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Meet Brianna Collins
Emma Black | Jul 29, 2019 | Art, Up Close & Personal
Brianna Collins has been pursuing different creative outlets artistically and musically since she was young. She is the keyboard player and a singer in Tigers Jaw, a band she has been in since her teenage years. Some of her art projects include doing the cover images for her band's albums. She feels lucky to have had the opportunity to tour with her band across the world in Japan, Australia, South America and Latin America. When she is not playing music or learning about another country's culture, she can be found teaching private art lessons. She is a graduate of Western Wayne High School, where her passion for art began. She also earned a bachelor's of fine arts degree in photography from the Tyler School of Art and a master's degree from the College of Fine Arts at Boston University. She is a certified Pennsylvania teacher for art education K-12. She lives in Kingston with her cats, Clover and Snake, but shortly will be setting out for a North American fall tour with Tigers Jaw.
What got you interested in art?
Collins displays the art she created for "Spin," Tigers Jaw's most recent album, which was released in May 2019.
I've loved making and creating since I was super young. I remember just loving art in elementary school. I was really lucky, Western Wayne had an amazing art program throughout all of my school career. It was probably my junior year of high school when I decided that I wanted to go to art school. I did Arts Alive two years in a row. It was super formative for me. I learned a lot about expressing myself through art. I kind of move all over between mediums. I like to challenge myself. I don't feel like I'm good at drawing, but I love to paint and I love to take photos. I'm not really someone who draws or paints from life. I like to have a photographic reference. I went to Tyler [School of Art and Architecture] and that program was great because it encouraged me to take different types of classes that I may not have had experience with before.
As an art teacher, how do you hope to influence the students?
I'm doing private art lessons. One day I would love to teach high school photo or something. Teaching is something I love because it can be so gratifying. When I was in graduate school, I had to think about teaching, and a lot of what I learned is that art shouldn't be an elitist subject. It should be something that everyone can participate in. The way that the culture in our society is is that once you're done with the art that's mandatory in your schooling experience, it's either you're good and you keep doing it, or you feel like you're bad and you stop. There definitely is an argument for aesthetics and what art is good, but I think, especially for kids, that shouldn't be what they're graded on — if it's good or bad. There are ways to design lessons and make it more conceptual and creative. People can't help their artistic ability in the judgment of masters of art and aesthetics. You can grade on what you're teaching as far as creative design skills and motivation, innovation, working collaboratively, just framing things more from the process and not the product.
Tell me about Tigers Jaw and its background.
I would consider us an alternative band, we're an Indie band in the sense that we are writing our own music and it's as much a do-it-yourself as we can while maintaining the fact that it's our job.Tigers Jaw was a band already before I joined. At first, it was just Adam McIlwee and Ben Walsh who had started the band. It was always a three-piece. I had met Adam through mutual friends, and we became fast friends and clicked. When their keyboard player quit, I said I would fill in if they needed someone. I never necessarily thought I would be in a band. I love music. I loved going to shows, I loved being a part of kind of community. Growing up in Hamlin, when there wasn't really a lot else going on, that was something we could all be a part of. I agreed to fill in for one show and they asked me to be in the band and that was it.
What are you most looking forward to in your upcoming tour with the Menzingers and Culture Abuse?
The Menginzers were one of my first favorite bands to go see. It's really cool to see how we've all grown together as people and as bands. I'm excited to hang out with them. We toured with them one time in the U.K., and it was really short and it was super fun, but this will be the first time getting to go to different places together and getting to see them every night. I love their band, and I love Culture Abuse. A three-band tour is my favorite kind of tour. It's been a long time since we've toured, and I love playing. We're all ready to get out and do a tour.
How have you grown as a person so far in your 15 years with the band?
As a person I feel like I know myself a lot better now. I think it takes a long time to zone in on who you are. Life is obviously different. I was in high school at the beginning, and now I've finished graduate school and I'm almost 30. The biggest difference for me is my growth as a musician, and specifically, as a songwriter. I joined this band just having a classical piano background. What I play in Tigers Jaw isn't like that. It's not super percussive, it's almost like another rhythm guitar. It sonically fills the space. I like it because it allows me to just have fun and play to the best of my ability. I've kind of self-taught myself to play guitar, and it was really Ben who encouraged me to to try writing songs, and now that is one of the things I do in this band. I'm so happy to be doing this. I love Tigers Jaw as a band apart from being in it, so it's just cool to be doing what I love in that way.
What musicians inspire you?
I've always loved Death Cab for Cutie, just their writing style, the lyricism, it's so descriptive and poetic. I can listen to a record that I listened to when I was 15 and I still feel connected to it in the same way. I love Paramore, they're one of my favorite bands. They're also a band that has gotten to an amazing point and worked hard and stayed a band throughout it all. I love the Cure. At least right now, those are who I'm thinking about while I'm writing. While I'm personally trying to write, I'm thinking about their songs and why I love their music. If I want to make music, I want it to relate to what I love about music.
What has been the proudest or most exciting moment in your musical career?
Putting out "Spin" [in May, 2019] was super monumental, because it was the first time I'd personally written songs, and it was terrifying. I couldn't have anticipated the anxiety that came with it. We put so much work into it, and I felt so connected, but it could still be something people don't like and you can't prevent that. That was huge for me. Also, the first time we played in South America was the first time I felt the power of what we were doing. Not a lot of bands that are our size get to tour South America. People responded so passionately and were almost thankful we were there, but we couldn't have gone there without them. It was symbiotic.
What other hobbies and interests do you have?
It seems trivial but I love TV shows, I love "Game of Thrones." I loved reading Game of Thrones too. I just finished watching "Chernobyl," and I then bought two books about Chernobyl to read. So much of what I do forces me to zone in and focus, and that's something I find really hard. I'm really lucky to have a great group of girlfriends, and we try to hang out as much as we can. Outside of work, the biggest thing for me is nurturing the relationships in my life because I'm gone so much. I would love to start volunteering at animal shelters, too. I love animals, cats especially.
Is there a person or a piece of advice you've received that has motivated you along your journey?
I'm looking at a Beyonce quote, it's "I dream it, I work hard, I grind 'til I own it." Growing up around here, it's a blue-collar community, work ethic is instilled in us. If you want something, you have to work toward getting it. Having dreams and working hard to make your dreams happen versus just working for a job is so important. That's been my life, trying to make sure I'm doing all the things and working toward the goals I want to accomplish.
Collins performs with Tigers Jaw in a concert at the Ritz Theater and Performing Arts Center in Scranton in October, 2018. Emma Black / File Photo
Collins performs with Tigers Jaw in the NEPA Holiday Show at The Scranton Cultural Center in December, 2017. Emma Black / File Photo
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Notifications of collective redundancies and letters of termination can be prepared simultaneously
In the case of mass redundancies, the letters of termination are also effective even if the employer had already decided on and prepared the letters of termination before the notification of collective redundancy is submitted to the Employment Agency. Prerequisite, however, is that the letters of termination only "reach" the employee, i.e. are handed over or delivered, after the notification of collective redundancy has been received by the Agency. The Federal Labour Court (Bundesarbeitsgericht) confirmed this approach on 13 June 2019 (Case No. 6 AZR 459/18).
What happend?
A dispute arose concerning the effectiveness of terminations for operational reasons between an employee and the insolvency administrator, who was appointed to deal with the employer's assets after the opening of insolvency proceedings. The insolvency administrator compiled a notification of collective redundancy, which was received by the Employment Agency on 26 June 2017, along with an enclosed copy of an agreed reconciliation of interests. The insolvency administrator also issued the letters of termination to the employees with the same date. The claimant received his letter of termination on 27 June 2017. In the action brought against unfair dismissal, the employee claimed that, according to the jurisprudence of the European Court of Justice, the insolvency administrator was required, to first make the declaration of mass redundancy before deciding to issue the notices of termination. Accordingly, letters of termination could only be signed after receipt of the notification of mass redundancy by the Employment Agency , as the signing of the letter declares the termination. The State Labour Court of Baden Wurttemberg followed this argumentation and, on the employee's appeal, reversed the judgment of the Labour Court, which had dismissed the action, thus allowing the employee's claim against unfair dismissal (for information on the first instance see Kamppeter and Holzbauer in DER BETRIEB 2019, page 1333).
The judgment of the Court
The Federal Labour Court (BAG) annulled the judgment of the State Labour Court and referred the matter back to the lower instance. Currently, only the BAG's press release is available, which, however, already clarifies that the notification procedure established in § 17(1), and (3) second to the fifth sentences of the Act against Unfair Dismissal (Kündigungsschutzgesetz, KSchG) serves to ensure that the Employment Agency is informed of the upcoming mass redundancies in good time, enabling the Agency to prepare for a larger number of employees and adjust its placement services accordingly. The mass redundancy notification must merely establish how many and which employees will be laid off. The Employment Agency should not and does not wish to influence the will of the employer when it comes to the redundancies – unlike the works council, which is involved as part of the consultation procedure. In line with the case law of the ECJ on Articles 3 and 4 of the Collective Redundancies Directive (Directive 98/59/EC), the Court clarifies that the letter of termination may only be issued – i.e. "reach" the employee – once the mass redundancy notification has been received by the competent Employment Agency. Based on the already established findings, the BAG was not able to pass a final judgement on the effectiveness of the letter of termination, which is why the procedure was referred back to the State Labour Court.
Consequences for practice
Fortunately, the BAG has eliminated another matter of legal uncertainty and found a solution that is practicable for all sides. The highest instance has now decided that the letters of termination may only "reach" employees (within the meaning of § 130 (1) German Civil Code) once the Employment Agency has received the mass redundancy notification. Conversely, it is irrelevant from a legal perspective, when the letter of termination is prepared and signed. This gives employers the possibility of preparing the mass redundancy notification and letters of termination in parallel. On the basis of the date of delivery, the employees can determine whether a letter of termination reached them before the mass redundancy notification was announced and thus – providing the other requirements for the letter of termination are observed – whether the notice is effective.
Practical tip
Letters of termination and the mass redundancy notification may now be prepared simultaneously. Where the redundancy requires notification under § 17 (1) Act against Unfair Dismissal (Kündigungsschutzgesetz, KSchG), the letters of termination may still only reach the employees after the Employment Agency has received the mass redundancy notification. If you are unable to personally deliver the letters of termination, the letters of termination should, for certainty, only be sent once the Employment Agency has received the mass redundancy notification.
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New construction sector chair at Composites UK
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Allan Curtis of Design and Display Structures has been announced as the new chair of the Composites UK Construction Sector Group. The announcement comes after the group's last meeting on the 3rd December 2019.
Allan brings more than 30 years' experience in the construction industry, initially in high end curtain walling systems before transferring his skills over to glass reinforced polymer (GRP) cladding in 1994. He is currently owner and Director of Design & Display Structures, which he has developed to become widely recognised as a market leader in providing bespoke 'design and build' package solutions.
Allan said of his new role: "I am delighted to receive this opportunity to work alongside industry colleagues to raise awareness of the wide range of benefits composites can offer to construction projects, end clients and the professionals working within it. Attractive offsite modular solutions are key factors to successful fast track projects and the precise control one can exercise over manufacture in terms of minimising materials employed and volume of waste products puts us firmly at the forefront of shaping future building solutions and tackling sustainability concerns."
He takes over the role from James Henderson of Atkins Limited, who now chairs the Composites Leadership Forum's (CLF) construction group.
James commented: "Since its establishment in 2015 it has been a pleasure to lead and chair the Composites UK Construction Sector Group, with one of our key successes during this period being the publication of CIRIA Report C779 – FRP Bridge: Guidance for Designers. It is my pleasure to now hand over the reins of this group to Allan who I am sure will bring a new perspective and focus going forward. In the transition period I will support Allan and the wider group in my position with the Composites Leadership Forum, where I will lobby for support, drive collaboration and steer our industry to ensure we meet and exceed the growth targets we have discussed in the 2016 FRP composites strategy document."
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Christmas with Shadyside Brass
Join Shadyside Brass and friends for holiday favorites at their Second Annual Holiday Concert in beautiful Heinz Chapel. Last year we had a full house to hear pop, classical and jazz interpretations of everyone's favorite holiday music, including a rousing finale of the Handel's Hallelujah Chorus. Don't miss out this year!
85th Anniversary of the Ukrainian Famine
The Pittsburgh Ukrainian community will observe the 85th anniversary of the Ukrainian Holomodor-Genocide of 1932-33. The observance will include a panakhyda prayer service in memory of the millions of Ukranians who died of starvation under Joseph Stalin's orders. The prayer service will be co-led by Catholic and Ukrainian Orthodox clergy. All are invited to attend this important anniversary.
Valentine's Day at the Chapel
We'll give a rose to the first 50 couples who visit the chapel between 4 and 6pm on Valentine's Day. Bring your camera and we'll take your picture.
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Join Moms Demand Action & CeaseFirePA as we mark the 6th anniversary of the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary by memorializing the lives lost to gun violence in Allegheny County this year. We hope our community will find some measure of healing in the recognition and naming of those victims we heard so much about and those that never made the headlines. This annual event is free and open to the public.
World AIDS Day Commemoration
World AIDS Day is held each year and is an opportunity for people worldwide to unite in the fight against HIV, show their support for people living with HIV and to commemorate people who have died.
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Omicron Delta Kappa, the National Leadership Honor Society, recognizes and encourages superior leadership and exemplary character.
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Omicron Delta Kappa, the National Leadership Honor Society, recognizes and encourages superior leadership and exemplary character. ODK encourages collaboration among members across the five phases celebrated by ODK: scholarship, athletics, service, communications, and arts. Founded in 1914 at Washington and Lee University, ODK honors and develops leaders through scholarships, workshops, career opportunities, leadership resources, and a lifelong connection to other members.
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What is The Monotheistic Filter?
In her blog, "Gangleri's Grove," (Note 1) Galina Krasskova explains that people are shaped and informed by nearly 2000 years of Monotheism. She calls this shaping, the Monotheistic Filter. In her opinion, The Filter is a sentient being that feeds off humanity. According to Krasskova, The Filter works tirelessly against the Gods, to retain Its hold on people.
Easy to describe, The Filter is hard to define. I have experienced It as an aspect of the Monotheistic Gods (God). (Note 2) In trying keep his power, He uses the Filter to disable and dissuade people from challenging Him. He needs people to continue to believe in redemption and salvation, which makes them dependent on Him.
Religion can be divided into "revealed" and "natural." In revealed religions, God transmits his knowledge and expectations through prophets. Holy texts such as "The Bible" are the official record of these revelations. Meanwhile, God is transcendent and beyond all physical laws. To interact with Him, a person has to give up the world and seek salvation. Religious doctrine and dogma are interpretations of this God's requirements and desires.
In contrast, natural religions like Polytheism arise from people's interactions with the world. The Gods and other Spirits are immanent and live in this world. They are accessible to people through divination and offerings. The relationship between humans and the Holy Powers is one of reciprocity and mutual respect.
Before modern people can develop a Polytheistic mindset, they need to know the workings of The Filter. It spreads through groupthink (Note 3), which colors what people think and believe to be true. The prism that truth is determined by is filtered through others and the culture they live in. The group teaches people to how to cherry pick for "truth." By collecting certain stories and discarding others, people form their belief systems in accordance to groupthink. This is how The Filter burrows into people's thought processes.
Note 2. Monotheism has multiple Gods, all male, and all specific to each Monotheistic religion (Christianity, Judaism, and Islam). The Filter is an aspect of all these Gods united.
My experience with the Filter has been one of pain. I was thrown out of bed when I started this essay. As I continued, I suffered from strained calves. The Filter is nasty to those who defy It.
Note 3. Groupthink occurs when a group reaches a consensus by minimizing conflict. Outside or alternative viewpoints are not allowed for the sake of group harmony.
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Second package of measures – addition
On 7.4.2020 Parliament accepted all measures presented by the Government of the Republic of Croatia on 1.4.2020 as the second package of measures for the economy. Below, we provide details on the most important measures in terms of tax, accounting, and employment preservation regulations.
1. Accounting Act – Bylaw on the deadlines for submission of financial statements and accounting documents in special circumstances (OG 45/2020)
Entrepreneurs are obliged to submit annual financial statements with the accompanying audit report to the Financial Agency for public announcement within eight months from the last day of the business year.
Entrepreneurs are obliged to submit annual consolidated financial statements with the accompanying audit report to the Financial Agency for public announcement within ten months from the last day of the business year.
Inactivity statement
An entrepreneur who did not have any business transactions during the business year, or does not have any assets and liabilities recorded in the books, is obliged to submit to the Financial Agency a Statement of Inactivity for the previous business year by 30 June of the current year.
Financial data for statistical and other purposes
Entrepreneurs and legal and natural persons are obliged to submit to the Financial Agency by 30 June of the current year a balance sheet, profit and loss account and additional data of the previous calendar year for statistical and other purposes.
Consolidation obligation
The parent company is required to report the consolidation obligation to the Register of annual financial statements by June 30 of the current year for the previous year.
The submission of the branch office's accounting documents may not exceed eight months after the balance sheet date, but the time limits laid down by the law of the Member State by which the parent company of the branch office is governed will be taken into account, unless otherwise regulated in special circumstances – which the branch office must be able to prove in case of supervision.
2. Exemption, deferral or payment of tax liabilities
The proposed measures of the Government of the Republic of Croatia have been adopted by the Bylaw amending the Bylaw on the implementation of the General Tax Law (OG 43/2020) – hereinafter referred to as the Bylaw. Tax liabilities for the purposes of the Bylaw are considered to be tax and other public obligations, which are due for the applicant starting from 1 April 2020 until the expiry of a period of three months after the entry into state of "special circumstances ".
2.1. Exemption from payment of tax liability
Tax liabilities for the purposes of payment exemption are not considered to be the value added tax liabilities, customs and excise duties, compulsory pension contributions on the basis of individual capitalized savings, taxes and surtaxes determined on final income, charges and duties on games of chances, obligations under previously concluded administrative contracts and rescheduled liabilities from pre-bankruptcy and bankruptcy proceedings.
Who is entitled to exemption?
If the applicant, due to special circumstances, is prohibited from work by the competent authority's decisions that is, if his/her work is put on hold or significantly impeded, he/she will be fully exempted from paying his/her tax liabilities if he/her has a decrease in income / receipts of at least 50% in the period of three months after the declaration of "special circumstances status", as compared to the same period of the previous year.
An applicant who has in the previous year realized the value of supplies of goods and services in the amount of more than HRK 7,500,000.00 without value added tax will be partially exempted from paying his/her tax liabilities in proportion to the percentage decrease in income / receipts compared to the same period of the previous year.
A taxpayer who earns income by renting flats, rooms and beds to tourists and organizing camps, regardless of the fact that he/she applies for tax payment measures, and who pays tax in a lump sum, will be exempt from tax in the amount of ¼ annual lump sum income tax and surtax on income tax payable by the end of the second quarter of 2020.
2.2. Tax payment measures
On the basis of reasonable claims for due tax liabilities, a deferral of payment without interest will be granted for a period of three months, counting from the statutory date of maturity of each individual tax liability.
On the other hand, a taxpayer may delay the value added tax liability due for the amount that is greater than the amount that would have been due if the taxpayer had calculated value added tax in accordance with the procedure for taxation in a way to express the difference in the amount in Part VIII. Of the VAT return.
In the case of an extension of the initial three-month deadline, an additional three-month deadline may be granted for already deferred tax liabilities and to extend the scope of deferred tax liabilities to tax liabilities which due falls into that additional three months, without interest, for which a new written and reasoned request is to be submitted.
2.3. Repayment of deferred tax liabilities
An applicant who is unable to pay a deferred tax liability on its deferred maturity can apply for a repayment without interest, and that repayment can be granted in monthly installments, up to a maximum of 24 months.
A written and reasoned request for installment repayment of a deferred tax liability may be filed within five days of the due date of the liability that the applicant is unable to pay.
In the application for installment repayment, the applicant states to which of the deferred tax liabilities the claim relates.
2.4. Indicators of inability to pay due tax liabilities
If due to the occurrence of special circumstances, income / receipts are reduced by at least 20% in the month preceding the month of application, compared to the same period of the previous year or
If entrepreneurs expect their income / receipts to be reduced by at least 20% in the next three months as a result of special circumstances, compared to the same period of the previous year.
In addition to meeting these indicators, for the value added tax liability due, the taxpayer must demonstrate that the value added tax liability arises from invoices that yet have not been charged and incoming invoices that have not been paid.
2.5. Submission of request
An applicant for the use of a tax payment measures is considered to be an entrepreneur who makes it probable that he/she is unable to pay arrears of tax liabilities and who has no tax liabilities at the date of application.
If the amount of tax debt is less than HRK 200, it will be considered that there is no outstanding tax liability.
A written and reasoned request will be considered only if request is submitted electronically to the tax authority through the e-Porezna system and exceptionally taxpayers who are not users of the ePorezna system may file a claim provided and posted by the Tax administration on its website.
2.6. Exemption from payment of contributions for subsidized net wages
The taxpayer will be exempted from the obligation to pay a contribution for the amount of the co-financed net salary paid on the basis of the employment preservation subsidy paid by the Croatian Employment Service.
The exemption from payment of contributions will be implemented ex officio by the Tax Administration on the basis of data exchanged with the Croatian Employment Service from the evidence on the payment of the subsidy recipient and data reported in the JOPPD form filed with the Tax administration. The exemption from payment of the contribution will be expressed by reducing the liability on the taxpayer's tax-accounting card.
3. Subsequent treatment of the applicant who has been granted tax payment measures by the tax authority
If the tax authority subsequently determines that it is not probable that the conditions for the tax payment measure have been fulfilled, it will determine the termination of the tax payment measure whereby the tax liabilities are due in accordance with special regulations. If the tax authority subsequently determines that the applicant in the course of special circumstances:
falsely portrayed the facts explaining the claims and/or
acted contrary to tax regulations and/or
misused tax payment measures to obtain unlawful material gain
it will notify the applicant of failure to meet indicators of inability to pay due tax liabilities and it will charge statutory default interest for tax liabilities for which a measure of payment of taxes has been approved.
4. Deadlines for filing tax returns and reports
According to the Bylaw, the corporate profit tax return (including other forms and reports submitted with the CPT form) shall be submitted to the Tax administration by 30 June. In addition, the public obligations determined on the basis of the CPT return, forms and reports are due on July 31, 2020.
5. Increase in the amount of government subsidies
The increase in the state "minimum" payment as a subsidy for employers, whose incomes will fall by more than 20 percent, is raised from HRK 3,250 to HRK 4,000 net in April and May. In addition, the state will take over the payments of contribution in the amount of HRK 1,460, so the total subsidy to companies per worker will be at the level of HRK 5,460.
This measure can be used provided employers retain workers.
The website of the Croatian Pension Insurance Institute is working on upgrading an application that will make it easier to submit requests and additions to previous submitted requests. Starting from 17.04.2020 the entrepreneurs will be able to:
submit the JOPPD number and list of workers who received support in March
review previous submitted requests
supplement requests with employees returned to workplace by employers
supplement data requirements for March, April and May 2020
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Officials: Intel shows Qaeda planning attack on US, Western targets
After prison breaks in Iraq, Libya and Pakistan, Western countries to temporarily close embassies in Mideast for fear of terror attacks; US officials deeply worried about possible attack against embassy in Yemen
Fresh intelligence led the United States to conclude that operatives of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula were in the final stages of planning an attack against US and Western targets, several American officials told CNN Saturday.
The warning led the US State Department to issue a global travel alert Friday, warning al-Qaeda may launch attacks in the Middle East, North Africa and beyond in coming weeks. The US government also was preparing to temporarily close 22 embassies and consulates in the region Sunday as a precaution.
Germany to shut Yemen embassy for two days over security
Interpol makes new warning linked to prison breaks
US issues global travel alert, cites potential al-Qaeda threat
The chatter among al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula operatives had gone on for weeks but increased in the last few days, the officials told CNN.
The sources told CNN that while the specific target is uncertain, US officials are deeply worried about a possible attack against the US Embassy in Yemen occurring through Tuesday.
Yemen police officer at security checkpoint (Photo: AFP)
CNN reported that the warnings also come as news has surfaced that al-Qaeda's leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, has appointed the head of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, Nasser al-Wahishi, as his overall general manager of the terror network, Seth Jones of the Rand Corporation said.
Interpol issued a global security alert on Saturday advising its members to increase their vigilance against attacks after a series of prison breaks in Iraq, Libya and Pakistan that the agency is investigating to determine if they were linked.
The Lyon, France-based Interpol said given that al-Qaeda was suspected to be involved in some of the incidents, it was asking its 190 member countries to watch out for information connected to the prison breaks, with an aim to determine whether they were coordinated and also locate the escaped prisoners.
Entrance to UK Embassy in Yemen (Photo: Reuters)
Britain said it would close its embassy in Yemen on Sunday and Monday. "We are particularly concerned about the security situation in the final days of Ramadan and into Eid," the Foreign Office said in a statement, referring to the Muslim holy month which ends on Wednesday.
France also plans to close its embassy in Yemen on Sunday, a spokesman for the foreign ministry said.
Prison breaks took place in Pakistan on July 31 in a Taliban-led operation, and in Iraq at the Abu Ghraib prison overnight on July 22. Some 500 convicts, among them senior al-Qaeda operatives, escaped from Abu Ghraib.
More than 1,100 inmates broke out of a prison on the outskirts of Benghazi on July 27.
Interpol also noted that August was the anniversary of several violent attacks over the past years, including in Mumbai and Nairobi.
Concerns became more amplified following a speech given by al-Zawahiri, who made a call to specifically target US destinations.
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He said that the threat is more "specific" than previous threats, and while it's unclear which action the terrorist will take exactly, their intent—to target all Western and not only US destinations—is clear.
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OAKLAND – Steph Curry's 11th NBA season begins in about 10 weeks and it will in some ways be the most challenging of his career.
Which has Curry, 31, in the gym/lab with Brandon Payne, the trainer who over the past eight years has helped advance the two-time MVP. They're tinkering with this, experimenting with that and tossing some concepts into the recycling bin.
"Movement and recovery are the main focus this offseason," Payne told NBC Sports Bay Area on Tuesday. "We want to make him stronger, but we want to at first make sure that he's moving at optimal levels.
"We don't approach this in terms of thinking his shot numbers are going to up or anything like that. It's more a matter of trying to make him the best version of himself. If we do that, we'll be satisfied and he'll be prepared to play 82 games, which is our goal going into every year."
Curry has never played all 82 games, tying his career-high of 80 in 2014-15. After missing a total of eight games in the first three seasons under coach Steve Kerr, Curry fell off to 51 in 2017-18 before bouncing back to play 69 games last season.
But never in this glorified era of Warriors basketball has his presence been more essential. Gone are Kevin Durant, Andre Iguodala and Shaun Livingston, three stellar members of the championship roster. Five-time All-Star Klay Thompson, Curry's backcourt sidekick for eight seasons, is expected to miss at least at least three months while recovering from ACL surgery.
All of which means Steph can anticipate an appreciable reduction in load management. Kerr already has conceded that the minutes of core players such as Draymond Green, Kevon Looney and Curry, could go up. And rest nights will be rarer still.
"The load management thing is not that big a deal as long as you recover properly between workouts and games," Payne said. "But, yeah, we know it's going to be a heavier load. That's why a heavy emphasis this offseason has been on creating a solid recovery process, something that we can work on and refine between workouts and carry over into the season, and that can be easily repeatable on a daily basis.
"We don't have (Curry) walking around in bubble wrap, but we are being a little more intelligent about how we're loading his body."
Though the Warriors last month acquired All-Star guard D'Angelo Russell, who is slated to open the season starting alongside Curry in the backcourt, the veteran who has mastered the offense and owns a truckload of accolades will continue to be the team's offensive catalyst.
Recognizing the Curry-Russell duo will bear the majority of the scoring burden, Curry and Payne are not waiting for training camp next month to start the team-building process. They're already a couple weeks into the process.
"We've had D-Lo in for workouts, so we've had the opportunity to have them work together and kind of get to know each other," said Payne, the founder/owner of Accelerate Basketball Training. "That's been productive. It gave D-Lo a glimpse into what we do on a daily basis, and I think that was good for him to see. I think that backcourt pairing is going to be really nice."
So much about the direction of 2019-20 Warriors will be determined by Curry. If he's healthy and MVP-level brilliant, they could exceed 50 wins and fight for a top-four playoff seed. If he misses significant portions of the season or struggles under defenses keying on him, simply making the playoffs would be a meaningful achievement.
Payne is confident that Curry, even at this stage of his career, can continue to improve.
[RELATED: Why Klay Thompson is optimistic about Warriors]
"We're continuing on his skill expansion; we're still trying to expand his skill set," he said. "We're adding things to be more efficient. We make adjustments based on what we saw over 82 games, plus playoffs. We take a look at what teams did that may have had some success against him and we try to neutralize those things going into the next season."
In an NBA rich with delicious storylines entering next season, curiosity over Curry 11.0 barely registers -- at least outside the Bay Area. Curry and Payne are OK with that. They'll settle for lifting the Warriors higher than many believe they can go.


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Prometheus Incarnations
Sarah Bookin-Weiner on contemporary adaptions in performance.
Prometheus Bound poses massive staging issues. The story features a man chained to a rock—the protagonist cannot move for almost the entire show.
Like its title figure, contemporary productions of Prometheus Bound have struggled. While many scholars praise the literary merits of Aeschylus's play, theater critics have attacked Prometheus Bound in performance for its lack of dramatic action. To be fair, this problematic play poses massive staging issues. The story features a man chained to a rock – the protagonist cannot move for almost the entire show. Yet the challenges of staging, lack of dramatic action onstage, and storytelling style continue to inspire the play's translators, directors, and performers.
In 1967, poet Robert Lowell's translation and adaptation attracted attention when it premiered at Yale, directed by Jonathan Miller. Robert Brustein, who was Yale Repertory's artistic director at that time and who went on to found the A.R.T., wrote that it was, "A thoroughly modernized version of an ancient play, with contemporary resonances echoing all forms of tyranny (including America's treatment of the Vietnamese), but a version that nevertheless maintained a certain historical distance." Lowell described his own poetic prose adaptation as an "imitation" since it suggested the original rather than directly translated it. He recognized Prometheus Bound as one of the most "undramatic" Greek classical tragedies, but also thought it "probably the most lyrical." Lowell reflected, "I think my own concerns and worries and those of the times seep in. Using prose instead of verse, I was free to tone down the poetic eloquence."
Brustein sheds light on the production's success, pointing out that, "Prometheus Bound is the ultimate static play, and if you're going to be true to it, you have to accept the fact that it is a drama of religious ideas, not of action. The way to engage the audience is through dynamic acting." Gifted actors Kenneth Haigh as Prometheus and Irene Worth as Io gave memorable performances. Critics said that the play and Lowell were made for one another, but the staging could not solve the story's lack of action. Set in a seventeenth-century castle-keep, critics disliked the breathtaking yet incongruous scenery. While they found the first half riveting, many thought that the second half dwindled and Lowell's slightly different ending fell flat.
Aeschylus wrote a Prometheus trilogy, but only fragments remain of the other two plays. In 1980, French director André Engel and dramaturg Bernard Pautrat addressed the problems this ancient tragedy presents to modern artists and audiences by adapting the larger Prometheus trilogy, using fragments from the lost Prometheus the Fire Bringer. Arriving at an open field at sunrise, the audience approached a burning building. Firemen and policemen directed cars to safe areas while sirens and smoke ignited spectators' fear and alarm. As the audience drew closer, they saw Prometheus. He stood on the roof of an abandoned house, threatening to set it on fire. A police car arrived with Prometheus's father, who begged with his son via megaphone to come down from the roof without setting the house ablaze. Sounds of an approaching helicopter blaring the music of Wagner announced the arrival of Mercury and his Star-Trek-clad assistants. The production ended with the police taking Prometheus into custody.
In 2005 the Sound Theatre of London added as much flair as possible to Prometheus Bound in a production directed and translated by James Kerr. A ten-woman chorus, wearing sexy, black slips, wandered around the theater. The Prometheus of acclaimed actor David Oyelowo struggled heroically against his fate, clanging and fighting against his chains. Kerr's production emphasized the individual's power to defy oppression. In 2007, the production transferred to the Aquila Theatre in NYC. Performed at the height of the Bush years, the play's portrayal of resistance to tyranny served as an eerie reminder of the aggressive use of power.
Over the years, Prometheus Bound's greatest difficulty has also become its greatest attraction for talented directors and translators. Coupled with its timeless representation of tyrannical resistance, this drama continues to attract creative minds hoping to surmount its challenge of stasis. Because the difficulty of this play lies in its inaction, only a staging will truly tell whether or not adaptation techniques and changes aid in dramatizing the play for a modern audience. A.R.T. Artistic Director Diane Paulus, an artist known for the dynamic physical life in her work, will bring the energy and rebelliousness of a rock concert to her production of Prometheus Bound at the A.R.T. this spring. By staging this show at the A.R.T.'s club theater OBERON, Paulus will create an environment that provides constant motion.
Sara Bookin-Weiner is a second-year dramaturgy student at the A.R.T./MXAT Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University.
Spring-2011-Guide
A Damned God In Chains
Author and lyricist Steven Sater on why Prometheus Bound resonates today.
The (Re)making of a Myth
An interview with the Prometheus Bound creative team
By adapting the ancient text, Serj Tankian breathes fresh air into Western culture's oldest protest play.
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The Foundation's principal focus is on education as it provides the essential basis for a successful and satisfying life.
The Bryan family believes all children deserve equitable life opportunities. Access to a good education provides children with the opportunity to reach their full potential and to secure fulfilling and meaningful employment. Early childhood education is a particular area of focus for the Foundation
Education is in the Bryan family's DNA. It is illustrated by the fact that family members across four generations have been actively involved in the education sector
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Made me laugh too! I agree, Quorn is a meat substitute for meat eaters wanting to change up a little bit and have some 'healthier' protein sources (I'm a veggie and don't eat meat substitutes as there are a wealth of other veggie options) – That said, keep spreading the healthy word!
I have to say I'm very surprised that you accepted to be a Quorn ambassador considering that you don't like the brand.
Hi Anna, I never said I don't like the brand. A few recipes have been bad and not tasty and I'm just being honest about that.
Love your honesty Laura. I kind of agree. If you are desperate for something that tastes like meat, try quorn. If you want to eat natural, maybe look at other less processed vegetable options, of which there are hundreds!


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2018 Arts Annual Exhibition New Jersey State Council On The Arts
December 19, 2017 by Nick Horan
EXHIBITION DATES: April 28 – July 28, 2018
APPLICATION DEADLINE: Monday, January 29, 2018
Rowan University Art Gallery invites artists to apply to the 2018 New Jersey Arts Annual Exhibition Navigating Elements.
Rowan University Art Gallery is partnering with the New Jersey State Council on the Arts to present the next New Jersey Arts Annual for Fine Art, and will host the yearly exhibition opening in April 2018.
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The purpose of the Aperture Portfolio Prize is to identify trends in contemporary photography and highlight artists whose work deserves greater recognition. When choosing the first-prize winner and runners-up, Aperture's editorial and curatorial staff look for innovative bodies of work that haven't been widely seen in major publications or exhibition venues.
The 2018 Aperture Portfolio Prize is now open and accepting submissions until Wednesday, January 31, 2018, 12 noon EST.
Call For Artists: Liquid Rooms – The Labyrinth It's Liquid International Art Show
ITS LIQUID Group, in collaboration with Ca' Zanardi, is selecting all interesting photos, paintings, video art works, installations/sculptures and performance art works to include in the next event LIQUID ROOMS – THE LABYRINTH, ITS LIQUID International Art Show of photography, painting, video art, installation and performance art, that will be held in Venice, at Palazzo Ca' Zanardi, from February 15, 2018 to March 15, 2018.
Call for Submission: Mary B. Howard Invitational: STRETCH
Deadline to submit: February 16, 2018
Exhibition dates: December 15, 2018–February 9, 2019
Greater Reston Arts Center (GRACE) invites artists to submit a proposal for new artwork in response to the prompt, "If you could do anything, what would that be?"
The Dan Meyer Choir Community Choir Welcoming New Members
In January 2018 The Dan Meyer Choir - Baltimore's most original community choir - will be beginning rehearsals for it's annual Creative Alliance show. We are welcoming new members to join us for this unique event.
The concert will be held on Presidents Day and is entitled "Love Songs of the First Ladies." The songs are all original settings of love poetry, interviews and letters of US First Ladies.
Applications Open For 13th Annual Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize
The Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts is now accepting applications for the 13th annual Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize. The prestigious prize awards a $25,000 fellowship to a visual artist or visual artist collaborators living and working in the Baltimore region. The deadline for submission is Monday, January 8, 2018. The application is available on www.artscape.org. An exhibition of the finalists' work will be featured at the Baltimore Museum of Art located at 10 Art Museum Drive.
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City of Alameda Request for Proposals for Physical Public Art
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Brickscape Artist Residency & Exhibition
Brickscape is a six week residency culminating in an exhibition that will open to the public during Charleston's annual arts & culture festival, FestivALL. Four national artists and six West Virginia artists will be selected. Selected artists will receive a $500 material stipend and artists from out of town will be provided housing. Artists will have 24 hour access to a previously unoccupied historical space in downtown Charleston where they will create a work of temporary, site-specific installation art.
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December 5, 2017 by Nick Horan
Images - Minimum: 1, Maximum: 6
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Accepted media: Photography, Digital Graphic, Visual Digital
FREE ENTRY Artists are invited to submit 1 to 3 artworks addressing the theme
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Artscape, America's largest free arts festival, invites artists, exhibitors, vendors and organizations to apply to participate in the 2018 festival taking place Friday, July 20 through Sunday, July 22, 2018.
House Divided Call For Entry
The Rouse Company Gallery and Howard Community College invite artists 18 years of age and older, working in any medium, to submit politically and socially charged art for a juried exhibition. The intention of this exhibition is to portray a visual dialog amongst artists, emerging from all sides of the political spectrum, where questioning, reflecting and analyzing these revolutionary times occurs fluidly.
LA Artcore 2nd Annual Photographic Competition and Exhibition
November 28, 2017 by Nick Horan
Entry Deadline: 12/1/17
LA Artcore (LAAC) is pleased to announce our 2nd Annual Photographic Competition and Exhibition. The Exhibition in February 2018 will kick off the celebration of LA Artcore's 39 years of supporting contemporary art and developing the careers of visual artists of diverse cultural backgrounds. This competition seeks outstanding photography completed in the last two years that follow the guidelines listed below.
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Fotofoto Gallery 13th National Photography Competition
City: Huntington
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Photographers 18+ are invited to submit up to 15 images to a juried competition. Our juror, Ann Jastrab, will select 30 pieces to be exhibited in Huntington, NY from January 24th until March 3rd 2018. All photographic processes and subjects are welcome.
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The economic value of misbehavior
by Tyler Cowen October 17, 2014 at 3:52 am in
There is a new paper by Papageorge, Ronda, and Zheng, with a very interesting thesis, namely that preparing rowdies for better schooling results may not help their long-term prospects in life:
Prevailing research argues that childhood misbehavior in the classroom is bad for schooling and, presumably, bad overall. In contrast, we argue that childhood misbehavior reflects underlying traits that are potentially valuable in the labor market. We follow work from psychology and treat measured classroom misbehavior as reflecting two underlying non-cognitive traits. Next, we estimate a model of life-cycle decisions, allowing the impact of each of the two traits to vary by economic outcome. We show the first evidence that one of the traits capturing childhood misbehavior, discussed in psychological literature as the externalizing trait (and linked, for example, to aggression), does indeed reduce educational attainment, but also increases earnings. This finding highlights a broader point: non-cognition is not well summarized as a single underlying trait that is either good or bad per se. Using the estimated model, we assess competing pedagogical policies. For males, we find that policies aimed at eliminating the externalizing trait increase schooling attainment, but also reduce earnings. In comparison, policies that decrease the schooling penalty of the externalizing trait increase both schooling and earnings.
For the pointer I thank the excellent Kevin Lewis.
October 17, 2014 at 4:05 am Hide Replies 1
Of course, what would the effect of allowing the "externalizing trait" (i.e. misbehavior) in school be on everyone else's success in life?
Also, bear in mind that they haven't actually measured the effect of different approaches to misbehavior in school. Instead, they have modeled this using a series of questionable assumptions.
Misbehavior and high earnings are both associated with "the externalizing trait". Therefore they assume that targeting misbehavior will reduce the externalizing trait, thereby reducing earnings. Two different associations were assumed to be causative relationships--all because some evidence shows that behavioral traits are quite malleable up to age 30.
I'm not convinced. Punishing misbehavior might not reduce "the externalizing trait". Or it might reduce some negative aspect of it while leaving positive aspects unchanged. Or it might support the development of other, beneficial traits more than it harms a good trait. Also, the status quo is that nearly everyone who misbehaves is receiving some punishment. Removing that may have unknown deleterious effects.
That is the nice version. The not nice version is that it should be blindingly obvious to everyone that society will not benefit from letting a bunch of little jerks run amok.
I have not read the paper, but I would assume it aims to provide descriptive observations, not normative suggestions. This would require that they knew more about the disruptive behavior.
For example, I am pretty sure that captured within the broad range of "misbehaviors" being "suppressed" (with consequences, as observed) may be things like behaviors induced by ADHD (both its male and female "variations"), dyslexia, and some other learning disability. It is clear that in these cases, "suppression" may do the job more quickly than "proper accommodation", but it is clear that it will come at a cost to the "non-conforming" student. (And that the negative "externalities" cuold have been minimized at a smaller cost.)
Ted Craig
There's a recreation of Henry Ford's schoolhouse at Greenfield Village outside Detroit. Part of the "teacher's" script is to explain Henry is truant - again. It seems many highly creative minds dislike sitting in a classroom and act out in different ways.
Yes and Bill Gates did not graduate from University, but most college drop outs don't become billionaires.
October 17, 2014 at 10:27 am Hide Replies 6
It's odd. There is some evidence that the very rich and the very poor have similar personality traits.
What evidence is that?
Nathan W
Poor compliance with excessive rules?
bill his kind did not drop out because they were failing. They dropped out because they were too good for college.
October 17, 2014 at 9:02 am Hide Replies 10
I think this is the plot of the rebooted Star Trek movie.
So, essentially, allowing Bart to be Bart and Nelson to be Nelson in class is good for them and they might become the next Carlin or Disco bouncer.
Of course, who cares about all the other nameless classmates, their schooling outcomes and their parents having to deal with brats by imitations.
Makes you wonder if Papageorge, Ronda, and Zheng have kids and what would they feel should their kids come home with a black eye or something.
Nor do most drop out of Harvard.
I am surprised by the negative reaction. Don't a lot of people think that boys are unfairly treated in school and forced to sit down and shut up so that they hate learning? There must be something in between that and letting bullies control the classroom
October 17, 2014 at 10:32 am Hide Replies 14
We might benefit from sex-segregated classrooms.
I think the real problem is the ethos of schools, which fancy boys are defective girls. Breaking the teacher-certification system might work to alter the balance of social ideologies adhered to by teachers and administrators and ameliorate this problem. Faculties and administrations at the secondary level are not demographically female-dominated, but I'll wager they draw heavily from elements of the male population which are easily rolled, either because they adhere to a certain social ideology or because they just do not have much nerve or loyalty to each other. The latter I've seen in female-dominated workplaces.
GSTalbert
October 17, 2014 at 12:08 pm Hide Replies 15
I actually agree with the co-ed and everything else. Except that misbehavior is anything but disastrous for a person. Nip that bullshit in the butt when they are young, won't kill the rowdiness, that'll be there regardless, but it will teach them to channel it and walk the line.
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One thing to do would be to restore tracking to schools which do not have it, and expand it in those that do. I went to a middle school where there was no tracking and the school had a large minority of Blacks and Mexicans, and as a result I was bored in most of my classes and I would frequently cause trouble.(The other reasons: it was FUN to cause trouble and there were no serious consequences, my parents didn't really care) I now realize the harm my antics had caused the other students who might have actually benefited from the instruction that I continuously disrupted.
If you can find out what the bully likes, you can tailor subparts of lessons to keep them interested.
In one class, I had a student who couldn't stop talking about NBA results with a friend in class. Tossing in enough basketball references and analogies in class seemed to get him his fix during learning time.
Ray Lopez
The high school bullies in my affluent East Coast public school ended up in prison or with menial jobs. That said, I have read some bullies end up with brilliant careers--who was it last year that was outed as a bully? Some rich, successful guy forget the name. I think however bullies should be kicked out of public schools and not catered to, as the American public school system does. Let their parents send them to private school, where they can be handled better and not impose externalities on the rest of the class. My survival strategy was to be nice and befriend the bully, the one that later went to reform school, and it more or less worked. Also the bully named Tyrone, the one that went to prison, had to be mollified with a respectful, conservative (yes bullies are Republicans) attitude to avoid a welt in your arm or worse. I think by and large American public schools are holding pens for parents that work, kind of glorified day care centers. Certainly I learned almost nothing in high school and learned everything I know not in First Grade but with self-study and in college.
Some rich, successful guy forget the name.
The Emanuel brothers, Rahm and Ari. The latter works in Hollywood. The former made his millions at Wasserstein, Perella. Why a man who had spent his entire working life in the employ of politicians and whose tertiary schooling was in the performing arts was hired by an investment bank and paid an eight figure sum by them is a question the answer to which might go a long way toward understanding our political-economic pathology. Also, why a man like Rahm Emanuel who has long been known as a horror show to work with is employable anywhere is another interesting question.
Our elites suck hump.
"yes bullies are Republicans" -Rahm Emanuel says he's coming to beat the crap out of you for pigeonholing people.
I think he just mentioned that because it's more of the exception. Like 'are Republicans too'
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The high school bullies in my affluent East Coast public school ended up in prison or with menial jobs.
That has been my experience also. The guy who bullied me the most ended up seriously mentally ill. I am sure he ended up in a mental institution.
I do not know him personally so I just talking about how he appears and speaks but Rahm Emanuel does come across as an evil bastard.
Joe Biden Chris Christie, Mayer of Toronto, Almost all big city matters for that matter.
Bullies in the schools are a precious resource. They make the environment more stressful and less cloistered. This makes the student body as a whole stronger and more fit to compete in the outside world.
Before you know it, bullies will become a protected class...
Yes, I agree. It's a nice idea, but, I believe that people like Tyrone don't need government protection. They just need to get the government off their back. They needs an "open school" where they can freely contribute and profit from their unique talents.
For all we know, without all of this detestable government interference, Tyrone would have the opportunity to become a 21st century Genghis Khan.
Death to anti-bully regulations. It's that simple.
Like maybe if they hadn't sent his dad to prison for selling dime bags after losing his job for not taking it sufficiently up the a** for the tastes of his superiors?
How many millions of times over can that story be told the last three generations?
That´s awesome for kids living in gated developments, what about the rest that already have enough stress in life?
ivvenalis
He's making fun of RL's pro-open borders arguments elsewhere.
Only if you mate with them Al. You are still stuck on the eugenics thread haha.
Many leading cockroaches were once bullied mercilessly.
I suspect that stereotypical bullying is a narrower and more economically negative trait than the "misbehavior" trait considered in the study.
Well, "The Externalizing Trait" is related to the two-factor model of personality and psychopathology - basically the extroversion vs. introversion split - which by its very name should clue one in to its limited usefulness for analysis because of over-aggregation of distinct clusters which manifest that sort of behavior in distinguishable ways. Some act out aggressively or even violently, while others are impulsive yet smooth talkers who can avoid trouble and go on to earn more because of their social talents.
People - and especially men - who can misbehave and defect from social norms and get away with it (that is, they have 'privilege' for some reason) have tremendous adaptive advantages in any society, and conspicuous demonstration of that misbehavior is a signal to others of their privilege with is a good proxy for fitness and status. That's why they tend to trigger natural instincts and coalition-emotions, which attracts friends and is highly attractive to potential mates.
Girls like 'bad boys' for a good reason. Or, at least, what was once a good reason, way, way back in the day. Now, not so much.
Donald Pretari
That's a bit like the Eddie Haskell theory of education which included not studying history because you can't do business with dead people.
celestus
"For males, we find that policies aimed at eliminating the externalizing trait increase schooling attainment, but also reduce earnings."
So more gender equality on both fronts!
Who ever would have thunk that repeatedly having to write lines, stay for detention, etc. would reduce a child's interest in academics.
My teaching model involved a lot of student-direct question and answer, where they would jokingly pelt each other with ideally off-the-wall manipulations of recently learned material. The rowdies usually weren't very good students, so I figured they needed the practice and would often intervene to throw one or two that they could handle their way. Then they would spend their time trying ot figure out how to "get" fellow students when their turn to ask came after answering.
Never gave a detention, but I had to give a 0 on a test for looking at another student's test paper. He easily became the most improved student in the second half of the year.


What is wrong in my code that texture applied only for back of surface?
I think there is a very recent topic here about this exact thing… maybe PhantomPlum's.
My advice is to use <bool> for this semantic. I think the manual's example is a bad copy/paste job. That said, if you set it up correctly, like every other "param" then, it is just that your software is not implementing the feature.
EDITED: Notice your code doesn't have the value. It looks like that is a required field.


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	return IsDebuggerPresent() || 1 == g_sq_error_handling;
}

#if 0

#define KdInfoc 1

#ifdef KdInfoc
#pragma warning(push)
#pragma warning(disable : 4996)
#include <tchar.h>
#include <shlwapi.h>
#include "../../../../include/infoc/KInfocWrap.h"
#pragma warning(pop)
#endif

static void ReportError(LPCWSTR errortype, LPCSTR error, int version)
{
#ifdef KdInfoc
#ifdef NDEBUG
	KInfocClientWrap infoc;
	infoc.SetTableName(L"duba_kdgui_error");
	infoc.AddString(L"errortype", errortype);
	infoc.AddString(L"error", WTF::String(error).charactersWithNullTermination());
	infoc.AddInt(L"version", 0);
	infoc.WriteCache();
#endif
#endif
}

static void ReportErrorW(LPCWSTR errortype, LPCWSTR error, int version)
{
#ifdef KdInfoc && NDEBUG
#ifdef NDEBUG
	KInfocClientWrap infoc;
	infoc.SetTableName(L"duba_kdgui_error");
	infoc.AddString(L"errortype", errortype);
	infoc.AddString(L"error", error);
	infoc.AddInt(L"version", 0);
	infoc.WriteCache();
#endif
#endif
}

static void RaiseScriptError(HSQUIRRELVM v, int errorCode)
{
	SQStackInfos si = {0};
	SQInteger level = 1; //1 is to skip this function that is level 0
	const SQChar* name = 0;
	char funcName[15*4] = {0};
	char funcName2[15*4] = {0};
	char* srcA = (char*)malloc(1001);
	SQInteger line = 0;
	SQInteger line2 = 0;
	char* recordParams = (char*)malloc(1001);
	memset(recordParams, 0, 1001);
	memset(srcA, 0, 1001);

	const SQChar* sErr = 0;
	if(!SQ_SUCCEEDED(sq_getstring(v, 2, &sErr)))
		sErr = 0;
	WTF::String sErrA(sErr);

	SQRESULT result = sq_stackinfos(v, level, &si);
	if (SQ_SUCCEEDED(result) || -2 == result) {
		const SQChar* fn = _SC("unknown");
		const SQChar* src = _SC("unknown");
		if(si.funcname)
			fn = si.funcname;
		if(si.source)
			src = si.source;

		SQInteger nLen = (SQInteger)wcslen(fn);
		for (SQInteger i = 0; i < nLen && i < 15*4 - 1; ++i)
			funcName[i] = (char)fn[i];

		nLen = (SQInteger)wcslen(src);
		for (SQInteger i = 0; i < nLen && i < 1000; ++i)
			srcA[i] = (char)src[i];
		const int nSaveLen = 20;
		if (nLen > nSaveLen) {
			memmove(srcA, srcA + nLen - nSaveLen, nSaveLen);
			srcA[nSaveLen] = 0;
		}

		line = si.line;

		if (SQ_SUCCEEDED(sq_stackinfos(v, 2, &si))) {
			fn = _SC("unknown");
			src = _SC("unknown");
			if(si.funcname)
				fn = si.funcname;

			nLen = (SQInteger)wcslen(fn);
			for (SQInteger i = 0; i < nLen && i < 15*4 - 1; ++i)
				funcName2[i] = (char)fn[i];
			line2 = si.line;
		}
		sprintf_s(recordParams, 1000, "%d %s %d %s %d %s %s", errorCode, funcName, line, funcName2, line2, srcA, sErrA.utf8().data());
	}

	OutputDebugStringA(recordParams);

	ReportError(L"script", recordParams, 0);

	//MyRaiseException(recordParams, KKdGetCallStackInfo(v));
	//::RaiseException(EXCEPTION_BREAKPOINT, EXCEPTION_NONCONTINUABLE, 15, (ULONG_PTR *)recordParams);
	free(recordParams);
	free(srcA);
	if (IsDebuggerPresent())
		DebugBreak();
}

void RaiseCompilerError(HSQUIRRELVM v, const SQChar *sErr, const SQChar *sSource, SQInteger line, SQInteger column) {
	char* recordParams = (char*)malloc(1001);
	memset(recordParams, 0, 1001);

	char* sSourceA = (char*)malloc(1001);
	memset(sSourceA, 0, 1001);

	char* sErrA = (char*)malloc(1001);
	memset(sErrA, 0, 1001);

	int nLen = wcslen(sSource);
	int i = 0;
	int j = nLen > 13 ? nLen - 13 : 0;
	for (i = 0; j < nLen; ++i, ++j)
		sSourceA[i] = (char)sSource[j];

	nLen = wcslen(sErr);
	for (i = 0; i < nLen; ++i)
		sErrA[i] = (char)sErr[i];

	sprintf_s(recordParams, 1000, "%d %s %s", line, sSourceA, sErrA);

	OutputDebugStringA(recordParams);
	ReportError(L"compiler", recordParams, 0);
	//::RaiseException(EXCEPTION_BREAKPOINT, EXCEPTION_NONCONTINUABLE, 15, (ULONG_PTR *)recordParams);
	free(recordParams);
	free(sSourceA);
	free(sErrA);
	if (IsDebuggerPresent())
		DebugBreak();
}

void RaiseLoadScriptError(HSQUIRRELVM v, const SQChar* codeName, int errorResult)
{
	char* recordParams = (char*)malloc(1001);
	memset(recordParams, 0, 1001);

	char* codeNameA = (char*)malloc(1001);
	memset(codeNameA, 0, 1001);

	int nLen = wcslen(codeName);
	for (SQInteger i = 0; i < nLen && i < 1000; ++i)
		codeNameA[i] = (char)codeName[i];

	const int nSaveLen = 20;
	if (nLen > nSaveLen) {
		memmove(codeNameA, codeNameA + nLen - nSaveLen, nSaveLen);
		codeNameA[nSaveLen] = 0;
	}

	sprintf_s(recordParams, 1000, "%d %s", errorResult, codeNameA);

	OutputDebugStringA(recordParams);
	ReportError(L"load-script", recordParams, 0);
	//::RaiseException(EXCEPTION_BREAKPOINT, EXCEPTION_NONCONTINUABLE, 15, (ULONG_PTR *)recordParams);
	free(recordParams);
	free(codeNameA);
	if (IsDebuggerPresent())
		DebugBreak();
}

void RaiseLoadResError(KdPagePtr pagePtr, const WCHAR* filaName, const WCHAR* documentURI)
{
	WTF::String sFilaName(filaName);
	sFilaName.makeLower();
	sFilaName.replace(".svg", "");
	sFilaName = sFilaName.right(15);

	WTF::String sDocumentURI(documentURI);
	sDocumentURI.makeLower();
	sDocumentURI.replace(".svg", "");
	sDocumentURI = sDocumentURI.right(15);

	WTF::String outPut;
	outPut = outPut.format("%ws %ws", sFilaName.charactersWithNullTermination(), sDocumentURI.charactersWithNullTermination());

	OutputDebugStringW(outPut.charactersWithNullTermination());
	//::RaiseException(EXCEPTION_BREAKPOINT, EXCEPTION_NONCONTINUABLE, 15, (ULONG_PTR *)recordParams);
	ReportErrorW(L"res", outPut.charactersWithNullTermination(), 0);

	if (IsDebuggerPresent())
		DebugBreak();
}

int WINAPI KdPageError(void* arg, const WCHAR* s, ...) {
	va_list vl;
	va_start(vl, s);

	int ret = 0;
	if (0 != wcsstr(s, L"*compiler error*")) {
		const SQChar *sSource = va_arg(vl, const SQChar *);
		SQInteger line = va_arg(vl, SQInteger);
		SQInteger column = va_arg(vl, SQInteger);
		const SQChar *sErr = va_arg(vl, const SQChar *);
		RaiseCompilerError((HSQUIRRELVM)arg, sErr, sSource, line, column);
	} else if (0 != wcsstr(s, L"*script error*")) {
		int sqErrorCode;
		sqErrorCode = va_arg(vl, int);
		RaiseScriptError((HSQUIRRELVM)arg, sqErrorCode);
	} else if (0 != wcsstr(s, L"*load script error*")) {
		int errorResult = va_arg(vl, int);
		const SQChar* codeName = va_arg(vl, const SQChar*);
		RaiseLoadScriptError((HSQUIRRELVM)arg, codeName, errorResult);
	} else if (0 != wcsstr(s, L"*load res error*")) {
		const WCHAR* filaName = va_arg(vl, const WCHAR*);
		const WCHAR* documentURI = va_arg(vl, const WCHAR*);
		RaiseLoadResError((KdPagePtr)arg, filaName, documentURI);
		ret = -2; // ±íʾ²»±ÀÀ£
	}

	va_end(vl);

	return ret;
}
#endif

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