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Top Google man: Why we need nerds in a crisis
Dr Craig Nevill-Manning: Will give a public lecture at the University of Waikato on August 26.
The earthquakes this year in Haiti, Chile and China, and man-made disasters like the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico are prime examples of disasters that exact a terrible toll on people around the world.
In all these cases, new technology has played a key role in saving lives and reducing misery. New approaches to disaster response are currently under development by several organisations, including Google.
Google's New York-based engineering director and University of Waikato alumnus, Dr Craig Nevill-Manning, will give a public lecture during a visit to the University on August 26 on how these new systems are being used on the ground in disaster areas.
He says in the last decade, pervasive cellular data and internet access have provided new tools to help disaster responders and people affected by a disaster.
"For disaster responders, detailed aerial and satellite imagery is accelerating disaster response and rebuilding, and new cloud-based tools can improve communication and collaboration. SMS- and internet-based systems allow victims of a disaster to request help and provide on-the-ground status reports."
Dr Nevill-Manning will discuss specific responses to the Haiti, Chile and China earthquakes and to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
Dr Nevill-Manning is being honoured this year with a University of Waikato Distinguished Alumni Award.
Dr Nevill-Manning will deliver his lecture "Nerds in Crisis: Using Technology to Respond to Disasters" at 6.30 pm on Thursday August 26 at the WEL Academy of Performing Arts on the University campus. A cash bar will operate from 5.30. All welcome.
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Photographically, "panning" refers to the action of moving your camera whilst taking a photo.
Typically, the camera is "swiped" horizontally or vertically.
For example: panning can be applied to only backgrounds, when photographing cars or other moving objects, like birds or even people. By focusing on your moving subject and "following" the subject with your camera, your background will become "panned". This type of panning is probably better to handhold so you can effectively track your subject.
Think ahead. If you are shooting something that is moving, you will need to remember where they are heading and how long your shutter speed will take you…. It's no good using a longer shutter speed on a horse if the horse has run off in to the distance in the time you have taken your shot! Keep the subject in the frame at all times.
Trial and error! Practice – this is a subjective technique and it will take trial and error to get the patterns you are looking for.


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FDA approves new hepatitis C drug, Harvoni
Insurers and patients are decrying the cost for the new drug, nearly $95,000 for a 12-week course of treatment, which is more expensive than Gilead's other hepatitis C drug, Sovaldi. But unlike some hepatitis C treatments, Harvoni can be taken without injections usually given to hepatitis C patients.
The New York Times: Harvoni, A Hepatitis C Drug From Gilead, Wins F.D.A. Approval
The first complete treatment for hepatitis C that requires taking only a once-a-day pill won approval Friday from the Food and Drug Administration. The drug, called Harvoni from Gilead Sciences, could shorten the duration of treatment and provide the first all-oral regimen for many patients. The new drug also appears to be a bit less expensive for some patients than Gilead's existing blockbuster hepatitis C drug, Sovaldi, which has become the poster child for those complaining that the cost of medicines is out of control. Sovaldi costs $1,000 a pill, or $84,000 for a typical 12-week course of treatment, but it must be used with other drugs. Harvoni is even more expensive at $1,125 a pill, or $94,500 for a 12-week course of treatment (Pollack, 10/10).
The Wall Street Journal: Gilead Gets U.S. Approval To Sell New Hepatitis C Drug
Gilead Sciences Inc. won U.S. approval Friday to begin selling the first pill that promises to cure most hepatitis C patients without requiring other medicines, but its near $100,000 cost will likely further inflame tensions between drug companies and health insurers over spiraling prices. ... The escalating price for treating hepatitis C, which affects more than three million Americans, has been a sore point for health insurers and drug-benefit managers facing a mounting dilemma: how to balance use of a medicine that can prevent tens of thousands of deaths without breaking the bank (Rockoff, 10/10).
Reuters: Gilead Wins U.S. Approval For Hepatitis C Combo Pill
Gilead Sciences Inc. (GILD) won U.S. approval for the first all-oral hepatitis C drug for the majority of people infected with the virus, potentially marking an end to injections as a mainstay of treatment. The Food and Drug Administration cleared Gilead's once-daily medicine that combines the active ingredient in the Foster City, California-based company's Sovaldi with a drug called ledipasvir, the agency said yesterday in a statement. The therapy was studied for its ability to cure patients in 12 weeks, four times faster than older treatments, and some can be treated in eight weeks, Gilead said in a statement. It will cost $94,500 for a typical 12-week treatment. The FDA approved the pill, which Gilead will call Harvoni, for patients with genotype 1 hepatitis C, the most common form that infects about 75 percent of people with the virus. Drugmakers are competing to develop hepatitis C therapies that don't require the use of interferon injections that can cause flu-like symptoms. Gilead's Harvoni is the first that can treat the vast majority of patients without injections or another standard therapy called ribavirin, the FDA said (Edney, 10/11).
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After shaking up the health care industry with a $1,000 hepatitis C pill, Gilead Sciences of Foster City won approval Friday for a new version of that treatment that works faster, drops the usual injections and boasts an already-controversial $1,125 price tag. The new daily pill Harvoni costs $94,500 for 12 weeks and $63,000 for eight weeks -- both cheaper than some existing hepatitis C treatments, according to the drugmaker. But some patient advocates are already upset about the price after nearly revolting against Gilead's first hepatitis C therapy, Sovaldi, which became the best-selling new drug ever when it hit the market late last year at $84,000 for 12 weeks. Harvoni, which combines Sovaldi and a new drug called ledipasvir, is expected to push Gilead's overall hepatitis C drug sales to $12 billion this year and more than $15 billion next year, said Michael Yee, a biotechnology analyst at RBC Capital Markets (Lee, 10/11).
This article was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente.
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Seth Weinstein knew Tina was way out of his league in pretty much any way one could imagine, which is why it continued to astonish him that he was on the plane now for their destination wedding in Florida. The Groom Posse had already sprung an airport prank on him, and he'd survived it, and if that was the worst of it, everything should be okay. Smooth sailing from now on. Seth has absolutely no idea what he's about to get into. It's not smooth sailing, it's more like a trip on the Titanic.


Smartphone users in Ireland check their devices 57 times a day, a new survey has found.
The study has also discovered that three million people in Ireland, equivalent to 90% of the population, now have access to a smartphone - higher than the European average.
The research, carried out by Ipsos MORI on behalf of Deloitte, involved questioning a nationally representative sample of over 1,000 people aged 18-75.
It found our love affair with the smartphone is growing, with half of those surveyed saying they think they use their mobile phone too much.
44% of people check their smartphones during the night with the time, social media and messages the most commonly checked items, the research found.
But among those aged 18-24, night time use is even more common, with 60% checking their devices in the small hours.
Our smartphone obsession spans the entire day, with 40% of people in Ireland looking at their devices within five minutes of waking and just under a third checking them within five minutes of going to sleep.
The survey reveals that mobile phone use among older people has grown by 6% to 54% since last year, with eight in every ten of those carrying a smartphone.


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From the bar to the boardroom, a well-told tale makes the best impression. The Story Studio's "Wow Your Crowd" workshop, taught by Kevin Allison, provides students with the tools to grab listener's attention, appeal to their emotions and maybe even inspire their action. Kevin creates a friendly, social environment in which you can rehearse your work and receive feedback. You'll learn how to include the 6 Senses to trigger emotional responses. You'll master the 5 Beats of classic story structure. And you'll learn how to drive a narrative arc toward a resonant end. Your audience will remember the ideas conveyed in your story long after you have gone. This workshop is an overview of some of the tools and principles taught by Kevin Allison in his 6-week storytelling class at The Story Studio in New York City.
Kevin Allison is the creator of the live storytelling podcast RISK!, and a member of the legendary comedy troupe The State, known for their series on MTV. He has appeared in "Reno 911!," VH1's "Best Week Ever," Comedy Central's "Viva Variety" and "Stella," and HBO's "Flight of the Conchords." Kevin has written for The Village Voice, The New York Press, Film Journal and more. He has taught sketch comedy and cinema studies at The Peoples Improv Theater, The Philly Improv Theater and New York University. Kevin is the founder of The Story Studio, a school for storytelling.
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The SEC championship on Saturday will feature a matchup of top-four teams, as No. 1 Alabama will face No. 4 Georgia, whose promotion from the fifth spot on Tuesday night marked the first change to the College Football Playoff selection committee's semifinal spots in four weeks.
Georgia replaced Michigan, which sank to No. 7 after losing to rival Ohio State in embarrassing fashion on Saturday. In spite of the Buckeyes' 62-39 dismantling of Michigan, they remain behind No. 5 Oklahoma at No. 6, which is a significant boost from the No. 10 spot Ohio State has been stuck in the past four rankings.
Tonight's pecking order shows that the Buckeyes have finally closed the gap with the Sooners, which is extremely important heading into Selection Day on Sunday. Seeing as somebody in the top four is guaranteed to lose this weekend in the SEC title game, the final decision for No. 4 will likely boil down to Big 12 champion Oklahoma or Big Ten champion Ohio State -- unless the SEC loser happens to be Alabama. Then there would be three teams in the hunt for the fourth spot.
It's also worth noting that while No. 8 UCF stayed in the top 10, and even moved up a spot despite the devastating injury to quarterback McKenzie Milton, the two-loss Wolverines are still ahead of the undefeated Knights.
At No. 11, Washington is now the Pac-12's highest-ranked team following its win over Washington State in the Apple Cup.
No. 1 Alabama would face No. 4 Georgia in the College Football Playoff semifinal at the Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic because the committee won't put the No. 1 seed at any geographic disadvantage, and though marginal, Arlington is slightly closer than Miami, where No. 2 Clemson would face No. 3 Notre Dame in the other College Football Playoff semifinal at the Capital One Orange Bowl.
The Rose Bowl Game Presented by Northwestern Mutual is a contract bowl and historically guarantees the Big Ten champ against the Pac-12 champ. Since No. 6 Ohio State is the projected Big Ten champion in this ranking, the Buckeyes would face projected Pac-12 champ No. 11 Washington.
The Allstate Sugar Bowl is also a contract bowl, which is guaranteed the Big 12 champ and the SEC champ. Since the SEC champion, in this case No. 1 Alabama, is in a semifinal, along with runner-up No. 4 Georgia, the Sugar Bowl would get the next highest-ranked SEC team, which is No. 9 Florida. The Gators would play No. 5 Oklahoma, which is the projected Big 12 champion in this ranking.
No. 8 UCF would likely head to the PlayStation Fiesta Bowl as the highest-ranked champion from a Group of Five conference, which is guaranteed a spot in a New Year's Six Bowl, because it played in the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl last year. The Knights would face No. 7 Michigan, based on fan interest and matchup.
The Peach Bowl would then have No. 10 LSU and No. 12 Penn State, as they are the highest-ranked remaining teams, and they would be chosen based on fan interest, geography and matchup.


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Free bridge on Grosse Ile closed for emergency repairs
Wayne County Bridge shut down until further notice for structural repairs, township supervisor says in Facebook post
Free bridge on Grosse Ile closed for emergency repairs Wayne County Bridge shut down until further notice for structural repairs, township supervisor says in Facebook post Check out this story on detroitnews.com: https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/wayne-county/2019/11/13/free-bridge-grosse-ile-closed-repairs/4187527002/
The Detroit News Published 10:16 p.m. ET Nov. 13, 2019 | Updated 2:48 p.m. ET Nov. 14, 2019
Grosse Ile's free bridge. (Photo: Daniel Mears, The Detroit News)
The Wayne County Bridge closed for emergency structural repairs Wednesday night with no certainty as to when it would reopen, according to county and Grosse Ile Township officials.
There was no indication when the free bridge, which rises over the Trenton Channel and connects Grosse Ile to the mainland, would reopen. A press release from the county said a date for reopening would be provided "once (the) project work is complete."
"We don't think it will take a really long time," Whitney Lewis, communications director for the county Department of Public Services, told The Detroit News on Wednesday night. "It is our hope to get it open again."
Drivers returning to the island on Thursday afternoon waited upwards of 50 minutes to cross the only remaining bridge, a toll bridge, on the northern end of the island.
In a Facebook post, Grosse Ile Township Supervisor Brian Loftus said township officials learned about the need for repairs on Wednesday afternoon. He said he learned "emergency repairs to at least the decking were required."
Lewis said consultants performing a routine inspection on the span on Wednesday spotted deterioration on the deck.
"We took a proactive approach … to figure out what repairs are needed," she said.
The suggested detour for eastbound travelers is northbound West Jefferson Avenue to Bridge Road, then Bridge Road to Meridian Road and back to Grosse Ile Parkway.
Westbound drivers are advised to take Grosse Ile Parkway to Meridian Road, Meridian Road to Bridge Road, then Bridge Road to West Jefferson Avenue and back to Grosse Ile Parkway.
The free bridge is one of two that connect Grosse IIe to the mainland. The privately owned Grosse Ile Toll Bridge is on the northern end of the island. Drivers waiting to cross over to Grosse Ile on Wednesday night and forced to use the toll bridge faced 10 minute waits in line.
The free bridge wasn't the only bridge crossing that faced problems Wednesday.
Earlier, the Fort Street bridge over the Rouge River near Oakwood was down after it became stuck in its up position, Michigan Department of Transportation officials said.
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Nightly cyclists are still a great danger to their selves when they don't make them enough visible while cycling. Currently the standard to make these cyclists more visible with their clothing is to use reflective tape or print. Even though this is a great way to make these cyclists a lot more visible with the use of the lighting of cars being near and passing by, it still doesn't make the cyclists visible from a larger distance.
With the concept jacket Secco Luna these cyclists are made better visible during the night. With the use of light emitting materials that works on a renewable energy source we make sure that even cars with a greater distance to the cyclist can see them.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, announced a voluntary recall of the following products. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed.
Manufacturer: Franklin Electric Co., of Fort Wayne, Ind.
Hazard: The product label can lose adhesion, exposing the circuitry. This could pose a shock hazard to consumers.
Description: This recall involves the Pumptec electronic motor controller for 115v/230v submersible motors rated 1/3 to 1½ HP Model No. 5800020600 with date codes of 06F45 through 09L45. The model number and date code can be found on the nameplate label located on the right-hand side of the enclosure.
Sold at: Dealers nationwide from June 2006 through November 2009 for about $275.
Remedy: Consumers should not touch areas of the units that are exposed due to label curling or peeling, and should immediately contact their dealer for free replacement of the cover.
Consumer Contact: For additional information, contact Franklin Electric toll-free at (866) 841-6039 between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. ET daily.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is charged with protecting the public from unreasonable risks of serious injury or death from thousands of types of consumer products under the agency's jurisdiction. The CPSC is committed to protecting consumers and families from products that pose a fire, electrical, chemical, or mechanical hazard. The CPSC's work to ensure the safety of consumer products - such as toys, cribs, power tools, cigarette lighters, and household chemicals - contributed significantly to the decline in the rate of deaths and injuries associated with consumer products over the past 30 years. To report a dangerous product or a product-related injury, call CPSC's Hotline at (800) 638-2772 or CPSC's teletypewriter at (800) 638-8270. To join a CPSC e-mail subscription list, please go to https://www.cpsc.gov/cpsclist.aspx. Consumers can obtain recall and general safety information by logging on to CPSC's Web site at www.cpsc.gov.


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'We Never Looked Back': Ruth Wisse on the Jewish Refugees Who Built New Lives in Montreal
Ruth R. Wisse
After their flight from Egypt, the children of Israel are doomed to spend 40 years in the desert: it takes that long for the whining and backsliding rabble to begin its transformation into a liberated people. The Bible seems to mock their trek from one watering hole to another as they set out from Rameses to camp at Succoth, from there to Etham, then on to Pihahiroth ... and so on for 44 verses.
Thanks to our parents, it took us just four months to reach our destination after fleeing our home in Romania, arriving in Montreal on October 19th, 1940; and we never looked back. Still, it took much longer to adjust to Canada, the "true north" (as the national anthem has it), "strong and free."
Whereas our father had brought us out of bondage, it was Mother who set the terms for where and how we were to live.
Montreal, an island city on the Saint Lawrence River, is built around the eponymous Mont Royal that still more or less separates the French from the English, each community further stratified by how high it sits on the slopes.
Canada was not, like the United States, a homogenizing society with a single national history. Rather, it was the political union of two peoples, French and English, each dedicated to maintaining its separate religion, language, and identity. In this respect, Montreal resembled multiethnic cities like Vilna and Czernowitz. Jews were under no great pressure to assimilate where others were maintaining their separateness. I thought it symptomatic that Robert Allen Zimmerman of Duluth, Minnesota became Bob Dylan, but Leonard Cohen from Montreal remained Leonard Cohen.
Though the first Jews had arrived in Canada in the mid-18th century, it was not until the United States severely restricted European immigration after the First World War that the Jewish population quickly grew. That lasted until the effects of the Depression, and local animus against foreigners hardened Canadian immigration policy, so that we were among only several hundred Jewish immigrants admitted in 1940. By then, local Jews had already established a national Jewish congress headquartered in Montreal, a YM-YWHA, two Yiddish newspapers, the Jewish General Hospital, a federation of social services, a Jewish library, and a network of Jewish day schools.
Uncle Enoch and Aunt Mandy had rented us an upper duplex across the street from theirs at the outskirts of Westmount, the most affluent section of the city, where they and the rest of the family soon established themselves. The location also offered the most convenient route to Huntingdon Woolen Mills, 60 miles from Montreal, where Leo would join his three brothers. The husbands spent most of their time at work while the women handled everything else. Children were expected to stay out of trouble.
My older brother Ben and I were immediately registered in the elementary school within walking distance of our flat. My brother would take me by the hand to Herbert Symonds School, where I was placed in kindergarten and he in fourth grade. This lasted at most a couple of weeks, as I vomited every day until our parents allowed me to stay home. No one thought to notify the school when I stopped attending.
Fortunately for all of us, Mother felt uncomfortable in the western section of Montreal, and within a year she moved us to Outremont—the other side of the mountain. The lower sections of Outremont, largely French, also contained the Jewish immigrant area, so we were now closer to the Jewish Public Library and to several Jewish elementary schools. It was a less prestigious neighborhood, but Mother did not relocate because she preferred poverty. She had swept us away to be among Yiddish-speaking Jews and French Canadians. There we lived as well as we could afford in an upper-story duplex, eventually moving higher up the mountain to the street where both the Trudeau and Bourassa families, later to produce two prime ministers, had their homes. On that street, our parents would buy the first and only home they ever owned.
I don't know whether Father was equally keen to move away from the rest of his family or simply gave in to his wife. Each of his three brothers carved out his own cultural territory: Shiye, the eldest, remained religiously observant, Isaac joined a Jewish social club where he enjoyed playing cards, and Enoch, who had briefly directed a Hebrew school in Poland, became active in the cultural program of Westmount's imposing Shaar Hashomayim Synagogue. Our father, youngest of the four, joined the board of our Jewish school and supported Mother's involvement in Yiddish institutions.
Congregation Shaar Hashomayim in Montreal, photographed upon its dedication in 1922.
Due to the long commute, made even longer by our move across the city, Father spent two nights a week at the Huntingdon Chateau where he shared a room with Enoch. With its marble entrance and imposing dining hall, the Chateau had been built during Prohibition conveniently close to the border as an oasis for thirsty Americans, but by the 1940s it stood mostly empty. There the two brothers planned the rescue of their father and sister from Bialystok, in Poland; but by 1943, they knew they had failed.
The Jewish People's School or Folk shule that Ben and I began attending in 1942 stood in the heart of the Jewish immigrant district, a 15-minute streetcar ride from our home on Pratt Avenue, which then still bordered on farmland. Sometimes, we had to run a gauntlet of Gentile boys shouting invectives at the Jewish kids, but they never physically attacked us and I don't recall being very afraid.
Our school days were divided into three-hour morning sessions and two-hour afternoon sessions, with an hour and a half for lunch. Although most of the other students lived around the school, Ben and I spent most of our lunchtime traveling to and from home. This prevented us from forming the sort of neighborhood friendships I imagined the other pupils enjoyed, but soon many of their families were also moving in our direction, and by seventh grade quite a few were living nearby.
Unlike the United States, Quebec had no public schools. Education was divided along confessional lines into Catholic and Protestant school systems; for these purposes, Jews were designated Protestant. As a result, Jews who were being mainstreamed into English society invited resentment from the French, who might not have welcomed Jews into their Catholic schools but were offended by their affiliation with the English. This seemingly discriminatory system produced the most robust Jewish school network in the northern hemisphere: some saw a chance to establish Jewish elementary schools like those that had existed in Poland.
Despite the absence of European-style Jewish political parties, the Jews of Montreal managed to replicate their spectrum of diversity within their educational establishment, ranging from the Morris Winchevsky School (communist) to the Jewish Peretz schools (left-of-center Labor Zionist), the Jewish People's School (right-of-center Labor Zionist), the United Talmud Torah (Hebraist-Zionist), and Adath Israel (Orthodox-Zionist). There was also a socialist afternoon school, as well as a sprouting of more orthodox schools that would multiply after the war. All of these institutions, serving over half the Jewish children in the city, were in Outremont.
Our Jewish People's School stood for a holistic, indivisible, and inclusive Jewish people. Without conforming to any of the formal divisions within the Zionist movement, it was politically centrist, ideologically close to both David Ben-Gurion, who became Israel's first prime minister, and his sometime rival, Chaim Weizmann, its first president. As against Ben-Gurion's aggressive effort to replace Yiddish with Hebrew as the unifying national language of Israel, our school conducted some classes in Yiddish, the vernacular of our homes, while the Bible was read in Hebrew. This followed the natural functions of the two languages, Yiddish as the everyday spoken language of most Jews before the war while Hebrew stayed the eternal Jewish medium through time and space.
The Yiddish of our school was not the vehicle of "Yiddishism" or "Bundism"—ideologies committed respectively to the Jewish Diaspora and Jewish socialism—but the repository of Jewish literature and culture, of Sholem Aleichem and Y. L. Peretz. It was as though the school had emerged from the Jewish enlightenment of the nineteenth century without the factionalism that splintered Jewish communities—and many Jewish families—in Europe. This was also the culture of our home.
Y.L. Peretz (1852-1915)
The teachers did not coddle us. Who could forget Peretz's story of "The Three Gifts"? A soul that has earned neither heaven nor hell is condemned to limbo unless it can find three gifts that will be acceptable to the guardians of heaven. Behavior on earth is so disappointing that it takes the soul eons to find them, which it can only do one at a time. The first: a Jew is robbed at knifepoint and slain when he does not let the robbers take a little sack—containing not the jewels they anticipate but earth from the Land of Israel. The second: a Jewess condemned to death requests pins to pin her skirt to her flesh so that when she is dragged through the streets by her hair tied to the tail of a horse, her modesty will be protected. The third: a Jew is made to run the gauntlet and has almost made it through to safety when a whip sweeps the skullcap from his head; he goes back to retrieve it and does not survive. The guardians of heaven accept the "beautiful" gifts: a grain of that earth, one of those pins, and the skullcap. We discussed what each of them represented in Jewish nationhood, morality, and faith. Only years later, reading the story as an adult, did I catch the complicating irony of those blood-stained presents and the Jewish heaven's questionable standard of martyrdom in accepting them. How gutsy of teachers in the upper grades to trust us with such modern folk tales. The Peretz of elementary school prepared me for the Peretz I later studied and taught.
The school's idea of Jewishness was conveyed indirectly. Ours was not a kosher home, but the subject never came up, inside or outside the classroom. Did my classmates and teachers attend synagogue? Ben and I accompanied Father on the High Holy Days, and on Simchat Torah, we children paraded around with flags and apples, but the school did not prepare the boys for their bar mitzvahs or give us any kind of religious instruction.
At the same time, no one ever spoke disrespectfully of God or religious observance. Why would they, in a Jewish people's school? The holidays we prepared for with greatest enthusiasm were the same ones we celebrated at home: Hanukkah and Passover, with an emphasis on their historical-national significance. Purim, the feast day commemorating the political success of Queen Esther in ancient Persia, was the carnival day best suited for children. But during the early 1940s, its celebration was subdued. Lessons in both history and literature reinforced the idea of a people who had survived, morally intact under varied conditions, and were about to recover the Land of Israel that had been under foreign domination since Roman times. We learned about the Roman sacking of Jerusalem, read stories about Jewish adaptation to life outside the Land of Israel, and sang songs about the pioneers who were rebuilding the homeland.
Our general studies curriculum reflected the same inclusiveness, most of it taught in English, and we prepared for full citizenship by learning French. No one pretended that by graduation we would be fluent in all four languages, but there were four valedictorians to vouch for the intention.
Spoken Hebrew was additionally helpful, should any of us choose to live in Erets Yisroel, aka Palestine, where the principal's son and several recent graduates were already members of kibbutzim. If the school had an unarticulated ideal, it would have been the Israeli kibbutz. The Jewish pioneers had formed these collective settlements as a response to the challenges of transforming urban dwellers into an agricultural people, a dispersed minority into a unified nation, and endangered Jews into a potential army. Nowhere else in the world has the experiment in communal living been tested in greater freedom or variety. The absence of coercion allowed these settlements to change and eventually dissolve almost as readily as they had formed. But in those early postwar years, they were an inspiring alternative to the ashes of Europe.
Our attachment to the Land of Israel was reinforced by what we learned, like the Zionide of 12th century Spanish-Jewish philosopher poet Yehuda Halevi, whose own journey to the Land inspired generations of Jews:
My heart is in the East
But the rest of me far in the West—
How can I savor this life, even taste what I eat?
How, in the chains of the Moor,
Zion bound to the Cross,
Can I do what I've vowed to and must?
Gladly I'd leave
All the best of grand Spain
For one glimpse of Jerusalem's dust.
We sang this poem not in its original Hebrew, here translated by Hillel Halkin, but in the Hebrew poet Chaim Nahman Bialik's Yiddish rendition, Kh'hob fargesen ale libste: "I've abandoned all my loved ones/ Left behind my cherished nest./ I've given myself over to the sea:/ Bring me, sea, to mother's breast." We learned that Bialik was our great national poet despite his reluctance to assume that title. Mother in childhood had sung his song of the bird from the Land of Israel that comes calling at his window—our version of Poe's Raven. Bialik's poem of rage, In the City of Slaughter, written in response to the 1903 pogrom in Kishinev, had roused Jews to undertake stronger self-defense. Eight centuries after Halevi set out for Jerusalem, Bialik quit his native Russia to settle in Tel Aviv, the first modern Jewish city. Our bilingual teachers found it natural that the poet had transposed a Hebrew poem into his native Yiddish so that it could be sung by Jewish schoolchildren in their native tongue. Zionist multilingualism, like Zionism itself, was taken for granted.
Every year we were given little booklets of the kind used for lotteries or raffles, in denominations from 25 cents to one dollar. Selling these tickets, which bore pictures of youngsters in shorts against a background suggestive of a kibbutz, was a highlight of my year. Many years later I learned that the proceeds went to the Histadrut, the General Organization of Workers. This was not exactly a scam: as one of the most powerful institutions in Palestine, the Histadrut was virtually synonymous with the Jewish government-in-waiting. Through its conglomerates, it employed more than three-quarters of the workforce and ran the country's largest bank and health organization.
Histadrut fundraising poster from 1947.
This association of Israel with socialism would hold firm until the Labor party suffered its first electoral defeat in 1977. But our school did not feel ideologically Marxist, and I suspect that in local elections, most of our teachers, along with most Canadian Jews, tended liberal rather than socialist.
I took the sale of those Histadrut tickets as seriously as Girl Guides conducted their cookie sales, and went far beyond my neighborhood looking for mezuzahs on the doorposts of approachable homes. I could not have told you that in those skinny little cases was parchment containing verses from Deuteronomy, but what they told me was that the families behind those doors were comfortable being canvassed by a fellow Jew. As it happened, I did best in the dense immigrant area where people were less wary, though it was always Father who contributed most by buying up all the tickets I was left with. This assignment, a form of conscription, inducted me into the Jewish people more effectively than any classroom instruction.
In contrast to Herbert Symonds School, the Folk shule felt like home. In the upper grades, my favorite teacher, Miss Schechter, taught us to parse sentences with diagrams that dangled clauses from sentences, phrases from clauses, and adjectives below them like ripe detachable fruit. But her moods fluctuated, and once, when I must have truly annoyed her, she slapped me hard, causing my nose to bleed. It never occurred to me to complain about this, nor did I feel her reprimand lessened her affection for me, since Mother, too, sometimes struck me when she was on edge.
One memorable day, our seventh-grade teacher, Mrs. Mauer, became so irritated by the ignorant and vulgar graffiti of the boys entering puberty that she consecrated a morning period to a discussion in which, from her answers to our unsigned questions that she pulled out of a hat, I learned almost everything I had wanted to know about sex but did not wish to ask Mother and could not ask Ben—like the meaning of "cherry" or why Kotex sanitary napkins came in three strengths and why some children were born twins. The nervous tension broke when Mrs. Mauer, a great hockey fan, pulled out a question asking whether she thought the Montreal Canadiens would win the Stanley Cup.
Only once did home and school come into conflict. In seventh grade I was summoned to the office of the principal, Shloime Wiseman. Since my grades were stellar, I foresaw no problem. He asked me what had been taught in yesterday's Bible class. I went over the lesson as well as I could. Suddenly, I realized that this interrogation must involve my mother, who often found insult where none was intended.
When I protested that I had uttered no word to my parents that could have been construed as a complaint against our teacher, Wiseman believed me. He knew Mother well, and Father sat on the school's board of directors. He told me that in the future I should come to him and no one else with criticism, implying that I would have to speak more circumspectly at home.
I believe it was in June of 1943 that Principal Wiseman assembled the entire school in the auditorium to tell us what was happening to our people overseas. He said, "If each of you took one of your notebooks and wrote on every line of every page the name of a child and if we then collected all the notebooks in this auditorium, it would still not equal the number of Jewish children who have just been killed in Europe." Two of those names could have been Ben's and mine. I wanted to tear out at least a page or two from my notebook to save some of those children. I felt closer to them than to the ones around me in the hall.
Wiseman then told us about Shmuel Zygielbojm, the Jewish leader who had been rescued from the Warsaw Ghetto and sent to London to represent the Jews as a member of the Polish government-in-exile. There, he had tried in vain to alert the Allies to the mass murder of the Jews, which included his wife and child, and, unable to do it in any other way, committed suicide, leaving behind an accusation and appeal. Maybe because those children had just become my responsibility, the effect of this information on me was different from our principal's intention: I was infuriated by Zygielbojm's martyrdom—how dare he give Hitler yet another victim, instead of staying on to fight in Europe or Palestine!
Shmuel Zygielbojm's last letter, and suicide note, dated May 11, 1943.
Decades later, when the Montreal suburb of Côte Saint-Luc decided to dedicate a park to Zygielbojm's memory, I did not attend the ceremony. My anger lasted until the night before the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993, when I finally understood what could have driven Zygielbojm to the breaking point—a story that is told elsewhere.
Ever since his arrival in Montreal in 1913 as a boy of 14, Principal Wiseman had supported himself by teaching, which had been his father's calling in Ukraine. Whereas others tried to replicate or adapt the traditional religious cheder instruction of the Old Country, he developed a new model that would prepare informed Jewish citizens for Canadian life. All that I took for granted in the Folk shule—the equilibrium of Jewish and general studies; the concept of a religiously inspired, self-reliant Jewish people; the familial warmth balanced by respectful teacher-student relations; a political centrism so natural it seemed synonymous with Jewishness—all of this was thoughtfully designed by Wiseman and the instructors he hired.
One or two generations earlier, they might have become rabbis, and a generation later, college professors. But in that first immigrant generation, supported by a community that shared their need for modern Jewish education, they bestowed their wisdom on us.
We had arrived in Montreal af alem fartikn, everything ready-made for our benefit. The solid school building that was overflowing by the time I graduated had been erected the year of our arrival and had only then received the formal accreditation that allowed us to continue to Protestant high school. In the upper grades and the advanced supplementary school classes I attended through most of high school, the faculty was supplemented by survivors of the war. How could these men and women, who had lost their own families, re-enter classrooms to teach Jewish subjects to Jewish children? Their nerve impressed me more than what they taught.
Excerpted, with permission, from Free as a Jew: A Personal Memoir of National Self-Liberation, by Ruth Wisse. © 2021 by Ruth R. Wisse. Published by Wicked Son, an imprint of Post Hill Press.
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Ruth R. Wisse, a scholar of Yiddish literature and Jewish history and culture, is Martin Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University emeritus.
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"When experimenting with new machine learning applications from technology vendors, make sure you have LOTS of good data (clean and comprehensive) or the machine output of analysis, content or recommendations may be of low confidence, or worse - wrong or inconsistent with your brand."
"To understand how your customers experience your products and brand online, run a search for your flagship products on all the social networks. If you don't understand and like everything you see, you need to work on digital reputation management, starting with a detailed audit of the existing accounts."
Good marketing programs involve strategy, goals, target audience, tactics and measurement. Great marketing programs often include a special ingredient to really supercharge the engine of leads and sales.
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Q: ValueError usupported format character 'd' with psycopg2 I have code like this:
print "company_id = %d" % company_id
...
db.cursor.execute("insert into person (company_id, first, last, type) values (%d, '%s', '%s', %d);", (company_id, name[0], name[1], type))

I get the following output:
company_id = 1
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
  File "./GetPeople.py", line 125, in insertPerson
    db.cursor.execute("insert into person (company_id, first, last, type) values (%d, '%s', '%s', %d);",

Why can it print out the first line but it gives an error for the db.cursor.execute() call?

A: From  the Psycopg FAQ:

Q: I can't pass an integer or a float parameter to my query: it says a
  number is required, but it is a number!
A: In your query string, you always have to use %s placeholders, even when passing a number. All Python objects are converted by Psycopg in
  their SQL representation, so they get passed to the query as strings.
  See Passing parameters to SQL queries.

Replace the %d with %s.

A: The single quotes around the %s placeholders are incorrect and the %d isn't used as per the docs. Change
db.cursor.execute("insert into person (company_id, first, last, type) values (%d, '%s', '%s', %d);", (company_id, name[0], name[1], type))

to
db.cursor.execute("insert into person (company_id, first, last, type) values (%s, %s, %s, %s);", (company_id, name[0], name[1], type))

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The following is from Leo Kanner's 1943 paper.
The outstanding, "pathognomonic," fundamental disorder is the children's inability to relate themselves in the ordinary way to people and situations from the begining of life. Their parents referred to them as having always been "sel-sufficient"; "like in a shell"; "happiest when left alone"; "acting as if people weren't there"; "perfectly oblivious to everything about him"; "giving the impression of silent wisdom"; "failing to develop the usual amount of social awareness";"acting almost as hypnotized." This is not, as in schizophrenic children or adults, a departure from an initially present relationship; it is not a "withdrawal" from formerly existing participation.
There you have it, from the horse's mouth. It's not only true that regressive autism could have been confused with childhood schizophrenia. It was childhood schizophrenia even after Kanner first characterized autism, and I don't know for how long after that.
Today, of course, childhood schizophrenia seems to have all but disappeared.
While on the topic of Kanner, let me also debunk the myth that he claimed no one had ever observed autism before. Here's another excerpt.
These characteristics form a unique "syndrome," not heretofore reported, which seems to be rare enough, yet is probably more frequent than is indicated by the paucity of observed cases. It is quite possible that some such children have been viewed as feebleminded or schizophrenic. In fact, several children of our group were intorduced to us as idiots or imbeciles, one still resides in a state school for the feebleminded, and two had been previously considered as schizophrenic.
I'll also add a link to Dr. Traffert's AWARES paper here, as it's relevant to this discussion: Dr Down and 'Developmental' Disorders.
My Anecdotal Evidence is Better Than Everyone Else's!
Whenever someone claims that they know some biomed treatment is useful, even in the absence of clinical trials, I like to remind them of Secretin. See Lessons from Secretin (Volkmar, 1999). Secretin was once believed to be a "cure" of autism. Bernie Rimland was a fan of Secretin and claimed it had an improvement rate of 70% to 75%. The mom who first noticed her son started to speak after getting Secretin had been referred to as a "hero" for discovering the "cure". There were even multiple case reports and at least one non-controlled study noting substantial improvement with Secretin.
Then the double-blind placebo-contolled studies came. Nearly all of them showed no difference in outcome between Secretin and placebo. Some of them seemed to show that Secretin was, in fact, a little bit worse than placebo. (That's right, something that was believed to be a "cure" might have been causing damage instead). The studies generally demonstrated what are now believed to be robust placebo effects in autism. Naturally, Bernie Rimland was reluctant to accept the results of the studies, I'm not sure for how long.
There's obviously some level of self-deception in discussions about biomed treatments that appear to "work". When I bring up Secretin, some parents will say that it's a good point, but then they'll turn around and use what I will call the my-anecdote-is-better-than-everyone-else's gambit. They will say things like "I've been very careful in my observations of the eye contact improvements" and so on. They will claim self-deception could never apply to them, and seem to be offended by the suggestion. They also often appear to mistake "placebo effects" with "you are lying".
You see, even if a non-verbal child turns into a great conversationalist at around the same time that you give him [horseshit of choice here], this doesn't prove the treatment had any effect. It's not just that correlation does not imply causation, but also that anecdotes of this nature occur all the time in autism. Consider that if 10-15% of all autistic children lose their diagnosis eventually, there must be tens of thousands of such children around the world. One more anecdote of that nature doesn't tell us much.
You will find anecdotes of recovery for nearly anything you can think of: homeopathic remedies (chemical formula: H2O), exorcism, holding therapy, removal of TV, juice from an Amazonian fruit, etc. Heck, even Bettleheim had glowing testimonials.
Really, why should I take any anecdote on the latest biomed fad seriously?
I was searching PubMed for papers on bullying and autism. To my surprise, I found only one entry, Montes & Halterman (2007), a very recent paper. Check out the abstract. I was perplexed when I first read it. Doesn't the language seem to suggest that autistic children are at high risk of being bullies? I had to read it a couple times before I concluded that the authors have to be referring to autistic children being the victims of bullying. That's only because any other interpretation would be absurd (and note that I'm not saying autistic children are incapable of bullying). The "younger age" bit helps. My guess is that the way the abstract is presented has to do with the notion that autistics are bullied because there's something wrong with autistics, not with the bullies.


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Filippo Pagliani and Michele Rossi, both architects from Milan, have, together with their architectural design studio Park Associati, authored one of the most impressive renovation projects of a modern building Italy has seen in recent years. Renovation is an emerging topic throughout the world, calling for new solutions in the fields of architecture and restoration.
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We have reached that amazing age, where every single day Cassie is either bringing home her latest artwork creations from preschool, or colouring in at home and proudly showing off her drawings. I am not afraid to admit that I am not the sentimental type. We just don't have room in our home to keep them all, so they generally float around our kitchen table for a while, before I can quietly squirrel them away into the bin without Cassie noticing. Then I came across the gorgeous artwork holders from Poppy and Dot, which has been a game changer.
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River Dee
Chester pleasure boat boss celebrates four decades on the Dee
Brian Clarke started out as a trainee skipper back in 1979
ChesterBoat managing director Brian Clarke is celebrating his 40th year working on the River Dee.
Brian Clarke is celebrating his 40th year as a pleasure boat operator on the River Dee .
The managing director of ChesterBoat started his career in 1979 as a trainee boat skipper for the late Robert Adamson, previous owner of what was then known as Bithell Boats.
He helped Mr Adamson turn around the failing boat business which had been purchased from property developers Pochin whose interest was in the development of The Groves and the riverside.
As boat skipper, Brian worked on much smaller boats of a wood construction which require regular maintenance.
The Prince Charles, The May Queen, The Duke of Edinburgh, The Princess Anne, and The Raglan formed the wooden fleet. Two years later the first modern steel passenger boat was introduced to the fleet – The Lady Diana – a much larger more comfortable, enclosed and heated boat with a bar providing an opportunity to host evening charters and party nights.
The pride of the fleet, The Lady Diana, was a major step change for Bithell Boats enabling the crew to offer a year-round service.
The Lady Diana has remained the flagship but other boats added to the fleet including The Mark Twain, brought up from the River Thames, and remodelled at Birkenhead's famous shipping yards under Brian's supervision.
His hard work, vision and tenacity paid off as he was offered shares in the business in 1989 and then bought the business outright in 2003.
Everyone's talking about this Chester café that's started selling ice cream topped Belgian waffles
"It was a great opportunity for me to realise my vision for the leisure trips on the Dee," said Brian.
Talking about attraction of a relaxing cruise, Brian explained "Experts have been discussing the benefits so called 'blue health' and how water offers the chance to escape the hyper-connected modern world for a while. This is something we have always known and is immediately recognised with our passengers on board as they relax as our boats take them on a cruise along the river."
He continued: "As one of the leading attractions in Chester , our boat trips leave The Groves in the city centre, taking our passengers out into the meadows and The Duke of Westminster's Estate, giving our passengers a different view of the city; riverside houses, the flora and fauna and the tranquillity of the river all adds to the visitor experience and is the very essence of what Chester is all about."
Never one to stand still, Brian spotted an opportunity in York to undertake a new venture. He took the last of Chester's wooden fleet, The Prince Charles, and built the business before eventually acquiring the main boat operator. This enabled The Jackie, another steel passenger boat, to be brought from York and added to the fleet in Chester.
"It was fun in York but my heart lies in Chester, it is where I started out and where I live," added Brian. "I love Chester and particularly the River, so selling the York business was inevitable and selling to UK City Cruises in their first venture outside of London was a good move for both businesses."
Brian also developed a passenger boat business at Shrewsbury, building up the enterprise before selling to a local who continues to operate the service to this day.
And the MD is no stranger to adventure having taken his private 45ft motor cruiser over the weir on the Dee and out to sea. He visited France, Gibraltar and Spain before returning home through the French canals via Paris.
Back in Chester, Brian has developed the commercial services side of the business, providing safety boats, tugs and cranes nationally, to move boats and provide access to the water for construction companies including the amphibious rescue service for the Mersey Gateway Bridge and more recently to transport the Liverpool Giants across the Mersey.
ChesterBoat and its three leisure cruise boats operate throughout the year enjoying an estimated 100,000 passengers per year from all over the world.
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Home › LGBTQ Rights › Latest Attack On Transgender Workers Is An Attack On All
Latest Attack On Transgender Workers Is An Attack On All
By L.Zorfass on August 21, 2019
It is no secret that the Trump Administration is one of a great reaction that preys on the most vulnerable of our society. The marginalization of people leading to the furthering division of the working class, the majority of the American population, has become the Trump Government's bread and butter. This week, the Administration continued its pattern of attack on minority populations in the working class, this time targeting transgender workers specifically in a case which could overturn legislation preventing all gender discrimination in the workplace.
R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes Inc. fired an employee, Aimee Stephens, for transitioning. Stephens former employer gave only this as justification for her firing: "…believe that the Bible teaches that a person's sex is an immutable God-given gift." Since then, Stephens has taken the case to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) who have disputed the firing citing Title VII which prohibits employers from discriminating on the basis of sex and sex stereotyping.
The Trump Administration and the Department of Justice (DOJ) have said that Title VII does not extend to gender identification. Stephens and the EEOC brought the case to an appeals court which has ruled in favor of Ms.Stephens. The Supreme Court has now been asked by the Administration to review this case.
If in fact the Supreme Court rules in favor of the employer, the Trans community at large will be under direct attack by business owners, from whom there is already great discrimination, who will be protected by law. This will not only affect trans workers but the LGBTQ+ community at large and even cis-gendered workers who do not fit their gender stereotype. Simply being too masculine or feminine for your sex, by your employer's judgment, would be grounds for firing. This case greatly illustrates that an attack on one is an attack on all.
This case greatly exemplifies the need for worker solidarity. By deepening divisions in the working class, the most marginalized and vulnerable groups not only become attacked themselves by reactionaries, but become the doormat for which the working class as a whole may be attacked, stripped of their jobs, their livelihood, for merely existing naturally.
It is true that many who claim to Marxists, communists, leftists, etc. are and have expressed quite explicitly transphobic and trans-exclusionary politics. This is wholly incorrect for any student of Marx to take in our modern era. It is true that, in the past, socialist states took an incorrect stance when it came to the LGBTQ+ community. But as Marxists, we must think scientifically and not uphold the mistakes of our forebears for the sake of "tradition" or to repeat the prejudices of the past.
The fact for any Marxist should be simple: there is no rational/scientific reason for the discrimination against trans-people or the LGBTQ+ community at large. Such people are just as natural as a cis person is. Before class society, many cultures around the globe recognized multiple genders or did not even classify people into genders as we know them today. With the advent of class society, these various notions of gender were gradually done away with. The need for men and women to give birth to a child who can inherit the private property, and in turn give birth their own child to inherit the property, became paramount. Thus, the natural sexual orientation of the human race was put into chains to serve the needs of private property. Of course, it was the class of people who were ruled that were and are most subjected to this oppression. The ruling class which uses its power to cultivate these values amongst the past and current working class also have the power of sexual privilege. Members of the ruling class are constantly being caught having sexual relationships of the same kind they publicly oppose, while many also engage in degenerate sexual acts such as pedophilia and sex trafficking. Sexuality became a class privilege.
This division has kept the working class divided and fighting itself for thousands of years. The latest attacks on the trans community serve the current Administration in two direct ways, the first is to continue to carry out the reactionary attacks on minorities, continuing to cultivate a society of reaction. The other is to have the working class fighting itself rather than the ruling class and its officials in the state. Just as the ruling class pits workers against one another over race, sex, nationality, etc. they do so in sexuality as well.
And these divisions, which the ruling classes have been cultivating for over 5,000 years keep us, the members of the working class at each other's throats or simply not caring. But this case exemplifies needs working-class solidarity. It is easy for the apathetic and selfish to simply say, "Well, I'm not trans, so why should I care?". But this case exemplifies the old saying "if you think the problems of one people is not your problem, then do nothing and the problem will soon be yours." This case particular has already shown that the attack on trans workers is being extended to other workers well. If the Supreme Court sides with the Administration, sex discrimination in the workplace will run even more unchecked than it already is, and even more so, it will be completely legal.
An attack on one is an attack on all. As workers, we must move past the reactionaries values that are cultivated and shoved down our throats by the ruling class. We must stand together with those groups in the working class who are easy targets for the forces of reaction. We must not give in to old thinking, thinking based on irrational ideas, metaphysical concepts, and dogmatic commands. We must negate the negations of class society.
Trans rights are workers rights, they are human rights, and they must be upheld by those who want to push society, humanity, forward.
The working class cannot lose its chains by oppressing its own and siding with the ruling class. If we do not stand together in solidarity, if we do not protect each other from the attacks of reaction, then the working class will continue to be in disarray, fighting itself rather than its oppressors.
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In the sidelines of the Arab Islamic American Summit in Riyadh, the Founder of Peace and National Unity – Leader of the Nation, President of the Republic of Tajikistan, His Excellency Emomali Rahmon held constructive and useful meetings with the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia, the President Donald Trump of the United States, as well as the heads of other states and governments, including, Nawaz Sharif, the Prime Minister of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Muhammad Ashraf Ghani, President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Ilham Aliyev, the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, His Highness the Amir of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, the Emir of Qatar, His Highness Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of United Arab Emirates, His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, the King of the Kingdom of Bahrain and the Prime Minister of Malaysia Najib Abdul Razak.
During the conversations, which were held in a friendly and confidential atmosphere, the issues of bilateral and multilateral relations between Tajikistan and these countries were discussed.
Head of state Emomali Rahmon, expressing his satisfaction with the possibility of meeting with his counterparts, called that these talks provide an impetus for further development of bilateral ties.ий мира.


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Winter Solstice & Mummers Play
December 11, 10am Rev. Bran Lennox
Come join our dancers and mummers and singers as together we celebrate the arrival of winter.
The Harvard UU Mummers plays come to us from an age-old British tradition. Roving bands of mummers would perform in the street or in pubs at the holidays, often passing the hat, or in our case, the offering plate. Mummers plays often feature a death and resurrection that aligns with the turning of the year, and in particular with the solstice — as the old year dies, and the new year comes to life. In many traditional mummers plays, the deceased character is brought back to life by first a quack doctor and a dragon. A fun and creative celebration brought to us by our youth."
Matt Meyer
February 5th, 10am Matt Meyer
Our guest speaker today will be Matt Meyer
Matt is a modern circuit-rider, bringing a model of embodied and heartfelt worship to congregations across the country. Matt's services inspire congregants to a new relationship with each other and with our shared purpose of love and justice. … read more.


The Hotel Bristol in Budapest was the scene of the founding of the European Swimming League (LEN), that has always kept its acronym and nomenclature in French, its official language along with English. Although most European federations had been active for years – some were even created the previous century, including the first federation, Great Britain, in 1869 – LEN did not see the light of day until 1926.
Representatives from 11 countries were the architects of this historical agreement, that took place during the first European Championships, that consisted of swimming, diving and water polo events, three established Olympic sports. The first President was the Swede Erik Bergvall, who was also the president of the International Swimming Federation (FINA), founded in London in 1908- The Hungarian Leo Donath was appointed Secretary, a title he would hold until 1945, making him one of the most influential people in European aquatics during that difficult time.
The founding nations were Sweden, Hungary, Germany, Austria, France, Ireland, Italy, Denmark, Belgium, Greece and Spain. A British representative assisted unofficially as an observer.
The first decisions made during that meeting were holding the European Championships alternating with the Olympic Games, confirming European swimming records and committing to promote the benefits and ideals of European swimming.
Throughout its history, LEN has been led by 14 presidents. Nowadays, the power lies in Paolo Barelli (Italy), who was elected in September 2012 along with the Secretary, David Sparkes (Great Britain), and the Treasurer Tamas Gyarfas (Hungary). They will remain in office until 2020.
Barelli, who has been the president of the Italian Swimming Federation since the year 2000 and Honorary Secretary of FINA, was a prestigious Olympic swimmer who participated in the 1972 (Munich) and 1976 (Montreal) Olympic Games. In the World Championships held in Cali in 1975, he won Bronze at the 4x100 freestyle relay.
LEN headquarters are located in Nyon (Switzerland). The main continental water polo organization has 52 affiliated national federations.


There are reports that President Ali Abdullah Saleh has been slightly injured in an attack on his compound in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, as pitched battles continue between government forces and armed tribesmen.
However, officials said he was well and would address the nation shortly.
The PM and parliament speaker were also reported hurt and four guards killed.
Earlier troops shelled the home of the brother of the tribal leader whose supporters they are fighting.
Thousands meanwhile attended a funeral for 50 people killed in the violence.
The United States has sent an envoy to the Gulf to discuss ways of stopping the violence, which has brought Yemen to the brink of civil war.
More than 350 people have been killed since the uprising started in January, but least 135 of them have died in the past 10 days.
Western and regional powers have been urging Mr Saleh to sign a Gulf Co-operation Council-brokered deal that would see him hand over to his deputy in return for an amnesty from prosecution.
He has agreed to sign on several occasions, but then backed out.
GCC Secretary-General Abdulattif al-Zayani called for an end to the fighting and said the council was ready to do all it could to help, Reuters news agency reported.


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Q: LINQ greater/less than not working in query var query = db.Products.Where(p => p.Cost == 10M); works perfectly fine and returns the correct list of results.
var query = db.Products.Where(p => p.Cost > 10M); throws an exception:

The LINQ expression 'DbSet<Product>.Where(p => p.Cost > (Nullable<decimal>)10)' could not be translated.

Obviously the script being generated by C# can't be executed in SQL but why not? That is a valid SQL query
public class Product
    {
        public int ProductID {get;set;}
        [Required]
        [StringLength(40)]
        public string ProductName {get;set;}
        [Column("UnitPrice", TypeName="money")]
        public decimal? Cost {get;set;}
    }

    public class Northwind: DbContext
    {
        public DbSet<Category> Categories {get;set;}
        public DbSet<Product> Products {get;set;}
    }

EFCore 3.1.2,
.NET Core 3.1.1

A: It looks like p.Cost is a decimal?. In that case you can use the null coalescing operator.
var query = db.Products.Where(p => (p.Cost ?? 0) > 10M);

A: This is because Cost is a nullable decimale, i.e decimal?
Equals does not throw an error because it can check if null == 10M, however, to do a greater than it would have to go p.Cost.Value behind the scenes, but it does not know how to do that.
So two choices
Chane p.Cost to a 'decimal' rather than a nullable type OR
Assuming p.Cost is never null which is probably the case simply change the linq to
p => p.Cost.Value > 10M

A: var query = db.Products.Where(p => p.Cost.HasValue && p.Cost.Value > 10M);

A readable form of this query can be written as above.


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December 12, 2018 Arts + Life » Film
Middlebury Prof's Doc, 'Man on Fire,' Debuts on Vermont PBS
By Kymelya Sari
Published December 12, 2018 at 10:00 a.m. | Updated December 13, 2018 at 7:14 p.m.
Courtesy Of Ariel Orr
James Chase Sanchez (left) and Joel Fendelman
When 13-year-old James Chase Sanchez and his mother moved to Grand Saline, Texas, in 2001 for better schools, he soon heard about the town's most famous stories: Signs at both ends of Grand Saline ordered African Americans to leave by sundown; the Ku Klux Klan visited the town; the Pole-town neighborhood got its name because black people's bodies had been put on display on poles after they were lynched.
"There is some truth to these stories," said Sanchez, now an assistant professor at Middlebury College who studies public memory and cultural and racial rhetoric.
Unfortunately, his research has shown that Grand Saline's history of racism is not exceptional. In fact, it is similar to that of other towns in the South before the civil rights movement.
"For any other town, these stories would go away," observed Sanchez, 31. "But why does Grand Saline keep sharing them?"
The town's history — or rather, the perception of the town as racist — is the subject of Sanchez's debut documentary Man on Fire.
Directed by Joel Fendelman, the hour-long film won the International Documentary Association's David L. Wolper Student Documentary Award in 2017. It was screened at this year's Slamdance Film Festival and Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, and it will make its national debut on public television on Monday, December 17. Vermont PBS will air the film all week at various times.
Man on Fire takes its name from Charles Moore, an elderly white preacher who set himself on fire in a parking lot in Grand Saline in June 2014. The Tyler Morning Telegraph newspaper published Moore's suicide note, in which the preacher said he grew up hearing racial slurs and witnessing racist incidents in the town. He felt he hadn't done enough to address racial injustice, and he wanted to join the African Americans who were lynched by "giving my body to be burned."
Moore urged his hometown to "open its heart and its doors to black people, as a sign of the rejection of past sins."
Six months after the preacher died, Michael Hall, a writer at Texas Monthly magazine, wrote a biography of him, also titled Man on Fire.
Rather than duplicating Hall's work, Fendelman and Sanchez decided to use the preacher's final fiery act as a vehicle to not only discuss the impact of Moore's self-immolation on Grand Saline, but also to establish the veracity of the folklore and extent of racism in the town.
Sanchez said that rumors circulated around the town during filming. Many residents thought the pair would exploit Grand Saline or that the documentary would portray it as the most racist community in America.
"A lot of people from my hometown think that this project comes out of a place of hate," said Sanchez, "[but] it comes out of love and responsibility."
Though Sanchez lived in Grand Saline for just five years, he claims it as his hometown. He loved growing up there, but also remembers being called "beaner" and "wetback." One of the slogans of the high school football team was "We're all right cuz we're all white," he said.
Grand Saline's folklore has long been known in neighboring towns. An African American man who lives 38 miles away told the filmmakers, "We all grew up and heard the same stories. You don't go to Grand Saline. You don't talk to people from Grand Saline. There's no reason for you to be there because it's not safe for you."
Some of the older Grand Saline residents remembered Sanchez from his football-playing days, and that gave him an "in" for talking to them, he said. On the other hand, his peers were aware of his scholarship on race and what he describes as his "very, very, very liberal" views on the subject. Many didn't want to appear in front of the camera, Sanchez said. He also admitted that he's lost a few friends because of his project.
Throughout the 54-minute documentary, the dramatization of Moore's final moments and self-immolation is interspersed with the recording of a 911 call, as well as interviews with local historian Elvis Allen, residents of Grand Saline and neighboring towns, former city officials, and Moore's family.
With Allen's help, the filmmakers established the extent to which the stories were true.
A common refrain among Grand Saline residents was that the town — and by extension the country — isn't racist because Barack Obama was president, Fendelman said. "Grand Saline is any town in the U.S.A., to some degree," said the New York City-based director. "There's a Grand Saline in a hundred different places in the U.S."
While the documentary doesn't draw explicit conclusions, Sanchez offered his own hypothesis on why the stories continue to be told.
"It's a way for the [residents] to preserve the culture while also being able to deny that they are racist or white supremacists," he said. As a result, Grand Saline continues to be perceived as a racist town.
Fendelman and Sanchez have given talks on their film at Middlebury College, as well as at five other schools in Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Texas. They plan to do another tour in the spring.
Sanchez hopes that Grand Saline residents will watch the film, which he insisted was a labor of love. "I'm hoping that this documentary does good and can help the community," he said.
Man on Fire appears Monday, December 17, through Sunday, December 23, at various times, on Vermont PBS. manonfirefilm.com
The original print version of this article was headlined "Middlebury Prof's Film Addresses Racism in His Texas Hometown"
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