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The Friendship of Ingrid Bergman and Ruth Roberts
Ingrid Bergman with Ruth Roberts, to her left, and other crew on the set of Gaslight (1944)
During this COVID-19 crisis, I'm finding daily routine to be a key factor in maintaining some semblance of normalcy. For me, this means daily classic movies at set times of the day. Movies keep me calm, and bring comfort in a world that seems to be crumbling further every day. If you derive comfort from film the way I do, and you haven't discovered the Criterion Collection yet, I'm finding it to be a godsend in this regard, a movie lover's dream. Having finished the delightful Jean Arthur collection, I'm now working my way through the "Ingrid Bergman in Europe" collection, a diverse group of films from Ingrid Bergman's pre-Hollywood days in Sweden, and her work in Europe following her troubles in Hollywood.
I have always found Ingrid Bergman a fascinating personality and from childhood, have been riveted by her comforting, Swedish-accented voice, distinctive beauty, magnificent acting and personal strength of character. Her onscreen portrayals reflect her offscreen strength, as she frequently played independent and strong women, including the likes of Joan of Arc and Golda Meir. The difficulties she faced in Hollywood (she fell in love with Roberto Rossellini and gave birth to their son, Roberto, out of wedlock in 1949) were excruciatingly painful. While she suffered immensely at having been rejected by Hollywood, she held her chin high and continued working–albeit in Europe for the next 7 years rather than in the United States where she had effectively been ostracized.
Ingrid Bergman before coming to Hollywood.
Bergman was a gifted linguist and polyglot–brought up in Stockholm bilingual in Swedish and German, she loved language for its own sake and was able to adjust quickly to life and work in Europe. However, when she came to the United States to work on the English version of Intermezzo for David O. Selznick in 1939, it was a different story. Her knowledge of English was rudimentary at best, and Selznick was worried about how she would sound onscreen. On her first day at the studio, she was introduced to a woman named Ruth Roberts, who was to be her English language and dialogue coach.
Ruth Roberts was the sister of director George Seaton, and came from a Swedish immigrant family herself. Ruth spoke fluent Swedish due to her family background, and later served as Loretta Young's Swedish dialect coach on The Farmer's Daughter. But she made the decision not to divulge her bilingualism to Ingrid.
In order to familiarize Ingrid with English, of which she knew just a smattering (she speaks a few lines of simple, broken English in the Swedish film Dollar, which is interesting to hear), Selznick demanded that she spend day and night with Roberts. At first, Ingrid balked at this order–but ultimately accepted. After a few mere hours with Ruth Roberts, Ingrid realized that she had been wrong to resist. She had found a kindred spirit, a woman who would become her best friend and one of the great influences of her life.
The two did, indeed, spend all their time together, speaking nothing but English–and Ingrid found that despite her initial hesitancy at having her freedom curtailed, she adored Ruth and enjoyed spending time with her. In her autobiography, My Story, Ingrid recalled that one day when Ruth was coaching her on the set, there was a word whose pronunciation Ingrid was struggling with. "If only you could give me one Swedish word…" Ingrid said sadly, knowing she could get the pronunciation if she only knew how to form her mouth correctly. Ruth looked her right in the eye and gave her a Swedish word with the same sound.
"You speak Swedish?" Ingrid asked incredulously.
"I am Swedish."
"Then why–"
"Because, Ingrid dear, if I'd told you earlier you'd be jabbering away in Swedish and my job is to get your English right."
From the American version of Intermezzo, Ingrid Bergman's first English language film.
The revelation of Ruth's bilingualism deepened their friendship further, and their shared connection to Sweden helped Ingrid acclimate and learn quickly. It was thanks to her friendship with Ruth Roberts that her English improved so rapidly. Ruth remained Ingrid's dialect coach throughout her career, even when Ingrid spoke perfect English and had established her "voice" in Hollywood. Ingrid's autobiography is filled with correspondence with Ruth Roberts, in both English and Swedish, and stories of Ruth's emotional support during Ingrid's ostracization from Hollywood and her connection to Ingrid's children. Their friendship was lifelong, and though Ruth was 16 years older, the two died only 3 months apart in 1982.
The gift that this friendship gave Ingrid is immeasurable. Though she did have a gift for languages, eventually learning 2 more in addition to English, her personal and professional connection to Ruth Roberts provided her with the foundation and confidence to not only work in a foreign language, but to win 3 Oscars in it. This was not lost on Ingrid, who treasured their friendship and remained grateful to Ruth for the rest of her life.
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Marijuana is now legal in California, but subject to a lot of rules. For the ordinary fan of weed, or someone who has loved ones or friends who partake, this is a large step towards keeping them being labeled a criminal for doing something that endangers a bag of Cheetos more than the user, the public, or the neighbor's dog.
Police in Los Angeles closed down a portion of a freeway after law enforcement executed a search warrant at a warehouse over the weekend. Police raided a warehouse in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday night. The warrant reportedly was related to suspicions regarding a single suspect.
When police arrived at the warehouse to serve the warrant, they say they found over 3,000 marijuana plants in the building. Law enforcement says that as many as 20 people were detained during execution of the search warrant. Police say that no arrests have been made. However, police say that potential California drug charges are pending.
Police continue to process the information and evidence seized during the search. Police claim that they gathered evidence including traces of chemicals used in the manufacture of methamphetamine. The freeway was closed while police and hazardous materials teams investigated the area.


Cirencester Town and Dorchester Town to replay FA Cup fixture at The Corinium Stadium on Tuesday after 1-1 draw.
Dorchester Town opened the scoring when a strike from JAKE SMEETON in the 13th minute was deflected past Glyn Garner.
CHARLIE GRIFFIN levelled the score for The Centurions from the penalty spot 25 minutes later.
The Magpies were reduced to 10 men in the 72nd minute when Jonah Ayunga was dismissed following a second Yellow Card but despite bringing on more attacking players The Centurions were unable to break down their hosts to secure the victory.
Come along to The Corinium Stadium on Tuesday 15th September to see the replay - KO. 7.45pm.
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Q: flask to write data into file I have problem to write data into file from my flask developments server (win7),
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    fo = open("test.txt","wb")
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Why this don't works in flask ?

A: You should either flush the output to the file or close the file because the data may still be present in the I/O buffer.
Even better use the with statement as it'll automatically close the file for you.
with open("test.txt", "w") as fo:
   fo.write("This is Test Data")

A: @Ashwini's answer is likely correct, but I wanted to point out that if you are writing to a file to have a logfile, then you should use Flask's support for logging instead. This is based on Python's logging module, which is very flexible. Documentation here.

A: @app.route('/')
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    fo.close()
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Before we can use our drawings in Prezi, we have to scan the drawings. All scanned drawings consist of pixels (squares). An image made of pixels is called a raster image or a bitmap. We could use them directly in Prezi, but the pixelated images won't look very nice. It's much nicer to vectorize our drawings.


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Healthcare Leadership Council
Jennifer J. Johnson, Secretary
Board of Governors of the
20th Street and Constitution Ave., NW
Docket Number R-1188
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
Public Information Room, Mail Stop 1-5
Docket Number 04-09
Robert E. Feldman, Executive Secretary
Attention: Comments
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
550 17th Street, NW
RIN 3064-AC81
Regulation Comments
Office of Thrift Supervision
1700 G St., NW
Attention: No. 2004-16
Ms. Becky Baker
Secretary of the Board
Alexandria, VA 22314-3428
Re: Fair Credit Reporting Medical Information Regulations/Proposed Rule
On behalf of the Confidentiality Coalition, which is chaired by the Healthcare Leadership Council (HLC), we are submitting to you comments regarding the proposed regulations implementing the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003 (FACT Act)1, which amends portions of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA or Act)2.
HLC organized the Confidentiality Coalition more than five years ago, and it has grown to more than one hundred members, encompassing a broad spectrum of providers, payors, and other health care industry stakeholders. The Coalition supports the development and enforcement of safe and effective regulations governing the confidentiality of medical information. The Coalition is very concerned that the proposed rule, unless clarified by each of your respective agencies (the "agencies"), will likely be misinterpreted as modifying, altering, and in some cases superseding, existing federal law regarding medical information — a result that would be directly contrary to Congress' intent.
Since April 2003, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) privacy rule has required health care providers, plans, and clearinghouses to comply with comprehensive, national standards regarding both the use (for internal purposes) and the disclosure (to external parties, including components of their organizations not involved in the provision of health care or health benefits) of health information.3 Unfortunately, the tremendous HIPAA compliance efforts made by covered entities over the past year could be undermined or disrupted if the proposed rule remains as currently drafted: susceptible to interpretation as modifying, limiting, or prohibiting the permissible use and disclosure of health information by HIPAA covered entities, including the use and disclosure of health information by and among affiliates. Consequently, the Coalition strongly encourages the consideration of the following comments on the proposed rule.
All proposed additions to the proposed rule are indicated in italics. All proposed subtractions from the proposed rule are bracketed and struck through.
Comment 1: Clarification of the Purpose of the Proposed Rule
As an initial - and essential - matter, each agency should clarify the purpose of the proposed rule by addressing its relationship to existing medical confidentiality laws, including state laws. The FCRA, as amended, provides unambiguous guidance on this matter: the FCRA's provisions regarding the protection of medical information are not to be "construed as altering, affecting, or superseding the applicability of any other provision of Federal law relating to medical confidentiality."4
Moreover, the FACT Act amendments do not expressly require or even imply that FCRA be extended to regulate entities already regulated by HIPAA. HIPAA and the FCRA share similar purposes with respect to privacy: each has a separate set of regulated activities, and each is premised on similar assumptions, such as the importance of individual consent or authorization of uses. As amended, the FCRA, like HIPAA, prohibits the use or disclosure of the information to which it applies without the consent of the individual5 or unless authorized by the amended FCRA – even though the specific requirements of the Act regarding the form of consent (or the permissible uses) do not parallel those of the HIPAA regulation.
The FACT Act's drafters attempted to deal with concerns regarding the scope of the legislation by "carving out" from critical definitions the information and activities that already are regulated by HIPAA. In implementation, a failure to appreciate the broader HIPAA regulatory regime could lead to an inappropriate interpretation of the FACT Act language in relating the provisions of the FCRA to the provisions of HIPAA. If this resulted in enforcement activities under the FCRA that had the effect of prohibiting some disclosures of health information that are permissible disclosures under HIPAA, the result would serve only to confuse patients and HIPAA covered entities regarding permissible activities, without enhancing the protection afforded patients regarding their health information. Moreover, such a result would be contrary to the FACT Act's provision that its provisions not alter, affect, or supersede current Federal law regarding medical confidentiality (e.g., the HIPAA privacy rule).6
In light of the foregoing, we strongly encourage each of the regulatory agencies to adopt within Section ---.1 of their respective rules a "purpose" statement that is consistent with this statutory requirement. This statement could be incorporated into a broader purpose statement (as illustrated below in the italicized language regarding OCC's proposed purpose statement in 12 C.F.R. Sec. 41.1(a)), or could be a stand-alone statement within Section ---.1 for each of the respective agencies.
Proposed Changes Regarding Comment 1:
Section ---.41.1(a) Purpose
Current: "The purpose of this part is to establish standards for national banks in key areas of regulation regarding consumer report information and fair credit. In addition, the purpose of this part is to specify the type of information, including medical information, national banks may obtain, use, or share among affiliates. This part also contains a number of measures national banks must take to combat consumer fraud and related crimes, including identity theft."
Proposed Change: "The purpose of this part is to establish standards for national banks in key areas of regulation regarding consumer report information and fair credit. In addition, the purpose of this part is to specify the type of information, including medical information, national banks may obtain, use, or share among affiliates. This part also contains a number of measures national banks must take to combat consumer fraud and related crimes, including identity theft. Any provisions to the contrary notwithstanding, this part does not, and shall not be construed to, alter, affect, or supersede the obligations of entities that already are directly or indirectly subject to regulation with respect to the use of medical or medically-related information under the Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information promulgated pursuant to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (the "privacy rule"). Any use, disclosure, or other activity related to medical or medically-related information by a covered entity that is permissible under the privacy rule, shall likewise be permissible under, and not altered, affected, or superseded by, this part."
Comment 2: Permissible Disclosures by Affiliates
Our second comment concerns the proposed rule's limitations upon the communication of medical information between affiliates. Specifically, the proposed rule limits the medical information that can be in a consumer report, and significantly narrows the scope of information (other than a consumer report) that may be freely communicated among affiliates and commonly owned entities. Indeed, except for information that is disclosed for certain purposes — including for any purpose permitted without authorization under the HIPAA privacy rule7 — the provision permitting information to be more freely shared among affiliates and commonly owned persons does not apply, to information that is (1) medical information; (2) an individualized list or description based on the payment transactions of the consumer for medical products or services; or (3) an aggregate list of identified consumers based on payment transactions for medical products or services.8
Our concern is that information lawfully disclosed by a HIPAA covered entity (such as a hospital or other provider, or a health insurer or other health plan) to, for example, an affiliate of a consumer reporting agency pursuant to a specific authorization of the patient (such as an authorization to disclose health information in order to perform health outcomes research, or other activities specifically authorized by the patient), arguably could be considered "medical information" as defined and regulated by the FCRA and the proposed rule. By way of example, consider a health plan that is planning to conduct a fundraiser on behalf of a condition-specific charity. HIPAA would permit the health plan, when authorized in writing by the individual, to disclose condition-specific medical information to an affiliate (including one that also provides consumer reporting services) that would contact individuals about potential contributions to the charity. If the proposed rule were used to preclude or otherwise affect the disclosure of medical information among affiliates where specifically authorized by the individual, it would, in our view, be a very critical misinterpretation of the FCRA, as amended by the FACT Act.
A second possible misinterpretation of the FCRA, as amended, could arise where a HIPAA covered entity is an affiliate or under common ownership with a consumer reporting agency that is subject to the affiliate sharing rules of the FCRA. As noted above, the HIPAA privacy rule establishes comprehensive, national standards for the use and disclosure of health information. The privacy rule regulates not only disclosures of health information to unrelated third parties, but also regulates the use and disclosure of health information by a covered entity – such as a physician group, hospital, health plan, or a clinic - to its affiliates. Indeed, disclosures of health information among affiliates are directly and rigorously regulated by the privacy rule. For example, should commonly owned covered entities desire to treat themselves as a single covered entity for purposes of HIPAA, the affiliated entities must document such designation and comply as a single covered entity with HIPAA's requirements.9 Further, should a covered entity that designates itself as an "affiliated covered entity" perform multiple covered functions (for example, it is both a health care provider and a health plan), then the affiliated covered entity must comply with the HIPAA standards for each of those functions.10 Any failure to comply with these requirements would constitute a violation of HIPAA, punishable by civil and possibly criminal penalties. Likewise, any covered entity that chooses not to designate itself as an affiliated covered entity with commonly owned entities must comply with HIPAA by treating its affiliates in the same manner prescribed for disclosures to unrelated third parties. For example, if a hospital is affiliated with a health insurer, but the two do not formally designate themselves as an affiliated covered entity, then the health information of all the patients of the hospital and all the participants of the health plan will be treated under HIPAA as if the hospital and the insurer were completely unrelated parties. In our view, the sharing of medical information among participating entities that are part of an "affiliated covered entity" is regulated by the privacy rule in a manner that fully satisfies the amended FCRA's concerns regarding confidentiality, and such sharing should not also be subject to the FCRA's provisions regarding affiliate sharing. If a hospital or health plan also happens to be under common ownership with a consumer reporting agency, and if the provisions limiting the sharing of "medical information" were made applicable to the use and disclosure of health information by the health care component of the hospital or health plan, the HIPAA compliance arrangements of these entities would be thrown into jeopardy.
Consequently, we believe that any interpretation of the amended FCRA that does not permit HIPAA covered entities to use and to disclose information to affiliated entities to the full extent permitted under the privacy rule, and without implicating the FCRA's regulation of consumer reports, is not only erroneous under the terms of the FCRA, as amended, but raises unnecessary compliance burdens for entities that already are subject to HIPAA regulation with respect to the very same activity. In light of the foregoing, we strongly encourage each of the regulatory agencies to adopt within Section ---.31(b)(2) of their respective rules the language proposed below.
1. Section ---.31(b)(2)
Current: "For any purpose permitted without authorization under the regulations promulgated by the Department of Health and Human Services pursuant to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA)."
Proposed Change: [For any purpose permitted without authorization] "As permitted
under the regulations promulgated by the Department of Health and Human Services pursuant to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA)."
2. As an alternative to the first proposed change for Comment 2, pursuant to the authority provided under Section ----.31(b)(6) of the proposed rule, the agency should clarify through the issuance of an appropriate order that the special restrictions on sharing medical and medical-related information with affiliates do not apply to information shared "as permitted under the regulations promulgated by the Department of Health and Human Services pursuant to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA)."
The Coalition believes that the recommended changes to the proposed rule are both necessary and appropriate to allow for the appropriate sharing of medical and medical-related information. For the reasons provided above, HLC strongly recommends the adoption of the proposed, modest, changes to the proposed rule, or, in the alternative, the issuance of an order by the agency, in order to ensure the effective implementation and operation of the proposed rule.
Mary R. Grealy
1 Public Law 108-159, 117 Stat. 1952.
2 15 U.S.C. §§ 1681-1681x.
3 Title II, Subtitle F of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, Pub. L. 104-191, 110 Stat. 1936 ("HIPAA") established new federal requirements for the "administrative simplification" of the transmission, storage, use, and disclosure of health information. The HIPAA privacy rule was promulgated in the Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information, 45 C.F.R. pts. 160 and 164.
4 15 U.S.C. § 1681 b(g)(6). Under HIPAA, the federal law of medical privacy states that state laws apply unless they are specifically preempted as being contrary to and less protective of privacy than the federal standards. HIPAA § 264 (c)(2); see also 45 C.F.R. § 160.203.
5 15 U.S.C. § 1681 b(g), as amended by section 411(a) of the FACT Act.
6 15 U.S.C. § 1681 b(g)(6).
7 15 U.S.C. § 1681b(g)(3)(B). This carve-out under the amended FCRA for information that is disclosed for purposes that are permitted without an authorization (e.g., limited disclosures for treatment, public health reporting) under the HIPAA privacy rule appears on its face not to apply to health information that is disclosed under the HIPAA privacy rule pursuant to an authorization (e.g., research, life insurance applications, employment). However, to treat the two categories of information – disclosures pursuant to an authorization, and disclosures not requiring an authorization – differently under the FCRA, when they are both legitimate and permissible disclosures under the HIPAA privacy rule, is inconsistent with HIPAA's goal of administrative simplification, and indeed will only complicate the implementation and administration of the HIPAA privacy rule.
8 15 U.S.C. § 1681a(d)(3).
9 45 C.F.R. § 164.504(d).
10 45 C.F.R. § 164.504(g).
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OOTD: kate spade Morocco Spring Faves - Part One!
This spring, kate spade went Moroccan!
"this whole year, we're celebrating a global world. there's so much to see and to learn beyond our desks and homes. it's full of natural wonders, vintage treasures, and creative minds. travel sparks our imagination, feeds our curiosity and reminds us how much we all have in common."
With tassels, camels, and pom poms galore, everything was inspired by the culture and glamour of Morocco. I have to say it has been one of my favorite collections so far, and I can't wait to travel through Mexico, France, and Russia throughout the rest of the year! Even though it was imagined with Morocco in mind, the looks are all easy enough to adapt to our weather over here in the Midwest!
I'm going to spend a few posts highlighting my favorite looks from each collection!
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Hope you enjoyed this springtime look and that you come back for more tomorrow!
Fresh and New Bridesmaid & Bride-to-Be Gift Guides!
I bet you know at least one person who is getting married this summer. Either that, or you could be the bride yourself! There are so many obvious trends in gift-giving for both the bride and bridesmaids that you've most likely seen ad nauseam over the last few years. Some are old classics and some could definitely use a refresher! I've created two gift guides to help you along if you are looking for new ideas. These are some of my favorites for pre-wedding, during the wedding, and post-wedding.
1) Forever Ever Cake Topper - The perfect addition to the cake at her bridal shower!
2) White Marble Monogram Cheese Board - With her new last initial.
3) I Got This Lip Balm - Because the big day is going to be a breeze!
4) Pair of Vow Journals - Matchy-matchy notebooks for them to inscribe their vows! They say, "how do I love thee" and "let me count the ways."
5) His, Hers, & Ours Decanter Set - For an ice cold old libation after the party is over.
6) Wedding Belles Cake Clutch - She has to have something festive to carry all the necessities!
7) Future Mrs Headband - A must-have for the bachelorette!
8) Say Yes "Mrs" Necklace - The perfect accessory.
9) Balinese Carved Wood Hanger - To get that shot of the dress before she puts it on.
10) Philosophy Here Comes the Bride Skincare Set - To walk down the aisle feeling fresh and clean!
11) Diamond Ring Oven Mitt Set - So she can show off the bling even when she's hungry!
12) White Glitter Keds - She'll thank you once the dance party begins!
13) Bride Tunic Tee - For getting ready.
14) With This Ring Holder - A ring dish for her armoire!
15) The New-Fashioned Wedding - For during the planning process, styling inspo!
16) Passport Holder - For wherever they're going post-nuptials!
17) The Best is Yet to Come Faux Leather Pouch - A sweet reminder.
18) Happily Ever After Metro Watch - Happily ever after starts now!
19) His & Hers Luggage Tags - For the honeymoon getaway.
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2) Wake Me For Mimosas Sleep Mask - For the morning before, but especially the one after.
3) Maid of Honor List Tunic Tee - For the champagne pourer, dress holder, hug giver, cheerleader, speech professional.
4) Swell Turquoise Water Bottle - Their own something blue, for when they're parched!
5) Bite Beauty Amuse Bouche Lipstick - The best of the best lipstick, so they all match!
6) Why You're My Bestie Journal - She's your BFF, fill it out and let her know why.
7) Pinch Provisions Coffee Kit - Post-breakfast kit, just in case!
8) Personalized Champagne Flutes - Mimosas, duh.
9) Cozy Slippers - No cold feet around here.
10) Pizza Best Friend Necklaces - A slice for me and a slice for all of you!
11) Bridesmaid Card Set - You're the hocus to my pocus, the lovey to my dovey, the topsy to my turvy, the itsy to my bitsy, the knick to my knack, the zig to my zag, so... Will you be my bridesmaid?
12) Sonix Portable Charger - This one's for later on in the night.
13) Bon Ami Bottle Opener - Someone's gotta pop those bottle caps!


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Rio Grande Valley FC Toros' defender Robert Castellanos (4) and LA Galaxy II's midfielder Efrain Alvarez (26) battle for the ball during a United Soccer League season game at H-E-B Park on Wednesday, May 23, 2018 in Rio Grande City.
EDINBURG — RGV FC Toros defender Kai Greene called it an innocent ball that turned dangerous.
With the Toros holding a one-goal advantage in the 87th minute, LA Galaxy II defender Jean Engola played a long ball forward into RGV's half. Toros keeper Nico Corti charged forward but reached the ball just a fraction of a second after LA's Frank Lopez made his first touch near the top of the penalty box. After chasing down the ball near the right edge of the box and only about 6 yards away from the byline, Lopez tucked a high shot just inside the far post, leveling the match.
The equalizer was the final tally as RGV and LA played to a 1-1 draw on Wednesday at H-E-B Park, marking the Toros' fifth consecutive draw and the fifth time in 11 matches this season that RGV has let a second-half lead slip away.
Rio Grande Valley FC Toros's midfielder Nicolás Perea (8), right, and LA Galaxy II's midfielder Julian Büscher (18) collide as the head the ball during a United Soccer League season game at H-E-B Park on Wednesday, May 23, 2018 in Rio Grande City.
Rio Grande Valley FC Toros' forward Mac Steeves (19) and LA Galaxy II's midfielder Jonathan Hernandez (67) battle for position behind the ball during a United Soccer League season game at H-E-B Park on Wednesday, May 23, 2018 in Rio Grande City.
RGV FC moves to 1-3-7 overall, including a mark of 1-0-6 at home. The Toros have gone six straight matches without a loss, but the past five have been draws.
With 10 points on the season, RGV ranks 13th in the Western Conference standings.
As has been the case after most of the team's recent matches, Echeverry said he felt RGV FC outplayed LA on Wednesday.
The Toros held minor edges in possession (50.9 percent), total shots (12-9) and shots on target (2-1).
Greene said he felt the Toros "dominated" defensively against a Galaxy side that had scored 12 goals in its past three matches.
LA's lone shot on target proved to be enough to equalize. Echeverry said he would have to review video of the play to determine the precise breakdown, but he speculated that either Engola should have been challenged higher up the field, the central defenders should have cut out the pass, or Corti should have been less aggressive in his charge.
The goal answered RGV FC's initial tally, off the foot of Aldo Quintanilla in the 14th minute. About 25 yards from goal in the middle of the pitch, Quintanilla played an awkward shot that LA's keeper was unable to handle on a short hop.
The goal was Quintanilla's team-leading fourth of the season and snapped a streak of 285 minutes without a goal for either side at H-E-B Park, which had hosted three consecutive scoreless draws entering Wednesday. Still, Quintanilla's strike was not enough to snap the skid of lackluster outcomes.
Entering a long break before the team's next match on June 4, Echeverry said he was "not going to hit the panic button." The time off will give RGV's young players a chance to recharge, Echeverry said.
Greene said the layoff will be a time for reflection.


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To many children, the world is small. It is their school, their home, their neighborhood. They think all homes are like their home. They assume all schools are like their schools. And they tend to think the world revolves around them.
Gained satisfaction from helping others.
Learned how to be helpful and kind.
Learned how to get along and relate with others.
Learned to understand people who are different from them.
Learned how to relate to younger children.
By giving their time and energy, many said they received more in return. Be serving others, they felt they made a difference in the world.
What gets you excited about doing things for others?
When is it easiest to serve others? When is it more difficult?
How can we make a difference in the world? How can we as a family begin?
Together help a neighbor. Maybe an elderly neighbor would appreciate you moving the lawn or shoveling snow. Maybe a child would like to play.
Set aside two hours one weekend for serving others. Pick up litter in a park, or volunteer at a soup kitchen or shelter.
Brainstorm 10 ways your family can serve others. Choose one idea to do. Pick a date to do the activity. Afterward, talk about your experience.
Cook a meal for a single parent.
Take a child to a playground.
Provide a ride to an appointment or errand.
Bake cookies or another treat.
Give a "one-hour" coupon that's good for any project of the recipient's choice.
Visit or call someone who can't leave home.
Also check with local schools, congregations, or community organizations for ways to serve.
Reprinted with permission from Ideas for Parents, Newsletter #12, copyright 1997 by Search Institute, Minneapolis, MN, 1-800-888-7828. All rights reserved.


Some families are finding the cost of sending their children to school is increasingly unaffordable.
The Greens want to help all students get to school and reduce financial stress for all Victorian families.
Too many Victorian students and their families are experiencing transport disadvantage.
Transport disadvantage refers to any ongoing difficulties with accessing transport, including not being able to afford public transport costs and difficulties associated with accessing private transport, such as car maintenance, insurance, registration and other associated costs.
We know that some students are missing school days because their families simply can't afford the travel costs.
The Greens will provide FREE public transport on school days for all primary and secondary students in Victoria on trains, trams and buses.
Student cards and school uniforms will be accepted as proof of entitlement to free student transport travel, eliminating the need for an extra cost of a Victorian Public Transport student concession card.
Reduce congestion on the roads.
Free public transport for all Victorian school students will also eliminate students receiving fines for not having sufficient funds on their MYKI cards, which will prevent these young people from being fined and then caught up the justice system, faced with fines that they probably can't pay.
All Victorian state and federal parliamentarians can apply for free public transport in Victoria. We can afford to provide free public transport for all Victorian school students.


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Q: Is it safe to use multiple symbols hits per row in the Aster nPath algorithm? On page 77 of the Aster Analtyics users guide:
http://www.info.teradata.com/eDownload.cfm?itemid=122580002
it says:
"Note that the predicates for different symbols may overlap, and therefore multiple symbols may match the same row."
Does anyone have any experience with practical use cases where you actually need multiple symbols per row?
Concern is this could explode pretty quickly:  for n symbols per row and m rows in a partition, number of symbol combinations per partition is n^m.
e.g., for n=2 and m=50 this results in ~1e15 symbol combinations which we certainly don't want to traverse.
Thx,
Francis

A: nPath in Aster will never match multiple symbols per row, but multiple symbols may match the same row and nPath will have to choose one of them when forming its result. There will be many cases when this is possible, for example, when you have general page hit (defined as TRUE) and then special pages like START, FINISH, BASKET, etc. then the matching will depend on how pattern is defined.


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EIGHT SPOTS REMAIN FOR 2019 YACHTING DEVELOPMENTS NZ MATCH RACING CHAMPIONSHIPS
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EIGHT SPOTS REMAIN FOR 2019 YACHTING DEVELOPMENTS NZ MATCH RACING CHAMPIONSHIPS2019-08-272019-09-03http://www.rnzys.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/rnzys-logo-oct-2019.pngRoyal New Zealand Yacht Squadronhttps://www.rnzys.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/news-feature-16.jpg200px200px
Competition for a spot at the 2019 Yachting Developments New Zealand Match Racing Championships is heating up, with eight teams confirmed and only eight more spots remaining.
Expressions of interest are still open for teams from all around the world, as well as in New Zealand, but interested parties are encouraged to get their Expressions of Interest in as soon as possible.
Looking at the eight teams already accepted, the competition is going to be extremely exciting, with plenty of top ranked sailors on the card, some talented up and coming young teams, as well as a couple of surprises.
Headlining the lineup is Nick Egnot-Johnson and his RNZYS Performance Programme Knots Racing Team who are currently ranked fourth in the world. Egnot-Johnson is in a rich vein of form of late, recently winning the German Match Cup, the Governor's Cup in California, and finished second at a shortened Youth World Match Racing Championship event in Russia.
Egnot-Johnson finished third at this event in 2018 and is keen to push on and improve on that result this year –
"It's always fun to be sailing at home and this regatta is always an incredibly tough competition. We were happy with our third spot last year, but we've had another whole year sailing together as a team at a wide range of events around the world, so I feel we have a lot more experience now and we're motivated to get the win this year."
Current New Zealand Women's Match Racing Champion Celia Willison and her RNZYS PP Edge Women's Match team are also on the card. The team have just moved into eleventh spot in the women's world rankings and have improved greatly as a team in the past year, recently finishing second at the GKSS Match Cup Women's Trophy in Sweden. Willison was also part of the RNZYS PP team that finished second at the Youth Worlds, but this is Open racing and Willison knows it's going to be a lot tougher –
"The line-up is already looking very strong. I would love to see a few more all-female teams take up the challenge, but our team has been training a lot recently and we are ready to take it on."
Fresh off winning the Aircalin Match Cup, New Caledonian Tom Picot has also thrown his hat into the ring to represent the Cercle Nautique Calédonien. Picot is a strong match racer with international experience and will only add to the strength of competition in October. Picot also finished sixth at the 2019 Nespresso Youth International, so has experience racing here in Auckland.
Another sailor who has enjoyed time in the winner's circle is Jordan Stevenson and his RNZYS PP Vento Racing Team. Stevenson this week won the Detroit Match Cup, the second event on the US Grand Slam, and his team have shown they are capable of beating anyone on their day. They are a genuine contender to take out the YDL NZMRC in 2019.
In what is a an exciting surprise, especially for those associated with the RNZYS, current RNZYS Youth Training Programme Head Coach Reuben Corbett is coming out of "retirement" to race at this year's event. Corbett did a lot of match racing in his day including some World Match Racing Tour events, however he hasn't raced in a match racing regatta since 2016 and has never competed in a regatta in the Elliott 7's. Corbett has some history in this event, with his best result a second place finish in 2009. Corbett has recruited a pretty decent all RNZYS PP crew which includes Josh Wijohn, Taylor Balogh and Tim Snedden. It is going to provide an extra aspect of interest for spectators, seeing the teacher come up against some of his current pupils, and is sure to be an exciting watch. Corbett's entry is sure to bring a few more out of the woodwork.
Robbie McCutcheon gained automatic entry when he and his Westlake Boys High School Team won the Harken Secondary Schools Championships. McCutcheon will be representing Great Britain at this event and has since joined the RNZYS YTP. He is certainly one to watch out for in the future.
RNZYS PP sailor Niall Malone has also gained himself an entry. Malone has an Irish heritage and is going to be representing Ireland this year and at future events, including the 2020 Youth World Match Racing Championships held at the RNZYS in February –
"I'm really looking forward to it to be honest. I haven't done any helming for a while but it's something I will be doing more of representing Ireland in the lead up to the 2020 Youth Match Racing World Championships."
Wellingtonian Albert Stanley and his team from the Worser Bay Boating Club round out the current accepted entries.
The YDL NZMRC Qualifier event which was scheduled to take place in early August was cancelled due to bad weather on both days. However, competitors who were to take part in that event have a second chance and have been invited to compete in the YTP's in house match racing regatta on September 14th& 15thwhere two spots will be up for grabs. Some of the skippers include James Wilson, Oakley Marsh and Patrick Harris.
The Yachting Developments New Zealand Match Racing Championships are to be held at the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron from the 2nd– 6thof October 2019, with all racing to be completed in the Squadrons fleet of Elliott 7's on the water outside the RNZYS. This is event is a Grade two, and international teams are encouraged to enter.
Notice of Race and Expressions of Interest are available here: www.rnzys.org.nz/sailing-events/nzmrc-regatta/


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Sky Sports reporter Dharmesh Sheth has indicated that Callum Hudson-Odoi could stay put with Chelsea beyond the ongoing transfer window despite the interest from Bayern Munich and RB Leipzig. The England youth international has already been the subject of multiple transfer offers from Bayern during the ongoing transfer window but so far, the Blues have remained reluctant to sanction the teenager's sale.
Speaking on Sky Sports, Sheth revealed that the Blues are yet to respond to Bayern's third offer of more than £30m for the uprising star. He added that the west London club want the inclusion of a buy-back clause into a permanent transfer, although the youngster could yet commit his long-term future to the former Premier League champions.
Hudson-Odoi had shown plenty of promise during the club's pre-season tour of Asia and there had been the suggestion that the youngster could become a regular feature during the current campaign. However, that has simply not been the case and the Englishman has managed just one league appearance for the club through the first half of the season.
Nonetheless, he could get more opportunities during the backend with the Blues still alive across four competitions, although it remains to be seen whether the gametime is sufficient enough to keep him content. At the moment, the Blues have not responded to Bayern's latest offer for their graduate and they may maintain the stance during the forthcoming weeks with the lack of attacking depth within their squad.


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How Platforms Can Prevent Misinformation Like #dcblackout
By Alex Engler
Monday, June 15, 2020, 2:52 PM
Protestors in D.C. march on May 30, 2020, in response to the death of George Floyd. (By: Victoria Pickering, https://flic.kr/p/2j7eHpq; CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/)
On June 1, citizens in the nation's capital awoke to terrifying news after a night of protests. According to many Twitter users, late in the night, government security services had cut off communications and protestors had disappeared in the ensuing blackout. In the wake of federal law enforcement and National Guard troops deploying across the city to respond to protests over the death of George Floyd—scenes that included police using chemical agents against peaceful protestors in front of the White House and a helicopter hovering low over Washington, D.C., streets in a military maneuver—the alarming reports added to a sense of anxiety and dread.
There was just one problem: No blackout had taken place. The story wasn't real.
The conspiracy theory was thoroughly debunked over the course of the day. It had spread on Twitter with the hashtag "#dcblackout"—paired with "#dcprotests," which local protestors had been using to document the ongoing demonstrations against police brutality. This brought extensive attention to the #dcblackout claims, resulting in hundreds of thousands of tweets exposing millions of people to the false information. As early as 9 a.m. on June 1, it was difficult to discern that many of the original tweets and retweets were from suspicious and bot-like accounts.
The accounts struck me as suspicious. But when I shared my skepticism on Twitter, many users insisted that the blackout was real. People had bought the ruse, and I watched as retweets of the suspicious posts jumped into the tens of thousands. NPR quickly reported on the spread of false information, but #dcblackout still raged out of control, leading to around 500,000 tweets in its first nine hours.
The #dcblackout incident offers a warning for the months to come. The 2020 election looms over a highly partisan political environment with weakened institutions and a reduced number of journalists—all concerning factors for a truthful public discourse and healthy democracy. Years of investment by social media companies have taken down the networks of accounts used by organized disinformation campaigns in 2016, but propagandists can still hijack developing political conversations with ease.
Yet human psychology, which itself enables the spread of disinformation, can also be employed to defeat it. An emerging body of research suggests that asking people to be skeptical and exposing the strategies of manipulators can make them far more resilient to disinformation. To beat opportunistic disinformation, social media companies should harness the critical thinking of their users.
The #dcblackout Hashtag
The tweets that started #dcblackout did not come from a long-standing network of accounts. Early tweets came from new accounts with few followers and incomplete profiles. Many of the suspicious accounts pushed a screenshot of a #blackout tweet from a then-deleted account, sarahxo85267698. While the deletion of sarahxo85267698 may have been intended to disguise the dubious nature of that account, the supporting cast of bot-like accounts asserted that sarahxo was being suppressed by Twitter. They used their own cover-up as part of their censorship narrative.
The confusion continued. Skeptical voices, including my own, started pushing back against the bogus claims. As they did, a series of accounts—including hacked profiles of real people—began tweeting a poorly written statement arguing the #dcblackout was a hoax, using the emerging counter-hashtag #dcsafe. There were so many of these identical tweets that onlookers quickly noticed the accounts, leading to more confusion. Many people fell for this second wave, thinking that if bots wanted them to think #dcblackout was a hoax, then there must be some truth to it. The result was chaos.
All this adds up to something that looks a lot like an intentional disinformation campaign—though it's hard to say for sure. It is not entirely clear if the original #dcblackout posts were genuine, but the choice to spread that theory seems to have been calculated. By hijacking the #dcprotests hashtag, the #dcblackout tweets were strategically placed where they would be found by D.C. residents checking in on new developments early in the morning on June 1. This behavior, especially after four days of ongoing protests, was easily predictable. Protests and arrests had continued late into the night on the previous days, leading many to check for updates first thing in the morning.
This created an opportunity for abusing what a recent Data & Society report calls a "data void." Data voids are gaps in authoritative content, where innocent online searches result in users stumbling across problematic and manipulative content because there is nothing to outrank it in search results. One example, documented in 2018, was the phrase "black on white crimes." Since this wording was used almost exclusively by white supremacist organizations, the results from this search were skewed toward white supremacist disinformation.
Breaking news can also create a data void. In this case, a search of "#dcprotests" on Twitter returned popular and recent tweets spreading alarm, with no guarantee of content quality or veracity. Soon the data gap was filled. Reporters noted that their phones never lost internet service, and analysts showed cellular connectivity levels were stable. However, these corrections did not reach nearly as many people as the original rumor—a result that is consistent with research on rumors on Twitter.
In the end, Twitter suspended hundreds of "spammy accounts" responsible for "coordinated activity" in spreading the hashtag. As to who was behind the accounts, that remains unclear. Any further probe would require access to Twitter's data or an investigation by the platform itself.
A New Strategy for Influence Campaigns?
#dcblackout was a different kind of influence operation. Past campaigns have slowly and deliberately accumulated thousands of unsuspecting followers over years while subtly interspersing disinformation between memes and popular content. But #dcblackout created a burst of disinformation, taking advantage of sustained attention on a specific hashtag (#dcprotests) related to an impassioned political issue.
This is not a fluke. Rather, it reflects a changing environment for disinformation campaigns. These campaigns have to put content where they know people will see it. And they cannot rely on their own followers, because they don't have any. The bot-like accounts used to disseminate #dcblackout had almost no followers. Many had been created that very morning.
Increased scrutiny by social media companies has forced this change in tactics. The largest social media platforms, especially Facebook and Twitter, are no longer oblivious to the propaganda networks on their platforms.
It was these networks that allowed the spread of disinformation to more than 100 million Americans in the run-up to the 2016 election. Starting in 2015, the Russian state-backed Internet Research Agency (IRA) operated hundreds of accounts, primarily across Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. Through this cross-platform effort, the IRA was able to build an organic following, with more than 3 million followers on both Instagram and Facebook, by mixing popular content and harmless memes along with more nefarious political messaging. IRA-linked posts earned more than 70 million engagements on both Twitter and Facebook, and 185 million engagements on Instagram. While the IRA did use some paid advertising, the reach of its unpaid content was much greater, with accounts like @blackstagram_ often getting more than 10,000 likes per post in 2017. These networks were so effective because they were able to build followers over years and rely on the organic spread of material by that community.
But these expansive networks of accounts are now frequently taken down. For influence campaigns, this can undermine years of work to gather followers. A takedown deletes the suspicious accounts, which therefore lose their community of unwitting followers, upon which the disinformation campaign depends. Since takedowns are effective at undoing the patient work of building propaganda networks, it is unsurprising that disinformation campaigns need a new approach. That new approach appeared with #dcblackout, which targeted an intense political moment, giving propagandists a brief opportunity to engage wider audiences.
While takedowns are valuable, platforms usually suspend and ban accounts based on the presence of coordinated inauthentic behavior, not the content of their posts. There are a few exceptions to this. Facebook reduces the distribution for some of the small number of articles that it fact checks, and many of the platforms are proactively managing misinformation about the coronavirus. However, most misinformation—that is, any false information—goes unaddressed by Facebook. So, for example, Instagram makes no effort to reduce the enormous amount of pseudoscientific health advice and misleading lifestyle content that pervades the website.
Instead, platforms focus on disinformation, which is defined as misinformation that is being intentionally spread in order to mislead people. But this creates an ongoing problem for social media companies. When disinformation campaigns amplify authentic, but misleading, messages and convince normal people to share the material, it enters a gray area of enforcement. The platforms may ban the bots, as Twitter did following #dcblackout, but they typically won't restrict the content. This is why researchers and platforms need to look past the bot accounts and consider how to better engage the public about their role in spreading disinformation.
Why #dcblackout Is Dangerous
Perhaps even more so than in 2016, the domestic conditions are ripe for disinformation. Some research suggests that polarization, partisan media, weak public broadcasting, low trust in journalism, the presence of populist politics and high social media use can all undermine resilience to disinformation. This does not bode well for the United States. As of 2018, 68 percent of Americans get news from social media, though only 20 percent do so often. American politics, especially conservative media, has become far more partisan, which can make the truth seem less relevant. Trust in media is down to close to 40 percent. Newspaper journalism is taking a beating, too: Newsroom employment dropped by 51 percent between 2008 and 2019, and that staggering decrease does not include the thousands of journalists who have lost their jobs due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The individual vulnerabilities of human psychology are also hard to improve. Disinformation efforts target impassioned political debates to exacerbate existing divisions but also because these circumstances enable disinformation. These moments are characterized by motivated reasoning, where critical thinking is undermined by the emotional desire to believe arguments that agree with preexisting conclusions. Further, a series of experiments show that people are less skeptical of claims when they are in group settings, including on social media.
Showing corrections to people exposed to misinformation is worth doing—the academic consensus now supports the idea that corrective fact-checking is effective. Unfortunately, even when people see corrections, some of the damage persists. The illusory truth effect suggests that repeated assertions become familiar and quickly enter listeners' understanding of the world, even if they are exposed to countervailing facts. Repetition leads to recall: Once a person has heard the claim many times, it comes to mind quickly, giving it a false sense of validity.
This means that those who saw the #dcblackout tweets may be more amenable to the idea that the government can cut off communications and dispose of troublemakers. Generating this wariness of authorities also enables future disinformation, as believing conspiracy theories is associated with distrust for authoritative and expert figures.
The immediate effect of the #dcblackout operation is not trivial. Eye-catching, but ultimately false, assertions that the government was abducting protestors can disillusion neutral observers and distract from the completely legitimate grievances aired by the protestors and the Black Lives Matter movement. However, it is more pernicious in the long term—disinformation doesn't explode; it festers. It stokes conflict, reduces trust in institutions and undermines public knowledge.
What Can Platforms Do?
While the social media platforms are improving in their response to misinformation and disinformation, their current approaches cannot stop the opportunistic strategy that the #dcblackout campaign appears to have employed. That effort used new and hacked accounts, so there was nothing to take down in advance. It also amplified a new claim about an event that had supposedly just happened, meaning there was no realistic way to fact check the tweets. Although the situation was ripe for disinformation, existing solutions used by Twitter could not combat it effectively. However, that this was so predictable creates an opportunity for a different intervention: inoculation.
An emerging body of research demonstrates that putting people on guard for misinformation through so-called inoculation messages can make them more resilient to persuasion. In three experiments, when young adults were asked to act like fact checkers, they became less susceptible to disinformation and the illusory truth effect. This approach can work by guarding against misinformation in specific domains, such as by explaining the consensus agreement of climate change scientists. It can also work more broadly, by explaining the misleading tactics used by propagandists. A group of researchers built a game called "Bad News" meant to expose users to various strategies of disinformation campaigns, such as impersonating authorities and appealing to emotional and polarizing opinions. A nonrandomized analysis of those users found that it improved their ability to detect misinformative headlines.
The circumstances in which disinformation campaigns thrive are well understood, and social media platforms have access to enormous historical databases of when they have occurred. This makes it quite possible for the platforms to build effective predictive systems to identify when information operations are likely to try and spread disinformation. The #dcprotests discussion would have checked every box. It was fast moving, high attention and politically charged. It even involved the Black community and police brutality, a topic that has been the target of disinformation campaigns many times in the past.
The ability to identify the circumstances that allowed #dcblackout to spread suggests how platforms might be able to prevent future, similar campaigns from gaining traction. Modern methods of natural language processing and network analysis can be used to detect when emerging online conversations are getting heated, toxic and partisan. They can also discover other factors associated with vulnerability to disinformation, like common topics or hashtags. By employing these tools, social media companies could create systems to automatically identify circumstances ripe for disinformation. They could then employ inoculation messages that would appear in a user's feed and, for example, remind users to consider accuracy or ask them to act as fact checkers for their community. Messages might also explain common strategies of disinformation campaigns, so that users can be on guard against them. Even without knowing any specifics about potential disinformation to come, this can generate a more skeptical and prepared audience. A/B testing would even allow the digital platforms to evaluate which messages were most effective and to improve over time.
By implementing inoculation, social media companies may be able to substantially reduce the spread of disinformation in fast-moving and contentious political debates. This strategy is specifically appealing to fill the data gaps created by emerging conversations, giving journalists and experts the necessary time to create more authoritative and evidence-based content.
This approach can meaningfully improve platform quality. Increasing the sharing of reliable information will strengthen online communities and even make users more loyal to a platform. It's also not a particularly invasive strategy, since it requires only a banner on the top of a feed and only for some conversations. Platforms do not even need to use their own materials but can adapt inoculation messages from existing sources like Craig Silverman's Verification Handbook, the News Literacy Project and Bad News.
In the run-up to the 2020 election, the disinformation landscape has shifted. Social media platforms are certainly more robust than they were in 2016, but human psychology and the speed of emerging stories offer a clear path for propagandists to undermine public knowledge. However, using targeted inoculation messages provides a promising solution. To best fight these opportunistic disinformation tactics, platforms need look only as far as their own users.
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Alex Engler is a David M. Rubenstein Fellow at the Brookings Institution, where he studies the implications of artificial intelligence and emerging data technologies on society and governance. Engler also teaches classes on large-scale data science and visualization at Georgetown's McCourt School of Public Policy, where he is an Adjunct Professor and Affiliated Scholar. Most recently faculty at the University of Chicago, he previously ran UChicago's MS in Computational Analysis and Public Policy and designed the MS in Data Science and Public Policy at Georgetown University.
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Game Recap: Pacers 122, Knicks 102
The Pacers defeated the Knicks, 122-102. Chris Duarte led the Pacers with 23 points (9-11 FG), while Domantas Sabonis added 21 points, 11 rebounds and five assists in the victory. RJ Barrett (19 point
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Pacers Postgame: Dec. 8, 2021
Dec. 8, 2021 - Pacers head coach Rick Carlisle, Domantas Sabonis, Myles Turner, and Chris Duarte speak with the media following Indiana's 122-102 win over the Knicks at Gainbridge Fieldhouse.
Chris Duarte (23 points) Highlights vs. New York Knicks
Chris Duarte (23 points) Highlights vs. New York Knicks, 12/08/2021
Dunk by Caris LeVert
Turner blocks the lob on one end and LeVert slams the lob home on the other end
Block by Domantas Sabonis
Sabonis sends the shot back
3-pointer by Myles Turner
Duarte finds Myles for a basket to extend the lead to 23
Myles finishes in the lane for 2
Myles takes the nice dish from Duarte to get the Pacers to 70 before the half.
LeVert hits a quick 3
LeVert hits a quick 3 to extend the lead to 13
Chris Duarte cuts into the lane for 2
Sabonis drops a nice pass to a cutting Duarte for an easy 2
Steal by Duarte
Duarte comes away with a nice save, and Sabonis takes it all the way down the court for the slam.
Game Rewind: Pacers 122, Knicks 102
Wednesday, December 8, 2021 at 7:00 PM ET at Gainbridge Fieldhouse
by Brendan Rourke
Pacers.com Contributor
Coming off an impressive win over the Washington Wizards, the Pacers (11-16) kept rolling against the New York Knicks (12-13) on Wednesday night.
The squad played with intense energy out of the gate once again. The Pacers grabbed their first lead with 9:55 to play in the first quarter and never relinquished it. In the end, it was a dominant, 122-102 victory over the visitors.
All five starters finished in double figures, with rookie Chris Duarte leading the way with 23 points and six assists. He finished 9-of-11 from the field. Myles Turner tallied 22 and two late game-sealing blocks, while Domantas Sabonis added a 21-point, 11-rebound double-double. Malcolm Brogdon and Caris LeVert finished with 16 and 15 apiece to round out the starters' finishes. In total, the starters scored 97 of the team's 122 points.
"It means a lot," Duarte said of his performance. "I've been working on my game. There's been a lot of ups and downs. It felt good to go out there and do a good job."
Trailing 4-0 early, the Pacers responded with 12 unanswered points to grab an eight-point edge after the first four minutes elapsed. After a series of three buckets in the paint, Brogdon tallied five straight to cap the spree with 7:50 remaining.
"I liked the way we hopped into the game with a physical presence," head coach Rick Carlisle said. "We were physical without committing a lot of unnecessary fouls."
The Knicks did threaten one time in the frame when the long ball started to fall. With Indiana ahead 17-8, RJ Barrett and Evan Fournier knocked in consecutive treys to cut the gap to three at the 5:36 mark. Barrett, who had recently struggled from deep, recorded seven triples last night in the Knicks' win over the Spurs. They soon would cut the lead to 17-16.
However, playing with energy, Duarte found his spots and tallied seven of a 12-5 run over a 2:40 span to earn a 29-21 lead with 2:29 remaining. The Blue & Gold finished 14-of-22 (63.6 percent) from the floor in the quarter and took a 36-29 lead into the second.
"He's doing great," Sabonis said of Duarte's progress. "He's watching film. He's listening. He's learning, and trying to make the right reads."
hit 'em with the fadeaway! @C_Duarte5 | #GoldBlooded pic.twitter.com/UnIHeipjm0
— Indiana Pacers (@Pacers) December 9, 2021
Indiana stretched its lead to 11 (40-29) before New York started climbing back. Finding success against the Pacers' bench, the Knicks mounted an 8-2 run to trim the lead to 42-37 with 8:43 remaining. The run was capped by Obi Toppin's stylish, between-the-legs dunk in transition that forced a quick Pacers timeout.
However, the Pacers countered swiftly, recording eight straight to push the lead to 50-37 with 6:53 to play. The spree was highlighted by Sabonis' three-point play in which he surprised his defender by spinning to his weak side.
From there, the Blue & Gold maintained a comfortable lead for the next few minutes. Duarte added three more to his tally, while Sabonis kept fighting for extra possessions underneath. With 3:23 to play, he snagged his fourth offensive board of the half and knocked in a layup to give Indiana a 62-47 lead. The story remained the same for Indiana to close out the frame, extending its lead to as high as 17 before taking a 70-57 advantage into the half.
Indiana's barrage continued as the third quarter began. Playing with an edge, the squad recorded the first 10 points in the frame to earn an 80-57 lead at the 9:22 mark. The spree was highlighted by Duarte's layup off an incredible pass from LeVert near halfcourt.
However, the Knicks quickly retaliated with nine unanswered to cut the deficit to 14 with 7:34 to play.
Yet, the Pacers did not falter. Despite going cold, the Pacers' speed forced the Knicks to rack up fouls. It pushed Indiana into the penalty near the midway mark of the frame. The Blue & Gold used several trips to the charity stripe to combat New York's buckets. With 3:54 to play, Duarte broke Indiana's 5:28 field goal drought with an easy finger-roll finish to push the lead to 90-71.
The Pacers continued their solid play to close out the frame. Jeremy Lamb earned a trip to the free-throw line and knocked in both attempts to stretch his consecutive made free-throw streak to 34 this season. The squad took a 96-76 lead into the fourth.
The Pacers held a comfortable lead over the early moments of the fourth. However, the Knicks showed a bit of a spark after Toppin slammed home consecutive transition buckets off Indiana turnovers to cut the lead to 102-85.
Later, a three from Toppin at the 6:25 mark trimmed Indiana's lead to 106-91 and kept the Knicks within range of a comeback. But, the squad turned to its best rim protector to turn the tides for good.
On the next Knicks possession, Immanuel Quickley appeared to have a clear-cut layup until Turner smacked his attempt off the backboard and into the hands of Wanamaker. The veteran guard that's seeing increased time due to McConnell's injury finished with a finger-roll on the other end, pushing Indiana's lead to 17.
Later, with 5:07 to play, Turner picked up another massive swat, this time on an attempted alley-oop, and Duarte collected the rebound. Duarte then found LeVert for the Pacers' own alley-oop finish. Turner and Sabonis then knocked in back-to-back triples to fully shut the door on a comeback attempt.
Inside the Numbers
Indiana won the rebounding battle, 42-36
The Pacers outscored the Knicks both in the paint (60-44) and in transition (26-16)
The Blue & Gold limited the mistakes tonight, committing just 11 turnovers – four in the first half
You Can Quote Me On That
"It's kind of the axiom of the NBA. It's really more of a first-quarter league than a fourth-quarter league in many respects. Playing from in front is always a decisive advantage. So, if you can jump out to a lead and play with some separation, it always helps." – Carlisle on how the first-quarter performance helped the Pacers win
"It was never the ability with Chris (Duarte). It was the learning the NBA, learning the landscape, and learning how he had to fit in. We threw him right into the fire. It's not like he went to the G-League, or watched. He started right away. That's been the best thing for him." – Turner on how Duarte has improved this season
Stat of the Night
Indiana scored 70 points in the first half for the fifth time this season after shooting 27-of-45 (60 percent) from the field
Indiana improves to 11-8 this season when five or more players finish in double figures
The Blue & Gold have won consecutive games for the fourth time this season. They have yet to win three in a row
The Pacers improve to 56-36 in the all-time regular-season series against the Knicks
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Area Veterans Day Events
Here is a look at some of the area events planned to recognize Veterans Day
Fort Laurens ceremony, luncheon and presentation, 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday at the Fort Laurens grounds and museum. A wreath-laying ceremony begins at 1 p.m. at the Tomb of the Unknown Patriot of the American Revolution. Local reenactors from the Brigade of the American Revolution will perform a gun salute, with the Fort Laurens American Legion acting as Color Guard. A free luncheon will follow inside the museum. At 3 p.m., Kevin Kern from the University of Akron will speak about the Bonus Army, a group of about 15,000 World War I veterans and their families. For more information, contact Fort Laurens at 330-874-2059 or visit www.fortlaurens.org.
Community Veterans Day program, 3 p.m. Sunday at Puffenberger Hall at Northwest High School, 8580 Erie Ave NW. The event will include music and speakers. Sponsored by the Friends of the Canal Fulton Public Library.
Greater Canton Veterans Council Veterans of the Year awards presentation, 11 a.m. Nov. 11 at Westbrook Park, 13th Street NW and Harrison Avenue NW. The Veterans of the Year is Richard L. Biedenbach.
The Scottish Rite Valley of Canton program and dinner, Nov. 12 at Masonic Temple, 836 Market Ave. N. The public program will feature Cantons Hall of Fame Chorus from 4 to 5 p.m., followed at 5:30 p.m. by a dinner (by reservation only) and guest speaker, Col. Donald E. Ballard of the Kansas National Guard and former member of the United States Navy. Dinner is $15 per person, $25 per couple. Proceeds benefit the Forgotten Veterans Program. For reservations, call 330-455-2321 or email valleyofcanton@yahoo.com.
The Pro Football Hall of Fame is offering all veterans, active military and one guest free admission into the Hall's museum throughout November. The museum is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. For more details, visit www.ProFootballHOF.com/visit.
Ceremony including music from the Green Middle School seventh-grade choir and Green High School Select and Ensemble Choirs, 10:45 a.m., Nov. 11 at Green Veterans Memorial Park, 4224 Massillon Road. World War II veterans George Janis, U.S. Navy, and Curtis Hecker, U.S. Army, will be honored. A light lunch will follow in the John Torok Community and Senior Center. In the event of rain, the ceremony will be moved to Queen of Heaven's New Parish Life Center, 1800 Steese Road.
Veterans Day Celebration, Nov. 11 at Lake High School, 1025 Lake Center St NW. All veterans and their families are invited. An informal reception will take place at 7:45 a.m. in the cafeteria. The program, including speakers and music, will begin at 8:30 a.m. in the gym. Those attending are asked to enter Door No. 7 by the Lake Community Library or Door No. 5 by the YMCA.
Aultman Woodlawn, Hospice and Palliative Care Services program, 9 a.m. Nov. 11 at the entrance circle of the Compassionate Care Center, 2821 Woodlawn Ave. NW. The speaker will be chaplain and veteran Michael Lemon with music provided by Michelle Cole. There will be representation from the American Legion Post 44 with Commander Brad Teis and Honor Guard. A pinning ceremony will be featured to honor all veterans and their families. For more details, call Chaplain Kathleen Schen at 330-605-6843.
Celebration and recognition, noon Nov. 10 at Stark State College, Room M100, 6200 Frank Ave. NW. The event will include the Green High School ROTC, the Stark State Chorale, speaker Jaxon Teig, hot dogs, chili and other refreshments. From 9 to 11:30 a.m., the Stark County Recorder's Office will issue veteran IDs for $1. Applicants should bring their DD214, a state-issued ID, driver's license, Social Security card, birth certificate, concealed carry license or another military ID.
The University of Akron Wayne College Veterans Day luncheon and recognition ceremony, 11:30 a.m. Nov. 10 in the Student Life Building. Free for veterans and a family member, but seating is limited. Senator Frank LaRose will provide the keynote address. The military-style ceremony will include lunch, music, a time for reflection, and information on local resources for veterans. Social time will be from 11-11:30 a.m., with Stair Steps to Wellness providing complimentary chair massages to early arrivals. Registration is required at wayne.uakron.edu/webforms/rsvp/veterans.dot or by calling 330-684-8973.
PLAIN TOWNSHIP
Salute to Veterans, Nov. 11 at Veterans Park, 1714 Schneider St. NE. A Blue Star Memorial Marker will be dedicated by the Heritage Herb Society and the township trustees at 9 a.m. A veterans breakfast by Mary Ann Donuts, Samantha's Restaurant on Market Avenue and Starbucks at Washington Square will take place at 9:30 a.m. at the Central Fire Station. The ceremony will begin at 10 a.m. with the National Anthem by the GlenOak High School band, opening remarks by trustees president Scott Haws and the keynote speech by two-star Maj. Gen. (retired) Dan Hahn, followed by the playing of taps. Lunch will be provided by Mission BBQ at 11:15 a.m. at Central Fire Station. A flag-retirement ceremony will take place at 5:30 p.m. at the fire station, with a bagpipe player, Ohio Patriot Guard and the trustees.


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