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Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award 2013 Winner & Winners List 1949 to preent
07-Jul-2013 The Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award was established in 1949 to recognize annually the most distinguished work of scholarship in the history of architecture published by a North American scholar.
2013 Hitchcock Award Winner
Jean-Louis Cohen, Architecture in Uniform: Designing and Building for the Second World War, Canadian Centre for Architecture/ Éditions Hazan, 2011
Heather Hyde Minor, The Culture of Architecture in Enlightenment Rome, The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010
The Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award was established in 1949 to recognize annually the most distinguished work of scholarship in the history of architecture published by a North American scholar.
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Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award Winner History
2013 Jean-Louis Cohen. Architecture in Uniform: Designing and Building for the Second World War
Canadian Centre for Architecture/ Éditions Hazan, 2011.
2013 (Honorable Mention) Heather Hyde Minor. The Culture of Architecture in Enlightenment Rome , The
Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010.
2012 Michelangelo Sabatino. Pride in Modesty: Modernist Architecture and the Vernacular Tradition in
Italy, University of Toronto Press, 2010.
2011 Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen. Alvar Aalto: Architecture, Modernity, and Geopolitics. Yale University Press,
2010 Cammy Brothers. Michelangelo, Drawing, and the Invention of Architecture. Yale University Press,
2009 Abigail A. Van Slyck. A Manufactured Wilderness: Summer Camps and the Shaping of American
Youth, 1890-1960. University of Minnesota Press, 2006.
2009 (Hon. mention) Steven Nelson. Cameroon to Paris:Mousgoum Architecture In and Out of Africa.
2008 Michael W. Fazio and Patrick A. Snadon. The Domestic Architecture of Benjamin Henry Latrobe.
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
2007 John Archer. Architecture and Suburbia: From English Villa to American Dream House, 1690–2000.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005.
2006 Christine Macy & Sarah Bonnemaison. Architecture and Nature - Creating the American
Landscape. Routledge, 2003.
2005 Jordan Sand. House and Home in Modern Japan: Architecture, Domestic Space, and Bourgeois
Culture, 1880-1930. Harvard University Asia Center Publications, 2003.
2004 Katherine M. Solomonson. The Chicago Tribune Tower Competition. New York: Cambridge
University Press, 2001.
2003 Joseph Siry. The Chicago Auditorium Building. Adler and Sullivan's Architecture and the
City. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002.
2002 Sibel Bozdogan. Modernism and Nation-Building: Turkish Architectural Culture in the Early
Republic. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001.
2002 Isabelle Hyman. Marcel Breuer, Architect. New York: Henry N. Abrams, Inc., 2001.2001 Eve Blau. The Architecture of Red Vienna, 1919-1934. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999.
2000 Alina Payne. The Architectural Treatise in the Renaissance. New York: Cambridge University Press,
1999 Marvin Trachtenberg. Dominion of the Eye: Urbanism, Art & Power in Early Modern Florence. New
York: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
1998 Joseph Rykwert. The Dancing Column: On Order in Architecture. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1996.
1997 Harry Francis Mallgrave. Gottfried Semper Architect of the Nineteenth Century. New Haven: Yale
1996 William L. MacDonald and John Pinto. Hadrian's Villa and Its Legacy. New Haven: Yale University
Press, 1995.
1995 Michael J. Lewis. The Politics of the German Gothic Revival: August Reichensperger. Cambridge:
MIT Press, 1993.
1994 Fikret Yegul. Baths and Bathing in Classical Antiquity. New York: Architectural History Foundation,
1992 Richard Etlin. Modernism in Italian Architecture, 1890-1940. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1991.
1991 Patricia Waddy. Seventeenth-Century Roman Palaces. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1990.
1991 Hilary Ballon. The Paris of Henri IV. New York: Architectural History Foundation, 1991.
1990 Anthony Vidler. Claude-Nicolas Ledoux, Architecture and Social Reform at the End of the Ancien
Regime. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1990.
1989 David Friedman. Florentine New Towns: Urban Design in the Late Middle Ages. Cambridge: MIT
1988 David Van Zanten. Designing Paris: The Architecture of Duban, Labrouste, Duc and
Vaudoyer. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1987.
1987 Dell Upton. Holy Things and Profane: Anglican Parish Churches in Colonial Virginia. Cambridge: MIT
1986 William L MacDonald. The Architecture of the Roman Empire: An Urban Appraisal. New Haven: Yale
University Press, 1986.1985 David Brownlee. The Law Courts: The Architecture of George Edmund Street. Cambridge: MIT
1984 Paul Venable Turner. Campus: An American Planning Tradition. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1984.
1983 Alberto Perez-Gomez. Architecture and the Crisis of Modern Science. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1983.
1982 Robert Grant Irving. Indian Summer: Lutyens, Baker and Imperial Delhi. New Haven: Yale University
1981 Franklin Hamilton Hazelhurst. Gardens of Illusion: The Genius of Andre LeNostre. Nashville:
Vanderbilt University Press, 1980.
1980 Richard Krautheimer. Rome: Profile of a City,312-1308. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980.
1979 Norma Evenson. Paris: A Century of Change, 1878-1978. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979.
1979 Abbott Lowell Cummings. The Framed Houses of Massachusetts Bay, 1625-1725. Cambridge:
1978 Myra Nan Rosenfeld and The Architectural History Foundation. Sebastiano Serlio on Domestic
Architecture. New York: Architectural History Foundation, 1978.
1977 Mary Louise Christovich; Sally Kittredge Evans; Betsy Swanson; Roulhac Toledano. The Esplanade
Ridge (Vol.V in New Orleans Architecture series). Pelican Publishing, 1977.
1976 no award given
1975 Rudolf Wittkower. Gothic vs. Classic, Architectural Projects in Seventeenth-Century Italy. New
York: G. Braziller, 1974.
1974 Laura Wood Roper. FLO, A Biography of Frederick Law Olmsted. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
1973 Marvin Trachtenberg. The Campanile of Florence Cathedral, "Giotto's Tower". New York: New York
1972 Thomas F. Mathews. The Early Churches of Constantinople: Architecture and Liturgy. University
Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1971.
1972 H. Allen Brooks. The Prairie School, Frank Lloyd Wright and his Mid-Western Contemporaries.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1972.1971 no award given
1970 Franklin Toker. The Church of Notre-Dame in Montreal: An Architectural History. Montreal: McGill
1969 Phyllis Williams Lehmann. Samothrace, Volme III: The Hieron. Princeton: Princeton University
1968 Barbara Miller Lane. Architecture and Politics in Germany, 1918-1945. Cambridge: Harvard
1967 Richard Pommer. Eighteenth-Century Architecture in Piedmont. New York: New York University
1966 Richard Krautheimer. Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture. Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1965.
1965 John McAndrew. The Open Air Churches of Sixteenth Century Mexico, Atrios, Posas, Open Air
Chapels, and Other Studies. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1965.
1964 Alan Gowans. Images of American Living, Four Centuries of Architecture and Furniture as Cultural
Expression. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1964.
1963 Robert Branner. La Cathédrale de Bourges et sa Place dans l'Architecture Gothique. Paris: Tardy,
1962 George Kubler. Art and Architecture of Ancient America. New York: Penguin Books, 1962.
1961 James Ackerman. The Architecture of Michelangelo. London: Zwemmer, 1961.
1960 David Coffin. The Villa D'Este at Tivoli. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1960.
1959 Kenneth J. Conant. Carolingian and Romanesque Architecture, 800 to 1200. Harmondsworth:
Penguin Books, 1959.
1958 Marcus Whiffen. The Public Buildings of Williamsburg, Colonial Capital of Virginia; an Architectural
History. Williamsburg, Va.: Colonial Williamsburg, 1958.
1957 Frederick D. Nichols. The Early Architecture of Georgia. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina
1956 Carroll L. V. Meeks. The Railroad Station: An Architectural History. New Haven: Yale University
Press, 1956.1955 Talbot Hamlin. Benjamin Henry Latrobe. New York: Oxford University Press, 1955.
1954 Henry-Russell Hitchcock. Early Victorian Architecture in Britain. New Haven: Yale University Press,
1953 Thomas Howarth. Charles Rennie Macintosh and the Modern Movement. London: Routledge and
Kegan Paul, Ltd., 1952.
1952 Antoinette Downing & Vincent Scully. The Architectural Heritage of Newport. Cambridge: Harvard
1951 Anthony Garvan. Architecture and Town Planning in Colonial Connecticut. New Haven: Yale
1950 Rexford Newcomb. Architecture of the Old Northwest Territory. Chicago: University of Chicago
1949 Harold Wethey. Colonial Architecture and Sculpture in Peru. Cambridge: Harvard University Press,


A network of maliciously installed bots running on multiple computers.
The attacker will then study the compromised computer and learn what software is used and work out possible ways to carry out fraudulent transactions.
After several hours on the phone with him--repeatedly trying to get her to pay for services (she refused) and claiming her computer was full of viruses (it did not appear to be)--my student ended the call without a working Netflix account and with a potentially compromised computer.
The department instructs that, if at all possible, companies should avoid using a potentially compromised computer system to communicate about an incident or to discuss the company's response.
Webinjects are used by a number of banking trojans to alter the content of a webpage when a user sees on compromised computer.
The team told the president that they have found a new way to extract information from an air-gapped network - that is, a network not connected to any other network - by using a compromised computer in the network transmit information from the network to a cell phone using a monitor as a radio transmitter.
Targeted attacks such as Disttrack in 2012 are commonly used for the purposes of industrial espionage to gain access to the confidential information or intellectual property on a compromised computer system or network.
That compromised computer is used by a botnet to lure new users by various means such as spam email.
Consider, to cite just one example, that the NYT had to stay on digital vigil for four full months so that it could 'identify every digital back door the hackers used' following which time it had to replace "every compromised computer and set up new defences in hopes of keeping hackers out".
It is a destructive malware that corrupts files on a compromised computer and overwrites the MBR (Master Boot Record) in an effort to render a computer unusable," Symantec says in a blog posting about the virus, which it called W32.
Without directly referring to the Saudi Aramco attack, Symantec, one of the world's largest Internet security companies, described the virus as a destructive malware that corrupts files on a compromised computer and overwrites the MBR (Master Boot Record) in an effort to render a computer unusable.
The user of the compromised computer is usually unaware that anything malicious has occurred.
Just as we can replace hardware, so can we rebuild a compromised computer.


Wojciech Skowroński was the greatest interpreter of rock 'n' roll, boogie, rock, soul, and jazz fusion in history. Gifted with a high-pitched, wonderfully projected rock 'n' roll voice and brilliant piano technique, the artist effortlessly covered Western standards and successfully composed his own works in the style of Anglo-Saxon songs. Wojciech Skowroński's band were good live performers. On stage, their songs regularly turned into long, over 10-minute intricate improvisations.
The album is the first of the 4 planned parts of a collection covering all radio, TV and concert Skowroński's recordings in years 1970-1979.
Wojciech Skowroński's music is a mixture of rock n' roll, blues, jazz, and soul. The brilliant piano part and Skowroński's stylish, high-pitched voice will capture the listener's attention.
20 recordings, over 78 minutes of music !!!
The material has been fully remastered from master tapes and sounds excellent.
The colourful 20-page book, contains, among others, plenty of unique photos and a detailed in-depth comment.
Why search for rare recordings of Wojciech Skowroński in popular compilations (mostly badly edited) when you can invest in an orderly compendium of knowledge on the artist's music, prepared in cooperation with many people who themselves participated in the recording?
More than a must for all fans of Polish rock music, big beat, blues, jazz and soul.


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Q: Overriding WooCommerce function in includes folder I am looking to make some modifications to a function in WooCommerce, on a file called class-wc-product-variation.php in woocommerce/includes/
The function I'm looking to modify is:
public function variation_is_visible() {
    $visible = true;

    // Published == enabled checkbox
    if ( get_post_status( $this->variation_id ) != 'publish' ) {
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    // Out of stock visibility
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        $visible = false;
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    // Price not set
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        $visible = false;
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    return apply_filters( 'woocommerce_variation_is_visible', $visible, $this->variation_id, $this->id );
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I need to add another elseif line in there like so:
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        $visible = false;
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How do I do this without making changes to the core files?

A: You should never modify the core files in plugin. In the given function, there is filter woocommerce_variation_is_visible available. Use that filter to customize as per your need.
Code in core file is:
return apply_filters( 'woocommerce_variation_is_visible', $visible, $this->variation_id, $this->id );

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КАвЗ-3244 (3241) — российский штабной автобус малого класса капотной компоновки, разработанный на базе грузового шасси ЗИЛ-5301БО.

Описание
Производство автобуса КАвЗ-3244 началось в 1996 году. Он выпускался на дочернем предприятии ТОО «Вика ЛТД».

Серийное производство модели началось в 1998 году. В 2001 году был представлен вариант КАвЗ-32441 (КАвЗ-324410).

Особенности
Автобус КАвЗ-3244 является производной моделью от ЗИЛ-5301БО. Кабина, двигатель и трансмиссия полностью заимствованы от базовой модели.

Отличия от ЗИЛ-3250
Автобус КАвЗ-3244 является лицензионным клоном автобуса ЗИЛ-3250. Отличия заключаются в использовании форточек от КАвЗ-3976, наружной боковой автоматической двери с приводом «обкатывающего» типа (у автобуса ЗИЛ-3250 были двери от автобусов Ikarus-415 (задняя) и ЛиАЗ-5256; также присутствовала сдвижная дверь) и возможном отсутствии задней двустворчатой двери. Передние верхние габаритные огни в некоторых моделях присутствуют на крыше (у ЗИЛ-3250 они были только над лобовым стеклом).

Технические характеристики

 Двигатель: ММЗ-Д-245.12С
 Мощность: 80 кВт (109 л.с.)
 Объём двигателя: 4,75 л
 Крутящий момент: 350 Н*м
 Стандарт выбросов: ЕВРО-1
 Расход топлива: 14 л / 100 км
 Трансмиссия: пятиступенчатая механическая коробка передач «ЗИЛ-130»
 Объём бака: 125 л
 Максимальная скорость: 90 км / ч
 Тормозная система: гидравлическая, ABS опционально
 Колёсная формула: 4 × 2
 Длина: 6700 мм
 Ширина: 2230 мм
 Высота: 2875 мм
 Колёсная база: 3650 мм
 Высота салона для стоящих пассажиров: 1920 мм
 Ширина двери: 650 мм
 Количество мест для сидения: 15
 Количество стоячих мест: 14
 Снаряжённая масса: 5200 кг
 Полная масса: 6900 кг

Примечания

Ссылки

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Автобусы КАвЗ
Автобусы на основе грузовых автомобилей

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This very cute Feathery Friends stamp set is a delight to colour. I chose the 2 sweet birdie images to colour for this card, but there are some pretty stems and flowers that I'm planning on using sometime soon.
I used ink refills and Blender pens to colour my images.


Alright, so it was very hard to stop long enough to take a picture. Absolutely perfect "bluebird" powder day. Pine cone is a hiking access ridge that is closed more then it is open. Today was the first day of the year for lower pine cone. It's as close to back country skiing as you can get in bounds. We did four laps and by the fourth my legs were shaking uncontrollably. I'm going to pay for it tomorrow.
This is my super good friend Marcy. Marcy was in a avalanche on pine cone ridge back in 2003. What a trooper to keep at it even after that experience.
On a lighter note...I've lost my cell phone. If anyone calls, please leave your number even if you think I have it. Thanks!!
Off to a wedding (the real reason I am out here). Check in tomorrow for some pictures.


Update from May 29, 2018: Today, we published Z-order indexing for multifaceted queries in Amazon DynamoDB: Part 2.
Using Z-order indexing, you can efficiently run range queries on any combination of fields in your schema. Although Amazon DynamoDB doesn't natively support Z-order indexing, you can implement the functionality entirely from the client side. A single Z-order index can outperform and even replace entire collections of secondary indexes, saving you money and improving your throughput.
When DynamoDB launched in 2012, its indexing options were limited. There were no secondary indexes. You could only order your data on disk by specifying a sort key during table setup, and a sort key could only be a single attribute. The following year, DynamoDB introduced the ability to declare a variety of indexes for an individual table, greatly increasing the database's flexibility. However, the core design in which each index orders data by a single attribute is still in effect. This post explores an alternative approach to indexing, using which you can execute efficient queries across any number of attributes.
For illustrative purposes, we have randomly generated a set of 300,000 such temperature reports. Each report has been attributed to a single fictional weather organization called Under the Weather (UTW), which has a source ID of 1. The data spans three months and covers the continental United States. We will use this dataset to demonstrate the performance of various queries and indexes.
In DynamoDB, composite indexes can be made up of at most two attributes: a partition key and a sort key. In our example, the sourceId field of each entry (shown in blue) is our partition key; all data with the same sourceId value will reside in the same partition of our table. Because many of our queries for weather data will be limited to a given time frame (for example, a specified day, week, or month), you might be tempted to simply use the timestamp field (shown in green) as our sort key . However, in doing so you quickly hit a roadblock, as we discuss following.
DynamoDB doesn't permit two rows to share the same combination of partition key and sort key values.
When querying for a range of items within a partition, DynamoDB can only constrain its search by the value of the sort key. We can specify constraints on other fields, but the server will only use them to filter the set of items that has already been retrieved from the table using the sort key. Constraints imposed on fields other than the sort key will reduce neither the amount of read capacity consumed by the query nor the amount of time that it takes the query to run.
Given our use case, the uniqueness constraint complicates things quite a bit. We cannot use timestamp alone as our sort key because we expect to receive multiple updates from sensors around the world at more or less the same time. If no two items in a DynamoDB table can have the same sourceId and timestamp combination, we'll end up occasionally losing data. In our example table, preceding, the first and second rows cannot coexist.
Because the newly generated timestamp_lat_long values are all prefixed with the timestamp value, we can still query for all items within a given timeframe as we could before. But, because no single source of weather data will have two sensors sending reports from the same place at the same time, we no longer risk having primary key collisions in our data. Thus, we've satisfied the uniqueness constraint. However, another constraint is still looming.
How warm did it get in Atlanta, Georgia, in the last week of March?
How often was it cold enough to snow in New York City in the first quarter of 2016?
In what places did we record exactly 0°C (32° F) in the last hour?
Has it ever dipped below 5°C (41° F) within 30 degrees' latitude of the equator?
When the sun rose this morning, what was the warmest city in the US Eastern Time Zone?
Examining query 1, we can see that it provides helpful query bounds on most of the data that we collect. We're only looking for items created "in the last week of March," so we have a relatively small timestamp search space. Better still, we only care about results "in Atlanta," so we can define a narrow range of latitude and longitude values for our query.
As you can see, our randomized dataset only contained a single item relevant to our query, but we had to scan over 23,000 items to find it!
Unfortunately, the nature of DynamoDB's composite indexes prevents us from deriving any benefit from the query's very specific bounds on latitude and longitude. Our data from UTW spans three months, so a single week represents about 1/12 of it—approximately the fraction of the table's 300,000 items that were scanned. DynamoDB narrowed its search to items from the last week in March, but it was then forced to scan items from the entire country in that timeframe to find those reported from Atlanta. The non-Atlanta items that DynamoDB found were filtered out of our query results, but only after the scan had taken place. This inefficiency causes the query to consume a surprisingly large amount of read capacity. Because that metric is central to DynamoDB's billing calculations, it means that we're spending more money per query than we'd like to.
In this query, we're trying to identify a set of points in time. As a result, the bounds on the timestamp field are very loose—they cover the entire three-month range of the data. Because of this, our index is effectively useless. DynamoDB must scan the entire table in order to find a single item, consuming a whopping 5,812.5 read capacity units. Depending on the read capacity that we have provisioned for our table, later pages being requested as part of this query might not be returned due to throttling. If throttling occurs, other queries might also be prevented from executing.
Ah, there we go! As expected, this query found the data with only a relatively small number of erroneous items being scanned.
That's all well and good for query 3, but we want all of our queries to be reasonably efficient. With that in mind, what actions can we take?
One option is to take advantage of DynamoDB's local secondary indexes (LSIs). Using this feature, we can create a set of alternative indexes that each order our data using a different field. This approach allows us to use the field that's most helpful for each query.
Unfortunately, if we want to cover a broad assortment of queries, we would need to create quite a few LSIs—as many as one per field. Each LSI that we maintain consumes additional write capacity when we perform PutItem, UpdateItem, and DeleteItem operations on our main table. LSIs also maintain their own copies of data from the main table, causing the amount of storage being consumed to balloon. Both of these characteristics translate to additional expense.
Perhaps worse, having a separate index for each field still doesn't provide any performance improvement for queries with multiple helpful bounds. For example, a query with bounds on both latitude and longitude (which would be typical for location-based searches) can't use a combination of those fields' respective indexes. In cases like this, you're forced to use whichever of the two indexes you believe narrows the search space the most on its own.
Intuitively, this situation feels ripe for optimization. Let's try something different.
As you can see, the line that traverses the plane follows a "Z" pattern from which this algorithm derives its name. We call this line a Z-order curve. As it happens, Z-ordering is not limited to 2-dimensional space—it can be abstracted to work in any number of dimensions.
In a database context, each field that we want to search against can be considered a dimension. In our weather aggregation example, we have four dimensions: timestamp, latitude, longitude, and celsius. If we treat each record as a 4-dimensional point in a hypercube (a 4D space), we can use Z-ordering to map each record onto a 1D line. Thanks to Z-ordering's locality property, records that were adjacent in the 4D space will end up close to each other on the line. This behavior is important because, although classic databases have some difficulty effectively indexing multidimensional data, they're terrific at indexing linear data. Using Z-ordering, we can use a common B-tree to organize our multidimensional records in the same manner that one would organize data sorted by a conventional number or string.
The core mechanism underlying Z-ordering is the ability to translate a tuple of several field values into a single number: that record's Z-address. To achieve this, we simply interleave the bits of each field in the record.
Now that we have a Z-address for our record, what do we do with it? Much like our weather data's index ordered its records by timestamp, we will order our records according to their z_address value.
Note: As we learned at the beginning, DynamoDB does not allow two items in a table to have the same partition key value and the same sort key value. Because we are sorting on the z_address field of our items, only those items with the same value for all of the Z-address's constituent dimensions will be considered duplicates. In the preceding examples, two records would have to share the same X and Y values in order to produce the same Z-address and cause a collision.
Now that we can calculate the Z-address for any individual item, we can start building queries for our data. As with conventional sort key indexes, our queries consist of a minimum and a maximum value that define a range of items that we want to read. To find the Z-addresses that we should use as our minimum and maximum, we need to synthesize a record whose field values represent the lower bound on our range and another record whose fields represent the upper bound.
For example, imagine that we are searching for records with an x value between 2 and 3 and a y value between 4 and 5. Our data is 2-dimensional and we are interested in items that fall within a specified rectangular query space. We create item [x=2, y=4] to represent our lower bound (the upper left of our rectangle) and item [x=3, y=5] to represent the upper bound (the lower right of our rectangle). If we represent x and y with one byte each, we can translate these items into the Z-addresses 36 (100100) and 39 (100111), respectively.
Note: If one or more dimensions in a query are unbounded (for example, no X range is specified), simply use the minimum and maximum possible values for that dimension.
Having done this, we now have a linear range that we can iterate across that contains all of the items in our rectangular query space. It's important to understand that the preceding diagram represents the fraction of the total Z-address domain that we'll need to search. Our range covers four Z-addresses, but that does not mean we will get back four items. Rather, we have calculated the four possible locations that might house data that match our query. Every record in the query space falls on the line between the minimum and maximum Z-addresses in our query. If we craft an API request for this range of Z-addresses, we'll get all of the data that we need.
The preceding example is slightly contrived. As you've likely noticed, there are "seams" in the Z-order curve where the linear traversal is required to jump to a different region before continuing its path. If your query range intersects with one of these seams, our queries get slightly more complicated.
Consider the query rectangle from a minimum of [x=1, y=3] to a maximum of [x=3, y=4]. Our minimum and maximum Z-addresses are 11 (001011) and 37 (100101), respectively.
Now we have a problem: In this case, the line's journey from 11 to 37 also traverses large areas of the search space that are outside of the query space, the portion of the path shown in red. This detour from our query's rectangle means that in addition to our desired results, we might also get back some amount of garbage data from our query. Although we can use DynamoDB's FilterExpression feature to weed out these irrelevant entries before they're returned to us, scanning garbage data is obviously something that we want to avoid wherever possible.
We can avoid these irrelevant regions of our search space using two functions: isRelevant and nextJumpIn.
isRelevant—Provided a minimum Z-address, a maximum Z-address, and a test Z-address, the isRelevant function tells us whether the test address falls within the query rectangle created by the minimum and maximum Z-addresses.
nextJumpIn—Given any point on the Z-order curve that is between 11 and 37 but which is outside the query rectangle, the nextJumpIn function calculates the next smallest Z-address that is back inside the query rectangle. For example, calculating nextJumpIn(11, 37, 16) gives us a Z-address of 33. This result allows us to jump from [x=4, y=1] all the way to [x=1, y=4], eliminating a huge, irrelevant portion of the search space.
Starting with our query's minimum Z-address of 11, we can iterate through each Z-address and test its relevance by calling isRelevant(11, 37, zAddress). If it returns false, we know that we have stepped outside of the query rectangle and can use nextJumpIn(11, 37, zAddress) to skip to the next Z-address that we care about. Following this procedure, we can break the range of 11 to 37 into a set of very narrow subranges: 11 to 11, 14 to 15, 33 to 33, and 36 to 37. Those are the only Z-addresses we need to check—we have narrowed the number of possible Z-addresses for our query from 27 to 6.
To summarize: identifying a minimum and maximum Z-address for our query gives us a single linear query range to explore for relevant results. Using nextJumpIn allows us to skip regions of the query range that are irrelevant, breaking that range down into a list of subranges that contain no garbage values. Computing these subranges can be done locally, without any interaction with the database. This property is very powerful—we can get flawless results from the database if we're willing to do a little bit of math beforehand.
Although this approach sounds very promising, it's not without drawbacks. Breaking our single search range into more precise subranges reduces the number of garbage items being scanned, thereby reducing read capacity consumption. However, because DynamoDB doesn't currently support batched range queries, each separate subrange represents an additional API call to make. Every API call requires execution time and consumes a small amount of read capacity even if it doesn't find or scan any items.
The optimal approach to querying a Z-order index varies on a case-by-case basis. What works best is influenced heavily by how much data has actually been stored in the database in relation to the number of distinct Z-addresses that can be represented by the number of bits in each Z-address.
Let's revisit our earlier example in which we stored items that represented 2D points on a plane. Each entry had an X and a Y field that were represented by a single byte apiece. As a result, the Z-addresses in that table have a size of 2 bytes, a search space of 65,536 distinct values. We'll consider three approaches to querying this table.
Imagine that our table contains a single 2D point. In this case, our data's Z-addresses are incredibly sparse—only one out of the potential 65,536 Z-addresses is in use. Knowing this, we can build a query that requests a huge Z-address range with the confidence that the range contains a relatively low number of items, garbage or not.
In such a situation, it makes sense to use naive querying—we simply calculate the minimum and maximum Z-addresses for our query as described previously and perform an API request for that single, broad range.
This approach minimizes both the amount of up-front query calculation required and the number of API requests being made. Some garbage items might be scanned, but we know that they'll be few and far between and our FilterExpression will prevent them from being returned.
Now let's consider the opposite case. Imagine that our table contains 65,000 items. Nearly all of our 65,536 potential Z-addresses are in use. Now there's a very high probability that a naive query will scan a substantial number of garbage items. We might even go through several pages of data that return few or no results due to wasted read capacity.
In this situation, it is worthwhile to spend some time calculating all of the subranges that are free of garbage items before we begin running our query. Because our data is very dense in relationship to our search space, very few of our subrange queries will have been wasted effort. We might perform many more individual queries than we would using the naive technique, but almost all of them will return relevant items and none of them will scan garbage data.
Note that while the data in the database is dynamic, with items being added and deleted over time, our Z-address search space is completely fixed. It is always the same 65,536 potential values. Because of this, the subranges that we calculate for a query only need to be computed once. This makes these subranges ideal candidates for caching.
The two scenarios described preceding represent a continuum. Realistically, most tables will end up falling somewhere in the middle of the continuum, with their data being neither exceptionally sparse nor dense in relationship to the Z-address domain. Because naive and precise querying each perform best at their relative extremes, we need a technique that offers a compromise. We want a good balance between computation required, garbage items scanned, and number of API requests required. Also, critically, we need a procedure that we can implement using DynamoDB's existing client APIs. Fortunately, such a procedure exists.
Decide on a range for each dimension of our data (for example, x between 4 and 7, y between 6 and 9).
Using these ranges, calculate the naive Z-address query range.
Use isRelevant and nextJumpIn to locate the start of the first relevant query subrange.
Uses the range from the start of the first relevant query subrange to the naive Z-address query maximum as its key condition.
Uses the dimensional ranges as its filter expression.
Uses DynamoDB's maxPageSize feature (a.k.a. limit) to ask that only up to N items be scanned. (The number of items scanned is not the same as the number of items returned.) We might end up getting a page back that contains zero items, but we would not have examined more than N items. N is a tunable value, but should be relatively small (for example, 16).
isRelevant(naiveMinimum, naiveMaximum, nextKeyToEvaluate) is true—we're still inside a relevant subrange of our search space, a part of the Z-order curve within our query rectangle. In this case, we can repeat our original query with a small modification: We'll replace the lower Z-address bound with nextKeyToEvaluate. We'll keep the naive maximum as our upper bound.
isRelevant(naiveMinimum, naiveMaximum, nextKeyToEvaluate) is false—we've stepped outside of the query rectangle. We can use the nextJumpIn function to determine the start of the next relevant subrange. If nextJumpIn(naiveMinimum, naiveMaximum, nextKeyToEvaluate) does not find a next value, our search is complete. Otherwise, we can submit our query using nextJumpIn(naiveMinimum, naiveMaximum, nextKeyToEvaluate) as the new lower bound, retaining the naive maximum as the upper bound.
Repeat step 6 as necessary until the response from DynamoDB doesn't include a LastEvaluatedKey field, indicating that your search is complete.
If our data is sparse, each request that we perform might traverse vast regions of our Z-address search space by scanning N items. We will discover all of the relevant documents in relatively few API requests.
If our data is dense, we will only scan up to (N – 1) irrelevant items per request. If several small subranges fit within a range of N items, we reduce the number of API requests that we have to make.
Let's look at the queries that we ran earlier using conventional indexes. This time, we'll compare their performance and capacity costs to those of the same queries being run against a Z-order index built using the same data.
DynamoDB's costs are calculated using a combination of factors. See the official documentation for details.
Query 1: How warm did it get in Atlanta, Georgia, in the last week of March?
Query 2: How often was it cold enough to snow in New York City in the first quarter of 2016?
Query 3: In what places did we record exactly 0°C (32° F) in the last hour?
As you can see, a single Z-order index offers great performance across a variety of queries. What's more, its ability to minimize read operations can equate to real savings.
You might wonder why the Z-order index performed noticeably worse in the third query than it did in the first two. As our earlier analysis indicated, this query has two unhelpful fields: latitude and longitude. Z-order indexes derive value from each of their constituent dimensions. In this example query, we are only offering meaningful bounds on two of the four fields that were used to build our index—50 percent of our query is open-ended. By contrast, the timestamp index is tailor-made for queries exactly like this, in which the window of time being searched is very narrow indeed. With that in mind, it's pretty impressive that the Z-order index still managed to provide such reasonable performance. However, it's also an important design consideration: The more dimensions a query leaves unbound, the more that query's performance degrades. It is critical to consider what queries you'll be running when selecting the dimensions that you plan to include in your Z-addresses.
Z-order indexes allow developers to blend a set of attributes from a table's items together to form a single, scalar, representative value. This value acts as the item's sort key, allowing us to easily work within DynamoDB's composite key uniqueness constraint. It also allows us to run queries against our data that benefit from multiple dimensional constraints, making Z-order indexes particularly suited to geospatial data and AWS IoT use cases.
Z-order indexes can outperform traditional indexes by one or more orders of magnitude in the best case, allowing you to save money on provisioned throughput. Depending on your query patterns, they might be able to replace entire sets of LSIs, reducing write overhead and cutting storage costs.
Zack Slayton is a software development engineer at Amazon. He works on the open source Ion data serialization format, which was built to address rapid development, decoupling, and efficiency challenges associated with large-scale, service-oriented architectures.


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Q: SQL programming Given the two tables below, write a select statement that will select all the country names that don't have exactly one default language.
Table A
id  country_code    country_name
1   CAN             Canada
2   USA             United States of America
3   MEX             Mexico
4   IND             India
5   ESP             Spain

Table B
id  country_code    language_code   is_default
1   USA             en              t
2   CAN             fr              t
3   CAN             en              t
4   USA             es              f
5   USA             zh              f
6   IND             en              f
7   MEX             es              t
8   IND             hi              f
9   CHL             es              f

A: Join the tables and GROUP BY country_name. use a HAVING clause to filter the resulting rows to just those that have multiple language codes. You don't have to include the COUNT() as a column in order to use it in the HAVING clause.
select A.country_name
from TableA as A
inner join TableB as B
   on A.country_code = B.country_code
where b.is_default = 't'
group by A.country_name
having count(language_code) > 1

A: You're going to have to use an inner join on the "Country Code" to grab the country name. Also, you're going to have to do a count of iterations of the country name to determine the number of language_code rows present. Enjoy your Group By! :D


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The statue of Anders Sandøe Ørsted is located in Ørstedsparken in Copenhagen, Denmark. Ørsted was Denmark's leading jurist of the mid-19th century. He served as Prime Minister of Denmark in 1853–54.

Description

The monument consists of a bronze sculpture standing on a granite plinth and measures . Ørsted is depicted as an ancient wise man, sitting on a klismos and wearing a toga.  He is shown in a moment of quiet contemplation, resting his left arm on the back of the chair and his chin against his hand. Under the chair stands a casket with scrolls. The casket is decorated with a relief depicting the scene where "Memesis reads the deeds of man aloud to Jupiter" ("Nemesis oplæser menneskenes gerninger for Jupiter").

History

The statue was originally commissioned from Herman Wilhelm Bissen at the initiative of the art historian Niels Laurits Høyen. Bissen created a small statuette in 1835–36 and the original plaster model in 1836–37. The plan was to raise 6,000 Danish rigsdaler for a marble statue but Ørsted's strong political views resulted in dwindling popularity. Orla Lehmann wrote to Høyen that Ørsted wasn't a statesman but "the servant of a Fürst".

In 1842, Høyen made a new attempt to raise the money but Ørsted that same year went up against  who had spoken Danish at the  in Slesvig. This prompted Høyen to call off the fund-raising campaign. Bissen, who was known for his temper, was outraged. In about 1852, he was supposedly about the destroy the model but was stopped by force by a group of his students.

Bissen died in 1868 and thus never got to see the statue completed. Vilhelm Bissen his son and student, continued his father's studio. He sold his father's Ørsted plaster model to Carl Jacobsen in 1882. In 1885, Jacobsen also commissioned a marble copy from him.

The outdoor monument was commissioned in connection with the 10th Nordic Jurist Meeting and financed through donations from Danish and Norwegian jurists. The bronze statue was based on Bissen Jr.'s 1885 marble copy and cast in Lauritz Rasmussen's Bronze Foundry. It was unveiled during the conference on 27 August 1902.

Gallery

References

External links

 1837 statue (plaster) in Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek at Kunstindeks Danmark
 1885 statue (marble) in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek at Kunstindeks Danmark
 PDF about the Nordic Jurist Meetings, 1872-1972

Monuments and memorials in Copenhagen
Outdoor sculptures in Copenhagen
Statues of men in Copenhagen
Bronze sculptures in Copenhagen
Sculptures by Herman Wilhelm Bissen
1937 sculptures
1902 establishments in Denmark
Buildings and structures completed in 1902


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Southwestern Welcomes Dignitaries from the Republics of Armenia and Artsakh
On July 1st, 2019, Southwestern hosted distinguished guests from the Republic of Armenia and Republic of Artsakh, along with Board members of the Armenian Bar Association, for a visit.
Vice Dean Dov Waisman and Professor Anahid Gharakanian met with the following dignitaries to explore possible opportunities for collaboration, relating to legal education and protection of human rights:
Dr. Arman Tatoyan - Human Rights Defender, Republic of Armenia
Artak Beglaryan - Human Rights Ombudsman, Republic of Artsakh
Robert Avetisyan - Permanent Representative of the Nagorno Karabagh Republic in the U.S
(L-R) Dr. Arman Tatoyan, Human Rights Defender, Republic of Armenia; Artak Beglaryan, Human Rights Ombudsman, Artsakh Republic; Robert Avetisyan, Artsakh's Permanent Representative to the U.S.
Following the meeting with Professor Gharakhanian and Vice Dean Waisman, the group visited the Dean's Office and met briefly with Dean Susan Westerberg Prager.
Southwestern alumni Gerard V. Kassabian '01 and Lucy Varpetian '96 were also in attendance as the Chair and Vice-Chair of the Armenian Bar Association.
(L) Lucy Varpetian '96, Vice-Chair of the Armenian Bar Association; (R) Gerard V. Kassabian '01, Chair of the Armenian Bar Association
"Today, new seeds were planted for an impactful collaboration between Southwestern Law School, the Armenian Bar Association, and the respective offices of the Human Rights Defenders of the Republic of Armenia and the Republic of Artsakh (aka Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh) to focus on human rights issues in the Caucuses region."
- Gerard V. Kassabian '01, Chair of the Armenian Bar Association
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European markets are selling off this morning after a bad night for Asia's big bourses.
France's CAC 40 is up 0.08% after opening down.
The UK's FTSE 100 is down 0.19%, the only loser.
Asian markets are up. Japan's Nikkei closed down 2.96%, after some unexpected and very poor GDP figures. Hong Kong's Hang Seng closed down 1.21%.
US futures are down a little too: the Dow is down 32 points, and the S&P 500 is 4 points lower.
There's not much data out of Europe this morning: trade figures are out at 10 a.m. GMT and a speech by Draghi at 2 p.m. GMT could move markets, depending on the contents.
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Q: Python requests authenticitation fails with get() despite successful post() login I want to login to a website and want to download some files from there afterwards. After some research I thought that using requests will do the trick. I've tried several approaches mentioned on SO and other sites but the result is always the same. After I successfully log in with requests.post() and want to download a file with requests.get(), I keep getting the 401 Authenticication Error. The targeted urls are:
url_login = 'https://scihub.copernicus.eu/dhus/#/home'
url_data = 'https://scihub.copernicus.eu/dhus/odata/v1/Products(\'09f4711b-05da-421c-9090-47b563ca75e9\')/$value'

Here's what I've tried:
#1
import requests
from requests.auth import HTTPDigestAuth

req = requests.get(url_login, auth=HTTPDigestAuth('user', 'password'))
print(req.status_code)  # gets HTML code 200
data = requests.get(url_data)
print(data.status_code)  # gets HTML code 401

#2
import requests

credentials = dict(login='user', password='password')
session = requests.Session()

req = session.post(url_login, data=credentials)
print(req.status_code)  # gets HTML code 200
data = session.get(url_data)
print(data.status_code)  # gets HTML code 401

#3
import requests
from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth

session = requests.Session()
req = session.get(url_login, auth=(HTTPBasicAuth('user', 'password')))
print(req.status_code)  # gets HTML code 200
data = session.get(url_data)
print(data.status_code)  # gets HTML code 401

What am I missing here?
I'm using Python 3.8 in an Conda environment.


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► MMJ Free Atlanta Show April 5, 2013?!?!
MMJ Free Atlanta Show April 5, 2013?!?!
Started by craigtheowl, Mar 11, 2013, 10:48 am
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craigtheowl
Just came across this on the NCAA Final 4 website. It says that My Morning Jacket is opening for The Zack Brown Band in a free show at Centenial park on April 5. I couldn't believe what I was reading as I ahve heard nothing about them playing any shows in 2013 yet. Anybody else have info?
http://www.gadome.com/events_ticketing/events/all/1304077.aspx
MattyJD
Re: MMJ Free Atlanta Show April 5, 2013?!?!
Mar 11, 2013, 10:59 am #1
My friend just sent me this. So pumped. A free MMJ show and Louisville in the final four could be a perfect weekend for me personally . Hopefully, I can get off work as it says music starts at 3PM on Friday.
my brother is getting married in Jacksonville that weekend.
got that old time feeling
Mar 11, 2013, 01:00 pm #3
It's got to be a Jim show. I really can't see them getting the band rehearsed for one show right as Jim is kicking off his solo tour. Also we haven't heard anything about it on this site. Something isn't right about this.
that is what I was thinking! But is weird since jim is playing Atlanta in early May already
tdb810
Quote from: Fully on Mar 11, 2013, 01:00 pm
I agree; but I also think a solo Jim show would be more odd for an event like this. Looking forward to hearing more details
.....Back at the Model Home
davymac
senior member sr.
Is this real? If so, my week has been made!!!
easy way
This is truly bizarre... Looking forward to the full details from the band for sure. As Jacket is listed as an opening act, the crowds should be subdued. Living in ATL, I'll be in and out for this one!
"the time is with the month of winter solstice, when the change is due to come..."
justbcuzido
Quote from: tdb810 on Mar 11, 2013, 02:05 pm
I agree with you that it does make more sense MMJ would do the show. I'll keep my fingers crossed for y'all!
Mona Lisa must'a had the highway blues, you can tell by the way she smiles.
Maybe CC can give us some information.
Mar 11, 2013, 03:36 pm #10
Ok, I sent CC a note, just to be really annoying
CC says it should be confirmed shortly, IF true.
TheThird
Confirmed as a MMJ show, or Jim show?
http://www.discogs.com/user/TheThird/collection
Cause I would totally drive to Atlanta for a MMJ show this spring. I'm already driving there to see Jim in early May.
rjlemons
I'll be right behind you.
Mahgeetah34
Please, Please, Please be true I was just watching some MMJ videos this morning from Okonokos and Red Rocks wondering when I'll get to see the band again
ericm
"Where's Jim going?"
Quote from: TheThird on Mar 11, 2013, 04:00 pm
I asked if the band was playing; he said IF it's true it should be confirmed shortly.
They could have been offered a ridiculous sum to play or thought the exposure was too good to pass up...(even though I think it's Jim by himself, I really want it to be MMJ and true).
zanjam
Sounds like a show to me. Wow you lucky east coasters, yet again!
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Governor Rick Snyder has appointed the Clarke Historical Library's archivist, Associate Professor Marian Matyn, along with one other person, to the State Historical Records Advisory Board.
"I thank these individuals for working to preserve Michigan's great history for future generations," Snyder said.
Housed within the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, the seven-member board serves as a central advisory body for historical records planning and for National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) funded projects in the state. The board acts as a coordinating body to facilitate cooperation and communication among historical records repositories and information agencies within the state, and as a state-level review body for grant proposals that meet National Historical Publications and Records Commission grant program guidelines.
Among its initiatives is the Board's "Save Michigan History" campaign. The campaign offers financial assistance to groups within local communities to preserve and make available to the public historical records. In 2017 awards were made to:
• City of Dexter
• Saugatuck-Douglas History Center
• Lathrup Village Historical Society
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Share this Story: Samir Gandesha: The real extremism of 'first-past-the-post' electoral system
Samir Gandesha: The real extremism of 'first-past-the-post' electoral system
Samir Gandesha
Former Toronto city councillor Doug Ford announces he's publishing a book: Ford Nation, Two Brothers, One Vision: The True Story of the People's Mayor, at a news confererce in Toronto on Sept.13, 2016.
Critics of proportional representation (PR) argue that it contributes to the rise of extremism, whereas first-past-the-post (FPP) provides for greater political stability. But for the argument to stick, such critics need to define extremism. Depending on the definition, it might well be the case that FPP actually fails to prevent its rise.
There are myriad ways in which the participation in governance of small xenophobic and racist parties could be prevented, for example, through the institution of a threshold of popular vote in order to garner seats as in Germany where it stands at five per cent.
Samir Gandesha: The real extremism of 'first-past-the-post' electoral system Back to video
But it's surely a fool's game to rely exclusively on an electoral system to address political extremism. What "extremism" means is closely tied to the political history and culture of a given country. The levels of anti-immigrant racism, anti-Semitism and xenophobia witnessed in Europe are less likely in North American societies based on colonial settlement and several waves of immigration. Extremism must ultimately be addressed by arresting and reversing the dramatic increase of socio-economic inequality that we've witnessed over the past four decades and, reversing the cynicism that leaves citizens feeling powerless in the face of social and political forces seemingly beyond their control. Rather than ameliorating these processes, FPP could be said to contribute to them.
Proponents of FPP understandably avoid discussing how Donald Trump could come to power in FPP, indeed one with an Electoral College. As I suggested in these pages a few weeks ago, the rise of figures like Trump has, in part, to do with the rise of cynicism resulting from the "politics-as-usual" that disenfranchise citizens. FPP contributes to such cynicism insofar as it encourages large interest-aggregating parties oriented toward the political centre to maximize their electoral appeal. Consequently, politics becomes increasingly one dimensional and bereft of meaningful alternatives, including that of a genuine social-democratic party.
Moreover, FPP contributes to the gap between 'running" and "ruling," between what parties promise and what they actually deliver upon gaining power. Populist figures such as Trump, rightly or wrongly, are perceived as anti-establishment "outsiders" who embody "authenticity," aren't beholden to special interests and can therefore act decisively. Hence, they can supposedly keep their promises. This is their core appeal.
In Canada, it's possible to point to the rise of extremism at the margins of political life from the Soldiers of Odin and the Proud Boys to the Aryan Nations. These groups, it's legitimately feared, could become real political players were PR to supplant FPP. Arguably, though, extremism can be discerned in this country not just in the fringes, but also in both the previous governments of Stephen Harper and Christy Clark. Is it any surprise that former prime minister Harper recently congratulated far-right, anti-Semitic president of Hungary Victor Orban in his gerrymandered and fraudulent re-election. The German-Jewish social-critic Theodor W. Adorno, exiled by the Nazis, once argued that the greater threat to democracy from extremism came from its putative "defenders" rather than outright opponents.
The Conservatives were elected to a resounding majority government with about 40 per cent of the popular vote, which translated into an overwhelming majority of 166 seats (compared with the Liberals' 30.6 per cent of the vote and 103 seats). With this, they set out — not unlike Orban's Fidesz party itself — to fundamentally transform and, arguably, undermine the foundations of Canadian democracy in order to realize Harper's vision of Canada as "an emerging energy superpower." Given the fusion of executive and legislative branches of government and the convention of party discipline, by masterfully centralizing power to a historically unprecedented extent in the PMO, Harper was able to do so virtually unopposed.
Some of the legislative highlights of this government's extremist agenda worth recalling include the passage of C-51 or the Anti-Terror legislation. C-51 was deeply controversial because, according to legal experts, it fundamentally undermines the Charter. There is the Fair Elections Act, which greatly diminishes citizen participation in the political process and prevents the Chief Electoral Officer from encouraging Canadians to vote. The Harper government established two tiers of citizenship via the now-repealed Bill C-24. The PM, himself, engaged in an open feud with the Supreme Court of Canada — the only branch of government standing between him and quasi-dictatorial power. By any definition, Harper's was an extremist government on par with the UKIP or the Austrian Freedom Party. Far from preventing this unrepresentative government, FPP majoritarianism actually facilitated it.
The extremism of the Harper government was mirrored by that of Clark. According to Supreme Court documents, her government sought to provoke a political crisis in public education that it sought to blame on the teachers. Headed by a supposedly "feminist" premier, the government triple-deleted emails relating to Highway 16, or the "Highway of Tears," along which countless Indigenous women and girls disappeared or were murdered. Over the objection of the B.C. Union of Indian Chiefs, Clark ramrodded the Site C dam through the environmental process, entirely without a compelling business case. By any accounting, the B.C. Liberals were extreme and cynically did much to undermine democratic institutions in this province. It did so on the basis of 45.82 per cent of the popular vote, which translated into 49 seats, as compared with the NDP's 42.15 per cent of the vote and 35 seats. Again, FPP did precious little to prevent this extremist party from coming to power.
And, today, in Ontario, we see the very real prospect on June 7 of a Conservative government led by Doug Ford, brother of the late Rob Ford and former mayor of Toronto, who reduced Canada's largest city to the butt of U.S. late-night TV humour. Worryingly, it appears that, if elected, Doug Ford will pursue a hard-right, social-conservative agenda that, among other things, will compromise a woman's right to choose when it comes to abortion. And, again, here the FPP will have done nothing precious to prevent this outcome.
Samir Gandesha is working on a book on the rise of political extremism. He has lectured at universities throughout the world, was the Liu Boming visiting professor at the University of Nanjing in April 2017 and is associate professor and director of the Institute for the Humanities at Simon Fraser University.
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How today's top athletes are changing the world of sports, one brand partnership at a time.
By Jenny Everett
Simone Biles is no stranger to mic-drop moments. And this spring, in true Biles style, she made a business deal that caused the whole sports world to take notice. With Olympic buzz building, Biles ditched the Swoosh that had emblazoned her uniform and supported her career for six years. Here was the most decorated gymnast in the world—a 19-time world-champion gold medalist; the clear GOAT—walking away from what had long been considered the dream sponsorship for any athlete: Nike.
Biles had signed with the $30.4-billion brand when she was barely old enough to drive a car—a 17-year-old kid—as part of a collective decision made by the people managing her career.
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"I was so young. Partnering with Nike was one of my dreams, but when I got older, I started thinking more about what my passion projects were and how my sponsor was going to help me with those," Biles told Women's Health in an exclusive interview. Athleta, a younger, women-led company, relatively new to the sponsorship scene, met the mark.
"I wanted to partner with a brand that would challenge me and recognize women and girls' collective strength," she says. "Athleta only has a few athletes so they can tune in with you on a personal level and I can get that one-on-one support. And when your goals and theirs align, you score."
That one-on-one support may prove especially important for Biles during this Olympics. Biles pulled out of the gymnastics team and all-around competition on July 27. In a press conference after the team event, Simone said that she "took a step back" from the competition because she "didn't want to do something silly" and get injured. She noted that she felt "stressed out" before the meet, saying that she was "shaking" beforehand. "I've never felt like this going into a competition before and I tried to go out," she said. "But once I came out here, I was like, 'No. Mental is not there, so I just need to let the girls do it and focus on myself.'"
It's unclear if Biles will still compete in any individual gymnastics event finals, but either way, her brave move to prioritize her mental health over the competition in the moment is being celebrated, and having a sponsor that supports her through that is no-doubt critical.
Seattle Storm forward Breanna Stewart stepped away from Nike this spring, too, opting instead for a contract with Puma. Biles's and Stewart's sponsorship moves—which came two years after nine-time Olympic track and field medalist (and mother and activist) Allyson Felix also left Nike for Athleta to become their first sponsored athlete—were a crescendo in a movement that's been building for years.
Female athletes are claiming the power position in sponsorships now, seeking out (and thereby demanding) brand partnerships that offer a chance to shine as a whole person, provide support for their health outside of performance metrics, allow them to pursue activism beyond sport, and function as more than a highlight reel with a pretty smile.
For athletes like Felix, the payoff has been swift: She just announced that, in partnership with Athleta and the Women's Sports Foundation, she's created a first-of-its-kind grant, called the Power of She Fund: Child Care Grant, for mom athletes, including those headed to Tokyo. She also launched her own shoe brand, Saysh, sporting the spikes during the Olympic trials. Stewart is currently developing her own signature shoe with Puma as well.
Allyson Felix at the Olympic trials, wearing her Athleta running uniform and Saysh spikes.
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"This feels more like a revolution than an evolution."
Thats what Olga Harvey, chief strategy and impact officer at the Women's Sports Foundation, a research- and advocacy-driven non-profit that's been advocating for girls and women in sports for nearly 50 years, says of Biles's big move. "There are more companies than ever interested in telling the stories of female athletes, and investing both in women's sports leagues and in individual female athletes. It's exciting to see the power of women's sports and female athletes being recognized," she adds. "Obviously, financial rewards are amazing, but you want to align with the companies that share your values."
For Biles, that means using her social media platforms to share her vision and activism, rather than solely being a performer and marionette for her sponsor. And there appears to be a keeping-it-real easiness to her social media posts compared to years past, with more glimpses of her life off the mat, from trips with her boyfriend (Houston Texans safety Jonathan Owens) to updates on what she's digging on Netflix (L.A.'s Finest and the Naomi Osaka documentary) to her love for fried pickles and her pups Lilo and Rambo. She's also passionately outspoken about issues affecting women.
"As I'm getting older, I need to think about when I'm not doing sport and how I can help outside of the sport, outside of being an athlete," she says. "In the gymnastics community, body positivity is a huge obstacle, and I want to have a positive impact on girls everywhere and relay a message of body positivity and believing in themselves, and I want my sponsor to reflect that too."
For decades, men's voices were the dominant ones in sports, which isn't surprising given how male-dominated the industry has traditionally been (from league and team owners to coaches, media, and agents). But the chorus of female voices is now so loud, authentic, and real, that it can no longer be brushed off by brands. And this has given athletes—with their millions of fiercely loyal social media followers—the power to be picky about who they partner with.
"Women athletes in this era have exhibited time and again tremendous integrity and character," says Ellen J. Staurowsky, Ed.D., a sports media professor at Ithaca College. "Athletes like Simone Biles, Naomi Osaka, Serena Williams, Allyson Felix, Megan Rapinoe, Alex Morgan, Candace Parker, Chiney Ogwumike, as well as women's teams and leagues, have demonstrated that they are so much more than athletes who have the potential to sell products."
Just look at the momentum created by the WNBA striking in light of police shootings, or how the US women's national soccer team has fought for equal pay. "While their athletic prowess is indisputable, it is their courage when it counts that resonates so powerfully with audiences," says Staurowsky.
This is a superpower that will, of course, prick the ears of marketers, but perhaps even more importantly, it sets the athletes up for success after sports, as their own personal brands grow.
Reinventing sponsorships—one sport at a time
World-champion runner Mary Cain was also thinking about life after athletics when she left Nike. In late 2019, shortly after her New York Times piece, "I Was the Fastest Girl in America, Until I Joined Nike," caught national attention, the middle-distance runner—who in 2013 at age 17 was the youngest track and field athlete to make the world championships—sat down with her family and her boyfriend and told them she didn't foresee a world in which she'd ever be given a traditional, professional sports sponsorship again. She'd used her voice to detail physical and mental abuse that led to extreme weight loss and bone fractures at the hands of Alberto Salazar, coach of the now-defunct Nike Oregon Project and one of the most prominent running coaches in the world (Salazar denied the allegations). And that was that, she thought. "I had called out not just the abuses of one company, but really the abuses of a system that lets athletes down and fails them," says Cain.
Mary Cain, when she was competing for Nike (left) and at home with her dog, wearing Tracksmith gear (right). Tracksmith is Cain's new sponsor and full-time employer.
What Cain didn't realize when she spoke up was that her bold honesty and passion for change could actually inspire how another brand chose to operate, helping to reinvent the sponsorship system that doesn't support athletes well, women in particular. Her story caught the attention of Matt Taylor, founder of running clothing brand Tracksmith. Taylor had been interested in bringing athletes on board but only if he could do it in an ethical way. He hired Cain, but not just to rock his brand's clothing—he also gave her a salary, benefits, and a proper job title: New York City Community Manager, a role that has been focused on re-opening running meet-ups in New York City post-pandemic and curating their community newsletter materials.
And at the end of June, Cain announced that—with the support of Tracksmith, Nuun, Airbnb, and other private investors—she's established a professional women's running team called Atalanta New York City ("Atalanta" is one of the fastest mortals in Greek mythology). The team not only has access to the tools they need to pursue the highest level of sport—full-time coaching, access to recovery equipment, support on the track, travel and, of course, racing opportunities—but also working roles within Atalanta, opportunities to give back to the community by mentoring young girls in underserved parts of New York City, and all the benefits of being a true employee rather than just a contracted athlete.
"It really flips the current model of professional running on its head," Cain says. "Rather than having a few organizations sponsoring an athlete through independent contractor sponsorship deals, we're a service-based non-profit. Every single professional runner on our team will be a true employee, just as I am at Tracksmith—with a salary, W-2, tax paperwork, and health insurance. I know this model can really help create champions for life, and it's felt really special continuing to work to make sport a better place for everyone."
Cain hopes opportunities like these give athletes the tools they need to be successful when their professional running careers come to an end. It's something that, unfortunately, many traditional brand sponsorships can't offer athletes: support when they're no longer directly competing for the brand.
Seeking a partner in good—and hard—times
Being seen as more than a stat sheet was on Olympic track and field athlete Colleen Quigley's mind when she left Nike last year. A couple of days later, untethered to any brand, she ran a race in Arizona, unsponsored. "I realized it was an opportunity to do something really cool," says Quigley, who finished eighth in the 3000-meter steeplechase at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio. "When do I ever get to choose someone, something, or an organization to put on my jersey?"
She found a local organization called Achieving My Purpose, which empowers young women of color to achieve their goals after high school. Quigley decided to rep the org on her race jersey and promote their cause on her social platforms. Her followers took notice and donated more than $7,000 to the non-profit. It wasn't long before Lululemon came calling. They'd heard about Quigley's performance and were excited to see an athlete using a race as a platform to raise awareness and show passion beyond their athletic goals.
Colleen Quigley, competing in the steeplechase for Nike (left), and training in Lululemon gear (right). Lululemon is Quigley's new sponsor.
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"I talked to them for the first time, and I told my agent, 'Let's do this,'" says Quigley. "They really see me as a whole human being and embrace what I do off the track. I love to cook, I love to do Pilates, and yoga, and swim, and bike, and hike. But I also like to be creative and write. There are just so many things I like to do off the track and I'm excited that they want to support me in all of that. I've never felt that before. I've always felt like just an athlete."
Quigley was doing her first photoshoot with Lululemon in New York City when she got word that Biles was joining Athleta. "I was like, wow, this is a movement, this is really cool," she says. "And I just felt really proud to be part of that—to stand with a brand that sees me for more than just medals and records and performance."
Before the Olympic trails, Quigley issued an emotional statement saying she was pulling out due to injuries, that Lululemon indeed stood behind her, and that she couldn't imagine how much harder her decision to step back would have been if she was also in jeopardy of losing her funding.
"It's a relief that I can make the best decisions possible for me, my body, and my long-term success and longevity in the sport, instead of feeling pressured into making a decision for the short term that may risk my health down the road," says Quigley. "It also underlines how Lululemon truly values me beyond my athletic accomplishments. They don't just say they care about their athletes, they show us how much they care about us as human beings."
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Headed into the Olympics this summer, bigger brands are likely taking a hard look at how they structure sponsorship deals, and how their traditional models need to evolve to meet athletes' needs—and keep them on their teams. That includes Nike, which just added seven WNBA players to its roster, along with U.S. women's national soccer team star Rose Lavelle. They've also partnered with Naomi Osaka to create Play Academy, an initiative that uses sports to empower young, at-risk girls in Japan, Haiti, and Los Angeles.
"For decades, Nike has supported athletes in all corners of the world, across multiple sports and at every stage of their life," the company said in a recent statement to Women's Health. "That unique reach has given us the opportunity to continuously learn and evolve how we champion Her. Together, across the industry, we have more work to do to make sport more accessible and equitable for everyone. And we're excited to explore new ways to celebrate athletes in more multi-dimensional ways to inspire more women and girls to experience the joy of sport. Just as we support our athletes in pursuing their goals, they push us to think even bigger about the change we can create together."
Harvey isn't surprised to see brands re-evaluating their sponsorship strategies. "It's not about just on-court performance, but it's about the whole story of an athlete," she says. "Whether it's their social justice causes or personal aspirations, brands really need to commit to change along with these athletes."
"There seems to be a growing awareness among athletes across the board that they are the authors and protectors of their legacies," says Staurowsky. "This generation of athletes—female, male, and gender non-conformers and gender fluid—are making decisions that reflect a social consciousness and an understanding that their position in the world can serve as a platform to advocate for change."
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"Once you really look into potential brand sponsors, you want to start thinking about, how can we help each other to do good rather than me being the face of what they want to put out there?" says Biles. "And it most definitely puts pressure on brands to listen to their athletes and what they want and need."
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Red Flags to Look for in Job Posts, According to Experts
Job posts can tell you a lot about what you're in for, both good and bad.
If you know what red flags to look for in a job ad, you may be able to spare yourself the trouble of dealing with a bad job or employer and experiencing new-hire's remorse.
Here are the red flags experts say to watch for in job posts, and what they may signal about a potential employer or position.
Omitting information about pay
One of the most important aspects when considering a job is compensation.
"When people ask me if they should include salary in a job post, I ask them, "Have you ever taken a job without knowing how much money you would make first?'" said Katrina Kibben, a job post consultant and founder of Three Ears Media. "It's just basic human choice. We would never accept a job without knowing how much money we'd get in it. We cannot make a decision without that core information."
So when a company dances around the subject or makes no mention of it at all, it's worth noting.
"Look for vague compensation language," said Keirsten Greggs, a talent acquisition consultant, career coach, and founder of TRAP Recruiter. "They should be able to give you a range."
In practice, this means watching for phrases like "competitive salary" and "commensurate with experience" but also pay ranges that are too broad.
Going overboard with must-haves
Meanwhile, listing too much can be a problem in other areas, particularly the requirements and qualifications section of a job post.
"Laundry lists are a huge red flag," said Greggs. "It signals that they don't really know what they're looking for. When the lists are very long, it signals that they just threw everything out there to see what they can pull back and that there's a possibility the job is not graded correctly."
Greggs added that this can mean the employer doesn't know what they want or expect from someone in the role, which could make for poorly defined expectations for someone taking the job.
Possible signs of burnout culture or a lack of support
Some particular phrases in job descriptions can also hint there may be headaches down the road with the employer or role.
Saying your company has a "work hard, play hard" attitude, for example, can often be "an indication of a burnout culture," said Greggs.
Pointing out a "fast-paced environment" can also signal burnout ahead or that the employer is "going to put too much on your plate," said Kibben. "It's usually also a hint that someone else couldn't keep up and, rather than adjusting the workload, they blamed it on the person," they added.
By saying the company wants a "self-starter," an employer may unwittingly communicate to applicants that it might be too hands-off, said Greggs. "That could mean there's no training and development available," she said. "It could be an indication that the group doesn't support you, and it could be an indication that they don't know what your job is."
Going beyond the job post
Of course, these phrases and qualities aren't always indicative of issues. In many cases, "job descriptions just aren't written well," said Greggs.
"Be on the lookout for red flags, but don't necessarily count yourself out or count the employer out based off of one thing," she added. "People should be looking for authenticity and looking beyond the job description the same way that I encourage employers and other recruiters to look beyond the résumé."
Besides the job post, do your research on the company and role elsewhere to make a more informed decision on what to do next.
Full article @ https://www.businessinsider.com/red-flags-to-look-for-in-job-posts-compensation-requirements-2022-5


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