My selection for this week is Goodbye, Perfect by Sara Barnard. I'm excited for this book because I just finished my first book from Sara Barnard last week, A Quiet Kind of Thunder, and fell in love with the way she develops such amazingly realistic characters and with the way she writes about friendships. I was ecstatic to learn that she has another book coming out and that I only have to wait a few weeks to get my hands on it!
I am going to be book-poor buying all Barnards releases this year (I think there are 3 or 4 listed on GR). A Quite Kind of Thunder won my heart, and I absolutely need to read her backlist, as well as any of her new releases.
Same here. I saw a couple of on her backlist that sounded very good.
Hopefully we'll both enjoy it!
I remember your review of A Quiet Kind of Thunder, and how much it made me want to read that one. I've heard a little about this one and am really curious. I hope you get a chance to read it soon so I know if I'll want to too!
This sounds like a ripped-from-the-headlines book, although from a slightly different perspective. I hope you enjoy it!
Doesn't it? It's one of those things that unfortunately really does happen occasionally. And what an impossible situation for the friend to be put in.
I am adding this to my TBR because it sounds so good. Thanks for sharing. Great pick!
This book sounds too good to pass up; adding to be read pile. I really like the cover too. Hope we both enjoy it!
Oh, this sounds good. Thanks for featuring it. Putting it on my list.
I've heard fantastic things about A Quiet Kind of Thunder, and this one sounds fantastic as well! I'm curious to see what choice Eden makes.
I am too. What an impossible situation to be put in.
I do too. I can't believe what an impossible situation her friend has put her in.
Seems really interesting…though, I have to say, if my teen friend was dating a teacher, I'd have told someone. LOL Even if I thought it was an okay relationship (not that much of a gap or something…). I can see how a lot of teens WOULD keep it secret though.
Same here, and I'd also hope that none of my friends ever put me in such an impossible situation.
Oh – this one presses ALLL my buttons! As a teacher, I HATE it when someone from my profession crosses that line and betrays a student… Though teenagers do always feel they have stand by their friends, don't they? What an interesting and disturbing premise.
Yes, this one reads like something ripped from the news headlines. The friendship angle is definitely the appeal here for me. One friend putting another friend into an impossible situation.
Oh my YES! This is one of those friendships I need to know everything about!
Right? Same. It's an impossible situation to put someone in.
Ai, I don't know about this. I'm a teacher and I can't stand these kind of stories. I mean, seriously a teacher with a student. Oh no! I can't.
Yes, this one reads like something ripped from the news headlines. The friendship angle is definitely the appeal here for me. One friend putting another friend into an impossible situation. I hope Eden does the right thing even if it means wrecking her friendship with Bonnie.


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The Rolling Weirdness of the Duggars' Retro Special, 'On the Road With 16 Kids'
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You may have traveled the world with the Duggars on dozens of dare we say cringe-worthy occasions, but you don't know the definition of pain until you go On the Road with 16 Children. See, before Counting On and 19 Kids and Counting or even 17 Kids and Counting but after 14 Children and Pregnant Again and — well, you get the point, there was this. The special documented the Duggars journey from Arkansas to Disneyland, which…seems like a strange vacation pick because the family has no emotional ties to modern pop culture. Like maybe they know who Donald Duck is? Homeboy is a pantsless heathen, though, so even that's a stretch.
The reality is that TLC had since learned how to capitalize on the family's hugeness, and when offered a paid-for vacation Jim Bob and Michelle were probably like, "lol sure." You know how the Duggars love their freebies.
Whatever the motive, watching On the Road with 16 Children is, in a word, a trip. Gaze at the majesty of several barely-supervised kids dangerously close to the Grand Canyon. Michelle and Jim Bob grimace at the sight of six little Duggars piled up in one bed. Laugh uncontrollably as Michelle tries to explain that they have safety methods in place, then don't explain what those methods are: "There's definitely…there has to be rules or else there would be chaos. Still yet sometimes there's chaos anyway, but the fun part is as we go along we just have to make boundaries for safety. Safety is fun."
Laugh harder as a 7-year-old wildly whips around Johannah's baby carrier. Then cry.
And that's just the start of it! Pack up your primary colored polos and take a seat in the Duggar motorhome…unless you're Josh in which case you have to be in a segregated boys-only van. You know why.
"And the masters of the Duggar universe, Jim Bob and Michelle."
OK, now that has to be the most apt description of Jim Bob and Michelle beyond "Evil Ned Flanders" and "Roadkill-Hair."
Seriously, this is a really mushroom-like era for the 1980s wig Michelle tends to wear.
Party in the front, fungus in the back.
"But here are the answers to two questions right now: No, Michelle is not pregnant again, (yet) and yes, they are thrilled to finally be living in a 7,000 square foot house."
THE NARRATOR JUST SHADED MICHELLE SO HARD, I LOVE IT. Also what's interesting about this house (pretty much the focal point of 16 Children and Moving in) was that it was built by the family yet "the folks at TLC help provided the 'finishing touches.'" Sometimes I wonder if TLC just can't quit the Duggars because they were such a long-term investment and as long as they're (over)populating, they're solid.
"Jill, I sent James upstairs for naptime, so he'll be coming upstairs in a second. Thank you!"
It's revealed here that the boys literally set up an intercom system to make sure Michelle never has to parent anyone. Sporting of them.
Oh hey, it's that weird Pop-Up Video bloop that accompanied the old 17 Kids and Counting episodes.
I always loved those because you'll be watching innocently and then you'd either get a fun — albeit useless — trivia fact you could store for the rest of your life, or "If you had 17 children, you'd be going through 300 boxes of brillo pads a month!"
The Duggars stop in Oklahoma City to literally buy matching cowboy hats for the family.
This isn't off-brand by any means, and yet it doesn't make it any less disturbing.
"We got a few rules around this place. Rule #1:" Obey all rules!"
I love when the parents give helpful tips about how to run a dictatorship!
The family parties with this literal personification of Burning Man at Cadillac Ranch.
His name is LBK aka Long Board Kid because, of course it is.
And here's special guest-star, Ranch Mascot Pepe Pistachio.
Also, did you know that eating nuts can aid in lowering the risk of heart disease, strokes, and type two diabetes? Because I'm going to carry that random factoid to the grave.
The family makes a stop through Truth & Consequences.
Which is probably the longest they've ever been truthful and had to deal with consequences.
"There was one very momentous occasion: eldest son Josh's 18th birthday."
BOOOOOOO, BOO, JOSH, BOOOO.
Also, WTF, did he get sheriff badge pasties for his birthday?
This mom-of-six is an alleged Duggar fan and yet she also keeps unintentionally shading them.
When she first sees them she's like, "No, they can't camp with 16 children, that doesn't sound possible" which is v true.
Actual footage of me every time Michelle calls Jim Bob "Daddy."
Josiah voming full-force into the bad is me upon hearing Jim Bob utter "Momma."
"Contrary to popular belief, this is the reason you come to Las Vegas. For chocolate."
Easily the most repressed thing I've witnessed in the last…15 minutes.
OMG MINNIE MOUSE GOT A SIDE-HUG, I AM CRYING.
OK, this is the most repressed thing I've witnessed in the last 15 minutes and 30 seconds.
During their Disney trip, the Duggars help reconstruct props for Pirates of the Carribean.
It's the first and last time a lot of these kids will have jobs, so soak it up, ladies.
"Meet the Dortignacs: they only have 14 children."
HA, SUCK IT LOSERS, WHERE'S YOUR HIT TV SPECIAL?
"This is confusing. How about we do a little reorganizing to sort things out? Certainly somewhere here must know how to organize a group."
"JANA? HEY, JANA? CAN SOMEONE GET JANA?"
And then they all run into the Pacific Ocean fully clothed.
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Have You Tried Group Medicine?
How do you like your medical appointments? If you're like many of us, you find that doctors are rushed and focused mostly on clinical goals. It's all about the numbers and the drugs. They're in charge, and our job is mostly to listen.
Medical appointments are very different when groups of people see the doctor at the same time. It may sound a little strange or scary at first, but many people find that the support of others makes communicating with doctors easier. You don't have to remember everything or ask everything, because other people will have similar questions.
As I describe in my book, Diabetes: Sugar-coated Crisis, a group of Italian researchers in the 1990s were looking to find a better way to meet the needs of people with diabetes. As in the U.S., doctors were overwhelmed keeping up with cholesterol, blood glucose, blood pressure, and all the other numbers. They had little time for their patients as people.
Most of their patients were low-income and had little education. As here, their difficult lives and unhealthy environments made diabetes control very difficult. The research clinics started having people come for their routine appointments in groups of 6 to 20. The appointments included individual and group time with the doctor, group education, sharing, and support.
The Italians and many others have shown that patients with group appointments do better in all clinical outcomes studied. They also enjoy the appointments more, have better relationships with their doctors, and even report improved quality of life!
Now group appointments are spreading through American medicine because they are cost-effective and popular with both patients and physicians who try them. Some are called Cooperative Health-Care Clinics, where a group of people will meet with a whole health-care team at the same time. A medical assistant or nurse aide may take vital signs, while a dietitian answers questions about food, while the doctor talks with patients one or two at a time. The same group of people will usually meet together regularly, becoming something of a support group.
In Drop-In Group Medical Appointments (DIGMAs), a clinic may set up several group times, and people can come to whichever they choose. Sometimes even the discussions between patients and the doctor are held in the group. Planners originally thought that patients would be embarrassed to bring up hard issues in front of other patients, but the reverse is often true. It's the doctors who tend to intimidate us; having other patients there makes it easier to speak out.
There are many other types of group appointments as well. Some are led by dietitians, psychologists, social workers, or nurses. Some are even led by other patients!
Groups aren't for everybody. Studies seem to show they work for about two-thirds of patients. Some people are just not comfortable in groups. Some may be shy, or may have trouble getting along with others in groups. Group appointments take longer than one-on-one, and some people may not have time for them.
More often, though, the problems come from the provider's side. Clinics have to get used to different ways of doing things; there may be logistical problems (like finding space); and health-care providers may not be comfortable facing so many patients at once.
If you're interested in groups, you may have to ask for them. You can click on any of the links above or download how-to's on groups here and show them to your doctor.
I'm working with a group called New Health Partnerships that helps health-care systems and patients work together better. We'd like to know what you think about groups. Have you thought about group appointments? What have been your experiences with them? What did you like and dislike about them? Let us know by commenting here.
And thanks to everyone who sent messages of support last week. I think I'm doing better now.
Finally, a couple of follow-up notes on my blog entries on sleep apnea: Lyla asked about CPAP treatments and atrial fibrillation. In a 2003 article in the journal Circulation, patients with a-fib who were on CPAP had less fibrillation than the group with sleep apnea who weren't on CPAP, and also less than those who didn't have known sleep apnea at all! So it sounds like a good idea.
Janet described having all the symptoms of sleep apnea—I hope you're getting checked out, Janet.


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She was 14 years old at the time and therefore probably not even legally capable of giving consent.
Of course, state laws vary, but 14 years old would be a pretty low cut-off.
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Prov 14:23 tells us that all labor leads to profit, mere talk leads to poverty.
This scripture tells us a couple of things. The Lord wants us to be prosperous and make a profit. But labor will be necessary. He wants all labor to lead to profit so if yours is not, then take an assessment and determine what you may need to do differently.
Phil 4:6 talks about reducing stress, being humble and thankful and effectively communicating with the Lord, and not trying to be a "control-freak." There are many things to be "anxious" about today, things that we can't control. But there are many things to be thankful for also in those same areas or whatever concerns you.
This scripture says "be anxious for nothing"... it's amazing that in American Slang, to do something "for nothing" is essentially wasting time. Instead of wasting your time being anxious (for nothing), pray and daily turn over to God the details of your life, your career, your goals, your decisions, your passions and interests and whatever may concern you.
No matter where you are in life or in business, recognize and release your anxieties and be thankful for your many blessings!
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Q: convert data-frame into lists of list in python I have a data-frame like this
    timeslice             host  CPU  outlier
0  2011-01-10 19:28:31     1   56      NaN
1  2012-02-10 18:28:31     2   78      NaN
2  2013-03-10 12:28:31     3    3      3.0
3  2014-04-10 14:28:31     4   98      NaN
4  2015-04-10 14:28:31     7   72      NaN
5  2014-06-10 14:28:31     6    7      7.0
6  2018-04-10 14:28:31     4    9      9.0

using this df.values.tolist()  i can convert this to lists of list like
[['2011-01-10 19:28:31', 1, 56, nan], ['2012-02-10 18:28:31', 2, 78, nan], ['2013-03-10 12:28:31', 3, 3, 3.0], ['2014-04-10 14:28:31', 4, 98, nan]]...
i put condition there but it didn't work out.
but I want to fetch only those values when outlier is not NaN
and i want to generate a output like this..
[ ['2013-03-10 12:28:31', 3, 3, 3.0],[2014-06-10 14:28:31,6,7,7.0],[2018-04-10 14:28:31 ,4 ,9 ,9.0]]
Thanks in Advance

A: Use dropna first with specified column outlier for check NaNs:
L = df.dropna(subset=['outlier']).values.tolist()
print (L)
[['12:28:31', 3, 3, 3.0], ['14:28:31', 6, 7, 7.0], ['14:28:31', 4, 9, 9.0]]

A: You could use np.isnan to create a mask and filter out the NaN values in outlier:
result = df[~np.isnan(df.outlier)].values.tolist()
print(result)

Output
[['12:28:31', 3, 3, 3.0], ['14:28:31', 6, 7, 7.0], ['14:28:31', 4, 9, 9.0]]

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Heat oil in a skillet set on medium-high. Add onion and sauté until translucent. Stir in chopped zucchini, tomato, salt and pepper. Cook a few minutes then add the fresh herbs.
Spoon mixture evenly into zucchini halves and sprinkle cheese on top. Bake for 20 min., until cheese is bubbling and brown around the edges.


A lot of my friends growing up were hunters, but I spent all my time on the ice hurting actual humans playing hockey. I never had the chance to run through the woods and shoot at a moose or deer. I was shooting pucks at goaltender's heads.
I was a hockey player growing up. Being a big guy and being imposing, I had to use my size to protect my teammates.
I did stand-up for a long time, and I did classical theater. As much time as you could spend on a stage will always inform you and your job, as you evolve. I feel the freedom of being able to find comedy in the darkest moments because it makes it way more interesting, I think.
I'm always excited to carry more and more weight and responsibility within a story.
As an actor, I've been all over the map, but since I've moved to Hollywood, people tend to cast me in these more imposing characters, which is actually really fun for me. I've always been way more attracted to playing that than the hero.
I started off as a rapper from Thunder Bay, Ontario, believe it or not. There was a little group of 10 or 12 of us that would get together and copy each other's cassettes. So I was a rapper first, and it was that music that got me into this great entertainment world and got me out of Thunder Bay.
I think the first villain that I ever played was on 'Stargate'. I was this superior being that would take over a human host and believe that he was the most superior being in the universe.
I cook some damn good eggs!


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Hugh Swinton Legaré, né le  et mort le , est un avocat ayant été représentant pour le  congressionnel de Caroline du Sud de 1837 à 1839 avant de devenir procureur général des États-Unis dans l'administration Tyler entre 1841 et le , date à laquelle il meurt alors qu'il assistait à des cérémonies d'inauguration du monument de Bunker Hill.

Biographie
Hugh S. Legaré est né le  à Charleston en Caroline du Sud. Il suit des études à l'université de Charleston, à l'école de  à Abbeville puis est diplômé de l'université de Caroline du Sud en 1814. Legaré étudie le droit de 1814 à 1817 puis continue sa formation à Paris et à Édimbourg en 1818 et 1819. Il est admis au barreau 1822 et commence à exercer le droit à Charleston en Caroline du Sud.

Legaré commence sa carrière politique en entrant à la Chambre des représentants de Caroline du Sud dont il devient membre de 1820 à 1821 et de 1824 à 1830. Par la suite, il devient entre 1830 et 1832 procureur général de Caroline du Sud avant de partir à Bruxelles en tant que chargé d'affaires de 1832 à 1836. Le  Legaré devient membre de Chambre des représentants des États-Unis pour le  district congressionnel de Caroline du Sud mais n'ayant pas réussi à se faire réélire il quitte le Congrès en 1839. Il retourne donc exercer le droit à Charleston puis est nommé en 1841 procureur général des États-Unis par le président John Tyler. Legaré occupe également par intérim le poste de secrétaire d'État du  à sa mort le .

Notes et références

Naissance à Charleston (Caroline du Sud)
Naissance en janvier 1797
Décès à Boston
Décès en juin 1843
Décès à 46 ans
Étudiant de l'université de Caroline du Sud
Avocat américain du XIXe siècle
Procureur général de Caroline du Sud
Diplomate américain
Personnalité du Parti démocrate en Caroline du Sud
Représentant des États-Unis pour la Caroline du Sud
Procureur général des États-Unis
Secrétaire d'État des États-Unis
Personnalité inhumée au cimetière de Mount Auburn (Cambridge)

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15. February, 2013 by Sam Hurwitt Theater 1 comment
"Well, that certainly was what it was."
That's what I said to myself as I walked away from Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum last night after seeing Early Plays, a collection of three of Eugene O'Neill's one-act Glencairn Plays adapted and directed by experimental theater artist Richard Maxwell. The production isn't just the West Coast premiere of this particular show, but it's also the San Francisco debut of two major New York avant-garde theater companies, the Wooster Group and Maxwell's own New York City Players, who collaborated this Obie Award-winning piece that debuted in Brooklyn last year.
Brian Mendes and Ari Fliakos in Early Plays. Photo courtesy of the Wooster Group.
Written between 1914 to 1917, the Glencairn Plays are a cycle of four one-acts about the crew of the S.S. Glencairn—a motley group of sailors from many lands aboard a British tramp steamer. Three of them are performed here without intermission, the show running about an hour and a half. In Moon of the Caribbees, two women in the West Indies smuggle rum aboard to sell to the sailors, prompting all kinds of misbehavior. Bound East for Cardiff is one long death scene for one of the sailors in his bunk. And The Long Voyage Home takes place on land, in a port town pub, where one of the sailors is drugged and shanghaied aboard a notorious ship that no one wants to crew. As the name of the evening indicates, these plays were written quite early in O'Neill's career, before his early successes in the 1920s and well before some of his best-known classics of the 1930s and 1940s.
As a director, Maxwell's trademark is affectlessness. The performers deliver the lines in a monotone, without nuance, varying in volume but without emotion of any kind. Their faces are expressionless, their body language flat. They may dance or fight or ravish each other, but everything is done is a matter-of-fact, perfunctory way. These particular plays are written in thick dialect—Irish, West Indian, the broken English of Swedes and Dutchmen—and the dialect is pronounced very precisely without any attempt at an accent to match.
If that sounds totally fascinating to you, well, this show may be your cup of tea. If it sounds mind-numbingly dreary, it certainly is that as well. It's interesting as an intellectual exercise, but it's the sort of thing that requires advance reading and a heaping helping of faith that these people know what they're doing in order to appreciate it. If you're an aficionado of the avant-garde who believes art should be challenging and difficult, you may dig it. If you have a populist belief that someone shouldn't have to have a bunch of prerequisites to appreciate art and that someone walking in off the street should be able to get something out of it without knowing anything about it in advance, it's bound to be frustrating.
The acting is terribly wooden, because it's supposed to be wooden, and you can certainly admire the performers' dogged refusal to give you anything to latch onto to maintain interest in what's going on. Someone like Wooster Group founding member Kate Valk can imbue her expressionless rum smuggler and compulsively bar-wiping barmaid with enough presence to make them fascinating without varying her listless delivery, but more often than not when a character exclaims in disgust or surprise without any hint of emotion, the incongruity of it is just mildly amusing.
Often the only thing that kept me engaged at all were the slight glimmers of character and subtext that some actors allowed to leak through their stony exterior, such as Keith Connolly's braggart Cocky in the first play or Victoria Vazquez's sad-eyed barroom temptress in the last, though at the same time I was aware that in letting even that much realism slip into the performance they were probably "doing it wrong." But that tiny touch of human feeling had the effect of lending The Long Voyage Home a slight poignancy lacking in the cold flatness of the others. Bound East for Cardiff, for instance, could easily become sputteringly melodramatic if the actors were allowed to act; as it is, the interminable deathbed moans of burly Yank (Brian Mendes) attended by the stony reassurances of Irishman Driscoll (Ari Fliakos, speaking what's clearly written as a thick brogue in a clipped American accent) are monotonous to the point of ludicrousness.
Yerba Buena's press release for the show describes Maxwell and New York City Players' shows as "rigorously stripped of theatrical artifice," which doesn't seem true at all. Although Jim Clayburgh and Elizabeth LeCompte's gray box of a set is devoid of scenery aside from a few bits of furniture—some bunks for the second play, a bar counter and table for the third—its elaborate structure of cranks, bars and pulleys helps create the illusion of a ship. Stage fog fills the scene for Bound East, dimly lit by a few lanterns and the faint shadow of passing clouds in Michael McGee and Jeff Englander's lighting design. Sound designer Bobby McElver has a low drone moas in the background during that play and a haunting spiritual audible from a distance in Caribbees. And the ensemble sings compelling deadpan songs between the plays, accompanied by castmates McElver, Mendes and Andrew Schneider on piano, guitar, accordion or harmonica. Every moment of the production is full of theatrical artifice.
And, of course, the entire conceit of this expressionless style is itself artificial, an antirealism that's inherently, doggedly unreal. It's not stripped of artifice; it's artificially stripped of emotional content. I don't know that it particularly serves the material or makes O'Neill's juvenilia seem any stronger, but the cognitive dissonance of having the dialect so carefully and liltlessly enunciated certainly draws attention to some of the rich language in the plays. It's not enough to make it a voyage worth taking unless you're seriously jazzed by the whole idea of it, but it helps to pass the time once you're aboard.
The Wooster Group/New York City Players
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum
701 Mission Street
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Show #17 of 2013, attended February 14.
2 / 15 / 2013 2:58 pm
As long as we're rigorously stripping theatre of artifice, then I think during these shows we should be allowed to heckle, yawn loudly, walk around when we get bored, and leave loudly in the middle of the performance. Because sitting quietly in a theatre to appreciate whatever is happening in front of you is also a kind of artifice, if we're going to be that way about things. I'm sure the director would LOVE that.


China Miéville looks at the Revolution as a hopeful flashpoint that briefly showed the promise of socialist transformation, before descending first into an authoritarian nightmare and then today's corrupt capitalism. Written with an urgency designed for our era of struggle absent clear political ideologies or unified mass socialist organizations, Mieville focuses on the revolutionary moment, using his skill as a story teller to see the participants in real time.
THE CENTENNIAL of the Russian Revolution of 1917, the most important political upheaval since the 18th century, passes by quietly. In Russia, Vladimir Putin's crony capitalist regime certainly has no plans to commemorate the event. The situation in the West isn't any more favorable; after the Berlin Wall crumbled in 1989, the consensus has been that Marxism is dead and buried as a political force. The recent death of Fidel Castro marked the passing of the last of the truly iconic communist leaders. The Middle East is today the world's hotbed of revolutionary turmoil, but aside from some Kurdish groups, the insurgents follow the dark banners of radical Islamism, not the red flags of proletarian struggle. Even among leftists in the United States, the emphasis has shifted from class struggle to identity politics — despite the fact that the White House is currently occupied by the crudest possible personification of casino capitalism.
Against these prevailing winds, China Miéville bravely launches October: The Story of the Russian Revolution — a recasting of the Russian Revolution as a captivating narrative. October is just one of a slew of books released by the left-wing publishing house Verso to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik uprising. Included in the roster are new works by radical veterans Tariq Ali and Slavoj Žižek that reassess the politics and persona of Vladimir Lenin. But Miéville's book is likely the most popular and accessible in the stack. This isn't a book dense with Marxist theory or analysis — even if it is somewhat dense with political party abbreviations and participant names. Instead, it looks at the Revolution as a hopeful flashpoint that briefly showed the promise of socialist transformation, before descending into a totalitarian tragedy. It is written with a special urgency designed for this era of struggle without clear political ideologies, when people throw around the word "revolution" without offering blueprints or even the most general directions.
Miéville's wonderfully strange, highly imaginative novels, which combine fantastical hallucinations with sociopolitical commentary, have made him a cult favorite among fans of speculative fiction. To give you a sense of his method, the 2016 novella The Last Days of New Paris conjured a French capital besieged by surrealist guerrillas and invading Nazis, with both sides using a cocktail of imagination and black magic to unleash living surrealist artworks and dark monsters to battle each other. (Hitler's cameo is a particularly brilliant moment.) In October, Miéville, whose PhD dissertation offered a Marxist theory of international law, joins a hallowed group of science fiction and fantasy authors who have applied their talents to history. It belongs on the shelf beside H. G. Wells's A Short History of the Worldand Isaac Asimov's The Greeks. But October's closest parallel is journalist John Reed's classic Ten Days That Shook the World, an eyewitness account of the Bolshevik Revolution that still resonates with romantic energy. Ten Days, however, was written before the Revolution played itself out in Stalinist terror, and before the advent of the Cold War. Miéville's is a new history that dreams, but doesn't dismiss the nightmare.
Lenin is introduced as a man who "compels, even transfixes, in print and speech, by his sheer intensity and focus." Trotsky is "charismatic and abrasive, brilliant and persuasive and divisive and difficult," an intellectual capable of militant ruthlessness. Stalin, meanwhile, is introduced through haunting, third-party glimpses; individuals remember him as no more than a "grey blur," or as "looming up now and then dimly and without leaving a trace." Because Miéville is so narrowly focused on the moment, seldom shifting into the near future and never to our own era, these passages have a special power; we feel we are seeing these figures in real time, yet we can't help bringing the future to bear on them.
As Miéville tells it, the Russian Revolution was an apocalyptic moment. The inferno of World War I unleashed a civil war between the downtrodden and their overlords. Social breakdown fueled spontaneous, popular mobilizations. The masses formed "soviets," councils of popular power. Liberals and radicals squabbled endlessly over what to do, while Lenin, returning from exile, wrote explosive texts like the April Theses, which called for the destruction of the old state. Dark forces like the anti-Semitic Black Hundreds stalked the land, carrying out pogroms with the tacit approval of the tsarist regime. Restless peasants started looting their master's homes and burning down their estates. The situation couldn't hold, and the Tsar was overthrown. But the real battle, which consumes most of the book, is between the various factions vying for power, ranging from the radical Left Socialist Revolutionaries (SRs) to the more moderate Mensheviks and, of course, Lenin's Bolsheviks, who modify (or dismiss) the old Marxist theory of historical development through well-defined stages and urge for an immediate socialist revolution.
Like any good storyteller, Miéville revels in the phantasmagoric aspects of this true tale. As factions battle in the streets during the "July Days," Russia's middle and upper classes fall into a nihilistic decadence: "[T]here flourished a millennial indulgence. Bands and all-night dances, stained silk dresses and cravats, flies circling warming cake and vomit and spilt drink." Miéville also indulges us with fascinating anecdotes fit for any thriller. In one suspenseful but comic moment, Lenin is hiding, disguised as a peasant in the woods, when a tired Cossack arrives and announces he is searching for "someone by the name of Lenin. To bring him back dead or alive." The fugitive revolutionary spends the night chatting with his hunter before seeing him off.
The achievement of October is to make this history fresh and urgent. The age of communist revolutions may be a distant memory, but the drive for social change, be it peaceful or violent, is not. Reading this book brings to mind the Arab Spring of 2011, in particular the Egyptian Revolution. The sequence of events in Tahrir Square were similar to what Miéville describes here — the key difference being that there was no Lenin or radical left-wing party to uproot the old system. Two Egyptian governments were overpowered by the military leviathan they thought they could tame. At one point in October, Miéville echoes Trotsky's ominous analysis: if the right-wing elements in the Russian military had managed to overthrow the Bolsheviks, then "[n]ot the Italian language, but the Russian would have given the world the word for fascism." As he admits at the outset, Miéville has his "villains and [his] heroes" in the piece. "Though not, I hope, dogmatic or uncritical," he writes, "I am partisan." This admission is refreshing, and, for the most part, correct. Interestingly, however, he does leave one important moment out of his narrative: the execution of Nicholas II and his family. What lies behind this choice is hard to say, but it is akin to writing about the French Revolution and leaving out the beheading of Louis XVI.
Soon after the events Miéville describes, the Russian Revolution shifted from hope to despair. The book's finest moment might be its epilogue, which is a requiem for the promise of October. Besieged and invaded by hostile powers, and giving up plans for a continent-wide revolution, the Bolsheviks carried out their own "Red Terror" and Soviet Russia morphed into a monolithic one-party state. The dream of an ideal communist society gave way to Lenin's New Economic Policy, which brought back limited capitalism to bolster an economy devastated by the Russian Civil War (1918–1921). Lenin's death signaled the rise of Stalin and the age of show trials, the Gulag, and what Victor Serge called "midnight in the century." One thinks of Syria, once gripped by revolutionary fervor and now trapped in a bloody midnight of war and torture chambers.
Still, unlike other admirable histories — such as Orlando Figes's A People's Tragedy — Miéville's book emphasizes the hope that the Russian Revolution inspired. "Twilight, even remembered twilight, is better than no light at all," Miéville eloquently observes. Revolutions are easily deformed, and often devour their children. This is the tragedy now playing out in Venezuela. Once the regenerator of the revolutionary dream, the country now approaches an abyss that could trigger a civil war. And yet October's dramatic narrative makes the case that the effort is still worth it — that we must dare to dream, even if we risk conjuring more nightmares in this darkening world.
Author China Miéville is the multi-award-winning author of many works of fiction and non-fiction. His fiction includes The City and the City, Embassytown and This Census-Taker. He has won the Hugo, World Fantasy, and Arthur C. Clarke awards. His non-fiction includes the photo-illustrated essay London's Overthrow and Between Equal Rights, a study of international law. He has written for various publications, including the New York Times, Guardian, Conjunctions and Granta, and he is a founding editor of the quarterly Salvage.
A recent extended interview between Mieville and the United Kingdom's journal Historical Materialism about the book appears HERE.


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Anera offers basic literacy, math and vocational courses to refugee youth and other impoverished communities.
Below, we highlight three stories about Syrian refugees who benefited from non-formal education in Lebanon. The program is implemented in partnership with UNICEF and made possible through funding from German Cooperation, UK Aid, and the United States Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration.
Rania dropped out of school more than a decade ago, when she was in the sixth grade in Syria. Today, she's a refugee in Bhannine, Lebanon. When she heard of Anera's literacy and math courses, her only concern was finding a safe space to leave her five-year-old daughter Amal.
Now, Rania and a group of young mothers are enjoying Anera's courses while their children are in daycare at the center.
Abdo Hammoud fled from his hometown of Zabadani, Syria to Majdal Anjar in Bekaa, Lebanon. Initially a social sciences teacher, he couldn't find any employment opportunities to support his younger sister and sick mom.
Abdo heard of Anera's skills training courses in Bekaa, particularly the courses for sports trainers. As a former trainer for the Shabab Al Zabadani football team in Syria, he applied to be one of the trainees.
Khaled Maksoud, 18, dropped out of school in seventh grade. He regrets it now, and that's why he started looking for alternative education options.
When Khaled heard about Anera's non-formal education courses in Lebanon, he was quick to enroll in courses on literacy, math and computer skills. Now Khaled works at a computer shop close to his home in Tripoli and makes around $50/week.


I hope you all had an amazing Holiday Season and that this New Year will be a Happy Healthy one. Here's to 2019! Boy, have I been having a absolutely great time in the studio designing new projects to kick off the New Year!
The Thin House Mini's seem to still be popular so I have continued with the fourth in the series...The Valentine Victorian. It is chock full of Victorian Gingerbread detail. For this house I ordered Authentique's Romance Collection which has 24 sheets of paper unlike the past collections that had 12 sheets. So that will be nice. It does have a mini inside...Just not pictured.
New Furniture Pieces! I love these furniture pieces. My Dad was an amazing carpenter...He was an engineer and smart as a whip! There were so many times he made furniture for each of us and our house. So I thought of him quite a bit when making these next couple of pieces..
These are preorder kits as I am sooo low on supplies and need to reorder...However, I think I can get these out mid February. I have also listened to my friends who would like kits without paper. So I am going to try these out without paper. Cutting your own paper will be so easy as all the cuts are straight.
The Kitchen Hutch is full of storage. It has two upper cabinets, two drawers and two lower cabinets. So fun and easy to make. If you can make a box you can speed through this one. So cute!
The Tall Armoire is one of my favorites. It's thin and tall and like the hutch holds a ton of goodness! It comes with 10 wooden hangers to hold optional but included Kraft hanging tags. Would be great for storing your ATC's on the hangers! The Tall armoire shown in the picture WILL include (2) acrylic panels for the door. Sorry, I have a whole box of acrylic and couldn't find it in time for the photos. The Armoire has two upper doors, two interior drawers and two sets of lower drawers.This really is just precious sitting in y house. I love it! LOL!
Well, that's what I have for you for January...Hope you like the projects..Thanks for looking through everything! Again, Happy 2019 to ya!


The text, first published untitled in a mimeographed form in June  1964, was printed for the first time in the 1965 Yearbook of the Freudian School of Paris, accompanied by the "Supplementary Note" and the "Preface". The note dated 1971 [28 February] and the Preamble were published in the 1977 Yearbook of the Freudian School of Paris.
Richard G. Klein notes : As none of the three translations (Jeffrey Mehlman's, Cormac Gallagher's or the NLS's –possibly Russell Grigg) included a translation of Note pour l'Annuaire : 28th February 1971 [Autre écrits: pages 240‐241], Anthony Chadwick kindly translated those eleven paragraphs. I have added them underneath the Jeffrey Mehlman translation.
Paru dans l'Annuaire de l'École freudienne de Paris, 1975, p. 19.


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MAC Viva Glam Rihanna is a frosty medium toned red orange that applies creamy on the lips with a red frost. It is more orange toned than red, which may mean the possibility of highlighting the yellows of our pearly whites. It is also a frost that most people especially the more mature among us may not feel comfortable wearing. If it was cream finish, I think we'd all go for it!
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I applaud MAC Cosmetics for their Viva Glam range of lipsticks and lipglosses where all proceeds goes to helping adults and children affected with AIDS. If you're keen to join the charity bandwagon, I recommend this and the other MAC Viva Glam products.
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We stayed in Gold Beach an extra day for a shot of adrenalin. Jerry's Jet Boats got great reviews from others and gets great reviews from us. The fact that the weather was perfect only added to the joy. The Rogue River is wide, but mostly shallow. Jet boats, which use jets of water to propel them, can run in as few as six inches of water, are perfectly suited for such a location. The river is running higher these days as the snow melt runs down the mountains, but we were hardly aware of the rocks right beneath us as we skimmed over the waves. The Rogue has a 12mph current at the moment, but the jet boat engines are so powerful, our upstream speed was enough to give our hair a good tangle.
The jet boat season began today May 1 and we got a 25% discount for being early in the season. Jerry runs three trips in the summer with as many as twelve boats out at a time doing trips of various lengths. Today there was only one boat and we did the longest - a 104 mile trip. It sounded like a long journey when we booked it, but the river was so varied, interesting and just plain fun, the time flew by as we flew down the river.
Our captain was the grandson of the original Jerry, who began running these airboat trips in the 1950's. The grandfather had eleven siblings, who all made their living from the river one way or another. As we zipped along, we heard stories about their lodges burning down, bankruptcies, canneries that came and went. He showed us the spot by a waterfall where he had sprinkled his mother's ashes. It felt like the Rogue was his own personal river.
The first twenty miles we slalomed between many recreational fishing boats who were looking for Chinook salmon. They are only allowed to keep the fish with a notch in their fins which indicates that they were released by the hatchery rather than bred wild. It didn't look like they were catching much yet, but the bright blue sky and warm temperatures made just being on the water such a pleasure. Our captain was very careful to aim our powerful wake away from the fishing boats, but our engine noise probably didn't help.
Every so often when the river was wide enough and the breeze in the right direction, he suddenly twirled us around 360º. The spray evaporated quickly in the bright sunshine and we never got cold even though the water is 54º at the moment. We saw numerous lodges and picturesque cabins nestled into the trees. Eventually we got past the section with roads and those cabins had been built solely with supplies brought in by boat. They had to supply their own water and electricity. One cabin owner had mounted wheelbarrows to car engines to help him haul it all uphill. The last twenty miles were truly remote and wild. Zodiacs make float trips from this area and it takes them three days to do what we did in about an hour. One group of boaters graciously mooned us as we went by. The wild section had the best rapids. Riding rapids in a jet boat is a vastly different experience than riding them in a zodiac. On float trips the tipping danger is much higher and you have to paddle like crazy. On the jet boat our biggest concern was wiping the water droplets off our sun glasses after every series of rapids.


The power of technology to bring positive change is well documented and well understood across the planet. However, when its benefits are distributed unequally across different strata of society, technology creates barriers, dividing peoples and inhibiting social development and economic growth. This so-called "digital divide" is something we at JD.com, a Chinese e-commerce company, and the World Economic Forum are striving to narrow.
In our experience, we have seen how the right technology, employed in the right way, can instead create bridges. A recent example is commercial drone delivery.
By using drones to deliver goods, even the most far-flung, hard to reach places in remote and rural areas become instantly accessible and connected.
Speedy and efficient alternatives to using automobiles, trucks, and trains to traverse treacherous terrain, drones can get to these places in minutes. We see drones as part of a larger smart logistics initiative, bringing people, places and goods closer together, faster and more conveniently.
Whether it's an emergency situation, where minutes shaved can mean lives spared, to simply being able to speed necessities and goods to people who need them, drones make impractical routes practical.
Further, with the cost of deliveries in some countries' rural areas estimated to be five times greater than in urban areas, using drones at scale can help equalize economic opportunity and access to affordable consumer goods between regions by bringing down the cost of rural logistics.
We recently had the opportunity to again witness the profound impact that this technology can have on people's lives. On January 8, after working together alongside local government officials for more than half a year, JD.com in collaboration with the World Economic Forum's Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution (C4IR) successfully completed the first ever government-approved drone delivery flight in Indonesian history.
This test delivery to the Mis Nural Falah Leles elementary school in Jagabita Village, Parung Panjang, Indonesia, opened the door to the possibilities the technology holds. Students who watched as the drone brought backpacks for their school excitedly asked when they could start getting packages delivered to their homes this way.
JD.com was an early mover in e-commerce in Southeast Asia. Recognizing the potential of the market there, JD saw many characteristics similar to the developing Chinese market of the last decade, including a rapidly growing rate of mobile and internet penetration, the lack of nationwide logistics infrastructure, a relatively weak bricks-and-mortar retail system, and price disparities across different areas.
The company formed a joint venture with a local partner to launch an e-commerce business in Indonesia in 2016. Since then, that business has grown to become a formidable player in the market, selling more than one million units of stock (SKUs) and serving more than 20 million consumers across the republic.
Of course, one enormous challenge that is unique to Indonesia is its topography. Being spread out across more than 17,000 islands, the country poses significant challenges for efficient last-mile logistics.
Putting drones into operation for e-commerce deliveries and other logistics-related services can help give Indonesians access to unprecedented efficiency and reliability of services. It will also play a role in making same-day and next-day delivery a reality across the country. This, in turn, will raise the bar for customer service throughout the country.
We believe, however, that this is just the beginning. Drone delivery has the potential to completely change the face of global logistics.


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Hello Games була заснована в серпні 2008 року колишніми співробітниками компаній з розробки комп'ютерних ігор, таких як: Criterion Games, Electronic Arts та Kuju Entertainment. На Develop 2010 року вони виграли дві нагороди: найкраща нова студія і найкраща мікро-студія. У вересні 2010 року компанія була включена в список The Guardian, як одна зі 100 найбільш інноваційних і творчих компаній за останні 12 місяців.

Перші проекти
У 2010 році випустила свою першу гру — Joe Danger. Великої популярності гра не отримала. Протягом наступних 4-х років компанія продовжувала працювати над серією, випустивши Joe Danger 2: The Movie (2012) і Joe Danger Infinity (2014).

No Man's Sky

Нова науково-фантастична пригодницька гра під назвою No Man's Sky була анонсована під час церемонії нагородження VGA 2013. У березні 2016 року, разом з можливістю попереднього замовлення гри, стала відома очікувана дата релізу — 22 червня 2016 року. Проте за місяць до дати релізу Шон Мюррей оголошує про те, що гра була відкладена в останню хвилину через потребу внести ряд виправлень. Очікувана дата релізу була перенесена на серпень 2016 року. Через декілька днів після виходу No Man's Sky 9 серпня 2016 року, на гру та компанію обвалилася лавина критики зі сторони геймерів. Hello Games звинуватили в обмані під час просування гри через відсутність обіцяних ігрових функцій. Після періоду мовчання, який тривав більше місяця, гра отримала перше велике оновлення під назвою «Foundation», яке суттєво покращило геймплей та інтерфейс гри. Надалі No Man's Sky періодично оновлюється для виправлення недоліків оригіналу.

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Підприємства за алфавітом
Видавці відеоігор
Підприємства у галузі інформаційних технологій
Розробники відеоігор Великої Британії
Засновані у Великій Британії 2008
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Es denomina cua o empenatge a la part posterior d'un avió on (en les configuracions clàssiques) solen estar situats l'estabilitzador horitzontal (encarregat de controlar el picat de l'avió emprant el Timó de profunditat) i l'estabilitzador vertical (encarregat de controlar la guinyada de l'avió usant el Timó de direcció).

La importància aerodinàmica de la cua és elevada, ja que la seva manera defineix el tipus de despreniment que ens podem trobar a l'avió a la zona posterior, els dos fabricants principals d'avions comercials (Boeing i Airbus) tenen concepcions de cua diferents.

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The City collected approximately $212.3 million in General Fund tax revenue in December of FY2019, compared to $203.1 million in December of last year, according to preliminary figures. Strong wage, earnings, and net profits and business income and receipts ("BIRT") tax collections for that month resulted in an overall increase in December collections of almost five percent. Through the first half of the fiscal year, there was only one month (November) where total collections decreased over FY2018, ensuring year-to-date collections also increased over the previous year. Whereas a considerable decrease in real estate tax collections kept year-to-date collections below what the City projected in its most recent quarterly report, many major tax collections peak in the spring months, so the City is well situated to meet their projections while enjoying another year of steadily increasing tax revenue.


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Q: Angular/Node.js: Create subdomain on aws server from code end I am working on a project in which i have to create sub domains dynamically when user enters prefix as their sub domain at my website.
i used diet.js and  express-subdomain both are working fine on my localhost but on aws server both firing error.
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Search Google for subdomain162 3000

Is there any solution for this issue?
Update with more clarification.
I have database of modules having names(which i want to use as sub domain)
So if someone who created that module on my website than he can be access website as module.example.com
For example blogspot.com website works

A: DNS has propagation time check the domain on What's My DNS
It depends on TTL time and how often AWS master zones refresh.
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The many faces of facial recognition in the EU
Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Biometrics | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention
In this second installment of EDRi's facial recognition and fundamental rights series, we look at how different EU Member States, institutions and other countries worldwide are responding to the use of this tech in public spaces.
By EDRi · December 18, 2019
We previously launched the first article and case study in a series exploring the human rights implications of facial recognition technology. In this post, we look at how different EU Member States, institutions and other countries worldwide are responding to the use of this tech in public spaces.
Live facial recognition technology is increasingly used to identify people in public, often without their knowledge or properly-informed consent. Sometimes referred to as face surveillance, concerns about the use of these technologies in public places is gaining attention across Europe. Public places are not well-defined in law, but can include open spaces like parks or streets, publicly-administered institutions like hospitals, spaces controlled by law enforcement such as borders, and – arguably – any other places where people wanting to take part in society have no ability to opt out from entering. As it stands, there is no EU consensus on the legitimacy nor the desirability of using facial recognition in such spaces.
Public face surveillance is being used by many police forces across Europe to look out for people on their watch-lists; for crowd control at football matches in the UK; and in tracking systems in schools (although so far, attempts to do this in the EU have been stopped). So-called "smart cities" – where technologies that involve identifying people are used to monitor environments with the outward aim of making cities more sustainable – have been implemented to some degree in at least eight EU Member States. Outside the EU, China is reportedly using face surveillance to crack down on the civil liberties of pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong, and there are mounting fears that Chinese surveillance tech is being exported to the EU and even used to influence UN facial recognition standards. Such issues have brought facial recognition firmly onto the human rights agenda, raising awareness of its (mis)use by both democratic and authoritarian governments.
How is the EU grappling with the facial recognition challenge?
Throughout 2019, a number of EU Member States responded to the threat of facial recognition, although their approaches reveal many inconsistencies. In October 2019, the Swedish Data Protection Authority (DPA) – the national body responsible for personal data under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) – approved the use of facial recognition technology for criminal surveillance, finding it legal and legitimate (subject to clarification of how long the biometric data will be kept). Two months earlier, they levied a fine of 20 000 euro for an attempt to use facial recognition in a school. Similarly, the UK DPA has advised police forces to "slow down" due to the volume of unknowns – but have stopped short of calling for a moratorium. UK courts have failed to see their DPA's problem with facial recognition, despite citizens' fears that it is highly invasive. In the only European ruling so far, Cardiff's high court found police use of public face surveillance cameras to be proportionate and lawful, despite accepting that this technology infringes on the right to privacy.
The French DPA took a stronger stance than the UK's DPA, advising a school in the city of Nice that the intrusiveness of facial recognition means that their planned face recognition project cannot be implemented legally. They emphasised the "particular sensitivity" of facial recognition due to its association with surveillance and its potential to violate rights to freedom and privacy, and highlighting the enhanced protections required for minors. Importantly, France's DPA concluded that legally-compliant and equally effective alternatives to face recognition, such as using ID badges to manage student access, can and should be used instead. Echoing this stance, the European Data Protection Supervisor, Wojciech Wiewiórowski, issued a scathing condemnation of facial recognition, calling it a symptom of rising populist intolerance and "a solution in search of a problem."
A lack of justification for the violation of fundamental rights
However, as in the UK, the French DPA's views have frequently clashed with other public bodies. For example, the French government is pursuing the controversial Alicem digital identification system despite warnings that it does not comply with fundamental rights. There is also an inconsistency in the differentiation made between the surveillance of children and adults. The reason given by both France and Sweden for rejecting child facial recognition is that it will create problems for them in adulthood. Using this same logic, it is hard to see how the justification for any form of public face surveillance – especially when it is unavoidable, as in public spaces – would meet legal requirements of legitimacy or necessity, or be compliant with the GDPR's necessarily strict rules for biometric data.
The risks and uncertainties outlined thus far have not stopped Member States accelerating their uptake of facial recognition technology. According to the EU's Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA), Hungary is poised to deploy an enormous facial recognition system for multiple reasons including road safety and the Orwellian-sounding "public order" purposes; the Czech Republic is increasing its facial recognition capacity in Prague airport; "extensive" testing has been carried out by Germany and France; and EU-wide migration facial recognition is in the works. EDRi member SHARE Foundation have also reported on its illegal use in Serbia, where the interior ministry's new system has failed to meet the most basic requirements under law. And of course, private actors also have a vested interest in influencing and orchestrating European face recognition use and policy: lobbying the EU, tech giant IBM has promoted its facial recognition technology to governments as "potentially life-saving" and even funded research that dismisses concerns about the ethical and human impacts of AI as "exaggerated fears."
As Interpol admits, "standards and best practices [for facial recognition] are still in the process of being created." Despite this, facial recognition continues to be used in both public and commercial spaces across the EU – unlike in the US, where four cities including San Francisco have proactively banned facial recognition for policing and other state uses, and a fifth, Portland, has started legislative proceedings to ban facial recognition for both public and private purposes – the widest ban so far.
The need to ask the big societal questions
Once again, these examples return to the idea that the problem is not technological, but societal: do we want the mass surveillance of our public spaces? Do we support methods that will automate existing policing and surveillance practices – along with the biases and discrimination that inevitably come with them? When is the use of technology genuinely necessary, legitimate and consensual, rather than just sexy and exciting? Many studies have shown that – despite claims by law enforcement and private companies – there is no link between surveillance and crime prevention. Even when studies have concluded that "at best" CCTV may help deter petty crime in parking garages, this has only been with exceptionally narrow, well-controlled use, and without the need for facial recognition. And as explored in our previous article, there is overwhelming evidence that rather than improving public safety or security, facial recognition creates a chilling effect on a shocking smorgasbord of human rights.
As in the case of the school in Nice, face recognition cannot be considered necessary and proportionate when there are many other ways to achieve the same aim without violating rights. FRA agrees that general reasons of "crime prevention or public security" are neither legitimate nor legal justifications per se, and so facial recognition must be subject to strict legality criteria.
Human rights exist to help redress the imbalance of power between governments, private entities and citizens. In contrast, the highly intrusive nature of face surveillance opens the door to mass abuses of state power. DPAs and civil society, therefore, must continue to pressure governments and national authorities to stop the illegal deployment and unchecked use of face surveillance in Europe's public spaces. Governments and DPAs must also take a strong stance to the private sector's development of face surveillance technologies, demanding and enforcing GDPR and human rights compliance at every step.
Read the rest of the facial recognition and fundamental rights series
December 4, 2019 · Blogs | Open internet and inclusive technology | Privacy and data protection | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Biometrics | Data protection standards | Profiling practices | Surveillance and data retention
Facial recognition and fundamental rights 101
This is the first post in a series about the fundamental rights impacts of facial recognition. Private companies and governments worldwide are already experimenting with facial recognition technology. Individuals, lawmakers, developers - and everyone in between - should be aware of the rise of facial recognition, and the risks it poses to rights to privacy, freedom, democracy and non-discrimination.
January 15, 2020 · Blogs | Open internet and inclusive technology | Privacy and data protection | Biometrics | Profiling practices | Surveillance and data retention
Your face rings a bell: Three common uses of facial recognition
Not all applications of facial recognition are created equal. In this third installment, we sift through the hype to analyse three increasingly common uses of facial recognition: tagging pictures on Facebook, automated border control gates, and police surveillance.
January 29, 2020 · Blogs | Information democracy | Privacy and data protection | Biometrics | Online tracking industry / AdTech | Profiling practices | Surveillance and data retention
Stalked by your digital doppelganger?
In this fourth installment of EDRi's facial recognition and fundamental rights series, we explore what could happen if facial recognition collides with data-hungry business models and 24/7 surveillance.
February 12, 2020 · Blogs | Open internet and inclusive technology | Privacy and data protection | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Biometrics | Data protection standards | Inclusive technologies | Profiling practices | Surveillance and data retention
Dangerous by design: A cautionary tale about facial recognition
In this fifth and final installment of EDRi's facial recognition and fundamental rights series, we consider an experience of harm caused by fundamentally violatory biometric surveillance technology.
March 25, 2020 · Document pools | Open internet and inclusive technology | Privacy and data protection | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Biometrics | Profiling practices | Surveillance and data retention
Facial Recognition & Biometric Mass Surveillance: Document Pool
Despite evidence that public facial recognition and other forms of biometric mass surveillance infringe on a wide range EU fundamental rights, European authorities and companies are deploying these systems at a rapid rate. This has happened without proper consideration for how such practices invade people's privacy on an enormous scale; amplify existing inequalities; and undermine democracy, freedom and justice.
Facial Recognition and Fundamental Rights 101 (04.12.2019)
https://edri.org/facial-recognition-and-fundamental-rights-101/
Your face rings a bell: Three common uses of facial recognition (15.01.2020)
https://edri.org/your-face-rings-a-bell-three-common-uses-of-facial-recognition/
Stalked by your digital doppelganger? (29.01.2020)
https://edri.org/stalked-by-your-digital-doppelganger/
In the EU, facial recognition in schools gets an F in data protection (10.12.2019)
https://www.accessnow.org/in-the-eu-facial-recognition-in-schools-gets-an-f-in-data-protection/
Data-Driven Policing: The Hardwiring of Discriminatory Policing Practices across Europe (05.11.2019)
https://www.enar-eu.org/IMG/pdf/data-driven-profiling-web-final.pdf
Facial recognition technology: fundamental rights considerations in the context of law enforcement (27.11.2019)
https://fra.europa.eu/sites/default/files/fra_uploads/fra-2019-facial-recognition-technology-focus-paper.pdf
Serbia: Unlawful facial recognition video surveillance in Belgrade (04.12.2019)
https://edri.org/serbia-unlawful-facial-recognition-video-surveillance-in-belgrade/
At least 10 police forces use face recognition in the EU, AlgorithmWatch reveals (11.12.2019)
https://algorithmwatch.org/en/story/face-recognition-police-europe/
Contribution by Ella Jakubowska, EDRi intern [at time of writing, now Policy and Campaigns Officer], with many ideas gratefully received from or inspired by members of the EDRi network
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Selected Poems (Paperback)
By Gwendolyn Brooks
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 9780060882969, 176pp.
Publication Date: July 3, 2006
"Probably the finest black poet of the post-Harlem generation."
— Robert F. Kiernan
Selected Poems is the classic volume by the distinguished and celebrated poet, Gwendolyn Brooks, winner of the 1950 Pulitzer Prize, and recipient of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. This compelling collection showcases Brooks' technical mastery, her warm humanity, and her compassionate and illuminating response to a complex world.
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917—2000) is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Annie Allen and one of the most celebrated Black poets. She also served as consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress—the first Black woman to hold that position. She was the poet laureate for the state of Illinois for over thirty years, a National Women's Hall of Fame inductee, and the recipient of a lifetime achievement award from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her works include We Are Shining, Bronzeville Boys and Girls, A Street in Bronzeville, In the Mecca, The Bean Eaters, and Maud Martha. You can find out more about her at www.gwendolynbrooks.net.
Praise For Selected Poems…
"More than any other nationally acclaimed writer, Brooks has remained in touch with the community she writes about."
— Washington Post
"Probably the finest black poet of the post-Harlem generation."
"From her poet's craft bursts a whole gallery of wholly alive persons...Many a novelist cannot do so well in ten times the space."
— Christian Science Monitor
"She is a very good poet, the only superlative I dare use in our time of misusage; compared...to the best of modern poets, she ranks high."
— Harvey Curtis Webster
"When Miss Brooks...writes out of her heart, out of her rich and living background, out of her very real talent, then she induces almost unbearable excitement."
— New York Times
"Miss Brooks has a very fine talent...a faculty which is becoming rare in contemporary poetry: an interest not merely in her own responses, but in other people as well."
— Paul Engle


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Thursday, Feb. 12, through Sunday, Feb. 15: The Bristol Bar and Grille Downtown, 614 W. Main St., and in Jeffersonville, 700 W.Riverside Dr., will celebrate Valentine's Day for four days. In addition to regular menu items, both locations will offer different three-course holiday dinners. The downtown Louisville location's dinner will include pan-seared halibut, beef filet and a raspberry sweet roll with Godiva dark chocolate liqueur frosting. The Jeffersonville location's dinner features oysters Rockefeller gratin, Chilean sea bass and chocolate-covered strawberries. Cost varies.For downtown, call (502) 582-1995; for Jeffersonville, call (812) 218-1995.
Thursday, Feb. 12, through Sunday, Feb. 15: Varanese, 2106 Frankfort Ave. is offering an "A Taste of Love Aphrodisiac Dinner". The menu includes jumbo fried oysters, pan-seared Hawaiian butterfish and peanut butter chocolate banana pie. Cost varies. Call (502) 899-9904 or email letsdine@varanese.com.
Friday, Feb. 13, and Saturday, Feb. 14: Winston's Restaurant at Sullivan University, Bardstown Rd., will serve a four-course dinner, starting at 5:30 p.m. Five different entree options, including beef filet, sea bass and lobster vol-au-vent, will be available. Cost ranges from $57 to $64 per person. Call (502) 456-0980.
Saturday, Feb. 14: The Brown Hotel is offering a five-course dinner for two in The English Grill, featuring grilled oysters, potato bisque, prime rib and Godiva molten cake. Cost is $80. Diners who want to say overnight will receive a $20 discount on a deluxe or club luxury package, $259 and $329, respectively. The Brown Hotel is also offering a $2,500 "Night to Remember" package, which includes dinner, a luxury suite, a bottle of Dom Pérignon and Pappy Van Winkle bourbon flight for two at the lobby bar, among other things. Call (502) 736-2996.
Saturday, Feb. 14: The Seelbach Hilton Hotel will host its 21st annual Valentine Dinner Show, Dancing & Silent Auction at 6 p.m in its grand ballroom. The event, which benefits the Louisville Chorus, includes dinner, romantic music from the Louisville Chorus, a cash bar and a silent auction. Tickets are $125. Order tickets online here.
LouVino will offer three Valentine's Day seatings, at 5, 7 and 9 p.m. The four-course meal includes crispy oysters and beef tenderloin. The 5 p.m. seating costs $40 per person, while the other two cost $45. Wine pairings cost $25 per person. Call (502) 365-1921.
The historic Whitehall estate, 3110 Lexington Rd. will host a Valentine's Day four-course dinner at 7 p.m. The menu includes Belgium endive-smoked trout mousse, steak diane and broiled Atlantic salmon pinwheel. Cost is $75, or $100 per person for dinner with wine; $45 of the ticket is tax-deductible. Email whitehall@historichomes.org or call (502) 897-2944.
Buffalo Trace Distillery, 113 Great Buffalo Trace, Frankfort, is offering a Buffalo Love dinner on Valentine's Day, a bourbon-focused dinner with optional distillery tour. 6 p.m. Optional Tour. 7–9:00 p.m. – Dinner/Event. $75 emailevents@buffalotrace.com or call (502) 696-5930.
Asiatique, 1767 Bardstown Rd., will celebrate Valentine's Day both Friday and Saturday, the 13 and 14, with a special four-course dinner with several options for each course. Cost will be $50. Call (502) 451-2749.
Against the Grain Brewery, 401 E. Main St., has brewed a special blood orange pilsner and concocted a Valentine's Day cocktail to go with a 3-course dinner (roasted cauliflower soup, smoked short ribs and stout-poached pear). Dinner served 4-9 p.m. with live music beginning at 9. Dinner will be $35. Call (502) 515-0174.
Buck's, 425 W. Ormsby Ave., will serve a 4-course Valentine's Day dinner priced at $75. entrée choices will include beef tenderloin, bourbon chicken saltimbocca and risotto. Rick Bartlett will perform love songs from 5 to 11 p.m. Call (502) 637-5284.
Brasserie Provence, 150 N. Hurstbourne Pkwy., will offer a 3-course meal, with entrée options of coquilles St. Jacques, cauliflower steak or sea bass. Price will be $64. Call (502) 883-3153.
Friday, Feb. 13: Copper & Kings American Brandy Distillery, 1121 E. Washington St., will host a "Who Says Romance is Old Fashioned," cocktail party from 7 to 11 p.m. There will be live music, art, chocolates and a build-your-own Old Fashioned bar to celebrate Valentine's Day. and will feature light hors d'oeuvres from Rye and brandy chocolate chimeres from Art Eatables. The cost is $5. Must be 21 years or older. Tickets can be purchased here.
The Wine Studio at 610 Magnolia will offer a hands-on cooking demonstration, followed by a family style dinner of the food prepared. A great opportunity for couples to cook together. Limited to 6 couples. $185 per couple includes cooking lessons, passed canapes and dinner. Beverages are additional. Call (502) 636-0783.
Celebrate Valentine's Day any day from Feb. 3 through 14 at RIVUE Restaurant & Lounge, atop the Galt House, 140 N. Fourth St. with a 3-Course dinner special. The menu includes white sweet potato bisque, broiled 7-ounce filet with sautéed jumbo shrimp, and espresso chocolate cake for dessert. Complimentary valet parking and a revolving view of the city included, for $150 per couple). Call 502-568-4239.