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Bernadette Bricout est une universitaire et essayiste française . Spécialiste de littérature orale, elle est professeur émérite de l'Université Paris-Diderot.

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Ancienne élève de l'École normale supérieure, agrégée de lettres modernes, Bernadette Bricout a soutenu en 1987 sa thèse de doctorat d'État, dirigée par Michel Raimond, au peuple et à la culture populaire dans le Trésor des contes d'Henri Pourrat.
Elle enseigne d'abord à l'Université Lyon 2 puis, à partir de 1981, à l'Université Paris-Diderot. Elle a dirigé 22 thèses portant sur l'étude des contes et des mythes. Elle est aujourd'hui professeur émérite de littérature orale à l'Université Paris Cité.
Bernadette Bricout a été de 2009 à 2015 Vice-Présidente de l'Université Paris Diderot (Vie culturelle et Université dans la ville) puis de 2015 à 2018 chargée de mission Cultures du monde à l'Université Paris-Diderot. Elle a conçu et animé des programmes culturels originaux, notamment Les Entretiens des Grands Moulins fondés sur des dialogues entre de grands chercheurs et des artistes et Les 1001 vies du conte qui ont exploré des formes traditionnelles et contemporaines de l'art oral (conte, théâtre, rap, slam, poésie orale, chanteurs d'oiseaux).
Bernadette Bricout s'est impliquée à l'Université Paris Cité dans la conception et le pilotage de programmes internationaux, notamment le programme européen Crossing Stages et le programme franco-chinois Récits et figures du ciel fondé sur un partenariat entre l'université Paris Diderot et l'Université de Wuhan. Elle est depuis 2019 professeur invitée à l'Université de Wuhan en qualité d'expert étranger (littérature orale).
Bernadette Bricout est par ailleurs Conseil en Formation à la communication orale dont elle enseigne les techniques, à Sciences Po notamment, dans le cadre de séminaires ou de coachings individuels. Elle élabore également sur des thèmes relevant de son expertise des séminaires et des conférences à caractère culturel.
Très impliquée dans la transmission des savoirs, Bernadette Bricout est conceptrice des Amphis 21 à Sciences Po qu'elle a créés en 1997 et qu'elle anime depuis leur création. Ces cycles de conférences pluridisciplinaires, culturels et géopolitiques ont été suivis par des milliers d'auditeurs. Ils ouvrent des perspectives sur les grandes questions du XXIe siècle.
Bernadette Bricout intervient dans de nombreuses émissions sur France Inter (La nuit est à vous, Les p'tits bateaux, La Marche de l'histoire, Grand bien vous fasse, La Tête au carré, Le temps d'un bivouac, Barbatruc, L'heure des rêveurs, La bande originale, Service Public) et France Culture (L'art est la matière, La Compagnie des auteurs).

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Articles connexes
 Tradition orale
 Henri Pourrat
 Le Trésor des contes

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Étudiant de l'université Paris-Sorbonne
Professeur à l'université Paris-VII (Diderot)
Littérature orale
Essayiste française du XXe siècle
Essayiste française du XXIe siècle
Naissance en août 1947

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Il pīr (, in italiano: vecchio) è la guida o il maestro nel Sufismo.

Il sostantivo equivale perfettamente a sceicco (in arabo shaykh). In entrambi i casi sottolinea l'esperienza vissuta del maestro, cui si rivolge il murīd ( ) o tālib () nel suo lungo cammino ascetico, che esige un'adeguata conduzione

In ambito turco, seguendo la medesima logica, si usa invece spesso il sostantivo dede, che significa "nonno", che tuttavia è impiegato di preferenza per indicare il capo religioso e spirituale dell'Alevismo.

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 Lemma «Pir», su: The Encyclopaedia of Islam (C.E. Bosworth)

Voci correlate
 Sufismo
 Confraternite islamiche
 Sceicco

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Sufismo
Lessico islamico


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Home » News » The meaning behind Teach For Australia's RAP artwork
The meaning behind Teach For Australia's RAP artwork
To celebrate the impending launch of Teach For Australia's Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP), we sat down with Carly Farrugia (Cohort 2016) and her students at Yirrkala CEC, to learn more about the traditional Indigenous artwork that accompanies Teach For Australia's RAP.
Yirrkala CEC is located in North East Arnhem Land, in the community of Yirrkala. The school caters for students from preschool to Year 12 and has an enrolment of approximately 200 students. While the majority of students come from Yirrkala itself, children from Gunyangara, Galupa and Birritjimi also travel by bus each day to attend Yirrkala School.
In 1948, Frederick McCarthy, as part of an American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem land, collected and recorded 193 string figures known in Yolŋu as matjka. His principal guide and collaborator, Ŋarrawu Munuŋgur could replicate a large number of designs suggesting that for Yolŋu, string figure making was a highly developed cultural practice.
Earlier this year, the Buku-Larrŋgay Mulka Centre in Yirrkala engaged senior students from Yirrkala CEC to be involved in an iteration of a past project in which the string figure designs are made and by slipping the finished figure off the maker's hands, turned into prints using a soft-ground etching technique.
This iteration involving students from Yirrkala CEC succeeded in engaging young students, and they became so engaged that the exhibition was in fact opened at the Gapan Gallery at the GARMA festival in 2019.
Off the back of this project, senior art students continued to explore these string figure designs using the process of cyanotype printing – a photographic printing process, using a two part chemical substance that can be applied onto any natural fibre surface; cotton, paper and linen, producing a cyan-blue print once exposed to sunlight.
Teach For Australia's Reconciliation Action Plan artwork.
A small group of students from the class decided to incorporate both the string and their hands in a larger scale group work, lying still in the sun for 15 minutes with their hands wrapped in string, intertwined between their fingers and outstretched on a piece of cotton painted in cyanotype chemicals, the artwork was made.
When the idea was put to the class to create an artwork for Teach For Australia's Reconciliation Action Plan it was agreed that this artwork was something that represented the Yirrkala CEC senior art class in its entirety.
It represents these artists within the community as the younger generation becoming familiar with and linking into old Yolŋu skills and practices and using these to tell their own stories in new and exciting ways as the artists of the future.
"This artwork represents us, Banumbirr (morning star) class, all together," said one student from Carly's class. "It represents the land and our hands connected to the land, our hands on the land," said another.
Teach For Australia would like to thank Carly and her students at Yirrkala CEC for creating such a magnificent piece of art to accompany our newly developed Reconciliation Action Plan.

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Home · Celebrity
Kevin Hart Is Leaving Baby Name Decisions Up To His Wife – Under One Condition
The comedian, author and ESSENCE June cover star made this joke about selecting the name for his third child with wife Eniko Parrish Hart.
[MUSIC] Why a book? Why not? Me saying I Can't Make This Up, Life Lessons by Kevin Hart, this It's truth in that, I think outside of the comedy there's another level to me that exists that it's time that people. People learn about. This guy is a person who is flawed to a certain degree but who embraces them, who is built off of it. And ultimately became the man that he is today. I think the hardest think to honestly share in my book was the in-depth relationship with me and my parents. Really Really, really going outside of the frame. Opening up about these frames, putting them in my book, being brutally honest about it was just something that I felt was necessary, something that I felt in my fan base would respect and I pride myself on spreading positivity. And positivity and no way, shape or form should ever be misconceived to be perfection. You're a person who just lives and loves energy, and I give it to get it. And I think this book is putting myself out there in a way to receive more of it. And hopefully that energy comes hand over fist. [MUSIC]
By Lindsay Kimble · June 1, 2017
This article originally appeared on People.
Kevin Hart says he's leaving the important task of naming his third child up to the true head of his household.
"I don't run my house, my wife does," jokes Hart in a new interview for his upcoming animated film, Captain Underpants. "I can't make these decisions. I do nothing, I don't wear the pants and I'm not trying to act like I do."
Hart and his wife, model Eniko Parrish Hart, are expecting their first child together, a baby boy.
The couple – who wed in 2016 – announced their big news on Mother's Day, and told PEOPLE in a joint statement, "We are overjoyed about our new addition to our family."
The 37-year-old – who is father to Hendrix, 9, and Heaven, 12, from a previous marriage – confirms that he and his wife have been "thinking about names."
Hart's only stipulation for the moniker? "For me, I'm just thinking about anything with a Kevin in it."
He added, "I don't care what it is as long as Kevin is in there somewhere."
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Iraq facing 'biggest fight' since Americans left
(CNN)– Iraq's security forces are taking on their biggest fight since U.S. troops withdrew from the country at the end of 2011, Mowaffak al-Rubaie, who was national security adviser in Iraq for the five years after the fall of Saddam Hussein, told CNN's Christiane Amanpour.
Violence in Iraq is the worst in years, and part of the city of Falluja may have already fallen into the control of an al-Qaeda affiliated group known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.
"It is a big challenge, but I am pretty sure – and there is no shadow of doubt in my mind – that Iraqi security forces will prevail," al-Rubaie said.
There are conflicting reports about who is fighting whom in Falluja, with government forces, tribal groups, and the al-Qaeda affiliates all involved.
"Most of the Western media has got this wrong," he said.
It is not about Sunni versus Shiite, or about the Shiite government "killing the Sunni communities."
"This is a fight between Iraq and al-Qaeda terrorists," he said. "This is a fight between a constitutionally elected government in Baghdad and the outlaws, the terrorists of al-Qaeda in the desert."
He also however called on the U.S. to put pressure on the Gulf Arab countries "to reduce the sectarian polarization between Shiite and Sunnis, because that is what is translated into blood on the street of Baghdad."
Al-Rubaie called on all Iraqis, no matter their affiliation, to stand behind the Maliki government.
"They should unite behind the Iraqi security forces to get them to win this fight and then we after that we will argue who was right, who was wrong in the economic policy, in the social policies, in security policy, and so on and so forth."
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Ukrainian cities under attack, Putin visits a reconstructed bridge in Crimea – Europe
Buck Peay December 5, 2022 3 min read
A missile fell on the territory of Moldova, near the border with Ukraine. According to what was reported by the Russian RIA Novosti agency, quoting the Ministry of Interior. The missile was found by Moldovan border guards near Prichini, in the north of the country, on the day when Russian missile attacks were underway over much of Ukraine, and it was repelled by anti-aircraft missiles from Kyiv. Because of the Russian raids, several cities in Ukraine were left without water or electricity. According to the head of the military department in Kryvyi Rih in central Ukraine, He added, "Part of the city is without electricity, and many boilers and water pumping stations are cut off. Operators in Odessa in the south and Sumy in the northeast reported interruptions in water and electricity supplies. Electricity was also out in Mykolaiv in the south, according to the mayor, Oleksandr Senkevich. Governor of the Kyiv region of Ukraine, Oleksiy Kuleba, said that some of the infrastructures of the region were bombed by Russian missiles, Stressing that 40% of the lands are devoid of electricity But there were no "serious consequences". Sky News reports.
president Volodymyr Zelensky But he said that Ukrainian anti-aircraft defense shot down "most" of the missiles fired by the Russians today. Ukraine shot down more than 60 of the more than 70 missiles launched by Russia on Monday in an intense missile attack. This was reported by the command of the Ukrainian Air Force.
A drone hit the runway of Russia's Engels-1 Air Base in the Saratov region today, destroying two Tu-95 bombers, Ukrainska Pravda reports.
Adding that at least two soldiers were wounded and taken to hospital. Earlier, three people were killed and at least five others were injured in an explosion at an airport near Ryazan, southeast of Moscow:
The emergency services told the Russian news agency Tass. According to other Russian media reported by Western media, an oil tanker loaded with
fuel and wounded six.
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Putin in crime – Russian President Vladimir Putin visited the bridge connecting Crimea with the Union Territory, which was attacked last October. The chief crossed the restored bridge and spoke with some of the workers working on it, the TASS news agency reported that Putin himself drove the car in which he crossed the bridge, accompanied by Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khosnullin, who gave him a report on the repair work. In a video broadcast by Rossiya-24 TV channel, the president can be heard saying, "We are walking on the bridge on the right side. The left side, as I understand it, is good, but it needs to be supplemented. It has suffered more or less the same damage, it is necessary to make it In perfect condition." The attack occurred on 8 October, when a truck bomb exploded, killing four people and collapsing two arches of the vehicular traffic section of the bridge. According to Russia's domestic security service, the FSB, the attack was masterminded by Ukraine's military intelligence, led by Kirill Budanov.
Putin drives his car over a bridge in Crimea, affected by the bombing
According to Putin, Russia can count on a "huge army" of civilian volunteers, numbering 21 million people. Putin spoke about those civilians who serve to help the most needy part of the population. "It is difficult," said the President, "to find words for those who are devoted and follow their hearts, help seriously ill people, take part in organizing sporting events, help maintain order, take care of nature, and devote a large part of their lives to others, For those who need this help. Putin added that there are 21 million volunteers in Russia, more than 15% of the population, calling them "an army, a colossal army".
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Musk fast-tracks Model Y production, says it will outsell all previous Tesla models
Model Y. Source: Tesla
Tesla CEO and co-founder Elon Musk says that production planning for its next electric vehicle, the Model Y electric SUV, is ahead of schedule and it will be launched in the northern hemisphere's summer of 2020, instead of its autumn.
Fortified by a solid quarter that saw almost 80,000 Model 3s delivered globally, delivered a profit that beat analysts expectations, and boosted cash and equivalents, Musk said the company was ahead of schedule for its new electric crossover SUV.
"We're ahead of schedule on Model Y preparations in Fremont and we've moved the launch timeline from fall 2020 to summer 2020," Musk said during the Californian car-maker's quarterly earnings call on Wednesday afternoon (US time).
The new start date also confirms a leak we reported on last Wednesday, that came as spotters started seeing release candidates of the Model Y recently in California.
#TeslaModelY mules keep appearing all over. Watch out for Q1 2020 production. @elonmusk pic.twitter.com/q3fH7gGsk6
— TeslaOwnersofMA (@TeslaOwnersofMA) October 16, 2019
Musk has taken a ride in one of these prototypes himself – and is so pleased with new electric crossover he thinks it will outsell all other Tesla vehicles combined.
"I've actually recently driven a Model Y release candidate and I think it's going to be amazing and be very well received," he said.
"I think it will outsell S, X and 3 combined."
If this proves correct, potential demand for the Model Y will be met via both an increase in production at the Fremont factory, at the soon to be opened Shanghai factory and also at the new European factory, the site of which will be announced in the not-too-distant future.
"We are positioned to accelerate our growth further through Gigafactory Shanghai, Model Y and also through increasing build rates on our existing production lines," the company wrote.
"We are in the final stages of our site selection process. Our European Gigafactory is expected to produce both Model 3 and Model Y."
When the Model Y, three-quarters of which based on the EV maker's best-selling Model 3, was first unveiled in March 2019 with first deliveries of its high-specced Performance version planned for the US autumn in 2020.
But thanks to a range of efficiencies gleaned from both the tightening of production of the Model 3 as well as the speedy construction of the Shanghai Gigafactory 3, Tesla can now start some time in the second quarter of 2020.
Further details behind the revised launch date were revealed in the EV maker's Q3 earnings update letter this morning.
"Trial production of Model 3 in Shanghai has begun, ahead of schedule. We are also ahead of schedule to produce Model Y and now expect to launch by summer 2020," the company wrote.
"Model Y equipment installation is underway in advance of the planned launch next year. We are moving faster than initially planned, using learnings and efficiencies gained from our Gigafactory Shanghai factory design."
When it does begin production, the Californian carmaker expects that the ramp up to volume production will be quicker than the Model 3, for which it faced hurdles in 2018 as it began making large volumes of cars for the first time in its 6 year history.
By mid-2020, Musk expects 1,000 Model Ys a week to be rolling off the factory floor.
"What really matters is the timing of volume production, where production is in excess of 1,000 units a week and we're confident of reaching that point earlier than the middle of 2020," he said.
Tesla also expects that profit margins for the Model Y – which will go sale at a slightly higher price than its sister sedan – will be higher than that of the Model 3, thanks to a tight control on costs which it has estimated will be on par with that of the Model 3.


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Recession-oscopy : can universities be the light at the end?
Mackey, Steve 2012, Recession-oscopy : can universities be the light at the end?, Australian Universities' Review, vol. 54, no. 2, pp. 40-43.
Mackey, Steve
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National Tertiary Education Union
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This paper paints the philosophical and ethical backdrop to some of the issues raised in Australian Universities' Review vol. 53, no. 2. It links academic performance pay; the measurement of research output; and the astonishing pay levels of vice chancellors to the present global financial crisis. These are explained as part of a general malaise of institutions, which has its roots in the early Enlightenment. Drawing from semioticians Charles Sanders Peirce and John Deely it uses the terms ideoscopy and cenoscopy to characterise the hijacking of unwarranted scientific status for much of the way our world is managed. But crisis can lead to opportunity. Consequently, the paper points to the glaring opportunity for thinkers who can articulate the present situation in a way which could avert disaster.
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Pharmacological FGF21 signals to glutamatergic neurons to enhance leptin action and lower body weight during obesity
Kristin E. Claflin, Andrew I. Sullivan, Meghan C. Naber, Kyle H. Flippo, Donald A. Morgan, Tate J. Neff, Sharon O. Jensen-Cody, Zhiyong Zhu, Leonid V. Zingman, Kamal Rahmouni, Matthew J. Potthoff
Objective: Fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21) is a peripherally-derived endocrine hormone that acts on the central nervous system (CNS) to regulate whole body energy homeostasis. Pharmacological administration of FGF21 promotes weight loss in obese animal models and human subjects with obesity. However, the central targets mediating these effects are incompletely defined. Methods: To explore the mechanism for FGF21's effects to lower body weight, we pharmacologically administer FGF21 to genetic animal models lacking the obligate FGF21 co-receptor, β-klotho (KLB), in either glutamatergic (Vglut2-Cre) or GABAergic (Vgat-Cre) neurons. In addition, we abolish FGF21 signaling to leptin receptor (LepR-Cre) positive cells. Finally, we examine the synergistic effects of FGF21 and leptin to lower body weight and explore the importance of physiological leptin levels in FGF21-mediated regulation of body weight. Results: Here we show that FGF21 signaling to glutamatergic neurons is required for FGF21 to modulate energy expenditure and promote weight loss. In addition, we demonstrate that FGF21 signals to leptin receptor-expressing cells to regulate body weight, and that central leptin signaling is required for FGF21 to fully stimulate body weight loss during obesity. Interestingly, co-administration of FGF21 and leptin synergistically leads to robust weight loss. Conclusions: These data reveal an important endocrine crosstalk between liver- and adipose-derived signals which integrate in the CNS to modulate energy homeostasis and body weight regulation.
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Claflin, K. E., Sullivan, A. I., Naber, M. C., Flippo, K. H., Morgan, D. A., Neff, T. J., Jensen-Cody, S. O., Zhu, Z., Zingman, L. V., Rahmouni, K., & Potthoff, M. J. (2022). Pharmacological FGF21 signals to glutamatergic neurons to enhance leptin action and lower body weight during obesity. Molecular Metabolism, 64, [101564]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molmet.2022.101564
Claflin, Kristin E. ; Sullivan, Andrew I. ; Naber, Meghan C. et al. / Pharmacological FGF21 signals to glutamatergic neurons to enhance leptin action and lower body weight during obesity. In: Molecular Metabolism. 2022 ; Vol. 64.
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Pharmacological FGF21 signals to glutamatergic neurons to enhance leptin action and lower body weight during obesity. / Claflin, Kristin E.; Sullivan, Andrew I.; Naber, Meghan C. et al.
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N2 - Objective: Fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21) is a peripherally-derived endocrine hormone that acts on the central nervous system (CNS) to regulate whole body energy homeostasis. Pharmacological administration of FGF21 promotes weight loss in obese animal models and human subjects with obesity. However, the central targets mediating these effects are incompletely defined. Methods: To explore the mechanism for FGF21's effects to lower body weight, we pharmacologically administer FGF21 to genetic animal models lacking the obligate FGF21 co-receptor, β-klotho (KLB), in either glutamatergic (Vglut2-Cre) or GABAergic (Vgat-Cre) neurons. In addition, we abolish FGF21 signaling to leptin receptor (LepR-Cre) positive cells. Finally, we examine the synergistic effects of FGF21 and leptin to lower body weight and explore the importance of physiological leptin levels in FGF21-mediated regulation of body weight. Results: Here we show that FGF21 signaling to glutamatergic neurons is required for FGF21 to modulate energy expenditure and promote weight loss. In addition, we demonstrate that FGF21 signals to leptin receptor-expressing cells to regulate body weight, and that central leptin signaling is required for FGF21 to fully stimulate body weight loss during obesity. Interestingly, co-administration of FGF21 and leptin synergistically leads to robust weight loss. Conclusions: These data reveal an important endocrine crosstalk between liver- and adipose-derived signals which integrate in the CNS to modulate energy homeostasis and body weight regulation.
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Dubai Investment News Jul 26, 2013 Posted by Bob Brunskill
A busy week for Etihad Airways
It has been a very busy week for one of TFG's new partners - Eithad Airways.
The national airline of the UAE has announced details of a major new deal with IAE International Aero Engines AG, which will see the firm upgrade a number of its current and future aircraft to the V2500 SelectTwo engine standard.
Bosses at the company said they will purchase 73 V2500 SelectTwo engine upgrade kits and this is the organisation's latest attempt to enhance its fleet.
With more and more people booking flights into the UAE, it is vital that Etihad Airways is constantly looking to expand.
As things stand, the carrier has a fleet of 66 planes and operates more than 1,000 flights per week, serving 84 passenger and cargo destinations across the globe. The company has also tied up some important deals over the past few years, securing a 30 per cent stake in airberlin - Europe's sixth largest airline - and 40 per cent of Air Seychelles.
Speaking of the new IAE International Aero Engines AG agreement, Etihad Airways' president and chief executive officer James Hogan said: 'The V2500 engine has played an important role in our Airbus A320 type operations, and SelectTwo is the latest example of how IAE strives for new solutions that add value to our fleet, whilst making our fuel-burn more efficient.'
This news came shortly after the company announced that Yahya Ahmed Hussein Al-Robaydi would become the firm's general manager in Yemen.
The airline recently revealed plans to launch four new services to the country's main business hub Sana'a from September 1st 2013, so Mr Al-Robaydi will certainly be busy in his new role.
Chief commercial officer at the company Peter Baumgartner thinks Mr Al-Robaydi has the necessary experience to raise the profile of the new Abu Dhabi to Sana'a route.
He also hopes travellers in Yemen will be attracted by the opportunity to catch linking flights to major destinations in Europe, Asia, the Americas and nations within the Gulf Cooperation Council from Abu Dhabi.


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Q: MySQL - Split strings by "|" delimiter into new rows I am trying to prep some data before using it in Tableau. There's a field that I need to clean-up and split out into unique line items. Using the Custom SQL options I'd like to split the string up with each substring duplicating all other values into a new row.
Here's what the data looks like (the delimiter is actually | but due to how tables are made here I used a - instead):

ID
Goal
Other fields etc.

123456
Goal A - Goal B
etc.

234567
Goal A
etc.

345678
Goal B - Goal C - Goal D
etc.

Output I want:

ID
Goal
Other fields etc.

123456
Goal A
etc.

123456
Goal B
etc.

234567
Goal A
etc.

345678
Goal B
etc.

345678
Goal C
etc.

345678
Goal D
etc.

My current SQL statement is simple and just looks like:
SELECT
database."Id" As "ID",
database."Goals" As "Goals",
etc.
FROM database

I've seen some posts that this could be accomplished by Cross Apply Split String, but have also read that this isn't usable with MySQL. And when I plugged in the below I got a syntax error.
SELECT
database."Id" As "ID",
database."Goals" As "Goals",
etc.
FROM database
CROSS APPLY SPLIT_STRING(database."Goals", "|")

EDIT: I've viewed SQL split values to multiple rows and this solution specifies that there is a maximum allowance. I'd like to see if there's a solution where there isn't a maximum limitation.

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By studying a database of 3,000 fish fossils from the middle Paleozoic era, scientists have provided a rigid conclusion on the location where vertebrates first originated.
Scientists have forever studied fossils in an attempt to uncover the various mysteries surrounding evolution. However, the lack of fish fossils prior to 360 million years ago has kept one such mystery in the dark – where exactly did vertebrates first originate? Vertebrates are defined by the presence of backbone or spinal columns and have thought to diversify around 480 million years ago, splitting into groups that would become jawless fish, cartilaginous fish, and bony fish. It's this last group that evolved into amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. However, the reason why backbones first appeared and the place of its origin has remained a hotly debated topic in paleontology.
That debate can now be put to bed, as recent research has come up with a robust answer to the aforementioned question. Lauren Sallan, a paleobiologist at the University of Pennsylvania have teamed up with researchers from the University of Birmingham to delve directly into the mystery. The researchers created a database that consisted of 2,728 early records for jawed and jawless fishes. Carbon dating the fossils confirmed the era from which they emerged – in between 480 to 360 million years ago – the period when the first vertebrates on earth came about. The team used mathematical modeling to reconstruct missing information in the fossil record, which allowed them to make informed predictions regarding the habitat type in which these ancestors of various vertebrate groups emerged.
By comparing the fossil features to the environment in which they were preserved, the researchers now had their definitive answer. The first vertebrates' lives near seashores, in areas often described as the intertidal zone, or shallow lagoons. "We found that all vertebrates, from the first jawless forms to sharks and bony fishes, originated in very restricted shallow waters hugging the coastline," says Sallan. She also suggests that these shallow water environments may have encouraged the evolution of vertebrates because their bones helped them withstand swirling or crashing waves found in such locations.
The finding has surprised the paleo-community, as big evolutionary steps are usually associated with biodiversity hotspots, such as coral reefs. However, the data suggest that fishes first occurred in shallow, salt-like environments like tidal areas and lagoons – after which they either moved on to fill the sea or developed amphibian-like characteristics to inhabit the land.
The findings of the study also help in answering one important question – why was it so hard to find fossils of early vertebrates? If these fishes first lived on the edges of the ocean, there is a possibility that the forceful waves may have blasted the fossils into tiny fragments. Hence, the presence of relatively few fossils of early vertebrates indicate that they must have originated in a location where their remains were decimated by the force of nature.
As anthropogenic climate change results in ocean acidification, the coral reefs of the planet are depleting in large numbers, reducing biodiversity. "One of the things we want to know is whether these shallow waters are still the biological pump that is feeding the reef," Sallan says. "Where is the current site of innovation?" If these shallow waters are still feeding the reef to this day, maybe scientists shouldn't be too worried about coral reefs getting depleted. Instead, they can create a biological hotspot in shallow waters.


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Book Reviews: War & Technology, Charles J. Dunlap Jr.
Clever or Clueless? Observations about Bombing Norm Debates, Charles J. Dunlap Jr.
Still Shortchanged: Some Observations About the New Army/Marine Corps COIN Doctrine, Charles J. Dunlap Jr.
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Prayer of St. Francis Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me bring love. Where there is offense, let me bring pardon. Where there is discord, let me bring union. Where there is error, let me bring truth. Where there is doubt, let me bring faith. Where there is despair, let me bring hope. Where there is darkness, let me bring your light. Where there is sadness, let me bring joy. O Master, let me not seek as much to be consoled as to console, to be understood as to understand, to be loved as to love, for it is in giving that one receives, it is in self-forgetting that one finds, it is in pardoning that one is pardoned, it is in dying that one is raised to eternal life.
"Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace"


A few years ago, I began a search for a book I could have our Sanctus peer-mentors read in preparation for their role in journeying with our first year students in close relationship.
Every book I read had the same basic premise. The writer was a successful leader in their field of work or ministry. In their later years they felt compelled to "give back" so they handpicked some younger leaders and donated their valuable time to them, expounding on methodology that worked for them and teaching their followers to do the same. Admirable. And it looks appealing at first glance. The experienced helping the inexperienced. The older helping the younger.
While I understood and appreciated each author's intent, there was something I felt to be so understated in every book.
Rather, relationship. Side by side. Learning and growing together.
Are the mentor and mentee at different stages? Of course. But can they both learn and grow? It's obvious. Can they do so more effectively together in relationship? I think so! Each one the richer and wiser because of their relationship with the other. In my estimation, this is the hallmark of effective mentoring: relationship. I get to know you. You get to know me. Let's go.
In the spirit of side-by-side relational mentoring, here are a few "does" and "does nots" I have been pondering.
Does and Does Not List.
. An effective mentor does share personal experiences but does not assume that the mentee's experiences have been or will be the same as theirs.
. An effective mentor does listen empathetically but does not fail to challenge the mentee's thinking or actions.
. An effective mentor does offer suggestions on strategies or methods to test out but does not tell the mentee what to do.
. An effective mentor does share regarding personal weakness and struggle but does not monopolize the attention on themselves.
. An effective mentor does ask penetrating questions but does not guilt or shame the mentee to action.
. An effective mentor does teach but does not take the credit when the mentee learns and succeeds.


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OLYMPICS INDIA'S TOP CONTENDERS
ACTRESS Sports
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OLYMPICS INDIA'S TOP CONTENDERS – India is sending its largest ever contingent to the Tokyo Olympics in the hope of bettering its medals haul over previous Games.
With 120 athletes competing across 85 events, the country hopes to win medals for shooting, wrestling, boxing, archery and badminton.
India returned with a meagre two medals from the 2016 Rio Olympics – a silver for ace shuttler PV Sindhu in the Women's Singles Badminton event and a bronze for wrestler Sakshi Malik in the Women's 58kg Freestyle Wrestling event.
This time, India is participating in two events for the first time, with Bhavani Devi becoming the first fencer to qualify and Fouaad Mirza making it to the equestrian event.
SHOOTING:
India's 15-member shooting contingent is the favourite to bring back a big haul of medals.
The country's biggest hopes are pinned on Manu Bhaker and Saurabh Chaudhary.
Nineteen-year-old Bhaker, one of the top contenders in the 10m Women's Air Pistol event, has in the past won it all from World Cup gold medals to the Commonwealth medal and Youth Olympics.
BOXING:
Mary Kom, also known as Magnificent Mary, the Iron Lady and many other nicknames, is a medal favourite for India.
She won a bronze at the 2012 London Olympics and will be looking to change the colour of her medal this time when she participates in the Flyweight section (51kg).
In May, she picked up a silver when she lost the final to Kazakhstan's Nazym Kyzaibay during the Asian Boxing Championships in Dubai.
At 38, Kom may well be taking part in her last Olympics, and India will be rooting for her to increase her tally before she takes off her gloves.
At the Rio Olympics, 21-year-old PV Sindhu bagged a silver – and won a billion hearts. Not everyone had expected a medal back then from the young shuttler. But five years on, expectations are high.
"I was just a participant back then, but now everyone says Sindhu has to get a medal," she told the BBC recently.
Last year, the ace shuttler won the inaugural BBC Indian Sportswoman of the Year award.
In 2019, she was crowned the World Badminton Champion but her form has had inconsistencies since then. However, she remains India's top medal prospect.
WRESTLING:
"At one point, I thought my career was over due to the injury but now I have got a second chance and I want to make my dream come true," she says .
With three world championships to his name, wrestler Bajrang Punia is the top contender from India in the 65kg men's category at his first Olympics.
The 26-year-old is now roaring to go in the 53kg category with some great wins in the last couple of months, as well as reclaiming the number one ranking.
WEIGHT LIFTING :
n 2017, she won gold in the World Weightlifting Championships and went on to win gold in the Commonwealth Games a year later and bronze at the 2019 Asian Weightlifting Championships.
She is the lone weightlifter in India's Olympics contingent and will be looking for redemption in Tokyo.
ARCHERY:
She is now the world number one in the women's recurve category and a strong candidate for a medal in Tokyo.
Kumari has won nine gold, 12 silver and seven bronze medals at various World Cups and will be looking to add the Olympic medal to her tally now.
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MercatorNet: T comes right after LGB
T comes right after LGB
It's a very small step from same-sex marriage to transgender.
Zac Alstin | Jun 8 2016 |
Before the year 2000, no US state recognized same-sex marriage. By 2015, it was legal throughout the US and most of Western Europe. Before 2015 most Americans knew nothing about transgender issues. Within a year transgender issues are on the front pages of newspapers every day and schools may be forced to provide special bathrooms for trans students. The pace of change in the sexual revolution is not just rapid. It's accelerating around the world. Why?
This is the fourth article in a MercatorNet symposium.
ZAC ALSTIN: it's a very small step from same-sex marriage to transgender.
Is the pace of change in the sexual revolution really accelerating? Yes and no, and it depends on where you look.
It's easy to think that Transgenderism has only recently appeared on the radar, but in reality the T was added to the LGB during the 90s as part of internal political and ideological development within that movement.
Opponents and supporters alike have often ridiculed the "alphabet soup" that has seen the LGBT acronym expand over the years. Are we now officially up to LGBTQQIAAP, or did you fall asleep at your keyboard?
But even in ridicule the point is made, and the premise of unconstrained diversity is driven home without needing to learn what all the letters are supposed to stand for. While battles have been waged over gay and lesbian issues from adoption and IVF to anti-discrimination and the redefining of marriage, the T has stood like an aposiopesis, an "LGBT…" bookmarking the next stage of activism and cultural change.
As a minority partner in a minority movement it makes sense that Transgenderism would have to wait its turn for serious advocacy. The focus has been on homosexuality because they have the numbers and, let's face it, the very concept of sexual orientation is easier to communicate than "gender is a social construct". But the T was always next in line, and now that the L and the G have triumphed through the Supreme Court's decision on same-sex marriage, it's Transgenderism's time to shine.
The LGBT movement has had tremendous success in achieving its legal and cultural goals. For a growing majority of Americans supportive of same-sex marriage (60 percent according to a 2015 Gallup Poll) the Supreme Court decision is just the law playing catch-up to progressive values the public themselves have steadily embraced, at an average rate of 1.65 percent per year over the past 20 years.
It might feel like the pace of change is accelerating, but in reality Transgenderism is just a variation on the same underlying themes already accepted by the majority of people who support same-sex marriage. And in those 20+ years of growing support that "T…" has been an overt if overshadowed presence.
Support for same-sex marriage signifies a willingness to redefine foundational and enduring elements of society and culture for the sake of marginalised and victimised self-identified sexual minorities. And if a society is willing to redefine marriage to be more inclusive of people's homosexual identities, why not redefine "man" and "woman" to be more inclusive of people's gender identities?
Was it a coincidence that Bruce Jenner's very public rebranding as Caitlyn on the cover of Vanity Fair appeared so swiftly in the wake of the Oberfegell decision? Whether it was good luck or good marketing, Jenner's overwhelming public and media reception was no coincidence. The June 26 Supreme Court decision had barely passed before the July issue of Vanity Fair reminded us that the "T" in LGBT wasn't just there to balance out the acronym.
Politically, the whole movement is aided by continued progression. It's less than a year sinceObergefell but public focus is now on laws controlling access to gender-specific bathrooms. Same-sex marriage is old news.
Expect an analogous moment to occur for Transgenderism: no sooner will our social and legal institutions warmly embrace the right of men and women everywhere to identify as women or men anywhere than the harrowing plight of the agendered will come to the fore. Or perhaps we will see a more concerted effort to abolish hetero and gender normativity in the public square.
At face value, the question of whether men can marry men and women marry women seems barely connected to the question of whether a man who feels like a woman should expect to be treated like one.
But in reality both issues play out along very similar lines: are we willing to change or redefine social conventions to accommodate aggrieved and victimised minorities, so long as it doesn't appear to cost us anything and means a lot to the people in question? The majority of Americans have answered "yes" in the instance of same-sex marriage. Why would they not answer "yes" when it comes to Transgenderism?
Zac Alstin is associate editor of MercatorNet. He also blogs at zacalstin.com
Other contributors to MercatorNet's transgender symposium
Mark Regnerus. Where did transgenderism come from?
Walter R. Schumm. Why? We hanker after instant gratification
Margaret Somerville. It didn't happen overnight
I'd like to use this newsletter to remind our friends about the Reading Matters blog, edited by Jennifer Minicus, from New Jersey. She and her fellow writers are posting great reviews of children's books. Along with a brief description of the book, there are recommendations about its suitability. It's a terrific resource. Today we feature two reviews from Jane Fagan and Susan Moore.
As well, don't forget to contribute to our crowd-sourced summer reading list. This time our focus is on crime fiction and thrillers.
Finally, don't miss the next article in our series about transgenderism. "Are we now officially up to LGBTQQIAAP, or did you fall asleep at your keyboard?" asks Zac Alstin, our associate editor.
Zac Alstin | CONJUGALITY | 8 June 2016
What Enlightenment thinkers would have made of Donald Trump
Anna Plassart | FEATURES | 8 June 2016
18th Century thinkers had grave fears about the seductive pull of demagogues
Growing Up: Alexander McCall Smith's Bertie Pollock
Susan Reibel Moore | READING MATTERS | 8 June 2016
The 44 Scotland Street series
Generosity is… taking six children into your family
Carolyn Moynihan | FAMILY EDGE | 8 June 2016
Faith and friendship flower in a heroic gesture.
A salt-of-the-earth book favourite entertains generations of children
Jane Fagan | READING MATTERS | 8 June 2016
A classic adventure not to be missed!


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Raw veggies are healthier than cooked ones
Do vegetables lose their nutritional value when heated?
By Sushma Subramanian
Cooking is crucial to our diets. It helps us digest food without expending huge amounts of energy. It softens food, such as cellulose fiber and raw meat, that our small teeth, weak jaws and digestive systems aren't equipped to handle. And while we might hear from raw foodists that cooking kills vitamins and minerals in food (while also denaturing enzymes that aid digestion), it turns out raw vegetables are not always healthier.
A study published in The British Journal of Nutrition last year found that a group of 198 subjects who followed a strict raw food diet had normal levels of vitamin A and relatively high levels of beta-carotene (an antioxidant found in dark green and yellow fruits and vegetables), but low levels of the antioxidant lycopene. Lycopene is a red pigment found predominantly in tomatoes and other rosy fruits such as watermelon, pink guava, red bell pepper and papaya. Several studies conducted in recent years (at Harvard Medical School, among others) have linked high intake of lycopene with a lower risk of cancer and heart attacks. Rui Hai Liu, an associate professor of food science at Cornell University who has researched lycopene, says that it may be an even more potent antioxidant than vitamin C.
One 2002 study he did (published in the Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry) found that cooking actually boosts the amount of lycopene in tomatoes. He reports that the level of one type of lycopene, cis-lycopene, in tomatoes rose 35 percent after he cooked them for 30 minutes at 190.4 degrees Fahrenheit (88 degrees Celsius). The reason, he says: the heat breaks down the plants' thick cell walls and aids the body's uptake of some nutrients that are bound to those cell walls.
Cooked carrots, spinach, mushrooms, asparagus, cabbage, peppers and many other vegetables also supply more antioxidants, such as carotenoids and ferulic acid, to the body than they do when raw, Liu says. At least, that is, if they're boiled or steamed. A January 2008 report in the Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry said that boiling and steaming better preserves antioxidants, particularly carotenoid, in carrots, zucchini and broccoli, than frying, though boiling was deemed the best. The researchers studied the impact of the various cooking techniques on compounds such as carotenoids, ascorbic acid and polyphenols.
Deep fried foods are notorious sources of free radicals, caused by oil being continuously oxidized when it is heated at high temperatures. These radicals, which are highly reactive because they have at least one unpaired electron, can injure cells in the body. The antioxidants in the oil and the vegetables get used up during frying in stabilizing the cycle of oxidation.
Another study published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry in 2002 showed that cooking carrots increases their level of beta-carotene. Beta-carotene belongs to a group of antioxidant substances called carotenoids, which give fruits and vegetables their red, yellow, and orange colorings. The body converts beta-carotene into vitamin A, which plays an important role in vision, reproduction, bone growth and regulating the immune system.
The downside of cooking veggies, Liu says: it can destroy the vitamin C in them. He found that vitamin C levels declined by 10 percent in tomatoes cooked for two minutes—and 29 percent in tomatoes that were cooked for half an hour at 190.4 degrees F (88 degrees C). The reason is that Vitamin C, which is highly unstable, is easily degraded through oxidation, exposure to heat (it can increase the rate at which vitamin C reacts with oxygen in the air) and through cooking in water (it dissolves in water). Liu notes, however, that the trade-off may be worth it since vitamin C is prevalent in far more fruits and vegetables than is lycopene. Among them: broccoli, oranges, cauliflower, kale and carrots. Besides, cooked vegetables retain some of their vitamin C content.
That said, research shows that some veggies, including broccoli, are healthier raw rather than cooked. According to a study in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry in November 2007, heat damages the enzyme myrosinase, which breaks down glucosinates (compounds derived from glucose and an amino acid) in broccoli into a compound known as sulforaphane. Research published in the journal Carcinogenesis in December 2008 found that sulforaphane might block the proliferation of and kill precancerous cells. A 2002 study in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences also found that sulforaphane may help fight the bacterium Helicobacter pylori, which causes ulcers and increases a person's risk of stomach cancer.
On the other hand, indole, an organic compound, is formed when certain plants, particularly cruciferous vegetables such as broccoli, cauliflower and cabbage, are cooked. According to research in The Journal of Nutrition in 2001, indole helps kill precancerous cells before they turn malignant. And while boiling carrots was found to increase carotenoid levels, another study found that it leads to a total loss of polyphenols, a group of chemicals found in raw carrots. Specific polyphenols have been shown to have antioxidant properties and to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease and cancer, according to a 2005 report in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
Comparing the healthfulness of raw and cooked food is complicated, and there are still many mysteries surrounding how the different molecules in plants interact with the human body. The bottom line, says Liu, is to eat your veggies and fruits no matter how they're prepared. "We cook them so they taste better," Liu says. "If they taste better, we're more likely to eat them." And that's the whole idea. (From Scientific American Online, March 31, 2009)
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TVA's Colorado-Coal Connection
TVA's decreased demand for coal has repercussions far beyond the electric utility's Southeast service region coalfields. Colorado mines, 1,500 miles to the west, are also feeling the impact.
By Emily Guerin On Feb 4, 2014 Last updated Feb 4, 2014
When folks think of Colorado's black diamond runs, they may not have the state's coal production in mind. The Elk Creek Mine is in western Colorado near the town of Somerset.
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As I drove through Somerset, Colorado, for the first time, I couldn't help but notice the coal mines. Chutes and conveyor belts arched over the state highway, depositing the rocks into enormous iridescent piles that towered over the road. Coal trains passed through multiple times a day, the horn blasts echoing up the canyons. Just outside town, a sign proclaims, "Somerset, a coal mining community since 1896."
It's not the scene most people conjure up when they think of Colorado. Here, in western Colorado, where the Rocky Mountains dip into the desert, trucks are just as likely to have a bumper sticker that says, "My electric car runs on Colorado coal" as one that advertises a ski resort. The Somerset area is home to three underground coal mines that, when fully operational, employ around 1,000 people, most of whom live in Delta County's larger towns. Somerset's 160 residents live in small, nearly identical homes that huddle beneath the coal silo in the North Fork of the Gunnison River's narrow canyon. The one restaurant in town, which sold walleye, strudel and Navajo jewelry, just closed.
If Somerset feels more like an Appalachian coal community than one of the fancy ski towns only an hour and a half away, it's not surprising: Its economy actually depends more on Appalachia than on Aspen. The Tennessee Valley Authority is one of the largest buyers of its coal. But that could change as TVA, the nation's largest publicly owned utility, reduces the amount of electricity it generates from coal.
TVA began buying Western coal (mostly Wyoming, some Colorado) in the early 1990s when then-President George Bush amended the Clean Air Act to cut sulfur dioxide emissions from power plants. That sent utilities like TVA, which formerly bought a lot of coal from eastern Appalachian mines, looking to the West for lower-sulfur coal.
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Coal tipple at the Elk Creek Mine, which is located in Gunnison County, Colorado.
Now, TVA is at a crossroads. Its coal plants are an average of 51 years old – "which isn't too old for a person, but it is for a power plant," says Duncan Mansfield, a spokesman for TVA – and will need expensive upgrades to comply with new mercury regulations that come into effect in 2016. Plus, the Environmental Protection Agency has said it will soon regulate carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants, making it even more expensive to keep burning coal.
But the most important factor may be the price of natural gas, which has dropped significantly in recent years and now rivals coal.
In response, TVA has decided to cut its coal-fired generation capacity, which was as high as 70% in the 1970s but now hovers around 40%. Under a new long-term plan, TVA will reduce that even further to about 20%.
TVA isn't the only utility heading away from coal. NV Energy in Nevada announced last year it would quit coal entirely, and California utilities are selling their shares in coal plants to meet that state's strict renewable energy portfolio standard. The trend is especially pronounced in the Southeast, which, more than anywhere else in the country, is ditching coal for natural gas and other sources of electricity.
That's bad news for coal miners in Colorado, which have the longest haul to reach Southeastern markets. Unlike producers in Wyoming, which are already on the eastern side of the Continental Divide, coal trains near Somerset must wind their way west before doubling back and crossing the Rocky Mountains. It's an expensive haul that adds to the price, says Bob Burnham, an independent coal industry analyst in Denver. As a result, TVA has said it will buy less Colorado coal going forward.
Now, people living in the North Fork Valley – home to Somerset, my hometown of Paonia and a handful of other towns with fewer than 3,000 people each – are worried about the future. Old-timers remember the last time the mines had a lot of lay-offs, in the 1980s when the oil crisis subsided. Miners' families fled, businesses closed, school enrollment nose-dived and people bought houses for a few thousand dollars each. There was even a saying at the time: Happiness is Paonia in your rear-view mirror.
If the mines lose their TVA contract, as one already has, they can still shop their coal around on the open market. But it's a hard time to be selling, says Burnham, because there's already an over-supply.
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Apples in the Walled Garden
Apple wants its users to have an optimal experience using its devices. That's what attracted people to the Macintosh and created the cult-like following that defined Mac Users and PC Users.
But it is interesting that not until Apple made the Intel Transition, changing the CPU of Macintosh computers from PowerPC processors to Intel x86 processors, in 2006-2007, that sales really took off, especially for laptop sales. The gate to the walled garden was opened to all who might wonder in to take a gander.
Arguably, many of these new users were like me, intrigued by Apple products, functionality and usability but hesitant to commit because of the high price to pay in terms of leaving behind the years of investment and familiarity in Windows.
What sealed the deal for me was the Mac now appeared to be more open, at least a little more open than before. Now I could install VMWare Fusion and have access to Windows and all the software I use for business, but still be able to use the Mac OSX and all of it's software. I was a new customer and I have to say it will take a lot to get me to switch back.
So why does Apple act so guarded against anyone entering its Walled Garden, is it really so that the user will have an optimal experience? Because I have to say I probably would not have become a user unless they opened the gate the way they did in 2006, intentionally or not.
Recently Apple has been making the case that Adobe Flash is an inferior, evolutionary 'dead-end' technology that won't be allowed entrance into the Walled Garden, i.e., Flash Videos and Flex/Flash Applications will never run on an iPhone or iPad. As Steve Jobs stated at the 2010 D8 Conference "We don't think Flash makes a great product, so we're leaving it out...Instead, we're going to focus on technologies that are in ascendancy. If we succeed, people will buy them and if we don't they won't."
In his now famous memo "Thoughts on Flash", Jobs writes, "Flash was created during the PC era -- for PCs and mice. Flash is a successful business for Adobe, and we can understand why they want to push it beyond PCs. But the mobile era is about low power devices, touch interfaces and open web standards -- all areas where Flash falls short."
But what's most interesting about the memo is the definition of 'openness'. Steve Jobs writes that "Adobe's Flash products are 100% proprietary. They are only available from Adobe, and Adobe has sole authority as to their future enhancement, pricing, etc. While Adobe's Flash products are widely available, this does not mean they are open, since they are controlled entirely by Adobe and available only from Adobe. By almost any definition, Flash is a closed system."
He goes on to admit that "Apple has many proprietary products too. Though the operating system for the iPhone, iPod and iPad is proprietary, we strongly believe that all standards pertaining to the web should be open. Rather than use Flash, Apple has adopted HTML5, CSS and JavaScript -- all open standards." We might also point out here that there is currently only one way to develop and publish an iPhone Application today, and that is to use Apple products.
John Warnock and Chuck Geschke in their rebuttal "Our Thoughts on Open Markets" state "If the web fragments into closed systems, if companies put content and applications behind walls, some indeed may thrive -- but their success will come at the expense of the very creativity and innovation that has made the Internet a revolutionary force."
They continue to argue for the consumer "We believe that consumers should be able to freely access their favorite content and applications, regardless of what computer they have, what browser they like, or what device suits their needs. No company -- no matter how big or how creative -- should dictate what you can create, how you create it, or what you can experience on the web."
This view of the world is reiterated at the "Open Screen Project" an industry-wide initiative, led by Adobe and backed by other industry leaders such as Google, RIM, Intel and Nokia, who as the site says "all share one clear vision: Enable consumers to engage with rich Internet experiences seamlessly across any device, anywhere."
The Open Screen Projec asserts that "The number and diversity of devices in our lives is exploding. Consumers want and demand the total Internet, with open access to websites, applications, and services using all devices. The challenge is that fragmentation across devices, operating systems, and browsers hinders innovation. The result? Consumer demands are not being met. The Open Screen Project was established to meet these challenges and expectations. It is an industry-wide initiative, led by Adobe with the participation of other industry leaders, to enable the delivery of rich multiscreen experiences built on a consistent runtime environment for open web browsing and standalone applications."
The Open Screen Project goes on to make an appeal to developers "With a consistent and broadly adopted runtime, stakeholders can focus more closely on developing the next-generation experiences that will differentiate their devices, software, and services. Consumers ultimately win with richer, more interactive, and universal user experiences across devices."
Steve Jobs makes his appeal to developers in the final paragraphs of his memo "Our motivation is simple -- we want to provide the most advanced and innovative platform to our developers, and we want them to stand directly on the shoulders of this platform and create the best apps the world has ever seen. We want to continually enhance the platform so developers can create even more amazing, powerful, fun and useful applications. Everyone wins - we sell more devices because we have the best apps, developers reach a wider and wider audience and customer base, and users are continually delighted by the best and broadest selection of apps on any platform."
It is impossible to say how all this will play out, what is certain is that portability between devices, at least between Apple devices and everything else will be an issue for developers in the coming years, at least until Apple owns the market.
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Seth Rogen and Kanye West shared a pretty special moment. Turns out the actor/comedian's hilariously uncomfortable parody of West's "Bound 2" video earned him a private listening session with Yeezus himself. And now, Rogen is one of few people that have heard West's upcoming album. Well, kind of.
In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, Rogen recalled West inviting him to listening to new songs in a limo van – only the songs weren't full songs:
Shortly after his and James Franco's parody of the rapper's "Bound 2" video – "Bound 3," in which the actor played the role of topless Kim Kardashian – West cornered Rogen at a New York hotel and invited him to his limo van for a listening session with a twist. "There's no lyrics, only beats," Rogen said. "So he raps the whole album, and after each song, he stops it, like, 'So what do you think?' We were in the van for two hours!"
SEE ALSO: That One Night When Kanye Forced Me To Listen To 'The College Dropout'
The details on West's album have remained slim. Earlier this fall, Def Jam CEO Steve Bartels sung the project's praises, calling the work "incredible." Meanwhile, the rapper's longtime collaborator Malik Yusef compared the album to a pair of Timberland boots.
"This album is different. It's like a pair of Timberlands; like how Timberlands are not quite leather and not quite suede," he said. "It's not the smooth, slick Chicago music sound we have right now and it's not the ruggedness of just 'hip-hop hip-hop hip-hop.'"
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Q: Prove that for all $\alpha + \beta + \gamma = \pi$, $\sum_{cyc}\frac{\sin\beta}{\cos\beta + 1} = \frac{\sum_{cyc}\cos\beta + 3}{\sum_{cyc}\sin\beta}$.
Prove that for all triangles with angles $\alpha, \beta, \gamma$, $$\frac{\sin\alpha}{\cos\alpha + 1} + \frac{\sin\beta}{\cos\beta + 1} + \frac{\sin\gamma}{\cos\gamma + 1} = \frac{\cos\alpha + \cos\beta + \cos\gamma + 3}{\sin\alpha + \sin\beta + \sin\gamma}$$

Let $\tan\dfrac{\alpha}{2} = a, \tan\dfrac{\beta}{2} = b, \tan\dfrac{\gamma}{2} = c$, we have that $$\dfrac{\sin\beta}{\cos\beta + 1} = \dfrac{1}{b}, \cos\beta = \dfrac{1 - b^2}{1 + b^2}, \sin\beta = \dfrac{2b}{1 + b^2}$$ and $bc + ca + ab = 1$.
It needs to be proven that $$\frac{1}{a} + \frac{1}{b} + \frac{1}{c} = \frac{\dfrac{1 - a^2}{1 + a^2} + \dfrac{1 - b^2}{1 + b^2} + \dfrac{1 - c^2}{1 + c^2} + 3}{\dfrac{2a}{1 + a^2} + \dfrac{2b}{1 + b^2} + \dfrac{2c}{1 + c^2}}$$
$$\impliedby \frac{1}{a} + \frac{1}{b} + \frac{1}{c} = \frac{\dfrac{1}{1 + a^2} + \dfrac{1}{1 + b^2} + \dfrac{1}{1 + c^2}}{\dfrac{a}{1 + a^2} + \dfrac{b}{1 + b^2} + \dfrac{c}{1 + c^2}}$$
$$\impliedby \left(\frac{1}{a} + \frac{1}{b} + \frac{1}{c}\right)\left(\frac{a}{1 + a^2} + \frac{b}{1 + b^2} + \frac{c}{1 + c^2}\right) = \frac{1}{1 + a^2} + \frac{1}{1 + b^2} + \frac{1}{1 + c^2}$$
$$\impliedby \left(\frac{a}{b} + \frac{a}{c}\right)\frac{1}{1 + a^2} + \left(\frac{b}{c} + \frac{b}{a}\right)\frac{1}{1 + b^2} + \left(\frac{c}{a} + \frac{c}{b}\right)\frac{1}{1 + c^2} = 0$$
$$\impliedby \frac{a(b + c)}{bc(c + a)(a + b)} + \frac{b(c + a)}{ca(a + b)(b + c)} + \frac{c(a + b)}{ab( b + c)(c + a)} = 0$$
$$\impliedby \frac{1 - bc}{(1 - ca)(1 - ab)} + \frac{1 - ca}{(1 - ab)(1 - bc)} + \frac{1 - ab}{(1 - bc)(1 - ca)} = 0$$
$$\impliedby (1 - bc)^2 + (1 - ca)^2 + (1 - ab)^2 = 0$$
$$\impliedby bc = ca = ab = 1 \impliedby bc + ca + ab = 3,$$ which is definitely incorrect.
I've surmised that the correct equality is $$\frac{\sin\alpha}{\cos\alpha + 1} + \frac{\sin\beta}{\cos\beta + 1} + \frac{\sin\gamma}{\cos\gamma + 1} = \frac{\cos\alpha + \cos\beta + \cos\gamma + 1}{\sin\alpha + \sin\beta + \sin\gamma},$$ but then I wouldn't know what to do first.

A: For $1+\cos\alpha\ne0,$
$$\dfrac{\sin\alpha}{1+\cos\alpha}=\cdots=\tan\dfrac\alpha2$$
Now,
$$\tan\dfrac\alpha2+\tan\dfrac\beta2+\tan\dfrac\gamma2$$
$$=\dfrac{\sin\left(\dfrac\alpha2+\dfrac\beta2\right)}{\cos\dfrac\alpha2\cos\dfrac\beta2}+\dfrac{\sin\dfrac\gamma2}{\cos\dfrac\gamma2}$$
$$=\dfrac{\cos\dfrac\gamma2}{\cos\dfrac\alpha2\cos\dfrac\beta2}+\dfrac{\sin\dfrac\gamma2}{\cos\dfrac\gamma2}\text{ using }\alpha+\beta=\pi-\gamma$$
$$=\dfrac{\cos^2\dfrac\gamma2+\sin\dfrac\gamma2\cos\dfrac\alpha2\cos\dfrac\beta2}{\cos\dfrac\alpha2\cos\dfrac\beta2\cos\dfrac\gamma2}$$
Now the numerator
$$= 1-\sin^2\dfrac\gamma2+\sin\dfrac\gamma2\cos\dfrac\alpha2\cos\dfrac\beta2 $$
$$= 1-\sin\dfrac\gamma2\left(\sin\dfrac\gamma2-\cos\dfrac\alpha2\cos\dfrac\beta2\right) $$
$$= 1-\sin\dfrac\gamma2\left(\cos\left(\dfrac\alpha2+\dfrac\beta2\right) -\cos\dfrac\alpha2\cos\dfrac\beta2\right) $$
$$= 1+\sin\dfrac\alpha2\sin\dfrac\beta2\sin\dfrac\gamma2$$
Now use Prove trigonometry identity for $\cos A+\cos B+\cos C$
and If $A + B + C = \pi$, then show that $\sin(A) + \sin(B) + \sin(C) = 4\cos\frac{A}{2}\cos\frac{B}{2}\cos\frac{C}{2}$

A: Using your transformation I a get sligtly different equation:
$$a+b+c=\frac{\sum_{cyc}\frac{1}{1+a^2}}{\sum_{cyc}\frac{a}{1+a^2}}$$
$$\sum_{cyc}\frac{a(a+b+c)}{1+a^2}=\sum_{cyc}\frac{1}{1+a^2}$$
$$\sum_{cyc}\frac{a^2+ab+ac-1}{(a+b)(a+c)}=0$$
$$\sum_{cyc}(a^2-bc)(b+c)=0$$
$$\sum_{cyc}a^2b+a^2c-b^2c-bc^2=0$$
Which is true!


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"Vida" was meant to be a TV show ripped from the headlines of L.A., portraying the battles over gentrification that have gripped Boyle Heights in recent years.
But what was supposed to be dramatization about the effects of gentrification is now generating its own protests, with some activists accusing the show of being part of the problem.
The activist group Defend Boyle Heights sent a call-out — or "HOOD ALERT!!!"— for a demonstration during the filming, claiming the production was taking advantage of the neighborhood. The group slammed the show, saying that it "tastelessly exploits the anti-gentrification struggles of Boyle Heights" and that it stole images from activists.
It's the latest in a series of battles over the future of Boyle Heights, the barrio east of downtown L.A. that in recent years has seen an influx of artists, hipster retailers and new development moving in. Some residents have welcomed the changes, especially homeowners who have seen real estate prices rise and the shopping variety improve.
But others fear the immigrant working-class residents who for generations called Boyle Heights home will be pushed out, along with the Mexican American culture for which the district is famous. Activists have protested the opening of art galleries and even an independent coffeehouse, saying they are doing harm to the community. The protests themselves have been polarizing, with some residents saying the activists go too far and even demonize white people. In late 2016, the L.A. Police Department investigated three acts of vandalism targeting art galleries, including graffiti at one gallery that read "(Expletive) white art," as possible hate crimes.
The protests over the filming mark a new ironic twist, because producers of the Starz show said they were simply trying to honestly portray the debate about gentrification.
The activists said they have long been concerned about the show, now in its second season, and the how it portrays the community. Their biggest complaint is that those involved are profiting off the struggles of those trying to stay in their homes. They also say the show pokes fun at them and stole the image of the Ovarian Psycos Bicycle Brigade, a grass-roots group of female activists who lead bike rides in Boyle Heights to combat gentrification and other social issues.
But Defend Boyle Heights' planned demonstration didn't quite work out as desired. The group told members to show up at 6 p.m. But by then, the film crew was packing up and no major protest materialized.
As crew members trickled into the Evergreen Cemetery and filled its roads with production trailers and trucks, two young women — one wearing a T-shirt with an anti-gentrification phrase and the other who identified herself as a Defend Boyle Heights member — sat at a bus station across the street from the original filming location, appearing to monitor the scene.
A Defend Boyle Heights member, who would not give her name, declined to comment on the group's future plans, saying a reporter should check the group's social media feed.
"We have a longstanding boycott against the L.A. Times," she said.
A Starz publicist declined to comment on the protests Friday and said Saracho would not be speaking on the matter.
After an earlier protest while "Vida" was filming at Mariachi Plaza, Saracho and the crew left the area out of respect for the protesters.
In a May interview with The Times, Saracho said she works with a community liaison to help ease any tension. She said the person reached out to several community organizations, including Defend Boyle Heights, to create an open dialogue.
"I'm building this world with a lot of respect, with a lot of admiration," Saracho said. "We try for the images, the sounds to be true to life as much as TV can get true to life."
Saracho was relatively unfamiliar with L.A. — she was born in Mexico and started her career in Chicago — but she jumped at the chance to depict the intersection of Latino culture, sexuality and politics in Boyle Heights, a part of town that isn't often represented on TV or film. "Vida" focuses on two estranged sisters who return to their hometown of Boyle heights after their mother dies, and find themselves becoming targets of local anti-gentrification activists.
In one scene, a young Latina activist glares into the camera, revealing her anger and determination to fight a gentrification movement she fears has invaded her Eastside neighborhood.
"If they think we're going to take this occupation, this recolonization, lying down, they got another thing coming, mi gente," she declares.
The words mirror the ethos of the anti-gentrification activists, whose tactics have been praised by activists in other parts of the U.S. where rapid change in some working-class neighborhoods is seen as an existential threat.
But the aggressive strategy has also generated controversy.
Boyle Heights Alliance Against Artwashing and Displacement, a group affiliated with Defend Boyle Heights, has chased out art galleries that have moved there in recent years, and intimidated businesses, such as the Weird Waves coffee shop and Asher Caffé & Lounge. In July, Defend Boyle Heights disrupted the grand opening event for Asher Caffé after it found anti-immigrant social media posts by its owner, Asher Shalom. In an interview shortly after, Shalom said he would not have set up shop in the neighborhood had he been aware of the gentrification battle.
Many local leaders did not want to comment publicly on the matter for fear of being targeted. One city official who declined to be named said many of the community leaders he has spoken with have reservations about Defend Boyle Heights' decision to focus on "Vida" because the show's producers have generally tried to be sensitive to the community's concerns. Privately, the official said, some people wondered whether the activists ever planned to physically protest or whether the call-out had been a form of psychological warfare.
On the activist group's Facebook page, some people criticized targeting the TV show.
Though Saracho, like the activists, would not comment, it was difficult not to wonder whether an Instagram video story she posted Friday afternoon was a reference to Defend Boyle Heights' campaign.


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