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Top-seeded Baylor making historic NCAA volleyball run on faith and joy
It's 1 o'clock on a Tuesday afternoon in Waco, Texas, four days before Baylor's NCAA Tournament regional semifinal matchup Friday against 14th-ranked Purdue, and coach Ryan McGuyre wants to discuss a topic that is the very antithesis of everything that got the Bears to their deepest playoff run in a decade.
He wants to talk about fear.
"The first step when you take over, is that you have to address fear," said McGuyre, who took over the Baylor program five years ago and has twice been named the Big 12 Coach of the Year, including 2019. "When you look at top 10 fears for man, some fear sharks and spiders and roller coasters and heights, the fear of the unknown is right up there. The first thing when you have athletes who have had another coach, there's this fear of 'What is this coach going to think of me? What is this coach going to value? What is this coach going to do with me? Are they going to yell, are they going to scream? Are they going to change how I block, how I serve?'
"So, the first thing you want to address is fear, and believe that perfect love drives out fear. Fear is an emotion that contracts, love is an emotion that expands."
It is not love, exactly, that McGuyre has placed at the core of this top-ranked Baylor program, but two other intangibles that precede it and harmonize with it: Faith, and joy.
His first move as head coach was to re-instill the faith of the incoming Bears that this was a program heading in the right direction, and that he was the man to do it. This is no easy task, and yet, sometimes it is as simple as a phone call.
Baylor coach Ryan McGuyre
In December of 2014, Shelly Stafford was a week away from enrolling early to Baylor. McGuyre, newly hired as the head coach, called. He told her he wanted to win a national championship, and he wanted to do it with her.
"He just sold me on the fact that he was invested in this program, invested in me, and I could sense the dedication and faith that he wanted to instill in this program," said Stafford, a fifth-year senior who is second on the team with 237 kills and whose .375 hitting percentage leads the Bears.
"I think the senior group has for sure embodied that. But that has trickled from the top. Coach Mac is all about that, he lives day by day by that. When I think about the greatest servant, it's someone like coach Mac. To have a leader like that, that everyone looks up to, I think that speaks volumes in how this team has embodied that culture."
It is not difficult to see why it was so easy for Stafford, and the rest of the Bears McGuyre either inherited or recruited, to buy in so quickly. When McGuyre answered the phone and was asked how he was doing, he said, without hesitation, "better than I deserve."
"The girls have overcome the coaching this season," he continued. "It's all the work they've done."
The coach gives the credit to the players, the players pass the credit back to the coach and their teammates. But it is not the credit that is most important. Not with this team, anyway. There's much to go around, especially on a program that has set the single-season record for wins (27), earned the first No. 1 ranking in school history, and won its first Big 12 championship, among an impressive list of other accomplishments and accolades.
More important than who gets the credit is how the players share the burdens.
"A good family multiplies the joy and divides the burdens, and we've talked about that since day one, but now we understand how to multiply joy, what that means, when to embrace a great play, when to embrace when someone's training the right way," McGuyre said. "We gotta make mistakes in order to get better, and family, we're able to divide the burden and help carry one another's load."
There's that word that came up so many times in conversation with McGuyre, Stafford, and junior setter Hannah Lockin: Joy.
McGuyre's all about it. Some coaches motivate through fear or punishment. He simply chooses joy. And joy may seem like an easy thing for this Baylor team to find, given its unprecedented success this season. And in many ways it is, but McGuyre instead chose to point to an October 23 trip to Austin, Texas, as an example of this team's ability to find joy.
"We got obliterated," he said of that matchup with Texas, and indeed he's being quite truthful about that only defeat this season. The Bears fell, 19-25, 10-25, 19-25. But here he points to a passage of the Bible, the book that is at the center of this team, in the first chapter of James.
"Consider it pure joy, my brethren, when you face trials of many kinds."
"It's like 'OK, how do we find joy in this?' We learned some stuff and we gotta apply it," McGuyre said. "Our goal, the pleasure of competition should always exceed the pressure of competition. For us, it's just, 'Hey, we know what we're doing, and here's how we're going to do it, we're going to do it with great joy.' It makes sense, all the toil and all the work that we've done, if we're not able to enjoy it, why do it? Our reward is the joy of competition."
It's freeing, playing with that type of joy, the kind that separates results from the intrinsic reward of playing at all. And since that October 23 road trip, the Baylors haven't lost a match. They're winners of 11 straight, including a redemptive five-set victory over the Longhorns on November 20 to all but seal up the Big 12 title.
Baylor setter Hannah Lockin
McGuyre nearly brushed over the fact that his team won the Big 12 for the first time in history. Something to celebrate, to be sure. But accolades and titles are not what this Baylor team is about. Not really. It's about the Marine in Japan, who emailed McGuyre to tell him that his daughter wants to be just like Yossiana Pressley, Baylor's junior outside hitter and the Big 12 Player of the Year. It's about the young girls attending home matches who point to the walk-ons as their heroes because they see how hard they work.
"Those," McGuyre said, "are the things that are pretty cool."
The cooler part, for McGuyre and this Baylor team, is that the further they go in the tournament, the more joy they can spread. As Lockin noted, after their win over USC, which advanced them to the regional semifinals, her thought was that "We are still just trying to get better because that's what's going to get us all the way."
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Xiaolu Guo was born in south China. She studied at the Beijing Film Academy and published six books in China before moving to London in 2002. Her books include Village of Stone which was shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize, 20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth which was longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize, and I Am China which was longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction. Her recent memoir, Once Upon a Time in the East, won the National Book Critics Circle Award, was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award, the Jhalak Prize and the Rathbones Folio Award 2018, and was a Sunday Times Book of the Year. In 2013 Xiaolu was named as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists. She has directed several award-winning films including She, A Chinese, and documentaries about China and Britain. She was a judge for the Booker Prize in 2019, and is currently a visiting professor at Columbia University in New York.
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Q: Typescript angular and yeoman What is a best way to kik start a project of angular and Typescript ?
Should I us the official yo angular and add on it
or is it a good stable generator that will help me with the inertial kikstart

A: We are currently developing with a friend a Typescript + Angular + Express generator for Yeoman :
https://github.com/NovaeWorkshop/nova
It is still under heavy development but already works and we use it to develop a real production website for a client.
It is a port from a previous great Yeoman generator Bangular where we added Typescript, UI Router and Desktop builds with Electron (Atom shell).
At the moment tests are broken and documentation is not up to date, but it's gonna come back real soon, and we would be happy to have your feedback on it.

A: Not sure yo is a great tool for scaffolding angular. It wants to put controllers in a controller directory and services in a service directory.
This structure is fine, but there are other structures that may serve you better. There are feature and component structures that group related controllers and services together.
You are going to want to define your services and controllers as classes with Typescript. It is always the best to register your controller with Angular is PascalCase because a unique class instance is returned. Services should be registered as camelCase as only a singleton instance Is returned.
I would recommend looking up Basarat's Angular with Typescript examples and John Papa Angular style guide.

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Mystical Teachings Do Not Erase Sorrow
On March 28, 2017 By SarahIn Book Review, HassidutLeave a comment
"It's hard to be a Jewish poet," Yehoshua November wrote in his first collection of poetry, God's Optimism, published in 2010. Indeed, it must be difficult to juggle November's identities as a Lubavitch Hasid, a family man, a poet, and a professor. In that poem, November explores some of the challenges inherent in writing religious poetry. These include the fear of confusing readers who are unaccustomed to encountering sincere expressions of Orthodox Judaism in verse, the problem of writing about forbidden or impure material, and the anxiety of trying to create new poems "when there is already the one great book.
In his new collection, however, it turns out that the difficulties of being a Jewish poet do not primarily flow from being either Jewish or a poet but from the underlying difficulties of life itself."
For my full review of November's wonderful new poetry collection, Two Worlds Exist, please see the Spring 2017 issue of the Jewish Review of Books.
This Passover, Free Your Mind
On March 24, 2017 By SarahIn Hassidut, Passover, Psychology, Shemot1 Comment
Some reflections on Passover, the meaning of freedom and retaining control over our intellectual and spiritual lives. Based on the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe. Article may be found here.
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• USA • 2002 • 90m • • Directed by: Pat Corbitt. • Starring: Leighanne Littrell, Robin Sachs, Al Sapienza, Mark Sheppard, Jennifer Sommerfeld, Evan Mirand, Steve Scionti, Fred Belford, Gary J. Tunnicliffe, Yasmine Delawari, Stanley Isaacs, Will Borders, John Michael Maurer. • Music by: Tony Fennell, Billy James, Brian Randazzo.
A large corporation begins using a powerful drill in order to look for oil in Greenland. The company disregards the warnings of scientists who claim that the drill may disrupt the natural order of the environment. The drill eventually goes so deep that a new ocean is discovered. In that ocean is a deadly ancestor of the white shark, Carcharodon Megalodon. The creature weighs more than twenty-thousand pounds and begins working its way toward the crew that worked the drill.
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So far, all attempts to make the extinct Megalodon into the next big monster (a la T-Rex from "Jurassic Park" or Bruce from "Jaws") have failed miserably. Steve Alten's bestseller "Meg" was followed up by an incredibly lame sequel. "Shark Attack III: Megalodon" was horrible, despite the Tom Cruise lookalike. There was a German effort a couple of years ago and the only bad thing that didn't appear in it was David Hasselhoff.
Of the efforts, "Megalodon" succeeds the most and that's stretching it. The premise, of course, follows the typical cliché of a small group of people inexplicably trapped in a confined area by a monster. It worked okay for "Deep Blue Sea" but not so much here. This time, oil rig workers and a TV crew accidentally unleash heretofore extinct fish from an underwater cavern.
What made "Deep Blue Sea" so good was the superior acting of Saffron Burrows, Samuel L. Jackson, Thomas Jane and Stellan Skaarsgard. We don't get much good acting in this film. Female lead Leighanne Littrell's only claim to fame is being married to Brian Littrell of the Backstreet Boys. Her acting is strictly two-dimensional and straight-out throwaway (if her role had suddenly been erased at the last moment, no one would have noticed because her character wasn't made essential to the movie's plot).
Anyway, reporter Christen Giddings (Littrell) and her dorky cameraman Jake (Fred Belford) go to the world's largest oil rig up in the Arctic (or someplace close enough to surround the rig with ice floes). There, we meet the rig owner Pete Brazier (Robin Sachs) and few of his workers (played by Mark Sheppard, Al Sapienza and Jennifer Sommerfield, to name a few).
The drill head penetrates an underwater cavern at 5000 feet, unleashing prehistoric fish and, eventually, a megalodon.
The only real acting is done by Sachs (best known for being Ethan Rayne on "Buffy, the Vampire Slayer" and for hosting "Box Office America" on PBS for the last 10 years) and Sapienza (Philly Falzone on "Prison Break" and Mikey Palmice on "The Sopranos"). For some reason, Sommerfield gets the infamous "and" tag on her name in the credits, like she's a special guest star, although her resume shows nothing but one-time guest shots on TV shows. Whatever the case, she doesn't live up to the billing. Mostly, she goes to pieces and starts crying.
There is little in the way of thrills. The only real one is when the workers pull a prehistoric fish out of a suction hose and it attacks a rig worker a la "Leviathan." The creature effect of the fish is great (not CGI) and the fish really looks frightening. Alas, the worker who was attacked is sent off-screen a few minutes later for medical treatment and that storyline is lost.
Other mini plots are revealed and discarded. Sachs tells rig workers about an underwater methane leak and shows a glowing red spot in the sea near the rig. After that, we never hear of the methane leak again and the glow disappears. When the cavern opens, hundreds of prehistoric fish escape and very little is said about them or what kind of havoc they might be wreaking (I could imagine the producers already prepping a sequel). The other rig workers disappear after one scene and, save for a disembodied voice, are never heard from again.
Just like in "Jurassic Park," "Deep Blue Sea" and other copycats, a bad storm comes along so that the Coast Guard can't show up to save the day. The attempt to create a claustrophobic atmosphere fails glaringly.
The underwater scenes are CGI and they look very believable. There is a fantastic shot of the cavern, filled with luminescent fish. But, even CGI has its limits and you'll see that when the megalodon appears and attacks.
The shark attacks with all the aplomb of a bored movie star. Only one guy is eaten and that looks so fake I had no real desire to hit the rewind button. The shark attacks on the mini-subs are not convincing (indeed, the actors inside act more like they're getting ready to ride "Pirates of the Caribbean" at Disneyworld than they do reacting to being attacked by a 70-foot shark).
By the way, the movie is 91 minutes long. But, the shark scenes occur in the last 30 minutes. The shark attacks actually occur in the last 20 minutes, far too late to make this movie as good as it could have been.
I won't say who lives and who dies, but I will say the ending flat out sucked. A speech about environmentalism near the end comes out of nowhere.
The movie was directed by Pat Corbitt. You'll also notice that his company does the digital effects. At first, you might think he's a director who happens to own a CGI company. By the end of the film, you'll realize Pitts is a man with a CGI company who thought he could direct a movie.
It's not a terrible film. It's just lackluster and average, with a lot of wasted potential.
Review by pv71989-2 from the Internet Movie Database.
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| Interrupt PTI? Not on my watch.
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Interrupt PTI? Not on my watch.
Noah Cohan 12:00 am, Feb 10, 2003
Jackie MacMullan ruined my Friday afternoon.
MacMullan, for those of you who don't know how to "pahk the cah in the yahd," is a sports columnist for The Boston Globe, and as far as I can tell, a very successful one. But she's no Michael Wilbon. So when she replaced Wilbon on the television set of "Pardon the Interruption," otherwise known as the best show on television, I was understandably upset. Maybe I shouldn't have screamed at her through the TV set and frightened my roommates, but that's beside the point.
The point? If you mess with "Pardon the Interruption," you mess with my entire day.
How did a television program become the focus of my life?
"Pardon the Interruption," or PTI as it's known to the faithful, is no ordinary TV show. It's a little slice of sports heaven. Featuring Wilbon and Tony Kornheiser, both columnists for The Washington Post, the show provides opinions on the day's top sports news, with a little bit of rivalry and jest thrown in for good measure. Thanks to their 20 years of past history with one another, Tony and Mike operate like a well-oiled machine, bouncing joking insults and well-informed sports opinions off one another while discussing topics in the form of one-and-a-half-minute segments. It's a wonderfully witty and endlessly entertaining half hour of brutally honest sports commentary.
The show does have competitors, both on ESPN and other sports networks, but nothing comes close to PTI. To use a Kornheiser-ism:
Here's the list of entertaining sports talk shows on TV:
PTI.
That's it! That's the list!
But Tony and Mike do more than simply succeed where other programs fail; they do it with cardboard cutouts and occasional cross-dressing. Granted, with any other pairing these antics might come off forced and trite, but Kornheiser and Wilbon's undeniable chemistry makes the corniest gags hilarious. Wilbon, who like Kornheiser is bald, constantly pokes fun at his partner's obsession with well-coiffed hair, while Tony strikes back by playing up Mike's status as a ladies' man. Wilbon is constantly frustrated by the futility of sports teams from his hometown of Chicago, while Kornheiser bears allegiance to his New York roots. Though their primary topics of conversation are sports-related, the two also dabble in entertainment news on the show, mixing in hot topics like Michael Jackson and "Man vs. Beast" in recent weeks.
The show is a minor miracle of TV brilliance, unless, as happened Friday, a guest host shows up. With Wilbon down in Atlanta for the NBA's All-Star weekend, MacMullan was tapped to replace him on the set. Though Wilbon was brought in alongside Kobe Bryant during the interview segment, the show limped along on one leg without him. As a result, my Friday, and thus my entire weekend, was ruined.
But in the end, there is little to worry about, for today at 5:30 I'll be once again transported into sports nirvana with a few simple words:
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In what works does Nietzsche give a critique of Christianity?
I realize that it's in nearly all of his works that he does this, but does anyone happen to know in what sections of what books? I understand there's a great critique of Christianity in Human, All Too Human, section I, in places. I'm not talking about his doctrine of the death of God, but rather his critique of Christianity as a social institution.
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Here's a website that collects a number of relevant quotes; but as you say, it is really a ubiquitous theme in Nietzsche's corpus-- in fact, Beyond Good and Evil, On the Genealogy of Morals, and The Antichrist consist of little else.
There's also a fair amount of secondary literature on the subject-- you might want to start here, as this will provide context as well as citations.
It may be easier in a way to talk about where this critique of Christianity isn't -- that is, The Birth of Tragedy, where there is what Nietzsche will later call a "hostile silence" towards Christianity – Joseph Weissman♦ Dec 16 '11 at 18:02
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Rep. Clyburn wants to make 'Lift Every Voice and Sing' a national hymn
The Democrat from South Carolina is aiming for bipartisan support on his proposal, since, he said, it's a song "everybody can identify with."
Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C. listens to Joe Biden speak at a primary night election rally in Columbia, S.C., on Feb. 29, 2020.Matt Rourke / AP file
By Randi Richardson
Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., wants the song known as the Black national anthem recognized as a national hymn.
Clyburn, the third-highest Democrat in the House and its highest-ranking Black member, plans to introduce a proposal to upgrade "Lift Every Voice and Sing" to equal standing with the national anthem as early as this week to bring the country together and heal with a song "everybody can identify with," he tweeted.
He said the change would tell Black people, "you aren't singing a separate national anthem, you are singing the country's national hymn," he told USA Today.
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Clyburn also said he's wanted to spearhead this initiative for decades and asked his team to start the paperwork last month. The current political climate — initially the summer's shootings and protests, and especially after the riots at the Capitol last week — prompted him to revisit the proposal, he said.
"Lift Every Voice and Sing" emerged as Black Americans faced the threat of lynchings, and the realities of segregation and discrimination. NAACP leader Weldon Johnson wrote it as a poem in 1899 before his brother John Rosamond Johnson wrote an instrumental arrangement for it, making it a song in recognition of the Black freedom struggle, to celebrate decades of overcoming and to hope for a better future.
Lift ev'ry voice and sing,
'Til earth and heaven ring,
Ring with the harmonies of Liberty;
Let our rejoicing rise
High as the list'ning skies,
Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.
Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us,
Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us;
Facing the rising sun of our new day begun,
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Clyburn says making it a national hymn could bring the country together without taking away from "The Star-Spangled Banner."
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I am disappointed News Corp. management permitted the publishing of the Mark Knight cartoon of Serena Williams in the Herald Sun today. What I see is a racist cartoon that panders to a racist agenda News Corp tabloids favour.
The cartoon is not funny.
Knight has been out in the media today defending the cartoon. If the cartoon was abut a hissy fit then he could have made it about that. Instead, he made this race-hate piece.
While we newsagents are not censors, I am not happy selling a newspaper with this in to. However, I take comfort that I am not in Sydney and having to sell the Daily Telegraph, which is more trashy more often.
Did we take the Herald Sun off the shelves? No. As I noted, we are not censors. Knight has a right to create a racist cartoon and News Corp. has a right to publish these. The best thing we can do is not buy the product.
I see a spoilt brat, bad sport that couldn't take the decision. totally unbecoming of such a great star.
Whether the umpire was right, he was the umpire and there are other ways to challenge decisions.
The cartoon is ugly, Serena's behaviour was ugly, the booing by the crowd was ugly and Naomi Osaka's greatest sporting moment has become a forgotten footnote to the whole ugly saga.
It's time everyone involved gave some thought about the actual winner of the US women's open and stopped trying to turn it into a gender/race war.
Really Fletch. Can you show me the racist element in this cartoon. I see the characterisation of Ms Williams exactly how she acted yesterday, bloody shameful. To call it racist, or even sexist, is way out of court.
Do we remember her ?
She has recently won the US Open without a tantrum and playing through the games with respect for her opponent and the Umpire and his decisions.
To have a sports umpire called a thief and a liar during a game is disgraceful.
That cartoon is not racist in my eyes, it's simply a caricature, and after seeing the performance put on by Williams, I reckon it's pretty close to the mark.
She's a great sportswoman, she didn't need to carry on like that.
Naomi Osaka, now there's another great sportswoman with a little more dignity.
I disagree entirely. Not racist at all in my view, but rather a caricature of a high profile person having a tanty. Serena is of African American descent, and the cartoon portrays her as such. That is not racist.
It is just such a shame that so often a controversial topic has the racist label thrown at it simply because it is controversial and has sweet FA to do with race. This just distracts from the real message, which is this behaviour – irrespective of who displays it – is not acceptable in the modern professional sporting arena and should be called out.
No one throws the racist card at the illustrated depictions of Nick Kyrgios and his disgraceful behaviour.
It's racist without a doubt.
David, how is it racist? I am not sure what I have missed that makes it racist.
The complexity is that racism, or not, is in the eye of the beholder. I have no interest in agitating people to my opinion. I wrote what I wrote for myself and not to convince people as this is a topic on which that is unlikely to happen.
That said, for me, the depiction of both players is racist. Osaka is not white with blond hair. Williams is not represented in the image Knight has drawn. He has selected a style that makes a racial point.
What is lost, for me, is what the real topic should be and that is the poor on-court behaviour. If I was the editor I'd have rejected this cartoon and said stick with the topic and make it less about race and more about the behaviour.
A good and sensible comment. Had Selena taken the call with grace she would have won fans even if she lost the game. It's about sportsmanship Whoops P.C. uhmm- well good manners.
As for cartoonists there job is one of a commedian or satirist in print if you like they over illustrate the obvious to get the point accross. Just for laughs.
PLEASE… you only do that in front of the mirror in the morning with no listening but yourself…which Weetie pack do you thing we all came out of?
Guess that's the end of the Bald Archy's – I used to enjoy them ! Political Cartooning began with newspapers, some of the ones from the 1800's UK are brutal. The joy in life is being squeezed out of everything by the wowsers these days.
I'm not sure who you are referring when you say God is a wanker? or who is the wanker?
I would like to read what you really think and why rather than take the Higher moral ground of one thouht prevails all which your statement excludes.
You may have a very good point however it's not transparent.
Graeme, please quote the correct numbered post. I'm at No. 18. I'll rephrase my comment just for you.
OMG Fletcher you're a wanker at times.
Some of us don`t see the race only see the person.
Absolute rubbish. This is a cartoon about a black girl having a temper tantrum. Obviously in this PC- driven world replete with trigger warnings and safe spaces, black women are now off limits for cartoonists.


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Bernie's army
Yoo Jung Kim
By: Yoo Jung Kim
I had my first good laugh about the election in ages when I got the following message from a dear friend: "Remember when Dolores Umbridge took over Hogwarts and there were Dementors watching the castle and everyone except the Slytherins were [sic] scared out of their fucking minds? Imagine if the Slytherin kids went around telling everyone that they need to be supportive and understanding of the Dementors. Now of course, not all Slytherin kids were assholes like Draco Malfoy, I'm sure some were cool too and were just trying to make a good living."
My friend was talking about recent calls for reconciliation toward those on the left to start accepting Donald J. Trump as our president-elect. In terms of logos, I understand the practicality of the sentiment, since Donald J. Trump will end up being inaugurated in January despite circulating online petitions or calls for the members of the Electoral College to vote their conscience. But in terms of pathos and ethos, these calls for reconciliation come from the same side that had huge part in fomenting the fear against Hispanics, Blacks and Muslims in the first place. Where were the efforts for reconciliation and peace during the election campaign? It's maddeningly hypocritical.
I don't doubt that Trump — as a New Yorker born of privilege and wealth — is more socially liberal than he has made himself out to be, but his rhetoric has validated and emboldened people who consider other lives to matter less than theirs.
One confirmed instance of hate came from the University of Pennsylvania, in which more than 150 Black freshmen were added to a GroupMe chatroom with racial slurs and threats of lynching. The incident brought in FBI agents, who eventually traced one source of the hate crime to a University of Oklahoma student. And yet there are people who brush off these sorts of instances as hoaxes or as jokes.
But in the world in which Donald Trump is slated to assume the position of the most powerful individual in the world, what are we to do? To take another page out of Harry Potter would be to form Dumbledore's Army to serve as a prophylactic for hate.
Fortunately, the United States' most apt counterpart for Dumbledore is still alive and well. Senator Bernie Sanders, as the elder statesman, provided some much-needed hope and a rallying cry against injustice in a recent opinion piece for The New York Times. He commented, "I am deeply distressed to hear stories of Americans being intimidated and harassed in the wake of Mr. Trump's victory, and I hear the cries of families who are living in fear of being torn apart. We have come too far as a country in combating discrimination. We are not going back. Rest assured, there is no compromise on racism, bigotry, xenophobia and sexism. We will fight it in all its forms, whenever and wherever it re-emerges."
And all across America, there has been calls for vigilance against hate and intolerance in the microcosms of our private lives, in buses, in schools and in the workplace. And in these uncertain times we should always be on the lookout for each other, to be brave and courageous when people need our help and think, "What would Neville Longbottom do?"
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Rather than name-calling or refusing to interact with those whom we disagree with, we must take the high road while still staying true to our progressive principles. In a 2016 paper in Science, researchers found that encouraging people who are resistant to transgender rights to talk about their own experiences of being treated unfairly can reduce their feelings of prejudice. People can change, and it is up to facilitate that change. We must learn to talk about our feelings and our thoughts to those who disagree with us.
Progressives may have lost the election, but we cannot compromise on the matters that affect the well-being of our minority populations. Rather, we must take the small opportunities in our own lives to oppose injustices and help our communities for the better. As Harry points out in "The Order of the Phoenix," "Every great wizard in history has started out as nothing more than what we are now: students. If they can do it, why not us?" In short, we have a long but a crucial road ahead of us.
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Democratic Republic of Congo Ambassador to Zimbabwe Mwawampanga Mwanananga has dismissed claims by Botswana that President Joseph Kabila will run for elections in December, claiming he was misinformed. ...Read More
Zanu-PF in 'spider-web' strategy
ZANU-PF national political commissar Major-General Engelbert Rugeje (Rtd) has said the revolutionary party is employing a "spider-web" campaign strategy that focuses on the cell as the basic element needed in revamping party structures ahead of general elections to be held sometime mid-year. ...Read More
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Petke, promoted from USL affiliate Real Monarchs, replaced interim coach Daryl Shore, who coached two games after Jess Cassar was dismissed.
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Live: Catalpa Offers A Little Bit Of Everything To The Soggy Masses At Randall's Island
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Catalpa NYC: Snoop Dogg, Black Keys, Matt & Kim, Matisyahu, A$AP Rocky, Hercules & Love Affair, TV On The Radio, Girl Talk, et al.
Randall's Island
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Better than: Arguing over an iPod's shuffle function.
Music festivals without a historical following or a known brand identity can employ many strategies in their inaugural year, one of which is "Appeal to as many prospective demographics as possible." Catalpa NYC, which debuted this weekend at Randall's Island, decided to combat this problem by throwing together a bunch of popular-ish acts and some quirky attractions—art, fire, a chance to "elope" with a fellow Snoop Dogg fan.
Results were mixed; the lineup succeeded in having a broad appeal, but lacked a coherent musical aesthetic. Many of the non-musical attractions were spoiled by rain on Saturday and, faced with the prospect of surviving on its artists alone, Catalpa became a referendum on its performers' current positions within the musical landscape. Many attendees claimed to like "everything," so Catalpa became a chance to find out what the new "everything" is.
The musicians played across three stages, with a whole host of corporate sponsorships filling the gaps between the performance spaces. Vodka was hawked in what looked like a sprawling series of igloos; a car company set up an obstacle course to demonstrate the trunk space and cool factor of its new trucks; a web site handed out face paint and animal masks. My personal favorite booth promoted a kind of guarana/caffeine pill that is supposed to be dropped into water, making it turn all fizzy and orange like an Alka-Seltzer from Hell—half an hour after it's imbibed, your heart is doing high-speed interval training inside your chest.
There were other, less corporate, uningestable attractions, many of which failed to reach their full potential due to Saturday's rain. A fire demonstration was canceled; the bumper cars were nowhere to be found; one operations employee informed me that it took nine hours to set up the bounce castle that would serve as the "house of sham marriages." Catalpa didn't quite deliver on its admittedly ambitious extramusical plans, but it provided a great opportunity to investigate those artists operating at the borders of the mainstream.
Matthew Paul Miller, better known as the Hasidic reggae singer Matisyahu, was almost too perfect an artistic choice for a festival struggling to forge an identity. After all, the man is a particularly well-traveled cultural tourist, having chosen not one but two "exotic," appropriation-ready regions (Jamaica and Israel). When Miller first became popular back in 2004, he still wore the yarmulke, side curls and beard of the religion he chose when he was 15. Eight years later, he's traded in his Orthodox accessories for turquoise Nikes and a denim jacket.
It's difficult to be open-minded about this progression—especially when Miller sings lyrics like "Jerusalem, if I forget you, let my right hand forget what it's supposed to do" and the hand holding the microphone isn't smote by the wrath of a betrayed God, or when he says that he's going to use the Jewish holiday Tisha B'Av as an occasion for rejoicing. (It's actually a commemoration of the destruction of the holy temples, as well as a day of remembrance for a bunch of other bad stuff that's happened to Jews over the years.)
Matisyahu does win points for taking a firm stand against the heinous, mammarian beach balls that made appearances intermittently all weekend. There is nothing redeeming about them; they smell like wet condoms, they provoke every drunkard in the crowd to lunge blindly skywards frequently knocking meek counterparts over in the process and if you don't look up, one will inevitably plow into your head.
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These horrible balls made an unfortunate appearance during TV On the Radio's set; the Brooklyn rock outfit was one of three New York City representatives that didn't quite possess the populist vibe of the other big acts. TVOTR's live show is, in this critic's opinion, relatively spectacular—lead singer Tunde Adebimpe and his band slowly built tension for their opening song "Young Liars," then performed selections from their two most recent albums and gave a heartfelt shoutout to Adam Yauch. Though I found the band enthralling, the group next to me was distracted from the songs about hubris and general self-absorption by the overwhelming need to snap pictures of themselves. ("Yo, I need a picture of you in that headband for my background," one particularly vehement photographer insisted repeatedly.)
The disco/house group Hercules and Love Affair had an easier time roping in initially uninterested Catalpans, thanks in large part to relatively new vocalists Gustaph and Whitney Marston Pierce. Pierce, a statuesque blonde in vampy makeup, was particularly effective, commanding the stage with a burlesque performance that convinced a couple of male Umphrey's McGee fans to stay put and watch the strange, half-naked lady campily mime sex. During the group's performance, a cheerful, tiny woman from the New York Parks and Recreation Department materialized to pick up disposed bottles and torn wristbands, dancing the entire time as she moved her trash-grabber rhythmically from ground to bag.
A$AP Rocky was the last of the idiosyncratically New York acts to perform; he was competing directly with Girl Talk's mainstage set, and he was extremely grateful for the crowd that showed up. After letting his crew the A$AP Mob run the stage for the first ten minutes of his set, he appeared to shoo them away, claiming that it was "time to start the show" in earnest. He was plagued by relatively poor sound quality, but the Harlem MC's earnest appreciation for the crowd went over well, and his desire to "fuck a jiggy bitch" was received with raucous laughter and a succession of enthusiastic candidates who were clearly confident about their inherent jigginess. (Rocky was one of only three rap acts, all of whom were slotted in on Sunday.)
Matt Johnson and Kim Schilfino's brand of joyous, keyboard-driven dance-pop was more in line with festivalgoers' tastes. It also helped that after a six-month hiatus, Matt and Kim were grinning like fools on laughing gas and kicking into each and every song with abandon. Kim volunteered to the crowd that she had been aggressively Kegeling because she wanted "to fuck the shit out of you tonight." Matt demanded that she booty-dance on top of her drum kit; both performed exuberant acrobatics that left the crowd whooping, cheering and trying desperately to catch up through the power of stomp-and-shout dancing.
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The Black Keys and Snoop Dogg headlined, and the similarities between these two acts go a long way toward explaining Catalpa's underlying aesthetic.
The current incarnation of The Black Keys is a pop band, although that fact remains unspoken. At this point, Pat Carney and Dan Auerbach are consummate professionals, used to playing for very large and enthusiastic crowds in huge venues. They've tailored their music to match their newly sizeable audience, toning down their blues noodling, tightening their song structures, and adding lyrics about relationships and chant-along choruses. This transformation hasn't gotten in the way of quality—an important distinction between The Keys and a band like the Cold War Kids, who tried to go "full mainstream" and lost the edge of their first, most popular singles.
The Keys were professional as always on Saturday night; Auerbach occasionally shouted encouragements like "let's keep this moving right along" and "just a few more, guys." Though they mostly stuck with crowd favorites from their last two albums, a couple of songs from their Chulahoma EP, where they covered compositions by the late Junior Kimbrough, snuck into the middle of their set. There's no denying the fun of a gut-busting turn from competent rockers and the Black Keys—though they may have lost a little spontaneity on their road to commercial darlinghood—are nothing if not competent.
Sunday's headliner, Snoop Dogg, has quietly transformed into a new-school American icon with a long career and a safe persona that combines Huggy Bear with Willie Nelson. But even though he'd clearly been chosen for his relative mass appeal, Snoop played the entirety of his 1993 classic Doggystyle. Though Snoop's set was practiced and smooth, aided by pulpy videos which furthered Tha Doggfather's myth, it was funny to see the crowd bemused by such classic rap tracks as "Murder was the Case that They Gave Me" or "Stranded on Death Row" (from Dr. Dre's magnum opus The Chronic). G funk is fast approaching its thirties and aging well, but the crowd responded most to the two songs Snoop played last: "Drop it Like it's Hot" and "Young, Wild, And Free," the latter of which has as its chorus the defiant proclamation "So what we get drunk, so what we smoke weed, so what we have fun… we're young and wild and free." It's probably the least divisive chorus that could be performed at a music festival.
Araabmuzik is an MPC wizard who splices trance, rap and R&B into a bass-heavy hybrid. His set made use of two equally effective elements: his sense of pure mechanical showmanship and the way he provokes the crowd into a frenzy by teasing traces of samples farther and farther until he finally lets songs play out in their entirety. This treat-dangling stokes the desire to hear the songs in full; even a single undistorted syllable ends up sounding heavenly. When the former Dipset producer finally let a whole song float on its own, like he did with Flux Pavilion's "I Can't Stop" and Damian Marley's "Welcome to Jamrock," the crowd (particularly the two women behind me who insisted on referring to the artist as Mr. Araabmuzik for the length of his performance) went absolutely nuts.
Girl Talk also uses samples to incite a fever in the crowd, though he doesn't tease them out slowly; he introduces bushels of familiar singles to the crowd, tossing off old pop songs and rap hooks like so many grapes. He's passé in the strict definitive sense of the word; he's been making danceable music from the same idea for the last ten years. He's not on the cutting edge, and to those for whom "safety" in a musical artist is a pejorative, he's no longer worthwhile.
But very few people at Catalpa minded. The move toward the main stage when Gillis started whipping his hair back and forth was by far the festival's biggest migration, and that's because Gillis is really good at what he does. He knows the songs that make a certain group of people go "ooo!" He knows surface-level pop in nearly every genre. For a festival without a solid identity, where no one could really decide exactly what they wanted to hear, Girl Talk was a perfect fit. After all, he played everything.
Critical bias: The employee who proffered me the fizz-inducing pill told me, "It'll make you turn into the Hulk." This person clearly knew what I was looking for.
Overheard: "It looks like a regular concert in a field."—someone on Facebook asking after the wherabouts some of the promised attractions.
Random notebook dump: Weed feels more legal than stuff that is currently OK for consumption at the moment (though the Hulkamania-inducing substance I ingested is not endorsed as medicine by the FDA). There were two head shops side by side at the festival, one of which had an actual glassblower on duty to make pipes. The general necessities store sold rolling papers and blunts beside the socks and condoms, as well as baggies and scales for all the forgetful dealers who were slated to show up.
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NY organ transplants hit record level in 2017
Cuomo looks to expand retail health clinics
Gov. Andrew Cuomo's executive budget would allow corporations to own retail health clinics, expanding the ability of drugstore chains such as CVS and Walgreens to deliver medical care on-site.
Currently retailers are allowed to lease space to a medical practice within their stores but can't own the clinic outright because of New York's prohibition on the corporate practice of medicine, according to a 2015 United Hospital Fund report.
The state's proposal would require retail clinics to collaborate with a hospital, physician practice, accountable-care organization or DSRIP Performing Provider system. The Cuomo administration said such clinics could save the state $10 million over the next two years by reducing ER visits by Medicaid recipients. The clinics would provide certain basic services, such as immunizations and treatment of minor episodic illnesses.
"Retail practices offer extended hours with no appointment needed, increasing access to primary care services and providing an alternative to emergency room care," the governor's office wrote in a memo supporting the budget proposal.
The state would prohibit retail clinics from treating children under 2 years old and providing vaccinations for children under 18, except flu shots.
The Medical Society of the State of New York is soliciting feedback from its members on the proposal, but it is skeptical about corporate ownership of the sites and potential disruptions in patients' continuity of care, said Moe Auster, senior vice president for legislative and regulatory affairs for the medical society. —J.L.
Manhattan AI startup raises $11 million
Owkin, a Manhattan-based startup using artificial intelligence to speed drug development, has raised $11 million in a Series A round of funding that could allow it to hire more experts in artificial intelligence and research and development.
Additional manpower would help Owkin build its Socrates platform, which aims to help pharmaceutical researchers by using machine learning to analyze molecular and imaging libraries to discover the biological patterns that cause disease. The platform could be used to predict treatment outcomes and improve clinical trials.
"We're trying to find the treatments of tomorrow in today's data and today's patients," said Dr. Thomas Clozel, the company's co-founder and chief executive.
The financing was led by Otium. The other participants in the round were Cathay Innovation, NJF Capital and Plug and Play. Owkin has raised $13.1 million since its founding in 2016.
The company, which has an office in Paris, has partnerships with drug companies Amgen and Actelion and is working with the French cancer hospitals Institut Curie and Centre Léon Bérard. Clozel declined to disclose Owkin's U.S.-based hospital partners. —J.L.
NYU Langone to build $10.5M outpatient center
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The project would involve a major interior renovation on three floors of the 36-story mixed-use residential building.
The NYU Langone Initiative for Women with Disabilities, which provides gynecological care and wellness services, would be relocated from its current location a few blocks away to occupy 2,584 square feet on the building's second floor. The program, initially designed to accommodate 232 visits per year, had 750 visits in 2016, according to a certificate-of-need application.
Some 2,800 square feet would be set aside for the NYU Langone Occupational and Industrial Orthopaedic Center, which would be relocated from its current Downing Street location. —C.L.
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Dr. Steven Pacia has been appointed vice chair of neurology at North Shore, director of neurology for Northwell's eastern region and associate professor of neurology at the Zucker School of Medicine. Pacia served as chief of neurology at Lenox Hill and director of the hospital's Epilepsy Center and EEG Lab from 2004 to 2015.
Dr. Ruben Kuzniecky is the new vice chair of academic affairs and director of clinical research programs within the department of neurology at the Zucker School of Medicine, as well as professor of neurology.
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Dr. Noah Kondamudi is the new chair of the Department of Pediatrics at The Brooklyn Hospital Center. He has a long history with the hospital, first serving as chief resident in pediatrics in 1993. Starting in 1996, he served as division chief of pediatric emergency medicine for 19 years. In 2015 he joined the New Jersey Medical School at Rutgers University as interim chair of the Emergency Medicine Department and associate professor of emergency medicine and pediatrics.
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MORAL OBJECTIONS: The Trump administration is reviewing a new rule in the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Civil Rights that would strengthen conscience protections for health care workers who refuse to perform abortion procedures, surgeries for transgender individuals and other services they find morally or religiously objectionable, Politico reported.
There are 9,700 New Yorkers languishing on the wait list for an organ transplant in a state that has notoriously been at the bottom of the ranking for participation in the organ-donation registry. However, for the first time in a long time, there is cause for optimism.
A record 871 organs were transplanted in New York last year, up 16% from the previous year, according to the organ-procurement organization LiveOnNY. In addition to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's current organ-donation awareness campaign, several new state initiatives are underway that advocates and physicians hope will help boost the number of transplants in years to come.
Through a contract with the nonprofit New York Alliance for Donation, the state launched a long-anticipated website in October to make it easier to register as a donor.
Dr. Sander Florman, director of the Recanati/Miller Transplantation Institute at Mount Sinai Health System, hailed the move as an important step.
"Relying on the state has not been successful in New York," said Florman, noting that many other states were quicker to enlist private entities to run their respective registry.
For the first time during this open-enrollment period, New Yorkers were also able to register as organ donors while getting insurance on the New York State of Health Marketplace. And after a law was signed in 2016 allowing 16- and 17-year-olds to register as organ donors here, high school students will begin learning about organ donation through a curriculum next year.
"That in itself is incredibly promising for the future of donation," said Helen Irving, president and chief executive of LiveOnNY.
Between the beginning of 2016 and the end of 2017, the percentage of eligible New Yorkers in the organ-donor registry increased from 26% to 30%, said Irving. "We hope through everything we're doing, we'll get to 40% in the next two years," she said.
But Irving is not just waiting for these measures to show results. She has been working with health systems in recent years to get them to talk about organ donation to families of dying people, regardless of whether the patient is a registered donor.
"Quite often when care is futile, we get forgotten," said Irving. "There is an opportunity here to save more lives."
Things have started to change, said Dr. Milan Kinkhabwala, director of abdominal transplantation at the Montefiore Einstein Center for Transplantation.
"Traditionally team members from the organ-procurement agency would come and talk to families," he said. "But I think the feeling now is that you can train individuals in the health systems to approach families and help them with grieving and palliative care issues as well as organ-donation discussions."
Still, Kinkhabwala said, it's unclear why last year was a relatively good one for transplants in the state.
"There's a belief that some of it is the result of more opioid-related deaths," said Kinkhabwala. "If the opioid epidemic abates, will we go back to more historic levels of organ donation? We don't know." —C.L.
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AR Murugadoss says police visited him; Vishal, Kamal Haasan tweet in support
While AR Murugadoss' Sarkar is minting money at the box office, the film seems to have run into political opposition. Director Murugadoss on Thursday tweeted that police had visited his residence late at night. However, in the absence of the director, they left. The visit comes soon after the growing protests against scenes in the Vijay-starrer which criticised the ruling All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) government in Tamil Nadu.
Police had come to my house late tonight and banged the door several times.Since I was not there they left the premises. Right now I was told there is no police outside my house.
— A.R.Murugadoss (@ARMurugadoss) November 8, 2018
The film, immediately after its release, sparked protests by AIADMK cadre who found several scenes critical of the ruling government in Tamil Nadu and demanded the film's removal. Several cadres staged a sit-in at a local theatre in Coimbatore on Thursday seeking a ban on the film.
Tamil Nadu law minister CV Shanmugham was quoted by Hindustan Times as saying, "The scenes relating to burning of items disbursed under government welfare schemes amount to inciting violence."
However, Murugadoss later tweeted about the police visit to his residence at night, which has been criticised by several actors including Vishal, currently president of the Tamil Film Producers' Council.
Police in Dir Murugadoss s home????? For Wat?? Hoping and really hoping that nothin unforeseen happens. Once again. Censor has cleared the film and the content is watched by public.den why all this hue and cry.
— Vishal (@VishalKOfficial) November 8, 2018
In addition, actor Kamal Hassan also tweeted that this 'oppression' by the state government will not last long.
முறையாகச்சான்றிதழ் பெற்று வெளியாகியிருக்கும் சர்கார் படத்துக்கு,சட்டவிரோதமான அரசியல் சூழ்ச்சிகள் மூலம் அழுத்தம் கொடுப்பது இவ்வரசுக்கு புதிதல்ல.விமர்சனங்களை ஏற்கத்துணிவில்லாத அரசு தடம் புரளும்.அரசியல் வியாபாரிகள் கூட்டம் விரைவில் ஒழியும்.நாடாளப்போகும் நல்லவர் கூட்டமே வெல்லும்.
— Kamal Haasan (@ikamalhaasan) November 8, 2018
Haasan has recently launched the Makkal Needhi Maiyyam party, and is planning on a political career.
Sarkar was released on 6 November, and is already reported to have made Rs100 crore worldwide.


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Q: Entity Framework, Bulk Inserts, and Maintaining Relationships I have what would seem to be a common problem yet I cannot figure out how to achieve the desired outcome. I have a nested entity with navigation properties defined on it as seen in the following diagram.

The map points collection can potentially be quite large for a given MapLine and there can be quite a large number of MapLines for a MapLayer.
The question here is what is the best approach for getting a MapLayer object inserted into the database using Entity Framework and still maintain the relationships that are defined by the navigation properties?
A standard Entity Framework implementation
dbContext.MapLayers.Add(mapLayer);
dbContext.SaveChanges();

causes a large memory spike and pretty poor return times.
I have tried implementing the EntityFramework.BulkInsert package but it does not honor the relationships of the objects.
This seems like it would be a problem that someone has run into before but I cant seem to find any resources that explain how to accomplish this task.
Update
I have tried to implement the suggestion provided by Richard but I am not understanding how I would go about this for a nested entity such as the one I have described. I am running under the assumption that I need to insert the MapLayer object, then the MapLines, then the MapPoints to honor the PF/FK relationship in the database. I am currently trying the following code but this does not appear to be correct.
dbContext.MapLayers.Add(mapLayer);
dbContext.SaveChanges();

List<MapLine> mapLines = new List<MapLine>();
List<MapPoint> mapPoints = new List<MapPoint>();
foreach (MapLine mapLine in mapLayer.MapLines)
{
    //Update the mapPoints.MapLine properties to reflect the current line object
    var updatedLines = mapLine.MapPoints.Select(x => { x.MapLine = mapLine; return x; }).ToList();

    mapLines.AddRange(updatedLines);
}

using (TransactionScope scope = new TransactionScope())
{
    MyDbContext context = null;
    try
    {
        context = new MyDbContext();
        context.Configuration.AutoDetectChangesEnabled = false;

        int count = 0;
        foreach (var entityToInsert in mapLines)
        {
            ++count;
            context = AddToContext(context, entityToInsert, count, 100, true);
        }

        context.SaveChanges();
    }
    finally
    {
        if (context != null)
            context.Dispose();
    }

    scope.Complete();
}

Update 2
After having tried multiple different ways to achieve this I finally gave up and just inserted the MapLayer as an entity and stored the MapLines => MapPoints relationship as the raw Json string in a byte array on the MapLayer entity (as I am not querying against those structures this works for me).
As the saying goes "It aint pretty, but it works".
I did have some success with the BulkInsert package and managing the relationships outside of EF, but again ran into a memory problem when trying to use EF to pull the data back into the system. It seems that currently, EF is not capable of handling large datasets and complex relationships efficiently.

A: Bulk Insert is not the only way of efficiently adding data using Entity Framework - a number of alternatives are detailed in this answer.  You can use the optimisations suggested there (disabling change tracking) then you can just add things as normal.
Note that as you are adding many items at once, you'll need to recreate your context fairly frequently to stop the memory leak and slowdown that you'll get.

A: I had bad experience with huge context save. All those recommendations about saving in iterations by 100 rows, by 1000 rows, then disposing context or clearing list and detaching objects, assigning null to everything etc etc - it is all bullshit. We had requirements to insert daily millions of rows in many tables. Definitely one should not use entity in these conditions. You will be fighting with memory leaks and decrease in insertion speed when iterations proceed.
Our first improvement was creating stored procedures and adding them to model. It is 100 times faster then Context.SaveChanges(), and there is no leaks, no decrease in speed over time.
But it was not sufficient for us and we decided to use SqlBulkCopy. It is super fast. 1000 times faster then using stored procedures.
So my suggestion will be:
if you have many rows to insert but count is under something like 50000 rows, use stored procedures, imported in model;
if you have hundreds of thousands of rows, go and try SqlBulkCopy.
Here is some code:
EntityConnection ec = (EntityConnection)Context.Connection;
SqlConnection sc = (SqlConnection)ec.StoreConnection;

var copy = new SqlBulkCopy(sc, SqlBulkCopyOptions.CheckConstraints | SqlBulkCopyOptions.Default , null);

copy.DestinationTableName = "TableName";
copy.ColumnMappings.Add("SourceColumn", "DBColumn");
copy.WriteToServer(dataTable);
copy.Close();

If you use DbTransaction with context, you can manage to bulk insert using that transaction as well, but it needs some hacks.


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Janet Yellen, the Fairy Godmother of the Bull Market, spoke yesterday, and stock prices rose. President Ronald Reagan often said that the most terrifying words in the English language are "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help." In her speech yesterday, Yellen said that she is from the Fed and here to help:
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So far, the Fed's ultra-easy monetary policy seems to have benefitted Wall Street much more than Main Street. In her speech in Chicago, she briefly described the struggle of three workers in the Windy City--Dorine Poole, Jermaine Brownlee, and Vicki Lira--in the labor market. Yellen said, "I see that there remains considerable slack in the economy. … Slack means that there are significantly more people willing and capable of filling a job than there are jobs for them to fill."
She noted that the Fed has been committed "to do what is necessary to help our nation recover from the Great Recession. For the many reasons I have noted today, I think this extraordinary commitment is still needed and will be for some time, and I believe that view is widely shared by my fellow policymakers at the Fed."
How does this square with Yellen's press conference on March 19? The FOMC had just issued a press release stating that interest rates wouldn't be raised for "a considerable time" after QE was terminated. During the Q&A session, Yellen was asked to define "considerable." She seemed to make a rookie mistake by saying, "it probably means something on the order of around six months or that type of thing. But, you know, it depends." Stocks fell on her comments.
There is still a debate over whether Yellen made a rookie mistake at her first press conference or whether she was wisely signaling a tougher monetary approach to reduce the risk of speculative asset bubbles. Her speech yesterday confirmed my view that she intends to maintain ultra-easy monetary policy until Poole, Brownlee, and Lira have good jobs. Stock prices rose yesterday.
By the way, in her press conference, Yellen added the growth rate in wages to her dashboard of indicators suggesting that there is too much slack in the labor market. In her speech, she specified that she is watching hourly compensation in the Employment Cost Index and average hourly earnings for all employees in private industries. In a footnote, she observed that they've been growing no more than 2-1/4%. In her press conference, she said they should be growing 3-4%.
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