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North American stock markets start week up with broad-based rally
The Canadian Press Staff
Published Monday, December 16, 2019 6:43AM EST Last Updated Monday, December 16, 2019 5:28PM EST
TORONTO -- U.S. stock markets set new record highs while the TSX also made gains to start the week on a broad-based rally induced by optimism over trade deal between the U.S. and China.
As the year winds down, the tone is markedly different from a year ago when markets collapsed, stoking fears of an eventual recession.
"Now it's starting to flip back the other way that things are doing OK out there and have the potential to improve if some of the headwinds go away," says Colin Cieszynski, chief market strategist at SIA Wealth Management.
Since losing 5.7 per cent of its value last December, the S&P/TSX composite index has surged 19 per cent as of Monday, to within 50 points of its record high.
The S&P/TSX composite index closed up 53.23 points at 17,056.36, after reaching an intraday high of 17,095.46.
In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was up 100.51 points at 28,235.89. The S&P 500 index was up 22.65 points at 3,191.45, while the Nasdaq composite was up 79.35 points at 8,814.23. All three markets closed at record highs after posting new intraday records.
In addition to trade, markets were supported by a U.S. budget settlement that ensures there will be no government shutdown and strong Chinese economic numbers, said Cieszynski.
Chinese industrial production rose 6.2 per cent in November from a year earlier and retail sales in China also jumped eight per cent.
"It's a little different situation than where we were a year ago where almost everybody was rushing to sell to get everything off their books and now instead of the fear of markets going down it's the fear of missing out and people jumping on board to get into the market before the end of the year," he said in an interview.
The Canadian dollar traded for 76.09 cents US, the highest level in seven weeks, up from an average of 75.86 cents US on Friday.
Eight of the 11 major sectors of the TSX were stronger, led by telecommunications, utilities and industrials. Telecommunications rose one per cent as shares of Cineplex gained 41 per cent after Canada's largest movie chain agreed to a $2.8-billion friendly takeover deal from U.K.-based Cineworld Group PLC.
Energy was up 0.63 per cent with Encana Corp. gaining almost four per cent as crude oil and natural gas prices rose on the positive sentiment.
The January crude contract was up 14 cents at US$60.21 per barrel and the January natural gas contract was up 4.5 cents at US$2.34 per mmBTU.
Health care lost 2.4 per cent as Bausch Health Companies Inc. fell after it agreed to pay US$1.21 billion to settle a lawsuit over a stock plunge that hit investors about four years ago. Hexo Corp. dropped 3.4 per cent after the cannabis producer said it lost $62.4 million in its latest quarter compared with a loss of $12.8 million in the same quarter last year even though revenues more than doubled to $14.5 million.
Materials was lower with Endeavour Mining Corp. down 4.7 per cent as metal prices were mixed. The February gold contract was down 70 cents US at US$1,480.50 an ounce and the March copper contract was up 3.05 cents at US$2.81 a pound.
Cieszynski said investors are anticipating an improved global economy in the next year.
"I think it would take something pretty significant and a pretty big negative surprise to throw things off the rails at this point and I think people are looking beyond the local mores to the global situation."
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 16, 2019.
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Chinese and Comparative Philosophy 中國哲學與比較哲學
About Warp, Weft, and Way
Adler reviews Chinese Metaphysics and Its Problems
Chenyang Li and Franklin Perkins (eds.), Chinese Metaphysics and Its Problems, Cambridge University Press, 2015, 242 pp., $95.00 (hbk), ISBN 9781107093508.
Reviewed by Joseph A. Adler, Professor Emeritus of Asian Studies and Religious Studies, Kenyon College
Read on-line at NDPR.
As the publisher's blurb states, this "is the first English-language anthology devoted to Chinese metaphysics." With its twelve meaty chapters and a helpful introduction it is an extremely solid and welcome addition to the rapidly growing body of literature on comparative philosophy. The "problems" are not so much problems within Chinese metaphysics as they are problems in the Western understanding of the subject. In fact, the editors, in their Introduction, begin with the question, "Do the Chinese really have metaphysics?" — suggesting not that it is really up for debate but rather that in some respects Chinese metaphysics is different enough from the Western variety that it may not be recognized as such by some philosophers steeped in the Aristotelian tradition and its offshoots. This is similar to the situation of some Western scholars studying Chinese religion before the mid-twentieth century, who didn't recognize it when they saw it because they brought with them the assumption that Christianity was the standard for what a religion must look like. Although philosophers trained only in the Western traditions may have some difficulty with the most detailed parts of these essays, they will undoubtedly benefit by reading what they can. As the editors' say:
Placing metaphysical questions in a comparative context helps us to broaden the formulation of our questions. It not only enables us to find new insights into the standard questions of Western metaphysics, but also helps us to see how those questions might be more provincial than they initially appear to be (p. 8).
One way of describing the fundamental difference between Chinese and Western philosophies, including metaphysics, was suggested in 1987 by David L. Hall and Roger T. Ames in theirThinking Through Confucius[1] and has been elaborated upon in many of their subsequent writings, including Ames' essay in this volume. Hall and Ames, inspired by Alfred North Whitehead,[2] described two ways of thinking about order: rational (or logical) order and aesthetic order. In brief, rational order presumes transcendent ordering principles that are instantiated in individual existents. Plato's idea of eternal forms and the Biblical notion of an uncreated creator god obviously fall into this category. In this way of thinking, contingent things derive their meaning and identity from the extent to which they reflect these transcendent principles. A contemporary example would be the claim that the idea of marriage has an essence (the union of one man and one woman) that cannot be changed by contingent changes in social ethics, and so same-sex marriage is not really marriage. Aesthetic order, on the other hand, presumes that the meaning and identity of things emerges from the ever-changing flow of contingent events; it is not imposed on things by a transcendent principle or law-giver. Change, not permanence, is real, and things are seen not as substances but as processes defined by their relationships with other things. This is the kind of thinking used by those who say that the true meaning of marriage can and does change. Of course, rational and aesthetic order as described here are ideal types and are not presumed to characterize either Western or Chinese thinking categorically. But it is clear that logical order has predominated in the West — at least until Whitehead — and aesthetic order has predominated in China.
I mention these categories because I think they provide a good foundational theory to account for the differences between Chinese and Western metaphysics. (Ames alludes to them in his essay, but no one else in this volume does.) Western metaphysics in general rests on a substance ontology, while Chinese metaphysics rests on process; processes and relations are primary entities, not secondary characteristics of primary substances. Brook Ziporyn, in his essay (chapter 10) on the eleventh-century Neo-Confucian thinker Zhang Zai, goes so far as to assert that Zhang Zai conceived "harmony as substance," contrary to the common-sense understanding that harmony must be the harmony of some things and that those things must be the primary substance(s). Zhang Zai has traditionally been considered a monist for whom the primary substance was qi氣 (translated nicely by John Makeham in chapter 12 as "vital stuff," although Ziporyn uses the less accurate "material force"). Zhang's other key terms were "Great Harmony" (taihe 太和) and "Great Void" (taixu 太虛), which are usually said to be predicates of qi — Harmony describing it as concretized forms and Void as its dispersed state. Ziporyn, however, argues:
what all things really are is qi, but what qi really is is also the Great Void, and thus what both qi and the Great Void really really are is the Great Harmony. Qi is the one substance, but it turns out that its being-qi is a predicate of something more basic, the Great Harmony (175-176).
I suppose this argument rests on a meaningful distinction between "really" and "really really," but I was not convinced: I still think that qi in Zhang's thought is primary, although it must be mentioned that qi for him and all other Chinese thinkers is inherently dynamic, so it is not a substance in the sense of a static essence. Otherwise, though, this chapter is really clearly written and illuminating, especially its introductory discussion of monism per se. Ziporyn refers to Spinoza as a Western example of a philosophical monist, although he provides no description of Spinoza's philosophy, perhaps for considerations of space. Sankara would have been an excellent example too (although Western only in the sense of his Indo-European language context) and perhaps easier to summarize briefly.
The first two chapters of Chinese Metaphysics cover what are perhaps the two most fundamental concepts in traditional Chinese thought: yin/yang 陰陽 (dark/light, negative/positive, falling/rising, etc.) and qi 氣. Robin R. Wang's essay on the former (which she writes as yinyang) overlaps somewhat with her recent book, Yinyang: The Way of Heaven and Earth in Chinese Thought and Culture (Cambridge, 2012), for example, in describing the six primary forms of yinyang relations: (1) contradiction and opposition, (2) interdependence, (3) mutual inclusion, (4) interaction or resonance, (5) complementary or mutual support, and (6) change and transformation (22-26). What is new here includes a good introductory discussion of the Chinese term for "metaphysics," xing'er shang 形而上 ("above form") and its complement, xing'er xia 形而下 ("below [and within] form"), with an illuminating discussion of the fact that "form" is contained in both. In my view she overstates the symmetry of these terms, relying too heavily on the component characters themselves at the expense of their usage. Their non-symmetry is reflected in the translations I have given above. Still, the suggestion that the metaphysical realm is not fundamentally separate from the physical is right on the mark and in fact is one of those differences that has led some to say that "Chinese metaphysics" is an oxymoron.
JeeLoo Liu's essay on "qi-naturalism" begins with an excellent discussion of different forms of naturalism, e.g. scientific naturalism, liberal naturalism, humanistic naturalism. She then presents the case for qi-naturalism, including a historical survey of this way of thinking in China: the classical Daoism of Laozi and Zhuangzi, the Huainanzi (second century BCE), Zhang Heng (second century CE), Zhang Zai (eleventh century), Wang Fuzhi (seventeenth century), Xiong Shili (twentieth century), and a few contemporary Chinese philosophers (41-51). This section may be a bit routine for those already familiar with the history of Chinese thought, but others will gain much from it. In her concluding section on "the plausibility of qi-naturalism" she suggests that its value lies in its capacity to account for the emergence of mental phenomena in a non-reductionistic way. This is based on the fact that the concept of qi from the beginning included the whole spectrum of matter, energy, mind, and spirit.
Franklin Perkins' essay, "What is a thing (wu 物)? The problem of individuation in early Chinese metaphysics," is a wonderfully clear analysis of the differences between substance ontology and Chinese process ontology. His main point is that to be a thing is to be differentiated out, in a perceivable way, from an underlying unity, and it is the underlying unity that is ultimately real. Things are what they are only in relation to other things. In a nice bit of philosophical etymology he says:
When Western philosophers wanted to account for things, they went deep, to what literally "stands under" (substance/sub-stantia) or is "thrown under" (subject/sub-jectus) the appearances, a view that was theorized through the distinction of substances and their modes or modifications. Chinese philosophers went the opposite direction, toward the surface, so that to be a wu is just to be a certain distinct appearance, not an underlying entity which possesses that appearance (63).
Ultimately, though, the reality of a thing is both its differentiated form and its rootedness in the underlying unity; one in many and many in one. This kind of dynamic uniting of opposites without denying their real differences is characteristic of Chinese thought, as symbolized by the well-known yin/yang or taiji (Supreme Polarity) symbol .
Chris Fraser's chapter on the Mohist conception of reality attempts to show that some of the basic shared features of pre-Qin (221-206 BCE) thought were first explicitly enunciated by the followers of Mo Di (c. 470-c. 391 BCE). These include the focus on dao (the Way) and patterns or models, anti-reductionism, and the idea that reality is knowable through the senses. He succeeds in demonstrating some depth to a tradition that is sometimes dismissed as relatively superficial, but he admits that the Mohists did not provide answers to such questions as how we can know that the carpenter's set-square (as a pattern) is really square.
Ames' essay is "Reading the Zhongyong 'metaphysically.'" The Zhongyong中庸, traditionally translated as "Doctrine of the Mean" but more accurately as "Centrality and Commonality" or, by Ames, "Focusing the Familiar,"[3] is one of the "Four Books" of the classical Confucian canon (as determined by the twelfth-century Neo-Confucian, Zhu Xi), and is considered to be the most profound of the four. Ames' reading of the text focuses on the vital role of relationality, aesthetic order (here referred to as "the art of contextualizing") and "role ethics" (a compelling alternative to the "virtue ethics" category used by most contemporary philosophers studying Confucianism).[4] In this essay Ames demonstrates his talent for deeply exploring the meanings of Chinese words and following through on their implications. My one quibble with Ames is his penchant for over-translation, such as "trans-form-ing" for ti-yong 體用 (substance-function, 91), "world-making" for dao 道 (Way, 93), "that which is immanent" (misspelled here as "imminent") for yin 隱 (hidden, secret, 97), and "consolidate their virtuosic habits as an inner disposition for action" for shen du 慎獨 (cautious when alone, 97). While it is true that every translation is an interpretation, sometimes distinctions should be made between a translation and an explanation.
Jiyuan Yu's chapter is a thorough analysis of Heraclitus' concept of logos and Laozi's concept of dao. He begins by quoting A. C. Graham 's statement that "no Chinese thinker conceives the One and the constant as Being or reality behind the veil of appearance" (105) [5] and a similar one by Hall and Ames, "for the Chinese there is no 'being' behind the myriad beings (wanwu orwanyu), no One behind the Many, no Reality behind Appearance" (ibid., n.1).[6] Yu concludes, however, that the common observation that Heraclitus and Laozi have much in common is valid and that Laozi really does seek the reality behind appearances, demonstrating an exception to the generalizations of Graham, Hall and Ames. "The common point is not that they both talk about change, but rather that the unity of opposites (Heraclitus) or the balance of opposites (Laozi) persists through changes" (119). Of course, a single exception may in fact prove the rule rather than contradict it.
I will only briefly describe the rest of the essays. Michael Puett looks for metaphysical assumptions in some of the early Chinese ritual texts, primarily the "Liyun" (Conveyance of Rites) chapter of the Liji (Record of Ritual) and a bit from the Huainanzi. Hans-Rudolf Kantor dives deeply into the logic of emptiness in Chinese Mahayana Buddhism, focusing on the inseparability of truth and falsehood (epistemology) and reality and falsehood (ontology). Vincent Shen continues the exploration of Chinese Mahayana by examining the Huayan school's concept of event in relation to Whitehead's ontology. John Berthrong proposes a new formula for organizing Zhu Xi's cosmology and metaphysics in "four paradigmatic domains": benti 本體("coherent principles and conditions"), yong 用 ("dynamic functions or processes"), he/wen 和文 ("harmonizing cultural outcomes"), and de 德 ("axiological values and virtues") (196). And finally, John Makeham gives a perceptive analysis of Xiong Shili's (1885-1968) metaphysics of ontology/phenomenology, which was based largely on Yogacara Buddhism in a Confucian context.
The book is relatively well-produced, with a smattering of typographical errors. Footnotes rather than endnotes are provided, and Chinese characters are used liberally. On the whole the essays are well-written and extremely perceptive. Anyone with an interest in Chinese or comparative philosophy, with or without prior exposure to the Chinese side, will learn much from it.
[1] David L. Hall and Roger T. Ames, Thinking Through Confucius (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1987), 11-21, 131-138.
[2] Alfred North Whitehead, Modes of Thought (NY: Macmillan, 1938), 60-63.
[3] Roger T. Ames and David L. Hall, trans., Focusing the Familiar: A Translation and Philosophical Interpretation of the Zhongyong (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2001).
[4] See also his Role Ethics: A Vocabulary (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2011).
[5] A. C. Graham, Disputers of the Tao (La Salle: Open Court, 1989).
[6] David L. Hall and Roger T. Ames, Thinking from the Han: Self, Truth, and Transcendence in Chinese and Western Culture (Albany: SUNY Press, 1998).
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Home Lifestyle	Can you change a flat tire?
There are a few things that I think every woman should know how to do. Changing a flat tire is high on that list. I know how and thank God, because I have had to call upon this knowledge many times. I am certain that I have changed a tire on my own vehicle a minimum of 5 times and for a friend at least once. Is this normal? How do I keep getting flat tires? For the record, I haven't had a flat in over a year, and the last one wasn't really flat. The tire split somehow and therefore couldn't hold air. Thankfully I was .01 second from a Jiffy Lube so they did the dirty work.
The reason I bring all of this up is because I was just sitting here drinking my coffee, enjoying the quiet nap period and thinking about how life forces you to learn things you never expected to learn and how that knowledge can follow you to many different places. In my case, I learned how to change a tire on the side of I-95 one Sunny (read:HOT) Sunday afternoon in August. It was 1997. In fact, I remember it vividly because it was the day Princess Diana died. I however, didn't find that out until much later that night because I was in Drama-Land, USA.
It might be helpful to give you a bit of back-story. That summer I was separated from my then husband, Micah and living in Florida. It was Labor Day weekend and I needed to get the H out of dodge so I decided to head north for a visit with family. I stopped in to see my Grammy in North Florida and she gave me $100 for my trip. This in itself was really amazing and wonderful because I really didn't have the money for a jaunt up the coast. But I think we all knew that I needed it. I am the type of person that needs to clear my head by driving. I don't know why but it has always helped me to put my life in perspective and return with a plan. So, off I went.
At the time, I was driving a Nissan Pickup truck and had never changed a tire in my life. I watched Micah change one on a different car once, but no one had ever done it on my truck that I knew of. OH and did I mention that I was 19? Yes. I was 19 years old. So, I'm driving up I-95 and I imagine I was listening to something like Boyz II Men or Mariah Carey when BAM_WHACK_THUD_THUD_THUD…my front left tire was in shreds. Somehow, and I am not kidding I don't even know how because I was too busy peeing my pants, I pulled off to the side of the road to assess the damage.
Hmmm…I don't think I am supposed to see the ENTIRE RIM. I mean you can't drive it like that right? No, definitely cannot keep driving. So, this is no problem. I can deal with this. Where am I? About a mile outside Waltersboro, SC. Ok cool. I have AAA let me just get my cell phone. It's 1997 you see, and I DID have a cell phone. However there were about 3.5 cell phone towers between Miami and NYC and none of them were anywhere near Waltersboro, SC. No service. ZERO service. I am also pretty sure my battery died after all my attempts, not that it mattered.
I think it was about this time that I went from 'I am a woman on the side of the road who can handle this because I came prepared with a cell phone and AAA' to MOTHER-EFFER what the $#)(*#!)($@#()#$ am I going to do now but DIEEEEE??? I am going to die on I-95. Or in those creepy woods! Some crazy psycho is going to drag me into those woods and back to Waltersboro, SC and I will never see my family again because I will dieeeeeeeee!!! And then the tears came. And the screaming at God thing. And of course the requisite beating the steering wheel with closed fists until I was sore everywhere. I mean I was 19 and about to get a divorce, sitting on the side of the road in the middle of nowhere with no one to help me. I think my outburst would be considered minor in that situation, no?
Ahh but this was one of those defining moments that one never forgets. And believe me, I will NEVER forget. I found myself that day. I wallowed for a little while and then decided I needed to pull it together while it was still light out. There has to be an owner's manual. And I know there are tools behind the seat. It will be like Legos, just follow the directions one step at a time. Don't get ahead of yourself. You can do this.
I removed everything I thought I would need from the truck and got to the business of retrieving the spare tire. In a pickup truck, the extra tire is up under the bed of the truck secured by a chain. You need a tool to release the chain and then you have to reach under and unhook it. Yes, it is as difficult as it sounds. You see, I am doing all of it blind because it's a good 4 feet in. Did I mention that there was no shoulder on the interstate? No? Well there wasn't. My truck was on the left hand side of the road half on the asphalt and half on the grass. I was only a couple feet away from 80 mile an hour traffic on the fast lane side. The side where most semi-trucks drive and thus rocked my truck every time they WHIZZED by. Not a single person stopped to see if I needed help.
So, I am under the truck absolutely certain that I am going to die, tears streaming down my face and stringing together expletives that would make Andrew Dice Clay blush. It only took about 3 years to release the tire. I had a brief moment of victory but it waned quickly when I finally stood up and realized that my right foot was covered in fire ants!
I don't blame you for laughing right now. It was the most pitiful display. Now I am jumping around trying to knock off the ants, swearing, crying, and getting a BIT hysterical because if I am going to DIE I wish we could just get on with it!
Once again I regained my composure, which wasn't really composure anymore but a nice fat fiery rage aimed at the powers that be and THIS.STUPID.CURSED.TRUCK. Now I am mad and I will not be defeated. I have the tire, I have the jack and the truck is lifted. Now I just need to get these lug nuts off. CRAP. I can't get them to budge. Especially not using the lug wrench with my hand. Which means I now have to lower the truck so the tire is back on the ground and I can get some traction. And stomp on that wrench with my full body weight. NOW we're talking! I must have gotten a little carried away with the stomping because at one point, my foot slipped and I got a nice slice down my arch, because being from Florida, of course I was wearing my Tevas. That hurt but I was SO over it I just kept going. Once I got the lug nuts off it was smooth sailing. All told I think I finished in around an hour or 2, though it felt like at LEAST 37 days.
I am sweating, I am covered in ant bites, bleeding from the foot and puffy as I slowly amble to the next exit. I never thought I would fall in love with Waltersboro, SC, but I had never been happier to explore a new town. Thankfully they had a tire place right off the exit and they let me use their phone to call my parents. Resume with the crying. Now I was telling my story OUT LOUD in a mixture of tears and exasperation. My horrified parents listened quietly and tried to sort through my sobs for important details. I needed a new tire and to finish my trip asap. Cost of the tire? $80. Thank God I had the $100 from my grandmother. God works in mysterious ways. I made the rest of my trip and collapsed that night. When I returned home to Florida, I brought with me an entirely new level of confidence.
That day, I learned a lot of things, the least of which being how to change a tire. But isn't it funny how even THAT served me later in life? Every time I change a tire or help a friend, I am reminded that I really can do anything. Even if I haven't ever done it before. Life forces your hand sometimes and it's amazing how God helps us figure things out. Even though I was screaming and cursing God in those moments, He was there with me. Letting me get frustrated and to my breaking point right before helping me figure it out. If my cell phone had worked and I called AAA it would have been much easier, yes. But would I have been able to say that I had grown through the experience? Would I even remember the time when all hope was lost and there was no one but me and God to work it out? I doubt it. Looking back, I am so thankful for that experience. Not only can I change a tire, but I know I can trust God to guide me through the darkest of circumstances. And THAT is a lesson worth learning.
My 11th grade physics teacher taught us how to change a tire. She was the coolest teacher ever.
Don't let anyone ever mistake you and your hot mama looks for being a diva. You are one brave and stong woman and I enjoyed reading your story!
Oh, and I CAN change a flat tire! Once, when leaving work I discovered my car had a flat tire in the parking lot. Two men tried to change it for me but they were having trouble, so I took over and did it myself!
Haha, Angie that is hilarious! And thanks Paige 🙂 Can I be a brave diva?
OMGoodess…how did I not know you were married before?!?!
I know this is not the point of the story, but I had absolutely no idea you were married. I have known or known of you for going on… 8 years?
I think I know how to change a tire, but I will admit to having observed others change my tired at least 3 times but never attempting to actually do it myself.
I laughed so hard that I had to wipe the tears away before typing this comment. Great story!
Never have doubt. When you need strength, or courage or wisdom, know that, in your heart, it is just waiting to be tapped.
I love how it feels to have that "I ROCK" sense of accomplishment!
I have had this same life lesson. Thankfully I have been in parking lots and not on the road.


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B.E.D. (Beyond Every Definition) were an English electronic music duo consisting of Japanese musician Gota Yashiki and British producer James Wiltshire, which was mostly active in the early 2000s. They are primarily known for their collaborations with the vocalist Chloe Myers, including their only single, "Lay Me Down" (for which a music video was also made).

The group released just two albums with BMG (Ver. 1.0 and Ver. 1.5, the latter of which also contained several uptempo remixes of the first album's songs) and were featured on several dance music compilations with original compositions as well as the aforementioned single. Several of the songs on the group's debut album featured backing vocals and were written by English singer/songwriter Judie Tzuke.

While most of the duo's songs were both written and programmed by both Yashiki and Wiltshire, only Yashiki played other instruments on the tracks, including bass, guitar and drums. The group's song "Before I Leave" was also remixed by Wiltshire's more widely known duo, Freemasons; the remix was included as a bonus track on the Japanese version of Ver. 1.5.

Discography
Albums
Ver. 1.0 (2003)
Ver. 1.5 (2004)

Single
"Lay Me Down" featuring Chloe Myers (2003)

References

Electronic music duos
Sony BMG artists

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In the Spotlight: Whitehorse
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In the Spotlight showcases a cross-section of an artist's cover work. View past installments, then post suggestions for future picks in the comments!
Whitehorse has had a pretty darn good 2018. Their 2017 album Panther in the Dollhouse was nominated for a Juno for Adult Alternative Album of the Year. They recorded two new albums: A Whitehorse Winter Classic, released earlier this month, and The Northern South Vol.2, which comes out in January. We premiered their cover of Slim Harpo's "Baby, Scratch My Back," and also learned about some of the favorite covers of Luke Doucet and Melissa McClelland, the husband and wife that make up the band. Continue reading »
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Full Albums: The Yardbirds' 'Greatest Hits'
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The Yardbirds are back! Sort of. The quintessential R&B-influenced British Invasion band has made a few recent headlines, and any headline from a group that can boast Rock & Roll Hall of Famers Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, and Jimmy Page as alums is probably worth checking out.
Last month, the music press was buzzing when Page announced a November 5th release for Yardbirds '68. The legendary Led Zeppelin guitarist is producing the newly unearthed compilation of live and studio recordings along with outtakes. Rolling Stone has more about it here. Additionally, in early August still-active founding member Jim McCarty and the bands' current line-up announced a new Yardbirds studio album to be underwritten by a PledgeMusic campaign. The album promises to be "a totally new recording of original songs with a couple of carefully selected covers." Fans can find out more and get involved here.
We'll celebrate all this good news with several Yardbirds-related features leading up to the release of Page's '68 in November. Today, we'll pay our respects with a recap of The Yardbirds' Greatest Hits. The first of countless compilations, this one passed a significant 50th anniversary milestone in March. Arguments abound among aficionados as to which Greatest Hits / Best Of / Retrospective is their "best," but only one can claim to be their highest charting US album; Greatest Hits peaked at #28 on the Billboard chart in 1967 and arguably gave the band a second wind at the time. The album is no longer commercially available in its original LP configuration and packaging, but nowadays it can be put together with just a few taps on the screen/keys.
Included on Greatest Hits are all six of their singles up to 1967, plus three B-sides and a live track. Five tracks were written by at least one member of the band. Bo Diddley, Howlin' Wolf, and Mose Allison are credited with one R&B cover each. Finally, two were written by Graham Gouldman, about whom we'll have more to say in the near future.
So… let's get ready, steady, go!
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Sharon Van Etten, Angel Olsen, Benjamin Booker Deliver Danger Mouse-Produced Covers
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"17 years after America lost WW2, the country is divided and controlled by Japan and Germany. From out of the lawless neutral zone comes The Man in the High Castle's Resistance Radio, a secret network of pirate DJs broadcasting sounds of hope."
That's a cooler introduction than most musical compilations get. This incredible soundtrack for Amazon's popular TV series The Man in the High Castle was produced by Danger Mouse and Sam Cohen, who adds his own musical talents to covers of "The House of the Rising Sun" and "Get Happy." Cohen joins a high caliber line up of musicians including Beck, Karen O, The Shins, and Norah Jones as they imagine a world where the Axis has won and musicians have gone rogue.
The current trend seems to be a marked return to the golden age of music and this influx of nostalgic talent works perfectly for the producers of the soundtrack. On advanced tracks, Angel Olsen, Sharon Van Etten, and Benjamin Booker perform covers that are nearly identical to their predecessors. Continue reading »
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The Best Cover Songs of 2016: Honorable Mentions
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We'll be posting the full list next week (and "Best Cover Albums" this Thursday), but as a little appetizer, here are our Honorable Mentions, covers we loved and still wanted to spotlight as among the best 2016 had to offer. Continue reading »
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Review: The Rolling Stones, 'Blue & Lonesome'
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I can't believe you won't have already read or heard at least a hundred reviews of Blue & Lonesome, an 11th-hour reprieve for the best rock and roll band in the world, burning up column inches and airspace across the world. And all so uniformly and fawningly good, too. Where are the naysayers? Well, not here, I fear, for this is the real deal.
It's true, from when it was first announced, I so wanted and wished it to be good, because I am a Rolling Stones fan, even (well, mostly) through the years of drought. Then, as the promo reviews were released, I faltered – could it really be so? Yesterday morning it arrived on my doormat and my anticipations soared. First track in, "Just Your Fool," and I knew it. The Stones have cracked it. Combined age et cetera et cetera, laughter lines and all, bang bang bang, easy, job done.
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In Memoriam: Willie Dixon
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In Memoriam pays tribute to those who have left this world, and the songs they left us to remember them by.
Willie Dixon was a talented stand-up bass player, producer, and occasional vocalist for Chess Records, but his greatest gift lay in his pen. One cursory glance at his song titles – "Back Door Man," "Little Red Rooster," "I Ain't Superstitious," and "You Can't Judge a Book By the Cover," to name just a "Spoonful" – reveals what an impact he had not only on Chicago blues, but rock 'n' roll as well. No self-respecting sixties band with a blues foundation would dream of taking the stage without a working knowledge of Dixon's songs, and he wrote more than 500 of them – songs that sounded immortal from the moment they were first created.
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Home Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection Chair-bound players roll up (fun) score
Chair-bound players roll up (fun) score
Title Chair-bound players roll up (fun) score
Photographer Hyde, Alan.
Collection ID Valley Times Collection
Location/Accession HCNVT_ d058_ f2_i4
Physical Description 1 photographic print : b&w ; 24 x 19 cm.
Description Photograph article dated November 25, 1961 partially reads, "It was a low-scoring game, as basketball goes. The visiting Valley squad, despite a half-time lead and a last-second basket, was edged by Los Angeles, 14-12. Victory meant a city championship and an undefeated season to the Los Angeles players. They had won all four of their scheduled games... During the game, not one point scored came easily to either team. For all the boys were playing in wheel chairs." Photograph caption reads, "Basketball from wheel chairs offers fun and important exercise to students from Valley branch of Widney High School for the Handicapped (dark shirts) and the Los Angeles branch. Center tip-offs (left), deadeye set shots (center) and careful coaching (right) were featured." See images 00154350 through 00154353 for all photos in this series.
Subject People with disabilities.
Wheelchair basketball.
Wheelchairs.
Basketball players.
Basketball teams.
Spectators.
Los Angeles (Calif.).
Portrait photographs.
Group portraits.
Coverage 1961; 1962; 1963; 1964; 1965; 1966; 1967; 1968; 1969; 1970
Credits This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian.; Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends.
Rights http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/
Internal Notes See Folder Record PH-VT-000030 for upload information.
Sub-Collection Name Valley Times Photo Collection


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Holly Holm lost her UFC women's bantamweight title but earned a flat $500,000 purse in defeat. That paycheck was more than five times that of new champion Miesha Tate, who nabbed $92,000 for choking out Holm in the fifth round of their back-and-forth encounter.
Other high earners at the event included lightweights Diego Sanchez ($150,000) and Jim Miller ($59,000), as well as featherweight Darren Elkins ($74,000) and women's bantamweight contender Amanda Nunes ($56,000).


rising action · Grendel's attack on Heorot, Beowulf's defeat of Grendel, and Grendel's mother's vengeful killing of Aeschere lead to the climactic encounter between Beowulf and Grendel's mother.... Watch video · The blood-soaked tale of a Norse warrior's battle against the great and murderous troll, Grendel. Out of allegiance to the King Hrothgar, the much respected Lord of the Danes, Beowulf leads a troop of warriors across the sea to rid a village of the marauding monster.
Beowulf expects that Grendel will attack as always, breaking into the mead hall, grabbing as many soldiers as possible, and eating them. If the monster is able to do so, and the warriors not able... In Beowulf, Grendel's ferocity, which is expressed through physical description, sets the stage for Beowulf's heroism. As an epic hero, Beowulf has exceptional strength and courage.
Beowulf, Hrothgar, and their men, track Grendel's mother, and Beowulf swims into the hag's underwater lair alone. Grendel's mother appears to be winning against the Geat, but he stabs her with a sword found in the lair. Before leaving, he finds Grendel's body at the bottom of the swamp and cuts off his head as a trophy for the king.... In Beowulf, Grendel's ferocity, which is expressed through physical description, sets the stage for Beowulf's heroism. As an epic hero, Beowulf has exceptional strength and courage.
Beowulf and his men go to Heorot first for a formal audience with Hrothgar, second for a feast and wild party, and third, at the end of the night, for a place to bed down with their armor and weapons right beside them, ready for action. Each mead-hall is a palace, a cafeteria, a bar, and a barracks all in one—a visible symbol of the intense life of formality, excess, and brutal warfare that... Be sure to include Beowulf 's feelings about watching the Geat near him die, how he felt during the fight, a blow-by-blow description of the battle, how he felt about not being able to kill Grendel, and why he traveled to the bottom of the lake to defeat Grendel's mother.
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As the monster weakened and the hero stood firm, the fight at last came to a horrific end when Beowulf ripped Grendel's entire arm and shoulder from his body.
Grendel appears on the night of the Geats' arrival at Heorot. Beowulf, true to his word, wrestles the monster barehanded. He tears off the monster's arm at the shoulder, but Grendel escapes, only to die soon afterward at the bottom of his snake-infested mere.
30/07/2015 · When Grendel picks up a supposedly sleeping Beowulf, Beowulf grips Grendel's arm tightly and wrenches it off. In Grendel , we get to hear Grendel's impression of his own death. Grendel insists that it was an act of chance that allowed Beowulf to get the upper hand in their fight.


Let's talk about the elephant in the room, or make that two elephants, and not just in the room, but perhaps outside the room as well. Of course we're not talking about real pachyderms here. We're going to extol the virtues of these comfortable, nylon hammocks made by Two Elephants (again, not the real pachyderms!). Perfect for siestas, lounging, relaxing, chilling, almost anything in a horizontal position, these hammocks are great for both indoor and outdoor use. Compact enough to pack up and take with you, they're ideal in the backyard, the porch, TV room–really anywhere you (or anyone in your family) want to take a load of your feet.


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The villa is situated in a quiet environment, but not isolated, at 400 m from the village's centre. The house is comfortable, offers voluminous and sunny rooms, and is suitable for 7 people.
Villes sur Auzon is a characteristic village at the foot of Mount Ventoux. Cyclists will enjoy the different cycling tours in the surroundings before climbing the famous Mount Ventoux !
Bedroom with double bed 180, (2 single beds 0.90 also possible).
Bedroom with double bed 140 cm wide.
The villa is situated at 400 m² from the village's centre, with 1000 inhabitants.
Villes–sur–Auzon is situated in Provence, at the foot of Mount Ventoux and close to the Gorges de la Nesque. Various marked walking tours and cycling tours start around here.
In the village you will find : Bakery, small super market, cafés, restaurants, post office, bicycle rental and repair shop.
Every Wednesday morning there is a market at the Place du 8 Mai.
For more important shopping you can go to Carpentras, at 15 km.
Rental per week / Arrival and departure : on Saturday / Maximum number of persons : 7 people / Sheets provided / Bathroom towels provided / Pool towels not provided / Compulsory end of stay cleaning : 90 € / Water included / Electricity included / Garden maintenance included / Pool maintenance included / Non smoking house / Animals allowed / Tourist tax to be paid extra - depending on the community and the number of people in your party.


The NFU and NFU Cymru have urged the Government to introduce a number of farm resilience measures to combat extreme weather events.
With the summer agricultural drought highlighting the vulnerability of farming and the nation's food security, the two unions have penned a document setting out key priorities.
The publication of the document coincides with Farmers' Day at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP24) in Poland.
Promote contingency planning amongst farmers to help them better understand the risks of water supply disruption and how to manage them.
Remove blockages in the planning and licensing regulations that impede the construction of more on-farm water storage reservoirs.
Continue investment in the UK's weather forecasting capability, especially in medium-term forecasts and those aligned to real-time water availability monitoring to support drought planning.
NFU president Minette Batters said: "The summer's heatwave and the impacts of the agricultural drought were hugely challenging and should be a wake-up call for us all.
"It caused crop yields to become increasingly unpredictable, lower quality in fruit and vegetables, a severe lack of feed and bedding for livestock, interruptions to vital water supplies and an increased risk of fire.
"The reality is that the full effects won't really be known until next year.
It exposed the vulnerability of the UK's farming sector, much of which relies on regular rainfall to meet crop and animal welfare needs. This places our sector in sharp contrast to other water users.
"At our Drought Summit in August, Defra Secretary of State Michael Gove promised 'to do whatever it takes', to deliver 'maximum flexibility' and to 'move quickly'.
"Since then we have been working closely with the Government and its agencies to alleviate the effects of the drought and will continue to monitor for potential drought next year.
"Our industry is at the forefront of climate change impacts and producing safe, traceable and affordable food is a daily challenge for UK farmers.
"The lessons we have learned clearly identify what policies need to be in place to manage market failure and volatility.


Our goal at CCA is to discover, cultivate, and strengthen each child's God-given abilities and talents.
CCA's Spanish program starts in our Preschool classroom and continues through Kindergarten. We encourage our students to learn the language through exposure to different sounds and hearing the language-full immersion. Students will learn through song, games and verbal communications. We will start by building their vocabulary and gradually working into the grammatically correct components of the language. The students will also learn about the cultures and geographic regions, learn stories in Spanish, and allow them to use their verbal skills and writing practice.
The Art program at CCA is dedicated to nurturing and developing each student's individual creativity. Students are introduced to a wide variety of techniques and media so that they can begin to exercise their own unique form of self expression. Students also learn about many of the most influential artists and why their work is considered so important.
We believe that the more a person can experience the creative process the more apt they are to be able to appreciate it. When students know about different artists and styles it opens their eyes to possibilities for their own work, it is inspiring.
At CCA, our Music program takes place by exposing the students to different selections of music and musicians, movement, rhythm, melody, and harmony. This approach creates excitement about the music, promotes understanding and builds self-confidence. Our goal is for students to learn and appreciate music theory, history, proper voice techniques, and introduce musical instruments.
We believe that the most original source is always the Word of God, which is the only foundation for true scholarship in any area of human endeavor. Thus Chapel is built upon the firm foundation of Scriptural truth and are written by dedicated and talented Christian scholars who are well grounded in the practical aspects of teaching.
The use of Technology by students and teachers is a priority at CCA. We believe that technology is a tool for communication, critical thinking, problem solving, and academic learning. Not an end in itself, technology will be used by students to access information in the school, community, and globally, to support the achievement of academic learning. Technology has become an integral part of the world in which we live, and will be even more so in the world our students will inherit as adults.
CCA's Physical Education program is designed to educate and provide the tools for all students to live a healthy and active life. Through our program, the students will experience and develop self-confidence and a positive outlook towards physical education. Not only learning the fundamentals of healthy living, the program will bring out the best in each student.


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Adriana-Gabriela Crăciun (née Țăcălie; born 29 January 1989) is a Romanian handballer who plays for  SCM Craiova.

Achievements
Liga Naţională:
Winner: 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011
Runner-up: 2014
Romanian Cup:
Winner: 2007, 2011
Finalist: 2013

EHF Cup Winners' Cup
Winner: 2007
EHF Champions Trophy
Winner: 2007
EHF Champions League:
Winner: 2012
Finalist: 2010
Montenegrin Championship:
Winner: 2012
Montenegrin Cup:
Winner: 2012
EHF Cup:
Semifinalist: 2015

References

1989 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Slatina, Romania
Romanian female handball players
SCM Râmnicu Vâlcea (handball) players
Expatriate handball players
Romanian expatriates in Montenegro
Romanian expatriates in France


The milestone occurred when a research team, comprising geologists from The Australian National University (ANU) and Royal Holloway, University of London, were analysing high-resolution maps of the Banda Sea floor off eastern Indonesia. Writing in the journal Geology, the team explained that this area is home to the 7.2 km Weber Deep forearc basin — the deepest point of the Earth's oceans not within a trench.
"Several models have been proposed to explain the tectonic evolution of the Banda arc in the context of the ongoing (ca. 23 Ma–present) Australia–Southeast Asia collision, but no model explicitly accounts for how the Weber Deep achieved its anomalous depth," the study authors wrote.
Map of Eastern Indonesia, showing the 7 km deep basin of the Weber Deep (in red, pointed to by white arrow).
The maps showed that the rocks flooring the seas were cut by hundreds of straight parallel scars. The wounds themselves show that a piece of crust bigger than Tasmania must have been ripped apart by 120 km of extension along a low-angle crack, or detachment fault, to form the present-day ocean-floor depression.
Lead researcher Dr Jonathan Pownall, from ANU, said this previously unidentified fault — dubbed the 'Banda detachment' by the team — represents a rip in the ocean floor exposed over 60,000 km2. He said the abyss was thus "formed by extension along what might be Earth's largest-identified exposed fault plane".
Scars on the ocean floor, which were created by the Banda detachment ripping open and extending the Banda Sea.
Dr Pownall added that the discovery of the Banda detachment fault will help assesses dangers of future tsunamis and earthquakes, which is especially important given that it is located in the infamous Ring of Fire.
"In a region of extreme tsunami risk, knowledge of major faults such as the Banda detachment, which could make big earthquakes when they slip, is fundamental to being able to properly assess tectonic hazards," he said.
Top image: A view from a boat, sailing along the south coast of the island of Seram. The planar slope, dipping gently to the right (south), is the surface of the Banda detachment fault.


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Thanks Candy, everyone I showed it to laughed and said the butterfly looked like an alien, hence the caption!
Wow! I've never seen a silver butterfly. Beautiful photo, Lynne!
Thanks Jill. There was an almost luminous quality to this one, the others flying with it looked cream by comparison and their markings were the usual dark colour rather than this silvery grey. Hope you are having a good weekend.
I think this is the best "pose" I have captured so far; lots of the other shots were more "move to trash" than WOW!
Thank you Marylin. The marjoram was covered in winged creatures that afternoon and I spent a very happy 20 minutes taking photographs; this was my favourite.


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Strong spurious transcription likely a cause of DNA insert bias in typical metagenomic clone libraries
Kathy N. Lam, Trevor C. Charles
Kathy N. Lam
1Department of Biology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Trevor C. Charles
Background Clone libraries provide researchers with a powerful resource with which to study nucleic acid from diverse sources. Metagenomic clone libraries in particular have aided in studies of microbial biodiversity and function, as well as allowed the mining of novel enzymes for specific functions of interest. These libraries are often constructed by cloning large-inserts (∼30 kb) into a cosmid or fosmid vector. Recently, there have been reports of GC bias in fosmid metagenomic clone libraries, and it was speculated that the bias may be a result of fragmentation and loss of AT-rich sequences during the cloning process. However, evidence in the literature suggests that transcriptional activity or gene product toxicity may play a role in library bias.
Results To explore the possible mechanisms responsible for sequence bias in clone libraries, and in particular whether fragmentation is involved, we constructed a cosmid clone library from a human microbiome sample, and sequenced DNA from three different steps of the library construction process: crude extract DNA, size-selected DNA, and cosmid library DNA. We confirmed a GC bias in the final constructed cosmid library, and we provide strong evidence that the sequence bias is not due to fragmentation and loss of AT-rich sequences but is likely occurring after the DNA is introduced into E. coli. To investigate the influence of strong constitutive transcription, we searched the sequence data for consensus promoters and found that rpoD/σ70 promoter sequences were underrepresented in the cosmid library. Furthermore, when we examined the reference genomes of taxa that were differentially abundant in the cosmid library relative to the original sample, we found that the bias appears to be more closely correlated with the number of rpoD/σ70 consensus sequences in the genome than with simple GC content.
Conclusions The GC bias of metagenomic clone libraries does not appear to be due to DNA fragmentation. Rather, analysis of promoter consensus sequences provides support for the hypothesis that strong constitutive transcription from sequences recognized as rpoD/σ70 consensus-like in E. coli may lead to plasmid instability or loss of insert DNA. Our results suggest that despite widespread use of E. coli to propagate foreign DNA, the effects of in vivo transcriptional activity may be under-appreciated. Further work is required to tease apart the effects of transcription from those of gene product toxicity.
CE,
crude extract;
size-selected;
CL,
cosmid library;
forward reads;
R,
reverse reads.
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WIDE Bay Liberal National Party candidate Llew O'Brien will ignore polling and not take anything for granted as he looks to successfully replace outgoing MP Warren Truss.
On Sunday as Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull called the election for July 2, Mr O'Brien was on the campaign trail at the Gympie South Markets.
In the seat held by Mr Truss with a 13 per cent margin, Mr O'Brien will stand against Labor's Lucy Stanton.
"I'm feeling good and positive about the future," the former police officer said yesterday.
"I look forward to a positive campaign where there will be an obvious focus on jobs and growth for Wide Bay."
Mr O'Brien is not taking any solace in the large margin currently held by Mr Truss.
"I'm absolutely focused on doing my best to prove to the people of Wide Bay that I'm worthy of their vote," he said.
"I don't look at any margins."
Labor challenger Lucy Stanton pledged to listen to voters.
"Finally, it's time for the people of Wide Bay to have their say on getting better representation in Canberra", she said.
"I'm looking forward to campaigning across Wide Bay to get job opportunities happening.
"To advocate for proper internet access, a decent education for our kids, greater protection for our environment and to stop the cuts to healthcare."
With a mammoth 55-day campaign, Mr O'Brien will travel the electorate meeting voters.
"It's going to be a long campaign - everyone has been expecting this and me and my team are ready," he said.


The American South-West is renowned for its National Parks, offering colourful desert, spectacular rock formations, deep canyons – and unforgettable adventure!
The Grand Canyon is an undisputed highlight; at 277 miles long, 18 miles wide and up to one mile deep, this Natural Wonder of the World is a sight on many wish-lists.
Spend two days in the Grand Canyon before moving on to Zion National Park, less well-known than its famous neighbour, but packed with breath-taking and challenging landscapes for trekkers.
You'll finish with a celebration in energetic Las Vegas, which couldn't contrast more with the natural beauty we have been immersed in!


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Home Business AMC Entertainment Buys Rival Carmike for $1.1 Billion
AMC Entertainment Buys Rival Carmike for $1.1 Billion
AMC Entertainment is acquiring rival Carmike for $1.1 billion, creating the largest US movie theater chain.
AMC is owned by Chinese conglomerate Dalian Wanda.
The Carmike acquisition comes on the heels of Wanda buying studio Legendary Entertainment, the company behind blockbusters like Jurassic World and The Dark Knight.
Dalian Wanda, the world's biggest movie theatre operator, took over AMC in 2012 for $2.6 billion.
The rapidly growing company is led by China's richest man, Wang Jianlin.
Wang Jianlin has been looking to buy a Hollywood studio for several years and was reported to be in talks with DreamWorks Animation in 2015, but a deal was not announced.
AMC Entertainment currently has 387 locations and 5,426 screens while Carmike has 276 theaters with 2,954 screens.
AMC Entertainment
carmike
dalian wanda
movie theater operator
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We had our twenty week ultra sound recently and the baby looks healthy and great. It's got two legs...AND two arms!! We do know the gender, so if you want to know, you'll have to call us! Below is one of what the doctor called the baby's "Skeletor" poses.


3.2.4 Inspect the Tokens "innen" and "bu" kwic().
5 Rebuild the Corpus without Tweets with lang=="tr"
Please see Twitter pt. 1 for Twitter Mining with rtweet and the details of the data handling approach.
Something I didn't account for last time, was the possibility that some Twitter Users might have been mentioning / monitoring multiple conferences, esp. with regards to the interrelation between Political Science, Sociology, and History.
Let's single them out and assign a "Mixed" label.
Only 42 Tweets? Out of a sample of almost 5K? Twitter Silos, anyone?
Meine Wunsch an #ScienceTwitter jetzt wo #dvpw18 & #HisTag18 & #dgs18 parallel laufen: Kann jemand analysieren, wie viel Schnittmenge es zwischen den Programmen gibt?
For further, "Corpus-based"" analysis (and beyond) we'll use the quanteda package.
I aim to re-do as much as I can from this series with Julia Silge's tidytext package, soon, btw.
As we already have singled out "interdisciplinary" Tweets, we'll just anti_join() every other tibble with the mixed Tweets.
That's even easier thanks to Quanteda.
For most really usuful approaches to "text as data" we'll need a sparse document-feature matrix (dfm). Doing this with quanteda is straight forward, but there are some less prominent Tweets.
We get nfeat(joint_dfm) = 20832 features, but as we can see from the topfeatures() output, the top features are mostly (and unsurprisingly very common German words which are also know as stopwords in NLP).
Also, note how stopwords("german") consists of 231 tokens. Just for comparison, tidytext::stop_words has a total of 1149 stopwords for English. So we probably will have to include custom stopword lists repeatedly.
Great. But … what is "amp"???
# This way, we'll keep our custom "amp" and "innen"
That's better. But what's up with "innen" and "bu"?
Ok, so "< / | * >innen" is part of the gendered forms of plurals of German terms such as Colleagues, Citizens, Rassists et al. We might want to think of a robust solution - which should not be stemming - here. Maybe ngrams=2 or some clever str_c(<regex> + (* | /) + "innen"") might help. But for now we'll just add "innen" as a stopword.
otomatik olarak yapıyorsa bu bekleyiş neden ?
, DGS neden bu kadar itibarsızlaştırılıyor ?
Turkish? Huh? Seems like the Sociologists' hashtag (#dgs18, #dgs2018) was heaviliy used by the Turkish Twitter community, too.
Yikes! So my result from the previous post were totally biased in favour of the Sociology Conference. And what language is "und" and what about the joint collection?
lang == "tr" and lang == "und" definitly need some closer inspection.
Key Learning: I could have avoided stepping into this trap if I had plotted the distribution of Tweets over time… Exploratory Data Analysis FTW.
See that left peak around the 20th? Arghhhh!
Ok, that's already better, but there are still 92 Turkish Tweets in the sample, and 120 Tweets for lang == "und".
Let's have a look at the remaining Turkish Tweets and then rebuild our corpora and the document-feature matrix.
#dgs2018 derslerden muaf olmak için en çok 5 yıl önce ilgili programdan mezun olmak gerekir şartı var mı arkadaşlar????? Bilen birisi bilgilendirsin lütfen.
#dgs2018 AÖF lisans dersleri DGS muafiyetinde kullanıyor mu??
But who's going to tell the German Sociologists that my report from last week had to be corrected and that they didn't perform that well, actually …!?
Key learning: Never rely on blind/nummeric analysises only. Always do some qualitative exploration and check for plausibility - even when it's "only" for a blog!!!
That's a difference of another ~30 Tweets. Nice. We'll use that in a minute.
However, if you have been jumping back and forth within this post (or .Rmd Notebook), then you (=me) might have lost track of the various manipulations and state differences (i.e. think of custom_stopwords). Plus, the dgs_corpus would still need attention, too, and as we've filtered out a lot of Tweets by setting a lower time limit, the common time period for the corpora would differ, too. BAD!
So let's rebuild the corpora from scratch.
We'll just add filter(created_at > "2018-09-23") and for the sake of robustness, we'll filter all corpora for lang != "tr", and anti_join(dgs_corpus) with tr_user.
As I want both, discipline-specific copora with "multidisciplinary Tweets" and a redundancy-free joint corpus, I'll build the corpora in two steps.
## not totally sure about the effect of setting text_field = "text"
corpus(docid_field = "status_id", text_field = "text") # 42 docs!
Of course, eventually, we should update and rm() all the obselete *_collection objects or simply consolidate all the "valid" Tweets in a .rds file. However, I'm not so much into editing raw-ish / original data, so doing that is up to you.
## Elapsed time: 0.58 seconds.
We're down to 15763 features from 3748 documents (Tweets) and were able to get rid of 608 features with the iteratively refined approach.
And as we might want to use a grouped dfm for group comparisons (and dfm_group doesn't seem to work for me here), we'll create a custom grouped one, too.
There are still a couple features which would qualify for being removed (such as "unsere", "mal", "schon"), but we will take care of that with the super-useful quanteda::dfm_trim(<term_freq>) threshold-based feature selection.
However, I learned a lot doing this today, and I hope that it became obvious that dealing with text as data is not to be underestimated.