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'The Bachelor' gets it wrong with Arie Luyendyk Jr.
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There was no reason to dip into the time machine for the newest 'Bachelor.'
by Holden Walter-Warner
September 9, 2017 at 1:22 PM September 9, 2017 at 1:22 PM
"The Bachelor" broke tradition - and the hearts of fans around the world. Producers didn't pick Peter Kraus to be the next star of the show. They didn't pick anyone from the most recent cycle of "The Bachelorette," as the show's customs once dictated. Instead, they announced the pick of a player who wasn't necessarily the most popular guy back when he had his initial run with the franchise. Welcome back to the stage, Arie Luyendyk Jr.
Arie Luyendyk Jr. returns
Thursday morning's "Good Morning America" came with the special announcement surrounding the show's casting.
Luyendyk Jr. appeared to share the news. He expressed that he was open and excited about the opportunity put before him. The 35-year-old also revealed that his casting was so secret that his family didn't even know he would be on "The Bachelor" until the announcement came on Thursday.
Luyendyk Jr. first appeared in the franchise in 2012. He didn't win Emily Maynard's heart on season eight of "The Bachelorette." Now, others will vie to win his heart. Supposedly, he has been offered this role before. Sean Lowe, a former star of "The Bachelor," claims the race car driver was picked to star in Season 19 before producers got cold feet and picked Chris Soules instead. He's getting a second chance, though.
The Dutch-speaking driver would be best not to mess this one up.
Bachelor Nation reacts to 'The Bachelor' casting
By and large, reactions to Luyendyk Jr. were lukewarm. Many were disappointed that the show broke tradition by failing to cast a participant from the previous cycle of "The Bachelorette." Peter Kraus was a popular choice to be named "The Bachelor" after finishing as a runner-up during Rachel Lindsay's season this summer.
Instead, the "kissing bandit" (as he became known during his season in 2012) will be running amok with the ladies.
There is an explanation as for why Luyendyk Jr. was the choice this season. All press is said to be good press, but "The Bachelor" franchise has been flooded with some particularly troublesome press over the past year.
First, there was Corinne Olympios, who became a controversial character before being involved in a scandal during "Bachelor in Paradise." "The Bachelorette" became farcical, with a contestant named "Whaboom" stealing the spotlight and weird promos suggesting racial tension dominating air time. Plus, the couple from the last cycle of "The Bachelor" already broke up. The show could use an easygoing presence to restore faith in the program.
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The space age began fifty years ago with the launch of Sputnik, the first artificial satellite, on October 4, 1957. It was a great technical and political triumph for the Soviet Union. In the United States, the immediate reaction was a swift and harsh self-assessment marked by very public fretting about a "technology gap." But a dozen years later, at the climax of the space race, the first men on the Moon were Americans. In the decades since, the civilian space program has largely receded from public attention — even as space has become indispensable to the military and the high-tech industry, and as a promising new private space sector is just taking shape.
To mark the Sputnik anniversary — and with it, the beginning of the space age — we here (below) reprint Hannah Arendt's classic 1963 essay about modern science and the human meaning of our celestial aspirations. We have also invited five commentators to respond to her argument and to discuss its relevance today: Patrick J. Deneen, Rita Koganzon, Charles T. Rubin, Stephen Bertman, and Peter Augustine Lawler.
The question raised is addressed to the layman, not the scientist, and it is inspired by the humanist's concern with man, as distinguished from the physicist's concern with the reality of the physical world. To understand physical reality seems to demand not only the renunciation of an anthropocentric or geocentric world view, but also a radical elimination of all anthropomorphic elements and principles, as they arise either from the world given to the five human senses or from the categories inherent in the human mind. The question assumes that man is the highest being we know of, an assumption which we have inherited from the Romans, whose humanitas was so alien to the Greeks' frame of mind that they had not even a word for it. (The reason for the absence of the word humanitas from Greek language and thought was that the Greeks, in contrast to the Romans, never thought that man is the highest being there is. Aristotle calls this belief atopos, "absurd.") This view of man is even more alien to the scientist, to whom man is no more than a special case of organic life and to whom man's habitat — the earth, together with earthbound laws — is no more than a special borderline case of absolute, universal laws, that is, laws that rule the immensity of the universe. Surely the scientist cannot permit himself to ask: What consequences will the result of my investigations have for the stature (or, for that matter, for the future) of man? It has been the glory of modern science that it has been able to emancipate itself completely from all such anthropocentric, that is, truly humanistic, concerns.
The question propounded here, insofar as it is addressed to the layman, must be answered in terms of common sense and in everyday language (if it can be answered at all). The answer is not likely to convince the scientist, because he has been forced, under the compulsion of facts and experiments, to renounce sense perception and hence common sense, by which we coordinate the perception of our five senses into the total awareness of reality. He has also been forced to renounce normal language, which even in its most sophisticated conceptual refinements remains inextricably bound to the world of the senses and to our common sense. For the scientist, man is no more than an observer of the universe in its manifold manifestations. The progress of modern science has demonstrated very forcefully to what an extent this observed universe, the infinitely small no less than the infinitely large, escapes not only the coarseness of human sense perception but even the enormously ingenious instruments that have been built for its refinement. The data with which modern physical research is concerned turn up like "mysterious messenger[s] from the real world." They are not phenomena, appearances, strictly speaking, for we meet them nowhere, neither in our everyday world nor in the laboratory; we know of their presence only because they affect our measuring instruments in certain ways. And this effect, in the telling image of Eddington, may "have as much resemblance" to what they are "as a telephone number has to a subscriber." The point of the matter is that Eddington, without the slightest hesitation, assumes that these physical data emerge from a "real world," more real by implication than the world we live in; the trouble is that something physical is present but never appears.
That the question proposed here makes no sense to the scientist qua scientist is no argument against it. The question challenges the layman and the humanist to judge what the scientist is doing because it concerns all men, and this debate must of course be joined by the scientists themselves insofar as they are fellow citizens. But all answers given in this debate, whether they come from laymen or philosophers or scientists, are non-scientific (although not anti-scientific); they can never be demonstrably true or false. Their truth resembles rather the validity of agreements than the compelling validity of scientific statements. Even when the answers are given by philosophers whose way of life is solitude, they are arrived at by an exchange of opinions among many men, most of whom may no longer be among the living. Such truth can never command general agreement, but it frequently outlasts the compellingly and demonstrably true statements of the sciences which, especially in recent times, have the uncomfortable inclination never to stay put, although at any given moment they are, and must be, valid for all. In other words, notions such as life, or man, or science, or knowledge are pre-scientific by definition, and the question is whether or not the actual development of science which has led to the conquest of terrestrial space and to the invasion of the space of the universe has changed these notions to such an extent that they no longer make sense. For the point of the matter is, of course, that modern science — no matter what its origins and original goals — has changed and reconstructed the world we live in so radically that it could be argued that the layman and the humanist, still trusting their common sense and communicating in everyday language, are out of touch with reality; that they understand only what appears but not what is behind appearances (as though trying to understand a tree without taking the roots into account); and that their questions and anxieties are simply caused by ignorance and therefore are irrelevant. How can anyone doubt that a science enabling man to conquer space and go to the moon has increased his stature?
This sort of bypassing the question would be very tempting indeed if it were true that we have come to live in a world that only the scientists "understand." They would then be in a position of the "few" whose superior knowledge entitles them to rule the "many," namely, all non-scientists, laymen from the scientist's point of view — be they humanists, scholars, or philosophers — all those, in short, who raise pre-scientific questions because of ignorance.
There are other difficulties of a less theoretical nature. Electronic brains share with all other machines the capacity to do man's work better and faster than man. The fact that they supplant and enlarge human brain power rather than labor power causes no perplexity to those who know how to distinguish between the "intellect" necessary to play good checkers or chess and the human mind. This, indeed, proves no more than that labor power and brain power belong in the same category, and that what we call intelligence and can measure in terms of IQs has hardly any more to do with the quality of the human mind than being its indispensable conditio sine qua non. There are, however, scientists who state that computers can do "what a human brain cannot comprehend," and this is an altogether different and alarming proposition; for comprehension is actually a function of the mind and never the automatic result of brain power. If it should be true — and not simply a case of a scientist's self-misunderstanding — that we are surrounded by machines whose doings we cannot comprehend although we have devised and constructed them, it would mean that the theoretical perplexities of the natural sciences on the highest level have invaded our everyday world. But even if we remain in the strictly theoretical framework, the paradoxes that have begun to worry the great scientists themselves are sufficiently serious to alarm the layman. Whereas the often mentioned "lag" of the social sciences with respect to the natural sciences or of man's political development with respect to his technical and scientific know-how is no more than a red herring drawn into this debate; it can only divert attention from the main problem, which is that man can do, and successfully do, what he cannot comprehend and cannot express in everyday human language.
Niels Bohr, however, went one step further. For him, causality, determinism, and necessity of laws belonged to the categories of "our necessarily prejudiced conceptual frame," and he was no longer frightened when he met "in atomic phenomena regularities of quite a new kind, defying deterministic pictorial description." The trouble is that what defies description in terms of the "prejudices" of the human mind defies description in every conceivable way of human language; it can no longer be described at all, and it is being expressed, but not described, in mathematical processes. Bohr still hoped that, since "no experience is definable without a logical frame," these new experiences would in due time fall into place through "an appropriate widening of the conceptual framework" which would also remove all present paradoxes and "apparent disharmonies." But this hope, I am afraid, will be disappointed. The categories and ideas of human reason have their ultimate source in human sense experience, and all terms describing our mental abilities as well as a good deal of our conceptual language derive from the world of the senses and are used metaphorically. Moreover, the human brain which supposedly does our thinking is as terrestrial, earthbound, as any other part of the human body. It was precisely by abstracting from these terrestrial conditions, by appealing to a power of imagination and abstraction that would, as it were, lift the human mind out of the gravitational field of the earth and look down upon it from some point in the universe, that modern science reached its most glorious and, at the same time, most baffling achievements.
In 1929, shortly before the arrival of the Atomic Revolution, marked by the splitting of the atom and the hope for the conquest of universal space, Planck demanded that the results obtained by mathematical processes "must be translated back into the language of the world of our senses if they are to be of any use to us." In the three decades that have passed since these words were written, such translation has become even less possible while the loss of contact between the physical world view and the sense world has become even more conspicuous. But — and in our context this is even more alarming — this has by no means meant that results of this new science are of no practical use, or that the new world view, as Planck had predicted in case the translation back into ordinary language should fail, "would be no better than a bubble ready to burst at the first puff of wind." On the contrary, one is tempted to say that it is much more likely that the planet we inhabit will go up in smoke as a consequence of theories that are entirely unrelated to the world of the senses, and defy all description in human language, than that even a hurricane will cause the theories to burst like a bubble.
It is, I think, safe to say that nothing was more alien to the minds of the scientists, who brought about the most radical and most rapid revolutionary process the world has ever seen, than any will to power. Nothing was more remote than any wish to "conquer space" and to go to the moon. Nor were they prompted by an unseemly curiosity in the sense of a temptatio oculorum. It was indeed their search for "true reality" that led them to lose confidence in appearances, in the phenomena as they reveal themselves of their own accord to human sense and reason. They were inspired by an extraordinary love of harmony and lawfulness which taught them that they would have to step outside any merely given sequence or series of occurrences if they wanted to discover the overall beauty and order of the whole, that is, the universe. This may explain why they seem to have been less distressed by the fact their discoveries served the invention of the most murderous gadgets than disturbed by the shattering of all their most cherished ideals of necessity and lawfulness. These ideals were lost when the scientists discovered that there is nothing indivisible in matter, no a-tomos, that we live in an expanding, non-limited universe, and that chance seems to rule supreme wherever this "true reality," the physical world, has receded entirely from the range of human senses and from the range of all instruments by which their coarseness was refined. From this, it seems to follow that causality, necessity, and lawfulness are categories inherent in the human brain and applicable only to the common-sense experiences of earthbound creatures. Everything that such creatures "reasonably" demand seems to fail them as soon as they step outside the range of their terrestrial habitat.
The sad truth of the matter, however, is that the lost contact between the world of the senses and appearances and the physical world view had been re-established not by the pure scientist but by the "plumber." The technicians, who account today for the overwhelming majority of all "researchers," have brought the results of the scientists down to earth. And even though the scientist is still beset by paradoxes and the most bewildering perplexities, the very fact that a whole technology could develop out of his results demonstrates the "soundness" of his theories and hypotheses more convincingly than any merely scientific observation or experiment ever could. It is perfectly true that the scientist himself does not want to go to the moon; he knows that for his purposes unmanned spaceships carrying the best instruments human ingenuity can invent will do the job of exploring the moon's surface much better than dozens of astronauts. And yet, an actual change of the human world, the conquest of space or whatever we may wish to call it, is achieved only when manned space carriers are shot into the universe, so that man himself can go where up to now only human imagination and its power of abstraction, or human ingenuity and its power of fabrication, could reach. To be sure, all we plan to do now is to explore our own immediate surroundings in the universe, the infinitely small place that the human race could reach even if it were to travel with the velocity of light. In view of man's life span — the only absolute limitation left at the present moment — it is quite unlikely that he will ever go much farther. But even for this limited job, we have to leave the world of our senses and of our bodies not only in imagination but in reality.
The magnitude of the space enterprise seems to me beyond dispute, and all objections raised against it on the purely utilitarian level — that it is too expensive, that the money were better spent on education and the improvement of the citizens, on the fight against poverty and disease, or whatever other worthy purposes may come to mind — sound to me slightly absurd, out of tune with the things that are at stake and whose consequences today appear still quite unpredictable. There is, moreover, another reason why I think these arguments are beside the point. They are singularly inapplicable because the enterprise itself could come about only through an amazing development of man's scientific capabilities. The very integrity of science demands that not only utilitarian considerations but the reflection upon the stature of man as well be left in abeyance. Has not each of the advances of science, since the time of Copernicus, almost automatically resulted in a decrease in his stature? And is the often repeated argument that it was man who achieved his own debasement in his search for truth, thus proving anew his superiority and even increasing his stature, more than a sophism? Perhaps it will turn out that way. At any event, man, insofar as he is a scientist, does not care about his own stature in the universe or about his position on the evolutionary ladder of animal life; this "carelessness" is his pride and his glory. The simple fact that physicists split the atom without any hesitations the very moment they knew how to do it, although they realized full well the enormous destructive potentialities of their operation, demonstrates that the scientist qua scientist does not even care about the survival of the human race on earth or, for that matter, about the survival of the planet itself. All associations for "Atoms for Peace," all warnings not to use the new power unwisely, and even the pangs of conscience many scientists felt when the first bombs fell on Hiroshima and Nagasaki cannot obscure this simple, elementary fact. For in all these efforts the scientists acted not as scientists but as citizens, and if their voices have more authority than the voices of laymen, they do so only because the scientists are in possession of more precise information. Valid and plausible arguments against the "conquest of space" could be raised only if they were to show that the whole enterprise might be self-defeating in its own terms.
The remarks of Heisenberg seem to me to transcend by far the field of strictly scientific endeavor and to gain in poignancy if they are applied to the technology that has grown out of modern science. Every progress in science in the last decades, from the moment it was absorbed into technology and thus introduced into the factual world where we live our everyday lives, has brought with it a veritable avalanche of fabulous instruments and ever more ingenious machinery. All of this makes it more unlikely every day that man will encounter anything in the world around him that is not man-made and hence is not, in the last analysis, he himself in a different disguise. The astronaut, shot into outer space and imprisoned in his instrument-ridden capsule where each actual physical encounter with his surroundings would spell immediate death, might well be taken as the symbolic incarnation of Heisenberg's man — the man who will be the less likely ever to meet anything but himself and man-made things the more ardently he wishes to eliminate all anthropocentric considerations from his encounter with the non-human world around him.
It is at this point, it seems to me, that the humanist's concern with man and the stature of man has caught up with the scientist. It is as though the sciences had done what the humanities never could have achieved, namely, to prove demonstrably the validity of this concern. The situation, as it presents itself today, oddly resembles an elaborate verification of a remark by Franz Kafka, written at the very beginning of this development: Man, he said, "found the Archimedean point, but he used it against himself; it seems that he was permitted to find it only under this condition." For the conquest of space, the search for a point outside the earth from which it would be possible to move, to unhinge, as it were, the planet itself, is no accidental result of the modern age's science. This was from its very beginnings not a "natural" but a universal science, it was not a physics but an astrophysics which looked upon the earth from a point in the universe. In terms of this development, the attempt to conquer space means that man hopes he will be able to journey to the Archimedean point which he anticipated by sheer force of abstraction and imagination. However, in doing so, he will necessarily lose his advantage. All he can find is the Archimedean point with respect to the earth, but once arrived there and having acquired this absolute power over his earthly habitat, he would need a new Archimedean point, and so ad infinitum. In other words, man can only get lost in the immensity of the universe, for the only true Archimedean point would be the absolute void behind the universe.
Yet even if man recognizes that there might be absolute limits to his search for knowledge and that it might be wise to suspect such limitations whenever it turns out that the scientist can do more than he is capable of comprehending, and even if he realizes that he cannot "conquer space," but at best make a few discoveries in our solar system, the journey into space and to the Archimedean point with respect to the earth is far from being a harmless or unequivocally triumphant enterprise. It could add to the stature of man inasmuch as man, in distinction from other living things, desires to be at home in a "territory" as large as possible. In that case, he would only take possession of what is his own, although it took him a long time to discover it. These new possessions, like all property, would have to be limited, and once the limit is reached and the limitations established, the new world view that may conceivably grow out of it is likely to be once more geocentric and anthropomorphic, although not in the old sense of the earth being the center of the universe and of man being the highest being there is. It would be geocentric in the sense that the earth, and not the universe, is the center and the home of mortal men, and it would be anthropomorphic in the sense that man would count his own factual mortality among the elementary conditions under which his scientific efforts are possible at all.
At this moment, the prospects for such an entirely beneficial development and solution of the present predicaments of modern science and technology do not look particularly good. We have come to our present capacity to "conquer space" through our new ability to handle nature from a point in the universe outside the earth. For this is what we actually do when we release energy processes that ordinarily go on only in the sun, or attempt to initiate in a test tube the processes of cosmic evolution, or build machines for the production and control of energies unknown in the household of earthly nature. Without as yet actually occupying the point where Archimedes had wished to stand, we have found a way to act on the earth as though we disposed of terrestrial nature from outside, from the point of Einstein's "observer freely poised in space." If we look down from this point upon what is going on on earth and upon the various activities of men, that is, if we apply the Archimedean point to ourselves, then these activities will indeed appear to ourselves as no more than "overt behavior," which we can study with the same methods we use to study the behavior of rats. Seen from a sufficient distance, the cars in which we travel and which we know we built ourselves will look as though they were, as Heisenberg once put it, "as inescapable a part of ourselves as the snail's shell is to its occupant." All our pride in what we can do will disappear into some kind of mutation of the human race; the whole of technology, seen from this point, in fact no longer appears "as the result of a conscious human effort to extend man's material powers, but rather as a large-scale biological process." Under these circumstances, speech and everyday language would indeed be no longer a meaningful utterance that transcends behavior even if it only expresses it, and it would much better be replaced by the extreme and in itself meaningless formalism of mathematical signs.
The conquest of space and the science that made it possible have come perilously close to this point. If they ever should reach it in earnest, the stature of man would not simply be lowered by all standards we know of, but have been destroyed.
 Nicomachean Ethics, book VI, ch. 7, 1141a20 ff.
 Max Planck, The Universe in the Light of Modern Physics, 1929. Quoted from Great Ideas Today, 1962, p. 494.
 As quoted by J. W. N. Sullivan, Limitations of Science, Mentor Books, 1949, p. 141.
 See Sullivan's Atomic Physics and Human Knowledge, New York, 1958, p. 88.
 Planck, op. cit., p. 503.
 See Planck's Science and Humanism, London, 1951, pp. 25–26.
 John Gilmore, in a sharply critical letter when this article first appeared in 1963, puts the matter very nicely: "During the last several years we have in fact succeeded in writing computer programs that enable these machines to exhibit behavior that anyone not familiar with the makeup of the programs would unhesitatingly describe as intelligent, even highly intelligent. Alex Bernstein, for example, has devised a program that enables a machine to play spectacular good checkers. In particular, it can play better checkers than Bernstein. This is an impressive achievement; but it is Bernstein's and not the machine's." I had been misled by a remark of George Gamow — see note 10 — and have changed my text.
 George Gamow, "Physical Sciences and Technology," in Great Ideas Today, 1962, p. 207. Italics added.
 Sergio de Benedetti, as quoted by Walter Sullivan, "Physical Sciences and Technology," in Great Ideas Today, 1961, p. 198.
 Bohr, op. cit., pp. 70 and 61 respectively.
 Planck, op. cit., pp. 493, 517, and 514 respectively.
 Bohr, op. cit., pp. 31 and 71 respectively.
 Planck, op. cit., pp. 509 and 505 respectively.
 See J. Bronowski, Science and Human Values, New York, 1956, p. 22.
 See The Starry Messenger, translation quoted from Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo, New York, 1957, p. 28.
 See Einstein's Relativity, The Special and General Theory (1905 & 1916), quoted in Great Ideas Today, 1961, pp. 452 and 465 respectively.
 Walter Sullivan, op. cit., p.189.
 I quote from Descartes' dialogue "The Search after Truth by the Light of Nature," where his central position in this matter of doubting is more in evidence than in the Principles. See E. S. Haldane and G. R. T. Ross edition of his Philosophical Works, London, 1931, vol. I, pp. 324 and 315.
 I owe this definition to John Gilmore's letter, mentioned in note 9. Mr. Gilmore, however, does not believe that this imposes limitations on the knowledge of the practicing physicist. I think that Heisenberg's own "popular" statements bear me out on this point. But this is by no means the end of this controversy. Mr. Gilmore as well as Mr. Denver Lindley believes that the great scientists may very well be wrong when it comes to evaluating philosophically their own work. Mr. Gilmore and Mr. Lindley accuse me of using the scientists' statements uncritically, as though they could speak about the implications of their work with the same authority as they talk about their subjects properly speaking. ("Your confidence in the great figures in the scientific community is touching," says Mr. Gilmore.) This argument, I think, is valid; no scientist, no matter how eminent, can ever claim the same soundness for "philosophical implications" he or somebody else discovers in his work or in his utterances about it as he could claim for the discoveries themselves. Philosophic truth, whatever it may be, is certainly not scientific truth. Still, it is difficult to believe that Planck and Einstein, Niels Bohr, Schrödinger and Heisenberg, all of whom were puzzled and greatly worried about the consequences and general implications of their work as practicing physicists, should all have been subject to the delusions of self-misunderstanding.
 In Philosophic Problems of Nuclear Science, New York, 1952, p. 73.
 In The Physicist's Conception of Nature, New York, 1958, p. 24.
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) was a German-born American political philosopher known for her writings on totalitarianism, evil, and political action. Her works include Origins of Totalitarianism (1951), The Human Condition (1958), On Revolution (1963), and Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963).
Hannah Arendt, "The Conquest of Space and the Stature of Man," The New Atlantis, Number 18, Fall 2007, pp. 43-55.
"The Conquest of Space and the Stature of Man" appears in Between Past and Future by Hannah Arendt.
Copyright 1954, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1960, 1961 by Hannah Arendt. Used by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.


SINGAPORE shares opened marginally higher on Thursday, with the Straits Times Index increasing 0.03 percent, or 0.95 point, to 3,312.22 as at 9am.
Gainers dwarfed failures 75 to 37, after about 70.2 million offers worth S$75.4 million changed hands.
Among the most vigorously exchanged counters, Genting Singapore was down 5.6 percent or six Singapore pennies to S$1.01, with 28 million offers exchanged.
Other dynamic stocks included SingPost which was up 5.5 percent, or 5.5 Singapore pennies to S$1.05; and Koufu which increased 1.3 percent, or one Singapore penny to S$0.81.
MAINBOARD-LISTED Genting Singapore confronted an overwhelming selloff in early exchanging session following Wednesday's declaration by the administration that a 50 percent expansion in gambling club section demands for Singaporeans and lasting occupants will kick in on Thursday.
As at 11.03am, shares in the Casino administrator were seven Singapore pennies or 6.5 percent lower at S$1.00 on 87.3 million offers exchanged.
The administration will present a layered gambling club charge structure with higher expense rates powerful in March 2022, on the back of extra gaming arrangements for Singapore's two incorporated retreats (IRs) as they focus on a S$9 billion venture to increase offices and attractions throughout the following couple of years.
The selectiveness period for the two club, Genting's Resorts World Sentosa (RWS) and Las Vegas Sands' Marina Bay Sands (MBS), have been stretched out past the first 2017 expiry date to end-2030.
Maybank Kim Eng has brought down its suggestion on Genting Singapore to "hold" with an objective cost of S$1.12 as the business considers the club section duty and expense rate climbs as a "transient torment", yet is certain on long haul prospects from Genting Singapore's S$4.5 billion reinvestment plan for RWS.
Maybank Kim Eng expert Yin Shao Yang said that the "club section duty and assessment rate climbs will burden momentary income before its potential is acknowledged in 2024-2025".


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As the nation celebrated another Fourth of July, American evangelical leaders reflected on whether the United States is a Christian nation. Most (68 percent) who responded to the June 2012 Evangelical Leaders Survey said it is not.
"Much of the world refers to America as a Christian nation, but most of our Christian leaders don't think so," said Leith Anderson, NAE President. "The Bible only uses the word 'Christian' to describe people and not countries. Even those who say America is a Christian nation admit that there are lots of non-Christians and even anti-Christian beliefs and behaviors."
Evangelical leaders said that regardless of whether they would call the United States a Christian nation or not, America is fertile ground for evangelization. "America is one of the world's great mission fields that the Church has been called to reach in this generation," said George Wood, General Superintendent of the Assemblies of God denomination.
A nonprofit executive continued, "The 'state' cannot mandate religion, nor should it. If I lived in another country where the majority practiced a religion other than Christianity, I would not want those religious beliefs dictated to me through the country's government. I hope others will learn to love Christ as I do, but that will happen more authentically through the Church and individual Christians sharing the Good News and demonstrating the person of Christ through our words and actions."
Another set of responses noted America's Christian heritage, and some shared the sentiment that "perhaps the United States was a Christian nation, but it is no longer." Others rejected the idea of that a nation can be "Christian" altogether.
Paul Fleischman, President Emeritus of National Network of Youth Ministries, voiced both views: "No nation can be Christian or non-Christian. Only the individuals of a nation can ascribe to personal faith in Christ. One can say, however, that our nation was founded in part on Christian principles, yet a majority of our people no longer follow them to an extent that differs noticeably from those who do not claim to be Christians."
Of the 32 percent who said the United States is a Christian nation, most indicated that they did so because the United States was founded with Christian principles or because there are more Christians in the United States than followers of any other religion.
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Q: project VBA get filename I'm trying to use MS Project 2013 to open a filechooser box, select a .pptx file, and open it.
If I write down the filepath inside VBA, my code opens the pptx without any problem and do what it has to do.
My problem is that somehow I can't use the msoFileDialogFilePicker object. I've set my references to use MS Word Object Library, Visual basic for Applicaitons, and even Excel Object, but the Application object doesnt recognize it no matter what reference I choose.
I've also tried getOpenFilename method, but the application doesnt recognize it either.
Heres my code so far:
Dim strTemplatePPT As String
strTemplatePPT = Application.GetOpenFilename("Modelos de PowerPoint,*.pptx*", 1, "Abrir Arquivo", , False)

Set ppAppl = CreateObject("PowerPoint.Application")
ppAppl.Visible = True
Set ppPres = ppAppl.Presentations.Open(strTemplatePPT, msoFalse)

Have anyone had this problem?
Thanks.

A: As jsheeran said, It is possible to use the FileDialog() method inside the ppAppl object, as follows:
Dim strTemplatePPT As String
Dim ptr_fileDialog As FileDialog

Set ppAppl = CreateObject("PowerPoint.Application")

Set ptr_fileDialog = ppAppl.FileDialog(msoFileDialogFilePicker)
ptr_fileDialog.Title = "Escolha o arquivo de Template"
ptr_fileDialog.Filters.Clear
ptr_fileDialog.Filters.Add "Arquivo Powerpoint", "*.pptx"
ptr_fileDialog.Show
strTemplatePPT = ptr_fileDialog.SelectedItems(1)

If (strTemplatePPT = "-1") Then Exit Sub

ppAppl.Visible = True
Set ppPres = ppAppl.Presentations.Open(strTemplatePPT, msoFalse)

Even though Project isn't opening the fileDialog by itself, I can use the powerpoint instance to send the results back to Project, because I'll use powerpoint anyway for the rest of my code.
Thanks a lot for the info man :)

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A mountain pass during the 1925 Tour de France. Say "hello" to natives… Frenchman Roger Lacolle (Météore) is leading the group (in the left, walking). The rider going the opposite way is a native, not a competitor.
Roger Lacolle (born January 8, 1898, in Bressuire – died March 8, 1973, in Lisieux) was a French cyclist. He was professional from 1921 to 1926 and was competing in both road and cyclo-cross races. Lacolle became the French cyclo-cross champion twice (in 1922 and 1923).
Lacolle finished the 1925 Tour de France in 42nd place (there were 49 classified finishers total), 23 hours 32 minute 54 seconds behind the overall winner, the Italian legend Ottavio Bottecchia (Automoto).


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Six Years Late, Israel to Establish National Work Accidents Prevention Authority
Economy Minister Amir Peretz says he'll have a bill ready in two to three months, but the Knesset is expected to dissolve itself this month
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Emergency services at the scene of a fatal construction site accident in Yavne, May 2019.Credit: Ilan Assayag
Economy Minister Amir Peretz announced over the weekend that he would move ahead on a bill to establish of national work accidents prevention authority, six years after a public committee first recommended it.
Between 54 and 61 people are killed every year on average in work accidents in Israel. In 2014, the committee noted the numerous bodies dealing with these accidents and the lack of coordination among them, and concluded: "There is no policy in the realm of work safety and no priorities have been set. Each body promotes its own concepts and acts according to its own narrow interests." Then-State Comptroller Joseph Shapira criticized the delay in establishing the authority in his reports in 2016 and 2018, calling it "inconceivable, serious and unreasonable."
The committee recommended building the authority by unifying the Occupational Safety and Health Administration – the body responsible for imposing safety orders, supervising building sites and investigating accidents – together with the Israel Institute for Occupational Safety and Hygiene, which deals mainly with education and training.
In recent weeks, lawmaker Ofer Cassif of the Joint List has been advancing a bill to establish a national authority based on the conclusions of the committee six years ago. On Thursday, Peretz pledged for the first time to establish an interministerial committee to write a government-sponsored bill in 60 to 90 days – although the Knesset might be dissolving itself in about two weeks.
Cassif's bill states that its goal is to "make it possible to deal with occupational health and safety challenges in Israel, and to prevent the continuing [loss] of human lives, especially in the construction industry and in other areas." Cassif added that the lack of legislation is costing the state "the huge sum of about 10 billion shekels [about $3 billion] a year." Current legislation, Cassif wrote, is "outmoded and cumbersome. The numerous archaic laws and the bodies sharing the work are not properly organized and create problems in regulating occupational safety."
On Friday, Peretz told Haaretz: "On these issues there is no opposition and collation. The main goal is to prevent work accidents, which costs the Israeli economy hundreds of millions, and the painful addition of injured and handicapped and most significantly, workers are paying with their lives."
Cassif added: "Construction accidents are not force majeure, but rather criminal negligence and lack of guidance and enforcement. Years after the Adam Committee recommended establishing a unified body for occupational safety, the matter has not moved ahead by even a millimeter. This is the first and the important step in truly resolving the tragedy of workplace accidents."
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Release Date: December 1st, 2009
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Review Date December 1st, 2009 by Drew Taylor
Overview -
What you see...isn't always what you get.
Feed your hunger (but not after midnight) with never-before-seen footage. Shine a bright light behind the creation of this unforgettable film with a pair of commentaries that reunite the original cast and crew. Swim in a pool of brand-new extras including a photo gallery, a making-of featurette.
Gremlins is a wildly original roller coaster ride of hilarious mischief. One minute your hair will stand on end, the next you'll hold your sides with laughter at the havoc these supposedly gentle furballs create when the rules are broken. One of the most fondly remembered box office hits of recent times, with sly special effects that dazzle and enchant, Gremlins is "what superior popular movie making is all about." (Richard Corliss, Time).
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Technical Specs: Blu-ray
BD-50 Dual-Layer Disc
Video Resolution/Codec: 1080p/VC-1
Length:106
Release Country:United States
Aspect Ratio(s):1.78:1 (Original aspect ratio: 1.85:1 )
English Descriptive Audio: English: Dolby TrueHD 5.1
French: Dolby Digital 5.1
German: Dolby Digital 5.1
Italian: Dolby Digital 5.1
Spanish: Dolby Digital 5.1
Portuguese: Dolby Digital 1.0
Subtitles/Captions: English
Special Features: Commentary with director Joe Dante, producer Michael Finnelli and special effects master Chris Walas
Commentary with Dante and cast members Phoebe Cates, Zach Galligan, Dick Miller and Howie Mandel
Behind the Scenes Featurette
Additional Scenes
Movie Studio: Warner Home Video
Story Review Storyline: Our Reviewer's Take
Having grown up with 'Gremlins,' it's hard to think of a time before it was released on an unsuspecting world. Joe Dante's film, which liberally mixed elements of slapstick humor with horror violence and a kind of small town Spielbergian sweetness (he was the producer, after all) must have been an absolute shock to the system. It's this kind of wild hybridization that has made the film endure after all these years (when I saw the tag "25th Anniversary Edition" on the box, I almost fainted).
In 'Gremlins,' Hoyt Axton plays a kindly inventor who, looking for a gift for his son, purchases a Mogwai from a vaguely mystical Chinese knickknack shop. As the movie begins, voice over warns us that there are a few things, if you have a Mogwai, that you must remember - don't get him wet, don't expose him to bright lights, and never, ever feed him after midnight. Follow these rules, and you're in the clear.
This, obviously, doesn't happen. The Mogwai is brought back to small town Kingston Falls, where Axton's son Billy (Zack Galligan) immediately bonds with his new pet, naming him Gizmo (future 'Deal or No Deal' host Howie Mandel gives Gizmo his distinctively chirpy voice). Billy has a crush on the sweet Kate (Phoebe Cates, just adorable), his coworker at the bank. Other small town color is provided by character actors Dick Miller (in the role of a xenophobic war veteran) and Glynn Turman (as a high school science teacher). Rounding out the cast was 1980's mainstays Corey Feldman as Billy's young friend (a weird holdover from an earlier version of the script, when Galligan's character was much younger) and Judge Reinhold as Billy's nemesis.
Of course, things don't go according to plan. Gizmo gets wet, which produces mischievous little versions of himself (the leader, who has a stripe going down its back, is just named Stripe). Those furry little fiends end up eating after midnight, which transforms them into scaly, even-more-mean-spirited monsters who quickly bring the small town to its knees. At Christmas, no less!
Director Joe Dante was hired on the strength of his werewolf film 'The Howling,' which also had a fine understanding of the balance between horror and comedy. It was a movie that producer Steven Spielberg loved (he hired Dee Wallace to be the mom in 'E.T.' after seeing it), understanding that the tonal tightrope act was essential to 'Gremlins.' Here, with a bigger budget and a cast of rowdy animatronic creatures, he brings the mayhem to a huge scale. Dante loves old Warner Bros. cartoons, and that gleeful sense of anarchy can be felt in every frame of the film.
Of course, 'Gremlins' was not without its critics. Many parents were outraged at the level of violence and it (along with Spielberg's own 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom') were responsible for bringing about the PG-13 rating. In the original script, which lore has it was composed by future 'Harry Potter' director Chris Columbus as a writing sample while he was still at NYU film school, was even bleaker, with scenes involving the gremlins eating the family dog and a sequence where Billy's mother's disembodied head comes bouncing down the stairs. In particular, the parents groups and the film's producers (including Spielberg) and studio wanted Dante to cut a scene where Phoebe Cates recounts a traumatic Christmas memory. Looking back, this remains one of the film's most vivid and affecting moments. While the knee jerk reaction was expected, the movie seems firmly planted in the land of the cautionary fable, and the cartoonish quality of the violence makes it way more palpable.
If you've never seen 'Gremlins,' then you really must. It's a great, totally fun film that has stood the test of time surprisingly well. Dante is an underrated filmmaking master, and the sequel that followed, 1990's 'Gremlins 2: The New Batch', is an even wilder film and one of the decade's true masterpieces. 'Gremlins' delivers all the goods, at a time before computer generated effects - it's that kind of gorgeous, handmade quality that makes 'Gremlins' a charming, classic relic of a forgotten age.
Video Resolution/Codec:
1080p/VC-1
Aspect Ratio(s):
1.78:1 (Original aspect ratio: 1.85:1 )
Audio Formats:
English: Dolby TrueHD 5.1
Subtitles/Captions:
Commentary with director Joe Dante, producer Michael Finnelli and special effects master Chris Walas
The VC-1 1080p transfer (1.78: 1 aspect ratio) on this 50GB disc is a marked improvement over previous home video versions of the movie, but it isn't reference quality by any stretch of the imagination.
Puppets always seem to look wonderful in high definition, with the detail really coming through, and that's no different here. Gizmo and his ilk are brought to life with exacting detail - every hair and scale is lovingly seen.
The movie suffers from that early-1980's softness, but that doesn't really deter from my overall feelings about the transfer. The softness has somewhat been muted, giving the look a more lush look than it's had probably since its initial release. There is a persistent level of grain that's never distracting, although there are a few blips (having to do with the print they chose to master) that are distracting. Still, I'd take this over some heavily processed version of the film (there is no evident DNR here).
Black levels are good, but could be a bit deeper, skin tones are nice, and there aren't any technical issues that get in the way of enjoying the film (artifacts etc). So is this transfer going to blow you away? Probably not. Does it still look the best its probably ever looked? Yes indeed. If you love this film, you'll appreciate its singular look and won't be hung up that it doesn't resemble a Pixar movie.
Better than the video is the Dolby TrueHD 5.1 audio track. The emphasis here is on the atmospherics of the surround sound, both with the cuddly Gizmo and then increasing as the other gremlins get out and wreak havoc.
Dialogue sounds strong and clear throughout, mostly front channel, and the music (both the wonderful score by Jerry Goldsmith and the collection of songs, many of them holiday favorites), sound really wonderful.
This isn't the most nuanced track in the world, although the surround sound does sound good. Some have complained of a slight hiss in the background of some scenes, which didn't register unless I had the volume turned all the way up. Overall, this is a huge improvement over previous home video releases, in terms of sound quality and clarity, and I can't find a whole lot to complain about here.
There are also audio options in English Dolby Digital 2.0, French Dolby Digital 5.1, German Dolby Digital 5.1, Italian Dolby Digital 5.1, Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1, Spanish Dolby Digital 2.0 and Portuguese Dolby Digital 1.0. The subtitles are in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish.
The extras are all ports from the previous special edition release, with no new material and nothing in HD. This is a shame, as Dante is always an engaging personality and I'm sure his thoughts on the film, even a few years later, would be appreciated. Also, playback on the disc is Region "free."
Commentary with director Joe Dante, producer Michael Finnelli, and special effects supervisor Chris Walas This is the more technical commentary of the two provided on this disc, but it's still quite engaging. Dante has a million stories to tell, and his co-conspirators jump in with helpful information when needed. Walas in particular adds insight into the pressure of the movie, the design challenges (they colored Gizmo to look like Spielberg's dog), and the challenges of having Gizmo in the entire movie (at some point in the earlier script, he changed into one of the scaly bad monsters). Walas didn't come back for the second movie because he was too busy directing 'The Fly II' for Fox. Good move. This commentary is highly recommended.
Commentary with Dante, Phoebe Cates, Zack Galligan, Dick Miller, and Howie Mandel This commentary is even better than the other one! This partially has to do with Galligan, who has an uncanny knack for anecdotal stories, and partially to do with the way that Dick Miller (ever the grumpy old man) and Howie Mandel (just hilarious) jump in. (Cates is pretty quiet.) At one point, Mandel talks about how tough it was getting into the suit every day, and I died laughing. When Mandel actually breaks out the Gizmo voice - forget about it. This is essential, hilarious listening.
Behind the Scenes Featurette (SD, 6:21) This is a brief behind-the-scenes look at the making of the movie, what we would now consider part of an electronic press kit. Still, it's quite charming and it's nice to see everyone young and vibrant. By all accounts, the film's production was an absolute slog. On the technical commentary track, everyone talks about how they more or less were on the brink of a nervous breakdown by the time the movie finished, so to see everyone in a good mood is probably a rarity. Despite its brevity, I'd say this is worth checking out.
Additional Scenes (SD, 10:26) You can watch this with or without the cast commentary (with the same participants listed above), which is the preferred way to watch this. There are a couple of scenes included here but nothing of note - the death of a supporting character, a silly subplot about an evil land owner wanting to turn the town town into that nebulous 1980's threat a toxic waste dump, and the answer to the long standing question 'What happened to Judge Reinhold in the second half of the film?' These are worth watching, though, especially with the commentary.
Trailers (SD, 4:42) Included here are the theatrical trailer for 'Gremlins,' the trailer for the re-release of 'Gremlins' (which happened the following summer), and the cool and very early-1990's teaser trailer for 'Gremlins 2: The New Batch.' These are worth watching, for sure.
Joe Dante's madcap 'Gremlins' is a classic, plain and simple. With improved A/V and some very worthwhile special features (even if they aren't new or in HD), make this a no brainer. If you're a fan of the film, find the nearest Target and pick up your copy of "Gremlins.' I just hope that 'Gremlins 2' comes soon - and isn't so hard to find! Highly Recommended.
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Windsor, ON-Born, NYC-Based Leah Harris' New Single "Shine" Hits #2 on the R&B/Funk/Soul Charts & Top 15 Overall on SubmitHub
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Leah Harris has been shining since childhood, and the summation of her career to this point glows on her latest chart-topping offering, "Shine" — available now!
The Canadian-born singer/songwriter is a globetrotter with music in her soul. An encouraging childhood would incite her passion for music, having learned piano from her mother at age four and the fundamentals of songwriting from her father at age nine. Harris' formative years in the Detroit music community would see her take to the influence of Blues and Motown, and soon the budding starlet had begun gigging professionally.
Harris would move on to study Piano Performance at Berklee College of Music before relocating to Europe to further her career. Having met producer Adam Rhodes during her stint in Boston, Harris released her debut EP, I Don't Believe In Love (2014), and joined the Blues and Soul scene in Sweden soon after, as well.
Leah Harris was just getting started. Her next stop would be Ireland in 2017 to focus on her songwriting; launching into an independent tour of 13 countries over two years. Her entrepreneurial spirit garnished Harris wide-spread coverage of her journey and earned her legions of fans.
Now, Harris is back in New York City. Her EP Treat Me Good dropped in 2018, again produced by Adam Rhodes. Her frequent gigging in the Big Apple has taken her to the stages of Ashford & Simpson's Sugar Bar, The Delancey, Rockwood Music Hall, Cafe Wha?, and Club Groove.
It's Harris' time to "Shine." Her wide repertoire of musical endeavours have brought her to this moment. An upbeat, piano-based, and snap-happy diddy oozing with soul and good vibes, "Shine" brings together a career-high for Harris. It's chill, and melodic. It's padded with funk, borrows from the pop fringe, and carried through on Harris' exquisite vocal delivery.
"The writing of 'Shine' changed my path completely and brought me back to music again," says Harris. "Since then, I have connected with so many inspiring artists, performed at some legendary Soul venues around the city, and found my true identity as an artist.
"During this phase of genuine connection, I came across a producer named Sal Oliver," she continues. "We connected through a shared set of values and approach to music, and I only later found out that he was a GRAMMY-winning producer with an unbelievable resume preceding him. He lined up a remarkable band in Nashville, where we recorded 'Shine' and one other future single."
Harris is currently working on the visual component to the track alongside Andaluz the Artist (best known for his "Kobe" mural at the Barclays Center), as well as Olutayo (lead in Broadway's Moulin Rouge; dancer – Madonna, Rihanna). Her routine performances and hosting of live music events keeps Harris both connected and busy as a musician conquering New York.
It's a big world out there. And it's Leah Harris bringing the "Shine."
"Shine" is available now!
We would like to thank Eric Alper for the press release and artist profile.
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MuleSource Enters Hosted Data Integration Biz
MuleSource has taken initial steps into the software-as-a-service (SaaS) business with the beta launch of MuleOnDemand, a new subscription-based hosted data integration service.
The SaaS venture is a new one for MuleSource, which started its business in October of last year, offering an open source enterprise service bus (ESB) solution. The company has its roots in the open source Mule project, which was initiated in 2003.
As part of its SaaS effort, MuleSource has established a partnership with OpSource, a SaaS hosting service for software companies. OpSource will host the MuleOnDemand offering. In addition, OpSource has agreed to use MuleSource's ESB solution as its "integration-as-a-service platform of choice," according to an announcement issued by the companies.
MuleSource can now help companies by establishing service links either in the Internet cloud or behind the firewall. Companies have the option to use the Mule Gateway server, typically installed on the customer's premises to create loosely coupled services, or they can select the MuleOnDemand hosted service.
Having both capabilities just extends the notion of a service-oriented architecture (SOA), which is all about breaking down silos, according to Dave Rosenberg, MuleSource's CEO. It's not a big philosophical change in direction for MuleSource, which coined the term "Integration-as-a-Service" to describe its MuleOnDemand offering.
"The ESB is just a topology for how you'd deploy a product like Mule, but our use cases are often about services, which is typically how you'd figure out an SOA," Rosenberg said. "But they also tend to be about things like JMS [Java Message Service] and various other data transport mechanisms. So we consider that really what we do is we move and manage data. And what an SOA does is it moves and manages data typically using services. [With MuleOnDemand], we're just shifting the paradigm outside the enterprise and putting it out into the cloud."
Exactly which option to select depends on the company's system architecture and goals, Rosenberg said. For example, a company might add a Mule Gateway server internally if it's handling high-volume transactions and using Salesforce.com's hosted customer relationship management solution with an internal SAP system, he explained. However, MuleOnDemand might make more sense for companies using Salesforce.com and outsourcing their SAP apps.
MuleSource's customers are typically Fortune 1000 companies. They're fairly sophisticated and already using open source and not scared off by SaaS.
"Most people are already using Mule already, so the initial targets [for the new MuleOnDemand service] are people who are our user base," Rosenberg said.
Salesforce.com gets credit for making SaaS tenable, according to Rosenberg, and MuleSource's solutions can handle the integration issues.
"With Salesforce.com, we have a mapper where you can define and match field names," he said. "You do it once and it stores everything for you. And with this beta, you can just send e-mails with CSVs and text files that will grab them and follow the mapping that you did, and basically do the insert for you into Salesforce.com and log your transaction."
The Mule ESB already handles things like CSV to XML or JMS to XML conversions.
"So all of the functionality that you can get out of the ESB -- which could be things like transformation or routing or mediation or parsing half of a message and sending half of it somewhere else -- is all available in the cloud, and that's where it starts to get interesting…," he added.
The open source aspect to MuleSource's solutions reflects a "cultural mind-shift," according to Rosenberg. It also reflects what its customers are doing today.
"We did a survey about three months ago of 1,000 of our users -- so obviously, they're self-selected in that respect," he said. "We found that about 60 percent of our users are making extensions, changes, creating new plug-ins. We think it really proves the point that middleware makes a lot of sense for open source, just generally speaking."
The ultimate goal of SOA should be to put control back into the hands of the users, he added, unlike the old proprietary software solution.
"What these proprietary guys have done is they've made customers be reliant on them in the way that they do things," he explained. "In the long run, what we're trying to do is we're giving you control over your environment, in how you use our software. If you decide our software doesn't meet your needs, you can modify it."
The company has yet to decide on pricing for the new MuleOnDemand service. The current service is in beta release, but a full-scale launch is targeted for the fourth quarter, Rosenberg said. More information on the service is available here.
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Q: What happens to database design process when ORM tools are used? I have learned about database design, including normalization during my undergraduate course. When we have to model a database for a system, we can start with an ER model and then convert it to the relational model and then we could normalize the design, to come up with the final schema of the database.
This was the approach I was thought at college. Now with the adoption of different ORM tools like hibernate, the object classes are directly mapped into tables with annotations(in java).
Does it mean that if we are using an ORM tool we do not need to design our database like before? Does it mean that we do not even have to come up with an ER-Model for our database? It turns out that if we have our object model(in a class diagram), by deciding what objects should be stored, we could automatically arrive at a database design.
If so what happens to the normalization? What happens for the tables we would have designed for different relationships(1 to many, many to many etc;) in ER model?
Does it mean that we have traded good database design for ease of programmability?
Thinking about this makes me confused. please explain.

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Does it mean that if we are using an ORM tool we do not need to design our database like before?

You still need a design; it just takes a somewhat different form.  The nature of the design shouldn't change all that much; you're still going to have records and relations, they'll just look a bit different.

Does it mean that we do not even have to come up with an ER-Model for our database?

The entity-relationship model is implied in the class design.

What happens to the normalization?

Same as before.  You still store each bit of domain information in one place.

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They become collections in the object model.


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CHCCS Strategic Plan Steering Committee
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Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools has begun an exciting new effort to create our Strategic Plan 2027. This is YOUR opportunity to continue to shape the direction of our schools for years to come! WATCH this video for an introduction to this important community project:
Our Strategic Plan... Think Differently from CHCCS on Vimeo.
What's included in a Strategic Plan? CHCCS will keep equity at the center of all that we do, and we will develop a data-driven culture to identify, then close, existing achievement and opportunity gaps. The last time CHCCS embarked on a strategic planning process was in 2018, for a plan that expires at the end of this calendar year.
Equity Audit: An equity audit will inform the new strategic plan by engaging CHCCS stakeholders in a community-wide survey as well as focus groups of CHCCS stakeholders. From there, we can closely analyze school and district data, and collect district artifacts such as policies and curriculum resources. CHCCS students, parents/caregivers, and/or employees will be offered participation in the survey December 2021-January 2022.
Other ways to get involved! Beginning in early 2022, expect several Stakeholder Engagement Sessions for the purpose of receiving feedback from a variety of interested employees, students, families and citizens who represent the community's broader range of backgrounds and experiences. Stay tuned for dates, times and locations!
What else? The day-to-day development of a draft Strategic Plan will be handled by CHCCS administrators, who will direct the work of what we call a "steering committee". The steering committee will play a critical role in drafting our new strategic plan. Its members (approximately 40 individuals who represent the district, schools, and a variety of community stakeholder groups) will generously volunteer their time as valuable thought partners in determining our district's key priorities and how to achieve them. The progress of the steering committee will be shared publicly throughout the process, up to and including when we ask the CHCCS Board of Education to approve Strategic Plan 2027 this spring.
Goals for Strategic Plan 2027
Develop new Vision and Mission statements.
Share findings from the Equity Audit.
Develop a 'portrait of a graduate', which is often defined as the overall knowledge, skills and attributes that will prepare our students for life after high school.
By June 2022, unveil priorities and goals to the Board of Education and our Community.
Stay tuned for additional information, along with ways to get involved or to just stay in the know!
Nyah D. Hamlett, Ed. D.
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Human Rights Now Blog
Shocking Video Footage from Sri Lanka
By Zahir Janmohamed
The Sri Lankan government is facing renewed calls for an investigation into human rights abuses after a graphic video was released showing extra-judicial killings.
Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka, which obtained the material, said this video was filmed in January – when the international media were prevented by the Sri Lankan government from covering the conflict zone.
The video shows a uniformed soldier shooting a naked man in the head. Eight dead bodies can be seen in the video as well.
Although Amnesty International is not able to verify the footage on this video, it raises important questions about violations committed during the recent conflict.
And the reaction to the video underscores the precarious situation in Sri Lanka, where tensions remain high. In response to the video, the International Secretariat of Amnesty International repeated its call for "an international, independent and credible investigation into what took place during the final days of the conflict."
The Sri Lankan governmnet has decried the video as "absolutely false", suggesting that those who put forth the video of supporters of the LTTE.
What remains to be seen is if the video is used–by all parties–to further divisions or to create an important discussion about the violations during the recent conflict.
WARNING: The footage is very graphic.
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Prior to Amnesty International, he worked for the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy where he organized conferences in Nigeria and Sudan on the democratization process.
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35 thoughts on "Shocking Video Footage from Sri Lanka"
light on August 28, 2009 at 4:04 AM said:
this vid, do u knw how they got it? from YOUTUBE!! there has been a mud campaign against sri lanka on utube by tiger supporters from a long long time! been there and seen it!
none of this footage can be verified. anyone can make a home video.
and anyone can just mix some sinhala voices to the film. and its not clear what is being said.
how did they claim as to how a vid from a SL(sri lanka) soldier's phone got all the way to UK??? or was he with the MI5?
(i heard the vid is from YOUTUBE!! there has been a mud campaign against sri lanka on utube by tiger supporters from a long long time! been there and seen it! )(and what makes these UK journalists think that they can make democracy in SL?? i think v have much better democracy now than v did when their queen ruled over us!)
all i know is that once the war was over it wasn't only sinhalese who celebrated. we can walk in the streets with no fear of getting blown-up by a suicide bomber. everyone was really happy the war was finally over. now the country belongs to all its people.
so please don't create tension between people by showing such footages like this!!! what we need is peace!! not hatred!!
Joe on August 28, 2009 at 6:01 AM said:
This is disgusting. Something must be done by the international community to stop this horror.
how did they claim as to how a vid from a SL(sri lanka) soldier's phone got all the way to UK??? or was he with the MI5?
all i know is that once the war was over it wasn't only sinhalese who celebrated. we can walk in the streets with no fear of getting blown-up by a suicide bomber. everyone was really happy the war was finally over. now the country belongs to all its people.
so please don't create tension between people by showing such footages like this!!! what we need is peace!! not hatred!!
Joe on August 28, 2009 at 10:01 AM said:
Christoph on August 31, 2009 at 12:03 PM said:
The UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions called for the urgent establishment of an independent investigation into the authenticity of a video alleged to show the extrajudicial execution of two naked and helpless men by the Sri Lankan army and the presumed prior execution of a number of others. http://www.unhchr.ch/huricane/huricane.nsf/view01…
Christoph on August 31, 2009 at 1:03 PM said:
The UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions called for the urgent establishment of an independent investigation into the authenticity of a video alleged to show the extrajudicial execution of two naked and helpless men by the Sri Lankan army and the presumed prior execution of a number of others.
http://www.unhchr.ch/huricane/huricane.nsf/view01/56BD66A1DDB017AEC1257623002A48A7?opendocument
Christoph on September 1, 2009 at 9:49 AM said:
INTERVIEW-UN investigator wants Sri Lanka executions probe http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N0148820…
Christoph on September 1, 2009 at 10:49 AM said:
Christoph on September 1, 2009 at 2:49 PM said:
INTERVIEW-UN investigator wants Sri Lanka executions probe
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N01488204.htm
Absurd !! on September 10, 2009 at 10:09 PM said:
This footage is false and now we know who did it. Amnesty should be careful when publishing articles without proper research !
Absurd !! on September 11, 2009 at 2:09 AM said:
Jim McDonald on September 11, 2009 at 12:13 PM said:
In response to the comment from "Absurd!!" above, I would ask that the people review my comment at http://blog.amnestyusa.org/iar/another-shocking-v….
Jim McDonald on September 11, 2009 at 1:13 PM said:
In response to the comment from "Absurd!!" above, I would ask that the people review my comment at http://blog.amnestyusa.org/iar/another-shocking-video-from-sri-lanka/#comments.
david m on September 18, 2009 at 11:31 AM said:
Really shcoking. man this gov is worse then sudan I guess. I was thinking that it was a terrorism issue all along. Now I realise…, hope our governments realise it and take quick actions against these barbaric govrnments.
i came across another video too http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zajlIT3oqPk
david m on September 18, 2009 at 12:31 PM said:
david m on September 18, 2009 at 4:31 PM said:
i came across another video too
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zajlIT3oqPk
Mawatha Silva on September 25, 2009 at 2:54 AM said:
The AIADMK(India) threatened to launch a mass agitation along with like-minded parties if the Union ( Indian) government failed to press the international community to force the Sri Lankan government to put an end to the (Human) rights violations against Tamils on its land.
In a statement here, party general secretary J Jayalalithaa said that the AIADMK and people of Tamil Nadu expect the Centre to raise its voice against the human rights violations in the refugee camps in Sri Lanka.
If the Centre does not act immediately, "the AIADMK, along with like-minded political parties, will be forced to launch a mass agitation to focus world vision on the brutal civil liberties violations in Sri Lanka."
The former chief minister said "The gruesome footage, reportedly filmed by a soldier on a mobile phone camera, reinforces my earlier claim that civil liberties are non-existent in Sri Lanka and that the Tamil population there is subject to barbaric atrocities at the hands of the Sri Lankan Army."
"Sri Lanka claims to be a democratic country, where the rule of law prevails. No democracy sanctions this sort of summary mass execution, where human dignity is wantonly trampled upon," she added.
"Even assuming that the persons being shot dead in the footage telecast were LTTE activists, executing them summarily without a trial is barbaric, inhuman and contrary to civilized norms. It also violates international law relating to treatment of prisoners of war."
Slamming the DMK government, she said "As such, the AIADMK does not expect the DMK government to even make a whimper of protest against the atrocities being perpetrated upon the Tamil people."
http://www.expressbuzz.com/edition/story.aspx?Tit…
http://www.expressbuzz.com/edition/story.aspx?Title=Jaya+threatens+massive+agitation&artid=ux2vdQtiHc4=&SectionID=lifojHIWDUU=&MainSectionID=wIcBMLGbUJI=&SectionName=EL7znOtxBM3qzgMyXZKtxw==&SEO=AIADMK+general+secretary+J+Jayalalithaa
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Yesterday, venture capital firm a16z purchased 6% of the total Maker (MKR) stablecoin supply for $15 million. It's the latest investment disclosed by the fund since their sizable commitment to the Dfinity Foundation in late August. And with an initial runway of $300 million, more will follow.
On that note, the focus shouldn't be on why a16z invested in Maker — it's arguably one of the more promising algorithmic stablecoin projects in the market — but rather how the investment was made.
Here's the condensed argument: Maker's team made the deal behind closed doors. Given that Maker token holders were expected to have a say in major decisions… that's problematic.
And the deal is notable. Crunching the numbers, $15m at 6% implies a $250m valuation — a ~20% discount compared to Maker's current mkt cap of ~$311m.
Which reminds us… market cap is a crummy valuation metric. Watch a couple minutes of Nic Carter's talk at Honeybadger 2018 or rifle through his slide deckto see what we're talking about.
Venture capital firms and token discounts go together like white on rice. Sure, many kickbacks are outright criminal (advisors have reportedly received discounts of at least 900% for some projects), though there's no denying that VCs bring a slew of resources to the table.
Not to mention that a16z's investment is, by all definitions, a smart business play. Passing Meltem the mic once more, a16z is, in a sense, buying distressed companies on the cheap.


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Recursive Frame Analysis
Mark Fell
September 21–October 11, 2015
Returning to EMPAC after his 2013 multi-venue installation and performance, British artist Mark Fell presented Recursive Frame Analysis, a new work for light, sound, and human movement. As with many of Fell's previous works, Recursive Frame Analysis emphasized highly formalized aesthetic strategies: arrangements of intensely saturated light, raw synthetic sound, disrupted rhythmic structures, and kinetic systems that urge the audience to their perceptual and cognitive boundaries.
Taking its title from a therapeutic technique (RFA) developed in the 1980s, Recursive Frame Analysis refers to the cognitive patterns around which behavioral relationships and interactions develop; typically these are thought of as "stuck" and therefore also somehow problematic. The frame in the case of this performance could refer to the semiotic or the phenomenological.
The work engages with and responds to vocabularies of shapes developed by New York-based choreographer and dancer Brittany Bailey and was performed by Bailey and Burr Johnson.
Mark Fell is a multidisciplinary artist based in Sheffield, UK. He is widely known for combining popular music styles such as electronica and techno with more academic approaches to computer-based composition, with a particular emphasis on algorithmic and mathematical systems. As well as recorded works, he produces installation pieces, often using multiple speaker systems. He started his career in the '90s house and techno scene as one half of electronic duo SND and released The Neurobiology of Moral Decision Making earlier this year on label The Death of Rave.
Brittany Bailey has worked as a dancer/choreographer in NYC since 2008. She graduated from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in 2008 and went on to train with Merce Cunningham. Bailey has performed with Marina Abramovic, Michael Clark Company, and Robert Wilson. Along with creating performance works for her dance company, Bailey is currently the choreographer on performances with Christopher Knowles, Mark Fell, and a solo dance with visuals by Louise Bourgeois and text by Gary Indiana.
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An Ancient Capital in the Beqaa
Travelers in Lebanon often notice curious flat-topped hills or tells scattered around the country. These are artificial mounds that slowly grew up over thousands of years as different peoples constructed their settlements in the same place.
Until 20 years ago such a tell existed just north of Kamid el-Loz village in the southeastern Beqaa. One of the largest and highest tells in the Beqaa, it was excavated and studied by German archaeologists between the mid-1950s and the early 1980s.
The tell at Kamid al-Loz turned out to be of great importance, because buried at this one site were occupation levels that began 7,000 years ago with Neolithic or Stone Age people and continued through the Persian Period in the 4th century BC.
Unfortunately this archaeological work was interrupted during the war in Lebanon and later the site was completely ruined by treasure hunters. Nonetheless, archeologists found and recorded many spectacular buildings which are very important to the history of the region. Numerous urban structures such as defense systems, temples, palaces, private dwellings, workshops and cemeteries were uncovered. Archaeologists also found everyday objects such as pottery, as well as jewelry and other luxury items.
Probably the most important finds were documents written on clay tablets. This writing helped identify the tell of Kamid as the location of "Kumidi", a city named in the Amarna letters written in the 14th century B.C. Kumidi was apparently an important city and the capital of Egyptian colony that has settled in the area at least 3,400 years ago.
By the time of the Persian period in the 4th century BC, the site of Kumidi seems to have become less desirable. And although historians are not sure why, the people living there decided to move a little further south to the place where the modern village now stands. So it is likely that today the village of Kamid el-Loz lies on top of settlements built in the Persian, Hellenistic and Roman periods. South of the village we find a necropolis or burial place that also dates to this era.
Nearby is a stone quarry that was used by the stonemasons who constructed Anjar, an important city built on the orders of Omayyad Caliph Al-Walid I in the early 8th century. Today the quarries of Kamid el-Loz still bear traces of writing left during this construction.
The treasures the archaeologists found in Kamid-Kumindi were kept safe in Germany during the war and are now back in the custody of the National Museum of Beirut. In the meantime German archaeologists have once again begun excavations on the tell of Kamid el-Loz starting in July 1997.
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One of the things I love about food is its ability to change moods, somehow the magic of something tasty and filling can turn even the most stubborn of melancholy induced frowns upside down, which can only be a good thing right? People have sometimes said that I get far too excited about food and I rarely think about anything else, and they'd be right, Food is my mistress. Thankfully my lady is more than accepting of my love affair.
When I was a boy I used to look forward to Sunday dinners, it was the one day in the week that I had some resemblance of normal family life. A hearty Sunday meal followed by boring Sunday television like soldier and heartbeat, 'Sit and watch it…it's culture' was always uttered in my direction whenever I whined about my mothers choice of TV. I always saw Sunday's as a sort of 'mini Christmas day', the relaxing feeling of not doing very much, having a full belly and stretching out on the sofa whilst watching 'cultural' TV, and thinking about the soft moist pull apart lamb that I had just blasted down my neck. For all her faults – as I have mentioned many times on here – my mother was a very good cook and she was exceptional at cooking a good Sunday lunch.
This recipe makes a change from the traditional Sunday lunch, it's the sort of dish you can leave alone to get on with itself while you get on with not doing very much. You have the potatoes and meat all in one pan so all you need to prepare is your veg. You don't even need gravy as the lamb is moist and the potatoes give up a thick, sticky unctuous sauce that has all the flavors of the lamb. I have had Boulangère potatoes many times before, but putting them below a roasting haunch of good meat is even better, you can do it with any slow roasting joint; a piece of brisket would be deliciously done this way. The point of this dish is the meat releases it's fat and juices which get soaked up by the spuds, creating soft fudgey potatoes with a crisp top. Boulangère potatoes translate as 'bakers potatoes', in France the local women would take the dish of thinly sliced potatoes, onions, and stock down to the local bakery. As people didn't have ovens of their own the bakery would turn off the ovens at the end of the working day and allow locals to cook their food in the residual heat.
This is slow food, and I mean slow. You want to cook this dish for about 4 or 5 hours on a really low heat, so unless you have a lot of spare time in the week, this dish is ideal for long slow, lay about lazy days.
If you make my Roast shoulder of lamb with Boulangère potatoes Recipe, be sure to take a photo and tag me @onlinefoodblog on Instagram or Twitter. I would love nothing more than to see your creations!
5-7 Large Desiree potatoes, peeled.
First, preheat your oven to gas mark 2 (150°C/300°F).
Then take a knife and make deep incisions all over the top of the lamb.
Then force the garlic cloves into the incisions, making sure they are equally spread apart.
Pickoff sprigs of rosemary and do the same.
Make sure the garlic and rosemary are well pushed in as this will prevent them from burning and tasting bitter.
Next, rub some olive oil over the lamb and season liberally with salt and pepper.
Take your potatoes and thinly slice, now you can do this by hand like I do or you can use a mandolin, or food processor with a slicing attachment if you have one.
You want a nice thin crisp like potatoes.
Take a deep roasting tray then start with a thin layer of sliced onion, then a layer of sliced potatoes, then scatter with some more onion.
Season the layer with a little salt, pepper and pick off some fresh thyme (about 1 sprig per layer).
Repeat this process until everything has been used up and you finish with a potato layer.
Place the lamb shoulder on top of the potatoes and pour the chicken stock over the potatoes, it should come to just over halfway up the side of the roasting tray, don't immerse the potatoes completely otherwise they won't crisp on the top.
Bake in the oven for 4-5 hours, remove, cover with foil and rest for half an hour before serving.


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While the problems of the U.S. economy and stock market are homegrown, some of the effects of the European debt crisis have washed up on American shores in some of the more unlikely places.
U.S. commercial mortgage-backed securities -- the kind that finance office buildings, apartment houses and shopping malls, as opposed to the more familiar residential MBS that fund home loans -- have undergone a near-silent bear market since the summer.
The CMBS market has suffered a slide that might as well be a bear market, much like the high-yield corporate bond market. The flight to safety and away from risk since July has resulted in a sharp widening of their spread over Treasuries. To compensate for the perceived risk of commercial mortgages, the extra yield required on a benchmark measure, the Barclay Capital CMBS AAA Super Duper Index (you can't make up a name like that), hit a 20-month high of 323 basis points (3.23 percentage points), up sharply from 178 basis points in late April.
Notwithstanding the lack of an obvious connection, the European sovereign debt crisis has weighed on this sector of the U.S. credit market. "There is some worry that Eurozone banks will sell assets to raise capital and delever their balance sheets," write J.P. Morgan Securites analysts Edward J. Reardon, Meghan C. Kelleher and Joshua D. Younger.
"In CMBS, this concern centers on French banks, who were buyers of dollar-denominated, fixed-rate paper at the peak of the market. Though some unloaded risk during the recovery in 2009-2010, they retain substantial holdings: as of the second quarter of this year, the top five French banks by assets were reporting approximately €6.5 billion ($9.4 billion) in gross U.S. CMBS exposure -- more than 75% was Societe Generale," they write in a research note.
In that regard, the European Central Bank said Thursday it will extend its provision of unlimited liquidity to banks to help eurozone banks in need of funding that are shunned by their counterparts. The problem, of course, isn't European banks' holding of U.S. CMBS, but bonds of the problematic European governments.
This is an example of what happens during times of distress. Institutions sell their best assets to raise cash because iffy assets can't be sold or borrowed against. So, French banks sell U.S. CMBS under duress because of their holdings of Greek sovereign debt.
Most readers of this space do not deal in CMBS, but it is not completely removed from them. Real-estate investment trusts that invest in these securities have been hit as badly if not worse. Overlay a chart of Crexus Investment (ticker: CXS) with that of any number of classes of CMBX, the derivatives that chart the CMBS market, and the lines look about the same.
This serves as an example of how credit distress can leak across borders. With several degrees of separation, the Greek sovereign debt crisis is transmitted to the U.S. CMBS, via French banks as the agent of the contagion.
It's easy to see why global equity markets have reacted positively over the past few days to prospects that Europe wouldn't drag down the rest of world into a worse slump. Nearly $1 trillion was added to the value of U.S. equities in the past three days, according to Wilshire Associates.
Whether that continues is another questions as investors look into the face of earnings season, which starts in earnest next week.
While the problems of the U.