Lined with beaches, resorts, and five-star restaurants, the Boardwalk is a great place to do some serious people watching. The four-mile stretch, which dates back to 1870, is in walking distance to beaches, where you can surf or bask in the sun. Each night, the Moment's Factory lights up the Boardwalk Hall every half hour for the Boardwalk Beat. The three-dimensional sound and light show runs for eight and a half minutes.
The third-tallest lighthouse in the nation, the Absecon Lighthouse is a good place from which to view Atlantic City's skyline. The structure, which was built in 1857, was restored in 2003. The renovation included the creation of a keeper's dwelling as well as an overhaul of the two-acre site. Be prepared to climb 228 steps to reach the top of the lighthouse. Once there, you can relax and enjoy a 360-degree view of the city.
The lighthouse is open Thursdays through Mondays from 11 am to 4 pm year-round. It only closes for two weeks to observe Christmas and New Year's. Make sure to arrive no later than half an hour before closing during July and August to ensure you gain admission.
For many travelers, a wonderful spa experience can be the highlight of a trip. Caesars Atlantic City is home to Qua Baths and Spa, the ultimate relaxation experience that puts a contemporary spin on Roman baths.
The stoned-walled sanctuary offers a tranquil environment with three pools, 15 treatment rooms, and four facial facilities. Among the services offered are the O2 Body Perfection Treatment and a classic Swedish massage. For a more extravagant experience, try the Qua Signature Dieci Mani. You get to enjoy Roman baths, full-body exfoliation, Swedish and hot-stone massages from four masseuses at once, detoxifying moor mud, a hand and foot treatment, a Shirodhara treatment, a facial, and a 180-minute paraffin treatment. The Dieci Mani finishes with chakra balancing.
Open on weekends from the end of March through mid-June, Steel Pier is an amusement and entertainment hub that extends 1,000 feet over the Atlantic Ocean. The pier features traditional rides, like the Ferris wheel and carousel, as well as more daring ones, such as the Freedom Flyer and the Slingshot. The Steel Pier also provides helicopter rides that give you a great bird's-eye view of the Jersey shore and Atlantic City. Prices range from $49 to $74 and include options for purchasing photos. If you want, you can also customize the experience and build your own tour.
Named the top public course in New Jersey by Golf Magazine, Golf Digest, and Golf Week, the Atlantic City Country Club is famous for being the place where the term "birdie" was coined. The 100-year-old championship venue offers well-maintained fairways and deep sand bunkers. It also provides challenges such as salt-water marshes and natural ponds that can only be cleared with a long drive. Depending on the time of year, you can reserve a tee time and a golf cart for as little as $59. Make sure to dress appropriately for the venue; it is a non-metal-spike facility.
Presented by Caesars Entertainment, the Atlantic City Food and Wine Festival resumes in 2016 following a hiatus in 2015. The annual summertime event has previously welcomed a host of celebrity chefs, ranging from Rocco DiSpirito to Robert Irvine.
In 2016, Gordon Ramsey and Hell's Kitchen winner LaTasha McCutchen will join Guy Fieri and Steve Martorano to celebrate gastronomy with culinary demonstrations and tastings. As the festival nears, Caesars Entertainment will provide additional information about the event on its Facebook page.
Boogie Nights, located in the Tropicana Casino & Resort, gives you a place to dance the night away. The club pays tribute to the disco era with 1970s- and 1980s-style decor and an illuminated dance floor equipped with a hanging mirror ball. Each evening, you can expect special appearances by celebrity impersonators, like Madonna and Michael Jackson.
Boogie Nights also plans special events, such as glow parties and singles mixers, and it welcomes private parties to celebrate birthdays, anniversaries, and other special occasions. Call in advance to book one of their many themed rooms.
See the Smoky Mountains and its waterfalls by taking a ride on a zip line. Several companies, such as Smoky Mountain Ziplines and Canopy Tours, CLIMB Works, and Waterfall Canopy Zipline, offer several options for exploring the region.
Waterfall Canopy Zip Line, for instance, hosts multiple tours from its two sky bridges. The two-hour tours glide participants over the mountains' treetops with a guide, who controls the progression with power brakes. This means you do not have to worry about wearing gloves or handling cables; you are just along for the ride.
If you decide to go on a zip line tour, make sure you check the company's weight capacity, as well as minimum age stipulations, to ensure you meet the requirements. In addition, you should wear closed-toe shoes to protect your feet.
The Great Smoky Mountains National Park is a great place to hold a picnic. From Cades Cove to Deep Creek, the park has 11 open-air dining areas that are available year-round. Select areas have grills and pavilions that you can reserve for private use. Fees range from $10 to $75.
If you decide to enjoy a picnic, be sure to properly dispose of food waste and clean your grill, so you don't attract bears.
With approximately 2,900 miles of streams filled with trout and bass, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park is an ideal place to fish. The park permits fishing all year long, from 30 minutes before sunrise to half an hour after sunset, as long as you have a valid license.
The park limits you to 20 rock bass per day and up to five rainbow, brook, or brown trout or smallmouth bass. A combination of the types, which must be larger than 7 inches, are allowed as well as long as the number does not exceed five per day.
Be prepared to have your tackle and equipment inspected by park authorities, who aim to preserve the streams. You may only carry artificial flies and lures with single hooks. Liquid scents and fish bait are not allowed.
Boasting more than 800 trails, the Great Smoky Mountains have much to offer hiking enthusiasts. Within the national park, you will find Rocky Top, Gregory Bald, Mount Cammerer, and The Jump-Off trails, which are rated among the park's top-10 hikes.
The Jump-Off, in particular, makes a great picnic location following a steep climb. As you make your way up to the 1,000-foot cliff on Mount Kephart, be sure to take a moment to enjoy the view of Mount LeConte and Myrtle Point off to the northwest. At the summit, you can see the Appalachian Trail.
If you want a more leisurely stroll, you can attempt the Indian Creek Falls or Laurel Falls trails, both of which are less strenuous and span approximately two miles. The Indian Creek Falls trail climbs 150 feet in elevation, and the Laurel Falls trail takes you up 314 feet in elevation. Both hikes boast beautiful waterfalls.
Backcountry camping in the national park requires a permit and reservation for no more than three consecutive nights. To ensure your safety and protect the environment, you must follow the park's backcountry regulations, which you can find here.
If you are planning to have a fire, make sure to reserve a campsite that allows one. These sites have designated fire rings in which you can burn dead wood as well as wood already lying on the ground. If you prefer not to look for wood, you can transport bundled heat-treated firewood that holds United States Department of Agriculture certification into the park. Firewood bearing a state department of agriculture seal is approved as well. You can find these products at stores in Smokemont and Cades Cove.
Dubbed the Show-Me State, Missouri offers entertainment and fun for the whole family, and visitors especially love the Branson area. You can easily access the many attractions and sites around Branson by staying at Bluegreen Resorts' Paradise Point in Hollister, The Falls Village™ in Branson, or Bluegreen Wilderness Club at Big Cedar® and The Cliffs™ at Long Creek ™ in Ridgedale. From these resorts, you can visit the award-winning Silver Dollar City theme park or catch a live show at one of Branson's more than 50 performance venues.
Just 14 miles outside of Branson, immerse yourself in nature at the Busiek State Forest and Wildlife Conservation Area, a 2,502-acre expanse of creeks and rocky hills. Visitors have access to almost 20 miles of well-marked nature trails that are perfect for biking, hiking, and horseback riding.
Although the creeks are too small for fishing, Busiek State Forest does offer seasonal hunting with a permit. The park also has an unstaffed shooting range that is open to the public. Open year round, Busiek State Forest allows pets on leashes and admission is free.
One of the most popular destinations in the Ozarks, Table Rock Lake offers nearly 800 miles of shoreline and dazzlingly clear water. You can sunbathe and play volleyball in the soft sands of Moonshine Beach, or escape the crowds and go swimming in the Beaver area on the lake's southwest corner.
For more fun on the water, rent a pontoon boat from the Indian Point Marina, take a guided tour on the 48-foot catamaran Spirit of America, or go on a SCUBA diving adventure. Table Rock Lake is also famous for being one of the top bass fishing spots in the country, and fishermen frequently catch large bluegill and crappie as well. If you enjoy relaxing on the water, you can book a trip on the Showboat Branson Belle for a two-hour cruise that includes live entertainment and lunch or dinner.
A free attraction just west of Branson, the Ruth and Paul Henning Conservation Area features more than 1,500 acres of scenic wilderness and an observation tower and lookout with stunning views of the Ozarks. Hikers can explore the steep hills, oak and hickory forests, and open glades on paved or dirt trails dotted with benches.
Also within the conservation area is a permanent stream called Roark Creek, which is a relatively untouched Ozark headwaters stream. Bird watching is popular in the conservation area and four information kiosks explain the habitats in the park.
Opened to tourists in 1894, Marvel Cave is one of the Ozark's most amazing sites and it was first discovered around 1500 by Native Americans of the Osage Tribe, who named the cave Devil's Den. For hundreds of years, explorers and industrialists ventured into the cave, but it wasn't until after 1927 that the site was renamed Marvel Cave. An entrepreneurial family went on to develop Silver Dollar City theme park around the opening to Marvel Cave, and the area has since become one of Branson's most well-known attractions.
During the 60-minute cave tour, you'll travel 300 feet underground in the wet limestone cave and discover intricate formations that continue to grow and change. The tour starts in the magnificent Cathedral Room, which is the most expansive cave entrance in the country. Led by an experienced cave guide, you will travel over ramps and climb approximately 600 stairs surrounded by carefully lit rock formations. The guide will also provide geological and historical information about Marvel Cave.
Spanning 10,000 acres, Dogwood Canyon Nature Park contains some of the most scenic landscapes in the Ozark Mountains and lies just 30 minutes outside of Branson on the Missouri and Arkansas border. While the park offers a gift shop and other conveniences, it's known for its rugged terrain, which has remained largely untouched over the years.
You can enjoy a wide range of outdoor activities in Dogwood Canyon Nature Park, including horseback riding, trout fishing, hiking, and back-country jeep tours. For the aspiring angler, the park maintains a popular fly-fishing school with two-day courses on the picturesque streams that run through the lush forests and meadows in the park.
The largest man-made reservoir in Missouri, Lake of the Ozarks is located two hours from the Branson area in the heart of the state. The lake offers more than 1,150 miles of shoreline, with a 92-mile main channel that is ideal for boating, fishing, and sailing.
As part of Lake of the Ozarks State Park, the lake is surrounded by beautiful wooded terrain, with 12 winding trails for hiking and biking. The state park also features the Ozark Caverns, which are open for tours by lantern light.
Discovered by a farmer and his dog in 1862, Fantastic Caverns is the only cave in America that you can tour by vehicle. The jeep-drawn trams depart every half hour for 60-minute tours of the cave, which is located in Springfield, Missouri.
Open all year, Fantastic Caverns is an all-season destination because the cave remains comfortable year round at about 60 degrees. Fantastic Caverns is the perfect trip for families with young children and people with limited mobility who may not be able to explore some of the other caves in the Ozarks on foot.
If the bright lights and trendy streets of New York City are beckoning, you should book a stay at Bluegreen Resorts' The Manhattan Club, located in the center of the city. Make this resort your home base from which to explore New York City's iconic landmarks, its glorious art scene, and some of the best restaurants in the world.
After checking out the city's world-class museums and exclusive shopping venues, don't forget to buy tickets for a show at one of New York City's famous theaters. The city is renowned for its Broadway productions, but you can enjoy a more intimate and more affordable theater experience at an Off-Broadway show.
A beloved summertime destination, the Delacorte Theater is an open-air stage nestled in the southwest corner of Central Park's Great Lawn. The theater is famous for hosting Shakespeare in the Park, a free series produced annually by The Public Theater. Since 1962, more than 5 million theater-goers have attended free productions by The Public at the 1,872-seat venue.
The nonprofit theater company produces a Shakespeare play for the Delacorte each summer. It also presents other classic plays, including Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht and Anton Chekov's The Seagull. In addition to introducing emerging talents, the theater often casts celebrated performers like Meryl Streep.
While admission is free, you will need to obtain tickets on the day of a performance.
Astor Place Theatre was built in 1831 as a row of nine buildings along the historic Colonnade Row on Lafayette Street. Today, just four of those buildings still stand, fronted by marble columns in the Greek Revival style. The site, located in New York City's "NoHo" area, has become famous as the original home of the Blue Man Group. Collaboration between the Blue Man Group and the Astor Place Theatre has resulted in one of the longest lasting Off-Broadway shows in the city.
Home to the Signature Theatre Company, the Pershing Square Signature Center is an expansive new venue on 42nd Street in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Midtown Manhattan. The center includes three distinctive theater spaces that deliver an immersive and intimate experience.
Modeled after the company's original theater space, the Diamond Stage seats 294 people, while The Linney Stage seats 191 people in a flexible courtyard configuration. The Griffin Jewel Box Theatre also seats 191 audience members, but the space resembles a traditional grand opera house that has been miniaturized to promote the audience-performer engagement that is characteristic of Off-Broadway theater.
Along with the three theater spaces, the Pershing Square Signature Center offers two studios, a bookshop, and a café that is perfect for an after-show drink. The spacious center was designed by world renowned architect Frank Gehry and enables the Signature Theatre Company to support more talented playwrights.
The Daryl Roth Theatre is an unmatched space in the Union Square area, with high ceilings and an unobstructed layout. Located in the former Union Square Savings Bank on the corner of East 15th Street, The Daryl Roth Theatre opened to audiences in 1996, when producer Daryl Roth revitalized the historic 1840's building. For seven years, the building housed DE LA GUARDA, an international Off-Broadway hit.
In 2002, The Daryl Roth Theatre also transformed the former Union Square Savings Bank annex into the DR2 Theatre, an intimate theatre venue with just 99 seats. The DR2 has presented a number of top productions, including The Velveteen Rabbit, Stars of David, and Ears On A Beatle.
In 1924, the Cherry Lane Theatre began as the Cherry Lane Playhouse, an influential and long-running Off-Broadway venue that hosted productions starring a variety of celebrated artists, from Geraldine Fitzgerald to Barbara Streisand. The Commerce Street venue in Greenwich Village was the birthplace of several major theater movements, and it became known for showcasing the work of emerging playwrights. Some of the most famous American plays, written by greats like T. S. Eliot and Sam Shepard, came out of the small theatre.
Cherry Lane was revived in 1996 by Angelina Fiordellisi, who went on to found the Cherry Lane Studio to support more aspiring playwrights. Currently, Cherry Lane Theatre includes a 60-seat studio and a 179-seat main stage.


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Q: How to make timestamp show up in EST format Here is the code I am using currently.
date_default_timezone_set('America/New_York');
echo '<th>'; echo date('h:i T M-j-y', strtotime($requesttimedb)); echo '</th>';

$requesttimedb comes straight from the database.
My code is currently showing:
01:00 EDT May-26-13
However, the data was really submitted at 02:00 EST May-26-13.
How can I change the timezone from EDT to EST?  Thanks.

A: You are mistaken.  The Eastern time zone in the USA, America/New_York transitions between "Eastern Standard Time" (EST) and "Eastern Daylight Time" (EDT).  For 2013, EDT is in effect March 10th 2:00 AM, through November 3rd 2:00 AM.
So your date in May, would certainly be in EDT.

A: You say that the date is coming directly from the database, and so I'll assume you're using a SQL server, if this is the case, I suggest you set the 'timezone' using the SQL command string SET time_zone='timezone'

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Q: Feature selection using deep learning? I want to calculate the importance of each input feature using deep model.
But I found only one paper about feature selection using deep learning - deep feature selection. They insert a layer of nodes connected to each feature directly, before the first hidden layer.
I heard that deep belief network (DBN) can be also used for this kind of work. But I think, DBN provides only abstractions (clusters) of features like PCA, so though it can reduce the dimension effectively, I wonder that if it is possible to calculate the importance (weight) of each feature.
Is it possible to calcualte the feature importance with DBN?
And are there other known methods for feature selection using deep learning?

A: Maybe check this paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1712.08645.pdf
They use dropout to rank features.
... In this work we use the Dropout concept on the input feature layer and optimize the corresponding feature-wise dropout rate. Since each feature is removed stochastically, our method creates a similar effect to feature bagging (Ho, 1995) and manages to rank correlated features better than other non-bagging methods such as LASSO. We compare our method to Random Forest (RF), LASSO,
ElasticNet, Marginal ranking and several techniques to derive importance
in DNN such as Deep Feature Selection and various heuristics...

A: One approach you can take for almost any prediction model is to first train your model and find its accuracy, then for one input add some noise to it and check the accuracy again. Repeat this for each input and observe how the noise worsens the predictions. If an input is important then the extra uncertainty due to the noise will be detrimental.
Remember set the variance of the noise to be proportional to the variance of the input in question.
Of course noise is random and you don't want one input to appear unimportant due to random effects. If you have few training examples then consider repeatedly calculating the change in accuracy for each training example with a new noise added each time.
In response to the comments:
This analysis can also be done by removing a variable entirely but this has some downsides compared to adding noise.

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*Suppose that one of your inputs is constant, it acts like a bias term so it has some role to play in the prediction but it adds no information. If you removed this input entirely then the prediction would become less accurate because the perceptrons are getting the wrong bias. This makes the input look like it is important for prediction even though it adds no information. Adding noise won't cause this problem. This first point isn't a problem if you have standardized all inputs to have zero mean.

*If two inputs are correlated then the the information about one input gives information about the other. A model could be trained well if you used only one of the correlated inputs so you want the analysis to find that one input isn't helpful. If you just removed one of the inputs then, like the first point made, the prediction accuracy would decrease a lot which indicates that it is important. However, adding noise won't cause this problem.

A: Have a look at this post:
https://medium.com/@a.mirzaei69/how-to-use-deep-learning-for-feature-selection-python-keras-24a68bef1e33
and this paper:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1903.07045.pdf
They present a nice scheme for applying deep models for feature selection.


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$8.4M in cocaine found in underground bunker beneath California backyard
Posted 9:50 pm, March 23, 2018, by Tribune Media Wire, Updated at 10:11PM, March 23, 2018
INLAND EMPIRE, Calif. – Two people have been arrested after investigators found an underground bunker in the backyard of a Southern California home and seized a stash of about $8.4 million in cocaine, the Orange County Sheriff's Department announced Friday.
Stacks of cocaine are seen inside an underground bunker that was discovered in the backyard of an Inland Empire home where investigators uncovered about $8.4 million in cocaine. Authorities announced the seizure and arrests of two men in connection with it on March 23, 2018. (Credit: Orange County Sheriff's Department)
The discovery of the massive cache of narcotics, weighing about 140 kilograms — or roughly 300 pounds — came after officers stopped a vehicle along the 60 Freeway, the Sheriff's Department said. That stop was initiated by a joint operation being carried about by 12 different agencies, officials said.
Inside the vehicle, authorities discovered "a substantial amount of narcotics," the Sheriff's Department said in a news release.
Two men, ages 24 and 38, were arrested a short time later as investigators obtained a search warrant to search their residence to further investigate.
Rows of packaged cocaine are seen after being seized from an Inland Empire home where about $8.4 million in drugs was found following the arrests of two men, which authorities announced on March 23, 2018. (Credit: Orange County Sheriff's Department)
At the home, there was an underground bunker found in the backyard that was packed with stacks of kilograms of cocaine, authorities said.
Sheriff's Department officials said the drug bust is part of a larger ongoing investigation so additional information about the nature of the mens' arrests and other details of the alleged crimes is not yet being released.
The agencies involved in the investigation include the O.S. Sheriff's Department and police from Cal State Fullerton and the cities of Orange, Buena Park, Tustin, Newport Beach, Fullerton, Huntington Beach, Santa Ana and Ontario, in addition to federal investigators from the Drug Enforcement Administration and FBI.
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A Brief History of Lexus Cars
In 1983, the Toyota chairman Eiji Toyoda, posed a question to the top executives at Toyota, could they produce a luxury vehicle that could rival the likes of Mercedes-Benz and BMW. Five years later the answer was launched in the form of the Lexus LS 400. The rest, as they say, is history.
Launched with a massive advertising campaign in the US, the LS 400 was criticised for being too bland by some motoring journalists, however these hacks soon found themselves in a minority as people experienced the new Lexus, the build quality was second to none with an engine that was almost silent and the price, performance and economy were all competitive when compared to its rivals. In fact, the LS 400 went on to win several motoring awards after its release.
Buoyed by this success, Toyota quickly rolled out the Lexus product to other marketplaces, 1990 saw the launch of the Lexus brand in the UK, Switzerland, Canada, and Australia. Customer satisfaction and impressive sales soon pushed the Lexus marque up to the number one spot as the luxury car manufacturer in the US.
More models followed and in 2005 lexus made a move into the hybrid market with the launch of the RX 400h, the world's first luxury hybrid SUV, low emissions and high fuel efficiency, combined with the performance normally associated with a high powered petrol engine, have put the RX 400h into a class of its own and following this success Lexus have gone on to produce more luxury hybrid cars.
Facelifted and upgraded on four separate occasions the latest version of the LS is the LS 460 won the International Car of the Year and World Car of the Year in 2007. Lexus cars have won many subsequent awards.
Recognised as one of the top manufacturers of luxury vehicles in the world, Lexus cars have now opened a performance division and F-series Lexus cars were launched in the US towards the end of 2007. This range of cars was designed to rival the BMW M Series and the Mercedes AMG models. Since this period, Lexus has launched new models and ventured into the electric car market with the UX Electric Hatchback
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Keynote Speaker – Tuesday, March 3, 2015
Creative Disruption at the Intersection of Arts and Technology Education
Kathleen Tyner, Univ. of Texas, USA
Kathleen Tyner from The University of Texas at Austin opens a dialogue about the way that technologies can be used to transform learning through artistic expression, civic engagement and experimental practices. Recent trends in arts education, Do It Yourself (DIY), and Maker Movements provide field-tested models that inform the design of vibrant, project-based sites for personal and collaborative media creation. In addition, partnerships with community-based organizations, youth media practitioners and DIY digital makers offer valuable resources that support the innovative uses of technologies across the curriculum. This keynote discusses the rich opportunities and provocative challenges for educators as creative media practices engage with the traditional culture of schooling.
Kathleen Tyner is Associate Professor in the Department of Radio-Television-Film at The University of Texas at Austin. She collaborates internationally with researchers, educators, artists and practitioners in museums, schools and non-profit organizations for projects related to media and information literacy, the media arts, media production and serious games. Professor Tyner is author, co-author and editor of numerous books, articles and curricular materials, including Media Literacy (Routledge, 2009) and Literacy in a Digital World: Teaching and Learning in the Age of Information (Erlbaum, 1998). She serves on the editorial boards for The Journal of Digital and Media Literacy(Queens University of Charlotte), Revista Communicar (Spain), and the International Journal of Learning and Media (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
Keynote Speaker – Wednesday, March 4, 2015
Education for the Future We Want: A Call for Action
Jonghwi Park, UNESCO, Thailand
The past few decades have witnessed exponential advancement of technologies, bringing us to a whole new world that was not even imaginable just 20 years ago. In education, it is believed that these new and affordable technologies can enable anyone to learn from anywhere and anytime, with personalized learning paths available for each of the individual's needs. However, 57 million children in the world today remain to be out of school, too often for reasons that in the 21st century should not remain as barriers to their right to quality education. Across the world, 775 million adults cannot read, write or count, 64 percent of whom are female. With all the resources and technologies that we have today, the pertinent question remains as to why this is still happening and what we can do to help reduce these vast gaps. In response to these concerns, this talk aims to introduce UNESCO's vision for the role of ICT in achieving quality education for everyone, regardless of gender, culture, income and any special needs. Themes such as the challenges that UNESCO and international organizations face in pursuing this vision, and how the research community, such as SITE, can help in moving forward together will be further explored. The talk will conclude by inviting researchers and educators to collectively deliberate on potential areas for collaboration in order to finally achieve education for the future we want.
Dr. Jonghwi Park is Programme Specialist in ICT in Education, UNESCO Asia-Pacific Regional Bureau for Education (UNESCO Bangkok). Her main duty is to support 46 Member States of the Asia-Pacific region in integrating ICT in their education system in a holistic manner. Led by Dr. Park, ICT in Education Team at UNESCO Bangkok provides ICT policy review, technical supports for ICT policy development and regional comparative research on ICT in education. Her team is also specialized in designing and implementing various capacity building modules for teachers and teacher educators to facilitate the effective ICT-pedagogy integration. She oversees high-level policy fora to promote policy dialogues on ICT in Education at regional and sub-regional levels, including the Asia Pacific Ministerial Forum on ICT in Education, the Central Asia Symposium on ICT in Education, and the Regional Seminar on Innovative ICT Practices, to name a few. Prior to joining the UNESCO Bangkok, Dr. Park managed various e-learning projects in both private and public sectors in Korea and worked as ICT-pedagogy consultant for secondary teachers and university professors in Canada. She holds MA in Educational Technology from Hanyang University, Republic of Korea and PhD in Educational Psychology (specialized in Learning Sciences) from McGill University, Canada.
Keynote Speaker – Thursday, March 5, 2015
Language, the World, and Video Games: Teaching & Learning in an Imperiled World
James Gee, Arizona State University, USA
This talk starts from the premise that we are living at a time when human stupidity has brought us to the verge of disaster. At the same time, while schools and colleges are largely stuck in the past, a new paradigm of 21st Century learning has arisen out of school creating new possibilities, but new equity divides as well. To understand this new paradigm and how to spread it before it is too late for us humans we need to rethink how language, mind, human experience, digital tools like video games, and leaning can work together to create collective intelligence. In particular I will argue that our current views of learning and teaching in schools seriously misunderstands language and literacy, let alone new digital media. I argue that both teaching (as a set of specific acts) and language teaching, in particular, need to be construed far more broadly than we typically do and are both much more central to learning in and out of school than we typically think. As we enter an age of digital media and new digital literacies it is crucial that we get straight how language and traditional literacy actually work in regard to learning. Otherwise we will (as we are) just create new equity divides to go with our old ones (which we have done little about in terms of actual progress).
James Paul Gee is the Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies and Regents' Professor at Arizona State University. He is a member of the National Academy of Education. His book Sociolinguistics and Literacies (Fourth Edition 2011) was one of the founding documents in the formation of the "New Literacy Studies". His book An Introduction to Discourse Analysis (Third Edition 2011) brings together his work on a methodology for studying communication in its cultural settings, an approach that has been widely influential over the last two decades. His most recent books have dealt with video games, language, and learning. What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy (Second Edition 2007) argues that good video games are designed to enhance learning through effective learning principles supported by research in the Learning Sciences. Situated Language and Learning (2004) places video games within an overall theory of learning and literacy and shows how they can help us in thinking about the reform of schools. The Anti-Education Era: Creating Smarter Students through Digital Media appeared in 2013. Prof. Gee has published widely in journals in linguistics, psychology, the social sciences, and education.
Keynote Smithsonian Talk – Thursday, March 5, 2015
American Innovations in an Age of Discovery: Teaching Science and Social Studies through 3D-printed Historical Reconstructions
Matthew Hoffman, Smithsonian Institution, USA
David Slykhuis, James Madison University, USA
John Lee, North Carolina State University, USA
The Smithsonian X 3D initiative makes it possible to reproduce selected artifacts from the Smithsonian collections using 3D technologies. The Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE) is piloting use of these resources in science and social studies. This enables students to invent our future through discovery of our past. During the second industrial revolution, science was applied to engineering on a large scale for the first time. The resulting innovations shaped our world. Today, students are surrounded by technology made possible by these early predecessors; however, modern technology is complex and opaque, challenging for even professionals to truly understand. This presentation will explore the relevance of early inventions to future problem solvers and illuminate how emerging technologies-3D digitization and advanced manufacturing-are inspiring students to bridge disciplines to become the makers of history.
Invited Speaker – Tuesday, March 3, 2015 – 1:45 PM
Game-Based Learning: Trends, Research, and Sheer Ridiculousness
Barbara Chamberlin, New Mexico State University, USA
Though transformational, serious and educational games have been used for some time, research and wide-spread school-based integration on games are being met with increased enthusiasm. Dr. Chamberlin will share some of the latest research on game impacts (including where research can go next), upcoming trends for classroom-based gaming, and some of the challenges the game-based learning field faces.
Barbara Chamberlin directs game development and research at New Mexico State University's Learning Games Lab, (learninggameslab.org) where professionals create educational games, apps, animations, science simulations, videos and other learning tools. Most recently, the lab has completed games, animations, videos and teacher tools for the Math Snacks project (Mathsnacks.org), eight Virtual Labs simulations (virtuallabs.nmsu.edu), and several other projects related to STEM learning. Barbara's background is in informal learning, and she has worked with teams on over 30 different learning games, projects and apps. Though the lab works on projects for a diverse collections of audiences and content, she has a particular passion for STEM content. Prior to her work in academia, she worked as a stand-up comic. Her PhD is from University of Virginia in Instructional Design.
Invited Speaker – Wednesday, March 4, 2015 – 1:45 PM
What Makes an Innovation Innovative?
Krista Glazewski, University of Indiana, USA
Today's learners will eventually become tomorrow's leaders, addressing complex environmental, economic, political, educational, and social dilemmas. In this context, educators are pushed to adopt innovations that enable students toward forms of deeper thinking and knowledge building, while also meeting disciplinary standards and mandates. It is critical, however, that we consider how we are pushing classroom innovations, and Dr. Glazewski will showcase examples from her research that demonstrate how some forms of technology are being used to engage students in complex problem solving. She will also invite us to consider how we think about the ways in which innovations help or hider our ability to pose new and different questions to our students.
Krista D. Glazewski is an associate professor of Instructional Systems Technology at Indiana University, Bloomington. Her work and interests are centered primarily on problem-based learning within professional preparation and to meet disciplinary goals. Her primary research interest is in supporting teachers and students as they shift their learning practices toward problem-based inquiry. She has over almost 20 years of experience in public education, first as a middle school teacher and later as a teacher educator. Presently, she serves as co-editor of The Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-Based Learning, and open-access journal that publishes scholarly work on problem-, project-, case-, and inquiry-based learning.


A certain percentage of Trump's supporters align with his crude ethnic stereotyping, xenophobia, and misogyny. Others are among the Republican Party faithful, who, frankly, don't pay any attention to their candidate's identity or policy positions. (The same can be said for Democrat Party loyalists as well.) But it would be a serious mistake to assume this represents the sum total of his base.
Our Jewish community, nationally and here in New Jersey, has an obligation to respond. Not alone, of course, but in coalition with other civil society groups that want to end this toxic polarization that is preventing Democrats and Republicans from crossing the aisle to reach pragmatic solutions. We are called upon by our traditional values to be sensitive to the needs of all people, not only those of our own community. Tikun olam (repairing the world) should be not merely a slogan, but rather an integral part of the community's life.
Moreover, this activism would be in our enlightened self-interest. We know all too well from direct experience that periods of economic dislocation and social unrest can lead to extremism and anti-Semitism. In addition, the relationships we form with non-Jewish coalition partners often are critically important when looking for allies on distinctive Jewish issues, such as support for Israel.
There are a number of institutional vehicles through which the organized Jewish community involves itself in a multi-issue agenda through coalitional activity with other civil society groups. One of the central bodies at the national level is the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, which coordinates the activity of over 100 local CRCs (community relations committees). In all but a handful of instances, these committees are embedded in Jewish federations.
Over the years, these CRCs have accomplished some amazing things in their communities. For example, the CRC of the Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest NJ was instrumental in establishing the New Jersey Coalition Against Human Trafficking, a wide alliance of interfaith and intergroup partners committed to ending human trafficking in the state, country, and world through education, advocacy, and assistance to survivors.
Where then have Jewish energy and dollars primarily been flowing? To organizations and initiatives geared toward advancing Israel advocacy and fighting anti-Semitism. Given the many challenges we face in the community and on campuses, this focus is understandable. Indeed, I helped shape the Israel Action Network, an initiative of the Jewish Federations of North America and JCPA to counter the assault on Israel's legitimacy.
But this need not be a zero-sum game. Our community has the potential to properly address "our" interests, while at the same time increasing involvement with concerns relating to society as a whole. My recent conversations with colleagues, both nationally and in New Jersey, suggest that leadership in the mainstream Jewish community is starting to understand the importance of a more comprehensive public affairs agenda. Let's hope that if there's one thing we've learned from this topsy-turvy election, it's that once it's finally over, we have much work to do.


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New photos from 'Bad Boys 3' set reveal potential spoilers
Will Lavin Apr 12, 2019 9:33 pm BST
Will Smith and Martin Lawrence are currently shooting 'Bad Boys 3'. Credit: Columbia Pictures/Getty Images
Potential spoilers incoming...
New photos from the set of Bad Boys for Lif3 (AKA Bad Boys 3) have emerged online and it looks like there could be a spoiler on the cards already.
The much anticipated sequel, which sees Will Smith and Martin Lawrence reprise their roles as Detectives Mike Lowrey and Marcus Burnett, is set for release in 2020 after officially being confirmed by Smith back in November 2018.
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Smith and Lawrence aren't the only ones returning to the franchise. Joe Pantoliano is also back, reprising his role as Lowrey and Burnett's long-suffering boss, Captain Howard. You can see a video and images from the set below:
Will Smith and Joe Pantoliano on the set of Bad Boys for Lif3 (Credit: Backgrid)
In new photos shared this week from the set of the Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah movie, it looks like Pantoliano's character is involved in a storyline that could end in tragedy.
In the images, the actor can be seen lying on the ground covered in fake blood, after seemingly being shot. Lowrey is seen racing to his aid in one photo, before then crouching by his side in another, placing his hands around his captain's neck searching for a pulse.
Smith rushing to Pantoliano's aid on the set of Bad Boys for Lif3 (Credit: Backgrid)
Smith holding Pantoliano's neck on the set of Bad Boys for Lif3 (Credit: Backgrid)
Confirmed in December by Deadline, the plot for Bad Boys for Lif3, which also stars Vanessa Hudgens, Alexander Ludwig, Charles Melton and Paola Nunez, will focus on drug cartel boss Armando Armas (played by Jacob Scipio) hunting down Lowrey and attempting to kill him at the request of his mother.
Meanwhile, it seems that Will Smith won't be making a return as Deadshot in the Suicide Squad sequel.
The much-maligned superhero movie will be given a new lease of life when production begins on The Suicide Squad, which is set to be directed by Guardians Of The Galaxy's James Gunn.
While full details of Gunn's film are yet to emerge, it seems that Smith won't be returning as the deadly assassin after reportedly turning down the chance to return after the filming schedule clashed with another upcoming project.
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Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL), the parent company of Google, has already put a date to its first-quarter earnings release. The tech giant will report its first-quarter results on April 29.
Alphabet's business is growing nicely recently. The company reported strong revenue growth in its fourth quarter, fueled by strength in advertising and a sharp rise in "Google other" revenue. Going into the company's first quarter, investors will be looking for more of the same.
Ahead of Alphabet's first-quarter results, here's a preview of some key areas to watch.
In Alphabet's fourth quarter, revenue rose 22% year over year to $39.3 billion, easily beating a consensus analyst estimate for revenue of $39.9 billion. Earnings per share also came in above analysts' consensus forecast for the metric. EPS was $12.77 -- higher than a consensus estimate of $10.82.
For Alphabet's first quarter, the consensus analyst estimate currently calls for revenue of $37.4 billion, up about 20% from revenue in the year-ago period. For EPS, the average estimate is $10.59, down from $13.33 in the year-ago quarter. Notably, however, Alphabet's earnings per share in the year-ago period saw a $3.40 benefit from a new accounting standard that changed the way companies account for equity security investments.
Of course, most of Alphabet's revenue is driven by its advertising business. But investors shouldn't overlook "Google other" revenue, or revenue from cloud, hardware, and the Android app store. Alphabet's Google other revenue in its fourth quarter was $6.6 billion, accounting for nearly 17% of total revenue.
This segment is seeing rapid growth. Other revenue was up 31% year over year in Q4. Even more, this growth was driven by all three of the segment's main constituents: cloud, hardware, and the Android app store.
With Google other revenue seeing accelerated year-over-year growth recently (31% growth in Q4 compared to 29% growth in Q3), investors should look for similarly strong growth in the first quarter of 2019.
Investors will also want to hone in specifically on any updates on Alphabet's Google cloud business -- the biggest contributor to the company's Google other segment. In the company's fourth-quarter earnings call, Alphabet CFO Ruth Porat said the company's Google Cloud Platform (GCP) has seen impressive progress recently, with GCP contracts worth more than $1 million doubling in 2018 compared to 2017. In addition, Alphabet said it is seeing strong growth in its cloud business across all of its major geographies and industries.
While Alphabet is unlikely to provide any concrete numbers on its cloud business in its earnings release, management will likely share some information about the company during its first-quarter earnings call.
Alphabet will report its first-quarter results after market close on Monday, April 29.
Suzanne Frey, an executive at Alphabet, is a member of The Motley Fool's board of directors. Daniel Sparks has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool owns shares of and recommends Alphabet (A shares) and Alphabet (C shares). The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.


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Act One: Scene One
Act One: Scene Two
Act One: Scene Three
Act One: Scene Four
Act Two: Scene One
Act Two: Scene Two
Act Two: Scene Three
Act Two: Scene Four
Act Two: Scene Five
Troy Maxson
Rose Maxson
Gabriel Maxson
Cory Maxson
Lyons Maxson
Themes, Motifs, and Symbols
Lyons Maxson Quotes
Quotes Lyons Maxson Quotes
LYONS: Aw, Pop, you know I can't find no decent job. Where am I gonna get a job at? You know I can't get no job. . . . Naw, Pop . . . thanks. That ain't for me. I don't wanna be carrying nobody's rubbish. I don't wanna be punching nobody's time clock.
Troy's older son, Lyons, has come by to borrow ten dollars. An aspiring musician, Lyons finds himself perennially underemployed. Music does not pay well, and as he indicates in this conversation with his father, he has no desire for any job where he's under someone else's control. Since Troy was not involved in Lyons's upbringing, Troy does not exert the control over his first son's choices that he tries to exert over Cory, his second son.
LYONS: I know I got to eat. But I got to live too. I need something that gonna help me get out of bed in the morning. Make me feel like I belong in the world. I don't bother nobody. I just stay with my music cause that's the only way I can find to live in the world. Otherwise there ain't no telling what I might do.
Lyons explains that music is his calling. If forced to give playing up for a normal job, he would be miserable. While Lyons needs to be an artist to be happy, Troy feels proud to live the "straight" life. Lyons's devotion to his craft may mean that he is very different from Troy. At the same time, Lyons's lifestyle may reveal something about Troy: Perhaps Troy represses his own personal desires because supporting his family feels more important than his own happiness.
LYONS: See, Pop . . . if you give somebody else a chance to talk sometime, you'd see that I was fixing to pay you back your ten dollars like I told you. Here . . . I told you I'd pay you back when Bonnie got paid. . . . Here's your ten dollars, Pop. I told you I don't want you to give me nothing. I just wanted to borrow ten dollars. . . . Here you go, Rose, if you don't take it I'm gonna have to hear about it for the next six months.
Troy resents Lyons's requests for money, since they result from Lyons's refusal to get a "real" job. But perhaps because Troy missed Lyons's childhood, Troy begrudgingly feels he must support Lyons now. Knowing that Troy views mooching as unmanly, Lyons feels determined to pay Troy back. Lyons gets the money from his girlfriend, who has a regular job. He feels more comfortable being supported by her than being looked down on by Troy.
LYONS: Stick with Uncle Sam and retire early. Ain't nothing out here. I guess Rose told you what happened with me. They got me down the workhouse. I thought I was being slick cashing other people's checks. . . . They give me three years. . . . It ain't so bad. You learn to deal with it like anything else. You got to take the crookeds with the straights. That's what Papa used to say.
After being away in the marines for several years, Cory reunites with his family for his father's funeral. Here Lyons catches Cory up on his own life: Lyons is currently in prison for passing bad checks. Lyons fully admits he made a mistake and accepts his punishment, which probably makes serving the time easier to handle. By quoting his father, he shows that he learned from and respected Troy even though Troy missed Lyons's childhood.
LYONS: Cory . . . you know I'm gonna do that. There's some fellow down there we got us a band . . . we gonna try and stay together when we get out . . . but yeah, I'm still playing. It still helps me to get out of bed in the morning. As long as it do that I'm gonna be right there playing and trying to make some sense out of it.
After Cory asks Lyons if he's still playing music, Lyons reveals that he could never give music up. He explains that playing is still his calling and his passion, and luckily he has found other musicians in prison to play with. For Lyons, making music is food for his soul, his reason for living. He will continue to follow his passion as long as it provides him with purpose. He certainly doesn't make music for the financial element. Lyons understands that there are elements of himself that he can't ignore.
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Q: Как сделать другой репозиторий ответвлением в текущем?
Как сделать другой репозиторий ответвлением в текущем?

A: (Выношу из комментариев)
В вашем варианте, как правильно заметил Nick Volynkin, решения быть не может. Надо выбрать либо а) общую базу, тогда изменения А-Г перейдут соответственно в А'-Г', либо б) сохранение изменений, тогда ветка будет соединена как вы сами заметили "сверху".
Я выбрал приоритетом вариант б) и вот почему:

*

*изменения остаются неизменными;

*вы можете продолжать развитие старого проекта и "подливать", если нужно, в новый;

*rebase, так для краткости назовём вариант а), вообще плохая практика для опубликованных репозиториев (тут уж от вас зависит строгость этого термина).

Теперь к сути. Вариант б) или merge делается в три команды:
git checkout -b <имя новой ветки> <хеш комита №2>
git fetch <URL репозитория №2> <имя ветки в репозитории №2>
git merge --allow-unrelated-histories FETCH_HEAD

Перед выполнением необходимо убедиться, что вы находитесь в нужной ветке репозитория №1.
В третьей строке специальная опция, чтобы избежать ошибки: fatal: refusing to merge unrelated histories, о которой подробнее описано тут.
При наличии конфликтов на третьем этапе их надо разрешить самому так, как вы считаете нужным.
Результатом будет ветка <имя новой ветки> в репозитории №1.

A: решений, конечно, много. например, можно воспользоваться командой format-patch и парной для неё am.
пример.
в каталоге 0 у нас хранилище с такой историей:
$ git log --one-line
a3d5387 5
2b7f19f 4
e1d8018 3
3e1fa25 2
7e8bd8d 1

а в каталоге 1 — с такой:
$ git log --one-line
5ea5e2c d
d42991a c
f980223 b
cff9df9 a

и хотим мы, чтобы коммиты a b c d из второго хранилища «приложились» к коммиту 2 из первого хранилища.
во-первых, надо получить все коммиты в виде patch-файла:
$ cd /путь/к/хранилищу/1
$ git format-patch --stdout --root cff9df9 > patch
$ git format-patch --stdout cff9df9..HEAD >> patch

две команды требуются для того, чтобы в файл patch попал и «корневой» коммит a
во-вторых, применить их с помощью команды am в хранилище 0, предварительно создав там новую ветку, ответвлённую от коммита 2:
$ cd /путь/к/хранилищу/0
$ git checkout -b new 3e1fa25
$ git am /путь/к/хранилищу/1/patch
Applying: a
Applying: b
Applying: c
Applying: d

если конфликтов не возникло, в хранилище 0 будет такая картина:
$ git log --oneline --all --decorate --graph
* 20b6b2f (HEAD -> new) d
* 8dedddf c
* 6ddec5e b
* cb7a798 a
| * a3d5387 (master) 5
| * 2b7f19f 4
| * e1d8018 3
|/
* 3e1fa25 2
* 7e8bd8d 1

хэш-суммы, понятно, стали у «приложенных» коммитов другие, но всё остальное — содержимое, дата, автор — на месте.

A: Для начала, надо куда-то стащить коммиты из двух репозиториев сразу, ведь вы хотите получить комбинацию двух историй. Следуя вашим рисункам, работать будем в репозитории с коммитами-цифрами, а второй подключим к нему:

*

*Добавить в него репозиторий с коммитами-буквами как "удалённый источник" (remote) под названием letters (сами можете выбрать и другое, не принципиально):
git remote add letters путь/к/другому/репозиторию

*Стащить оттуда коммиты/ветки/теги/всёподряд:
git fetch letters

*Сделать и перейти в новую ветку base, начинающуюся с master ветки второго репозитория:
git checkout -b base letters/master # Ветки ж master в обеих?

*Откройте журнал ветки master текущего репозитория и найдите коммит, от которого планируете ответвиться:
git log master

Скажем, пусть его хэш будет начинаться на abcdef.

*Это всё были приготовления. А теперь заклинание:
git rebase --root --onto abcdef

*

*Перевесить цепочку коммитов (rebase)...

*...от текущего до основания (--root)...

*...на коммит с хэшем abcdef (--onto abcdef).

В итоге имеем:
[1 ]---[2 ]---[3 ]---[4 ]---[5 ]  (master)
           \
            \
             \[А']---[Б']---[В']---[Г'] (base)

Всё как на рисунке. Кроме... хэшей буквенных коммитов. Изменение того, от чего они ответвлены, меняет и их хэши. Поэтому они и отмечены штрихами, т. к. это не на все 100% исходные коммиты. В них будет всё то же самое, кроме предков (если вы с конфликтами не столкнётесь).

PS: мне решительно непонятно, для чего эти две истории нужно сцеплять у основания, хотя вам виднее, наверное. Git нормально обращается с несвязанными между собой ветками в одном репозитории.
Когда на гитхабе был биллинг по количеству закрытых репозиториев, некоторые экономили, собирая в одном репозитории ветки нескольких проектов. И это работало. Причём для тех, кому нужно было несколько проектов сразу, с помощью свежего Git (2.5+?) можно было держать несколько рабочих копий, относящихся к разным веткам одного репозитория, с помощью git worktree add. Такие дела.


Britain is still the European Hub for international technology investors according to a study released today. Technology companies in Britain over the last two years have received almost 3x more investment from venture capital compared to any other country in Europe. Technology companies attracted more than 5 billion pounds since the 2016 referendum vote, which is more than Germany (2.15 billion pounds), France (1.55 billion pounds) and Sweden (644 million pounds) combined. Technology firms in London have been the destination of much of the investment with 80% of all UK venture capital funding over the same period.
The study performed by London & Partners, which is London Mayer Sadiq Khan's official promotional agency, explained that investors were attracted to London's cutting edge technology sectors such as Artificial Intelligence, cyber security, and Fintech.


Disney comics were introduced to Turkey in 1936 by Ülkü Yayýnevi with Çocuk Sesi'nin Miki Fare Albümü. Ülkü was a pioneering publisher of children's magazines in Turkey. After Çocuk Sesi merged with Afacan in 1939 publication ceased in 1942 and there were no Disney comics published in Turkey until 1953, when the weekly Çocuklara Armaðan was launched, printing traced material from the American Walt Disney's Comics & Stories.
Traced stories from WDC&S also frequently appeared in the pages of Doðan Çocuk, Turkey's most popular children's magazine after the second world war. In 1957 Milliyet, one of Turkey's leading newspapers, started printing licensed daily strips of Scamp.
In 1962 Pulhan Yayýnlarý began publishing the Miki weekly with licensed stories, which was cancelled in 1965. In 1966 Arkýn Kitabevi took over the license and launched Renkli Miki, which was cancelled within a year.
In 1970 Hakký Bigeç launched Miki Maus which printed Italian-made stories. In 1979, Tay Yayýnlarý began publishing a bi-weekly Disney comics magazine titled Miki, containing mostly short stories. Unfortunately also this title was cancelled after two years.
In 1993 Ana Yayýncýlýk began publishing Disney Dünyasý and was later taken over by Doðan Yayýncýlýk, which built a partnership with Egmont in Denmark, which then put out Donald Amca in place of Disney Dünyasý and accompanied it by a new Mickey Mouse monthly.
Çocuk Sesi'nin Miki Fare Albümü 4.94 1936 - ?
Mickey Mouse 6.02 1995 - ?
Mickey Mouse Album 4.64 1996 - ?
Vak Vaka Kardeþ 3.75 ? - ?


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De Standaard (deutsch Der Standard) war eine überregionale niederländische Tageszeitung mit Redaktionssitz in Amsterdam.

Geschichte
Die erste Ausgabe von De Standaard erschien am 1. April 1872. Gründer und erster Chefredakteur war Abraham Kuyper, der 1879 auch die orthodox-calvinistische Partei ARP gründen und von 1901 bis 1905 Ministerpräsident der Niederlande sein sollte. Kuyper blieb bis 1919 Chefredakteur der Zeitung und schrieb in dieser Zeit fast 8.000 Kommentare, er gilt als der bedeutendste niederländische Journalist seiner Zeit. Als Parteiblatt der ARP fuhr De Standaard einen anti-sozialistischen und anti-liberalen Kurs, ferner brachte Kuyper in seiner Zeitung auch seine antisemitischen Ansichten zum Ausdruck. Im übrigen ließ sich Kuyper oft wochenlang nicht in der Redaktion blicken und überließ seinen Untergebenen das Tagesgeschäft, bis einige Lebensjahre vor seinem Tod war er jedoch de facto Alleinherrscher in seinem Blatt.

Die Zeitung war in moderne Rubriken wie Inland, Ausland und Parlament unterteilt und unterhielt ihrer Herkunft getreu auch eine Rubrik für Kirchennachrichten. Trotz der naturgemäß antirevolutionären Haltung der Zeitung hatte Kuyper ein christlich-soziales Selbstverständnis und unterstützte das allgemeine Wahlrecht. 1919 ließ Kuypers Gesundheit deutlich nach, am Ende jenes Jahres wurde er dazu gezwungen die Leitung der Redaktion zunächst an eine sechsköpfige Redaktionskommission abzutreten. Am 1. April 1922 trat Hendrikus Colijn, der bereits Mitglied dieser Kommission gewesen war, die offizielle Nachfolge von Kuyper an und behielt die Chefredaktion, mit einer Unterbrechung während seiner Zeit als Ministerpräsident der Niederlande von 1933 bis 1939, bis zum 4. Februar 1941, als er aus Protest darüber, dass der NSB-Publizist Max Blokzijl der Zeitung als Redaktionsleiter aufgezwungen wurde, zurücktrat. Colijn war bereits zuvor mit den deutschen Besatzern aneinandergeraten, so hatte er eine Behauptung bestritten, dass die Niederlande zusammen mit Frankreich und Großbritannien gegen Deutschland paktiert hätten, worauf De Standaard für acht Wochen verboten worden war. Colijn hoffte, mit seinem Rücktritt den Weiterbestand des Blattes über den Krieg hinweg bis zur Zeit nach der Befreiung sichern zu können.

Kurz nachdem der vorige Redaktionsleiter Taeke Cnossen das Zepter von Colijn übernahm, wurde De Standaard durch das am 30. Juni 1941 erfolgte Verbot der ARP ihrem Hintergrund entrissen. Trotz eines Aufrufs der antirevolutionären Untergrundzeitung Trouw, alle Abonnements zu kündigen, stieg die Auflage ungeachtet der genannten Widrigkeiten sogar noch an. 1943 wurde Cnossen schließlich nach einigen Konflikten über die Übernahme von Artikeln und Bildunterschriften entlassen. Dem letzten Chefredakteur H. Burger, zuvor Kunstredakteur der Zeitung, war nur noch eine kurze Zeit vergönnt, wegen der Papierknappheit konnte De Standaard seit Anfang 1944 nur noch als Wochenzeitung erscheinen und stellte am 15. Dezember 1944 das Erscheinen gänzlich ein.

Da die Zeitung nach 1942 noch erschienen war, galt sie als Kollaborationszeitung und wäre wie alle anderen derartigen Zeitungen von einem vorläufigen Wiedererscheinungsverbot betroffen gewesen. Während andere von dem Erscheinungsverbot betroffene Zeitungen später wieder herauskamen und zum Teil schon vorher dieses Verbot durch einen temporär geänderten Namen umgangen hatten, verständigte sich De Standaard im September 1945 mit Trouw darauf, zugunsten letzterer ein erneutes Erscheinen nicht mehr anzustreben. Zu jener Zeit benutzte Trouw bereits seit einigen Monaten die Druckerei von De Standaard.

De Standaard gehörte nie zu den auflagenstärksten Zeitungen der Niederlande, bis zum Ersten Weltkrieg hatte sie zu keiner Zeit mehr als 6.000 Abonnenten, 1943 kam sie auf einen Auflagenwert von etwa 34.000 Exemplaren. Ihre Bedeutung ergibt sich daher auch eher aus Kuypers Wirken als Journalist, ihrer Funktion als Sprachrohr der ARP und der größtmöglichen Verbindung zum Parlament, die sie dadurch hatte, dass zwei ihrer Chefredakteure Ministerpräsidenten der Niederlande waren.

Chefredakteure

Auflagenentwicklung

Literatur
 Peter Bak, George Harinck, Roel Kuiper: De Antirevolutionaire Partij 1829–1980, Verloren, Hilversum 2001. ISBN 90-6550-664-0.
 Piet Hagen: Journalisten in Nederland. Een Persgeschiedenis in portretten. Uitgeverij De Arbeiderspers, Amsterdam / Antwerpen 2002. ISBN 90-295-2222-4.
 Jan van de Plasse: Kroniek van de Nederlandse dagblad- en opiniepers / samengesteld door Jan van de Plasse. Red. Wim Verbei, Otto Cramwinckel Uitgever, Amsterdam 2005, ISBN 90-75727-77-1. (niederländisch; frühere Ausgabe: Jan van de Plasse, Kroniek van de Nederlandse dagbladpers, Cramwinckel, Amsterdam 1999, ISBN 90-75727-25-9.)
 Jules Prast: De mannen achter De Standaard. Geschiedenis van een antirevolutionair dagblad, bravenewbooks.nl, Amsterdam 2018, ISBN 978-94-021-8335-1

Siehe auch
 Liste niederländischer Zeitungen

Zeitung (Amsterdam, Erscheinen eingestellt)
Niederländischsprachige Tageszeitung
Ersterscheinung 1872

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"Breast is best." Mothers and mothers-to-be hear that constantly, and for good reason. Breastfeeding has a whole host of benefits for both mother and baby. But as a country, while we strive to push breastfeeding, when it comes to actually backing it up with true support, we fall short. And then we wonder why one of the most heated fights in the dreaded "mommy wars" centers around breastfeeding.
A couple of years ago, New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg created the "Latch On NYC" initiative. The initiative changed the protocol surrounding formula use in NYC hospitals and requires new mothers who want to use formula while still in the hospital to sign it out like medication. Nobody is denied formula, but if a mother requests some, she'll receive a mandated talk from staff on why breast is best. When the initiative first came out, I wrote about how it wasn't so much supporting breastfeeding as it was stigmatizing formula. And if there's one thing new mothers don't need any more of, it's stigma over their decisions.
Even when initiatives try to support breastfeeding, they somehow still end up missing the mark. What can we do instead? How can we close the chasm between breastfeeding and formula in a way that lessens the judgment and promotes true support?
My favorite go-to fixes focus less on the personal and more on policy. If only we had better postpartum policies for families. Let's say a woman wants to try to breastfeed but has only three weeks of leave after having a baby. She is going to have way more on her mind than figuring out breastfeeding, especially if it's a bit tricky at first and she knows she won't have the time or space to pump once back at work. Know what could be useful? Mandated, paid maternity leave. You know, like the rest of the world has. And while we're at it, why not mandated paid family/paternity leave so those in two-parent households can have support from their partners?
Beyond policy, we can take another page from other countries by instituting some sort of affordable, accessible and regulated milk share program for those who want to feed their babies breast milk but aren't nursing for whatever reason. Modernized breast milk banks in Brazil have helped cut infant mortality by two-thirds and are now the model for many other countries. In Brazil, milk banks help provide an alternative to formula made with contaminated water, which can be dangerous for infants. It's inspiring to see a developing country put time, money and effort into a workable solution like this — and to great benefit! And in Iceland, a country where having a milk bank isn't economically feasible for such a small population, they've decided to import breast milk from Denmark to feed premature babies and other infants when mother's milk isn't available. Come on, U.S., get with the program.
While we work on getting better policies and support from our country, let's do what we can on the micro level. Support fellow moms. Offer information or advice if asked, but don't judge. While it would be awesome if breastfeeding was more common, I do know that shaming and judging is not the way to get folks there.


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Home Culture A quick run up of prizes and awards at the 67th Berlinale...
A quick run up of prizes and awards at the 67th Berlinale – Bears come and go as Glashütte leads the way
Christopher Prescott
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Berlin, Germany (Weltexpress). Headed by the Dutch director and screenwriter Paul Verhoeven whose long and varied filmography includes "Turkish Fruit", "The Soldier of Orange", "RoboCop", "Total Recall", "Basic Instinct", "Starship Troopers", "Hollow Man", "Black Book" and "Elle", the international jury, consisting also of Maggie Gyllenhaal, Diego Luna, Julia Jentsch, Wang Quan'an, Olafur Eliasson and Dora Bouchoucha Fourati, awarded seven Silber Bears and a Golden Bear this evening in the Berlinale Palast.
The winners of the Competition during the 67th Berlinale were:
Golden Bear for Best Film (awarded to the film's producer)
"Testről és lélekről" ("On Body and Soul") by Ildikó Enyedi
Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize
"Félicité" by Alain Gomis
Silver Bear Alfred Bauer Prize (for a feature film that opens new perspectives)
"Pokot" ("Spoor") by Agnieszka Holland in collaboration with Kasia Adamik
Aki Kaurismäki for "Toivon tuolla puolen" ("The Other Side of Hope")
Kim Minhee in "Bamui haebyun-eoseo honja" ("On the Beach at Night Alone") by Hong Sangsoo
Georg Friedrich in "Helle Nächte" ("Bright Nights") by Thomas Arslan)
Silver Bear for Best Screenplay
Sebastián Lelio and Gonzalo Maza for "Una mujer fantástica ("A Fantastic Woman") by Sebastián Lelio
Silver Bear for outstanding artistic contribution
Dana Bunescu for the editing in"Ana, mon amour" by Călin Peter Netzer
Apart from Competition honours, there were numerous other prizes presented during and at the end of a long Berlinale. The Golden Bear for Best Short Film went to "Cidade Pequena" by Diogo Costa Amarante, the Silver Bear to "Ensueño en la Pradera" by Esteban Arrangoiz Julien, and the Audi Short Film Award to "Street of Death" by Karam Ghossein. Among the prizes of the juries Generation, the Crystal Bear for the Best Film acclaimed "Piata lod" ("Little Harbour") by Iveta Grófová and for the Best Short Film "Promise" by Xie Tian as winners. It was a choice made by eleven kids, the Children's Jury Generation Kplus and as thus something really special Berlinale. Prizes from 'adults' that make this film festival unique are among others the Teddy Award in five categories, for instance Best Feature Film "A fantastic woman", the Peace Film Prize going to "El Pacto de Adriana" ("Adriana's Pact") by Lissette Orozco or the Amnesty International Film Prize for "La libertad del Diablo" ("Devil's Freedom") by Everardo Gonzáles.
Although the prizes and awards by now seem countless, there was something new on the agenda this year. The "Glashütte Original Documentary Award", endowed with € 50,000 and funded by the company well known as a watchmaker was presented by the jury made up of Mexican festival director Daniela Michel, US American filmmaker Laura Poitras and the Swiss-Iranian director Samir, to "Istiyad Ashbah" ("Ghost Hunting") by Raed Andoni. In the film, former inmates reconstruct an Israeli secret service interrogation centre. These Palestinian men use role-play to come to terms with their memories and the humiliation they have experienced. Out of the sixteen nominees for the award, this set-up was certainly one of the most shocking shown. Glashütte goes far ahead with this award, the company can also be proud of this achievement with a trophy that fits and makes the movie world develop precisely on time, a trophy built from gears and representing the multifaceted art of the documentary. Lots of cheers for Glashütte, and lets hope they carry on at this pace for the next years.
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Articles > Time to Recognize Iranian People's Demand for Regime Change
Time to Recognize Iranian People's Demand for Regime Change
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Ali Safavi, IJR, 12 January 2018
With audacious anti-regime protests roiling throughout Iran, wheezy officials of the dictatorship have repeatedly declared the uprising at an end. But the raw social anger did not appear out of nowhere, and it will not simply disappear into thin air.
Popular resentment has gradually risen over four decades of horrific human rights violations and iron-fisted rule; a nightmare punctuated by suppression, misogyny, economic mismanagement, back-breaking unemployment, crippled industries, and slithering social monsters feeding off of the armies of the destitute. The people of Iran have chosen to rise up, in a cogent expression of anti-regime sentiments that run deep and wide.
Marked by chants of "death to dictator," the unrest points to a fundamental underlying reality: The Iranian people despise the ruling mullahs and all their policies and want a democratic, secular republic instead.
There are important messages to be heard: Contrary to conventional wisdom in the West, the Iranian regime is weak, vulnerable and in imminent danger. Sitting on empty strategic reserves, the mullahs are incapable of addressing the social, economic, and political aspirations of a population starving for modernity.
So, the first message is that regime change in Iran is not only probable but within reach.
Second, the "reformist vs. hardliner" dichotomy — a favorite narrative in Western capitals — has been definitively transcended. Gone are the days when protests could be erroneously attributed to this or that faction. Today, protesters are chanting: "hardliners, reformers, the game is now over."
Third, the Iranian people are unambiguously calling for the "overthrow" of the rule of the mullahs. The battle lines are drawn: the Iranian people on one side and the entirety of the clerical regime on the other. Western policy should adjust, not deny.
In 2009, fissures at the top of the regime triggered massive protests. This time, unrest has erupted in response to deep-seated, multi-dimensional factors, including economic crises, social ills, systemic corruption, environmental disasters, seismic rural migration to cities incapable of growth, and lack of basic political and social rights and freedoms.
The resentment is not confined to the urban middle class; the rural populations in many towns and cities have been involved in the uprising since it started Dec. 28. These are the very people whom the regime long claimed formed its base of support.
The fourth message, then, is that almost every social sector in almost every city is openly angry.
Fifth, no matter how Tehran reacts in the coming days, given the profound root causes and the regime's inability to seriously address them, resentment will continue to simmer and find new means of expression. The regime is accordingly strategically unstable and cannot withstand the eruption of more crises and unrest.
A striking feature of the recent protests has been their breakneck speed. The initial spark was in Mashhad, the country's second largest city, on Dec. 28. Within 24 hours, people all over the country were demanding regime change in astonishing harmony. Not even a nationwide internet blockade stopped this dizzying tempo.
This, as well as the substance of the demands, demonstrate the people of Iran are undeniably ready for regime change, and they will not be satisfied with anything short of democracy. Just listen to them chanting "independence, freedom, an Iranian Republic," "death to Khamenei," and "death to Rouhani."
Alarmed officials and the state-run media have relentlessly attacked the opposition, primarily the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), which is the organizational engine of the protests. In a desperate phone call last week, the regime's president, Hassan Rouhani, pleaded with French President Emmanuel Macron to limit the activities and movements of the MEK in Paris.
And on Tuesday, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei acknowledged the role of the MEK in no uncertain terms: "They were prepared months ago. The media of the MEK admitted to this; they said, recently, that they were in contact with Americans some months ago, to carry out U.S.' orders: to organize riots, meet with this or that person, find individuals inside the country to help them fan out to the people. And that it was they who initiated this."
So, what should the U.S. and Europe do?
President Donald Trump has been right in rejecting the phantom "moderates" within the regime, declaring it is "time for change," imposing new sanctions, and squeezing the Revolutionary Guards wherever the opportunity arises.
These steps should be coupled with an unambiguous declaration of respect for the Iranian people's aspirations, by recognizing legitimate resistance movements, such as the MEK and the umbrella coalition of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI). These movements have a 40-year track record of struggle for democracy against dictatorship, have suffered most of the regime's wrath, and they have the ability to lead Iran's disenchanted toward actual democratic change.
The Iranian people have made their choice. Now, it is up to the international community to take a stand and support them in their noble quest for freedom and human rights. It is time to declare to the mullahs that it is their weakening dictatorship, not the uprising for freedom, that must end.
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