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by Fragile Dignity April 12, 201910:28 am April 18, 2019
Is this the Demise of the "Save-the-President" Movie Genre?
A few years ago, there was a slew of movies that came out simultaneously about saving the President of the United States from an assassination plot? What was it in the zeitgeist of 2013-2014, in the waning years of a second term Obama, that inspired the film world to produce Big Game, White House Down and Olympus Has Fallen? Did some artistic genius of collective intuition foretell a looming threat to American power? The last fraying threads of its democratic institutions? One last heave-ho of perceived external threat to the seat of the global order?
Representation of the American chief executive has been treated a number of ways in film. But it always defaults to a safe position where the awkward phrasing of words "Mister (or Madame) President" was supposed to mean something honorable, dignified, sacrosanct. The office treated as a marker of history, a solemn place peopled by serious people doing serious things. The role of president signifies the dignity of stable leadership. Indeed, hit films like White House Down, Olympus Has Fallen, and Air Force One rely on this core value as motivation for their plots. These films beg a further question: could they be made today with the cultural backdrop of the Trump administration? In an era in which half the country at least suspects — rightly or wrongly is beside the point — that the president is not just a security risk, or a self-promoting grifter and mountebank, but possibly an asset of a foreign power? Would any of these pictures be made today? If we re-watch them, would we find ourselves rooting for the "bad guys?"
The save-the-prez sub-genre of films are surprisingly numerous over the last couple of decades. I went back to look at how the representation of the presidency metamorphosed from the seventies to today with the theory that the fictional treatment of the office mirrored not just the office as such but waves of either increasing or wavering faith in its stewardship. What's revealed is how much cultural space the White House takes in our collective imagination. And how any threat to this hallowed idea of the office ruptures our sociopolitical firmament in ways we could not have believed possible.
Like ripples in a pond, the dramatic apprehension around protecting the president for the last fifty years can be traced to a single cultural trauma. The natural place to begin seems when the President was definitively unsafe, when the dignity and innocence of the office was indeed ruined, a sorrowful flag-draped coffin. This is of course the assassination of Kennedy in Dallas November 23, 1963. For many of that generation, this was a singular watershed moment that transitioned the fifties into the sixties. The bursting of a fairy tale version of America's supposed innocence. And the Kennedy White House was that fairy tale place, Camelot. And the young slain king its Arthur. Boomer artists and writers have revisited the events of Dealey Plaza: Oliver Stone, Thomas Pynchon, Don Delillo, and Stephen King. It's inspired countless books, films, speculation, and perhaps the mother of all modern conspiracies. But under it all is the ungraspable horrible truth that the precious John F. Kennedy, a young president representing hope and progress of the New Frontier, was slain for some stupid damn reason or another.
The tragic event left a giant historical rift in the culture which the liberal imagination could never adequately fill in, try as it might. The fantasy driving the suspicions believed that a fulfilled Kennedy administration might have curtailed the excesses of the war state, gotten out of the calamity of Vietnam and have restored the liberal state in that tumultuous decade. The conspiracy narratives, which are endless and beyond my concern here, are made up of primal longings for completeness. The thought that this simple act of violence was committed by a disturbed lone gunman, particularly a pathetic, scrawny, wife-beating psychopath like Lee Harvey Oswald, is too much to contain. A loser with a single bullet has no right to be in the history books with the most powerful man in the political world. Its from this void of pain that narrative seeks to fill. Give it a vast communist or mafia or right wing Cuban exile or deep state conspiracy of infinite complexity and incalculable magnitude.
In the 1960s, Hollywood could not make a save the president movie after the assassination. Indeed, in the late 1960s, such cultural questions concerning the office were conspicuously absent, as were movies about Vietnam. Conspiracy theories around the Kennedy assassination rose in the 1970s, a time of other deepening trends typified by the plethora of paranoid conspiracy thrillers coming out of Hollywood during the Watergate years. Klute, Three Days of the Condor, Z, Executive Action, The Domino Killings, Cutter's Way, Good Guys Wear Black, Twilight's Last Gleaming, Hangar 18, Capricorn One, Telefon, Chinatown, Blow Out, Blow Up, The Conversation, Day of the Jackal, The Parallax View, Marathon Man, All the Presidents Men, Winter Kills, among others, portrayed a world in which all cultural authority that had been stitched together under the umbrella of the cold war consensus came to a stunning halt of mistrust.
American mythology is nothing without its hallmark love for innocence and the restoration of innocence. It's a key to the American national identity and the national narrative seeks redemption both in the wilderness and through new models of faith. Evoking the promise of new horizons and frontiers has long been woven into presidential campaigns. From Kennedy's New Frontier to Reagan's "Morning in America," to Bill Clinton's appropriation of Fleetwood Mac's "Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow," to Obama's "Hope" and "Change we can Believe in," running for office seems to have a familiar script. Change, hope, the future, new horizons. They always succumb to someone else promising further renewal. The capacity of American culture to restore innocence, only to lose it again, and so on ad infinitum, is remarkable.
The save the prez sub-genre captures this restoration. We failed to save Kennedy, but by golly, we can use some narrative therapy of the cinema to avenge our slain king. We can reinvigorate our imaginations as would be Lancelots defending the honor of the round table. The Reaganite fantasy of America that has endured over the last three decades, from 1980 to 2016, in its blustery, chest-thumping machismo, made way for a clean cut muscularity, cleansing the palate after the seventies bitter downer mood. Exit Woodward and Bernstein, enter Jack Bauer. We're in fantasy land now: all the president's men can put Humpty Dumpty back together again. We'll stop those bullets. We'll put Jack's skull back together. We'll restore our timeline. We'll recriminate. If only in fiction.
So let's check out these save-the-prez films since 1991:
The king of such movies, 1991's JFK is perhaps Oliver Stone's masterpiece of paranoia and liberal rage. It might be the reason why the other films in this list exist. All subsequent films of the genre are secretly connected to JFK. Some as rejoinders, some as counterpoint.
As controversial today as when it was released – when Walter Kronkite called it codswallop irresponsibly fanning the flames of mass hysteria. Despite the title, JFK is not about the president, but how all our minds are shattered when the fairy tale of the presidency is horrifically, inexplicably shattered. Stone isn't content to show us one conspiracy theory, stuffing the over three hour run time with the full kaleidoscope. At the time of its release, something like three fourths of Americans didn't believe the so-called lone gunman theory of the Warren Report. JFK is about that basic suspicion, about how mainstream paranoid America has become, and contributing all the more to the lore surrounding that day. Conspiracy theories are no longer proprietary to tin foil hat Americans, but distributed on both FM as well as AM radio.
Don Delillo, talking about his book Libra, about Oswald, notes how since Dallas, we see conspiracy everywhere. Narrative threads no longer holding together, society steeped deeply in suspicion, our reality smashed to bits. Our postmodern era heavily peppered with the hermeneutics of suspicion. 11.23.63 was that milestone, shattering illusions of truth and safety. How could our mythical president be shot down by a garden variety malcontent? And this is precisely why Oswald did it. In a sense he became a boilerplate for subsequent would be assassins. The lone gunman now a common trope. We know their names to a lesser degree – Whitman, Ray, Bremer, Chapman, Hinkley, Loughner, Hodgkinson – but none as famous, or generating the same conspiracy fantasies as the OG. Almost like copycat killers, a new social contagion of rifle-toting malcontents seeking a way our of their nihilism shooting up nightclubs, schools, post offices, churches. Delillo argues that art has given way to the American style of terrorism. The gun has attained dominance over the pen. Only the most heinous acts attract attention.
Stone's JFK is exemplar of the mad fallout. The hole at the center, the unsolvable suspicion left eating away at us. Men smoking in dark rooms, men in black suits, the basement of the Pentagon, Langley, agencies within agencies, riddles inside enigmas. It's a visual language feeding the nightmares of the X-Files. This is our world now – plagued with uncertainty and fear and fantasy. The fantasy of course is to go to the source of the cultural wound – that day in Dallas. Relitigate, recriminate, reconstruct. If only … whatever. The film boils down to Kevin Costner's ten-minute barnburner of a monologue at the end, "Let there be justice though the heavens may fall," and so on. It's the bitter liberal invective and an hauntological aria for a lost alternate timeline had it not been for that crazy curving bullet. Out cultural fabric cannot contain this nihilism. We must fill it in with story – assume grander plots. The more shocking the incident, particularly against such a focal point of social power as the presidency, the more urgent the need to find an alternative explanation.
A docudrama based on the events in the hours and days after the Kennedy assassination centering mostly around events at Dallas's Parkland Hospital and Abraham Zapruder's famous 8mm home movie. This film attempts a clear-headed explanation of documented events and sits itself as a counterpoint to Oliver Stone's JFK with all its paranoiac tendrils. Perhaps an attempt to reconstruct events with some cool headed rationalism? True perhaps, but dull as hell.
In the Line of Fire
The film which segues from paranoid political conspiracy thriller to a straight robust macho actioner – In the Line of Fire. It's either the most dumb brilliant movie or the most brilliant dumb movie. Clint Eastwood's secret service agent plays it like a noir detective, wears trench coats, plays jazz piano and reminds the 1990s of the silent generation. A quiet, very non-pc hardboiled loner, a man's man. His tragic flaw – his failure to protect Kennedy in 1963, based on real life Clint Hill, the guy who climbed on the back of the Lincoln seen in the Zapruder film. Agent Eastwood's bizarrely specific need – to take a bullet for the big man. Though he waxes nostalgic for Camelot and wonders if the "new guy" is worth it.
What's interesting in the film is how devoid it is of ideology. It plays more like a serial killer movie than a political thriller. The Cold War over, capitalism the victor, the killer, a walking cliche, deranged basement dweller John Malkovich, who plays the part more like Silence of the Lambs's Buffalo Bill than Lee Harvey Oswald. His most remarkable characteristic aside from this breathy phone calls and Zodiac killer-like taunting of the cops is his fetish for assassins. He's the kind of guy who rubs one out over lusty thoughts of John Wilkes Booth — "sic …. sempre …. tyranooooos." The idea is that the act of violence itself is enough to warrant the sacrifice to history. The fact that the assassin takes aim at the president just weeks before an election highlights the point. Malcovich's fetish for killing presidents mirror's Eastwood's existentialized brooding over saving presidents, as he looks up to the Lincoln Memorial "Well Abe, wish I coulda been there for ya, pal."
Agent Eastwood really is Captain America without the cryogenics plot. What a spry fella he is, running down men half his age. He's saving his last energy for that bullet of redemption. He nails the save the prez subgenre half way through the pictured, "I was different; the whole damned country was different. Everything would've been different then if I was as half as paranoid as I am today … fuck!" You and us both, Clint.
Stephen King started this novel in the seventies, stopped, put it in a drawer and let three more decades of history take its course on him. Surprisingly, the Kennedy assassination still warrants concern of authors in the Twenty First Century. What more is there to say about it after Oliver Stone? For Stephen King – not much. The mini-series adaptation starring James Franco features a schmuck literary teacher at a community college who stumbles into 1960 through a janitor's closet in a Maine diner. (Don't ask.) His mission – stop the assassination of JFK and fulfill the liberal dream of pushing the reset button on Camelot. Franco spends more than half the series trying to right personal wrongs from the past. He takes on a town bully in very King like terms. Then he gets into a relationship for a few episodes. Then he takes in an assistant who is recruited to do the real investigation and surveille Oswald while he does other things. Franco spends a few years in with side quests that take the air out of the narrative. It's like a long particularly aimless Quantum Leap episode which begs the question: if the assassination has such a monumental impact on history, why does everything come down to very distractable, personal, selfish motivations? King's message within the text undercuts the rest of his story – that the little anonymous people of the world matter too! Who really cares about one guy, president or not – we got a life to live here. Interesting enough point, but it undercuts the plot, a mistake that is likely for a far less experienced writer.
Of course it wouldn't be Stephen King without a dark twist – it turns out that you can't mess with the time continuum without horrible consequences. I don't remember Quantum Leap going that dark even when Scott Bakula became Oswald – a rare mission that Dr. Sam Beckett failed.
In blur analysis conspiracy thriller films like The Conversation, we had Gene Hackman rewinding tapes and altering frequencies to isolate voices, using telemetry to pick up discrete voices through his surveillance machines, hidden microphones and bugs. The conspiracy he thinks he's on to destroys his tenuous paranoid self. Fuzzy lines and blurred images became subject to serious study since the emergence of the Zapruder film. This lends itself to the fragmented narratives and perspectives that a movie like Vantage Point takes on full. It's The Conversation on Red Bull. The narrative jumping from one point of view to another in an imagined presidential assassination in Spain. The fantasy of the truth hidden somewhere among the grassy knoll, the schoolbook depository, the mafia, the CIA, the Cubans, the Birchers, or whomever. Its narrative gimmicky, the only thing of artistic merit here, relitigates the difficulty of a singular convincing truth in the age of mass media.
German director – and patriotic true believer? – Wolfgang Petersen didn't get saving the president trope out of his system yet with In the Line of Fire so he upped his game with Air Force One. A bigger, louder and even more macho film which didn't bother with the brooding secret service agent but has the president … (gulp) … defend himself from terrorists! It's Die Hard … on the president's airplane! And guess who plays the bad guy? It's Oliver Stone's Lee Harvey Oswald himself – Gary Oldman! "F YOU – OSWALD!"
Gone are the paranoid angsty bits. It's been replaced by clean lines of good and evil. Simple white hat and black hat cowboy tropes that Old Dutch Ronnie Reagan can understand. (I can't help but to wonder what if North Korea made such movies about their Kims – it would be their best propaganda. It's amazing how self-serious this movie is, how confident its brassy Team America World Police– "fuck yeah!" – score.)
Unlike In the Line of Fire, Air Force One is reinjected with ideology. President Harrison Ford's foreign policy is a hybrid of JFK and Reagan – equal parts "Ich bin ein Berliner," and "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall." Its like the pundit class's dream of beneficent American power in its creative destruction. Destroying countries in order to save them. At the antagonist's pole, Gary Oldman plays a Russian separatist who pines for the good old days of Brezhnev. Like any worthy baddie, he'll have a pretty valid motivation – upset at how American style capitalism gutted the Soviet state giving power to oligarchs and gangsters. Yeah, sounds about right. And the Western answer to this problem is typical – "Yeah, we know Capitalist imperialism is a fraud, but … but whatever … good guys win, amarite?" So the star here is Ford, who muscles, machine guns, and eventually flies his way to safety. No secret service and no Milquetoast commander in chief here. President John McClaine – all that's missing is the tank top. Or maybe it's less Die Hard, more Passenger 57! "Always bet on black!"
As stand-in for Obama, we have President Samuel L. Jackson in a Finnish production. The prez having evacuated from Air Force One is found by a lad Laplander on an escape-the-kidnapper survival quest. It's Air Force One meets Hunt for the Wilderpeople! Proof positive that if you absolutely positively have to up the stakes of your drama, make sure one of your characters is an American president.
Curious enough, Barack Obama roughed it in real life with Bear Grylls in Alaska in 2017. Wonder if he saw President Sam Jackson and was inspired to check the condition of the permafrost. (Also, Big Game features Felicity Huffman as CIA Director before she herself was under FBI investigation for college bribery conspiracy.)
The Death of a President
A curious picture made during the lame duck term of George W. Bush that we could not imagine during the first term of Bush 43. It takes actual news footage of the president and mixes it with a faux footage from CCTV, cell phones, or whatever, assembling it together under a faux conspiracy documentary supposedly debriefing the events surrounding a hypothetical 21st century assassination. The film's most notable for having the chutzpah to not use a fictionalized president. Despite Bush's deep unpopularity at the time, this was not an agenda film. But it does seem impressed by its own gimmick while only reflecting how media covers events … which totally shows us nothing new from our dayworld experience of actual news. Neither does it have the motivation to save the president, nor the opposite, the forbidden zone of endorsing his demise.
Murder at 1600
Maverick D.C. homicide detective is called the White House to investigate a murder. Along the trail of clues he discovers every neo-noir cliche in the cannon – dark rooms, trench coats, hushed stoolies, labyrinthine rooms with files, secret CCTV videotapes. If only DA Kevin Costner had this much fortune in his quixotic manhunt. ,
Unofficial sequel to Air Force One, this movie is brought to you by the US Marine Corps. Antoine Fuqua's loud, dark and self-serious imagining of a North Korean invasion in the seat of American power mixes Red Dawn with Under Siege – without Steven Seagal. The kickass who-rah of this film must've been hatched at a neocon think tank. It is hawkish yin to White House Down's dovish yang. Yet for all it's jingoistic script, President Aaron Eckart spends whole second act with his arms tied to a railing thingamajig. The North Koreans want the codes to the nuclear football, but President Eckart's ironclad patriotism won't allow it to be tortured out of him. Why? He's imbued with the magical powers of the president. The Few. The Proud. Gerard Butler.
You gotta love a movie that knows it's ridiculous and doesn't apologize for it. President Jamie Foxx mimics Obama and becomes the liberal dreamboat Obama never actually was as he challenges Pentagon nuke lovers and their deep state stooges. Wannabe secret agent and single hot dad Channing Tatum plays John McClane here and actually does rock a soiled wife beater in conscious Die Hard homage. But President Jamie Foxx is no milquetoast damsel. He's crouching nerd, hidden badass. The threats to the presidency are no longer lone wolf sniper weirdos or disgruntled foreign powers, but the deep state itself. It's less assassination, more the internal coup d'état that Keven Costner was warning us about.
Wolfgang Petersen's Germanic countryman Roland Emmerich also has a penchant for disaster movies. And like Petersen, he twice visited the subject of the American President. He twice blew up the White House, the first time in Independence Day. There we had a famously muscular commander in chief, President Bill Pullman. Spurred no only by a degree in oration with a full-throated taste for global American hegemony but could fly his own fighter plane against the aliens. "The Fourth of July is no longer just an American holiday.…. It's our Independence Day!" Proof enough that as German hard rockers Rammstein confirmed, "we all live in Amerika … ist wunderbar!"
The save the president narrative trope has appeared elsewhere – 24, X-Files, the West Wing. But guess what – I ain't goin' there cause life's too short. Leave in the comments below if you have favorites ones I didn't cover.
The Death of a Narrative
After all of our narrative therapies to repair the presidency, nothing can compare to real life attempts at restoring honor to the White House. It appears that along with the collapse of the cold war consensus and the proliferation of the twin weapons of mass distortion – television and the atom bomb – there can be no such thing as putting Humpty Dumpty together again. Suspicions internationally of American hegemony and corruption are too grave. Point to the current White House and you will see a similar reality-shattering existential crisis-in-the-making historical event that can even eclipse the shocks of the sixties and seventies. Call it Trump Derangement Syndrome, call it Kremlingate delusion, call it whatever you will, the hope for a singular unifying narrative of restoration is permanently dead. President Harrison Ford is officially retired and I think too this unofficial save the prez subgenre is as well.
It's a bit fitting that the end of In the Line of Fire takes place in a California hotel. A setting familiar to another Kennedy being shot dead. But this particular hotel is the Westin Bonaventure in Los Angeles. Although it's a set in a number of films, it's notable among students of postmodernism as an artifact of study in Frederic Jameson's Postmodernism: Or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. The architecture of the behemoth hotel is built in this highly reflective glass that at once has high visibility, yet plenty of blind corners. Part hotel, part restaurant, part shopping mall, it's a labyrinth of consumerism, distractibility, stimulation and excess. Its watershed architecture has become something of a touchstone of the fragmented narratives of postmodernism, an era that could not without good reason, on 11/23/63 with that crazy spinning bullet. It was the first national tragedy to have universally seen television coverage. And indeed it is television that is the true arbiter of reality in this world.
I think Baudrillard once wrote "Kennedy was the last president worth killing." I've thought about this phrase off and on for years. Kennedy, the last truly great orator. The last president from a text based society, yet also the first televised president. The last president perhaps with real power, representative of a liberal democratic state. By the 1980s, the nation would emerge from a different rabbit hole. It would elect not statesmen but actors and salesmen. Real power is in the financial sector, the presidency has become a simple bureaucrat, a pitch man selling the American Dream. Politics, in the real of the unreal, became synonymous with television, a conspiracy of appearances, post-truths. The only way to dominate the news cycle is to go ape and shoot up someplace. Ideas don't get copy. Bullets do. Likewise, to kill a president now would only spike the ratings. Their bureaucratic functions would just slough off to another consensus-toting asshole with a pen.
Can another save the president movie happen? Is there any faith that this is a viable narrative with viable stakes to root for? Can there be a White House Down 2? Not in this life. Well, scratch that actually, there is a caveat. Gerard Butler is slated for Angel Has Fallen, the third of the Fallen Movies, due this August. I suspect it'll be a dud, a day late and a dollar short. If history is any guide, I might guess that film will return to where it was post-Nixon. A world of shattered dreams, a world of blur analyses, mysterious hacks and bots, conspiracies and plots and riddles inside enigmas. Only it's not on film, at least not yet. The age of liberal rage and paranoia is improved nightly on Rachel Maddow. Their network's single mantra – "orange man bad." No telling yet if assassination will come back in style. Though usually it's the wrong people who get shot.
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The number of planned hotel rooms in Africa has increased to 64 000 in 365 hotels, up almost 30 percent on the previous year, according to new figures from the annual W Hospitality Group Hotel Chain Development Pipeline Survey.
The increase is largely due to strong growth in sub-Saharan Africa, which is up 42.1 percent on 2015 and is significantly outstripping North Africa, which achieved only a modest 7.5 percent pipeline increase this year. A major shake-up in the rankings by country saw Angola, never before listed among the top 10, push Egypt out of second place, due to a major deal there signed by AccorHotels.
Trevor Ward, W Hospitality Group MD, said: "The evidence from our survey is clear – investors remain confident about the future of the hospitality industry on the African continent. Even when pummelled daily by low commodity prices, exchange rate problems, political challenges and poor infrastructure, Africa remains resilient."
The IMF forecast for economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa is for an increase of four percent this year and 4.7 percent in 2017, up from 3.5 percent in 2015. Overall, this is down on the five to six percent increase enjoyed over the past decade, but it's still double or more the forecast for the world's advanced economies, such as Europe, the USA and Japan.
Matthew Weihs, MD of Bench Events, said: "Africa is still on the up. For business, trade and capital investment, the continent remains an attractive proposition, leading to continuing demand for accommodation and other hospitality services."
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package edu.samplu.mainmenu.test;

import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;

import org.junit.After;
import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;

import com.thoughtworks.selenium.DefaultSelenium;
import com.thoughtworks.selenium.Selenium;

/**
 * TODO vchauhan don't forget to fill this in.
 *
 * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
 */
public class TermLookUpIT {

    private Selenium selenium;
    @Before
    public void setUp() throws Exception {
        selenium = new DefaultSelenium("localhost", 4444, "*firefox", System.getProperty("remote.public.url"));
        selenium.start();
    }

    @Test
    public void testTermLookUp() throws Exception {

        selenium.open(System.getProperty("remote.public.url"));
		selenium.type("name=__login_user", "admin");
		selenium.click("css=input[type=\"submit\"]");
		selenium.waitForPageToLoad("30000");
		selenium.click("link=Term Lookup");
		selenium.waitForPageToLoad("30000");
		selenium.selectFrame("iframeportlet");
		selenium.click("//button");
		selenium.waitForPageToLoad("30000");
		selenium.click("link=edit");
		selenium.waitForPageToLoad("30000");
		assertTrue(selenium.isTextPresent("cancel"));
		selenium.click("link=cancel");
		selenium.waitForPageToLoad("30000");

    }

    @After
    public void tearDown() throws Exception {
        selenium.stop();
    }

}

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When I was a young man, I always looked forward to getting married. When I talked to older people about marriage, their basic advice was always the same: "Marriage is wonderful, but it is also hard work." Now, seventeen years into marriage, I believe that those people were telling the truth, but that it was incomplete. It is true that marriage is wonderful.
It is a gift from God, and I am profoundly thankful for the wife God has given me. And marriage is hard work because partnering together with someone else takes forgiveness and communication and sacrifice and compromise. But as I look at the current cultural attitudes toward marriage, I think that we need to talk about marriage at a deeper level. We need to talk about marriage's purpose.
Many people describe their marriages by saying, "It just isn't working anymore." Divorced people often look back and say, "Our marriage just didn't work." But we have to ask, "How did you know it wasn't working?" In order to know whether or not something is working, you need to know its purpose.
For example, a foosball would not work well if you tried to use it to play ping pong. But we would consider it foolishness if someone threw away a foosball because "it just didn't work." True, it didn't work for ping pong, but that doesn't mean that it wouldn't have worked if you would have used it for its intended purpose. Perhaps we conclude that our marriages aren't working because we are unclear about what marriage is for.
Before talking about the biblical idea of marriage's purpose, let's consider the prevailing view of marriage's purpose for our culture today. In short, we seem to believe that the purpose of marriage is self-fulfillment. Marriage exists so that we can find that one person who can bring us from loneliness to completion.
This is reinforced in almost every romantic film that Hollywood produces. Because of this, we can become disillusioned when we find that marriage simply isn't working. If a person is expecting that marriage will lead them to feel loved and valued—that they belong—then they are often right in saying that it isn't working. And in this way, many marriages end.
While the ideal marriage certainly should lead to a man and a woman feeling loved and valued, self-fulfillment is not at the center of the biblical idea of marriage. First of all, marriage isn't a necessity, but a choice. In 1 Corinthians 7, the Apostle Paul tells believers that they can opt to marry or to stay single and that both are options that can facilitate a full and godly life. Second of all, marriage is about more than the two people involved. Marriage is a sign. It points toward the gospel.
In Ephesians 5:31-32 Paul quotes Genesis 2:24 (the verse that introduces the idea of marriage, and then comments on it: "'For this reason, a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.' This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church." In other words, the classic verse on marriage is not simply talking about a man and a woman joining their lives to one another. It is a sign that points to the gospel. It points to Jesus commitment to his bride (the church) and the church's submission to her groom (Jesus).
When husbands love their wives (even when their wives are not worthy of that love), they paint a picture of Jesus' sacrificial commitment to his people. And when wives respect their husbands (even when their husbands are not worthy of that respect), they paint a picture of the church's trust and deference to Jesus. But when husbands and wives abandon their marriage vows, they not only hurt themselves and their children. They also hurt everyone's ability to see the gospel clearly.
In his book, The Meaning of Marriage Tim Keller writes, "This is the secret—that the gospel of Jesus and marriage explain one another. That when God invented marriage, he already had the saving work of Jesus in mind." Keller is rightly highlighting the true purpose of marriage. In light of this, men and women can display the gospel through their marriages, even if the marriage is very difficult. For example, the prophet Hosea displayed this reality as he lovingly committed himself to his unfaithful wife Gomer. And all husbands can display the gospel through loving their wives in good times and bad. And all wives can display the gospel through honoring their husbands in good times and bad.
In fact, when we stay committed during painful seasons in marriage, this displays the gospel in a particularly powerful way. After all, Jesus loved us while we were still helpless, godless sinners (Romans 5:6-8). So when we say our marriage isn't working, we may be wrong. True, it may not "work" if we think marriage's purpose is to bring us emotional fulfillment. But it still can work as a signal of the gospel.
One final plea. When we abandon our marriages, we often rob God of the opportunity to bring beauty out of the ruins. The book of Ruth is a beautiful story that begins with death and famine and bitterness and ends with marriage and children and redemption. At the beginning, after the Jewish woman Naomi has lost her husband and both of her sons, her two Moabite daughters-in-law vow that they will follow her back to her home in Israel.
But Naomi warns them that bitterness probably lies in their future if they come with her. At this warning, one of the daughters-in-law, Orpah, leaves and heads home. And who could blame her? It seemed like her best bet. But Ruth insisted that she would go with Noami, even vowing that she would be buried in the same place as her mother-in-law. And Ruth not only ended up seeing the beauty of the redemption that God brought about, but she ended up getting to be the great-grandmother of King David. Meanwhile, Orpah missed out on a chance to participate in the beauty that God brought about.
If you are ready to call it quits in your marriage, consider the beauty you might miss out on. God is telling his story through us, and he is pointing to the gospel through our marriages.
I am in a very happy and loving marriage, but I can see how this would be a difficult message for a person who is in a difficult marriage. When you talk about a spouse who is not easy to live with I am thinking of a wife who is a constant nag or condescending or a husband who is cold and unloving. Certainly those would not be grounds for divorce, but what would you say about a spouse who is consistently unfaithful or abusive or has a substance abuse problem that puts the family in danger? Just curious as to what your thoughts are on these specific situations.


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AppTek Launches Two New Mobile Applications to Help Consumers Address Multi-Lingual Communication and Collaboration Challenges in Real-Time
Now Available through Apple's App Store, AppTek Speech Translate and AppTek Speech Transcribe feature Real-Time Advanced Speech-to-Speech, Speech-to-Text and Text-to-Speech Capabilities
MCLEAN, Va.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#AI—AppTek, a leader in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), Neural Machine Translation (NMT), and Natural Language Understanding (NLU) technologies, today announced two new speech technology applications designed for consumers — AppTek Speech Translate™ and AppTek Speech Transcribe™ —are now available through the Apple App Store, free for a limited time.
With both AppTek Speech Translate and AppTek Speech Transcribe, users can more effectively communicate in real-time with others through a variety of languages, including Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese Mandarin, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Pashto, Persian Russian, Spanish or Turkish. Using AppTek's unmatched AI technology, users of both apps can also access a variety of dialects, including twelve Arabic, two French, three Spanish, five English, two Swiss German, and two Portuguese dialects.
AppTek Speech Translate is a two-way speech communication application that offers conversational real-time streaming speech-to-speech translation using the latest in artificial intelligence and machine learning for Neural Machine Translation, Automatic Speech Recognition and Text-to-Speech technologies. AppTek Speech Translate allows users to:
Speak directly into their device to transcribe and simultaneously translate spoken content into 17 different languages in real-time and then deliver a natural-sounding spoken output for simple and fluent speech-to-speech translations
Access 100 pre-loaded offline phrases to help in Emergency, Medical, Transportation, and Dining situations
Edit translations easily by changing the text into a user's native language
AppTek Speech Transcribe is designed to simplify the transcription experience for consumers while providing superior accuracy. With the app, users have a fast, easy, and reliable way to transcribe voice memos, lectures, meetings, interviews and other spoken audio content into text in real-time across 17 different languages. Using AppTek Speech Transcribe, users can:
Speak directly into their device and transcribe spoken words into readable text
Store recorded transcriptions for fast and instant retrieval
Use the app as an accessibility aid when speaking with deaf or hard-of-hearing (HOH) individuals
AppTek CEO Mudar Yaghi said, "By making both AppTek Speech Translate and AppTek Speech Transcribe available through the world's leading digital distribution platform, we are offering the benefits of powerful real-time, next-generation Automatic Speech Recognition, Neural Machine Translation and Text-to-Speech to anyone who wants to take advantage of them. These simple-to-use and highly accurate applications enable users to speak fluently in multiple languages across a wide range of domains including travel, healthcare, conversational and more, greatly enhancing communications in a breadth of situations."
For a limited time, both applications are available on the App Store at no cost.
About AppTek
AppTek is a global leader in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies for automatic speech recognition (ASR), neural machine translation (NMT), and natural language understanding (NLU). The AppTek platform delivers industry-leading, real-time streaming and batch technology solutions in the cloud or on-premise for organizations across a breadth of worldwide markets such as media and entertainment, call centers, government, enterprise business, and more. Built by scientists and research engineers who are recognized among the best in the world, AppTek's solutions cover a wide array of languages, dialects, and channels. For more information, please visit http://www.apptek.com.
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Pokemon Go is a reality game which is free-to-play. The company behind the development and publishing of this location-based augmented game is Niantic. It was developed for Android and iOS devices. Niantic collaborated with Nintendo through Pokemon company in coming up with Pokemon Go and released it in mid-2016 in selected countries. Since it is a freemium game, a player can make in-app purchases for more items in the game. The player's mobile user's GPS is used by the game in order to locate, train and capture a Pokemon which are virtual creatures. These creatures can be seen on the screen, giving the impression that the player is in the real world with them in terms of location. Some reviewers were positive while others were negative due to a number of technical issues and concept.
A player creates an account and their own avatars and customizes them as they need. The avatar then displays the geographical location of the player. On the map are Pokemon Gyms and poker stops. A PokeStope gives such items as potions, eggs, berries, and PokeBalls to the player. These items are used to lure another rare and wild Pokemon. Team-based matches are played at the gyms. The movement of the player in the real world is mapped by the movement of the player's avatar. Wild Pokemon are caught by throwing a Pokeball at them by flicking it towards the Pokemon. After this, the player owns it. The factors that apply in the successful capture include the PokeBall type, timing, and the capture rate. When the player captures a wild Pokemon, he/she is awarded stardust and candies as the in-game currencies. These currencies are used by the player to raise the combat power of a Pokemon. There are a number of in-game activities that a player can earn experience from. With more experience, a player can rise in level thereby unlocking more game features.
The features in Pokemon Go include:
• Avatars
You can create and customize your own avatar to meet your personal preferences
• PokeStops and Pokemon Gyms
PokeStops have the lure modules which the player can use to attract extra rare Pokemon. On the other hand, the gyms serve as the place where king of the hill matches are played
• In-game currencies
Stardust and candies are the currencies available for you as a player. They can be used for raising a combat power Pokemon and evolve them
• In-app purchases
A player can purchase a variety of items such as PokeBalls, lure modules, incense, lucky eggs and attract Pokemon to a specific place.
• Buddy Pokeman
This feature was introduced in September 2016. It allows a player to have a Pokemon with their profile avatar. Hence, the player can get rewards and bonuses depending on the chosen Pokemon type.
• Great for experienced players of go games
• It is extremely simple to play
• Straightforward connection
• It is very affordable
• Racking up stardust and hatching eggs is great
• Not very good in the Android platform as it randomly disconnects
• Players strain to see the LED outside
• Not very specific on the life of the battery
• Swapping between the clip and the band requires a screwdriver
Pokemon Go is a great reality game that anyone can find extremely enjoyable. Apart from the few lows above, the game is generally adventurous and is quite engaging.You can also enjoy playing Puzzle and Dragons for PC. Play Pokemon GO on your PC with Bluestacks
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Q: How to ensure a static member is defined in a Child class I have classes that inherit from an abstract class FlowData. FlowData implements an interface IFlow
My problem, I have a factory class that parses a file and returns a list of IFlow type objects depending on what kind of IFlow objects can be created from the file. I have two different kinds of classes inheriting from FlowData and I want to make sure each object contains a static definition for a property FlowType. There is scope to add many other classes that inherit from FlowData
The factory logic is as follows

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*Find lines in file beginning with FlowType key word

*Iterate through IFlowData classes in FlowTypes namespace in class library

*If FlowDataClass.FlowType ==FlowTypeKeyWord create a IFlowData object of the class

This logic relies on each class that inherits from FlowData to contain its own unique definition of FlowType. Interfaces do not support static members and I can't override a static member in the child class. Is there a clean way to ensure each child class

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*Contains the property Flowtype

*Can implement a unique value for it.

At the moment I am achieving this by defining an interface IFlowType and implementing this in my classes that inherit from FlowData. My factory class creates a FlowDataClass object and checks its FlowType. I am just wondering if there is a way to do this without instantiating a FlowDataClass object
Thanks

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Whether you've bought a house with a conservatory or built one yourself, you want to get the most from it. That means being able to enjoy it all year round, even on the hottest and coldest days.
The problem is that conservatories are notoriously difficult to regulate for temperature.
On sunny days, they let in light through the glass, which then gets trapped as heat. As a result, the space warms up, which is great in winter but less so when it's 20°C+ outside.
In addition to this, conservatories don't have the same level of insulation as the rest of the house, meaning they lose heat very quickly when the weather is cold and cloudy.
It's always hard to find the right solution, especially as it depends so much on the design and how you use the space.
If you opt for traditional conservatory heating, it might solve your problems in the winter but you'll still get uncomfortably hot in the summer. Ideally, you need a system that will maintain a consistent temperature regardless of outdoor conditions.
Until recently, David, a resident of Mauchline in Ayrshire, suffered from problems with his conservatory.
His house was built five years ago and had underfloor heating installed on the ground and first floors. This ran into the 28m2 conservatory, providing an element of heating which worked most of the time.
In the right conditions, the south-facing conservatory was a bright, pleasant area and David's family spent most of their time there.
Using fans and electric heaters proved ineffective, meaning David was unable to spend as much time in his conservatory as he'd have liked.
He contacted Glasgow-based fit-out and maintenance firm Morris and Spottiswood, who put him in touch with B-DACS.
We advised him to install a Mitsubishi Electric Zen wall-mounted system, an attractive, affordable model, capable of meeting the conservatory's heating and cooling needs.
On the really warm days, 'we have used the air conditioning and it works.
'All in all, it's a very good solution, which will allow us to use the conservatory even more than before'.


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I think these cooking and resting times are right. I just start my rice before I do anything else and leave it to cook by itself. If it burns —what, sometimes it burns! Just turn off the heat and let it rest covered, the steam will soften the burned bottom and you can scrape it right up.
I make brown rice to eat with curried vegetable stew and veganly beans, but it's also good to have on hand to eat for pre-workout carbs with a little bit of salsa or sriracha for flavor.
Combine rice and water in a saucepan and cover with a lid. Bring to a boil over high heat, then turn heat to very low and let simmer for twenty minutes. Turn off heat and let rest for another ten minutes.


Having taught at few schools in Windhoek for some time now, Shinedima drew a few conclusions based on her own experience and observations as a teacher. "Some teachers are not passionate about teaching, some do not love kids and they negatively criticise learners, which breaks the child's confidence in reading and limits their desire to learn. Some teachers also waste time while on their cellphones, some lack presentation or teaching skills and do not act professionally to be great role models to their learners," says Shinedima, adding that many learners also tend to hate their subjects because the foundation was never laid properly from the beginning.
"Lack of parental involvement in their children's' schoolwork also contributes to the poor performance of learners. Some learners are also irresponsible at times plus the school workload," explains she, adding that learners also have too many unnecessary subjects at the beginning, and the best thing to do is for teachers to steer and guide them towards areas of their interest, passion and talents once their minds are ready. "I would advise the higher education institutions or the education ministry to see that teachers are really fit for their jobs, either through good training, especially in presenting lessons, regular inspections and psychological tests before they commence with work," says Shinedima, adding that teachers should also love and enjoy what they do, see to it that learners understand, make learning fun and interesting in every way they can and allow leaners to ask questions and assist them to accept their learning responsibility.


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Buddy Shuman (September 8, 1915 – November 13, 1955) was a stock car driver who competed in the NASCAR Grand National Series.  He raced between 1951 until 1955, achieving one victory, four top 5s, and 16 top 10s.  Shuman is best known for winning his one and only race in 1952 at Stamford Park in Niagara Falls, Ontario, the first NASCAR Grand National Series race held in Canada.

Shuman died in a hotel fire the night before the start of the 1956 NASCAR Grand National campaign.  He had been tasked to head Ford's effort to succeed in NASCAR.

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Senior official warns of increased security threats against Iran by US, Israel hirelings
TEHRAN (FNA)- The US, Israel and certain regional states are collaborating to heighten security threats against the country at the borders, Secretary of Iran's Expediency Council (EC) Mohsen Rezayee said on Saturday, in remarks that resemble a similar warning by the Iranian Supreme Leader.
The US and Israel in collaboration with certain regional states have started increasing security threats to Iran's bordering areas and "we are observing some of its instance in Syria, Yemen and Iraq and they have hatched plots to push insecurities to our borders, including the western and Eastern borders", Rezayee said, addressing an Expediency Council meeting in Tehran on Saturday.
He called on the Iranian Armed Forces to boost vigilance and preparedness to give a powerful, crushing response to potential aggressors and nip the enemies' plots in the bud.
In relevant remarks on Wednesday, Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei pointed to certain reports on collaboration between the enemies and certain Persian Gulf littoral states' officials to draw proxy wars to Iran's bordering areas, and said, "The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps and all those Armed Forces who safeguard the national security boundaries are vigilant and awake and if any mischief happens, the Islamic Republic of Iran will show a very harsh reaction."
He also dismissed enemies' propaganda on isolation of Iran, and said the Islamic Republic has always been adored by different nations and enemies' attempts are futile.
By Fars News Agency
Israel, Mohsen Rezaee, US, War against Iran	May 24, 2015
A look at Iranian newspaper front pages on May 24
Commander: IRGC navy increases range of drones in Persian Gulf


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POP38 – Splendid E-zine
Alert! Splendid's musical Geiger counter has picked up a sizable reading from Oslo, Norway. A more detailed examination of these erratic scratches reveals that this isn't the same sort of Scandinavian incident of guitar-infused rock that we've seen in the past. Our scientists have unearthed significant evidence to the contrary - this is some sort of perfect pop gem that's been propelled out of the city's innards.
After dispatching a field team with the necessary monitoring equipment (a 1985 Technics record player), we've discovered that the primary cause of this eruption is a 10″ record by The Ethnobabes. This female-led quintet has created seven sexy and deliciously catchy tunes, each of them small marvels in their own right. "The Odd Shopper" has a French-sounding vocal melody that provides a bit of exoticism while dishing out bubblegum hooks in the key of twee pop. "My Favourite Fool" bounces through jangling pop chords, intermittently dipping into a bag of noisy guitar riffs without ever lapsing in its efforts to sink its wonderful chorus into your long-term memory. You'll almost feel guilty about listening to You Can't Make Me; every song is that good and it's a damn shame more people haven't been turned on to this superbly talented band. Sure, you've heard pop music many times before, but the unforgettable choruses and short blasts of melodic beauty will keep this vinyl platter spinning on your player for hours after initial contact. Only personal testing will establish an opinion, so we suggest an immediate excursion to the local record "museum" to check this beauty out.
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Brazilian 9/11 Survivor Inspired to Tell Story
Adriana Maluendas (left) giving her passport from 2001 to 9/11 Memorial Museum Senior Oral Historian Amy Weinstein at the Brazilian Consulate. (Photo by Anthony Guido)
Adriana Maluendas has recently opened up about her story of survival from the World Trade Center Marriott on 9/11. She says it was an invitation to the 9/11 Memorial Museum dedication ceremony on May 15, 2014 which led to her breakthrough. She has begun talking about the experience as a survivor for the first time and recently donated her passport and hotel room key to the museum collection.
On September 8, 2001, the 30-year-old woman from Brazil arrived in New York City for the first time and checked into the World Trade Center Marriott hotel for a 10-day stay. Maluendas visited for two reasons — work for her family's import/export business, and to take exams to further her career.
On 9/11, as the North Tower fell, Maluendas managed to escape the WTC site and headed uptown for many hours, with no clear destination in mind. Utilizing the trip itinerary in her purse, which featured alternate hotel choices, she found herself a room in midtown. She checked in using her passport and was then shocked and relieved to learn that her family had already called the hotel, hoping to find her there. Her family had a copy of the itinerary, and had called many hotels on the list.
"I feel like a part of me was lost forever on 9/11. Until I visited the Museum and saw the dramatic artifacts like the Slurry Wall and how the story was being told, I was not able to talk about the experience," Maluendas said.
Maluendas donated the passport and hotel room key in a small ceremony at the Brazilian Consulate in New York several weeks ago, according to the Brazilian Press.
By Anthony Guido, 9/11 Memorial Director of Communications
Exploring Ongoing Health Impacts of 9/11
Update (12/10): In recent days the potential reauthorization of the Zadroga Act, which would provide permanent funding for health care programs treating those affected by the 9/11 events, has been in the national spotlight.
Holiday Ornament Recovered at Ground Zero Donated to Museum
Steve Steo, an NYPD Detective with the 75th Precinct in Brooklyn, New York, reported to ground zero on Sept. 12, 2001 to aid in the search and rescue of survivors after the 9/11 attacks.


The coaster was designed by three mechanical engineering juniors and built in the span of a week by the incoming freshmen who would ride its wooden rails. In early designs, the coaster even had an internal loop. Unfortunately, MIT's Environment Health and Safety department said "no upside-down people. Period."
More photos of the design process at Monograph.


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To assess the effectiveness of earthquake protection methods, including repair and retrofit, and to make comparisons of the actual performance of structures with the expectations of designers.
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Hap's Got Apps! FAQ regarding the IMS Connected Learning Innovation Community and Challenge
IMS announced today the winners of our first (of what we expect to be many) annual connected learning innovation challenge (aka app challenge – but this is a bit of a misnomer because the challenge is as much about platforms and tools as apps). And, our eternal hats off to Instructure Canvas for creating the idea for an App Challenge and conducting the first ever last year in conjunction with their annual conference.
We say "Hap's got apps" because Hap Aziz is the IMS wrangler for this emerging education and learning app community.
Here's an FAQ about the challenge, including plans going forward.
Q: How many entries and how many winners were there?
A: There were 22 entries and 5 top apps were selected as the winners.
Q: Where can I see the entries and the winners?
A: The winners are summarized in the press release and on the App Challenge Winner web page. The winners and the other entries are also listed toward the bottom of the LTI certified product web page. You can also sign-up to get the (roughly) monthly CLIC (Connected Learning Innovation Community) newsletter here – which will have features on the winning and other notable apps as well as community news.
Q: Who chose the winners and how were they chosen?
A: Many thanks to a panel of expert evaluators , primarily institutional leaders, but a few suppliers, who developed a rubric for the evaluation. My understanding is that there was excellent convergence on the winners.
Q: Are these "apps" like the kind of apps available on Google Play or iTunes?
A: No – these IMS app challenge apps are generally a lot better because they are powered with LTI (Learning Tools Interoperability). That's because these are apps that can connect into over 25 different learning environments/platforms including all of the major learning management systems. Thus, these are "cross-platform" apps, unlike Apple or Google apps which generally only work on Apple. Or Google. In addition the IMS app challenge apps exchange highly useful information with the over 25 learning environments/platforms, such as user information, rosters, progress data, etc. So, the IMS app challenge apps are real enterprise learning apps and not the sort of limited individual user apps people download to their mobile device from PlayStore or iTunes.
Q: "Could" mobile apps such as those downloaded from Google Play or iTunes become IMS LTI Apps?
A: That's a bit of a complicated question because it involves software architecture and software architecture limitations of the operating systems involved, but the general answer is 'yes'. The web-hosted "back-end" of mobile apps as well as the apps themselves could potentially leverage LTI (and/or other IMS standards) to connect to learning environments/platforms. To date we have not had any great examples of this but it is only a matter of time before it will happen.
Q: Was there money or other recognition involved in the Challenge?
A: Yes, each of the top five will receive a $1000 prize and also will be recognized at the IMS Learning Impact Leadership Institute May 5-8, 2014 in New Orleans. There will also be a plenary panel and entire track on connected learning at the event, facilitated by Hap Aziz, with many of the entrants and evaluators as participants.
Q: Where did the money come from?
A: A huge debt of gratitude is owed to the organizations that were financial supporters of the challenge and community. They made it possible. Cengage Learning, Ellucian, Follett, Indiana University – Purdue University Fort Wayne, Instructure Canvas, McGraw-Hill Education, Oracle, Pearson, University of Maryland Baltimore County, and Vital Source. The initiative requires ongoing support and if your organization would like to sponsor in the future, please contact us at leadingchange@imsglobal.org.
Q: Were you pleased with the quality of the entrants and winners?
A: Very much so. The winners were a mix of small (including tiny) and larger organizations. The top vote getter, Hoot.me, was an extremely innovative combination of the educational enterprise with Facebook. This reflects a trend in which innovative faculty want to take advantage of existing non-educational applications, but couple them with their campus software platforms. And, all five of the top winners were similarly highly innovative in terms of what they enable faculty, students and/or administrators to do – and that's what this is all about – making innovation easier!
Q: Isn't a non-connected app just as innovative?
A: Nice try, but not really. "Innovation" is not just about whether an application is novel. It also has to be useful (in fact some definitions of the word take into account adoption/usage as a critical aspect of innovation). Apps that are easy to access and use are a lot more useful in the education space than those that aren't. Having to enter student roster data or having separate logins or going to a different URL for an app is not at all cool. But, more importantly, these extra steps detract from the innovativeness. Faculty and students need to focus on learning and not on configuring software.
Q: Is the IMS Connected Learning Innovation Challenge going to become an annual thing?
A: Yes. We are on an annual schedule of app boot camp for developers at our August quarterly meeting, promotion at Fall EDUCAUSE, promotion at Winter EDUCAUSE ELI and announcement of annual winners during the run-up to the annual Learning Impact event in May.
Q: Is IMS going to do more to make it easier to find apps than the current LTI catalog web page?
A: Yes. The Connected Learning Innovation Community is also sponsoring the Community App Sharing/Store Architecture (CASA) project. Indeed, CASA is more than a whitepaper! It is open source software that is being developed by a collaborating group of IMS HED institutions, led by UCLA and the University of California System. CASA is a breakthrough. It's a peer-to-peer app sharing architecture that will enable institutions or suppliers to partake in a network of cross-platform educational app sharing. The very first public demonstrations of CASA will occur at the IMS Learning Impact Leadership Institute May 5-8, 2014 in New Orleans. For more background on CASA see this post.
Q: Is the Connected Learning Innovation Community (CLIC) meant to be an open source community?
A: Yes. IMS expects that for those institutions or suppliers that wish to share and collaborate on open source apps, tools or platforms that implement the IMS standards CLIC will evolve into a vibrant software collaboration. We like to say that this is like "an open source community on steroids" because the software developed will run cross-platform. So, whereas the current open source collaborations like Sakai and Moodle have been and will continue to be great, this is a different kind of community that adds a completely new dimension of cross-platform/cross-community.
Q: Where is the K-12 community in this? A: IMS expects that K-12 institutions and/or states will begin to participate – it's only a matter of time and resources. HED has taken the lead here because HED institutions are developing lots of LTI apps on their own. And, HED is more used to these sort of development collaborations. But K-12 is coming.
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Walter P. Adrian (* 14. Oktober 1897 in Bern; † 1963) war ein Schweizer Schriftsteller, Kunstkritiker und Journalist.

Leben und Werk
Walter Adrian wuchs in Bern auf und studierte nach dem Literaturgymnasium an den Universitäten Bern, Zürich und Rom. Während der Studienzeit hielt er sich oft in Italien auf und schrieb erste Erzählungen und Reisenovellen.

Adrian doktorierte 1922 in Neudeutsch, Germanistik und Kunstgeschichte mit einer Dissertation über Carl Spitteler und war anschliessend als freier Journalist tätig, besonders als Kunstkritiker bei der Zeitung Der Bund. Sein beginnendes literarisches und journalistisches Schaffen stand unter der Ägide des Feuilletonredaktors Hugo Marti. Für den Berner A. Francke Verlag war Adrian zudem als Lektor und Propagandist verantwortlich.

Weitere Reisen folgten nach Marokko, Algier, der Sahara, Mitteleuropa und in den Norden. Dazu unternahm er eine Wanderung von Rom nach Neapel durch die alte Via Appia.

Adrian war Mitglied im Berner Schriftstellerinnen und Schriftsteller Verein (BSV) und erhielt 1942 und 1957 den Schweizer Schillerpreis sowie 1948 und 1957 den Literaturpreis der Stadt Bern. Einige seiner Werke wie Artos, der Tiguriner, Der Weg nach Bibrakte und Die Stadt am Feuerberg sind jugendorientiert.

Werke
 Die Mythologie in Carl Spittelers Olympischem Frühling. P. Haupt, Bern 1922 (Dissertation, Digitalisat).
Georg Küffer: Hymnen. In: Wissen und Leben. 16. Jg., Nr. 1, 1. Oktober 1922, S. 247–248 (Digitalisat).
 In der Reifezeit. In: Wissen und Leben. 17. Jg., Nr. 2, 20. Oktober 1923, S. 90–100 (doi:10.5169/seals-748332#109).
 Die ewige Erdenfahrt (= Münchener Laienspiele. 60). Chr. Kaiser, München 1931.
 Rudolf von Travel – ein Dichter der alten Schweiz. In: Neue Schweizer Rundschau. 2. Jg., Nr. 7, November 1934, S. 432–436 (Digitalisat).
 Auf dem Vulkan Italiens. In: Die Berner Woche. 29. Jg., Nr. 12, 25. März 1939, S. 314–315 (doi:10.5169/seals-639169#316).
 Kämpfer in Fels und Sand. Ein afrikanisches Abenteuer. Nach wahren Begebenheiten für die Jugend erzählt. Orell Füssli, Zürich 1941.
 Au soleil d'Allah (Adaptation française d'Henri Bonifas). Editions Spes, Lausanne 1942.
 Friedliches Afrika. Feuz, Bern 1940.
 Artos, der Tiguriner. Eine Erzählung aus der Frühzeit der Schweiz. Francke, Bern 1947.
 Der Weg nach Bibrakte. Francke, Bern 1955.
 Zu einigen Bildern von Willi Meister. In: Werk. 42. Jg., Nr. 6, Juni 1955, S. 193–196 (doi:10.5169/seals-32523#1020).
 In Allahs Sonnenland. Ein marokkanisches Abenteuer. Sauerländer, Aarau / Frankfurt am Main 1957.
 Palme und Minarett. Streifzüge durch Südspanien und Marokko. Gute Schriften, Bern 1958.
 Die Stadt am Feuerberg. Eine Erzählung aus dem alten Pompeji. Orell Füssli, Zürich 1960.

Literatur
 Walter Adrian. In: Schweizer Schriftsteller der Gegenwart / Ecrivains suisses d'aujourd'hui / Scrittori svizzeri d'oggi / Scriptuors svizzers da noss dis. Francke, Bern 1962, S. 13 (Kurzbiografie; eingeschränkte Vorschau in der Google-Buchsuche: /).

Weblinks
 Walter Adrian Walter in Literapedia Bern. Das Lexikon der Berner Schriftstellerinnen und Schriftsteller
 Literatur von und über Walter Adrian im IDS Basel Bern

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Directed by:Sam Fell, Chris Butler
Plot:In the town of Blithe Hollow, Norman Babcock can speak to the dead, but no one other than his eccentric new friend believes his ability is real. One day, Norman's eccentric uncle tells him of a ritual he must perform to protect the town from a curse cast by a witch centuries ago.
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Script by:Linda Woolverton (Screenplay), Lewis Carroll (Author), Lewis Carroll (Screenplay), Michael Schlingmann (Storyboard)
Directed by:Tim Burton
Plot:Alice, an unpretentious and individual 19-year-old, is betrothed to a dunce of an English nobleman. At her engagement party, she escapes the crowd to consider whether to go through with the marriage and falls down a hole in the garden after spotting an unusual rabbit. Arriving in a strange and surreal place called 'Underland,' she finds herself in a world that resembles the nightmares she had as a child, filled with talking animals, villainous queens and knights, and frumious bandersnatches. Alice realizes that she is there for a reason – to conquer the horrific Jabberwocky and restore the rightful queen to her throne.
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October 20, 2012; Los Angeles, CA, USA; Southern California Trojans running back Silas Redd (25) during the first half of the game against the Colorado Buffaloes at the Los Angeles Coliseum. Mandatory Credit: Jayne Kamin-Oncea-USA TODAY Sports
After starting his collegiate career at Penn State, Silas Redd took the opportunity to leave the Nittany Lions in light of the sanctions placed on the University and went to play for USC for his final two seasons. In his sophomore season in the Big Ten, Redd carried the ball 244 times for 1,241 yards and 7 touchdowns along with 9 receptions for 40 yards. As a junior with the Trojans, he had 167 carries for 905 yards, 9 catches for 113 yards, and 10 total touchdowns. Although his overall production was slightly down in the PAC-12, Redd was better with each touch.
Entering his senior year, Redd and the rest of the running backs at USC could be asked to carry a significant load of the offense. With Matt Barkley now an Eagle, the Trojans will have talent at quarterback but not the experience and they may pound the football more this year. Redd is a balanced runner who has the frame to add significant bulk as he goes to the NFL but looks like he can contribute now as well. If Redd wants to come out of this season a more complete back, he needs to improve his hands not only when it comes to catching the ball where he has had only a small amount of production but he has also put the ground. Redd looks like a rotational back and a day three pick at this point but he has a chance to improve his stock and be a fringe day two pick with a chance to be an immediate contributor.
Vitals & Build
Redd is listed at 5'10" 200lbs and does not even look that big. He is extremely lean but shows pretty good strength in his legs. Redd has great feet, balance, and vision. His explosiveness is impressive but his top end speed is probably not going to blow anyone away. It remains to be seen if his body will take it, but Redd's body appears to have the space on it to add significant bulk and if he can do it, he could have incredible strength on top of being quick and explosive at the next level. There appears to be substantial potential for Redd physically.
Redd is a terrific runner because of the way he attacks the holes as he sees them. He has a ton of experience running behind a fullback and explodes through the hole. What makes Redd so effective is that he has the ability to make subtle moves that make a big difference without losing momentum. In effect, he makes one slight step while attacking the hole that adjusts the path he runs on and makes a defender miss or sets up his blocker to cut off an opponent for him.
Redd certainly has the ability to make dramatic moves like jump cuts and will when needed, but he has demonstrated excellent judgment on how much is needed in a given situation. There are backs that will make a jump cut when Redd is making a slight adjustment and it forces them to plant and explode again after the cut, so they are still in the backfield while Redd is already in or through the hole. And Redd uses all of this to attack in between the tackles and look great doing it. He is extremely comfortable working inside and is natural in how he attacks plays.
The other important aspect of this is it makes Redd's power more viable and prevents him from taking big hits. Because he can anticipate and see plays developing when he makes these slight movements to adjust his path, he is getting defenders at more awkward angles, not taking the full force of the hit or making them miss entirely.
While not being an overwhelming power back, Redd will drop his shoulder and drive his legs through contact, so he will fall forward and pick up more yardage as he goes to the ground. Because of the angles he takes, he will get some defenders at a disadvantage and either catch them at a bad tackling angle and be able to demonstrate his power or run through an arm tackle attempt and continue to run.
Redd is patient as a runner but he hits the hole as soon as it is there and gets there extremely quickly. He really has a good understanding of the intangibles of the running back position and it makes him a better runner than many with better physical talents.
The one area where Redd struggles is when he gets hit in the backfield. He goes down really easily and will have negative plays. The hope is that he will continue to gain strength and be able to do more to improve upon that, but they are there and they do happen too often. He also will put the ball on the ground on occasion and that is an area that needs to improve as well.
Route Running & Technique
The area that could really hurt Redd as he goes to the NFL is his lack of ability thus far as a receiver. To this point in his career with two different programs, he has caught a total of 22 passes. He is used basically on some screens and dump offs but he is not really looked at as a weapon out of the backfield. This will hurt him in the NFL Draft if he cannot improve because he is not so good that there are not players with similar talent who can give them more in that respect.
Redd has had some drops and some fumbles in his career. He needs to work on both and that is going to be a key in perhaps explaining why he has not had more passes thrown his way. If he can improve, he will be better as far as carrying the football but make him a better all-around threat as a back and make him a far more viable player.
Redd is not a powerhouse blocker, but he will at least get in the way and is not afraid to absorb contact to prevent his quarterback from getting hit. And the fact he is not a great receiver probably forces Redd to take blocking more seriously because it is going to be key he does it well if he cannot be a receiving threat. Otherwise, it becomes difficult to use him or defenses will key on his substitution as meaning the offense is running the ball. Redd is not afraid to hold his ground and make a block as opposed to just trying to dive and cut opponents. He can continue to get better and more strength will help, but he should not be a liability in pass protection.
System Fit
Redd can play in a number of schemes but he might be best suited for a zone blocking scheme. He has terrific vision and understands how to see and hit holes. Redd can also play in a more rigid scheme and is comfortable working behind a fullback or as a single back. He looks like someone who can contribute as part of a rotation at the moment but if he can become a more complete player and add more strength, Redd has the potential to be a feature back in the NFL.
Thu, Aug. 29 at Hawaii
Sat, Sept. 7 vs. Washington State
Sat, Sept. 14 vs. Boston College
Sat, Sept. 21 vs. Utah State
Sat, Sept. 28 at Arizona State
Thu, Oct. 10 vs. Arizona
Sat, Oct. 19 at Notre Dame
Sat, Oct. 26 vs. Utah
Fri, Nov. 1 at Oregon State
Sat, Nov. 9 at Cal
Sat, Nov. 23 at Colorado
Fri, Nov. 29 vs. UCLA
Notable Games
The first game that stands out as a solid test for Redd is on the road at Arizona State. They have a talented front seven led by Will Sutton that could be USC and Redd some creative ways to try to contain him. Two weeks later, the Trojans go on the road to play the Fighting Irish in South Bend. The Notre Dame front seven is incredibly impressive with Louis Nix and Stephon Tuitt anchoring the Irish defensive line. The regular season finale is always a huge game in the battle of Los Angeles with UCLA. The Bruin defense has a ton of speed up front with Anthony Barr and Cassius Marsh and Redd will need to have a big game for the Trojans to take home the victory.
NFL Comparison
Redd's game is somewhat similar to that of Donald Brown. Brown is an extremely fundamentally sound back who did not bring an overwhelming physical ability and he was not much of receiving threat. Brown has struggled to make the transition to the NFL and certainly has not lived up to the first round selection, but that does not mean Redd cannot. They just have similar traits and a way of playing the position. Redd could end up more physically impressive before making going to the NFL and being a better receiver.
Draft Projection
Redd is a talented runner who really has a great sense of how to run the football, showing to be extremely effective at both Penn State and USC. The questions facing Redd include how much potential he has going forward and his hands both in catching and carrying the football. Redd has the talent and ability to contribute effectively in a rotation and the potential to be a feature back but it will require significant improvement to become a better all-around threat as well as adding more strength, whether it is before he gets to the NFL or while he is there. Redd looks the part of a day three pick but if he makes a significant jump this year, he could push for a spot in the top 100.
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