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Join Us for #ADAA2019!
The ADAA conference is the professional hub for clinicians and researchers in the field of anxiety and depression, and related disorders who want to share, learn, innovate and advance the field in meaningful ways. This year, the ADAA conference will take place from March 28-31 in Chicago, IL and will be focusing on cutting edge research to optimize treatment success and transcending cultural, racial, and socioeconomic barriers in relation to mental health. Register for #ADAA2019 and book your room at the Sheraton Grand Chicago today! See below for key events at #ADAA2019:
Keynote Address: Potential Drugs of Abuse as Antidepressants and Anxiolytics: Pluses and Minuses with Alan F. Schatzberg, MD
Jerilyn Ross Lecture — Ketamine and Mind-Altering Drugs
Master Clinician Sessions
New this year! Suicide Prevention Program
Scientific Research Symposium
New this year! Science Spotlights
New Research Poster Sessions
ADAA Professional Webinars
ADAA offers a broad range of webinars for mental health professionals, from live one-hour interactive webinars, to on-demand recorded webinars and now recorded webinar bundles offered at a special price. ADAA also offers collaborative webinars and audio recorded sessions from #ADAA2018 available for purchase. Most ADAA professional webinars and audio recordings offer CE credits. CE credits area approved by APA, NBCC, CAMFT, and New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work.
Thursday, January 10, 2019 — Melissa Hunt, PhD presents:
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Chronic Gastrointestinal Disorders
Eligible for 1 CE Hour
Thursday, January 24, 2019 — Lynne Siqueland, PhD and Tamar Chanksy, PhD present:
Empowering Families in the Face of Pediatric Acute Onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome (PANS)
Collaborating with Pediatricians: Tools & Techniques to Enhance Relationships & Care Coordination with Pediatricians in Your Community featuring Ruth Lippin, LCSW, JD, Lynne Siqueland, PhD, Debra Kissen, PhD, MHSA
ADAA Depression and Anxiety Journal
Depression and Anxiety, the official online journal of the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, welcomes original research and synthetic review articles covering neurobiology (genetics and neuroimaging), epidemiology, experimental psychopathology, and treatment (psychotherapeutic and pharmacologic) aspects of mood and anxiety disorders, and related phenomena in humans. In 2018, ADAA was proud to announce that the 2017 Impact Factor had increased to 5.043. We would like to share a friendly reminder that ADAA members receive a complimentary annual online subscription to Depression and Anxiety. Learn more here.
As we reflect on the past year for the industry, we would like to provide the readers of ADAA's Insights a look at the most accessed articles from 2018. Our regular publication will resume on Tuesday, Jan. 15.
Brain imaging study IDs 3 types of depression
From Nov. 6: Japanese researchers have identified three types of depression, one of which is untreatable with the use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, the most commonly prescribed medication for the condition. The three distinct subtypes of depression were characterized by two main factors: functional connectivity patterns synchronized between different regions of the brain and childhood trauma experience. READ MORE
Attempted suicide in kids, teens doubled in last decade: Study
HealthDay News via UPI
From May 22: In a troubling sign that anxiety and depression are taking hold of America's youth, new research shows a doubling since 2008 in the number of kids and teens who've been hospitalized for attempted suicide or suicidal thoughts. The report was published online May 16 in Pediatrics. READ MORE
Trauma suffered in childhood echoes across generations, study finds
From July 17: Trauma in childhood echoes through generations, according to new research that could have implications for thousands of migrant children recently separated from parents at the U.S. border. The study, published in Pediatrics, finds that traumatic events in childhood increase the risk of mental health and behavioral problems not just for that person but also for their children. READ MORE
Brain imaging can predict CBT effectiveness for OCD
From Feb. 27: Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, have developed a new method to predict whether a person with obsessive compulsive disorder would benefit from cognitive behavioral therapy. The study was published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. READ MORE
Study identifies new target for treatment of depression
News-Medical
From Jan. 30: More than 300 million people worldwide are affected by major depressive disorder, according to the World Health Organization. Unfortunately, the antidepressants commonly used to treat them only work for 50 percent of the population. A recent paper published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry explores how a protein named CK2 could be playing a key role. READ MORE
FDA approves brain stimulation device for OCD
HealthDay News via Medical Xpress
From Aug. 28: A brain stimulation device to treat obsessive-compulsive disorder has received approval for marketing by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Transcranial magnetic stimulation uses magnetic fields to stimulate nerve cells in the brain. The FDA approved it as a treatment for major depression in 2008 and for treating pain associated with certain migraines in 2013. READ MORE
Could a blood test lead to new treatments for depression?
From Aug. 14: Depression is among the leading causes of disability worldwide, with more than 300 million people suffering from this mental illness, according to the World Health Organization. Despite how common depression is, scientists still have a lot to learn about it. Among what is known is that depression is not a single disease but a variety of feelings and behaviors that may have different underlying causes. READ MORE
In depression, the brain region for stress control is larger
From Sept. 25: Although depression is one of the leading psychiatric disorders, its cause remains unclear. A recent study found that those affected by depressive disorder have a larger hypothalamus compared to their healthy counterparts. This could explain why many sufferers show increased levels of the stress hormone cortisol and are very often afflicted with periods of tension. READ MORE
Gene variants may predict response to antidepressant
From Jan. 16: In order to individualize drug therapy, researchers have been investigating potential genetic biomarkers that might help predict an individual's response to medications. Now a new study finds that certain genetic variations may help determine whether selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) will be effective in people with depression. READ MORE
Massive study finds same genes drive many psychiatric conditions
From July 3: Mental illnesses ranging from depression to schizophrenia show a great degree of overlap in the genes that may contribute to them, a large, new study shows. Researchers said the findings should deepen the understanding of how various psychiatric disorders arise. Eventually, they might even change the way the conditions are diagnosed and treated. READ MORE
Cait Harrison, Senior Content Editor, 469-420-2657 | Contribute news


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How about a bit of Little Fauss and Big Halsy on this week's Off Track?
The schedule is here! The schedule is here! In this episode of Off Track, Paul and Sean discuss the newly minted 2019 MotoAmerica schedule, which includes 10 rounds with four of them two-day events. And because it's called "Off Track," the boys veer off on a couple of interesting tangents like you knew they would. Give it a listen.


Name: Hatter. Possibly also David.
Hatter is a bit of a mysterious figure. He seems to have once been friends with the now Mad Marsh, but that was long ago. He runs a Tea Shoppe, selling 'tea' made from the sucked out emotions of 'oysters' from the world beyond the Looking Glass. He assists the Resistance but is regarded with great suspicion by most, especially Dodo, for "playing both sides of the court" to keep himself in relative safety and comfort. This also gave him the opportunity to keep an eye on the activities of both sides and provide the resistance with much-needed food and supplies. Despite the help the resistance considers him a great coward for not openly declaring his support for either side. Despite this, when the Ratcatcher encounters a young woman named Alice he takes her directly to Hatter, who sees no reason not to help out a pretty girl in a very wet dress.
Hatter has an abnormally powerful right hand. Dodo refers to it as a "sledgehammer" and when a blow connects Hatter can easily render a man unconcious or damage a solid wall without injuring himself. Perhaps there is some connection to his murky past relationship with the assassin Mad Marsh.
He's also practical, wearing body armor and willing to bribe or threaten if it will help him with whatever he needs to do.
He also, probably like most city residents in Wonderland, has no fear of heights.
His right hand, for unknown reasons, is especially powerful. It's been described as a sledgehammer and he's been shown to take people out with one blow when it hits right and knocked the edge off a stone pillar when he hit it.
His hat. It's not a particularly unusual hat, or magical at all, but it's a very nice hat. He does tricks with it.
Hatter is a rather unassuming young man in appearance, skinny under his brown leather coat with tousled brown hair under his tall porkpie hat. He's got bit of facial hair framing car salesman's smile.
Hatter's mental processes are a mystery, lightning quick and often contradictory, making him confusing and often difficult to follow. He's not as mad as some (like his old buddy Marsh), but he's almost certainly a bit left of sane. His heart is in the right place though, even if he sometimes tries not to listen to it, and though he certainly tells himself that he looks out for himself above all (and it's definitely true when he first meets Alice) he usually does the right thing. He's physically tougher than he looks and able to take a hit, but he can be more easily hurt emotionally than he'd ever care to admit. He'd like to pretend that nothing can touch him, using a talent for talk to deflect, but he runs deeper than the flippant and occasionally manic facade would indicate. He also has a bit of a decitful nature to go along with the too-charming smile, messily honest most of the time but willing to omit if he thinks it's in his best interest, your best interest, he doesn't want to acknowledge it, or he just thinks (hopes) it may not happen. He wouldn't knowingly put someone into a situation though that would be genuinely life-threatening if he could avoid it. He's a basically good guy.


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What the Researchers Got Wrong About Their 'Sesame Street' Education Study
Last week, Melissa Kearney of the University of Maryland & Phil Levine of Wellesley College received a great deal of media attention for their in-process paper Early Childhood Education by MOOC: Lessons from Sesame Street. Asserting that research on Sesame Street & educational efficacy is lacking and has failed to engage beyond the immediate or short-term results, Kearney & Levine designed an apparatus in an attempt to find a correlation between exposure to Sesame Street and longitudinal outcomes such as high school graduation or post-school labor gains. While their instrument did show statistically significant outcomes in the immediate and short-term for those with better access to Sesame Street, the instrument failed to note any significance beyond (the researchers note this as inconclusive, though the only inconclusive aspect is whether the failure was on the part of the instrument or if the findings are in fact insignificant).
What does this have to do with MOOCs? Not a whole lot as per the research. But the invocation of MOOCs is indicative of an ahistoricism that permeates this work-under-review. Saying Sesame Street is ostensibly the first MOOC shows a fundamental flaw in Kearney & Levine's historical literature review on the subject, a flaw Audrey Watters notes and critiques in an excellent response to the paper and subsequent media furor. There has been extensive research on Sesame Street across all sorts of disciplines in an effort to identify the show's educational efficacy. While Kearney & Levine cite Joan Ganz Cooney's seminal writings on television and preschool, these documents are much more an externalization of thinking behind creating a specific educational program rather than a synthesis of the literature on broadcast transmission and education. Cooney's 1966 and 1967 papers heavily cite transmission education scholars such as Wilbur Schramm because doing so grounds her thoughts in a context and shows where the uniqueness of Sesame Street was in 1969: a show designed for preschool-age children (3-5) with a budget that can support high-quality production values and cinematic elements out of the reach of the sizable number local educational broadcasters in American and beyond. Kearney & Levine do not cite the history of broadcast education (radio, tv, correspondence or otherwise), which explains how they could assert that Sesame Street was the first MOOC but does not make such an assertion true.
Using MOOC in the title of their paper provided an avenue for hype and clickbait; many news outlets and organizations weighed in on the topic of the paper, sold by the Brookings Institute as equating Sesame Street to a MOOC and lessons to be gleamed from that lens. However, with no factual or theoretical grounding of the term MOOC or the history of their subject, the paper-in-process' effect once outside the Kearney & Levine sphere became akin to a game of telephone, the result being a conversation which questions the value of preschool in comparison to just having preschoolers watch Sesame Street (examples at Business Insider, Edsurge and SFGate).
Kearney & Levine have since written a response at The New Republic entitled What the Media Got Wrong About Our 'Sesame Street' Education Study, in which they wish to dispel the notion that we should abandon preschool and instead "shift the conversation toward the encouraging policy implications coming out of our work." Some of those encouraging policy implications include
TV can be a powerful tool to improve educational outcomes
TV/Electronic Media can be leveraged for real social good
We can think of Sesame Street as "Khan Pre-K"
TV (and I assume Electronic Media) has the potential to close educational performance gaps between rich and poor
The problem here is with Kearney & Levine's research: the results of their data & instrument, and now what they are saying their instrument provided and how we might have a broader conversation in the wake of this work. The main question Kearney & Levine asked (can we track the impact of Sesame Street beyond the immediate and short-term) was inconclusive, a term they use in place of saying their results were insignificant but that could be the fault of the research instrument. The question Kearney & Levine answered (does Sesame Street have an impact on pre-K educational efficacy) was proven statistically significant, but this is not a new question; there is ample research proving this question. There is nothing wrong with doing research that seeks to ensure the validity of prior research; this sort of research should happen more often. But when that is the locus of the research, the call to inherency should address this from such a framework rather than developing a narrative around a lack of existing research and a need for longitudinal studies. Of course, there is not nearly the same public relations energy around a research study that cemented the same results as the copious amount of existing research on the positive effect of Sesame Street. There is a great deal of public relations energy around tying a new study to the premiere EduHype buzzword of our time, ahistoricism or not.
The belief in augmenting instruction/contents with educational media dates back nearly 100 years; in Don't Whistle in School: The History of America's Public Schools, Ruth Tenzer Feldman notes:
John Tigert, a U.S. commissioner of education…spoke of technology in the classroom. "Within the celluloid film lies the most powerful weapon for the attack on ignorance the world has ever seen." Speaking in 1922, Tigert was referring to educational film strips, by then in use in dozens of school districts around the country.
How we incorporate these broadcast materials for younger audiences is a complex question, one Wilbur Schramm was thinking about as early as 1962 in his book Television in the Lives of Our Children:
The relationship between a child and a picture tube is a complex one in which a number of elements are important. It is always a kind of television content, sought by a kind of child, in a kind of situation. Television usage, in other words, must be considered against message content, personality structure and the entire social and cultural complex which surrounds the event (emphasis original).
Before Sesame Street existed, the scholastic field of broadcast education understood the contextual nature of media contents: the materials in and of themselves were nothing but opportunity, and without addressing localized environmental factors the opportunity would be wasted. To that end, the Children's Television Workshop has dedicated substantial resources to providing opportunities to link their broadcasts to the work of schools as well as families. So when Kearney & Levine say "Preschools and daycare centers should think about ways to effectively incorporate 'Sesame Street' into their day, or encourage children and their parents to watch it when they go home," the only novel part of their advice is their belief that the advice is novel.
I do want to take a moment to note that I do not believe Kearney & Levine are charlatans. It is clear in their paper that they do not believe that Sesame Street should replace preschool, and touch on this in the paper-in-progress, with a footnote that delivers their strongest statement on the idea of replacement:
Edward Zigler, Director of the Office of Child Development (which oversaw Head Start) in the Nixon Administration responded to the White House's comparison of Sesame Street and Head Start by stating: "how long would a poor child have to watch Sesame Street to get his or her teeth filled? When nobody could answer, that was the end of the meeting." (Zigler and Muenchow, 1994). The point was that Head Start did much more than just try to impact educational skills.
While Kearney & Levine see Sesame Street as supplement rather than replacement, it is ironic that their paper-in-progress' addition to the conversation around educational contents was to renew a debate settled in the early 1970s Nixon administration. Also, this quotation (and the paper in whole) never attempts to distinguish education as anything more than educational skills; rather, the paper conflates education with domain-specific cognitive development such as reading acumen.
But that this conversation has devolved is not surprising at all. Starting with the research's stated goal to see if there is a link between access to Sesame Street and "labor market outcomes," we went to an inconclusive conclusion, then to the addition of MOOC in the title of a subject that has no connection whatsoever to MOOCs, to a PR push of the paper centered around MOOCs, and ended at the mass media cutting & pasting their "Will MOOCs replace higher education" boilerplate with "Will Sesame Street replace preschools?" The media is not to blame; they drove attention to the piece and got eyeballs reading in the same way the Brookings Institute drove media eyeballs by focusing on MOOCs, in the same way the Maryland PR push focused on the immediate outcomes of Sesame Street rather than the paper's intended look at longitudinal results, in the same way the paper's title invokes the MOOC despite the paper having no relationship to the MOOC.
Rather, I would be surprised if this had not happened. Kearney & Levine willfully engaged their research around an existing media trope of MOOCs and solutionism. That their paper fails to engage the subject around its historical, political and theoretical backgrounds leads me to believe their first run of media engagement (see Brookings) was by design. But the history of broadcast education, MOOCs and EdTech is vastly larger than hyper focused Sesame Street creation and history-as-technical-transmission. Without being able to link their work to a foundational base, the media chose their dominant ahistorical base, and now when I search Sesame Street and MOOCs I have a screen full of conjecture, hype and gaps in the histories of each domain. That is the landscape because this is emblematic of the present history of EdTech as rhetoric: why can't transmission x replace superstructure y? The difference today is that, rather than the record needle stuck in the groove or the CD player skipping and stalling, today it's a website in a reload loop.
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This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged ahistorical, broadcast, Children's Television Workshop, history, media, MOOC, sesame street, tropes, Wilbur Schramm on June 22, 2015 by Rolin Moe.
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GMCL EPISODE ONE - A NEW HOPE
With apologies to George Lucas, it seemed somewhat aposite to nick the "original" Star Wars movie tagline, as we enter a brave new cricketing world. A long time ago in a league far, far away (mainly Oldham and Rochdale) we were stuck with nowhere to go, with little chance to progress our cricket and with a league that, while absolutely superb for fostering younger talent and providing social cricket - and arguably organised as well as any amateur sporting organisation in the region - could offer little competitive play on a regular basis. Moving to the Greater Manchester Cricket League was something we've been excited about since day 1 when we first got wind of the new set up.
It seems like eons ago when we attended the launch meeting at Old Trafford, and now here we are on the eve of the new season (weather permitting!). So much has progressed, and yet as we prepare to pitch up this weekend, there are a whole host of questions that remain unanswered - have we been placed right, how will we fare against opponents both familiar and totally alien? Does the 2nd XI arguably have a tougher fixture list, and why do we have 18 wicketkeepers and no opening bowling attack?
So what do we know? Well, off the field the winter has allowed us to finish our latest extension, providing upper tier mixed changing facilities and a view over the ground that's light years from what we had 6 months ago, never mind in 2007 when we were still effectively in the stone age. Our squad has grown over the close season, with acquisitions both from other clubs and from parts unknown. New players have bedded in superbly on the social side and now we'll see how they fare on the field. Club stalwarts are firmly in place and on board with the new regime, and there's a fluidity and coherence to the overall squad that we haven't had in, well, for ever. And bar takings are already up, thanks to the usual crowd plus the excellent event on Good Friday.
So forgetting the off-pitch stuff, which takes care of itself, what can we expect from the playing side in 2016?
Firstly, it should be exciting to refresh long held rivalries and start new ones against teams we've socialised and enjoyed company with for years - the likes of Woodbank, Walshaw and Brooksbottom are perennial visitors to the club and it'll be fantastic to lock horns with them competitively. For years we've bemoaned the amount of travel and lack of local rivalries, and now we have plenty. While there will undoubtedly be plenty of teams coming and going in the first few years of the GMCL, with an aggressive promotion and relegation structure, the chance to play 9 sides within 3 miles of us, rather than just ELPM and Elton Vale, is a big plus. Not to mention some tasty 20/20 fixtures to boost both the fun element and the coffers.
Of course, one area we've always suffered in is the fielding - with an ageing 1sts carrying multiple long-term injuries, that was always a challenge - we have a few new, young faces this season who should make both sides much more mobile and allow the older guard some respite; pre-season training has focussed a lot more on the fielding, and has been taken up enthusiastically. So that's a good start.
Another problem has been the batting. We're prone to collapses, with a top order than can either dominate games or disappear like the sun up a remote hill in Springhead. We have some new faces that will be looking to cement their roles at the top of the order (that's you, GT), while every place is up for grabs. If you perform in the 2s, you'll get your chance in the 1s. If you need to step down, no problem. While we'll be looking to the the likes of Rick, Doc, KC and Marshy to perform regularly, there are players new and established who can contribute - it'll be good to see young guns such as GT, Ry Marsh, Stoney and Stu stake their claims alongside the likes of Birdy, Nick Marsh and Watty.
While there are issues around batting and fielding, let's not forget the bowling. We have an abundance of spin options (good), plenty of experience in the seam department (very good), and absolutely no clearly defined opening bowlers (oops). The bowling unit needs a new spearhead with Marshy and Doc likely to miss games and also unlikely to be charging in from 25 yards (although cumulatively over 10 overs, perhaps). Farhan stepped up for the 2s last year and will be looking to make an impact in the 1s, and there should be good opportunities for the likes of Sail to get his leggies fizzing and for young Ste Brooks to progress, after becoming one of the youngest ever Totts players to grab a 5 wicket 1st team haul. There will be opportunities too for the likes of Ry Marsh and Matty Bradshaw to develop their craft.
Wicket keeping looks strong, with Stu, Clive, and new lad Lee all offering plenty behind the sticks - and there's loads of backup too! That's a stronger area for us this year, and one that should make a difference. The new captains, Watty and Sail, have experienced loads of recent success, as mainstays of the 2nd XI gaining back to back titles and promotions in the last two seasons of the NMCL, and so it'll be good to see how they cope with the new system.
Whether the season proves a success on the field or not, there's sure to be plenty of drama and it'll be really interesting to see how the sides develop in this new structure (and indeed to see how our former NMCL colleagues get on too). Good luck to everyone with the new challenges, and let's hope for some stand out performances and new rivalries to write about! Most of all, enjoy your cricket and do your club proud.
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Parent Support Services and Resources: Critical Supports for Infants, Toddlers, and Families
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Parents of infants and toddlers should have access to a full continuum of evidence-based parent support services that are appropriate to their needs.
This includes range of services, such as information resources, evidence-based home visiting, parent education and peer support programs, and guidance in navigating other services available in the community. Despite a patchwork of public funding, such as Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) and Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention (CBCAP), existing parenting services are not widely available to those who need them. Download the full brief to learn more.
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Q: Recursive function with array in C The problem goes as follows:

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*Write a recursive function with three arguments: an array (a), the
number of elements of the array (n) and a number - k.

*If k is positive and smaller than n it should print the first k positive
numbers of the array.

*If k is negative and its absolute value is smaller than n the first k negative numbers should be printed.

*If k is larger than n and positive all positive numbers should be printed.

*If k is larger than n and negative all negative numbers should be
printed.

This is my attempt
    #include <stdio.h>
    #include <stdlib.h>

    int function(int a[100], int n, int k)
    {
      int b[n], i;

      if (k!=0 && n>1)
      {
        for (i=0; i<n; i++)
        {
          b[i]=a[i+1];
        }

        if (k<n || abs(k)<n)
        {

         if (k>0)
          {
            if (b[0]>0)
            {
              printf("%d", b[0]);
              k=k-1;
            }
          }

          if (k<0)
          {
            if (b[0]<0)
            {
              printf("%d", b[0]);
              k=k+1;
            }
          }
          return function(b, n-1, k);
        }
      }

      else return 0;
    }

   int main()
   {
     int i, n, a[100], k;
     printf("n = ");
     scanf("%d", &n);
     for (i=0; i<n; i++)
     {
       printf("a[%d] = ", i);
       scanf("%d", &a[i]);
     }
     printf("k = ");
     scanf("%d", &k);
     printf("The new array is: \n");
     function(a, n, k);
     return 0;
   }

But it only prints one number and I don't know how to fix it. Does anyone understand where I went wrong?
EDIT: If the array is {1, -1, 2, -2, 3, -3} and k=2, the expected result is {1, 2}. If k=-2 the expected result is {-1, -2}
EDIT 2: b is an array that contains all the elements of the a array other than a[0]

A: I found three issues with your code.
1) When I copied your code (converting to C# because that's what I work with), it threw an ArgumentOutOfRangeException for me here:
for (i=0; i<n; i++)
{
  b[i]=a[i+1]; <------
}

When i is 99, it tries to copy a[100] into b[99], but there's no a[100]. You should change the for loop to this instead:
for (i=0; i<n-1; i++)

2) Your code is essentially treating a like a queue and popping the first number off (by copying all the others into a new array b), but instead of looking at that first number to determine whether or not to print it, you're skipping it and looking instead at the first item you just put into b:
if (k>0)
{
    if (b[0]>0) <------
    {
        printf("%d", b[0]); <-----
        k=k-1;
    }
}

You should change your comparisons (and printf lines) to look at a[0] instead of b[0].
3) Whenever k is larger than n, then your entire logic block will get skipped (for example, I mistakenly set k to 34 instead of 3, and when I did, the if block reads if (34 < 6 || abs(34) < 6), which is always false.

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For other uses, see Kadhi.
A blue khadi kurta.
Khadi (pronounced [kʰaːd̪iː]; IAST: Khadi) or khaddar is handspun, hand-woven natural fiber cloth originating from India, Bangladesh and broadly used in Pakistan and India.This fabric mainly made out of cotton.[1][2][3]
The cloth is usually woven from cotton and may also include silk, or wool, which are all spun into yarn on a spinning wheel called a charkha. It is a versatile fabric, cool in summer and warm in winter. In order to improve the look, khādī/khaddar is sometimes starched to give it a stiffer feel. It is widely accepted in fashion circles.[4] Khadi is being promoted in India by Khadi and Village Industries Commission, Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises.
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A signage kept at Kochi with an appeal to the citizens to use Khadi/ handloom based wear.
Gandhi spinning
Gandhi spins by hand while addressing his followers
Mohandas Gandhi's bedroom, bed, desk, and spinning wheel in the Sabarmati Ashram
In India, Khadi refers to handwoven cloth. Weavers prefer the yarn produced by Mills because it is more robust and of consistent quality. Swadeshi movement of boycotting English products during the first two decades of the twentieth Century was popularised by Mahatma Gandhi and Indian mill owners backed Nationalist politicians who called for a boycott of foreign cloth. Gandhi argued that the mill owners would deny handloom weavers an opportunity to buy yarn because they would prefer to create a monopoly for their own cloth.[5] However, handspun yarn was of poor quality and too costly. Thus Mahatma Gandhi started spinning himself and encouraging others to do so. He made it obligatory for all members of the Indian National Congress to spin cotton themselves and to pay their dues in yarn. He further made the chakri (spinning wheel) the symbol of the Nationalist movement. Initially the Indian flag was supposed to have a chakri, not the Ashoka Chakra at its centre. Mahatma Gandhi collected large sums of money to create a grass-roots organisation to encourage handloom weaving. This was called 'khaddar' or 'Khadi' movement.[6]
The British Raj was selling very high cost cloths to the Indians. The Indian mill owners wanted to monopolise the Indian market themselves. Ever since the American Civil War had caused a shortage of American cotton, Britain would buy cotton from India at cheap prices and use the cotton to manufacture cloth. The khadi movement by Gandhi aimed at boycotting foreign cloth.[7] Mahatma Gandhi began promoting the spinning of khadi for rural self-employment and self-reliance (instead of using cloth manufactured industrially in Britain) in the 1920s in India, thus making khadi an integral part and an icon of the Swadeshi movement.[8][9][10][11][12]
The freedom struggle revolved around the use of khādī fabrics and the dumping of foreign-made clothes. When some people complained about the costliness of khadi to Mahatma Gandhi, he started wearing only dhoti though he used wool shawls when it got cold. Some were able to make a reasonable living by using high quality mill yarn and catering to the luxury market. Mahatma Gandhi tried to put an end to this practice. He even threatened to give up khadi altogether if he didn't get his way. However, since the weavers would have starved if they listened to Gandhi, nothing came of this threat.[8]
India[edit]
In 2017, a total of 460,000 people were employed in industries making khadi products.[13] Production and sales rose by 31.6% and 33% in 2017 over the 2016 figures after the multi-spindle charkas were introduced to enhance the productivity by replacing the single-spindle charkas.[13] In 2019 it was reported that overall khadi sales in India have risen by 28% in the 5 period preceding 2018-2019. The revenues from Khadi in the last financial year have been 3215 crores and the KVIC has set a target of 5000 crore by 2020[14]. Various states have boards and/or cooperative societies for the khadi production, promotion, sales and marketing, such as Haryana Khadi and Village Industries Board, Andhra Pradesh State Handloom Weavers Cooperative Society, Gujarat State Handloom and Handicrafts Development Corporation Ltd, Jharkhand Silk Textile and Handicraft Development Corporation and Tamil Nadu Handloom Weavers' Cooperative Society. Additionally, several institutes are involved in the research and training in this area, such as Indian Institute of Handloom Technology, Indian Institute of Handloom Technology, Champa and Institute of Handloom and Textile Technology. Handicrafts and Handlooms Export Corporation of India is focused on popularising khadi overseas. NGOs involved in khadi are Rehwa Society.
Popular products being khadi cloth for tailoring various dresses such as dhoti and kurta, handloom saree such as Puttapaka Saree, Kotpad Handloom fabrics, Chamba Rumal, Tussar silk, etc. Gajam Anjaiah, an Indian master handloom designer and recipient of Padma Shri honor, is known for his innovations and developments of tie-dye handloom products along with Telia Rumal technique of weaving products based on Ikat process.[15][16]
After Independence, the Government reserved some types of textile production, e.g. towel manufacture for the handloom sector, which resulted in a deskilling of traditional weavers and a boost for the power loom sector. Private Sector enterprises have been able to make handloom weaving somewhat remunerative and the government also continues to promote the use of Khadi through various initiatives.[8][17]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, asserted that khadi cloth is a movement to help the poor.[18] He further highlighted that the Khadi and Village Industries Commission is a statutory organisation engaged in promoting and developing khadi and village industries.[18] He lauded that Gujrat and Rajasthan are well known for khadi poly, while Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir are known for the woolen khadi.[18]
Bangladesh[edit]
Khadi, also known as "khaddar" has a long history in Bangladesh. In the 6th century a local variation of Khadi cloth was described by Huen Tsang of China and Marco Polo in the 12th century AD describes a fabrics, most probably khadi Muslin in the Bengal region to be as fine as the spider's web.[19]
Romans were great aficionados of Bengal khadi Muslin and imported vast amounts of fabrics. The khadi weaves of Comilla during the Mughal period were renowned as valuable textiles with distinctive characteristics.[20]
During the years of the Indian self-rule movement and later with the independence of Bangladesh the spirit of khadi was driven with the winds of change. In 1921, Gandhi came to Chandina Upazila in comilla to inspire the local weavers and consequently a branch of 'Nikhil Bharat Tantubai Samity' was established to self-seed and proliferate the sale of goods to other major cities in India.[21]
In greater Comilla region, the weaving centers were particularly developed in Mainamati, Muradnagar, Gauripur and Chandina.
Khādī Development and Village Industries Commission (Khadi Gramodyog)
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^ "Freedom@70: How Khadi is getting a new spin.", Economic Times, 13 August 2017.
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^ Selin, Helaine (1997). Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicines in Non- Western Cultures. The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers. p. 961. ISBN 978-0792340669.
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^ a b c "Saturday Dressing: Kerala govt staff opt for khadi". Business Standard. Press Trust of India. 6 January 2007. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
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^ a b Jadhav, Radheshyam (11 March 2018). "7 lakh 'lose' jobs in khadi industry, but production goes up by 32%". The Times of India. Retrieved 11 March 2018.
^ "Khadi sales zoom 28%, KVIC eyes Rs 5,000 crore in FY20 - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 2019-04-15.
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The Covid-19 pandemic that started as a couple of weeks at home back in March has slowly consumed more than half of the year, and there is a very good chance that our lives have been forever changed thanks to our time spent in quarantine.
No matter how much or how little your personal life has changed over the past few months, there is simply no denying that most of our personal finance budgets are never going to be the same as a result of Covid-19.
With that in mind, let's dive in and take a closer look at exactly how our personal finance budgets are going to look different on the backside of this pandemic.
Emergency Funds Are Front and Center
The most significant thing that just about everyone has learned during the pandemic is that those emergency funds that never seemed particularly necessary were actually essential for carrying on with our lives when things got serious.
Much like the Great Depression did for anyone who lived through it, the Covid-19 pandemic is going to forever remind all of us that we absolutely must have plenty of extra savings available to us if anything like this ever happens again.
Healthcare Expenses Are More Acceptable
The pandemic has also been a firm reminder that we owe it to ourselves to make sure that we take care of our bodies as much as we possibly can.
Because this virus preys on people with compromised immune systems, anyone who was willing to spend money on their health and wellbeing has looked like a pretty savvy investor over the past few months.
Moving forward, we can expect people to put an even bigger premium on those health and wellness expenses as a way to make sure that their bodies are prepared for the next global pandemic.
Investing is Scarier Than Ever
The stock market started out the pandemic with a spectacular crash, but since that time it has been on a fantastic climax run that has anyone who bought in at the bottom feeling like a genius.
Unfortunately, that entire run was accompanied by a striking fear that the bottom is going to fall out of the market the minute that the federal government decides to stop printing money and handing it out like water.
When you combine a big crash and a huge run with plenty of reasons for another crash, you get one of the most frightening investing climates the world has ever seen, which means that the average person doesn't stand a chance in the markets of the future.
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The Good, Bad, and Extremely Ugly of the 2020 Election
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Bringing Down the House
The result seems even worse looking beyond the Senate. Far from increasing their House majority, Democrats have lost ground they made in 2018's midterm blue wave, with Republicans flipping several seats and leaving the party with a smaller House majority, despite raising hundreds of millions of dollars.
As the Washington Post notes, much of this was concentrated among vulnerable incumbents in more conservative areas or outright Trump country, such as Iowa's 1st district, Oklahoma's 5th district, New Mexico's 2nd district, South Carolina's 1st district, and Minnesota's 7th district. (As Data for Progress's Aidan Smith pointed out, contrary to the left-punching recriminations currently being thrown around by right-wing Democrats, these were all conservative Democrats who publicly rebuked left-wing policies.) But maybe more alarmingly for the party, incumbents were also upset in two seats located in the Democratic stronghold of Miami-Dade County in Florida, too. And the two seats the party won in North Carolina owed largely to congressional maps being redrawn more favorably last year.
All of these results are stark when compared to previous recession-year elections, which typically result in a swift boot to the governing party and large gains for their opposition. In 1920, for instance, Republican Warren Harding won a thirty-seven-state, 26-point landslide after ten years of mostly Democratic rule, and increased his party's majority by ten seats in the Senate and seventy-four seats in the House. Perhaps a closer analogue is the 1932 defeat of Herbert Hoover and the GOP in the wake of the Great Depression. Following its onset, Democrats first neared overtaking the GOP in the 1930 midterms, adding eight seats in the Senate, before adding twelve more in the Senate and ninety in the House two years later, on the back of Franklin Roosevelt's forty-two-state, 17-point landslide win.
More recently, Ronald Reagan capitalized on the 1980 recession to become the first candidate since Roosevelt to unseat a sitting president. On the back of his forty-five-state, nearly-10-point victory, the GOP reduced the Democrats' House majority by thirty-three seats, and poached twelve seats from the party to wrest control of the Senate. Meanwhile, the 2008 financial crash under Bush saw the Democrats build on their 2006 midterm gains that year, expanding their House majority by twenty-one seats, and ultimately winning eight seats in the Senate, later expanded further to create a sixty-seat supermajority, on top of Obama's 7-point win in the popular vote. To say this week's result fall short of these precedents is an understatement.
The recession Trump is presiding over is the worst since Roosevelt's 1932 landslide, and the October unemployment rate of 6.9 percent, while dropping a point from September, is comparable to than in both 1980 and 2008. And unlike those recession years, this one is paired with a massive health crisis devastatingly and flagrantly botched by the incumbent. In light of this, Democrats are rightly asking themselves behind closed doors how they could have failed so abysmally.
Things get grimmer at the state level. After being decimated in state legislatures around the country during the Obama years, Democrats had what they called a "decade in the making" plan to flip dozen of statehouses and governor's mansions, and prevent another onslaught of Republican-led partisan gerrymandering that would last another decade. They have failed, the fewest changes in party control at the state level in at least seventy-six years.
Democrats fell short of their prizes in Michigan, where the parties traded two seats each; in Iowa, where Republicans expanded their majority; in Minnesota, where divided government will remain for at least two more years despite Democrats out-fundraising the Right two-to-one; and in Pennsylvania, where their initially good-looking odds to flip at least one of the chambers have evaporated thanks to Trump's strength in white working-class areas on Election Day.
Particularly disappointing for the party was Texas, where Democrats needed to gain nine seats to take the majority in the state house, but failed to make any impact despite $12 million poured into the contest by a Democratic super PAC. The only change this election saw was in the Republicans' favor, with the GOP flipping both legislative chambers in New Hampshire, two years after Democrats had done the same.
The results "will put the Republican Party in a position where we're able to secure a decade of power across the country," a euphoric Republican State Leadership Committee president said the day after the vote. Or as Daily Kos's Stephen Wolf put it, they were "an unmitigated catastrophe for Democrats," expanding the GOP's already formidable advantage in redrawing congressional districts, and granting Republicans another decade of power in the House disproportionate to their share of the actual vote.
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I'm not sure that I can really add to the general response to the movie Aloha (it's 20% at rottentomatoes.com and I don't think the box office is of the more optimistic size), but far be it from me not to join in and kick a man while he's down.
About three quarters of the way through the new rom com written and directed by Cameron Crowe (who also gave us the very good Almost Famous, Say Anything and Singles, but not much else since except for, well, Jerry "Show me the money" McGuire, but, no, I'll stick with not much else since, thanks), I turned to my friend Jim and said, "I'm sorry, but I have to be honest: I have no idea what's going on here".
Jim laughed and sighed in relief because he had no more of a clue than I did.
The plot eventually does make sense; well, within the context of a not particularly well written movie it makes sense, but overall, as a piece of writing, it really makes little sense at all.
A STUDY IN SCARLET and TALES OF HOFFMAN: Movie reviews of Lucy and A Most Wanted Man by Howard Casner
Posted: August 4, 2014 | Author: Donald | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: A Most Wanted Man, Amr Waked, Andrew Bovell, Anton Corbijin, Daniel Bruhl, Homayoun Ershadi, John Le Carre, Luc Besson, Lucy, Min-sik Choi, Morgan Freeman, Nina Hoss, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rachel McAdams, Robin Wright, Scarlett Johansson, Willem Dafoe | Leave a comment »
Ricky Ricardo: Lucy's actin' crazy. Fred Mertz: Crazy for Lucy, or crazy for ordinary people?
First, I must begin by being absolutely clear so that everyone knows where I stand. Lucy, the new sci-fi thriller written and directed by French filmmaker (and some people use that term loosely in this context) Luc Besson is a terrible film.
I mean, c'mon. You know it. I know it. We all know it's terrible. It's silly, nonsensical, preposterous, absurd, often makes no sense and is not remotely believable, even for an unrealistic fantasy sci-fi thriller.
Which is also, in m any ways, a redundant way to state it because, well, gees, I mean, c'mon, it's a Besson film, for Christ's sake.
But with that being said, it may very well be a…dare I say it…I dare…great terrible movie. Read the rest of this entry »
Movie Review of In the House, Mud and To the Wonder by Howard Casner
Posted: April 27, 2013 | Author: Donald | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Ben Affleck, Emmanuel Lubezki, Ernst Umhauer, Frabrice Luchini, François Ozon, In the House, Javier Bardem, Jeff Nichols, Kirsten Scott Thomas, Matthew McConaughey, Michael Shannon, Mud, Olga Kurylenko, Philippe Rombi, Rachel McAdams, Reese Witherspoon, Sam Shepard, Terence Malick, To the Wonder, Tye Sheridan, Yolando Moreau | Leave a comment »
In the House, the new film from writer/director François Ozon, is a movie where you wait an hour and forty-five minutes for the other shoe to drop…and it never does.
The basic premise revolves around Germain, a somewhat bitter high school teacher, who assigns his literature class an essay about what they did over the weekend. The results are depressingly high schoolish until he reads one from student Claude who writes about his attempts to insinuate himself into the household of a fellow student who has an ideal, Andy Hardy/Donna Reed middle class home. The essay is condescending and laced with wry observations, but it shows talent. It also ends with "(to be continued)". As the film goes on, Claude gets inside that household and writes more and more (to be continued) essays until Germain is so hooked that he not only spends extra time with Claude, he also helps him in ways that will come back to bite him in the ass.
The movie starts out well and even makes your mouth water at the possibilities here. Just what is this Claude up to? And why is he involving Germain? But alas, these are the shoes that never drop. And as the story continues, often backed by a thrilling music score by Philippe Rombi that makes you think something exciting is transpiring on screen even when it isn't, the more and more puzzling the whole thing becomes. Not only do we never find out exactly what is going on, it kind of ends with the idea that nothing was ever going on at all in the first place. But if so, then what was the point of it all?
Equally puzzling, and I think one of the major problems with the movie, is that as Claude continues on with his soap operic observations of this family, the better Germain (as well as his wife who also starts reading the essays) thinks Claude's writing and story is becoming, when in actuality, the less and less interesting, the more banal, boring and clichéd, it turns out to be. Let's face it, Claude was never going to be mistaken for Proust, but still it's just difficult to believe that Germain continues to have such a high opinion of his student the more he reads. Even more puzzling is that as the essays pile up, the more obvious it is that Claude is at times just making things up (if he's not, then he's even a worse writer than he appears). But this never seems to dawn on Germain, perhaps the most unbelievable aspect of the film.
It must be said that though the actors never quite sell the premise and plot turns, their performances are still first rate. Frabrice Luchini, a character actor with a face that Walter Mathau would be proud of, plays Germain with a certain hang dog loopiness. Kirsten Scott Thomas plays his wife and it's one of her sharpest performances. Ernst Umhauer is Claude with a smile just this side of Damien in The Omen. Also in a blink or you'll miss it cameo is Yolando Moreau, proof that even in France, as over here, if you win the equivalent of the Oscar for Best Actress but don't look like Catherine Deneuve, you'll still be stuck having to play parts insultingly unworthy of you.
The conversation I had with my friends after seeing Mud, the new Matthew McConaughey vehicle by writer/director Jeff Nichols (who also gave us Take Shelter and Shotgun Stories), went something like this: Them: "What did you think", Me: "I think it moved a little leisurely", Them: "A little?", Me: "All right. It was as slow as molasses", Them: "Thank you".
Yes, Mud is not the most forward momentum of movies. And in a way that's rather surprising given the basic subject matter. Ellis, a young teen, and his best friend go look at a boat that has lodged in a tree after a recent flood, but discover that someone is living there, the title character Mud, who is in town to rescue the woman he loves and take her away before he is killed by the bounty hunters hired by the father of the woman's boyfriend Mud killed after the boyfriend beat up the woman. Sounds pretty much like a ticking time bomb of a premise to me, but the movie tends to get diverted along the way with the teen's problems with his parents who are drifting apart and his attempt to win the heart of a girl who is out of his league, until the tension all gets a bit waterlogged since Nichols just can't get as much energy flowing for his other through lines as he does for the one concerning Mud.
But there's also something else missing from the heart of this movie. One of the major leit motifs here is that Mud is constantly described as a liar and nothing remotely as he presents himself. The woman he loves says it; his substitute father figure says it; even Mud says it, until at one point even Ellis himself screams it at him. Yet, oddly enough, the one thing that Mud never does is lie. Everything he tells Ellis is pretty much exactly on the level with not one whiff of misrepresentation. Well, that's not exactly accurate. Mud does tell a whopper once. When Ellis yells out at him that women aren't worth loving, Mud tells him that's not true. Except that within the context of the movie, Ellis is right and Mud is lying. All the women in the movie do nothing but declare their love for a man, then stab him in the back. I suppose that Nichols might be saying that the nobility of the male of the species resides in the tragedy of their continual decision to fall in love in spite of how unworthy their beloveds are. Still, it all seems a bit odd to me.
The point, though, is that this sort of throws Ellis's journey off a bit. The audience is being set up for Ellis to learn some big secret about Mud, a lie that will change Ellis forever and help him on his journey to adulthood as is the wont of coming of age films. But there is no secret. It's all a red herring. And Ellis learns something about life, but it has little to do with the title character.
The movie is lovely to look at with languorous vistas of sunsets and open waters and there's a nice feel for small town life. It has a slam bang climax that's not that believable, but is incredibly satisfying emotionally. The acting is solid, though it's Sam Shepard as the father figure who gives the most interesting performance. Tye Sheridan as Ellis is capable. And McConaughey does his McConaughey thing, though this time he only strips down to his bare chest. Oh, yeah, uh, Reese Witherspoon and Michael Shannon are in it, too.
Tortuous. I'm sorry, but I don't know how else to say it. Writer/director Terence Malick's new film To the Wonder is…tortuous. Directed/filmed/edited in the same style employed for the central section of his last film The Tree of Life, a series of quick glimpses and expressionistic scenes, To the Wonder starts out somewhat hypnotically with gorgeous cinematography by Emmanuel Lubezki. But it's not long before one quickly realizes that there ain't a lot going on here and what there is, isn't that original or interesting. In fact, the best way to summarize it might be to say that there seems to be some sort of story here, but Malick is desperately determined not to tell it. It concerns a man's relationship with two woman, one a French citizen he brings to America with her child and whom he grows tired of, the second an old flame that he has a fling with and whom he grows tired of. As the film goes on it begins to resemble more and more a classical music video that one might find on a PBS station after its daily schedule is over. And the aesthetic approach, the snippets of scenes sewn together with a somewhat impressionistic, improvisational feel, seems as if it's not there to bring more insight and depth to the relationships semi-dramatized in the movie, but chosen to cover up the idea that there's really nothing of interest going on. The characters are played by Ben Affleck and Olga Kurylenko (who seem to spend much of their time quietly avoiding each other while living in a house they can never seem to finish and is filled with boxes and suitcases that are never fully unpacked—I think this is what is called symbolic), with Rachel McAdams as the old girlfriend and Javier Bardem as a rather unimpressive priest who does little but walk around in existential agony, though not in as much existential agony as I was in watching the movie.


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If you've ever played one of the many, many bubble-popping/matching games that exist on pretty much every platform and device of the last, say, twenty years, you'll have a pretty good idea of what's in store for you with Supermagical. There are little demons that come in various colours, you have to fire matching colours at them to make them go away, and you repeat that until you've cleared the board. If you somehow haven't played a similar game…well, all you really need to do is read the previous sentence. Complicated, it's not.
Because Supermagical sticks to such a well-worn path, there's not much to say about it. The game generally meets a basic level of competency, so there are no concerns about whether it's playable. It adds a story about a magical being trying to rein in her sisters, which I suppose puts it one step above most other Bust-a-Move clones, but it's not like one of these games lives or dies by its plot. Likewise, having a world map is an interesting addition to the genre, but by no means a make-or-break one.
There are some minor issues, to be sure. The controls are a little finicky, whether you use touch controls or the thumbstick/button combo; neither, unfortunately, allows you to be as precise as the game sometimes demands. Generally this isn't a big deal, but in the puzzle levels, you may find yourself cursing the game.
Not too much, though. As I said, Supermagical is precisely what it looks like from the very first level. It's not going to set the world alight as far as innovation goes, but it's a decent enough timewaster if you need one on your Vita.