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What Is Bipolar II Disorder?
"Bipolar II disorder (pronounced "bipolar two") is a form of mental illness. Bipolar II is similar to bipolar I disorder, with moods cycling between high and low over time."
"However, in bipolar II disorder, the "up" moods never reach full-blown mania. The less-intense elevated moods in bipolar II disorder are called hypomanic episodes, or hypomania."
"A person affected by bipolar II disorder has had at least one hypomanic episode in his or her life. Most people with bipolar II disorder suffer more often from episodes of depression. This is where the term "manic depression" comes from."
"In between episodes of hypomania and depression, many people with bipolar II disorder typically live normal lives."
*Who Is at Risk for Bipolar II Disorder?
"Virtually anyone can develop bipolar II disorder. About 2.5% of the U.S. population suffers from some form of bipolar disorder – nearly 6 million people."
"Most people are in their teens or early 20s when symptoms of bipolar disorder first start. Nearly everyone with bipolar II disorder develops it before age 50. People with an immediate family member who has bipolar are at higher risk."
*What Are the Symptoms of Bipolar II Disorder?
"During a hypomanic episode, elevated mood can manifest itself as either euphoria (feeling "high") or as irritability."
Symptoms during hypomanic episodes include:
"Flying suddenly from one idea to the next."
"Having exaggerated self confidence."
"Rapid, "pressured" (uninterruptable) and loud speech."
"Increased energy, with hyperactivity and a decreased need for sleep."
"People experiencing hypomanic episodes are often quite pleasant to be around. They can often seem like the "life of the party" — making jokes, taking an intense interest in other people and activities, and infecting others with their positive mood."
"What's so bad about that, you might ask? Hypomania can also lead to erratic and unhealthy behavior. Hypomanic episodes can sometimes progress onward to full manias that affect a person's ability to function (bipolar I disorder). In mania, people might spend money they don't have, seek out sex with people they normally wouldn't, and engage in other impulsive or risky behaviors with the potential for dangerous consequences."
"The vast majority of people with bipolar II disorder experience more time with depressive than hypomanic symptoms. Depressions can occur soon after hypomania subsides, or much later. Some people cycle back and forth between hypomania and depression, while others have long periods of normal mood in between episodes."
"Untreated, an episode of hypomania can last anywhere from a few days to several months. Most commonly, symptoms continue for a few weeks to a few months."
"Depressive episodes in bipolar II disorder are similar to "regular" clinical depression, with depressed mood, loss of pleasure, low energy and activity, feelings of guilt or worthlessness, and thoughts of suicide. Depressive symptoms of bipolar disorder can last weeks, months, or rarely years."
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Rarely does Commissioner Henry J. (StarQuest) Stern speak on behalf of rhinoceroses-dogs, pigeons, and beetles are more his forte. But as Chief Executive Officer of the American Association for the Advancement and Appreciation of Animals in Art and Architecture, he makes room in his schedule for species of all continents. On Thursday, November 30 he played safari guide at the unveiling of Stephen Vince's temporary exhibition in Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, (at 47th St. between 2nd and 1st Ave.) "Endangered Species Animal Safari." With Boomer by his side and young children in tiger masks, the commissioner introduced Mr. Vince's fourteen steel animal silhouettes designed with the twin goals of artistic expression and political action. "It is people who are responsible for the disappearance of precious species, and it takes the initiative and imagination of people to reverse the damage," said the Commissioner. The exhibit airs an international concern in an apt location-across the street from the United Nations-and underscores our shared responsibility for all species. The work will remain on view in the Katherine Hepburn Garden until the tulips reassert themselves in May.
Historic Yankee Stadium, a flower among Parks recreational facilities, is no shrinking violet. It is one of our best-visited facilities, and receives lavish press attention when the Yankees prevail-as they so often do. But the stadium is rarely discussed in terms of its relationship to neighboring Parks properties, Macombs Dam, Mullaly, and Franz Sigel Parks. Last Saturday, November 25, Urban Park Rangers charted previously uncharted territory when they wove local social and natural history into the script of a tour through Yankee Stadium. The tour, which attracted 40 New Yorkers, refreshed the roster of UPR regulars and added to the list perhaps not birdwatchers, but individuals interested in making connections between recreation and city history.
The tour moved from Memorial Park to the Yankee dugout. It passed through the Yankee clubhouse, onto the locker room and into the press box. Visitors got an insider's view of stadium spaces and a Parkie's overview of how the stadium fits into parks in the Bronx. A blockbuster event like a tour of Yankee Stadium balances the nature tours that are UPR staples. The Yankee Stadium tour invited newcomers to discover the range of what the Urban Park Rangers offer.
Urban Park Rangers, Rakeem Taylor and Yvonne Monge, and Americorps volunteer, Michael Nevarez, led the tour with an official Yankee Stadium tourguide. This fusion of popular attraction with Parks history was Urban Park Ranger Corporal Ernesto Acosta's brainstorm. Since 1979, the Urban Park Rangers have used urban parklands as interactive, outdoor classrooms for interested New Yorkers.
The Plant apologizes for failing to mention Claire Dudley, the architect and grant writer behind Parks' new Playground For All Children in Pelham Bay Park. She is recognized as an expert in the area and has created a wonderful haven-the first of its kind in the Bronx-for children of all physical abilities.
The Playground For All Children (PAC) in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens is one of the few playgrounds on the East coast which is fully accessible to disabled as well as able-bodied children. On December 1, PAC began its Sensitization Program for over 50 schools and community groups throughout the city. The program educates able-bodied children ages three to fourteen about the disabled through a variety of props including dolls, puppets and even animals.
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The first owner of The Cock now in the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza was the dealer Georges Bernheim, with whom Chagall signed a contract In 1927, marking the start of his unstoppable rise to success. Five years earlier the artist had decided to return to the West after a long spell in Vitebsk and Moscow. First he lived for a time in Berlin, until in September 1923 his poet friend Blaise Cendrars persuaded him to return to the French capital and accept the commission to illustrate Ambroise Vollard's edition of Gogol's Dead Souls and La Fontaine's Fables with a series of prints. The composition of The Cock in the Thyssen-Bornemisza collection is directly related to two of the prints he made for the Fables: The Cock and the Fox and The Cock and the Pearl. These illustrations, on which he began working in 1927, were impeccably adapted to the fantasy and irony of the French writer, whose poems featured heroes from both classical and popular mythology and a whole host of animals who behaved like human beings.
Chagall depicts a loving embrace between the animal and a female figure that is generally identified as a harlequin. The courting theme extends to two other pairs of lovers who embrace in the background. The cockerel held a symbolic meaning for Chagall, for as Franz Meyer pointed out, from early on it "has played a part in religious rites as the embodiment of the forces of sun and fire" and was furthermore a common motif in Russian lubki. Lastly, the resplendent colour, which foreshadows the chemistry of the colour of his final compositions, is, as Susan Compton points out, undoubtedly related to Chagall's friendship with the Delaunays.
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US and Canada buys further Bae System build M777 howitzer
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Hattiesburg, MS -- BAE Systems has received orders worth around $118 million (£70m) for 63 more M777 howitzers, taking the order total to exactly 800 guns.
The U.S. is buying 38 guns for the Marines and Army while Canada is acquiring 25 more through the US Foreign Military Sales program to add to the 12 it already has in service.
BAE Systems Global Combat Systems' facility at Hattiesburg, Mississipi is responsible for final integration and test of the weapon system. The prime contract management of the M777 program and manufacture and assembly of the complex titanium structures and associated recoil components are undertaken at Barrow-in-Furness in the United Kingdom.
Global Combat Systems has also received a $3M contract to 'reset' 33 US howitzers returning from operations in Afghanistan. This refurbishment work will be undertaken at the Hattiesburg facility.
Global Combat Systems' Artillery Programmes Director Ian McMillan commented on the gun acquisition and reset contracts:
"The purchase of additional howitzers is further endorsement of M777 and we expect more orders through 2009. We are also looking forward to establishing long-term partnering arrangements with U.S. Government military depots to undertake future reset and overhaul activities."
Weighing in at less than 4200kg, the revolutionary M777 is the world's first artillery weapon to make widespread use of titanium and aluminum alloys, resulting in a howitzer which is half the weight of conventional 155mm systems.
Both the U.S. and Canada operate M777s in Afghanistan, providing fire support to coalition forces. Its ability to be airlifted to remote positions by helicopter gives the system enormous operational flexibility and makes it ideal for a challenging environment like Afghanistan.
The M777 can fire the "smart" Excalibur round, co-developed by Global Combat Systems up to 40 km (25m) accurately enough to target individual rooms within a building, reducing the chance of innocent casualties and allowing supporting fire to be brought down much closer to friendly troops.
The M777 effort is managed by the Light Weight 155mm Joint Program office at Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey.
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Q: Almost surely converges for product of Uniform[0,1.1] using defention Our professor for Introduction to Probability 1 course gave us the following question as an exercise:

Let $X_i\sim Uniform[0,1.1]$ iid and let $Y_n=\prod_{i=1}^n X_i$. Does $Y_n\overset{\text{a.s}}{\to}0?$

My attempt:
$ Y_n = \prod_{i=1}^n X_i = e^{\frac{n}{n}\sum_{i=1}^n\ln{X_i}} $ Then we can show $\mathbb{E}[\ln(X_i)]=\int_0^{1.1}\ln{x}\frac{1}{1.1}\ dx \approx -0.904$
By the strong law of large numbers: $\frac{1}{n}\sum_{i=1}^n\ln(X_i)\overset{\text{a.s}}{\to} \mathbb{E}[\ln(X_i)] \approx -0.904 $
$e^x$ is a continuous function, and thus $  Y_n = \prod_{i=1}^n X_i \overset{\text{a.s} } \approx e^{-0.904n} \overset{n\to\infty}{\longrightarrow} 0 $

but I'm more interested in showing this using Borel-Cantelli lemmas using the definition of a.s convergence.
How would one go about this?
Any help would be appreciated,
thanks!

A: Observe that for any $\epsilon>0,$
$$\sum_{n=1}^\infty P(Y_n>\epsilon)\underbrace{\leq}_{\text{Markov's ineq.}} \sum_{n=1}^\infty  \frac{E[Y_n]}{\epsilon}\underbrace{=}_{\text{iid}}\sum_{n=1}^\infty \frac{(E[X_1])^n}{\epsilon}=\sum_{n=1}^\infty \frac{(.55)^n}{\epsilon}=\frac{0.55}{\epsilon(1-0.55) }<\infty,$$
so by the first Borel Cantelli lemma $Y_n\overset{\text{a.s.}}{\rightarrow}0.$

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Part 3. How Should Japan Respond to the New Cold War?
How Should Japan Respond to the New Cold War?
As the U.S. and China clash over the 5 battlegrounds of trade, technology, finance, space and ideology, Japan must come up with her own plan of action.
Q: How can Japan protect her technology from China?
A: By strengthening investment and export regulations.
The Japanese government and businesses are also victims of China's cyber hackings and economic espionage. Now there is a need for mutual acknowledgement of this situation between the bureaucratic and private bodies, to create an effective countermeasure.
The U.S. responded to China's misappropriation of intellectual property by extending regulations on foreign investments in the U.S. Japan must likewise revise and extend the Foreign Exchange Law to keep a closer watch. They should also prohibit the use of Huawei and ZTE services among government workers, and warn the citizens of the two companies' misuse of personal information.
Japan should also place stricter limitations on international student visas in the field of advanced technology so that information doesn't get stolen from research partnership programs. Inspection units specializing in the investigation of China's economic espionage in private businesses should also be setup.
Countering cyber-attacks require not just the reinforcement of cyber security in private businesses, but a greater effort by the government to protect these companies from attack.
Q: How should Japan respond to China's economy?
A: By switching the Chinese Yuan to the floating exchange-rate system.
The U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, Steve Mnuchin, says that, "We're going to very carefully review whether they [China] have manipulated the currency." The devaluation of China's currency leads directly to the U.S. trade deficit.
This is the same for Japan: if China is artificially devaluing the Yuan, it will contribute to a trading loss. Japan should join the U.S. in stopping China's currency manipulation by pressuring them to switch to the floating exchange-rate system and thus let the market decide the currency exchange rate.
If this happens, China will try to stop the Yuan collapse by requesting a central bank liquidity swap, but Japan must not comply. The move would provide liquidity in U.S. dollars to the Chinese market.
With China's "One Belt, One Road" policy of infrastructure investment in developing nations, the Chinese Yuan is slowly becoming accepted as a world currency. To resist this the Trump administration announced in July their plan to establish a fund to support infrastructure investments in countries around the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Japan should endorse these moves while setting up her own support funds.
Q: How should Japan prepare for the space war?
A: Through proactively investing in the space industry.
What Japan needs to do is to raise a nation-wide awareness that space can be used for defense purposes.
To use space for defense, Japan would need to develop space technology, while also expanding the defense budget by at least 100%.
Japan needs to proactively invest in aeronautical, space and defense developments including manned space shuttle technology, artificial satellites, cyber measures, AI technology, etc.
Q: What ideology is important for winning the New Cold War?
A: To spread "freedom, democracy and faith" around the world.
Japan has been too politically considerate towards China, ignoring the government's infringements of human rights and religious persecutions. It is not surprising that Chinese anti-Establishment activists find Japan an unattractive destination for seeking political asylum.
Nor is it surprising that Japan has often been excluded from America's list of potential allies for international proposals tackling China's human rights problem.
Now that the U.S. is showing a readiness for a frontal face-off with China, Japan must join them to bring an end to China's military dictatorship.
Our aim for the future should be for freedom, democracy and faith to unite with politics . . . Faith is imperative. We need a ground for justice above that which is made by people. Only by protecting religious freedom can we give meaning to the idea of human rights.
Japan and the U.S. must take leadership to create a prosperous future built upon the values of freedom, democracy and faith.


Nestle's permit to pump more water almost went unnoticed. State now says full public review coming.
Nestle and other water companies have permits to pump water that will be bottled and sold.
Nestle owns a water bottling plant in Stanwood, Michigan, north of Grand Rapids. It bottles spring water for its Ice Mountain and Pure Life brands.
The company wants to increase the amount of water it pulls out of the ground at one of its wells. The well is about 35 miles north of Stanwood in Evart, Michigan. To do that, it needs a permit from the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, and the public is supposed to weigh in on whether the company should get that permit.
But a lot of people didn't hear about it – until it was almost too late.
This issue had flown under most people's radar until Garret Ellison at MLive published a story about it last week.
The DEQ said it had received zero comments from the public until that article was published. It was published three days before a 45-day public comment period was about to end.
Carrie Monosmith is the chief of the environmental health section for the DEQ's drinking water office. The public comments go to her. Last Friday she told us that since Ellison's piece was published, they had heard from a lot of people.
"As of this morning we have received over 1,700 e-mail comments," said Monosmith. "We're pretty swamped right now."
Even the environmental group that had fought a long-protracted legal battle with Nestle, Michigan Citizens for Water Conservation, hadn't heard about the permit application.
The group wasn't aware of Nestle's new plans until being contacted by MLive. The Nestle proposal was published last month in the DEQ Environmental Calendar, a bi-weekly clearinghouse for permitting decisions, new administrative rules and other official notices that is not widely read by the general public.
Monosmith says publishing in the online MDEQ calendar is typically all it does. She says they don't really have a procedure beyond this for notifying the public.
"This is the first time we've been hit real hard with this with this thing. So I can tell you going forward we will have a procedure..."
"This is the first time we've been hit real hard with this thing," said Monosmith. "So I can tell you going forward we will have a procedure that will have a public comment period. We will likely always have a hearing and we will likely publish information that public comment period is available in a newspaper or some other main source for the media."
So, at least for this division that handles groundwater withdrawals, this experience could bring about some change in how they handle public notice.
They've extended the public comment period for Nestle's permit until March 3, 2017. And they are also planning to hold a public hearing on Nestle's permit in 2017. They are looking for a suitable location for that hearing now.
You can find out how to comment on the proposal here.
The Nestle water bottling plant was quite a controversial issue when it first started in the early 2000s. Under Michigan law, water bottlers don't have to pay for the water they pull out of the ground.
It's free to them to pump and sell.
Nestle's long legal battle with Michigan Citizens for Water Conservation concluded with a settlement in 2009. Nestle had to put a cap on what it could withdraw from a well in Mecosta County.
Now it's back at another well, wanting to increase what it pumps. The permit application states that the company wants to go from taking 150 gallons per minute to 400 gallons per minute.
But, in 2015, the DEQ already approved a 100 gallons per minute increase at this well in Evart. So the company has approval to pump at 250 gallons per minute now. This application, if approved, will allow them to pump 400 gallons per minute.
Arlene Anderson is Nestle's natural resource manager for the Midwest region. She says the company has been preparing for this expansion.
"We've done extensive monitoring. We have well over a hundred monitoring points that we've monitored for over 16 years including groundwater, wetlands, aquatic life, temperature, springs -- a very extensive database," says Anderson.
"We're very confident that this can sustain 400 gallons a minute without adverse impact," she says.
But now that people have discovered what Nestle wants to do, they are asking the state for more time to review the plan to verify Nestle's claims.
Not everyone pays attention to DEQ's online environmental calendar. That's where a lot of divisions publish pending decisions or proposals for permits.
Jim Olson is president of the environmental group For the Love of Water. And he was the lead attorney in that lawsuit against Nestle more than a decade ago.
Olson says Michigan used to have a robust and open public review process for things like this, but he says that's changed.
Olson said it started with former Gov. John Engler. Engler split up Michigan's Department of Natural Resources. Two agencies were then created: the MDEQ and the MDNR.
"... there's been a whittling away of a tradition of public notice and public participation..."
"And part of that reorganization, that split, got rid of commissions with hearings and public notices for air, water -- all kinds of decisions like this. That was the first whack at the historic, and long tradition of Michigan having solid public notice in newspapers and information to various people and full disclosure of information and hearings and review processes and rights of citizens to go to water commissions and air commissions to ask questions," says Olson.
"So we had a very effective open, vigorous review system that ensured that the decisions, even if somebody didn't agree with them, have their day in, you know, in the open sun of public review. And that was a good thing .. and so there's been a whittling away of a tradition of public notice and public participation," says Olson.
We talked to people who work within the air quality and water resources divisions at DEQ. They said how they notify the public can vary by division. And even within divisions.
Some notices are published in the paper. Some are just on the online calendar. And some permit decisions never go out for public notice. It all depends on how each division handles it.
We're told the department is reviewing how it handles public notices, and changes could be coming.
*This story was last updated at 11:40 am on 11/22/2016.


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Meetings begin this week to start making Philly's deadly Roosevelt Boulevard safer
Tom MacDonald
Memorials mark the area of Roosevelt Boulevard near 2nd Street where Samara Banks and three children were killed as they attempted to cross the 12-lane roadway. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Meetings this week begin on how to make over one of Philadelphia's most dangerous roads.
Roosevelt Boulevard (U.S. Route 1 in the Northeast) has long been considered one of Philadelphia's worst roads. A $5 million grant will fund a three year planning effort to make the highway safer says Mayor Jim Kenney.
"It's unacceptable the past five years there have been almost 3,000 reportable crashes that have resulted in 50 fatalities 20 of which were pedestrians on the boulevard," Kenney said.
Ken McClain of PennDOT says the goal of the meetings is to come up with ideas to enhance safety along the multi-lane highway which was built with a very different mindset.
"it was constructed in the early 1900's, but I doubt when that roadway was envisioned by it's designers and planners that they ever anticipated the volume of traffic and high speed traffic that utilizes that roadway today," McClain said.
Officials admit changes won't happen overnight but the goal is to improve the boulevard as quickly as possible.
Thursday April 14th..6-8 PM Four Points Sheriton, 9641 Roosevelt Blvd
Saturday April 16th 1-3pm at Global Die Works, 4500 Worth Street.
Tuesday April 19th 6 to 8 pm at Lenfest Center 3890 N 10th Street
Wednesday April 20th 6-8 pm at Radisson Hotel Philadelphia NE, 2400 Old Lincoln Hwy, Trevose PA
Thursday April 21 4:30 to 6:30PM at Lincoln High School 3201 Ryan Ave, Philadelphia Pa.
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XTAR, LLC renewed a long-term contract to supply EMC with high-throughput X-band to disadvantaged airborne terminals.
EMC is a leading provider of communications and content services for remote locations around the world. As part of the contract, XTAR will continue to provide space segment to Airborne intelligence, surveillance and recognizance (ISR) platforms involved in border surveillance missions.
This contract signifies a renewal of a service that began in 2014 and XTAR's services provides EMC with seamless coverage and plays a crucial role in supporting airborne communications requirements. EMC has innovated communications solutions for government entities for more than 35 years. The company operates in 140 countries, leveraging an advanced, hybrid satellite and terrestrial network with access to 21 teleports around the world and three wholly-owned – the largest U.S.-owned teleport infrastructure supporting U.S. Government activity outside the continental U.S. (OCONUS). The company also operates two manned 24x7x365 Secured Network Operations Centers (SNOCs).


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In celebration of this years annual Elkhart Jazz Festival, I wanted to share some images that I shot at Elkhart Jazz Festival of jazz legend Tony Monaco and the Tony Monaco Trio. I had been hired to document the performance of this historic night and I think the shots turned out great! It couldn't have been a better evening, perfect summer temperatures, the smell of food, and the smooth sounds of jazz. I also think the fact that the stage was built in the middle of Main Street made for some really interesting and dynamic shots.


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Kurdish transformative politics in Turkey
Authors: Rosa Burç
Abstract: This article discusses the transformative potential of Turkey's pro-democracy movement which has emerged out of a long history of Kurdish political struggle. It looks at the development of a two-fold strategy that understands internal transformation as a precondition for democratic transition in Turkey. The Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) has been the most recent iteration of this strategic and ideological reconfiguration. Built on in-depth interviews with key movement actors, this article examines (1) the historical context out of which the HDP materialized, (2) the politics introduced as democratic autonomy, (3) the transformative potential of the party's women's politics, (4) the limits of debates on "Türkiyelileşme," and (5) the role of the non-Kurdish opposition. Assessing the opportunities and impasses, I argue that, despite the recent state-orchestrated clampdown on Kurdish politics and its sites of articulation, Kurdish transformative politics remain a key asset for democratic transition in Turkey, though facing internal and external challenges.
Spreading whose word' Militarism and nationalism in the transnational
Turkish mosques
Authors: Mehmet Kurt
Abstract: In this article, I explore the role of religious discourses and practices in the diasporic Kurdish-Turkish conflict and investigate the ways in which presentations of the political conflict has been disseminated and reproduced via Turkish mosques located in Europe and the United States. Through extended ethnographic research, I examine the imagination of Turkish political theology and the exclusion of the Kurds from the imagined transnational Muslim ummah for which Turkish Islamist discourse promotes the Turkish state as the flag-bearer. I demonstrate that the existence of the Kurds, by virtue of their exclusion from this imaginary worldview, unravels the limitations of Turkish pan-Islamist discourse.
Turkish Islam and Kurdish difference
Authors: Mucahit Bilici
Abstract: In this article I discuss the ways in which the Turkish state uses Islam as a weapon to delegitimize and render unnecessary Kurdish distinctiveness and associated rights claims. Drawing on the particular discourse employed by Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in a series of political rallies in Diyarbakır, the symbolic capital of Turkish Kurdistan, I highlight key patterns in the instrumentalization of religion to maintain Turkish dominance. The Kurdish question as it is experienced by Kurds of Turkey, contrary to expectations, is not at all a matter of "discrimination" and "otherization." Rather, the Kurdish problem arises from a lack of recognition of the Kurds as a separate self.
Claiming the bodies of Kurdish women: Kurdish women's funerals in
Northern Kurdistan/Turkey
Authors: Ruken Isik
Abstract: The Turkish state strictly bans funerals and other forms of public mourning for Kurdish guerrillas, considering them to be a threat to the sovereign state. Victims of honor crimes are also denied proper burials, as they are accused of "ruining" their family's reputation. Since the 2000s, Kurdish women activists in Turkey have gone against the grain by holding funerals for both groups of women, as well as public protests against the necropolitics of the state and patriarchal powers which establish exceptions to control life and death. This paper analyzes the ways in which women activists take action by claiming these bodies and reimagining grief and mourning as affects of social justice.
Deception-based knowledge in Indigenous and scientific societies: American
Indian tricksters and experimental research designs
Authors: Yancey Orr, Raymond Orr
Abstract: The emerging movement to decolonize the sciences, social sciences, and humanities has emphasized the differences between Indigenous and Western scientific ways of knowing. Paradoxically, emphasizing the difference between these systems has also been the principle undergirding modern science's claim to being a uniquely valid means of knowledge creation. Yet as each approach focused solely on contrasting Indigenous and scientific ways of knowing, potential similarities between these knowledge systems may have been ignored. One such oversight is the use of deception by each system, which is central to experimental research designs in the social and psychological sciences, and in American Indian trickster stories. In narratives recounted throughout American Indian societies, tricksters act from malevolence, greed, or generosity and are often catalysts in knowledge production. Similarly, it is the "experimental process" found in Western scientific systems that deceives subjects in order to elicit insights into causality, and such have been the results, that it has become a preeminent empirical method in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Emotivity and excess of spirits in the Andes
Authors: Óscar Muñoz Morán
Abstract: In the Quechua community of Coipasi (Bolivia) relations between the living and the dead (almas—souls) swing between excess and containment, remembrance and distancing. The aim of this article is to show that the emotivity of the spirits plays a fundamental role in these relations. Like all matters pertaining to the nature of spirits, this emotivity is excessive but also, and most importantly, it appears to the extent that the souls of the dead feel alienated from family and community social practices. This is reflected in the local notion of "nonremembrance" (mana yuyacunchu). I therefore suggest that an ethnography of the emotivity of spirits offers a better understanding of such common concepts in the anthropology of the Andes as commensality, excess, and the very notion of the soul.
Uywasiña in Aymara cosmopraxis: Ontogenesis and attentionality
Authors: Koen de Munter
Abstract: This article revolves around the theoretical and ethnographic experiences of an ongoing anthropological study with contemporary Aymara families about how "education by attention" is produced throughout their cosmopraxis. At the same time, it explores how an anthropology of life and in particular Tim Ingold's fight for a recalibration of anthropology in a biosocially integrated sense are of intrinsically political-ethical interest, considering the messy and misaligned times we humans have worked ourselves into. Beyond romantic interpretations and essentialist representations, a committed inquiry into indigenous practices that habilitate people for ecological-cultural "correspondence" and affective reciprocity—uywasiña—enables the exploration of important educational attitudes and habits that can lead to necessary realignments of human relations with the world/earth. I discuss these enskilling practices through a conversation with theorizations of attentionality, agencement (the "doing-undergoing" of habit, in Ingold's terms), and affectionality.
Contemporary Shuar beliefs: The indigenous use of a vexed anthropological
concept in post-conversion Amazonia
Authors: Christian Tym
Pages: 93 - 108
Abstract: The critique of belief as an analytical tool in anthropology has overshadowed belief as an ethnographic reality. This article short-circuits these debates over the politics of belief by elaborating ethnographically the indigenous use of the concept—literally the Spanish "creer" and "creencia"—in Shuar territory in post-conversion Amazonia. It shows that contemporary Shuar "belief" supersedes assumptions about belief as an epistemic commitment. The Shuar concept combines the Christian emphasis on conversion with a relatively stable ancestral notion about the meaning and social significance of knowledge, one that emphasizes its instrumentality, as opposed to the ideology of the truth-seeking cogito striving to make accurate representations of the world. These arguments are advanced by presenting ethnographic material from two distinct sites in Shuar territory in southeastern Ecuador: one in which most people claim to "believe" in shamanic healing and ancestral visionary practices, and one in which they do not.
The pedigree of the house: The case of Vdra-ba
Authors: Bo Chen
Abstract: Vdra-ba society in western Sichuan, China, has been represented by evolutionist Chinese scholars as a primitive matrilineal society that was in transition to a patrilineal system, and it has been likened to that of the Na/Moso. This is a misleading characterization. Vdra-ba society has no tribal organizations and was critically shaped by the overarching Tú-sī system for many centuries. The kinship system is centered on the "house," and is better described as undifferentiated. The gá-yì (visiting) relationship, with marriage in rare occasions, and conventions of adoption, allows their ideal of a female line to be practiced and transformed in the house into an undifferentiated form of inheritance and accession. There is no descent group. The Vdra-ba kindred, however, is individual-centered rather than ancestor-centered, with its bilateral character.
Insecurities of nativism: A woman ethnographer studying her own community
Authors: Malvika Sharma
Abstract: This article, through various ethnographic encounters, highlights the advantages and explores the challenges of fieldwork for a female researcher studying what might be taken to be her own community. Doing a native anthropology in a marginal borderland that has not been explored anthropologically before turns out to be an interesting experience. On the one hand, the identity of being a native of the region carves out ways in the field that help her overcome barriers; on the other hand, the same identity, through her common ethnic and cultural belonging, kinship relations, and local familiarity restricts her in many ways. Through explorations of her identity in the field along gender, caste, class, and ethnic lines, the work highlights how sometimes she is an insider, sometimes an outsider, and sometimes a partial-insider-outsider, thereby collapsing the strict division of a researcher into categories of an outsider and an insider.
Virtue's cosmos: Enaction as an anthropology of eschatology
Authors: Muhammad Ali Nasir, Muhammad Ahmed Bin
Abstract: As youngsters in a Pakistani megacity participate in a reading group to discuss the end of time by looking at the eschatological prophecies in Islamic religious sources, they come to relate apparently trivial political actions such as wall-painting, placard-holding, and pamphlet-distributing to the question of justice. We suggest in this article that this complex phenomenon can be best understood through the concept of enaction, as ethical actions are seen to enact a context suffused with political and cosmological considerations. Accordingly, our discussion positions itself against those works in the anthropology of ethics that primarily view such ethical actions in terms of self-cultivation.
Fateful rite of passage: Charismatic ratification of elite merit in
China's National College Entrance Exam
Authors: Zachary M. Howlett
Abstract: This article argues that China's National College Entrance Exam, the Gaokao, provides routinized charismatic ratification of elite merit and state authority. In his writings, Max Weber differentiates between original and routinized charisma. Whereas original charisma disrupts social orders, routinized charisma legitimizes them by preserving a spark of the extraordinary and the divine. Based on long-term ethnographic research in Chinese high schools, this article examines a mode of charisma preservation that Weber ignored: routinized fateful rites of passage like the Gaokao. Despite being routinized, such events are chancy, their outcomes contingent and undetermined. This indeterminacy is indexed by magical concepts like fate and luck, which lend charismatic authority a divine imprimatur. This analysis illuminates the importance of indeterminacy in understanding the compulsion of charisma, contributes to understanding the dialectical interplay between original and routinized charisma, and explains the Gaokao's magical-charismatic role in preserving the moral authority of China's ruling elite.
Religion in action: How Marian apparitions may become true
Authors: Zdeněk Konopásek
Abstract: According to Latour, religion and science have nothing in common. The two are successful (or failing) in quite different ways. Religiousness is not aimed at fact-making, but at presence-making, he says. To critically reconsider these ideas, I discuss the case study of Marian apparitions in Litmanová, Slovakia. The study suggests a more complicated picture by not focusing on pure and ready-made religion, but rather on religion in the making, a kind of "almost-religion." It shows how the reality of apparitions, initially of quite unclear status, was becoming more and more religious. Fact-making and fact-checking clearly belonged to this trajectory and have never stopped being relevant. Nonetheless, together with how the apparition was progressively becoming truly religious (or religiously true), Latourian presence-making was gaining in importance.
Comparative urbanism and collective methodologies: Restoration projects in
West Bengal and South East London
Authors: John Hutnyk
Abstract: Asking who gets to compare, this paper advocates inclusive research methodologies through a discussion of comparison and collaboration in urban anthropology. It reports on difficulties in trying to include otherwise excluded perspectives that have particular importance for port city heritage redevelopment, while asking how ethical ethnographic research can still be done. It evaluates ongoing research on two recent maritime restoration projects by considering comparative urban and heritage studies within the framework of collaborative ethnography with informal workers, the unemployed, and other local residents. It asks how to engage "new" researchers in the community to study that community—in this case, those impacted by heritage redevelopment at two sites: in South East London and West Bengal. The paper is conceived as a contribution to ethnographic methodologies in urban anthropology, arguing in support of inclusive and responsive approaches to knowledge creation in the social sciences.
The psychedelic ritual as a technique of the self: Identity
reconfiguration and narrative reframing in the therapeutic efficacy of
Authors: David Dupuis
Abstract: Although so-called "psychedelic" substances have recently experienced a revival of interest in their therapeutic properties, the underpinnings of their effectiveness remain poorly understood. Based on data collected during ethnographic fieldwork in a Peruvian Amazon clinic, this article proposes an anthropological approach to their therapeutic efficacy in the treatment of addiction. Using an analytical framework rooted in interactionism, narrative approaches, and cultural phenomenology, I argue that psychedelic rituals are best conceptualized as transformative techniques of the self leading the participants to reinterpret their identity, their biography, and their daily behaviors in the light of a new cultural model. I claim that the "dissociative" states induced by psychedelics, usually considered as side effects or adverse reactions, are in fact a driving force in therapy. Beyond neuropharmacological and psychodynamic models, my analysis points out the importance of relational, narrative, and "spiritual" processes as key therapeutic mechanisms of psychedelics.
Reality remodeled: Practical fictions for a more-than-empirical world
Authors: Lars Rodseth
Abstract: Most ethnographers have little use for models and other formal abstractions, yet even a staunch empiricist such as Franz Boas could appreciate the "aesthetic" advantages of idealization and simplification. These advantages have been largely ignored in recent decades, as anthropologists have come to favor ever more intricate and encompassing accounts. The resulting "ethnographic involution," I suggest, has steadily diminished anthropology as a source of usable, socially shared knowledge. Much the same problem, interestingly, was confronted long ago by Max Weber, who developed the method of "ideal types" precisely as a way to grasp, represent, and investigate the complexity of historical reality. Weber converged in this regard with his contemporary at Halle, the neo-Kantian philosopher Hans Vaihinger (1852–1933). Since the late twentieth century, Vaihinger's "fictionalism" has attracted renewed interest within philosophy and beyond. Yet his notion of "as-if" reasoning—a via media, I would argue, between particularism and positivism—remains virtually unknown within anthropology.
Heathen hermeneutics: Or, radical "radical interpretation"
Authors: Philip Swift
Abstract: Translation—both multi- and intra-lingual—is vital to anthropological method. Drawing a distinction between two opposing modes of translation ("domesticating" versus "foreignizing"), this paper considers the ontological and ethical consequences of these two interpretative strategies, in particular by critically engaging with the doctrine of Donald Davidson, the theoretical inspiration for João Pina-Cabral's work, World. I argue, instead, in favor of a "pagan" or pluralizing conceptual method, inspired by Feyerabend, Lyotard, and Hans Peter Duerr, and I suggest that their approaches demonstrate that even the polymodal ontology of Latour is lacking in plurality. In conclusion, I consider how the notion of foreignizing translation relates to the method associated with the ontological turn in anthropology.
The conditions of possibility of the ethnographic gesture: A reply to
Philip Swift
Authors: João Pina-Cabral
Abstract: This piece is a response to Philip Swift's article in this issue, where he critiques issues concerning ethnographic theory raised in my book World: An anthropological examination. Inspired by the work of Donald Davidson, I argue that indeterminacy and underdetermination are conditions for all communication and that, in light of that, a position of metaphysical pluralism provides us with a better account of the conditions of possibility of the ethnographic gesture than the kind of ontological pluralism that Swift espouses.
"Where it was, I must come into being"
Authors: Fatima Mojaddedi
Abstract: This article considers the problem of translation and radical interpretation from a post-structuralist and psychoanalytic perspective, and challenges the notion of concept, language, and difference being mobilized by Philip Swift.
Burning translations
Authors: Milad Odabaei
Abstract: This essay radicalizes the call for foreignizing translation in anthropology by pushing translation beyond a reference to an anthropological self. What I recognize as "burning translations" responds to the abolitionist call for "letting anthropology burn" by developing the urgency of translation amid histories of racialization. In contrast to foreignizing translation as the self-reflexive hermeneutics of the other, burning translations are speculative approximations of exigent situations that precede and exceed anthropological debates and liberal modes of public reason more generally. Burning translations are risky not because they invent new classificatory concepts and therefore confront the discipline's intellectual and institutional resistance, but because they redirect anthropological terms and categories outside anthropological debates without attempting to add to these debates, offer a corrective, and thereby expiating what Michel-Rolph Trouillot identified as the guilty conscience of postcolonial anthropology. Burning translations test the limit of our concepts as "concepts," and not as "ours."
How to do things with worlds: A reply to responses
The death of urban China: Reflections on Harriet Evans's Beijing
from below
Authors: Ian Johnson
Life in old Beijing
Authors: Erik Mueggler
When "the state" is the absence of a sour red date: Memory,
materiality, and agency
Authors: Ruth E. Toulson
Scales of knowing
Authors: Biao Xiang
Place, materiality, and gender in subaltern memories of long lives in a
poor Beijing neighborhood
Authors: Harriet Evans
The illusions of "magical thinking": Whose chimera, ours or
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More questions for NASA's manned spaceflight programs
By John Matson on May 8, 2009
The White House yesterday announced that it will convene a 10-member independent panel to thoroughly review NASA's plans for human spaceflight. The announcement calls into doubt the agency's current cornerstones for manned missions, including the planned replacement for the soon-to-be-retired space shuttle and the stated goal of returning humans to the moon by 2020.
In a teleconference with reporters today, the panel's chair, former Lockheed Martin CEO Norman Augustine, gave few hints as to the future of manned spaceflight in the U.S., saying that his group's mission was simply to "take a fresh look and go where the facts are and basically call it the way we see it."
Augustine said that his panel, the Review of United States Human Space Flight Plans Committee, was in the formation process and would ideally contain a balance of perspectives from the astronaut ranks as well as from industry, academia, and the engineering field. The group will have to work quickly to deliver its recommendations before August, when the administration is expected to announce a decision on how to proceed. NASA's current mission is directed toward restoring manned spaceflight capability, which will vanish along with the space shuttle next year, with a program called Constellation in 2015 and returning humans to the moon by 2020.
Probed on his committee's ability to advise on works already in progress, specifically the development of Constellation and the shuttle's retirement, Augustine did not rule anything out. "We are where we are," he said, noting that the shuttle's phaseout was already under way but that if his group saw compelling evidence for reviving it they would say so. As for Constellation, Augustine said that the money already sunk into the program "would not be a consideration for us." What would be a consideration, he added, is "where we stand today."
There have long been murmurings about the new administration changing directions with Constellation—former NASA chief Michael Griffin reportedly butted heads with President Obama's transition team over the suggestion that the program might be scaled back. And in documents from the campaign as well as in current budget proposals, Obama's staff has largely spoken about the space shuttle's replacement in general terms rather than referring to Constellation by name. In today's teleconference Augustine did the same, referring only to the "existing program."
But he maintained that this review was not simply Obama's attempt to put his stamp on a space program shaped by his predecessor—both Constellation and the 2020 timeline for returning to the moon stem from President Bush's 2004 Vision for Space Exploration. "It's America's space program," Augustine said, "for which President Obama is currently responsible."
Artist's conception of Ares I crew-launch system, part of the Constellation program: NASA/MSFC
John Matson
John Matson is a former reporter and editor for Scientific American who has written extensively about astronomy and physics.
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<?php

namespace ONGR\MagentoConnectorBundle\DependencyInjection;

use Symfony\Component\Config\FileLocator;
use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\ContainerBuilder;
use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\Definition;
use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\Exception\InvalidArgumentException;
use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\Loader;
use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\Parameter;
use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\Reference;
use Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\DependencyInjection\Extension;

/**
 * This is the class that loads and manages your bundle configuration.
 */
class ONGRMagentoConnectorExtension extends Extension
{
    /**
     * {@inheritdoc}
     */
    public function load(array $configs, ContainerBuilder $container)
    {
        $configuration = new Configuration();
        $config = $this->processConfiguration($configuration, $configs);

        $container->setParameter('ongr_magento.store_id', $config['store_id']);
        $container->setParameter('ongr_magento.shop_id', $config['shop_id']);
        $container->setParameter('ongr_magento.store_url', $config['url']);

        $loader = new Loader\YamlFileLoader($container, new FileLocator(__DIR__ . '/../Resources/config'));
        $loader->load('services.yml');

        if ($container->hasDefinition('ongr_magento.sync.cart')) {
            $cartDefinition = $container->getDefinition('ongr_magento.sync.cart');

            $cartDefinition->addMethodCall('setManager', [new Reference('es.manager.' . $config['es_manager'])]);
            $cartDefinition->addMethodCall('setRepositoryName', [$config['es_repositories']['product']]);
            $cartDefinition->addMethodCall('setCartRoute', [$config['cart_route']]);
        }

        $this->createImportServices($container, $config);
        $this->createSyncProviderServices($container, $config);
    }

    /**
     * Returns correct dependency injection alias.
     *
     * @return string
     */
    public function getAlias()
    {
        return 'ongr_magento';
    }

    /**
     * Creates import services.
     *
     * @param ContainerBuilder $container
     * @param array            $config
     */
    private function createImportServices(ContainerBuilder $container, array $config)
    {
        if (!$config['create_import_services']) {
            return;
        }

        $finish = new Definition(
            $config['finish_listener'],
            [
                new Reference('es.manager.' . $config['es_manager']),
            ]
        );
        foreach (['product', 'category', 'content'] as $type) {
            /*
             * Import source.
             */

            $importSource = new Definition(
                new Parameter('ongr_connections.import.source.class'),
                [
                    new Reference('doctrine.orm.' . $config['doctrine_manager']),
                    $config['doctrine_repositories'][$type],
                    new Reference('es.manager.' . $config['es_manager']),
                    $config['es_repositories'][$type],
                ]
            );
            $importSource->addTag(
                'kernel.event_listener',
                [
                    'event' => "ongr.pipeline.import.magento.{$type}.source",
                    'method' => 'onSource',
                ]
            );
            $container->setDefinition("ongr_magento.import.{$type}.source", $importSource);

            /*
             * Sync source.
             */

            $syncSource = new Definition(
                new Parameter('ongr_connections.sync.execute.source.class'),
                [
                    new Reference('doctrine.orm.' . $config['doctrine_manager']),
                    $config['doctrine_repositories'][$type],
                    new Reference('es.manager.' . $config['es_manager']),
                    $config['es_repositories'][$type],
                    new Reference('ongr_connections.sync.sync_storage'),
                ]
            );
            $syncSource->addMethodCall('setChunkSize', [$config['sync_chunk_size']]);
            $syncSource->addMethodCall('setShopId', [$config['shop_id']]);
            $syncSource->addMethodCall('setDocumentType', [$type]);
            $syncSource->addTag(
                'kernel.event_listener',
                [
                    'event' => "ongr.pipeline.sync.execute.magento.{$type}.source",
                    'method' => 'onSource',
                ]
            );
            $container->setDefinition("ongr_magento.sync.{$type}.source", $syncSource);

            /*
             * Import and sync modifier.
             */

            if ($type == 'product') {
                $arguments = [$config['store_id'], $config['shop_id']];
            } else {
                $arguments = [$config['shop_id']];
            }
            $modifier = new Definition(
                $config['modifiers'][$type],
                $arguments
            );
            $modifier->addTag(
                'kernel.event_listener',
                [
                    'event' => "ongr.pipeline.import.magento.{$type}.modify",
                    'method' => 'onModify',
                ]
            );
            $modifier->addTag(
                'kernel.event_listener',
                [
                    'event' => "ongr.pipeline.sync.execute.magento.{$type}.modify",
                    'method' => 'onModify',
                ]
            );
            $container->setDefinition("ongr_magento.import.{$type}.modify", $modifier);

            /*
             * Import consumer.
             */

            $importConsumer = new Definition(
                new Parameter('ongr_connections.import.consumer.class'),
                [
                    new Reference('es.manager.' . $config['es_manager']),
                ]
            );
            $importConsumer->addTag(
                'kernel.event_listener',
                [
                    'event' => "ongr.pipeline.import.magento.{$type}.consume",
                    'method' => 'onConsume',
                ]
            );
            $container->setDefinition("ongr_magento.import.{$type}.consume", $importConsumer);

            /*
             * Sync consumer.
             */

            $syncConsumer = new Definition(
                new Parameter('ongr_connections.sync.execute.consumer.class'),
                [
                    new Reference('es.manager.' . $config['es_manager']),
                    $config['es_repositories'][$type],
                    new Reference('ongr_connections.sync.sync_storage'),
                ]
            );
            $syncConsumer->addTag(
                'kernel.event_listener',
                [
                    'event' => "ongr.pipeline.sync.execute.magento.{$type}.consume",
                    'method' => 'onConsume',
                ]
            );
            $container->setDefinition("ongr_magento.sync.{$type}.consume", $syncConsumer);

            /*
             * Import and sync finish.
             */

            $finish->addTag(
                'kernel.event_listener',
                [
                    'event' => "ongr.pipeline.import.magento.{$type}.finish",
                    'method' => 'onFinish',
                ]
            );
            $finish->addTag(
                'kernel.event_listener',
                [
                    'event' => "ongr.pipeline.sync.execute.magento.{$type}.finish",
                    'method' => 'onFinish',
                ]
            );
        }
        $container->setDefinition('ongr_magento.import.finish', $finish);
    }

    /**
     * Creates Sync provider services.
     *
     * @param ContainerBuilder $container
     * @param array            $config
     */
    private function createSyncProviderServices(ContainerBuilder $container, array $config)
    {
        if (!$config['create_sync_provider_services']) {
            return;
        }

        $providerSource = new Definition(
            $config['sync']['source']['class'],
            [ new Reference($config['sync']['source']['provider']) ]
        );
        $providerSource->addTag(
            'kernel.event_listener',
            [
                'event' => 'ongr.pipeline.data_sync.magento.source',
                'method' => 'onSource',
            ]
        );
        $container->setDefinition('ongr_magento.sync.provide.source', $providerSource);

        $providerConsumer = new Definition(
            $config['sync']['consume']['class'],
            [ new Reference($config['sync']['consume']['extractor']) ]
        );
        $providerConsumer->addTag(
            'kernel.event_listener',
            [
                'event' => 'ongr.pipeline.data_sync.magento.consume',
                'method' => 'onConsume',
            ]
        );
        $container->setDefinition('ongr_magento.sync.provide.consume', $providerConsumer);
    }
}

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Visitors to Louis Vuitton's trunk exhibition in Shanghai may feel overwhelmed by the 1,600 artifacts on display. To navigate the event with ease, the brand designed a WeChat Mini Program to keep visitors' focused on the art. The Mini Program includes an audio guide, virtual games, selfie spot, instant social sharing, and more.
Luxury brands are all about creating dreams, and what's better than creating a space where consumers can immerse themselves in a brand's story? But how can brands make this memory stick? Like the above Louis Vuitton example, WeChat Mini Programs are becoming the gold standard. The Mini Program is an app within WeChat, which holds the attention of 1 billion monthly users. It has become the facilitator and witness to that experience. It also breaks the boundaries of time and location, becoming a permanent space in which visitors can "stop by" anytime.
The audio guide and social sharing are just a few features it can provide for event marketing. First, it's convenient to access through WeChat — meaning users don't need to switch between apps on their phones. The integration within WeChat provides users with the ability to share news about an event with their friends, read a post by key opinion leaders (KOLs) who may attend the event, and even receive push notifications about the latest news on the event. During the event, users can experience it in different ways, such as through AR, VR, live streams, and audio guides. After the event, they can even browse and purchase souvenirs within the Mini Program with WeChat Pay.
Developing a designated event Mini Program does not need too long — it can take up to three months, according to the latest report from digital agency 31Ten, which illustrated in detail WeChat usage at events. The agency also released a hands-on guide on how brands can use WeChat before, during, and after the event. Here are three examples that are most relevant to luxury brands and how they worked:
YSL — Beauty Hotel
Yves Saint Laurent, the well-known French luxury fashion brand, launched a hotel-themed pop-up store at the Shanghai Modern Art Museum at the end of last year. The three-story pop-up "hotel" was a lavish display of the YSL lifestyle — it featured a YSL Beauty Suite with a king-size bed, a bathtub, and a Spa Room featuring the brand's new skincare products. It also had a studio for visitors to try on makeup, as well as an event space for parties and live music. Before the event, visitors could check in ahead of time on WeChat and read the instructions for the game when visiting, e.g., how to unlock a hidden room as a surprise.
During the event, visitors could virtually try on new YSL lipsticks and pre-order the latest products. After the event, visitors were directed to the e-commerce platform to purchase via WeChat, and they were also presented with membership rewards to participate in the company's loyalty program.
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Louis Vuitton — VVV trunk exhibition
LV's lush "The Art of Travel" (on display through February 1st) opened at the Shanghai Exhibition Center on November 16th, after packed showings in Paris, Tokyo, Seoul, and New York City. The exhibition featured more than 1,600 objects from the Louis Vuitton archives and presented the products in various themed displays, from the evolution of transportation (boat, car, train, and air travel) to a range of different personal perspectives (writer, musician, designer, or celebrity). Compared to other brands, Louis Vuitton's VVV packed a lot of information and function into their Mini Program, which is more like a stand-alone app or virtual personal tour assistant. Before the event, WeChat was the one-stop shop for all the information that's needed, including opening hours, address, directions, and tickets. Visitors can play with different interactive features for an early peak as well.
During the event, besides the audio guide, the Mini Program also had a lot of new features that allow consumers to personally interact with the exhibit. At their "trunk in the sand" display, visitors looked for a LV trunk in the desert by playing a virtual game. They could also use the "shake" function on WeChat to view customized trunk designs at the "trains" exhibit or take selfies with an event-themed logo.
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Prada — "Storytelling" by Liu Ye
Prada presented "Storytelling," a solo show by Chinese painter Liu Ye, and curated by Udo Kittelmann, with the support of Fondazione Prada. On view from November 10, 2018 to January 20, 2019, it took place in Rong Zhai, the historic building that Prada repaired and renovated in 2017 in Shanghai. The exhibition showcased the work of Liu Ye through a selection of 30 paintings created from 1992 onwards. According to Prada, "Liu Ye expresses an intimate and sensual imagination, that feeds on heterogeneous sources related to literature, history of art and popular culture from the Western and Eastern hemisphere," thus serving as a starting point to generate conversation between Western and Asian cultures. Before the event, users could register for the event with a QR code. The page also included information about the visuals and messages visitors would experience.


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Is a turkmenian eagle owl which is a subspecies of the European Eagle owl. Very beautiful and loves her cuddles.
The Eurasian eagle-owl (Bubo bubo) is a species of eagle-owl that resides in much of Eurasia. It is sometimes called the European eagle-owl It is one of the largest species of owl, and females can grow to a maximum total length of 75 cm (30 in), with a wingspan of at least 188 cm (6 ft 2 in), males being slightly smaller. This bird has distinctive ear tufts, with upper parts that are mottled with darker blackish colouring and the wings and tail are barred. The underparts are a variably hued buff, streaked with darker colour. The facial disc is poorly developed and the orange eyes are distinctive.
Besides being one of the largest living species of owl, it is also one of the most widely distributed. The Eurasian eagle-owl is found in a number of habitats but is mostly a bird of mountain regions, coniferous forests, steppes and other relatively remote places. It is a mostly nocturnal predator, hunting for a range of different prey species, predominately small mammals but also birds of varying sizes, reptiles, amphibians, fish, large insects and other assorted invertebrates. It typically breeds on cliff ledges, in gullies, among rocks or in some other concealed locations. The nest is a scrape in which two eggs are laid at intervals and which hatch at different times. The female incubates the eggs and broods the young, and the male provides food for her and when they hatch, for the nestlings as well. Continuing parental care for the young is provided by both adults for about five months. There are at least a dozen subspecies of Eurasian eagle-owl.
The Eurasian eagle-owl typically has a wingspan of 131–188 cm (4 ft 4 in–6 ft 2 in), with the largest specimens possibly attaining 200 cm (6 ft 7 in). The total length of the species can vary from 56 to 75 cm (22 to 30 in). Females can weigh from 1.75 to 4.6 kg (3.9 to 10.1 lb) and males can weigh from 1.22 to 3.2 kg (2.7 to 7.1 lb).
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Bramble is my very famous European eagle owl who adopted my Springer Spaniel Sophi as mum the photo that went global is below. April is now a companion.
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Sandberg, left, Bowles and Jarrett's names have cropped up. | Reuters, AP Photo
Obama II: Team of insiders
By MIKE ALLEN and JIM VANDEHEI
Updated 09/14/2012 11:18 AM EDT
President Barack Obama, if reelected, would surround himself with a retooled senior staff and Cabinet consisting largely of familiar faces and political insiders, plus at least one outsider to tend to the disgruntled business community, according to top Democratic officials.
Obama has put little personal time into sketching out what a second-term team would look like, and some decisions hinge very much on the outcome of the congressional elections. But behind the scenes, top officials are doing a lot of the sketching for him as a flood of top administration players — Hillary Clinton, Tim Geithner, David Plouffe and others — are planning quick exits, even if the boss wins.
The working assumption is that Obama will face a divided government and want badly to get something done, even if it means cutting far-from-ideal deals with a Republican House.
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Jack Lew, the current chief of staff, is central to a lot of the West Wing discussions. Lew has told friends he wants to get out of government and move back to his native New York, where his wife, Ruth, has remained. But he could be persuaded to stay or move over to Treasury. Lew has a few things essential to replacing Geithner: Obama's trust, strong congressional relationships and a squeaky-clean past that would allow him to be confirmed quickly.
If Lew were to leave his current role, Tom Nides, deputy secretary of state, would be a top, if not the leading, candidate to replace him. Nides and his wife, Virginia Moseley of ABC News, are close personally to the president and Michelle Obama. Nides has told friends he wants the job.
Ron Klain, the former chief of staff for Joe Biden, might have a shot, too. Klain, one of the sharper minds in politics, rubbed the president's team the wrong way by making his desire to get the job in the first term too widely known. He has since redeemed himself, Democrats say, and has become especially close to senior adviser Plouffe.
Some White House insiders think Valerie Jarrett, the close friend and senior adviser to Obama, might make a bid for chief of staff — a move that would set off a furious fight with her internal detractors.
With the first 100 days, and probably the entire four years, likely to be dominated by the economy, most of the focus right now is on the economic team, and getting people with Hill experience and credibility. "A second term, when you are navigating a tough Hill environment, is no time to experiment," said a Democrat who works closely with the current Obama team.
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Another top Democrat, who would love to see some young thinkers brought in, said: "The insularity will continue."
What is not entirely clear is whether Obama would plunge into a second term ready for partisan warfare, expecting scant GOP support again, or whether he would dedicate himself to cutting deals with House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio). Right now, the betting among his advisers is that he will choose deal-cutter.
The direction he chooses could very well determine whether Lew lands at Treasury. There are some people close to Obama who would like Treasury to go to Erskine Bowles, the co-author of the deficit-reduction plan that will be central to the debate in the first 100 days. He is widely respected for his intellect, but many around the president are deeply suspicious of his loyalty.
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The Substance Use Disorders Management Boot Camp is one of the latest offerings by the Program for Research, Outreach, Therapeutics and Education in the Addictions (PROTEA) to help health care providers recognize and treat substance use disorders and common co-morbid issues. Attendees at the most recent camp in September joined a two-day retreat at the Osthoff Resort in Elkhart Lake, Wis., to network, share experiences and listen to lectures from experts like PROTEA Director Randall Brown, MD, PhD, DFASAM. According to one participant, hearing insightful perspectives from other attendees and speakers who understand treating addiction in rural settings was invaluable.
Participants at the September Substance Use Disorders Management Boot Camp heard from Aaron Clayborn, an outreach specialist with the Wisconsin Voices for Recovery Engagement to Recovery Program which is part of the UW Department of Family Medicine and Community Health.
The group included about 50 doctors, nurses, behavioral health and peer support specialists, and other providers from across Wisconsin. They participated in case-based and interactive didactic content to hone their skills and increase confidence in treating patients with issues related to unhealthy substance use. The group also enjoyed a late summer evening by the lake for food and fellowship.
"It was amazing to see such a varied group of providers, many from rural parts of Wisconsin, come together to connect, develop competencies, and forge new partnerships in our shared effort of improving the treatment and care of patients throughout our state," shared Kathleen Maher, Outreach Specialist.
Spring 2023 Boot Camp
PROTEA's spring boot camp is scheduled for May 4-5, 2023, at UW-Stout in Menomonie, Wis., and is intended for clinicians in primary care settings who wish to expand knowledge related to the medical management of opioid and alcohol use disorders. For more information about the boot camp and PROTEA visit https://www.fammed.wisc.edu/protea/
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Question: What if California's leaders had not moved the presidential primary to February 5 and instead had left it where it was originally, on June 3?
Given the closeness of the Obama-Clinton contest, California would have been the deciding—or at least the decisive—primary, making it one of the biggest and most important elections in state history.
The irony is thick enough to cut with a knife. The reason originally offered for moving the election up was to give California more clout in the national race. And what happened? More than 20 other states got the same brilliant idea, and the California primary turned out to be just one among two dozen.
The real reasons, of course, were more cynical. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger cut a deal with the Democratic state Senate leader Don Perata and Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez, to put two initiatives on the February 5 ballot that would benefit them all. One was a reform of term limits that would have allowed Perata and Núñez to avoid being termed out after this year; the other was a redistricting measure long favored by the governor.
The whole deal turned sour. Perata and Núñez reneged on their agreement, and the redistricting measure never made it on the ballot. The term-limits measure was defeated at the polls. And the presidential primary got lost in the crowd.
What if? What if politicians stopped playing power games and just served the people? Now there's a notion.
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Kanaka Maoli wins illegal vending case
By Tom LaVenture - The Garden Island | Saturday, January 17, 2015, 1:15 a.m.
LIHUE — The case against a Kanaka Maoli Hawaiian charged with commercial vending in a state park was tossed out of Kauai District Court on Thursday.
Punohu Kekaualua III, of Wailuauka, was standing at Waimea Canyon lookout last Feb. 25, wearing a malo and spirit helmet when he was cited for commercial vending within the jurisdiction of Division of State Parks by Division of Conservation and Resources Enforcement officers of the Department of Land and Natural Resources. The petty misdemeanor offense was punishable by up to 30 days in jail and a $1,000 fine.
Kekaualua fought the charge. He said he was conducting religious and cultural rights afforded to Kanaka Maoli, or natives.
His motion to dismiss the case was denied in December, but he was acquitted on Thursday by Per Diem Judge Jonathan Chun of the 5th Circuit District Court, Prosecuting Attorney Justin Kollar said.
According to Kekaualua, the judge wanted to see if there was some compensation received or not, and did not consider donations as a fee.
"There is no sign and clearly other people were taking pictures without giving money, and it's voluntary on their behalf," Kekaualua said. "These visitors are not customers, but participants."
DLNR describes illegal vending as a detriment to visitor experience as it decreases accessibility, overuses resources and devalues the wilderness experience at state parks. DLNR regulations say commercial activity involves activity in a state park for which compensation is received for goods or services to include display, demand or request.
"People of pae aina o Hawaii, educate yourselves on the truth of the fake state of Hawaii, rise up for your inherent birth rights, and don't let them take your resources or be afraid or ashamed to be who you were born to be," Kekaualua said. "Our peoples spirits are still here. For the love of a nation that still exists."
Other cases on Thursday in 5th Circuit Court include:
– Kiliona Immanuel Hunkin, 18, of Anahola, was granted a deferred acceptance of his no-contest plea entered on Sept. 22, 2014, on charges of amended second-degree property damage, and resisting arrest. The term of deferment is four years for the felony, and one year for the misdemeanor and the 34 days time already served in jail. In addition, Hunkin must pay $375 in restitution to Kauai Police Department, and $100 to Hawaii Civil Defense.
– Pono Lanning Jr., 27, of Anahola, was sentenced to a four-year term with HOPE (Hawaii's Opportunity Probation with Enforcement) for close supervision of high-risk offenders. He was given credit for the 264 days time already served since his arrest for third-degree promotion of a dangerous drug.
– Trevor Duane Choate, 44, of Lawai, appeared in the black and white striped Oahu Correctional Facility prison uniform for his motion to commute the five-year prison sentence he received for first-degree unauthorized entry conviction on Oct. 30. Judge Valenciano denied the motion, saying it was not for the break-in alone but the defendant's off-island felony record was a factor in the sentencing.
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