Christmasville – Experience the Spirit While You Can!
Having lost his zest for life after the death of his daughter, a newly unemployed father takes a magical journey to Christmasville, where he receives the greatest gift of all — a second chance.
Christmas-themed movies will always be perennial favourites with audiences. From oft repeated classics such as: It's A Wonderful Life, (1946) and Miracle On 34th Street (1947), to more contemporary classics such as: Home Alone (1990), Elf (2003), National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989), and Bad Santa (2003).
If there's one thing the history of the film industry tells us it's that Christmas themed movies are consistent box office winners, whether they be theatrically released, Indie, or direct to video and television productions. Audiences cannot get enough of what's now commonly known as the celluloid 'Countdown to Christmas' where holiday movies play on solid run from Thanksgiving to New Year. The number of people in the U.S. alone who watched a Hallmark Christmas movie in 2017 was around 65 million, with that number expected to exceed 85 million by New Year, 2018.
What's the secret to their popularity?
Well, that's simple. Audiences long for homespun, feel-good movies with their universal themes of love, family, hope, and redemption. Add to that the perfect backdrop of crisp white snow, a little mistletoe, the twinkling of Christmas lights and baubles, and a liberal dose of fairy dust, and you're onto a sure-fire winner.
Steven Clarke's onto a winner with his rather aptly titled Christmasville which has all these requisite ingredients plus a whole lot more.
We open on family man, Dale. A woodworker by trade, he's resigned his lot to the 'shipping and receiving depot' of a factory in a small town. Dale is getting on with things but he's also carrying the weight of the world on his shoulders, living in the shadow of the tragic death of his young daughter, and more recently the passing of his father. Clearly, Dale is not living his best life. He has an eight year old son, Michael, who worships the ground his dad walks on, and a loving and devoted wife in Tabitha. But still the traumatic events of the past plague him.
As Dale surveys his town he thinks it ain't all that bad. Sure it's quaint with its Mom and Pop stores and everybody knowing everybody else's business, but it sure is pretty this time of year; church steeples rising high into the sky, the shops dressed in their holiday wreaths and colourful lights, and lamp posts strung with pretty garlands.
It's just over a week before Christmas, the first few flurries of snow are falling and the townsfolk are preparing for the annual Tree lighting.
There's only one blot on the landscape for Dale and that is the woodworking store (that) stands dark and vacant. A FOR LEASE sign hangs in the fogged out window. This is the store Dale's father once ran. The store that Dale should now be running.
Oh, and the fact that eight days out from Christmas, Dale is summoned to the boss's office and unceremoniously given the old heave-ho. Budget's been cut. Dale was last in, so he's first out.
A crushing blow, but Dale's not one to let the grass grow under his feet or let pride get in the way of a providing for his family, so he's up next day at the crack of dawn to Marone's Luncheonette. Store-owner Pete is a decent fellow who'll give anyone a break and before long Dale's proving his mettle with the popularity of his burgers and BLTs. Until that is – his less than stellar tomato-dicing skills land him in the Emergency Department. What rotten luck. A bunged up hand and a nasty trail of stitches means there'll be no more working the grill for Dale. Not for a good while anyway.
Still Dale bravely pushes on, now relegated to stoically running errands for Tabitha, at the local Mall.
Dale's car crashes into a guard rail and down a steep embankment.
Then wakes sometime later – 'everything out of focus, head bandaged' – he locks eyes with a SMALL MAN by the name of Butter Finger, sporting green thermals and a red stocking cap.
From hereon in things get even more surreal. It appears Dale has entered an alternate reality of seemingly Rockwell-ian proportions – cobblestone sidewalks, a town square surrounded by an ice skating pond, a world inhabited by Elves and reindeer and pretty soon after Dale finds himself riding shotgun in a sleigh next to a hulking man with a white beard who for all intents and purposes looks like Santa. But is he? This Santa has a Pilates class scheduled at three, a particular penchant for the Elliptical machine and a personal trainer coming in at four-thirty. Huh?
For Dale things are getting weirder by the minute and all he really wants is out of this particular rabbit hole and back home to his loving wife and son.
But, try as he might it seems there's no means of escape.
Meanwhile back home, with Sheriff Shirley Hastings at the helm, the townsfolk have rallied and a search party is underway. It seems Dale has disappeared off the face of the earth, something he promised his wife he would never do. Tabitha and Michael are beside themselves with worry of his whereabouts.
The writing in Christmasville is what elevates this story from any comparison to a 'by the numbers cookie-cutter' holiday tale. With its ensemble cast every role is three dimensional and beautifully drawn. It's no easy task for a writer to create character with only one line of dialogue, but writer Steven Clarke does this with aplomb. Larger standout roles such as town Sheriff Shirley Hastings, (a lovely nod to Marg Gunderson, Fargo ) and her well meaning but slightly dim-witted Deputy Rick, are particularly memorable.
Christmasville seamlessly blends the comical with the sentimental, the dramatic with heart-rending, the nostalgic with the modern. This is an original and beautifully written tale that will entertain the whole family.
Producers: Want all your Christmases to come at once? Well, best open your present early, cause this is a one of a kind limited edition, and it's sure to sell out fast.
Hard to believe, but it's now been over three years since Shootin' the Shorts opened shop here on WordPress. And we've had one heck of a rollercoaster ride ever since.
So many shorts produced, so much networking between writers, directors and film buffs.
And we ain't even CLOSE to done.
And STS isn't giving up. We're evolving.
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Home Physics & Mathematics Materials, microscopy and modeling combine for performance upgrade to jet engines
Materials, microscopy and modeling combine for performance upgrade to jet engines
Collaboration among materials scientists, electron microscopy experts and aerospace industry leaders may lead to major improvements in jet turbine engine performance.
The relentless drive for energy efficiency in power generation and propulsion places immense value on the development of high-performance materials. Turbine engine efficiency and reduction in carbon emissions are directly related to engine operating temperature. With increasing temperatures, materials start to change in shape or size—a process known as creep—which eventually limits the materials' performance.
An article appearing this week in Nature Communications shares results of a study titled "Phase transformation strengthening of high-temperature superalloys," led by Materials Science and Engineering Professor Michael Mills, faculty colleagues Wolfgang Windl, Hamish Fraser and David McComb, and graduate students Tim Smith, Bryan Esser, and Nik Antolin.
"Increased performance in aircraft engines and land-based power generators require the development of a new generation of high-temperature structural materials that are resistant to creep," said Mills.
This study serves to address a deficit in quantitative, comprehensive understanding of deformation mechanisms for various alloy compositions in high-temperature, high-stress conditions that are relevant to advanced engine designs.
The quantitative analysis combined atomic-resolution imaging with density functional theory (DFT) calculations, led by experts such as Robert Williams at Ohio State's Center for Electron Microscopy and Analysis (CEMAS) and Anna Carlsson of FEI/Thermo Fisher Scientific. This coupled approach resulted in the discovery of a high-temperature strengthening mechanism, which the research team refers to as phase transformation strengthening.
"Through advanced imaging and DFT calculations we found that increasing the concentrations of the elements titanium, tantalum and niobium in superalloys inhibits the formation of high temperature deformation twins," Mills said, "thereby significantly improving the alloys' high temperature capabilities."
"Research such as this perfectly illustrates the power of CEMAS to help drive discovery in new materials and processes," said CEMAS Director David McComb. The study also benefitted from industry insight provided by GE Aviation Lead Materials Engineer Andrew Wessman. GE Aviation frequently utilizes CEMAS capabilities to advance their alloy development initiatives.
According to Mills, this mechanism may be further manipulated through alloying and processing to further improve the high-temperature properties of next-generation superalloys for critical structural applications.
In addition to jet turbine engines, phase transformation strengthening may lead to performance enhancements in turbomachinery for transportation and power generation.
Ultrasound-assisted optical imaging could replace endoscopy in breakthrough discovery

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package org.apache.servicecomb.metrics.core.publish;

import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.stream.Collectors;

import javax.ws.rs.core.Response.Status;

import org.apache.log4j.spi.LoggingEvent;
import org.apache.servicecomb.core.Const;
import org.apache.servicecomb.foundation.common.Holder;
import org.apache.servicecomb.foundation.metrics.MetricsBootstrapConfig;
import org.apache.servicecomb.foundation.metrics.PolledEvent;
import org.apache.servicecomb.foundation.metrics.publish.spectator.MeasurementNode;
import org.apache.servicecomb.foundation.metrics.publish.spectator.MeasurementTree;
import org.apache.servicecomb.foundation.metrics.registry.GlobalRegistry;
import org.apache.servicecomb.foundation.test.scaffolding.config.ArchaiusUtils;
import org.apache.servicecomb.foundation.test.scaffolding.log.LogCollector;
import org.apache.servicecomb.foundation.vertx.VertxUtils;
import org.apache.servicecomb.metrics.core.meter.invocation.MeterInvocationConst;
import org.apache.servicecomb.metrics.core.meter.os.OsMeter;
import org.apache.servicecomb.metrics.core.publish.model.DefaultPublishModel;
import org.apache.servicecomb.metrics.core.publish.model.ThreadPoolPublishModel;
import org.apache.servicecomb.metrics.core.publish.model.invocation.OperationPerf;
import org.apache.servicecomb.metrics.core.publish.model.invocation.OperationPerfGroup;
import org.apache.servicecomb.metrics.core.publish.model.invocation.OperationPerfGroups;
import org.apache.servicecomb.metrics.core.publish.model.invocation.PerfInfo;
import org.junit.After;
import org.junit.Assert;
import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.FixMethodOrder;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runners.MethodSorters;

import com.google.common.eventbus.EventBus;
import com.netflix.spectator.api.Measurement;

import io.vertx.core.impl.VertxImpl;
import mockit.Expectations;
import mockit.Injectable;
import mockit.Mock;
import mockit.MockUp;
import mockit.Mocked;

@FixMethodOrder(MethodSorters.NAME_ASCENDING)
public class TestDefaultLogPublisher {
  GlobalRegistry globalRegistry = new GlobalRegistry();

  EventBus eventBus = new EventBus();

  DefaultLogPublisher publisher = new DefaultLogPublisher();

  LogCollector collector = new LogCollector();

  @Before
  public void setup() {

  }

  @After
  public void teardown() {
    collector.teardown();
    ArchaiusUtils.resetConfig();
  }

  @Test
  public void init_enabled_default() {
    Holder<Boolean> registered = new Holder<>(false);
    new MockUp<EventBus>(eventBus) {
      @Mock
      void register(Object object) {
        registered.value = true;
      }
    };

    publisher.init(globalRegistry, eventBus, new MetricsBootstrapConfig());
    Assert.assertFalse(registered.value);
  }

  @Test
  public void init_enabled_true() {
    Holder<Boolean> registered = new Holder<>();
    new MockUp<EventBus>(eventBus) {
      @Mock
      void register(Object object) {
        registered.value = true;
      }
    };

    ArchaiusUtils.setProperty(DefaultLogPublisher.ENABLED, true);

    publisher.init(globalRegistry, eventBus, new MetricsBootstrapConfig());
    Assert.assertTrue(registered.value);
  }

  @Test
  public void init_enabled_false() {
    Holder<Boolean> registered = new Holder<>();
    new MockUp<EventBus>(eventBus) {
      @Mock
      void register(Object object) {
        registered.value = true;
      }
    };

    ArchaiusUtils.setProperty(DefaultLogPublisher.ENABLED, false);

    publisher.init(globalRegistry, eventBus, new MetricsBootstrapConfig());
    Assert.assertNull(registered.value);
  }

  @Test
  public void onPolledEvent_failed() {
    publisher.onPolledEvent(null);

    LoggingEvent event = collector.getEvents().get(0);
    Assert.assertEquals("Failed to print perf log.", event.getMessage());
    Assert.assertEquals(NullPointerException.class, event.getThrowableInformation().getThrowable().getClass());
  }

  @Test
  public void onPolledEvent(@Injectable VertxImpl vertxImpl, @Injectable MeasurementTree tree,
      @Injectable GlobalRegistry globalRegistry, @Injectable EventBus eventBus, @Injectable MetricsBootstrapConfig config) {
    try {
      ArchaiusUtils.setProperty("servicecomb.metrics.publisher.defaultLog.enabled", true);
      ArchaiusUtils.setProperty("servicecomb.metrics.invocation.latencyDistribution", "0,1,100");
      publisher.init(globalRegistry, eventBus, config);
      new Expectations(VertxUtils.class) {
        {
          VertxUtils.getVertxMap();
          result = Collections.singletonMap("v", vertxImpl);
        }
      };
      DefaultPublishModel model = new DefaultPublishModel();
      PerfInfo perfTotal = new PerfInfo();
      perfTotal.setTps(10_0000);
      perfTotal.setMsTotalTime(30000L * 1_0000);
      perfTotal.setMsMaxLatency(30000);
      OperationPerf operationPerf = new OperationPerf();
      operationPerf.setOperation("op");
      operationPerf.setLatencyDistribution(new Integer[] {12, 120, 1200});
      operationPerf.getStages().put(MeterInvocationConst.STAGE_TOTAL, perfTotal);
      operationPerf.getStages().put(MeterInvocationConst.STAGE_EXECUTOR_QUEUE, perfTotal);
      operationPerf.getStages().put(MeterInvocationConst.STAGE_EXECUTION, perfTotal);
      operationPerf.getStages().put(MeterInvocationConst.STAGE_PREPARE, perfTotal);
      operationPerf.getStages().put(MeterInvocationConst.STAGE_HANDLERS_REQUEST, perfTotal);
      operationPerf.getStages().put(MeterInvocationConst.STAGE_HANDLERS_RESPONSE, perfTotal);
      operationPerf.getStages().put(MeterInvocationConst.STAGE_CLIENT_FILTERS_REQUEST, perfTotal);
      operationPerf.getStages().put(MeterInvocationConst.STAGE_CLIENT_FILTERS_RESPONSE, perfTotal);
      operationPerf.getStages().put(MeterInvocationConst.STAGE_CONSUMER_SEND_REQUEST, perfTotal);
      operationPerf.getStages().put(MeterInvocationConst.STAGE_PRODUCER_SEND_RESPONSE, perfTotal);
      operationPerf.getStages().put(MeterInvocationConst.STAGE_CONSUMER_GET_CONNECTION, perfTotal);
      operationPerf.getStages().put(MeterInvocationConst.STAGE_CONSUMER_WRITE_TO_BUF, perfTotal);
      operationPerf.getStages().put(MeterInvocationConst.STAGE_CONSUMER_WAIT_RESPONSE, perfTotal);
      operationPerf.getStages().put(MeterInvocationConst.STAGE_CONSUMER_WAKE_CONSUMER, perfTotal);
      operationPerf.getStages().put(MeterInvocationConst.STAGE_SERVER_FILTERS_REQUEST, perfTotal);
      operationPerf.getStages().put(MeterInvocationConst.STAGE_SERVER_FILTERS_RESPONSE, perfTotal);

      OperationPerfGroup operationPerfGroup = new OperationPerfGroup(Const.RESTFUL, Status.OK.name());
      operationPerfGroup.addOperationPerf(operationPerf);

      OperationPerfGroups operationPerfGroups = new OperationPerfGroups();
      operationPerfGroups.getGroups().put(operationPerfGroup.getTransport(),
          Collections.singletonMap(operationPerfGroup.getStatus(), operationPerfGroup));
      model.getConsumer().setOperationPerfGroups(operationPerfGroups);
      model.getProducer().setOperationPerfGroups(operationPerfGroups);
      model.getEdge().setOperationPerfGroups(operationPerfGroups);

      model.getThreadPools().put("test", new ThreadPoolPublishModel());
      Measurement measurement = new Measurement(null, 0L, 1.0);

      MeasurementNode measurementNodeCpuAll = new MeasurementNode("allProcess", new HashMap<>());
      MeasurementNode measurementNodeCpuProcess = new MeasurementNode("currentProcess", new HashMap<>());
      MeasurementNode measurementNodeSend = new MeasurementNode("send", new HashMap<>());
      MeasurementNode measurementNodeSendPacket = new MeasurementNode("sendPackets", new HashMap<>());
      MeasurementNode measurementNodeRecv = new MeasurementNode("receive", new HashMap<>());
      MeasurementNode measurementNodeRecvPacket = new MeasurementNode("receivePackets", new HashMap<>());
      MeasurementNode measurementNodeEth0 = new MeasurementNode("eth0", new HashMap<>());
      MeasurementNode measurementNodeNet = new MeasurementNode("net", new HashMap<>());
      MeasurementNode measurementNodeOs = new MeasurementNode("os", new HashMap<>());

      measurementNodeSend.getMeasurements().add(measurement);
      measurementNodeRecv.getMeasurements().add(measurement);
      measurementNodeCpuAll.getMeasurements().add(measurement);
      measurementNodeCpuProcess.getMeasurements().add(measurement);
      measurementNodeRecvPacket.getMeasurements().add(measurement);
      measurementNodeSendPacket.getMeasurements().add(measurement);

      measurementNodeEth0.getChildren().put("send", measurementNodeSend);
      measurementNodeEth0.getChildren().put("receive", measurementNodeRecv);
      measurementNodeEth0.getChildren().put("receivePackets", measurementNodeRecvPacket);
      measurementNodeEth0.getChildren().put("sendPackets", measurementNodeSendPacket);

      measurementNodeNet.getChildren().put("eth0", measurementNodeEth0);
      measurementNodeOs.getChildren().put("cpu", measurementNodeCpuAll);
      measurementNodeOs.getChildren().put("processCpu", measurementNodeCpuProcess);
      measurementNodeOs.getChildren().put("net", measurementNodeNet);

      measurementNodeOs.getMeasurements().add(measurement);
      measurementNodeNet.getMeasurements().add(measurement);
      measurementNodeEth0.getMeasurements().add(measurement);

      new MockUp<PublishModelFactory>() {
        @Mock
        DefaultPublishModel createDefaultPublishModel() {
          return model;
        }

        @Mock
        MeasurementTree getTree() {
          return tree;
        }
      };
      new Expectations() {
        {
          tree.findChild(OsMeter.OS_NAME);
          result = measurementNodeOs;
        }
      };
      publisher.onPolledEvent(new PolledEvent(Collections.emptyList(), Collections.emptyList()));
      List<LoggingEvent> events = collector.getEvents().stream()
          .filter(e -> DefaultLogPublisher.class.getName().equals(e.getLoggerName())).collect(Collectors.toList());
      LoggingEvent event = events.get(0);
      Assert.assertEquals("\n"
              + "os:\n"
              + "  cpu:\n"
              + "    all usage: 100.00%    all idle: 0.00%    process: 100.00%\n"
              + "  net:\n"
              + "    send(Bps)    recv(Bps)    send(pps)    recv(pps)    interface\n"
              + "    1            1            1            1            eth0\n"
              + "vertx:\n"
              + "  instances:\n"
              + "    name       eventLoopContext-created\n"
              + "    v          0\n"
              + "threadPool:\n"
              + "  coreSize maxThreads poolSize currentBusy rejected queueSize taskCount taskFinished name\n"
              + "  0        0          0        0           NaN      0         0.0       0.0          test\n"
              + "consumer:\n"
              + " simple:\n"
              + "  status      tps      latency            [0,1)  [1,100) [100,) operation\n"
              + "  rest.OK     100000.0 3000.000/30000.000 12     120     1200   op\n"
              + "              100000.0 3000.000/30000.000 12     120     1200   (summary)\n"
              + " details:\n"
              + "    rest.OK:\n"
              + "      op:\n"
              + "        prepare     : 3000.000/30000.000 handlersReq : 3000.000/30000.000 cFiltersReq: 3000.000/30000.000 sendReq     : 3000.000/30000.000\n"
              + "        getConnect  : 3000.000/30000.000 writeBuf    : 3000.000/30000.000 waitResp   : 3000.000/30000.000 wakeConsumer: 3000.000/30000.000\n"
              + "        cFiltersResp: 3000.000/30000.000 handlersResp: 3000.000/30000.000\n"
              + "producer:\n"
              + " simple:\n"
              + "  status      tps      latency            [0,1)  [1,100) [100,) operation\n"
              + "  rest.OK     100000.0 3000.000/30000.000 12     120     1200   op\n"
              + "              100000.0 3000.000/30000.000 12     120     1200   (summary)\n"
              + " details:\n"
              + "    rest.OK:\n"
              + "      op:\n"
              + "        prepare: 3000.000/30000.000 queue       : 3000.000/30000.000 filtersReq : 3000.000/30000.000 handlersReq: 3000.000/30000.000\n"
              + "        execute: 3000.000/30000.000 handlersResp: 3000.000/30000.000 filtersResp: 3000.000/30000.000 sendResp   : 3000.000/30000.000\n"
              + "edge:\n"
              + " simple:\n"
              + "  status      tps      latency            [0,1)  [1,100) [100,) operation\n"
              + "  rest.OK     100000.0 3000.000/30000.000 12     120     1200   op\n"
              + "              100000.0 3000.000/30000.000 12     120     1200   (summary)\n"
              + " details:\n"
              + "    rest.OK:\n"
              + "      op:\n"
              + "        prepare     : 3000.000/30000.000 queue       : 3000.000/30000.000 sFiltersReq : 3000.000/30000.000 handlersReq : 3000.000/30000.000\n"
              + "        cFiltersReq : 3000.000/30000.000 sendReq     : 3000.000/30000.000 getConnect  : 3000.000/30000.000 writeBuf    : 3000.000/30000.000\n"
              + "        waitResp    : 3000.000/30000.000 wakeConsumer: 3000.000/30000.000 cFiltersResp: 3000.000/30000.000 handlersResp: 3000.000/30000.000\n"
              + "        sFiltersResp: 3000.000/30000.000 sendResp    : 3000.000/30000.000\n",
          event.getMessage());
    } catch (Exception e) {
      e.printStackTrace();
      Assert.fail("unexpected error happen. " + e.getMessage());
    }
  }
}

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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.ComponentModel;

namespace TreeViewDemo.CheckBoxDemo
{
    class FooViewModel:INotifyPropertyChanged
    {
        #region Data

        bool? _isChecked = false;
        FooViewModel _parent;

        #endregion // Data

        #region CreateFoos

        public static List<FooViewModel> CreateFoos()
        {
            FooViewModel root = new FooViewModel("Weapons")
            {
                IsInitiallySelected = true,
                Children =
                {
                    new FooViewModel("Blades")
                    {
                        Children =
                        {
                            new FooViewModel("Dagger"),
                            new FooViewModel("Machete"),
                            new FooViewModel("Sword"),
                        }
                    },
                    new FooViewModel("Vehicles")
                    {
                        Children =
                        {
                            new FooViewModel("Apache Helicopter"),
                            new FooViewModel("Submarine"),
                            new FooViewModel("Tank"),
                        }
                    },
                    new FooViewModel("Guns")
                    {
                        Children =
                        {
                            new FooViewModel("AK 47"),
                            new FooViewModel("Beretta"),
                            new FooViewModel("Uzi"),
                        }
                    },
                }
            };

            root.Initialize();
            return new List<FooViewModel> { root };
        }

        FooViewModel(string name)
        {
            this.Name = name;
            this.Children = new List<FooViewModel>();
        }

        void Initialize()
        {
            foreach (FooViewModel child in this.Children)
            {
                child._parent = this;
                child.Initialize();
            }
        }

        #endregion // CreateFoos

        #region Properties

        public List<FooViewModel> Children { get; private set; }

        public bool IsInitiallySelected { get; private set; }

        public string Name { get; private set; }

        #region IsChecked

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets/sets the state of the associated UI toggle (ex. CheckBox).
        /// The return value is calculated based on the check state of all
        /// child FooViewModels.  Setting this property to true or false
        /// will set all children to the same check state, and setting it
        /// to any value will cause the parent to verify its check state.
        /// </summary>
        public bool? IsChecked
        {
            get { return _isChecked; }
            set { this.SetIsChecked(value, true, true); }
        }

        void SetIsChecked(bool? value, bool updateChildren, bool updateParent)
        {
            if (value == _isChecked)
                return;

            _isChecked = value;

            if (updateChildren && _isChecked.HasValue)
                this.Children.ForEach(c => c.SetIsChecked(_isChecked, true, false));

            if (updateParent && _parent != null)
                _parent.VerifyCheckState();

            this.OnPropertyChanged("IsChecked");
        }

        void VerifyCheckState()
        {
            bool? state = null;
            for (int i = 0; i < this.Children.Count; ++i)
            {
                bool? current = this.Children[i].IsChecked;
                if (i == 0)
                {
                    state = current;
                }
                else if (state != current)
                {
                    state = null;
                    break;
                }
            }
            this.SetIsChecked(state, false, true);
        }

        #endregion // IsChecked

        #endregion // Properties

        #region INotifyPropertyChanged Members

        void OnPropertyChanged(string prop)
        {
            if (this.PropertyChanged != null)
                this.PropertyChanged(this, new PropertyChangedEventArgs(prop));
        }

        public event PropertyChangedEventHandler PropertyChanged;

        #endregion
    }
}


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I so envy you :( Us copywriters hardly find free time, even during the weekends. Have a blast at your weekend.
eh how come only one left for RM??
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U still dropping or what? Wat time zzz?
Wow, so fast everyone chop hehehe, Burger Shop 2 bila nak siap?
abt 20 more to go!! :-D not so soon haha!
LOL Sandman just a nick I like to call him Mon, Sandman is Kima… wooot!
lolz. My name is not Sandman and my parents did not christen me with that name. lolz. Its a long story, Mon, and yes, Marzzzz is always welcome to call me Sandman. G'nite you two.
LOL!!! LJ slept for 2 hours only, sure now catching up on her zzzzz….
Yay 20 left only…woo hoo!
aiyoooo slept for 2 hours only!
she needs her beauty sleep!!
U oso machine Bem, how many u drop nowadays??
Sleeping the whole day it seems LJ, wakey wakey!
i think we're the only ppl in the world, kenot zzz if don drop 900/300!
have an enjoyable weekend, dear!!
This burger shop thing really sound awesome GP.. i dl already but have not started playing. what if i get addicted.. how to work..lol!!
Happy Weekend!! so fast the time goes off lah!
Quietly-2 dropping 400 ec a day it seems Bem lol!
Hahahahhaha who else here cannot sleep if haven't dropped full 300 ec??? Come join us! Hahahaah!
Terer menerer la Bem Bem!
U were asleep LJ..me and Mon tried to wakey u here he he he!
Happy weekend to u too sweetie, don work too hard now!
Wow sounds so nice, some more green!
Dats why la I can imagine so nice!


During my trip to Buffalo last week I had the pleasure of spending an afternoon with this darling young man. Baby "B" is one of the happiest children I have ever met. He was a total flirt and spent the entire time smiling at us (or napping). Here are some of my favorite shots from the day. Enjoy!
Look at these beautiful eyes!
How will his parents ever say no to this face?


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9th Cir. Holds Violation of Facial Recognition Law Sufficient for Standing, Upholds Class Cert.
Published August 19, 2019 by Maurice Wutscher LLP
Home » Data Privacy and Security » 9th Cir. Holds Violation of Facial Recognition Law Sufficient for Standing, Upholds Class Cert.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit recently held that class plaintiffs alleged a concrete and particularized harm sufficient to confer Article III standing where the defendant company's alleged collection, use, and storage of the plaintiffs' biometric information was the substantive harm targeted by the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), which statute protects the plaintiffs' concrete privacy interests.
The Ninth Circuit further held that the district court did not abuse its discretion in certifying the class.
Accordingly, the Ninth Circuit affirmed the district court orders certifying the class, and denying the defendant's motion to dismiss.
A copy of the opinion in Patel v. Facebook, Inc. is available at: Link to Opinion.
Facebook, Inc. operates one of the largest social media platforms in the world, with over one billion active users. When a new user registers for a Facebook account, they must create a profile and agree to Facebook's terms and conditions, which permit Facebook to collect and use data in accordance with Facebook's policies.
In 2010, Facebook launched a feature called Tag Suggestions. When Tag Suggestions is enabled, Facebook may use facial-recognition technology to analyze whether the user's Facebook friends are in photos uploaded by that user.
Facebook users living in Illinois brought a class action in a federal district court in California against Facebook claiming that Facebook's facial-recognition technology violates Illinois law. Specifically, the plaintiffs alleged that Facebook violated BIPA by collecting, using, and storing biometric identifiers from their photos without obtaining a written release and without establishing a compliant retention schedule.
Under BIPA, "[a]ny person aggrieved" by a violation of its provisions "shall have a right of action" against an "offending party."
Facebook moved to dismiss the complaint for lack of Article III standing on the ground that the plaintiffs had not alleged any concrete injury. While the motion to dismiss was pending, the plaintiffs moved to certify a class under Rule 23.
The district court denied Facebook's motion to dismiss, and certified a Rule 23(b)(3) class of "Facebook users located in Illinois for whom Facebook created and stored a face template after June 7, 2011." The matter was then appealed.
On appeal, the Ninth Circuit addressed the issue of Article III standing, noting that to establish standing a plaintiff "must have suffered an 'injury in fact' – an invasion of a legally protected interest which is (a) concrete and particularized; and (b) actual or imminent, not conjectural or hypothetical."
A concrete injury need not be tangible, but in determining whether an intangible injury is concrete, courts consider both history and legislative intent.
In determining whether the violation of a statute causes a concrete injury, the Ninth Circuit has adopted a two-step approach: "(1) whether the statutory provisions at issue were established to protect [the plaintiff's] concrete interests (as opposed to purely procedural rights), and if so (2) whether the specific procedural violations alleged in the case actually harm, or present a material risk of harm to, such interests."
In considering the first factor, the Ninth Circuit noted that "[p]rivacy rights have long been regarded as providing a basis for a lawsuit in English or American courts." Moreover, in recent Fourth Amendment jurisprudence, "the Supreme Court has recognized the potential for unreasonable intrusions into personal privacy" related to enhanced technology.
In light of this background, the Ninth Circuit "conclude[d] that an invasion of an individual's biometric privacy rights has a close relationship to a harm that has traditionally been regarded as providing a basis for a lawsuit in English or American courts."
Moreover, "[t]he judgment of the Illinois General Assembly, which is 'instructive and important' to our standing inquiry, . . . supports the conclusion that the capture and use of a person's biometric information invades concrete interests."
The Ninth Circuit therefore concluded that "the statutory provisions at issue" in BIPA were established to protect an individual's "concrete interests" in privacy, not merely procedural rights.
The Court next turned to whether the specific procedural violations alleged actually harmed, or present a material risk of harm to, such interests.
In concluding that they did, the Ninth Circuit noted that the plaintiffs alleged that a violation of the BIPA requirements allowed Facebook to create and use a face template and retain that template for all time. Thus, "[b]ecause the privacy right protected by BIPA is the right not to be subject to the collection and use of such biometric data, Facebook's alleged violation of these statutory requirements would necessarily violate the plaintiffs' substantive privacy interests."
Accordingly, the Ninth Circuit held that "plaintiffs' have alleged a concrete injury-in-fact sufficient to confer Article III standing."
The Court next turned to Facebook's argument that the district court abused its discretion by certifying the class. Specifically, Facebook argued that class certification was not compatible with Rule 23(b)(3), which requires that "questions of law or fact common to class members predominate over any question affecting only individual members." Facebook further argued that the Illinois extraterritoriality doctrine precludes the district court from finding predominance.
The Ninth Circuit disagreed, determining that the "threshold questions of BIPA's applicability can be decided on a class-wide basis," by deciding if the violation of BIPA occurred when plaintiffs used Facebook in Illinois, or if they occurred when Facebook's servers created a face template.
Facebook additionally argued that the district court abused its discretion by certifying a class because a class action is not superior to individual actions, because the possibility of a large, class-wide statutory damages award defeats superiority.
The Ninth Circuit rejected this argument, ruling that "nothing in the text or legislative history of BIPA indicates that a large statutory damages award would be contrary to the intent of the General Assembly."
Thus, the Ninth Circuit held that "the district court did not abuse its discretion in determining that a class action is superior to individual actions in this case."
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Home > Pensions > Public Sector Workers to Pay More Into Their Pensions
By: Kevin Dowling BA (IMC) - Updated: 13 Oct 2012 | *Discuss
Recent austerity measures announced by the coalition Government could mean millions of public sector workers being asked to pay more into their pensions, or being forced into retiring later, as the Government looks to drastically reduce the costs associated with maintaining public sector pension schemes.
It is believed that in some cases, workers will be expected to double the monthly contributions they pay into their pensions, a move that is expected to cause widespread anger amongst public sector workers and could also see them unable to pay or refusing to participate in pension schemes.
The proposals will also see the retirement age at which people qualify for their public sector pension increase to 65.
The proposals were announced by Lord Hutton, who was commissioned by Chancellor George Osborne and tasked with finding a solution to what was called an 'unsustainable' rise in the annual bill for public sector pension schemes.
There is currently a significant gap between the amount of money being paid into these schemes, and the amount of money required for pension payouts. This gap is expected to double to £9 billion before 2015, according to research from the Office for Budget Responsibility.
In his review, Lord Hutton pointed out that the Government was committed to making short-term savings to help reduce the massive budget deficit. It is believed that if the Government can shave just 1% from the pension payments of public sector workers then they will be able to save £1bn.
Hutton believes that the most effective way to make these savings will be to ask public sector workers to increase their existing levels of contribution, rather than lowering the level of public sector pensions paid out.
What is the Public Sector?
The public sector is the name given to the broad variety of good or different services that are provided by the state, for example the police, education, healthcare, the military and other public services. In these roles, the government is the employer and they are responsible for paying salaries and, of course, pensions.
It is believed that the number of former public sector workers who are now drawing their pensions has increased dramatically over the years, with a rise from 2.5 million pensioners to 3.3 million in the last decade alone.
Longevity is another important factor when it comes to funding pensions. People are living longer, and whereas retirement used to be considered the 'twilight years' many of us can expect to live two fifths of our adult lives in retirement.
Because of these factors, Lord Hutton also announced that his public sector pension reforms will look to ensure that the ages at which public sector workers are able to retire will be "in line with latest developments in longevity".
So Who Will Be Affected Most?
Most public sector employers currently pay an average of 18 percent of their salary into their public sector pension schemes. This is almost twice as much as the typical amount paid into final salary schemes within the private sector.
Lord Hutton's report suggests that the Government will look to means test their reform proposals. This should mean that higher paid workers, for example NHS executives and managers will be expected to pay the highest proportion of additional contributions towards their pensions.
Good news for the armed forces, however: the report suggests that there are no plans to introduce pension contributions into armed forces pension schemes. Currently members are not expected to pay contributions.


All Other Information: Dr. Parker was the physician present at the birth. (Update) Alberta Rose Giffels was my mother, so I am looking for the birth grandparents and that family. I do not know how old the birth mother or birth father was, nor do I know the color of their hair or eyes or their heights. Alberta had blue eyes and brown hair. she was about 5'6" tall. She is deceased (died 11-18-1996 at age 82).
County adoption took place: Latah County ?
All Other Information: My father was told he was adopted in Viola, Idaho. When my mother expressed an interest in finding his birth parents, she was told the records were destroyed in a fire. I have a picture of my father as a toddler riding a rocking horse. The woman known as "Annie" with him in the picture bears a striking resemblance to my father. My father has a brother, Dale Palmer, born to Mary and Claude in 1936.
All Other Information: Patrick Guy Henry is my father. I am looking for any information on his birth family. The original adoptee mother died when he was 3-5 years of age. His adoptive father, Bert A Henry remarried Lorena Stanford / Henry.
Searching For: History of Mothers Family.
City adoption took place: ?, ID ?
State adoption took place: Idaho ?
All Other Information: This is my mothers information and we have looked for her birth parents a couple of times. She passed away when we were young to cancer. My grandma did not tell us much about how the adoption took place other than to tell us the hospital had burned down and records did not exhist. We have found that this is not true as we did get a birth certificate from St. Valentines hospital. no birth parents were listed but her name, birth date, and footprints were there. Our father also passed away about 9 years ago so we are a family of 4 kids that would like to know our past relitives and very much need to know about past Ilnesses. there is already one case of MS and some back surgerys needed between us. My sister was stopped years ago from searching due to Idaho's supposedly having a sealed adoption law.
Adoptee Birth State: Idaho ?
All Other Information: Desperately need medical info on hereditary diseases. Neurofibromatosis and Subcorneal Pustular Dermatosis. Do I have siblings ? Any info greatly appreciated.
City adoption took place: Sandpoint, ID or Albany, OR ?
County adoption took place: Donner County or Linn County ?
State adoption took place: Idaho or Oregon ?
All Other Information: (Update) No information on birth parents nor any adoption information. My height as a young woman was 5'6" tall, shorter now due to age. Grey / Green eyes, black hair, of course gray hair now. I was born in Sandpoint, Idaho but moved to Albany, Oregon when I was 3 months old with Marge and Robert Collier. So I have no real information outside of a birth certificate from Idaho and Marge Collier telling me when I was about 10 or 11 years old that I was adopted. No answers just that statement. Currently I have no health problems, but if there were some medical issues in birth family it would be nice for my children and grandchildren to have that information.
Searching For: Birth Parents, Birth Siblings, Medical History, Genealogy Records.
All Other Information: I now live in England, so email contact please. (Update) I am 6' tall, I have hazel eyes and brown hair, now white. I have no info on my birth parents or birth family.
Adoptee Birth Race: Native American ?
Adoptee Birth Mothers Race: Native American ?
Adoptee Birth Date: 6-10-1950 to 1-31-1952 ?
Adoptee Birth State: N. Idaho or E. Washington or Western Montana ?
Adoptee Birth Fathers Name: ? - maybe Robert E. Cohenour ?
All Other Information: My mother was previously married to a Robert E. Cohenour on 6-10-1950 in Kootenai, ID--right after graduating high school in Libby, MT. No public documents available for divorce. My Mom then married my birth father R. Bruce McDaniel on 5-31-1952 in Redmond, OR. The story goes...my Mom gave a baby girl up for adoption in Spokane, WA before moving to Redmond, Oregon and meeting my birth father. They met and married within 3 months. I have contacted all living relatives, looked through all documents / letters / photo albums with no luck. My mom passed on 4-1-2016 and this is when we learned that we may potentially have a half birth sister. We want our birth sister to know that she has birth family that wants to connect with her. We do not want to interrupt her life, only add 'positives' to it!. (Update) Birth mother was 18 or 19 years old at time of birth. 5'8" tall, with hazel / brown eyes and brown or auburn hair. Birth father was 23 or 24 years old. I am 5'8" tall, with light brown eyes and brown hair.
All Other Information: Birth mother may be from Oregon. Birth mother was young. (Update) Birth mother's age unknown - only states she is young, she had blue eyes and light brown hair, short, athletic. Birth father was very tall (over 6' tall), blue eyes and blond hair, a little older. I am 5'2" tall, I have very blue eyes and light brown hair.
Adoptee Birth County: Blaine County or Twin Falls County ?
All Other Information: My birth sister Jeanne Marie Elaine McDonald born 12/11/1954 in Portland, OR. lives with me.
Age of Adoptee when Adopted: Given up at birth or 2 or 3 days old ?
All Other Information: Doctor was V. V. Telford. (Update) I am 6'2" tall, with blue eyes and sandy hair.
Adoptee Birth Date: 6-25-1953 to 6-25-1955 ?
All Other Information: I am doing this search in my father's behalf. He was adopted, never knew anything about his birth family except a few tidbits and died when I was 10. I am very interested in any informtion I can find on my family. (Update) Larry had blond hair, blues eyes (I think) - but later in life that changed so maybe not. I have no idea about his height nor about birth parent statistics. He celebrated his birthday (I think) on 6-25-?. Again, it is my father, but he died when I was very young and I have very little information about him to go on. Just the city that was on his birth certificate and his birth parents ethnic backgrounds. Anyone that could fill in the blanks for me seems to be gone now, so I'm doing this on my own with the info that I have.
Searching For: Any Names of Birth Family, Medical History.
All Other Information: Birth mother was age 23 years old and lived at the convent or hospital and worked in the hospital during her pregnancy. She was a secretary from somewhere in the Midwest and the birth father was her boss. Adoptive parents resided in Lewiston but had just moved to Spokane when I was born. They went back to Lewiston to get me three days after birth. The attorney and papers were signed and finalized in Spokane.
Searching For: Birth Parents, Half Birth Brother, Medical History.
All Other Information: MY birth mother was approx. 18 years old and had with her my 1-1/2 year old half brother named Joey. Birth mother lived with my adopted parents last few months of her pregnancy. I have pictures of my half brother from that time. My birth father came to visit my birth mother one time. I would just like to let them know I am here and would like to find them and have no expectation of them.
Age of Adoptee when Adopted: Within days of birth ?
All Other Information: Delivered by Dr. Arch T Weigel, who arranged a private adoption through Pocatello Attorney Mark Clark. Female born in Pocatello, Idaho in Bannock County at around 7:00 a.m. on 6-5-1956 seeking Genealogical information and birth family. Attorney records were later destoyed in a fire at law firm office. Through autosomnal DNA have identified two 2nd-3rd cousins through ancestor Edwin Wiley Speas. Belong to halogroup H.
All Other Information: Adoption arrangements were made by Dr. Ivan Anderson. Apparently my birth mother was married with children, had an affair, got pregnant, and gave me up. I just want her to know that I had wonderful parents and a great childhood. I am curious about my siblings. and I would like some medical history info.
All Other Information: Physician was Gus Larson. Birth mother was previously married, had 3 sons prior to my birth, she was not from Idaho, went to Boise, ID to give birth and place for adoption.
Adoptee Birth Hospital: St. Lukes Hospital or St. Alphonsus Hospital Boise, ID.
All Other Information: (Update) Birth mother was 5'5" tall, 16 or 17 years old at birth. She had green eyes and dark brown hair. Birth father was 16 years old. He had brown eyes and black hair. Reportedly tall and thin.
Searching For: Birth Mother, Birth Father, Birth Brothers, Birth Sisters, Birth Aunts, Birth Uncles, Birth Cousins, Medical History.
All Other Information: Hi, I'm gonna take a shot at this and try to find any of my mother's (Paula) family members. I do know that her birth mother was very young when she gave her up for adoption. I only know my fathers family, and It sure would be nice to get to know my mother's as well, need to know where I come from. I do live in Nevada (On the Idaho / Nevada border) and visit Boise often. Thank you 4 your time.
Adoptee Birth Date: ?-?-1959 ?
All Other Information: I was given up for adoption when I was aprox 2 weeks old- I have recently had a grandson born with Apert syndrome & would like to have some medical information- I also just wonder who I am ! I tried to find my birth mother aprox 6 years ago & had no luck, even after paying 1-800 US Search! I also have written a letter which is sitting in my file @ Booths waiting for her to possibly send one also.
All Other Information: I am looking for my step mothers birth parents. She is in need of medical information as my step sister has been diagnosed with a seizure disorder and other health problems. Her adoptive mother stated Birth Mother (Alice Thomas) arrived at Elmore Memorial Hospital to give birth. Stated that she couldn't afford another child, as she had 6 or more other children at home. Mrs. Thomas supposedly told the nurse (adoptive mother) that she could adopt the baby in exchange for a winter coat. She stated that she was just "passing through" which may mean that her husband was in the military considering Mountain Home Airforce Base is located there. The hospital has stated that they do not have any records of the birth. No other information known.


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· Posted on Mar 24, 2015
This Mind-Blowing Theory Will Change The Way You Read Garfield Forever
There's evidence that suggests Garfield died more than 30 years ago. Is creator Jim Davis hiding something?
by Bob Marshall
This June, everyone's favorite cartoon feline, Garfield, turns 37 years old.
Paws Inc. / Via Facebook: Garfield
While the general populace prepares for the worldwide celebration, something dawned on me. I've never met, let alone ever heard of, a cat who lived past 30. Is there something a bit more sinister happening at Paws, Inc. than means the eye?
Research shows that the oldest cat to ever live, Creme Puff, only lived to 38 years old, which is the equivalent of 169 in cat years.
Guinness World Records / Via guinnessworldrecords.com
Poppy (Pictured: Center) is currently believed to be the world's oldest living cat at 24 years of age. Which begs the question: Where's Garfield?
My theory: Garfield is likely already dead!
Paws, Inc. / Via Facebook: Garfield
Don't believe me yet? Let's look at the evidence...
March 15th, 1980 a.k.a The Smoking Gun
Paws, Inc / Via Garfield.com
Garfield's less than two years old when this strip appears. While the cause of death is unclear (complications due to morbid obesity and/or poisoning via Nermal's kiss are both likely), the result couldn't be clearer: Garfield deflates, his organs all collapse simultaneously, and he dies.
It starts to add up...
Paws, Inc. / BuzzFeed / Via Garfield.com
Above we seen a botched burial attempt by Garfield's owner, Jon Arbuckle, about three years after Garfield's death by deflation.
Over time, Jon becomes increasingly frustrated.
After the botched burial attempt, what other option does Jon have than to keep Garfield around?
Odie's saliva preserves Garfield's body.
Garfield's fresh torso's lack of deterioration may trick the readers into thinking that he's still alive. However, notice how Garfield remains motionless from panel to panel? What living cat would have that reaction to a dog? It just doesn't make sense.
How do you explain this?
Paws, Inc / BuzzFeed / Via Garfield.com
This comic strip ran 12 years after the one before it! And Garfield still hasn't moved!
Remember this classic strip?
Initially thought of as creator Jim Davis' commentary on the resurgence of dadaism in the early 1990s, it actually starts to make a lot more sense if you look at it from the angle of Garfield being dead, doesn't it?
What are you hiding, Jim Davis?
Vince Bucci / Getty Images
Here's one theory...
*mind blown*
Vince Bucci / Getty Images/ BuzzFeed


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Andalusisk arabiska, var en variant eller dialekt av arabiska som talades i Al-Andalus, den del av Iberiska halvön som kontrollerades av muslimer, från ungefär 800-talet till 1600-talet. Efter reconquista, förföljelserna och senare fördrivningen av moriskerna på 1600-talet försvagades språket kraftigt. Språket fortsatte i vis grad att leva kvar i Nordafrika och Maghreb, men talarna av den andalusiska arabiskan assimilerades till slut in i den maghrebiska språkgemenskapen och därmed dog språket ut fullständigt.

Uppkomst och historia
Den andalusiska varianten av arabiska uppstod som en konsekvens av den muslimska erövringen av den iberiska halvön år 711, ungefär ett århundrade efter profeten Muhammeds död. Bland de som erövrade halvön så talade enbart en liten del arabiska, medan en majoritet tillhörde någon av de olika berber-folken och som talade lite eller ingen arabiska alls.

Efter erövringen spred sig den andalusiska arabiskan snabbt över halvön och verkar ha talats i de flesta delarna av al-Andalus fram till 1400-talet. Antalet talare beräknas enligt vissa källor ha uppnått runt 5-7 miljoner runt 1000-, och 1100-talet. I och med reconquista föll antalet talare först långsamt och sedan snabbare, i takt med att kristna arméer erövrade halvön och tvingade bort muslimerna.

Jämfört med andra arabiska varianter så utmärkte sig den andalusiska arabiskan genom den litteratur som producerades på språket, inte minst i zajal-poesi, samt genom olika ordspråk och aforismer.

Referenser

Arabiska
Språk i Spanien
Utdöda språk
Språk i Marocko
Språk i Algeriet
Språk i Tunisien

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Economic Education
Politics in the Classroom
I've followed a number of discussions on Facebook and elsewhere on the Internet about the desirability, or lack thereof, of professors discussing politics on the classroom. My impression, although I didn't literally count, is that virtually every professor who is somewhat libertarian and who has discussed the issue thinks it's a bad idea to do so.
My view is different. I think that, done right, discussing politics in the classroom is another way to extend the learning process that professors are trying to achieve.
I'll say first how my view is similar to the views of those who think discussing politics is a bad idea. The examples they point to are typically examples of a professor lording it over the students and telling them what they should think about an issue and, often, even worse, telling them not to think about the issue but simply to agree with the professor's bottom line. That's horrible in so many ways and I trust that readers of EconLog don't need to be persuaded of that.
Even worse, of course, is rewarding students for agreeing with the professor and giving extra credit for showing up at rallies and taking one side, the professor's side, of course, of the issue.
But notice that that's not really discussion. What I defend is discussion. When you have discussion, there's a temptation to tell the students your own views. Most professors I talk to say that they resist that temptation. I used to, but I don't any more.
When I started out teaching in 1975, my view was that one should come across as objective and leave the students guessing about what side of the issue I'm on. That's, I think, how many assistant professors start out.
There's one major problem with this: I don't have a poker face. I find it very hard to discuss an issue that I'm passionate about—say, the minimum wage or rent controls or the draft—and not show my passion. So I did a poor job of hiding my views. Still, I tried for years to hold to the approach I had started with—don't indicate my views.
Then, in about 1987, when I had been at the Naval Postgraduate School for about 3 years, I got Potomac fever. I persuaded my wife to consider moving back to D.C. and I interviewed for a couple of jobs in D.C. While all this was going on, I taught what I thought might be the last economics course I ever taught. So I decided to try what I always wanted to try—applying the tools more than otherwise to economic policy issues and, if asked, explicitly stating my views.
In the first class of my microeconomics course, after laying out the standard highlights of the syllabus and telling them, subtly, that this would not be an easy A or even an easy A-, I said something like the following:
Because this is a course in microeconomics, one of the ways I make it interesting and relevant is by applying the micro tools to policy issues. I have definite views on virtually all the policy issues I'm applying them to. In the past I tried to hide my views. I didn't usually succeed. If after this class is over, you invite me to a poker game, I will say no because I will lose. I don't have a poker face. So you'll probably figure out my views anyway but might wonder why I tried to hide them. I've been wondering about that too. It would be weird for someone who has studied and/or taught economics for over 15 years not to have views on the issues he has studied. So let me state my overall philosophy upfront. I am a small "l" libertarian. I believe that people should have a huge amount of freedom in their lives. Now, you might wonder to yourself how I'll treat you if, as is likely, you're not a libertarian. Will I hold it against you if you don't agree with me? No, I won't. But how can I make that commitment credible to you? Only by what I actually do in grading and in feedback in class. But here's one thing I can say to comfort you a little. Because I'm in a political minority, I'm used to being disagreed with almost all the time. So I can handle it. If I lashed out at people who disagreed with me, I would be lashing out all the time. I don't.
That was the first really successful class I taught at NPS, in the sense that I taught the students a lot about how to apply economics to the world. And I was blown away by my ratings in the student opinion forms (SOFs) that I got to see after the grades were in. I got high ratings on most categories, which was not unusual. What was unusual was the written comments. Numerous students said that it was so refreshing to see a professor admit that he had views. They said that they felt that professors were not being straight with them when they acted as if they didn't.
I had not expected that.
It turns out, of course, that I didn't take a D.C. job. The one firm offer that came through was for a salary below what I was making in academia on a 12-month basis. There were also unexpected conditions attached. And, to top it off, it came in an early day in February when there was a huge snowstorm in D.C. and I had taken my daughter to the beach in Pacific Grove because the temperature had gone above 90 degrees. Someone was trying to tell me something.
From then on, I taught all my courses that way. And the students learned that they could disagree and that we could have good discussions of economic policy.
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Fred E Foldvary
Oct 5 2018 at 2:35pm
In microeconomics, when the effect of price controls are taught, is it inherently political to point out the shortages and surpluses and the loss of social surplus?
Good question. No, I don't think it is. What made it seem "political" when I pointed those things out is the passion with which I did so. My tone was the opposite of Ben Stein's in his Clear Eyes commercial or his Ferris Bueller segment. Implicit in my tone, with the content, was the message: this is bad.
David, Great post. I used to occasionally tell students my own view on an issue, but also try to present the opposing view in a fair way, i.e. citing the Card and Krueger study on minimum wages, etc.
Thanks, Scott.
Yes, after Card-Krueger came out, I altered how I taught the minimum wage but pointed out that there were some problems with their study. I also pointed out that the minimum wage increase they studied–in New Jersey–was relatively small and that proposals to increase the minimum wage a lot were virtually certain to put unskilled people out of work.
Oct 6 2018 at 3:31am
I don't think there's anything wrong with expressing one's own views in class and, in some cases in the social sciences, it may be almost inevitable that one gives it away. I can see it being better to be upfront and direct about it, as it's easier to be fair that way.
When I was an undergrad, in social science and humanities classes (generally not econ classes though), professors would surreptitiously infuse their politics into the class. They would take some unnecessary 'snipe' at someone or something (Walmart was a favorite target), or an ideology or policy position. It often took the form of, "aren't people who hold X view dumb/ignorant/evil?" And the view or ideology was often one held by 50, 60, or 70% of the general population, yet it either didn't occur to them or they didn't care that, even in a prestigious university, they're probably insulting someone in their class. I had one professor who actually asked something to the effect of, "does anyone here really doubt that basic premise of Marxism is correct?" As though it were self-evident, before a discussion.
This tendency to "poison the well" was frustratingly common among the (overwhelmingly left wing) professors I had. The professor is an authority figure who is responsible for your grade, so not many undergrads who might disagree will raise their hand and say, 'yeah, I'm one of those malicious idiots you just mentioned, and I'd like to defend that position.' Injecting politics into the classroom via (usually heavily biased) offhand interjections just throws cold water on the potential for open discussion and only helps turn the classroom into an echo chamber where only those who agree with the professor are comfortable discussing things.
In juxtaposition, I had one professor who taught a class on Marxism and was also very left wing, but, since he was also unusually respectful and also because the very purpose of the class was interrogation of the politically charged material, the class proved to be a great opportunity for open discussion of conflicting views. I think because the 'politics' of the class were so front and center, inviting challenge – as opposed to taking the form of an occasional gratuitous snipe at an opposing viewpoint – this class on a specific, very polarizing political ideology was actually more conducive to open and respectful debate than most of my putatively more apolitical classes.
Very thoughtful comments. Thanks, Mark Z.
As probably won't surprise you, I never took snipes, not only not at Wal-Mart, which I love, but even not at Ted Kennedy, whom I despised (except for his two huge contributions–on immigration in 1965 and on airline deregulation in 1978.)
The following wasn't a classroom situation exactly, but I followed the same rules for the event I was speaking at. While an assistant professor at Santa Clara University in 1981, I was invited to speak to a bunch of businessmen. Reagan had just been inaugurated and there was a lot of enthusiasm for him. I was laying out some free-market policy view (I've forgotten on what) and one of the people in the audience said words to the effect, "Well, of course, that's why we all voted for Reagan." It was clear from the context that he meant everyone in the room had voted for Reagan. There were about 40 people in the room and so my view was that the odds of his statement being correct were under 10%. I'm good at reading audiences and I looked around and noticed a couple of people looking uncomfortable. So I looked at them and smiled slightly, and then looked back at him, saying "What you mean we, kemo sabe?" The two people I had been looking at beamed with wide smiles. What I was doing was keeping them in the conversation so that they wouldn't feel alienated and left out.
That's a good (and, to me it would be at least, difficult) thing you did.
Of course, even if there were unanimity in the crowd, it may be useful (or fun?) to throw a wrench into the room's consensus. In the off chance one find oneself in, say, a room full of libertarians, what's to be gained from everyone agreeing with each other on free trade? I aspire to be the kind of person who would steer the discussion toward, say, monetary policy, or something else that may incite debate in such a group.
Oct 8 2018 at 12:49pm
It often took the form of, "aren't people who hold X view dumb/ignorant/evil?" And the view or ideology was often one held by 50, 60, or 70% of the general population, yet it either didn't occur to them or they didn't care that, even in a prestigious university, they're probably insulting someone in their class. I had one professor who actually asked something to the effect of, "does anyone here really doubt that basic premise of Marxism is correct?" As though it were self-evident, before a discussion.
I agree. This is one of the most infuriating thing about leftists in general, and it is not just a problem in university classrooms. It's virtually universal in left-leaning social circles – whether it's academia, or social media or private life. Right-wing people do it too, sometimes, but in those cases were mostly talking the intellectual bottom 30% – not academic elites. By contrast leftwing people up and down the ranks will simply make these declarative statements that their beliefs are self-evidently obvious and/or insult those who think differently, not caring who they offend. That may be because in the environments they live in, there often really is no social cost to doing so. Republicans are pretty much in the closet. That said, in environments dominated by Republicans they can be just as bad (try defending Black Lives Matter on a Republican dominated message board some time). It's just infuriating in elite spaces because you expect elites to be better than that.
I think it's a natural tendency for a lot of people (not all of course) of all persuasions to try to impose a political consensus in any 'space' where they even merely expect to be a majority, and no amount of education or even intelligence inoculates one against it. I often find myself in small meetings with the occasional academic (in an utterly apolitical field) who insists on making random partisan political remarks at every opportunity. It's very frustrating. People like to do chalk this kind of behavior up to virtue signalling, but I don't think that's even it. I think some people just get a sense of satisfaction out of it, and/or genuinely believe that 'those people' on the other side live really far away.
One of the most hauntingly incisive (and, morally speaking, loathsome) political scientists of the last century, Carl Schmitt (considered the most intellectually sophisticated defender of Nazism) argued that the essence of politics was the Friend-Enemy dichotomy. All policy questions are essentially subservient to the compulsion to divy people up into a grand, binary, adversarial narrative. I think this is sadly fairly accurate, though Schmitt embraced it (as do some Marxists who like to cite him approvingly; one of those wormholes in the political spectrum where far left and right converge) while I think it's a dangerous instinct.
Fred in PA
When I was teaching management (& marketing) to undergraduates, I faced similar issues. I decided, as you did to be honest about it. (And also reserved / discreet.) One thing I suspect helped preserved openness was the (truthful) message that I don't like suck-ups: That — while I would try very hard to be objective in their grading — they were at greater risk from that than they were from disagreeing with me.
I figured out a few decades ago that I was never quite able to figure out whether someone was a subtle suck-up or genuinely enthused. But what I did was tell them that if they made a bag argument for a correct bottom line, they would lose most of the credit.
David Seltzer
Good stuff. I taught Money and Banking at Loyola of Chicago. It was very difficult for me to be objective when comparing Keynesian Economics to the Chicago School! George Kaufman, then consulting with the Fed, suggested I teach IS/LM in spite of my intellectual aversion.
Edwin Benson
Oct 9 2018 at 10:27am
I taught American and World History in public high schools for 34 years until my retirement last June. I made a point of telling my students what my views were for two reasons:
They were far more conservative than those of most of my colleagues who had no problem sharing their leftist world view. I thought that my students needed to know that all of the intelligent people were not on the left.
I believe that one's own world view cannot be kept out of the teaching of history – that it will creep in even if you try not to have it happen. Therefore, I want my students to know what my views are so that they can take that into account as they evaluate the information that I impart.
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Release/Assumption of Risk Agreement Language Protects Mechanical Bull Provider from Liability for Inherent Risks
While in a bar after watching others, Revel Thom decided to ride a mechanical bull.(Thom v. Rebel's Honkey Tonk, 2012 Tex. App. LEXIS 7555) Before riding the bull, he completed and signed a document entitled PARTICIPANT AGREEMENT, RELEASE, AND ASSUMPTION OF RISK. When he was thrown from the bull, he fractured two vertebrae in his back.
He then sued appellees for his injuries. The trial court awarded summary judgment to Rebel's Honky Tonk.
On appeal, only the following pertinent agreement language was reported:
I acknowledge that riding a mechanical bull entails known and unanticipated risks that could result in physical or emotional injury, paralysis, death to myself, to property, or to third parties. I understand that such risk simply cannot be eliminated without jeopardizing the essential qualities to the activity.
THE RISKS INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO[]: Falling off of or being thrown from the mechanical bull, which could result in muscu[lo]skeletal injuries including head, neck and back injuries.
I expressly agree and promise to accept and assume all of the risks existing with this activity. My participation in this activity is purely voluntary and I elect to participate in spite of the risks.
Texas law requires that release language pass a fair notice rule. This consists of conspicuousness and express-negligence tests. The Uniform Commercial Code's definition of "conspicuous" is codified in the Texas Business and Commerce Code:
(10) "Conspicuous," with reference to a term, means so written, displayed, or presented that a reasonable person against which it is to operate ought to have noticed it. Whether a term is "conspicuous" or not is a decision for the court. Conspicuous terms include the following:
(A) a heading in capitals equal to or greater in size than the surrounding text, or in contrasting type, font, or color to the surrounding text of the same or lesser size; and
(B) language in the body of a record or display in larger type than the surrounding text, or in contrasting type, font, or color to the surrounding text of the same size, or set off from surrounding text of the same size by symbols or other marks that call attention to the language. Tex. Bus. & Com. Code Ann. § 1.201(b)(10) (West 2009).
The appellate court determined that the release was not hidden (since it constituted the whole document) and that the title (bold, underlined, large font) left no doubt as to purpose. The court held it was conspicuous – the only element of fair notice challenged.
Concerning the question of whether the release applied to other defendants, the release stated:
In consideration of the services of REBELS HONKY TONK their agents, owners, officers, volunteers, participants, employees and all other persons or entities acting on behalf of myself, my spouse, my children, my parents, my heirs, assigns, personal representative and estate . . .
On appeal, the court found that the release satisfied all of the fair-notice requirements. The release that appellant signed made its intent clear by taking up an entire letter-sized page, using a reasonable font size, and not surrounding the release language with text unrelated to riding the bull. Despite claiming he had not read the release, appellant testified that he knew he was signing a "waiver" for possible injuries. Because one is presumed to know the contents of a contract that one signs, and because the risks were expressly identified and accepted in the agreement, appellant had no excuse to be oblivious to the risks associated with riding the bull. The court affirmed summary judgment ruling in favor of the defendant.
Since the trial court granted summary judgment but failed to specify grounds for the ruling, the appellate court determined that they had to affirm the ruling if any of the theories presented to the trial court were meritorious. Since the evidence conclusively established it affirmative defenses of release and assumption of risk, the court affirmed the summary judgment ruling.
One might notice the similarity with the Jaeger v. Hartley case addressed last week in Poor Waiver Construction & Reckless Conduct Result in Texas Waiver Failure. Jaeger involved injuries resulting when a tour jeep was used with malfunctioning brakes. That case also focused on the inherent risks of the activity. Summary judgment was overturned in that case because the plaintiffs were not warned of the risk of a tour jeep without brakes. In this case, summary judgment was upheld because the release clearly warned of the danger of being thrown from the mechanical bull. In the Jaeger case, the trial court also failed to specify grounds for its ruling.
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St. Ciaran of Saigher, Bishop and Confessor of Ossory, Ireland
(Kieran)
5th century. St. Ciaran or Kieran, the Elder is believed to have been a contemporary of St. Patrick if not a precursor of this great saint. He was born at Cape Clear, where there is a church reputedly built by him, but he went to the Continent for his education and was ordained and consecrated bishop there before returning to Ireland. He settled as a hermit at Saighir near to the Slieve Bloom Mountains but soon disciples were attracted to him and a large monastery grew up round his cell, which became the chosen burial place for the Kings of Ossory. His mother Liaden is said to have gone to Saighir with a group of women who devoted their lives to the service of God and the members of her son's community.
There are many stories of miracles wrought by God through Ciaran, including several restorations to life of those who had died, and there are charming tales of his relations with the animal kingdom. One of these related how the most blessed bishop and first begotten of the Saints of Ireland "as a youth saw a hawk swooping down and snatching a fledgling from its nest. Ciaran, moved with pity for the little creature, prayed for its deliverance and the hawk flew down and laid it at his feet, torn and bleeding, but at once it was wonderfully restored to health and strength. There are considerable remains at Saighir among them the carved base of a high cross and St. Ciaran is regarded as the Patron of Munster with the fifth of March as his feast day.
This St. Kieran is commemorated in all dioceses of Ireland, for he is reputed to have been the "firstborn" of Irish saints.
Kieran's biography is full of obscurities. It is commonly said, however, that he left Ireland before the arrival of St. Patrick. Already a Christian, and of royal Ulster blood, he had determined to study for the Church; hence, he secured an education at Tours and Rome. On his return from France, he built himself a little cell in the woods of Upper Ossory.
There he spent the next few years as a hermit. Inevitably, however, other devout men joined him to form a monastery called "Saigher" (that is, "Sier-Ciaran," - "Kieran's Seat"). Later, he built nearby a monastery for women, the care of which he entrusted to his mother Liadan. Thus Kieran, rather than Brigid, seems to have been the pioneer founder of Irish women's convents. Around these foundations arose a village called Saigher, after the monastery.
When St. Patrick arrived in Ireland to carry the Faith throughout Erin, Abbot Kieran gave him his glad assistance. Some writers say that Kieran was then already a bishop, having been ordained while on the continent. It seems more likely, however, that he was one of the twelve men that Patrick, on his arrival, consecrated as helpers. It was customary in the early days for abbots to be ordained as bishops but to remain heads of their monasteries. The Diocese of Ossory considers Abbot Kieran as its first bishop. (He may also be the St. "Piran" venerated in Cornwall, Wales and Brittany.)
Many legends inevitably arose, too charming to leave untold, about this ancient hermit and bishop.
One story involves the Christmas communion of St. Cuach, Abbess of a monastery far away from Saigher. She had been Kieran's nurse when he was a child, and as a priest he always celebrated Mass for her community on Christmas night, after having presided at the midnight Mass of his own abbey. But nobody could figure out how he got to the convent of Ross-Bennchuir, so many miles distant, and returned that same night. The chronicler of the story suggests that it was by a miracle like that in which God once lifted up the prophet Habakkuk by the hair of his head and sped him from Palestine to Chaldea.
A second tale was that of Chrichidh, the boy from Clonmacnois whom St. Kieran had admitted to his monastery as a servant. One Easter the young servant mischievously extinguished the Easter Fire. (This was lighted at the monastery annually on Holy Saturday, and then kept burning all year as the only source of warmth or light in the monastic household.) Kieran predicted that for this thoughtless act, the lad would meet an untimely death. The very next day, as Chrichidh sauntered through the woods, he was killed and eaten by a wolf.
Soon afterward, St. Kieran the Younger (of Clonmacnois) arrived at Saigher, and was invited to dine by its monks. But he said he would not eat with them until his young friend Chrichidh from Clonmacnois had been restored to life. Out of hospitality in their chilly abbey, the older Kieran prayed for a little heat, and a ball of fire landed in his lap, which sufficed to warm up monks and visitor. Bishop Kieran then told his namesake that he should not hesitate to sit at table with them, for the boy was about to enter. Thereupon Chrichidh, raised from the dead, came in, sat down, and began to eat with his usual gusto.
The last story also concerns a miraculous resuscitation. King Aengus of Munster had seven minstrels whose songs about dead heroes pleased him. These minstrels, wandering through the land, were one day murdered by the king's enemies. They threw the bodies into the waters of a bog and hung their harps on a tree. Aengus mourned the loss. But St. Kieran informed him that the identity of the murderers and the place of the killing had been revealed to him. The king accompanied the saint to the spot. After Kieran had fasted a day on bread and water, the bog went dry, and he and Aengus saw the seven bodies of the songsters lying in the mud. Kieran then prayed that they might come back to life. Although a month dead, all seven promptly arose, their lives fully restored. Taking their harps, they thanked their benefactors with a recital of their sweetest songs.
The chronicler concluded, That bog has remained dry ever since. Whatever the truth of this legend, one central fact remains certain: that God will heed the prayers of a worthy person. Ask, said our Lord, and you shall receive. --Father Robert F. McNamara
Troparion of St Kieran
Leaving the darkness of paganism,
thou wast drawn by the radiance of our pure and saving Faith, O Father Kieran,
and shunning the costly raiment of the episcopate,
thou didst spend thy life in severest asceticism,
thereby seeking the salvation of men's souls.
Kontakion of St Kieran
Bread was thy meat and water thy wine, O blessed ascetic and great Father Kieran.
Rejecting clothing and comfort, thou didst enfold thyself in prayer, becoming a model of piety.
Wherefore we pray that, being stripped of all worldly affection,
our lives may be transformed into a visible prayer to our Triune God.
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The A2B Route left Buck and Doe Road to pass by and run around the Grand Canyon Skywalk. The Skywalk is horseshoe-shaped cantilever bridge that extends out over the edge of the Grand Canyon. The vertical drop directly under the skywalk ranges between 500 ft. and 800 ft. To heighten the experience of walking around the bridge's loop, the floor was laid with thick transparent glass. A little unnerving for some. Thrilling for others!!
After leaving the Skywalk, I turned southward back to Buck and Doe Road running along the east side of the Grand Canyon West Airport's runway.
Imminent rain in the forecast meant an early rise and run.
It was still a little dark as I rolled out of bed. Stretching was mixed with heavy yawning.
Since I had planned a long run, I went to grab some Sports Beans to give me a little boost or two throughout the run. However, I was all out. So I grabbed a bottle of Gatorade instead.
I decided while stretching to not follow any particular route, but rather run for time. I decided in what direction to go and off I went.
I found a park where a spring festival was being held. Vendors, who had arrived early, were setting up their booths and putting out their wares. Early walkers were already perusing. It was a nice scene. The air seemed full of sunrise and laughter.
After about 40 minutes, I looped around and began meandering back towards home. On the way, I found myself running alongside a BUNCH of other runners on a race course for a 5K run for the March of Dimes. Some of the runners were dressed for fun! One guy was wearing coats and tails with his running shorts. One group of ladies sported some very pizzazz-y sets of beads, glasses, and hats. As for me, I had fun waving and high-fiving people cheering along the route. After about a mile, the race course turned a different direction heading to its finish line while I continued towards mine.
Kind of a fun running adventure! Plus I beat the rain!!
As I ran this morning, my thoughts wandered over the past 14 years. On April 28, 1999, my youngest son, Rayne, was born. How absolutely incomplete our family would be without him!
An entertainer by nature, he has be the source of countless smiles and laughter! His quick wit and sometimes accidental humor have kept his brother and sisters in stitches for years!
Growing up with 3 older siblings, he always assumed their friends were his friends too. He was always comfortable in any crowd, it seemed like.
Now at 14, he has his own direction and set of friends. Early on, he discovered a love for theater and the aspects of theatrical productions. He seems to enjoy everything from being behind the spotlight to being on stage.
As he continues through these roller coaster years of high school, I hope that he finds the strength that his Mom and I have always known and seen in him.
He is a good, good young man! I am proud of him!
I am so happy to be Rayne's Dad!
Today, I, too, have thought back to Rayne's birth then played forward the fourteen years. He had to be the happiest child and one of the most loved on the planet! He smiled early and had a constant smile on his face. His brother and two sisters adored him! I can remember that next Christmas all the family got together. Caroline Hope who is just a week younger than Rayne was unhappy unless Angela was close by but Rayne charmed her with his smiles and happy nature! Everybody young and old loves Rayne!! He is a delightful young man and his Papa and I love him more that words can tell. He has blessed our lives! He is a marvelous grandson. Happy Birthday, William Rayne O'Bryant and many more!!!!


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Dadlington is a village in Leicestershire, 3 miles from Hinckley.
It stands on a hilltop, overlooking the plain where the Battle of Bosworth, at which Richard III lost his crown and his life, was fought in 1485.
The village is close to the Roman road from Leicester to Mancetter, now known as Fenn Lane.
St. James` Church dates back to the late 12th century. Henry VIII gave money for a chantry, and many of those killed in the battle lie in the churchyard.
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