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Pete Buttigieg Announces Official Start to 2020 Campaign
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Pete Buttigieg, the young Midwestern mayor whose presidential bid has been an unlikely early focus of attention from Democratic voters and donors, kicked off his campaign on Sunday and proclaimed his hometown's revival was the answer to skeptics who ask how he has the "audacity" to see himself in the White House. At a rally inside a partly rebuilt factory, once owned by the automaker Studebaker and now being turned into glass-sheathed offices for tech and other businesses, Mr. Buttigieg said, "I ran for mayor in 2011 knowing nothing like Studebaker would ever come back, but that we would, our city would, if we had the courage to reimagine our future." If elected, Mr. Buttigieg, a 37-year-old Rhodes scholar and veteran of the war in Afghanistan, would represent a series of historic firsts: the youngest president ever and the first who is openly gay. He said he was motivated to run despite his youth because of an urgency to correct the course of the Trump administration on climate change, health care and immigration. "This is one of those rare moments between whole eras in the life of our nation," Mr. Buttigieg said, adding, "The moment we live in compels us to act.'' [Pete Buttigieg's college writings reveal the roots of his 2020 campaign.] He painted a picture of a hopeful future rooted in Midwestern values, contrasting his focus on a better life in 2030, 2040 and 2054 — the year he would be the same age as President Trump is today — with what he called Mr. Trump's appeal to "resentment and nostalgia." And he invoked his marriage to his husband, Chasten Buttigieg, as one of the blessings of American freedom, but one that feels fragile in the current climate. "Our marriage exists by the grace of a single vote on the U.S. Supreme Court,'' Mr. Buttigieg told a crowd of several thousand people. "Nine men and women sat down in a room and took a vote, and they brought me the most important freedom in my life." Though Mr. Buttigieg is a political progressive, his main message is the claim to leadership of millennial Americans, those he says will be on "the business end" of climate change, who grew up with school shootings and who supplied most of the troops in America's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Little known just two months ago, Mr. Buttigieg has won support and financial backing through a blitz of television interviews in which he has given earnest, nuanced responses that make liberal points without raising the temperature. "We're all excited about what's happening downtown — the black community, poor folks, Hispanic people," she said.
Pete Buttigieg Stuns Campaign Crowd By Speaking To Manufacturing Robots In Fluent Binary
DES MOINES, IA—Revealing that he taught himself the language after developing an interest in computer science and artificial intelligence, Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg stunned a campaign crowd Wednesday by speaking to manufacturing robots in fluent binary. "01001001 00100111 01101101 00100000 01101000 01101111 01101110 01101111 01110010 01100101 01100100 00100000 01110100 01101111 00100000 01101101 01100101 01100101 01110100 00100000 01110111 01101001 01110100 01101000 00100000 01110011 01110101 01100011 01101000 00100000 01101000 01100001 01110010 01100100 00101101 01110111 01101111 01110010 01101011 01101001 01101110 01100111 00101100 00100000 01110100 01110010 01110101 01100101 00100000 01000001 01101101 01100101 01110010 01101001 01100011 01100001 01101110 01110011 00101110 00100000," said the 37-year-old South Bend, IN mayor to the awe-struck machines, delivering the message by emitting a series of high-pitched tones and beeps with a perfect accent. "To all of you, I say 01100001 01110011 00100000 01110000 01110010 01100101 01110011 01101001 01100100 01100101 01101110 01110100 00101100 00100000 01001001 00100000 01110111 01101001 01101100 01101100 00100000 01101110 01100101 01110110 01100101 01110010 00100000 01110011 01110100 01101111 01110000 00100000 01100110 01101001 01100111 01101000 01110100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01100110 01101111 01110010 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00101110 01000100 01100101 01110011 01110000 01101001 01110100 01100101 00100000 01101111 01110101 01110010 00100000 01100100 01101001 01100110 01100110 01100101 01110010 01100101 01101110 01100011 01100101 01110011 00100000 01110111 01100101 00100000 01100001 01101100 01101100 00100000 01110111 01100001 01101110 01110100 00100000 01100110 01110010 01100101 01100101 01100100 01101111 01101101 00101100 00100000 01100100 01100101 01101101 01101111 01100011 01110010 01100001 01100011 01111001 00101100 00100000 01100001 01101110 01100100 00100000 01100101 01101100 01100101 01100011 01110100 01110010 01101001 01100011 01101001 01110100 01111001 00101110 00100000." At press time, U.S. manufacturing robots had donated $10 million dollars to Buttigieg's campaign and helped him surge to the top of polls among Democratic primary candidates.
Editorial: Politics on public's dime
State lawmakers resist a proposal to end their use of staffers on political campaigns. --- State legislators have argued for years about public financing of campaigns, but actually, taxpayers were paying for a small army of political operatives all along. Oh, and we still are, because those same legislators blocked a plan to end the practice. The game works like this: Employees of elected officials — such as state legislators — supposedly rack up bunches of compensatory time during the legislative session. Andrew Cuomo proposed to end this wink-and-a-nod system with a measure in his budget to ban employees of elected officials from working on their bosses' campaigns. Which is rather rich, considering Republican legislators have benefited from the comp time loophole as much as Democrats. And it's all the richer because Republicans long blocked proposals to create a system of public financing of campaigns on the argument that taxpayers shouldn't have to pay for politicians to run for election. Public campaign financing benefits all qualifying candidates. The only real argument against barring this gaming of the system is that it would infringe on the employees' First Amendment rights. And to all those legislators who will no doubt ask what they should do about all that comp time, we offer the advice they're so fond themselves of giving: Try running your office a little more like a business.
Biden to campaign as extension of Obama's political movement
The former vice president has begun testing the approach as he nears an expected campaign launch later this month. That puts both Obama and many of his longtime advisers in an awkward spot. Several months ago, Obama and Biden agreed that it would be best if the former president did not endorse any candidate early in the primary, according to a person with knowledge of the conversation, meaning Biden will be running as an "Obama-Biden Democrat" without Obama's explicit backing. Some Democratic voters share that concern. Biden advisers say it's more than nostalgia that positions the former vice president well in the 2020 campaign. The Obama health law, known as the Affordable Care Act, also has increased in popularity since Obama and Biden left the White House, with many Republican lawmakers now opposed to pushing for a full repeal. Scott Mulhauser, who advised Biden during the 2012 campaign, said Biden's positions put him in "the sweet spot where most of the Democratic Party could be, but also a decent amount of moderates and I'm sure some Republicans." According to a recent Pew Research Center survey of Democratic voters, 53% said they want their party to move in a more moderate direction, while 40% said they preferred a more liberal approach. Harstad, the former Obama pollster, said there's no doubt that Obama's legacy and policy record remain solid with Democratic voters. ___ Beaumont reported from Des Moines, Iowa.
Cory Booker promises to 'bring a fight to the NRA' at launch of national...
"We won't wait for more thoughts and prayers for communities that have been shattered by gun violence from Pittsburgh to Parkland to Charleston," he told the crowd in Newark, where he served as mayor for seven years before becoming a senator. "We will pass universal background checks, we will ban assault weapons and close loopholes that allow people who never should have a gun to get one." "And folks, we will bring a fight to the NRA like they have never, ever seen before -- and we will win," he said. Booker's remarks mark the start of a two-week tour across America for the 2020 hopeful, who has at times struggled to distinguish himself from the large pack of Democrats seeking the party's nod and has languished in single digits in polls. On Saturday, Booker led the rallying cry "We can't wait" as he listed his policy goals, including fighting climate change, enacting comprehensive immigration reform ending "mass incarcerations" and facilitating federal legalization of marijuana. "Critics will tell us that a campaign powered by grace and love and a deep faith in each other" cannot prevail, Booker said. "But I say it's the only way we win. The president wants a race to the gutter and to fight us in the gutter. To win, we have to fight from higher ground in order to bring this country to higher ground." The campaign is directing most of its firepower to Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina, the four states will kick off the presidential primary and caucus calendar in February and can provide crucial momentum for the primaries to follow.
Workers' rights are a 2020 campaign focus this weekend
DENMARK, S.C. (AP) — The issue of workers' rights is a focus this weekend for some of the Democrats running for president. Beto O'Rourke is campaigning in rural South Carolina, saying he wants to show up for communities that are often overlooked by politicians or "left for last." O'Rourke spoke specifically about using federal infrastructure spending to address issues like the water crisis in Denmark, where residents have been dealing with brown-tinted drinking water that smells foul and is filled with sediment. At a house party in New Hampshire on Saturday, the Massachusetts Democrat said the reason the country is headed in the wrong direction is because of corruption. "This is not ignorance," Warren said. The people in Washington, oh, they get it. But it's so much more than campaign contributions, she said. "The key that we've got to play into, unlock, fixing the problems we need to fix, starts with, we have got to push back on the influence of money in Washington," Warren said. New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker returned his Newark home on Saturday to kick off a two-week, nationwide "Justice For All" tour that will focus on issues that include gun control and criminal justice reform. John Hickenlooper said on Saturday Democrats can't beat President Donald Trump with anger.
NCGOP Chairman Robin Hayes, campaign donor indicted on corruption and bribery charges
Contributor - April 2, 2019
By A federal grand jury has indicted North Carolina Republican Party Chairman Robin Hayes and a major GOP campaign donor on conspiracy and bribery charges for their attempts to influence N.C. Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey. That was in 2017, according to the indictment. In August 2017, the indictment says Hayes texted Causey and suggested "I think u should consider a face to face (with Lindberg)." In November 2017, Gray told Causey that Lindberg had contributed $500,000 to the NC GOP and earmarked $110,000 for Causey's campaign, according to the indictment. Lindberg and Gray suggested that Causey hire Palermo to replace or supervise the senior deputy commissioner, the indictment says In a March 5 meeting in Statesville, Causey confirmed his ability to hire Palermo. During that meeting, Lindberg told Causey that he'd support him with up to $2 million in campaign contributions, according to the indictment. Palermo then quoted "Public Official A," saying that Causey "needs to man-up and do what he agreed to." The indictment says the public official then contacted Causey and said Lindberg, Gray and Palermo "seemed anxious to find out" if Causey had made staffing changes. The indictment says FBI agents interviewed Hayes in August 2018 and specifically asked whether Hayes was aware of "expectations" Lindberg might have had for a $500,000 donation he made to the party. "Thanks to the voluntary reporting of the North Carolina Commissioner of Insurance, we have uncovered an alleged scheme to violate our federal public corruption laws," U.S. Attorney Andrew Murray said in a news release Tuesday. We will work with our law enforcement partners to investigate allegations of public corruption, safeguard the integrity of the democratic process, and prosecute those who compromise it." Assistant Attorney General Brian Benczkowski referred to the group's alleged actions as "a brazen bribery scheme in which Greg Lindberg and his coconspirators allegedly offered hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions in exchange for official action that would benefit Lindberg's business interests." Lindberg donations Lindberg was the biggest political donor in North Carolina over the last few years, the News & Observer has previously reported. Bob Hall, the former head of government watchdog group Democracy NC, told the News & Observer he has identified roughly $5.5 million in political contributions from Lindberg to North Carolina politicians, political parties and Super PACs since 2016, and another $500,000 from Lindberg's businesses and employees.
Trump's 2020 Campaign: A Traditional Operation With a Wild-Card Candidate
"We won 306 to 223." (Mrs. Clinton's total was actually 232.) Advisers say privately that he has been distracted by the Mueller report, which he regards as a clear political victory, and has not focused on message for the coming months. As the campaign tries to build a traditional re-election operation, which officials often compare to President George W. Bush's 2004 race, the tension may build between campaign officials and Mr. Trump, who trusts his gut above all else. "One of the differences is time. "It's easy to build a beautiful operation," said Robby Mook, the campaign manager for Hillary Clinton's 2016 race. To staff the campaign, advisers have brought in a mix of new hires and veterans of the 2016 effort. The president's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, meanwhile, is planning to play a large managerial role overseeing the campaign from the West Wing and speaks to Mr. Parscale multiple times a day. Mr. Stepien, meanwhile, has been focused on the delegate selection process and state chairman races in places like Massachusetts, Florida and Maine, to ensure that the Republican National Convention next year will be an uninterrupted celebration of the president. Mr. Parscale has discussed with Mr. Trump the potential advantages of targeting the Green New Deal, the ambitious Democratic proposal to combat climate change. The rally may still happen, people familiar with the plans said, but only because campaign officials insisted on it.
John McDonnell backs Momentum on Barclays protest
John McDonnell has called on Labour members to join Momentum on its first direct action campaign, as a senior organiser for the group called it a move from party politics to movement politics. Forty local Momentum groups across England and Wales, from Exeter to Redcar, will take action outside branches of Barclays on Saturday to raise awareness of the bank's financing of fossil fuel companies. Last week, a report by BankTrack revealed that Barclays provides more funding for fossil fuel projects than any other bank in Europe, lending $85bn to companies involved in fossil fuels between 2016 and 2018. Parker said that while the campaign was a new tactic for Momentum, it was "completely consistent with the way that we've said that we want to do politics, which is finding interesting ways of engaging people directly with issues". UK environmentalists target Barclays in fossil fuels campaign Read more She said: "This is the way forward, this is the massive difference between the Labour party and any other political party in Britain. The Tories couldn't do this if they spent the next 12 months trying to organise it. "This is too big to be left to narrow party politics. But there is a massive role for the Labour party to play as the biggest progressive political force probably not just in the UK, but really in western Europe." The action is inspired by a wave of environmental campaigning over the past few months, most recently the school climate strikes, which brought thousands of young people on to the streets. It is likely to be less provocative than Extinction Rebellion protests, when dozens were arrested for spraypainting government departments and locking themselves together to block streets, Parker insisted. "We are a pro-worker, pro-union organisation so the one thing I'm absolutely certain about is that everybody is going to be totally respectful of all the staff that work in the banks – these are our comrades," she said.
Unlike Facebook, Twitter is a ghost town for political ads in India so far
India's politicians and political parties don't seem to be buying ads on Twitter just yet, even as parties are pumping money into Facebook advertising. As of yesterday (March 11), Indian content is now visible on Twitter's Ad Transparency Centre: an archive that displays promoted tweets that have been run over the past week. Quartz searched the archive's records to see if it showed any ads being run by major politicians and political parties, and could not find a single one. (The archive only permits you to search accounts individually—not to click to see all campaign ads at once. Twitter Ad Transparency Centre Twitter Ad Transparency Centre Twitter has rolled out the initiative as part of its attempts to boost transparency ahead of India's upcoming general election. "The Transparency Ad Centre along with the Political Content Policy is a welcome step to bringing transparency to promoted and political promoted tweets," Elonnai Hickock, chief operating officer of the Indian think tank The Centre for Internet and Society, told Quartz. First, Twitter's archive only displays ads that have run over the course of the past seven days, while Facebook's allows users to see all ads that a particular page has run. To see what politics-related ads are being run in India, one has to manually search through the ads from relevant accounts. The major issue with this is that, especially when it comes to social media advertising, it is not always political parties' official accounts that run the most aggressive, or the most worrisome, advertising. Twitter's portal would not provide a simple way of helping a user discover this behaviour—exactly the sort of thing that a transparency resource should do.


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Actually anthropology. Makes an arguments for 9 different kinds of time: Biological time, personal time, physical time, metaphysical time, micro time, sync time, sacred time, profane time, and meta time. Read it to find out what the hell he's talking about.
Insightful on the concept of 'time', with a lot of illustrative examples from Native American peoples, yet somewhat repetitive following his previous 'Beyond Culture'.
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Although a bit simplistic in its analysis of how different cultures utilize time for organization and communication, Hall's book does offer food for thought especially in a global world where the interaction between different cultures is frequent and needs to be understood.
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Iran Protests
KAYHAN LIFE
Elahe Boghrat
OPINION: Centenary of Shah and Twin Sister Ashraf Reminds Iran of Its Past
By Elahe Boghrat
October 26 marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of royal twins the late Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi and his sister Princess Ashraf.
There is a wealth of information about their lives from many sources except in Iran, where the Islamic Republic has tried to brainwash younger generations about the recent history by diminishing the significant role the royal siblings and Pahlavi dynasty played in ushering a new era of progress and prosperity in the country.
The regime's relentless efforts to rewrite history and disseminate a false narrative about the country's past have failed to dissuade those who have been born in the last four decades from finding the truth about the Pahlavi era.
Iranian people's firsthand experience with the Islamic Republic differs vastly from the version of history the regime has been peddling in the last 40 years.
Iranians have not fallen victim to the Islamic Republic's relentless propaganda machine, given its message has never corresponded to the harsh social, political, and economic realities people deal with daily.
The late Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi and his sister Princess Ashraf. SOURCE: KAYHAN LONDON
People can see right through the regime's carefully constructed lies, despite its attempts in the past 40 years to indoctrinate the entire nation.
Why did no one get nostalgic about the Qajar Dynasty (1789-1925) during Pahlavi rule (1925-1979)? Why will no one miss the Islamic Republic regime even if the conditions continue to get worse after it relinquishes power? Why is that? Why do people still get nostalgic about the Pahlavi era and dream of its return?
The answer is obvious.
The Pahlavi era is relevant today because no other governing system has so far been able to guarantee the Iranian people the freedom, security, and prosperity they enjoyed before the Islamic Revolution.
Iranians who are in their 50s and older remember October 26 as a national day. Cities would put up lights and banners in their streets. Large sports stadiums hosted massive national day celebrations.
Although the Shah and his twin sister Princess Ashraf shared the same birthday, the country celebrated only the Shah's on October 26.
Princess Ashraf loved her brother and his wife, Empress Farah. Stories about palace intrigues and discord between the twins have all been fabricated by people whose sole purpose has been to hurt the Pahlavi family and tarnish their legacy.
In recent years, several intellectuals and clerics, closely linked to the Islamic Republic regime, have acknowledged some achievements of Reza Shah (1878-1944), the founder of the Pahlavi dynasty.
Shah and his twin sister Princess Ashraf with their father, Reza Shah. SOURCE: KAYHAN LONDON
Everybody recognizes that, after the Constitutional Revolution of Iran (1905-1911), Reza Shah played a critical role in modernizing the country's administrative machinery and military.
It is noteworthy that while Reza Shah was rebuilding Iran, fascism, Nazism, and Stalinism were threatening civilization in the West and in the East.
Among Reza Shah's notable achievements was passing a law known as Kashf-e Hijab on January 8, 1936, which banned Islamic veils, including the headscarf and chador. The law was a positive step towards recognizing women's rights and paving the way for women to excel in society and the workplace.
The late Shah took the helm from his father during World War II. He followed in his father's footsteps in modernizing the country by investing in infrastructure projects, education system, and health services.
In 1963 the Shah unveiled the "White Revolution," also known as "The Shah and People's Revolution," which entailed land reform, building roads, expanding the rail network, and giving women the right to vote.
The Shah and his father's efforts to modernize the country and reform the laws encountered fierce opposition from two distinct reactionary groups.
The "Reactionary Black" who were anti-modernist and anti-Western religious extremist groups, opposed any social progress and advocated a theocratic rule. If they could, they would never allow women to leave their homes.
However, half a century of Pahlavi's efforts at modernizing the country, and advancement in information and communication technology have prevented this group from oppressing women.
The "Reactionary Red" (far left group) knew that "The Shah and People's Revolution" was already achieving many of the articles in their manifesto, including but not limited to land reform and workers' profit sharing.
Farmers, workers, women, and religious minorities whose rights were guaranteed under the Shah's progressive programs gradually abandoned the far left, which had always claimed to champion their cause.
Both groups fell out of favor with people given the success of Shah's comprehensive, multifaceted, and workable White Revolution.
The Shah's coherent development projects put the country on the path of realizing his vision of a "great civilization."
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi did not believe that Iran had reached its destination yet, but even after his overthrow, he urged Iranians to never abandon their vision of a greater future for their country.
All governments before the Islamic Revolution worked towards developing the country's social, political, economic, and educational institutions.
Iranian women's groups and people such as Princess Ashraf and Empress Farah played significant roles in safeguarding the country's artistic and cultural heritage, which have fortunately survived the regime's deliberate onslaught in the past 40 years.
Shah and and Empress Farah. SOURCE: KAYHAN LONDON
The fault does not lie with the Shah and his progressive programs, but with those who resisted his efforts.
The religious extremists, who envisioned themselves as the country's self-appointed principal political and moral authority, felt threatened by the Shah's progressive plans.
In a highly polarized world where the West symbolized freedom and progress, the far left found itself in the same camp as the "Regressive Left" and the anti-democratic groups.
While espousing anti-Western sentiments, none of these groups claimed to advocate democracy, freedom of speech, and human rights. They were only thinking about their own freedom and rights when they were accusing the Shah of human rights violations.
History has shown that religious hardliners and far-left groups have been oppressive and brutal anytime they have seized power. It is, therefore, not surprising that these two groups should prefer the Islamic Republic over Pahlavi rule.
The regressive left and religious extremists criticized the Shah and his father for modernizing Iran and elevating women's position in society.
Religious zealots, whose aim was to perpetuate an oppressive patriarchal culture, also viciously lambasted Princess Ashraf, who advocated women's rights.
One can only imagine what would happen if the religious extremists and regressive left were to join forces and seize power.
The Islamic Republic's concerted efforts, in the past 40 years, to revise and rewrite Iranian history have failed.
During the recent civil unrest in the country, protesters were chanting "Reza Shah God Bless Your Soul," "A Country Without Shah Is in Disarray," "Come Back to Iran."
On the 100th anniversary of the birth of the Shah and Princess Ashraf, Iranian people have shown that they use any opportunity to reject and defy the Islamic Republic regime.
Perhaps fate has played a hand in enabling a brother and sister of royal birth to leave an indelible mark on the country's history and culture that no amount of propaganda, indoctrination, and brainwashing could erase from the Iranian collective consciousness.
Once again, achieving a "Great Civilization" has become the goal and the dream of Iranian people.
[Translated from Persian by Fardine Hamidi]
Shahram November 7, 2019 at 20:20
I assume that the author of the article refers to social and religious freedoms when referring to the 'freedoms' provided by the Pahlavi monarchy. Because in political terms, freedom was quite restricted. Whether this was necessary or not can be debated. While I agree with much of what the author points out, I think the author perhaps paints a little too rosy picture of that era. There were problems, and there was much the Shah could and should have done differently. But overall, it was an era marked by remarkable progress and prosperity – particularly if one considers that they transformed Iran from having been a tremendously backward, impoverished and illiterate society, riddled with disease, superstition, extremely high mortality and infant mortality, inequality and lack almost any kind of infrastructure, into the modern and vibrant country it was in 1978. And that they managed to do so within a few decades only, and with very limited financial means! And under very difficult and trying conditions, with the second world war, invasion and occupation, the cold war, the powerful resistance of the clergy and the superpowers vying for control and influence!
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by Matthew Ismael Ruiz
Associate Staff Writer, News
Since the mp3 landed on the record business like an atomic bomb nearly two decades ago, artists and the industry alike have remained in a state of flux over how to make music and money. The result is that some of music's most prolific funders aren't record labels at all, but corporations looking to jack a little brand swag from what the kids are listening to. Some of these collaborations have been distasteful (SXSW's Doritos stage, the Sour Patch Kids house), but others have given marginalized artists a major signal boost they might never have received otherwise (Red Bull Music Academy, Ray Ban's Boiler Room collaboration).
Turner Broadcasting's Cartoon Network has been one of the good ones. Its popular Adult Swim programming block has long supported independent artists that few other cable behemoths would find practical use for, from sci-fi lullaby crooner Helado Negro to the experimental composer J.G. Thirlwell. The late-night slate of shows buys beats for promos and bumps, as well as licenses entire catalogs from indie labels for a yearly sync fee. Adult Swim even tried to function as a proper record label, Williams Street Records, which released albums from Killer Mike and Cerebral Ballzy alongside music from Adult Swim shows like "The Venture Bros." and "Metalocalypse." They've since transitioned from selling music to giving it away: For the past five years, the Adult Swim Singles Program has licensed new or unreleased tracks from artists that span the spectrum of genre, from Flying Lotus and Tanya Tagaq to Death Grips and Diarrhea Planet. This year, the program took a huge leap by expanding from 31 to 52 straight weeks of free weekly songs, in addition to dropping DOOM's new album over the course of 14 weeks.
Behind the scenes of all of this is Adult Swim's Senior Vice President and Creative Director of On-Air Jason DeMarco, whose own taste formed the basis of programming's distinctly left-of-center musical approach. Responsible for producing everything on Adult Swim that isn't a show or third-party ad, DeMarco distributes cash to (mostly) independent artists and labels in service of soundtracking and promoting Adult Swim's content. In the process, he has quietly become one of the music industry's most influential tastemakers. DeMarco also introduced Killer Mike and El-P years back, which means in a way that you can thank him for Run the Jewels.
We caught up with DeMarco recently, calling from his home base of Atlanta, to discuss Adult Swim's role in the music industry and the tenets of responsible corporate patronage.
Pitchfork: The music on Adult Swim has been a huge part of its identity for almost as long as it's existed. Is there an origin story for its musical ID?
Jason DeMarco: We kinda had to find our way a little bit, just like any new venture. When Adult Swim started, the whole point was to keep it as cheap as possible, so we used Turner library music. There are tons of music libraries that television networks license that are just anonymous artists making music that sounds like somebody else. The guys that made the on-air content and the bumps at the time were getting tired of sifting through tons of mediocre music to find the three or four good tracks in the library. They asked, "Man, can anyone just get us some music? Can you help us figure this out?" For years, I had been buying beats from people like Danger Mouse for Toonami [Cartoon Network's action-cartoon programming block]. So through relationships I had with Ninja Tune, and later Warp, and then Ghostly, and now Hyperdub and a bunch of others like Brainfeeder, we go to those labels and make deals to use music from their artists in exchange for a yearly fee. It was a way to go to an independent label that normally wouldn't get this kind of exposure and money and offer them that in exchange for us being able to use their catalog on our air. Between that and me buying original music from people like Flying Lotus and Clams Casino, we developed our on-air feel.
How did you get from buying beats for promos to Williams Street Records to the Adult Swim Singles Program?
Williams Street Records came out of the Danger Doom project [Danger Mouse and MF DOOM's 2005 album, The Mouse and the Mask]. We put that out on Epitaph Records, it did really well, sold like 350,000 copies. And we didn't, frankly, see that much money because we made a dumb deal with Epitaph. We didn't know how records worked. At the time, Warner Bros. Records was part of our company, so we had a publishing arm, we had everything. The idea was to see if we could set up a label with a very small stuff and run it like an indie, but be a part of a giant company. Which was a doomed idea. Turner exists to make money, like any company. So they were looking at it like an experiment, to see if it could become profitable. It really didn't need to be a huge profit, it just needed to pay for itself, like anything. And it did for a while, but as the music business fell apart, we didn't really have the type of infrastructure it needed to be launched. So eventually the decision was made to keep it open as sort of a marketing arm and release the music for free. People like the music we release, but we just aren't a real record label so we're not really able to monetize it. And frankly, real record labels are barely able to monetize it, so...
The Singles Program came out of the Williams Street label. The person who was running the label at the time, Amantha Walden—I was the A&R—she and I both talked about this idea: What if we released a single every month, as part of a Williams Street record club? But we could never get it off the ground in a realistic way. Part of my job as head of on-air is coming up with sales promotions for advertisers, and I thought, "Why don't we try this idea but do it once a week, for six to 10 weeks? And maybe bring a client onboard and they can pay for it, so we can give money to artists and simultaneously do this music thing." The metric for success originally was just, "We're gonna spend money to make this thing, so we need to bring on an advertiser to offset the cost and make it worth doing." Which we did. I think Kia was the sponsor the first three years. Then it did really well: It got a lot of positive press and a lot of downloads—which, 'cause this was seven years ago, downloads were still the primary thing people did.
Fun fact: The budget's been the same for seven years, but the music has changed, and every year, through better relationships with artists, through all kinds of ways, I've been able to stretch that money further. This year we have 52 weeks of the Singles Program, and they're streaming only. Streams are way cheaper than downloads, in terms of getting rights. So that allows us to finally do my dream, which was always get this to be a full year.
You guys seem to be one of the progenitors of a growing trend of corporate patronage, with brands like Converse, Red Bull, and even Sour Patch Kids offering logistical and financial support to artists with various conditions.
There is, I agree. I've known people at other companies who do the things that I do, and I've been on panels with them. And I can tell you that it's almost universally someone like me, who works at a company, that just has a crazy passion for music, and whose bosses have given them the rope to spend some of their corporate money on an attempt to engage an audience with music. Of course, music is such an easy lifestyle-branding thing, because obviously musicians are always among the tier of cool things in the world. They always will be, and they always have been. So identifying with anyone who kids think is cool is ultimately something any brand is gonna want to do. But it can't be done thoughtlessly. And it usually is.
You mentioned Converse and Red Bull, and I think they're two of the [companies] that did it right. I believe Converse is walking back on theirs, because I don't think they supported it well enough, to tell you the truth. The reason that anyone knows that Adult Swim has a music thing is because we've been doing it for 15 straight years and never slowed down, and only actually increased. You have to do it that long to make an impact that people associate your brand with it, you really do. You can't be impatient and throw a bunch of money at it. Honestly, I think Red Bull is the only other company [besides Adult Swim] doing it really right. They're doing the Red Bull Music Academy, allowing musicians platforms to talk about their process and all kinds of other stuff that is way beyond like, "Oh, here's a free track!" I think there's value to that, too, because that's what we do. Those two approaches give musicians a platform or some cash that they might not get otherwise.
The idea of "selling out" might be almost obsolete, but even so, no one seems to levy such accusations at Adult Swim, despite the corporate overlords.
I feel that it's harder than ever to make a living as an artist, and if, as a person who has a very steady job at a company, I can help that artist by giving them funding that they're not getting from traditional methods of distribution, then as long as I'm not asking them to do anything they disagree with morally and they don't think my company is gross, to me there's not much of a downside. Of course, there are artists who have a very strict policy of never collaborating with a corporation, but every situation's different and every artist has their own sensibility of where they're willing to go. The second you start asking an artist to go out there and be a huckster [for your brand], the second it becomes more than a collaboration between two like-minded entities, then it feels false, immediately, to everyone. Luckily, with Adult Swim, we make things and people fall in love with them, so when I'm reaching out to musicians a lot of times, they like Adult Swim. One thing about us, whether you're in or you're out, you can turn our channel on for five minutes and you know exactly what we're about. A lot of people can tell there's a point of view, and maybe they look at the music we've released and see that someone there cares in some way. The artists who've worked with us have been treated well and have told other artists about it. But that takes time, and most corporations do not have the patience. I've been incredibly lucky that Adult Swim is letting me do this for so long. That's the only way it's been able to be so successful.


Clariant International Ltd., Muttenz, Switzerland, has announced that its Business Unit Masterbatches is to open its first Project House in November 2013 as part of its strategy to build the next level of innovation.
The Project House is a 400 m2 facility in Pogliano, Italy, which will house chemists and technicians as well as equipment, such as extrusion machinery and analytical equipment. Its key objective is to pursue breakthrough concepts and solutions in Masterbatches products and processes. The Project House represents an investment of approximately EUR 2 million.
Through this initiative Clariant is able to co-locate industry know-how and connect teams of experts from around the world. The Project House identifies strategic areas and brings together interdisciplinary, cross-functional teams of scientists, technologists, marketers, academics, and suppliers to exchange expertise and explore emerging technologies and advanced concepts that can lead market innovation. The initial focus will be on "what's next" in Functional Packaging with its sub-segments Food & Beverages, Personal Care, and Household & Cleaning. The key objective is to provide competitive advantage for customers through differentiation and speed-to-market.
The company is currently planning its second Project House, to be located outside of Europe. It will focus on a different strategic field, beyond functional packaging.


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Leveraging Digital Transformation in a post-COVID Era: Panel Focuses on Africa's Digital Opportunities and Obstacles, Striking an Optimistic Note
On Monday, 30 November, Portulans Institute, in partnership with the UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), hosted a virtual panel event focused on leveraging digital transformation in Africa in the post-COVID era. This special event complements the series of launches previously organized by the Portulans Institute in cooperation with UNESCO. The session targeted stakeholders involved in nurturing and building a digital ecosystem in Africa, in particular policymakers, entrepreneurs, financial leaders and academics. During the panel, Portulans Institute Co-founder Dr. Bruno Lanvin also presented regional data and insights from the 2020 Network Readiness Index.
The panel, moderated by Oliver Chinganya (Director, the African Center for Statistics at UNECA), featured a line-up of high-ranking officials, ministers and private sector leaders, including:
Dr. Vera Songwe, UN Under-Secretary General and Executive Secretary, UNECA
Ms. Rebecca Enonchong, CEO, AppTechs
Ms. Cina Lawson, Minister of Digital Economy and Telecommunication, Togo
Ms. Chepkemoi Magdaline, Founder and Director, EldoHub
Mr. Alhagie Mbow, Member of Parliament, The Gambia and Pan African Parliament
Mr. Nii Narku Quaynor, Former Chairman of the Board of Directors, National Information Technology Agency, Ghana
Mr. Hamadoun Touré, Minister of Digital Economy, Mali and former Secretary-General, ITU.
In the NRI 2020, Africa still lags behind other regions, but there are strong foundations for cooperative, digital progress
Dr. Lanvin highlighted regional data from the NRI 2020, drawing attention to Africa's most network-ready economies: Mauritius (61), South Africa (76) and Kenya (82). With 31 African economies included in the Index, as a region, Africa records some of the largest intra-regional variations, with ranks ranging from Mauritius (61) to Chad (134). Results by pillar suggest that Africa's main strengths are in Governance, including ICT-related regulation. However, the common weak indicators for most African countries are Access and Usage of ICTs, within the 'People' pillar. Dr. Lanvin stressed that for all of Africa, better data is required (for instance, due to a lack of accurate and quality data, Togo was not included in the NRI 2020). Additionally, Dr. Lanvin underlined the overwhelming importance of adopting a human-centric approach to ICTs at the core of future readiness, for policymakers and analysts alike.
COVID-19 has been a blessing and a curse for Africa's digital transformation
Drawing on her experiences building a digital economy and preparing the groundwork for a digital transformation in Togo, Hon. Lawson commented that "COVID-19 was a blessing and a curse… Some of the digital projects [such as mobile payment and digital IDs] that would have taken years happened in a matter of days – because we didn't have a choice." Similarly, Dr. Touré noted that in his experience, regulation is less of a hurdle than the implementation of ICT policy. In fact, amid the crisis, Dr. Touré has embarked upon an ambitious ICT policy agenda in his new ministerial position. "The infrastructure is ready," Dr. Touré emphasized. "Now, the private sector needs to step up funding to the digital ecosystem." The pandemic crisis has, in many ways, set the stage for a flourishing digital ecosystem, specifically designed to meet local challenges head-on. In her opening remarks, Dr. Vera Songwe underlined the power of ICTs to accelerate progress towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Local problems require local (digital) solutions
In his opening remarks, Hon. Mbow highlighted the range of Internet access barriers facing people in The Gambia, from access to electricity to digital literacy. Speaking on a personal level, Hon. Mbow estimated that streaming and participating in the Zoom webinar would cost him upwards of USD$20, drawing attention to serious connectivity issues facing those even on the frontlines of ICT policy making in Africa: "there is a key difference between availability and affordability." Building on this idea, Ms. Enonchong noted that due to the high data usage of platforms like Zoom, and given the high median price of data in Africa (estimates are currently around USD$7 for just 1GB), those connecting from Africa may additionally face steep financial barriers. To remedy infrastructural and institutional hurdles, African policymakers should "buy the tech that your own entrepreneurs are creating. When you start using that technology – for conferencing using less bandwidth – you can see the kinds of constraints they face" and encourage entrepreneurs to work around them. Mr. Quaynor's remarks, focusing on the importance of digital literacy and taking advantage of digital opportunities, resonated strongly with this approach. "We need to pay attention to culture, heritage – and design more solutions that are uniquely African."
Youth entrepreneurship is the key to thriving digital economies and future readiness
According to Dr. Lanvin, NRI data suggests that Africa's unique strengths are its youth-heavy demographics and entrepreneurial excellence; "Africa needs to make full use of these key strengths, because digital transformation can be built on and around this advantage." Ms. Magdaline reflected on the success of M-Pesa, a mobile payment platform launched in Kenya in 2007. "Favorable government policies, [digital] infrastructure and a vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystem are the key factors that made Kenya a leading digital economy." To support youth entrepreneurship, Mr. Quaynor and Hon. Mbow emphasized that governments need to "overhaul" their approach to digital literacy and education. Hon. Mbow stressed that governments must invest in computer labs and adding digital literacy to core curricula. To Mr. Quaynor, current broadband capacities are insufficient for meaningful e-learning, and risk both deepening and creating new kinds of digital divides.
For ICT policy and implementation, policymakers must adopt an all-of-Africa approach
As the panel concluded, all the panelists agreed on the importance of regional cooperation for leveraging digital transformation in the post-COVID era. Drawing on her experiences as an entrepreneur in Kenya, Ms. Magdaline highlighted the power of "collaborating as one Africa: learning from each other, and international examples of success." As an important first step, Dr. Songwe emphasized the importance of inclusive data, and approaching Africa as a deeply interconnected continent in international commentary. Without adopting an all-of-Africa approach to future readiness, we risk an unhealthy balance between fact-based insights and on-the-ground insights. "It's one thing to talk about where we are," Dr. Songwe declared, "and it's another thing entirely to [produce policy that] take[s] us there." Dr. Lanvin wholeheartedly agreed with this observation, noting that in his years of experience working in Africa, both for the UN and the World Bank, he could measure the unique value of working with people who are leading digital initiatives on the ground.


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State to issue fish advisory after elevated levels of mercury found in Largemouth Bass caught in Sutton Lake
By Lisa Sorg
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Largemouth Bass caught in Sutton Lake in New Hanover County were found to have elevated levels of mercury in their tissue, according to tests conducted by state environmental officials.
The findings, verified last month, prompted the state Department of Health and Human Services to recommend that fishers at Sutton Lake adhere to the statewide mercury advisory for Largemouth Bass. That advisory recommends that women ages 15 to 44, pregnant or nursing women, and children under 15 should not eat these fish. Other people can eat up to one meal per week. A meal is 6 ounces of uncooked fish for adults, or 2 ounces of uncooked fish for children under 15, according to DHHS.
Mercury can harm brain and neurological development in fetuses and young children, which can result in cognitive disabilities later in life. Adults with mercury poisoning can experience tingling or numbness of lips, tongue, fingers or toes, fatigue, and blurred vision.
In March DEQ sampled 11 largemouth bass, three bluegill sunfish and eight redear sunfish. All of the Largemouth Bass samples contained some amount of mercury. The average concentration was 0.13 ppm, more than two and a half times the state's health screening level of 0.047 ppm. Detections in the bass ranged from 0.07 to o.23 ppm.
One of three bluegill tested and five of eight redear sunfish also had mercury, but at amounts below the screening level. In a letter to New Hanover County Public Health Department Director Phillip Tart, state health officials noted that because of an insufficient number of bluegill samples, they could not issue an advisory for that species at Sutton.
DHHS cautioned that concentrations could increase or decrease over time, and recommended that DEQ continue to sample the fish not only for mercury, but other contaminants, "to accurately assess the status of fish" in the lake.
The industrial sources of mercury include coal-fired power plants and incinerators. Duke Energy operated the Sutton coal-fired plant adjacent to the lake from 1954 to 2013.
There has been a statewide fish consumption advisory in effect for mercury since 2008. According to state documents, most of the elevated mercury concentrations in Largemouth Bass occur in the eastern and southeastern part of the state, within the Coastal Plain.
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Opening up Menéndez – Erik and Lyle Menéndez go public
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Previously publicity shy Menéndez brothers both speak publicly about killing their parents in the wake of the success of NBC's 'Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders'
Erik and Lyle Menéndez, the brothers convicted of murdering their allegedly abusive multi-millionaire parents José and Mary 'Kitty' Menéndez at their home in Beverly Hills, California in 1989, have generally been pretty quiet in the years since their conviction at their second trial in 1994.
Now, however, in the wake of the immense success of NBC's eight-part series, Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders, about the case Erik Menéndez has given his first interview since 2005 to A&E. Set to be screened in America on 30th November, The Menendez Murders: Erik Tells All will also include previously unseen photographs and new interviews with family and friends.
In two trailers for the show, Erik, now 46, speaks through the phone from the Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego, California and states:
"I'm Erik Menéndez… I'm serving life in prison without the possibility of parole. I've heard many different versions of my life told in the media, and those stories are fictional. I think it's time people hear the truth in my own words without the restrictions of a courtroom."
"From the moment after, I wanted to go back in time. It was so wrong. I didn't want my parents dead – I just wanted the abuse to stop. Years and years of pain exploded that night in an unimaginable violence. It is my own personal hell."
"My only hope in speaking out is that people have a more complete understanding of the events that led up to my actions on the night of 20th August and really a fuller picture of what happened in my life."
"All I can hope for is that people will come to realise that the truth is not a simple one-line explanation that many people have tried to make it out to be. That really, that my life was unfolding of a complicated life that I lived that had all of these things that came into being and that led up to what is an ongoing and enduring family tragedy."
"The tragedy didn't end on that night, as devastating as that night was. It didn't end there for my family, and it continues on to this day, and that sadness is something that I am trying to make up for them and with my parents for the rest of my life. It will never end."
A photograph of José Menéndez with his sons Erik and Lyle on his knee; references have been made to the situation of José Menéndez's right hand to be evidence of his highly inappropriate relationship with his children
Elsewhere, on the @MenendezBrothers Facebook page this weekend, through an intermediary seemingly in his presence at the Mule Creek State Prison where he is housed in Ione, California, Lyle Menéndez participated in what appeared to be a live Facebook chat.
Aside from sounding quite upbeat and referencing how his second wife (he has married twice since being imprisoned) had visited him earlier in the day, Lyle answered a question about which Spice Girl he liked most with the answer "Posh, of course!" and stated that "no one is good enough to play [me] for it be enjoyable" of "paddle tennis" in the prison. He shared news that he is "currently re-reading Shogun" as it is "a book centered [sic] around great patience and spirit under terrible circumstances" and in response to a question about what music he likes most added: "I like the stories that country music tells so for me it is most uplifting to listen to country music. It puts me in touch with my emotions. But I do like all sorts of music."
More tellingly, especially given he is likely never to leave prison during his lifetime, Lyle, in referencing a question about the unauthorised @FreetheMenendezBrothers Facebook page stated:
"People have filled me in. We are not affiliated with it in any way. We have told people that writing letters to the governor right now is not helpful to our release and could actually be a detriment. We know that it is frustrating to people but these are serious legal matters that have very specific avenues that require serious legal planning. I know it is frustrating and that we cannot stop people, but what I am saying now are my wishes."
Plainly this statement shows that Lyle still has hope that he could actually be released and given that the allegations of appalling abuse and sexual assault by their parents seem to be finally attracting worthy examination also, it does indeed seem time that the severity of the duo's sentences again be looked at.
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HJP says:
The juror you wrote about is right. This should have been a manslaughter verdict and not a murder. Those boys were treated disgustingly. There was a photo of daddy Menenendez groping one of the sons in a photo and he even had drilled spy holes above their bedrooms. Another relative mentioned abuse independently and yet it all got ignored. Justice was not served.
Hazel Thornton says:
I am the juror that The Steeple Times featured on October 16.
I understand completely why people hate the Menendez brothers. If I hadn't witnessed 5 months of testimony, and deliberated the issues for a month (not to mention a month of jury selection), and if all I'd ever seen and heard were the prosecution-biased headlines, news stories, articles, books, documentaries, comedy sketches, and dramatizations, I would too.
Now we have the Law & Order True Crime series. My book — Hung Jury: The Diary of a Menendez Juror — is available again, and Robert Rand's book — The Menendez Murders — is available for pre-order. Both on Amazon.
More people are finally learning the truth.
WTF????????? They shot their parents in cold blood!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They should have got the electric chair!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Or better still, there should have a f***ing firing squad that began at their f***ing knees and slowly worked upwards!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Those poor parents continue to be defamed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WTF???????????? Sick!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Good parents?? Good parents don't rape and molest their children? I take it you didn't watch Court TV back in the day or the new Law and Order special that is on this evening. The parents own brothers and sisters testified for the boys and outlined the abuses they witnesses.
Whether you live in a good neighborhood or a poor one, abuse and rape can occur. You might want to take a minute and review the case
"Poor parents continue to be defamed"???
You might want to look at just who is "defaming" them. Some of their own family – brothers and sisters of the parents for starters!
Gillian Trott says:
What is wrong with you people? You effectively endorse supporting an examination of the case of two spoilt brats who shot their loving parents yet you do NOTHING to aid dear Gerry and Kate McCann in their search for their beloved missing daughter Madeleine. Do the right thing and write about Madeleine and the wonderful search the police and others like Richard Branson and Philip Green and Stelios and JK Rowling have helped with. FIND MADELEINE, FIND HER NOW.
GOD, Have you escaped again??
HJP is right and this should never have been a murder verdict. Having watched the drama series I can see it should have been manslaughter most acutely.
Karen Gray says:
There were moments when I watched what I've seen of the NBC True Crime series that I thought the brothers were innocent but there must be reasons they were convicted that are just as compelling. Can we not be told more about those please?
I was a juror in the first trial which resulted in 2 hung juries. "Innocent" was never on the table. It was essentially a matter of murder vs manslaughter. The reason they were successfully convicted of murder in the second trial was that the judge reversed many of his previous rulings and gutted the defense case. My own book, Hung Jury: The Diary of a Menendez Juror, and Law & Order True Crime are the best sources for more information until Robert Rand's book, Menendez Murders, comes out later this year.
Jenny Colvin says:
Their case should absolutely be revised!
Years of abuse, trial by media, political interference, pathetic witnesses ie, Oziel!
If it weren't for some of the jurors they'd be dead by now
From what I have seen of this case, I don't think it should have been a murder verdict. However that was probably the only verdict that could be handed down as it was premeditated. I do believe the whole thing should be revised.
Jacqueline Montoya says:
It's a terrible crime and they have served their sentence. They have to live with the fact they killed their parents. They have gone from one hell to another. Erik did run away but his father always found him. Being threatened every day is not living. What if it was you and your little brother ? Let them go home.
They deserve a 3rd trial. They were slided on the 2nd. They SHOULD of only received Manslaughter & time in a mental institution! They Prosecution screwed them bad. But OJ & the cops who beat Rodney King walked free!!? That's bullshit & y'all know it
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Die Ursprünge der Rôles d'Oléron gehen vermutlich auf praktisch ausgeübtes Seerecht der französischen Seehandelsleute des 12. und 13. Jahrhunderts zurück, das wiederum auf mittelmeerischem Handels- und Seerecht fußte. Die Rôles d'Oléron erhielten ihren Namen von der westfranzösischen Atlantikinsel Oléron, auf der sie von Eleonore von Aquitanien öffentlich bekanntgegeben und hinterlegt gewesen sein sollen, während sie dort lebte. Niedergeschrieben wurden sie wahrscheinlich (je nach Quelle) zwischen 1160 und 1286 und gelten als älteste schriftliche Fixierung von Seerechtssätzen. Als älteste erhaltene Fassung der Rôles gilt die Abschrift in der Liber Horn genannten Sammlung des juristisch engagierten englischen Kaufmanns Andrew Horn († 1328).

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Q: Entity Framework - ObjectContext lifecycle I'm new to the Entity Framework and have a question about ObjectContext lifecycle in a 'database-first' WinForm application.
For the sake of illustration, let's say I am creating a register of animal species.

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*On the left of the form I have a list of animal species (cow, pig, dog etc. – I think these are genus rather than species, but never mind!).

*On the right of the form I have textboxes, comboboxes etc. to display and allow editing of the selected species' properties.
When the user selects a species on the left I use:
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then bind the various controls on the right to species.
Some of these properties such as habitat are selected from a combobox (populated from the database when the form loads. I'm using surrogate keys in the database) which means I think I need to keep the same context for the life of the form.
I think there are two problems with this:

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*The user could make changes to many different species (several hundred exist) during the life of the context making it become bloated.

*Ideally I would like to prompt the user when selecting a new species if they wish to save changes to the current one (if dirty) before changing. How then do I discard changes – how do I make the context forget it ever saw the object?
An alternative would be to use a new context each time the user selects a new species, but this would mean repopulating several comboboxes each time so that they are created on the same context and can be bound to.
Am I missing something?
Many Thanks

A: I think you will find your answer in this topic:
Undo changes in entity framework entities

A: I would suggest using new context on species change - that would solve problem of undoing changes if needed.
I don't see why you need to re-populate your combo-boxes every time you discard the context. I am assuming that these entities will not be modified at the same time when species is getting modified. So you can either use Attach method on these entities to make them part of current object context (OR you can use the key/id of selected entity to query the entity from database with current object context).

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Q: Changing a generator with another function - Python 3.x I want to change the behavior of the generator below so that it only yields even numbers. How can I do this?
I'm aware that there simpler, clever ways to do this. This is a contrived HR challenge, where the
The change_generator function that I wrote does not yield the desired output. I can only change change_generator.
I cannot change  positive_integers_generator() nor the for loop below.
Can I solve this with a decorator?
#can't change the body of this function
def positive_integers_generator():
    n = 1
    while True:
        x = yield n
        if x is not None:
            n = x
        else:
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# can only change this function
def change_generator(generator, n):
  for i in generator:
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# can't change this code either
# should print 1, 2, 4, 6, 8
g = positive_integers_generator()
for _ in range(5):
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    change_generator(g, n)

A: You can use the built in function filter
even_numbers_generator = filter(lambda n: n % 2 == 0, positive_integers_generator())

Or a generator expression.
even_numbers_generator = (n for n in positive_integers_generator() if n % 2 == 0)

Or itertools.count from the standard library:
even_numbers_generator = itertools.count(start=2, step=2)

But if you only can change the change_generator function, the "correct answer" to the challenge probably involves using generator.send()
# can only change this function
def change_generator(generator, n):
    if n % 2 == 0:
        generator.send(n + 1)

A: You don't need the parens on generator in your loop, and you don't seem to be printing the output of the right generator.  Updated version that works for me:
def positive_integers_generator():
    n = 1
    while True:
        x = yield n
        if x is not None:
            n = x
        else:
            n += 1

def change_generator(generator):
  for i in generator:
    if i%2 == 0:
      yield i

g = positive_integers_generator()

# should print 1, 2, 4
for _ in range(5):
  n = next(change_generator(g))
  print(n)

A: In your very specific problem, if you can't change the print(n) part then you are pretty cornered because you can't change the instance of generator g that was created for positive_integers_generator().
In what may be a frowned upon answer, in this particular case you might want to update the global g to be reassigned to a new generator after that:
def change_generator(generator, n):
    def even_gen():
        n = 2
        while True:
            if n % 2 == 0:
                yield n
            else:
                yield
            n += 1
    global g                          # directly change the g referenced in main code
    if not g.__name__ == 'even_gen':  # change g if it is not even_gen
        g = even_gen()

# output:
# 1
# 2
# None
# 4
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