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Viet Thanh Nguyen: Storytelling in the Age of Trump
Geschrieben am 15. März 2017 von Viet Thanh Nguyen für Crimemag, Kolumnen und Themen
Viet Thanh Nguyen	 Mrz 15, 2017
Trump is a great storyteller – We need to be better.
My son is three years old. Every morning and evening I read to him. I love the joy he takes in learning new words, immersing himself in stories, seeing himself as the characters, and acquiring a moral and ethical sense. He lives in a world of good and bad, of threat and rescue, of choices between doing or not doing harm.
When I was a child, not much older than him, I had no library to call my own except the public library. In Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, of the mid-seventies, I was a refugee and the child of refugees who had fled from Vietnam. My parents neither had the time nor the ability to read to me in English.
With my parents working constantly to survive in a strange land, I took refuge in books. They became my constant companion, and the public library my safe space. Through stories of America, I became an American. I imagined myself amid the wonders of Manhattan, the bucolic splendor of Midwestern farms, the stirring and dreadful times of the Revolution and the Civil War. This land was my land, too, even if in all of these stories there was no one who looked like me or had a name like mine.
Identity is also a matter of storytelling
As I remembered this, what became clear to me during the presidential election was that the contest for our American identity is not only a political affair. It is also a matter of storytelling. Storytelling has always been crucial to this and any other country. Those who seek to lead our country must persuade the people through their ability to tell a story about who we are, where we have been, and where we are going. The struggle over the direction of our country is also a fight over whose words will win and whose images will ignite the collective imagination.
Donald Trump won that struggle, if just barely, having lost the popular vote and winning the electoral college with fewer than 100,000 votes in three states. His voters responded to his call to "Make America Great Again," referring to a past when jobs were more plentiful, incomes more stable, and politicians more truthful. That kind of nostalgia is powerful, but for those who disagree with him, it's hard to ignore his story's subtext. America of the Golden Age, if it ever existed, only did so because women were kept out of the workplace, people of color were segregated and exploited, and immigration was racially restrictive. Trump's story was simpler and more visceral, and audiences have always responded hungrily to his kind of morality tale.
Trump's compelling vision of us versus them and good versus evil unified enough of the electorate to win, but terrifies many who did not vote for him. Among this population is much of the literary world, or so my conversations with literary people suggest. At the National Book Award and Dayton Literary Peace Prize ceremonies that I attended recently, most of the speech givers proclaimed their opposition to the values that Trump espoused, which contradict literature itself. Great literature cannot exist if it is based on hate, fear, division, exclusion, scapegoating, or the worship of injustice. Bad literature and demagogic power, on the other hand, exploit these very things, and they do so through telling the kind of demonizing story that most literary writers reject.
The literary world knew that Trump had many supporters, but we believed too optimistically that what we valued in literature—empathy, justice, inclusion—would prevail. But there were warning signals. Occasionally, before the prize, I would get a letter from someone who did not like my novel, accusing me of being ungrateful to America, of criticizing America too much. When I checked my book sales, the regions where the book was most popular were the northeast, the west coast, and the big cities. A vast swath of rural America in the deep south, the heartland, and the upper north were not buying the book. And the day before the presidential election, an obscure novelist attacked me on Twitter. I was "NOT an #American #author (born in #Vietnam)." As for my Pulitzer, it was "An American #prize that shuns the real #America. #We long for the Great #American #Novel. When?"
Literature is a sanctuary. No book has ever refused a reader
I can only assume many more of my fellow Americans feel this way about me or people like me, even though I have spent all but four years of my life in America. People like me speak without an accent, live middle-class lives, passed our citizenship exams. When do we become Americans in the eyes of that part of America that voted for Donald Trump? And what of those people who speak with an accent, do not belong to the middle class, and are not citizens? Is there hope for them to be a part of America? Do they feel isolated, frightened, and alone?
The election reminds me of the necessity of my vocation, of the crucial role that literature plays in shaping the imagination and in offering refuge. Literature is a sanctuary. No book has ever refused a reader. Writers cannot write if they are incapable of imagining what it is that an other feels, thinks, and sees. Through reading and writing, through identifying with characters and people who are nothing like us, through destroying the walls between ourselves and others that it is so easy to hide behind, we who love words learn to love others. Great literature can and must depict abuse, among other things, but it cannot itself be abusive.
To literary people, Trump's story of a once-great America sounds abusive. It threatens deportation and exclusion and exults in domination and insult. The cast of Hamilton sought to remind Mike Pence of this when he attended the show, addressing him directly and imploring him to defend American diversity. When an offended Trump tweeted that the theater "must always be a safe and special place," he missed the point that America should always be a safe and special place. This is why nobody in the literary world is rushing to embrace his version of storytelling. From a literary perspective, the only good thing about Trump's victory is that it has brought out a spirit of resistance and an affirmation of literature, an ethos summed up by the novelist Colson Whitehead in his acceptance speech at the National Book Awards: "Be kind to everyone. Make art. Fight the power."
The lesson of the great books is: That we are not alone
After I drank two bottles of Scotch with my partner and my graduate students during the night of the election and the next day, I also renewed my commitment to fight the power. As a writer, that was always my mission, and I was thinking of it when I named my son Ellison, after the novelist Ralph Waldo Ellison, himself named after the philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson. Making my son a part of this lineage, I wanted him to understand the basic paradox at the heart of literature and philosophy: even as each of us is solitary as a reader or a writer, we are reminded of our shared humanity and inhumanity. The lesson of the great books comes from how they assert, again and again, that we are not alone.
My son need not become a writer, but he will become a storyteller. We are all storytellers of our own existence, of our American identities. I want my son to rise to the challenge of fighting to determine whose stories will define our America. These stories include even Trump and his followers, whose concerns are genuine to them. But even as we writers should feel compassion for them, and tell stories about them, we cannot surrender our values to theirs. Our task, now more than ever, is to help transform the political world so that it expresses the values of the literary world. Rather than building walls, we should be opening hearts. Rather than making America great again, we should help America love again.
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Edited version published in The New York Times. The author won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize and an Edgar for 'The Sympathizer'. He is the Aerol Arnold Chair of English and professor of American studies and ethnicity at the University of Southern California. His latest book, 'The Refugees', was published February 7th, 2017, at Grove Press. "The Sympathizer" will be out in Germany in September at Karl Blessing Verlag.
Viet Thanh Ngyuen at CrimeMag.
His website: www.vietnguyen.info/home
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Breast Imaging Techniques for Breast Cancer: Section 2.b.
2.4 Conventional (Diagnostic) Mammography
2.5 'Surveillance' Mammography
2.6 Some New Developments in Mammography
2.6.1 Digital Mammography
2.6.2 Computer-Aided Detection (CAD)
2.6.3 Tomosynthesis or '3-D' Mammography
2.6.4 Stereoscopic Digital Mammography
2.6.5 Scintimammography
2.6.6 Positron Emission Tomography (PET)
2.7 Breast Ultrasound
2.7.1 Indications for Breast Ultrasound in Screening
2.7.2 The Role of Diagnostic Breast Ultrasound
Forward to 2C on Abnormal mammo and MRI Back to 2A on screening
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2.4: Breast Imaging: Conventional (Diagnostic) Mammography
If a breast abnormality is present on clinical examination then a diagnostic mammogram is necessary. During a diagnostic mammogram samples are taken for cytology or histopathology.
The diagnostic mammogram is usually supervised by a Radiologist and the views obtained adapted to evaluate any specific abnormality. In addition, an ultrasound may be necessary. Magnification views may provide details of breast calcification and the margins of any masses.
So, you find a lump, you go to your doctor and he sends you for a mammogram.
Yes, that would be a diagnostic mammogram.
A focal 'spot compression' view is performed by applying focal compression to the area of interest in the breast, using a small compression paddle.
Additional views, such as anterior compression or an exaggerated cranio-caudal (XCC) view may be necessary to maximize imaging of as much breast tissue as possible.
Using a 90-degree lateral view of the breast, the X-ray beam can travel from either the medial (medio-lateral) or from the lateral (latero-medial) side of the breast. The lateral view is a direct orthogonal view to the cranio-caudal (CC) projection and is useful in triangulating breast lesions.
Oh my goodness! I think you have to be a radiologist to understand that bit.
Well I understand up to the X-ray beam bit…
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More Mammographic Views of the Breast
The best mammographic view to evaluate breast calcifications is a 'delayed lateral' view. To obtain this view, the breast can be in compression for up to two minutes. This view can confirm the presence of benign patterns of breast calcification or with benign breast micro-cysts.
Tangential views can further evaluate a palpable mass or confirm breast calcification.
Remember, radiologists can see things in you that other people can't.
'Rolled' CC views can help to confirm that the three-dimensional nature of a finding seen only on one of the conventional views. The technologist places her hands on either side of the breast and 'rolls' the breast tissue, medial and lateral for the CC view; superior and inferior for the MLO view. The technician compresses and rolls the breast tissue, to obtain the image. This imaging method may also assist the subsequent performance of an accurate targeted ultrasound to sample the cells or tissue of the lesion.
Breast compression improves image quality. Oral or topical analgesics and cushioned paddles may minimize discomfort during compression.
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Surveillance mammograms are performed for women who have a history of breast cancer. So, for five years follow-up screening is necessary, after a diagnosis of breast cancer. Surveillance mammograms are similar to diagnostic mammograms. So, there is a radiologist on-site who can interpret the study and determine if further views or tests will be necessary.
If the patient does not develop recurrence within the first five years, the patient returns to routine screening for subsequent years.
How often would you have a mammogram after breast cancer treatment?
Typically, you would have a mammogram yearly for five years, although it does depend on your treatment center.
The breast cancer screening program has played a role in accelerating the development of new imaging refinements and techniques that improve detection and diagnosis of breast disease. A summary of some of the key imaging developments is below:-
When compared to standard 'film' mammography, 'full field' digital mammography can improve image quality and assist study interpretation, but it is more costly.
I'm getting lost very early here, What is digital mammogragphy?
Digital mammography uses digital receptors and computers instead of X-ray film to examine breast tissue for abnormalities.
Now don't get me wrong, I like fields, especially full ones, I just don't see their place in this case.
So far, digital mammography has not demonstrated a significant impact on cancer detection rates. Standard film mammography remains an acceptable breast screening modality for all women.
Computer-aided detection (CAD) may improve the sensitivity of mammographic screening but has not been demonstrated to reduce mortality rates from breast cancer. CAD may increase patient recall rates.
In 2012, breast tomosynthesis (also known as '3-D' mammography) has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for routine diagnostic clinical use as an adjunct to standard mammography.
Tomosynthesis is a modification of digital mammography; it uses a moving x-ray source and a digital detector. The radiologist acquires and reconstructs a three-dimensional volume of data, using a computer algorithm. Next, the computer generates thin 'sections' of images. Thin 'slice' reconstruction improves the image of a breast lesion in the slice because it eliminates overlap from surrounding breast tissues and structures.
A breast imaging examination using tomosynthesis has a slightly longer exposure time for each image, which lasts at least 10 seconds, in comparison to standard digital mammography. However, disadvantages of this breast imaging exam is that the radiation dose per image is higher and there can also be motion artifacts.
'Motion Artifacts' they sound like something out of an Indiana Jones movie.
Motion artifacts occur as a result of movement during the scan, this can result in blurring or 'ghosting' on the image.
I'm shaking with fear now, he said ghost. I'm phasmophobic you know?.
A paper by Friedewald and colleagues, published in October 2014, has reviewed the role of tomosynthesis in breast cancer screening. These authors have claimed that the:
"Addition of tomosynthesis to digital mammography was associated
with a decrease in recall rate and an increase in cancer detection rate".
To truly evaluate the use of tomosynthesis in breast cancer screening, further research studies are necessary.
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A standard mammogram (CC view) (Left) compared with
a 3-D tomography image (Right) showing a small tumor.
(From, Grady, D. New York Times, June 24th 2014).
Stereoscopic digital mammography is currently a research technique; it involves using a stereoscopic viewer to view two full-field digital mammographic images, taken at a slight angle from each other. In this way, the technique can visualize 'depth' in internal breast structures. The radiation dose is twice that for standard imaging.
'Nuclear medicine breast imaging' or scintimammography may be necessary after an initial screening or diagnostic mammogram.
Scintimammography uses a radioactive atom, 'technetium 99' (Tc-99m) which is attached to a molecule called 'Sestamibi.' Sometimes the procedure is simply called a 'mibi scan.' The Sestamibi molecule is taken-up by metabolically active tissue, such as rapidly dividing cancer cells, and may, therefore, reveal an otherwise hidden lesion.
Scintimammography involves injecting a radioactive dye into the patient. The dye will accumulate differently in cancerous versus non-cancerous tissues and can help determine whether cancer is present.
Scintimammography, sounds Scintillating, but what exactly is it?
Very simply, an injection into the vein of a radioactive tracer that attaches to cancer cells. The cancerous cells then show up on imaging.
Wow! That is very cool!
This technique is helpful for women who have particularly dense breast tissue, for women with breast implants, or when multiple tumors are suspected. The technique can also help differentiate between possible tumors and scar tissue from a previous mastectomy.
Sometimes, if there is already a definite breast cancer diagnosis, scintimammography can be a useful imaging method to help with the 'staging' technique.
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Breast Imaging: Benefits of Scintimammography
For a primary breast lesion of greater than 1 cm, scintimammography has an estimated sensitivity of 85%, specificity of 89%, a positive predictive value of 89%, and a negative predictive value of 84%. The sensitivity for detection of axillary node metastasis is about 77%, with a specificity of about 89%.
Although radiologists consider mammography to be the best tool for breast cancer screening, scintimammography also has certain benefits.
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Scintimammographic image shows a central
breast mass.
From a patient's perspective, perhaps the greatest benefit is the immediacy of the results. It is not necessary to wait for a six to twelve months follow-up. Scintimammography tends to be useful when there is a palpable lesion greater than 1cm in diameter. A confirmed negative reading via scintimammography can, therefore, be quite reassuring. A nuclelar medicine specialist performs and reads scintimammography images, rather than radiologist.
It is only possible to get a scintimammogram in a hospital or setting which has a nuclear medicine department.
Well that's great news because waiting for the results is often the worst part of any tests.
Yes, I agree. I often find myself waiting….for cake… for waffles… for pancakes..I could go on.
Also, nuclear medicine specialists interpret PET scans because an injection of radioactive dye is necessary. Thus, the specialist measures the 'uptake' of the dye as it passes through different parts of the body.
A PET scan is used to scan the 'whole body', and is sometimes used as part of breast cancer 'staging' to check for metastasis of the cancer to other parts of the body.
PET scans measure changes in metabolic rate, and as cancer cells have a slightly higher metabolic rate than other cells, it will show 'hot spots' of increased density where malignant cancer masses are likely to be developing.
Figure 2.5 Positron emission tomogram (PET)
of the breast, shows a 'hot spot' of metabolically
active tumor cells.
Normally, a PET scan is not the breast imaging method of choice for breast cancer screening. However, PET scans may be useful as part of the differential diagnostic process, or when deciding whether a biopsy of a breast abnormality is necessary.
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An advantage of the use of breast PET scans in the breast cancer screening process is that it avoids the use of invasive procedures. However, the down side of PET scans are additional costs and an increase in exposure to radiation.
A new technique called 'positron emission mammography' (PEM) utilizes a high-resolution imaging technique that gives a lower rate of false positives than breast MRI. But it is unlikely that PEM will gain broad acceptance unless it proves to reduce costs and give additional time-saving and life-saving information, not available to the other imaging techniques.
Ultrasound imaging uses high frequency sound waves to form an image, called a 'sonogram'. The sound waves it uses are harmless and pass through the breast and bounce back or 'echo' from various tissues to form a picture of the internal structures.
An unexpected 'echo' means that there is a solid nodule of some kind within the tissue. An ultrasound uses no radiation, thus, for pregnant women, it is the diagnostic breast imaging method of choice.
Breast ultrasonography has distinctive roles in diagnosis of detected breast abnormalities and in screening to detect early breast cancer.
Figure 2.6 Breast ultrasound
of a post-surgical breast mass
(black on the ultrasound).
The image cannot distinguish
between surgical scar
and recurrent tumor.
The addition of breast ultrasound to mammographic screening has yet to be shown to reduce breast cancer mortality. At the present time, there have been no clinical trials that compare screening for breast cancer with combination ultrasound and mammography and mammography alone.
One of the most important roles of breast ultrasound is in the diagnostic follow-up of an abnormal screening mammogram.
Ultrasound can differentiate a solid mass from a cyst and also can evaluate breast masses or breast asymmetries. Color Doppler ultrasound can also aid in the assessment of breast masses.
What is the difference between an ultrasound and ultrasonography?
Don't worry, they're the same exam.
EXAM!!! Did somebody just say Exam? Is there an exam on this?
The addition of ultrasonography to mammography decreases specificity for breast cancer diagnosis but increases the sensitivity for small breast cancers.
A large multi-center, prospective clinical trial was conducted through the American College of Radiology Imaging Network (ACRIN Protocol 6666). ACRIN concluded that adding screening ultrasound to mammography can identify an additional 4.3 cancers per 1000 women screened. The ACRIN study also showed an increase in the number of false-positive results (positive predictive value for mammogram alone 22.6 % versus 11.2 % for mammogram plus ultrasound). Other multi-center trials have reported similar findings (Berg et al., 2008).
I used to be indecisive, but now I'm not so sure.
The American College of Radiology states that:
"the addition of ultrasound to screening mammography
may be useful for incremental cancer detection" (Lee et al., 2010).
Breast ultrasonography is used to provide guidance for biopsy procedures, fine needle aspiration (FNA) cytology and other interventions when a breast abnormality has been identified.
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Breast ultrasound has the following additional diagnostic roles:
Ultrasound is the first-line breast imaging method when a woman is pregnant or less than 30 years old and she has focal breast symptoms or findings;
In addition, ultrasound is helpful in evaluating the local extent of breast cancer;
Ultrasound can identify additional tumor in the same breast when mammography has detected the main tumor mass.
Ultrasound is used to evaluate the axilla and axillary lymph nodes in the setting of a newly-diagnosed breast cancer or when there are 'suspicious' finding on mammography.
When axillary ultrasound is positive, the suspicious lymph nodes may have an image-guided biopsy (FNA cytology or core biopsy) to confirm or exclude malignancy. A 'positive' axillary lymph node leads to full surgical axillary lymph node dissection, rather than sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy at the time of definitive breast surgery.
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Friedewald, S.M., Rafferty, E.A., Rose, S.L., et al. (2014). Breast Cancer Screening Using Tomosynthesis in Combination with Digital Mammography. JAMA 311(24), 2499-507. (Retrieved October 28th 2014): http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1883018
Berg, W.A. (2004). Supplemental screening sonography in dense breasts. Radiol Clin North Am. 42(5), 845-51. (Retrieved October 28th 2014): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=15337420
More references for this section are on this page.
American Cancer Society. For Women Facing a Breast Biopsy: Benign breast conditions: Not all lumps are cancer (Retrieved January 26th 2015) http://www.cancer.org/treatment/understandingyourdiagnosis/examsandtestdescriptions/forwomenfacingabreastbiopsy/breast-biopsy-benign-breast-conditions
National Cancer Institute.Mammograms (Retrieved January 26th 2015) http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/detection/mammograms
More patient information for this section is on this page.
Forward to 2C on Abnormal mammo and MRI. Back to 2A on screening.


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The main branches of economy: agriculture, industry
The region is named after the biblical Mount Ararat - the highest mountain not only in the Armenian highlands, but the entire Middle East. Ararat's name is mentioned in the Bible as a place where Noah's ark has landed after the Great Flood. Ararat has two peaks, the larger called "Massis" (5165m/16,942f) and the smaller "Sis" (3925m/12,875f). Sis is a perfectly shaped cone, like Mt. Fuji in Japan, and together with Massis forms one of the most beautiful vistas in the world.
The Ararat region includes Azat and Vedi river watersheds, Ararat Valley and surrounding areas, the south-western slopes of Geghama Mountain. The province is bordered by Turkey from the west and Azerbaijan's Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic from the south.
The region is rich of historical and cultural values. Two former capitals of Armenia are located in the modern-day Ararat Province, Artaxata and Dvin. It is also home to the Khor Virap monastery, significant as the place of Gregory the Illuminator's 13-year imprisonment and the closest point to Mount Ararat within Armenian borders.
The marz is also home to the largest nature Preserve in the country, Khosrov Forest, established in the 3rd century and home to rare and endangered species of animals and flora, along with ruined hamlets and monasteries, the detritus of history's habitation.
Ararat region is one of the economically developed regions of Armenia.
The region is rich in volcanic deposits of basalt, tufa and marble, as well as in agate, obsidian and precious metals (gold and silver). However the economy is manly based on agriculture. It is mainly specialized in wine-growing, fruit-growing and vegetable growing. The leading trends of industry are manufacture of food products including beverages and manufacture of other non-metallic mineral products.
The majority of the Ararat Province population are ethnic Armenians who belong to the Armenian Apostolic Church.
However, the village of Verin Dvin is predominantly populated by Assyrians belonging to the Assyrian Church of the East, whose ancestors migrated to Armenia from Iran during the 1st half of the 19th century. Almost half of the population of the village of Dimitrov is also Assyrian. The provincial center Artashat is also home to a small Assyrian community. The approximate number of the Assyrians in Ararat Province is around 2,500.
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Empowering further research of potential information operations
In October last year, we launched the first archive of all potential foreign information operations we have seen on Twitter. It is our fundamental belief that these accounts should be made public and searchable so members of the public, governments, and researchers can investigate, learn, and build media literacy capacities for the future.
So far, this archive of accounts and content has been accessed by thousands of researchers, governments, and people interested in learning more about foreign information operations. We have already seen valuable reporting and research produced on the basis of these datasets, including by major universities and think tanks in the United States and around the world.
Today, we are adding to this archive five new account sets we found based on continued contextual and semantic analysis from our investigations teams, one of the core components in our effort to protect the integrity of our service.
As noted last December, working with our industry peers we identified and suspended a very small number of accounts originating from Bangladesh for engaging in coordinated platform manipulation. The Tweets were entirely in Bengali and focused on regional political themes. All of these accounts and content are now part of the archive and can be investigated and reviewed by interested parties.
In August 2018, we were notified by an industry peer about possible malicious activity on their service about an attempted influence campaign we identified as potentially located within Iran. After receiving information from them, we began an investigation on our service to build our understanding of these networks. As soon as we discovered malicious activity, we immediately notified law enforcement and updated the public.
Since that time, through ongoing data science analysis, we have identified and suspended 2,617 additional malicious accounts that we believe may have origins in Iran. Twitter has been in close contact with our industry peers on this matter and shared detailed information with them about the malicious accounts. This multilateral process of information-sharing will continue, enabling us and our industry peers to work together to better understand and identify malicious activity.
In September 2018, Jack Dorsey testified on Capitol Hill on recent activities affiliated with the Russian Internet Research Agency (IRA), disclosing that Twitter had suspended a total of 3,841 accounts. Through ongoing analyses and investigations, we continue to build on our contextual understanding of these networks of accounts to improve our ability to find and suspend this activity as quickly as possible in the future. This is particularly vital as groups such as the IRA evolve their practices in response to industry-wide suspension efforts.
Our ongoing efforts have uncovered an additional 418 accounts. We cannot render definitive attribution to the IRA for these accounts, although most appear to originate in Russia, and much of the behavior mimics the activity of prior accounts tied to the IRA. We encourage researchers and other experts to study them and to contribute to general public awareness of these activities online.
Twitter has removed 764 accounts located in Venezuela. We are unable to definitively tie the accounts located in Venezuela to information operations of a foreign government against another country. However, these accounts are another example of a foreign campaign of spammy content focused on divisive political themes, and the behavior we uncovered is similar to that utilized by potential Russian IRA accounts. We are disclosing them out of an abundance of caution and welcome the feedback of researchers.
Additionally, we have removed 1,196 accounts located in Venezuela which appear to be engaged in a state-backed influence campaign targeting domestic audiences. We have shared information on these accounts with our industry peers, and continue to investigate malicious activity originating in Venezuela, both targeting audiences with in Venezuela and abroad.
As we have said, these issues are not new. Manipulation of information for national or geopolitical ends is part of human history and transcends ideological viewpoints. The medium of communication is what has changed. The behavior is against our values as a company. For our part, we are learning, evolving, and building a technological and personnel-driven approach to combating it. We hope that holistic, transparent disclosures such as this can help us all learn and build the necessary societal defenses and capacities to protect public conversation.
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Nebraska: A Unit Study
On May 30, 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska act was signed into law, thus establishing the territory of Nebraska. It was divided from its sister territory of Kansas by the 40th parallel north. Its northern border was defined by the 49th parallel north which also served as the border separating Canada from the United States. Its western border was the Continental Divide, and its eastern was the White Earth and Missouri Rivers.
Subsequent territorial acts by the United States Congress reduced the territory of Nebraska until it eventually reached the size it had when the state of Nebraska was formed. The land that formed the Nebraska territory was part of the lands acquired from France in 1802 by the signing of the Louisiana Purchase.
The state of Nebraska ranks 16th in the U.S. in area and 37th in population. The state's name is derived from the Indian name for the Platte river meaning broad water or flat river.
Nebraska History
The primary groups of Native Americans living in Nebraska in the 1800s were the Otoe, Omaha, Ponca, Pawnee, Cheyenne, Arapaho, and Sioux. Between 1833 and 1876 the Indians ceded all claims to the land in Nebraska, but some fighting still occurred in the western parts of the state until around 1890.
Preliminary European exploration of Nebraska began possibly as early as 1541 by Spanish explorer Francisco Vasquez de Coronado. In 1720 Spanish explorers who had traveled in an Indian train from Santa Fe into Nebraska were defeated by the Pawnee along the Platte River. French explorers crossed through Nebraska in 1739. Over the period from 1739 to 1803, the territory that included Nebraska was claimed by the French, then the Spanish, then again the French, until finally in 1803 control passed to the United States of America under the Louisiana Purchase.
In 1804, Lewis and Clark traveled up the Missouri River exploring portions of eastern Nebraska. In 1819 Fort Atkinson was established to protect fur trading interests in the area as well as to counteract the influence of the British government. The first permanent white settlement was established in 1823 in Bellevue which is located southeast of the current-day city of Omaha. In 1833 the U.S. government purchased all of the land south of the Platte River from the Pawnee Indians. Also occurring roughly over this same period of time, thousands of settlers crossed the state heading for Oregon, Utah, and California.
On May 30, 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska act was signed into law establishing the territory of Nebraska. Over the next decade settlers flooded the land. With the passage of the Homestead Act in 1862, and the beginning of the Transcontinental Railroad in 1865, which started in Omaha, a state was taking form. On March 1, 1867, the state of Nebraska was admitted into the Union. Shortly after that the capital was moved from Omaha to Lancaster, which was renamed Lincoln.
Growth in the state continued with more settlement in the western portions of Nebraska. This settlement by farmers led to conflicts with open range ranchers and Indians. Most of the armed conflict with the Indians ended by the 1880s, but was replaced with armed conflict between farmers fencing the land and ranchers who wanted the range left open to graze cattle. In 1904 the U.S. Congress passed the Kincaid Act which allowed farmers to homestead the open range land in Nebraska as 640 acre parcels. This ended the conflict by eliminating the open range land. During the next two decades farming boomed as demand for product and prices soared. As with all cycles the good times ended just before the beginning of the Great Depression. Low demand and low prices lead to a period of great hardship for Nebraska farmers. Price stability and farm mortgage relief programs under the New Deal are credited with relieving the plight of Nebraska farmers; but, it took the decade of the 30's and then World War II before the state's economy began to improve.
During this period Nebraska also became the only U.S. state to become a unicameral state. The state constitutional amendment that enacted this change, whereby a single house legislature was put into place, also introduced non-partisan elections. A single primary election is held with the top two candidates going to the general election for final voting without any indication on the ballot as to party affiliation.
Nebraska Geography
The state of Nebraska ranks 16th in the U.S. in area. It can be divided into five major topographical regions — the loess region in the east, the central sand hills region, the high plains region to the west, the Pierre Hills region along the northern border, and the alluvial lowland regions lying along the Missouri and Platte Rivers.
Nebraska is divided into two climatic regions, the eastern half of the state being a humid, continental climate and the western half a semi-arid climate. The highest temperature recorded was 118°F in Minden on July 24, 1936. The lowest was -47°F at Camp Clarke on February 12, 1899.
Nebraska's primary vegetation consists of grass. Vast expanses of prairie cover the countryside with the greatest extent of forestation reaching a maximum of 3% (mostly limited to areas along streams and rivers). The grasses vary from east to west with the eastern portion of the state having tall prairie grasses (big bluestem) and the shorter perennial grasses (grama and buffalo) predominating in the west. Originally animals like the buffalo and beaver dominated the land. Now dominant species include deer, badgers, coyotes, and prairie dogs. Prairie rattlesnakes can be found in the western parts of the state.
Nebraska's economy is dominated by agriculture and agricultural products. Crops consist mainly of corn, oats, wheat, alfalfa, and grain sorghum. The livestock industry is large as well, with over half of the gross cash income coming from this industry. Mining production is limited to more local demand with sand, gravel, and limestone production making up the majority of product. Some petroleum and natural gas is produced along the southern border.
By virtue of its central location, Nebraska has always been along the pathway emigrants have traveled from east to west. Many emigrants traveled across the state by wagon, later replaced by the railways, and then finally by the interstate highway system. Union Pacific's Bailey Yard located in North Platte is the world's largest train yard.
Interesting Nebraska Facts
Boys Town was founded in 1917 by Father Edward Flanagan.
Arbor Day originated in Nebraska City with the first event being held on April 10, 1872.
Omaha-born Gerald Ford became the 38th president on August 9, 1974 (the only person to have served as President and Vice President of the U.S. without being elected by the Electoral College).
Kool-Aid was invented in, and is the official soft drink of, the state of Nebraska.
Record high temperatures occurred during the time of the Great Depression in the 1930s. What implications did that have on the state's economy?
Study the history behind the Kansas-Nebraska act. Who were the chief advocates for it and why? Who was the opposition and why?
Find out what the Kincaid Act was and why was it passed. What were the ramifications of this act and how did it relate to the Homestead Act of 1862?
Label the following on a map of Nebraska (see Notebooking Pages below):
Lincoln (state capital)
North Platte River
Bordering states
The 37th State
Admitted to the Union March 1, 1867
Nickname: "Cornhusker State"
State Song
State Symbols of Nebraska
State Flag and State Flag Information
State Quarter
State Bird
State Seal
Nebraska's State Symbols
9-page download with facts and information.
The History of Kool-Aid
From the Hastings Museum in Hastings, Nebraska (press the Show More button on the right for the full story).
Nebraska elected officials.
Our American Holidays: Arbor Day {Free eBook}
Arbor Day was first celebrated in Nebraska!
Nebraska Map and Quiz Printout
From EnchantedLearning.com.
Interactive Writing Tool {Free}
Create a state brochure using this interactive printing press.
Interactive Map Maker
Make and label your own map of Nebraska.
The U.S.: 50 States Map Quiz
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Dandelions by Eve Bunting
Beautifully told and illustrated story about one family's move from their home in Illinois to the empty prairie of Nebraska where they build a soddie and life blooms. Favorite author!
My State Notebook
From A Beka. "A basic guide to help students collect and learn the facts that are unique to their state as well as beginning research skills."
Civics Activity Book
Also from A Beka, but written for a higher level than the above title, this activity book guides state research "in a study of national, state, and local government with a brief overview of the Constitution and a variety of interesting activity sheets. In addition to government, students also study the history, geography, and other characteristics of their state and local areas." We have enjoyed many of the activities in this book, which include writing letters to state officials, researching the state history and other activities.
10-page activity book with background information, coloring pages, and more covering the state symbols.
Nebraska's State Quarter
7-page download with background information, coloring pages, and other activities.
Celebrate Arbor Day Guidebook
24-page download from the Arbor Day Foundation that includes the history of Arbor Day (along with ideas for celebrating the day and activities).
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
Lesson plan from the National Endowment for the Humanities that analyzes primary source documents and the Lincoln-Douglass debates.
The Pony Express: A Unit Study
The pony express route ran through southern Nebraska.
My State {Free Unit Study}
A recommended state study unit that covers civics, history, geography, language arts, applied math, science, and art, culminating in a personalized state notebook. We have also included additional go-along resources.
State History Outline & Projects
A wealth of original ideas and projects for making any state study a work of art!
Studying the 50 United States
Suggestions for a unit on any state from LearningTreasures.com.
Nebraska State Maps for Notebook
Nebraska State Map
County Map
Federal Lands and Indian Reservations
Blank Outline Map
Nebraska State Facts Coloring Pages for Notebook
State Flag Sheet
At Flags-to-Print.com.
State Bird & Flower Sheet
State Flower Sheet
State Bird Sheet
State Coloring Page (Combined facts and symbols)
U.S. States and Capitals Map
Color Nebraska and write in the capital on this printable at PrintableMaps.net.
Nebraska Notebooking Pages
Simple pages for copywork, narrations, recording state facts, or wrapping up.
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HomeEntertainmentMeet Tammy Wynette's Four Children: Gwendolyn, Jackie, Tina and Georgette
Meet Tammy Wynette's Four Children: Gwendolyn, Jackie, Tina and Georgette
By Meenal Mehta
Showtime's new series George & Tammy just saw the light of day. The limited series which comprises a total of six episodes premiered on Sunday night on both Showtime as well as Paramount+.
For those of you who are unversed, let us tell you, George & Tammy revolves around the life of the country music power couple, Tammy Wynette and George Jones. The pair's complicated yet enduring relationship inspired some of the most iconic songs of all time.
In the limited series George & Tammy, the role of George Jones has been played by Michael Shannon, on the other hand, the character of Tammy Wynette has been essayed by Jessica Chastain. Continue reading further to learn more about the personal life of Tammy Wynette including her past relationships and her four kids, all of them daughters.
How many kids did Tammy Wynette have?
Throughout the course of her life, Tammy walked down the aisle five times. She became a stepmom to various children from her husbands' past relationships. Although, she had only four children of her own, all daughters.
The Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad singer welcomed three of her four daughters from her first marriage to Euple Byrd. The pair tied in the knot in the year 1960 and called it quits in 1965.
Tammy and Euple's first child together, daughter Gwendolyn Lee Byrd, joined them earthside on April 14, 1961. The former couple welcomed their second child, daughter Jackie Daly, on August 21, 1962. Their third daughter, Tina Denise Byrd, came into the world on March 27, 1965.
In October 1970, Wynette welcomed her fourth child, daughter Tamala Georgette Jones with her then-husband George Jones. This was Tammy's only child through her marriage to George Jones.
Tammy loved all her daughters dearly and one of the reasons, she worked so hard in the music industry was to give her daughters a good life. She even made a song for her daughters named Dear Daughters.
Gwendolyn Lee Byrd
Gwendolyn Lee Byrd is the eldest daughter of Tammy Wynette and her first husband Euple Byrd who was five years senior to the country music artist. She was born on April 14, 1961. At the moment, she is 61 years old.
Despite her mom being a big musician, Gwendolyn Lee Byrd has stayed away from the flashing cameras for most of her life. As of right now, not much is known about the life of Gwendolyn, apart from the fact that she is Tammy Wynette's oldest daughter.
Jackie Daly
Jackie Daly is the second daughter of the Til I Can Make It On My Own singer and Euple Byrd. Tammy gave birth to her and Euple's second daughter, Jackie Daly on August 21, 1962. Right now, she is 60 years old.
Unlike her elder sister, Gwendolyn Lee Byrd, Jackie is active on social media. Every now and then, she shares pictures of herself with her starlet mom Tammy Wynette and sisters on the social media platform Facebook.
In December 2019, Jackie poured her heart out in a social media post. She penned a heartfelt caption alongside a series of pictures. She started by saying, "This seems to be the time of year when people reminisce and pull out pictures and I'm one of those people."
She added, "So many great memories thru the years and if mom were here today she probably wouldn't be happy with me posting some of the pictures. I want people to, see the mother/ mamaw side of her that not a lot of people got to see. She was an amazing human being and I often wonder what she would think of Facebook, politics and all this political correctness nonsense. I think I have an idea!!❤😝."
At the moment, Jackie lives in Spring Hill, Tennessee, and has four daughters and their names are as follows: Sophia, Kristina, Catherine, and Natalie. Her book titled Tammy Wynette: A Daughter Recalls Her Mother's Tragic Life and Death was published in the year 2020. In the book, she spilled the beans about the life of her mom and her struggles in her final years. She also put light on the relationship she shared with her daughters.
Tina Denise Byrd
Tina Denise Byrd is the youngest daughter of the country music artist Tammy Wynette and Euple Byrd. Tammy and Euple welcomed their third daughter, Tina Denise Byrd on March 27, 1965. Currently, she is 57 years old.
Tina is well-known for collaborating with her mom and stepdad George Jones on the album titled, George and Tammy and Tina. She was only eight years old when she worked on the album with her parents. Many songs from the album landed on the Billboard charts. However, while growing up, just like her elder sisters Gwendolyn and Jackie, Tina also didn't stay in touch with the limelight.
Georgette Jones
Georgette Jones is the only child of Tammy Wynette and George Jones. The He Loves Me All The Way singer and George Jones who met each other on tour exchanged their vows in the year 1969.
The power couple welcomed their first and only child daughter Georgette Jones in October 1970. As per her IMDb page, Georgette was born on October 5, 1970, in Lakeland, Florida, United States.
Georgette followed in the footsteps of her famous parents and decided to pursue a career in music. She recorded her first song titled Daddy Come Home with her father George when she was merely 10 years old. Over the years, she has released five albums and toured internationally as a country artist.
She and her elder half-sister Jackie try their best to keep the legacy of their mom alive. Back in the day, Georgette also published a memoir that consisted of deep insights into her childhood with her mom and dad.
Earlier this year, in May, Georgette put out a heartfelt post on the occasion of her mom Tammy's birthday. She posted a series of beautiful pictures of herself and her mother on the social media platform Instagram.
"Mom would have been 80 today. It's so hard to believe she's been gone for so long. The world may celebrate Cinco de Mayo, but we like to pretend it's all about Mom, so, happy Cinco de Momma and happy birthday in Heaven to the most beautiful and loving Mom! ❤," she wrote alongside the series of photos.
A post shared by Georgette Jones Lennon (@georgettejoneslennon)
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Debra Jamirson December 13, 2022 At 1:47 pm
I have been watching George and Tammy. It reminds me of all the country music stars who had their story told. Loretta, Pasty and Lynn. A strong woman letting weak alcoholic men take advantage and beat them. But I must stay at least Tammy left only to find another. Growing up in my house in those times dad was an alcoholic but mom abused him, most of the time. But I digress the show is great and I love hearing song my parents played all the time.
Connie Brown December 22, 2022 At 7:36 pm
I have been watching now from the the very 1st episode. Just like in 1964 when I heard my first album of Tammy , George, George and Tammy , and George , Tammy, and Tina . I am their BIGGEST fan. The series is going to win all the awards, I am sure of it . Thank you Georgette for the beauty you have brought into our lives.
Lynn George December 26, 2022 At 7:07 am
What a great series! I love it!
Paula Sanderford December 26, 2022 At 9:27 am
Absolutely addicted to George&Tammy show. Idk it is nostalgia and great music but the story line is great too
Bonnie alexander December 26, 2022 At 11:35 am
I loved listening to George and Tammy at night time because then I would blast the music and fall asleep from their songs rip my loves
Judy December 27, 2022 At 10:02 am
This series reminds me of my childhood. Country music and drunk people.
I love the music.
Chris December 31, 2022 At 6:40 am
I started watching Tammy & George series; because I love real story shows. I really like it and love how they really loved each other. It makes me sick that she married that Richey scum bag and left her daughters no inheritance. But life goes on…..
Cynthia Fuller January 1, 2023 At 12:39 pm
I am loving the show. I know it is very fluffy as far as not showing just how bad George's alcoholism really was because I do know it was very hard physically on Tammy. I loved watching them in love and seeing how wonderful George could be.
Liz January 2, 2023 At 10:52 am
I was a huge fan of Tammy Wynette and George Jones. I had no idea of what those two talented people went through their whole lives until I started watching the limited series George and Tammy.
Jill LeNeave January 4, 2023 At 3:13 pm
Amazing story told in a fabulous series. I grew up, like many, listening to their music. The story gives so much insight to two beautiful people that were effected by their childhood history and the music industry. It leaves you wondering what could have been if those factors had been different. Georgette was a product of true love, and what a blessing. No matter where life leads you.
Tami January 14, 2023 At 7:42 am
I really loved the series, but was so saddend by how Tammy was treated. I never realized how bad all her adult years were. I LOVED her a George so much. They had such a great LOVE for each other. Tammy can be free from ALL the abuses. RIP 🙏
Laura January 15, 2023 At 1:56 pm
Great show , I love real country music and have grown up listening to George & Tammy . The show brought back so many memories ! I wish they could have stayed together , aside from the drinking and drugs they truly loved each other .
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New Flooring is one of the classiest ways to finish off or visually enhance any Utah home remodeling project. There are several different types of flooring material and we can help you choose the most appropriate for your home.
Tiled floors are generally easy to clean and maintain and are excellent for high traffic areas of your home or place of business. Laminate flooring is generally the most affordable solution and is commonly found in homes and small offices today.
If you prefer a hardwood style flooring than Engineered Flooring is also an option. An Engineered Floor still has a solid hardwood surface but is backed with 3 or 4 layers of plywood or HDF (high density fiber) underneath the top layer.
Finally we have the elegance and beauty of true hardwood flooring which is obviously more expensive, but the most luxurious flooring choice for Utah Homeowners.
Bigler Construction has extensive experience laying custom tile flooring, laminates, engineered flooring and hardwoods and we can totally transform the flooring in your home. Flooring is such a popular home improvement project because of the affordability and often dramatic improvements in your home interior appearance.
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Located in downtown Durham, NC, Fullsteam Brewery is a hub. Food trucks park outside, inside, patrons gather around industrial tables or line the bar, mingling, asking questions about different options on tap. They form groups to play board games or darts, and generally hang out like it's a cooler version of their living rooms. It's a true beer hall, no lederhosen required. And to its owner Sean Lilly Wilson, this is exactly what he wants. To Sean, beer is much more than just a beverage -- it's about community. From crowdsourcing foraged local ingredients to speaking up for community change, for Sean, beer is one of the catalysts for action. But it's also great beer, so sit and sip and learn about the man behind the brand, and then of course, get thirsty for some delicious Southern beer. Cheers.


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Q: Is setting a Linux shell other than /bin/sh problematic? My company is starting to grow our Linux support and some of our shell scripts are starting to get more complex. Today we use the shebang as
#! /bin/sh

but we are having problems with some distros like Ubuntu for example where sh points to dash and some more exotic.
My question is, what is the risk in changing the shebang to bash for example?
Maybe the better question is if it is possible to have a distro without bash these days?

A: Better to change it, if you're relying on bash specific syntax then your shell script needs to state that it needs bash and not a generic shell.
#! /usr/bin/env bash

is usually preferred to
#! /bin/bash

as it allows for a system to have bash installed in a non-standard way/location
In answer to your second question: "is it possible to have a distro without bash these days". Well, of course it's possible, however it's incredibly unlikely. From the maintainer-of-bash's website -- bash 4.x is standard on GNU/Linux and Mac OSX, on windows both Cygwin and MinGW ship with bash 3.x. There are ports for BSD, and Solaris has come with versions of bash since 8+, with 10 shipping with bash 4.x.
That seems to suggest you would be incredibly unlucky to find a GNU/Linux OS without bash.

A: I think you are asking the wrong question.  The better question is: "How bad is it to use #!/bin/sh for scripts that use non-portable shell syntax (aka, bashisms)".  To which the answer is: "really bad".  Fix your shebangs.  If you write #!/bin/sh but write a bash script, you are asking for trouble.  Stop thinking of dash as exotic, and you'll write more portable code.  In short, it is not at all bad to fix your shebangs, and it is very bad to not do so.

A: No more risk than changing it to PHP. Or to Perl. Or to Python. Use any interpreter you like.

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Rapture and Rupture: How Critical Theory Infiltrated the Arts and Popular Culture in Britain, 1968-1990.
How did the translated works of continental theorists impact the arts and popular culture in the 1970s and 1980s? Outside of the academy, how were texts by Barthes, Baudrillard, Kristeva and Deleuze interpreted by artists, writers and the cultural industries? My project pays close attention to how the work of these notoriously difficult theorists was transposed into Britain and influenced established fields and spaces of culture: from the music, style and film press to cultural organisations and broadcasters such as the Institute of Contemporary Arts and Channel 4. Using a rich archive of sources and texts, from Barthes influenced think-pieces in the NME, institutional histories from the ICA to cultural critiques of society afforded by radical television programming, this research unearths and maps a new and original cultural history of late 20th century Britain.