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Olivier Sanou (born July 2, 1975) is a retired Burkinan track and field athlete. He was a high jumper before specializing in the triple jump in the late 1990s. A double African champion, Sanou made his mark in Africa. He competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics, but failed to qualify for the final.

Competition record

Personal bests
 High jump - 2.15 m (1997) – national record is 2.22 m
 Long jump - 7.48 m (2002) – national record is 8.00 m
 Triple jump - 16.91 m (2003) – national record

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1975 births
Living people
Burkinabé male triple jumpers
Burkinabé male high jumpers
Burkinabé long jumpers
Male long jumpers
Olympic athletes of Burkina Faso
Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics
African Games bronze medalists for Burkina Faso
African Games medalists in athletics (track and field)
Athletes (track and field) at the 1999 All-Africa Games
Athletes (track and field) at the 2003 All-Africa Games
World Athletics Championships athletes for Burkina Faso
21st-century Burkinabé people


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This changed happened in light of a study conducted by the National Research Council that recommended a two-year sequence replace Physics B so that students could delve further into key physics concepts.
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AP Physics 1 and AP Physics 2 are algebra-based courses.
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These are also two one-year classes, as opposed to AP Physics B, which was a one-year class.
As a result, these together are more expansive and cover more topics than Physics B.
AP Physics 1 is a first-year, introductory, college-level physics course, and it was designed so that you do not need any prior experience in physics.
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Some high-ranking schools, such as MIT, Reed College, and Yale University, do not offer any credit or placement for AP Physics 1, while others like Notre Dame will only take the highest possible score of 5 to provide college credit.
AP Physics 2 works as a follow-up to AP Physics 1, and consequently is designed to be a second-year physics course, so you will need to complete another physics course, such as Physics 1, as a prerequisite.
These topics tend to be more complex and advanced than the mechanical physics covered in Physics 1.
Like Physics 1, a good score on the AP Physics 2 exam can count as college credit for introductory college-level physics courses.
Again, make sure that your target colleges will take AP Physics 2, as those with strong physical science and engineering programs, like MIT, will not provide college credit for any score on the exam.
The Physics C courses, Mechanics and Electricity & Magnetism, make up the calculus-based physics courses.
This means that they go more in depth than the algebra-based classes and use calculus to solve more complex physics questions.
Prerequisites usually include at least an introductory physics course, and you should be taking AP Calculus AB or BC if you haven't completed calculus already.
Unlike AP Physics 1 and 2, which are designed as separate classes, one may take the two Physics C topics as one course, with Mechanics being taught one semester, and Electricity & Magnetism the second.
However, there are two exams, one for each topic.
This course closely follows the curriculum covered in AP Physics 1.
However, because Physics C introduces calculus with the equations and formulas you need to know, it is much more challenging.
Again, Physics C delves much deeper into these concepts than Physics 1.
And, unlike the other AP courses, most colleges will take at least a 3 on the Mechanics AP exam, though schools with prestigious engineering programs may require a 4 or 5.
Always check your target colleges to make sure you have a high enough score for credit and potential placement.
Just like how AP Physics C: Mechanics closely mirrors AP Physics 1, Physics C: Electricity & Magnetism closely follows Physics 2.
And, like Physics C, it goes more in depth with the subject material because it incorporates calculus in its equations and formulas.
It is possible that your high school may not offer AP Physics C: Electricity & Magnetism as a course. Schools are much more likely to offer Mechanics over Electricity & Magnetism.
However, you can consult your guidance counselor and ask if it is possible to pursue an independent study class, in which you would essentially teach yourself the subject with some mentorship from an adviser, usually in the form of a teacher in that field.
Like Mechanics, most colleges will accept a satisfactory score on the AP Physics C: Electricity & Magnetism exam in place of an introductory college-level physics course.
Check your target colleges' websites for the exact score you need to aim for.
Which Class Suits My Needs?
To best plan out your class schedule, you should consider what you want to major in and the colleges you plan to apply for.
For instance, it may not be wise to take the AP Physics 1 exam if none of the colleges that admit you take accept it as college credit.
Likewise, if you're just looking to fill a few credits in science and physics doesn't relate closely to your major or career, you may prefer to choose AP Physics 1 or 2 over the more difficult AP Physics C courses.
Your math placement is equally important in deciding. If you aren't taking calculus in high school, your Advanced Placement options narrow to just Physics 1 and Physics 2.
If you want to take either or both of the Physics C classes, make sure that you are on track to take an AP Calculus class as well.
Should I Take More Than One AP Physics Class?
This question depends on what you want to do in college, as well as your high school ranking.
If your school weights AP classes more heavily than other courses, and ranking highly or becoming valedictorian is a goal you want to achieve, then it may be best to take as many AP courses as you can without necessarily taking the corresponding exams.
As for the exams, it depends on your future career and college goals.
Many college programs only require one semester of algebra-based physics for a science requirement, and AP Physics 1 may cover that requirement.
However, if you want to pursue a degree in engineering or physics, then you should expect to take at least one AP Physics C class, if not both.
Remember, taking all four AP Physics courses will take away the time you could be taking biology or chemistry courses.
If you are not planning to pursue a major or career in engineering or physics, it may be more beneficial to look into the AP programs in the other sciences.
Like other AP exams, all four AP Physics exams consist of a multiple choice section, as well as a free-response section.
Both sections are weighted equally, so it is important to do well in both of them.
While Physics 1 and 2 are 3-hour exams each, Physics C exams are 90 minutes and can be taken in sequence for a total of 3 hours.
All exams approve a four-function, scientific, or graphing calculator for both multiple choice and free response sections, so you are graded on your comprehension of the various concepts, rather than on your mathematical skills.
The multiple choice section will consist of 50 questions for the AP Physics 1 and AP Physics 2 exams, and 35 for both AP Physics C exams.
These can include discrete, individual problems, sets of questions that cover the same scenario, and multiple-correct questions, in which two options are correct.
While your work will not be graded, you will be given some paper on which you can write out your equations and solutions.
You should use that paper to write your steps and double check that your answer is correct.
If you want, you may also jot down as many formulas as you can remember when you first receive the paper.
This can work as a formula sheet for you to refer to without having to immediately remember each formula.
While you might think that you'll remember everything, after answering difficult physics questions for 45 or 90 minutes, brain fog may set in, making a physical reference handy.
After the multiple choice section, you will take a short break from the exam.
You shouldn't discuss any of the questions with your classmates, but you can relax, take a drink or eat a snack, and prepare yourself for the free-response section of your exam.
Unlike the multiple choice section, which is graded by a computer, the free-response section of each exam is graded individually by AP Exam Readers.
Because this section is graded by another human, you should structure your answers in a clear and logical manner so that the AP Reader can easily see your work and give you as much credit as possible.
Remember, a wrong answer on one part of a free response question will not penalize you any further, so if you can't figure out an answer, you can make one up and use it in the next part of the question to get as many points as you can.
You should also make sure to answer each part as comprehensively as possible, as you are graded on the process, not just the answer.
For the AP Physics 1 and 2 exams, you should expect 5 questions.
One will be classified as an "Experimental Design", in which you will read about a theoretical experiment and your goals in performing said experiment, and you will answer conceptual questions related to it.
Another is a "Quantitative/Qualitative Translation," in which you will be given a standard physics problem and must solve it using the various formulas and equations you have learned.
The last three consist of short answer responses, one of which needs to be a paragraph-length argument.
For the paragraph-length response, the College Board recommends that your response should comprehensively and coherently argue their analysis of the situation using evidence and physical principles.
Try to make your answer as clear and concise as possible, as full credit may be revoked if you do not present your argument in a logical order, make lengthy digressions, or you just write equations or diagrams without much linking prose, which details your thinking process.
Both AP Physics C free response sections consist of 3 questions, each of which takes about 15 minutes.
While some may use just numbers, others may substitute only variables, forcing you to use what you know of physics concepts rather than your calculator.
Each question has multiple parts. Make sure that you cite every formula that you use to reach your answer, as those are often requirements for receiving credit.
Each course offers different benefits for you. Be sure to consider AP Physics C if you are considering a career in engineering or physics, though AP Physics 1 and/or 2 are perfectly acceptable for other STEM majors and can even cover the science course requirement for a humanities major.
However, as AP classes can affect your class ranking and GPA, keep in mind that you can take an AP class without needing to take the test.


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Things began to get mysterious when the pumpkins in the pumpkin patch began to come up missing, then the decoration began to be destroy. Everything was going wrong in Halloween Town. Then two skeletons and a human child came to Halloween Town! It's up to Jack Skellington to help the two skeleton brothers Sans and Papyrus and the human child Frisk to go home and figure out who's trying to ruin Halloween.
Hope you'd enjoy this crossover story, I've seen some crossover story of Nightmare Before Christmas on here and wanted to do one with Undertale. Since no one done that yet, I guess I'll be the first to do it. I know it's a little too early to do this story since it's a Halloween story but who cares I'm a creep anyway.
P.S. Frisk is a female in this story so don't judge that if you know what I mean. That is if you're in Undertale fan then you know what I mean.
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Birds are singing and flowers are blooming on days like this everyone were preparing for Halloween. Since Halloween was so close at hand, for the residents of Halloween Town. All the monsters were preparing for their big holiday. Everyone was all excited, for the monsters knew that each year the adults go out and scare the living out of the humans. Their leader takes them out and he will open the portal to the human world. The leader is the king of the pumpkin patch also the most scariest monster that ever lived. All the residents were putting a few touches here and there for their annual celebration. When all of sudden a loud scream was heard throughout the town, everyone turn to see a small round man, has a two face figure (his sad face figure was in front and the happy face figure facing the back), wears a gray brownish suit with a banner that says "mayor " on it, and a long candy cone hat on, running though the town. He was yelling out "this is horrible, the pumpkins in the pumpkin patch are all gone"! Everyone gasped and kept asking the mayor how did the pumpkins came up missing. The mayor only responded sadly "I don't know". Just then a voice was heard not far from the mayor asking "mayor, what's going on"?
The mayor turn to see a tall skeleton man dress in black has a black bat bow tie on walking towards him. The mayor said upsetting "oh Jack, this is terrible. The pumpkins in the pumpkin patch are all gone and no one knows what happen to them all. I believe someone took them all". A big werewolf wearing a red shirt came up saying "but without pumpkins how are we supposed to have our Halloween party"? Jack look at the mayor and ask "now you are sure that all the pumpkins in the pumpkin patch are missing"? The mayor nodded saying "indeed, take a look at yourself". Jack nodded and he headed towards the graveyard while everyone else were wondering how in the world that all the pumpkins came up missing. Jack walk across a big area of the graveyard with lots of gravestone and tombstone around. As he came across the Spiral Hill which looks a bit more curl up like, he look to where the pumpkin patch is and saw that there were no pumpkins at all in sight just like the mayor said it was. Jack's eyes sockets widened with disappointment and confusion. Just then a female voice was heard beside him saying "isn't terrible? I can not believe someone would do such a thing like this". Jack turn to see his rag doll wife Sally, wearing a mix color dress, her skin is blue fabric with stitches all over it, her hair is long dark red. Jack turn to Sally and said "I see now, but who"? Sally shrugs and said "the vampires brothers came and told me about this". Jack nodded and spotted the four vampires standing in the middle of the pumpkin patch.
Jack walk up to the two tallest also the two oldest brothers and asked "how long you guys was able to find them all gone"? The tallest and the oldest said "about four minutes ago, we went to help the mayor to get some pumpkins for the party". The second oldest nodded and said "yes, when we saw all the pumpkins gone, the mayor went to find you and my youngest brother happen to see your wife coming towards us and we told her what we found". Jack sigh and said "we better figure out what happened here before we could point fingers without evident of who's behind this missing pumpkins". The four vampires all nodded and agreed to help Jack. Sally look at Jack and asked "but why would anyone want to ruin our holiday just like that"? Jack sigh and said "I don't really know". Just as they all went back to town that's when couple of the town's resident came up and had three kids in each of their hand. The kids were a witch wearing a purple dress and purple hat, has black curly hair, the other is a demon dress in red, his hair covering his hood like horns, the third is a small like skeleton has a lollipop in his hand. The one resident is a sea creature with a witch and a skeleton in both of his hands said "we believe these three are the cause of it all". The second resident is a clown said in a high pitch voice "yeah, they are always causing trouble". The demon kid spoke up saying "no we're not, we keep telling you we never stole those pumpkins at all". The witch girl said "yeah, how could we stole those pumpkins when we were here the whole time".
Then Sally spoke defending the three kids "it's true, before I came to the graveyard they were with Dr. Finklestein this whole time. He even told me that they were with him all morning. If you don't believe me then ask him yourselves". The sea creature was going to disagree with Sally when Jack spoke up "Sally does speak the truth. I know as her dearest husband that she always tells the truth. So don't get my wife into this at all. Plus I remember telling Shock, Lock, and Barrel to meet with Dr. Finkelstein for a formula I need to use for one of my performance. Till we can figure out who's behind this please don't point fingers till you have some evident or proof that you have a guesstimate of who's behind this". The crown and the sea creature both let the three kids go and apologize to Jack for the mistake. Jack nodded and told them to not do it again. Jack held Sally's hand and together walk back into town to figure out about the missing pumpkins.
Not far from the town where the human's live are some monsters who lives to be apart with the humans. Halloween was drawing near and some monsters haven't got much of plans for Halloween. Most of them were going to stay home and possibly play games or watch TV with their friends. Of course in a big white house with red shedding on the house, was a human girl name Frisk. Frisk wears a blue T shirt with pink stripe and blue pants, has short brown hair, and blue eyes. Frisk was getting prepare for Halloween, it was her first year to go trick or treating with her two uncles. She likes the monster and being apart of their family, it's makes her feel like she belongs there. Frisk was drawing on a piece of paper of a map to where she knew of some houses that she remember had lots of candy. Just then a tall skeleton wears a red scarf and white body armor came walking in to see what Frisk was doing. He look at Frisk curious and asked "human, what are you doing"? Frisk look up and said with a smile "I'm making plans to houses that has the most candy". The skeleton smiled and said "sounds great! We'll be the best of the best"! A voice came from the doorway saying "Papyrus, you know that candy is delicious to the bone". Papyrus thought a moment then it came to him and yell "Sans, not again"! Sans came out wearing a blue jacket with a white shirt inside and a black shorts with white stripe, with pink slippers. He's a skeleton like Papyrus except he's smaller.
Papyrus look at Sans and then look at Frisk saying "It's a good thing that you know the human world plus a map can help us find our way around". Sans walk over and was impressed of how well the map that Frisk drew looked. "Ha, great job kid with that map there". Frisk smiled and said giggling "thank you uncle Sans". Sans smiled and said "welp, better go see what Tori is up to". Sans went across the kitchen to the back door and open it up before he left he said turning to Papyrus "well, Halloween is in three days. Kinda excited to trick or treat with Frisk, Paps"? Papyrus nodded saying "I am Sans, I'm going to be a cowboy". He put his arms up and pretend that he had guns in both of his bony hands and making gunshots noises. Which made Sans and Frisk both laugh at him. Sans stopped laughing and left to find Toriel who's Frisk's adopted mother. Papyrus look at Frisk and said picking her up "come along human, let's try out our costume". Frisk asked "is it ready"? Papyrus nodded saying "Alphys says that she and Undyne got the costume all ready for us". Frisk smiled and clap her hand in joy, excited to see her costume that she wants to be for Halloween.
Papyrus carry Frisk over his shoulder and the two of them both walk all the way to Alphys house. They both were excited to see their costume and how the costumes turn out. Once at Alphys house Papyrus rang the doorbell and wait for ten seconds before the door open to reveal a sea monster wearing a black tank top and black shorts, has long red hair in a pony tail. She smiled slightly and said "I was wondering when you two were coming". Papyrus nodded and asked "so where's the costumes"? Undyne said "in the closet, Alphys isn't here but she let me give them to you two". Undyne walk to the closet and open the door and pull out two plastic cover like dress. Undyne gave the tallest to Papyrus and the smallest to Frisk, "don't open them till you two get home. Alphys will kill me if something happen to those two". Papyrus put his and took Frisk's and put it over his shoulder. "Don't worry Undyne I'll take good care of these costumes". Undyne said "okay have fun with trick or treating you two". Frisk nodded and said holding Papyrus hand "we will, bye". Papyrus and Frisk left and Undyne went to call Alphys to let her know that Papyrus and Frisk got their costumes.
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The Hillary Clinton team is now accusing Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, a Democrat presidential candidate again in 2020, of Russian collusion.
Now that he has decided to run for president again, and Clinton has not, her former staffers are taking the gloves off.
Many of them believe that the hard feelings Clinton voters have toward Sen. Sanders would have him defeated by President Donald trump in 2020, Politico reported.
"I would say — and for all I know, the Sanders people might take this as a compliment — among a lot of the major donors in the party, there's concern that he could emerge," David Brock, who ran a PAC for Clinton in 2016, said.
"There are some very dyed-in-the-wool Democrats that wouldn't at all be enthusiastic about supporting him in a general election," he said.
Brock said Sanders would be hard-pressed to unite the different wings of the Democratic Party, and his ability to raise vast sums of money through small donations could ultimately result in him staying in the race past the point when he can win, which "is not necessarily good for the eventual nominee and therefore could be helpful for" President Trump.
It's a familiar grievance, one that many Clinton allies lodged against Sanders in 2016, when he refused to concede even after it appeared he had little mathematical chance of winning the party nomination.
Jeff Weaver, a top adviser to Sanders, shot back that Sanders' grassroots army of supporters "could make him the nominee" — and dismissed the notion that the absence of large donors would hurt him in a general election.
Will President Trump win in 2020?
"It is not a secret that people who would hang out with David Brock would be putting their class interests ahead of the party and the country," Weaver said.
"We have got to nominate somebody who is going to energize and excite the grassroots, not a handful of billionaires," he said.
For his part Sen. Sanders has begun the process of uniting the party by sending an email asking his fans to not be abusive of other Democrats online.
"As we engage with our opponents in the Democratic primary, we will forcefully present our views and defend ourselves against misrepresentations," Sanders said.
"But, let us do our very best to engage respectfully with our Democratic opponents ― talking about the issues we are fighting for, not about personalities or past grievances," he said.
"I want to be clear that I condemn bullying and harassment of any kind and in any space," he said.
Brock said the major party donors were concerned about Sanders for two reasons: "electability" and a difference in ideology.
Perhaps the biggest attack launched by ex-Clinton staffers so far came recently in POLITICO, where a number portrayed him in unflattering terms for using private jets while campaigning for Clinton after she won the Democratic nomination.
While Sanders' team contends the senator kept to a rigorous schedule of 39 rallies in 13 states in the homestretch of the 2016 campaign, the argument isn't convincing in some pro-Clinton quarters.
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A: With the Android 2.3 API it is not possilbe to "get" to the autio stream to en/decrypt it, because the android.net.rtp package is not open to the "normal" developers. This only opened from android 3.1 onwards.
In order to get an encryption running in lower android API versions have a look at the CSipSimple project. It is open source and fully implements what you're asking for. However, it is kind of complicated to get into it since the app isn't very simple. But give it a try.

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Social Media (at least the Kenyan context) has been abuzz for the past week with chatter about visiting world-renowned preacher and motivational speaker, Dr. Myles Munroe. Some conservative Christians have expressed outrage at the "exorbitant" ticket charges to attend the conferences (Kshs. 10,000 and Kshs. 50,000, which would be about USD 120 and USD 600 respectively). Others, I included, are more concerned about Dr. Munroe's man-centered and unbiblical teachings, especially concerning Christ, the atonement, and prayer.
In one of the most fiery debates I witnessed on Facebook, one person was trying to defend Dr. Munroe by drawing a dichotomy between preaching and motivational speaking. The basic argument was that what Dr. Munroe is doing is not preaching, but motivational speaking, and thus he does not necessarily have to conform to the demands of biblical preaching.
Well, I was perusing my bookmarks archive and came across this post, written by Conrad Mbewe in 2012, in which he effectively illustrates the folly of motivational speaking and why it is a curse to the church of Jesus Christ. I thought it might shed the much needed light in this otherwise fiery debate.
"… Motivational speaking is an attempt at trying to kill a charging lion with a pea-gun, using freshly cooked peas, spiced with the most aromatic seasonings. The aroma may be tantalizing to the taste buds, but it is totally useless in bringing down that ferocious beast. Men and women outside Christ are DEAD in trespasses and sins. Exciting their senses with nice-sounding platitudes will not give them life. They need the law to kill their fallen egos and the gospel of Jesus Christ to give them life.
Please follow the link below to his blog for the rest of the post. I promise it will be worth your while. I implore you to prayerfully consider what he has to say.
Hi there, my take is that we ought not to castigate motivational speaking, especially when it has to do with building the Kingdom of God. Its a must that all men get saved by believing in Christ, that is the door to getting into the Kingdom.
What about the thereafter? How do believers get to live the reality of "greater things shall ye do?" Why did Jesus speak so much about money and how to use it? Why did Paul get so much into Kingdom living, speaking about life in Christ, getting believers to look at themselves as sons of God, having faith for the saving of the soul and thereafter living a life worthy of the call which we have received. People need to be taught these things.
The Bible is filled with the call to living as Kingdom citizens. After salvation of the soul, through believing in Christ, there is the process of living life in Christ, victoriously. Going back to God's original design that we take dominion of the earth, and through Christ in us the Kingdom of God be established here on earth. I believe that process gets completed at the coming of our Jesus. That's Bible. That is what speakers like Myles Monroe, Creflo and TD Jakes and the like have been speaking of to the best of my knowledge.
Perhaps you may have beef with the 'stardom' that some of these speakers seem to have around them. Hey, as long as they are speaking of Christ ressurected and life in Him, we are on the same side. No need to castigate.
Interesting observation David. I wonder what comes to mind when we read Scriptures like Romans 5:18, talking about reigning with Christ in this life; or Revelation 1:5,6 we being kings and priests to God; John 1:16 Of Jesus fulness have we all received, grace upon grace; Ephesians 2:5,6 Paul saying that God has raised us up with Christ and has seated us far above the heavens; or 1 John 4:17 where the Bible says that as Jesus is so are we in this world. [In response to the 'man-centred, unbiblical teaching']. I know this kind of thinking makes many uncomfortable, but David raises an interesting question, when then will "greater things shall ye do?" reality come to pass? Was it a statement of fact or were those words shrouded in metaphor and linguistic symbolism? I am no Bible scholar but most the scriptures I've alluded to above are in the PAST PARTICIPLE tense. Think about it for a moment, concerning Peter's 'claims' in 1 Pet 1:18 and 19, that we know that we were not redeemed with corruptible things like silver and gold…but by the precious blood of Jesus Christ. A simple argument for logic's sake is, what did it cost God to redeem you and me? The blood, essentially life of Jesus Christ? Tell me, would God have paid something for nothing? Would I be blaspheming if I thus argued that your value as a born-again Christian is as important as Christ to God? Did not God's original intention for man to rule and dominate over the earth? Wasn't it Jesus' primary occupation to restore man to that glory? Look at Jesus praying in 17: "and the glory which you have given Me, I have given them, that they may be one, even as We are One". I think a good understanding on Jesus' complete works, especially after He ascended to heaven and the consequences thereof to the New Testament church need to be re-examined. In principle, I agree with David and the likes of Myles Munroe to continue teaching the church who the truly are, in Christ Jesus. As a closing remark, I ponder upon Col 2:9,10. You see it pleased the Father that the fulness of the God-head might dwell in Christ Jesus bodily. We ARE complete in Him, the head of all principality and power.
2. Many many verses indicate that 'the kingdom' is future – not present in any real sense (there is some disagreement on this, but most would say the kingdom is not 'here – now.' It's mostly if not entirely future.
3. God is the only one who will build the kingdom and he'll do it by force – read Revelation.It's not inside anyone. It's external and represented by the real reign of Christ on earth.
4. The motivational speakers mentioned have expressed heretical thoughts repeatedly – that in itself totally disqualifies them as a spiritual leader who should be listened to.
(2Ti 3:2 For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, … having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.
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Felix and Blackie Jan 19, 1992 Alec wants to sell Blackie, an aging farm horse and somewhat of a pet of Felix, after he purchases a new horse. Felix won't hear of it and decides to start a delivery business, with Sara's help, to pay for Blackie's feed. Felix is teased by the local business men and makes a foolish wager. This causes heartbreak for young Felix, and then a new beginning.
Another Point of View (aka Facts and Fictions) Jan 26, 1992 aka ""Another Point of View"" Alec is elected to the school board, and Hetty feels that she is being unfairly criticized so she quits her job as schoolmistress in Avonlea. Her replacement is Alistair Dimple, an impoverished actor, pretending to be a teacher. Alistair inspires the students to learn by doing role-playing and, in turn, inspires Hefty to write a book about the island. Alec finds out Dimples ""identity"", but keeps quiet as Avonlea school battles it out for the History Championship competition against rival Carmody.
But When She Was Bad... She Was Horrid (2) Feb 9, 1992 Back in Avonlea, Jo Pitts is wreaking havoc with Hetty, who believes that ""Sara"" has become deranged. When Jo decides she has had enough of Hetty, she decides to drown her. Sara and Gus escape the gang of theives, who are run by Abe Pike, and sail back to Avonlea just in time to stop Jo from robbing the town blind. Gus offers the King women some advice on how to handle Jo, and she is offered a home with Sara and Hetty at Rose Cottage. However, Jo decides to take her fate into her own hands and leaves town.
Aunt Janet's Rebellion Feb 16, 1992 The Womens Suffrage Movement comes to Avonlea, and after hearing a suffragette speak, Janet decides to get a petition signed asking for women to have the right to vote. Her zeal causes problems at home and problems at the McCorkindale cannery when she tries to get them better wages. When her efforts finally land her in jail, Alec regrets not helping Janet with her petition and gets Hetty and many others in town to sign. The cannery workers are then given a pay raise, because of Janet's efforts and Mrs. McCorkindale's practicality.
A Dark and Stormy Night Feb 23, 1992 It is a dark and stormy night when Gus falls under the spell of beautiful Amanda Stone, much to Felicity's chagrin. Robert Rutherford arrives in Avonlea, on Amanda's very heels, and claims the gems Amanda left in safe keeping with Gus are stolen. Gus, smitten with Amanda, refuses to believe Rutherford's claims, however Felicity smells a rat in fine french perfume. The town's people hear about Gus's gems and begin to treat him differently. Then a series of events causes Gus and Felix to be thrown in jail and Gus sets out to find the truth.
Friends and Relations Mar 1, 1992 Sisters Janet and Abilgail, and Olivia and Hetty, spend the day at an auction, and the men, Jasper, Alec and Felix, all go ice fishing. Before the afternoon is over the women are not on speaking terms. Alec, Gus and Jasper try to deal with questions from Felix on ""life"" and ""women and men, together"". Gus talks to Jasper about what it feels like to be in love. The day ends with the women out looking for Abigail's son Lucky, whom they believe is out lost in a snow storm and the men go looking for the women. A joyous reunion takes place in the woods, before they all retire to the King Farm for warmth and renewed feeling for each other, and Jasper makes a toast, to friends...and relations.
Vows of Silence (aka True Confessions) Mar 8, 1992 aka ""Vows of Silence"" The new minister in town, gives a 'hell-fire-and-brimstone' sermon which convinces the children that the world is coming to an end. The adults have no idea that the children have taken the sermon so seriously. The children go to the lighthouse, prepared to confess their sins, and hope this will save the world. A lunar eclipse convinces them the end is nigh...and Felix's confession almost makes Felicity put an end to him.
After the Honeymoon Mar 15, 1992 Jasper Dale is studying bats, and Olivia feels inadequate by not being able to help with his work. A woman scientist comes to help and is smitten with Jasper. Hetty tutors Olivia in science, but it seems that Jasper loves her for her special skills, and not for the scientific knowledge she gains. Sydney Carver, the scientist leaves after ""making a fool of herself"" over Jasper.
High Society Mar 22, 1992 Felicity is invited to Kingsport Ladies College, because of her academic excellence. Once there,she is intimidated by the other girl's worldliness, so she lies and pretends that she is Sara's rich sister, using the story's of Sara's life. Gus, worries that he is losing Felicity, and decides that if ""good manners and breeding "" are important, he is going to get them. Sara and Pierre further Gus's education. Felicity has to face her parents with her lies, and learns a lesson in humility.
The Calamitious Courting of Hetty King Mar 29, 1992 Wally Higgins, an ice skate salesman visiting Avonlea decides that Hetty is the perfect woman for him, she has the perfect sized feet. Wellington Campbell decides that part of the King property is his. Now Hetty works to keep both her freedom and her land. Felicity expects Gus to take her to the skating party and he has yet to ask her to go with him, but he is too proud to admit that he has no skates. When he confides this to Sara, she gives him a pair, but Gus doesn't know how to skate!
Old Friends, Old Wounds Apr 5, 1992 It is heartbreak at Green Gables when Marilla Cuthbert dies suddenly, and leaves no will. The assumption is that Anne would always inherit Green Gables from the Cuthberts. When Gilbert Blythe arrives in Avonlea and tries to buy Green Gables it is too late, one of the neighbors has bought it. Rachel Lynde and the children are now homeless, unless Rachel can make friends with the new owner. A man who ""hates"" Rachel. Rachel has to learn to ""mind her tongue"" if she wants a to continue to live at Green Gables.


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Squeezing the Slave Out Drop by Drop: Vivian Gornick's "Unfinished Business"
February 19, 2020 • By Emily LaBarge
Vivian Gornick
"TO LIVE CONSCIOUSLY is the real business of our lives." "Love […] like food or air, is necessary but insufficient: it cannot do for us what we must do for ourselves." "Writing enters into us when it gives us information about ourselves we are in need of at the time that we are reading." Themes and phrases repeat in variations, to different ends and evolutions, throughout Vivian Gornick's expansive oeuvre. Chronic rereaders of the author's essays, criticism, biographies, and memoirs will recognize in her spare and elegant new book, Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-Reader, a familiar commitment to class consciousness, cultural politics, gender, and close reading — not only of literature, but of daily human relationships, of the fleeting moment, of memory, of personal history, and of the vivid, conflicted inner self.
One of Gornick's critical contributions since she began writing in the mid-1960s has been to reveal how these things are all bound and braided together, inextricable on the page as in life, and how we might come to know ourselves better through the act of reading. Her introduction to the new book opens with a vital comparison: the likening of rereading a book to lying on an analyst's couch. Books, like people (and the people who write them), are not static. They live, have lives, help us to live; they contain time and all its intimate possibilities. To understand them is, and also constitutes, a life's work. And we do not always get things right the first time.
If Gornick's recent The Odd Woman and the City (2015) — with its dialogue-punctuated urban rambles, essayistic asides, hilarious and heart-rending anecdotes, street scenes, and interleaving of literary references — could be read as a follow-up to her acclaimed memoir about her relationship with her mother, Fierce Attachments (1987), then Unfinished Business is a natural companion to The End of the Novel of Love (1997). In that collection of essays, the author turned her acute attention to a handful of writers and their concepts (conceits!) of love — most specifically, the ways in which "romantic love" (an idea that, like "men" and "women," had become outdated and unstable in our post-feminist era) could no longer convincingly hold as a central literary structure for experience and self-knowledge. Classic writers like D. H. Lawrence, Kate Chopin, Jean Rhys, Willa Cather, Christina Stead, Virginia Woolf, and Edna O'Brien are reread with startling revisionist clarity. It is not that the works of these authors no longer compel or touch the reader, but that "their situation no longer signifies" as it once did — and, in the worst cases (Raymond Carver, John Cheever, and Andre Dubus get a rough going over), they maintain a painful status quo: "Romantic love now seems a yearning to dive down into feeling and come up magically changed; when what is required for the making of a self is the deliberate pursuit of consciousness."
This emphasis on consciousness, illumination, and the hard but necessary work of knowing the self is core to Gornick's literary enterprise, along with the sense that we have always within us the tools necessary to see our lives afresh. At each turn, we can reread, and so reinterpret, the versions and visions of life (literary, flesh and blood) that are offered to us. Indeed, we must — it is a duty to pay attention, to look harder, to question what is given, to desire more, to demand something different and better — to evolve.
Unfinished Business operates within a similar framework. The introduction features vignettes, memorable from previous books, of Gornick growing up in a Marxist household, reading voraciously "to feel the power of Life with a capital L as it manifested itself (thrillingly) through the protagonist's engagement with those external forces beyond his or her control." We see the young author working the feminist beat for the '70s Village Voice, meeting iconic women's libbers, finding her voice as a writer of "personal journalism," and reaching a critical turning point: "The inability to see oneself primarily as a working person: this, I now saw, was the central dilemma of a woman's existence." And there is the glorious return of Rhoda Munk, whom readers might remember from Gornick's long essay "Tribute," published in Approaching Eye Level (1996), and who also shadows sections of The Odd Woman and the City. Here she is recollected again, at a dinner at Gornick's house, where this well-known feminist writer is silenced by a colleague for "interrupting" a male speaker holding forth at the table (we've all been there). In response, her face hardens and she spits out, "Why you ugly little man, don't tell me to stop speaking!" (Rhoda Munk is a pseudonym, though I have often wondered if she is named after George Gissing's Rhoda in his 1893 novel The Odd Women, which is about, as Gornick describes them, "[W]omen who can't make our peace with the world as it is.")
In "Tribute," Gornick recounts this exchange with fear and relish, viewing Rhoda as an embodiment of the refusal to sit and swallow in silence the meager offerings afforded women. As with Gornick's reassessments in The End of the Novel of Love, in which she expresses shock at the paltry depiction of female characters in literature old and new, Rhoda rejects the expectation that her own story should be in service to a male protagonist. This is why we read, and reread, and reread again — for to reread is to revise, and revision is a kind of revolution. Unfinished Business takes us somewhere else with the same anecdote — further down the line of self-knowledge, through the aftermath of second-wave feminism, to the "unfinished business" that fuels Gornick's present interest in rereading. Regarding the failure of '70s feminism to deliver truly revolutionary change and the wholeness of being women had hoped for, Gornick describes herself and her compatriots: "We became then, many of us, a walking embodiment of the gap between theory and practice: the discrepancy between what we declared we felt and the miserable complexity of what we actually felt more apparent with each passing day." Decades later, Gornick looks back on the resultant inner turmoil:
The contradictions in my own character rose up daily to plague me, and patterns of behavior I had paid no attention to suddenly loomed large. I had always thought of myself as one of those ordinarily decent people who placed a high value on what is generally called "good character." Now I saw that I did nothing of the sort. In conversation I was cutting and confrontational, at family affairs bored and dismissive, in the office self-regarding to a fault. Although I pined endlessly for intimate connection (I thought) I nonetheless sabotaged one relationship after another by concentrating almost exclusively on what I took to be my needs, not at all on those of my friend or lover. The narrowness of experience to which my own self-divisions had consigned me — how appalling that now felt!
As someone who has also often burned with righteous indignation — failed to restrain a sharp tongue, held bluntness as truth, struggled to feel intact — while suffering an abstract, almost moral sense of duty, this passage was succor. Which is not to say that rage is not useful and that discontent does not have its rightful place. To read Gornick's unabashed insights, with their hallmark clarity and searching self-scrutiny, is balm for the soul in uncertain times: this new book arrives at a good moment.
In Unfinished Business, Gornick extends the thorny place between theory and practice to the wider struggle of the conflicted self — "the perniciousness of the human self-divide: the fear and ignorance it generates, the shame it gives rise to" — that we all experience to some degree, and to our great detriment. She shows how we are kept from ourselves by the social systems and structures of power that order our lives, how our tendencies conspire to undo us, how we must fight against them tooth and nail. She cites Chekhov — a specific quotation that can be found nestled somewhere in almost all of her publications and interviews — "Others made me a slave but I must squeeze the slave out of myself, drop by drop."
It is to this end that Gornick pursues her present rereadings of D. H. Lawrence, Colette, Marguerite Duras, Elizabeth Bowen, Delmore Schwartz, A. B. Yehoshua, Natalia Ginzburg, Pat Barker, J. L. Carr, Doris Lessing, and Thomas Hardy. In each essay, through extended analysis that unfolds prismatically, a former reading that enshrined the passions of a different self in a different time is turned on its head: where sensual experience in Lawrence's Sons and Lovers (1913) once represented freedom, it now confines us to emotional blindness; where desire in Duras's The Lover (1984) once intoxicated, it now endlessly defers our ability to achieve self-knowledge; where Jewishness in Schwartz's "The World is a Wedding" (1948) and Yehoshua's short stories once gave rise to powerfully idiosyncratic voices that railed against the dominant Western culture, it now destines us to blindered insularity; where plucky nihilism in Barker's Regeneration (1991) was once admirable defiance, working the system from the inside, it now leaves our sense of freedom damaged and compromised.
I say "our" and "us" because, reading Gornick rereading, there is the persistent feeling that we — readers, writers, authors, characters — are all in it together, trying to grasp the bigger, ever-shifting picture of why we do what we do and to find the tools to illuminate, reveal, question, mourn, and grow. If this sounds serious with a capital S, it is. "Great literature," Gornick writes, "I thought then and think now, is a record not of the achievement of wholeness of being but of the ingrained effort made on its behalf." But for Gornick, rereading, like reading, is also about pleasure, good company, playful internal dialogue, and intimacy. She recalls moments when she has been entirely absorbed, transported by the act of reading:
The companionateness of those books! Of all books. Nothing can match it. It's the longing for coherence inscribed in the work — that extraordinary attempt at shaping the inchoate through words — it brings peace and excitement, comfort and consolation. But above all, it's the sheer relief from the chaos in the head that reading delivers.
In her 2008 collection of essays The Men in My Life, Gornick writes about the poet and critic Randall Jarrell, who believed that "[r]eading […] gave us back ourselves in a way that no other kind of non-material nourishment could match." When you read, an inner voice begins speaking to you in full thoughts, in conversation, until "there are two of you in the room: you and your responding self. Now, you've got company, you're connected. No longer do you feel alienated, not from yourself, not from others." Reading nourishes the inner life and helps us to hear the other voice within — the intimate, responsive voice. Jarrell also felt that the value of criticism, as well as the challenge of writing it, was equal to that of poetry and fiction. The critic, like the poet or the novelist, is just as alone, Jarrell wrote: "Criticism demands of the critic a terrible nakedness: a real critic has no one but himself to depend on." We are often drawn to write about figures with whom we feel a kinship, and in Jarrell's ideas about criticism I see parallels with Gornick's commitment to the practice. As she said in a 2008 interview published in the Boston Review:
I feel about writing criticism as I would about writing out of imagination. It has exactly the same responsibilities as any other kind of writing. Criticism is a window through which the writer looks and sees the world. What's most important is those particular eyes and that particular vision and that particular way of seeing. Which, if you're lucky, grows more and more coherent as you grow older. It's a way of looking at things that I've found myself applying, not mechanically, not by virtue of agenda. So that there are all kinds of things I don't feel obliged to read because I don't feel they will deepen my way of seeing the world.
Hers is a particular kind of big-minded, big-hearted criticism that is about generosity, empathy, and facing oneself in one's writing and opinions — rather than writing for the sake simply of having an opinion. That doesn't mean Gornick doesn't dish out some zingers now and then (here she is, in another interview, on Norman Mailer: "Brio is good, brio is inspiring. But Mailer's leaves me with the taste of ashes in my mouth, because it's in service to a sense of life I find pathetic when not odious"), but that her practice of the form reaches further, twines the personal with the critical, makes them part and parcel of the same enterprise.
The essays in Unfinished Business are hybrid forms in which literary analysis, close reading, personal narrative, anecdotal aside, and sudden revelation alternate and combine. Which is to say they are essays par excellence, in the best, most old-fashioned sense of the form, à la Montaigne, De Quincey, Woolf, Orwell, Ginzburg, James Baldwin. One chapter, on Elizabeth Bowen's wartime novels, moves with sinuous agility from the author's slowed-down narrative and spell-inducing "involuted syntax" to a consideration (via Adrienne Rich) of Emily Dickinson's splintered renderings of psychological extremity, then back to Bowen's characters with their "acclimatization to deadened feeling," which "allows us to adapt ourselves to the atrophied heart" — and then on to Bowen's own damaged heart, her cold childhood in Ireland, and her lifelong affair with a charming but callous and self-serving womanizer. Gornick reads the beautiful and brilliant Eddie of Bowen's The Death of the Heart (1938), destined — by social class and his own unsatisfied striving — for resolute emotional detachment, as a fictional precursor to the seductive, destructive role Bowen's lover ultimately played in her life.
Gornick's own life features just such an "Eddie," a man named Daniel, who is passionate and engaged but who somehow seems not quite able to feel — a rich and vivacious soul who is nonetheless driven to pathological lying and unfaithfulness. When Gornick confronts him about these contradictions, he tells her with studied rue:
That's just me passing for normal. I've studied people for years to see how they act in various situations […] and I've taught myself to imitate them. […] In the end they all leave me, as you will leave me, and y'know, when you do I won't even feel lonely. I'll just feel weary. Weary to death. You know that word, inanition? It's got my name on it.
Well, at least he had a good vocabulary. Gornick stays with Daniel years longer, at once compelled and repelled by her fearful recognition that a person might harbor a wound or an emptiness so existentially deep that he can feel nothing — the same awareness she perceives in Bowen's characters. At the close of the essay, we are left with a brief recollection: "One night a few years ago Daniel suddenly turned up on my doorstep, wanting to know why I had let him hang around for so long. 'Ever figure out what was in it for you?' he asked." Gornick lets the question dangle.
Reading this essay, I thought of Elizabeth Hardwick, who wrote in Sleepless Nights (1979) of "the tendency of lives to obey the laws of gravity and to sink downward, falling as gently and slowly as a kite, or violently breaking, smashing." And of Gore Vidal, who wrote that "the true confessors have been aware that not only is life mostly failure, but that in one's failure or pettiness or wrong-ness exists the living drama of the self." These are both writers who, like Gornick, excel at seeing the big picture — in the classic literary sense: how each life turns along the axis of human drama, searching for that mute and yearning something more. This clarity of vision is what gives Gornick's work its rare and particular force — the awareness that to write is a moral act: one builds a version of the world and offers it up for consumption, creating possibilities and making choices, down to the level of the sentence, about how this world is made. Writing makes real, and possible, the human desire to live on a symbolic level. And how we put things together matters, a great deal.
Unfinished Business opens with a note stating that the book contains portions of the author's previous publications, repurposed here to new effect: "I have felt free to 'plagiarize' myself, as it were, precisely because my subject here is re-reading, and I have found it useful to 're-read' myself by changing the context within which the thoughts inscribed in these passages first appeared." In her essay on Duras, a scene of childhood trauma detailed in Fierce Attachments and The Odd Woman and the City repeats, much as traumatic memories do, shifting and hinging to the context at hand. Her essay on Ginzburg features passages from The Situation and the Story (2001), Gornick's influential guide to writing nonfiction, seeing their resonant lessons anew in Ginzburg's unflinchingly personal prose: "To make vital use of one's own part in the situation — that is, one's own frightened or cowardly or self-deceived part — is to provide the essay with narrative tension."
Encountering these familiar passages, among others, embedded in new writing felt uncanny, magical, comforting — a kind of meta-experience of Gornick's own chronic rereading, with the added layer of me rereading her rereading herself as she rereads the work of writers who have stuck with her. The effect is to telescope reading and writing, in past, present, and future tenses: we are all patchwork and collage, haunted for better or worse by our experiences and ideas, and how we have tried to reckon with them — in life and in writing. "After all," Gornick writes in The End of the Novel of Love, "is a writer's life not all revision, nothing but revision? How else does thought clarify, and work deepen? How else move from insight to wisdom? See all around a thing, then down to the center? Create a world in a book, not just a glimpse through a open window?" Readiness and receptiveness are all: not only to live, but to read and reread, to write and rewrite consciously — that is the real business of our lives.
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Clean energy may yet provide common ground
Opinion | May 9, 2019
by Jim Hartman
Progressive Democrats in February rolled out their Green New Deal — a 14-page resolution introduced by New York Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez and Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey. While non-binding, it calls for massive public investment in a "10-year national mobilization" to exorcise carbon from the U.S. economy.
The 10-year Green New Deal mandates generating 100 percent renewable energy and removing greenhouse gas emissions from manufacturing and transportation. Renewables currently make up only 17 percent of U.S. electric power generation, despite enormous federal and state subsidies.
The plan provides for "upgrading all existing buildings in the United States and building new buildings to achieve maximal energy efficiency, safety, affordability, comfort and durability, including through electrification."
While millions of jobs would be destroyed in creating this new green world, the resolution says the government would also guarantee "a job with a family-sustaining wage, adequate family and medical leave, paid vacations, and retirement security to all people of the United States."
The Green New Deal means that all carbon energy and jobs would be purged — but China would suffer no such limits on its fossil-fuel production. Republicans have torched progressive Democrats over the cost of the Green New Deal, which the American Action Forum, a conservative think tank, estimates at between $51 trillion and $93 trillion over a decade.
Remarkably, the Green New Deal has met with support from liberal interest groups and the six Democratic presidential hopefuls — Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand, Cory Booker, Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar and Elizabeth Warren are co-sponsors.
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell saw political advantage in calling the Green New Deal resolution up for action on March 26. The Senate rejected the Green New Deal in a decisive 57-0 vote that divided Senate Democrats.
All Republican senators opposed the measure. They were joined by four senators who caucus with the Democrats — Joe Manchin, Kyrsten Sinema, Doug Jones and Angus King. Forty-three Democrats were placed in the politically embarrassing position of voting "present" on the resolution, rather than take a stand on a measure that many believe to be wildly unrealistic and politically untenable.
Progressives claim the Green New Deal to be "aspirational" rather than a specific plan. But, critics point to the cautionary tale of California's high speed rail. $10 billion in bonds were approved a decade ago, but the project was beset by uncontrolled costs. Gov. Gavin Newsom abandoned the project in February as "too costly" when completion estimates reached $77 billion. California now has a government-owned "train to nowhere" — from Merced to Bakersfield.
President Trump enjoys mocking the Green New Deal and routinely belittles climate change as a "hoax." However, Republican Sens. Lamar Alexander, Mitt Romney and Lindsey Graham believe climate change to be real and that humans are a contributing cause. They are working on GOP climate approaches.
Alexander calls for "A New Manhattan Project for Clean Energy," after the crash program to develop a nuclear bomb during World War II. He proposes spending the next five years meeting 10 big challenges. His strategy essentially calls for using government research dollars to ramp up use of a whole range of alternative energy sources.
Alexander's strategy engenders controversy as well in its reliance on nuclear energy as a key alternative to fossil fuels. He also calls for developing nuclear-fusion technology, expanded natural gas use and development of carbon-capture technologies.
While the Green New Deal has proven politically divisive and unattainable, Alexander's aim is to give Republicans and Democrats a bipartisan common ground path to a dramatic increase in government research funding for clean energy.
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Have you ever had this thought, "What will look good on my college application?" Most students have. There is one thing that can influence a college's or company's decision for the better about accepting or hiring a person, and this is by learning a second language. As people from other countries continue to immigrate into America, it is becoming more important than ever to learn a second language, even simply to appear more marketable and have something to set an applicant apart from their competitors. One of these benefits includes how great it looks on applications for just about anything. Others include the convenience when traveling, making new friends, improving the fluency of the speaker's native language, having a type of a secret code among friends, and preventing Alzheimer's.
There are many reasons for knowing multiple languages that look good on applications. First, on college applications, it shows that the applicant is willing to devote time and energy into learning something. This in turn, will show the reviewer that you would be willing to work hard on college studies as well. On a job application it makes an employee more marketable because even if it is an employee at McDonald's, there is always the possibility that a customer might not speak English. If you know this other language you would be able to communicate with the customer. Also focusing on the McDonald's example, if an applicant and another potential employee had exactly the same qualifications the company would look for little things to set the two apart. The fact that you know another language is a huge achievement. That makes the person unique when compared to other candidates. Another reason is that many companies have sister companies in other parts of the world or do business with companies in other locations. Knowing the language of the other company's country would make someone stand out in the sea of applicants. By knowing this language the applicant would be able to communicate with people from the company to solve problems. This could also increase the possibility to travel abroad to the location.
One major part of learning a language is often being able to travel to a foreign country. Being able to speak the native language has many benefits in and of itself. When you travel to another country you are truly representing America. David Barry made this, "Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages." By putting forth the effort to speak with people in their own language it shows that the traveler is doing their best to take care of themself in a different environment. The locals can see their effort and are more willing to help. It's also good because this way the traveler can navigate, go to restaurants, and speak with the locals without the help of a friend or translator. Speaking to the locals is often a highlight of many people's trips. It gives insight on a new way of life and can develop new friendships.
It is easy to get to know people with whom we have much in common. These are people with whom we would most easily bond. Now, what if these people spoke two entirely different languages? They may not even meet each other simply because they couldn't understand each other. If one or both of them learned the other person's language, they could create a lifetime friendship. Especially with social networking at an all-time high, the ability to converse with people from around the globe becomes easier each time a new website is created. Often times the creators learn other languages to help their website to appeal to people of other cultures.
Many scholars, authors, artists, poets, and other people of professions that require an excellent grasp of their own language, study another language as well. This is often because learning another language helps to improve your English. For most people, the beauty of their own language is taken for granted because they have nothing to compare it to. When studying a foreign language students are able to see how the sentence structure differs from their own language as well as the vocabulary and conversational aspects. Often times, people are taken aback when studying languages such as French or Spanish due to how melodic the sentences sound. Or, as is the case with languages such as Chinese or Japanese, people are confused, but intrigued, at how the simple change in pitch can create a new word. The way that ideas are presented in other languages are often different than they are presented in English. Learning another language can help you to construct your sentences in a way that is more meaningful, creative, and precise than it would have otherwise been. With this, an author's writing will become more fluid and will have an effect on more people.
One fun reason to learn another language is that if the student has study it with a friend, both of you can converse without others knowing what you are saying. This is something that can be immensely helpful when speaking to family about private matters while out in public, or making important decisions in public. For example, a person may be making a large purchase, such as a car, and want to discuss some of its issues but you don't want to have others eavesdropping. In this situation you could use your other language, especially if it is a language that not many people study, to talk to whoever came along with you. Eavesdropping is something that everyone does, but also something that everyone hates. This problem is easily avoided if the student studies a language that not many people study. Another way to help this is if you can find someone to study with. That, in and of itself, is encouragement. It keeps you accountable and learning with a friend is much more enjoyable.
Did you know that there is an effective way to help the minds of you and your loved ones? An average of 1,252 people per day are diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. With the astonishing numbers such as this one, about a million people are affected indirectly, at least, each day; Alzheimer's disease is a real concern to most people. As may develop Alzheimer's or another type of cognitive disorder as they age. Many studies have found that bilingual people, who begin to develop these types of disorders, although their physical condition may be similar, retain normal mental ability for much longer. Monolingual people begin suffering the effects much sooner. Although they both suffer, these studies suggest that it can prevent the onset Alzheimer's for as long as a few years before it the disease takes its toll on their brain. This is because the part of your brain that it first affects is protected by the exercise you have provided it with. This "exercise" is how the brain keeps from meshing the two languages together in your mind. Learning this new language helps because it creates new neural pathways, the more neural pathways that are created, the more "backup" the brain has once the disease starts to have an effect. What many people don't realize until it's too late is that prevention is often preferable to the treatment.
With so many benefits at the price of about an hour a day, it is shocking that more people are not learning new languages. Even those who already know a second language can only be benefited by the new knowledge of another language. People who live in a larger city, one which has a community of Chinese, Italian, or Hispanic population along with many others, have the advantage of being submerged in another language. By showing an interest in learning the language anyone can gain new friends, a healthier brain, a new secret code against the narrow minded, and a new skill to create an outstanding résumé. As an added bonus, studies show that the easiest way to learn a language is to immerse yourself in it. As students, increasing the number of skills to add to applications for college is crucial. It shows that the student is hardworking, well rounded, and has ambition. As difficult as learning a language can be, it is well worth the time, money, and energy spent on the endeavor.
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Stephen Copland studied at the National Art School, Sydney (ASTC Diploma in Painting,1969-1972), in 1988 he was awarded a Graduate Diploma in Education (University of Technology Sydney) and a Masters of Fine Art, University of New South Wales (1995). In 2013 he was awarded a Doctor of Creative Arts, University of Wollongong. He has been visiting lecturer at Darwin University, Northern Territory and Assistant Professor University of Sharjah, College of Fine Art and Design, United Arab Emirates and has conducted workshops/lectures at Vermont State College, Burlington USA, Universite Saint Espirt de Kaslik, Lebanon, International Kongress Fur Kunstlerische Bildung Kirchliche Padagogische Hochschule, Graz, Austria.
Copland's art shifted direction in 1990 after the discovery of heritage objects from a painting and drawing practice to an interdisciplinary focus. The subjective and symbolic aspects of identities in transit, themes of migration and human rights have been at the forefront of his practice. Since 1986 he has had 33 solo national and international exhibitions, including exhibitions in museums in Cuba, New Zealand and Melbourne. Copland has been a selected finalist in the Wynne, Sulman and Blake Art Prizes.
His Migration Series 1992-2002, a project of international exhibitions earned him a Commendation Award from the Consulate General of Lebanon (1999). He is the recipient of a number of awards and cultural grants including a Migration Heritage Grant, an International Programs Grant - NSW Ministry for the Arts, a Vermont Studio Center Grant and was recently awarded in 2011 the Moya Dyring Studio, Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris AGNSW.
In 2006 Copland was invited to conduct workshops on migration heritage at Art Education Models and Perspectives, Grazer Congress Graz and Europe Compact V Paedagogische Akademie Graz, Austria. The multimedia CD-ROM Migration Series was presented at the Symposium - New Media and the Global Diaspora Roger Williams University, Bristol, Rhode Island (2007). In 2008 he was invited to present at NAFSA Annual Conference & Expo Shaping the Future of International Education Washington, DC, USA, and the 32nd InSEA World Congress at the international Society for Education through Art, Osaka, Japan.
In 2009 Copland was keynote speaker (and presented workshops to art educators) at the International Congress for Art Education ITATE Graz, Austria. His work was selected for the touring 5th International Artists' Book Triennial Vilnius, Leipzig Book Fair Germany (April), including Galerija Arla Vilnius, Lietuva (May), Art Centre Silkeborg Bad, Denmark (September), Gallery Hubner Bokform, Halmstad, Sweden (Spring 2010), Seoul International Book Arts Fair, Korea and for Dog-Eared: Revealing the contents of artists books, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana USA. Raft – the Drifting Border, Macquarie University Art Gallery (2009) reflects Copland's interest in utilising art as voice for human rights and social justice. He was invited artist for publication in the 2010 December issue of Human Rights Defender, a tri-annual magazine, Australian Human Rights Centre, University of New South Wales.


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Q: toggle effect with react I'm trying to create a switcher with react that when I click it it change the price of another component and when I click again over it return the original price.
My first approach was this:

*

*I crated the input with the type of a checkbox so when checked is true change the price and when is false return the original price, some kind of toggle all handled with the funcion handleDiscount
 <input
   checked={toggle}
   onChange={handleDiscount}
   type="checkbox"
   className="switch-input"
 />

*I created the handleDiscount function that change the toggle from his initial state which is false to true and and after that a ternary operator that check the condition to set the price.
 const handleDiscount = () => {
   setToggle(!toggle);
   toggle === true ? setPrice(10) : setPrice(20);
 };

the problem is that when is click over the checkbox again the price don't change.
I have to work with the useEffect hook? which it's the best approach for this kind of work?
for example I wrote the same code with my knowledge in vanilaJS and work, here is the example:
const switcher = document.querySelector("input");

switcher.addEventListener("click", () => {
  const priceBasic = document.querySelector(".priceBasic");
  const pricePro = document.querySelector(".pricePro");
  const priceMaster = document.querySelector(".priceMaster");
  if (switcher.checked == true) {
    priceBasic.innerHTML = `<h1>$49.99</h1>`;
    pricePro.innerHTML = "$69.99";
    priceMaster.innerHTML = "$89.99";
  } else {
    priceBasic.innerHTML = "$19.99";
    pricePro.innerHTML = "$24.99";
    priceMaster.innerHTML = "$39.99";
  }
});

A: Issue
The main issue here is that state updates are asynchronous, the toggle value isn't the updated value you just enqueued.
const handleDiscount = () => {
  setToggle(!toggle);
  toggle === true ? setPrice(10) : setPrice(20);
};

Solution
Use an useEffect to toggle the price state when the toggle state updates.
useEffect(() => {
  setPrice(toggle ? 10 : 20);
}, [toggle]);

...

const handleDiscount = () => {
  setToggle(toggle => !toggle);
};

Alternatively you can make the checkbox uncontrolled and directly set the price state when the checkbox value updates
const handleDiscount = (e) => {
  const { checked } = e.target;
  setPrice(checked ? 10 : 20);
};

...

<input
  onChange={handleDiscount}
  type="checkbox"
  className="switch-input"
/>

A: I am assuming toggle is a state variable and setToggle is s state function, in which case, this won't work:
  const handleDiscount = () => {
    setToggle(!toggle);
    toggle === true ? setPrice(10) : setPrice(20);
  };

As setToggle is asynchronous. So toggle does not actually toggle by the time it reaches toggle === true ? setPrice(10) : setPrice(20);
You should instead use useEffect and listen to the change of toggle like so:
useEffect(() => {
   toggle === true ? setPrice(10) : setPrice(20);
},[toggle])

And get rid of toggle === true ? setPrice(10) : setPrice(20); inside handleDiscount altogether.

A: @codemonkey's answer is correct but if you want something a little simpler:
function YourComponent() {
  const [price, setPrice] = useState(20);
  const [toggle, setToggle] = useState(false);

  const handleDiscount = () => {
    const newValue = !toggle;

    setToggle(newValue);
    setPrice(newValue ? 10 : 20);
  }

  // ...
}

Or if price is only computed based on toggle:
function YourComponent() {
  const [toggle, setToggle] = useState(false);

  const price = useMemo(
    () => toggle ? 10 : 20,
    [toggle]
  );

  const handleDiscount = () => {
    setToggle(!toggle);
  }

  // ...
}

A: While your specific question of getting the toggle to work has been answered, your example in vanilla javascript hasn't been addressed.
Ideally you wouldn't be hard coding different price options directly into the component, but would be serving an array of products which each held their own specific details including pricing options.
There are various ways of handling this, but in the snippet below your toggle has become a pointer stored in state in individual Product components that can be used to access the appropriate price property of the product object passed to that component. eg.
let product = {
  id: 1,
  name: 'Product One',
  defaultPricePoint: 'red',
  pricePoints: {
    red: "$49.99",
    blue: "$69.99",
  }
};

const [pricePoint, setPricePoint] = useState('red');

let price = product.pricePoints[pricePoint];
// "$49.99"

The change handler simply sets the pricePoint state using the value of the input that changed (which were mapped from the keys of the object's prices to begin with). And a useEffect is implemented to set the initial radio selection based on a default set in the product object.
The result is two fairly simple components and decent separation between data and logic.
(note the use of key values that are unique for each mapped element, and not index values)

const App = ({ products }) => {

  return (

      {products.map(product =>
        <Product key={product.id} product={product} />
      )}

  )
}

const Product = ({ product }) => {
  const [pricePoint, setPricePoint] = React.useState();

  React.useEffect(() => {
    setPricePoint(product.defaultPricePoint)
  }, [product]);

  const handlePricePoint = (e) => {
    setPricePoint(e.target.value);
  }

  return (

{product.name}

{product.pricePoints[pricePoint]}

      <form>
        {Object.keys(product.pricePoints).map(p =>

            <input
              type="radio"
              name="price-point"
              value={p}
              onChange={handlePricePoint}
              checked={pricePoint === p}
            />
            {p}

        )}
      </form>

  );
}

ReactDOM.render(
  <App products={products} />,
  document.getElementById("root")
);


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John Micklos, Jr. is an award-winning education journalist and the author of more than 50 books for children and young adult readers. His books include picture books, poetry books, and nonfiction titles spanning a wide range of topics and age ranges.
Poetry picture books include Daddy Poems, Mommy Poems, Grandparent Poems, and No Boys Allowed: Poems About Brothers and Sisters, all published by Boyds Mills Press.
In September 2017, Penguin's prestigious Nancy Paulsen Books imprint published John's counting book, One Leaf, Two Leaves, Count with Me! Illustrated by Clive McFarland of Ireland, the book enables young children to count their way through the seasons as they watch leaves growing on and later falling off a tree. Glowing reviews in Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews praise the book's bouncy rhymes and bold artwork. The book was included as a selection in Dolly Parton's Imagination Library for 2018.
In terms of nonfiction, John contributed to the best-selling National Geographic Kids book 125 True Stories of Amazing Pets. Other nonfiction books include a six-book series about the Revolutionary War for elementary students as well as high school-level biographies of Muhammad Ali, Elvis Presley, Jennifer Hudson, Amelia Earhart, and Jerry Spinelli (all published by Enslow), and an elementary-level biography of Alexander Graham Bell (published by HarperCollins/Time for Kids).
He has written numerous books for Capstone, including books about the Lewis & Clark expedition, the 1918 flu pandemic, the Challenger disaster, the Alamo, the Civil War,the Harlem Hellfighters, Navy SEALS, the First Amendment, the Fourth Amendment, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and many others.
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John has done K-12 school visits in Delaware, Pennsylvania, Texas, New Jersey, Indiana, and Maine, speaking on topics ranging from poetry writing to crafting nonfiction to principles of journalism. In fall 2015 he served as the keynote speaker for Young Authors' Day at Keystone College in Pennsylvania. He has spoken at the national conferences of the International Literacy Association and the National Council of Teachers of English, as well as state conferences in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, and Delaware. Visit the Presentation or Contact page to find out how to bring John to your school or conference.


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