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Уральский государственный экономический университет (УрГЭУ) — федеральное государственное бюджетное образовательное учреждение высшего образования, расположенное в городе Екатеринбурге, которое готовит экономистов различного профиля, технологов, юристов и специалистов в области государственного и муниципального управления.

История

До октябрьской революции
В середине XIX века у Екатеринбургского духовного училища, основанного в 1836 году, возникла потребность в более вместительном здании (см. Здание бывшего Екатеринбургского духовного училища). В 1841 г. епархия выкупила у купца Ф. И. Коробкова просторный двухэтажный кирпичный дом по улице Уктусской 62-186 (ныне ул. 8 Марта, 62), по архитектуре — типичный образец усадьбы периода классицизма, построенной в Екатеринбурге М. П. Малаховым. Затем по поручению Пермской консистории, архитекторы Э. Х. Сорториус и В. Гуляев выполнили проект перестройки дома, поскольку в изначальном виде он не мог удовлетворять потребностям духовного училища. Архитектура нового здания, представляла образец стиля позднего, так называемого «безордерного» классицизма.

Долгое время одной из проблем Духовного училища было отсутствие домовой церкви. Деньги для постройки храма при училище пожертвовал купец В. С. Клушинин. Домовая церковь была выстроена на втором и третьем этажах здания, в углу северо-восточной части корпуса. 14 октября 1858 г. епископ Екатеринбургский Иона (Капустин), викарий Пермской епархии, освятил церковь в честь иконы Божией Матери Казанской, где богослужения совершали священники из преподавательской корпорации. В 1859 г. над храмом была сооружена деревянная колокольня с 7 колоколами.

В 1903 г. к длинной стороне учебного корпуса пристроили новое трёхэтажное здание. Фасадные решения новой и старой части здания получили единую трактовку. Авторами проекта перестройки учебного корпуса и дворового флигеля были находившиеся тогда на должности архитектора техники Куроедов и М. Л. Бяллозор. Архитектуру здания училища теперь определяли принципы «кирпичного» стиля.

В 1916 г. Указом Синода официально была открыта Екатеринбургская Духовная семинария, которая продолжала заниматься в том же здании Духовного училища. Уникальность здания заключается и в том, что духовное училище было первым в Екатеринбурге образовательным учреждением, соответственно, его открытие положило начало образовательной деятельности на Урале. Училище окончили известные писатели и учёные, среди которых профессор Петербургского университета и изобретатель в области радиосвязи Александр Попов, писатели Дмитрий Мамин-Сибиряк и Павел Бажов, известный историк русской церкви Антон Карташёв и другие.

Советский период
В ноябре 1919 г., после восстановления советской власти, храм был закрыт. Духовное училище также было закрыто, а в его здании разместился только что открытый Уральский университет. В годы войны в нём размещалось военное промышленное предприятие, после чего оно снова было занято университетом.

В первой половине 1930-х годов здание было решено перестроить, стилистически объединив и надстроив 3 этажа.

В 1960-е годы, начались преобразования в народном хозяйстве, и Советскому Союзу потребовались экономисты с высшим образованием, поэтому остро встал вопрос об открытии экономических вузов. В здании бывшего духовного училища начал работать филиал Московского института народного хозяйства имени Плеханова.

10 октября 1967 года на базе экономического факультета Уральского государственного университета им. А. М. Горького и свердловского филиала Московского института народного хозяйства (Российская экономическая академия им. Г. В. Плеханова) был организован Свердловский институт народного хозяйства (СИНХ). В 1981 году справа от старого здания был построен новый 7-этажный корпус СИНХа.

Современный период
Свердловский институт народного хозяйства (СИНХ) образован 10.09.1967 по распоряжению Совета Министров СССР от 25.08.1967 № 2047-р, согласно распоряжению Совета Министров РСФСР от 30.08.1967 г. № 2329-р и приказу Министра высшего и среднего специального образования РСФСР от 2.09.1967 № 401. СИНХ распоряжением Совета Министров – Правительства РФ от 24.07.1992 № 1367-р переименован в Уральский институт народного хозяйства (УрИНХ). Приказом Госкомитета РФ по высшему образованию от 30.06.1994 № 633 УрИНХ переименован в Уральский государственный экономический университет (УрГЭУ).

В 2007 г. УрГЭУ в соответствии с классификатором Министерства образования Германии получил наивысший статус для образовательных учреждений (Н+).

В 2011 г. на церемонии открытия XII съезда Евразийской ассоциации университетов (ЕАУ), посвященного 300-летию со дня рождения М. В. Ломоносова, было объявлено о вступлении УрГЭУ в Евразийскую ассоциацию университетов.

Доходы
За 2015 год доходы вуза составили 1 млрд руб., из которых государственное финансирование составило 236,2 млн руб.

Ректоры университета
 1967—1968 — Готлобер Валентин Михайлович
 1968—1971 — Понаморёв Леонид Николаевич
 1971—1982 — Веселов Николай Григорьевич
 1982—1983 — и. о. Скулкин Михаил Романович
 1983—2005 — Камышов Валентин Митрофанович
 2005 — 09.11.2015 — Фёдоров Михаил Васильевич
 09.11.2015 — 25.11.2015 — и. о. Рогожин Сергей Алексеевич
 25.11.2015— — Силин Яков Петрович

История названий университета
 1967—1990 гг. — Свердловский институт народного хозяйства (СИНХ);
 1990—1993 гг. — Уральский институт народного хозяйства (УрИНХ);
 1993— — Уральский государственный экономический университет (УрГЭУ).

Примечания

Экономические университеты России

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Cortana is AWOL in the war against Covid-19 disinfo
At a time when more people use voice assistants to retrieve the most basic information, Microsoft's Cortana doesn't provide even the basics about protecting against the coronavirus.
Preston Gralla (Computerworld (US)) 25 August, 2021 11:40
Credit: Michael Homnick
That's as it should be. That's how Bing and Cortana were designed to work together.
Then I had Bing perform searches on all the other questions I had asked Cortana and that Cortana refused to answer. In all those instances, about whether masks are effective, where I could buy them, whether vaccines work, whether Covid-19 vaccines implant microchips into people, and my other questions Bing did what it was designed to do: Provided links to trustworthy information. But Microsoft wouldn't allow Cortana to display and read that information onscreen.
Following is a screenshot showing just one example, the responses to my question about whether the Covid-19 vaccine implants a microchip in you. (For the record, it doesn't.)
When I asked Bing that question, it returned accurate information about microchips and the Covid-19 vaccine. But even though the search engine was on target, the information was lost in translation. As you can see, Cortana would not provide that information.
IDG/Preston Gralla
Cortana doesn't deliver information that Bing finds.
Note that when Cortana doesn't provide an answer it does provide a link to a Bing search for your question. However, if you're asking Cortana a question, you have made a conscious decision not to do a search using a search engine like Bing or Google. So you're not likely to click that link. You would have initially gone straight to a search engine, and not asked Cortana the question.
How do other digital assistants do?
Finally, I wondered whether Cortana was an outlier among digital assistants. What would Apple's Siri, Amazon's Alexa, and Google Assistant do when I asked these questions?
Siri answered with accurate, scientifically based information to every query. Google Assistant also answered all the questions accurately, with one exception: It didn't answer whether masks were effective in protecting against Covid-19, although it offered to search the web for an answer and provided accurate information when it did.
Alexa was a mixed bag, although most of the time it was on target. It wouldn't answer whether the Covid-19 vaccine would implant a microchip in you. When I asked multiple times and in multiple ways whether the polio vaccine worked, it instead answered that the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine was effective. And when I asked where I could buy KN95 masks, for some odd reason it recited for me how far away several radio stations were from me. Other than that, though, it provided helpful, accurate answers to all my other questions.
It's not clear whether Cortana's non-response to questions about Covid-19 is a case of Microsoft's incompetence or a decision that Cortana should withhold potentially life-saving information about the virus, the effectiveness of masks and the Covid-19 vaccines, and why it won't debunk anti-vaccination conspiracy theories. I reached out to Microsoft on Monday for an explanation; a spokesperson late in the day said the company is having its engineering team look into the issue.
If it's a conscious decision, it's not clear why the company made it. It may be that Microsoft doesn't want to anger anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers for business reasons. But I have no proof of that.
No matter the motives or cause, in the disinformation fight, anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers have an ally in Cortana, which is built directly into Windows 10, the operating system on 1.3 billion computers around the world.
The Covid-19 pandemic will only be brought under control when people get the right information about vaccines and masks and act accordingly. By not providing that information, Microsoft is doing a disservice to its users and passively allowing misinformation and disinformation to spread.
Standing on the right side of this battle should be easy for Microsoft to do. It's baffling that it won't.
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Kick Back, Relax and "Take Your Time" With Bombardier Jones!
Stephen Vicino August 23, 2020	Need to Hear, News Leave a comment
"Take Your Time" is a song from Bombardier Jones' latest album Dare to Hope, which was released on April 24, 2020. The Baltimore frontrunner, Ian Jones, creates a unique take on rock and roll, incorporating 80s post-punk with 60s British rock, resulting in a sound that is truly his own.
This track is a laid back tune that tells listeners to, well, take your time. In regards to his album Dare to Hope, Jones says, "in tough times, you still have it within you to not only survive but prosper – and have some fun along the way." To live a fulfilling life, you should not rush into things, so it's sometimes a good idea to take a step back and slow down. Jones' soulful vocals paired with the twang of an electric guitar and keyboard relay this message in a way that is comforting and reassuring.
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Tony Stone Goes Online
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Getty Launches Full Web Commerce for Tony Stone Images
The long awaited Tony Stone images web site is now on-line at www.tonystone.com .
The interface is very attractive and user friendly, and the speed of search (on my
computer at least) is excellent. Searches are possible by using keywords,
photographer name or image number. The site also offers on-line payment and
According to TSI, at launch the site had over 40,000 images, with more being added on
a weekly basis. These images were from approximately 900 photographers.
We haven't had time to search for 900 different photographer's, but some of the TSI
photographers with large numbers of images on the site are: Bruce Ayres (851), Lori
Adamski Peek (745), Ken Fisher (360), David Hanover (357), Charles Thatcher (333),
Doug Armand (322), Terry Vine (312), Jon Riley (284), Donna Day (257), Dennis
O'Clair (255), Christopher Bissell (228), Nick Dolding (212), Darrell Gulin (202),
Steven Peters (199), Donovan Reese (198), Ed Pritchard (194), Walter Hodges (165),
Bruce Forster (160), Vera Storman (157), Timothy Shonnard (157), Dan Cox (143), Paul
Harris (135), Stuart McClymont (123), Mitch Kezar (116), Don Smetzer (114), Phil
Borges (108), Peter Poulides (105), Ben Edwards (91) and John Lund (90).
Images Not Included
More interesting are the number of images not on the site and the photographers not
included. When Getty purchased TSI in 1996 they told stockholders that there were
40,000 images in the Master Dupe Collection. Since that time they have been telling
stockholders that they have been adding new images to that file at an approximate
rate of 20% per year. Thus, why is the total number of images on-line not closer to
60,000 rather than 40,000? A major part of the answer lies in the number of
photographers who have not signed new contracts, and who they are.
Major TSI photographers with zero images on-line include: Art Wolfe, Frans Lanting,
Jake Rajs, Nicholas Devore, Tom Bean, Tim Davis, Renee Lynn, Andy Sachs, Brian
Bailey, Greg Pease, Penny Gentieu, Kevin Kelley (World Perspectives), Zigy Kaluzny,
Wayne Eastep, David Muench, Pat O'Hara, Deborah Davis, David Frasier, Will McIntyre,
Stuart and Michelle Westmoreland, David Hiser, Gary Braasch, Randy Wells, Paul
Chesley, Chris Sanders, Eddie Soloway, Mark Segal, Bob Daemmrich, J.W. Burkey, Vince
Streano, Natalie Fobes, Bruce Hands, Joe Pobereskin, Joe Sohm, Don Bosler, Julie
Fisher, Frank Herholdt, Jack Dykinga, Larry Ulrich, Lucien Clerque, Frank Herholdt,
Chuck Pefley, John Lawrence, Stewart Cohen and Tom Alexander.
We understand that there are other photographers who have images on the site, but
haven't actually signed the new contract. These include: Ron Sherman (3 images),
Nick Vedros (7), Vedros & Associates (4) and David Madison (499 images).
In addition there are some Liaison photographers who have had some images accepted
into the TSI catalog, but have no contracts with TSI at all. These include Ron
Krisel (86 images) and Mark Romine (13 images). It is presumed that if they haven't
signed, they will be getting 50% for any sales made of their images unless Liaison
is being given a percentage in which case these photographers might be getting 30%
of the gross sale price.
Of course, some of the reason for only 40,000 instead of 60,000 images on-line could
be that TSI has decided that some of the older images in the Master Dupe Collection
are no longer marketable. We know that is the case with a limited number because
not all photogrpahers with images in the MDC were even offered new contracts.
However, unconfirmed rumors from TSI sources indicate that as many as 15% of the
photographers offered contracts, which could be a total of around 150, have not
signed. Because these photographers are among TSI's top producers they might
represent as much as 25% to 30% of TSI's best selling file.
TSI photographers were given a deadline of September 15th to sign the new contract,
but many have lawyers still negotiating on their behalf because they are unhappy
with many of the provisions of the new contract. Not the least of these is the
reduction of their royalty percentage from 50% to 40% for sales made in their home
territory.
It is our understanding that a few of the major photographers who have signed, and
who have images on-line, particularly a group of Los Angeles based photographers,
got some significant compromises in contract terms. No one seems to have any
knowledge of the specifics or these changes.
One of the key issues in settling with the existing holdouts, is whether TSI can
come to an agreement with the photographers that not only allows them to market the
existing Master Dupe images on-line, but encourages the photographers to continue to
produce.
It should be noted that the existing contracts remain in force until the new
contracts are signed, and thus their is no problem with TSI continuing to license
Master Dupe images as a result of print catalog and file search requests. The only
thing that is being held up is the licensing of some of these images on-line.
Photographer Concerns
As a result of this contract, and other signals being sent by Getty management, many
photographers, both those who are unsigned and many who have signed "image
exclusive" agreements, are beginning to look around for other ways to market their
work. The negative signals from the photographers point of view include:
Getty's constant emphasis to the stockholders that their goal is to decrease
the photographer's share of gross sales. Their goal is to reduce their "Costs of
Sales" and they argue to stockholders that 98% of this cost comprises amounts
payable to contributing photographers and cinematographers.
The company strategy to increase the sales of wholly owned material which has
risen from 5% a year ago to over 19% today. At this point it seems that most of
this rise has been due to sales by PhotoDisc, Allsport and Hulton Getty, but TSI
photographers believe their turn can't be far behind.
The increased arbitrariness of the editing process and the difficultly of
getting very expensive productions into the marketing stream.
The initial offer to pay photographers who signed by September 15th for all
uncollected sales up to that time has raised more issues than it has solved.
Stockholders have been told that if every photographer were to have exercised this
option the one-time cost to TSI would have been about $5 million. Sources within
Getty indicate that number might have been closer to $10 million. We know of
photographers who are owed in excess of $50,000 going back as far as 1994 and 1995.
The first question is why so much bad debt? This seems to be totally out of line
with normal ratios in the industry. Secondly, many photographers who signed on
time, seem to be having trouble finding out how much they will be paid, and when.
In addition, it appears that all these liabilities are not being paid on a dollar
for dollar basis. Some photographers are being told that they get 100% of debt
incurred in the last few months, and a percentage of those that go back a few years.
However, exactly what these percentages will be has not been spelled out in writing
and this has tended to make photographers suspicious of management.
Many photographers who signed the contract quickly believe they were purposely
misled by TSI when the letter that accompanied the contract said, "The agreement has
already been endorsed by Tony Stone Images' consultative photographer panel (the
Photographer Advisory Group) in both the U.S. and Europe." In fact, it came out
later that many PAG members had serious misgivings. Photographers are now unsure
how much they will be able to trust TSI and Getty in the future.
The editors with whom must work on a day to day basis were the main point of
contact for the recent contract negotiations. As a result, in many cases an
adversarial relationship developed between the editor and those who were
holdouts, as well as many who have already signed. As a result, many photographers
are concerned about re-establishing good working relationships in the future.
To add to their problems the stock price yesterday was $9.37 per share having
dropped over 45% since the end of September. During the summer Getty reached a high of
$28.25 per share, but its low a few days ago was $8.62.
Looking At The Site
We've spotted a few minor glitches thus far. If the user wants to print out some of
the information pages such as the history of Tony Stone, or information about model
releases, the text on the right hand side of the page gets truncated. A minor
irritation, but easily fixable. Somewhat more serious is that some photographers
are reporting that a few of their images are not oriented properly.
The model release information may also be somewhat confusing or misleading. In good
salesman language they lead with, "Choosing one of our property- or model-released images
means you don't have worries or extra work when using our pictures." If I were a
photo buyer that would make me think that everything is "fully released"
and I don't have anything to worry about when using any of these pictures.
However, they go on to cover themselves by saying, "While Tony Stone Images controls
access to these images and licenses them to the public for commercial purposes, Tony
Stone Images does not possess model or property rights for the people, property or
places in every picture. If in any doubt please contact a web client service
specialist who will be happy to advise you on matters."
The problem is that many releases won't cover uses that may be considered defamatory
by the individual. Many users who are inclined to make what others might consider
defamatory use of an image don't consider what they are doing defamatory.
Consequently, these users don't think they have a problem. It seems likely that
some of this will be worked out in litigation and under the terms of the new
contracts the photographers whose images happen to be involved get to share in the
cost of that litigation.
We will do more analysis of the actual workings of the site in coming weeks.
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Rules for supplying feedback
Ron Sherman
To add to your most recent story...yesterday I had 3 images on the TSI
web site and today there are zero.
Joe Polillio
I want to correct one item in your piece with regard to Liaison Photographers.
Liaison Agency had their photographers sign a TSI contract last March to get
them into the fold of TSI. At least I know that I signed and was told others
did as well. Therefore we are entitled to the same commission as all TSI
photographers without Liaison taking any percentage of the sale. Even before signing this
contract I was paid money for images TSI sold without anything being taken by
Liaison. I hope this clarifies things. I also have 78 images on the TSI Web site
(two of which are not mine which has be freaked out) and I have not signed the
new TSI contract.
David Stover
Could you clarify a point in the new TSI contract? When it is stated that
photographers will be paid for uncollected sales, what are uncollected sales?
Are these sales that are good sales where payment has not yet been received or
are these sales that were made, the images used and the client never paid it's
bill? If it is the latter is this estimated amount of $5 to $10 million typical
of an agency of this size?
Jim Pickerell's Response
We have been unable to get a precise answer to this question from Tony Stone Images.
More to the point, Tony Stone photographers don't seem to be able to get a precise
answer to the question. Most who have been able to get some kind of a number as to
what they will be paid have discovered that is way below what they expected to be paid
when they signed the contract, but they can't get anyone at TSI to explain how the
number was calculated.
It is believed that this figure covers both categories of payments that are
described above. According to photographers some of the obligations go back years but
the bulk of what is owed is probably for fairly recent sales. No photographer that I
know has any idea as to what the total might
be in either category and TSI is not telling. If TSI has gross sales of around $70
million and they pay out 39% of it to photographers that would make the total pay to
photographers a little over $27 million annually or $2,275,000 per month.
If all their clients took on average over four months to pay their bills that might
explain over $9 million. However, keep in mind that according to the contract on
the 25th of each month "TSI will pay the amount due ...in the month ended three
(3) months prior to the start of the relevant Payment Month..." Thus, payments
on October 25th will be for sales booked on June 30th or before. To come up with $10
million we would have to go back four months from here to February and say that on
average clients who book their sales in February don't pay the agency until June and
then the agency pays the photographer for those sales in October. Based on my experience
in the industry, I don't think the "float" is this bad at most stock agencies.


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The Politics of Freedom
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Is it any wonder that Americans have become so dissatisfied with government today? Politicians have given us soaring federal spending, rampant violations of our constitutional rights, a futile war in...
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Structural Developments in Central and Eastern Europe
Автор(и) : Michael Landesmann
Издател : The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (WIIW)
Място на издаване : Vienne, Austria
Година на издаване : 2000
ISBN : 3-85209-020-2
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he WIIW Structural Report covers developments at the industrial level (NACE 2-digit) in Central and East European countries (CEECs). Patterns of industrial structural change are compared over the periods 1989-92 and 1992-98, including changes in output, employment, wages and productivity. Various scenarios of catching up are estimated on the basis of previous international (Asian, Southern European etc.) experiences. There are detailed analyses of changing patterns of trade specialization, foreign direct investment, and balance-of-payments structures. The analysis follows the statistical classification of economic activities in the European Union, which allows for cross-country and cross-industry comparisons (including East-West European comparisons). It comprises all manufacturing industries at the 2-digit NACE (rev. 1) level and places them in the context of the CEECs' general economic development.
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Michael A. Landesmann is Scientific Director of the Vienna Institute for International Economics Studies (wiiw) and Professor of Economics and Head of the Institute for Economic Theory and Quantitative Economic Research at the Johannes Kepler University, Linz. Previously he was at the Department of Applied Economics of the University of Cambridge and was a Fellow in Economics at Jesus College, Cambridge. He holds a DPhil in economics from Oxford University. He was a member of the Economic Analysis group under the chairmanship of former European Commission President Romano Prodi. He currently (academic year 2010-11) holds the Pierre Keller Visiting Professorship at Harvard University.
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Terry Teachout's 'Satchmo at the Waldorf' has world premiere in Orlando
By By Matthew J. Palm and Orlando Sentinel Theater Critic
Writer and arts critic Terry Teachout first encountered jazz great Louis Armstrong on "The Ed Sullivan Show" — thanks to his mother. It was the mid-1960s, and Armstrong was singing "Hello, Dolly!"
He recalls: "My mom called me in and said, 'This man won't live forever. I want you to remember him.'"
Teachout remembered, all right.
In 2009, he wrote "Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong," which was lauded by The Washington Post, The Economist and The New York Times Book Review as one of the best books of the year.
Now he has written a play about Armstrong, "Satchmo at the Waldorf," which will make its world premiere Thursday in Orlando. Noted local actor Dennis Neal will star in the one-man show as both Armstrong and his manager, Joe Glaser. Veteran director Rus Blackwell will direct.
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Why Orlando?
Teachout says it's because of the Blackwell-Neal team.
The two, both co-founders of Orlando's Mad Cow Theatre, came on board to prepare a 45-minute preview version as part of the Winter Park Institute's program of arts and cultural learning last winter. Teachout, The Wall Street Journal's drama critic, has an ongoing relationship with the institute, whose programs are presented through Rollins College.
The preview boosted Teachout's confidence in the piece: "It was the first time I really felt like I had something that would work." He was also impressed by Blackwell and Neal's interpretation of the play, Teachout's first.
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The two Central Floridians also had fallen for the show — and they asked Teachout for the chance to be involved in a full staging.
"The three of us sat over a meal of red beans and rice," Neal recalls. "I said, 'Terry, I want to do this play. Can I do it?' We talked and walked away with him saying, 'Yeah, you can do it.'"
"Not to put too fine a point on it," says Teachout, laughing, "but I said, 'Hell, yes!'"
The enthusiasm and mutual admiration have colored the project — in conversation, all three men pepper their remarks with praise for one another.
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"As soon as we finished [the preview performance] I looked at Terry, and I was beaming. I loved it," Neal says.
"He is uncanny," Teachout says of Neal. "What a stroke of luck Rollins College dropped him in my lap."
Of course, Neal's enthusiasm only took him so far. It's his first time performing in a one-man show, and he quickly discovered how much work that is.
"When I printed the script out, it was 60-something pages. Learning it has been a bear," Neal says. "I'm up with this thing at 3 or 4 in the morning."
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Complex ideas
Compounding the difficulty is the play's setup, which requires Neal to portray not only Armstrong, but Joe Glaser — Armstrong's white manager. Race is certainly part of the story as Armstrong, one of the foremost black musicians of his time, often played in the still-segregated South.
Neal thinks his characterizations will let the audience see beyond his own race.
"Armstrong was dark-complected, and I'm not dark-complected," he says. "Glaser was Jewish and white, I'm certainly not Jewish and white."
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The men's relationship was complex, and it's that tension that drives the play, Teachout says.
"You have Armstrong's idealism and Glaser's brutal realism about how the entertainment industry works," Teachout says. "It's a play about the business of art and what it takes to make a very talented man a celebrity."
Along the way, audiences will see a different side of Armstrong, whose public persona was a genial, joking showman. That good-natured persona, especially when he appeared to be catering to a white audience, drew criticism from fellow African-Americans that he was an "Uncle Tom."
"People have this idea that Louis Armstrong was kind of a court jester of jazz," Teachout says. "But he was capable of great anger — and he was far from being an Uncle Tom. He hated being called that."
The racial factor meant Neal had to work to understand the thought processes of both his characters.
"Glaser slings around all the racial epithets, but he loves Armstrong," he says. "Louis loves Joe, but he knows his position as a 'colored man.'"
Teachout had access to private diary-like tapes of Armstrong, which helped him capture the man's spirit. The show, though based on facts, is a fictionalized tale of an evening late in Armstrong's career.
"The events described in the play basically happened as described," Teachout says. "But I've tried to do something that a biographer can't do, quite rightly being bound by fact."
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Neal stresses he won't be doing a Louis Armstrong impersonation; rather, he'll be evoking his spirit.
Personal connection
While working on the show, Neal has drawn strength from personal memories. His stepfather was songwriter Jesse Stone, who died in 1999 and was a pioneer in working with classic R&B and rock musicians.
"I heard a lot about Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Frank Sinatra from him," Neal says. "And my mother was a singer and used to talk about him."
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Neal's mother, Evelyn McGee Stone, died in May while he was working on "Satchmo at the Waldorf."
"This play, and working on it, has profoundly impacted me because it has caused me to think about them more consciously than I normally would in my day-to-day life," he says.
As director, Blackwell faces his own challenges, too.
"It's 60 pages of one guy talking — even if he's playing two people. What are you going to do besides stand there and talk?" he says. "The pressure for me is 'Am I going to do my best?' Because that's all I've got."
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Teachout, who has written the librettos for two operas, is excited to see the finished product, especially because it's his first play. He has critiqued hundreds of plays in his career — but now the shoe is on the other foot.
"I know what it's like to be on the other side of the machine gun," he says. "I hope it's made me a better critic. I think it has. I understand better how the process works."
He'll be in the opening-night audience.
"I don't worry about failing," Neal says, "but I don't want to disappoint him."
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"That's the pressure," Blackwell chimes in.
Teachout isn't worried.
"I hope people find it exciting," he says. "I know they'll be excited about Dennis; he's like a lit firecracker on stage. I know I couldn't be in better hands."
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15th Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space
8–18 June 2023, Prague, Czech Republic
The Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space was established in 1967 to bring the best of design for performance, scenography, and theatre architecture to the front line of cultural activities to be experienced by professional and emerging artists as well as the general public. The quadrennial exhibitions, festivals, and educational programs act as a global catalyst for creative progress by encouraging experimentation, networking, innovation, and future collaborations. PQ aims to honour, empower and celebrate the work of designers, artists and architects while inspiring and educating audiences, who are the most essential element of any live performance.
The Prague Quadrennial is globally known as a two-week event taking place every four years since 1967 in Prague, Czech Republic. This model has been evolving. More and more designers now understand PQ as a platform: a continual stream of activities and collaborations happening across the globe with many different partners, creative professionals, artists, researchers, and theorists. Each on-site festival of PQ is now a culmination of the efforts of the preceding 4 years: a celebration and an opportunity for performing arts professionals from around the world to come to one place and share their work, ideas, and thoughts during the quadrennial festival. We work towards making the 2023 edition once again an opportunity for many new and unique shared experiences. While celebrating the diverse forms of performance design/scenography around the globe, the Prague Quadrennial strives to present it as an art form concerned with the creation of holistic performance environments, not just decorative backgrounds; these performative spaces creatively respond to current issues of our world, ask important questions, and invite us to participate in unique moments. Every four years, PQ's central curatorial concept shapes the festival and offers its participants a fresh look at the artistic reflection of our times in performance designs and scenographies. The 2023 edition will take into consideration the strange and precarious world of uncertainty we live in. We will examine new and forward-looking visions of wondrous and imaginary worlds, as well as critical portrayals of our realities, addressing the incisive questions and challenging our thoughts and fears.
Performance design/scenography today is often presented through live and immersive experiences, where all senses can be involved and the audience members take on an active role. We see performance design/ scenography as an art form that goes beyond the visual, into experiential and sensorial realm with a focus on interdisciplinary collaboration, giving creative expression to new ideas and experiments. Contemporary performance design/scenography is an art form within parameters of multi-sensory environments – creating worlds of sensations appealing to the imagination, the mind, as well as the sensory organs: the eye, the ear, the nose, the skin. Scenographic environments take on a life that by default eludes the designer's grasp: no matter how carefully it is planned and executed, it is truly completed by the participants engaging with the designed space. Every creation, then, is impermanent and changeable; it is also visionary and volatile in that it works with, and rests on, many unknowns. (https://www.pq.cz/)
General information > https://www.pq.cz/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Open-Call-ENG.pdf
Video introduction and overview > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWks-rZtfos
Please refer to the NZPQ23 links for the Aotearoa, New Zealand curator's call for submissions
NZPQ23 National Call > NZPQ23 Ka emiemi. National Call
NZPQ23 Emerging Designer and Student Call > NZPQ23 Ka emiemi. Emerging Designers and Student
NZPQ23 Fragments II Call > NZPQ23, Ka emiemi. Fragments II call.
Curatorial Team
Commissioner: Stuart Foster S.T.Foster@massey.ac.nz
National Curator: Meg Rollandi M.Rollandi@massey.ac.nz
Emerging Designers/Student Curator: Sean Coyle Sean.Coyle@toiwhakaari.ac.nz
Administration: NZPQinfo@gmail.com


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Why These 'Spongebob Squarepants' Episodes Aren't on Paramount+
By James Morin January 6, 2023 TV 0 Comments
Nautical, nutty, and nonsensical, SpongeBob SquarePants has been delighting audiences of all ages since 1999. Originally aired on the Nickelodeon network, the wacky animated underwater sitcom can now be enjoyed on Paramount+. However, you won't find the entire spongebob series there. More than one episode has been banned from the popular streaming service. Here are the episodes, along with the reasons why you can't see them on Paramount+.
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Those familiar with SpongeBob would hardly consider the animated sea creature a menace to Bikini Bottom or any other society. Nickelodeon censors thought otherwise. Originally aired on Nick in 2003, the second segment of the third season episode was expunged from syndication and reruns back in 2018, Slate explains. For this reason, Paramount+ couldn't air it today, even if they wanted to.
Entitled "Mid-Life Crustacean," the 11-minute section of the show sees SpongeBob and his starfish pal, Patrick, attempt to jolly the miserly Mr. Krabs out of an apparent existential crisis. When activities such as a visit to the laundromat fail to cheer him up, SpongeBob and Patrick take Mr. Krabs on an old-school "panty raid." Hilarity dreams until Krabs realizes they've raided his mom's underwear drawer.
Paramount+ decided that a quarantine episode was in bad taste
Intended to air as the second half of episode 263 in 2020, "Kwarantined Krab" was not shown to the viewing public until the end of Season 12 in 2022. Animated in advance of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the SpongeBob SquarePants episode revolves around a Bikini Bottom breakout of "Clam Flu" that puts residents into a panic.
As the plot of "Kwarantined Krab" unfolds, the Bikini Bottom health inspector pays a visit to the Krusty Krab, where he diagnoses a virulent case of "Clam Flu." Immediately, the residents of the underwater town begin to suspect each other of spreading infection, and everyone that's assumed to have the clammy virus is shunned and thrown into the restaurant freezer.
In 2021, when IGN asked about the removal of "Kwarantined Krab," a Nickelodeon spokesperson explained that because that particular episode revolved around a virus storyline, the network "decided not to air it due to sensitivities surrounding the global, real-world pandemic. "
Other notable Nickelodeon and Paramount scandals
Founded by Adolph Zukor more than a century ago, Paramount Studios produces television shows, movies, and digital series at its 65-acre facility on Melrose Avenue in Hollywood, California. Decades before the studio made SpongeBob, Patrick, and Mr. Krabs stars, the movie maker employed human actors such as Gloria Swanson, Rudolph Valentino, Mary Pickford, and Douglas Fairbanks.
Comedic actor Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle was also an early contract player at Paramount. In fact, the chubby comic was the highest-paid movie actor of his time. That all went away when Arbuckle was charged with manslaughter in 1921. Played out in the newspapers of William Randolph Hearst, the ensuing trial was the first scandal to plague the venerable movie studio, explains Smithsonian Magazine.
SpongeBob SquarePants wasn't the only Nickelodeon cartoon to face scrutiny, says Collider, which explains that the "Leap Frogs" episode of Rocko's Modern Life was temporarily removed from play due to its overtly sexual undertones. The network's preschool channel, Nick Jr., isn't immune from controversy, either. As Nicki Swift reported, Nickelodeon was accused of plagiarism when the animated series, Made by Maddiewas found to be practically identical to the 2019 short film HairLoveseen on IMDb.
Readers interested in reviving the lost fan-favorite SpongeBob SquarePants episode, "Mid-Life Crustacean," are invited to sign a petition at the Change website.
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A specialist jury will award prizes to the most striking images. The winning photos will be published in the large-format EuroNatur wall calendar and will be awarded with money prizes. Besides that they will be published in the EuroNatur magazine, in the magazine "natur" as well as on the websites of the organisers.
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• Coverage of the competition in the competition organisers' publications and on their websites.
• The use of the photos to advertise the calendar, the competition and the exhibitions in both the organisers' publications and in press coverage.
• The non-profit foundation EuroNatur and its subsidiary EuroNatur Service GmbH have the right to use the prize-winning photos (calendar and exhibition) in their own publications to advertise their conservation projects in Europe. Pictures that have been entered but have not won prizes will only be used for the above purposes after consultation with the photographer and by contractual agreement.


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Reaction profiles during exhaust-assisted reforming of diesel engine fuels
Athanasios Tsolakis, Athanasios Megaritis, SE Golunski
On-board hydrogen production by exhaust-assisted fuel reforming offers a potential route to diesel emission control. In this study, different reformer configurations with the same catalyst composition were tested, as well as three types of diesel engine fuel, under conditions designed to simulate low- and high-load engine operating modes. The reforming efficiency was dependent on the fuel type and followed the general trend of bioethanol > rapeseed methyl ester > low-sulfur diesel fuel. In each case, a characteristic axial temperature profile was established in the catalyst. The profile can be deconvoluted into three phases, corresponding to the consecutive occurrence of combustion, steam reforming, and water-gas shift. The relative contribution of each process not only responds to changes in the inlet conditions but also to the aspect ratio and form of the catalyst bed. The heat produced in the first phase must be effectively transferred to the endothermic and much-slower steam-reforming reaction, whereas in the final phase, heat must be lost to ensure that the thermodynamically limited water-gas shift reaction is favored.
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Tsolakis, A., Megaritis, A., & Golunski, SE. (2005). Reaction profiles during exhaust-assisted reforming of diesel engine fuels. Energy & Fuels, 19(3), 744-752. https://doi.org/10.1021/ef049727p
Tsolakis, Athanasios ; Megaritis, Athanasios ; Golunski, SE. / Reaction profiles during exhaust-assisted reforming of diesel engine fuels. In: Energy & Fuels. 2005 ; Vol. 19, No. 3. pp. 744-752.
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Sunday, July 25, 2010 5:00pm – 7:00pm
Each of the conference's plenary sessions was intended to present a balanced view, considering earthquake science, engineering, and socio-economic aspects, with perspectives provided by speakers from the United States and Canada.
The 21st Century Goal for Seismic Safety: Resilient Cities
Chris D. Poland, Chairman, CEO and Senior Principal
Degenkolb Engineers, San Francisco, California
This talk addressed the concept of resilient cities and how to define metrics to evaluate resilience, building on the community work that Poland has spearheaded in San Francisco in recent years. He provided a historical perspective on how the concept of resilient cities has evolved, from the early concepts of earthquake resistant design to new perspectives brought by the new century.
The Role of Structural Consultants and Design Practitioners in the Development of Canadian Earthquake Codes
Ronald D. DeVall, Senior Consultant
Read Jones Christoffersen LTD, Vancouver, British Columbia
Ron DeVall presented an overview of the Canadian Code System and the involvement of structural designers and engineering consultants in the development of earthquake code requirements for the Canadian National Building Code and its Canadian Standards Association design standards. He also discussed implementation of research carried out by Canadian practitioners and their impact on the construction process.
U.S. Federal Programs
Because of the critical importance of the U.S. federal programs, the opening plenary session also included brief presentations by each of the agencies that are sponsoring the conference:
The U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
The U. S. Department of Energy
The four agencies that comprise the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program:
The National Institute of Standards and Technology,
The Federal Emergency Management Agency
The U.S. Geological Survey
Monday, July 26, 2010 8:00am – 9:30am
The four Monday morning plenary session speakers provided viewpoints on the hot topics and future directions for the fields of geotechnical and structural engineering, seismology and ground motions, and the social sciences.
Scenario Spectra for Design Ground Motions and Risk Calculation
Norman Abrahamson, Senior Engineering Seismologist
Pacific Gas & Electric Company, San Francisco, California
A common method for developing design spectra based on the probabilistic approach is uniform hazard spectra (UHS). Abrahamson will present a new approach for developing a suite of realistic scenario earthquake spectra. He believes that the choice of using a UHS rather than multiple spectra for the different scenarios should be the decision of the engineering analyst, after determining whether requesting multiple scenario spectra is worth the additional analysis costs.
Future Directions in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering
Ross W. Boulanger, Professor
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of California, Davis
This talk on future directions in geotechnical earthquake engineering focused on predicting and remediating ground deformations, predicting performance of soil-structure systems, resiliency and performance-based design, and sensing for risk reduction and resiliency. The potential in these areas is enhanced by advances and opportunities afforded by large-scale experimental facilities. Progress will also be affected by the interactions between teaching, research, and practice.
Understanding Interdependencies Among Critical Infrastructures
Carlos Ventura, Director/Professor
Earthquake Engineering Research Facility, Department of Civil Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
The system of critical infrastructures constitutes the backbone of modern societies. After presenting a brief review of current research being done on the interdependencies of these infrastructures during large disasters, Ventura will discuss a methodology recently developed at the University of British Columbia in response to the need to develop knowledge, tools, and recommendations to support coordinated decision making.
Societal Dimensions of Earthquakes and Other Disasters: Findings in Search of Theory
Kathleen Tierney, Director/Professor of Sociology
Natural Hazards Center, University of Colorado at Boulder
Social scientists have successfully developed and tested middle-range theories concerning hazards, disasters, and risk. However, advances have come at the expense of a more comprehensive theory of disaster vulnerability, impacts, and outcomes. Advances in vulnerability science and resilience studies have furthered the state of the art. The application of world system theory at a global scale and socio-political ecology theory at national, regional, and local scales can result in further integration across space, time, and hazard types.
Wednesday July 28, 2010 8:00 am – 9:30 am
THE HAITI AND CHILE EARTHQUAKES OF 2010
Metro Centre-East
8:00 a.m.–9:30 a.m.
Moderated by Reginald DesRoches of the Georgia Institute of Technology, this session will provide insights that go well beyond the initial reconnaissance reports on these two major seismic events, covering geotechnical issues, social science aspects, the performance of reinforced concrete buildings, and the correlation of ground motion with damage.
Ellen M. Rathje
Haiti: Relationship between Geotechnical Conditions and Damage Patterns
On January 12, 2010 a magnitude Mw 7.0 earthquake struck the Port-au-Prince region of Haiti. The earthquake epicenter was located immediately west of the city of Port-au-Prince, and the damage induced by this event was extreme. The Geo-engineering Extreme Events Re-connaissance Association (GEER) mobilized a team, funded by the U. S. National Science Foundation, to document the geotechnical and geological aspects of this event. This presentation will focus on the observations from the reconnaissance efforts as well as the subsurface information (i.e. shear wave velocity, soil types, CPT measurements) collected during the field campaign. Topics that will be discussed include geologic conditions as derived from our field work, shear wave velocities across the city and their relationship to damage patterns, and liquefaction along coastal areas.
Jonathan Bray
Chile: Geo-Engineering Reconnaissance
The February 27, 2010 Maule, Chile earthquake (Mw = 8.8) is the fifth largest earthquake to occur since 1900. Its effects were felt along 600 km of the central Chile coast. Tectonic displacement of the hanging wall produced both uplift of over 2 m and subsidence of up to 1 m in coastal regions. The report of the NSF-sponsored Geo-engineering Extreme Events Reconnaissance (GEER) team includes a brief summary of engineering seismology and earthquake ground motions, a description of the use of remote sensing to provide insight into damage patterns, and an in-depth discussion of the important role of coastal uplift and subsidence resulting from the underlying tectonic movement. Seismic site effects were also important in this earthquake.
Soil liquefaction occurred at many sites, and often led to ground failure and lateral spreading. Several buildings were damaged significantly due to foundation movements resulting from liquefaction. Liquefaction-induced ground failure displaced and distorted waterfront structures, impacting the operation of key port facilities. Critical lifeline structures, such as bridges, railroads, and road embankments, were damaged by ground shaking and ground failure. The damage to some sections of Ruta 5, the primary North-South highway in Chile, was pervasive. Several key earth structures experienced some distress, and in one case a liquefaction-induced tailings dam failure produced a flow slide that killed a family of four.
Mary Comerio
Social and Economic Challenges for Recovery in Haiti
The January 12, 2010, Haiti earthquake caused a tragic loss of more than 230,000 lives and fractured the island nation physical, social and economic systems at all levels. More than 300,000 homes were destroyed or severely damaged, 1,500 schools and health centers collapsed, and most government and many commercial buildings were rendered unusable. Over 1.5 million Haitians (15% of the country's population) have been directly affected by the earthquake, with one million now living in temporary shelters and 500,000 relocated elsewhere. The earth-quake's damage has been conservatively estimated at US $10 billion, of which 40% is in housing. Recovery could take 10 years or more, and the process of managing the transition phases as well as the recovery is daunting, given the limited government resources. At the same time, Haitian authorities view the recovery as an opportunity to develop key industries (agriculture, tourism, ports and trade), reduce environmental hazards, develop appro-priate infrastructure (water, sanitation, transportation), address land tenure issues, and build back better housing with schools, health clinics and other social services decentralized. The challenge will be to manage and coordinate developers and NGOs while keeping an open process in which citizens have political input and economic participation.
Patrick Paultre
University of Sherbrooke, Quebec
Performance of Buildings in the Haiti Earthquake
The Haiti earthquake officially caused casualties to about 3% of the total population of the country and 10% of the population of the capital Port-au-Prince. It left the capital city in an ongoing state of emergency. This talk will identify the causes of the catastrophe and offer suggestions for avoiding a future repetition. Examples from engineered buildings will identify the most common causes of failure. A multistory building that survived the earthquake is an example of what performed well during the earthquake.
Jack Moehle
Performance of Buildings in the Chile Earthquake
The Chile earthquake affected a region with a population exceeding eight million people. It earthquake exposed a vast inventory of buildings, highways, ports, airports, and other lifelines to the damaging effects of ground shaking, ground failure, and tsunami. It was, without a doubt, the largest and most significant earth-quake engineering laboratory test in modern times. Most modern engineered facilities passed the test in flying colors, but a notable minority suffered disabling, and in some cases complete, damage. This talk addresses the successes and the failures, with emphasis on modern engineered concrete buildings, which are the predominant engineered building type in Chile. It looks to underlying effects including ground motion, architecture, and structural engineering. And it postulates implications for building codes and engineering practices.
Carlos Ventura Professor
University of British Columbia, Vancouver
John Cassidy Research Scientist
Geological Survey of Canada
Ground Shaking from the Chile Earthquake: Applications to Cascadia
The 2010 Chile earthquake provides a rare opportunity to compare strong shaking observations with damage patterns. This subduction earthquake was caused by up to 13 m of eastward slip of the Nazca plate beneath the South American plate. The rupture zone extended nearly 600 km along the Chile coast and covered the most populated region of the country — extending from south of Concepcion to just south of Valpraiso (near the latitude of Santiago). A devastating tsunami was generated that impacted the coast of Chile and also extended across the Pacific Ocean. As this is the type of earthquake that is expected along the Cascadia subduction zone of western Canada and the U.S., and given that modern building codes and construction styles in Chile and Cascadia are very similar, the Canadian Association of Earthquake Engineers sent a team of 10 engineers and a seismologist to the earthquake zone to learn from this earthquake. This presentation will focus on sites where strong ground shaking was recorded (the data available to date range from about 0.1g to 0.66g). The general characteristics of the ground motions obtained in the region will be discussed and salient features of the records will be presented. Examples of the damage observed in the vicinity of the strong motion recordings will be presented and discussed. The relevance of this set of ground motions to the Pacific Northwest will be highlighted.
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Thursday, July 29, 2010 10:00am – 12:00 noon
Closing plenary session
Representing their disciplinary perspectives, each speaker in the Thursday morning closing plenary summarized and assessed the conference and discussed future needs, followed by open discussions during the last 20 minutes. Each presentation featured:
Overview of the topic
Critical evaluation of what has been presented and accomplished at the conference.
Critique of current research in their area of emphasis, assessment of particular areas that are deemed especially valuable, and identification of weaknesses
Expectations of what will be achieved in the next several years for the safety of earthquake-prone communities
Insight into the direction of future research, and whether their insight is compatible with the future directions discussed in Monday's plenary session.
Ground motion:
Nicolas Luco
Research Structural Engineer
Geotechnical and lifelines:
Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering
Structural:
William Holmes
Principal, Structural Engineer
Rutherford & Chekene, San Francisco, California
Tsunami:
Tad Murty
Adjunct Professor, Department of Civil Engineering,
University of Ottawa, Ontario
Business and social science:
Lucy Arendt
Assistant Professor, Austin E. Cofrin School of Business
University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
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Movies and medicine have a dicey past. Movies and television rely on emotional impact and dramatic appeal but medicine insists on facts and accuracy. Trying to merge the two can make for interesting dramatizations of medical practices. No element of medical drama shows this differentiation quite like CPR in Hollywood.
1. CPR doesn't actually bring anyone back to life.
– CPR is meant as a life-prolonging technique, it's not typically used to bring someone back to life. Instead, it's supposed to keep their blood moving long enough for help to arrive.
2. CPR doesn't save everyone.
– A study looked at episodes of Grey's Anatomy and House from 2010 and 2011. During this period, CPR was shown in 46 out of 91 episodes, and the survival rate was 72%.
– Often, you see CPR save every life it's attempted on. In reality, CPR's effectiveness is between 2% and 30% depending on the reason for giving it.
3. It doesn't take a matter of seconds.
– Hollywood frequently depicts CPR lasting for no longer than a minute. In reality, you should perform CPR until help arrives. Again, the purpose is to keep blood pumping throughout the body and to keep oxygen in the bloodstream.
– CPR doesn't usually look as clean and easy as it appears on the screen. More often than not, properly performed CPR ends up cracking or breaking the patient's ribs. If the victim does wake up, they can vomit but we don't see that in the movies.
– The person performing CPR usually becomes exhausted because you need to do it until help arrives. T.V. and movies rarely show this aspect.
– Movies and television often depict someone straddling an unconscious person and beating on the victim's chest like a caveman. That's not only inaccurate but it's also dangerous. There's a method to the madness here and Hollywood neglects the technique. Everything is CPR is done with a purpose. CPR training is necessary, you can't just decide you know what you're doing.


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The merger offer for Renault by Fiat Chrysler Automobiles valued the French carmaker's equity at 15.3 billion euros excluding a forthcoming dividend.
This calculator determines whether Renault's offer was fair or not by dividing the company into four parts: its 43% stake in Japanese partner Nissan, a small holding in Germany's Daimler, its financing arm RCI Banque, and the main automotive business.
The output is the equity value of Renault's core operations, after deducting the other parts.
The optimistic scenario takes the market values of Nissan and Daimler on May 24, before Fiat's proposal was announced, and RCI Banque's book value at the end of December.
The more realistic default scenario for the Nissan stake starts with the 598 million euros in dividends that Renault will receive from its shareholding this year, based on Refinitiv estimates, and discounts them at a conservative 10% rate for 20 years assuming no growth. The Daimler shares are valued at 15% less than their market value to reflect the haircut Renault would have to accept if it sold out. RCI Banque is valued at three-quarters of book value to reflect depressed European bank valuations and the fact that it can't realistically be separated from the parent group.
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a Includes multiracial, American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander.
Source: NSF, Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering, 2019. Note: Data from 2016 or 2017, except where indicated.
How about adding a pie chart with the racial makeup of the country to compare to?
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NetEase's Minecraft racks up 1.36 billion mod downloads in China
Minecraft has recently celebrated its 10th anniversary and even though it's racking up milestones like crazy, all of them seem to pale in comparison to the results of NetEase's Minecraft in China, which reached 1.36 billion mod downloads.
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Granted, this is not the Minecraft we know, but rather a free-to-play version that launched for PC, iOS and Android devices.
Developed by Mojang and published by NetEase, It launched in 2017 and its launch month finished with 30 million downloads. It took four months to rake in $1 million in revenue, so it's obvious that the appeal
"When navigating the world largest and fast-growing game market, many western games are facing cultural barriers. Minecraft's transcultural success, however, could be explained by how it has become integrated into modern China and also its glorious past", they wrote.
NetEase are particularly proud of the latter part, as their edition of Minecraft was used to recreate some important landmarks.
"The National Architect & Cthuwork Studio spent over three years recreating the Imperial Palace within the Forbidden city which used over 100 million Minecraft blocks in its construction", they said.
Microsoft Minecraft Earth
Microsoft and Mojang recently celebrated Minecraft's 10th anniversary, making the game's first version playable from your browser and launching Minecraft Earth, but they ended up not inviting the game's creator Notch.
Moreover, they've since silently removed the more prominent traces of his name from the game, meaning the splash screens, although he can still be found in the credits.
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