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Media Agencies: A SOCIAL CONTRACT
By Nora Fitzgerald
In the next five years, Congress will spend a cool billion on anti-drug advertising–all to buy some time.
WASHINGTON, D.C.–Ed Maibach has been given 100 days to get hip. While the clock ticks, Maibach, director of research for Washington, D.C.'s Porter Novelli, and his team forge ahead on a manic odyssey to design a national media strategy that will steer kids clear of illegal drugs.
Porter Novelli is on the ground floor of the largest social-marketing campaign in the history of this country. Last month, Congress awarded the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) nearly $1 billion for a five-year national anti-drug campaign targeting youth as a small but significant piece of President Clinton's full-scale initiative to stamp out drug sales and addiction. What makes the advertising component so remarkable? For the first time, the government is going to buy media, and a lot of it, rather than rely solely on PSAs and the good graces of the advertising and media industries to donate their talent and airtime. The Partnership for a Drug-Free America, the New York-based nonprofit organization that uses the work of hundreds of agencies, has been enlisted to do all the creative work, which means that much, if not most, of the billion will be used to buy time.
This unprecedented campaign reflects a new era of enlightenment regarding the advertising industry: Suddenly, more branches of the government are reaching out to the ad community and saying: We think what you do works and we want you to help us change attitudes. The activist government of the Clinton administration has fueled all kinds of ad restrictions, much to the chagrin of the alcohol and cigarette makers, but it has also encouraged a bounty of anti-vice ad campaigns, from advertising funds set aside in the Global Cigarette Settlement to this first-time effort at ONDCP. It used to be that the federal government treated advertising as a business to regulate and control. These days, officials on Capitol Hill are saying: We want to stop kids from taking drugs, abusing alcohol and smoking cigarettes. Will you help us? The government is partly motivated by Clinton's belief that advertising works, as well as compelling evidence that when the marketplace was saturated with top-notch public-service ads debunking the mythology of drugs, use among teenagers declined.
Today, drug abuse overall is still down, according to the Department of Health and Human Services, but drug use among the nation's youth in increasing. "Media plays a huge influence in kids lives," says Alan Levitt, senior adviser and chief of the education branch at ONDCP. "They learn norms and risks from the media, even though the family should be the primary influence.We feel that the media could be the quickest way to reverse the trend on drug use."
So PN has to get a grip swiftly on why kids use drugs, and why they stop. The public-relations firm must evaluate research that is often contradictory and look at great creative campaigns that have not stemmed the tide of drug abuse and ask why. PN started the $1 million, 100-day project in mid-September, after winning the competitive bid against undisclosed firms last summer. It is well-suited for the demanding job: PN was established in 1972 on the premise that social goals can be realized through a marketing model. It is known in the Beltway for its campaigns for the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Diabetes Association. The agency's team, spearheaded by senior vice president Maibach and vice presidents Susan Maguire and Lori Ross, must create a communications strategy statement, a prototype paid-advertising media plan–with the help of subcontractor Creative Media of New York–an integrated communications plan and a corporate sponsorship/ entertainment-industry plan. PN must also produce the behemoth request for proposal (RFP) for the big review, a competitive government bid for a general ad agency or media buying service to spend $175 million the first year and $195 million in each of the four years after that. The review process will most likely begin in early 1998, when handmaiden PN has completed its Byzantine task. (ONDCP, which will make the final decision on an agency, says it is precluded from even looking at any agencies until the RFP is completed. No agency is said to have a leg up on this one.)
"We're trying to get kids to reject drug use, and the stakes are high," says Maibach. The consensus among PN, ONDCP and the Partnership is to cull the essential strategy from experts with a variety of backgrounds. Just two weeks ago, they spent two full days at PN headquarters discussing their mission with academics from top universities, consumer product marketers and Beltway policy wonks–people who make a career of disagreeing for the intellectual stimulation it provides. "There was a wide range of opinions," acknowledges Maibach, who holds a doctoral degree in communication research from Stanford University. "We pushed the panel to explain what their opinions were based on–empirical research, qualitative research or experience. In the end, we did reach some consensus."
Later that week, PN triumvirate Maibach, Maguire and Ross visited New York to look at MTV's own market research with teens and preteens and ask the influential network what it might want to bring to the table. ONDCP has big, albeit tentative, plans of buying prime time on all the major networks, on programs such as NBC's Friends and Fox's Beverly Hills 90210 and Party of Five, among many others. For the $175 million the government buys in paid time next year, it is mandated to come up with another $175 million in matching, in-kind donations from broadcasters, magazines and other media outlets across the country. Congress has stipulated that no one can sell time or space to the campaign without making a matching, in-kind donation. From 1999 to 2002, the campaign has to get $195 million in matches each year in a broadcast climate less than conducive to public service.
There are some things all the parties involved know for sure: The campaign will target 9-17-year-olds and their parents nationwide. Ads will appear on TV, in print and outdoor just about everywhere, from Brownsville, Texas, to downtown Detroit, with concentration in areas where drug use is most prevalent. There will be regional differences in ads placed according to the most popular drugs. Elements of the campaign may target 6-8-year-olds as well.
Paid advertising is the nexus of the campaign, and the creative will be provided by the Partnership agencies. However, other agencies may be used for sports marketing, collateral and the Internet. Creative Media in New York is helping to fashion the conceptual media plan that will document what the model will look like on a national scale.
"We're putting together a plan that will have the most impact," says Mickey Marks, senior vice president at Creative Media. "We want to elevate this message with a consistent, critical, coordinated effort." Marks says the media plan will center on several high-profile media events like, perhaps, the Super Bowl. "We're going to put these ads in the same glamorous environment as all the other messages," he explains.
All of this, of course, will be tweaked by the agency that wins the bid, say ONDCP officials.
In the end, every decision made in this lengthy process will have the signature of Gen. Barry McCaffrey, President Clinton's drug czar and head of ONDCP. The billion-dollar anti-drug campaign is only 1 percent of his entire push to drive drugs out of the country, an initiative that includes increased border patrols and enforcement, education and treatment. But McCaffrey is a firm believer in advertising, and he represents a changing consciousness in the bureaucracy of Washington.
"This will be the most scrutinized social-marketing campaign ever," says Alan Levitt, McCaffrey's right-hand man. Levitt has been overseeing government media campaigns for almost 30 years, but he's never been a part of something quite this big. "Nobody has done anything like this," he says. "Kids are bombarded with film, TV and humor. Many of these messages may not glamorize drugs–but they normalize them. Media is such a powerful influence, we want to use it to turn things around."
Drug use among teens decreased from 1988-1991, according to government statistics. During this same time, the Partnership for a Drug-Free America saturated the marketplace with prime-time PSAs (two words that no longer go together). Partnership agencies created edgy work like the legendary fried-egg ad ("This is your brain. This is your brain on drugs"), a spot that has become part of the vernacular.
Yet today, drug use among teens is on the rise again.
ONDCP notes that during the same time, news stories on drugs went way down, as did PSAs.
It is nearly impossible to get a PSA on a major network during prime time, which is why the administration decided to go for broke and pay for its social advertising this time. One of the most controversial challenges the campaign faces is that of in-kind donations. In this boom economy, broadcasters are getting premium rates for all their time slots in many markets such as D.C., New York and Los Angeles, according to D.C. media consultant Dick Leggitt. "It's somewhat anecdotal, but talking to my peers in other markets, there's no room for public-service messages. If it's a choice between a political ad at a discounted rate and Budweiser, they choose Bud."
Community organizations, which depend on PSAs to get their messages out nationwide, are feeling the crunch: Their pro bono spots today languish on shelf space in closets; they run at inopportune times when the target audience is asleep or in school, if they run at all. Congress has attached a stipulation to the money earmarked for the anti-drug campaign that the matching PSAs cannot supplant existing anti-drug messages, a mandate that seems quite impossible to achieve. "We are charged with this very issue," says Maibach. "We don't want to throw fuel on the fire." Maibach is in the throes of devising a plan that offers broadcasters creative ways to match the bought time–apart from a tit-for-tat match.
"We'll do some creative negotiation with broadcasters," agrees Mike Townsend, executive vice president and director of operations at the Partnership. "We're talking to them about programming and news magazines, although we'll probably stay away from news coverage. You don't want to mix church and state. We're looking for after-school movies to count for X in a formula for the match." Part of PN's job is to figure out just how these matches will work, and how creative these negotiations can get. However, it's clear that related programming will count as in-kind donations.
"In our discussions with broadcasters so far, they seem eager to respond with appropriate types of programming," says Maibach. "It's clearly a voluntary exchange; they're telling us how they think it will work best for them and kids as well."
ONDCP's Levitt says the government is reaching out to broadcasters in a number of ways, including trying to influence their depiction of drugs in programming. "I'm encouraged that broadcasters will be supportive of this effort in some way," Levitt says, "whether it is through PSAs, public affairs or programming." In fact, Levitt just attended his first "soap summit" on domestic violence, a powwow among producers, victims and social workers trying to influence how soaps depict domestic violence. Levitt is hoping his office can be involved with a summit on drug abuse in the future.
In the meantime, PN and ONDCP receive dozens of correspondences a week from agencies wanting a piece of the action. "We are far from the stage of deciding whether we are going to use place mats or milk cartons or T-shirts," says Levitt, sounding a touch fatigued. "Anyway, the White House is not going to make those kinds of decisions; we'll leave that to the people we hire in the communications business." He adds he has gotten some legitimate proposals, but it is premature for the office to consider them–in fact, it is illegal for him to do so before the RFP is on the street. "We are precluded from talking to people until we have an RFP," Levitt says. "We encourage any advertising agency to be involved with this project through their corporate clients or through the Partnership."
Congress has demanded that the campaign be evaluated as it evolves; agency contracts will also probably be one year with the possibility of rolling them over. Any agency that participates will be part of a new wave of shops fighting the vices of the 20th century, and getting in on the millennium clean-up. As for PN, the agency is obviously barred from participating in the review, since it is creating the RFP. PN's intense work on this project seems over as soon as it has begun; however, the firm has an eye on a longer relationship with ONDCP, one that would keep them at the helm of corporate donations for the next few years. "We hope to stay a part of this team," says PN's Susan Maguire, "for some time to come."
Nora Fitzgerald


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Q: Whats the term in Oracle, when I'm speaking about SCHEMAS on SQL Server Here, we have our applications developed both for oracle and SQL Server.
Devs are trying to fix their own way to be organized, using VW on views, PR on procedures and etc.
they told me that they're going to use something like DBO.REPORT_XXX to name tables, and I said "why don't you guys use Schemas"?
but, can I achieve something like sql server schemas on oracle?
I'm new with oracle and everything is different (like schema on oracle is the name of the database, that's a user)...

A: You can't map everything on a one to one relationship when comparing Oracle and SQL Server. There are some similarities between both products and then there are concepts that could pass as two concepts within the other product. Let's start out with the basic stuff (Columns, Tables, ...) and continue up until we reach the instance.
   Oracle Database | SQL Server
  -----------------+-----------------
   Column          | Column
   Table           | Table
*) Schema          | Schema
*) User            | Schema
*) User            | Database User
*) User            | SQL Login
   Data Dictionary | INFORMATION_SCHEMA
   Tablespace      | Filegroup
   Oracle Database | SQL Server Database
   Oracle Instance | SQL Server Instance

Reference: [Microsoft SQL Server 2008 - Practical SQL Server 2008 for Oracle Professionals][] ()
Database and Instances
An Oracle instance will normally contain one database.
The exception being when an Oracle instance has been configured to run a container database (CDB), which will contain multiple pluggable databases (PDBs).
Reference: 17 Introduction to the Multitenant Architecture (Oracle | Docs | Database Concepts)
A SQL Server instance normally contains multiple databases.
A newly created SQL Server instance will start off with the basic four system databases (master, model, msdb, tempdb).
Schemas
The database at the Oracle level is the container for multiple schemas. The same is valid for the SQL Server. However, there is a difference *) between the Oracle schema and the SQL Server schema.
... in SQL Server
In SQL Server you can create a schema like this:
USE [StackExchange]
GO

/****** Object:  Schema [DBT]    Script Date: 12.12.2018 09:42:26 ******/
CREATE SCHEMA [DBT] AUTHORIZATION TheOwner
GO

Reference: CREATE SCHEMA (Transact-SQL) (Microsoft | Docs | SQL)
Any newly created object (table, view) can be linked to a specific schema, otherwise it is linked/stored inside the default schema dbo, unless the database user creating the new object has a differente default schema.

they told me that they're going to use something like DBO.REPORT_XXX to name tables

In this case dbo. is the default schema for any object created in SQL Server. The dbo schema doesn't have to be explicitly created as it exists as soon as you create a database. You could create your own schemas and create tables within that schema. Here an example using the previously crated DBT schema:
USE [StackExchange]
GO
----------- schema.tablename -------
CREATE TABLE [DBT].[Application](
    [ID] [int] NOT NULL,
    [APPL_NAME] [nchar](20) NOT NULL
) ON [PRIMARY]

... in Oracle Database
In Oracle the schema is not a stand-alone concept/object. An Oracle schema is linked to an Oracle user. When you create an Oracle user a schema with the same name is created for that user. The CREATE statement for an Oracle user doesn't give a hint that the schema will be created:
CREATE USER ORACLEUSER IDENTIFIED BY YourPasswordHere1084
 DEFAULT TABLESPACE USERS
 TEMPORARY TABLESPACE TEMP
 PROFILE "DEFAULT"
 QUOTA UNLIMITED ON USERS;

When you create objects (tables, views) you create them inside a specific schema. There is no default schema.
CREATE TABLE ORACLEUSER.ORACLUSERTABLE
(
  Identity  INTEGER
);

Summary
So in summary the Oracle user has a schema that has the same name as the user. The user is synonymous with the schema. Hence the *) pretty weird comparison in the table at the top.

*

*The Oracle user (password/permissions) can be compared to the combination of SQL Server login (password) and the SQL Server database user (permissions).

*The Oracle schema can be compared to the SQL Server schema.

*The Oracle schema cannot exist without an Oracle user.

*The SQL Server schema can exist without a corresponding user, but requires to be linked to a database user.

*A SQL Server table can be created in the default schema dbo. (e.g. dbo.UserTable)

*An Oracle table has to be created in a specified schema (e.g. ORACLEUSER.ORACLUESRTABLE)

Reference: Difference between database vs user vs schema (DBA Stack Exchange)
Answering Your Question

but, can I achieve something like SQL Server schemas on Oracle?

Yes, you can. You create an Oracle user with password and a schema is automatically created. And yes, you could create a dbo user/schema in Oracle.

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Definitions and Data Collection
Where shows are made
We've all watched movies and television shows before, but how do they get made? It starts with an idea and progresses through many stages until you are watching that movie, short film or television show wherever and whenever you watch. The making of a motion picture is a complex collaboration on multiple levels. From the spark of an idea through to the release of a film or television show, many different people and organizations come together to find a place of creative cooperation.
Both live action and animated productions follow a very similar phased process of creation, with different timelines.
Five phases of a film or TV show
A simplified version of the stages of the production process and basic business models (how the money gets made) are detailed below.
2 Pre-Production
4 Post Production
The first phase of the process is called development. This involves the screenwriter and producer. The idea may be adapted from a previous work (a novel, a stage play, a comic book) or based on an original screenplay. In the case of unscripted formats such as documentaries, the idea and those people who appear on camera (experts, subjects) are considered during the development phase. In the development of animated shows, development will involve the early stages of character design (drawings which develop the appearance, poses and gestures of characters) and scriptwriting.
In addition to developing and writing the screen story, the development phase includes raising money to pay for the production stage of the feature or television show, one of the producer's primary responsibilities. Money can be raised from the marketplace, primarily broadcasters, streaming platforms and film distributors. Money can also be raised through public support in the form of grants and tax credits. The money-raising process can take some time – years even – therefore, most producers work on several projects concurrently in order to ensure a pipeline of film and television projects.
Once the money has been raised to produce the feature or television show, the team moves into a pre-production (also known as prep) phase which covers casting performers (except where star performers are secured through the development phase). Depending on the size and complexity of the project, locations and the technical and creative preparation begins. The pre-production period phase can be several weeks or months long.
For animated shows, pre-production involves design of characters, props and backgrounds and the voice record of the actors performing the voice of the animated characters. These elements come together to create storyboards and the animatic.
Following pre-production, the production period begins. A production period can be a single day of production for a short film, or many months for a high budget drama series. Production is where the teams of skilled workers from craft, technical, logistics and management transform those screenwriters' words into a fully realized screen story, as acted by performers.
The production phase of the project is when the greatest number of people are working on a project in a highly concentrated time period. The hours are long and the pressure to get each scene filmed makes for some challenging days at work.
For animated shows, production passes through four key phases: layout, paint, posing and animation. Layout is the process of establishing each scene and assembling the characters, props and settings for each scene. The paint phase involves filling in all the backgrounds per the design specifications. Posing is the phase where individual drawings are put together in sequence. Finally, the animation phase is where all of the drawings are sequenced to create the illusion of movement.
During live action production, the post production process begins, with the director and editor working to build the story together. Post production also includes the process of layering in music, sound, colour, visual effects and subtitles for watching the show in other languages.
For animated shows, the post production process begins with editing, followed by compositing, two dimensional effects, colour correction, post sound and final export.
Once the film or television show completes its post production process, the project is ready for release to audiences through the sales and distribution process. To create interest, sometimes a film will premiere at a film festival to develop excitement for audiences and awareness of the film. Marketing managers may create buzz through publicity tours which create media exposure and cultivate fandom through social media and other platforms where fans hang out.
Most often, those partners who financially supported the project way back in the development phase will have some exclusive rights to show the film or television show during a fixed time period, known as a "first window". Following that first window, sales and distribution agents will sell the project to TV channels, streaming services and other platforms where film and television projects are watched.
In the case of animated shows, whose production process enables translation into mulitple languages, many are sold (and even pre-sold) into the global marketplace.
Depending on the script and the filmmakers' vision, a production can range from ultra low budget to a very large budget. How that film and television production is made and which audience it is intended for will determine how the project is financed, which is a major component of the business side of filmmaking.
Explore more pages in this section:
Learn about Live Action Productions
Shows that depict real people and places
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Shows created with drawings
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Q: ajax did not work, can't load the update_loc.php var warp1_data = {
  "id": "warp1",
  "x": 371,
  "y": 95,
  "images": 'map/town/balamb.png',
  "framerate": 32,
  "animations":
    {
      "down": [0, 3, "down", 0.25],
      "left": [4, 7, "left", 0.25],
      "right": [8, 11, "right", 0.25],
      "up": [12, 15, "up", 0.25],
      "downLeft": [16, 19, "downLeft", 0.25],
      "downRight": [20, 23, "downRight", 0.25],
      "upLeft": [24, 27, "upLeft", 0.25],
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    },
  "frames":
    {
      "height": 32,
      "width":32,
      "regX": 0,
      "regY": 0,
      "count": 32
    },
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      "type" : '8dir',
      "distanceOnPress" : 4,
      "keycodeUp" : -1,
      "keycodeDown" : -1,
      "keycodeLeft" : -1,
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  "collisionObject": true,
  "collisionType": "pixel",
  "collisionAlphaThreshold": 10,
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    //only allow the collision text once every 5 seconds
    if (!window.playerCollisionTxt) {
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      setTimeout(function(){ window.playerCollisionTxt = false; }, 5000);

        $.ajax({
            url: "update_loc.php",
            type: "GET",
            data: { 'username': user, 'liked': '1' },
            success: function()
                        {
                            alert("ok");
                        }
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      location.reload();
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Is there something wrong with this code?  I have added this to my HTML:
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.12.0/jquery.min.js"></script>

All I want is to connect JavaScript AJAX to SQL database.
Anyway I am using abyss web server latest version & here is my PHP file:
<?php

include "config.php";
$get_move_loc_1 = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM ".$CONFIG['database'].".login WHERE userid='".$_SESSION['ff_account']."' LIMIT 1");
$get_move_loc_2 = mysql_fetch_array($get_move_loc_1);

$get_move_loc_3 = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM ".$CONFIG['database'].".char WHERE account_id='".$get_move_loc_2['account_id']."' LIMIT 1");
$get_move_loc_4 = mysql_fetch_array($get_move_loc_3);

$char_id = $get_move_loc_4['char_id'];

mysql_query("UPDATE ".$CONFIG['database'].".char SET last_map='Balamb Garden' WHERE char_id='$char_id'");
mysql_query("UPDATE ".$CONFIG['database'].".char SET map_x='371' WHERE char_id='$char_id'");
mysql_query("UPDATE ".$CONFIG['database'].".char SET map_y='115' WHERE char_id='$char_id'");

?>

A: *

*Your jQuery version is from Stone Age (version 1.2 really??). Update to a recent version please.

*Your ajax request is fine. No problem with that if update_loc.php is reached.

*But just after the ajax call you've got location.reload(); that reloads the page. I think is this that is confusing you. Remove it and it's all.


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package com.vikingbrain.nmt.controller;

import com.vikingbrain.nmt.responses.DavidBoxResponse;
import com.vikingbrain.nmt.util.exceptions.TheDavidBoxClientException;

/**
 * Response parser for TheDavidBox xml responses.
 * @author vikingBrain
 *
 */
public interface DavidBoxParser {

	/**
	 * It parses the xml string into a Davidbox response object desired.
	 * @param responseTargetClass the target object to fit the xml
	 * @param xmlString the xml string to parse
	 * @return the davidbox response object
	 * @throws TheDavidBoxClientException exception in the client
	 */
	<T extends DavidBoxResponse> T parse(Class<T> responseTargetClass, String xmlString) throws TheDavidBoxClientException;

}

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Hugo Kraas
peoplepill id: hugo-kraas
Intro German general
Was Military officer Soldier Officer
Type Military
Birth 25 January 1911, Witten, Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis, Arnsberg Government Region, North Rhine-Westphalia
Death 20 February 1980, Selk, Schleswig-Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany (aged 69 years)
Star sign Aquarius
Politics Nazi Party
Hugo Kraas (25 January 1911 – 20 February 1980) was a German SS commander during World War II. He served in the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler and was the last commander of the SS Division Hitlerjugend. Kraas was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves. Following the war, Kraas was investigated by Italian and West German authorities for the murder of Italian Jews in 1943.
Born in 1911, Kraas became a member of the Nazi Party and the Sturmabteilung (SA) in 1934; in 1938 he was posted to the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (LSSAH). With the LSSAH, Kraas took part in the invasion of Poland where he was awarded the Iron Cross second class. He was awarded the Iron Cross first class following the Battle of the Netherlands. He took part in the Balkan Campaign and Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union. In December 1941, Kraas received the German Cross in Gold. In 1943, he took part in the Third Battle of Kharkov. For his role in this operation he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross in March 1943. He received the Oak Leaves to the Knight's Cross in January 1944. Kraas died in 1980.
Along with other members of LSSAH, Kraas was investigated for the murder of several dozens of Italian Jews on 25 September 1943 in Italy. He was tried in absentia in Italy in 1955 and was found guilty. The investigation also took place in West Germany in 1965 but stalled for "lack of evidence".
Iron Cross (1939) 2nd Class (16 October 1939) & 1st Class (25 May 1940)
German Cross in Gold on 26 December 1941 as SS-Hauptsturmführer in the Aufklärungs-Abteilung "Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler"
Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves
Knight's Cross on 28 March 1943 as SS-Sturmbannführer and commander of the I./2. SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment/Panzergrenadier-Division "Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler"
Oak Leaves on 24 January 1944 as SS-Obersturmbannführer and commander of SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 2 "Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler"


Childbirth is a key life experience that a mother will remember all her life. Surrounding the family with support and love helps the Mother to feel better about herself and the birth of her baby.
We provide a comforting space for pregnant women and new moms to be pampered and prepared for life with a new baby. Ready for Birth, LLC is focused on inspiring and supporting you in integrating life, health and family.


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Making Sense of Heidegger
Thomas Sheehan
Making Sense of Heidegger presents a radically new reading of Heidegger's notoriously difficult oeuvre. Clearly written and rigorously grounded in the whole of Heidegger's writings, Thomas Sheehan's latest book argues for the strict unity of Heidegger's thought on the basis of three theses: that his work was phenomenological from beginning to the end; that "being" refers to the meaningful presence of things in the world of human concerns; and that what makes such intelligibility possible is the existential structure of human being as the thrown-open or appropriated "clearing."
Sheehan offers a compelling alternative to the classical paradigm that has dominated Heidegger research over the last half-century, as well as a valuable retranslation of the key terms in Heidegger's lexicon. This important book opens a new path in Heidegger research that will stimulate dialogue not only within Heidegger studies but also with philosophers outside the phenomenological tradition and scholars in theology, literary criticism, and existential psychiatry.
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers / Rowman & Littlefield International
Pages: 370 • Trim: 5¾ x 8½
978-1-78348-118-7 • Hardback • November 2014 • $125.00 • (£96.00)
978-1-78348-119-4 • Paperback • November 2014 • $42.00 • (£32.00)
978-1-78348-120-0 • eBook • November 2014 • $39.50 • (£30.00)
Series: New Heidegger Research
Subjects: Philosophy / Movements / Phenomenology, Philosophy / Movements / Existentialism, Philosophy / Continental Philosophy
Thomas Sheehan is professor of religious studies at Stanford University and professor emeritus of philosophy at Loyola University Chicago. His many publications include Becoming Heidegger (2011) and translations of Heidegger's Logic: The Question of Truth (2010) and Husserl's Psychological and Transcendental Phenomenology, and the Confronataion with Heidegger (1997).
Frequently Cited German Texts and their English Translations / Foreword / 1. Introduction: Getting to the Topic / Part I: Aristotelian Beginnings / 2. Being in Aristotle / 3. Heidegger Beyond Aristotle / Part II: The Early Heidegger / 4. Phenomenology and the Formulation of the Question / 5. Ex-sistence as Openness / 6. Becoming Our Openness / Part III: The Later Heidegger / 7. Transition: From Being and Time to the Hidden Clearing / 8. Appropriation and the Turn / 9. The History of Being / 10. Conclusion: Critical Reflections / Appendices / Bibliographies / Index
This detailed, meticulous study addresses the confusion surrounding Heidegger scholarship. Cutting through all mysticism associated with the question of being, Sheehan uncovers the phenomenological bases of the 'early' and 'late' Heidegger, paying special attention to their Aristotelian heritage. Sheehan's argument, at its core, is persuasive: he contends that the obsession with being has obscured the reality that the center of Heidegger's entire project is the 'clearing,' wherein being takes place. Sheehan attaches a number of key Greek and Heideggerian terms to the idea of the clearing—for instance, the Logos that keeps it open or its becoming-one's-own (Eigentum) in the event (Ereignis). The book is insightful not only as a contribution to Heidegger studies but also as a source of inroads into ancient Greek philosophy, informed by a new understanding of Heidegger's thought. Summing Up: Essential. Graduate students, researchers, and faculty.
[A]n important, if controversial, book … If Sheehan's stature as a commentator on Heidegger were not already enough to recommend it, the book is written in a lucid and approachable style … Repeatedly, Sheehan draws on his wide knowledge of the Collected Works to make or illustrate important connections in Heidegger's thinking across his whole corpus … Sheehan's book is a significant achievement, and it will assist many, especially relatively new, readers of Heidegger.
— Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
Much of Sheehan's work here is immensely clarifying; several of his remarks have already made their way to the marginalia of this reviewer's copy of Being and Time. . . .Sheehan sufficiently demonstrates…that Heidegger is worth reading, and this is an important achievement, especially in the face of calls to consign Heidegger's corpus to the Nazi stacks in the library. Heidegger should be read as a philosopher because at his best he is not a commentator on philosophers but the initiator of a philosophical conversation. Sheehan's book admirably displays Heidegger's talent for breathing life into Aristotle, Plato, and the Presocratics, and in turn for drawing his own philosophical inspiration from them. Thus, Sheehan's will be a welcome, if controversial, addition to Heideggerean scholarship, and certainly worth reading for those who need to be convinced to turn (or return) to Heidegger as a powerful philosophical interlocutor.
— Review of Metaphysics
In this brilliant contribution to Heidegger scholarship, Thomas Sheehan presents his view of the entire trajectory of Heidegger's philosophizing as a phenomenological investigation of the meaning and source of Being (the "clearing") — that which allows entities to show up for us as meaningful. Sheehan's assiduously phenomenological interpretation of the Heideggerian corpus lends itself beautifully both to teaching Heidegger and to interdisciplinary inquiry.
— Robert D. Stolorow Ph.D., author of World, Affectivity, Trauma: Heidegger and Post-Cartesian Psychoanalysis
Thomas Sheehan's eagerly awaited volume is certain to shake up the field of Heidegger studies. Beyond that, however, the new paradigm it advocates - the idea that Heidegger should be read from first to last in phenomenological terms - provides an excellent framework for showing how Heidegger's thought can contribute to contemporary philosophical debates. A work of keen scholarship, powerfully argued, Sheehan's book will be widely discussed.
— Steven Crowell, Joseph and Joanna Nazro Mullen Professor of Philosophy, Rice University
In this superb book, Thomas Sheehan demonstrates that Heidegger's major topic was not being, but rather the clearing in which things can manifest themselves and in this sense "be." As the most important work published on Heidegger for decades, Making Sense of Heidegger constitutes a paradigm shift in understanding Heidegger's thought.
— Michael E. Zimmerman, professor of philosophy, University of Colorado at Boulder
Sheehan's provocative study is bound to be a "game-changer," forcing scholars to rethink long-held assumptions about Heidegger's thought and its reach. With meticulous scholarship and philosophical probity, Sheehan gives a compelling but highly controversial account of what Heidegger is after, where he succeeds, and where he overreaches.
— Daniel O. Dahlstrom, Professor of Philosophy, Boston University
Amongst the many merits of Sheehan's work - and his mastery of Heidegger's vast corpus is impressive - the most notable is a doctrine of meaning that is not linked to any ontology. No one has previously gone as far as he has in this direction.
— Pietro d'Oriano, Archives Husserl de Paris (ENS)
Heidegger repeatedly said that he wanted others to "think with him." Tom Sheehan -- attentive, probing, and never falsely resting in received assumptions about Heidegger, even his own -- shows what that looks like at its best.
— Judith Wolfe, St John's College at University of Oxford
Making Sense of Heidegger is a tour de force, exhibiting an admirable mastery of the scope and details of Heidegger's vast output … I am surely grateful for the gift of Tom Sheehan's book, which is one of the most bracing and luminous works of Heidegger scholarship I have ever read.
— Research In Phenomenology


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Scientists have drawn up a rescue plan for our oceans. The plan is bold, and brilliantly simple: we cover the planet in ocean sanctuaries, putting a third of the oceans off-limits to fishing, mining and other destructive industries. Here's the problem: at the moment, there's no way to create new sanctuaries outside countries' national waters. We can't protect these huge areas of the ocean without an international agreement on how this protection would work. Governments have started work on a UN Ocean Treaty, and if they get it right it'll gives us the tools we need to make these sanctuaries happen. The oceans need your support.
This ocean sanctuaries scientific study maps out how to protect 30% of the world's oceans by 2030, a target that scientists say is crucial in order to safeguard wildlife and to help mitigate the impacts of climate change. 30×30: A Blueprint For Ocean Protection is the result of a year-long collaboration between leading academics at the University of York, University of Oxford and Greenpeace.
Fundamental changes need to be made in the way our oceans are managed. This means that we must act to make sure that human activities are sustainable, in other words that they meet human needs of current and future generations without causing harm to the environment.
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Canada is making significant steps forward when it comes to the blockchain industry. The North American nation is the best when it comes to driving innovation, entrepreneurship and digital economy. Not only this but "Canada is well positioned to be a global leader in the burgeoning blockchain economy", said Don Tapscott, executive chairman of the Blockchain Research Institute. All are fueled by its favorable regulatory regime, low energy costs, innovation, and high internet speed.
An important press release was published on Feb. 5 by the Chamber of Digital Commerce announcing their merger with the Blockchain Association of Canada (BAC). The two will be now known as the Chamber of Digital Commerce Canada. The Chamber of Digital Commerce was born in July 2014 seeing a more than 100 percent growth in the last four years. Now, the Chamber represents over 200 companies that are invested in the blockchain technology with members like Microsoft, Overstock, Bitpay, and IBM.
Tanya Woods – former executive director of the BAC and a world-class legal and policy strategist will now serve as the managing director of the Chamber of Digital Commerce Canada. Woods has previously worked for companies like BCE, Microsoft, and Nintendo. "Bringing our two organizations under the same banner sends a powerful message to our respective members, blockchain ecosystem participants, and policymakers," said Perianne Boring, founder, and president of the Chamber of Digital Commerce.
This means only good things are coming in the North American Nation as far as the blockchain industry and technology is involved. Canadian citizens are more and more opened to this new trend and seek to take advantage of it. The cool thing is that everyone that wants to be part of it can and should. Whether you want to invest in some coins, which can be done by simply registering an account at BitCanuck or you want to implement the blockchain tech in your projects, it is easy to be part of this new world that promises great things.


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namespace tools
{
	namespace utility
	{

		// это можно в методы гуи занести
		inline MyGUI::IntCoord convertCoordToParentCoord(const MyGUI::IntCoord& _coord, MyGUI::Widget* _widget)
		{
			MyGUI::IntCoord coord = _coord;
			MyGUI::Widget* parent = _widget->getParent();
			while (nullptr != parent)
			{
				coord = coord - parent->getPosition();
				// а может у нас и дедушка есть? а может и прадед...
				parent = parent->getParent();
			}
			return coord;
		}

		inline void mapSet(MyGUI::VectorStringPairs& _map, const std::string& _key, const std::string& _value)
		{
			for (MyGUI::VectorStringPairs::iterator iter = _map.begin(); iter != _map.end(); ++iter)
			{
				if (iter->first == _key)
				{
					iter->second = _value;
					return;
				}
			}
			_map.push_back(MyGUI::PairString(_key, _value));
		}

		inline MyGUI::VectorStringPairs::iterator mapFind(MyGUI::VectorStringPairs& _map, const std::string& _key)
		{
			for (MyGUI::VectorStringPairs::iterator iter = _map.begin(); iter != _map.end(); ++iter)
			{
				if (iter->first == _key)
					return iter;
			}
			return _map.end();
		}

		inline void mapErase(MyGUI::VectorStringPairs& _map, const std::string& _key)
		{
			for (MyGUI::VectorStringPairs::iterator iter = _map.begin(); iter != _map.end(); ++iter)
			{
				if (iter->first == _key)
				{
					_map.erase(iter);
					return;
				}
			}
		}

	}
}

#endif


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Conner, George J
Conner, George J.
a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born at Frederick, Maryland, April 9, 1829. He was converted at the age of fourteen, and was soon instrumental in leading his Roman Catholic father and Lutheran mother and his sisters to Christ. He graduated at Dickinson College, led a class of students while there, and acted as Sunday-school superintendent; studied medicine also, receiving the degree of M.D., as well as a diploma from the Dental College of Baltimore; and, after serving as principal of the Cassville Seminary eighteen months, became a member of the East Baltimore Conference. In 1859 he joined the Virginia Conference of the Church South, and at the beginning of the Rebellion removed to Parkersburgh, West Virginia, where he opened a successful seminary for young ladies. Subsequently he re- entered the ministry of the Church South, and in Ashland, Ky., conducted an academy for some time. In 1871 he was admitted into the Cincinnati Conference of the Northern Church. Disease obliged him to retire from regular work in 1872, and he died April 1, 1873. Mr. Conner was a methodical sermonizer; possessed a pleasant, well-trained voice; was a cultured man, a devoted friend, and naturally retiring in disposition. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1872, page 79.
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