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Iranian Human Rights Leader: 'We Are in the Middle of our Revolution'
House Republicans and Democrats Team Up To Sanction Iranian Supreme Leader and Other Top Regime Figures
Stanford Dean Cites Domestic Terrorist in 'Safety' Message to Students
Academic quotes cop-killer Shakur in message about unrest
Chrissy Clark
A Stanford University dean approvingly quoted a domestic terrorist wanted by the FBI for the murder of a police officer in a "safety email" sent to university students on June 1.
In a message addressing the nationwide protests and riots that followed the death of George Floyd at the hands of police, the university's dean of students, Dr. Mona Hicks, cited the "loving" words of Assata Shakur, who was convicted in 1973 for the murder of a police officer and remains on the FBI's "Most Wanted" list.
"As a Black woman, I am also struggling to make meaning in our world today…. This loving refrain from Assata Shakur still rings true as I shelter-in-place: 'It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains,'" Hicks said. The quote Hicks cited borrowed from the words of Karl Marx, who wrote in The Communist Manifesto that workers have "nothing to lose but [their] chains."
Shakur was convicted of the first-degree murder of State Trooper Werner Foerster during a shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike in 1973. She was a member of the Black Liberation Army, a group responsible for killing police officers as well as for a series of bombings, robberies, and prison breaks. She was sentenced to life in prison but escaped six years later and fled to Cuba. Shakur remains on the lam and on the FBI's "Most Wanted" list 41 years later.
Wayne Blanchard, president of the State Troopers Fraternal Association of New Jersey, called Hicks's statement "disturbing" and "inflammatory."
"A quote like that, in a letter where you're giving guidelines for peaceful protests, is downright disturbing and inflammatory," Blanchard said. "[Shakur] outright murdered a New Jersey State Trooper and conspired to critically wound another."
In her note, Hicks said there is an "undeniable intersection of systemic oppression for minoritized people." She also listed a handful of resources for students to use if they participate in protests. The resources included Stanford's "Know Your Rights" guide on protests and demonstrations, which specifically recommends resources from the left-leaning American Civil Liberties Union. The dean also recommended the ACLU's "Mobile Justice" app.
Neither Hicks nor Stanford University responded to requests for comment.
The Arizona state senate Democratic caucus included the same Shakur quote in a Friday statement condemning police brutality. The caucus retracted part of their press statement after Republican backlash over the inclusion of the quote, according to AZ Central.
"I don't know a soul who believes the killing of George Floyd was anything other than reprehensible and unwarranted but for the AZ Senate Democrats to quote a cop-killer on the FBI Most Wanted Terrorist List in a press release is truly mind blowing," said state Rep. T.J. Shope.
I don't know a soul who believes the killing of George Floyd was anything other than reprehensible and unwarranted but for the AZ Senate Democrats to quote a cop-killer on the FBI Most Wanted Terrorist List in a press release is truly mind blowing. https://t.co/ShliiR0rTW
— T.J. Shope (@TJShopeforAZ) May 29, 2020
State Democrats claimed they were unaware of Shakur's "past criminal conviction and current status."
"This is a quote used frequently in social justice and activism circles and we know [Shakur] as an author and well-known commentator on civil rights. Yet it has come to our attention her past criminal conviction and current status. The use of the quote was not intended as an endorsement, but to emphasize issues of social justice," the party's official state senate account said in a tweet.
Blanchard, of the state troopers association, said that calling attention to a convicted cop-killer and domestic terrorist is not the best way to condemn violence.
"There are glaring differences between a peaceful protest and the reaction to the George Floyd incident … and it is in no way, shape, or form comparable to what [Shakur] did," Blanchard said.
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Basen, I. "Six brothers: hockey has always had a uncommon number of brother combinations, but it has never known a family quite like the Sutters of Viking, Alberta." Saturday Night. Vol 97, No.12. (December 1982) 65; 67-68.
"The Great One." The Thrill of Victory: Best Sports Stories from the Pages of Maclean's. Michael Benedict, 103-113. Toronto: Viking Canada, (2003).
AB: Provides a summary of the accomplishments of Wayne Gretzky to the sport of hockey as the Great One up until his retirement from the game as captured in an article in Maclean's magazine by James Deacon, written on April 26, 1999. The article commences with a look at his final game in Ottawa against the Senators and travels backwards in time with a reminiscent look back at his life and career.
"Canada Beats Russia in Thrilling Cup Final (1987)." One Hundred Greatest Canadian Sports Moments. James Bisson, 112-115. Mississauga, ON: John Wiley & Sons Canada, (2008).
AB: Working alongside other Canadian hockey greats like Mario Lemieux and Doug Gilmour, Alberta Sports Hall of Fame and Museum inductees Wayne Gretzky and Mark Messier helped to prove to the world that Canada was back as the best team in the world.
"Canadian Men End Olympic Hockey Drought (2002)." One Hundred Greatest Canadian Sports Moments. James Bisson, 132-135. Mississauga, ON: John Wiley & Sons Canada, (2008).
AB: With a little superstitious help from the Edmonton ice-maker at the 2002 Winter Olympics who froze a loonie (Canadian $1 coin) under the Salt Lake City ice prior to the championship game, the solid administration of Wayne Gretzky and several Albertan players including Theo Fleury, Jarome Iginla and Ryan Smyth, the Canadian Men took Olympic gold in 2002.
"Edmonton Oilers Begin High-Octane Dynasty (1984)." One Hundred Greatest Canadian Sports Moments. James Bisson, 59. Mississauga, ON: John Wiley & Sons Canada, (2008).
AB: The 2001 Alberta Sports Hall of Fame and Museum inducted Edmonton Oilers made hockey history in 1984 as they began their Cup-winning dynasty.
"Flames Beat Habs in All-Canadian Cup (1989)." One Hundred Greatest Canadian Sports Moments. James Bisson, 21. Mississauga, ON: John Wiley & Sons Canada, (2008).
AB: Looks at the amazing confrontation between the Calgary Flames and the Montreal Canadiens, highlighting Alberta Sports Hall of Fame and Museum inductee Lanny McDonald's second period Game 6 goal to win the hockey's Cup.
"Gretzky Becomes NHL's Scoring King (1989)." One Hundred Greatest Canadian Sports Moments. James Bisson, 120-123. Mississauga, ON: John Wiley & Sons Canada, (2008).
AB: In an ironic twist of fate, recently traded hockey legend Wayne Gretzky scored his 1851st career point in Edmonton, playing against his former team.
"Gretzky Hits the Score Sheet in 51 Straight (1984)." One Hundred Greatest Canadian Sports Moments. James Bisson, 62. Mississauga, ON: John Wiley & Sons Canada, (2008).
AB: During the 1984 Edmonton Oilers run for their first Stanley Cup, hockey legend Wayne Gretzky set the incredible record of scoring at least one goal in fifty-one consecutive games, battling increasingly determined opponents, injury and time.
"Wayne Gretzky Reaches 50 Goals in 39 Games (1981)." One Hundred Greatest Canadian Sports Moments. James Bisson, 104-105. Mississauga, ON: John Wiley & Sons Canada, (2008).
AB: Proving what he was capable of just two seasons into his legendary career, Wayne Gretzky did what only two other players had done before; reached 50 goals in their teams' first fifty games and Gretzky did it with 11 to spare.
"Wayne Gretzky's 215-Point Masterpiece (1986)." One Hundred Greatest Canadian Sports Moments. James Bisson, 87. Mississauga, ON: John Wiley & Sons Canada, (2008).
AB: Scoring his 215th point in the 1985-1986 season, Gretzky re-established the single-season scoring record.
"Women's Hockey Strikes Olympic Gold (2002)." One Hundred Greatest Canadian Sports Moments. James Bisson, 77. Mississauga, ON: John Wiley & Sons Canada, (2008).
AB: Alberta Sport Hall of Fame and Museum inductee Hayley Wickenheiser and her team triumphed over their American counterparts to take the gold for Canada at the 2002 Winter Olympics.
Blatchford, Christie. "A Win When it Counts." The Way it Looks from Here: Contemporary Canadian Writing on Sports. Stephen Brunt. ed, 219-222. Toronto: A.A. Knopf Canada, (2004).
AB: This article recaps the gold winning game of the women's hockey team at the 2002 Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City. Alberta Sports Hall of Fame and Museum inductees Hayley Wickenheiser (2004) and Cassie Campbell (2007) are mentioned and quoted. Reprinted from National Post, February 22, 2002.
"Gretzky goes to Hollywood, August 1988." Boondoggles, Bonanzas, and other Alberta Stories. Brian Brennan, 155-160. Calgary: Fifth House, (2003).
AB: Follows the emotional sale of Wayne Gretzky from the Edmonton Oilers to the Los Angles Kings in 1988. This chapter includes highlights from Gretzky's personal and professional life up to the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.
Brunt, Stephen. Gretzky's tears: hockey, Canada and the day everything changed. Toronto: Vintage Canada, 2010.
AB: This book retells one of the most consequential moment hockey history. In 1988, Alberta Sports Hall of Fame and Museum inductee, Wayne Gretzky, was traded from the Edmonton Oilers to the Los Angeles Kings. Stephen Brunt narrates the foundations progress of the trade. The book continues with a look at Gretzky's first few years in Los Angeles, and an analysis of the long term implications of this trade and of those involved.
"Prairie Hockey." Montana Misadventures. Thomas Bullock, 139-180. Frederick/Baltimore, Maryland: PublishAmerica LLLP, (2006).
AB: In this chapter, the author recounts his childhood experiences playing hockey in Montana and southern Alberta during the Second World War. Included is mentioned of a dozen of his young friends from Canada including Carl Sorokoski, a member of the 1951 Lethbridge Maple Leafs who were inducted into the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame & Museum of Fame and Museum in 1974, and Billy Gibson, who went on to win Olympic gold with the Edmonton Waterloo Mercurys in 1952.
"Running and skating to glory." Aberhart and the Alberta Insurrection [1935-1940]. Ted Byfield. ed, 167-168. Edmonton: CanMedia, Inc., (2006).
AB: This article is a brief reflection on the sporting endeavours and life of James (Buster) Brown, as told through his own recollections. Born in Edmonton in 1909, Brown became a star hockey player and sprinter, playing for the Gainers Superiors of the Western Canadian Men's Senior Hockey League and representing Canada on the track team at the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles. Included are some photographs of Brown and the Edmonton Superiors at the World Championships.
"Hockey's final shining days." Brownlee and the Triumph of Populism. [1920-1930]. Ted Byfield. ed, 284-288. Edmonton: CanMedia, Inc., (2006).
AB: This brief article highlights the steady decline in popularity of regional hockey leagues such as the Pacific Coast or the Western Canadian with the onset of professionalism in the 1920s. The author attributes key factors such as the popularity of the radio, professionalism of the sport and the Great Depression as ultimate triggers of its demise. This article chronicles the last moments of the leagues including final Stanley Cup vies by the Edmonton Eskimos and the Calgary Tigers as well as attempts made by key hockey figures such as Deacon White to form a lower-level professional league to be known as the Prairie Professional League to perpetuate the sport in Alberta. Yet, in 1927, with a lack of consistent financial and community support, the amateur leagues were dissolved, teams such as the Edmonton Eskimos and the Calgary Tigers were sold off to NHL teams throughout Canada and the U.S. and cynicism over the new found precedence on revenue and expenditure as sport mandate resounded among sports enthusiasts.
Cassie, Campbell & Lorna Schultz Nicholson. H.E.A.R.T.. Bolton, ON: Fenn Publishing, 2007.
AB: Written by Cassie Campbell, a 13 season veteran of Team Canada and 2007 Alberta Sports Hall of Fame and Museum inductee, this self-help guide seeks to show hockey players and fans the traits it takes to become a world-class athlete. Compete with personal antidotes from Campbell's career, tips for aspiring athletes and excellent photography with captions from the author.
Coleman, Jim. "Best in the West (Vancouver Daily Province, January 6, 1940)." The Best of Jim Coleman: Fifty years of Canadian Sport from the Man Who saw it All. Jim Taylor. comp, 22-24. Madeira Park, BC: Harbour Publishing, (2005).
AB: The author relates the story of an intense hockey game in Bassano, Alberta between the Bassano hockey team and the Calgarys. At this stop on the Canadian Pacific Railroad, Sam Whiting established and promoted his Bassano hockey team. This particular game, almost called due to the shenanigans of a Bassano fan, was eventually won by Calgarys with their star players the Cook brothers from Taber.


An idea that never gets old: star architects design modular buildings for a supplier of prefabricated house solutions. The latest issue of the Start Up Cube House has a Plug and Play approach.
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RenderMan 19 is a significant step forward for RenderMan in many ways, as we covered when it was first announced. But now that it is available and free for personal use, we wanted to touch base with some actual users for their experiences and perspectives.
From Pixar's point of view, the new verion of RenderMan has been a great success and already broadened the user community. "The response to non-commercial RenderMan has been great. People have been impressed with both the speed of the new RIS technology and how easy to use with features like interactive rendering. It's been exciting to see so many new users join the RenderMan community," comments Pixar's Dylan Sisson.
RIS is the key new feature of RenderMan 19 which allows interactive, real-time rendering - iteratively refining the image over time. For 3D artist and fxphd Houdini Prof. Liam Whitehouse the most impressive thing about RIS is that it "allows you to move the camera interactively, adjust the materials, change their properties and navigate around the 3D scene," all while the renderer keeps updating, he explains. "This is a great time saving because you can check the effect of changes to your scene easily in the RIS iterative render in the (IT) render view. This is very impressive because the original REYES system you exported a RIB file from your 3D scene but it would slowly render in RenderMan one bucket at a time."
By contrast, now the RIB file in RIS does progressive rendering for a very quick first iteration, and then, depending on the quality settings, converges with time. For larger scenes like castles and forests, Whitehouse points out that "now you can look at everything and see feedback much more immediately."
RenderMan image from Liam Whitehouse.
The progressive rendering and image check pointing feature means artists can run partial renders and then pick up from where they paused the render, "which allows for a rough version of animations and frames to render incrementally is really excellent for previewing advanced RenderMan features like fur or displacement to make changes" adds Whitehouse. Whitehouse now rather than rendering out his scenes with full settings, progressive renders his scenes - gets a preview of his work "which I can then refine according to the time I have allowed."
Macbeth chart render by Liam Whitehouse.
With RIS in the new RenderMan one gets quick first results, but generally it takes longer then REYES. "Productions are reporting longer render times with RIS (to fully converge compared to REYES) but RIS looks better'", notes fxphd Professor and Lollipopshaders.com co-founder Christos Obretenov. "In particular with textures, RIS path tracer's camera rays directly sample each shading point, as opposed to the grids sampling with ShadingRate in REYES, so you get much sharper textures in RIS: in REYES you would have to take the ShadingRate down to 0.25 to get that 'equivalent' quality (In RIS ShadingRate only applies to Displacements now)."
Very powerful realistic lighting results are possible.
For Pixar, this new version has been seen as a good counterpoint to "the industry shift towards photoreal ray-tracing renderers like Arnold," says Whitehouse. "Ray-tracers create a more photorealistic image but they have traditionally had severe shortcomings, including very long render times, especially with scenes with a lot of motion blur and displacement."
As part of RenderMan is the option to render with a bi-directional path tracer. This approach of mapping not only forward from the camera but back from the lights means that recessed lighting and other very complex lighting effects now render much much more quickly or in some cases produce a result where normal uni-directional tracing is just completely infeasible. As you can see below if you are lucky enough to get an image without bi-directional path tracing - it was very noisy.
RenderMan 19 offers RIS bi-directional path tracing.
Bi-directional VCM produces vastly better results in this example.
In some cases only the new approach will work, as seen above with a 'frosted glass blub light fitting'.
New in RenderMan is the incredibly powerful new denoiser. Developed recently and separately from the actual renderer itself, this new tool harnesses the latest in image processing algorithms to produce some of the best denoising solutions yet seen.
The first release of the new module runs the denoiser as a separate pass, but the denoiser is intended to be more closely integrated in some future release.
The denoiser was developed thanks to the benefits of the now-huge internal Disney research family which spans from Emeryville to Zurich. Walt Disney Animation Studios used the denoiser as part of its Hyperion workflow on Big Hero 6 (as outlined by WDAS' Brent Burley at FMX). And, according to Pixar's Christophe Hery (also while at FMX), Pixar will be utilizing the denoiser in the production of the upcoming Pixar animated feature: Finding Dory.
The LM shaders are lay-able with other LM materials. Here is an example of such a setup.
The clear use of such a system would be for car paint, where the 'varnish' is the real world 'clearcoat' on a new car. In fact one could interchange the term varnish and clearcoat (and 3D expert and fxphd Prof. Christos Obretenov often does).
What is not immediately obvious is how an artist works exactly to get the 'color' of any object since it comes from multiple contributions. For an object lit with a standard white area light, the spec highlight will be white, since it is a first bounce off the varnish. While the varnish might be clear, it may be tinted. The key however is the thickness of the varnish. If the varnish is very thin, it contributes little to the overall perceived color of the object, even if the varnish has a tint. Light would be primarily colored by the color of the substrate. At the other end of the thickness spectrum - if the varnish is very thick, it will scatter the light so much that it will dominate and allow very little of the substrate's color to contribute. The clearcoat is meant to be di-electric (like a metal) so it is not meant to color the highlights.
Thus in the image below, as the thickness of some red varnish over a grey ball increases its thickness it moves from having spec highlights - as one would expect from a thin varnish, white and crisp, but the varnish is contributing little to the grey substrate color, as the thickness increases, the highlights or spec always remains the same but the varnish's internal scattering and tinting makes the ball look like it is red and then finally with extremely thick varnish, the light is scattered so much in the varnish - the object looks dark to the point of being black.
But the final 'black' looking object is really that way due to the nature of the white light used to light it.
If the same thing is done with the same red varnish/clearcoat but lit with a green light, notice how the spec highlights are green and then at thickness 80 we see the scattered green light in the red varnish make the object seem green.
The LM Layer shading system supports a Diffuse, Specular, and Clearcoat lobe on top of the base substrate (diffuse, scatter, or metal). In our fxphd course Obretenov goes further with this diagram of the LM Layers to demonstrate the interplay between the Specular Color, Clearcoat Thickness, and Transmission Color - all within the Clearcoat lobe in LM Layer. One only sees the Transmission Color when the Clearcoat has a certain thickness. Furthermore at a certain thickness point the scattering of the rays inside the "varnish" medium will ultimately obscure the base substrate.
For Whitehouse the single best thing about RenderMan is "that you are able to create geometry at render time. If you can carefully setup geo in Maya, a plane can become a million polygons of photo real solar panels with microscopic details at render time. Similarly spiders webs can have microscopic hairs on the webs generated with geo shaders, and snow can have crystal structures smaller than 1 pixel that create a photo-real snow look. That's the real power of the software."
Below is an image showing how very low polygon Maya geometry, can become very high polygon and accurate displaced geometry with correct indirect lighting as if it were modeled in Zbrush.
The added feature of Ray-traced indirect lighting is pretty much a requirement at this time (2015) says Whitehouse. "All other rendering engines like V-Ray and Arnold have been able to generate photoreal materials and lighting by simulating the bounces of light rays scientifically around scenes and interior rooms for nearly 10 years, so it's time for RenderMan to do it faster and better with new code as well. The upgrades in hardware and memory have made physically based lighting and ray-tracing whole scenes feasible now where it once was too slow and expensive."
1. Model a polygon object which can be subdivided with correct 4 sided topology.
2. UV map the object and create displacement maps with images or in MARI or ZBrush.
3. Convert the Displacement maps and high res textures to .tex files (required by RenderMan) and test render them in the interactive renderer on the geometry to make sure they are not too big. Setup all photo-real materials and test render using the IPR, interactive Rendering.
4. Import HDR images to use as Image based Area lights or Spherical HDR environment lights, no spot lights, point lights or direct lights in the scene anymore. Rotate the HDR lights and HDR area lights to get the right reflections on vehicles and creatures from the background plate environments.
5. Color Grade all the final AOV renders in NUKE X on a color accurate monitor like a HP Dream Color monitor. Use the color picker to match CG rendered elements into the background by matching the shadows, mid-tones and highlights of the real scene. Finally add in some optical effects from Sapphire in Nuke.
Done. CG and Renderman CG integrated together.
In RenderMan v19 there is a resource, a shading network so that when working in Maya there is an easy way to have any time of day for a day light shading IBL setup. This makes it easy for newer users to place their work in an exterior scene with the Maya setup work done for you.
Below an image shows a simple mirror ball in various times of day. The system is energy conserving and PBL.
However there are still tricks to be learnt in v19. For glass for example, if you type in Glass in Renderman studio, there is a REYES Glass and RIS Glass and you need to use the right one for the renderer path that you are going to use. And even then the results may not be totally intuitive, see below, the shadow in this sphere for example is not actually correct, the area light works well but an environment light is not actually producing a correct result.
Pixar offers solutions to make accurate outdoor lighting easier. Outdoor scenes differ from indoor scenes in two important aspects other than geometry, according to the Pixar. Firstly most of the illumination comes directly from the sun and sky; and secondly, the distances involved make the effects of air visible. The effects of air are manifested as the desaturation and color shift of distant objects and is usually known as aerial perspective.
Pixar offers an inexpensive Maya analytic model that approximates the effects of atmosphere. Aerial perspective is a fundamental depth cue that we all use to estimate distances, and the only absolute depth cue available for say an unfamiliar distant object. The effect is complex, colors are less saturated and the palette reduced, the overall effect that results in a visually rich appearance of the sky is due to sunlight scattered by a variety of mechanisms. For more on the research behind the complexity of outdoor lighting see the excellent paper A Practical Analytic Model for Daylight, by A. J. Preetham Peter Shirley Brian Smits University of Utah.
Obretenov has noted with the latest version of RenderMan that "in general I am finding that the 'right out of the box' usability when I teach my workshops is good. A lot of students who previously may not have thought to use RenderMan, thinking they needed a team of TDs, now are…out of the box they have the shaders - they can put in one light source, they get caustics, realistic lit surfaces… which is great. Overall, from what I have heard also from professional clients is that with RIS the render times do increase if you add a ton of area lights - so you have to be careful but the results are excellent, they are loving the look especially with bounce lighting… it looks really really cool. Plus the plug-in architecture really opens it up."
The new plugin system that he refers to is C++ and allows enormous flexibility to extend RenderMan even further: with the integrator architecture one could write their own renderer inside RenderMan: this is great not only for custom features for a production, but also, for say, testing academic graphics papers on different technologies.
Obretenov also likes the Mesh lights in RIS. The Mesh lighting system allows one to select any geometry, select the mesh lighting and it will make a custom light shader for that piece of geometry and puts a custom emissive surface shader on it which allows RenderMan to see it as a light and importance sample it correctly, avoiding noise as it would without MIS.
Obretenov's company LollipopShaders has an "RIS starter kit" product which includes 100 physically-based material presets for the PxrDisney BxDF that are based off the scientifically measured MERL100 material database (www.merl.com/brdf), unclipped HDR map, and custom Integrator for super-fast ambient occlusion. There is a free download of it here: http://lollipopshaders.myshopify.com/products/risstarter and it works with the free non-commercial RenderMan. It's a great extension to RenderMan's RIS package.
Christos Cobretenov's RenderMan training can be found at fxphd.com where he has 2 courses on the new RIS RenderMan workflow.
This is a great article, thank you very much for the detailed review ! I have a quick question about this new denoiser you mentioned in the article. Is it a tool that is/will be available with the free version of renderman or is this something that we can expect to see with the next official release of renderman ?
Hi Mickael, The Disney Denoiser will be included with RenderMan 20, which is currently in beta.
It will be included with the updates for both commercial customers and Free Non-Commercial RenderMan users as well.


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Enola Holmes: When Will It Going To Arrive And The Casting Info
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The errand of doing the screenplay has been finished by Jack Thorne, who has composed the show for HBO called His Dark Material (It was a miniseries). The worldwide rights for this film have been gotten a handle on by Netflix for all the districts where it is spread aside from China.
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"""Example DAG demonstrating the usage of the BranchPythonOperator."""

import random
from datetime import datetime

from airflow import DAG
from airflow.decorators import task
from airflow.operators.dummy import DummyOperator
from airflow.utils.edgemodifier import Label
from airflow.utils.trigger_rule import TriggerRule

with DAG(
    dag_id='example_branch_python_operator_decorator',
    start_date=datetime(2021, 1, 1),
    catchup=False,
    schedule_interval="@daily",
    tags=['example', 'example2'],
) as dag:
    run_this_first = DummyOperator(
        task_id='run_this_first',
    )

    options = ['branch_a', 'branch_b', 'branch_c', 'branch_d']

    @task.branch(task_id="branching")
    def random_choice():
        return random.choice(options)

    random_choice_instance = random_choice()

    run_this_first >> random_choice_instance

    join = DummyOperator(
        task_id='join',
        trigger_rule=TriggerRule.NONE_FAILED_MIN_ONE_SUCCESS,
    )

    for option in options:
        t = DummyOperator(
            task_id=option,
        )

        dummy_follow = DummyOperator(
            task_id='follow_' + option,
        )

        # Label is optional here, but it can help identify more complex branches
        random_choice_instance >> Label(option) >> t >> dummy_follow >> join

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Plantasjen focuses its sustainability agenda on working with social sustainability and auditing stakeholders in the supply chain as well as streamlining operations in Plantasjen's stores, transportation and offices. For those stores built as greenhouses, there is potential to optimise energy consumption. A prerequisite for Plantasjen's success in the long term is that the company conducts itself as a good employer that attracts, develops and retains talented employees.
Plantasjen's leading market position, strong brand and industry-leading supply chain in a non-cyclical market with stable growth are highly attractive. The company is currently working to sharpen its focus on its range of plants and accessories to meet the increased interest in gardening, cultivation and interior decorating with plants, which we consider to be a successful strategy for continued growth in value. Particular focus is also being given to efforts to improve customer satisfaction in the stores and the launch of the company's own e-commerce channel.


Foreign embassies in China should refrain from publishing their own independent air pollution readings, a senior Chinese official has warned.
The deputy environment minister's comments appeared aimed at the US embassy, which puts out its own figures on high pollution levels in Beijing.
The US embassy has a monitoring station on its roof and publishes the results hourly on the internet.
Air quality in Beijing and other cities is notoriously poor.
Without mentioning the US, Wu Xiaoqing, deputy minister of Environmental Protection told a press briefing in Beijing that only the Chinese government is authorised to publish air pollution data.
In reply to a question, Mr Wu said that "some foreign embassies and consulates in China are monitoring air quality and publishing the results themselves".
He said that this contravened the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations and the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations.
"It is also against relevant environmental protection regulations," he said.
But many residents have questioned the accuracy of official government figures, which until this year did not include the most damaging particles.
The US says its own equipment should not be wholly relied on, as its data is compiled from only a single monitor. Its website makes clear that the measurements are for the benefit of embassy personnel and do not give citywide data.
The US monitoring helped spur a public outcry earlier this year that forced China to update its own standards, according to the BBC's Damian Grammaticas.
China has privately demanded that the US halt its readings in the past, but this is believed to be the first time it has delivered a public warning over the issue, he adds.
Using a device on its rooftop, the US embassy in Beijing releases the information hourly via Twitter. US consulates in Shanghai and Guangzhou do the same.


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Covers the significant developments in the field of nutrition, including energy metabolism, carbohydrates, lipids, proteins and amino acids, vitamins, minerals, nutrient transport and function, metabolic regulation, nutritional genomics, molecular and cell biology, clinical nutrition, comparative nutrition, nutritional anthropology, nutritional toxicology, nutritional microbiology, epidemiology, and public health nutrition.
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Bonne Vieille Terre (titre original : Ecce and Old Earth), est un roman de science-fiction écrit par l'auteur américain Jack Vance et paru en France en 1991. Ce roman est le troisième volume du cycle Les Chroniques de Cadwal et fait suite au second volume, Araminta 2.

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Alors que Glawen Clattuc, désormais Capitaine, vient tout juste de résoudre l'enquête sur l'assassinat de Sessily Veder, de nouveaux problèmes font leur apparition. Premièrement, où est passé son père ? D'après Floreste qui vient d'être exécuté et qui a laissé une lettre pour se justifier en même temps que tous ses biens, celui-ci est encore en vie et détenu prisonnier. Ensuite, les membres de la société Vie Paix et Liberté (VPL) sont de plus en plus actifs et extrémistes : ils sont déterminés à détruire le Conservatoire et à se tailler de vastes domaines sur Cadwal en tenant sous leur tutelle des Yips qui joueraient le rôle de serfs. Or Wayness Tamm est toujours sur Terre, à la recherche de la Charte, et elle est un obstacle majeur que les VPL vont devoir éliminer.

Alors que la survie de Cadwal ne tient qu'à un fil, Glawen et Wayness vont devoir faire face simultanément à tous ces problèmes tout en assurant leur survie.

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Glawen lit attentivement les informations que Floreste le génie fou lui a laissées. Pour l'essentiel, il s'agit de commentaires sur sa gloire non reconnue, de discours grandiloquents et de protestations d'incompréhension. Toutefois, il donne quand même les informations que souhaite Glawen, à savoir que son père est détenu prisonnier sur l'Ecce, le continent le plus sauvage de Cadwal.
Recouvert majoritairement de jungles et de marais, ce continent en théorie totalement abandonné et laissé aux créatures les plus dangereuses qui soient sert en réalité de prison pour les opposants à Titus Pompo (Smonny dans les faits). Un volcan entouré de palissades est le seul endroit protégé des créatures, et les prisonniers sont détenus à l'extérieur, libres de s'échapper et de mourir rapidement. Tous restent donc dans des cabanes proches du volcan et espèrent survivre le plus longtemps possible. Le père de Glawen, lui, est enfermé dans un trou à même le sol et exposé aux intempéries qui le mènent au bord de la noyade.

Comme le site est probablement bien défendu face à un assaut frontal, Glawen monte une expédition audacieuse. À l'aide d'un petit appareil, non référencé par le Bureau B, il rejoint l'Ecce, s'aventure dans la jungle, y survit et délivre son père ainsi que Chilke et un membre du VPL trahi. Une fois de retour à la civilisation Glawen fait son rapport et dévoile les faiblesses de la base/prison qui est facilement détruite [par qui ?]. Désormais, il peut se rendre sur Terre pour aider Wayness dans son enquête. S'ils échouent, c'est la propriété de tout Cadwal qui est remise en cause.

Pendant ce temps, Wayness est arrivée sans encombre sur Terre, et loge chez son oncle Pirie qui est aussi le secrétaire de la Société Naturaliste, propriétaire légitime de la Charte de Cadwal. Elle mène une enquête approfondie pendant des semaines dans les archives de la société avant de parvenir à de minuscules indices. Elle se rend à la banque pour apprendre que Smonny, sous une fausse identité, est déjà passée par là sans trouver satisfaction.
Wayness poursuit donc ses recherches et entreprend de remonter à la source. Ce qui la mènera dans un musée où elle arrachera des données la menant à une entreprise privée très spéciale. S'introduisant en fraude dans le bureau de son directeur, collectionneur d'objets érotiques, elle remontera la piste jusqu'à un vendeur d'Arcane, assassiné peu après avoir rencontré Wayness, à un gigantesque manoir privé où elle jouera la bonne d'une duchesse, à une maison isolée aux enfants anormaux et drogués, et enfin sur un monde aux dix-neuf lunes à la poursuite d'un pilleur de tombes qui a un jour possédé la Charte. À chaque fois elle doit faire preuve d'habileté pour éviter qu'on la suive ou qu'on la tue tout simplement, et elle n'échappe que de peu à la mort.

De son côté, Glawen arrive finalement sur Terre pour découvrir que Wayness ne peut pas prendre le risque de signaler sa position, que son oncle ne sait pas où elle est, et que Julian Bohost, membre ardent du VPL le précède, et qu'il a probablement recruté des agents dans sa quête. Il entreprend aussitôt de retrouver la Charte par l'autre extrémité de l'échelle que Wayness est en train de remonter, en partant du grand-père de son ami Chilke, un collectionneur assez particulier. Il voyage outre-monde, toujours précédé de peu par Julian, et doit faire preuve de tous ses talents pour éviter les pièges qu'on lui tend. Sur un monde exotique près des tombes des héros de jadis, il rejoint enfin Wayness et la sauve d'un assassin. Ils échappent ensuite aux couteaux vengeurs des autochtones.

Ils sont saufs et heureux de se retrouver après s'être tant inquiétés l'un de l'autre, mais aussi dépités car s'ils se sont rejoints au milieu de l'échelle, ils n'ont toujours pas de trace de la Charte. Glawen a alors l'idée qu'elle aurait pu rester de tous temps la possession du grand-père de Chilke. Avec un peu d'ingéniosité, il la trouve enfin, camouflée dans un atlas des étoiles.
Ils projettent de retourner alors sur Cadwal et commencent à établir des projets d'avenir ensemble.
C'est alors que Julian Bohost fait son apparition avec plusieurs autres personnes. Tous sont devenus membres de la Société Naturaliste déclinante afin d'en prendre le contrôle. L'oncle Pirie est limogé de son poste, et Julian se proclame le nouveau secrétaire de la Société. Il est désormais propriétaire de la Charte et peut en faire ce que bon lui semble.

Alors qu'il croit triompher, il doit bien vite déchanter car Pirie Tamm a vendu pour un sol sur le conseil de Wayness la Charte à son père le Conservateur de Cadwal, et l'a remplacée par un autre modèle.
Les documents possédés par Julian n'ont plus aucune valeur désormais, la Société Naturaliste cesse d'exister et Cadwal dispose désormais d'une arme écrite et légale imparable contre les VPL et leurs menées.

Les Chroniques de Cadwal
 La Station d'Araminta
 Araminta 2
 Bonne Vieille Terre
 Throy

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Roman de science-fiction américain
Roman de Jack Vance
Roman américain paru en 1991

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South Australia's supply of its iconic Farmers Union Iced Coffee is getting low, with a picture of empty shelves sparking a big reaction online.
The current owners of the famous SA beverage, Lion Dairy & Drinks, says drought conditions have impacted their supply.
"Extreme weather conditions — including drought, together with significant cost increases across water, feed and energy — have contributed to the challenges facing dairy production in Australia…" a spokeswoman said.


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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft carrying NASA astronauts Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken lifts off during NASA's SpaceX Demo-2 mission to the International Space Station from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S. May 30, 2020. REUTERS/Thom Baur
SpaceX, the private rocket company of billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, launched two Americans into orbit from Florida on Saturday in a landmark mission marking the first spaceflight of NASA astronauts from U.S. soil in nine years.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center at 3:22 p.m. EDT (1922 GMT), launching Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken on a 19-hour ride aboard the company's newly designed Crew Dragon capsule bound for the International Space Station.
Just before liftoff, Hurley said, "SpaceX, we're go for launch. Let's light this candle," paraphrasing the famous comment uttered on the launch pad in 1961 by Alan Shepard, the first American flown into space.
Minutes after launch, the first-stage booster rocket of the Falcon 9 separated from the upper second-stage rocket and flew itself back to Earth to descend safely onto a landing platform floating in the Atlantic.
High above the Earth, the Crew Dragon jettisoned moments later from the second-stage rocket, sending the capsule on its way to the space station.
The exhilarating spectacle of the rocket soaring flawlessly into the heavens came as a welcome triumph for a nation gripped by racially-charged civil unrest as well as ongoing fear and economic upheaval from the coronavirus pandemic.
The Falcon 9 took off from the same launch pad used by NASA's final space shuttle flight, piloted by Hurley, in 2011. Since then, NASA astronauts have had to hitch rides into orbit aboard Russia's Soyuz spacecraft.
"It's incredible, the power, the technology," said U.S. President Donald Trump, who was at Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral in Florida for the launch. "That was a beautiful sight to see."
The mission's first launch attempt on Wednesday was called off with less than 17 minutes remaining on the countdown clock. Weather again threatened Saturday's launch, but cleared in time to proceed with the mission.
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NASA chief Jim Bridenstine has said resuming launches of American astronauts on American-made rockets from U.S. soil is the space agency's top priority.
"I'm breathing a sigh of relief, but I will also tell you I'm not gonna celebrate until Bob and Doug are home safely." Bridenstine said.
For Musk, the launch represents another milestone for the reusable rockets his company pioneered to make spaceflight less costly and more frequent. And it marks the first time commercially developed space vehicles – owned and operated by a private entity rather than NASA – have carried Americans into orbit.
The last time NASA launched astronauts into space aboard a brand new vehicle was 40 years ago at the start of the space shuttle program.
Musk, the South African-born high-tech entrepreneur who made his fortune in Silicon Valley, is also chief executive of electric carmaker and battery manufacturer Tesla Inc <TSLA.O>. He founded Hawthorne, California-based SpaceX, formally known as Space Exploration Technologies, in 2002.
Hurley, 53, and Behnken, 49, NASA employees under contract to fly with SpaceX, are expected to remain at the space station for several weeks, assisting a short-handed crew aboard the orbital laboratory.
Boeing Co <BA.N>, producing its own launch system in competition with SpaceX, is expected to fly its CST-100 Starliner vehicle with astronauts aboard for the first time next year. NASA has awarded nearly $8 billion combined to SpaceX and Boeing for development of their rival rockets.
Trump also hailed the launch as a major advance toward the goal of eventually sending humans to Mars.
He was joined at the viewing by Musk, as well as Vice President Mike Pence, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, Florida congressman Matt Gaetz and Senator Rick Scott.
Earlier on Saturday, the crew bid goodbye to their families. Prior to climbing into a specially designed Tesla automobile for the ride to the launch site, Behnken told his young son, "Be good for mom. Make her life easy."
During the drive, Behnken and Hurley passed former astronaut Garrett Reisman who held a sign saying, "Take me with you."
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For more than three decades, Tim Burton has told viewers that the fantastical is possible – that a boy's dearly departed dog can rejoin the land of the living, that a man with scissors for hands can bring magic to suburbia, and that children can find delights in chocolate factories or down rabbit holes. His remake of Dumbo fits firmly into the same mould and falls easily into his existing filmography, spinning another tale of an outcast beguiled by a life less ordinary. As he did with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Alice in Wonderland, too, Burton also reimagines a beloved classic, this time adapting Disney's 1941 animated hit into the live-action realm. The good news: he's in comfortable territory. The relief-inducing news: he fares better than his other blasts from the past, and Planet of the Apes and Dark Shadows as well. The less enchanting news: for all the visual flair and familiar themes that he loads into his latest release, the movie still only soars in fits and bursts.
Unlike its 78-year-old predecessor, Dumbo focuses as much on circus-dwelling humans as its main mammalian attraction. Star rider Holt Farrier (Colin Farrell, Widows) is fresh home from World War I, and his children Milly and Joe (debutants (Nico Parker and Finley Hobbins) are trying to adjust to the changed status quo, when ringmaster Max Medici (Danny DeVito, TV's It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia) announces that he's bought a pregnant elephant. Looking after the giant creatures is Farrier's new job, but the newborn calf isn't like any other animal in the circus. Medici is horrified about the baby's over-sized ears; however he changes he tune when Milly and Joe discover that the cute critter can use them to fly.
Dumbo, as the young elephant is soon nicknamed, navigates a spate of ordeals at the Medici circus, but the film's biggest threat arrives in the form of carnival entrepreneur V. A. Vandevere (Michael Keaton, American Assassin). A big permanent fairground, the big city and a bigger top all beckon, with Dumbo paired with French trapeze artist Colette Marchant (Eva Green, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children) as the star of the show. As Burton keeps casting his former stars – including the Batman Returns reunion with DeVito and Keaton – he keeps layering on his recognisable concerns. The world is unwelcoming to outliers like this engaging elephant and the people who love him. The new and the unusual rankles against tradition and order. Imagination and creativity hardly align with cold-hearted capitalism.
Touching upon ideas also pondered in Ed Wood and Big Eyes, repeating himself isn't where Burton struggles with Dumbo. The sympathetic outsider angle works its charms as planned, perhaps even more so thanks to the film's CGI, which renders the pint-sized creature with lifelike detail, expressions and emotions. From the wordless choral score that's designed to evoke awe, to the filmmaker's love of twinkling, eye-catching spectacle, his trademark aesthetic touches suit the movie's mood as well. And yet, even for a story fleshed out from 64-minutes of animation and given ample changes by screenwriter Ehren Kruger (Ghost in the Shell), the film proves flimsy as a feather. It mightn't be fair to expect a picture adapted from a cartoon to feel anything other than cartoonish, but Dumbo turns a broader tale into a slighter, more generic affair. And, as the feature's 112 minutes tick by, that reality grates against Burton's sensibilities – he's typically eager to show wonder exceeding everyday bounds; however this narrative constrains its delights into formulaic confines.
Much of the cast takes the script's lead. Farrell and his on-screen offspring are passable without being memorable, Keaton opts for cookie-cutter villainy, and while DeVito and Green seem most at ease and attuned to Burton's tone, they're featured sparingly. But Dumbo himself is another matter. If little else, the movie's human talent conveys just why he's so entrancing. The film is at its best when the elephant flies high, rising above the feature's thin flesh-and-blood characters and superficial subplots, and showcasing its set pieces and earnest sentiments. The creature makes an imprint when he's not flapping his hefty ears above the ground, too; indeed, when Dumbo isn't directing the audience's attention to the critter, airborne or not, it leaves viewers wishing that it was.


Global industrial developer expanding its activities in Central Europe to the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
To look for candidates for the job of Country Manager with in-depth knowledge and experience in the industrial development segment which is able to quickly take over the management of ongoing projects from the existing regional manager and significantly activities to both markets with estimated investment of more than 1 billion EUR. An important requirement was also a functioning network of contacts among industrial development-orientated real estate brokers.
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LSMU And CINDI Collaboration Has Organised An International Seminar, Dedicated To Discussing New Opportunities And Challenges Arising From Evidence Based Public Health Science
The most recent global disease and mortality statistics show that world population health deterioration was fatefully influenced by both the COVID-19 pandemic, and by chronic non-communicable diseases (NCD), as well as their risk factors' interaction with the pandemic – ideal conditions were created for the health crisis to evolve. Therefore, a term which was rarely heard until now – Syndemic, has become widely used, which summarises the infectious and chronic diseases' synergic epidemic.
On 29th September by the initiative of the LSMU Faculty of Public Health, Health Research Institute (Centre of collaboration with WHO in the field of NCD), LSMU International Relations and Study Centre and CINDI Collaboration, an international remote seminar Opportunities for Evidence-Based Public Health in the Aftermath of the Pandemic took place. 37 invitations only participants (presenters and listeners) from Lithuania, USA, Canada, Austria, China, Portugal, Poland, Finland, and Italy were invited. The event was led by the Head of the Health Research Institute Assoc. Prof. Mindaugas Štelemėkas.
In the introductory announcement the long-term WHO expert, our University's former Rector Prof. Vilius Grabauskas, drew attention to the fact that the COVID-19 pandemic has shown how vulnerable is the human population. It was also noted, that infectious and non-communicable diseases have a common factor group – individuals' behaviour – most often deciding their vulnerability.
One of the main presentations in the seminar was prepared by the WHO representative Dr. Ruitai Shao. He reviewed the consequences of the pandemic to various countries, vulnerable groups. In the WHO representative's opinion, response to the pandemic crisis should be universal and global – the creation of a universal world health structure shared funding mechanism for conquering the crisis as well as facilitation of accessibility to medication and technologies (i.e., telemedicine).
Of course, this world pandemic crisis has opened us up for new opportunities as well – it mobilised countries to strengthen healthcare systems, to create and implement remote medicine systems and networks, dedicated to NCD control improvement. It is gradually understood better, that much more attention should be paid to primary care and ambulatory care. The WHO expert drew attention to the fact, that it is essential to pay more attention to preventative intervention research in the field of NCD – early diagnostics of oncology diseases, harmful behaviour health risk factors' elimination, to better understand and manage population health literacy challenges related to refusal to vaccinate by parts of the population and/or to take part in disease prevention programmes.
Many interesting insights were provided by the Director of Prevention Research Centre at Washington University (St. Louis, USA) Prof. Ross C. Brownson in his presentation New Evidence-Based Public Health Opportunities. He discussed in detail, what is scientific evidence and what relation between individuals exists in relation to the political and organisational context. The scientist once more stressed, what is evidence-based public health (Kohatsu et. al., 2004): "it is a process, during which scientifically based intervention methods are implemented in an aim to improve population health". The presenter drew attention to the fact that from the beginning of primary intervention and data collection to method implementation in practice, it takes around a decade or more. However, COVID-19 pandemic has shown, that science-based disease prevention methods can be rejected by a portion of the population, misunderstood, interpreted as damaging. This can be explained by a lack of general or health literacy, as well as misinformation – false information, disinformation. This phenomenon has gotten particularly strong during the time of the pandemic and in the future should receive much greater attention from the community of health sciences. Because of these reasons, the scientist proposed to learn the lessons provided by the pandemic and to pay more attention not just to scientific research, but also to the improvement of communication of healthcare knowledge.
Leadership experience, fighting with the challenges of infectious and non-communicable diseases – was presented by the former Minister of Health of the Republic of Lithuania Dr. Aurelijus Veryga. His personal experience as the Minister of Health is interesting, because during the first part of his term in office as the Minister of Health he tried to implement WHO recommendations, created and grounded in scientific research and dedicated to controlling health problems caused by alcohol consumption and smoking, meaning to control the factors of chronic diseases and the pandemic of chronic diseases. In the second half of his term in office the Minister A. Veryga had to open the "new front" – a battle on the rising COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, from the systemic, precise, long-term pace of alcohol consumption prevention, he had to refocus on the swift decision strategy. In both instances, there was no shortage of critics, sceptics, or opponents. Dr. A. Veryga noted, that on the battle front of NCD, in his opinion, no small victory has been achieved – alcohol consumption in Lithuania has been reduced by 1.5 – 2 litres per person, in the last 3 – 4 years when evaluating residents of the country of the age 15 and older. Therefore, Lithuania is one of the leading countries that managed to reduce alcohol consumption.
In the discussion after the presentations, the seminar was summarised as follows: even though not everyone understands that it is essential to learn the lessons of the pandemic, improve preparation for emergency situations, encourage international collaboration and pay more attention to vulnerable groups, but it is equally important to strengthen the competencies when battling the spread of health misinformation and in increasing public health awareness.
Prof. Linas Šumskas LSMU, VSF, Senior Researcher at the Health Research Institute
Professor the Prophylactic Medicine Department
Assoc. Prof. Mindaugas Štelemėkas, LSMU, VSF, Head of the Health Research Institute
Agnė Jašauskaitė, LSMU International Programme Coordinator at the Academic Mobility Department
of the International Relations and Study Centre
Photographs by: Assoc. Prof. Mindaugas Štelemėkas and Agnė Jašauskaitė
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Yankees fight through tough season to claim championship
The New York Yankees have had their ups and downs this season. Throughout the course of a 162 game season, every team will go through these prolonged peaks and valleys, but this season the Yankees have suffered substantially.
The warning signs of an underwhelming season came early: Prior to the season, the team traded with the Seattle Mariners for starting pitcher Michael Pineda. In order to acquire him, however, they had to part ways with Jesus Montero, a fan favorite and homegrown talent. This trade excited many fans but promises for a strong season were dashed during Spring Training, where Pineda was injured. He sat out the 2012 season, and to add insult to injury, was also arrested for DUI. Due to Pineda's injury, the Yankees brought back 40-year-old Andy Pettitte but he too was injured after only a few starts with the team.
Many other key injuries occurred throughout this season. The Yankees lost Hall of Fame-bound closer Mariano Rivera, who was excused for the season after tearing his ACL.
Rivera's injury was crushing for the team. He had been the closer for as long as anyone can remember: When Metallica's Enter Sandman plays over the loudspeakers, the opposing team knows that the ballgame is over. Without Rivera, the Yankees were left searching for an adequate replacement.
The Yankees also lost starting Left Fielder and stolen base threat Brett Gardner. Without Gardner, the Yankees suffered in the Outfield. Yet, somehow they found it in themselves to overcome these setbacks. They used veteran players like Raul Ibanez and Andrew Jones in the outfield to take the division by storm. At the trade deadline they made another trade with Seattle. This one shocked the baseball world. A diminished, but still capable, Ichiro Suzuki was brought in. Suzuki, an outfielder from Japan, was revitalized in the pinstripes. He hit .322, knocked out 5 homeruns and was a spark plug for the Yankees' lineup that they sorely missed with Gardner being sidelined.
With Pettitte and Pineda down, Hirkoki Kuroda, a Japanese right hander the Yankees signed this offseason for 10 million dollars, really carried the load. He went on to compile a 16-11 record for the Yankees and was by far their best pitcher. Kuroda built up consistency, which was something they lacked with AJ Burnett. Burnett was the typical boom or bust starter. It was a key reason why they traded him. Kuroda's veteran presence and workhorse mentality, the complete opposite of, Burnett's, was an example that others could follow. Kuroda's 3.32 ERA and 1.17 WHIP, as well as his 219 innings pitched, demonstrated how he really was a great acquisition and positive for this team.
Throughout the entire season, Mariano Rivera's absence plagued the team. Again, however, another Yankee stepped up to the task. Last year this player was outcasted by fans because he got a big contract and struggled, but this year, Rafael Soriano was the Yankees' knight in shining armor. He was two years removed from being the American League saves leader and regained the ninth inning dominance he once demonstrated in Tampa. Soriano was no Mariano Rivera, but he certainly did phenomenally and took the load off of the Yankees' young relievers like David Robertson and Boone Logan. Soriano compiled a 2.26 ERA and saved 42 games. He struck out 69 batters in 67 innings pitched and did an astounding job.
Even with key injuries here and there (A-Rod, Teixeira, Swisher, Joba, and Sabathia also missed significant time), this New York Yankee team never gave up. They meshed as a unit and found a way to win the American League Eastern Division by compiling 95 wins this season.
Derek Jeter and Robinson Cano were integral parts of the offense, as always. Jeter's resurgent year at 38 years old has put him on another level. The team captain hit .316, clubbing 15 homeruns and driving in 58 runs while scoring 99 runs of his own and posting a .362 On Base Percentage.
Some credit also goes to Manager Joe Girardi, who assembled the lineup the way it needed to be assembled and implemented starting pitchers like Phil Hughes, Ivan Nova, and David Phelps into the mix as best he could. He was steadfast on giving his older veterans much needed rest thanks in part to versatility on the bench supplied by Jayson Nix and Eric Chavez and was a great handler of the bullpen.
Most recently, team captain Derek Jeter suffered a fractured ankle during an extra inning during the first ALCS playoff game against the Detriot Tigers.
Even with the majority of the core team injured, the New York Yankees overcame obstacles during the regular season. For the most part, they are now healthy and are a legitimate threat in the playoffs this season. Their journey toward the 28th World Series Championship continues in the coming weeks.


Great post. I see this all the time in social media sites; people who are emotionally invested in arguments that simply don't hold water. Sometimes the guilty party is me and I need to use some of these techniques to speak a bit more rationally.
The more you dig yourself in at the beginning, the harder it will be to dig yourself out.
My suggestion is to put your money where your mouth is AFTER you've heard all the arguments, not before. After a few losses, you'll want to use all the information you can to improve your chances.
To me the key is number 2, framing the encounter in a different way. "Debate" may once have meant an objective trading of points of argument, but it's such a loaded word now that it's hard not to feel like a debate is meant to be won rather than finding truth. I find that in almost any situation of my own life, once I think of it as a "discussion" rather than a debate or argument, all else follows.
But then again, I'm not a public speaker (or a public *debate*r). It's a shame that many rules of rationalism do not apply to political arguments to the public. Like concession of a point being considered flip-flopping or bad judgement instead of "cash in the bank" for perception of your rationality.
you can't project your inabilities onto others and proclaim it as wisdom.
sorry…. this is almost as bad as vegetarians eat eggs.. lmfao!
One must consider the purpose of a debate. If the purpose of a debate is to lead to an actionable outcome then mere seeking of truth may simply forestall necessary decision making, since truth is always at best provisional.
In a previous episode you made reference to the adaptive nature of certain habits. Argument and debate is more functionally adaptive than ultimate truth seeking since survival is a series of decisions. A decision is nothing more than an inner debate seeking the right course of immediate action vs ruminating about ultimate truth.
It is no coincidence that the leaders in our society are the better decision makers. Not that they make better decisions, but that they are better at decisiveness. This it appears at times to come at the cost of being prone to a distaste for ultimate truth seeking. In other words anti-intellectualism. Debate as a tool for greater understanding is valuable, but it is only useful for preparation for argumentative debates which result in actionable outcomes — decisions.
Good post, Julia. I find it useful to always keep in mind that the more interesting scenario is actually the one in which you are wrong; then you have something new to learn.
I have always been mindful of the fact that what I desire most is the most accurate description of reality possible, truly integrating this idea makes changing your mind quite easy and leads the tone of debates and discussions you from one of telling people what to think to sharing why you think what you think and encouraging them to do so.
I still haven't found anything better than a good ol' Socratic dialectic when it comes to hashing things out with others. Of course, the success of that approach depends on a full commitment from all participants — so it makes a few assumptions up front that may not be founded.
I was glad to hear you talk about importance of first removing the argument from yourself. Personal investment tends to hide the truth of a matter—the very truth that should be our ultimate goal. Moreover, personal investment involves the ego, which tends to fight back when challenged.
"If human nature were not base, but thoroughly honourable, we should in every debate have no other aim than the discovery of truth; we should not in the least care whether the truth proved to be in favour of the opinion which we had begun by expressing, or of the opinion of our adversary. . .
This is exactly how I have argued points with the possible exception of the imagining your position/belief "outside" or "away" from yourself. I have always made myself aware that if I am wrong, that's a bonus because I've learned something, and thus reduced any defensiveness I might had had otherwise. But actually visualizing it away from me might be a nice addition to the toolbox.