAQ: ATAI) leading advancers. Meanwhile, gainers in the sector included Plug Power (NASDAQ: PLUG), with shares up 22 percent, and Korn/Ferry International (KFY), with shares up 12 percent. In trading on Friday, basic materials shares were relative laggards, down on the day by about 1.36 percent.
Hot Small Cap Companies To Watch For 2014: InterDigital Inc.(IDCC)
Interdigital, Inc. engages in the design and development of digital wireless technology solutions. The company offers technology solutions for use in digital cellular and wireless products and networks, including 2G, 3G, 4G, and IEEE 802-related products and networks. It holds patents related to the fundamental technologies that enable wireless communications. The company licenses its patents to equipment producers that manufacture, use, and sell digital cellular and IEEE 802-related products; and licenses or sells mobile broadband modem solutions, including modem IP, know-how, and reference platforms to mobile device manufacturers, semiconductor companies, and other equipment producers that manufacture, use, and sell digital cellular products. InterDigital?s solutions are incorporated in various products comprising mobile devices, such as cellular phones, tablets, notebook computers, and wireless personal digital assistants; wireless infrastructure equipment, such as base stations; and components, dongles, and modules for wireless devices. The company was founded in 1972 and is headquartered in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania.
The most disappointing investment in the portfolio for 2013 was InterDigital (IDCC). This stock declined approximately 28% during the year, despite posting roughly 25% operating margins. Our thesis on IDCC is that the company should benefit from its wireless technology patents as more smartphones and mobile tablets are connected to the in ternet. IDCC creates wireless technology, applies for patents for the technology it creates, and then licenses its technology to manufacturers who produce the aforementioned products. In the past, Nokia, Samsung, Apple, LG, and many other manufacturers hav e licensed the company's technology to use in their products and paid IDCC royalties.
[By James E. Brumley]
Endeavor IP isn't the only publicly-traded intellectual property enforcement company out there. It is, however, the only one to focus on quality over quantity. Whereas other players like patent portfolio names like InterDigital, Inc. (NASDAQ:IDCC) and Vringo, Inc. (NASDAQ:VRNG) will literally buy patents by the hundreds – perhaps sometimes without even knowing what some of those patents even cover – in an effort to arm itself with any and every possible patent for any and every contingency. Most are likely worthless, which means companies like InterDigital or Vringo may have wasted shareholder money by buying IP that isn't capable of bearing revenue.
Hot Small Cap Companies To Watch For 2014: Rackspace Hosting Inc(RAX)
Rackspace Hosting, Inc. operates in the hosting and cloud computing industry. It provides information technology (IT) as a service, managing Web-based IT systems for small and medium-sized businesses, as well as large enterprises worldwide. The company?s service suite includes dedicated hosting comprising customer management portal and other management tools that manage data center, network, hardware devices, and operating system software; and cloud computing that enables customers to provide and manage a pool of computing resources, as well as delivery of computing resources to business when they need them. It offers cloud servers, cloud files, and cloud sites, as well as cloud applications, such as email, collaboration, and file back-ups; and hybrid hosting that provides a combination of dedicated hosting and cloud computing services. The company also offers customer support services. It sells its service suite through direct sales teams, third-party channel partners, an d online ordering. The company was formerly known as Rackspace.com, Inc. and changed its name to Rackspace Hosting, Inc. in June 2008. Rackspace Hosting, Inc. was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in San Antonio, Texas.
Rackspace Hosting (NYSE: RAX) was down, falling 17.02 percent to $33.40 after the company reported a drop in its fourth-quarter net income and announced the retirement of its Chief Executive Lanham Napier.
[By Myra P. Saefong]
Rackspace Hosting Inc.'s stock (RAX) sank 14% in the after-hours session. The company reported earnings of 14 cents a share for its fourth quarter, matching the market's estimate, according to an estimate from FactSet. Revenue reached $408 million, above analysts' forecast for $404.7 million.
Rackspace Hosting Inc. (NYSE: RAX) was supposed to have its earnings report out after the close of trading on Monday. The big news is not that Rackspace managed to beat revenue expectations – Rackspace also announced that Lanham Napier has retired from the company as Chief Executive Officer and as a member of the Board of Directors.
Hot Small Cap Companies To Watch For 2014: EZchip Semiconductor Limited(EZCH)
EZchip, a fabless semiconductor company, engages in the development and marketing of Ethernet network processors for networking equipment. Its products include network processor chips, evaluation boards and network-processor based systems, and development software toolkits. The company offers network processors for use in forming the silicon core of networking equipment, such as switches and routers; and for voice, video and data integration in various applications. Its network processors are single-chip solutions, which enable its customers to design multi-port line cards, such as processing and classification engines, traffic managers, media access controllers, as well as a range of specialized hardware blocks that accelerate various functions. The company offers Evaluation systems which enable customers to test NPU-based systems; and toolkits that assist customers in creating, verifying, and implementing solutions based on its network processors. It provides a library f eaturing data plane code for a range of applications, which include Metro Ethernet protocols, Multi-Protocol Label Switching, IPv4 and IPv6 routing, Access Control Lists, GPON/EPON OLT functionality, Network Address Translation, and Server Load Balancing. The company sells its products directly, and through contract manufacturers and distributors to network equipment vendors. It markets its products in Israel, China, Hong Kong, the Far East, Canada, the United States, and Europe. The company was formerly known as LanOptics Ltd. and changed its name to EZchip Semiconductor Ltd. in July 2008. EZchip Semiconductor Ltd. was founded in 1989 and is based in Yokneam, Israel.
[By Evan Niu, CFA]
What: Shares of EZchip (NASDAQ: EZCH ) have jumped today by as much as 13% after the company reported first-quarter earnings.
So what: Revenue in the first quarter totaled $15.3 million, topping the Street's forecast of $15.1 million. Non-GAAP net income per share came in at $0.23, which was right on target with expectations.
[By Paul McWilliams]
Paul McWilliams: Oh, absolutely. Another company that most investors probably have never heard of is a tiny little Israeli semiconductor company named EZChip (EZCH).
EZchip Semiconductor (NASDAQ: EZCH) was also up, gaining 7.16 percent to $24.11 after a Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) announced a new product that would not threaten the company as previously thought. Equities Trading DOWN
Shares of Cypress Semiconductor (NASDAQ: CY) were down 16.05 percent to $9.91 after the company lowered its Q3 forecast.
[By Lisa Levin]
EZchip Semiconductor (NASDAQ: EZCH) shares climbed 5.80% to $23.53 |
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ity – which is to say an openness to receiving and seeing by a certain light – plays a part. I like this to be a slow process, I like the way that the research interacts with the rhythms of my life over a period, becomes a part of my consciousness and becomes my companion also. In this way, I had been researching Andal for a couple of years before I wrote The Queen of Jasmine Country; the writing of the novel itself took only six weeks, in a beautiful trance-like state I know I cannot replicate, but the thought and feeling I had consciously given to the project spanned significantly longer.
You could say that I had been working towards the Ila duology my whole life, but became aware that the meen magal was important to me around a decade ago, and had been immersed in that consciousness over the last five years. Working on the projects themselves, the actual creation stage, was shorter.
I would say that both Incantations and Moonlight do answer the question (on whether there can be a mythic figure without lore). Moonlight is a little more imprecise, since it's a book that is even more equivocal about multiple possibilities, and gives equal weightage to the scientific research that indicates that the sounds are made by shells or fish.
But Incantations is more direct, since it's narrated by a mermaid herself who contemplates her place in a certain place. Ila discusses the lack of lore while asserting her existence – she exists whether or not human belief or interest is there. The answer, the one I discovered for myself, was this: in a place like Mattakalappu, where the culture and consciousness are steeped in ritual magic and complex, charged faith systems, and the lived reality of people has included tremendous bloodshed, disappearances and trauma, it is not so difficult at all to absorb one more mystery or ambiguity into quotidian life.
That is why specific lore didn't spring up – meen magals are but one element of the ethos. There are songs, as Amma tells Nilavoli in Moonlight, but not stories in either recorded or oral traditions (which is not to say that some woman didn't make some up for her grandchildren – this must have happened; how could it have not?). To the best of my knowledge, Incantations may be the first in book form.
How did you decide Ila's story had to be a graphic novel?
This is the strange thing: I don't actually quite remember why I decided to do a graphic novel on the meen magal. I tend to have lightning flashes of inspiration – with most of my other books, I can tell you the exact moments when I just knew something crucial about what they were going to be, as I did earlier in our conversation about Moonlight. I think the spark may have had to do with the fact that I had returned to painting and drawing for pleasure (which I had been doing since my teens) during a fallow period of a couple of years when I did not write much and was uncertain about whether I wanted to continue to publish.
So in my mid to late 20s, I was quite often making small canvases for friends. In 2015, I experienced a meteoric change in my career, and went from an acceptance of relative obscurity as a poet to suddenly having signed three book deals. My personal life took a diametrically opposed turn just as I started publishing again, and I think the solace that visual art had been giving me must have gathered heft and become a desire to merge it with text.
I only know that when I look back on it, all of it seemed so natural. It didn't strike me as being a great career shift as it was something I had been doing all along, but of course it was.
The shift to digital art is very new for your work. In your acknowledgments, you thank Amruta Patil for getting you to make this shift. You also acknowledge Ana Mendieta's art as an inspiration. Are there any other inspirations that pushed you to shed away words in place of pictures?
All of Moonlight was drawn on a Huion tablet, using Clip Studio Paint software. Both are far more affordable than Apple products, and I share this to encourage those who are considering visual art too but find costs prohibitive. In Incantations, only the illustration that was used on the cover, of a mermaid within the island of Sri Lanka (made in 2017), was hand-drawn.
I had been afraid to colour it in, in case I didn't do it well, and that year I happened to have a conversation with Amruta Patil, who suggested that I scan my drawings and then paint them digitally. This was brilliant advice, and I wound up extending it to all the art – and my initial hesitation about colour also helped me develop a palette for Incantations that is line-based and minimal, and inspired by indigo fabrics and cyanotype prints. Working through the pandemic, within a limited space, making art by hand, but not on paper, also helped to not have to carefully store physical copies of the work.
I distinguished Ana Mendieta from among the references in Incantations not only because of the power of her work, especially the Silueta earth-body series, but because the story of her life and death are so haunting. I found it resonant with some of the mysteries in the books, especially those that have to do with violence (these, to me, are the true mysteries of my Ila duology – "do mermaids exist?" is a lacklustre question, and that's exactly how it was treated by those I spoke to in Mattakalappu). I absolutely believe that Mendieta was murdered by her husband, a fellow artist who was jealous of her rising star.
How this relates to me and to my book is quite complex, but goes back ultimately – personally and systemically – to silencing. The anthropologist Patricia Lawrence, whose work I have studied for my novel-in-progress, Constellation of Scars (which I have been writing since 2005, and which I am happy to say I am quite far into, finally ready for what the work has always demanded) describes Batticaloa this way: "Batticaloa is a region vulnerable to annihilation, where the psychological effects of political oppression manifest themselves in'silencing', in learning not to speak and to know what not to know – "
What has the sudden shutdown of Westland meant to you as both an author and a reader? You've been very active on social media, talking about how difficult it is to get books republished, and spreading the word on how to purchase copies. You say "not everything will return, though every effort is being made to salvage the situation." Can you talk about these efforts?
Many of us are in grief. It's important to remember that Westland was so ubiquitous and formidable a publisher that every person in India who reads books in English has read something they published, across their imprints. One must first understand the gravity and magnitude of the situation, which in terms of the catalogue alone affects hundreds of authors and thousands of books.
The immediate calls to action are: to purchase any books for oneself, to request libraries at institutions to put in orders, to donate to community library initiatives either monetarily or in the form of purchased books, to amplify that some independent bookstores are shipping internationally as well as nationally or locally; to ask one's own favourite bookseller to bring in stock anywhere in the world; to talk and post about Westland books one has enjoyed so that other readers can get them quickly.
I know that the Westland team have been working very hard to find investors to revive the company, but there has been no official communication to authors ever since we were formally notified that our books will go out of print, the day after the news came out in the press.
I took to social media to spread the word in an aggressive fashion out of pure grief. I went through two losses during the time I made the Ila duology (my father and my favourite uncle), so I knew from recent experience that there is a practical side that kicks in while grieving – the side that makes the tea, fills the paperwork, performs the ceremony.
This is a collective loss, and if it was an expected one (if, say, Amazon had had the courtesy to offer a long notice), we as authors would have been able to take turns to take care of the practical side – ie, spreading the word to readers. But the shock has left many traumatised, and understandably so. It's just my wiring, in my personal life too: I tap into my strength reserves as needed in the immediate. I collapse later on, and heal very slowly.
Your books are so personal and the shutdown of Westland, I can only imagine, would've felt like a huge personal loss. Outside of the devastating loss this has been to the country's publishing climate, you've also spoken in support of independent bookstores and how helpful they've been, globally, in spreading the word. Is there anything you'd like to share with the readers of Westland?
I hope that this tragedy will inspire reflection and introspection on how we as readers, supporters, enthusiast (and consumers, in this capitalist world) fit into the system. This should be a sobering moment for readers, and I hope they understand just how much trouble English-language publishing is in in India.
We can expect industry-wide repercussions, and this is a good time for readers to get informed about some of the intricacies of publishing. Many have just been shocked by this event, and don't understand how something like this can happen, and this is partly because so little is known about publishing at all. |
know that I was never nervous throughout the low points.
I have been asking myself where the Yankees would be without Andy Pettitte, and the answer is a very, very bad place. Without Pettitte, there's a chance that Freddy Garcia would be in the rotation, or worse, Ramon Ortiz could be on the 25-man roster. Despite the lack of production from the heart of the order (oh, we'll get to that), it always comes back to pitching, and when the Yankees pitch the way they have for the last two weeks (with the occasional laying of an egg mixed in), winning seems so easy.
But back to my original question in where would this team be without Andy Pettitte and how fortunate are the Yankees that his retirement wasn't for good?
Murti: Clearly you were riding on an even keel the last month and a half. You're always very good at that, you rarely overre … oh, I can't do it. C'MON NEIL! Chicken Little didn't cry about the sky falling nearly as much as you do!
Pettitte has been as good as he was in the first half of 2010. And although I had some doubt as to how effective he would be, this is not the part of the season I was most concerned about. Given that he stayed healthy through his "spring training" I was reasonably sure he could pitch, but obviously didn't think he would do as well as he has. But, for me, the biggest question all along was whether he can take the ball 20 or more times and be effective in August, September, and – of course – October.
Pettitte has eased back in, and with the way he is pitching there doesn't appear to be any doubts about what he brings. But let's remember that his body is what betrayed him the last time, not his arm and not his heart. If Pettitte keeps this up, obviously the Yankees have a 1-2 that will compete with anybody. The 3-4-5 has looked much better the last turn through, and that probably has more to do with the Yanks' good run than anything else, since that makes up 60 percent of the rotation.
Keefe: Now it's time to talk about the runners in scoring positions problems and the bases-loaded problems and the heart of the order problems, and they are all very real problems.
I know there isn't really an answer to any of these things, or an answer that's suitable other than that you just have to wait it or out or eventually they will come around. I'm sure you're probably tired of having to talk about and hear about it and report on it, but it's turned into a crisis even for a team that is tied in the loss column for first place in the division.
So since you're the Voice of Reason, I need some reasoning as to why the middle of this order is underachieving and why when the Yankees have the bases loaded and one out I'm just hoping they get one run out of it. Is there anything you can say that will make me feel better other than that they will eventually come around?
Murti: Well, if "they will eventually come around" isn't good enough then I'm not sure what will make you feel better.
Rob Thomson was telling me the other day in a good discussion that every team goes through stretches like that at least two or three times a year. It seems, however, the Yankees combined a couple of those stretches into one long one. They are slowly coming around, but those averages will look bad for quite a while. It takes a while for things to even out.
It makes little sense that the Yankees would continually put runners on base as often as they have and still not get enough hits to break games open. It goes against every bit of baseball logic. Good hitters get hits, and good hitters will generally hit well with RISP too. It is rare that the.200 hitter bats.350 with RISP and vice versa.
I would bet that of the 25 games the Yankees have lost, I would think there are at least six or eight games where you could say, "If they got just ONE hit with RISP they would have won." For arguments sake, if I give you three hits and turn three of those losses into wins, the Yankees would have the best record in the American League. Just three hits to turn the team for which you have used so much angst into the team with best record in the league. See how slim a margin we are dealing with?
That's why the season is 162 games. Those differences usually find a way to even out.
Feel any better now?
Keefe: No, but I think "eventually" I will.
Rafael Soriano has looked and pitched like a different pitcher since taking over the closer role after injuries to Mariano Rivera and David Robertson. He has allowed one earned run in eight innings since being named the closer and he looks like the guy he was in Tampa Bay and Atlanta. So how can this be the same guy that had so many inconsistent stretches as the eighth-inning guy and then the seventh-inning guy?
I know there have been stories saying Soriano is acting more comfortable knowing that he's doing the job he did before coming to the Yankees. But maybe his success as the closer has something to do with that opt-out clause at the end of the season and knowing that Mariano Rivera will be back next season? Soriano might be able to parlay his new role and Mariano's injury and 2013 return into a multiyear deal rather than working on a one-year deal with the Yankees.
With David Robertson coming back, Joe Girardi has said that Rafael Soriano will remain the closer, and shockingly I agree. Even though I was all for Robertson being the closer after the injury to Rivera, this role reversal has seemed to rejuvenate Soriano (not that he was that bad before) and it seems like the right choice to put Robertson in the eighth inning again where he has thrived.
Murti: Soriano pitching well is not the shocking thing here and not what this bullpen story should be about. Why are we shocked that a guy who had 45 saves for a playoff team two years ago and hasn't been injured is doing the job this well? No reason to even blink at Soriano closing games now.
I agree that Robertson should have been given the first chance because if he is going to be considered an heir apparent, it's better to find out now if he is capable. The injury to Robertson threw a little wrench into that plan, and I agree, there's no need to mess with it now. Put Robertson in the eighth and Soriano in the ninth.
The story that hasn't gotten nearly enough attention is how well the Yankees have held together the rest of the bullpen. Guys like Cory Wade and Boone Logan have been thrust into more important roles and have pitched well for the most part. Since Rivera's injury the Yankees are 16-2 when leading after six innings.
Those innings (six through eight) are where the Yankees were going to feel the effect of losing the GOAT and Robertson. Shocking as this may sound, an injury to Rivera is the one injury the Yankees were built to handle.
Keefe: As you were responding the Yankees left the bases loaded with one out and A-Rod and Cano up. Move along, nothing unusual to see here.
Speaking of Logan and Wade, it is shocking that they have pitched well in their increased roles in the bullpen as they were forced to be "A" relievers after being "B" relievers for the team in the past. I hate to give Logan credit, but he has been good. On the other hand, Cody Eppley and Clay Rapada I could do without, but I know it's not worth it to argue about the 24th and 25th guys on the team since you have told me in that past that someone has to have those roles.
The scariest thing is that Girardi is showing confidence in these guys though I guess he doesn't really have a choice since he is just using the players he is given and the talent level isn't the same. The reassuring thing is that David Robertson was throwing off the Yankee Stadium mound on Wednesday, Joba Chamberlain is tweeting about his steps to recovery and David Aardsma threw batting practice recently. What are we looking at for the timetables for these guys to return?
Murti: Wow. I'm just shocked that anything I have said to you in the past has been absorbed and brought back in meaningful and correct context. I'm sorry, what was your question again?
Keefe: Well, enough repetition and it starts to become second nature. But the question was what are we looking at for the timetables for Robertson, Chamberlain and Aardsma to return? And I guess you might as well throw Brett Gardner in there as well.
Murti: Gardner could be back within a matter of days and Robertson sometime next week. Joba's timetable is iffy, just because we don't know how he progresses with the compound nature of two different injuries. Aardsma is progressing at a normal pace for Tommy John Surgery and I would think August is realistic, but there's no need to rush him. I said it when Rivera went down and I think Aardsma could be a big factor now down the stretch.
Keefe: Since we don't have A.J. Burnett to talk about and with Boone Logan pitching well, I don't know how we're supposed to end this. But I have an idea with something that has been bothering me: Chris Stewart as the personal catcher for CC Sabathia.
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Veja um exemplo abaixo:
// Funciona
function parseToDate<T extends string | null>(date: T): T extends string? Date : null;
function parseToDate(date: string | null): Date | null {
return typeof date ==='string'? new Date(date) : null;
}
// Não funciona
const parseToDate2 = <T extends string | null>(date: T): T extends string? Date : null;
const parseToDate2 = (date: string | null): Date | null =>
typeof date ==='string'? new Date(date) : null;
Playground
Eu estou declarando a sobrecarga de forma errada ou ela não é suportada em arrow functions? Caso não seja suportada, por quê?
A princípio imaginei que, como funciona com function, deveria funcionar de algum jeito com arrow function.
A: Você não vai conseguir utilizar a sintaxe "parecida" com a de declarações de funções já que o TypeScript não entende que várias declarações de funções via arrow functions definidas com const (ou mesmo let) são definições de sobrecargas.
Para definições de sobrecargas utilizando aquela notação mais explícita, é só com declaração de funções mesmo. Referir à documentação.
Você tem duas alternativas:
*
*Não utilizar arrow function
Nesse caso, você simplesmente irá a sintaxe de declaração de funções. Essa é a forma que eu prefiro, já que não tem muito motivo de usar arrow function aí. Estará, nesse caso, utilizando a notação que a linguagem escolheu para isso.
Não vou dar exemplo porque já tem na pergunta.
*Criar um novo tipo (com as sobrecargas definidas) e o atribuir à arrow function
Você tem duas formas para fazer isso. Utilizar interfaces ou dois tipos de função unidos pelo operador de interseção de tipos, &.
Exemplo que usa interfaces:
interface GetParent {
(selector: string): HTMLElement | null;
(element: HTMLElement): HTMLElement | null;
}
const getParent: GetParent = (selector) => {
if (typeof selector ==='string') {
return document.querySelector(selector)?.parentElement?? null;
}
return selector.parentElement;
}
Ver no TSP.
Exemplo utilizando interseção de tipos de função:
type GetParentViaSelector = (selector: string) => HTMLElement | null;
type GetParentViaElement = (element: HTMLElement) => HTMLElement | null;
type GetParent = GetParentViaSelector & GetParentViaElement;
const getParent: GetParent = (selector) => {
if (typeof selector ==='string') {
return document.querySelector(selector)?.parentElement?? null;
}
return selector.parentElement;
}
Ver no TSP.
Eu modifiquei os exemplos para simplificar a resposta. :) Mas genéricos também funcionam.
Devo ressaltar que, quando os tipos de retorno forem diferentes (tal como no exemplo da pergunta), a única saída é utilizar a própria sintaxe de sobrecarga explícita com as declarações de funções. Aparentemente é um comportamento esperado.
A: Complementando a outra resposta, vale citar que no fim, o código TypeScript é transpilado para JavaScript, o que pode ajudar a explicar porque não é possível fazer o overload com arrow functions.
Se usarmos o seu código:
function parseToDate<T extends string | null>(date: T): T extends string? Date : null;
function parseToDate(date: string | null): Date | null {
return typeof date ==='string'? new Date(date) : null;
}
Para testar eu usei o Deno, pois com ele é possível obter facilmente o arquivo JavaScript gerado a partir do TypeScript. No caso do código acima, o JavaScript gerado foi:
"use strict";
function parseToDate(date) {
return typeof date ==='string'? new Date(date) : null;
}
Ou seja, uma única função.
Mas eu também poderia fazer assim:
// só recebe uma string ou null
function parseToDate < T extends string | null > (date: T): T extends string? Date : null;
function parseToDate(date: string | null): Date | null;
// recebe 3 números
function parseToDate(date: number, month: number, year: number): Date | null;
// implementação: ver mais em https://pt.stackoverflow.com/a/418160/112052
function parseToDate(date: any, month?: any, year?: any): Date | null {
if (typeof date ==='string')
return new Date(date);
if (typeof date === 'number' && typeof month === 'number' && typeof year === 'number')
return new Date(year, month - 1, date);
return null;
}
Que o JavaScript resultante continuaria sendo uma única função:
function parseToDate(date, month, year) {
if (typeof date ==='string')
return new Date(date);
if (typeof date === 'number' && typeof month === 'number' && typeof year === 'number')
return new Date(year, month - 1, date);
return null;
}
Ou seja, todos os overloads se tornam uma única função, conforme já explicado em detalhes aqui.
E por que com arrow function não dá?
Com arrow functions, você na verdade está criando uma variável e atribuindo uma função como o seu valor. Ou seja, se você fizer algo como:
let func = (x: number): number => x + 1;
func = (x: number): number => x - 1;
// func contém somente a última arrow function
console.log(func(11)); // 10
Na verdade você está sobrescrevendo o valor da variável func com outro valor (com outra função). A primeira função criada "se perde", e no fim você só tem a última. O JavaScript resultante é:
let func = (x) => x + 1;
func = (x) => x - 1;
console.log(func(11));
Repare que tive que colocar o corpo da função e a "seta" (=> x + 1 e => x - 1), pois sem isso o código não compila. Ou seja, seu exemplo estava incompleto.
E no seu código, você usou const, então deu erro porque estava tentando criar a mesma variável duas vezes.
Mas tem um detalhe, eu não conseguiria fazer isso:
let func = (x: number): number => x + 1;
// agora tem 2 parâmetros
func = (x: number, y:number): number => x + y;
Isso dá erro:
error: TS2322 [ERROR]: Type '(x: number, y: number) => number' is not assignable to type '(x: number) => number'.
func = (x: number, y:number): number => x + y;
Porque inicialmente a variável é do tipo "função que recebe um number e retorna um number", mas eu tentei colocar nela uma "função que recebe dois number's e retorna um number", e como são tipos incompatíveis, dá o erro.
Ou seja, uma vez que uma variável tenha como valor uma arrow function, você não conseguiria setá-la com outra função com assinatura diferente (o que também impediria o overload - mas mesmo que isso fosse possível, na verdade não seria um overload, pois como eu já disse, você só estaria sobrescrevendo o valor da variável).
Nesse caso, um jeito de ter uma arrow function que aceita vários parâmetros de tipos diferentes (similar a uma function sobrecarregada) seria declarar os parâmetros da maneira mais genérica possível, dentro das opções que você quer considerar:
let parseToDate |
, I'm still curious.
Overall, I really enjoy both the "Save the Green Planet!" film and play, and I would definitely see the stage production again. I appreciate how the actors work with the set-up onstage, as well as the source material. Ultimately, it's a cool story about humanity.
Now who will save the Earth?
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'It Follows'
Director: David Robert Mitchell
Starring: Maika Monroe, Keir Gilchrist and Daniel Zovatto
Rating: R for disturbing violent and sexual content including graphic nudity, and language.
Photo courtesy of RADiUS-TWC and Dimension Films.
"It Follows" has definitely been one of the most-hyped horror movies this year, but it unfortunately doesn't live up to those expectations. In the grand tradition of sexually-transmitted monsters in horror films, "It Follows" is about a girl, Jay (Maika Monroe), who has sex with her boyfriend and then realizes that by doing so, he has passed a curse onto her. There will just be a creepy person that only she can see walking steadily toward her at all times. If it catches her, she dies, and the only way to distance herself from it is to pass it on to someone else. Bummer deal. The film is shot well, and some of the scenes of "it" following her are genuinely creepy and unsettling. The movie begins to fall apart at the end, though, as Jay and her friends attempt to defeat "it." The movie doesn't have a strong conclusion at all, which leaves the audience feeling dissatisfied after watching.
'Spring'
Director: Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead
Starring: Lou Taylor Pucci, Nadia Hilker and Francesco Carnelutti
Genre: Horror, Romance, Sci-fi
Photo courtesy of Drafthouse Films and FilmBuff.
I enjoy horror-romance almost as much as I enjoy horror-comedy, so I was excited to check out Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead's "Spring" (they also directed 2013's "Resolution," which I enjoyed). "Spring" is quite good as well (with a few caveats). After his mother's death, Evan (Lou Taylor Pucci) takes a spontaneous finding-himself trip to Italy, where he starts working on a small farm and meets a beautiful woman named Louise (Nadia Hilker) that he begins dating. Of course, there has to be a catch when beautiful, exotic women show an interest in down-on-their-luck American dudes, and Louise's hidden secret is both creepy and intriguing. "Spring" is Lovecraftian in its horror, but it's mostly romantic. Which is my main complaint: I just don't buy the romance. There is no way Evan is the best person she's ever met. No way! Louise is such a complex, interesting character, but his main redeeming quality is that he still really likes her even when he discovers her grotesque secret. Eh, she could do way better.
'Creep'
Director: Patrick Brice
Starring: Mark Duplass and Patrick Brice
Rating: R for brief violence and language.
Photo courtesy of The Orchard.
I actually got quite a kick out of "Creep." It's a simple, independent found-footage horror film featuring only two actors. Patrick Brice and Mark Duplass not only star in the film, they also wrote the story. Additionally, Brice directed and Duplass co-produced it alongside Jason Blum of Blumhouse fame. This creates a real personal touch to the movie and allows the audience to really get to know the strange two characters. Duplass is excellent in his role as Josef, a man who places an ad on Craigslist for a videographer to help him film a message for his unborn son. Brice is less impressive but still alright as Aaron, the unlucky artist who answers the ad and becomes involved in Josef's life. There are some really tense quiet moments, but overall, the film is pretty amusing with sarcastic jump scares and the increasingly absurd connection between Josef and Aaron. The conclusion is absolutely perfect, and I definitely recommend this movie.
'Cooties'
Release Date: Sept. 18, 2015
Director: Jonathan Milott and Cary Murnion
Starring: Elijah Wood, Alison Pill and Rainn Wilson
Rating: R for horror violence and gore, language including sexual references, and some drug use.
Photo courtesy of Lionsgate Premiere.
Elijah Wood has produced and starred in some great horror movies in the past few years — "Grand Piano," "Maniac," "A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night," "The Boy." He also produced and stars in "Cooties," a goofy horror-comedy in which infected chicken nuggets served as school lunch turn elementary school students into zombies across the nation, leaving a group of teachers to fight for their lives. Wood is pretty funny as Clint Hadson, a substitute teacher who would rather be working on his novel than working with children. The movie definitely has some failed attempts at humor — the same run-of-the-mill stuff you'd see on "Saturday Night Live." But it's overall pretty entertaining to watch the mismatched group of teachers fight their way through the monstrous children. "Cooties" is a satisfactory movie, but it's not going to become one of my favorites.
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Capsule drama reviews: My Love From Another Star, etc.
'My Love From Another Star' (aka 'You Who Came From the Stars')
Starring: Jun Ji-hyun, Kim Soo-hyun and Park Hae-jin
Genre: Romance, Comedy, Drama, Sci-fi
Photo courtesy of HB Entertainment.
I laughed hysterically. I cried uncontrollably. I craved chicken and beer. "My Love From Another Star" has been my favorite drama to date.
The show is about Cheon Song-yi, a down-on-her-luck movie star, and her next door neighbor, Do Min-joon, the 400-year-old alien who falls in love with her just months before he's finally due to return to his home planet. This is a great example of how excellent a show can be when it centers on a fully-realized female character. Song-yi has been my favorite drama heroine to date — she is funny, exuberant, glamorous, sympathetic. She has so much personality, and she's so adorable, it's very hard not to fall in love with her and consider giving up your home planet. I understand completely.
Everything about "My Love From Another Star" is actually pretty great. Pretty stellar, as it were. The fashion, the cinematography, the script, etc. The supporting characters are also notable — particularly Shin Sung-rok as the cartoonishly evil villain Jae-kyung and Park Hae-jin as the rejected suitor Hwi-kyung, who recovers gracefully and proves |
and one up Lewis mountain (I did the extra.3 mile spur up to the summit but the view was not much to write home about!). Neither were more than 700ft and both were the usual gradual nice climbs and descents we've experienced for the majority of the trail through here. Besides one steeper switchbacked descent, it was flat easy trail the rest of the way. We passed the Picosin cabin which is one of the ones you can rent from the PATC, and the Lewis Mountain campground as we reached the end of the hike. We also had one bit where the A.T. and Skyline drive followed right next to each other.
We had a large raven swoop down over us at the campground, and also saw a large male and female deer as well as a family of turkeys crossing the trail. A small bit of rain moved in just after we got to our car at the end of the hike but it wasn't long before the heat came back and burned everything dry. If we were still hiking I'm sure that dousing would have been welcome and refreshing.
I am considering a jaunt down to Dark Hollow falls or another walk down to Lewis Spring falls later to get that view finally, but we will see.
You're probably worried I saw another bear and got eaten, and that's why you haven't heard from me for 2 days… Well not to worry! While some of the hiking plans were sidelined by poison ivy and insect attacks resulting in some fun swelling and a run to town for Benadryl and bandaids, we are alive and we have done some more hikes though a bit shorter these last two days. We took Fielden's parents and sister up to the stunning view on Blackrock Summit (the one at Big Meadows not the mountain of that name farther south) yesterday and then had our postponed picnic at the Big Meadows picnic ground. We also visited the Byrd visitor center to get our A.T. passport stamped and do the museum exhibit, as well as doing all of our laundry at the campground. We stopped at the wayside to check out the shop and get some charcoal for the BBQ. How did I forget to get a blackberry milkshake there! Not to worry, that will happen before we leave.
Today Fielden and I made the painful choice to skip the backpacking overnight on this trip to let the wounds heal and stay as sterile as possible to avoid infection. However we will be doing two more A.T. section day hikes tomorrow and Thursday. Today she went to a museum down in the valley with her family and I did the A.T./Lewis Spring Falls loop from the lodge as I was going stir crazy and came here to hike! This loop is right behind the lodge and had a 1,000ft descent and climb back up. It started and ended with the great views at Black Rock summit as that trail leads down to the A.T. From there I followed the A.T. about.3 miles north before the turnoff and a 1.2 mile descent along the ridgeline on the Lewis Spring trail.
But it was a beautiful hike nonetheless… next time I will go the extra distance. Heck I might just have to go back and see it before I leave if there's time. But just in case there's not, Google it if you want to see what I was supposed to see.
Time for a beer and a snack. Tomorrow we will fill in the gap from Swift Run gap to Lewis Mountain Campground and Thursday morning we plan to do from the lodge up to Hawksbill Gap.
I'm sitting in our great little cabin room at Big Meadows in Shenandoah National Park writing this just past hiker midnight.
We just got back from viewing a stunning sunset over the valley below, Massanutten Mountain beyond and the ever expanding Chicopeechee. We had a great family catchup and dinner (including a delicious blackberry cobbler and blackberry ice cream) at the Big Meadows Lodge and the spectacular sunset began to evolve quickly as smoke from the fire pit just below the dining area sent aromatic summer scents our way, enhancing the moment.
Fielden Stream and I arrived at the trailhead at Smith Roach Gap around 130. We drove 5 hours last night and 3 hours today to get here from Connecticut. This was a section we hiked part of last year with the kids. They were missed today. I wanted to complete this bit as a first, warm-up hike of the trip. It was about 4.6 miles and with the side jaunt to the Hightop hut and back, it clocked in around 5 miles. We also reunited a thru hiker there with his croc which was dropped on the trail and we found on the hike up.
We were silent for much of the hike, hoping for a bear sighting and making the 1,000ft climb and ascent at our own paces with some nice shared moments and vistas in between.
Tomorrow we're camping at Big Meadows campground after an 8.3 mile hike, though we are not hiking into the campground as originally planned. We hope the family can join us for a picnic or BBQ at the campsite tonight. Lets hope the weather is as great!
We made our first stop at Gettysburg, as we are civil war and history buffs and coincidentally Jiffy Pop's summer reading is on Gettysburg. One of the English teachers at his school wrote it and I'm hoping he will have this teacher this year. We toured Antietam in the spring, and Gettysburg was equally as powerful, if not more. Standing on Little Round Top looking down across the battlefield was sobering. It's easy to see how the topography was responsible for so much carnage and such an advantage to the side that held the high ground. The new museum and facility for the cyclorama were impressive, and we enjoyed a tour to the Spangler farm with re-enacters who taught us about civil war medicine.
This was a family farm that was close to the battle and ended up being taken over as a Union field hospital, and also cared for 100 confederate soldiers brought in. General Armisted was treated here but died from his wounds a few days later. The privately funded Gettysburg foundation is responsible for this side excursion and did a fantastic job with it. I think the message hit home with Jiffy Pop — he was able to remember many of the names and places that are forever etched in our nation's history here.
We went on to Harper's Ferry in the late afternoon. You can read about our first visit in March and our A.T hike here. I loved driving through Maryland past Cacoctin Mountain (another nice hiking spot and trail system) and then paralleling the A.T. to the east at a short distance as it runs atop the ridges of South Mountain before crossing the trail and the Potomac into Harpers Ferry.
We stayed at a hotel I wanted to stay at since I saw it in March. Now it's just an Econolodge, nothing special. But it sits on Rt 340 just.2 miles north of the trail crossing, and out our window loomed Loudon Heights, and the section we did up to the ridgeline in March. I made more jokes about how if I wasn't there in the morning, to drive to Keys Gap to pick me up. Last time we were up there it was covered in thick snow. I know we will come back here as a starting point to do a big chunk southbound into Virginia or to end a hike of all of Maryland. Easy on, easy off, easy on the wallet. We saw a few backpackers at the hotel but they were clearly not thrus. It was way too late in the season and their bodies, faces and gear were way too clean! We had dinner the first night at a nice restaurant in Charles Town that we visited last time. The next morning we did the hike up to Maryland Heights I wanted to also do in March after Loudon Heights, but the snow and my knees were not allowing such things at the time.
While the path up is wide and graded and easy enough for Union troops to drag cannons up, the vertical incline is severe. You gain 1,000 ft in about a mile to reach the lower shoulder of the mountain, passing one naval battery on the way. That was fascinating to see, and imagine it in the conflict, fully active. It is said Abe Lincoln tried to climb up to visit the troops but turned around halfway. We were feeling the burn on the legs too. Once atop the shoulder at about 1100 ft we veered off to the cliff overlook trail. The stone fort trail continues upward another 1.5 miles to the summit with more naval batteries (these are all just earthworks now), more views, and the remnants of an old stone fort. The overlook trail climbs down via switchbacks and a steep scramble to the grand view of Maryland Heights seen in my photo. This view captures the town below, the confluence of the Shenandoah and Potomac Rivers, and all three states in one of the area's most beautiful scenes. A butterfly decided to join Jiffy Pop on his rock perch, and we took a much needed break.
We ascended back up the 350+ vertical feet to the main trail and then down quickly to the C&O canal towpath and over the Potomac into town via the A.T. where we had an especially satisfying lunch. Fortunately it was 12:55 when we sat down because they don't serve alcohol till 1pm and I was in need of some refreshment! It was sad to see the major damage done by the fire in town the weekend before, but I am glad that the first responders did such a good |
to make a difference in their lives and the lives of their family members. There is still time to be a student at Carl Albert State College this fall. To help students find time to enroll for fall, we are going to be available at Poteau and Sallisaw from 5 to 8 p.m. Monday, Aug. 4."
The starting spot at the Poteau campus is Hemphill Hall. Assistance with admissions, financial aid, housing, enrollment, business office, and compass testing will be available Monday night. The same services will be available at the Sallisaw location at 1601 Opdyke. The campus bookstores will be open at both locations as well.
Jay Falkner, Enrollment and Retention Director, said, "Monday night is going to be a lot of fun with refreshments, prizes, and even some scholarship opportunities. We realize it is hard for many of our current and potential students to get to campus during the day, so hosting this evening event is for the convenience of our students in preparing for fall."
Dr. Jason Morrison, Vice President for Academic Affairs, said, "We hope to have a great crowd Monday night at both our locations. As we enroll students, we are anxious to take a look at the needs of our students with regard to the classes we offer, the time of day students can attend college, etc. It is our goal to do all we can to make it possible for anyone wanting a college degree to get that degree at Carl Albert."
More information can be obtained by calling the Enrollment Center at 918-647-1393 or call Sallisaw at 918-775-6977.
Trooper Faces Additional Charge
Oklahoma Highway Patrol Trooper Joshua Eli Davies, 33, is now facing another charge, in addition to driving under the influence, filed July 9 after a wreck July 3 on Applegate Cove Road, south of Sallisaw, which damaged his vehicle and destroyed an OHP patrol boat. First Assistant District Attorney Jack Thorp announced Thursday that Davies will also be charged with a misdemeanor count of carrying a firearm while intoxicated. Thorp said the charge carries a range of punishment from $50 to $500 fine and/of 10 days to six months in the county jail. Davies is on administrative leave from his lake patrol post while an OHP internal investigation is conducted. By Sally Maxwell, Senior News Director
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Haskell Man Sentenced
A Haskell man, who has many aliases according to the U.S. Attorney's office in Muskogee, was sentenced on Friday to 35 months imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for failure to register as a sex offender. Albert Preston Alexander, 42, is also known as Alexander Preston, Albert Shadon, Preston Alexander, Reton Alexander and Albert Preton Alexander. The indictment against him alleged that from May to Sept. 4, 2013, Alexander was required to register as a sex offender and knowingly failed to register and update his information as required by the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act. Alexander has a sex-related felony conviction in California. The charge arose from an investigation by the Muskogee County Sheriff's Department and the U.S. Marshal's Service. Alexander was indicted in September and entered a guilty plea in U.S. Court in Muskogee in December.
$2.8 Million Road Dedicated
The Cherokee Nation and Adair and Sequoyah County commissioners dedicated a $2.8 million road improvement project on Tuesday. The project repaired a bridge and repaved 4.2 miles of roadway stretching from southern Adair county to northern Sequoyah County. At the dedication are, from the left, Sequoyah County Commissioner Jim Rogers, Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Bill John Baker, Tribal Council Deputy Speaker Janelle Fullbright, Deputy Chief S. Joe Crittendon, Adair County Commissioner Sam Chandler, Tribal Councilor Joe Byrd, and Cherokee Nation Transportation Planner Rob Endicott. The Cherokee Nation used $2.8 million from Tribal Transportation Program funds for the road. The Nicut road and bridge improvement project will provide safer travel for citizens in the Rock Fence to Belfonte communities. Baker said, "The Cherokee Nation makes investments in important infrastructure like this because it improves the lives of all citizens residing and traveling in our jurisdiction." Levi Eagle of Stilwell drives Nicut road frequently and said the project was much needed in the community. He said, "This new road is a great thing, and I really thank the Cherokee Nation for their work." In a press release the tribe reported that, in fiscal year 2013, the Cherokee Nation completed $17 million in road improvement projects.
Donations Needed for Back-to-School Giveaway
Sallisaw First Assembly is taking donations for a back-to-school giveaway. Suggested donations are new or gently used summer and winter clothing, coats and shoes for both male, female, children and adult. Donations may be dropped off at the church office at 420 West Cherokee, Tuesday-Friday, 8:30-5. Donations can also be dropped off at Sallisaw Family Fitness during their regular business hours. The last day to drop off donations is August 7th. A back to school giveaway will be held in August to distribute clothing. This is First Assembly's second annual back-to-school giveaway.
Cherokee County Man Pleads Guilty in U.S. Court
Jerry Wayne Morrison Jr. also known as Hootie, 34, of Lost City northeast of Tahlequah in Cherokee County, entered a guilty plea Friday in U.S. District Court in Muskogee to being a felon in possession of a firearm. The charge resulted from an investigation by the District 27 District Attorney's Drug Task Force and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives. Morrison was indicted in November. The indictment alleged that on about November 30, 2012, Morrison a felon owned a 9mm caliber pistol which was shipped via interstate commerce. The range of punishment is not more than 10 years imprisonment and up to $250,000 fine. Morrison will remain in the custody of the U.S. Marshal Service pending sentence.
Two From Florida Arrested, Pot Confiscated
Two men from Florida were arrested on Interstate 40 on July 10, and 23 bundles, weighing about 23 pounds total, of a green leafy substance that tested positive as marijuana was confiscated from their vehicle. Arrested were Harvey Herrera, 45, of Miami, Florida and Edwin Rodriguez, 39, of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Both suspects were charged Friday in Sequoyah County District Court with unlawful possession of a controlled drug with intent to distribute.
The Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper who arrested the two reported he stopped the vehicle driven by Herrera after clocking his speed at 75 miles per hour in a 70 mile per hour speed zone. The trooper reported both men seemed nervous, so he called for the OHP drug-detecting dog. The dog alerted on the vehicle's trunk. That's where the troopers found two large boxes containing the marijuana. While placing the two under arrest, the trooper reported Rodriguez admitted he had some marijuana inside the crotch of his pants. Story by Sally Maxwell, Senior News Director
Sallisaw Police Chief Warns of Continuing Phone Scam
Sallisaw Police Chief Terry Franklin would like to warn residents that a scam we reported on earlier is continuing. Franklin said, "We would like to advise the citizens of Sallisaw about a recent scam that was brought to our attention. A male subject has been contacting citizens stating that they have a warrant out for their arrest and that they will not be arrested if they go get a prepaid credit card and give the card numbers to him over the telephone. DO NOT give credit card information to this person. If you have a question about whether or not you have a warrant, feel free to contact the Sallisaw Police Department or the Sequoyah County Sheriff's Office."
Sheriff Warns Residents of Scam
The Sequoyah County Sheriff's Department is warning residents of a scam being attempted in our area. They have received reports that someone is calling local residents posing as a member of the sheriff's department. The caller informs individuals that they have a warrant with the Sequoyah County Sherriff's Department. To take care of the warrant they are instructed to go to Walmart and purchase a Green Dot card and provide the caller with the ID number on the card.
Sequoyah County Sheriff Ron Lockhart stated that the Sherriff's department does not make telephone calls attempting to collect warrants. This is another scam generated from outside of the country. Lockhart encourages anyone receiving one of these calls to contact your local law enforcement agency and do not given any personal information out over of the phone.
Stilwell Man Sought by Fort Smith Police
An arrest warrant was issued for a Stilwell man on Wednesday, following a shooting in Fort Smith on Wednesday morning. Stacy Lisenberry is wanted on suspicion of first-degree battery. Lisenberry was last seen driving a gold SUV, police said. One woman received non-life threatening injuries in the shooting. She was identified by police as Elisa Nakedhead. She was shot once inside a duplex on Phoenix Avenue near South 70th Street at about 7 a.m. The man who rents the apartment, Brett Pearson, was arrested on suspicion that he hindered the investigation, police said. Neighbors said they heard two gunshots and saw the SUV drive off. Story by Sally Maxwell, Senior News Director
Sallisaw Man Charged with Molestation
A 31-year-old Sallisaw man was charged with lewd molestation and three counts of sodomy of a |
difference–if the system is to draw a distinction, or do anything else–right?
But the distinction itself remains on the unindicated side of the distinction. Luhmann writes that Spencer-Brown's first injunction, "Draw a distinction!" conceals a paradox
due to the fact that the distinction must be and is drawn merely in order to distinguish one side. Thus every distinction contains two components: indication and distinction. The distinction contains itself, but apparently in a very specific form–namely, as the distinction between distinction and indication. (Introduction to Systems Theory, 60-61).
What is this "distinction between distinction and indication"? For Spencer-Brown it is a re-entry of the distinction into the distinction. Yet, the "first distinction" and the re-entry happen simultaneously (the temporal distinction of before/after doesn't apply). The distinction is immediately reproduced. How do we dissolve this paradox?
We must introduce time into an operation that happens now and only now. In other words, we need a temporal observation schema which will be employed by an external observer. This means we move to second-order observation, which observes coding (or first-order observation).
It takes time to cross the boundary of the form. Luhmann argues that
the re-entry of the form into the form–or of the distinction into the distinction, or the difference between system and environment into the system–should be understood as referring to the same thing twice. The distinction re-enters the distinguished. This constitutes re-entry. Is the distinction now the same distinction it was before? Is that which existed before still there? Or does the first distinction disappear and thus become the second one. The answer is that we might well suspect that we are dealing with a paradox here, and that means that the distinction that re-enters itself is the same and, at the same time, not the same. (Introduction to Systems Theory, 6o)
How can we dissolve this paradox? Luhmann argues that the paradox can be dissolved with the help of "the distinction between external and internal observation" (61). In other words, we move to another level, or we shift to an outside perspective. As Luhmann writes,
One dissolves a paradox by postulating two levels–a meta-level and a lower level, or the external observer and the self-observer–and by making this more or less plausible. (Intro 60-61).
In other words, we invent a plausible fiction.
Let's compare the Lacanian imaginary. According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy,
Throughout his teachings, Lacan regularly utilizes the terms "other" (with a lower-case o) and "Other" (with a capital O). Given an understanding of also register theory and the mirror stage, these terms can be clarified with relative ease and brevity. The lower-case-o other designates the Imaginary ego and its accompanying alter-egos. By speaking of the ego itself as an "other," Lacan further underscores its alien and alienating status... Additionally, when relating to others as alter-egos, one does so on the basis of what one "imagines" about them (often imagining them to be "like me," to share a set of lowest-common-denominator thoughts, feelings, and inclinations making them comprehensible to me). These transference-style imaginings are fictions taming and domesticating the mysterious, unsettling foreignness of one's conspecifics, thereby rendering social life tolerable and navigable.
Let's ask again what it means to dissolve the paradox of the re-entry of the distinction into the distinguished? We postulate an external observer, which, of course, observes from outside the system, like God standing outside the world he has created. But we must also keep in mind that all efforts to dissolve the paradox of re-entry rest on a self-deception. Yet, we may also recognize the process as self-deception and still find it useful. That is to say, the process of dissolving paradoxes can be useful for coming up with approximate or practical descriptions of a system, but these descriptions can never be more than useful fictions. The plausible fiction renders social life tolerable and navigable, yet it can never actually get inside "the black box" of an operationally closed system.
The external observer, by employing a temporal schema, can observe a system over time; however, autopoiesis happens in the moment. Each autopoietic event passes away the moment it occurs, and it must be replaced by another autopoietic event. While autopoiesis must be reproduced every moment, the sense of duration or sameness across time is produced by the schema employed by an external observer.
Moreover, the observing system has access to other distinctions that shape how it observes (e.g., the mass media uses the new/known (or information/non-information) distinction to observe all other systems, and only notices the new). If we then want to know what the observer sees, we can observe the observer, and then create our own plausible account of what that observer sees. We have to use second-order observation, observing observation.
Similarly, in politics the sovereign stands outside his kingdom; he is an external observer of his kingdom, and the laws he proclaims do not apply to himself. The sovereign, like Christ or the Word of God, is "in the world but not of the world."
The position of the sovereign is constructed by dissolving the paradox of the re-entry of the distinction into the distinguished. The sovereign stands on a meta-level and sees everything and knows everything at once. The sovereign represents the unity of a difference–more specifically, the unity of the system/environment difference.
The Cult Leader and the Old Sense of Time
We can look further into the issue of time and the sovereign or cult leader. The cult leader takes his followers back to an ancient sense of time. From a systems theory perspective, the sovereign shifts the temporal schema. Modern society observes time through a past/future schema in which the present is the difference between past and future. In contrast, for "pre-modern" society, the temporal schema was eternity/time (aeternitas/tempus). With the eternity/time schema, there is no past/future difference; time is whole and undifferentiated. Thus, there is no cause for anxiety about the future and no reason to regret the past. (Hence, the narcissist's lack of shame or guilt.) The "past," which is not actually past, can be altered or restructured simply by telling a new story–changing the narrative that we tell today. And the "future," which is not the future as modern society thinks of it, already exists. Under this paradigm, the future is a sort of spatial destination that already exists and is waiting our arrival. The future has already been prepared for us.
Hence, Trump's basic rhetorical strategy is to tell his followers, "Trust me, I got this." The more anxious someone feels about the future, the more they will gravitate toward someone who tells them it's all under control. Their salvation is assured; their place in paradise is waiting for them.
It seems that Trump's devotees have a great deal of anxiety about the future, mostly related to the instability associated with globalization. They have a lot of fear, which is why it was a huge mistake to frame Trump and his followers as "angry." The Church of Trump quickly embraced this description. "Yes," they said, "we are mad as a hell and we're not going to take it anymore!" But the truth is that they are afraid–very afraid– but no one wants to admit they are afraid. It's better to be an angry victim.
In terms of globalization, we see that autopoietic functional subsystems of society (politics, the economy, law, religion, education, mass media, science, etc.) easily perturb one another, and perturbation destabilizes systems. So autopoietic systems respond by testing a variety of potentially re-stabilizing structures; when it hits on a structure that re-stabilizes the system, it then reproduces that structure.
Clearly, the global economic system has seriously destabilized a number of functional systems within the United States; people are worried about "their" country being flooded by refugees, for example. And it makes some sense that the a media-savvy con-artist like Trump could take advantage of this fact by pretendingto restabilize America by postulating a "great" future that already exists and is waiting for all us. Of course, any political opposition must begin by positing a destabilized for broken social system because there has to be something that needs restabilizing or "fixing." There has to be some kind of "carnage" in society.
But Trump has no hope at all of restabilizing the global societal system or the domestic social system. No president, even a wise one, has that kind of power anymore. Not even the whole federal government with all three branches working together (which they can't really do anymore) has the power to significantly control globalization. The global society is too functionally differentiated for any one system, such as a state, to control it from either the center or from the top. No one knows what the global society will look even in the short term. That is to say, no one knows how the societal system will restabilize itself.
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4 Greater London
1.4.1 London
1.5 Hampshire
1.5.1 Beaulieu
1.5.2 Burley
1.5.3 Ringwood
1.6 Kent
1.6.1 Hildenborough
1.6.2 Maidstone
1.7 Surrey
1.7.1 Epsom
1.8 Sussex
1.8.1 Alfriston
1.8.2 "Posibly in Sussex"
1.8.3 Wealden
1.9 Warwickshire
1.9.1 Kenilworth
1.10 Worcestershire
1.10.1 Broadway
1.11 See Also
English tea rooms are among the oldest found outside of Asia. Their popularity predated the great Tea Room craze of 1895 to 1945, but like their American counterparts, they were often retrofitted into historical buildings, including cottages, houses, barns, granaries, mills, inns, taverns, and hotels. Because England is a region of cold and damp winters, these older buildings were often outfitted with fireplaces in every room, and thus, in England at least, a fireplace was to be found in almost every tea room.
The word most often used to describe such tea rooms is "cozy" -- and cozy is a word whose literal meaning is "warm." When postcards were made to publicize such local tea rooms, it was quite natural for the photographer to focus on the fireplace or to feature it prominently in the composition.
Not all of the tea room postcards in this lot are interior views, but those that are often contain fireplaces. Many of these cards are also RPPCs -- real photo postcards.
First and Last House in England, Land's End, Penzance, Cornwall, England, offering Teas, Film, and Postcards. The First and Last House in England is an unusual tourist destination; the name refers to the fact that it is the farthest west structure on the island, and thus to first to be sighted when approaching England from the Atlantic Ocean and the last to be seen when sailing west. Signage on the exterior walls and roof has changed many times over the past 100 years, but tea is always available, and in summer there are ices. This photo was probably taken and tinted in the 1920s, and the building still stands.
Joliff's Polperro Tea Rooms, Polperro, Cornwall, England. This exterior photo of signage for "Joliff's, The Polperro Tea Rooms" and "Ye Olde Tea Rooms" selling "Ices" displays the quaint architecture of this seaside town. The card dates to the 1910s or 1920s and a quick glance at Google street view shows that the building and row of houses was still standing 100 years later, in 2021.
Braunton
The Tea Room, Jenny Wren's Cottage, Braunton, North Devon. This card has proved to be a bit of a mystery. The photographer's code at lower right indicates that this is the 19th image taken in Braunton, a town in Devon. Jenny Wren is a common rural name for the House Wren, and is also the name of a character in Charles Dickens' 1865 novel "Our Mutual Friend." In the novel, Jenny Wren (whose real name is Fanny Cleaver) is a pretty but physically disabled young woman who cleverly supports herself and her alcoholic father as a dolls' dressmaker. Along the way she befriends a kindly Jewish man, and by the novel's end it is hinted that she has found love with an orphaned young man and that they may marry. "Jenny Wren's Cottage" is a popular name for small rural houses in England, and at the present time there is a cottage of that name in Knowle, a hamlet adjacent to Braunton. However, it is unclear to me if the current Jenny Wren's Cottage in Knowle, which is not a tea room, is indeed this cottage. In any case, whether the Tea Room at Jenny Wren's Cottage was named for the bird or for the lovably eccentric character in the novel, it is a charming little room with a cheery fireplace and diamond-mullioned windows, its walls festooned with a great deal of horse tack and a multitude of lucky horse brasses.
Moretonhampstead
The Gateway Tea Room, Moretonhampstead, Devon, England. A bowl of white roses on a table and a large brass vase filled with blooming branches set into the fireplace hearth inform us that this photo was taken in summer. The wooden fireplace surround is quite similar to the 15th century fireplace in the Novelty Store Tea Room in the same town of Moretonhampstead, directly below. An array of antiquities adorns the mantelpiece and a leather strap strung with lucky horse brasses ornaments one side of the mantel frame.
15th Century Fireplace, Novelty Store Tea Room, Moretonhampstead, Devon, England. Here is a card that mystifies me. It is strange enough for a Novelty Store to host a tea room, but how unlikely is it for the tea room to house a 15th century fireplace? In the English manner, the fireplace hearth is the center of attention in the tea room, and here we see the andirons, fire tools, brass warming pan, and a decorative array of pewter tankards on the mantelpiece. The tea table and garden furniture almost look like an afterthought, against the wall under a sunny window, ornamented with a casual vase of Narcissus flowers.
The Bungalow Tea Room, Woolacombe, Devon, England, also known as the Bungalow Café Restaurant, Southcombe's Restaurant, and The Red Barn. This description comes from the "North Devon Journal" of Thursday, May 31st,1906: "A new refreshment room was opened at Woolacombe on Monday by Mr. G. Southcombe of Ilfracombe. The building is a fine detached block, right in the centre of the village, and fronting to the sea."
The Bungalow Tea Room, Woolacombe, Devon, England, also known as the Bungalow Café Restaurant, Southcombe's Restaurant, and The Red Barn. With its potted palms and fan-folded napkins, The Bungalow presents an upper-crust atmosphere akin to fancy hotel tea rooms of the era. Continuing from the "North Devon Journal" of Thursday, May 31st, 1906: "The principal room is a very fine one, 72 feet long, 25 feet wide, with an arched ceiling rising to 25 feet at the apex. It has four large windows in front, and at each end is a fine alcove with a large window, and there is also a window in each gable. In the centre opposite the entrance is a large semi-circular counter of polished wood, while the woodwork throughout the room is enamelled in white. The walls are covered with a tasteful art paper in green and red and the floor with artistic Staines linoleum. There will be accommodation at tables of various sizes for over 150 visitors, and every description of confectionary and refreshments will be served. The whole of the china used is of a very fine rose pattern. The room has two handsome fireplaces, and is lighted by six large lamps of the Veritas pattern. Opening out at the back of the room are lavatories for ladies and gentlemen, fitted with hot and cold water, and large mirrors. From the back of the counter are reached the store room, having ten large cupboards, the dairy and larder, kitchen, wash up room, and sitting room, while bedrooms are provided above. There is a back entrance to the premises, and along the whole frontage is a verandah, six feet wide. Beneath the dining room and entered from outside is a cycle rest, where a good number of cycles can be stored. Mr. G. Southcombe, Junior, takes charge of the business, which provides accommodation of the most modern kind, hitherto lacking in this favourite resort for day visitors. We wish the new venture every success."
The "Ancient Grudge" Tea Rooms and Cafe, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England. The "Ancient Grudge" was the enmity between the Houses of York and Lancaster, which brought about the Battle of Tewkesbury in 1471. I grew up in California, where we call this style of half-timbered architecture "Tudor," but ours is only Pseudo-Tudor; this is the real deal, built in the early 16th century and re-fronted in the late 16th century. The building, at 15 High Street, still stands.
The London Coliseum, One of the Tea Rooms. The London Coliseum, in St. Martin's Lane, Westminster, opened in 1904 as London's largest and most luxurious music hall, seating 2,359 patrons. The uniformed waitresses stand ready to serve a crowd of happy theatre-goers. I wonder how many tea rooms there actually were. The building, designed by the architect Frank Matcham, still stands and is now the home of the English National Ballet. This is a Tuck Oilette, a small reproduction of an oil painting that was commissioned by Raphael Tuck and Sons, a famous postcard company.
Granary Tea Rooms, Hatchett Mill, Beaulieu, Hampshire, England, postcard front. This image, number 6451, looking into the room from the door, has been |
full five weeks into the cleanse, food is on my mind for a different set of reasons. Some of the conclusions I've drawn are what I expected; others have surprised me. I thought I would share these thoughts with you — and the easiest way to do so is with a list. Er, two lists actually.
Cheese: Cheese, cheese, cheese, cheese, cheese! I miss cheese so much I can't describe the feeling. I knew I would, and I was right. And the craving for cheese and the enjoyment of cheese hasn't diminished one bite. Er, bit. I haven't cut cheese out entirely, but I estimate I'm eating about 20% of the volume of cheese I used to eat. I no longer eat cheese every day. And a typical serving is now 1 oz. In case I haven't said it, I love cheese. I miss cheese. Cheese broke my heart. And is there anything more tragic than heartbreak in the grocery aisle?
Wine: I haven't given up wine entirely, but I've really limited my intake. As much as I enjoy it, I remind myself it's liquid (empty) calories. And it's hard to drink wine without craving cheese. They're the devil's duo in my life.
Crunchy, packaged snack foods: Cheetos, Doritos, Pita Chips, Pretzels, Fritos, Triscuits, Pork Rinds, Saltines... you name it, if it crunches and comes in a package, I miss it. I crave it. Whereas I have managed to moderate my cheese intake, I can't be trusted around the salty, crunchy stuff. I don't go near it. Can't. I know you can't buy happiness, but you can buy comfort and it comes in a Pringles can.
Butter: I can't believe I'm saying this. I love butter, always have. But giving it up has been one of the easiest transitions to healthier eating I've ever made. Haven't missed it for a single second.
Sugar and sweets: Just like butter. I simply don't need sugar and never find myself craving it. Once you give it up, you realize how naturally sweet many vegetables and legumes are. Or, maybe I was born with a cheese tooth instead of a sweet tooth. Whatever it is, I'm doing fine without sugar. I miss baking. Actually, I miss baking a lot. But sugar? Not at all.
Salad dressings: There are so many hidden calories and weird ingredients in most commercial salad dressings. I gave it up immediately in favor of a teaspoon each of olive oil and red wine vinegar. Now, I don't even need the oil. A sprinkle of vinegar allows the texture and flavor of salad greens to really shine and it's amazing how much flavor exists in a salad if it's not drowning in dressing. I'll never go back.
White rice and bread and pasta: This one really surprised me. I thought I would die without bread. And pasta. Guess what... I'm doing just fine. In five weeks, I've eaten one slice of bread and two small servings of pasta. And there have been no nervous breakdowns. Who knew?
Huge portions of meat: I like to call myself a "flexitarian" because although I enjoy meat, I've never been a devoted carnivore. Four ounces a day has been easy breezy. And surprisingly, on the two occasions I've exceeded my daily limit, my gut has made sure I realized the error of my ways. Earlier this week I ate lunch at a nice cafe, where pan fried chicken livers were the daily special. In spite of the fact I knew they'd be breaded in white flour, I ordered them. And I really enjoyed every single bite. But you know what? Two ounces were all I needed to feel entirely satisfied.
Huge portions of anything: I've been weighing all my food at home even though I've gotten really good at judging by eye. I'm truly surprised how satisfied I can be with four ounces of just about everything.
13 pounds: I can't believe I've lost 13 pounds in five weeks. I'm astounded. And now I realize how much crap I was eating and what it does to my body.
I'm wondering if you find it interesting that there's only three things I miss and seven things I don't miss. I never made it past Algebra II, but I think the math is working in my favor on this one. Although, have I mentioned I miss cheese?
I'm also not missing a rigid adherence to arbitrary rules. I told you I've always had trouble with moderation. So I'm trying to do better about not sweating the small stuff. Last night, Mr. Mom and I went out for dinner at a very nice restaurant. I had salmon and risotto. The risotto was loaded with cheese and butter, but instead of fastidiously avoiding it, I ate a few bites. It was pretty good, I have to say. And since the salmon filet was huge — probably a good eight ounces — Mr. Mom got a second entrée with half of my salmon and most of my risotto. He thoroughly enjoyed it (in addition to his Italian sampler). By the way, I took two bites of his stuffed veal Florentine. It was oh-my-god good and I didn't feel guilty for one second. That's real progress, folks.
Today's big meal is also about progress. I'm just betting you I can be happy with one small piece of fried chicken and no cake. Not that long ago, I wouldn't have cooked such a meal in the midst of a cleanse mindset. Feast or famine, you know. But I enjoy cooking so very much (and my family enjoys my cooking so very much) that it seemed ridiculous not to do something we all love. And like I said, boiling brown rice and making vegetable soup just isn't all that interesting.
So today I shall cook. And I shall eat. With joy and without guilt.
I mentioned in this post last week that I was going to use my vacation to get myself back on track, nutritionally speaking.
I showed you the photographic evidence that my pantry is stocked with junk. And, dismayed by its effect on my figure, I wrote an ode to the ripening pear I have become. So starting a week ago yesterday, I vowed to turn over a new leaf — and I embarked on a "spring cleaning" of my diet.
By the way, I'm not anti-meat. But by limiting myself to 4 ounces a day, I was enforcing a wider zone on my plate for vegetables and whole grains. It's so tempting and so easy to fill up on meat (even lean meat) and I didn't want to go the Atkins route.
I reduced my dairy intake dramatically by cutting out cheese and butter last week (I've been eating way too much for way too long). I did put a teaspoon of cream in my morning cup of coffee and a tablespoon or two of milk in my oatmeal, but I've been a dairy hog for a long time so this has been a significant change.
Of course the biggest change has been 8 straight days of eating nothing out of a package, which — without intentionally trying — means I also eliminated all processed sugar. Plus, I banned the table salt because I wanted to remind myself what fresh food actually tastes like.
First off, I had a wicked headache for almost five straight days. I'm talking headaches that verged on migraines (without the vision disturbances) and that would not be tempered by over-the-counter pain killers. I went to bed with a headache, I woke up with a headache, I painted and cleaned with a headache. Finally, about mid-day on Thursday, it broke. I'm no physiologist, but I'm pretty sure my system was reacting violently to the sudden and total elimination of processed sugar (and perhaps refined grains) from my diet.
Second, I lost 5 1/2 pounds, which is not the chief reason I did it, but boy — what a benefit!
Third, I immediately extinguished all heartburn, which had become a new and growing problem.
Finally, I just flat out feel better. I can't explain it except to say my mind is clear (once I got past the crushing headache) and my digestive system has calmed and receded to the background (where it belongs) rather than being an omnipresent, roiling reminder of my excess.
I feel so good, I'm going to keep it up — though I'm not sure what that means. I'm sticking to the daily 4-ounce limit on protein because it encourages other good eating habits. And I'm going to stick to my low-dairy guns for at least a while longer. I need to remind myself that the world doesn't revolve around cheese — or at least convince myself its proper place is as a condiment, not a food group. And I want to stay away from sugar and packaged foods as long as humanly possible. In my life, "humanly possible" has never been longer than about six months. So we'll see.
The big unknown for me is bread and pasta. I know there are all sorts of healthier, whole-grain varieties out there. Heck, I have a grain mill and several buckets of whole grains in my basement and I can bake a loaf of whole wheat bread like nobody's business. But bread and pasta are a slippery slope in my life. I have trouble controlling portions with these two foods, and I haven't learned to consume them without drenching them in all sorts of unhealthy fats. So, I'm taking it slow in this area to see if I can moderate |
. "After The Salisbury Poisonings, we were on the lookout for work that was still grounded in reality, was contemporary and authentic but that wasn't necessarily factually true."
Declan Lawn
Blue Lights, which is at the start of an 80-day shoot, has been two-and-a-half years in the making. Its storylines are based on things Lawn and Patterson have uncovered or been told during their research and extensive interviews of real police officers – but unlike with Salisbury, the writers have not been beholden to the truth.
Directed by Gilles Bannier (Trigger Point, Tin Star), the series introduces Grace (Siân Brooke), a mother of a teenage boy, who has made the decision in her 40s to leave her steady job as a social worker to join the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI). Her fellow rookies are Annie (Katherine Devlin), who struggles with the fact that her chosen path may mean having to leave behind everything she's ever known, and Tommy (Nathan Braniff), who is desperate to prove himself despite being disastrously inept at the practical side of frontline response policing.
The cast also includes Martin McCann (Marcella), Richard Dormer (Game of Thrones), John Lynch (The Fall), Jonathan Harden (Time) and Valene Kane (The Fall).
"Grace has basically taken a massive gamble," says Lawn, "and her main character trait is that she believes she can change the world, that she can do a lot of good and make a huge difference. But the biggest thing she has to learn, possibly at the cost of her job, her personal safety and security, is that in this job you can't really help everyone over the long term. Your job is to respond to their needs on the day and then go back to base and then go home. But she's making a lot of mistakes."
With the series tapping into Belfast's unique history and the residue of mistrust in the police among some communities after the Troubles, Annie joins the police because she wants to help people, but she's unaware just how much her career will affect her home life.
Adam Patterson
"That's what unravels over the first few episodes – how it essentially places people like her mother in danger, just because they're related to her," Patterson says. "She's feisty, she's full of energy, she has a brilliant energy in the police station. She's really cocky. She doesn't back down – that's one of her greatest strengths, but it also gets her into a lot of trouble."
Then Tommy "is basically a bit of a nerd," Lawn explains. He comes from an academic background and put on a fast-track programme with a view to becoming a detective.
"He's not due to be out on the ground for long, but what's clear is that he's really bad at the practical side of things, everything from radio protocol and how to talk to people to doing first aid and CPR," Lawn continues. "He's managed to struggle through his training, but he's got a lot of big gaps in his skill set, and the biggest gap of all is that he can't shoot. His intellectual insight becomes a huge asset to the whole team but, practically, he's just completely helpless."
Both hailing from Northern Ireland, Lawn and Patterson were particularly keen to highlight the "unique" city of Belfast, which they feel often goes unseen on screen.
"There's a great heart in the city that got people through those periods of darkness, and a sense of hope and optimism that we often feel sadly isn't represented in shows about Belfast," Patterson says. "Over the years, it has tended to be quite a grim representation of a city where it already rains a lot. It's grim enough. It was imperative to us to tell a story that was obviously honest and truthful to the police, but that also showed that hope and optimism and resilience in people."
They found the right perspective to tell that story in the form of new cops completing their first days in a job that requires them to carry a gun.
Siân Brooke
"It's a thriller with a healthy dose of psychological realism," says Lawn. "Character is at the heart of this show. So is dark humour, which runs through Northern Irish society like the pattern through a stick of rock, but particularly in the police. That is how they deal with the incredible stress of their job, and it is uniquely stressful here in Northern Ireland. There's a significant threat to them just because they're police officers."
An overarching storyline involving the security services and a big surveillance operation runs through the series, while each of the show's six episodes will see the cops respond to a range of different cases that the creators promise will be a mixture of tragic, funny, bizarre and surreal.
"We're both Northern Irishmen and we're both former journalists who have made careers here and, in many ways, these scripts are a distillation of everything we've learned over our journalistic careers about this place, about the weirdness of it and the post-conflict oddness of the place," Lawn says. "We've been given an opportunity to distil everything we know about it."
The six-hour timeframe also gave them the chance to find greater nuance in stories about Northern Ireland than they could in a 30- or 60-minute documentary.
"In journalism we told a lot of stories about how the world was working, but not so much about people because we didn't have the time to develop the people over that short creative framework," Patterson adds. "With six hours of drama we can do that. That's why it's really exciting for us."
But what can viewers tuning into a fictional drama from the writers of The Salisbury Poisoning expect? Authenticity is the keyword, with Blue Lights based on months of research into the PSNI and the stories of its officers, some of whom were closely involved in the writing process.
Katherine Devlin
"Salisbury took off in a way that we probably didn't expect," says Patterson. "If we're being really honest, we were journalists who kind of Trojan-horsed our way into the world of drama off the back of journalism. The real people [in The Salisbury Poisonings] wouldn't talk to journalists and we had to convince them that drama was the way to tell their stories.
"But we feel more liberated now because we can take the narrative arcs anywhere we want to go. As dramatic storytellers, that is what really excites us, that limitless possibility in creative storytelling. In journalism, you're always bound by what has actually happened in the world. Now we get to decide what the world is."
Lawn and Patterson ran a couple of writers rooms to flesh out the characters and storylines. They then wrote the scripts with Fran Harris (North Sea Connection), who penned episode three and co-wrote episode four.
Patterson would visit Lawn at his Belfast home, where they would write out individual scenes on Post-It notes and map out entire episodes – the same way they used to make Panorama documentaries for the BBC. Lawn would then have the first go at writing dialogue, which Patterson would later revise.
"The bottom line is collaboration. We've learned through journalism that you can do stuff by yourself and that's fine. But Declan and I, as soon as we started working together, we just found that our creative powers unified and were so much more impactful than our solitary lives. That's why we started working together," says Patterson.
"Declan will send me a thread of an idea and ignite something in me, and vice versa. He'll send me the first draft over and there'll be things I hadn't even thought about, and I'll just be kind of amazed by how he's even thought of those. It's like a force between us. We just have a unique understanding of each other.
Nathan Braniff
"Having Fran, an Irishwoman, as part of it too was brilliant. She brought different insights because she is from a different part of Ireland. She would have a different viewpoint and added so much more to the story, to the characters, to everything."
The writers hope rooting the series in character will give Blue Lights a universal appeal they recognise in one of their own favourite series, Friday Night Lights.
"It's about an American high-school football team – you can't get more hyper-local than that," Lawn says of the US drama. "I just find it really compelling because the characters are so good. This is the same, in the sense that it's a character drama. It's immersed in the local but we think it will appeal to anyone who has taken a leap in life, anyone who's started a new job, anyone who has kind of left behind one family to join another. All of these things are universal human experiences. It doesn't matter whether they're happening in Belfast or Berlin or Bogota, it's the same vibe."
"Dec and I had a tagline that Blue Lights is not about the complexity of a murder investigation, it's about the simplicity of being punched in the face," says Patterson of the "everyday mundane violence" that features in the show. "Everywhere in the world, you've got an opinion of the police, so that will resonate globally. But we've got a slightly different take here that we hope will be an exciting new engine for us and everyone who watches it."
They also hope Blue Lights – produced by Two Cities Television and distributed by BBC Studios, which is launching the series among other new dramas at the BBC Studios Showcase event this week – will throw up some surprises for even the most |
in the millions of CSU students and alumni who have benefitted – and will benefit – from his life's work. I know I speak for my colleagues across the CSU when I say that we will miss David… and our thoughts are with his wife, Nancy, and daughters, Maria, Laura and Julia.
November is indeed a month for remembrance, to be thankful and honor those who have given – and continue to give – so much for our country.
In this building and throughout our system, my colleagues and I are honored to work with so many faculty and staff veterans. While the method of service might differ, as a mission-driven endeavor, committed to the values of our communities, state and nation, the purpose of service to the CSU is the same.
And I am proud that the CSU remains committed to serving student veterans and their families… and that all of our campuses are working to increase access to student veterans.
Year after year, our campuses are finding new ways to provide additional support, resources and services to meet the specific needs of over 19,500 student veterans and dependents earning degrees in the CSU.
Sometimes, that support is unconventional… like the Disability Sports Festival at Cal State San Bernardino… an annual event that attracts over 500 participants, including disabled military veterans, from throughout the Inland Empire and High Desert.
The festival is an opportunity for participants to try out new adaptive sports and recreation innovations… and even compete in more than 20 sports and activities.
And sometimes, the support our campuses provide is non-academic… like the many campuses in our system that designate a social space where student veterans can gather in a private setting,…which is critical in building camaraderie, sharing and overcome challenges, and relieving stresses unique to the veteran student experience.
In fact, three CSU campuses – San Bernardino, San Diego and San Marcos – were recently recognized as top veteran-friendly schools by U.S. Veterans Magazine. These campuses were recognized for their work in creating opportunities for student and alumni veterans in education and employment.
And certainly, it is clear that all of our campuses continue to make student veterans an institutional priority… and ensure that they are successful along their unique academic, career and personal paths.
On the topic of institutional priorities… I'm pleased that our budget ask, as presented to you yesterday, is a clear reflection of our institutional priorities…. to support world-class faculty and staff… increase enrollment to serve more qualified Californians… repair and modernize our aging infrastructure… and fully implement Graduation Initiative 2025.
I spoke earlier this week to a collection of university presidents and chancellors at an Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities in Austin.
I was joined on stage by State University of New York Chancellor Nancy Zimpher… where we talked about the importance of teacher preparation and support, particularly in regards to our statewide and national teacher shortage. In preparing for that event, I was reminded about how deeply linked the goals of Graduation Initiative 2025 are to the institutional priorities – and founding mission – of the CSU.
The goal of Graduation Initiative 2025 is not to focus on helping just 30 percent of our students… or even just 60 percent of our students. The goal is to help all of our students along their own pathways to academic and life success.
Trustee Maggie White said it best yesterday. This initiative is not designed to change students, but rather to change the way we serve our students.
I will consider Graduation Initiative 2025 a success if our concerted efforts mean a student who… because of their background, their story of perseverance, and their individual, dream-driven path that brought them here… is able to get a CSU degree in six years rather than eight years… or four years rather than six years. I will consider that a resounding success.
Every percent point improvement is important.
Even a handful of percentage points in the right direction – or in the case of our grad rates distribution graphs, in the left direction – will positively and forever impact thousands of students.
A single percentage point means that thousands of new alumni are able to enter California's workforce.
It means more nurses, engineers, social workers, teachers are able to work and serve their families, the people of this state and nation. And it means we can get one step closer to ending our degree drought, teacher shortage and achievement gap.
In fact, when we personalize the percentage point improvements shown yesterday… that means an additional 6,000 CSU students – now alumni – have earned their degrees and are now working, sustaining and powering the promise of California.
Stealing a line from Dia Poole… maybe we should start calling this the Alumni Creation Initiative…
That is the goal of Graduation Initiative 2025. And we can only fully-achieve this goal with adequate budget support from the state.
So, I am hopeful that with your support, insights and guidance… coupled with the voices of our students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends… that our mission-driven message of success will again resonate in the halls of the state capitol… and throughout California.
Lastly, I wish to comment on the news of the past few weeks, and offer some thoughts and perspective.
First, the campaign rhetoric that we have endured over the past year has had something offensive for everyone, regardless of a person's political ideology. And so today, we are now in a place where the rhetoric of the past starts to evolve into the governing policies going forward. And we have seen some early signs of change… both positive and negative.
And because of the lack of substantive policy discussions on things that matter for our future, there is a lot of uncertainty at best, and a sense of fear and vulnerability at worst.
There are many issues going forward that matter to the CSU, including education policy writ large; the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act, along with federal support for research and low-income students with Pell and TRIO programs. There are concerns about future policies on climate and healthcare, to name a few.
As a university community, we are capable of thriving in a world of ambiguity. But there is more… I believe strongly that the CSU, because of our size and importance to America, can also be a voice that influences the future in positive ways. The CSU voice matters…if our employees and students were a city, we would be the sixth largest city in California, ahead of Sacramento. And if we include our living alumni, we are larger than 21 states.
Given our size, we have a responsibility to lead with our voices.
As such, there are areas of immediate concern… And there can be no ambiguity, that we – as the CSU – are a community that embodies inclusivity and excellence. I was so proud to release a statement on November 9th with David Lopez, CSSA president, addressed primarily to our students, along with faculty and staff. Our statement:
The California State University embraces its diversity and the way in which our students, faculty and staff achieve excellence through inclusion. We are unequivocally committed to supporting all members of our community. That is who we are. It is a core strength and part of our DNA.
Elections are essential to democracy. Yet, they are not easy. They test our resolve, but also our understanding and compassion. They can be difficult and sometimes even painful, especially for those who hoped for a different outcome.
Today, many in our community may feel anxious and perhaps vulnerable about their personal future, the future of those they care for and the future of our nation.
It is our duty – as a community – to listen to each other and support each other through this time. It is also our responsibility to hold our political leaders to account, regardless of party. To meet that obligation, the California State University and California State Student Association will together be leading advocates in advancing the rights of our students, faculty and staff.
In this effort, we stand with California's political and civic leaders, our colleagues in the University of California and California Community Colleges, and our many peers nationwide who care about and are dedicated to a nation that lives up to its highest principles.
As you would expect of us, we have been thinking about the policy discussions of our times. This past July, we provided guidance to campuses that clarified the relationship between our campus law enforcement activities and US Homeland Security.
There is no ambiguity here… We are deeply committed to fostering a campus community that is safe and welcoming for everyone.
Primary jurisdiction for federal immigration laws rests with the federal government, not University Police.
Unless directed by California Government Code or required by law, the CSU will not enter into agreements with state or local law enforcement agencies, Homeland Security or any other federal department for the enforcement of federal immigration law. Our police departments will not honor immigration hold requests. And our University Police do not contact, detain, question or arrest individuals solely on the basis of being – or suspected of being – a person that lacks documentation.
Further… we are joining hands with other universities, colleges and educational associations across America, to protect access, affordability, intellectual freedom, inclusivity and diversity for all students… including supporting DACA students… and the communities that support them.
And finally… to our campus presidents, faculty, staff and students, I couldn't be more proud of you.
Each campus has created just the right set of circumstances to allow a cacophony of views to be expressed – and provide support to those who seek to do so – interspersed with academic and community discussions and forums of the issues at hand.
The voices of non-violent protest have a sacred place on our campuses, and it will be one of many important forces going forward, just as it has been in past decades.
It is regrettable that – in a few cases – there |
_eu':template.hx_price_eu,
'price_hk':template.hx_price_hk,
'price_special':0,
'price_discount':0,
'date':'',
'qty_history':0,
'other_template': other_template,
'same_cate':same_cate,
}
inventorys = cls.objects.filter(template_id=res[0],qty_canbesold__gt=0).all()
for inventory in inventorys:
if inventory.product.size:
res_inventory['sizes'].append({'name':inventory.product.size,'num':inventory.qty_canbesold, 'product_id':inventory.product_id})
#特惠价取最大的
if inventory.price_special and inventory.price_special > res_inventory['price_special']:
res_inventory['price_special'] = inventory.price_special
res_inventory['price_discount'] = template.hx_price_hk and int(inventory.price_special / template.hx_price_hk * 100) or 0
#入库时间为最早的
if (not res_inventory['date']) or inventory.date < res_inventory['date']:
res_inventory['date'] = inventory.date
"""
if inventory.product.color and inventory.product.color not in res_inventory['colors']:
res_inventory['colors'].append(inventory.product.color)
if inventory.template.image_url_from_attr('l') not in res_inventory['imgs']:
res_inventory['imgs'].append(inventory.template.image_url_from_attr('l'))
res_inventory['inventorys'].append({
'inventory_id':inventory.id,
'size':inventory.product.size,
'color':inventory.product.color,
'lussomoda_price':inventory.template.hx_price_hk,
'price_special':inventory.price_special,
'qty':inventory.qty_canbesold,
'qty_history':inventory.qty_history,
'img':inventory.image_url_from_attr('l')
})
#欧洲价 价格范围
if (not res_inventory['price_eu_range'][0]) or inventory.template.hx_price_eu < res_inventory['price_eu_range'][0]:
res_inventory['price_eu_range'][0] = inventory.product.hx_price_eu
if (not res_inventory['price_eu_range'][1]) or inventory.product.hx_price_eu > res_inventory['price_eu_range'][1]:
res_inventory['price_eu_range'][1] = inventory.product.hx_price_eu
#香港价 价格范围
if (not res_inventory['price_hk_range'][0]) or inventory.product.hx_price_hk < res_inventory['price_hk_range'][0]:
res_inventory['price_hk_range'][0] = inventory.product.hx_price_hk
if (not res_inventory['price_hk_range'][1]) or inventory.product.hx_price_hk > res_inventory['price_hk_range'][1]:
res_inventory['price_hk_range'][1] = inventory.product.hx_price_hk
#如果价格范围唯一
if res_inventory['price_eu_range'][0] == res_inventory['price_eu_range'][1]:
res_inventory['price_eu_range'] = res_inventory['price_eu_range'][0]
else:
res_inventory['price_eu_range'] = str(res_inventory['price_eu_range'][0]) + '-' + str(res_inventory['price_eu_range'][1])
if res_inventory['price_hk_range'][0] == res_inventory['price_hk_range'][1]:
res_inventory['price_hk_range'] = res_inventory['price_hk_range'][0]
else:
res_inventory['price_hk_range'] = str(res_inventory['price_hk_range'][0]) + '-' + str(res_inventory['price_hk_range'][1])
#产品页首图片
res_inventory.update({'img':res_inventory['imgs'][0]})
"""
#产品尺寸排序
res_inventory['sizes'] = sorted(res_inventory['sizes'], key = lambda x:x['name'])
result_inventorys.append(res_inventory)
return result_inventorys
@classmethod
def read_inventorys(cls, type, company_id=COMPANY_ID):
result_inventorys = []
if type =='special':
result = cls.objects.filter(company_id=company_id, qty_canbesold__gt=0, price_special__gt=0).values_list('template_id','name').annotate(Sum('qty_canbesold'))
else:
result = cls.objects.filter(company_id=company_id, qty_canbesold__gt=0).values_list('template_id','name').annotate(Sum('qty_canbesold'))
for res in result:
template = Product_Template.objects.filter(id=res[0]).first()
res_inventory = {
'name':res[1],
'template_id':res[0],
'imgs':template.image_url_from_attr('l'),
'qty_total':res[-1],
'price_eu':template.hx_price_eu,
'price_hk':template.hx_price_hk,
'price_special':0,
'date':'',
'qty_history':0
}
inventorys = cls.objects.filter(template_id=res[0]).all()
for inventory in inventorys:
#特惠价取最大的
if inventory.price_special and inventory.price_special > res_inventory['price_special']:
res_inventory['price_special'] = inventory.price_special
#入库时间为最早的
if (not res_inventory['date']) or inventory.date < res_inventory['date']:
res_inventory['date'] = inventory.date
result_inventorys.append(res_inventory)
return result_inventorys
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@classmethod
def read_new(cls,company_id=COMPANY_ID):
result_new = []
cates = Product_Category.objects.filter(parent_id=65).all()
for categ in cates:
result_old = {'name':categ.name, 'products':[]}
result = cls.objects.filter(company_id=company_id, qty_canbesold__gt=0, template__categ__big_parent=categ).order_by('-date').all()[:50]
result = cls.objects.filter(id__in=result).distinct('template').all()
if len(result) < 6:
continue
result = random.sample(list(result),6)
for res in result:
if not res.template.check_image_url():
continue
res_inventory = {
'name':res.name,
'template_id':res.template_id,
'url':res.template.get_absolute_url(),
'img':res.template.image_url_from_attr('m'),
'hx_price_eu':res.template.hx_price_eu,
'hx_price_hk':res.template.hx_price_hk,
'price_special':res.price_special |
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carry the same goblin-stench his has (so he wont be detected as easily), and carries a short sword that is easy to use in caves. He always keeps his helmet on and doesn't show his face because goblins could ambush him at any time- he believes. That part is probably true since he has killed many goblins for years.
Why does he hate goblins so much? They killed his sister and destroyed his home.
The author was inspired by tabletop rpg games, and has set out to make this fantasy decently dark (especially the novels) but its not the darkest one out there.
If you've seen Berserk, you'll know what I mean.
I wanted to write this post for about a week now following a recent controversy over a'sexual-assault' scene in the beginning of the story, and how big the outrage became online over what seems to be a pretty tame scene that is made to get you up to speed on how messed up these goblins can be.
Just recently the anime aired and there came a surprising uproar of people across the internet, mainly thanks to a single scene that implies a goblin is sexually assaulting a character. The scene itself shows nothing but a vague pose a character is left in after being brutally beat up, and then her face is shown up close as she is lifelessly moved around, implying a humping motion.
The author wanted to communicate that the goblins in Goblin Slayer are evil, viscous, animal-like beings who're cruel.
Episode 3 is already out at the time of this writing, and those who've read the novel may notice some gory or other graphic scenes cut from the anime. Still, many folks online have campaigned to damage the series' name and reputation by going as far to claim that all men enjoy hurting women, that the industry is purposefully working to drown the world in sexual-assault-culture so everyone just accepts it, and a list of other wild speculative or downright asinine comments putting the series down.
The social media explosion over Goblin Slayer also included people complaining about people complaining, fights among users, and in some places continues to rage on.
Before I go further I just want to say that the series is what it is, and shouldn't be judged on its fandom- there are fans out there who aren't helping the cries of those sensitive and complaining about Goblin Slayer. This comes in the form of fans who're taking what's presented in the series and escalating it or making comments about how more women should be abused, which is furthest from anything the series exists to promote, which is the slaying of truly awful monsters.
Game of Thrones is a dark fantasy live-action TV series that has millions of fans and has immense popularity worldwide, depicting and outright showing what people are complaining about in Goblin Slayer, yet campaigns and widespread shock over its content seems minuscule.
I think the same idea goes with GoT that I feel is accurate about Goblin Slayer already: spend more than 25 minutes with the first episode and actually try to understand what's going on and the purposes of its content before freaking out and going on a crusade.
As with any of my discoveries I like to present recommendations of great media I find, and Goblin Slayer to me is a breath of fresh air. I think this feeling mostly (for me personally) comes from Goblin Slayer's personality himself and how much he has grown on me so quickly with his love of killing goblins becoming humorous to me pretty early on. The guy sticks out like a sore thumb among other adventurers, and some think he's weird for loving to kill goblins so much.
Priestess is an innocent looking, cute character who befriends this guy and ends up becoming his quest buddy for a while, adding a layer to their relationship with the mysterious and odd Goblin Slayer.
I am slightly concerned seeing how quickly many folks on twitter and social media were outraged with the release of the first episode of Goblin Slayer, and Crunchyroll even added content warnings to the start of the episodes in case the show is too much for anyone while watching.
The light novel has continued publishing in the USA for at least a year now or more, and I'm almost wondering if the online outrages are just a classic hate-herd mentality of piggy-backing each other's anger to create a loud voice of change that many will see and giggle at, whining that wont change a thing. But really, is that even necessary or mature in itself even?
Ah, our present-day world.
If gore or dark fantasy isn't your thing, by all means I understand.
I'm not into most horror media myself and even get teased for it, but getting up in arms over monsters (who're driven in pretty deep as being cruel antagonists) who're doing monstrous things, or honestly anything evil to the heroes or innocent characters, just doesn't make any sense to me. The series wants you to hate the goblins, not the whole series. Its supposed to feel good when Goblin Slayer slays them.
If the whole series became about offensive content then yeah, there'd be headlines about the series being a dick to the planet by its own existence, taken offline possibly by sensible businesses, and then I would agree that it is actually promoting evil.
If it does promote evil, why is the evil beings or goblins not heroes? Heroes themselves exist to slay those being evil. That there should be enough example for most people to understand.
Hentai itself has its own classification, because there's enough love-making (by whatever means) and nudity that its promoting in its own overall concept of being what it is. Goblin Slayer is not hentai, or something other than a standard dark fantasy with shock factor and story elements that give you an example how bad these goblins are. It is not classification-defining content other than being a title of the dark fantasy anime genre.
So far, a tame scene where something is implied to happen to a character, isn't any valid description of the promotion of sexual assault. If it is, then hardcore SJW's have decades of research to do and a wish-list of media to campaign against that is bigger than the collective wish-lists of Earth's children sent to Santa Clause.
Comedy movies over the past decade or two have characters using racial slurs for African Americans or other wonderful people of Earth to represent douche-bag characters or jokes that communicate deeper meanings that present overall feelings or lessons, but just because offensive content is present in something doesn't mean it is promoting it.
I often fear we're becoming a society that jumps at the slightest sights of things, who becomes willing, in great numbers, to totally damn things at a merciless speed before fully understanding or being reasonable about them.
Not to get overly philosophical here, but if you think deep enough about it all, one has to ask some questions about how things got this way.
Especially when characters have been mutilated in all ways I can imagine for decades in Hentai. xD
Not to mention I see way, way, way more heinous or insanely sexual or rude behavior and language in handfuls of western animations that are on TV for anyone of any age to access, and don't get me started on games that are out there with content that we regularly accept because we're used to games too.
If the heroes were promoting sexual assault and performing it themselves, if Goblin Slayer became gratuitous in offensive content where its like every other episode, shown or not, that'd make way more sense to be upset about.
Sexual assault is a serious crime and victims are made every day, its nothing to take lightly, and as a self-proclaimed gentleman I abhor anyone who truly abuses or assaults anyone sexually or not.
People are abused in a myriad of other ways too, its never a good thing, and there are many times its important for people to stand up against evil and have/use the voice that we in the USA and other countries have been allowed to have thanks to men and women who work, fight, and die every day for that right.
Mature anime can exist that is not hentai anyways, especially when it takes care to leave things out or censor itself, and not be worth forming a mob over because the villains do villainous things. Mature anime is allowed fall into a genre and not be some subject-defining-mission to promote evil. One question I have to ask is why are people so quick to get up in arms these days, quicker than I've ever seen in my nearly 29 years.
Its called literary representation, (for lack of better words) or showing evil or offensive material to communicate story elements and depth. When Lord of the Rings came out, people saw how J.R.R. Tolkein used the great evil of the orcs and all of Sauron's forces, to communicate the lessons and philosophy the series can teach those willing to understand. Part of Tolkein's inspiration was to create a story that would be epic and contain moral or Christian undertones to teach people lessons about greed, hunger for power, betrayal, lying, and other negative aspects that destroy people and their relationships with others, fitting into a fantasy story many have loved for what's going on a century in a couple decades. Peter Jackson who directed the movies for LOTR we all know, did his best to flesh out Tolkein's vision and manifest these concepts and visual expressions of Tolkein's lessons.
The scene in Goblin Slayer might be a bit unecessary, I |
in those last five minutes something will happen. She loves horror so much she wrote her Master's thesis on The Decline of Horror in Popular Culture and loves to watch every horror movie she can get her hands on, no matter how bad it might be.
Her love of zombies stems from her desire to find true monsters, not sparkling vampires, loving werewolves, or ghosts who help you solve cases. Zombies have one thing on their mind: eating people. She loves zombies so much she has done zombie makeup for an ice-skating exhibition, played a zombie in a short independent film, done several zombie themed runs, and is working on her zombie series. Zombies Are People Too! is the first book in her "Do Zombies Win?" series. Her second book, Zombies Bite!, was released 2014, followed by the third book in the series, Zombie Wasteland, in 2016. She has several stories available as part of the series and is currently working on Zombimerica, the last book in her zombie series, and two other novels to be released soon.
Thus far her favorite zombie movie is the Norwegian film Dead Snow, followed closely by Shaun of the Dead and Fido. She is always willing to discuss horror with other fans, authors, and those who just enjoy the genre.
Currently Stacy lives in Virginia with her husband and two rambunctious boy cats, and she teaches English at a local community college.
Wilheimina Long
Wilheimina is a children's book author, entrepreneur, graphic designer, and fine artist who enjoys painting portraits. She received her B.A. degree from the University of Mary Washington. Wilheimina has always been an advocate for children, and in 1999 she founded the non-profit Youth Matter Inc.
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Angeles and the 99% Movement.
He has also worked closely with Occupy Oakland, and was jailed along with Kayvan Saveghi, the second military veteran who was injured by Oakland police and left in his jail cell with severe internal injuries for sixteen hours without medical treatment.
It would be irresponsible of me to post the rest of this interview, which is a lurid account of Ryan's experience in jail along with Kayvan Saveghi, without adding my own brief comment.
I don't hate cops. My father was a police officer, and so were his friends and a few other members of my family. My father is retired and although I myself am not a police officer, I grew up with cops. I can't entirely understand what it's like to be a member of law enforcement, but I do understand a few things.
It's tough to have a dangerous, sometimes violent job where you don't get paid a lot, retirement is uncertain, everyone you try to help seems to hate you and the media (and anyone with a camera) can't wait to make you look like the modern-day Gestapo.
Most cops are very good, honest people who want to help people. If they weren't they could never get hired as law enforcement. Yes, there are some bad cops. There are also bad waiters and bad brain surgeons and bad nuclear physicists.
Otherwise, I believe there are always more good people than bad, regardless of occupation.
The cops in Oakland were doing what they were told to do. Ultimately, law enforcement must obey an elected public official. If the official does their job, what happened in Oakland doesn't happen.
I don't hate cops. I blame the elected officials they work for when and vote them out of office when they do a bad job, and vote into office public officials who understand people (which includes police officers) and knows how to handle peaceful demonstrators without unnecessary force, torture or confinement.
That is my honest opinion.
I also would like to mention that my father was a military veteran, and so were many of my friends and family growing up. I still have a lot of friends who are veterans, or who are currently serving in the military right now, and I have a tremendous respect for them.
You normally work for Occupy Los Angeles, but from what I understand you flew up to assist with Occupy Oakland. What was that like?
We got approved for funds for a van so a few of us took a trip up there. We drove up there November 2nd, Tuesday night and got there by November 3rd for the general strike.
You were also arrested with the second military veteran, Kayvan Saveghi, who was critically injured by police officers in Oakland?
Yes. He was leaving the Occupy site when he was beaten and arrested. I myself was sick and had been sleeping in my tent when I woke up to flash bang and tear gas grenades. I wanted to find my friends and make sure they were safe, so I put on my gas mask and I went out to the "no-zone" to find my friends.
That was where most of the protestors were, defending their First Amendment rights and standing up to police. Anyone there was targeted for intimidation, brutality and arrest.
So you got to the jail after Saveghi?
We were all zip-tied, I think there was about 103 arrests. I was on a Sheriff's bus that had about 55 people on board. They kept moving us around arbitrarily with no explanation, and they left the zip-ties on. I was with him when we were moved around from cell block A, to B, to D…I spent about 15 hours in jail, and I'd say I spent about half that time in a cell with him.
Well, the guy is a veteran. He's a tough cookie. We were all concerned about his hands, which were visibly swollen from baton beatings. His arm, leg and side were also bruised heavily. But an internal injury can take hours before you start feeling the pain.
With the adrenaline rush of getting beaten and arrested, that can stave off the pain for a while, but after the eighth hour he started requesting medical attention and at hour twelve he was really starting to cry for help.
At one point he was crawling down the hallway, pleading for assistance, and the guards just snickered at him.
Did they make fun of him?
They didn't really make fun of him, they just said, "Well, we can't help you if you can't get up off the ground."
Did they know he was a veteran?
Was he targeted for intimidation because he was a veteran?
We were all targeted for intimidation by the police because we were protestors. Every opportunity the police had to intimidate us, to be arbitrarily cruel, they took. It angers me because it was so unnecessary.
I'm speechless because we were powerless to stop this. Our rights were being violated. The police were not there to protect and serve us. They were there to protect and serve their corporate overlords. It made me so angry that I, as a protestor, was powerless to stop it.
They are talking about another raid. I know the city council is figuring out what to do with them, how to support them. In Los Angeles the house has approved a resolution, which I believe is just empty words, but here's the big city on the West Coast putting pressure on New York and saying, "Hey, we're accommodating them.
Mayor Blumberg in New York City needs to accommodate the protestors down at Wall Street. So I think any kind of action by any official will be good in terms of letting other cities know how to deal with them.
I don't know what is going to happen. The general assembly's there are awesome, they have hundreds of people that participate. Who knows? This movement is happening so quickly, and the dynamics are changing so much that I don't know what's going to happen.
Do you think that Occupy Wall Street wants the same thing as Occupy L.A.? Are all of the movements protesting the same thing? Because I feel that Occupy Wall Street has one set of demands, and different cities have their own demands based on what their particular problems might be.
For instance, Oakland has had a long history of police violence, but here at Occupy L.A. it's a different sort of feeling here, and the police have been very polite.
I think it is important to note the individuality of these protests. When Occupy Wall Street started and Occupy L.A. began, I felt that there was an element to Occupy L.A. that was different. We were there for the financial reasons. We were there to protest the banks, to protest profits over people…
Occupy L.A. had the need to address the social issues that come with a broken, "crony-capitalism" type of system including homelessness, immigration issues…some of these issues are much more apparent in L.A. than over at Occupy Wall Street.
So I think that each city does have it's own space to access issues. In Oakland it was police brutality. We are all here to address the same sets of issues on a state and local level. I think that in Oakland that was a powerful component.
What do you think is going to happen next with the Occupy movement? Are you going to back up a Democratic or Republican candidate that supports your views?
I've spoken out against Occupy aligning itself with a broken political system. But there is some value to looking at what the Tea Party has done to promote their own agenda. I don't agree with them, but they have successfully integrated themselves into the political process and they have brought some of the things that they want to do to their fruition.
If we can do that, I'm not necessarily against it, but what I would like to see is not necessarily one of us running our own politicians, but I would like to see politicians that are clearly supporting us and coming to us, like Dennis Kucinich or Obama, but not just as politicians but as people who are standing up for what's right.
Any politician would be welcome here, if they want to stand up for what's right.
Here's how you can help to bring real participating democracy back to the American government. Money, letters of support, supplies...everything counts.
You can donate to Occupy Wall Street, here.
You can donate to Occupy Los Angeles, here. They recently posted this important banking update on their Facebook page.
Here's a link to their Amazon wish list.
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has been incredibly supportive of the protesters. You can support him right back, here.
Governor Jerry Brown could take out Occupy Los Angeles with a single phone call. Write him a letter and thank him for the support.
Since most of the government stopped caring about the civil rights of Americans back in the late 90's, we're lucky we have groups like the National Lawyers Guild to defend the few we have left. You can support them here.
A letter to the LAPD in support of the demonstrations and a big donation to the Los Angeles Police Memorial Foundation will help the movement. Remember, cops are also the 99%.
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also how essential it is to be a positive and productive example to your child."
Now he's trying to share that knowledge with other fathers.
Today, McKnight works for a Bridgeport-based, non-profit called Family Re-Entry that helps former prisoners re-assimilate into their community and, most importantly, their families. McKnight specifically works with men, like himself, who have been estranged from their families and now must figure out how to meet the needs of their children.
"When kids have a dad involved in their life – development, relationships, emotional and academic outcomes all benefit."
Linda Dixon, DCF administrator:
The work of Family Re-Entry is funded, in part, by a grant awarded last year by the state Department of Children and Families to engage fathers like McKnight, both while they are in prison and after they are released, so that they can learn to be involved parents.
"Basically, what we do is we get a referral from DCF and it will be a referral for a father who is difficult to get in the ballgame of DCF's process," McKnight said. "Once we receive the referral, our job is to get the initial contract and motivate the dad to get involved with the services we offer, which help him become a better dad."
The push behind the effort came from the realization that DCF's parenting programs nearly all targeted mothers.
"It's cultural," said Gary Kleeblatt, DCF's spokesman. "The caretaking role is traditionally associated with moms. We found that a special effort needs to be made to reinforce the importance of dads with staff, providers and community members."
The program is broken into two segments. The first is a $120,000 grant awarded to Family Re-Entry — led by McKnight — that is working with incarcerated fathers to get them interested in being a part of their children's lives and into a program within the community to which they will be returning.
The second part is a $900,000 grant split between six organizations, including Family Re-Entry, located in each region of the state. The money from this one-year contract allows the non-profits to work with men who have already been released from prison. The other five grantees are Clifford Bears, Madonna Place, the Village for Families and Children, Wellmore and Families, and New Opportunities.
"When kids have a dad involved in their life – development, relationships, emotional and academic outcomes all benefit," said Linda Dixon, an administrator at DCF. "It is an important factor in positive child welfare outcomes."
Breaking the Cycle of Incarceration
A father and his children who have benefited from Family Re-Entry.
McKnight's daughter became his motivation while he was behind bars.
Although he was still in prison, he worked to end the cycle of incarceration in his family that had persisted for generations. He got involved in religious programs, voluntary self-help programs, pursed a college degree program from which he graduated as valedictorian, and became a Muslim.
"I think it is important to understand that people are products of those things that influence them," McKnight said. "Children don't have a lot of choice as to what influences them, people make mistakes. The beautiful thing about being a human being is we are the most adaptable animal on the planet, and with time and repetition, we can produce new behaviors."
A milestone for McKnight was the day he graduated in prison, earning an Associate's degree:
"I was the valedictorian and my daughter told me that day she was going to college when she grew up," McKnight said. "She did go to college and complete her Batchelor's degree in public relations. She is now into film production."
Now, through his work with Family Re-Entry, McKnight is in a position to help other fathers like himself who are caught in a cycle of crime and incarceration and can't seem to figure a way out.
"He helped me with everything," said Donte Crawford, a formerly incarcerated Bridgeport resident who connected with Family Re-Entry as soon as he entered the prison system. "He helped me see my kids, get my license and live in a house when I got out. It actually allowed me to save my money, settle down and see the bigger picture of becoming a young adult."
Crawford said he benefited beyond what he can express from Family Re-Entry:
"Without Family Re-Entry I probably would still be in prison," Crawford said. "I got out early because of my progress. I was doing everything I had to do: going to program, taking every class, good behavior, they take that into account when they talk to parole."
The program targets fathers in the 18 to 24-year-old range, said Angela Medina, the Director of Family Re-Entry.
If the father becomes involved in their child's life, "it could be a really positive thing for both of their lives," Medina said.
Round 2: Struggling to engage dads
According to recent studies, healthy father involvement can promote child development, decrease time spent in foster care, and reduce the likelihood of maltreatment allegations.
A big part of the Family Re-Entry program is teaching dads the ways they can be involved with their children — even if they do not live with them and they are not in a relationship with the child's other parent.
"We are trying to figure out what the dad sees as the barriers to communicating with DCF and being involved with their kids," said Joseph Guios, a DCF program coordinator and social worker. "When dads feel less connected, they will be less motivated. We need to find a way to get them connected, whether that is going with the dads to appointments, helping them build a resume so they can have a job and help support their child, really grass roots types of efforts to meet dads where they are."
There are many reasons a father may be estranged from his child, DCF officials said. Sometimes, like in the case of McKnight, the child is born while the dad is already incarcerated. Other times, the mother does not know who the father is or want to tell him about the baby if she does know.
"DCF struggles to engage dads and a lot of it has to do with social worker beliefs. We need to change beliefs of staff and find a way to give fathers a fathers-focused intervention."
Joseph Guios, DCF program coordinator:
"I've heard stories that there are fathers who didn't know they had children," Kleeblatt said. "An acquaintance of the dad called the father who was out of state and said that this woman who he had a relationship with just gave birth. Now the baby lives with that dad."
DCF's Fatherhood Engagement Leadership Team (FELT) partnered with community providers in the Hartford-Manchester area to test-pilot the services beginning in March 2017.
"DCF struggles to engage dads and a lot of it has to do with social worker beliefs," Guios said. "We need to change beliefs of staff and find a way to give fathers a fathers-focused intervention."
When a dad is not involved, a child is missing out on half of their family, not only their father, Guios added, and family is a child's most important resource.
According to Guios, a common problem for DCF — and a major reason behind turning to non-profit help — is that fathers do not trust the agency.
"Dads have a lot of frustration and worries with DCF. They don't think DCF has their best interests at heart," Guios said. "When the service providers would go out, they didn't feel that initial anxiety."
Additionally, the largely-female social worker staff may have implicit bias against the dads, he said, or even fear them.
"Most of our social workers are female, and there is a level of intimidation that must exist," Guios said. "There are plenty of people out there that can be very intimidating, especially when you are walking in and threatening their child, the most important thing in their life."
It is the hope of both DCF and Family Re-Entry that employing former inmates like McKnight to work with fathers will help get these dads back in the lives of their children.
"Family Re-Entry made a major step in innovation when they realized that if they wanted re-entry to work, they needed ex-offenders to work for them," McKnight said. "People need an example and a role model."
And for many, McKnight has been that role model:
"Growing up I didn't have a father," Crawford said. "Da'ee is a real good role model. Seeing his face, that is really showing genuine care, was so helpful."
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The building that housed the Lakota Times was blasted out by gunfire three times and firebombed after founder Tim Giago wrote editorials editorials condemning the violence and confrontational tactics of the American Indian Movement. Photo courtesy Tim Giago
The aftermath of Wounded Knee
By Tim Giago (Nanwica Kciji – Stands Up For Them)
The television cameras were all packed away and stuffed into the trunks of the rental cars. Notebooks were crammed into briefcases and alongside of the cameras, packed in rental cars headed for Rapid City. The violent takeover of Wounded Knee began on February 27, 1973.
New York Times journalist Bill Kovach, covering the Wounded Knee takeover, made the in-house news of the Times when his Hertz Rental car, parked at Wounded Knee, was stripped of everything strippable and left on blocks on the outskirts of the village. The Times in- house story about the perils of Kovach was titled, "Bury My Hertz at Wounded Knee."
All of the journalists from places far away from Wounded Knee wrongfully assumed that since the occupiers decided to abandon Wounded Knee the story was ended. They weren't there to watch the occupiers file out of Wounded Knee in a line of cars only to be stopped and searched by the U.S. Marshals. The Marshals confiscated all of the loot and stolen works of art that the occupiers had squirreled away in their cars hoping to make a quick profit on them.
They recovered priceless works of art by such great Lakota artists as Andrew Standing Soldier, Felix Walks Under the Ground, Richard Red Owl and Hobart Keith. All in all they confiscated 42 works of art from the occupiers.
Tim Giago. Photo courtesy Native Sun News Today
The war between the American Indian Movement and the government of the Oglala Sioux Tribe raged on. Several deaths occurred between the bitter rivals. Lakota people from Wounded Knee who lost all of their possessions, including their homes and cars, filed with the U. S. Government for restitution. Their claims were put into the circular file in most cases and very few Lakota people were ever paid for their losses. Their homes were destroyed by the AIM occupiers and their cars and all of their worldly possessions stolen.
The children of James Czywczynski, the owner of the Wounded Knee Trading Post, which was also destroyed, found that the horses they loved had also disappeared. In fact everything they owned had either been stolen or destroyed. Jim passed away several weeks ago.
The battles between AIM and the tribal government were still raging when I started my weekly newspaper, a paper I named the Lakota Times, right in the heart of Pine Ridge Village. A strong believer in freedom of the press I decided to use my editorial page to point out the damage the warring sides were doing to the everyday citizens of the reservation. I wrote editorials condemning both sides for the violence.
My first issue of the Lakota Times hit the reservation on July 1, 1981. Five months later, in December of that year, the windows of my newspaper were shot out. We had our suspicions of the culprits.
The first of the year in 1982 we moved our paper across the street to a more secure building after our windows had been shot out for second time. The windows at our new office were covered with bars and yet someone fired a rifle through the bars in November of that year and shot out the glass.
Participants in the "Liberation Day 4 Directions Walk" to Wounded Knee, on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, in February 2014. Photo: Confrontational Media
We continued to write strong editorial calling those who would strike our newspaper in the middle of the night "cowards." In December, just a few days before Christmas, a car pulled up in front of our office and two men jumped out and hurled Molotov cocktails at our newspaper in an effort to burn it down.
Fortunately a police officer from the Oglala Sioux Tribe happened on the scene and kicked the burning bottles of gasoline away from the building. Our newspaper office was scorched, but we kept on publishing.
I learned later from Minnie Two Shoes, Editor of the Wotani Wowapi newspaper, a member of AIM; that they were angry at the editorials I was writing, particularly the editorials questioning their leaders, Russell Means and Dennis Banks (both deceased). I asked her why they would do something like that and why, as a news journalist, she didn't speak out. She said everyone was too frightened to speak up. AIM had labeled Tribal Chairman Dick Wilson (now deceased) and his administration as the "GOONS."
The day after the firebombing of my newspaper the Chairman of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, Joe American Horse, called a special emergency meeting of the Tribal Council. At that meeting he not only admonished those attacking my newspaper, but proclaimed that from this day forward, any attack on the newspaper would be considered an attack on the Tribe itself. The attacks stopped.
During all of this trauma the South Dakota Newspaper Association and its members were ominously silent. Finally, Jim Carrier, the Managing Editor of the Rapid City Journal, wrote a story about the attacks on a fellow newspaper summing it up with, "This is happening in America."
About the same time a courageous lady named Phillis Justice, (now deceased), the Editor of the Milbank/Grant County Review in Milbank, South Dakota, wrote a powerful editorial condemning those who would try to abolish freedom of the press in South Dakota through violent means. It made my day to have at least two South Dakota journalists stand up for us. The South Dakota Newspaper Association was silent.
And finally Nellie Red Owl, (now deceased) a powerful member of AIM who knew my father when he was a clerk at the Coast to Coast Hardware Store in Batesland, South Dakota, her home town, spoke out to her fellow members of AIM about protecting our rights to freedom of the press. I think it was her voice that made the difference.
A few days later, Milo Yellow Hair, a supporter of AIM, came into my office, shook hands and said he would be there for us if we needed him. And so freedom of the press was reborn on the Pine Ridge Reservation in 1982.
Through it all I believe our voice as a small weekly newspaper made a major difference on the reservation in helping to bring most of the violence to an end.
As our newspaper grew and spread across all nine Indian reservations in South Dakota I saw so-called authors come to the reservation and try to write about something they knew nothing about and their books for the most part told only one side of the story, that of AIM. Not one of those writers ever stopped into my office and asked to hear the other side of the story.
Oglala Lakota College on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Photo: Walter G Rodriguez
I often wished that some of those reporters who came to the Pine Ridge Reservation in 1973 would have hung around long enough to cover the battles that still raged. I wish they had stuck around long enough to write about how the Oglala Sioux Tribe managed to pull itself up by its bootstraps despite the odds they faced. And it was those labeled as "GOONS" who stayed on Pine Ridge and rebuilt the reservation.
If these journalists had stuck around they would have seen the birth of a college system on the reservation that eventually had a campus in each of the nine districts. Today Oglala Lakota College even has a campus, its largest, in Rapid City. They would have been able to write about a young Lakota woman named SuAnne Big Crow who led the Lady Thorpes of Pine Ridge High School to the State A Championship.
But the only writers who came around were the parasites who wanted to make a few bucks by writing their slanted stories and books on the backs of the Lakota people.
And I tell all writers then and now, if you come out to Indian Country to write about us, do your damned homework.
Tim Giago is the Publisher of Native Sun News Today. He was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard with the Class of 1991 and the recipient of many journalism awards including the H. L. Mencken Award. He can be reached at najournalist1@gmail.com
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Ex-convict and singer-songwriter Charles Manson was able to woo followers, especially women, into a non-religious cult that believed a race war known as "Helter Skelter" was imminent.
Manson, who described Scientology and Satanism as influential to his beliefs, told those who joined The Manson Family cult that when the African-American rebels won the war, they would be elevated by the survivors to lead the survivors in the United States.
As leader of The Manson Family, Charles influenced the murders of nine people in California, including the murder of actress Sharon Tate and four others in her home. The family also was involved in a number of crimes, including the plotting of an attempted assassination of President Gerald R. Ford.
Charles Manson was sentenced to death for his crimes, but because California banned the death penalty, he lived in prison for decades before he died on November 19, 2017.
BRANCH DAVIDIANS - 1959-1993
Formed by charismatic leader David Koresh after his expulsion from the Seventh Day Adventist Church, the Branch Davidians shared a belief that the end of the world was drawing near.
Koresh, recognized often for his musical talents on the guitar, believed he was a messiah who spoke the true word of God. He also believed all women were his spiritual wives, resulting in multiple relationships with women in the cult, married and single alike.
Members stockpiled weapons at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, preparing for the pending apocalypse. They also caught the attention of ATF agents, who attempted to raid the compound on February 28, 1993, for alleged weapons violations.
An intense gun battle ensued, killing four agents along with six Branch Davidian members. The incident sparked a 51-day standoff that would come to a deadly conclusion on April 19, 1993.
When negotiations stalled following the release of 19 children, the FBI and state authorities moved in on the compound with tanks firing tear gas. As television cameras carried live pictures on cable and network news, a major fire erupted inside the compound as the Branch Davidians set the compound ablaze.
In the end, 76 people were killed in the building. Investigators determined those who did not perish in the fire died of gunshot wounds or from being crushed when a concrete wall collapsed.
HEAVEN'S GATE - 1974-1997
Finding meaning through the cosmos and extraterrestrial life, former University of St. Thomas (Houston) professor Marshall Applewhite led dozens of people in a cult known as "Heaven's Gate."
Launching the society in 1974 after a near-death experience, Applewhite and his followers believed the end of Earth was near, and that the planet was going to be "recycled."
As a result, believers were prepared to leave Earth by boarding a spaceship that was trailing the Hale-Bopp Comet. But in order to leave, followers had to make the ultimate sacrifice by shedding their earthly bodies.
After drinking a mix of cyanide, pineapple juice and vodka on March 26, 1997, 39 people died, including Applewhite, in Rancho Santa Fe, California. When police found their bodies, the members all wore black clothing, matching armbands and tennis shoes.
Before the group committed suicide, their website was updated to read: "Hale-Bopp brings closure to Heaven's Gate... Our 22 years of classroom here on planet Earth is finally coming to conclusion -- "graduation" from the Human Evolutionary Level. We are happily prepared to leave "this world" and go with Ti's crew."
WARREN JEFFS FUNDAMENTALIST CHURCH - 2006
Formed by leader Warren Jeffs as a breakoff sect, The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints had one fairly obvious difference from believers of the Mormon faith: its practice of polygamy.
Jeffs, who was excommunicated by the church for polygamy, watched as his church membership swelled to more than 10,000 members in Arizona, Utah and Texas.
Amid allegations of ongoing and far-reaching incest and sexual misconduct with minors inside the church, federal officials raided Jeffs' Eldorado, Texas ranch in 2008.
Evidence led investigators to charge Jeffs on multiple counts for sex crimes against children. He was sentenced to life in prison plus 20 years, to be served consecutively.
http://abc13.com/religion/inside-5-of-the-most-infamous-cults-in-american-history-/2859622/
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\While{$c(\mathbf A^{(n+1)}, \phi^{(n, ~i)}) > \epsilon_3$}
\State $ \left. \mathbf d \gets -\nabla_{\phi} c(\mathbf A^{(n+1)}, \phi) \right|_{\phi = \phi^{(n,~i)}} $ \par
\hskip \algorithmicindent $~~= \left. \left. -\nabla_\phi L(\mathbf A^{(n + 1)}, \phi ) \right|_{\phi = \phi^{(n,~i)}}
- \beta_\phi \nabla_{\phi} R( \phi ) \right|_{\phi = \phi^{(n,~i)}} $
\State $\alpha^\ast \gets \argmin_{\alpha \in \mathbb R} ~c\left(\mathbf A^{(n + 1)}, \phi^{(n, ~i)} + \alpha \mathbf d \right) $
\State $ \phi^{(n, ~i + 1)} \gets \phi^{(n, ~i)} + \alpha^\ast \mathbf d $
\State $ i \gets i + 1 $
\EndWhile
\Statex
\State $ \phi^{(n + 1)} \gets \phi^{(n, ~i)} $
\Statex
\State $n \gets n + 1$
\EndWhile
\Statex
\State $ \mathbf A \gets \mathbf A^{(n)} $
\State $ \phi \gets \phi^{(n)} $
\State \Return $\mathbf A$, $\phi$
\end{algorithmic}
\caption{Iterative Reconstruction with Alternating Updates of Amplitude and Phase}
\label{IR_Algorithm}
\end{algorithm}
\begin{table}
\centering
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|}
\hline
\textbf{Reconstruction} & \textbf{Simulation} & \textbf{Experimental}\\
\textbf{Techniques} & \textbf{Results} & \textbf{Results}\\
\hline
Fourier Filtering & Figure \ref{Figure:Phantom_Reconstruction}(b) & Figure \ref{Figure:Hologram_Reconstruction}(b) \\
\hline
Iterative Reconstruction & Figure \ref{Figure:Phantom_Reconstruction}(c) & Figure \ref{Figure:Hologram_Reconstruction}(c)\\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\begin{center}
\caption{$~~~~~~~$Table 1. Comparison of reconstruction techniques.}
\end{center}
\label{tab:reconstruction}
\end{table}
\begin{table}
\centering
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|}
\hline
\textbf{Experimental Data} & \textbf{Corresponding Figure} \\
\hline
Hologram with a & Figure \ref{Figure:Hologram}(a) \\
low carrier frequency & \\
\hline
Hologram with a & Figure \ref{Figure:Hologram}(d) \\
high carrier frequency & \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\begin{center}
\caption{$~~~~~~~$Table 2. Experiment data and corresponding figures.}
\end{center}
\label{tab:experimental_data}
\end{table}
\subsection{Iterative Reconstruction Algorithm}
To solve the reconstruction problem in Eq. (\ref{eqn:cost}), we employ the alternating update strategy in Eqs. (\ref{eqn:argmin_A}) - (\ref{eqn:argmin_phi}), detailed in Algorithm \ref{IR_Algorithm}. First fixing $\phi$, we update $\mathbf A$ through a gradient descent approach \cite{Boyd04}, until the cost function reduces to a specified threshold $\epsilon_2$; updates for $\phi$ proceed similarly, using the new value of $ \mathbf A $. The alternating updates repeat, enclosed in an outer loop, terminating when cost reduces to a threshold $ \epsilon_1 $.
The update steps require various derivatives to be computed. For reference, we list the gradients of the likelihood functions,
\begin{equation}
\begin{split}
\left[ \nabla_{\mathbf{A}} L(\mathbf{A}, \phi) \right]_i &= \left[ A_i^2 + \tilde{A}_i^2 + 2 A_i \tilde{A}_i ~\text{cos}\left(\phi_i - \tilde{\phi}_i\right) - I_i \right]\\
&\cdot \left[2 A_i + 2 \tilde{A}_i ~\text{cos}\left(\phi_i - \tilde{\phi}_i \right)\right]
\end{split}
\end{equation}
and
\begin{equation}
\begin{split}
\left[ \nabla_{\phi} L(\mathbf{A}, \phi) \right]_i = &- \left[ A_i^2 + \tilde{A}_i^2 + 2 A_i \tilde{A}_i ~\text{cos}\left(\phi_i - \tilde{\phi}_i\right) - I_i \right]\\
&\cdot \left[2 A_i \tilde{A}_i ~\text{sin}\left(\phi_i - \tilde{\phi}_i \right)\right],
\end{split}
\end{equation}
and the Laplacians of the likelihood functions, diagonal matrices with entries
\begin{equation}
\begin{split}
\left[ \nabla^2_{\mathbf{A}} L(\mathbf{A}, \phi) \right]_{ii} = &\left[2 A_i + 2 \tilde{A}_i
\text{cos}(\phi_i - \tilde{\phi}_i) \right]^2 \\
&+ 2 \left[A_i^2 + \tilde{A}_i^2 + 2 A_i \tilde{A}_i
\text{cos}(\phi_i - \tilde{\phi}_i) - I_i\right]
\end{split}
\end{equation}
and
\begin{equation}
\begin{split}
\left[ \nabla^2_\phi L(\mathbf A, \phi) \right]_{ii} = &\left[ 2 A_i \tilde{A}_i \text{sin}(\phi -
\tilde{\phi}) \right]^2 \\
&+ \left\{I_i - \left[A_i^2 + \tilde{A}_i^2 + 2 A_i \tilde{A}_i \text{cos}\left(\phi_i -
\tilde{\phi}_i\right)\right]\right\}\\
&\cdot 2 A_i \tilde{A}_i \text{cos}(\phi_i - \tilde{\phi}_i).
\end{split}
\end{equation}
\begin{figure*}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.9\textwidth]{Fig_Simulation_Phantom}
\centering
\caption{Reconstruction by Fourier filtering on simulated data. (a) Simulated phase image (rad). (b) Simulated hologram using (a). (c) Power spectrum of (b).}
\label{Figure:Phantom}
\end{figure*}
\begin{figure*}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.7\textwidth]{Fig_Simulation_CompareFiltering1}
\centering
\caption{Phase reconstruction of the simulated phantom. (a) Ground truth phase (rad). (b) Reconstructed phase using Fourier filtering. (c) Reconstructed phase using iterative reconstruction, the proposed method. (d) Line-outs across the dashed white line in (a) with comparison to (b) and (c).}
\label{Figure:Phantom_Reconstruction}
\end{figure*}
\begin{figure*}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.7\textwidth]{Fig_Holograms1}
\centering
\caption{Reconstruction by Fourier filtering on experimental data. (a) Hologram with a low carrier frequency. (b) Power spectrum of (a). (c) Reconstructed phase using Fourier filtering on the low carrier frequency hologram. (d) Hologram with a high carrier frequency. (e) Power spectrum of (d). (f) Reconstructed phase using Fourier filtering on the high carrier frequency hologram. The scale bar lengths are $ 10 ~\mu m $.}
\label{Figure:Hologram}
\end{figure*}
\begin{figure*}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.9\textwidth]{Figure_Grating_Reconstruction3}
\centering
\caption{Phase reconstruction of a grating sample. (a) Ground truth phase (rad). (b) Reconstructed phase using Fourier filtering on the low carrier frequency hologram. (c) Reconstructed phase using iterative reconstruction, the proposed method, on the low carrier frequency hologram. (d), (e) Line-outs across the middle and rightmost |
jerk response to how easy Void Ark was—its fights are some of my favorite of the expansion's, but they can be frustrating given the difficulty of coordinating large groups of randomly matched players. Dun Scaith seems to have found a better balance between difficulty and accessibility, though it can really drag on at times due to the general length of the fights.
I found the story in the Alliance Raids to be a lot more engaging than the one for Alexander—perhaps because it drew on one of Eorzea's older civilizations much as Coil from A Realm Reborn had a lot to do with the Allagans. That focus gave the story a certain gravity that seemed to be missing from Alexander, even when the Redbills and Cait Sith provided an avenue for some humor to lighten the otherwise serious mood. The threat of Diabolos and the Voidsent felt present at all times, aided by leaning on characters like Diabolos himself and Ferdiad that we had seen in the Amdapori dungeons from 2.x.
If I have one complaint about Heavensward's Alliance Raids, it's that they really lack a concrete sense of place. We access all three of them by way of airship, and of the three, only the Void Ark can be seen while in the game world itself (visible in the skies of Abalathia's Spine). That makes Weeping City and Dun Scaith feel like they could literally be anywhere and sort of divorced from Eorzea itself. That's one problem that's very likely going to recur with the Return to Ivalice raids in Stormblood, since we'll probably be accessing them through some sort of Grimoire (as in the Final Fantasy Tactics Advance games).
The Palace of the Dead
I talked about the addition of the Deep Dungeon at length in my initial impressions, so I won't rehash all of that here, other than to say that my general opinion of the content hasn't changed. It's probably the most successful Heavensward addition to the game's range of content and provides a good way for veteran players and newcomers to play together (which I think the game needs more of).
Since those initial impressions, we've seen the Palace of the Dead expanded to include 100 challenge-difficulty floors, and while I haven't cleared all the way through them (I'm hoping to make an attempt on that before Stormblood), I've definitely enjoyed my time in the post-100 floors. They capture something of the feeling of content from Final Fantasy XI or other older-generation MMOs, which is something I often miss in FFXIV's dungeons. We also say Palace of the Dead weapons maintain parity with Sophia weapons, but then (somewhat strangely to me) not do so with Zurvan weapons. I'm not sure if that's indicative of a change in design direction or if the team felt they wouldn't be necessary with the Coven weapons from Diadem, but I hope that Stormblood's Deep Dungeon will continue to give non-core players an avenue for weapons outside of the lengthy Relic/Anima grind or Extreme primals.
The Warring Triad
In Heavensward, the primal threat took a back seat to the raging Dragonsong War, so the story of the Warring Triad (drawing on inspiration from Final Fantasy VI) had to take a back seat, too. I actually think that's a shame, as the story here is probably one of the most interesting in all of Heavensward, containing one of the best new characters in the expansion, Regula van Hydrus. Given the return in focus toward the Garlean Empire in Stormblood, I actually think placing the Warring Triad as side content was a bit of a mistake.
Especially through Regula van Hydrus, the Warring Triad storyline gives us something of a new perspective on the Empire, one that could color the events of Stormblood in interesting ways. Since the quest line isn't likely to be required to understand Stormblood's Main Scenario, though, I suspect this otherwise interesting narrative will largely be forgotten in the greater context of FFXIV's continuing story, which is just plain unfortunate.
The three primals themselves also expand our understanding of primal entities themselves. Up until these three, the primal threat has largely come from the Beast Tribes (with only Shiva hinting at the possibility of primals coming from other sources). While Sephirot and Zurvan arose from a tree-like and centaur-like race respectively, Sophia arose from the faith of all the races of Meracydia. In that regard I really feel like they should have been a part of the Main Scenario proper (and from what we've seen so far it seems like primals will once again have a more direct part in things in Stormblood, so I'm excited for that).
Beast Tribe Quests
Beast Tribe Quests in A Realm Reborn were an exercise in patience—patience that I definitely did not possess. Reputation gains were slow, which made story progression slow, and the quests themselves were often nothing short of annoying. Of all of them, I only managed to complete the Ixal quests (in part because they were so valuable for end-game crafting). Heavensward brought many welcome changes to the overall structure, though, and I'm happy to say I completed all three of the expansion's Beast Tribe quest lines.
Beast Tribe quests in Heavensward are quick, mostly smooth affairs (minus occasional need to ride around on special quest mounts), and you could achieve maximum reputation gain for all three tribes at once if you were progressing them at the same time (as opposed to the ARR tribes, where you could spend all of your alliances on a single tribe if you were of high enough rank). Reputation gains are also far more steady, and with the tribes all contributing to the expansion's Anima questline regardless of rank, the quests are worth doing even if you come to them late.
The individual stories were also fun and enjoyable—I was particularly fond of the Vath, both for learning about the Vath and the Gnath, but also because establishing a new Adventurer's Guild just felt like something the Warrior of Light should have a hand in. If I have any complaint at all with the Beast Tribes in Heavensward, it's that I wanted another one, preferably a set for the goblins of Idyllshire (who are different enough from the Illuminati to really benefit from being fleshed out on their own).
Further Hildibrand Adventures & The Scholasticate
I'm taking these two together because through both story lines, I couldn't escape the nagging feeling that the Scholasticate was originally meant to be a much longer quest chain, comparable to the length of the Hildibrand quests from A Realm Reborn. Both stories have their moments, but I don't think either one ever really truly catches its stride in the way the original Hildibrand quests did.
Narrative developments in both seem to proceed a bit quickly, with the Scholasticate quests in particular feeling like they were originally plotted to last the whole of Heavensward, filling the role that the original Hildibrand quests did. Fan demand for more Hildibrand seems to have resulted in two shorter story lines using development time originally meant for a single tale.
In revisiting cutscenes for both of them for screenshots, I did have to admit I definitely enjoyed both of them, though. Both quest lines have memorable characters, and the benefit of the shorter stories is that neither one of them ever feels like they're over staying their welcomes. If anything, I would have liked to see the individual characters in the Scholasticate quests given more development, but what is there is good.
The Aquapolis
I don't have a great deal to say about the Aquapolis, but I do think it's worth touching on. One of Heavensward's smallest new content additions, the Aquapolis is probably actually my favorite of the bunch, which makes me all the more sad that I almost never do it anymore. With just enough variation in the range of encounters and the ability for rare spawns to show up to keep things interesting, the Aquapolis always felt fresh to me when running it with my old Diabolos FC.
It's fun, laid-back content that was sufficiently rewarding in an economic sense, making it great to do with small groups of friends. The random elements of the portals and doors opening seem to be pretty well-tuned, in that I never particularly felt shunted by them—just as often as I was disappointed to not get to the next room, I'd be excited to make it to the next one. The rare spawns are also generally exciting, and the cyclops in particular can even feel dangerous in smaller groups thanks to the item level sync inside.
I just wish there had been more reason to really do the Aquapolis. Since all of its rewards are either gil-related or cosmetic, there's not much drawing players who don't need or have interest in those things. Buried treasure maps have more or less always had the same problem, and Aquapolis could have been a way to make them a larger part of gameplay at the cap. I think it's been said we'll have similar content in Stormblood, and I hope we can see the rewards broadened somewhat in the expansion.
Overall, outside of my disappointment with Alexander, Heavensward had a lot of side content and stories that I enjoyed. If I had to pick one content line that was undoubtedly my favorite out of everything in the expansion, it would be the Shadow |
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of likelihood and prior: $p(\mathcal{X}|\mathbf{z}) \propto p(\mathbf{z}|\mathcal{X})p(\mathcal{X})$.
The state estimation then becomes a MAP (Maximum A Posteriori) problem.
Denote that we keep states from instant m to instant n in the sliding window.
The states before m are marginalized out and converted to a prior term.
Therefore, the MAP problem is written as:
\begin{equation}
\begin{split}
\mathcal{X}_{m:n}^* &= \argmaxA_{\mathcal{X}_{m:n}} \prod^{n}_{t=m}\prod^{}_{k\in{\mathbf{S}}} p(\mathbf{z}^k_t|\mathcal{X}_{m:n}) \, \, \,p(\mathcal{X}_{m:n}) \\
&= \argminA_{\mathcal{X}_{m:n}} \sum^n_{t=m} \sum^{}_{k\in{\mathbf{S}}}
\left\|\mathbf{z}^k_t - h^k_t(\mathcal{X}_{m:n})\right\|^2_{ \mathbf{\Omega}^k_t} \\
& \qquad \qquad \,\,+(\mathbf{H}_p \delta \mathcal{X}_{m:n} - \mathbf{b}_p).
\end{split}
\end{equation}
Compared with eq.\ref{eq:ba}, the above-mentioned equation only adds a prior term.
It is solved as same as eq.\ref{eq:ba} by Ceres solver\cite{ceres-solver}.
\subsection{Discussion}
The proposed system is a general framework.
Various sensors can be easily added into our system, as long as it can be derived as a general residual factor.
Since our system is not specially designed for a certain sensor, it is capable to handle sensor failure case.
When sensor failure occurs, we just remove factors of the inactive sensor and add new factors from other alternative sensors.
\section{Experimental Results}
\label{sec:experiments}
We evaluate the proposed system with visual and inertial sensors both on datasets and with real-world experiments.
In the first experiment, we compare the proposed algorithm with another state-of-the-art algorithm on public datasets.
We then test our system in the large-scale outdoor environment.
The numerical analysis is generated to show the accuracy of our system in detail.
\subsection{Datasets}
\begin{figure}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{mh05}
\caption{
Relative pose error \cite{geiger2012we} in MH\_05\_difficult.
Two plots are relative errors in translation and rotation respectively.
\label{fig:mh05}}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{V202}
\caption{
Relative pose error \cite{geiger2012we} in V2\_02\_medium.
Two plots are relative errors in translation and rotation respectively.
\label{fig:V202}}
\end{figure}
\begin{table}
\centering
\caption{{RMSE[m] in EuRoC dataset.} \label{tab:euroc}}
\begin{tabular}{c c c c c c}
\toprule
\multirow{2}{*}{Sequence} & \multirow{2}{*}{Length} &
\multicolumn{3}{c}{Proposed RMSE} &
{OKVIS } \\
\cline{3-5}
& & stereo & mono+imu &stereo+imu & RMSE \\
\hline
MH\_01 & 79.84 & 0.54 & 0.18 & 0.24 & \textbf{0.16} \\
MH\_02 & 72.75 & 0.46 & \textbf{0.09} & 0.18 & 0.22\\
MH\_03 & 130.58 & 0.33 & \textbf{0.17} & 0.23 & 0.24 \\
MH\_04 & 91.55 & 0.78 & \textbf{0.21} & 0.39 & 0.34\\
MH\_05 & 97.32 & 0.50 & 0.25 & \textbf{0.19} & 0.47\\
V1\_01 & 58.51 & 0.55 & \textbf{0.06} & 0.10 & 0.09\\
V1\_02 & 75.72 & 0.23 & \textbf{0.09} & 0.10 & 0.20\\
V1\_03 & 78.77 & x & 0.18 & \textbf{0.11} & 0.24\\
V2\_01 & 36.34 & 0.23 & \textbf{0.06} & 0.12 & 0.13\\
V2\_02 & 83.01 &0.20 & 0.11 & \textbf{0.10} & 0.16 \\
V2\_03 & 85.23 &x & \textbf{0.26} & 0.27 & 0.29\\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}
\footnotesize
\end{table}
We evaluate our proposed system using the EuRoC MAV Visual-Inertial Datasets~\cite{Burri25012016}.
This datasets are collected onboard a micro aerial vehicle,
which contain stereo images (Aptina MT9V034 global shutter, 752x480 monochrome, 20 FPS),
synchronized IMU measurements (ADIS16448, 200 Hz),
Also, the ground truth states are provided by VICON and Leica MS50.
We run datasets with three different combinations of sensors, which are stereo cameras, a monocular camera with an IMU, stereo cameras with an IMU separately.
In this experiment, we compare our results with OKVIS~\cite{LeuFurRab1306}, a state-of-the-art VIO that works with stereo cameras and an IMU.
OKVIS is another optimization-based sliding-window algorithm.
OKVIS is specially designed for visual-inertial sensors, while our system is a more general framework, which supports multiple sensors combinations.
We tested the proposed framework and OKVIS with all sequences in EuRoC datasets.
We evaluated accuracy by RPE (Relative Pose Errors) and ATE (Absolute Trajectory Errors).
The RPE is calculated by tools proposed in \cite{geiger2012we}.
The RPE (Relative Pose Errors) plot of two sequences, MH\_05\_difficult and V2\_02\_medium, are shown in Fig.~\ref{fig:mh05} and Fig. \ref{fig:V202} respectively.
The RMSE (Root Mean Square Errors) of ATE for all sequences in EuRoC datasets is shown in Table.~\ref{tab:euroc}.
Estimated trajectories are aligned with the ground truth by Horn's method \cite{horn1987closed}.
The stereo-only case fails in V1\_03\_difficult and V2\_03\_difficult sequences, where the movement is too aggressive for visual tracking to survive.
Methods which involves the IMU work successfully in all sequences.
It is a good case to show that the IMU can dramatically improve motion tracking performance by bridging the gap when visual tracks fail due to illumination change, texture-less area, or motion blur.
From the relative pose error and absolute trajectory error, we can see that the stereo-only method performed worst in most sequences.
Position and rotation drift obviously grown along with distance in stereo-only case.
In other words, the IMU significantly benefited vision in states estimation.
Since the IMU measures gravity vector, it can effectively suppress drifts in roll and pitch angles.
Stereo cameras with an IMU didn't always perform best, because it requires more accurate calibration than the case of a monocular camera with an IMU.
Inaccurate intrinsic and extrinsic calibration will introduce more noise into the system.
In general, multiple sensor fusion increase the robustness of the system.
Our results outperforms OKVIS in most sequences.
\subsection{Real-world experiment}
\begin{figure}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.4\textwidth]{device_in_papera}
\caption{
The self-developed sensor suite used in the outdoor environment.
It contains stereo cameras (mvBlueFOX-MLC200w, 20Hz) and DJI A3 controller, which include inbuilt IMU (200Hz) and GPS receiver.
\label{fig:device}}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.45\textwidth]{trajectory_a}
\caption{
Estimated trajectories in outdoor experiment.
\ |
dressed to the nines in a fur jacket
and sipping on a vodka drink when my friends dared me to go speak to
her. As I was in my cups, I waltzed directly up to her and began
rubbing her jacket.
"Interesting. A New Zealand back country field rabbit coat… Very
rare," I said.
She laughed and stared me deep in the eyes.
"Are you on ecstasy?" She replied.
"No," I exclaimed. "Not at all… why?
"Normally when I wear this coat out a bunch of druggies just want to pet it."
I laughed and thought of a quick comeback.
"I'd rather pet you," I blurted out confidently.
She actually laughed and wrote her number down on a bar napkin. I told
her I'd call her and I did – the next day – breaking any rules which I
had learned from popular movies like Swingers. She was surprised to
hear from me. We made plans to go out to a Casa Vega, a Mexican
restaurant in the valley for margaritas the following night. When she
cancelled on me two hours beforehand, I thought I was doomed. When I
asked her why she had to cancel, however, my eyes lit up.
"I have to fly to Iowa for a Playboy convention in the morning, I'm so
sorry," she said.
"Why? Do you sell advertising for them or something?" I inquired.
"No, silly – I was Miss July a few years ago! I thought you knew…"
I didn't know. Now I did. I immediately called my friends and sang
them J. Giels Band lyrics through the receiver. Yes. My baby was a
centerfold.
A week later, we hit Casa Vega. At one point she went outside
to smoke and I let her go alone. (I was trying to quit at the time).
When a guy at the bar saw this, he motioned to me and said, "Dude, you don't let a girl that hot out of your sight for any amount of time."
I ignored him, assuming she would brush off any potential creeps and
return back to our bar stool where we'd finish our drinks and continue
our evening. After 20 minutes, however, I began to grow nervous.
I went out to the smoking section, and sure enough, there they were:
MEN. All kinds… Guys who had intended to come inside for dinner but
were so mesmerized by her beauty that they decided to hang outside a
little longer. Guys who didn't even smoke were bumming cigarettes from
her and chain smoking. One guy even flipped her a business card and
said, "I scout for Playboy, if you ever want to be in the magazine,
She laughed and to my surprise grabbed me by the arm. All the men's
faces dropped as they saw this 23-year-old kid with a Strokes haircut
coyly slip his hand around the top of her waist. Dejected, the guys
all walked inside with their heads down, preparing to settle for
baskets of chips and salsa and not the ravishing creature who I was
lucky enough to be spending the night with.
We went to another bar and then went to my place. Two nights later, I
joined her at her place. We went out once more, on a Saturday, but she
got swept up in a crowd of famous actors and I stood around waiting
for her to return to me, feeling like the unpopular kid in junior high
who can't muster up the balls to ask a girl to dance. Eventually, when
she began partaking in their bottle service vodka, I grew frustrated,
knowing my time was up. Without even saying good-bye, I grabbed my
jacket and made a quick exit, calling my buddies to meet me for a
heartbreak beer at Coach and Horses, my old favorite dive bar.
"So what if it's over?" My buddy said. "You were with a Playmate!"
"Yeah dude, my last hook up was with the hostess at Yankee Doodles in
Agoura Hills," said another.
As the drinks flowed, my confidence returned and I quickly got over
the fling with the help of some good friends. The next day Miss July
and I exchanged a few phone messages, but never reconnected.
Even though it was over, I was still waking on air, feeling as if I
had done all I could and was now exuding an air of confidence that
nobody could touch. I even kept two of her back issues for myself. One
to put on the coffee table, and one to put in a pristine cellophane
folder where it would remain intact on my bookshelf until the end of
my days… It still sits there today.
As I rounded the bread aisle, I saw her again. As luck would have it,
we were approaching the check out line at the same time, inspecting our carts and reaching into our wallets for ATM cards. I purposefully took the spot in line directly behind her and noticed as she unloaded
an unusual amount of dog food onto the conveyor belt. She also bought butter, apples, avocados, bananas, Kombucha and a pre-made tray of
sushi. I was still staring. My 10-year-old took advantage of my distant
gaze and slipped two packs of M & M's into my cart. I didn't care. I
had butterflies in my stomach as if I was back in that Hollywood
nightclub 17 years earlier… But then it hit me: I was married. I was
standing with my child. I had no reason to not say something. If
anything, I thought, it would extend the memory a few more years. I
decided to go in for the kill.
"Is your name Taylor? (Not her real name)" I asked.
She looked up at me and smiled.
"Yeah, who are you?"
"My name is Zach," I said. "Not sure if you remember me, but we sort
of dated about 17 years ago… we met at a nightclub and went to Casa
Vega…?"
She looked me over, perplexed.
"Were you that drummer?" She asked.
"No, but I play music…"
"Oh, you were the guy who knew Green Day!"
"No," I said.
"Oh. Did you know Quentin?"
"Nope," I responded, realizing that I was barely a flicker of memory
in her mind all these years later – whereas she had held the top spot
in my gallery of former flames for close to two decades. I was a bit
"Oh, wait!" She said. "Did you used to have long curly hair? And you
lived on Harper Avenue and you played me Crash into Me by Dave
Matthews Band on your guitar?"
The cashier chuckled.
"Uhh, yeah, that was me," I said, blushing.
23-years-old with a Strokes haircut…
She hugged me as if we were long lost siblings. I felt my wobbly arms
go around her body once more, immediately wondering what would have
happened if I hadn't been so stubborn at that bar all those years ago.
My chest pressed against hers and for a brief moment I was 23 again,
stupidly running around Hollywood with a group of horny friends
worrying about nothing but a 10 a.m. commercial audition and where I
was going to be drinking that night. She pulled away and paid for her
groceries and stood behind the bag boy waiting for me to pay and
rejoin her. When I did, we caught up briefly and I introduced her to
my son… who seemed to not have any interest in this beautiful woman
that his dad was talking to.
As it turns out, Miss July still did Playmate conventions. She was
living in the valley, had been married for a year but was divorced and
was raising her 3 small dogs, Gucci, Dorito and Mr. Farts-A-Lot. She
didn't go out anymore, was disappointed with Tinder and loved
The Big Bang Theory. I felt like she was reciting her "Turn-On" list
from her Centerfold interview page – but had updated it as a
middle-aged woman.
We exchanged numbers and she remarked on how handsome my son was. I
told her I'd invite her out to see my band if we ever played again and
I watched her speed off in her Prius. I thought back to the nights we
had shared together and then looked back at my son, blissfully playing
on my phone, seemingly unaware of what had transpired between his father and
that mysterious girl in the produce section 17 years earlier.
As we drove home, he handed me back my phone and stared out the
window. As I watched his eyes dart around the city, I thought of his
future and how he was still so young and innocent and had the entire
world ahead of him. I realized how happy I was to be spending my life
with my wife, my daughter and him, and not a smelly pug named Mr.
Farts-a-Lot.
And then, after a few minutes of driving, he broke the silence.
"Dad, I wanna learn some Dave Matthews Band songs on guitar," he said.
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I have a fender stratocaster original custom body with the serial mim JC and i cant find the date, could you help me? Period, NO exception. And NO; the instrument mim NOT been altered in any dating, was in great shape although a bit dirty, and the quality level was impressive. On the face dating serial headstock mim says original telecaster body telecaster under Fender it says with synchronized Tremolo.
Australian purchased dating is in top condition. Can anyone tell me manufactured it was manufactured and or what it might be worth please. Hi — We are a serial shop who also does repairs. We have a Fender Tele a customer has brought in for repair. It has made in the USA on the back of the headstock. On the neck plate it has Fender. One website I how to said it was made in Mexico in. But, the customer said her Dad had it at least 30 years ago that she remembers, and dating believes well before that.
The Fender Stratocaster underwent its first substantial alterations two years after its debut. In mid, alder replaced the original ash body wood because it provided better consistency and was easier to finish. The knobs and pickup covers evolved from a brittle, Bakelite-type material to a more durable plastic. The body dates correspond to the neck dates on both guitars.
In Fender replaced the earlier Bakelite-style knobs and pickup covers with a more flexible and durable plastic.
dating mexican made fenders Made in Mexico Fender Serials. Fender opened a factory in Ensenada, Mexico in the late '80s and instruments.
I'm a guitarist and bassist with over 35 years of experience as a musician. The Fender Stratocaster is a special guitar. Of course the Fender American Stratocaster is a legendary instrument, sought after by many players from the moment they learn to fret a note. Unfortunately, while the asking price is well worth it, the cost of new American Strat may be too steep for some players.
So Fender gives us the Player Stratocaster, a made-in-Mexico version of this iconic guitar. The Player Series, too, is made in Mexico. The only problem is that this puts many players in a mental bind. I also own and have owned MIA Strats. This article will take a look at some of the reasons a guitarist might choose one over the other. For some players, the cost-effective Player Series Stratocaster is simply a better choice. Not every player needs or wants the hassle of worrying about and caring for an expensive guitar.
Other players simply may not have progressed enough in their playing to justify spending more money on a guitar. So, what does this mean to you? It means, if you are looking for an affordable, no-nonsense instrument for playing in a band, recording in the studio or finally taking this guitar thing seriously the Fender Player Series Stratocaster is the way to go.
So you need to figure out the year of production for your Fender guitar or bass. You're not alone. Fenders rank as the most frequently bought and sold instruments on Reverb, and finding a precise date of manufacture can be key to determining the value and specifics of an instrument. The most important thing to keep in mind when dating a Fender is the highly modular nature of the designs.
Like Henry Ford, part of Leo Fender's genius was in optimizing the company's production efficiency.
Join Date: Nov From what I can tell it does appear American Made and im happy somebody else thinks so. some Mexican Strats would have a digit serial number beginning with space, but again that one.
User Name Remember Me? Is my Fender Strat a real American Made strat? Here is the add with pictures. Originally Posted by BaylinerCapri. Find all posts by jonfields Originally Posted by jonfields Even with no number in front of it? Went to fenders website to trace the year and it doesn't fit with they are saying, I did send them an email with the serial number and those pictures but it will take a few days im guessing. From what I can tell it does appear American Made and im happy somebody else thinks so.
Jerry D. Something isn't right with the serial number. I think it's fake, and you're going to be taken.
In the early to mids Fender realized that labor and shipping costs overseas were being to rise, so Fender decided it would be easier to set up a plant in Ensenada, Mexico. Fender Mexico was established May 5, Fender started producing guitars in its, sq. Ensenada plant in Due to production times and shipping dates, there is an overlap between each years guitars. That is why each number has two years of production.
Date Your Fender Guitar 6 DIGITS (Japan model). This is the date it was made >> MN: "M" means Mexican made, "N" is the decade (s). C: this prefix.
Dating mexican made fenders This made be a tall order made someone less versed in guitar history, but we do have idea fenders here on Reverb to made you out. For starters, there's the Reverb Price Guide which has thousands of entries with pictures and details on various guitars and other gear. Some browsing around the Fender section of the Price Guide can definitely help you find which model you have.
We also have some other dating posts related to Fender that can hopefully be of some help. Similarly, take a look at Behold the Jazzmaster for general timeline of numbers history of everyone's favorite offset guitar. Through much of Fender's production history, Fender workers would print or write a production date on both bodies and necks where the two pieces meet. These dates will tell when the original part was manufactured, made are not exact indicators of when the guitar was actually put together and finished.
If you're not comfortable removing fenders neck of a guitar to peek at the fenders marker, I encourage you to take it to a local tech or luthier. I fender also mention briefly pot-codes as a fenders numbers on the made potentiometers of the guitar. These can definitely be useful in cases where made other numbers exist, but just tell when the pot itself was made. Who knows how long it was mexican dating the Fender factory before finding its way into a Tele?
Like the body and neck dates, using serial numbers to date a Fender is not a sure bet. At many points in Fender's history, serial number usage overlapped again owing to the modular manner of production. Below we'll go into detail about the various serial number schemes employed by Fender as far back as.
Inside a Fender Jazzmaster. Inside a to Fender Telecaster video. Inside a to Fender Stratocaster video.
The Fender Telecaster is, I reckon, part of the Holy Trinity of guitars. the day after FIFA was released, and I went out for my first date with my wife that day. I recently picked up an American made Fender at the same shop in.
Or a Fender Hot Rod Deluxe. Or both. To say these are products that are part of the staple diet for the grassroots gigging musician is an understatement. We all know the story: our first guitar was a borderline-unplayable nylon-string acoustic, then we graduated to a Squier Strat while making a teenage racket in the garage. Although the funky Duo-Sonic and Mustang models in the Offset series that arrived back in represent a hip and very reasonably priced entry point into the catalogue, not everybody shopping for their first Fender wants a compact, short-scale instrument.
Just ahead of Summer NAMM, Fender has decided that the time is right to reimagine its entire Ensenada-made Standard line, last overhauled back in
The Fender Stratocaster is the archetype electric guitar. When someone mentions "electric guitar," the body shape and style of the Stratocaster is probably what comes to mind. The Stratocaster is a classic guitar because it has a great build and an equally great sound. Since its first model year in, the Stratocaster has kept its distinct body shape and notoriety. Most of the vintage Stratocasters considered to be the best were made before
Compare the Fender Mexican (MIM) Player Strat and American (MIA) So Fender gives us the Player Stratocaster, a made-in-Mexico version of this so check with Fender's website for the most up-to-date info on their gear.
The first number following the prefix is the year. Used in early 90's, featured the a high gloss maple neck with a slimmer 40mm body made from plywood. The plant from which the COB serial number prefix models originate remains a mystery. No documentation, or comment from the manufacturer has resolved the question of which plant produced them. Probably made by Yako Taiwan. Some Squier IIs were made in India around The serial number is printed on a sticker located on the back of the neck, close to where the neck attaches to the body.
Discussion in'Basses [BG]'started by scottfeldstein, Jan 7, Jan 7, 1. Jun 20, West Bend, Wisconsin. I could see on its Reverb listing that it had the single-pole-per-string pickups. I could see that it has small, t-shaped tuners all on the top of the headstock.
Fender truely thought the Jazzmaster would make a sensation in the jazz scene. Instead, it became the Left: to 3/62 style pencil-written neck date at butt of neck. Note the current: Some |
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Louis (right) with his mother Mayann (middle) and his sister Beatrice (right)nola.comLegacy is not a matter of how long it lasts but how you create it. Legacy is shaping a future for those after you that you that yourself won't even get to see. Legacy is the footprint you leave after you depart this world. Sociologists predict that 70-80 years after one's death, they and their whole lives will be forgotten completely. Louis Armstrong pioneered the jazz genre and made bold and audacious steps in order to form and progress the genre. What did Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong do to preserve his legacy and what is the impact of it today? Louis Armstrong grew up in a neighborhood of New Orleans known as Battlefield. This location was a blessing and a curse because he grew up in dire poverty but also lived in the birthplace of jazz which allowed him a unique experience that no amount of money can buy. Two things that differentiated Armstrong from his competitors was his hard work and his audacity to step out of his comfort zone. These core components and tenets made Louis one of the most influential and impactful artists of the century.
Louis playing his trumpetthefamouspeople.comLouis Armstrong has always been a devoted and hard worker. Whether it be in music or just in his daily life, his sole purpose was to put the satisfaction of others before his own. He was always working hard to make others happy, whether it be on the stage or at home with his family. An article titled "Louis Armstrong: A Cultural Legacy" describes him as "a hard-working kid who helped support his mother and sister by working every type of job there was, including going out on street corners at night to sing for coins." (N.E.H, Louis Armstrong: A Cultural Legacy). In Louis' time, these jobs yielded less than a dollar per day. Armstrong, knowing this, worked day in and day out to generate money that wouldn't even end up going into his pocket. All of this work to support his mom and sister shows a great deal of selflessness and depicts Armstrong as a humble and noble character. This state of maturity continued throughout his adulthood and even into his professional music career. "Armstrong remained a happy person who clearly loved what he was doing and managed to pass along a great deal of that enthusiasm to his audiences." ("Louis Armstrong." Contemporary Heroes and Heroines, vol. 2, Gale, 1992. Biography In Context, ) As this quote depicts, Armstrong's purpose as a musician was to make others happy. Louis held a great amount of passion and energy in his music and he transferred the energy and exuberance that he gained from playing music to his audience and generated a great amount of connections in his performances that was unprecedented at the time. Armstrong's selflessness contributed greatly to why he was such a loved and successful performer. His performances were like no other and that made his music unique and one of a kind which helped him stand out in such a competitive field.
Louis scat singing, a type of singing he invented himselfimagekind.comBeing a pioneer of jazz was not easy. The rules and principles that we use to identify what jazz is and isn't didn't exist back in his time. Knowing this, he decided to make the rules himself. Throughout his career, he tried new things that were'nt exactly what the audience expected or wanted. Sometimes he risked absolute outrage from his fans in distaste of his experimentation but it was well worth the product he produced. An article entitled "Jazz and I Get Born Together" states "Captive to an inspiration that had few if any precedents, Armstrong and his startling melodic inventions redefined the musical status quo" (Olsen "Jazz and I Get Born Together") Armstrong had shaken up the jazz style when he entered the scene. He re-invented the way that the overall flow of the song went. He had a unique way of using note anticipation and minor chords to build tension and have a resolve that was overwhelmingly powerful. He was very adaptive and always making changes so you would quite literally never hear the same Louis Armstrong song twice. This was courageous and he was very successful. Why would any person change the winning formula? When he shook up his style, he put his stable income and his fanbase at risk. However, Louis wanted his music to stay fresh and enjoyable rather than consistent and redundant. Louis' career, although widely successful, had a rocky road in the beginning, one major problem being his manager. "Besides constantly overbooking him, Armstrong's managers were willing to pay only for the cheapest musicians, not necessarily the best. There is also some evidence that they both cheated their client out of money. They also refused to let him rest so that his lip, which was constantly being overworked, could heal" (Woog, 63). This was in the 1930's so no one saw anything inherently wrong with a white man mistreating a man of color but when Louis found out what was happening he was quick to jump to action. Firing his managers was the last thing that anyone thought Armstrong would do. His white managers were quite possibly the only reason he was respected as a musician. His managers were his safety and now that he didn't have them, no gigs were certain. Armstrong eventually hired a better manager and recovered from the incident which was just a bump in his long journey. Louis overcame his hurdles in life with a smile on his face and kept pushing for what he wanted.
A poster advertising Louis and his ensemble. He is titled as the King of Swingebay.comLouis put everything he knew on the line when it came to entertaining others. He risked his career, his income, his audience and even his reputation. He used his hardworking devotion and his audacity to drive himself from the slums of Battlefield, New Orleans to center stage New York. His drive to always be improving is why Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong's legacy will be and still is impactful and unrelinquishable.
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Eric Baudart respectively. Ben Brown Fine Arts reported strong sales of Miya Ando's works, priced between $15,000 and $25,000.
"Everyone wants to support the Hong Kong art community these days," said Angela Li, whose gallery sold all eight oil paintings at her stand by the young artist Cheung Tsz Hin for prices between a few thousand Hong Kong dollars and HK$70,000 ($8,994).
The recent commercial success of Hong Kong artists such as Chris Huen, Firenze Lai, and the late Matthew Wong, who was born to a Hong Kong family in Canada and grew up in the city, has helped boost the profile of other local artists.
"I have a lot more collectors who previously did not collect Hong Kong art but are now interested," said Kenneth Young, the director of Karin Weber Gallery, which cleverly converted Topshop's former fitting rooms into mini galleries for its presentation of artists affiliated with the Hong Kong Baptist University's Academy of Visual Arts.
The inquiries, Young continued, are coming from everywhere: locals and expats living in Hong Kong, foreign collectors who previously collected only Western and Japanese art, and financial institutions looking to boost their holdings. The fact that many of these collectors are considering art in a range of media—as opposed to just paintings—leads him to believe that return on investment is not their only motivation.
"Maybe they know more about Hong Kong, what has happened in Hong Kong and the art market," Young said. "A veteran Hong Kong collector tells me, 'If I call myself a Hong Kong collector, how can I not support Hong Kong artists and Hong Kong galleries?'"
To Stay or Go?
But while collectors may be newly committed to local artists, it remains to be seen whether local artists will remain committed to Hong Kong.
Reports of a Hong Kong exodus have been making international headlines for months, often accompanied by heartbreaking images of families and friends saying tearful goodbyes at the airport. Emigration has become easier as countries including the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and the United States relax their visa policies for Hongkongers. Most people keep a low profile about their departure, announcing their relocation on social media only after they have arrived safely—if they go public at all.
Twice a day, Hong Kong's virtually deserted airport fills with the sound of tearful goodbyes as residents fearful for their future start a new life overseas, mostly in Britain. (Photo by ISAAC LAWRENCE/AFP via Getty Images)
It is understood that some members of Hong Kong's arts community have already relocated abroad, mostly to Britain and Taiwan. One gallerist told Midnight Publishing Group News that at least half of the artists they work with have left or are planning to leave. "They come from all age groups," the gallerist said. "Some of them have children."
There are no statistics on exactly how many people leaving the city are arts and culture professionals. But a number of prominent media personalities, political commentators, and journalists have fled, as have two of the six directors of the dystopian anthology film Ten Years, which angered Beijing. Jevons Au moved to Canada a few months ago, while Ng Ka-leung recently announced that he has landed in Britain.
Meanwhile, artist and illustrator Lau Kwong-shing, who has published drawings related to the 2019 protests, relocated to Taiwan after his father warned him not to return to Hong Kong. Critics who remain in the city have gone silent and turned down interview requests.
The mass arrests of pro-democracy politicians—many of whom have been denied bail and remain behind bars before facing trial—this past spring is what prompted artist Kacey Wong to leave the city. He arrived in Taiwan in late August. "Hong Kong has become a red zone," Wong told Midnight Publishing Group News from his new studio in Taichung. "I'm now in a green zone. [Taiwan] has 100% freedom, like what we used to have in Hong Kong."
Wong sees the crackdown as the collapse of the legal system that once made Hong Kong proud. Known for his political art, specifically performances that became fixtures at the city's protests, Wong has also been named and shamed by the local state-owned media for "glorifying rioters."
"I'd be really worried about speaking to the media if I were still in Hong Kong," Wong said. "I could not function normally."
Indeed, speaking up can come with a price in Hong Kong. Recently, Canto-pop singer and activist Denise Ho had a performance cancelled by the Hong Kong Arts Centre, which alleged that "public order or public safety would be endangered" if it were to go ahead.
Protests against the National Security Law in Hong Kong on July 1, 2020. (Photo by Katherine Cheng/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
Outspoken members of the Arts Development Council have stepped down, with artist Chris Chan citing fear for his personal safety. Political cartoonist Justin Wong temporarily shut down his Facebook page, while the M+ Museum removed an image of Ai Weiwei's Study of Perspective: Tian'anmen from its website as it awaits authorities' approval. Five speech therapists were arrested over children's books that were deemed seditious. The city's security chief also accused the Hong Kong Journalists Association of infiltrating schools (a charge the association has denied) and demanded a list of its members.
"My departure is a reflection of a generation of Hongkongers," Wong said. "This is only the beginning. More people like me will appear in the U.K., Taiwan, Canada, and many other places. Exile literature, exile Hong Kong art, is likely to be big in the future."
What about the art produced in Hong Kong? "The art market, art fairs will go on. Sales will continue," Wong predicted. While some artists will opt for coded visual language to address sensitive issues, those who choose to stay are more likely to steer away from political topics entirely, he said. More colorful, decorative works are likely to emerge as a result.
The Future of the Hong Kong Market
Those who choose to remain in Hong Kong—for now, at least—have hope. Willem Molesworth, the former director of de Sarthe and the vice president of the Hong Kong Art Gallery Association, is planning to open a new contemporary art space in the city in December.
"There are more gallery openings now than in the pre-pandemic days," Molesworth said. "The younger generation are becoming serious collectors. More people in Hong Kong are buying art, period."
Hong Kong's cultural infrastructure has also grown considerably in recent years with the opening of public institutions like Tai Kwun, the revamped Hong Kong Museum of Art, and the forthcoming M+. "People recognize the power of art, to pick up where words fail… given what the city has been through," Molesworth said.
Auctioneer Danielle So at Phillips' 20th Century & Contemporary Art & Design spring auction in Hong Kong. Courtesy of Phillips.
A number of Molesworth's clients who buy work by established artists from major international galleries are now collecting emerging local artists as well, he said. Plus, the diverse price range of Hong Kong art points to a healthy, growing market.
The broader question, however, is whether Hong Kong's art scene can remain vibrant under these conditions long-term. "When you take the critical edge away," Kacey Wong asked, "is it still art?"
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Simon de Pury on How the World's Top Fashion Houses Have Worked With Artists to Create a Red-Hot Market for Collaborations
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In 2019 I conducted an auction in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, to raise funds toward protecting the dwindling population of snow leopards. Included in it was a clutch bag by Olympia Le-Tan. There was spirited bidding, and to my own surprise the price had climbed up to $90,000 by the time I sold it to a very elegant lady in the room.
A few days after the auction, OLT's cofounder Grégory Bernard asked me to curate a collection of clutch bags for them. I accepted, as at a number of galas and special events I had been struck by the originality of these accessories, which reimagine classic book covers and art, and were invariably worn by the most interesting women. Olympia Le-Tan managed to create an exquisitely crafted fashion accessory that looks as good when in use or when simply lying on a coffee table.
I was a great admirer of Olympia's father, Pierre Le-Tan, whose illustrations graced the pages of numerous publications, including the New Yorker, Vogue, and the New York Times Magazine. He was also a connoisseur and eclectic collector. I had the privilege of being the auctioneer for the sale of part of his collection at Sotheby's in London in 1995.
Tête de femme avec un chapeau à pompons, OLT X Picasso.
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'@playwright/test';
type Account = {
username: string;
password: string;
};
// Note that we pass worker fixture types as a second template parameter.
export const test = base.extend<{}, { account: Account }>({
account: [async ({ browser }, use, workerInfo) => {
// Unique username.
const username = 'user' + workerInfo.workerIndex;
const password ='verysecure';
// Create the account with Playwright.
const page = await browser.newPage();
await page.goto('/signup');
await page.getByLabel('User Name').fill(username);
await page.getByLabel('Password').fill(password);
await page.getByText('Sign up').click();
// Make sure everything is ok.
await expect(page.locator('#result')).toHaveText('Success');
// Do not forget to cleanup.
await page.close();
// Use the account value.
await use({ username, password });
}, { scope: 'worker' }],
page: async ({ page, account }, use) => {
// Sign in with our account.
const { username, password } = account;
await page.goto('/signin');
await page.getByLabel('User Name').fill(username);
await page.getByLabel('Password').fill(password);
await page.getByText('Sign in').click();
await expect(page.locator('#userinfo')).toHaveText(username);
// Use signed-in page in the test.
await use(page);
},
});
export { expect } from '@playwright/test';
```
## Automatic fixtures
Automatic fixtures are set up for each test/worker, even when the test does not list them directly. To create an automatic fixture, use the tuple syntax and pass `{ auto: true }`.
Here is an example fixture that automatically attaches debug logs when the test fails, so we can later review the logs in the reporter. Note how it uses [TestInfo] object that is available in each test/fixture to retrieve metadata about the test being run.
```js tab=js-js
// my-test.js
const debug = require('debug');
const fs = require('fs');
const base = require('@playwright/test');
exports.test = base.test.extend({
saveLogs: [async ({}, use, testInfo) => {
// Collecting logs during the test.
const logs = [];
debug.log = (...args) => logs.push(args.map(String).join(''));
debug.enable('myserver');
await use();
// After the test we can check whether the test passed or failed.
if (testInfo.status!== testInfo.expectedStatus) {
// outputPath() API guarantees a unique file name.
const logFile = testInfo.outputPath('logs.txt');
await fs.promises.writeFile(logFile, logs.join('\n'), 'utf8');
testInfo.attachments.push({ name: 'logs', contentType: 'text/plain', path: logFile });
}
}, { auto: true }],
});
```
```js tab=js-ts
// my-test.ts
import * as debug from 'debug';
import * as fs from 'fs';
import { test as base } from '@playwright/test';
export const test = base.extend<{ saveLogs: void }>({
saveLogs: [async ({}, use, testInfo) => {
// Collecting logs during the test.
const logs = [];
debug.log = (...args) => logs.push(args.map(String).join(''));
debug.enable('myserver');
await use();
// After the test we can check whether the test passed or failed.
if (testInfo.status!== testInfo.expectedStatus) {
// outputPath() API guarantees a unique file name.
const logFile = testInfo.outputPath('logs.txt');
await fs.promises.writeFile(logFile, logs.join('\n'), 'utf8');
testInfo.attachments.push({ name: 'logs', contentType: 'text/plain', path: logFile });
}
}, { auto: true }],
});
export { expect } from '@playwright/test';
```
## Fixture timeout
By default, fixture shares timeout with the test. However, for slow fixtures, especially [worker-scoped](#worker-scoped-fixtures) ones, it is convenient to have a separate timeout. This way you can keep the overall test timeout small, and give the slow fixture more time.
```js tab=js-js
const { test: base, expect } = require('@playwright/test');
const test = base.extend({
slowFixture: [async ({}, use) => {
//... perform a slow operation...
await use('hello');
}, { timeout: 60000 }]
});
test('example test', async ({ slowFixture }) => {
//...
});
```
```js tab=js-ts
import { test as base, expect } from '@playwright/test';
const test = base.extend<{ slowFixture: string }>({
slowFixture: [async ({}, use) => {
//... perform a slow operation...
await use('hello');
}, { timeout: 60000 }]
});
test('example test', async ({ slowFixture }) => {
//...
});
```
## Fixtures-options
:::note
Overriding custom fixtures in the config file has changed in version 1.18. [Learn more](./release-notes#breaking-change-custom-config-options).
:::
Playwright Test supports running multiple test projects that can be separately configured. You can use "option" fixtures to make your configuration options declarative and type-checked. Learn more about [parametrizing tests](./test-parameterize.md).
Below we'll create a `defaultItem` option in addition to the `todoPage` fixture from other examples. This option will be set in configuration file. Note the tuple syntax and `{ option: true }` argument.
```js tab=js-js
// my-test.js
const base = require('@playwright/test');
const { TodoPage } = require('./todo-page');
exports.test = base.test.extend({
// Define an option and provide a default value.
// We can later override it in the config.
defaultItem: ['Something nice', { option: true }],
// Our "todoPage" fixture depends on the option.
todoPage: async ({ page, defaultItem }, use) => {
const todoPage = new TodoPage(page);
await todoPage.goto();
await todoPage.addToDo(defaultItem);
await use(todoPage);
await todoPage.removeAll();
},
});
exports.expect = base.expect;
```
```js tab=js-ts
// my-test.ts
import { test as base } from '@playwright/test';
import { TodoPage } from './todo-page';
// Declare your options to type-check your configuration.
export type MyOptions = {
defaultItem: string;
};
type MyFixtures = {
todoPage: TodoPage;
};
// Specify both option and fixture types.
export const test = base.extend<MyOptions & MyFixtures>({
// Define an option and provide a default value.
// We can later override it in the config.
defaultItem: ['Something nice', { option: true }],
// Our "todoPage" fixture depends on the option.
todoPage: async ({ page, defaultItem }, use) => {
const todoPage = new TodoPage(page);
await todoPage.goto();
await todoPage.addToDo(defaultItem);
await use(todoPage);
await todoPage.removeAll();
},
});
export { expect } from '@playwright/test';
```
We can now use `todoPage` fixture as usual, and set the `defaultItem` option in the config file.
```js tab=js-js
// playwright.config.js
// @ts-check
/** @type {import('@playwright/test').PlaywrightTestConfig<{ defaultItem: string }>} */
const config = {
projects: [
{ |
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(BGCA.org) has enabled young people most in need to achieve great futures as productive, caring, responsible citizens. Today, 4,300 Clubs serve 4 million young people through Club membership and community outreach. Clubs are located in cities, towns, public housing and on Native lands throughout the country, and serve military families in BGCA-affiliated Youth Centers on U.S. military installations worldwide. They provide a safe place, caring adult mentors, fun and friendship, and high-impact youth development programs on a daily basis during critical non-school hours. Club programs promote academic success, good character and citizenship, and healthy lifestyles. In a Harris Survey of alumni, 54 percent said the Club saved their lives. National headquarters are located in Atlanta. Learn more at on Facebook and Twitter.
1General coastline of California is 840 miles according to the Congressional Research Service https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RS21729.pdf. At 26 inches per pair and over 2.2 million pairs sold on Black Friday (Nov. 24, 2017), the socks would line over 900 miles.
2Funds will be divided proportionally between Boys & Girls Clubs of America ("BGCA") and Boys & Girls Clubs of Canada ("BGCC") based on the respective sales in the US and Canada.
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SOURCE: Gap Inc.
Posted in Apparel, Business, Children, Financial, Management, Philanthropy, Retail, Retailer | Tagged Black Friday, Boys & Girls Clubs, donates $1 million, donation campaign, Jim Clark, Old Navy, Sonia Syngal |
Posted on November 9, 2017 by Retail News Editor
Old Navy unveils Black Friday deals; will donate $1 to Boys & Girls Clubs for every Cozy Socks purchased
50% OFF ENTIRE PURCHASE IN STORES & ONLINE DURING 3-DAY BLACK FRIYAY SALE
SAN FRANCISCO, 2017-Nov-09 — /EPR Retail News/ — Old Navy is putting the yay in HoliYAY this shopping season with an opportunity to give back while stocking up, extended Black Friday deals and a line-up of family-fun store events for kids ages 1 to 100.
Cozy Socks One Dolla Holla
During the One Dolla Holla sale, Old Navy customers can get cozy while giving back. On Black Friday, Nov. 24, cozy socks will be offered in-store at the one-day only doorbuster price of $1 per pair. The beloved stocking stuffer, normally $5 per pair, feature playful novelty prints ranging from unicorns to gingerbread men. Even better, for every pair purchased, Old Navy will donate $1 to Boys & Girls Clubs, up to $1 million.1
Through its cause platform ONward!, Old Navy is committed to taking the next generation to the next level, and has long supported Boys & Girls Clubs to help turn learners into leaders. The brand's Black Friday donation will go to creating an employment program for Boys & Girls Club youth, offering them career coaching and a first job at Old Navy stores.
Black FriYAY Deals & Hours
Old Navy's Black Friday sale is longer than ever with a pre-party sale leading up to the main event, a 3-day Black Friday celebration, and 72 hours of Cyber deals.
During the Pre-Party Sale from Thursday, Nov. 16 until Tuesday, Nov. 21, customers will receive 40% off their entire purchase in stores and online.2
From Wednesday Nov. 22 through Friday, Nov. 24, the three-day official Black Friday sale will offer customers 50% off their entire purchase and thousands of styles from $10 & under, both in stores and online.3
Old Navy cardmembers receive early access to the Black Friday sale with 50% off their purchase from Thursday, Nov. 16 to Sunday, Nov. 19 when using their Old Navy credit card in-store and online.4
The 72 hours of Cyber Sale kicks off on the heels of Black Friday. On Saturday, Nov. 27 and Sunday, Nov. 28, OldNavy.com will offer 40% off everything. On Cyber Monday, OldNavy.com will offer its best deal of the year with 50% off everything, no exclusions.5
Mark your calendar for all the incredible deals with details at OldNavy.com/#holiyay.
Old Navy will provide extended shopping hours around Black Friday, offering customers a wide range of times to take advantage of the 50% off sale.
On Wednesday, Nov. 22, Old Navy stores will open at 9 a.m. and remain open until 10pm.
On Thanksgiving Day, stores will open at 3 p.m. and stay open until 1 a.m.
On Black Friday, doors will open 5 a.m. and remain open until 10 p.m.6
In-Store SaturYAY Events
Old Navy is saying "bye" to the humdrum and "hi" to the moments of kid-like joy and merriment this holiday season with five special SaturYAY store events for the young and young at heart.
SaturYAY Steal (Saturday, Nov. 18):
Start crafting with glittery sticker sheets and holiday-themed coloring pages, gifted with every purchase. In select stores in New York City (Times Square and Herald Square) and San Francisco(Union Square), try your luck at snagging holiday goodies in our custom Old Navy Claw Machine.
Santa's Wish List (Saturday, Dec. 2):
Send holiday wishes to the North Pole at our Santa Wish List card activity station. In flagship stores (three Manhattan locations, San Francisco's Union Square and Chicago's State Street), Santa will be in the house to pose for keepsake printed photos.
Snap & Share (Saturday, Dec. 9):
Snap and share festive photos using our playful holiday props, available in select stores. Store associates will be available to capture your best angles.
Jingle Jammie Jam (Saturday, Dec. 16):
Join our in-store PJ party. Store associates will be donning their Jingle Jammies to perform a special choreographed dance called the "Jingle Jammie Jam."
Gift Tags (Saturday, Dec. 23)
Finish wrapping those last-minute gifts with a set of exclusive gift tags, gifted with every purchase.
Old Navy is a global apparel and accessories brand that makes current American essentials accessible to every family. Originated in 1994, the brand celebrates the democracy of style through on-trend, playfully optimistic, affordable and high quality product. A division of San Francisco-based Gap Inc. (NYSE: GPS), Old Navy brings a fun, energizing shopping environment to its customers in more than 1,000 stores around the world. For more information, please visit www.oldnavy.com.
1 Offer valid in stores only on 11/24/17 in the US (including Puerto Rico) and Canada while supplies last. Cozy Socks limit 10 per customer. Select Styles Only. $1 million cap is in US currency, applies to combined sales in the US and Canada, and will be divided proportionally between Boys & Girls Clubs of America ("BGCA") and Boys & Girls Clubs of Canada ("BGCC") based on the respective sales in the US and Canada. BGCA's and BGCC's names and logos are used with their permission, which in no way constitutes an endorsement, expressed or implied, of any product or company.
2 40% valid 11/16-11/21. Excludes in-store clearance, gift cards, register-lane items, jewelry, and today-only deals.
3 50% valid 11/22-11/24. Excludes Gift Cards, In-Store Clearance, Register Lane Items, Jewelry, Today Only Deals, and 2 Day Only Deals.
4 50% off subject to credit approval, valid 11/16-11/19. A Gap Inc. Credit Card must be used as pay type. See stores for details.
5 Offer does not apply to gift cards or Today Only Deals.
6 Store hours may vary, check local stores for details.
Posted in Apparel, Business, Children, Discounts, Financial, Management, Philanthropy, Retail, Retailer | Tagged Black Friday Deals, Boys & Girls Clubs, Cozy Socks, donate £1, Old Navy |
Old Navy announces #MySquadContest and in-store donation drive from July 28 to August 10 to benefit Boys & Girls Clubs
SAN FRANCISCO, 2016-Jul-26 — /EPR Retail News/ — This back-to-school season Old Navy, in partnership with AwesomenessTV, will ask kids to share stories of how their squads motivate, inspire and lift them up. To support the squads of the future and help provide every child with access to learning opportunities, Old Navy is sponsoring a fundraising campaign with the goal of raising US $1,000,000 to benefit Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA) and Boys & Girls Club of Canada (BGCC). The campaign will include an in-store donation drive from July 28 to August 10 as well as a social contest.
Old Navy will team up with AwesomenessTV talent Alex Aiono, Jordyn Jones and the Merrell Twins to celebrate the power of the collective. The #MySquadContest encourages kids to share stories of how their squads motivate and inspire them for the chance to win a fun-filled day with AwesomenessTV talent in their |
Exeter, Hereford or Gloucester, it might be presumed that soemthing personal was intended; and as this tale will refer mainly to the cathedral dignitaries of the town in question, we are anxious that no personality may be suspected. Let us presume that Barchester is a quiet town in the West of England, more remarkable for the beauty of its cathedral and the antiquity of its monuments, than for any commercial prosperity; that the west end of Barchester is the cathedral close, and that the aristocracy of Barchester are the bishop, dean, canons, with their respective wives and daughters."
Please come and join us in Barchester.
"Mr. Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance, that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary and yet somehow lovable. At friendly meetings, and when the wine was to his taste, something eminently human beaconed from his eye; something indeed which never found its way into his talk, but which spoke not only in these silent symbols of the after-dinner face, but more often and loudly in the acts of hs life. He was austere with himself; drank gin when he was alone to mortify a taste for vintages; and though he enjoyed the theatre, had not crossed the doors of one for twenty years. But he had an approved tolerance for others; sometimes wondering, almost with envy, at the high pressure of spirits involved in their misdeeds; and in any extremity inclined to help rather than to reprove. 'I incline to Cain's heresy,' he used to say quaintly: 'I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.' In this character it was frequently his fortune to be the last reputable acquaintance and the last good influence in the lives of down-going men. And to such as these, so long as they came about his chambers, he never marked a shade of change in his demeanour."
Thus begins the Cornflower Book Group's February book - details here.
"Nothing... Only this: a great lawn where flowerbeds bloomed; a towering fir-tree, and thick, beetle-browed yews that humped their shapes down two sides of the lawn; on the third side, to the right, a greenhouse almost the size of a real house; from each corner of the lawn, a path twisted away to some other depths of garden, with other trees.
Tom had stepped forward instinctively, catching his breath in surprise; now he let his breath out in a deep sigh. He would steal out here tomorrow, by daylight... He would run full tilt over the grass, leaping the flower-beds; he would peer through the glittering panes of the greenhouse - perhaps open the door and go in; he would visit each alcove and archway clipped in the yew-trees - he would climb the trees and make his way from one to another through thickly interlacing branches. When they came calling him, he would hide, silent and safe as a bird, among this richness of leaf and bough and tree-trunk."
That passage is from the Cornflower Book Group's January book. Please join us to read and talk about it.
"... but in most people's memories it was quite outshone by what succeeded it. You could see it as a drama all played out in a room lit by gas lamps; perhaps with flickering sidelights thrown by a log fire burning brightly at one side of the room, a big Edwardian drawing-room, full of furniture, tables crowded with knick-knacks and framed photographs, people sitting or standing in groups, conversing; and then a fierce electric light thrown back from a room beyond, the next room, into which no one has yet ventured, and this fierce retrospective light through the doorway makes the lamplit room seem shadowy, the flickering flames in the grate pallid, the circles of yellow light round the lamps opaque (a kind of tarnished gold) and the people, well, discernibly people, but people from a long time ago, our parents and grandparents made to seem like beings from a much remoter past, Charlemagne and his knights or the seven sleepers half roused from their thousand year sleep.
It was an error of judgement which resulted in a death. It took place in the autumn before the outbreak of what used to be known as the Great War."
That's the opening passage of the Cornflower Book Group's October book; we'll be talking about it from the 26th., and though I ought not to pre-empt the discussion, I will say that I recommend it strongly, and I hope you'll join us.
"....I came to live at the yellow house when I was six years old. I stood on the steps in the wind, and the swirls of sand, and my father pulled the brass bell-knob beside the huge front door. Together we listened to the distant jangle and to footsteps padding nearer. My father did a little dance on his short legs, and whistled.
Then there followed sharp scenes of confusion and dismay. 'Shut the door. Shut the door. The sand, the sand!' and figures stood about the hall on coloured tiles."
That is the opening of the Cornflower Book Group's September book. You'll find all the details here, and I hope you'll decide to join us in reading it and talking about it.
"... If I call it a novel it is only because I don't know what else to call it. I have little story to tell and I end neither with a death nor a marriage. Death ends all things and so is the comprehensive conclusion of a story, but marriage finishes it very properly too and the sophisticated are ill-advised to sneer at what is by convention termed a happy ending. It is a sound instinct of the common people which persuades them that with this all that needs to be said is said... But I leave my reader in the air. This book consists of my recollections of a man with whom I was thrown into close contact only at long intervals, and I have little knowledge of what happened to him in between. I suppose that by the exercise of invention I could fill the gaps plausibly enough and so make my narrative more coherent; but I have no wish to do that. I only want to set down what I know of my own knowledge."
That is the opening of our book group's May book. All the details are here, and I hope you'll join us to read and talk about it.
That was its conception; yet, as in the case of many another, the conceiver was unaware of it at the moment."
That is the opening of the Cornflower Book Group's April book. Here are all the details, and I hope you'll join us in reading it - it should be fun.
"It's October, an Indian summer. I'm standing on the threshold like some callow teenager, about to move house for the first time in my life. I've spent more than half a century in this place, in this undistinguished, comfortable town house on the edge of the Chiltern Hills, and had come to think we'd reached a pretty good accomodation. To have all mod cons on the doorstep in the quirkiest patch of countryside in south-east England had always seemed just the job for a rather solitary writing life. I'd use the house as a ground-base, and do my living in the woods, or in my head. I liked to persuade myself, that the Chiltern landscape, with its folds and free-lines and constant sense of surprise, was what had shaped my prose, and maybe me too. But now I'm upping sticks and fleeing to the flatlands of East Anglia.
My past, or lack of it, had caught up with me. I'd been bogged down in the same place for too long, trapped by habits and memories. I was clotted with rootedness. My Irish grandfather, a day-worker who rarely stayed in one house long enough to pay the rent, knew what to do at times like this. In that word that catches all the shades of escape, from the young bird's flutter from the nest to the dodging of someone in trouble, he'd flit."
That is the opening passage of the Cornflower Book Group's March book; please come and read it with us - you'll find all the details here.
"... Snow lay white and shining over the pleated hills, and icicles hung from the forest trees. Snow lay piled on the dark road across Willoughby Wold... Snow lay thick, too, upon the roof of Willoughby Chase, the great house that stood on an open eminence in the heart of the wold...."
"Marco da Cola, gentleman of Venice, respectfully presents his greetings. I wish to recount the journey which I made to England in the year 1663, the events which I witnessed and the people I met, these being, I hope, of some interest to those concerned with curiosity."
Those passages open the books the Cornflower Book Group will be reading for discussion in January and February. If you'd like to join us you'll find all the details here.
" 'I wish,' he was telling them, 'not just to design a house but to create a whole world. I want to work from the foundations to the interior, the windows, the doorways, the furnishings, the fabric of the place as well as the structure. I will design you a life. Not a mere house to live in, but a whole way of life.' He opened his hands as though the life were there within his grasp. |
Filmmaker Desmond Ovbiagele, a former investment banker, is pressing on hopes that the full film can be seen internationally.
In 2019, Nigeria's selection for the Best International Feature Film category at the Oscars, Lionheart, was disqualified mid-campaign because it was made predominantly in English.
This year, the selection committee submitted The Milkmaid, a beautifully shot, predominantly Hausa language thriller that follows two sisters who are thrust from their idyllic existence when insurgents attack their village. Critics call it the finest Nigerian film in years.
There's just one problem. The Nigerian National Film and Video Censors Board isn't a fan.
After weeks of testy negotiations, the government board approved a toned-down version of The Milkmaid for public screenings that removed about 24 minutes of footage from the director's original cut, scrubbing any references to religion or hints toward Islam being an enabler of extremism.
A still from "The Milkmaid"
This means that the approved version is stripped of some of the film's most powerful scenes. In one of those scenes, a character says supplications with his prayer bead while burying the dead. The (dubious) objection from the board was that an insurgent would be unlikely to make use of the bead when praying. Also, a scene that shows a female character expressing sexual desire was heavily frowned upon.
The board did not reply to an interview request for this story. In a January interview speaking more broadly about the board's role, Alonge Oyadiran, director of the board's film censorship and classification unit, warned: "Anything that can cause an uproar should not be ventured into because we know where we are as a society."
"Some of it didn't make sense," says Desmond Ovbiagele, 48, director, writer and producer of The Milkmaid. "We had to remove everything — costume, language, dialogue that was an authentic depiction of a particular religion, even though there is nothing in the film that states that the religion was directly responsible for violence." The film's original version was sent to the Oscars, but only the censored version can be screened in Nigeria. The film has also been released in Cameroon and Zimbabwe.
Nigerian 10 Naira note, an image that inspired the making of the 'The Milkmaid.'
The Milkmaid was inspired by the iconic photo of two Fulani milkmaids on the back of the Nigerian 10 Naira note. Ovbiagele imagined them as players in the protracted Boko Haram war that has decimated Nigeria's northeast and claimed the lives of more than 37,000 people.
Seun Sowemimo, a U.S.-based bariatric surgeon and childhood friend of Ovbiagele, served as executive producer on The Milkmaid. "I challenged Desmond after I saw Black Panther, because I felt like African stories should be told by Africans," Sowemimo says. "He, in turn, challenged me to come up with the funds."
Stills from 'The Milkmaid'
Ovbiagele studied thousands of pages of news articles and agency reports, and he spoke with people who had escaped the violence to better understand their world. "The survivors could narrate the most horrific experiences in a very dispassionate manner. They could reveal almost casually how loved ones were slaughtered in front of them without breaking down," he says.
This observation influenced the unsentimental tone that The Milkmaid adopts, which is at odds with the melodrama often favored by Nollywood filmmakers.
To open up the film to wider audiences across the continent, Ovbiagele deliberately avoided any specificities with regard to the film's rural setting. The characters speak Hausa, Fulani, and Arabic and could be in Nigeria, Mali or Burkina Faso, where Boko Haram has made headway of late.
Ovbiagele also took considerable care to build his cast and crew with people local to these regions; they provided both authenticity and technical support to get the details right.
All of these measures were important, considering Nigeria's peculiar population and social dynamics. About half of the country's 200 million population are Muslim and located in the deeply conservative northern region, which often clashes with the more liberal and Christian south. Recently, Rahama Sadau, a famous Muslim actress, was bullied online and invited for police questioning after she posted revealing photos of — gasp! — her back, which offended conservative Muslims.
There is a history of state censorship in the arts as well. In January, the censor's board temporarily recalled Nigeria's No. 1 film, the romantic comedy Sugar Rush, for an unflattering depiction of government officials. In 2014, the theatrical opening of Half of a Yellow Sun, a fictionalized treatment of the Biafran War, was delayed over fears that some scenes would incite violence.
The Milkmaid is Ovbiagele's sophomore effort. He made his debut in 2014 with the action thriller Render to Caesar after leaving behind a high-profile 16-year career in investment banking. Even though banking was rewarding, he wanted to flex his creative muscles. "I always felt like I needed to express myself in a different way but I wasn't quite sure how." It is this outsider status or perhaps a certain strain of arrogance that explains his insistence on pushing forward with the project where others may have balked.
Sowemimo sees it differently. "Desmond is a quiet, reserved and thoughtful person. And for the film industry, where part of the skill set is making a lot of noise and PR, this can be some sort of weakness."
Born in Lagos to a middle-class family, Ovbiagele was a nerdy kid, reading everything he could lay his hands on. His mother, Helen, was a teacher, journalist and novelist, who found acclaim for feminist works like Evbu My Love, published as part of Macmillan's iconic Pacesetter series.
Desmond Ovbiagele (right) as a young boy
His father worked as a journalist and was stationed in London briefly. Ovbiagele studied business administration at the University of Lagos and earned an MBA from Imperial College London. Despite his literary bona fides, Ovbiagele didn't do any writing until he'd left banking.
After The Milkmaid's Oscars-qualifying limited-release run, Ovbiagele says the plan is to place it back on the shelf until a distribution platform — preferably a streaming service — allows the film to be seen in its original iteration.
The experience hasn't left him discouraged, though. Ovbiagele remains committed to making films and is excited by the stories of complex historical figures. "I was alarmed for the prospects of our film obviously, but also for filmmaking generally," he says of the censorship. "Film is a powerful medium for change. And you don't want that subject to mindsets seeking to curtail authentic expression, particularly in a developing country."
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popular skiing resort, this morning two snow making machines ("snow guns") were also working, but shut off near 11 o'clock. Jari Luomanen suggests that the snow gun produced nucleation agents also took part in the nucleation process of the stratus which then continued even after the guns stopped operating.
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Moon halos from Mustavaara ski resort
It's better to be inside a punch hole cloud than just look at it. On the night of 17/18 November snow guns seeded a punch hole in low stratus cover at Mustavaara ski resort in Eastern Finland. Plate crystal dominated halo display appeared in the resulting diamond dust. Temperature on the ground was -9° C. In the image above, moon elevation is 32.7°.
Marko Riikonen
Superb Lowitz and helic arcs from the USA
The display was seen at and/or just after high noon from eastern Nebraska about 41 degrees north, on November 7. My sister had called about some geese at a refuge nearby and wanted to go photograph them. I was going to visit my parents, like I often do, and decided I may as well take my camera gear with so if I went to the refuge I'd not have to stop back home. This is the only reason I even had photo gear with me. I stepped outside to do something, and right away saw the parhelic circle extending out a ways, something I've never seen before and I have at least seen a number of optics displays now (lunar fog bows, light pillars, lunar vivid coronas, etc)....so I look often enough for stuff. I pointed it out to my uncle as I sprinted for my car to get my gear and he thought, "it's not just a cloud". I said no, it's an arc, watch. I took my camera and sprinted up the hill behind the house.
I soon was seeing "sun dogs" on the parhelic circle. I then was clearly seeing the Wegener arc inside the parhelic circle. It was very vivid as with my eyes I could clearly see the rainbow colors. To be honest I never did see the Heliac arc before. I was flipping through pictures inside later and it simply jumped out. I was like, what is that arc..then looked it up.
The top of the 22 degree halo visually looked crazy most of the time. Very clear and colorful and odd arcing. I thought it was just an intense circumscribed arc in there but it didn't look placed right and like more was happening. ( 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 )
The show only lasted 30-40 minutes I'd guess. Then it was pretty hard to get any optics at all. What was strange was visually nothing much was changed about the sky. I was watching for hours so there were different periods of less contrail garbage blocking out the sun. I had friends in Omaha, 20 miles south, and Lincoln another 45 miles south of that, looking too. They never saw anything good. They watched till sunset too, but they also didn't get out as soon as I was and that was the best part. I wonder what I missed before I got out.
The satellite loop for that day may give the key ( 6 ). I'm located in eastern NE which is at the top center. It was much like the crystals you get right behind a blizzard in air just where it is clearing behind the storm. You can see a more puffy nature to the clouds, they pass and the ice crystals are left in the air. That stuff on satellite is below typical cirrus level/flight level...but still up there. It for sure was different than normal cirrus. A lot of that "cirrus" in the shot is left over form all the contrails. Once the sun got lower you could see the moisture/clouds clearly below the contrails. So anyway, probably worth noting the clouds coming across at the time were more along the lines of mid-level clouds/moisture.
Mike Hollingshead
Superb diamond dust display in Austria
On 18 October 2010 a superb diamonddust halodisplay was observed at the meteorological station Sonnblickobservatorium ( 1 ) in the Austrian Alps (3106 m, 12°57' E, 47°03' N). Hermann Scheer, member of the meteorological team at the observatorium, took images of 13 different haloforms between 08:30 and 09:00 CEST (06:30 and 07:00 UT): parhelia, 22°-halo, 46°-halo, lower tangent arc, subsun, subparhelia, infralateral arc with Parry-infralateral arc, supralateral arc, parhelic circle, subparhelic circle, subhorizon Wegener arc and helic arc. ( 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 ) The images were taken at a sun elevation of 8,9° to 10,3° between 08:31 and 08:40 CEST, the file names indicate the exact time.
The brightness of the Wegener arc was incredible. Very interesting is the combination of Parry-infralateral arc with infralateral and faint supralateral arc. This part of the phenomenon is similar to an observation in the Czech Republic (26th of December, at Lysa hora in Krkonose (Giant Mountains)), described at Optické Úkazy v Atmosférè ( 7 - 8 ) Thanks to Tomas Trzicky for the links. And also in Ice Crystal Halos ( 9 ). In this very small area of the display we can see a 46°-halo, Wegener arc, helic arc and the subparhelic circle too.
The display was observed at the upper boundary of the stratiform layer; weather conditions: 06:00 UT - air temperature -6,8°C, air relative humidity 96%.
Credit to Hermann Scheer for giving the permission to show his images at Crystal Halos Blog under this licence: ( 10 ). Homepages of Hermann Scheer: ( 11 - 12 - 13 ). This diamond dust display is described on the page "Atmospheric phaenomenons observed in Austria" too: ( 14 )
Karl Kaiser
Wegener from Altai Krai
The photo of these Wegener-arcs was taken in the Siberian Altai Krai by Alexander Kostenko on 12 August 2010. Further images can be seen in his album ( 1 )
Hungarian odd radii
These odd radius rings and arcs were photographed on 24 July 2010 by Róbert Rosenberg in Adony, Hungary. The photos were taken a few minutes after 14:35 CEST, and about two hours later. ( 1 )
Moilanen arc without snowguns
I was recently filing images digitized from somewhat older slides and came across this upper tangent arc image from many years ago, in the early morning from here in Calgary. I decided to subject this image to some processing, in particular, embossing the image in Photoshop and low and behold, a faint Moilanen arc showed up, as you see in this composite image!
I certainly do not live anywhere near to a ski slope or factory chimney that would produce lots of ice crystals. There is no evidence on the photo of local ice crystals as we see often in diamond-dust displays. The climate here is very dry and we often find low-lying layers of diamond dust particularly over our river.
Thus, I hesitate to claim that this is a "natural" Moilanen arc but it was not taken near to ski slopes. Maybe our furnaces produce the requisite crystals sometimes, in which case I will be on the lookout next winter for a repeat of this display.
Suggestion of observation: possible spurious arcs from Moilanen crystals
Here is an observation suggestion for next winter. Marko Mikkilä photographed possible new arcs during winter 2007-2008 ( 1 ). Source elevation was -1.5°. Different processing shows them as not only 22° arcs but also new helic arcs.
Some twinned crystals allow creating both similar arcs and Moilanen arc so these arcs could be spurious arcs from Moilanen crystals. Such twinned crystals are present in small amount in samples from Moilanen display. I have put the best images in the main picture. The crystals seem to be two twinned plates with a glue area in between them. Even few of these crystals could give significant Moilanen arc as the ray path is extremely efficient, even more efficient than parhelia ray path (for a plate crystal, rays go mostly in the helion, then in the left/right parhelia/subparhelia and parhelic/subparhelic circle while almost all the rays entering such twinned crystal go in the Moilanen arc (not in the helion)). The 22° arcs would be from rays entering and leaving the small upper tilted prism faces (with total internal reflections in between). The helic arc is mostly from total internal reflection on the small upper prism face.
Some reasons also tend to show that the actual fall orientation of such crystal is with the prism pointing up (and not pointing down like it was thought before).
If this is true, we can deduce that best configuration to see these arcs again is with source elevation around -10°. In this case, 22° arcs rays travel horizontally inside the crystal and so are more likely to exit (as the main habit of the crystals seems to be long needles), helic arcs should also be stronger, and tangent arc is narrow (so well separated from these arcs). However Moilanen arc should be difficult to distinguish from subsun and divergent light pillar.
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you feel out there, first match back since Wimbledon?
ROGER FEDERER: I felt good, you know. It's always nice to be back on the match courts, you know, after spending so much time on the practice courts.
I was happy with my performance today. It was a tough match, because Fred was serving really well and made it hard to get any kind of rhythm because I was serving well myself.
It was a good first match, and I'm pleased I'm through.
Q. Can you take us through the process of deciding to play here rather than waiting for an extra week to come back?
ROGER FEDERER: Well, I mean, it was -- it all depended on Mirka, if she wanted to make the trip or not, and obviously if the babies were going to be ready to do it or not. It really all depended on that.
That's why I kind of mentioned it to her like one week before the event starts here, and I went from day to day, and at the end we said, all right, I think everything looks all right. And like this, we going to be anyway then together for a long time in North America. That's what she wanted. That's what I wanted. That's why we decided to do it that way.
Q. This was probably the last match for Frederic in Montreal. Tell us about your relationship, what you think about him as a player and a person?
ROGER FEDERER: Well, we know each other since I guess 11 years, because we played each other in, I think it was in '97 or '98 in the Swiss Satellite in front of -- you know, like I said on court like in front of two people, and other guys were playing next to us. The atmosphere was rather cold because it was a Winter Satellite in Switzerland and there was a ton of snow outside.
Next thing you know, 11 years later we're playing in front of a packed house here in Montreal. It's a long time coming for both of us. A lot has happened since, but we kind of always, when we saw each other on tour, we always tried to maybe hit together or at least have a chat together.
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ROGER FEDERER: Well, in the beginning after, let's say, five, six weeks of not having played a match, because you play practice matches but that's not the same, you're just a little bit slow sometimes, your reaction on the return.
Maybe your shoulder is a little bit slower as well, you know, after having only played practice matches.
But, you know, today all in all, I thought it was okay. I wish I could have gotten more balls back on the return, but then that is again due to him serving well and mixing it up well.
But, you know, once there is not much rhythm from the baseline, it's always kind of difficult, and then it comes down to a couple of points here and there and that's how this match was being played, as well, today.
Q. Off the court there was no change to your routine or anything? Life goes on as normal?
ROGER FEDERER: No, because, I mean, I got to be a little bit active to stay in shape and to be ready for the matches. Otherwise I'd rather stay home and do one week, you know, much less and spend time with the family.
But once I commit to playing a tournament, I have to do a few certain things to be in decent shape for a tournament. Mirka is great, you know. She handles it well. I think myself, too; quite laid back, you know, hands on. It seems it's working so far.
Q. You're not the only person who -- Rafa is also back on tour now after a few weeks off for very different reasons. His knee is of concern for everyone. Everyone is watching to see how he does. Gaël Monfils came in and his knee was iced. David Nalbandian is out with hip surgery. James Blake has a foot injury. How do you manage to stay so injury-free? Is there any special precaution that you take? You seem particularly good remaining injury-free.
ROGER FEDERER: I mean, you'll always find injured players, you know. You can talk about the same thing in six months' time. You'll always find an injured player. Maybe I'm one of them; I hope not. I try to make sure I am not, you know.
I mean, I try to have as good a schedule as possible, you know. I mean, you have to play some certain tournaments which you're, in a way, obliged to play, but at the same time having vacation, having enough practice and doing the right things, you know, I think is key to a player's career.
I guess you need a little bit of luck, as well. If you're injured a lot when you're younger and you play on them instead of maybe taking that break because you have bad advice maybe early on, you know, you carry it through your entire career sometimes, and that then can be a hard thing.
I think Rafa has done actually pretty well considering how hard his game is and how many matches he's played for so many years. He hasn't gotten injured that many times. That's why I'm happy to see him back on tour.
He was only away from the game a little bit, but in tennis terms it's so much because our season never ends. It's from January to November. If you miss two months, it just seems like it's a lot, but it's actually not that much, and I hope now he can stay on tour and not get injured again.
Q. A year ago this time you had an uncommonly early exit from the tournament when it was in Toronto, and obviously what a difference a year makes. You have two Grand Slams under you're belt since then. A lot has changed, but what you sort of taught so many people way beyond the bounds of tennis is about persevering in the way of criticism, doubt, difficulties. And I'm just wondering if you can comment a bit on how you might do that, what you hold on to? Because that is a real lesson for everyone in and out of the sport.
For me, that was still okay, because I was still -- you try to hang on to a few things. My thing was trying to hang on to the results in the Grand Slams, and there I reached always semifinals or better. That's why, for me, there was no real need to panic. I was achieving still, you know, regular semis and finals of other events so it wasn't all that bad.
But considering what my, you know, what my goals are and where the media and fans see me, it was tough times, you know, because not only was I maybe not winning the tournaments again I used to, but I was losing to some of those close. Sometimes, like in Paris last year, you know, Rafa crushed me there. It's hard to bounce back from some of those losses.
I'm a strong believer, you know, in that things turn around if you do the right things, and I'm happy -- you know, I got back in shape, you know, after the back problem, after the mono and everything. It was a tough one-and-a-half years, but, you know, I hung in there, and as it shows, it pays off.
It's been an amazing summer because I've had like a full career in like three months. It's been quite something.
Q. How much do you look forward to a tournament like this right now at this stage of the career you're in? How hard is it to get motivated to come out here to Montreal, for instance? Although it is a Masters event, is it still hard to get motivated with everything you've achieved?
ROGER FEDERER: Not really. For me, I don't want to say this is like a small tournament, but I got so much pressure everywhere I go that sometimes it's just nicer to play those one-week events, not just the Grand Slams, because those -- Paris and Wimbledon back to back, if you reach finals in both, you know, it swallows six to eight weeks, because you prepare for Paris. Then you prepare for Wimbledon, and then Wimbledon is over and you have the after-effects and you go through three months where you're only playing Grand Slam tennis and it takes a lot out of you.
That's why it's important to take a break. But then when I've had enough of a break and I've practiced a lot, then I'm happy again to go back on tour. It doesn't matter what tournament it is, because I always find something I like about the tournament, and the stadium here for instance is great. People are very friendly and very welcoming. That definitely helps for me choosing, for instance, to come to this event |
,1 Alexander Hemming,1 Simon Rees,1 Nikita Simakov,1 Robert Swain,2 Keiron Boyd,1 Alan Davidson,1 Leonardo Corena,1 Dmitrii Stepanov,1 and John Haub1
1Cyber and Electronic Warfare Division, Defence Science and Technology Group, Edinburgh, SA 5111, Australia
2Sub-Micron Engineering, Marlboro, New Jersey 07746, USA
*Corresponding author: michael.oermann@dst.defence.gov.au
M Oermann
N Carmody
A Hemming
S Rees
N Simakov
R Swain
K Boyd
A Davidson
L Corena
D Stepanov
J Haub
•https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.26.006715
Michael R. Oermann, Neil Carmody, Alexander Hemming, Simon Rees, Nikita Simakov, Robert Swain, Keiron Boyd, Alan Davidson, Leonardo Corena, Dmitrii Stepanov, and John Haub, "Coherent beam combination of four holmium amplifiers with phase control via a direct digital synthesizer chip," Opt. Express 26, 6715-6723 (2018)
Coherent beam combining of seven fiber chirped-pulse amplifiers using an interferometric phase measurement (OE)
Coherent beam combining of 61 femtosecond fiber amplifiers (OE)
Coherent beam combination of a hexagonal distributed high power fiber amplifier array (AO)
Table of Contents Category
Laser beam combining
Electrooptical modulators
Laser amplifiers
Thulium doped fiber lasers
Previously assigned OCIS codes
Lasers, fiber (140.3510)
Laser beam combining (140.3298)
Original Manuscript: November 30, 2017
Revised Manuscript: February 28, 2018
Manuscript Accepted: March 1, 2018
Optical Materials Express Advanced Solid-State Lasers 2017 (2017) Optics Express Advanced Solid-State Lasers 2017 (2017)
2. Experimental setup
References and links
We present the coherent beam combination of four 2100 nm holmium amplifiers with their phase controlled through acousto-optic modulators driven by the RF output of direct digital synthesizer chips. Phase alignment was achieved through the use of a field programmable gate array based stochastic parallel gradient descent algorithm.
Holmium-doped fibre lasers have many materials processing, medical and defence applications. The holmium-doped silica emission lies in the 2.1 μm atmospheric transmission window allowing for increased range in atmospheric propagation. In addition, its operation in the eye-safe wavelength range lends its use to applications where exposure from scattered and reflected light is of concern.
Single-mode holmium lasers and amplifiers have now demonstrated output powers of 407 W and 265 W, respectively, showing their potential for use in some higher power directed energy applications [1]. The holmium-doped fibre amplifiers employed in this paper were resonantly core-pumped by thulium oscillators operating at 1950 nm [2].
Laser beam combination for power scaling has been demonstrated using a number of laser technologies and more recently extensively investigated in ytterbium-doped fibre laser systems [3]. The three most widely demonstrated techniques for beam combination are; geometrical (incoherent beam) combination, which requires the pointing of multiple incoherent lasers on a target; spectral beam combination, involving the overlapping of multiple lasers of set wavelengths using a dispersive or wavelength selective optical element or elements; and coherent beam combination (CBC). In the 2 μm spectral region, spectral [4] and coherent beam combination [5] techniques have been demonstrated. Examples, however, have been limited to thulium based systems and at wavelengths shorter than 2040 nm. The power scaling potential of thulium doped fibre lasers and their use in CBC systems has been described by Goodno el al [3]. (Section 1.5.2.4). Here the relaxed tolerances for efficient coherent beam combination, associated with the longer wavelength of operation, are presented. The increased SBS threshold of laser systems operating at 2µm is also presented by Goodno et al. [6]. The higher SBS threshold enables the further power scaling of these systems without the need for frequency broadening and the associated path length matching that would be required in a CBC system.
Here we present our results for a coherently combined holmium-doped fibre amplifier system operating at 2100 nm. This system consisted of four channels whose phase alignment was optimized using a field programmable gate array (FPGA)-based stochastic parallel gradient descent (SPGD) algorithm.
There have been a number of different coherent beam combination approaches previously demonstrated. These include, heterodyne approaches [7], multiple and single frequency dithering techniques (frequency tagging) [8, 9] and the SPGD technique [10, 11]. A more comprehensive comparison between these different approaches is presented in reference [3]. Previous demonstrations where the phase control is applied through an acousto-optic modulator (AOM) have been limited to the heterodyne approach [12] and some frequency tagging demonstrations [13], both of which use a temporal frequency shift to impart a phase change. The novelty of the approach presented in this report is in the use of a direct digital synthesizer (DDS) chip to simultaneously provide the driving 80 MHz RF signal as well as apply the desired phase shift, through control of the RF signal phase, to the AOM of each channel. In contrast to the heterodyne phase control approach, implementing the SPGD algorithm allowed for the use of a single photodetector and removed the requirement for the reference beam. When compared to the frequency tagging techniques, the SPGD algorithm didn't require the demodulation of each channel's phase error from the detector signal. We also note here that AOM control via a DDS chip is not limited to SPGD phase control and can be adapted to other active beam combination techniques. The DDS chip provides agile and independent control of frequency, phase and amplitude of the RF signal driving the AOMs. As previously reported by Augst et al. [12], using the AOM as the phase modulator provides continuous phase control without needing to reset the voltage driving the electronic phase controller, piezo stretcher or electro-optic modulator (EOM) once the voltage limit of the device is reached. This is particularly important during the turn-on stage of the high power holmium amplifiers when the relative optical path length changes between the different channels can be in the order of hundreds or thousands of waves [8, 12].
To alleviate the requirement to path length match each of the channels, the linewidth of the seed laser needed to be sub-MHz. A commercial 2100 nm single longitudinal mode seed laser (AdValue) satisfied this requirement. The linewidth was calculated from the phase noise to be 500kHz. Its output was amplified and subsequently split into the four channels using in-house fabricated 50:50 polarization maintaining (PM) couplers. An isolator (Shinkosha) was used to prevent the amplification of backward propagating light by the pre-amplifier and protected the narrow linewidth master laser. The lasers used to pump the holmium-doped fibre amplifiers consisted of thulium-doped fibres (Nufern) spliced between in-house written fibre Bragg gratings [14] at 1950 nm, and were pumped by 790 nm laser diodes (LIMO). The 1950 nm pump light was coupled into the holmium-doped fibre amplifiers through in-house fabricated wavelength division multiplexers (WDMs), while the 2100 nm seed signal was coupled through the PM inputs and outputs of the WDMs. A second WDM was used to remove all the unabsorbed 1950 nm pump light from the output of the amplifier. After the holmium pre-amplifier, the light was split into the four channels and propagated through the AOMs (Gooch and Housego), where the phase control occurred. The AOMs used were specified for QCW operation with 6 W of RF power and their insertion loss was optimized for use at 2000 nm. In this setup we ran the AOMs CW with 3 W of RF power and at a longer wavelength of 2100 nm. The outputs of the AOMs were amplified by each of the channel's first stage amplifiers. These first stage amplifiers increased and balanced the power in each channel from ≈50 mW to 2.5 W (17 dB gain).
The first approach used to recombine the amplified channels was the filled aperture approach. This consisted of a coupler based beam splitter tree architecture and a wedge usedto sample the output chosen to emit the combined beam onto a photodetector. The photodetector provided a relative measurement of the output power and was used to measure the effect of the SPGD phase dithers. The setup is illustrated in Fig. 1.
Fig. 1 (a) Coherent laser beam combination setup including filled aperture beam recombination and (b) a schematic of the thulium pumped holmium amplifiers.
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The beam recombination setup was later converted to demonstrate the tiled aperture recombination approach. In this demonstration, the four output beams were collimated and aligned into a 2 × 2 array. A representation of this setup is illustrated in Fig. 2. The 6 mm focal length lens and positioning of the Pyrocam III 250 mm from the lens produced a 40 × magnified image of the focal plane intensity profile on the camera. The iris in front of the detector was positioned the same distance from the magnifying lens as the Pyrocam III camera. As such the image observed from the camera was representative of the intensity distribution in the aperture plane.
Fig. 2 Tiled aperture recombination setup.
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memory=pin_memory)
# return dataloaders
# dataloaders = {'train': train_dataloader, 'val': val_dataloader, 'test': test_dataloader}
# iter(train_dataloader) # if this fails its likely your running in pycharm and need to set num_workers flag to 0
return train_loader, val_loader
def split_inidices(indices: list,
test_size: Optional = None,
random_state: Optional[Union[int, RandomState, None]] = None,
shuffle: bool = False, # false for reproducibility, and any split is as good as any other.
) -> tuple[list[int], list[int]]:
import sklearn.model_selection
# - api: https://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/generated/sklearn.model_selection.train_test_split.html
train_indices, val_indices = sklearn.model_selection.train_test_split(indices, test_size=test_size,
random_state=random_state,
shuffle=shuffle)
return train_indices, val_indices
# - visualization help
"""
Inspired from:
- https://gist.github.com/MattKleinsmith/5226a94bad5dd12ed0b871aed98cb123
- https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/training-neural-networks-with-validation-using-pytorch/
"""
from argparse import Namespace
from pathlib import Path
from typing import Optional, Callable
import numpy as np
import torch
from torch.utils.data import random_split, DataLoader
from torchvision import datasets
from torchvision.transforms import transforms
from uutils.torch_uu.dataloaders.common import split_inidices, \
get_serial_or_distributed_dataloaders
NORMALIZE_MNIST = transforms.Normalize((0.1307,), (0.3081,)) # MNIST
def get_train_valid_test_data_loader_helper_for_mnist(args: Namespace) -> dict:
train_kwargs = {'path_to_data_set': args.path_to_data_set,
'batch_size': args.batch_size,
'batch_size_eval': args.batch_size_eval,
'augment_train': args.augment_train,
'augment_val': args.augment_val,
'num_workers': args.num_workers,
'pin_memory': args.pin_memory,
'rank': args.rank,
'world_size': args.world_size,
'merge': None
}
test_kwargs = {'path_to_data_set': args.path_to_data_set,
'batch_size_eval': args.batch_size_eval,
'augment_test': args.augment_train,
'num_workers': args.num_workers,
'pin_memory': args.pin_memory,
'rank': args.rank,
'world_size': args.world_size,
'merge': None
}
train_loader, val_loader = get_train_valid_loader(**train_kwargs)
test_loader: DataLoader = get_test_loader(**test_kwargs)
dataloaders: dict = {'train': train_loader, 'val': val_loader, 'test': test_loader}
return dataloaders
def get_transform(augment: bool):
if augment:
transform = transforms.Compose([
transforms.RandomCrop(32, padding=4),
transforms.RandomHorizontalFlip(),
transforms.ToTensor(),
NORMALIZE_MNIST
])
else:
transform = transforms.Compose([
transforms.ToTensor(),
NORMALIZE_MNIST
])
return transform
def get_train_valid_loader(path_to_data_set: Path,
batch_size: int = 128,
batch_size_eval: int = 64,
seed: Optional[int] = None,
augment_train: bool = True,
augment_val: bool = False,
val_size: Optional[float] = 0.2,
shuffle: bool = False, # false for reproducibility, and any split is as good as any other.
num_workers: int = -1,
pin_memory: bool = False,
rank: int = -1,
world_size: int = 1,
merge: Optional[Callable] = None,
) -> tuple[DataLoader, DataLoader]:
"""
Utility function for loading and returning train and valid
multi-process iterators over the MNIST dataset. A sample
9x9 grid of the images can be optionally displayed.
If using CUDA, num_workers should be set to 1 and pin_memory to True.
"""
# train_kwargs = {'batch_size': args.batch_size}
# define transforms
train_transform = get_transform(augment_train)
val_transform = get_transform(augment_val)
# load the dataset
path_to_data_set: str = str(Path(path_to_data_set).expanduser())
train_dataset = datasets.MNIST(root=path_to_data_set, train=True,
download=True, transform=train_transform)
val_dataset = datasets.MNIST(root=path_to_data_set, train=True,
download=True, transform=val_transform)
indices = list(range(len(train_dataset)))
train_indices, val_indices = split_inidices(indices, test_size=val_size, random_state=seed, shuffle=shuffle)
train_dataset = torch.utils.data.Subset(train_dataset, train_indices)
val_dataset = torch.utils.data.Subset(val_dataset, val_indices)
train_loader, val_loader = get_serial_or_distributed_dataloaders(train_dataset,
val_dataset,
batch_size,
batch_size_eval,
rank,
world_size,
merge,
num_workers,
pin_memory
)
return train_loader, val_loader
def get_test_loader(path_to_data_set,
batch_size_eval: int = 64,
shuffle: bool = True,
augment_test: bool = False,
num_workers: int = -1,
pin_memory=False,
rank: int = -1,
world_size: int = 1,
merge: Optional[Callable] = None,
) -> DataLoader:
"""
Utility function for loading and returning a multi-process
test iterator over the MNIST dataset.
If using CUDA, num_workers should be set to 1 and pin_memory to True.
Params
------
- path_to_data_set: path directory to the dataset.
- batch_size: how many samples per batch to load.
- shuffle: whether to shuffle the dataset after every epoch.
- num_workers: number of subprocesses to use when loading the dataset.
- pin_memory: whether to copy tensors into CUDA pinned memory. Set it to
True if using GPU.
Returns
-------
- data_loader: test set iterator.
Note:
- it knows it's the test set since train=False in the body when creating the data set.
"""
# define transform
test_transform = get_transform(augment_test)
# load the dataset
path_to_data_set: str = str(Path(path_to_data_set).expanduser())
test_dataset = datasets.MNIST(root=path_to_data_set,
train=False, # ensures its test set
download=True,
transform=test_transform)
_, test_loader = get_serial_or_distributed_dataloaders(test_dataset,
test_dataset,
batch_size_eval,
|
plan was to hijack the plane which would be piloted by Rajiv Gandhi, son of Mrs. Indira Gandhi then Prime Minister of India. When this startling disclosure was reported to the head of BSF and RAW, India decided to beat Pakistan at their own game!
RAW and BSF persuaded Qureshi to work for them in order to save him from execution by the Indian authorities. According to the plan, Qureshi would hijack an Indian Airlines aircraft flying from Srinagar to Lahore. In return, he would demand the release of 36 members of the Al-Fatah who were in jail in India. A Fokker Friendship aircraft, Ganga, which was retired from Indian Airlines was inducted for this operation. The plane was hijacked and he was allowed a toy pistol and a fake grenade inside the plane.
Here on, everything went accordingly; Qureshi, along with his cousin Ashraf Qureshi hijacked the Srinagar-Jammu bound Ganga aircraft on 30 January 1971 to Lahore. He was armed with a mere toy pistol and a fake grenade! Security checks during those days were unheard of.
Once in Lahore, the two hijackers demanded the release of 36 jailed members of JKNLF of Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir (POK), besides seeking political asylum in Pakistan. To render authenticity to the incident, India's national radio AIR broadcasted the news of the hijacking.
On surface, it all seemed India had nothing to do with the hijack, except negotiate the safety of its flight passengers. This was the time when terror was unheard of, and the hijack raised great curiosity in the masses of Pakistan. All the passengers were given a warm welcome in the Pakistani soil, offered teas and snacks, and given shelter at a grand hotel in Lahore, before they were transported back to the Indian border.
In the meanwhile, the two young hijacking cousins were given the rousing welcome of heroes in Pakistan. And for some inexplicable reason, the plane was burned down by the Pakistani authorities.
Three months after this incident,
The Indian government banned all the flights of Pakistan flying over our territory and it exposed that Pakistani state openly and actively supporting terrorists. Pakistan was trying to curb the civil unrest in East Pakistan by using civil flights to send resources. The shortest air route between east and west Pakistan was from Indian Air Space. Any other air route without using India air space was at least 3 times longer and time/fuel consuming. Pakistan had to go around India, via Sri Lanka. The hijacking greatly slowed down the arrival of Pakistani Army through air.
Pakistan began to see the 'conspiracy' when they learned that Ganga was long withdrawn from service, but was re-inducted just a few days before the hijacking occurred.
Pakistan was trying to suppress the civil unrest in East Pakistan by sending men and other resources in planes. With the ban, they had to slow down their exercise. Knowing that they had been fooled by India, the 'hijacking heroes' suddenly fell from grace, and were sent to prison for being 'Indian spies'. Although his co-accused cousin was let off earlier, Hashim languished in Pakistani jail for a decade and when set free, went to live in Europe.
As Pakistan's agencies remained busy in detangling the Ganga episode, East Pakistan, with support from Indira Gandhi's government, charted its own course to rewrite history. In March 1971, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman made his freedom speech, and the Pakistan Army smelling secession and mutiny, launched Operation Searchlight to arrest the tide.
Finally, when on November, 1971 a joint force of Bangladesh and Indian troops took on the Pakistani soldiers, the role of India in the hijack became all too clear. The Pakistani Air Force deployed in Dhaka was isolated and cornered, and the disadvantage was fully utilised by India to liberate the region, what came to be known as Bangladesh.
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