I have debated posting this because first I know I did the right thing and second I still be awful about the whole thing but maybe someone here can offer ideas just in case.
As some of you know I am newly unemployed (a good thing) and am home full time with my kids, ages 4, 12 and 16 AND our 2 dogs. My husband takes our older dog to work with him everyday so Fletcher is with us. I have had VERY STRICT rules with my kids about Fletcher. Especially concerning my 4 year old, surprisingly Fletcher and my 4 year old had gotten along very well. We had no problems with my son adjusting to having a puppy around, SUPERVISION required. My son even likes to help brush and feed Fletcher which is great. I do not think this "issue" was caused from my son's dislike of Fletcher.
Well, this morning we were in the car going out, Fletcher was in his car seat behind the passenger seat and my son was in his car seat behind the drivers seat. My son who a strong-willed child, began to have a fit about something and because he was mad at me (I think) he reached over and pulled poor Fletcher ear....my puppy yelped, I turned around to see why and within half a second I had the car pulled over and jumped into the backseat between them. Yes thur the seats!!! I was SO angry with my son, I unbuckled him and screamed him his face YOU ARE NEVER NEVER NEVER TO HURT FLETCHER AGAIN I was so mad tears where streaming down my face then I turned attention to Fletcher I just held him and cried. My poor puppy.....my son was shocked he was just watching me. I am a very strict parent when it comes to MY rules......I do not spank my children for the same reasons I would never strike a dog. However, I don't usually scream in my children's face. When I was calm and sure no lasting harm was done to Fletcher I did have my son say sorry to Fletcher and me. I also sat on the side of the road explaining to my son why he couldn't hurt anyone, including Fletcher. It was not my proudest parent moment. But again I did do the right thing. I spend the rest of the day reminding my son, your never going to do anything to hurt Fletcher again are you? Every time he would say no Mommy sorry Fletcher.
If you have any other suggestions please be honest.....I can take it.
I don't have kids, but I think I may have reacted the same way as you.
My parents would have spanked me, then explained (very loudly) that if I hurt the dog they'll call the police, and I'll go to jail forever.
I'm not sure it's the best route, but it sure scared me straight.
It's funny they spent my whole childhood scaring me that they'd send me to prison if I did anything wrong, but now they complain that I never visit. And they wonder why I never get homesick.
I think NurseSophie is on to something, if you don't mind some ramblings from someone who has fairly recently "been there, done that" ;) . Your son is adjusting to being at home, and he's having to deal with having a "younger sibling" who takes Momma's time. As excited as our daughter was to get a puppy (she was 6), there was some definite "sibling rivalry" going on! "Don't pick the puppy up", "Be careful, the puppy is delicate", "I need to (take the puppy out, feed the puppy, etc.)", "She's tired, just leave her alone and let her nap" and on and on, plus the snuggles the puppy got and our daughter sometimes has to share...there was definite jealousy happening. It was kinda funny when we realized what was going on (since she's an only child, we weren't expecting to have to deal with that issue), but we had to address it all the same and it took a while for all the adjustments to be made ;) . One thing I would say, is if you have an issue with your son and Fletcher, just nip it in the bud and then drop it, don't "harp" to get your point across- it will just make him resentful, especially since if Fletcher accidently hurt your son, you know constantly bringing it up to Fletcher won't do any good, lol, and your son will notice the difference, even though he probably isn't old enough to comprehend the difference between the actions, say, Fletcher being bad and jumping on him and accidently scratching him, and him pulling Fletcher's ear- it will just register as favoritism in his young mind that you were only mad at him so long for what he did ;) . Maybe having a talk with him about how much more of a "big boy" he is than "baby dog Fletcher" would help? It helped some with our daughter, along with letting her help with "the baby" (which it sounds like you are already doing :) ).
I know it scared you, and next time it happens (it will, your son is only 4 ;) ), you won't be so surprised that it happened, nor that it brought up such intense feelings about it and you'll be able to deal with it swiftly and definitely again, without so much of the adrenaline taking over. I admit, my adrenaline still goes through the roof when I hear Rose yelp, and heavens, I have been known to, um, *raise my voice*, lol, but I don't panic- as much ;) . Don't forget, you're adjusting too! But being at home and watching "your boys" grow up together will be a great experience for all of you, IMH(SAHM)O :P .
I agree with Nurse Sophie and Furrfoot that your little boy is probably having a bit of sibling rivalry. As a mom, I will freely admit that I have done too much yelling in my parenting and I don't think it was effective. If he was jealous, having you yell at him then chew him out and fuss over Fletcher may have reinforced his fears of being supplanted (if that's what he's going through). My daughter has exhibited anger and frustration towards our animals sometimes, and I do make it very clear that it is not acceptable EVER to do so. But afterward, I try really hard to see things through her eyes and hear her out. Maybe your little guy needs more of you? The way you are including him in caring for Fletcher is great. I'd say do more of that. Praise him for being a really good big brother so he feels pride in having the puppy around. You dont want to position yourself with your son as being Fletcher's protector. You want your son to join you in that role. And remember--this too will pass!
I totally agree with what the others have written. You have the best interests at heart for both your son and Fletcher :) and you responded exactly as most of us here would, but my instinct is that your son may well be feeling a little left out of things -he's no longer your baby -fletcher has taken that role now. Like you said, he is also adjusting to being at home with you all the time too. So, keep doing what you started-playtime and interaction with Fletcher supervised, but maybe work on some 'priority' time with your son, where he is no.1 with you.
Best of luck- I know it will all work out for you.
As a Mum my main concern would be that if your son hurt Fletcher in a tantrum Fletcher would bite him back!
All dogs no matter how loving and gentle they usually are have the ability to attack when threatened or hurt.
If I were you I tried to explain to your little boy that you love him more than Fletcher but no way is being mean to the dog going to be tolerated.
Leo was under my older daughters feet once and she shoved him to the side. He yelped and I did tell her off.
Just make sure your little boy doesnt feel he's no longer your "baby" but taking out your temper on Fletcher is a definate "NO!"
First off, I think this indicates you must travel with Fletcher safely in a crate -- a dog seat is not safe for him anyway, if he is in reach of a child that young who will not understand limits of what he is doing and also has poor self control of any child that age. Please do not leave Fletcher exposed especially as you have now had a very serious warning. As Meljoy rightly says -- the next step could be a dogbite that will not only risk Fletcher's life (he can be required to be pts if you have to go to the ER with your son as a result!) but could set up a dangerous relationship between son and dog and make Fletcher permanently fear aggressive with kids. You CANNOT risk this.
There are lots of links in a thread pinned in the training section solely on raising kids with dogs. Please look at them -- there is excellent advise there and a good book recommendation. It is very hard to manage young kids and a puppy and as you now have Fletcher it has to be your responsibility to make sure all are kept safe and when needed, separate, with only very closely supervised interactions, ideally with kids sitting, not running around, and never out of arm's reach of an observant adult, with kids under 7 as a general rule.
A lot of breeders will not home puppies to families with kids under age 7+ not because cavaliers don't like children, but because it is a huge extra burden that owners tend to totally underestimate to have kids and a puppy mix safely, especially the small and vulnerable puppies like cavaliers. As you note so rightly, having a puppy is exactly like having all the extra work of a new small child. You are working hard make this all work but be sure to really understand the material in the links I have on kids and cavaliers as this to me is absolutely critical for safety and to make sure you don;t end up with a fear aggressive dog that needs rehoming. So many cavaliers I got into rescue from families that said the cavalier 'loved' kids were so clearly totally anxious around kids because so often interactions obviously were never supervised and the dog was manhandled (childhandled?) in what owners unfortunately viewed I guess as 'normal' family activities. If 'lucky' the dog simply ends up anxious and fearful and tries to avoid kids. :( But they can easily and up fear aggressive which is a tragedy for family, dog and kids and can end up with a dog biting a visiting child -- and the dog put down by a dog warden as a result.
So this is a really, really critical issue to take on and manage carefully.
Whew! Deep breath! Kids will be kids, and at age 4 they have a hard time controlling their emotions. Yes, it was shocking your son hurt your pup on purpose but maybe your reaction was a little extreme. Everyone has their bad mommy moments.
I would agree with Karlin, put your pup in a crate while traveling in the car. It will be safer for everyone.
Just FYI, I have small kids too and I have had the same incident happen with my pup and child. You know what, the pup forgot about it quickly and the child moved on. I would never let my child abuse an animal but I would base my punishment on the age of the child. Hug your kid and tell him you were sorry for yelling but remind him in your home people are nice to animals. You also should have an action plan in place if this occurs again.
The last thing I want is a dog who is afraid of kids or a kid afraid of dogs. I knew when I got Fletcher the fact that I have a young child in my house it would REQUIRE my extra effort. I am 110% sure I can do this, and we can all be well cared for and loved.
Fletcher and my 4 yr old have NO UNSUPERVISED interaction at all now. Yes, its extra work but Fletcher can't have the run of the house yet because of house training and the whole I eat fabric/ will pick up anything behavior Fletcher is going thur (I hope with training and time...this will become more manageable) And I dare you to unsupervised my son, he is a handful sometimes. I will continue including my son in Fletcher things as we go again supervised. I have not had too many problems with them together except it took my 4 yr old a few days to realize I wasn't fooling around with the rule about no little boys in Fletcher space or crate. Handled, we have that down now. And we have also had a time when Fletcher accidentally hurting my son, a scratch from a little paw while we were playing fetch. I was rolling a ball inside the house and Fletcher was chasing it sometimes bring it back, my son was sitting in my lap Fletcher greeted us happily with the ball. No, I did not scream at the dog! I handed Fletcher to my husband and attended to the scratch on my son (washed and loved) These things are to be expected with a child and a dog. Mistakes prevented but nobody has a crystal ball so sometimes you just have to deal with them as we go. I guess this is kinda the same but different.....my son did this on purpose but really he was mad NOT ACCEPTABLE but not the end of the world. If I don't correct it that's a different story, but again I'm 110% committed to making this work.
Honestly, I was shocked by my own reaction!!!!! I think this will go down as one of my least proudest Mommy moments.
First things first Fletcher is going back into the travel crate in the car, Karlin has very good points about that. Fletcher is safer and I need to drive not turn my head 100 times a second.
Then because we are all home now, I'm going to make sure I give him son some just Mommy and him time. Also I will catch my son acting nicely with Fletcher and praise the heck outta him just as I would Fletcher for being a good boy.
I know all this, mistake made.........moving on. However, prevention is the BEST if and when something like this happens again (with either hurting each other) I'm not going to react like a NUT again.


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nytheatre.com q&a preview by Illana Stein | September 25, 2012
What is your job on this show?
What type of theater do you like most to work on?
I like to work on shows that you are still thinking about the next day. I want theater to be a collective conversation that begins in a process with actors and designers and eventually expands when you add the audience. If you are not talking about the themes of the play the next play, than I am not sure the play had a big enough message to affect its audience. I appreciate shows that entertain and help us escape but I personally love the ones that inspire change, discussion, and self-reflection.
Why do you do theater (as opposed to film, or TV, or something not in the entertainment field)?
For me, shows are visceral. I like to be moved and affected by them. There is something exciting about being in the room with a live audience and knowing the show won't be the same because of that. After the show last week, I spoke with several audience members. One has a google alert to see this show-every time it is done in NYC from staged readings to full staged productions. I spoke with others who knew nothing about the show and were seeing it for the first time. Both had completely different experiences with the play-but both walked away moved by the message of it. I only hope we do this powerful story justice because that means we did our job.
In your own words, what do you think this show is about? What will audiences take away with them after seeing it?
I think it is play about searching for our true identity. Once we are comfortable with who we are- we are open to connection with others. Callie finds that in her life- true, pure connection, a time where two individuals not only find themselves but also each other. The world and and the chaos and the noise stops around them. This the exact moment we are all searching for. For them no matter what happens next, the universe can not take that away. This moment offers so much hope in such a complex play. I think we all need a little more hope right now.
Which "S" word best describes your show: SMOOTH, SEXY, SMART, SURPRISING?
I would like to say "Substance." After all, this play was first written in 1998 and there is a reason it is still being produced 12 years later. This play has a lot to say and has beautiful way of saying it without hammering in just one message. I think we got the sexy, smart, and surprising part covered- but I would also like to add soulful. Another "S" word is Sanguine Theatre Company. I am very excited to be working with such a passionate group of artists. It is thrilling to work on a show about New Yorkers in our own backyard. It makes a personal story that much more relevant. If I had to describe this company, I would stay young but STRONG and vibrant. They are introducing this play to a whole new generation and that takes bravery to fill such big shoes.
Theater is a necessary ingredient in democratic societies. Do you agree or disagree, and why?
Absolutely!! There could not be better timing for this play. Twenty years from now, I hope to look back on this story and say a play that questions our rights as individuals and people and makes us question and label ourselves is not relevant. Unfortunately, this year more than ever, I feel my rights as a woman being questioned, so I think most audience members will be able to relate to this play. We have made so many steps forward but it is not enough and perhaps, plays like this can not only remind us where we have come from but also how far we still need to go!
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Q: SEO Friendly URLs Laravel Working on a project with Laravel 5.2 and just trying to implement SEO friendly urls and remove the id aspect from the url itself.
Usually you would do something like this:
Route::resource('post', 'PostsController');

where you would have in url "www.mywebsite.com/post/12" - the id of the post
now if i replace that to its title, in my controller I have to now search by their title in the database. If there are two posts with the same title i get an error since it is finding more then one record
So my question is, how do I allow the same title in posts to be used along with SEO friendly url and still search by id or something along those lines in the controller show method.
Thanks in advance for the help.

A: As mentioned in the comments you can add a unique column called slug to your database table.
One approach to this would be to make the column nullable and then generate the slug after the Post has been created.
In your Post model add the following:
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{
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        $post->generateSlug();

    });
}

/**
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protected function generateSlug()
{
    $slug = str_slug($this->slug);

    if (static::slug($slug)->exists()) {
        $slug .= '-' . $this->id;
    }

    $this->slug = $slug;
    $this->save();
}

/**
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public function getRouteKeyName()
{
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}

/**
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 * @param $slug
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public function scopeSlug($query, $slug)
{
    return $query->where('slug', $slug);
}

So, once the Post is created the generateSlug method is called. This will make a slug out of the title of the Post. It will then just do a quick check to see if a Post already has that slug and it so it will just append the id of the Post to the end of it. It will then save it.
The getRouteKeyName method just means that with your Route::resource Laravel will automatically use the slug field rather than the id to resolve model.
Obviously, feel free to change how you make the slug unique, I've just used the id as it's a simple example.
Hope this helps!

A: You can keep the id in the url and change the route with id and slug so that if you have any link which has id will be redirected to corresponding proper url with slug.
You can read this article to have some detailed idea.
Sites like Stackoverflow, medium etc. follow the similar thing to make the URL SEO friendly.

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Stage designer
A graduate of the art school affiliated with the Repin Arts Institute, Mokhov was admitted to the Department of Costume Design at the Moscow Technological Institute in 1992.
In 1994 2000, he studied at the State Repin Academy Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, at Professor E.S. Kochergins theater studio. Since 2000, he has worked in many theaters of Russia, as well as in theaters of Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Korea.
He is member of the Musorshchiki Garbage Collectors art group; he took part in exhibitions, installations, and performances (including the Dust. New Archeology exhibit, which took place at the Tzars Lobby of the Alexandrinsky Theater in 2003).
Alexander Mokhov has decorated the following performances:
2004 - The Marriage by N. Gogol (Director A. Cherpin, the Russian Theater of Lithuania, Vilnius);
2004 - Singing Ghosts (A Mythic Opera by Irina Peyeva after the motives of the Poem with No Hero by A.A. Akhmatova). Direction of Anatoly Praudin;
2005 - The Moon (Director V. Kramer, the National Theater of South Korea, Seoul);
2006 - The Low Depths by M. Gorky (Director Ye. Chernyshov, the Baltic House Festival Theater);
2007 - The Red King (A musical and drama fantasy after I. Babel, B. Verbin; Director V. Zolotar, The Russian Drama Theater of Riga, Latvia);
2008 - Salt by B. Pavlovich (Director B. Pavlovich, The Russian Theater of Estonia, Tallinn);
2009 - Faryatyevs Fantasies by A. Sokolova (Director N. Lapina, The Russian Theater of Estonia, Tallinn);
2009 - Vampilov. Plays by Alexander Vampilovs compositions The Unparagoned Nakonechnikov, A House with Windows on the Field and The Crows Grove. (Director Oleg Yeremin, the Smaller Stage of the Alexandrinsky Theater).


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4 VR/AR Companies For The Metaverse: Part 1
March 22, 2022 - 5:12 am
Today starts a new series on virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) companies that, while some of them may not be fully utilizing the Metaverse and Web3, have the expertise, leadership and technology to do so.
1. The Imaginarium Studios
2. Digikore Studios
3. DecorMatters
4. nDreams
Credit: The Imaginarium Studios
The Imaginarium Studios is a performance capture and virtual production studio based at London's historic Ealing Studios, and a brand-new facility in Atlanta, Georgia.
Founded in 2012 by actor-director Andy Serkis and film producer Jonathan Cavendish, The Imaginarium Studios specializes in applying and developing performance capture and virtual production tools to create emotionally engaging and believable digital characters for new generation storytelling in film, television, games, AR, VR and mixed reality.
The Imaginarium Studios also provides production and creative consultancy services for studios worldwide. While providing body capture, facial capture, full performance capture, and pre-and post-visualization services with a virtual production toolkit. The studio can deploy to live-action set capture, and site-specific real-time capture for live performance events.
From consultation, casting, script and character development, rehearsal and movement coaching, through to pre-production and principal photography, our goal is to provide a bespoke service in order to guide the client and help bring their virtual character concepts to life.
Credit: Digikore Studios
Digikore Studios is a Pune, India-based visual effects studio founded in 2000 by Abhishek More that offers a full suite of visual effects services managed by a seasoned production team.
Its artists utilize the latest licensed software, hardware and proprietary tools to become an extension of customers' productions' existing infrastructure.
Digikore Studios' talented artists and reliable VFX and VR pipeline are ready to meet any challenge and its outsourcing potential can meet the demands of any project.
In the past, the studio has helped production companies like Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, Paramount, Fox, CBS, and Sony by delivering their finished effects on time and on budget.
Credit: DecorMatters
DecorMatters is building the world's first blockchain-based creator ecosystem to reshape the trillion-dollar interior design and furniture shopping industry. By using the power of creativity and converting the stressful home renovation process into a relaxing social gaming experience, DecorMatters is re-inventing the traditional customer journey for the massive industry.
With 6,000,000+ active designers, 2,000,000+ creations, 30+ national brands, 1,000,000+ furniture items, and unlimited collaboration opportunities, the leading creativity platform continues its rapid growth by leveraging AR, AI and Data, and Blockchain technology.
Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, DecorMatters was founded in 2016 by Farris Wu and Fay Yang and has raised a total of $11.5 million in funding over three rounds.
Credit: nDreams
Based in Farnborough, UK, nDreams was founded in 2006 by Patrick O'Luanaigh.
A world-leading VR game developer and publisher, nDreams combines innovation with excellence and has developed and published games with some of the world's biggest gaming and entertainment partners across all leading VR headsets and has raised north of $11 million in funding to date.
AR, Augmented Reality, DecorMatters, Digikore Studios, metaverse, mixed reality, nDreams, The Imaginarium Studios, Virtual Reality, VR, Web3


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Hillary Clinton's doctor pronounces her "fit to serve" as she releases new health details
By Stefan Becket
Hillary Clinton's campaign released Wednesday new information about the former secretary of state's health, days after she was diagnosed with pneumonia.
The letter from Clinton's doctor, Dr. Lisa Bardack, stated Clinton "continues to remain healthy and fit to serve as president of the United States."
Bardack said Clinton was diagnosed with pneumonia after a chest CT scan Friday found "mild, noncontagious bacterial pneumonia." Bardack put Clinton on a 10-day course of the antibiotic Levaquin and said she "continues to improve."
Bardack also wrote Clinton is in "excellent mental condition" and is "recovering well."
The disclosure of the medical information comes after Clinton became "overheated" and struggled to stand Sunday after a 9/11 commemoration. Hours later, the campaign disclosed Clinton's pneumonia diagnosis for the first time, prompting critics to question Clinton's commitment to transparency.
On Wednesday, Donald Trump revealed new details about his health during a taping of the Dr. Oz television show.
Clinton canceled events for the first three days of the week to rest, and Bardack said she had evaluated Clinton several times since then.


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Cockettes in New York: A History of Hype
New York is dead, everyone complained. The last thing to hit town was Jesus Christ Superstar, and it was so unbelievably crass. The major art openings were over, and the holiday parties hadn't yet begun. Dull dull dull. But didn't Rex and Truman rave about some divine hippie drag queens from San Francisco who actually wear glitter on their "private parts" as well as their eyelids? Right. "The Rockettes like rocks, and the Cockettes like—" How utterly outrageous! And weren't they opening down in the slummy crummy East Village along with Sylvester, a black rock queen who sings falsetto? How off off can you get? And isn't this the Year of the Gay? — it's all right for men to dig other men in public. Everyone understands now. And hasn't the underground press been covering the Cockettes favorably for over a year, even though the regular San Francisco press accepts their ads but doesn't review them? Isn't it time for something different? Let's discover the Cockettes!
Not since Andy and Edie had New York made a group of society's freaks its very own darlings in one short week — seven days to scale the highest media peaks, only to fall opening night with a great dull thud. How come? One reason is that the media-heavy audience came opening night expecting to see some sort of new art form and got comatized instead; but more importantly, the Cockettes were victims of the Big Hype — that peculiar New York phenomenon whereby people and things are declared hot, cool, in, out, under, and over. The poor little gold differs of '71 from San Francisco made a big mistake — they believed it.
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Reality is fantasy and fantasy is reality to the Cockettes. Their life style is carefully contrived to blur if not actually diminish the distinction between the two. So when the Big Apple gave them the Hype they were ready for it. "Darling, we're the toasts of the town, they love us to death!" said Big Daryl, a Cockette leader. Never mind the hassles with the producers, the el cheapo production, the lack of a sound system to rehearse with, the cockroaches and the broken plumbing in the hotel, or even the parties the nights before that made rehearsing almost impossible, because the Tinsel Tarted Broadway babies were having their pert little behinds kissed bought up and downtown and Ziegfield wasn't around to ask if they could sing or dance. Nobody did. "I'm Goldie Glitters, and I go to all these ritzy penthouses every night, and these photographers keep wanting to take my picture."
Performance for the Cockettes is mostly an excuse to live a freaky life style. Why be a hairdresser or work in a third-hand store if you can be a Cockette and spend all day getting dressed up like your favorite movie star? The drag's the thing — the Tinsel Tarts spend a lot more time on themselves than they do on the shows. In San Francisco the Cockettes are pure hippie-nostalgia street theatre with rinky tink piano, clever lyrics, and tons of glitter thrown in for good measure — gay hippies plus women who love to show off for their friends. There are far too many freaks in San Francisco for them to be considered avant garde, political, or revolutionary. It's a $2.50 midnight show at a funky old Chinese movie house where you can watch Betty Boop festivals and dig the spectacle. Stoned at 2 in the morning, you don't care if it moves. The indulgent audience is half the show, and knows it.
Andy Land 3: The Shot Heard Round the Demimonde
But the Big Apple declared the Cockettes media myths, the "fashion and faggot aristocracy" came out en masse to view their drag for inspiration, the ticket price shot up to $6.50, and Time, Life, Women's Wear Daily, etc., all showed up to review them. The opening night's theme song should have been "Please baby," pant pant, "give us some new freaks to love."
It's easy to love the Cockettes. Their zany behavior turns on even the most hostile people, and every personal appearance is a major production. Integral to the making of the myth were the word-of-mouth reports spread around town by key writers, editors, or celebrities who saw the Cockettes behave outrageously at the Whitney, in Max's, and at all the posh parties where they were honored guests. Everyone expected they'd be better on stage, but that's a misconception. The Cockettes are much better in real life. I traveled with them for 10 days, and it was pure insanity all the way.
At the San Francisco airport pandemonium reigned from the moment the Cockettes stepped off their chartered bus, along with three tons of luggage that was heavy on the cardboard and tinsel. "Remember, girls," Pristine Condition yelled, "The password for New York is Sugar Daddy."
"Did you see that?" Mr. whispered to Mrs. Iowa at the baggage check as Link floated by in a one-piece latex bathing suit with a beauty queen banner of girl scout badges pinned to the front. And when Wally — in six-foot plumes and a pair of plastic Halloween pumpkins filled with gold tinsel suspended over his breasts — began beating his tambourine and asking for "tricks or treats," four people canceled their flight.
Bystanders were treated to a wacked-out visual feast. In addition to 35 Cockettes, Sylvester's musicians came with their old ladies, groupies appeared bearing gifts (Grasshopper, a favorite Cockette groupie, even flew to New York), several dozen awestruck airline employees gathered to gape, and one uptight tv cameraman was furious. "This is worse than a double X movie." Nobody's mother came to wave goodbye.
Candy Darling, Where Were You the Night Jean Harlow Died?
by Arthur Bell
The "Cockette party" of 45 had to sit in the back of the huge 747, along with a few straight passengers who got mixed in. They either opted for stereo headphones and tuned out for the duration of the flight or slumped way down in their seats behind books on California redwoods.
The stewardesses couldn't handle the commotion. One dropped her oxygen mask when the Cockettes applauded her act, and her partner, a blank-looking blond in a pinafore, just stood watching quizzically as one of the Cockettes called out, "Hey, we made a movie about a girl whose drag looks just like yours — Tricia's Wedding."
The Tinsel Tarts spent the rest of the flight "ritzing" around the economy lounge of the 747 where they allowed curious passengers and shy closet queens to buy them beers. One little old lady in an orlon sweater set and mink hat squinted at Wally. "Are you girls in high school or college?" "Neither. We're Miss America contestants." A belligerent drunk confronted Lendon, resplendent as Carmen Miranda: "Are you a man or a woman?" "We're both, honey, and that's just for starters!" By the end of the long flight everyone was getting very cozy. The Cockettes were singing show tunes for fellow passengers, who joined them, happily posing for one another's Instamatics and Nikons just as if the Cockettes were some stray Indians they had found in the Grand Canyon. Smile click. Smile click. "My wife won't believe this. Heh heh. Thanks a lot."
The flight marked the culmination of more than three months of broken promises and tight money while trying to plan the New York tour. The New York people had originally come to them. The Cockettes were not actively seeking an eastern tour. Two New York producers had strung the Cockettes along from July to October, promising a Halloween opening at the Fillmore East. The Cockettes — most of whom are on welfare — stopped doing new San Francisco shows, and when the rent fell due at their three communes, they couldn't pay it. One of Bill Graham's yes men, after taking a month to make the decision on the Fillmore, decreed "The Cockettes will diminish the Fillmore East's reputation as a rock palace," which ought to be news to the neighborhood junkies.
Full Moon Over the Stonewall
by Howard Smith
Finally a San Francisco rock lawyer got them the Anderson Theatre, a block down from the Fillmore. Harry Zerler, a young, former talent scout at Columbia Records who had never produced a theatrical show before, but whose father, Paul Zerler, had been around the business for years, flew out to California and saw the same wild and funny Cockette show that Truman Capote loved and that sent Rex Reed to wondering enthusiastically, "Will the Cockettes replace rock concerts in the '70s?" The Cockettes were thrilled. Long snubbed by the local aboveground press, they had at last been discovered by the big-time New York media. Zerler promised to bring the Cockettes to New York, and the myth began.
Even though the Daily News wouldn't print Reed's raving review, the Washington Post and many other papers throughout the country did. I wrote a favorable piece on the Cockettes for The Voice, and Rolling Stone published an article a short time later. Those three articles became the basis for all the hype in the Cockettes' ads: "This is the most outrageous thing I've ever seen" —Truman Capote. "Insanity becomes reality, fantasy becomes truth, etc." —Village Voice. Both quotes were taken out of context, but that sort of hyperbole is justified by the producers in terms of the amount of money it takes to transport 45 people across the country and put them up for three weeks, especially people who sign the hotel register "Miss Creemah Ritz," "Eatapuss Rex," and Scrumbly. Paul Zerler figures it cost him $40,000. The Cockettes didn't think setting the ticket price at $6.50 was fair, but they didn't fight it — after dividing the money 40 ways they were only making $75 a week each plus lodging. The Cockettes have also yet to see a penny of the profits from their film, Tricia's Wedding, but they are usually too engrossed in fantasy to seriously worry about finances.
The Rolling Stones at Altamont: Day of the Angels
by Grover Lewis
Until the moment they landed, the Cockettes had no idea where they were going to stay. Rumor had it they were going to be put up in a one-bath, three-bedroom house in Connecticut with 25 cots set up in the basement. They got the Hotel Albert instead, in the Village, where on a good day the hallways smell somewhere between old socks and vomit. Miss Bobbie, 17, the youngest of the Cockettes and so beautiful he was offered a modeling audition at Harper's Bazaar, cried upon seeing the Albert. She expected maybe the Plaza. The rest of the troupe amused themselves with cockroach counting contests in their suites. There was no room service. Pretty tacky for swishy West Coast queenies, but not so different from the Haight either.
It was very difficult to reach any of the Cockettes by phone at the Albert since several had changed their names when registering. Big Daryl vacillated between Harold Thunderpussy and Miss Creemah Ritz and confided his fears of being typecast forever as the whorehouse madam, especially after two janitors mistook him for Mae West on Halloween night.
If the hotel wasn't "fabulous enough," the Cockettes' arrival at Kennedy had more than made up for it in advance. Danny Fields, the skilled rock PR man, had everything arranged. About 100 freaks were on hand, including two third-stringers from the Factory, and Superstar Viva's husband, Michel, shooting videotape. Few of these people had actually seen the Cockettes perform, but that didn't seem to matter. The rest of the New York airport crowd watched silently bemused with a so-what-else-is-new expression that contrasted sharply with the jovial hilarity at the San Francisco airport. I sensed New York would be a lot more difficult for the Tinsel Tarts and wondered if the Cockettes felt it too, but they were surrounded by local admirers, including suave Errol Wetson in total black velvet, the "fabulous millionaire hamburger king" as Dennis Lopez, Sylvester's manager, referred to him. Suave Errol had wined and dined Dennis one night along with Warren Beatty and Roman Polanski. Dennis, used to paying for his own meals with fellow record company flacks, was properly impressed. (Actually Wetson is part owner of Le Drugstore and heir to a chain of 153 hamburger joints.) Suave Errol was dying to introduce the Cockettes to New York — there's more to life than burgers — and thereby launch himself as the arbiter of a new social phenomenon in the process. "I heard about the Cockettes from my friend Truman, and New York's been so quiet, so dead, something's gotta happen. No, I haven't seen the Cockettes perform. I don't have to. I can feel their vibrations."
Punk '77: Danny Fields Is a Number-One Fan
by Frank Rose
Later that night Wetson hosted the Cockettes' first New York party at this empty East 62nd Street townhouse. Diana Vreeland, grande dame of Vogue, designer Oscar de la Renta, and executives of the hamburger corporation came along to catch the action. The Cockettes gave it to them — in wild costumes they uninhibitedly danced, sang, romped, and stomped. Wetson's comptroller, perhaps sensing his young boss's enthusiasm could have some future financial implications, commented, "They're great at a party, but can they act?" Diana Vreeland was much more positive. She was truly impressed with the originality of the Cockettes' drag and felt they had put on the best fashion show she had seen in a long time. "What's so marvelous is that they look happy, truly happy, and that's so rare these days, don't you think?"
Meanwhile the Cockettes were digging the plush surroundings, their usual milieu being a couple of joints or a bottle of Cold Duck in the Haight. "Wow, we've never been treated like this before, with champagne and all," said Lendon. After Suave Errol's bash the group made a pilgrimage to Max's Kansas City and turned the place upside down. In two days they completely revitalized the sagging dragging atmosphere at Max's, and according to the regulars, "brought the place alive again." After the third straight night there the Cockettes were allowed to charge hamburgers and Harvey Wallbangers, which was fortunate since they hadn't been paid and were actually going hungry — but they were getting lots of attention, hype hype. The first night at Max's, Pristine Condition fell out of her chair when she saw Trash star Joe d'Allesandro. She swiped his bread roll, brought it back to the Albert, shellacked it, and sewed it on a hat. That night rock critic Lillian Roxan told Prissie, "I always wondered what it was like to take New York by storm, now I know." That was the sort of comment that got passed around town by word of mouth to turn on the general populace.
During the week before opening night I must have gone to 27 parties with the Cockettes, on the East Side, on the West Side, in the Village, in penthouses, lofts, museums, and basements, gotten a total of 15 hours sleep, met two thirds of the freaks of New York, and began to suspect that all of Manhattan was gay. New York was bored and the Cockettes were so joyous they were almost wholesome. The Tinsel Tarts became the hottest numbers in town. They got a standing ovation at the Brasserie on Halloween night, then a ride home to the Albert in Marlene Dietrich's silver limousines, which stretched the fantasy beyond all imagination. "The chauffeur, who evidently just cruises around picking up freaks, told us she's out of the country and doesn't own a television set. Honey, it was outrageous, and lucky, because we didn't have the money to pay for a cab."
The Acid Profiteers: Drop-Out, Turn-On, Cash-In
by Mary Jo Warth
The fantasy hardly ever stopped. Robert Rauschenberg flipped for Pristine Condition, John Rothermel, and Goldie Glitters at a Whitney opening and gave them $1000 when he found out they were hungry and broke. "The only people who support artists are other artists." "Honey, that was Bingo with a B," Prissie said. Taxi drivers usually turned off their meters and often gave the Cockettes drinks and joints. After Goldie Glitters offered to put one particularly polite cab driver on the guest list for opening night, he declined, saying he had a "very square wife." "That's okay," said Lendon, dressed in a girl scout uniform with saddle shoes, "so do I." Candy Darling acted like a perfect lady and invited them to her press conference. Holly Woodlawn taught them how to scarf dinner from fancy hors d'oeuvre trays. The Fontainebleau wanted the Cockettes for December!
Throughout this madness the Cockettes starred, wherever they went — at the erotic film festival party, the Screw anniversary party, Le Drugstore, where Suave Errol gave them another party and fed them, and in front of the clicking camera phalluses of scores of photographers who invited them to pose. David Rockefeller, shy about attending opening night, sent his chauffeur down to the Anderson to buy 11 tickets for the second night's performance. Rex Reed, given 30 free tickets by Paul Zerler, was organizing a busload of celebrities to attend opening night and Suave Errol was throwing the after-the-opening party at guess where?
Days began at 2 p.m. and ended at dawn. The Cockettes were living just like the girls in the '30s musicals they parodied. Stage door Johnnies that would have freaked Busby Berkeley were saying goodnight early in the morning. One evening at Max's, after underground star Taylor Mead's boyfriend stood on a table, sang to Taylor, and simultaneously stripped for the benefit of the Cockettes, I asked John Rothermel, "Madge the Magnificent" in "Tinsel Tarts," and Big Daryl, in Eleanor Roosevelt drag for the evening, what they thought of New York. "I know we're degenerate," said John, flipping her boa, "but we weren't prepared for the nihilism of New York."
Woodstock: The 10th Largest City in the United States
by Steve Lerner
Early on in the week the New York establishment press began to get very interested. The Post ran a story saying the Cockettes were to drag shows as Niagara is to wet. Life's entertainment department was dying to cover them, "but we'll never get it past our managing editor." They sent a photographer opening night anyway. Esquire decided to go ahead with a story, after having been told about the Cockettes over a year before. A Harper's Bazaar editor was ecstatic. "That sounds just like the sort of thing we want to get involved with." Time and Newsweek were coming to the opening, as was the Sunday Times. Women's Wear was really in a tither. They wanted to run something but felt uncomfortable using the word Cockette in print, especially since they had recently run an interview with rock star Sly Stone and quoted him as saying he was "happy as a motherfucker," and a big Chicago garment mogul had canceled his subscription. The Washington Post, already hipped to the Cockettes from Rex Reed's review, sent the same reporter to cover opening night who had just returned from writing about some other queens at the Shah of Iran's 2500th anniversary bash. Even the local tv news, usually much too conservative to cover drag shows was sending a crew to film at the Anderson. I was approached to revive a Cockettes film project I had begun and then dropped. We decided to go ahead, and got the Maysles Brothers to shoot opening night.
The producers were spending an inordinate amount of time hyping instead of insisting the Cockettes rehearse, but Harry Zerler still wasn't satisfied that the Cockettes had done enough to promote the show(!). "I haven't seen any handbills passed out on the streets of New York," he yelled at Sebastian, the Cockettes' mild-mannered manager, "and why are they so filthy? All the front rows are littered with bottles of Ripple. Next time I'm going to produce a bunch of compulsive anal retentive people."
Danny Fields said the Cockettes were the easiest act he had ever promoted. "I haven't seen such enthusiasm from the press since the Rolling Stones' tour of the U.S. in 1969." Opening night was over-sold and everybody was clamoring for tickets. "No," barked one of the theatre staff. "I don't care if John and Yoko come to opening night. There's no excuse for mediocrity."
Every once in a while reality would rear its ugly head. Dusty Dawn felt terrible. It was bad enough that New York laws prevented her from dancing on the stage with her son, 16-month-old Ocean Michael Moon, "the world's youngest drag queen," on her back, but Ocean had developed a terrible rash. Eight-and-a-half-month-pregnant Sweet Pam's baby dropped. And Wally, still wearing the plastic Halloween pumpkins, had had an emergency appendectomy five days before leaving San Francisco and was afraid he had glitter in his incision.
Tompkins Square: The Youthquake and the Shook-Up Park
by Don McNeill
The producers didn't have time for such mundane details. They were trying to cope with an inadequate budget — the Cockettes had kicked out 24 footlights and the soundmen were scrounging around for $25 mikes — but the Big Hype continued, so I took Wally and Dusty to the emergency room of Columbus Hospital for a check-up. Nonplussed would hardly be the word to describe the good sisters upon Wally's arrival, but they remembered charity begins at home — they let him keep his 47 bracelets on. He had to leave his gold tinsel outside with me, however. The doctor told Dusty she obviously didn't bathe her baby. She was indignant. "I bathe Ocean twice a day — it's just in New York when he rolls around on the sidewalk he gets a lot dirtier."
By the end of the week the Cockettes had barely rehearsed. The sound system hadn't been installed and the Tinsel Tarts insisted they needed a different set. Harry Zerler balked, so the Cockettes stayed up all night Friday anyway, building a new, special-for-New-York cardboard set. On Saturday they could barely keep their eyes open. At dress rehearsal Saturday night the hastily put together sound system broke down completely. Such was the power of the Sunday Times, however, that three Times photographers interrupted dress rehearsal for over an hour to get "exclusive" pictures.
Meanwhile, Sylvester's three back-up singers had left for Washington to sing the Black National Anthem at the White House. From the Cockettes to Nixon? I would have believed anything at this point — but the girls didn't return and nobody knew where to find them. "They were last seen with the President."
Dress rehearsal was really the first full rehearsal. The Cockettes didn't know how to use mikes or project their voices and on the big Anderson stage they came across like a parody of a parody, only it wasn't funny — it hurt. Obviously opening night would be a painful experience, but the Cockettes didn't understand.
Stonewall 1979: The Politics of Drag
by Edmund White
They consistently refused to deal with reality. Sebastian, worried about technical difficulties, pronounced the show "great." Suave Errol didn't think so. What a dilemma — hundreds of people invited to his big party and his social standing was on the line. Where was Truman now that he needed him? Out in California.
The Cockettes declined rehearsals Sunday and toddled off to one more press party, at John de Coney's, a hip barber shop on Madison Avenue where scores of reporters and photographers were invited to watch the Cockettes get their hair done. Before leaving I asked Goldie if she didn't think it would be better to spend the time rehearsing, but the PR girl from the barber shop had arrived, not about to be thwarted. "But they're waiting for you and Jacqueline Susann will be there." Miss Susann never showed, but the Cockettes sipped wine under the dryers, posed endlessly for the 20 photographers present, and answered reporters' questions that were definitely a case of life imitating Grade B flicks.
The Crawdaddy man: "Is it true the Cockettes had an orgy via closed circuit tv?" Answer: "No." "Well then, what do you expect to get out of tonight's performance?" "Enlightenment."
Then Goldie divinely ensconced under the dryer, started telling her dreams to the film interviewer. "I dreamed I was an olive in a martini glass, but no one would swallow me — oh hello dahling, come be in my movie."
Opening night was everybody's movie, from Footlights Parade to Phantom of the Opera. According to Rex it was the "craziest, wildest in New York's history." The Big Hype had really worked. The Anderson was jammed. Hundreds of fashionables pushed and shoved their way through the one open door. Beautiful People and big-time celebrities had to plough through just like the hoi polloi. Literati, glitterati, and culturati rubbed shoulders with dreaded freaks and every important drag queen in town. Some groupies had sprayed their bodies completely silver, others carried teddy bears, one even brought a whip.
Hog Farm's Wayward Bus
by Ron Rosenbaum
The WWD photographer was beside himself. How could he shoot Gore Vidal, Allen Ginsberg, Angela Lansbury, Alexis Smith, Robert Rauschenberg, Rex Reed, Peggy Cass, Diana Vreeland, Nan Kemper, Clive Barnes, Sylvia Miles, Kay Thompson, Bobby Short, Elaine, Bill Blass, Estevez, Tony Perkins, Dan Greenburg, Nora Ephron, Mrs. Sam Spiegel, Jerry Jorgensen, Ultra Violet, Candy Darling, Taylor Mead, Gerard Malanga, John Chamberlain, Cyrinda Fox, Holly Woodlawn, Jackie Curtis, the entire cast of Jesus Christ Superstar, the President of Gay Lib, a dozen Vogue editors, two real princesses, and the night clerk at the Hotel Albert?
At 8:30 Sunday night, when the doors to the Anderson were supposed to be open, Sylvester was still on stage rehearsing. His backup singers had suddenly reappeared at 7:30 and now he was arguing with one Sweet Inspiration and one Supreme who he had hired to take their place. The Cockettes, dead tired and not yet dressed, were quietly munching turkey sandwiches in the front row while half the "ritzy penthouse" people of New York were shrieking and fighting to get in the door. Truman sent an encouraging telegram — "keep it gay light and campy" — and the delighted Cockettes dedicated the show to him.
The audience came to get wrecked and thrilled by a fantastic new set of freaks. But as soon as the curtain went up it was all downhill. The audience was dying to be surprised, outraged, anything. They loved Sylvester, even after 45 minutes, but the Cockettes were hopeless. The sound system was terrible, the show was too slow to crawl, and the Tinsel Tarts were even too tired to be themselves. They forgot lines and bumped into each other, all this for the media heavies and literati. "My god, how could they disappoint us like this?" After 40 minutes, when Taylor Mead shouted "Bring back Jackie Curtis," people began to get up and leave. (Jackie should love the Cockettes. After being panned everywhere when Vain Victory opened, he's suddenly hot stuff in all the comparative reviews.)
Stones & Angels: Viewing the Remains of Altamont
One man in the audience, who had slept through the entire show, awakened and promptly vomited all over Princess Delores Rispoli, one of Rex's guests. The usher was indignant. "What are you, some kind of vomit freak?" It was a fitting climax.
The critics were unanimous. "Having no talent is not enough," declared Gore Vidal. "Dreadful," pronounced Women's Wear. The Sunday Times headlined, "For This They Had to Come From Frisco?" Lillian Roxon wrote the only favorable review, for the Daily News. She said the Cockettes were 15 years ahead of their time.
The party later a Le Drugstore was the expected mob scene. Inside Wally was trying to explain to an unsmiling woman reporter from Time, "But you don't understand, we're not professionals, we've never been professionals." And outside, late-arriving Cockettes were barred from entering because too many people were already inside. "But it's our party, let us in," pleaded Reggie.
By the next morning Suave Errol had dropped the Cockettes forever. Ironically the strong dose of failure reality opening night was like a shot of adrenaline for the Cockettes. By the second night they had improved considerably, and the audience loved them, but none of the hypesters were around to see it. The Cockettes blew it. They had embarrassed the media moguls and weren't about to get a second chance.
Harper's Bazaar no longer wanted to get involved. Dick Cavett made them sit up in the balcony, and David Frost's producer, alienated by Sylvester's "being nothing but a queen," canceled them one hour before showtime. The Big Hype was already looking for something new to swallow whole — and then spit out.
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A Mind for Data
Maureen Nolan February 12, 2019
Andrew Wei '20. Photo: Nancy L. Ford
Achievement. Ambition. American Dream. Capitalism. Free Competition. Free Enterprise. Maybe the most challenging part of the research for Andrew Wei '20 was constructing the dictionary of terms he would use to mine Google News data. But on the trail of research, Wei is seemingly unstoppable. He created a dictionary of not the typical one or two search terms but 38. That brought him some 30,000 data sets with which to work.
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And if that doesn't hit "big data" heights, the project required him to learn and employ big data research techniques. Wei analyzed data generated between 2008 and 2015 from all 50 states. His pressing question was why income inequality has grown persistently in the United States for 25 years. He wondered, too, why both the rich and the poor became more conservative — meaning opposed to income redistribution — as inequality grew. Could those things be related to the news they consume?
His research quest was to determine whether increases in income inequality cause people to seek out news stories that affirm the American dream — the belief that hard work leads to success. Call that belief personal individualism. He also looked at searches for stories that show that the economy functions best with minimal government intervention — economic individualism.
Wei found that yes, people do look for more stories about individualism when income inequality increases. He also found evidence of confirmation bias, meaning that people sought out news stories that reinforced what they already believed. Finding that bias is the really interesting part of his research, says Ann Owen, the Henry Platt Bristol Chair, Public Policy, and professor of economics, who advised Wei on the project.
"His results could explain increasing polarization about economic policy as people just seek out news that confirms what they already believed to be true. So, I think it is a very relevant conclusion," Owen says.
In the case of income inequality, reading news stories that emphasize individualism, the notion that hard work leads to success, can cause voters to overestimate social mobility and choose inefficiently low levels of redistribution.
Among other things, Wei has learned that he loves doing research, even though it doesn't always go smoothly. "In research, you'll come up with setbacks constantly, and it can be just about the most frustrating thing ever. You'll think you'll never find the solution, but you do. And when you do, well, it's quite awesome," he says.
Wei is a double major in economics and math who met Owen when he was that rare first-year student enrolled in her Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory course. In class, he was fairly quiet, but afterward he would buttonhole her to delve into the hardest stuff they'd covered. That made them kindred spirits; Owen, too, likes the hardest stuff, which in this case was long-run economic growth and income inequality.
The next academic year, Wei asked Owen for an opportunity to do research with her, and they successfully applied for a Levitt Center grant that funded a summer's worth of work with the Google News data.
At the end of the summer in the paper he produced, Wei pointed out that the news plays a role in voters' ability to make informed policy choices. Bias in the demand for news or in the supply of the news can cause voters to misperceive economic reality. "In the case of income inequality, reading news stories that emphasize individualism, the notion that hard work leads to success, can cause voters to overestimate social mobility and choose inefficiently low levels of redistribution," he wrote.
The rise in demand for stories of individualism as inequality grows implies that people seek out the stories to reassure themselves that they, too, can move up, or that they want to justify their positions at the upper end of income distribution. Wei also found that more conservative and more educated states demand more news stories of individualism, which implies that people tend to prefer news that aligns with their socioeconomic and ideological backgrounds.
His Levitt research concluded, Wei is exploring a related subject in an independent study with Owen. "The question now is, how does the supply of news stories of individualism respond to economic conditions and demand?" he says.
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To set foot in India's Vishnupada temple, the most important site in the sacred city of Gaya, is to absorb a sense of place and purpose. With its niches, shrines, and statues, the temple is rich with information, and every object tells a story about Gaya's complex history. This is why Associate Professor of Religious Studies Abhishek Amar wants students in his Dying, Death, and Afterlife course to experience Vishnupada inside and out.


The fixed pay scale, strongly supported by England's teachers unions, which standardizes teacher salaries across the nation, has resulted in severe understaffing and possibly led to poorer student performance, researchers find. The data shows that schools' inability to recruit and retain quality teachers, especially in areas where private schools provide more competitive salaries, might have lowered the average GCSE results by as much as one grade level.
Students attending schools in Manchester, Birmingham and the Home Counties were particularly impacted, according to the lead researcher, Professor Carol Propper of Bristol University. Overall, the insistence of the unions that uniform salary levels be preserved in all regions had a high likelihood of substantially retarding student outcomes.
The findings come at a time when the debate about public sector pay has reached fever pitch. Chancellor George Osborne has already announced his intention to overhaul the salary system for all public sector workers, including teachers, and would set salary ranges based on those paid to private sector workers employed in the region. The coalition government said that the changes would not only make the public sector job market more competitive, it would also lead to increased economic growth.
The proposal has already drawn threats to strike from unions representing the workers affected, but according to Professor Popper the opposition to the reforms is wrong-headed — especially in the education sector.
But Prof Propper said: "The nature of teaching in England means a large proportion of the work is discretionary – time spent lesson planning, engagement in after-school programmes, time invested in particular children – so there is scope for reductions in effort in response to lower relative wages.
Average classroom teachers currently receive £34,700 a year.
Although the salary levels for teachers are the same across England, there have already been some concessions to the realities of both the job market and the general cost of living. Teachers employed in London and its environs receive an additional £5,000 in pay to cover the additional expense of living in the city.
In the latest study, academics analysed exam results from almost 3,300 schools staffed by 200,000 teachers between 2002 and 2008. They also compared staff salaries in schools to average wage levels among other adults working within a 30km radius.
The study showed that a 10 per cent increase in the local average wage outside schools – relative to teachers' salaries – resulted in a "loss of one exam grade per pupil in the high-stakes end of secondary school examinations".


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The Mod Squad remake....almost worked Omar Epps & Claire Danes were good but Giovanni Ribisi as Pete Cochran........Oh Hell no !!!
Dukes......As silly & mindless as the show ...also on the plus side...Joe Don Baker & Burt Reynolds in the same Film !!!!
I've been pretty disappointed by all these remakes, including the Brady Bunch and most of all, Night Stalker.


Over the ages, the people of Greece have proved many times that they are very good at overcoming a crisis. Good for them, because they are facing a huge one now. And it hits child mental health services at least as hard as any other hard-won achievement. Dr Dimitris Anagnostopoulos, professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, underlines the seriousness of the crisis for all Greek families and gently lowers his voice when he speaks respectfully about the creative efforts of so many of his compatriots – often volunteers – that put all their energy and creativeness in surviving. The historic context is that since the early 1980's child psychiatry in Greece has been presenting a continuous development of establishing a modern community based mental health service system which now is under threat because of the austerity measures.
Dimitris Anagnostopoulos is coordinator of ESCAP for mental health of child and adolescent refugees and he will be a keynote speaker on this subject at the ESCAP 2017 Congress in Geneva. Learn more about this project.
Dimitris Anagnostopoulos and Eugenia Soumaki have published a well documented article about the state of child and adolescent psychiatry in Greece. ECAP Journal, issue 2, February 2013.
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Patient visits to Greek emergency units, outpatient departments, and mental health clinics in the National Health Care general hospitals have increased by 120 percent in the last three years. Source: Greek Ministry of Health.
Greek adolescent inpatient units showed an admission increase of up to 84 percent, with borderline diagnoses, severe behavioural disorders, acute psychotic crises, self-harm behaviours, and other similar conditions constituting 78 percent of the total cases in 2011, compared to only 48 percent in 2007.
The existing national healthcare system in Greece, CAMHS, which forms the core of the service provision system, now operates with ten to fourty percent fewer employees, who are not paid regularly and whose salaries have been cut by fourty percent. A large portion of the more experienced personnel has been forced into retirement. At the same time, the number of new cases has increased, and the demand for supportive work within the community (due to the collapse of social services) and schools (due to insufficient psychological services) has also increased.
A survey in a representative sample of both public and private child psychiatric institutions in Athens, Piraeus, and Thessaloniki between 2007 and 2011 (two years before and two years after the implementation of austerity measure) show a 39.8 percent increase in new cases in public outpatient services for children and 25.5 percent for adolescents, while percentages have dropped by a total of 35.4 percent in the private sector between the years 2007 and 2011. As a result, both the waiting list and waiting time are now longer. In most cases the waiting has tripled and is now longer than a month, while in special cases, it can be up to one year.


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Police have detained one suspect, a close relative of three of the children who were from the same family.
Ten children in all have gone missing in Njombe since the beginning of December and four have been found alive.
The children were taken from their homes at night when their parents were selling food at a market.


HCM CITY — Singapore franchising companies are looking to enter Viet Nam and will organise a conference in HCM City this month to meet with potential partners. Viet Nam's rapid economic growth and its young and dynamic consumers are the main reasons Singaporean franchisers are eyeing the market, Hsien Naidu, the director of Singapore's Astreem Corporation Pte Ltd, the organiser and a partner of the Singapore Franchising&Licensing Association, said in a press release.
Present at the Top Franchise Asia 2011-Viet Nam Edition on May 26 will be Singaporean franchises in the food, beverage, and lifestyle sectors like Country Chicken, Don's Pie, Empire State, Popeyes, Snackz It!, Auito Saver, Kooshi, Mondo and Pazzion, KinderGolf, and FMDS.
It would be a great opportunity for franchisers and franchises to come together and make a contribution to the development of Viet Nam's franchise market, Naidu said.
It would also provide business owners with knowledge of franchising, opportunities to expand their business locally and across borders, and meet established Singaporean brands that are ready to enter the Vietnamese market, she said.


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philly looting a gas station yelling "everything is free" food fight in there LMAOOOO riot things only pic.twitter.com/PB92dyLFKk — SUPERBOWL RIOTS (@perfection_y) February 5, 2018
Philadelphia Eagles fans celebrate the team's victory in NFL Super Bowl 52 between the Philadelphia Eagles and the New England Patriots, Sunday, Feb. 4, 2018, in downtown Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Some Super Bowl celebrations turn unruly
Philadelphia left to clean up after victory celebrations turned rowdy overnight
Feb. 5, 2018 10:05 a.m.
Philadelphia was cleaning up Monday after pockets of Super Bowl victory celebrations turned unruly overnight, with rowdy Eagles fans smashing department store windows, looting a gas station convenience store and toppling a number of the city's famously greased light poles.
The vast majority of revelers celebrated peacefully, and police made only three arrests, said Ajeenah Amir, a spokeswoman for Mayor Jim Kenney.
"Tens of thousands came out and celebrated this amazing victory, and but for a handful of bad actors, the celebration was peaceful and jubilant," Amir said. She lauded police for "their assistance in getting the crowds dispersed and people home safely."
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The victory parade is set for Thursday, and along the parade route, revelers can expect free Bud Light at 25 bars, thanks to a bet the beer maker made with Eagles offensive tackle Lane Johnson.
Just as Nick Foles and the Eagles clinched a surprising 41-33 victory over the New England Patriots in Minneapolis for the team's first Super Bowl title Sunday night, the scene more than 1,000 miles away in Philly was jubilation and pandemonium.
philly street light seesaw at the riot pic.twitter.com/wjqPbDRp3k
— SUPERBOWL RIOTS (@perfection_y) February 5, 2018
As time expired, crowds spilled into the streets to celebrate the Eagles' first NFL championship since 1960.
Revelers shot off fireworks, drivers beeped their horns and Philadelphians young and old descended on Broad Street, the main thoroughfare that last hosted a major championship parade in 2008 for the Phillies' World Series win.
"The city deserved it," said 66-year-old Lou Potel, who threw a party at his home just off Broad before joining a much bigger party outside. "It's a great city, and now we have a Super Bowl to go along with it."
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The team was expected to arrive at Philadelphia International Airport on Monday afternoon.
Some of the pockets of unruly fans clambered atop the awning at the swanky Ritz Carlton Hotel near City Hall, jumping off into the crowd in what one Twitter post called "Ritz Carlton Skydiving." The awning later collapsed with a large group of people on top of it. It's not clear if anyone was injured.
Nearby, windows were smashed at a Macy's department store and at an Old Navy clothing store.
And apparently no amount of grease in the world can keep some drunken Eagles fans from climbing poles in celebration. A few managed to shimmy up traffic lights and street sign poles.
nobody likes toyota prius's at the eagles riot pic.twitter.com/z3r7XiFK8Q
Amir said there were reports of some injuries from falls near light poles but no exact numbers were available.
Vandals were seen having an apparent food fight inside a gas station's convenience store, yelling "Everything is free!" and overturning a car outside a hotel. After 1 a.m., the only people allowed inside the 24-hour Wawa convenience store near City Hall were police officers.
Disorderly fans weren't only found in the Philadelphia area.
Mourning the Patriots' loss, fights broke out at UMass-Amherst and a crowd threw objects and set off smoke bombs and firecrackers, campus police said. Police used pepper balls to disperse the crowd.
Officials in the western Massachusetts town said those transported to hospitals suffered from head injuries, lacerations and alcohol intoxication. Police say those arrested face criminal charges, and students would face punishment under the student code of conduct.
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In Boston, fans inside the Banshee Bar came to terms with a rare loss for Tom Brady. Some, however, took it in stride.
"I've got nothing to complain about," Boston resident Bill Crowley said. "It's the greatest dynasty in NFL history and this loss tonight doesn't change that.
"They'll be back," Conor Hobert added. "One hundred per cent, they'll be back."
Sam Murphy, 40, actually made the trip from Boston to Philadelphia, flying in Sunday morning. The longtime Eagles fan and Boston resident joked he couldn't be within 100 miles of his home, instead deciding to watch the game with his old University of Pennsylvania roommate.
"This is Philly at its best," said Murphy, as he, his former roommate Rob Ballenger, and hundreds of other new friends paraded down South Street to get to the party on Broad. "This team is what Philly is all about."
Associated Press writer Mark Pratt and Ignacio Laguarda contributed to this report from Boston.
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USC Professor Taken Out Of Classroom After Using Chinese Filler Word That Sounds Like English Racial Slur
September 06, 2020 - News
Those who teach foreign languages to English-speaking students, especially American students, will have to be careful what words they teach from now on, lest a foreign-language word sound like an offensive English word.
At the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business, communications professor Greg Patton recently gave an online class in which he explained a filler word in Chinese meaning "that." Patton explained to his class that the filler word, "nega," is akin to saying "um" or "like" in English.
Patton repeated the word a few times and then said it was like them saying "that, that, that." Despite the clear explanation and context, some students were apparently offended by the Chinese word. These were business school students, so one has to wonder what would have happened had they been in a meeting with Chinese businessmen and heard the word without an advance explanation from Patton.
Campus Reform has video of the professor's lecture and reported that Patton is no longer teaching the course.
"Recently, a USC faculty member during class used a Chinese word that sounds similar to a racial slur in English. We acknowledge the historical, cultural and harmful impact of racist language," USC said in a statement.
Another instructor is currently teaching the class as Patton "agreed to take a short term pause while we are reviewing to better understand the situation and to take any appropriate next steps," the school's statement added.
In addition to Patton no longer teaching the class, at least for now, USC is also "offering supportive measures to any student, faculty, or staff member who requests assistance." In the statement to students, the school said that it was "committed to building a culture of respect and dignity where all members of our community can feel safe, supported, and can thrive."
University and college professors are increasingly under attack from students who claim to be offended by what they teach and whether or not they are sufficiently accommodating to students who claim to be affected by racial injustice.
As The Daily Wire reported in June, students at the University of California-Los Angeles wanted two professors fired for doing their jobs.
Gordon Klein, an accounting professor, received an email from a group of students requesting the professor allow for a "'no-harm' final exam that could only benefit students' grades, and for shortened exams and extended deadlines for final assignments and projects," Inside Higher Ed reported. The students requested all of these accommodations due to recent "traumas, we have been placed in a position where we much choose between actively supporting our black classmates or focusing on finishing up our spring quarter."
Klein responded with a sarcastic email.
"Thanks for your suggestion in your email below that I give black students special treatment, given the tragedy in Minnesota," Klein wrote back to the students.
"Do you know the names of the classmates that are black?" he asked them. "How can I identify them since we've been having online classes only?"
Klein went on to ask about students who "may be of mixed parentage, such as half black-half Asian?"
"What do you suggest I do with respect to them? A full concession or just half?" he asked.
Another UCLA professor, political science lecturer W. Ajax Peris, received calls for his resignation because he read aloud MLK's "Letter from Birmingham Jail," which included the n-word. As The Federalist reported, students "hearing a white lecturer read the n-word from a letter written by a jailed civil rights leader and watching lynching imagery made them feel so 'uncomfortable,' they asked Peris to stop." He apologized for causing "discomfort," but continued teaching. UCLA's Political Science Department condemned Peris for failing to "meet the students' needs" and referred him for a discrimination investigation.
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If you insert AutoCAD dynamic blocks into your BricsCAD drawing, you can, in most cases, edit those block instances. You cannot, however, create or edit dynamic block definitions in BricsCAD. Instead of offering dynamic block functionality, BricsCAD focuses entirely on parametrics. It allows you to create both 2D and 3D block definitions using the same set of tools and workflow.
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Q: How to properly assign property to function scope? I've been experimenting Typescript Decorators recently to try solving a "problem" I have within my application. I'm using a JS bridge to feed TS code to both Android and iOS, and at the moment we declare functions like this:
index.js
import foo from './bar'

global.App = function() {
  this.foo = foo;
};

The above will make the foo function to be available on the native side of the bridge
I wanted to write a decorator to apply on that foo method which would "register" itself on the global.App but I've failed in that task.
Here's the decorator that works:
export const Task = (target, propertyKey, descriptor) => {
    let originalMethod = descriptor.value;
    descriptor.value = (...args) => originalMethod.apply(target, args);

    if (!global.App) {
        global.App = function () {
            this.foo = descriptor.value;
        };
    }

    return descriptor;
}

How could I add another method to that global.App function?

A: Firstly, the foo method is only added once because the first time the decorator is called global.App is defined and the branch that adds foo to global.App is never re-entered.
Secondly, global.App and foo would be overwritten each time and not maintained through repeated calls to the decorator.
Adding another branch that handles adding the method after the first call and dynamically assigns the name of the method, which I believe is given to the decorator in propertyKey, would permit multiple methods to be added.
export const Task = (target, propertyKey, descriptor) => {
    let originalMethod = descriptor.value;
    descriptor.value = (...args) => originalMethod.apply(target, args);

    if (!global.App) {
        global.App = function () {
            this[propertyKey] = descriptor.value;
        };
    } else {
        global.App[propertyKey] = descriptor.value;
    }

    return descriptor;
}

Something like this might work.

A: After wandering around SO for some time I've found a workaround for this... perhaps I lack the knowledge of TS/JS to know exactly what I wanted to do here, but anyways, my solution was to register every task decorated and then on the index.js I get those tasks and register them on the global.App function.
Something like this
task.ts
export const TaskRegistry = {};

 export const Task = (target, propertyKey, descriptor) => {
   const originalMethod = descriptor.value;
   descriptor.value = (...args) => originalMethod.apply(target, args);

   TaskRegistry[propertyKey] = descriptor.value;

   return descriptor;
 };

index.js
// eslint-disable-next-line func-names
global.App = function () {
   // eslint-disable-next-line consistent-this
   const self = this;

   Object.keys(TaskRegistry).forEach((key) => {
     self[key] = TaskRegistry[key];
   });
}


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