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College Admission 2.0: Service Over Self
Student Well-Being Opinion
By Richard Weissbourd — January 19, 2016 6 min read
Richard Weissbourd
Richard Weissbourd is a senior lecturer in education and the co-director of the Making Caring Common Project at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Are today's young people hopelessly mired, as pundits and researchers claim, in a selfish, achievement-obsessed culture? And is the college admissions process—commonly assailed for creating an arms race among students and parents that fuels selfishness and achievement frenzy—destined to remain a fundamental part of this problem?
Maybe not. A large group of key stakeholders in the admissions process are saying, "Enough."
About a year ago, Making Caring Common, a project that I co-direct at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, hosted a meeting of college admissions deans, high school administrators and guidance counselors, character education experts, and other stakeholders. The meeting focused on how the college admissions process might collectively send messages that reverse those trends. The result of that meeting is a report "Turning the Tide," that has now been endorsed by over 75 key stakeholders in the process, including the admissions deans of all the Ivy League schools and deans and administrators from a wide array of other colleges.
Christophe Vorlet for Education Week
For perhaps the first time in history, a broad range of colleges have come together to send a powerful collective message that what's important in admissions is not high numbers of impressive accomplishments or long "brag sheets." Yes, academic engagement matters, but so does meaningful ethical engagement, especially as shown in concern for others and the common good. The report also redefines ethical and intellectual contributions to more fairly capture the strengths of students across race, culture, and class.
What, more specifically, does our report recommend? And how might more high schools play their part in stopping the arms race and inspiring in students a concern for others and the public good?
First, we argue that what's important in terms of service is not whether it occurs locally or in some distant country, or whether a student shows leadership. What's important is whether students immerse themselves in an experience that is meaningful to them over a sustained period of time, and whether they learn about themselves; the perspectives of others, especially those who are different in background and character; and their responsibilities toward their communities.
The report also encourages students to work in diverse groups on community challenges, such as an unsafe park or cyberbullying in the school community, and to do with rather than to do for those who are different from them or disadvantaged. Working in racially, economically, culturally, politically, or religiously diverse groups can push students to bump up against their biases and presumptions, offer wonderful opportunities for them to absorb different ways of viewing the world, and develop key problem-solving and group skills that can be valuable later in work and life. If students live in homogeneous communities, high schools might encourage them to engage in diverse groups virtually.
As key stewards of the college admissions process ... we need more high schools to powerfully hold up, expect, and honor in young people a more ethical and meaningful way of leading a life."
But the success of this recommendation will depend on whether high schools play their part. Success will mean more high schools enabling students to choose from a wide range of community-engagement and service opportunities based on their individual interests and passions. It will mean ensuring that students have time to reflect with each other and adults about what they have learned from these experiences. Perhaps most important, it will mean creating authentic diverse groups or guiding students toward diverse groups that are constructed and facilitated thoughtfully. Without thoughtful facilitation, diverse groups too often simply reinforce divisions and biases.
Second, our report recommends that the admissions process send the clear message to students and to parents and other caregivers that significant and demanding family responsibilities are highly valued, and provide clear opportunities for applicants to discuss these responsibilities. Many students, particularly those in low- and modest-income families, often contribute vitally to others in ways that are not measured by traditional forms of community service. These contributions often build ethical character and demonstrate the perseverance that is key to college success.
These students may be caring for a sick relative, supervising a younger sibling, helping to run a household, or working after school to support their family. Often students can't undertake extracurricular activities and community service because of these important obligations. High schools can encourage students to describe these demanding contributions in their applications, and also encourage teachers and others who may be aware of these responsibilities to capture them in their student recommendations.
To read more views on students and college:
The NCAA's Hidden Influence on High Schools
What Is Driving the Student-Debt Crisis?
Your College Essay Isn't a Selfie
Finally, our report contains several suggestions for reducing excessive achievement pressure. In middle- and upper-class communities especially, achievement pressure is taking a high toll. According to Suniya Luthar's research, rates of depression, delinquency, substance abuse, and anxiety, for example, appear to be as high in affluent communities as they are in low-income communities, despite the many stresses that low-income families endure. Research suggests that achievement pressure is a significant cause.
Our report seeks to reduce this stress by emphasizing that quality matters over quantity. Rather than listing high numbers of extracurricular activities, we encourage college applicants to describe two or three activities that have been meaningful to them. We remind applicants that they don't need to load up on Advanced Placement courses, that two or three are sufficient.
We also challenge parents trying to shoehorn their kids into high-status colleges to focus their children instead on a wide range of schools that might be a good fit academically, culturally, and socially. And we caution parents about overcoaching children in the application process. College admissions is a tremendous opportunity for parents to understand their children more deeply, to uncover with them what makes them thrive, and to support them in writing about their interests and inspirations authentically.
Here, too, high schools clearly have a critical role. High schools can, for example, discourage students from overloading on AP courses (some are doing away with them altogether) and extracurricular activities. They can make sure homework demands are engaging and moderate; alert parents to signs that achievement pressure may have become too much for their children; and work with parents who are cranking up their kids so fiercely that the children are showing signs of stress and depression, such as eating or sleeping poorly.
For too long we have wrung our hands—and pointed our fingers—about a college admissions system that, despite the good intentions of almost all admissions officers, parents, and guidance counselors, increasingly seems to reinforce the wrong messages to our children. Our report, we believe, is one step forward.
But we will never bring about a sea change in the messages our culture sends to young people unless educational institutions at every level and parents join together to elevate and embody a healthier set of values consistently. As key stewards of the college admissions process—and as key stewards of adolescence itself—we need more high schools to powerfully hold up, expect, and honor in young people a more ethical and meaningful way of leading a life.
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Follow the Education Week Commentary section on Facebook and Twitter.
A version of this article appeared in the January 20, 2016 edition of Education Week as College Admission 2.0: Service Over Self
Reimagining College Admissions
College & Workforce Readiness Opinion The NCAA's Hidden Influence on High Schools
James H. Lytle, January 19, 2016
College & Workforce Readiness Opinion What Is Driving the Student-Debt Crisis?
Donald M. Feuerstein, January 19, 2016
College & Workforce Readiness Opinion Your College Essay Isn't a Selfie
Florina Rodov, January 19, 2016
Curriculum CTQ Collaboratory The Social-Change Project: Learning Through Community Service
Brett Bohstedt, September 18, 2013
Local high school and middle school students paint the exterior of a childcare center as part of the Momentum Youth Conference community outreach project earlier this summer in Marion, Ind.
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College & Workforce Readiness Community Service Requirements Seen to Reduce Volunteering
Sarah D. Sparks, August 20, 2013
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College & Workforce Readiness Opinion Millennials Want to Serve. Let's Help Them Do It.
Alan D. Solomont, October 20, 2015
Student Well-Being Whitepaper An Opportune Moment
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Student Well-Being What the Research Says Omicron Could Make Other Winter Bugs Worse for Kids
Data show a spike in the number of children showing up at hospitals with COVID-19, possibly because they have other illnesses, too.
Sarah D. Sparks
Residents line up for COVID-19 testing near the White House in Washington last month.
Jacquelyn Martin/AP
Student Well-Being Opinion Students With Food Allergies Are Lonelier: Here's How to Help
A child who misses out on birthday cake or pizza at a school party is deprived of more than just a treat.
Ayelet Fishbach
Student Well-Being COVID Vaccine Uptake Has Stalled for Young Children. What Schools Can Do to Help
Overall, only about 1 in 5 children ages 5-11 in the United States are fully inoculated against COVID-19.
Arianna Prothero
A child arrives with her parent to receive the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at London Middle School in Wheeling, Ill., in November.
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Amazon mailed NYC residents ads touting the benefits of HQ2 as the battle with the city council heats up
Business Insider/Dave MosherAn Amazon mailer sent to addresses in Queens.
Residents of New York City are reporting that Amazon sent them a mailer advertising its announced HQ2 project.
The mailer states "Amazon is investing in Long Island City" and advertised the announced benefits Amazon agreed to bring to the neighbourhood, and adds a link for recipients to learn more and contact the city council.
New York City Council member Jimmy Van Bramer, who represents the district Amazon will soon move to, said in a post on social media sites: "Spending this money just shows our voices in opposition have been heard."
The mailer is a sign the battle between New York's city council and Amazon is only getting started.
"Happy New Year from your future neighbours at Amazon," the postcard has written on it in cartoonish orange letters, floating just below a generous artist's representation of the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge that connects the New York City boroughs Queens and Manhattan.
Many Queens residents received this mailer from Amazon on Monday, announcing the new HQ2 project that is soon to land on the shores of Long Island City. On the front it says "Amazon is investing in Long Island City," and on the front is a laundry list of the announced benefits the tech giant has agreed to bring to the area.
Business Insider/Dave MosherThe back of the mailer.
At the bottom, it lists a few websites where it says residents can learn more, including Amazon's website. It then encourages them to "provide your thoughts to the city council on this project" with a link to the schedule of hearings.
It's unclear how Amazon found the addresses to use for the mailer, either through its own addresses shared by customers on its website, or through other means. Amazon did not respond to a request for comment.
Some residents commented on the mailer on social media.
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— Loren Grush (@lorengrush) January 8, 2019
The call to action on the bottom of the mailer has buoyed critics, who say it's a sign they're making an impact.
New York City Council member Jimmy Van Bramer, who represents the district Amazon will soon move to, said in a post shared on social media sites that Amazon "spending this money just shows our voices in opposition have been heard."
My friends at @amazon mailed me New Years greetings. How thoughtful. Spending this money just shows our voices in opposition have been heard. So happy new year #NoAmazonNYC! This fight is just getting started. @RWDSU @nychange @MaketheRoadNY  pic.twitter.com/RbnP14zhGn
— Jimmy Van Bramer (@JimmyVanBramer) January 8, 2019
New York's city council has been largely critical of the project, which was negotiated between the company and the state without city input.
'This isn't a done deal': New York City Council speaker Corey Johnson lays out his plan to avoid being 'played' by Amazon
"We got played," the council's speaker, Corey Johnson,said during a contentious council hearing in December. Representatives for Amazon were forced to defend the company against against hours of questioning by council members.
Johnson forecasted a bitter battle in the months ahead during an interview with Business Insider later in December.
"I don't think anyone should assume that this is a fait accompli, and that this is a done deal," Johnson said. "This is the beginning of a process where the public and the City Council and other elected officials are going to continue to seek answers and understand whether or not this is a good deal for New York City, or if we got played."
Several more city council hearings are scheduled: one each in the months of January, February, and March. The final will be a public hearing, where it seems Amazon is trying to drum up support.
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Federal court puts Maureen McDonnell appeal on hold
Maureen Mcdonnell
Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, center, hugs his daughters Cailin Young, left, and Jeanine McDonnell Zubowsky, right, after he was sentenced outside federal court in Richmond, Va., in this January 2015 file photo. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File) **FILE** more >
By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times - Friday, August 5, 2016
A federal appeals court has put on hold former Virginia first lady Maureen McDonnell's appeal of corruption convictions to give prosecutors and her attorneys more time to analyze the Supreme Court decision that overturned her husband's conviction.
Former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell's bribery conviction was overturned in June, with the Supreme Court ruling that while his acceptance of more than $170,000 worth of gifts and loans may have been "distasteful," it didn't violate federal law.
The justices' unanimous decision sent his case back to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which must decide whether a jury could have been able to convict Mr. McDonnell if they were given the correct legal definition for an "official action."
The couple was tried together and Mrs. McDonnell was convicted of nine similar charges. Her case has remained on hold before the appeals court as the Supreme Court considered her husband's case.
The order filed Friday in Mrs. McDonnell's case will give prosecutors and defense attorneys until August 29 to file either a proposed briefing schedule addressing remaining issues in the case or a resolution of the case. The court previously granted similar conditions for Mr. McDonnell's case.
In a motion filed this week in court seeking to hold Mrs. McDonnell's appeal in abeyance, her attorneys stated that her convictions should be vacated like the convictions against her husband.
Randall Eliason, a former federal prosecutor and George Washington University law professor who has followed the case, said the resolution of Mr. McDonnell's case will likely dictate what happens to Mrs. McDonnell.
"All the issues in her appeal are the same, so what happens in his case is going drive what happens in hers," Mr. Eliason said. "The reality is everyone is going wait and see what happens in Bob's case. If they drop his, the are almost certainly going to drop hers."
• Andrea Noble can be reached at anoble@washingtontimes.com.


Kangaroo leather is a strong light weight leather derived from the hide of the kangaroo.
Kangaroos are harvested. Both the meat and the hides are sold. Although most species of macropod are protected from hunting by law, a small number of the large-sized species which exist in high numbers can be hunted by commercial hunters. This policy has been criticised by some wildlife activists.
The leather is used in a wide variety of shoes. The unique structure of kangaroo leather allows it to be cut down to very thin substance (thickness of the leather) but still retain strength.
Kangaroo leather is also popular in the manufacture of motorbike leathers and is used in a wide variety of other applications such as car upholstery, military boots, football or soccer boots and fashion accessories.
Kangaroo leather is the material of choice for whip makers as the strips can be cut thin to keep the whip flexible, without sacrificing durability.
Studies conducted by the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) confirm that kangaroo is one of the strongest leathers of similar substance available.
Similarly when split into thinner substances kangaroo retains considerably more of the original tensile strength of the unsplit leather than does calf. When split to 20% of original thickness kangaroo retains between 30 and 60% of the tensile strength of the unsplit hide. Calf split to 20% of original thickness, on the other hand, retains only 1–4% of original strength.
Kangaroo leather is lighter and stronger than the hide of a cow or goat. It has 10 times the tensile strength of cowhide and is 50% stronger than goatskin.
Studies of the morphology of kangaroo leather help explain its particular properties.
The collagen fibre bundles in cattle hide are arranged in a complex weaving pattern. The fibres are often at angles as much as 90 degrees to the skin surface. Cattle hide also contains sweat glands, erector pili muscles and a distinct gradation in elastin levels, concentrated in the upper part of the skin. Kangaroo hide on the other hand has been shown to have a highly uniform orientation of fibre bundles in parallel with the skin surface. It does not contain sweat glands or erector pili muscles and elastin is evenly distributed throughout the skin thickness. This structural uniformity explains both the greater tensile strength of the whole leather and the greater retention of strength in splits. Bovine skin is much more complex in cross section. Hence in whole section it has many more weak points from which tears can start when placed under tension. In addition when sliced into splits the collagen fibres running at significant angles to the skin surface will be cut. These then become weak points in the structural strength.
The Australian kangaroo industry produces a range of meat and leather products from animals harvested from the wild under strict government controlled Management Plans. These ensure the harvest is sustainable and humane. A wide cross section of Australian ecologists support the kangaroo industry as being both sustainable and environmentally wise. Many argue kangaroos, which are native to Australia, are a more environmentally friendly livestock option than introduced sheep and cattle. The two most important facets of kangaroos' better ecological fit than European agricultural animals relate to their adaptation to Australia's aridity. Kangaroos have small chest development and so require less water to breathe than placental mammals, which usually must expand a diaphragm. This means they lose more moisture in respiration. Kangaroos just make small pants while immobile and in motion expand and contract their lungs effectively using their leg muscles. The belly flops up and down, contracting and expanding the lungs respectively. Also, the kangaroo's paw is softer and does not compact the ground as hoofed cattle and sheep do. Instead, its hopping leaves very small bowl-shaped cuts in the surface of even dry clay soil, which let native grass seeds carried on the wind settle into them. The bowl shape concentrates any moisture that may fall into it into a wet point that the grass seed can use to germinate. Thus, kangaroos deplete the water table at a slower rate than cattle or sheep and would even be viable in the absence of any bore water at all. The ecological arguments for kangaroos replacing sheep and cattle as arid land livestock are compelling, though they must be set against objections of kangaroos' lack of domestication and breeding rate. Kangaroos are eaten in most states.
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Sunfighter è un album in studio collaborativo di Paul Kantner e Grace Slick (Jefferson Airplane), pubblicato nel 1971.

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Il disco è uscito poche settimane dopo la diffusione di Bark, sesto album in studio dei Jefferson Airplane uscito nel settembre 1971.

Sulla copertina appare una bambina, China Wing Kantner, figlia dei due artisti, nata nel gennaio 1971. Inoltre a lei è dedicato anche il brano China.

Alla realizzazione dell'album hanno preso parte diversi artisti della scena rock della San Francisco Bay Area dell'epoca, tra cui membri dei Grateful Dead, Crosby, Stills, and Nash e Tower of Power.

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Beatles 50th Blog posts of '1963' 'September'
The Beatles - A Day in The Life : Monday, September 30 1963
The Beatles were still away on holidays when a 10:00am-1:15pm editing, overdubbing and mixing session took place this day in Studio Two at Abbey Road. "Little Child" and "Hold Me Tight" were edited, George Martin recorded additional keyboard passages for "Money (That's What I Want)" and "I Wanna Be Your Man", and then "All I've Got To Do", "Don't Bother Me", "Little Child", "Hold Me Tight" and "Not A Second Time" were mixed into Mono.
The Beatles - A Day in The Life : Monday, September 16, to Monday, September 30 1963
The Beatles are on VACATION!
The Beatles - A Day in The Life : Sunday, September 15, 1963
The Beatles headed this afternoon show, the annual "Great Pop Prom" promoted by Valentine, Marilyn and Roxy magazines in aid of the Printers' Pension Corporation. Eleven other acts appeared, including the Rolling Stones, DJ Alan Freeman was the compere.
On September 16th, the Beatles took off for holidays, John and his wife Cynthia traveled to Paris, where they were joined by Brian Epstein, George, with his brother Peter, visited his sister Louise in the USA, who had emigrated to Benton, Illinois in 1954, and Paul and Ringo went to Greece.
The Beatles - A Day in The Life : Saturday, September 14, 1963
The Beatles - (Victory) Memorial Hall, Northwich
The Beatles - A Day in The Life : Friday, September 13, 1963
Public Hall, Preston
After this show, Paul drove 25 miles to the Imperial Ballroom in Nelson, arriving just after midnight, to appear on a panel judging the "Imperial Miss 1963" contest, part of the annual "Young Ones" Ball, sponsored by the local newspaper - the "Nelson Leader".
The Beatles - A Day in The Life : Thursday, September 12, 1963
Studio Two, EMI Studios, London
On July 5th, Brian Epstein verbally agreed to the group undertaking a June 1964 concert tour of Australia, and on December 2nd the contract was formally signed. Now though, to satisfy demands from Australian radio, the group recorded four messages for broadcast there, three addressed directly to Bob Rogers (a DJ at the Sydney station 2SM) and one "open-message", to be used by any station. These semi-scripted, semi-spontaneous lines consisted of typically witty Beatles chatter and were the first of a number of speech items the group taped at EMI over the years.
The recordings were made between 2:30 and 6:30 pm along with ten takes of a re-make of "Hold Me Tight", first attempted for "Please Please Me" on February 11th, but completed more successfully this time around.
Between 7:00 and 11:30 pm, which meant running 90 minutes over the blocked time of 10:00, the Beatles set about another re-make, of George's Don't Bother Me", with ten takes needed to complete the recording, and then resumed work on two songs began the previous day, taping 16 more takes of "Little Child" and six more of "I Wanna Be Your Man".
The Beatles - A Day in The Life : Wednesday, September 11, 1963
Back to EMI for more work on the second album, to be released as "With The Beatles". From 2:30 to 6:00 pm the group recorded three new Lennon-McCartney numbers: one take of "I Wanna Be Your Man", Ringo's vocal vehicle on the album (the previous day, John and Paul had also given it to the Rolling Stones, they taped their version on October 7th, released it on November 1st and it was their first top 20 hit within a month), two takes of "Little Child" and 15 takes of "All I've Got To Do".
In the evening session, 7:00 to 10:15 pm, nine takes were recorded of another Lennon-McCartney song, "Not A Second Time", and the first seven of "Don't Bother Me", George Harrison's debut as a composer.
The Beatles - A Day in The Life : Tuesday, September 10, 1963
The Beatles had a day off.
The Beatles - A Day in The Life : Monday, September 9, 1963
The Beatles - A Day in The Life : Sunday, September 8, 1963


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Pray for many to arise in Aglow International in Martinique.
Background: Martinique (French pronunciation: [maʁtinik]) is an island in the Lesser Antilles in the eastern Caribbean Sea, with a land area of 1,128 square kilometres (436 sq mi) and a population of 386,486 inhabitants (as of Jan. 2013). Like Guadeloupe, it is an overseas region of France, consisting of a single overseas department. One of the Windward Islands, it is directly north of St. Lucia, northwest of Barbados, and south of Dominica.
As with the other overseas departments, Martinique is one of the twenty-seven regions of France (being an overseas region) and an integral part of the French Republic. As part of France, Martinique is part of the European Union, and its currency is the Euro. Its official language is French, although many of its inhabitants also speak Antillean Creole (Créole Martiniquais).
Government Type: Together with Guadeloupe and French Guiana, Martinique is one of the Overseas Departments of France.
My husband and I are leaving on Nov. 26 on a Roads Scholar Trip to Martinique. We have one day free and three evenings. I thought it would be nice to connect with an Aglow person like I did in Ethiopia years back.


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The Popular Misappropriation of Blame
Of all the grand facets of humanity worthy of daily expression, we seem to have found ourselves ubiquitously occupied by one of the most base and depraved of the lot: blame. 'Blame the cops', 'blame the rich', 'blame the Jews', and 'blame the Liberals'. But mostly, blame the Muslims.
Blame is an easy slope to slip down—it's sheer as all hell, and treacherous by nature. When we feel threatened, the most natural reaction is to find the source and strike back. This is a wise and adaptive trait. It once kept us wary of lions, a good quality to be certain, because those mangy bastards will tear you to bloody shreds without a second thought.
But as we've made our way out of the savannah and into a more complex society, we have accordingly found our threats growing broader—more difficult to define. The threats are similar enough in nature, and the fear is certainly no different, but the struggle becomes, in such an interconnected and nuanced world; where to place the blame.
It's an issue that touches most every other—blame, and the need for it, permeates our society as deeply as hunger, equality, freedom…terror.
But of all the fears and all the culprits, none are as commonplace these days as the fear of and blame of Islam. Herein lays an important distinction. There can be no doubt whatsoever that some Muslim people have committed horrendous acts. This by necessity makes them potential objects of fear, and hence, blame.
The mistake here, and the especially slippery nature of this particular slope, is the inherent risk of conflating trait with cause. Certain Muslims have committed atrocities. But is Islam to blame?
A growing consensus among even the intellectual elite seems to support this notion. Recently—and as an ongoing tenet—the otherwise venerable Bill Maher has thrown his hat into the ring, landing unequivocally in the 'Islam is an inherent evil' corner (Link).
To my mind, this is an abhorrent mistake. More fundamentally—if you'll excuse the term—it's a misunderstanding of both human nature, and the true root of the problem here.
Just as fear leads to a drive for blame, so frustration leads to a compulsion towards anger. As humans, it is our natural inclination to construct narratives which provide meaning—or more pertinent to the case at hand—to latch onto narratives which fit our circumstances and needs.
When we are driven to find context in the wide and mysterious world around us, we construct belief systems. When we feel lost or uncertain, we take comfort in platitudes and homilies. When we are driven mad with fear of explosions and beheadings, we latch onto narratives of 'the other'—the turban wearing madman with a mad lust for blood and unquenchable thirst to desecrate all we hold dear.
But the pendulum swings both ways, and when humans find themselves desperate, or afraid, so too do they grasp for and hold tightly to whatever narrative may give justification to their feelings.
At present, for a small portion of disenfranchised and rueful Muslims, this narrative need is met in the form of Islam. It is unfortunate, but it is reality. This is not to say there is anything inherent to Islam which makes it a violent or reactive belief system—at least any more than so many other belief systems—only that it may suffice as such in time of need.
The role has been filled by many other narratives before it. As President Obama pointed out (Link)—much to the chagrin of his electorate—Christianity filled this vile role during the crusades, and in many other periods of history.
Looking back to more recent events, we can find a fine parallel in the tragic shootings at Columbine High School. When these disenfranchised and deranged youth decided to commit a massacre at their school, many media outlets were quick to jump on their favourite artists as the ultimate culprit—primary among them the singer Marilyn Manson (Link).
Looking back on this farce, it's clear to all but the most troglodytic amongst us that Marilyn Manson was no more responsible for this travesty than you or I. But his was, perhaps, the soundtrack playing in the maligned brains of the killers. His may have been the narrative they latched on to in their rage, but this is hardly a sufficient link to establish any sort of causal relation between the two.
The same is true, of course, with Islam. Even though we are witness now to a group of misled Muslims (some of whom may or may not have justifiable cause for anger) who use Islam as the marching banner of their holy war, there is little doubt their actions would be no less reprehensible under a different narrative. Their anger and their actions are products of their environment and their ability to process it. If we can imagine for a moment—as farcical as it seems—a world with no Islam, but in which all other social and economic factors in the middle-east were entirely comparable, I believe there is little doubt these militants would quickly find some other name to pin their hatred upon.
All action and belief needs a narrative. In this instance, the religion of Islam is being used to fill a terribly dark void—one that has arisen and been filled in people by different means throughout the sad duration of our existence. Still, that very same religion is followed by countless virtuous and just men and women the world over. It is a fallacy therefore to assign blame to the narrative. It belongs rather with the actors, and moreover, the circumstances which drive a nation to such desperate straits (Link). It is not the nature of the narrative which must give us cause for concern and rebuttal, but rather the source of need which this narrative is used to fill.
Fear is a rational reaction to a threatening stimulus. Not so blame. Blame is an atavistic and base reaction; one that provides comfort and perhaps unity among the maligned, but does nothing to move towards resolution. If we want to solve the problems afflicting our society, we must address the social and political situations from which they arise. Otherwise, we are doing scarce better than our detractors—joyfully burning the effigies of our fear while suffocating on the fumes of its intolerance.
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13 Halloween Book Recommendations for 2022
October 1, 2022 by John @ Tales from Absurdia
The spooky season is just around the corner, so you're probably looking for some suitably spooky Halloween book recommendations as the dark nights draw in.
For books featuring ghosts, vampires, witches, and all things supernatural – here are a selection of thirteen books to add to your Halloween TBR.
Halloween Book Recommendations
1) The Complete Tales and Poems, Edgar Allan Poe
Let's begin with one of the icons of the gothic horror genre – Edgar Allan Poe.
The Boston-born author lived a rackety life of alcoholism and poverty, and even the circumstances surrounding his own death remain a mystery.
A prolific short story writer of spooky, sinister tales, Poe penned classics such as The Raven, The Black Cat, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Tell-Tale Heart, and so many more. The Complete Tales is a great way to enjoy all that Poe has to offer – plus, you can get some amazing editions.
Perfect for your Halloween bookstagram!
2) The Turn of the Screw, Henry James
Henry James' most well-known ghost story is a classic for good reason – it's genuinely terrifying.
The Victorian novella tells the tale of a Governess who, taking care of two children, becomes fearful that the estate is haunted. Structured as a framed narrative in which the narrator reads the testimony of the governess herself, the reader is unable to ascertain the absolute truth of events, adding an additional layer of fear.
With ghostly children, apparitions at every turn, and the ambiguity of an unreliable narrative, The Turn of the Screw is a perfect read for Halloween.
3) IT, Stephen King
Clowns are generally regarded as all kinds of scary.
Whether this has always been the case, or whether Stephen King brought about this cultural phobia, is up for debate.
IT – one of King's most well-known stories – has been adapted to screen numerous times, with the malicious clown Pennywise now a staple of Halloween popular culture.
The novel itself is no exception.
4) Wild and Wicked Things, Francesca May
Wild and Wicked Things isn't an out-and-out horror novel.
However, it's drenched in a delightfully witchy aesthetic. And as a Sapphic, supernatural retelling of Gatsby, May's novel excels. It's dark, moody, and mysterious with illicit magic and alcohol-fueled antics.
In short, Wild and Wicked Things is a terrific novel and a must-read this Halloween.
Here's what I said in my review of Wild and Wicked Things:
"An atmospheric, slow burner that delights throughout, it's clear that May has poured love and passion into building her characters, as well as the dark, moody setting of Crow Island. The result is a tangible and authentic world – a kind of richness that many authors dream of."
Review of Wild and Wicked Things
5) Dracula, Bram Stoker
If you've only seen the movie adaptations of Dracula – even the excellent Christopher Lee version – you need to read the book.
Whilst it's a little silly, (the obsession with Mina's purity is almost comical at times) the novel remains sufficiently dark, gothic, and creepy.
And despite its age, Stoker's vampiric classic actually reads really well.
6) The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
Acutely sinister, Dorian fears the waning of his youth. And after meeting socialite and all-round party guy Lord Henry Wooton, Dorian binds his soul to a portrait in exchange for eternal beauty.
But trading away one's soul entails a heavy price.
Renowned more for his poetry and plays, The Picture of Dorian Gray was the only novel Oscar Wilde ever wrote.
And it's a shame because it's terrific.
7) A Monster Calls, Patrick Ness
Of all the books on this list, A Monster Calls is the most disturbing book due to its portrayal of child trauma.
Conor O'Malley's mother is undergoing chemotherapy, and with an absent father, he's highly troubled. Meanwhile, he's also bullied at school.
Each night, he's visited by a monstrous tree that tells a number of tales.
The real-world setting, with real-world problems – interspersed with supernatural interludes – is what makes this book such a troubling read.
With most people having faced death or family break-ups (sometimes both) Conor's trauma is the reader's trauma.
A Monster Calls is a terribly sad read, but it's very, very good.
8) The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Neil Gaiman
Similar to A Monster Calls, The Ocean at the End of the Lane is a blend of the contemporary and the supernatural, which is what makes it such an unsettling tale.
Following a family breakup, the narrator goes to visit his father in the countryside. But infatuated with Ursula Monkton, his new lover, the narrator's dad becomes distant.
Going to some surprisingly sinister places, Gaiman's The Ocean at the End of the Lane is poignant, thought-provoking, and intensely unsettling.
Not one of my favourite books, but it's well loved by many.
9) The Signal-Man, Charles Dickens
A rare ghost story by Charles Dickens, The Signal-Man tells the tale of an apparition haunting a railway signal-man in rural England.
Living an isolated life in shame after failing to achieve his academic dreams, the taciturn signal-man operates a small signal box near a darkened tunnel.
Meeting the titular signal-man in passing, the unnamed narrator of Dickens' novella becomes concerned by his apparent hallucinations of the supernatural.
Preceding a tragedy on the tracks, the signal-man claims to witness a spirit at the entrance to the tunnel, covering their face as if cowering.
Like all good ghost stories, the truth of the tale is open-ended, provoking discussion for readers.
There is also a brilliant 1970s BBC adaptation of the short story, if you're unable to get hold of a copy of the text itself.
10) Winterset Hollow, Jonathan Durham
Morbid fairy tale meets slasher horror – this is Winterset Hollow, in brief.
And yet it's so much more than this. Durham's text is also a really clever metafiction novel, playing with ideas of authorship whilst questioning social values.
The novel sees fans of Winterset Hollow – also the name of the in-universe text – visit Addington Isle to celebrate the anniversary of the book's release. But with the island itself harbouring a dangerous secret, things deteriorate rapidly.
This dark fantasy is a must-read for your Halloween TBR.
"It's as if Beatrix Potter's merry cast of creatures developed a predilection for torture and violence. Disturbing, but admittedly a lot of fun."
Review of Winterset Hollow
11) The Worst Witch, Jill Murphy
Okay. Hear me out.
The Worst Witch is obviously not a scary Halloween read. It is, however, an absolutely wonderful children's book. Long before Harry Potter, and the various dark academia books spawned as a result, came Jill Murphy's witchy classic.
Mildred Hubble, our protagonist, is enrolled into a school of witchcraft and is waiting to receive her customary broomstick and black cat. Things don't go according to plan, with the school running out of black cats and instead granting Mildred a curious, misbehaving tabby cat, and from here onwards, hijinks occur.
The writing is charming and the illustrations (by Murphy herself!) are a delight. So, no matter your age, if you haven't read this wonderful series of books, then you need to add this series to your list of Halloween books.
Sadly, Jill Murphy passed away this year, but her legacy lives on in the adventures of Mildred Hubble, Tabby, and the girls of Miss Cackle's Academy.
12) The Passage, Justin Cronin
The Passage is an unusual book.
The first half of the book is primarily a contemporary thriller surrounding a lab outbreak, a missing girl, and a policeman gone rogue.
The second half goes full-tilt YA post-apocalyptic vampire world, which sounds really naff but it genuinely isn't. Somehow, it just works.
Great characters and a well-told story create a terrific beginning to Cronin's trilogy. If you've not read this book, Halloween is a great time to begin. Be warned though – at 766 pages, it's a long book!
13) Hex, Jenni Fagan
Convicted of witchcraft, Geillis Duncan sits in an Edinburgh prison cell awaiting her execution. Whilst reflecting, she is visited by Iris, a woman claiming to be from the future.
Bridging the gap between the 1571 of Geiller's world and the reader's contemporary world, Hex explores the way in which women are still routinely discriminated against.
This is a short book at circa 100 pages, but Fagan is able to exhibit the rage, sadness, and defiance associated with the fight for equality over the years.
What are you reading this Halloween? Let me know down in the comments!
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I love to make dolls, quilts, and many other patchwork items. I also love stitcheries, English Paper Piecing and applique.
I have lots of flowers today - but they have not all been made this week. Over the last few weeks I've had the occasional time to sit and put a flower together while waiting for someone, but not a lot of time to get them on the blog. Here goes. My three year old helped with the photography, so the individual photos are a bit wonky at times - but my time to allocate to a photo session was a bit limited, it was easier to go with the help!!
Here they are! Looking forward to peaking at the other flowers later in the day. Back to costumes!
They look fabulous. I think my favourite is the red one, third photo from the top, but they all look great.
You sure have been tending your garden!! All are wonderful, but the red one caught my eye too.
Beautiful flowers! You have been busy.
All very nice, I like the first best. Your helper did a good job.
Very pretty flowers! I think I like the first one the best. Interesting shading.
Great flowers , I have the same fabric as the third from last .
Bright and beautiful flowers make a lovely garden.
Wow, you've been busy!! Great colors!
Lovely! My favorite is the first one, that looks like paint spatters.
I'm a Stay-at-home Mum. I live in South-East Queensland, Australia. My husband and I are foster carers and have 8 children ranging in ages from 8 to 23. As two of my children are swimmers, we spend many hours taking them to training and to swim meets. I love to quilt, patchwork, dolls, teddy bears and scrap booking.
Our New Baby, a Catch Up & more Babies!
The Great Hexagon Quilt - Along too!!
Life is a Little hectic!
Cold Weather and a quilt top finish - almost!!
A new place to put my dolls!!


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Q: Sort the data of a Qml ListView by using a QSortFilterProxyModel. I'm making a chat client, and I am using a qml ListView to display all the messages in a "chat room".
I am using my own model class that derives from QAbstractListModel for storing all the messages in all the rooms that the user is a member of.
I want all the messages sorted based on the timestamp they where originally sent, the newest message should appear on the bottom of the view, and the oldest should be at the top.
I also want the user to be able to filter the messages based on which room they where sent in. Which I've already solved.
Here is the declaration of my custom model
class MessageModel : public QAbstractListModel
{
public:
    enum MessageRoles {
            Id = Qt::UserRole + 1,
            RoomId = Qt::UserRole + 2,
            PersonId = Qt::UserRole + 3,
            PersonEmail = Qt::UserRole + 4,
            Created = Qt::UserRole + 5,
            Text = Qt::UserRole + 6
        };
    explicit MessageModel(QObject * parent = nullptr);
    int rowCount(const QModelIndex &parent = QModelIndex()) const override;
    QHash<int, QByteArray> roleNames() const;
    QVariant data(const QModelIndex &index, int role = Qt::DisplayRole) const override;
    void reset_data(QJsonArray new_data);
    void insert_unique_data(QJsonArray new_data);
private:
    QList<LocalData::Message> m_data;

};

Here is the implementation of my model
MessageModel::MessageModel(QObject *parent) : QAbstractListModel(parent)
{}

int MessageModel::rowCount(const QModelIndex &parent) const
{
    return m_data.size();
}

QHash<int, QByteArray> MessageModel::roleNames() const
{
    QHash<int, QByteArray> roles;
    roles[Id] = "id";
    roles[RoomId] = "roomId";
    roles[PersonId] = "personId";
    roles[PersonEmail] = "personEmail";
    roles[Created] = "created";
    roles[Text] = "messageText";
    return roles;
}

QVariant MessageModel::data(const QModelIndex &index, int role) const {

    if(!index.isValid())
        return QVariant();

    if(index.row() >= m_data.size())
        return QVariant();

    switch (role) {
        case Id:
            return m_data.at(index.row()).id;
        case RoomId:
            return m_data.at(index.row()).roomId;
        case PersonId:
            return m_data.at(index.row()).personId;
        case PersonEmail:
            return m_data.at(index.row()).personEmail;
        case Text:
            return m_data.at(index.row()).text;
        case Created:
            return m_data.at(index.row()).created.toString(Qt::ISODateWithMs);
    }

    return QVariant();
}

void MessageModel::update_data(QJsonArray new_data)
{
    beginResetModel();
    m_data.clear();

    foreach (const QJsonValue & val, new_data) {
        m_data.push_back(LocalData::Message(val.toObject()));
    }
    endResetModel();
}

void MessageModel::insert_unique_data(QJsonArray new_data)
{
    QList<LocalData::Message> temp;
    foreach (const QJsonValue & val, new_data) {
        auto obj_to_insert = LocalData::Message(val.toObject());
        if(!m_data.contains(obj_to_insert))
            temp.push_back(obj_to_insert);
    }
    int begin = rowCount();
    int end = rowCount() + temp.size() - 1;

    beginInsertRows(QModelIndex(), begin, end);
    foreach (const LocalData::Message & msg, temp) {
        m_data.push_back(msg);
    }
    endInsertRows();
}

I want to use a QSortFilterProxyModel to both sort and filter the messages.
I've managed to make it filter the messages correctly based on the RoomId role, but I am having troubles with sorting the messages correctly on the Created role.
The proxy model that I'm using is very simple, I've just tried to override the lessThan() function like so:
bool SortFilterProxyModel::lessThan(const QModelIndex &source_left, const QModelIndex &source_right) const
    {
        QVariant leftData = sourceModel()->data(source_left);
        QVariant rightData = sourceModel()->data(source_right);

        if(leftData.type() == QVariant::DateTime)
        {
            return leftData.toDateTime() < rightData.toDateTime();
        }
        else {
            return leftData.toString() < rightData.toString();
        }
    }

Othervise it is just a plain QSortFilterProxyModel.
When it's being initialised I am calling the following functions:
m_messageModel = new MessageModel;
m_messageProxyModel = new SortFilterProxyModel;

m_messageProxyModel->setSourceModel(qobject_cast<QAbstractListModel *>(m_messageModel));

m_engine.rootContext()->setContextProperty("messages", m_messageProxyModel);

m_messageProxyModel.setSortRole(MessageModel::Created);

m_messageProxyModel.setDynamicSortFilter(true);

m_messageProxyModel.sort(0, Qt::AscendingOrder);

m_messageModel, m_messageProxyModel, and m_engine is all member variables (pointers) declared in a class which is instantiated in main().
m_engine is a QQmlApplicationEngine which exposes the variable to qml.
Here is the qml file containing the ListView with all the messages.
import QtQuick 2.0
import QtQuick.Controls 1.4

Rectangle{
    property alias messageView: _messagePanelView
    Component {
        id: _messagePanelDelegate
        Item{
            id: _messagePanelDelegateItem;

            width: root.width * 0.8
            height: _messagePanelMessageColumn.height
            Column{
                id: _messagePanelMessageColumn;
                height: children.height;
                spacing: 20
                Text{ text: "" + personEmail + " <t />" + created; font.pointSize: 7 + Math.log(root.width) }
                Text{ text: messageText }
                Rectangle{
                    width: parent.width
                    height: 20
                    color: "#FFFFFF"
                }
            }
        }
    }
    ScrollView{
        anchors.fill: parent
        ListView {
            id: _messagePanelView
            height: root.height - 100
            model: messages
            delegate: _messagePanelDelegate
            interactive: true
        }
    }
}

The source model is currently populated with data when the user asks for all messages in a specific "chat room". A function similar to this is called when the user presses a button.
void sync_messages_and_filter_based_on_roomId(QString roomId)
{
    m_messageProxyModel->setFilterRole(MessageModel::RoomId);
    m_messageProxyModel->setFilterCaseSensitivity(Qt::CaseInsensitive);
    m_messageProxyModel->setFilterRegExp(QRegExp::escape(roomId));

    fetch_messages_in_room_from_server_async(roomId);
}

fetch_messages_in_room_from_server_async(roomId); is a function that asks the server for new messages, receives a JSON formatted response payload, creates a QJsonArray object and calls void MessageModel::insert_unique_data(QJsonArray new_data) All of which happens in a seperate worker thread.
When this is called the first time, the data actually gets sorted in an descending order (oldest at the bottom, most recent at the top). But when it's called a second time, when the server has more data to provide, the client is supposed to insert all the new messages as rows in the source model, and have the proxy model sort it in an ascending order (most recent at the bottom, oldest at the top) once the new data has been inserted.
Currently the model is only being sorted in an descending order, the first time data is inserted into the model. But once the model has been updated for the first time, it's no longer sorting the data, and the new messages appear on the bottom of the ListView instead of the top, which means that the proxy model has stopped sorting the model.
Here is an image of the ListView, after inserting a second time. Notice the timestamps
This is what happens when I terminate the program, and insert all the messages at once
The result that I want is to have the proxy model sort the messages in an ascending order (most recent at the botton, oldest at the top) every time the source model is updated/changed. Meaning when void MessageModel::insert_unique_data(QJsonArray new_data) is called, I'm expecting the new messages to appear on the bottom, with the most recent message as the last message.
Thank you for taking your time to read through my insanely long post. I just wanted to cover all the details since exposing c++ models to qml requires a lot of steps.

A: My guess would be that your lessThan function is doing nothing.
When you are calling QVariant leftData = sourceModel()->data(source_left); it calls the data function with the role Qt::DisplayRole which returns an invalid QVariant for your model. Your if(leftData.type() == QVariant::DateTime) is never true.
What you should do is explicitly getting the timestamp with QDateTime leftTimestamp = m_data.at(source_left.row()).created; and the same for source_right.
Your if is then useless and you can just do return leftTimestamp < rightTimeStamp;

Alternatively, and if you want to do the sorting and filtering from QML and not c++, you could use my SortFilterProxyModel like so :
import QtQuick 2.0
import QtQuick.Controls 1.4
import SortFilterProxyModel 0.2

Rectangle{
    property alias messageView: _messagePanelView

    SortFilterProxyModel {
         id: proxyMessageModel
         sourceModel: sourceMessageModel // a context property you exposed
         filters: ValueFilter {
             roleName: "roomId"
             value: currentRoomId // a property you could add somewhere
         }
         sorters : RoleSorter {
             roleName: "created"
         }
    }
    Component {
        id: _messagePanelDelegate
        Item{
            id: _messagePanelDelegateItem;

            width: root.width * 0.8
            height: _messagePanelMessageColumn.height
            Column{
                id: _messagePanelMessageColumn;
                height: children.height;
                spacing: 20
                Text{ text: "" + personEmail + " <t />" + created; font.pointSize: 7 + Math.log(root.width) }
                Text{ text: messageText }
                Rectangle{
                    width: parent.width
                    height: 20
                    color: "#FFFFFF"
                }
            }
        }
    }
    ScrollView{
        anchors.fill: parent
        ListView {
            id: _messagePanelView
            height: root.height - 100
            model: proxyMessageModel
            delegate: _messagePanelDelegate
            interactive: true
        }
    }
}

A: I've figured it out!
In the SortProxyModel::lessThan() function, I called the QAbstractProxyModel::data(const QModelIndex &proxyIndex, int role = Qt::DisplayRole) functions without changing the default role parameter. Meaning that my implementation of the lessThan() function doesn't compare on the Created role.
How I fixed it was to just use the normal QSortProxyModel type, instead of my own derived version. Subclassing QSortProxyModel was a mistake.

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Besides the functionality that Click provides to interface with argument parsing and handling, it also provides a bunch of addon functionality that is useful for writing command line utilities.
The most obvious helper is the echo() function, which in many ways works like the Python print statement or function. The main difference is that it works the same in Python 2 and 3, it intelligently detects misconfigured output streams, and it will never fail (except in Python 3; for more information see Python 3 Limitations).
Last but not least echo() uses click's intelligent internal output streams to stdout and stderr which support unicode output on the Windows console. This means for as long as you are using click.echo you can output unicode character (there are some limitations on the default font with regards to which characters can be displayed). This functionality is new in Click 6.0.
Click now emulates output streams on Windows to support unicode to the Windows console through separate APIs. For more information see Windows Console Notes.
Starting with Click 2.0, the echo() function gained extra functionality to deal with ANSI colors and styles. Note that on Windows, this functionality is only available if colorama is installed. If it is installed, then ANSI codes are intelligently handled. Note that in Python 2, the echo function doesn't parse color code information from bytearrays.
Click's echo() function will automatically strip ANSI color codes if the stream is not connected to a terminal.
the echo() function will transparently connect to the terminal on Windows and translate ANSI codes to terminal API calls. This means that colors will work on Windows the same way they do on other operating systems.
Note for colorama support: Click will automatically detect when colorama is available and use it. Do not call colorama.init()!
In some situations, you might want to show long texts on the terminal and let a user scroll through it. This can be achieved by using the echo_via_pager() function which works similarly to the echo() function, but always writes to stdout and, if possible, through a pager.
Normally, when reading input from the terminal, you would read from standard input. However, this is buffered input and will not show up until the line has been terminated. In certain circumstances, you might not want to do that and instead read individual characters as they are being written.
For this, Click provides the getchar() function which reads a single character from the terminal buffer and returns it as a Unicode character.
Note that this function will always read from the terminal, even if stdin is instead a pipe.
Note that this reads raw input, which means that things like arrow keys will show up in the platform's native escape format. The only characters translated are ^C and ^D which are converted into keyboard interrupts and end of file exceptions respectively. This is done because otherwise, it's too easy to forget about that and to create scripts that cannot be properly exited.
Sometimes, it's useful to pause until the user presses any key on the keyboard. This is especially useful on Windows where cmd.exe will close the window at the end of the command execution by default, instead of waiting.
In click, this can be accomplished with the pause() function. This function will print a quick message to the terminal (which can be customized) and wait for the user to press a key. In addition to that, it will also become a NOP (no operation instruction) if the script is not run interactively.
Click supports launching editors automatically through edit(). This is very useful for asking users for multi-line input. It will automatically open the user's defined editor or fall back to a sensible default. If the user closes the editor without saving, the return value will be None otherwise the entered text.
Alternatively, the function can also be used to launch editors for files by a specific filename. In this case, the return value is always None .
Click supports launching applications through launch(). This can be used to open the default application associated with a URL or filetype. This can be used to launch web browsers or picture viewers, for instance. In addition to this, it can also launch the file manager and automatically select the provided file.
Because filenames might not be Unicode, formatting them can be a bit tricky. Generally, this is easier in Python 2 than on 3, as you can just write the bytes to stdout with the print function, but in Python 3, you will always need to operate in Unicode.
The way this works with click is through the format_filename() function. It does a best-effort conversion of the filename to Unicode and will never fail. This makes it possible to use these filenames in the context of a full Unicode string.
For command line utilities, it's very important to get access to input and output streams reliably. Python generally provides access to these streams through sys.stdout and friends, but unfortunately, there are API differences between 2.x and 3.x, especially with regards to how these streams respond to Unicode and binary data.
Because of this, click provides the get_binary_stream() and get_text_stream() functions, which produce consistent results with different Python versions and for a wide variety of terminal configurations.
The end result is that these functions will always return a functional stream object (except in very odd cases in Python 3; see Python 3 Limitations).
Starting with Click 3.0 the logic for opening files from the File type is exposed through the open_file() function. It can intelligently open stdin/stdout as well as any other file.
Very often, you want to open a configuration file that belongs to your application. However, different operating systems store these configuration files in different locations depending on their standards. Click provides a get_app_dir() function which returns the most appropriate location for per-user config files for your application depending on the OS.
Sometimes, you have command line scripts that need to process a lot of data, but you want to quickly show the user some progress about how long that will take. Click supports simple progress bar rendering for that through the progressbar() function.


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Atlanta School Brings In Lawyers To Fight Student Turnover
Stephannie Stokes • May 24, 2017
Credit Stephannie Stokes / WABE
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Kids in low income neighborhoods tend to change schools more often than their peers. Studies show that can have a detrimental effect on their education.
This past year in Atlanta, one public school tried to break that trend—by bringing in some lawyers.
At Thomasville Heights Elementary School in southeast Atlanta, Christal Reynolds and Ayanna Jones-Lightsy have just started their day.
Reynolds, a community advocate, is already on the phone, talking to a parent who needs her apartment windows replaced.
"If you can today, call that repair line," she said. "And please ask for a confirmation number."
Meanwhile, Jones-Lightsy, an attorney, pulls a stack of documents out of a file cabinet. She said they're apartment building inspections acquired through an open records request.
"We requested a lot to go back and do comparisons," Jones-Lightsy said, "what they claimed has been fixed and may not have been fixed, and what has actually been fixed."
Jones-Lightsy and Reynolds are with the Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation, a group that provides free legal aid. The two work together to keep kids at Thomasville Heights.
"Last year, Thomasville Heights had a 40 percent turnover rate in their students," Jones-Lightsy said. "That's almost half the students were coming in or going out in the course of the year."
The simple reason is their families were moving. In this low income neighborhood, a lot of moving was happening in one place.
"Thomasville Heights is unique in that right across the street we have this huge subsidized housing apartment complex," Jones-Lightsy said.
According to Jones-Lightsy and Reynolds, the complex called Forest Cove has a number of issues. They include evictions, overdue repairs and conditions like mold and infestations.
They said those issues make families leave. So Jones-Lightsy and Reynolds are using the tools of the legal system to bring a change.
"We work with seven of the top firms in Atlanta," Jones-Lightsy said. "The focus is on how do we help these residents stay here and help improve conditions."
Attorneys send demand letters or even go to court—all pro bono. They say that in more than a dozen cases, including Lagina Brown's, it's worked.
"It's comfortable for me," said Brown, who lives at Forest Cove with her six kids. "Because say if I have to quit my job for some reason I don't have to worry about being thrown out."
Last year, though, she had some trouble. Her air conditioning went out upstairs, the electricity stopped working downstairs and she found bed bugs.
"It was just a horrible process because we really didn't have nowhere to go," Brown said. "The house to me was not livable. So basically we were just sleeping wherever we could."
After the apartment manager sent her an eviction notice, the volunteer lawyers stepped in.
One fought her eviction in court. Later, when repairs still weren't complete, another attorney followed up.
"I don't know what he wrote but after the lawyer sent the letter, they got it done the very next day," Brown said, snapping her finger. "Immediately."
The attorneys' help kept Brown at Forest Cove and three of her kids at Thomasville Heights. That stability is what the school wants.
Nicole Jones started as principal last year, when a charter school organization, Purpose Built Schools, partnered with Atlanta Public Schools to turn around Thomasville Heights.
"Kids don't learn from people who they don't like or know very well," Jones said. "So it's really important that we get them here and they stay."
A New York University study of Chicago schools found that the less students change schools, the better they focus and perform on tests.
Jones said that the women with the Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation have also become familiar faces at Thomasville Heights.
"They're very trusted," Jones said. "The parents don't think anything about it. It's just like, 'Can I talk to the teacher or can I see the principal?' You know, 'Can I talk to the lawyer?'"
The management of Forest Cove, the Columbia Property Group, didn't respond to requests for comment, but the property owner, Global Ministries Foundation, did.
A spokesperson said it bought the property three years ago and has since spent $3 million on rehabilitation. The apartments at the time did deal with water damage, the spokesperson said, but that was addressed.
The foundation is now planning to sell the property to another company promising more repairs. That sale is pending federal approval.
Jones-Lightsy and Reynolds said they plan to stay in the Thomasville Heights neighborhood and continue working with the families.
"I think it's important that management feels like all of the tenants at Forest Cove now have a lawyer," Jones-Lightsy said.
"So we'll be around," Reynolds said. "We will be here for the long haul."
Next year, the Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation program will expand.
Lawyers will start working with five more Atlanta schools—Slater Elementary, Price Middle, Gideons Elementary, Dunbar Elementary and D.H. Stanton Elementary—which also deal with high student turnover rates.
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"Artists in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love." Marsilio Ficino 1433-99 Italia.
13 days- 12 nights singing,eating good food,philosophy, drinking nice wine, tasting slow food, and Qi Gong and walking meditation in Tuscany Italy in May .For the first 5 days we stay in Palazzo Tucci in Lucca, then a week in Villa Corsano in the Sienese countryside with our own chefs Vanna and Francesca. Activities include singing daily and Qi Gong( chinese energy exercises and some Tai Chi), visit to Puccini OperaFestival, Palio medieval Horse race procession in Siena, Castello di Ama which is an exclusive winery with a world class contemporary art gallery with guide, a visit to the largest collection of roses in the world Carla Fineschi Rose gardens ,Iris Orrigo's La Foce which is one of the top 10 gardens in the world ,Ancient medieval town San Gimigniano, San Antimo romanesque Abbey, Monte Olivieto Maggiore vespers and gregorian chanting ,we visit the smallest opera theatre in the world and perform on its stage, we have a degustation lunch with Slow Food Tuscany's president Andrea. And through it we become a 12 day choir performing in a pop up performance flash mob in Montalcino !.This is a fully accompanied tour lead by foodie Valdo Michelangeli and singer Kavisha as your guides.This is a tour that celebrates Life!
..You get yourself to Lucca.Italy ....We will meets, then we travel around Tuscany together.
The aim of this tour is to offer a taste of some of the best things Tuscany has to offer together with a unique singing experience. The result is a tour offering wonderful Tuscan food and wine guided by Valdo Michelangeli with history and culture, amazing scenery with our own guides and Kavisha Mazzella as choir leader and tour troubadour.
The tour traverses the Tuscan region, starting in Lucca and destinations include Barga, Montalcino, Siena, San Gimignano, Bagno Vignoni, San Quirico d'Orcia, Pienza and Gaiole in Chianti.
This tour is distinguished by the flexibility and intimacy offered by a small touring group and the unique opportunity to expand your choral talents under the musicianship of Kavisha Mazzella.
Each day there will be a period given over to group singing (approximately 2 hours) with the remainder of day given over to the pleasures of discovery.
The fact that the tour group is small (max 12 members), permits increased flexibility to allow the touring to adjust to the group's wishes.
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✓ 11 main meals with local wines.
✓ Transfers back to the railway station at Florence which has connections to the airport or south to Rome, at the end of the tour.
✓ A guarantee of lots of fun!!!


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Q: Comparison of two populations by analyzing the dependence of a single dependent variable on several independent ones I am looking at two populations on which I have measured 4 independent variables ($X_1$, $X_2$, $X_3$, $X_4$) and one dependent variable ($Y$) along with each measurement or observation. I suspect that the two populations are different in the sense that the second population's $Y$ shows a dependence on an additional non-considered factor (I expect $Y$ to be systematically lower, in fact).
Considering that:

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*the dependent variables are highly correlated;

*the dependence of $Y$ on the $X$'s is unknown and arguably non-parametric;

*the number of observables/measurements is small (~100 for the first group, ~30 for the second).

I feel that multi linear regression would assume some kind of underlying structure and would bias my analysis, so I would like to avoid it. I tried to use PCA on both and compare the PC's: nothing significant comes out in the sense of dimensionality.
Could you suggest a test that would check if the two populations are really different in respect to $Y$ while keeping at a minimum the number of assumptions on its functional dependence?
Thank you very much,
P.

A: Despite your feelings, you might want to try multiple regression nevertheless. Put your two populations into one regression and add an indicator for group membership (i.e. to which population does the observation belong). This allows you to test if there are any significant mean differences across the populations after controlling for your explanatory variables. If you think that the two populations' dependency on the explanatory variables are different as well (i.e. different $\beta$s), you can also easily interact the variables with your group membership dummy, which allows you to formally test if the parameters are equal across the two populations.

A: PCA is generally used to reduce the number of dimensions. Considering that you have only 4,  I don't think it would help much.
Can you tell me more about your Y variable? Is it classification or a regression that you are trying to perform?
If its classification, I would suggest you try using trees.


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The Great Bazaar & Brayan's Gold – Peter V. Brett
Demon Cycle, Novellas, Redemption, Warded Man
You may recall my less-than-stellar review of the best-selling first novel in Peter Brett's Demon Cycle series, The Warded Man. In that review, I complained that there were too many clichés, too many fantasy tropes that felt weak, too little that made the book really stand out as exemplary. There was a significant caveat to those statements, you may also recall. I emphasized that many of the issues I took with the book were most likely caused by the Graphic Audio production, which left me confused more often than not, and generally whitewashed the characters by making nearly everyone a boorish country bumpkin. Ultimately, I found the story beneath the sound effects, accents, and ear-splitting shrieks to be one that I knew I would enjoy if I'd read it myself. I haven't read The Warded Man on paper yet, but I will, and soon. Why, you ask?
A few weeks ago I was contacted by San-Francisco-based Tachyon Publications, who asked if I'd like to review an upcoming release of Peter Brett's. The Great Bazaar & Brayan's Gold contains two novellas from the Demon Cycle, as well as two deleted scenes from The Warded Man. I jumped at the opportunity, and am glad to report that my prediction was entirely accurate. Sitting down and reading the book, I found myself transported in a way that the audio version of The Warded Man was never able to achieve. In these two novellas, I got a taste for how great the "real" thing is, and an understanding of why so many people are so entranced by the series.
In The Warded Man, we meet Arlen as a young man, witness the most pivotal moments in his childhood that set him upon his journey, then meet two other characters, hear about their beginnings, and finally reconnect with Arlan when he's much older and has already seen much of the world. The novellas in this book are stories from the "between" years, and help to fill in the gap left to the readers' imagination of a large swath of the protagonist's life. The author has created a wonderful opportunity for himself in skipping a large chunk of time in the main story: he can expand his world, and build Arlan's legend through additional stories like these two. They were both great reads.
"Brayan's Gold" is the story of Arlan's first overnight excursion as a messenger, and introduces a setting new to readers that had only been implied by The Warded Man. The lore of the world of the Demon Cycle is deceptive in its simplicity. There are demons, that rise from the core (hence the name "corelings") of the earth every night and terrorize humanity. There are magical wards that can protect humanity from the demons, but the art of warding is largely forgotten, and civilizations basically know enough to get by and survive the nights. As a result the development of society is significantly slowed. Sounds simple, but the simplicity allows Brett to introduce new kinds of demons, new types of wards, and build a depth to the world that seems to creep out of nowhere. The way he makes you believe in the reality of the world, the completion of the illusion, is in the emotional responses of the characters who inhabit the world. For most people, the corelings are a feared enemy, and a good reason to never stray too far from home. For people like Arlan, they're an obsession to study, and eventually kill.
In "Brayan's Gold," we get a taste of Arlan's youthful thirst to prove himself and learn more about his enemy and how to fight them. He heads up to the gold mining town of Brayan's Gold to make a delivery of "thundersticks," encounters treachery and bandits along the way, as well as an entirely new class of demon. He learns new wards there, as well. We also get yet another chance to see his unwavering — and perhaps foolish — courage, which makes him simultaneously lovable and unrelatable in a world so overcome with hopelessness and fear. Wherever he goes, he seems to inspire hope or incredulity, and in this story he leaves a bit of both behind. The action is wonderfully crafted, the characters (though many of them exist only for the brief tale,) are well developed, and the story feels complete. It made me want to read more from that world. Fortunately for me, it was followed by another novella — "The Great Bazaar."
"The Great Bazaar" takes us back to Krasia, that one area of the world with the "crazy middle easterners" which is, by and large, exactly that. There was just something about reading it that made it feel much less hackneyed than the audio version. In "The Great Bazaar," we find Arlan, a bit older and more experienced, encountering yet another new kind of demon, and living to tell the tale. His daring is demonstrated again, in the face of this new danger, and he livest to collect his valuable treasure and return to barter it. Where this story gets most interesting is in the point-of-view shift from Arlan to Abban, the Krasian merchant who who befriended Arlan some time before. Abban's perspective on Kraisa is fresh, and provides insight to what I previously thought of as a very one-dimensional part of the world of the Demon Cycle. Through Abban's eyes, we see that it is more nuanced, more colorful, and "free" than the initial impression we're given leads us to believe. Krasia appears to us originally as a male-dominated warrior society with a cruel caste system, and nothing more. And it is that, on the surface. When we ride behind Abban's eyes, we see that the Krasian society functions on many levels. Castes within castes, if you will. It's still a bit banal, in a way, but it's eminently believable with the introduced depth. The most exciting action in "The Great Bazaar" takes place within Krasia, during a robbery orchestrated by Abban and Arlan. With a final twist at the end, "The Great Bazaar" was a splendid read, and perfect counterpoint in setting and character to "Brayan's Gold."
The book also includes two deleted scenes from The Warded Man. The first provides fans with the source of the whole shebang — Peter Brett's first foray into this world, in the form of a short story written for a classroom assignment. It's pretty good too, despite the (necessary) caveat that it was written in one night, as homework. The second is a moment where Leesha — one of the protagonists in The Demon Cycle — in the course of her studies to become a medicine woman, years-since ostracized by her community for perceived indecency, confronts one of her old friends, whom she discovers is being beaten by her husband. Leesha is a character who is hardened by the cruelty of her world, threatened by demons from without and social constructs from within. No splitting hairs here — this world isn't kind to women. Leesha is empowered by Bruna, the healer before her, and with the mantle of a healer grows into her own. In this scene we find a Leesha who manages to be impartial and objective, and simply help someone who desperately needs it, despite the difficulties this particular young woman caused her. I can understand why Peter Brett cut it from the final version of The Warded Man, but I was glad to read it here.
The bottom line is that I was on the fence about the Demon Cycle. I went into great detail about that in my review of The Warded Man. These stories helped me fall to one side — the one that's ready to read more. Now I want to hop into The Desert Spear and keep the momentum going. I highly recommend this to fans of the Demon Cycle. It'd be a bit tough to pick up and digest if you're new to the world, but not hard enough that you won't enjoy yourself. An altogether great read.
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all of this communities (fedora, debian, gentoo...) have people that believe firmly on Free Software totally and others that don't as much... and they are divided.. why and why can't be that ll this people from this 4-5 "linux" distros forget about the rpm vs .deb emacs vs vim for once and come together and create from ground up a new distro? most of you will say *to much work...* not really and if the time we spend complaining about this distros we did spend it actually with some creativity and development we will succeed, now may if you will will ask/say *what this have to do with the topic in question?*, well is simple we have the name.. (gnewsense) we have some incentive, we have some people (all of us in this list ) why don't we just build a 100% free distro from the ground up? I mean is not that difficult trust me.. not to build it.. I have 87 Gentoo servers that I modify for our needs (that is why I choose gentoo ) on my company, I know well how to build a distro from 0 to 100, so at least why don't we focus instead of complaining on what distro should we *pull from* and let's keep pulling from Ubuntu for now till we can become *our own body* with our own character?


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Sleep Walker est un groupe de jazz originaire de Tōkyō au Japon.

Histoire
Le quartet a été formé au début des années 2000, il a enregistré plusieurs disques pour des labels japonais et européens.
La musique de Sleep Walker a été popularisée en Europe par des DJ tels que Gilles Peterson ou Patrick Forge dans le cadre de leurs émissions de radio et leurs soirées en club.
Leur premier concert en France a eu lieu au Batofar le . Le musicien Stéphane Belmondo, qui était l'invité de ce concert, a joué 3 morceaux avec le groupe.

Style et Influences
Sleep Walker est l'un des groupes fondateurs du mouvement japonais "club jazz" auquel appartient également des groupes tels que Kyoto Jazz Massive, Soil and "Pimp" Sessions ou United Future Organization.
Ils jouent un style de jazz dansant, soutenu par une rythmique très dynamique.
Le son du saxophoniste Masato Nakamura est influencé par le jazz "mystique" de la seconde partie des années 1960, en particulier par la musique de Archie Shepp ou de Pharoah Sanders avec qui le groupe a collaboré sur le titre "The Voyage".

Discographie

Albums
 Sleep Walker (2003)
 The Voyage (2006)
 "United Legends" Replayed By Sleep Walker (2007)
 Works (2007)
 Into The Sun (2008)

Maxi (12")
 The Voyage / Into The Sun (2004)
 River Of Love / Eclipse (2005)
 Afroat (2007)
 Wind (2007)
 Brotherhood (2008)

Composition

Sleep Walker se compose de :
 Masato Nakamura 中村 雅人 : saxophone ténor, saxophone alto
 Hajime Yoshizawa 吉澤 はじめ : piano, Fender Rhodes
 Ikeda Kiyoshi 池田潔 : contrebasse
 Nobuaki Fujii 藤井 伸昭 : batterie

Notes et références

Liens externes
  Notice discographique sur Discogs
  Site officiel du pianiste Hajime Yoshizawa

Groupe japonais de jazz
Groupe musical japonais des années 2000