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The Making of Gennady Golovkin, Boxing's Silent Superstar
How a boy from a soot-soaked corner of the Soviet empire—a city that grew out of a labor camp, in a society shaped by the warped, paranoid mind of Joseph Stalin—grew into the man they call "Triple-G."
by Finn Cohen
Illustration by Elliot Gerard
"We live in a morbid society here in America," says Abel Sanchez. "We want to see somebody get hurt. We go to the bullfights not to see the bullfighter win, but to see the bullfighter get thrown up in the air."
Gennady Gennadyevich Golovkin came to America seven years ago from Germany, but he was born in Karaganda, a city in Kazakhstan, the Earth's ninth-largest country, dotted with underground coal mines that once fed the machine of Soviet industry. He was an amateur champion in his country, won an Olympic silver medal in 2004 and spent years knocking out every fighter Europe could throw at him before he finally showed up at Sanchez's gym in Big Bear, California, looking for someone to help him break into the U.S. market.
"I explained to him what America wants and what America needs, and if he gave me the chance, without any interruptions, I could make him that," says Sanchez, a construction contractor from Tijuana with a steady stable of fighters in Big Bear. "But he had something I couldn't teach, and that's the punch."
That punch has elevated Golovkin to the biggest stage in boxing. His life has revolved around the sport for decades, but slowly it is beginning to revolve around him. He is the real thing: a superstar, a knockout artist, a brand with increasingly strong endorsements—the custom Hublot watch, the Apple Watch ad, the Air Jordan gear. He walks with a placid swagger, in and out of the boxing ring, like a velociraptor in repose. In 37 professional fights, he has never lost, and he has never been knocked down.
Golovkin also does not enjoy suffering fools, but he does it well. Those endorsements that feed his family's future—and the promotional machine that sustains them—require a modicum of forced smiles, a flurry of necessary evils.
"Boxing is not a business," Golovkin recently told a Mexican reporter during a day of interviews and a public, outdoor workout in 100-degree weather in Los Angeles. "It is a sport."
But it is a huge business. On Saturday, Golovkin will face off against Saul "Canelo" Alvarez in the year's biggest boxing match to feature two actual boxers. Millions of people will spend $69.99 to watch on Pay Per View. Thousands will spend even more to see it live in Las Vegas. The naked capitalist theater of the recent fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Conor McGregor was a strangely attractive vortex of attention this summer, but the matchup with Golovkin and Alvarez is one the boxing world has wanted for years.
The fight takes place on Mexican Independence Day, one of boxing's marquee weekends. It features Mexico's most famous and accomplished contemporary superstar in Alvarez, and one of the country's favorite outsiders in Golovkin—a man who has claimed to fight "Mexican-style": with constant pressure, fearlessly, brutally.
Canelo Alvarez is Mexico's biggest boxing superstar. Photo: Joe Camporeale-USA TODAY Sports.
"We as Mexicans remember the greats and how they fought. And the greats of today, or the elite of today—Mexican fighters—don't fight the way our heroes used to fight," Sanchez says. "When [Golovkin] goes out there and puts it out on the line, the Mexican fan remembers those days when we used to have those kind of fighters."
This spring, Alvarez defeated Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., the son of Mexico's most iconic fighter. The fight, a mismatch from conception, was essentially a staged showdown for Mexican supremacy of Pay Per View boxing, the level at which a boxer's checks get substantially larger. By defeating Chavez Jr., Alvarez set himself up as the legitimate heir of Mexico's boxing tradition. In Golovkin, who is favored by oddsmakers—and adored by many Mexican fans—he faces the perfect rival.
"If you were to search the world to find the two people who know the most about how to construct and conduct their lives, maximize what they can do as a prizefighter, these are the two guys," says Jim Lampley, the HBO boxing commentator who has seen many of Golovkin's fights from ringside. "They train monastically. They live quiet, controlled personal lives. They are not out there presenting themselves crazily or for attention on social media."
So now, after a summer of dick-swinging from Mayweather and McGregor, boxing has a narrative less about spectacle and more about honor: Alvarez, the heavily marketed and relentlessly scrutinized son of a country that reveres its bloodsport heroes, will meet Golovkin, a boy born in a soot-soaked corner of the Soviet empire—in a city that grew out of a labor camp, in a society shaped by the warped, paranoid mind of Joseph Stalin—who grew into the man they call "Triple-G."
The mines of Golovkin's home city were built on several hundred thousand backs, and knees, and crushed hopes. The miners working there, and the population tasked with feeding that labor, were internally exiled citizens; ethnic minorities from the empire's vast corners; farmers who resisted Stalin's forced collectivization of agriculture; people who maybe were suspected of thinking (or, God save you, saying) something negative about Soviet life—packed into train cars and put to work. Babies in Karangada were kept a half-hour's walk away from their mothers, who were required to walk there and back several times a day to nurse them until they were two, at which point they were put up for adoption. Prisoners were tortured; some were tied up and left outside in the sub-zero winter temperatures.
In the 1930s, the gulag camp system phased into a working-class city, choked with coal dust. In 1982, in a neighborhood called Maikuduk, twins were born to a Russian man and his half-Korean wife. (Nearly everyone of Korean descent in the Soviet Union was sent to Karaganda in 1937; anyone with ties to an external country was seen as a threat, regardless of their Soviet citizenship.)
He started boxing at 10: city champion, regional champion, champion of the Kazakhstan Republic, Asian champion, Asian games—like the Asian Olympics—world youth champion, world amateur champion, Olympic finalist. He's like a professor.
The twins, Maxim and Gennady, had two older brothers, Sergey and Vadim, who explained to their younger siblings the need to defend themselves: Karaganda in the last days of the Iron Curtain was a tough place, and it got much tougher after the Soviet Union's collapse. A small group of citizens with enough foresight in this shaky, pirate capitalism were able to manipulate wealth for personal gain, while their countrymen were left without basic needs, without jobs or with currencies that didn't mean anything. In the 1990s, the city's last hospital was turned into a casino.
The twins preferred soccer, but Sergey and Vadim took them to a boxing gym. Years later, Sergey and Vadim would both die fighting in the Russian Army—the where, when, and how are still unknown to the family.
Maxim was the better boxer, by all accounts, but Gennady pushed himself harder as an amateur, losing only 5 of 350 fights in a country with one of the world's strongest boxing programs. He won a silver medal for Kazakhstan in the 2004 Olympics, but wanted to get out of the amateur current. After signing with a promoter and moving to Germany, he spent years knocking people out in Europe as a pro.
"He started boxing at 10: city champion, regional champion, champion of the Kazakhstan Republic, Asian champion, Asian games—like the Asian Olympics—world youth champion, world amateur champion, Olympic finalist," Max Golovkin said of his brother's pedigree. "He's like a professor."
Golovkin knocks out Curtis Stevens. Photo: Joe Camporeale-USA TODAY Sports
But Gennady wasn't getting the challenges he felt he deserved, and had no shot at breaking into the larger boxing market, so his German managers began scouring the U.S. for options. In 2010, they arrived in California, and met with Sanchez, whose Summit gym in Big Bear was a secluded place, 7,000 feet above sea level, where he could embrace a monastic training schedule.
They looked at some videos of Golovkin's fights. Sanchez spoke no Russian, and Golovkin spoke no English. Communication was primarily physical, a pantomimed twisting and shifting of weight to transfer power from one hand to another. Then Sanchez showed him a video of Julio Cesar Chavez, the beloved Mexican champion, fighting Edwin Rosario in 1987.
Chavez pursued Rosario for the entire fight, keeping him cornered, repeatedly bullying him against the ropes. Rosario had heart; he stayed upright the whole time, but his lips and nose were busted, and one eye swelled to a close by the 10th round.
"Chavez is turning this into an abattoir of Rosario's blood," intoned Larry Merchant, who was calling the fight for HBO. For Sanchez, a trainer whose hyperbolic praise for his fighters is one of the tools that helps Golovkin's mythical status, this was the type of violence he believed Golovkin was capable of doling out.
"I said to him, 'If you give me three years, I promise you that in three years, you'll be the best middleweight, you'll be undefeated, you'll be world champion, and we won't be able to get you fights. Give me three years, don't interrupt.' Still, to this day, he doesn't argue, he doesn't question, he does what he's told," Sanchez said. "Three years went by, and just like I said, he was the undefeated middleweight champion and nobody wanted to fight him."
"He's always looking at them with this predatory look, they can't seem to find space for escape from him.
It didn't take long for Golovkin, under Sanchez's power-first tutelage, to start turning heads. His penchant for knocking opponents out (33 KOs in those 37 fights) is what has endeared him to fans who will pay premium fees to watch him. His polite demeanor and dazzling smile have endeared him to the brands that make him the face of their products: outside of his myriad endorsements in Kazakhstan, he's the first boxer to have been endorsed by Chivas, and has been fitted for suits by the exclusive Bijan tailoring boutique on Rodeo Drive. At a time when boxing's ability to attract new fans is being overshadowed by the rising popularity of mixed martial arts, for such companies to attach themselves to Golovkin is a testament to his marketability.
For a while, his reputation had many opponents ducking him. He has not really ever been rattled, opting instead to apply a cold, steady pressure that leads to a breaking of the spirit. A velociraptor has no emotional investment in you. It just wants to eat.
"It's very unsettling to opponents," says Lampley, the HBO commentator, who often yells "KAZAKH THUNDER!" as Golovkin inevitably dismantles a foe. "They all talk about the fact that he's constantly directly in front of them, he's always looking at them with this predatory look, they can't seem to find space for escape from him, and that all becomes a difficult obstacle both mentally and physically."
In his fight against Golovkin last fall, Kell Brook, an undefeated British welterweight champion who had come up two weight classes for the bout, snapped Golovkin's head back. This is a rare sight. Golovkin's opponents are almost always running, moving away from him.
Brook, sensing a rare weakness in Golovkin, hit him with several more combinations; the crowd, at the 02 Arena in London, stood up, roaring. Golovkin retreated. It was rumored that he had been ill in the days leading up to the fight, which would have explained this display—or anything short of gracefully robotic pursuit. Or maybe he was just playing possum.
"I'm not sure you can take the Kell Brook fight as legitimate evidence of Gennady's capabilities," said Lampley, citing the potential need for Golovkin to lay some bait for Alvarez, who still would not agree to fight him. "He was attempting to say to potential opponents—most particularly Canelo, and Canelo's surrounding brain trust—'Look, I'm vulnerable. There's no reason to stay away.'"
Golovkin broke Brook's right orbital socket in the next round. Brook's corner stopped it in the 5th. After fighting in the center of his country's second-largest arena, Brook was taken to the hospital in an ambulance.
Curtis Stevens, a middleweight from Brownsville, Brooklyn, the neighborhood that produced Mike Tyson and Zab Judah, pushed Golovkin back multiple times in their 2013 matchup. But these were tiny victories; later, Stevens leaned against the ropes, getting his liver hammered. In the 6th round, his mother walked out. In the 8th, at which point Golovkin was playing with him like a cat with an injured mouse, Stevens's corner stopped it.
Matthew Macklin, who fought Golovkin in 2013, spent the first round trying to push him back, dipping in and out in a circle. Golovkin let Macklin wear himself out; he broke two of Macklin's ribs in the 3rd round, ending the fight.
"He was exceptionally good at range," Macklin said. "To stand off at range and try and move and box was the worst thing I could have done. It just invited more pressure."
In 2015, the quick-footed Willie Monroe Jr. tried dancing around Golovkin's attack for several rounds; when that didn't work, Monroe took the fight inside, putting his internal organs at risk. When he was knocked down for the third time, in the 6th round, he barely got up in time for the count of 10.
"You just beat it. YOU JUST BEAT IT. You gotta move faster," the referee, Jack Reiss, chided Monroe. "Do you want to continue?"
Monroe, trying to keep his face calm, mumbled something inaudible, as if he didn't want to admit it.
"DO YOU WANT TO CONTINUE?" Reiss asked again—it was on him to determine whether doing so would be dangerous for Monroe.
Monroe waited a beat, pondering the option.
"I'm done," he said, looking down.
For most of its citizens, the end of the Soviet Union was an economic trauma. Currencies were devalued overnight. Government systems of support were erased. But Kazakhstan's abundant natural resources helped it rebound a little quicker than other Central Asian republics. And in the past decade, it has invested in Gennady Golovkin.
Now he's an international hero. An increasingly large diaspora of Kazakh fans attend his fights, holding the country's flag aloft. He is plastered on billboards in cities. He recently helped inaugurate a sports complex for children in his hometown. He was named an ambassador for Astana EXPO2017, a trade and energy summit in the country's capital.
"He's like Elvis over there. Girls see him on the streets, on the sidewalk, and they start screaming," said Tom Loeffler, Golovkin's promoter. "With Kazakhstan, it really wasn't that well-known on a global basis. You had that whole thing with Borat and Kazakhstan, and Gennady's pretty much wiped out that whole image. Now, he's the best middleweight champion in the world, representing his country, and every time he gets in the ring, he's carrying the flag."
Sanchez gets email from Kazakh fans, whose references to Golovkin render him an anthropomorphic emotion. "'Take care of our pride and make sure our pride is ok, we thank you for everything you have done for our pride.' He is Kazakhstan."
Golovkin comes to parties after his own fights dressed in a tuxedo. He's an icon to his own people, a rock star in a former Soviet republic. He reportedly does 2000 situps a day. But the man who possesses these credentials is not particularly concerned with discussing them.
Seated at a table full of reporters, a few hours before stepping into an outdoor ring in downtown Los Angeles for an open workout, Golovkin seemed uneasy—which he never does during a fight. If one wanted to see a rare example of a rattled Golovkin, it would be here, in front of a billboard full of sponsor logos, taking questions. Does he feel the pressure? Why did he close his camp? Was it important to face adversity in his last fight, against Daniel Jacobs (one of the few fighters to avoid being knocked out by Golovkin)?
"Did you watch the Mayweather fight?"
Golovkin winced, shaking his head. "Maybe I'll watch it later in the week."
"What does Canelo do best?"
Golovkin shrugged. He let the question hang in the air, like a punch he didn't respect enough to dodge.
FIGHTLAND
Golovkin vs. Canelo


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Q: Binding ZIndex from DataTemplate I have a View that is basically setup like this:
<Grid>
<ViewBox>
    <Grid>
        <ItemsControl ItemsSource="{Binding MyItems}"
                      ItemTemplate="{Binding Source={StaticResource MyItemsDataTemplate}}">
            <ItemsControl.ItemsPanel>
                <ItemsPanelTemplate>
                    <Grid />
                </ItemsPanelTemplate>
            </ItemsControl.ItemsPanel>
        </ItemsControl>
    </Grid>
</ViewBox>
</Grid>

The DataTemplate used here can be reduced to this:
<DataTemplate x:Key="AreaItemDisplayDataTemplate">
<Canvas Grid.ZIndex={Binding Z}>
    <Grid>
        // an shape is displayed here...
    </Grid>
</Canvas>

I would now expect the ZIndex to be bound to the Z property of the individual items. When i debug the code, i can also see, that the Z property getter is accessed when i would expect it (whenever i raise the propertychanged event for it, eg) so i assume the binding to work correctly.
However, the ZIndex is not working as expected. The binding to the value has no effect on the actual displayed Z Order. Where am i going wrong with this code?

A: The content of the DataTemplate gets wrapped in a ContentPresenter so the Canvas in the DataTemplate isn't a direct child of the ItemsPanel Grid. That is the reason the ZIndex property doesn't do anything.
Move the ZIndex Binding to the ItemContainerStyle and it should work.
<ItemsControl ItemsSource="{Binding MyItems}"
              ItemTemplate="{Binding Source={StaticResource MyItemsDataTemplate}}">
    <ItemsControl.ItemsPanel>
        <ItemsPanelTemplate>
            <Grid />
        </ItemsPanelTemplate>
    </ItemsControl.ItemsPanel>
    <ItemsControl.ItemContainerStyle>
        <Style TargetType="ContentPresenter">
            <Setter Property="Grid.ZIndex" Value="{Binding Z}"/>
        </Style>
    </ItemsControl.ItemContainerStyle>
</ItemsControl>

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Why Do Those With Addiction Make Excuses for Treatment?
When we're on the outside looking in, it's incredibly hard to understand why someone we love wouldn't want to seek help for themselves. Why would they purposefully want to ruin their life? Why would they want to harm everyone around them and neglect their responsibilities? Amidst these thoughts typically arises some seriously intense emotions such as anger, depression, guilt, bitterness and more, which only further escalate the stress we're feeling on a daily basis. If you're the family member of a loved one who continues to make excuses for why they shouldn't seek help, you're not alone. Understanding the ways that addiction can affect the mind, body and spirit may help you get an even deeper glance into what your loved one is going through – so that you can have an even greater understanding of what's going on.
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) reminds us that the brain is an incredibly complex organ – and with a three pound mass of gray and white matter, which we need to do everything in our daily lives, the brain can be significantly altered when drugs are involved. The brain works as a dynamic system that interacts in a multitude of ways to send signals throughout the body. These signals are sent between neurotransmitters, and, when drugs are involved, these neurotransmitters change. Drugs can affect the brain by sending out an influx of neurotransmitters – which send out an entirely different message from what would normally be sent.
The basal ganglia, for example, is a part of the brain that holds the "reward circuit" – and when drugs are taken, the reward circuit becomes flooded with dopamine (a "feel good" chemical), which only forces the brain to change it's habits. This is where it all begins – and where your loved one's brain functioning may have physically changed to crave alcohol or other substances. Put simply, addiction is considered a disease because it's not something that can be easily changed – and our loved ones act differently and refuse to seek help because the disease make them feel as though they don't need to.
What Are 3 Beliefs That Family Members Should Know About Addiction?
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Yesterday my blog post was about getting a dose of perspective. It came before events that offered yet another sort of perspective…and pushed me to work on this post, which has sat in my drafts for over a month now.
There's a story I'm not certain I will ever be able to write. The title is "Dancing Memorials". For a time I thought of it as science fiction, because everything I write is science fiction or fantasy, but then I stopped thinking of it as a story that needs genre and quickly it came to deny any classification at all. I'm not sure it's even a story, so much as a prose poem or, what is strangest and probably truest, a reflection of the ideas within its own text.
He first saw her dancing around a perpetual flame, the oil lamp that burned marking the mass grave of a nation.
She had danced for the fist time at a memorial where stones marched in endless rows, each marking the death of one or ten or a hundred. The stillness had threatened to seep into her bones, and so, in protest, she danced. She could not bring them back to life, but she danced for them. She could not take the weapons from the killers' hands and shatter them–her slender, small body lacked the strength, for one thing, for another, it was not bulletproof, and lastly she was too distant in time and space for any physical impact–but she poured her energy, her anger and her pain into beautiful patterns shaped with her living body.
She danced in gas chambers, in battery factories with blood still staining the brick walls, in a public square until the police asked her to stop, in fields of high grass where her steps trod on half-buried bones. The dance was not of victory or defeat; it was beyond both.
She danced so that, though people went and bled and died, still there would be dancing left in the places their eyes had closed on. It was disrespectful, some said. Why? she asked. Because joy was out of place. Is my dancing really joy, she asked, and then, is there a better response than joy in the face of evil and death?
He followed her. Watched every interview–distant when she spoke of family or friends, or the job she'd tried to hold until sponsor donations enabled her to quit. Sometimes musicians followed her, and she did not tell them to go away but she didn't dance while they played, either. She came to places when invited, but usually her destinations were her own choice. Some she visited more than once.
He read about genocides. About the forensic archaeologists who opened the mass graves and sorted through the bones, learning their stories: of heroes, of victims, of lovers that died together.
Once he'd thought of becoming a journalist. He spoke to one–interviewed him–and was told, you have to believe in a higher power to do this job and survive. The forensic anthropologists must believe in one, too.
He didn't. At first he wondered why they bothered. The victims were dead, what did it matter?
Yet it did. Their killers could not keep them hidden in the ground, forgotten. Their families could bring them home. It did not defeat the killers, though it undid as much of their work as could be undone; it was not victory, it was something beyond all that. More than a matter of moving around dead bones. It transformed them, made them human again. Like the touch of a higher power.
Her dancing brought not closure so much as transcendence–not ignoring tragedy, but answering the unanswerable by side-stepping it, almost with a non sequitor. But not completely, since her response stemmed directly from what she confronted. If it was any less terrible she would not have danced so beautifully.
In a cave, where the echos of gunshots and ricocheting bullets had splintered the stone and the shadows still held secrets, he joined her in dancing for the first time. As was inevitable, he realized now: his every step had led to it.
The dancer in the story responds to genocide because it was in response to learning about genocide that I began it. I started the night of an educational forum on the topic of peace and reconciliation in the wake of the Bosnian genocide. The cave was the location of a massacre and, years later, a concert. The battery factories do exist, and the blood is still there. I don't think anyone has danced in them, but it's possible.
The forensic anthropologists exist as well. The ones I had in mind were working in Latin America, but while in Ghana I read an article about mass graves being uncovered in Cote d'Ivoire, records of post-election violence. The journalist and his advice are also real.
Things had come full circle, then, from the story of a concert in the Bosnian cave which had led me to write about Dancing Memorials in the first place. I'd wondered how those musicians had thought about what they were doing. Here was one who gave his reason–transcendentally close to no reason at all.
It all comes to the same thing–the musicians, my fictional dancer (and perhaps even the journalistic pursuit of the character who follows her), and perhaps in the humblest way my own writing of it. A creative impulse comes up in the face of massive tragedy.
It may be an effort to heal, psychologically and psychically. The experiences that triggered my reflections here were both mediated through a woman who examines the use of art therapy for healing and peacemaking, especially among children. But not only among children. Warrior Cry is a volunteer organization that helps wounded soldiers with their recovery by teaching them to play musical instruments (I first heard about the nonprofit through my inclusion in the charity anthology Battlespace, proceeds for which are donated to Warrior Cry. My story in the anthology, Ayema's Fleet, is about recovery from trauma, if not through the creative arts exactly, through something like imagination and something very much like love).
But I think there's also an element of what comes out in Dancing Memorials: a protest. Futile, ultimately, but ultimately all responses to tragedy on this scale are futile.
There's also creative work serving as a memorial. Yet I'm not satisfied with my own explanation here: what exactly goes into memorializing something? Grief, and often horror or awe (it comes with the scale, I think). An attempt to ensure something or someone important is not forgotten. Sometimes I fear if there is no danger of the memorialized subject being forgotten, a memorial work appears to be piggybacking off their larger fame, becoming exploitative. That may be why, even when writing a prose poem for my own personal contemplation, I named no names: none of them are my tragedy to memorialize or my story to write. Perhaps if I dedicated more time into research and thoughtfully depicting them it would be acceptable, but as it stands, I don't quite dare to make the story anything but a fantasy.
There's one last use of creative work in the face of tragedy: escape. Or escapism, which as China Mieville once powerfully pointed out is not at all the same thing. That's hardly the fault of creative art. At least it provides us with breathing room, with a space of peace and quiet to wipe tears and stitch up wounds. Discussing the toll a visit to the Holocaust museum in DC had taken on a friend of mine, I suggested I should make it a hobby to stand outside the museum with a "Free hugs" sign. Another friend volunteered that whenever she visited a particular Holocaust museum (I believe it's the Breman one in Atlanta, given the location) she would end the afternoon by stopping by a museum of puppetry arts. I don't think it's disrespectful to the victims to take one's mind off their suffering by looking at cute and amusing puppets. It may be a requirement to keep stable and mentally healthy in an unstable, unhealthy world.
Last night, as students in my dorm floor sat in the lounge watching the news out of Boston, I brought my Plushie Eighth Doctor, handmade by one of my dearest friends, along with me. The news was not the sort of thing to be watched without hugs on hand, and I was sure to share him around with others who seemed like they needed it. It helps, perhaps, that I associate my plush with a number of things–my friend and one of my favorite fictional characters, one known for saving the day–that give him almost an aura of personality (of course, I've always made my stuffed animals rather lively. Perhaps it comes of being a chronic story teller and character creator. My entire family does it). Having a created person to lean on along with real ones can prove strangely helpful in times when no real person is completely able to offer selfless support, needing to look after themselves (I was the last person left watching the news, until I was finally able to tear myself away).
Art can help us look away from terrible things. It can reveal to us things that aren't terrible; that are even the opposite. It can create the surface appearance of a world where unimaginably horrible things do not happen, even if perhaps nothing on earth can keep unimaginably horrible things from happening in this world.
Because I'm not certain anything can. Domestic terrorist attacks, murder, war, are things that have been happening at every point in history and in all places. As much as I'd like to make them out as the symptoms of a particular culture (and I do think Americans as a whole have an extremely unhealthy fascination with guns and explosions, although the worldwide success of summer blockbusters with heavy firepower suggests it's not unique to us) that can then be 'cured', I look around and find them frighteningly prevalent. The day of the Sandy Hook tragedy the Internet was buzzing with news of a similar attack by a knifeman in China–not occurring at the same time, as it happens, but concurring nonetheless. The fact that there were no fatalities in the Chinese attack had more to do with weaponry than motivation. And there's no controlling the motivations of others.
There's still oneself, though, and one's own stance. Which must include a protest against malice and violence and evil. The protest doesn't need to be in the form of a creative work–perhaps it doesn't need to be outwardly expressed at all. The day of the Sandy Hook shooting, I went Christmas shopping. I took special care to select the best gifts and included a few people on my list I might otherwise have overlooked. Consumerism is not perhaps the most creative response, but gift-giving is psychologically healthy, and being consciously generous allowed me to voice my own rejection. There might be hurt and wrong and evil in the world, but so far as I can help it, it will not come from me.
It can be hard when, amid the grief, there's also anger. When there's a need to lash out at something, to attack and fight back. Perhaps that's the best time for creative responses, and why they're so popular among peacekeepers and peace builders. There might be evil in the world, but it will not begin with me; I will not respond to violence with violence; in the face of violence, I will bring forth a dance instead.
EDIT #1: Waukesha, the place where I went to college, where the Plowshare center is located and operates on its mission of peace, and the city where my sister is student teaching, had a lockdown of its downtown area (including the college, my sister's middle school, and the Plowshare center's row of shops) because of a gunman roaming. He's since been arrested and the lockdown is over. No shots were fired. I spent most of the time communicating with my sister through Facebook. She's okay, and I've called my parents to pass that on.
I think I may write a story tonight.
EDIT #2: Strangely, I just recalled that I have written a short story along these lines, about a creative response to destruction. Its title is "Sibial' in Exile" and it's slated for an upcoming issue of Neo-Opsis Magazine. I wrote it as my cousin was dying of cancer, almost two years ago–late March 2011–and before I joined the Plowshare Center. I think it was my characters' decision then to confront loss with art (rather than me deciding it would be a story about that), but of course, their choice paralleled my own.


Whimsical best describes this saccharine film. The plot is a bit cliche and predictable. However, I think its creativity makes it unique from other films with a similar plot. The film demonstrates its creativity through beautifully, meticulously composed scenes that are sometimes coupled with stop motion or hand-drawn animation. Although this movie is categorized as a ro-com (romantic comedy), I think there's less emphasis on romance between the two leads and more on overcoming obstacles in life. I guess you can say the movie falls under slice-of-life or coming-of-age genre.
The music draws out that feeling of innocence and young love. Sometimes it's quirky, sometimes it hits you hard in the feels. I felt a toothache coming on because the film was so cute and sweet.
I'll be honest, I'm not a huge fan of Taiwanese films/dramas because there's a tendency, in my opinion, of overacting or overdramatizing some emotions—particularly shock or dumbfounded—to make a scene funny. I facepalm so hard I feel like I leave a mark. While the film does have some moments like these, overall I think the acting is decent to entice the audience. I feel like there's great chemistry between the two leads, Cheng-Tung Ko (who plays Tung) and Man-Shu Chien (who plays Yang), in a puppy love sort of way. The film successfully utilizes timing to execute comedic lines/scenes. One example that comes to mind is when Tung tries to act nonchalant when Yang drops by the photocopy shop and notices he's been keeping some of her sheep illustrations. He accidentally breaks an entire shelf and paper flies everywhere. Cue awkward silence and eye contact as he tries to come up with an excuse. As she's leaving his expression quickly changes from a dopey smile to frown as his boss returns to the shop and sees a wreckage.
There are moments in the film that reminds me of Disney's short Paperman and French film Amélie, so if you're a fan of either or both, I definitely recommend it.


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Rolling Stone Officially Retracts Gang Rape Story
4:58 PM PDT 4/5/2015 by Ryan Gajewski
The Phi Kappa Psi house at UVA
The author of the story and two editors involved with it will keep their jobs, according to Jann Wenner.
Amid swirling controversy, Rolling Stone has officially retracted its story about a gang rape at the University of Virginia.
The announcement follows a report issued Sunday by the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and commissioned by Rolling Stone. It found that the publication failed to conduct "basic, even routine journalistic practice" in confirming the account that source Jackie gave to contributing editor Sabrina Rubin Erdely for the story "A Rape on Campus."
"The failure encompassed reporting, editing, editorial supervision and fact-checking," the report stated. "The magazine set aside or rationalized as unnecessary essential practices of reporting that, if pursued, would likely have led the magazine's editors to reconsider publishing Jackie's narrative so prominently, if at all."
In an interview about the findings, Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner said that Erdely, along with managing editor Will Dana and Sean Woods, the editor of the article, will continue to work for the magazine.
Wenner described Jackie, who claimed to have been raped by seven men at a Phi Kappa Psi fraternity party in September 2012, as a "really expert fabulist storyteller," according to The New York Times. He added that he didn't want to blame Jackie but that "obviously, there is something here that is untruthful, and something sits at her doorstep."
Wenner said that Erdely "was willing to go too far in her effort to try and protect a victim of apparently a horrible crime. She dropped her journalistic training, scruples and rules and convinced Sean to do the same. There is this series of falling dominoes."
In a statement, Erdely offered her "deepest apologies" to readers, colleagues, the campus community and victims of sexual assault, the Times reports. "Reporting on rape has unique challenges, but the journalist still has the responsibility to get it right," she wrote. "I hope that my mistakes in reporting this story do not silence the voices of victims that need to be heard."
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Q: What do I do to make a python script that can run from any directory: the script file doesn't have to be in the same directory as the .csv files? Currently, I have created a code that makes graphs from data in .csv files.  However, I can only run the code if that code is present in the folder with the csv files.  How can I make the the script file so that it doesn't have to be in the same directory as the .csv files.

A: Assuming you mean to include a fixed CSV file with your code, store an absolute path based on the script path:
HERE = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))

csv_filename = open(os.path.join(HERE, 'somefile.csv')

__file__ is the filename of the current module or script, os.path.dirname(__file__) is the directory the module resides in. For scripts, __file__ can be a relative pathname, so we use os.path.abspath() to turn that into an absolute path.
This means you can run your script from anywhere.
If you meant to make your script work with arbitrary CSV input files, use command line options:
import argparse

if __name__ == '__main__':
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser('CSV importer')
    parser.add_argument('csvfile', type=argparse.FileType('w'),
                        default='somedefaultfilename.csv')
    options = parser.parse_args()
    import_function(options.csvfile)

where csvfile will be an open file object, so your import_function() can just do:
def import_function(csvfile):
    with csvfile:
        reader = csv.reader(csvfile)
        for row in reader:
            # etc.

A: If you don't plan on moving around the csv files too much, the best answer is to hard code the absolute path to the csv folder into the script.
import os

csvdir = "/path/to/csv/dir"
csvfpath = os.path.join(csvdir, "myfile.csv")
csvfile = open(csvfpath)

You can also use a command line parser like argparse to let the user easily change the path to the csv files.
Using Martijn Pieters's solution will work only if you are going to be moving the folder containing both the script and csv files around. However in that case, you may as well just use relative paths to the csv files.


Curran at work in his lab.
Editor's note: On July 25, 2008, 10 years ago today, professor Randy Pausch, PhD, of "The Last Lecture" fame, died of pancreatic cancer. One of his former students, who happens to be a 2018 Pancreatic Cancer Action Network (PanCAN) Translational Research Grant recipient, recently reflected on Pausch's influence on the work he does today. We share his story as part of our "It Starts with Someone" series about why our supporters have joined the cause.
Curran hadn't always been interested in biology.
Dr. Curran (back row, center) with his research team at MD Anderson Cancer Center.
Curran's favorite aspect of Pausch's teaching style was his ability to make the driest subjects interesting and relevant to cutting-edge technology and projects at the time.
While Curran's research efforts today don't directly incorporate the computer science techniques he learned from Pausch, he does try to emulate Pausch's ability to inspire and excite his students. Even when he's teaching the most basic biology or immunology to students, Curran strives to link it to major developments and breakthroughs in the field. "It's important to make students feel connected and understand why they should be learning and mastering things," he said.
After college, Curran applied to both graduate school in life sciences and law school. He decided on the graduate school path, pursuing a PhD in immunology at Stanford University. During that time, he became interested in the question of why cancer cells, which can be vastly different from healthy cells in the body, do not spark an immune response.
Curran partnered with Jim Allison, PhD, for his postdoctoral training. Allison has become a world expert in cancer immunotherapy, and Curran led some of the group's seminal findings that helped explain – and combat – how cancer cells disguise themselves and hide from the patient's immune system.
During his postdoctoral training, Curran learned of Pausch's diagnosis with pancreatic cancer. And about a year after Pausch's death, another prominent scientist, Ralph Steinman, MD, with whom Curran had interacted, also died from pancreatic cancer.
Pausch in front of the U.S. Capitol with PanCAN leadership in March 2008.
Curran also recalls being struck by Pausch's bravery and openness about his diagnosis, and his efforts to bring awareness to the disease, through his now-famous "The Last Lecture" speech, as well as his book. Just a few months before Pausch died, he also testified in front of Congress on behalf of PanCAN to advocate for increased federal funding and attention to the disease.
Pausch's powerful testimony helped set the foundation for what became the Recalcitrant Cancer Research Act, passed into law in 2013. And PanCAN's recent National Pancreatic Cancer Advocacy Day event on Capitol Hill shows that the organization's grassroots efforts are stronger than ever.
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Terminal G at Miami International, the quietest terminal in the airport was closed on 10 January 2019 as the U.S. Government shutdown leaves hundreds of workers without pay.
As the government shutdown continues, only the vital federal workers continue to work, while remaining unpaid for an unknown period of time. As air traffic control and TSA agents are considered essential, they remain working, but do not receive payment while the shutdown continues.
Miami Airport spokesman Greg Chin told the Miami Herald that TSA screeners are calling in sick at twice the normal rate (over seven per cent, compared to this period in 2017 which was only three per cent) and the airport was not confident they would have enough staff to operate all the necessary checkpoints. "We felt we had to make a decision before the weekend," Chin told the newspaper. "They're erring on the side of caution." As a result of this, the airport decided to close Terminal G which is considered to be the quietest at the airport. This was hoped to not disrupt flight movements too much, as flights destined for Terminal G were diverted. Additionally, with the closure, fewer TSA officers were needed, and consequently could be re-distributed where they were needed.
TSA spokesman Michael Bilello said that "in an effort to optimise resources without degrading screening and security effectiveness, where it is feasible, TSA is working with key stakeholders and industry partners to explore efforts to consolidate officers and operations." Bilello said at Miami Airport on Thursday 10 January 2019, passengers "waited a maximum of 23 minutes yesterday" to clear security as a result of the closure.
Delta CEO, Ed Bastian, in an interview with CNBC, said that the government shutdown is expected to cost Delta about US$ 25 million this month. He also stated that due to the shutdown there have been delays in the certification procedures, which could have a knock on effect to Delta who are set to begin using the A220 at the end of January 2019.
Delta has also witnessed longer queues at security, which have been assisted with by members of staff that are not essential to security, meaning that TSA staff can focus on security and removing queues.


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Lizzie Armitstead targets World Championships success (video)
After a frustrating time at the 2014 World Championships, Lizzie Armitstead is determined to improve her fortunes in Richmond this year
Lizzie Armitstead holds up her Commonwealth Games gold medal after the women's road race (Andy Jones)
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By Stuart Clarke , Cycling Weekly published 19 May 15
Last year Olympic silver medallist Lizzie Armitstead cut a frustrated figure when a tactical stalemate saw her miss out on a rainbow jersey at the World Championship – and she's determined not to see history repeat itself this summer.
Fresh from winning both the World Cup and Commonwealth Games road race titles, Armitstead went into September's worlds full of optimism.
The race appeared to have panned out perfectly for her, out front as part of a four-woman escape, before indecision in the group over who would take charge over the final kilometre saw the chasing group sweep up, with France's Pauline Ferrand-Prevot taking the win. Armitstead later admitted deep frustration after crossing in seventh.
"That's the beauty of cycling. It will always come down to tactical decisions as well as how physically strong you are," reflects Armitstead.
"There's not much that I can really change about the outcome of the race about from the things I can control which are my physical shape.
"Trusting my instinct is something that I will try to focus on, rather than listening to too many people around me telling me to be patient, I might just go for it."
Armitstead's chance for World Championships glory will come again this September in Richmond, Virginia, although crucially she will get a chance to study the course during the Philadelphia World Cup race in June.
So far the season has been a steady one for the West Yorkshire cyclist with overall victory in the Tour of Qatar followed by a win at the Trofeo Alfredo Binda, although it is Dutch rider Anna Van der Bruggen who currently leads the Road World Cup standings after four rounds.
"There's been a couple of up and downs in 2015, sort of behind the scenes things with a few injuries so it's not gone as I would have wanted," added Armitstead.
"But I've still won a World Cup and I'm still top three in the world at the moment so it's not gone bad and I'm feeling good for the second half of the season.
"Really I've got about 40 days racing between now and the World Championships.
"I will use some of those races for training, I will use some of them to try and win to have confidence going into the World Championships but it's really just about staying focused and working hard."
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It is not just this year Armitstead is thinking about either, with Rio 2016 and the chance of upgrading her Olympic silver looming large on the horizon.
The qualification period is already open while the test event will take place in August of this year, with Armistead determined to pull out all the stops to climb the top step of the podium in 2016.
"This year is important because it's also the start of the qualification period so I need to start scoring points in order to hopefully have a full team represented in Rio," she said.
"It would be nice to go there with a team of four girls so that I have got three potential helpers. The race itself in Rio will be a very hard race and to prepare physically for that. It's not only about being a year stronger but a year wiser.
"I will taper my training towards what kind of race it's going to be depending on what I see in August. If it's particularly hilly or particularly a sprinters course, then I will change my training."
Lizzie Armitstead was speaking on behalf of Yorkshire Bank Bike Libraries, a partnership between Yorkshire Bank and Cycle Yorkshire. For further information visit www.ybonline.co.uk/bikelibraries
Words: Pippa Field
Stuart Clarke
Stuart Clarke is a News Associates trained journalist who has worked for the likes of the British Olympic Associate, British Rowing and the England and Wales Cricket Board, and of course Cycling Weekly. His work at Cycling Weekly has focused upon professional racing, following the World Tour races and its characters.
Lizzie Deignan: Tour de France Femmes will be 'dynamic' compared to men's Tour
Trek-Segafredo rider says that eventually she would like to see a three-week Tour for women
By Adam Becket • Published 15 December 21
Here is the Great Britain women's team for World Championships 2020 in Imola
The swiftly re-arranged World Championships are just a few weeks away and the Great Britain women's team has been confirmed.
By Alex Ballinger • Published 9 September 20
Why a women's Tour de France next year is a no-go
With a women's Tour de France all but certain, calls for it to happen in 2021 are wide of the mark, argues Owen Rogers
By Owen Rogers • Published 2 September 20
'I thought it was a weird sport': Lizzie Deignan on how she started cycling on 'Home Roads' podcast
Lizzie Deignan as offered an honest insight into her home life, being scouted from school, and how she spent her year away from racing in the 'Home Roads' podcast.
Former world champion Lizzie Deignan announces pregnancy
Lizzie Deignan and her husband Philip are due to have their first child in September
By Owen Rogers • Published 14 March 18
Lizzie Deignan rethinking retirement plans
A new focus may override British rider Lizzie Deignan's original intention to bow out after the 2019 World Champs
By Owen Rogers • Published 15 February 18
Lizzie Deignan has appendix removed: World Championships in doubt
British champion Lizzie Deignan says she will be taking the rest of the season 'day by day' after having appendix removed
By Nigel Wynn • Published 31 August 17
Lizzie Deignan to UCI: 'Monitor more women's whereabouts'
Former world champion Lizzie Deignan calls for comprehensive scrutiny to combat doping in women's pro cycling
By Sophie Hurcom • Published 26 April 17


Mental tests are used for assessment and assessment of the test taker by a qualified examiner. That is why it is also called psychological assessment. But naturally, the tests can only be dependable and accurate if you address it very carefully, truthfully and seriously.
Psychological tests are made use of for assessment and assessment of the test taker by a competent examiner. That is why it is also called mental evaluation. Of course, the tests can only be reputable and accurate if you answer it very carefully, truthfully and seriously.
A skilled psychologist is usually the interpreter of these psychological tests. But it must be kept in mind that mental tests are useful only in certain circumstances. Free psychological tests distributed with the web are normally bests for home entertainment functions.So what are some helpful types of psychological tests? Tests that determine your understanding about a particular particular topic, or capability for certain abilities are called accomplishment and ability tests. Intelligence tests would state about your basic ability to understand the world around you. It also assesses how you make use of the intelligence to adjust to the world, and in exactly what manner you use this general ability. We can state that the focus of intelligence tests is potential. Neuropsychological tests measure loss in functions of cognitive ability. Occupational tests are utilized to match your interests with the interests involving a specific profession or occupation. Character tests attempt to figure out the style of your personality typically for scientific or forensic functions. Specific professional tests describe tests that measure particular specific levels within an individual in regards to his or her mindset, like depression or stress and anxiety.
One excellent benefit for using or taking mental tests is that it is fairly tough to lie. The Rorschach test does not provide any hint for the test taker about exactly what would be an unhealthy response or a healthy response to the concerns asked by the test. Another advantage is the scientific consistency present with the test that can not be discovered in professional job interviews.
– Constantly recognize the purpose of screening.
– Recognize the names and rationales of the tests.
– Always get the outcomes of the tests.
Bear in mind these guidelines, and always refer to a psychologist you trust.
Psychological tests are made use of for evaluation and evaluation of the test taker by a qualified examiner. Tests that determine your knowledge about a certain specific subject, or capacity for specific abilities are called accomplishment and aptitude tests. Specific medical tests refer to tests that measure particular specific levels within an individual in terms of his or her state of mind, like depression or anxiety.
One excellent advantage for using or taking psychological tests is that it is quite tough to lie. The Rorschach test does not provide any hint for the test taker about what would be an unhealthy response or a healthy response to the concerns asked by the test.


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Q: vs code - How is this python (3.7) packages structure working in AWS Lambda but not in local (vs code) environment? This is a fairly straight-forward structure containing two packages each with their own modules.
My understanding is this this has something to do with python not being to find the path of packages/project-folder despite having __init__.py
My questions are:

*

*What's the correct/clean way to get this structure working on vs code? (preferably, an OS, package-manager agnostic approach)

*How is this working in AWS Lambda?

# main.py
from app.my_package import main_module

def handler(event, context):
    main_module.do_something()

---

# main_module.py
from app.shared_package import shared_module

def do_something():
    print('\nThis is printed from app_module')
    print('Calling a function in shared_module')
    shared_module.print_something()

---

# shared_module.py
def print_something():
    print('This is printed from shared_module\n')

When run from Windows or Linux machine: (tried virtualenv as well)

When invoked using AWS Lambda:

References:
https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/modules.html#packages


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using UnityEngine;

namespace LudumUtils.Pausing {
    /// <summary>
    /// Controls a <see cref="PauseMotor"/> by checking whether a key is pressed.
    /// </summary>
    [RequireComponent(typeof(PauseMotor))]
    public class PauseController : LudumUtilsBehaviour {
        [SerializeField] private KeyCode _key = KeyCode.Escape;

        private PauseMotor _motor;

        private void Awake() {
            _motor = GetComponent<PauseMotor>();
        }

        private void Update() {
            if (_key.GetDown()) {
                _motor.Paused = !_motor.Paused;
            }
        }
    }
}

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If you want to borrow books from the university library in order to use them at home or on campus, you need a library card.
For students of TUHH this card is free, but you have to apply for it and come to the library personally. Within a few minutes you will receive your library card and get started.
" Apply " means that you log on with your personal data here.
A valid email address is very important for a smooth service – e. g. for reminder emails at the end of the loan period!
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Auditions for all of the fall semester theatre productions are being held this week on Tuesday, Sept. 10, from 7-10 p.m.; Wednesday, Sept. 11, from 3-5 p.m.; and Thursday, Sept. 12, from 7-10 p.m., in the Kulas Auditorium and Marinello Little Theatre.
For "Legally Blonde," the fall musical directed by Keith Nagy, auditions will be held in Kulas Auditorium. Bring something to sing that best fits your vocal range. You may also be asked to sing something from the show. Ladies interested in the role of Elle are strongly encouraged to sing something from the show.
Auditions for the Marinello One Acts will be held in the Marinello Little Theatre, above the bookstore in the Lombardo Student Center. All who audition will be asked to read a selection from the scripts. All scripts are available from the CO secretary in O'Malley 045.


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