A full line-up of expert speakers will gather at the Radstats conference in London with the theme '21st Century Inequality in the UK'.
As well as speakers there will be workshops and plenty of lively discussion.
Registration is only £50 (£30 student/low income) for the day including lunch.
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The 2018 Annual General Meeting will immediately follow the conference, and there are social events over the weekend.
Newcomers and continuing members are very welcome to attend!
On 24 February, 2018 a full line-up of expert speakers will gather at the Radstats conference in London with the theme '21st Century Inequality in the UK'.
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We had a reasonably successful 2016 conference in York late February with about 60 participants. I think most people enjoyed it.
We have been waiting for the papers from the February Conference for several months and have at last received three; together with a follow-up to a previous article and some other bits and pieces, we now have a respectable 'November 2016' issue. All these papers were written and completed before the Brexit referendum unless otherwise specified.
The conference papers are by Jonathan Bradshaw on trends in Child Poverty; by Stewart Lansley on trends in inequality in income; and by Andrew Street on Financial Crisis in the NHS. We have an additional paper by Lisa Buckner on census-based local labour market research, and a response by John Hume to the criticism of his article in the previous issue on work capability assessment; together with updates by Jonathan Rosenhead on the academic boycott of Israel, on progress with the next RadStats book on Social Statistics by Jeff Evans and the provisional programme for the 2017 RadStats Conference on Saturday 18th February in Edinburgh.
Once again a very eclectic collection and no attempt is being made to link them, other than that they are all very interesting papers. View issue 115.
In this editorial, written only a couple of weeks after the second populist Trump 'shock' of the year, the previous question has to be re-emphasised: why have data and information had so little impact on political debates (and obviously that lack of impact is multiplied several times in terms of the impact of our information) and how that can be changed. Once again, the appeal to 'take back control of our country' was very powerful – and will be in France with Marine Le Pen and Geert Wilders in the Netherlands – but it is very disconcerting to believe that information has NO effect at all. What can we do – or what could be done by others – about it?.
Following on from the Brexit debate, much of the US Election debate was based on misleading economic and immigration information, yet attempts to deliver correct information had absolutely no impact. Why Not? Our problem is that 'we' have not understood the ways in which 'information' is adsorbed or understood by different socio-economic groups. Perhaps there should be real – rather than virtual – answers this time.
Finally, an urgent appeal for contributors / papers; we are seriously running out of material!
How have statistics been used in the arguments for Britain remaining in or leaving the EU? What do statistics of Brexit tell us about social inequalities and social change? What evidence is needed to assess the implications of Brexit proposals?
The upcoming Radical Statistics Conference 2017, on Saturday 18th February 2017 at the Quaker Meeting Housing in Central Edinburgh, will address these important questions by taking into consideration a range of perspectives (Demographic, Economic, Media, Law, Politics and Policy) and engaging in a timely and topical discussion about the "Statistics of Brexit".
The format and structure of the event, with five keynote speakers, two workshops and a panel discussion, will provide plenty of opportunities for interaction and discussion on the role of statistics during the EU referendum campaign and beyond, indeed, only a few weeks before article 50 is triggered at the end of March, 2017. While it has been argued that antipathy to statistics is one of the hallmarks of the populist right, with statisticians and economists chief among the various "experts" that were ostensibly rejected by voters in 2016, it is particularly incumbent on those who use statistics to support progressive social change and to give a much needed understanding of which data and conclusions are trustworthy in the so-called post-truth culture. As one of the most important decisions the British public has faced in decades, this event will provide a forum for discussion and debate on Brexit that promises to be evidenced-based and from a truly diverse set of perspectives.
View the programme, with link to booking form, for more information and to reserve your place now!
Mark your diaries – Sat 18 February, 2017.
Many thanks to the organisers of Conference 2016 – Roy Car-Hill for an excellent programme and John Bibby & Jan Böhnke on local arrangements.
There were about 60 people attending the event in York.
You can view the 2016 Conference speakers' presentations, pictures and a storify of tweets from the day at the conference page.
We are all set, and looking forward to welcoming you in York!
Our weekend base is the Priory Street Centre (PSC, Priory Street, YO1 6ET). We will be there from 8.30 am Friday till 2pm or so on Sunday. You can leave luggage etc. there at your own risk.
Our main pub location will be the Brigantes pub (100m away from PSC, at 114 Micklegate, opposite the end of Priory Street). We have reserved their upper room from 5pm till closing time on both Friday and Saturday. However, we will not necessarily be there all the time, as food and drinks will also be available at the PSC (payment by donation: suggested minimum £6 for food; £1+ per drink; non-alcoholic drinks free).
Hot food (lasagne etc.) will arrive at PSC at 7pm each evening. I have ordered 20 portions. If you are arriving later on Friday and want one kept for you, please let me know.
At 10.30 on Sunday we shall set out for a 90-minute guided tour of York. This will reach places that other tours do not reach. The weather forecast is good! If you'd like to come on this, please pay an extra £2 when you check in and make sure your name is marked "Walk". Equally, if you want to book a Saturday evening meal, please pay an extra £6 and mark your name "Meal".
If you have not yet booked for the conference THERE IS STILL TIME! Please either book on the website or JUST TURN UP!!
Issue 112 of Radical Statistics includes the winner and runner-up in the 2014 Radical Statistics essay competition (open entry) and features a host of articles on topics as diverse as a 19th century radical German demographer, deprivation in a former mining area in Yorkshire and official statistics in Norway. As such it nicely highlights the range of topics that can be subjected to a radical statistics perspective!
The essay by the first prize winner, Elisabeth Garratt, provides an excellent overview of the rise in foodbanks in the UK. This is an area that has received growing policy and media attention. This essay highlights that increased use of food aid is cannot be explained by its growing acceptability or people taking advantage of charity, but rather is associated with growing food insecurity. The essay also usefully outlines what different types of data can, and cannot, tell us about food insecurity. The second placed essay, by Dr Pauline McGovern, provides a highly engaging take on the use of path analysis. In her essay she makes use of creative and engaging metaphors and research on the effect of former occupation on the health of retired people. The essay is an excellent example of how we can present statistics in an immediate and creative way. Look out for the two student competition winning essays, which will be featured in the next issue of Radical Statistics.
The issue continues with two articles that, in different ways, examine area-level statistics. The first, by Sinead D'Silva and Paul Norman, explores the utility of administrative data in producing a simple scale of 'social stress' at the area level. Focusing on areas in Doncaster that have suffered coal mine closure, and consequent job loss and deprivation, they show that a relatively simple scale, constructed from publically available area-level data, provides a surprisingly good proxy for more complex Indices of Multiple Deprivation. The second article, by Mark A Green and Mark Strong, focuses on health-related quality of life (HRQoL). They note that it can be difficult to illustrate the impact of neighbourhood deprivation on HRQoL. As such they propose a novel solution: using BMI (a summary of weight that is socially meaningful) when explaining epidemiological effects to lay audiences. For instance, enabling us to see the approximate equivalence, in terms of HRQoL, of individual morbid obesity and living in a deprived neighbourhood.
The article by Asle Rolland engages with an important debate regarding the independence of official statistics. The article highlights crucial dimensions related to independence, and the desirability and potential limitations of independence, drawing on empirical examples and references to common practice, regulations as well as underlying philosophical principles. Continuing the focus on official statistics, albeit in this instance, their unavailability, Frank and Sarah Houghton, explore the health situation in Ireland, arguing that it is highly correlated with poverty, but that it is difficult to show this with any precision due to insufficient information, the tendency of the Irish government to restrict access to what information exists and diminishing regulation and data oversight. They suggest that there is no clear and transparent health funding model and the Irish health care delivery system is in a dire state, especially for the impoverished.
The final article is a biography of radical statistician Robert René Kuczynski (1876-1947). Kuczynski was a German economist, demographer and one of the founders of modern German vital statistics. As an urban statistician he investigated the housing conditions of the working population. He also was a proponent of democracy in Weimar Germany, but in 1933 he had to leave Germany and settled in England where he lectured in demography at the LSE, and later became a demographic adviser to the Colonial Office.
Issue 112 returns to contemporary issues to conclude with two brief comments by Christina Beatty and Alison Macfarlane. These highlight the British government's increasing insistence that academic partners destroy data within an (overly) restrictive timescale.
Finally, a reminder that Radical Statistics welcomes your contributions. If you have either a full-length article or a brief comment that you would like to contribute, or if you are interested in reviewing a book that you believe is of potential interest to Radical Statistics' readers, please get in touch with us at editors@radstats.org.uk.
Special Issue 111 Editorial: Is Britain Pulling Apart?
This issue includes four articles based around the theme of the Radical Statistics conference in March 2014 all discussing topics related to the questions – Is Britain Pulling Apart? It concludes with two comment pieces, one a response to Gorad's paper that appeared in Radstats 110 and one that focuses on the academic boycott of Israel.
We begin with a contribution by Daniel Silver. He discusses and criticises the use of ward-level statistics of poverty, and shows how these may be used to disguise issues related to poverty levels. His contribution draws on important evidence from a project by the Open Society Foundation, "Understanding Europe's White Working Class Communities", which carried out a comparative study across six European cities.
Nissa Finney then turns a critical eye to ethnic segregation. She begins by revealing that, contrary to much news commentary, there has been increased ethnic mixing, not segregation, over the last decade. Moreover, statements about 'white flight' from areas of ethnic diversity are not substantiated. Instead she identifies processes of demographic change (differential birth and death rates) and constraints on economic choice, including some ethnic groups' reliance on the private rental market, as drivers of specific pockets of segregation.
Nigel de Noronha continues the focus on housing. He analyses social class polarisation in Britain with a particular emphasis on those living alone in the private rented sector. By analysing the patterns and trends in solo living in the private rented sector and how do they vary across different neighbourhoods he finds that there has been a polarisation in this area where those from higher classes often live in their own property, whilst younger people are more likely to live in private rented houses. Routine and unemployed classes on the other hand are more likely to live in social housing.
Roger Seifert's article looks at the political and social background to calls for a 'living wage' as opposed to a 'fair wage'. He highlights growing social inequality and the declining share of national wealth going to workers. Using a wealth of historic and contemporary data and analyses, he argues that contrary to previous political and economic action around 'fair wages', the idea of a living wage represents a serious challenge to the confines of market-based thinking. This is because 'fairness', erroneously presupposes that a market system based on structurally unequal power can be fair, while demands for a living wage necessitates political action and state intervention.
In a critical comment Larry Brownstein responds to Stephen Gorard's suggested Trustworthiness scale outlined in the previous issue of Radical Statistics' journal. He argues in favour for the use of such a scale, however, sees potential issues and errors in Gorard's discussion, and in particular with the way in which Gorard approaches confidence intervals.
The final commentary is by Jonathan Rosenhead. He makes the case for statisticians, along with other academics, to participate in an academic boycott of Israeli institutions. Directly addressing arguments about exceptionalism and academic freedom, he highlights the institutional complicity of Israeli universities in systematic policies of 'politicide'.
Our next issue of Radical Statistics will include prize-winners from the 2014 Radical Statistics Essay Competition. If you have an article or short comment piece that you think would be suitable for a future issue of Radical Statistics or ideas about a themed set of articles please get in touch with us.
Conference Theme: Good data, good policy? Taking place in the run-up to the May 2015 general Election, the conference will focus on public policy and its relationship with the availability of 'good data'. We aim to address questions such as: How good is the data we have, and is it used well for policy-making? What are the possibilities for the production and democratic use of good statistics, and the threats to such developments?
View the full programme of talks and break-out sessions.
Plus, thinking of coming along for the welcome reception?
A social, beginning with a review by economists Larry Brownstein & Julian Wells (7:15 – 8:30 pm) of the book Capital in the 21st Century (2013) by Thomas Piketty.


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MAES London: No job is too big or too small
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MAES London, a fashion manufacturing studio based in London, may not be a name you recognise right now, but if you're a fashion designer based in London – believe me – soon you will. Diana, the bubbly and energetic founder behind it is not someone who mulls over ideas. Instead, she springs into action and does the impossible. We meet with her to learn more about her newly found manufacturing studio and what sets her business apart.
Tell us a little bit about yourself?
My name is Diana Kakkar. I am originally from the north of India, but I've been away for over 10 years, having lived and worked in Sydney, Manchester, New York and now London where I've been for over seven years. I love the fashion scene here and it definitely feels like my home.
The first outfit I designed was for my 12th birthday party. I bought fabric and teamed with a local seamstress to get the right fit. After this I dabbled with the design until I'd started college, however, my family felt fashion was not a proper career so I majored in economics instead. Once I'd graduated from college I convinced my parents that, armed with my business degree, I could learn fashion technicalities and create a career out of it. It was a tough chat, but it paid off!
Did you have fashion background prior to launching your fashion manufacturing studio?
I studied at the National Institute of Fashion Technology, New Delhi, which is India's top fashion school. Looking back I feel I approached fashion with a sense of maturity because of my business degree. Even then, for me, fashion was always more than just designing clothes.
One of the great things about my course was that it focused quite heavily on creating garments. This really helped me to understand and appreciate how a garment is put together.
That was over 10 years ago, and since then I have worked with both menswear and womenswear brands.
What was the last role you worked as and where? What did you like about what you used to do?
Before I set up our fashion manufacturing studio MAES London, I was managing the atelier at high-end womenswear designer ERDEM.
Each season Erdem pushes himself and the team to create a collection that's even better than the season before so I was definitely challenged.
He's so inspiring. I learned a lot there and I'm proud of what the team at Erdem and I achieved together under his leadership.
What made you launch your own manufacturing studio? When did the idea come to your mind and why did you prefer to do that rather than staying employed?
I made the decision to launch my own manufacturing studio as recently as September last year (2017). The ERDEM team and I had just completed our SS18 LFW show and I felt a real sense of achievement.
The idea for the fashion manufacturing studio popped into my head. I did my research, found the perfect space for the studio and found a business partner who believed in the same vision as mine.
Together we wrote the business plan and started to make it happen.
Diana and Joshua Rosario at their studio – MAES London
How did you decide on who your perfect customer is or who you would like to work with? Was it a "passion" based decision or did you see a niche in the market?
I felt there was a gap in the market for a high-end garment manufacturer that focuses on samples and small production runs.
A beautiful sample can help secure future sales and I feel that MAES London could offer a genuinely valuable service to fashion designers.
Our strength lies in our ability to work with delicate fabrics like silks, chiffons, velvet. Handling these fabrics needs care, passion and high skill.
Our research showed that designers would invest a lot in developing these fabrics, but if they weren't cut and stitched well, the final product didn't justify the cost of the fabrics.
We quality check each of the steps required in garment making – cutting, stitching, finishing, measurements – and ensure the final garment we produce is one which looks good both technically and aesthetically.
Who is your typical customer?
For the recent London Fashion Week in February, we made garments for runway designers like Erdem and Rejina Pyo as well as other independent designers who showcase in the showrooms.
Effectively we cater to high-end designers and independent labels, helping them make gowns, dresses, tops/blouses and skirts. Occasionally we have requests from menswear designers too, looking for soft tailoring.
From my experience, designers can often struggle to find a manufacturer who takes the time to understand their needs and realise their vision.
That's why we aim to provide a personalised service for each client and take the necessary steps to achieve the desired result.
Our fashion manufacturing studio offers a bespoke service and the team here has over 20 years' experience in garment manufacturing.
No job is too big or too small and whatever we make is done to the highest standards.
What makes a great customer?
I love working with designers that have a good grasp of their brand and a clear vision for what they want.
Equally, someone who is organised, who communicates clearly and keeps a regular dialogue with us throughout the garment making process is immensely valuable and makes it easier for us to help them to achieve their goal.
What challenges did you face on your journey to set up your business?
I decided I needed to launch MAES London by mid-January 2018 to ensure the studio was operational before London Fashion Week. This meant I effectively had three months to set up the business whilst working my notice period at ERDEM.
Thankfully my business partner Joshua, who had just gone freelance, was able to dedicate his time towards writing the business plan and project managing the studio setup.
He is also the financial decision maker and ensured we didn't go overboard with our startup expenses. Having a business/finance partner whom you trust is essential to starting and running a creative business.
I'm happy to say we've not had any major challenges to date.
There have been a few minor hiccups of course, but that's to be expected when you set up your own business.
Now that you are up and running – what are the challenges that you face as a business and you personally as the CEO/founder?
Our biggest challenge as an early stage business is to build trust with our clients because, without them, MAES London wouldn't exist.
I believe in empowering our stakeholders – our clients and staff – with the means to deliver their best.
As CEO, my biggest personal challenge is to maintain the belief that each decision I make is the right one for the business and our stakeholders.
One thing I have learned from my years in the industry is that it's perfectly ok not to have the answer to every question.
What has been a big mistake that you have made to date and how did you fix it?
I'm not sure I have ever made a mistake significant enough to make a lasting imprint in my memory. Like everyone else, I do make mistakes, but I'm ok with that so long as I learn from each one I make.
One thing I have learned from my years in the industry is that it's perfectly ok not to have the answer to every question you're asked. Understandably everyone wants to feel they are making a valuable contribution to work and sometimes this prompts people to try to solve a problem before really taking the time to understand it.
If I don't know the answer to someone's question I don't pretend to, but instead I say "Let me get back to you" before stepping away from the discussion, gathering my thoughts, doing my research and then presenting a solution.
This gave way to me becoming a better listener and evolved me becoming a better manager.
What are the biggest mistakes you see designers make when working with manufacturers?
Designers not taking the time to build a good working relationship with their manufacturers.
Patience and dedication are needed from both sides to deliver a project.
What are the current challenges you think the fashion industry faces?
It's great that fashion is a truly global industry and London is definitely at the centre, but I feel that for many independent designers and home-grown talent there is a lack of support for the creative arts as well as technical skills available to them locally and this may stifle creativity.
Prime Minister Theresa May's recent Brexit speech which acknowledged the challenges faced by the creative industries is a step in the right direction.
Fashion, in my opinion, has always been about making the wearer feel good in the clothes you make. This is a combination of good design, good fit and good construction.
Sometimes these three aspects are done in three different parts of the world, and this can slow down creative decision making and disintegrate the final product.
If you can change one thing about the industry – what would that be?
Reduce wastage.
When our fashion manufacturing studio is more established, we would love to help make the fashion industry more sustainable through responsible disposal of waste.
What do you wish people knew before they contact you?
That we are a premium manufacturer delivering high-end products.
We're more interested in providing clients with the best value for money, rather than cutting corners and under delivering on quality.
How do you see the future of fashion manufacturing? Are there any technologies or changes that you think are making an impact and long-lasting changes?
Historically fashion manufacturing has been a handmade process, but this has changed significantly over the past two decades and will continue to change through technological advances.
Sewing robots performing a dedicated task on an assembly line like attaching zips or collars will eliminate errors, save time and increase productivity.
Smart textiles and artificial intelligence in fabrics will start to understand a wearer's needs. You'll be able to buy one jacket for multiple seasons as it'll monitor your body temperature and adjusting the jacket accordingly. Your shoes will monitor your posture and tell you when they are underperforming. They'll know your exact size and fit and be able to order you a replacement. All of this means garment tech and manufacturers will have to work closely together.
3D printing is particularly exciting as it could potentially reduce the overall steps needed in garment manufacturing. Iris Van Harpen is a pioneer of 3D printing and the perfect example of a designer embracing technology and creating beautiful couture pieces.
Ultimately technology will enable sustainability in the fashion industry by reducing wastage, resources and mistakes. It will help workers in the manufacturing industry to work smarter and therefore optimise productivity.
How important are spec packs as part of product development and manufacturing process?
They are the Holy Grail.
Fashion Tech Pack or Spec packs offer a two-way communication tool between designers and manufacturers, which follows the journey of the garment from development to the production stage.
Before we begin work on a garment at MAES London, it's crucial we are given a spec sheet with all relevant information including fabric usage, fusing, finishing and measurements.
If a pattern helps us make a garment, then a spec pack helps us maintain the standard of the garment.
With Brexit looming over us, there is a strong emphasis on "Made in Britain". What do you think about it?
I think it's fantastic and it's one of the primary reasons we launched MAES London.
There are so many talented designers in Britain, especially in London, and getting their samples made in the UK potentially gives them a better chance of success. Otherwise, they may have to overcome language barriers if, for example, they choose to work with a factory in the Far East, not to mention wasted time and costs if what's produced is not quite what they'd expected.
Being able to physically meet with a designer to talk through their vision in person is invaluable and means I can help them achieve the result they are looking for. They are also free to drop in the studio whilst their garment is being made.
What does success mean for you?
Our success revolves around the success of our clients.
If we can help a designer realise their vision by producing a beautiful sample for them, and if this sample leads to sales of the garment, then we've done a good job.
We measure success by our happy clients.
If you can give one piece of advice to fashion entrepreneurs, looking to launch their own brand or turn an idea into a product – what would that be?
Trust your instincts, but equally do your research.
Your friends, family and colleagues are great sounding boards for your ideas, but ultimately, it's only going to work and happen if you believe in it yourself and if you're willing to put everything you've got into it.
And always remember that you are not alone so don't be afraid to ask for help.
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In Japan, they set a new speed record in data transmission
In Japan, a group of researchers managed to break the speed record at which data transmissions can be made using fiber optic cables, it was reported that a speed of 1.02 petabits per second was reached through a network of 51.7 kilometers.
It was at Japan's National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) that the group of scientists was able to output information at a speed never before achieved and using fiber optic cables that are compatible with today's infrastructure.
To put the speeds reached in context, in the multiples of bits there are kilobits, then megabits, then gigabits, terabits and then, petabits (although there are units higher than petabits).
This power achieved would be enough to transmit 10 million channels per second of video with an 8K resolution. In addition, it is estimated that it is 100 thousand times faster than the most powerful domestic internet connections currently available on the market, and even higher than the Esnet6 implemented by NASA, which is expected to be launched in 2023 achieving a speed of 400GB per second.
As expected, certain adaptations are needed in the optical fiber to achieve these speeds and the secret is that, instead of having only one core as in traditional cables, the researchers from Japan used four cores, in addition to the transmission bandwidth was extended to 20 THz through the use of a technology named as wavelength division multiplexing.
Similarly, with this bandwidth, 801 wavelength channels can be used in three different bands. It should be noted that in this invention the cable size was not modified and the data can be read by the technology that is used today.
In recent years, NICT researchers have focused on improving data transmission speeds, in 2020 they reached 1.01 PB/s, in addition to also having a record in internet speed of 319 Tbps.
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Book Review: Damage by Josephine Hart
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By Keith April 10, 2019 Book Review
Earlier this year, to fulfill a goal to up my reading game, I devise what will no doubt go down as one of the greatest literary plans in history. I will read twenty novellas or short novels before April 30th. Since I developed this plan ten weeks from that date, it meant reading two novellas a week. Though the plan was sound, it failed to account for a couple unexpected family medical emergencies, including my second heart attack. Since I'm now in recovery from that heart attack, I'm returning to this plan to salvage what I can from it. I'm still reading the novellas–though I probably won't achieve twenty of them before April 30–but it's time to share with you my opinion about what I've read in this survey. In fact, I began this last month, with my review of Woman at Point Zero. And now onto my second novella–Damage by Josephine Hart.
Published in 1991, Damage was the source of the 1992 film of the same title, starring Jeromy Irons and Juliette Binoche. When I saw the movie on video tape–circa 1995–it inspired me to read the novel. This is one occasion where I had seen the movie prior to reading the novel. As returning readers know, I prefer the other way around, but often, as in this case, I learn about the novel from watching its movie adaptation. I enjoyed both, but as usual, I felt the novel was better than the film. Since Damage comes in at under 200 pages, it was the perfect length for this survey. I was excited to read it again, and now that I have read it the second time, I'm glad I added it to my project.
Josephine Hart (1942-2011) was born in Ireland. During the 1960s, she moved to London, where became a theater producer and she founded the West Side Poetry Hour. She wanted to bring her love of poetry to the general population. She married Maurice Saatchi, a member of the House of Lords and the founder of two advertising firms. This marriage made her Lady Saatchi. After friends encouraged her to write, she wrote Damage. It's her first of six novels that included Sin and Oblivion. In 2008, she also edited Catching Life by the Throat: Poems from Eight Great Poets. Her final novel, The Truth About Love was published in 2009. She died of cancer in 2011.
They say that childhood forms us, that those early influences are the key to everything. Is the peace of the soul so easily won? Simply the inevitable result of a happy childhood. What makes childhood happy? Parental harmony? Good health? Security? Might not a happy childhood be the worst possible preparation for life?
Damage tells about the affair between a Member of Parliament (MP) and his son's girlfriend, Anna. It's a first person narration, in the point-of-view of the MP, who never tells us his name. Despite that, he gives us a good idea of what type of person he is–a successful doctor and politician, a member of British society, a man of good judgement and moral reputation–in short, the opposite type of man who's supposed to engage in such foolishness. Yet once he met Anna, a relationship with her was all he valued, and since she, for her own reason, not only accepted his advances but also encouraged them, that relationship happened. Horrible consequences, as you can image, ensued.
The best element in this story is the character arcs for both the unnamed narrator and Anna. Particularly his. There's a theory or formula in fiction that I have mentioned before: Give a man everything he wants to show he has nothing! It's the narrative strategy between such novels as The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney. Whether these writers thought about the formula in the simple way I have phrased it is not known, but I believe they knew they were writing about the fall of man. Hart also wrote about the fall of man. She gave him everything he wants only to show us that he has nothing. His fall is an emotional event that passes through several psychological phases–from rational to guilt.
'Clearly, you are a most unusual father. But then you also have a most unusual son. And this is a very strange conversation.' He sighed. 'Anna provokes strange conversations.'
Guilt is the theme I pulled from Damage. In the novel, guilt is both a psychological condition and a moral judgement. Guilt motivates Anna. Though it doesn't justify her participation in the affair, it explains it. She's emotionally and morally damaged–hence the title–and she thinks that gives her permission to break rules. Since it's told in the first person from the father's POV, we know her inner world only by what she tells him, and we have to wonder how truthful she was with him. First person narration, by nature, involves an unreliable narrator. In Damage, what makes the MP unreliable is that he has to trust what Anna tells him, even though we can't be sure she told him the whole truth. In the end, trusting her cost him. What guilt she had felt she transferred to him. He alone must face the consequences of their affair.
Though it may arrive with shocking suddenness, horror devours its prey slowly. Through hours of days and years, it spreads its sullen darkness into every corner of the being it has conquered. As hope drains like blood from a fatal wound, a heavy weakness descends. The victim slips into the underworld where he must search for new paths in what he now knows will be a permanent darkness. Horror claimed me.
Novels tend to be expansive. Even scene inspires follow-up scenes; even conflict requires its own backstory; every setting requires a description. I love this about long novels, the way they worm through the plot and character and setting. But novellas can't afford this. They lack the pages for subplots and complex backstories. Writers of novellas have to masters of selection. What stays? What gets cut? Hart did a great job in this selection. One of Damage best strengths is its succinct style that still feels fully descriptive.
The other advantage of novellas is that they are quick reads. Almost everyone I know–including myself–believe they do not read enough. Modern technology–I'm looking at you Internet and streaming movies and computer games–is wonderful for allowing us to achieve what we want, but it can also be distracting. There's something wonderful about turning everything off and opening a book. If you fear you don't have the time or the attention span for Moby Dick or War and Peace, then maybe Damage is the right fit for your schedule. It's a perfect book to read poolside or over a relaxing weekend. I believe you will enjoy it.
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OUSD board denies Lazear Elementary charter application
Ryan Phillips on April 26, 2012
Breaking down in tears, Hae-Sin Thomas appealed to the Oakland Unified School District board "emotionally and personally," she said, in asking the board to approve a charter application for Lazear Elementary, a Fruitvale area school that the district has slated for closure in the fall.
Thomas is the CEO of charter school management company Education for Change, and she urged the board to convert Lazear to a charter school instead of closing it as planned next fall. Education for Change would manage the school if it became a charter.
But the board can't make emotional decisions, board member Christopher Dobbins said, and "this is an issue that is about the numbers." Last fall, citing too few students at too many schools, the board voted to close five elementary schools to save $2 million.
A majority of the board took Dobbins' side, voting 5-2 on Wednesday night to deny Lazear's application to convert to a charter school. The vote was along the same lines as in October, when the board voted to close five schools, including Lazear, with board members Noel Gallo (District 5) and Alice Spearman (District 7) opposing both times.
The board's vote on Wednesday effectively closes Lazear, pending an appeal by the school to the Alameda County Board of Education.
After the board voted, Lazear parents and supporters, many wearing burgundy school T-shirts, cried and hugged as they filtered out of the building.
"Thank you for fighting for my kids, and my families," Lazear principal Kareem Weaver said to Thomas in the hallway outside the board meeting.
"We're not done," she responded.
Parents of Lazear students first submitted a charter application last fall, after the board voted to close the school in October. That petition was rejected by OUSD's charter school office, but with assistance from Education For Change, the school applied again to convert to a charter school in February.
In late March, voting against the recommendation of the charter school office, the board voted unanimously to allow general counsel Jacqueline Minor to negotiate a "partnership" agreement with the school, in which it would become a charter school but remain closely tied to the district, and continue to pay the district for services and contribute to the district's annual payments to reduce its debt to the state.
Minor had recently negotiated two other partnership agreements with other Fruitvale area elementary schools, Learning Without Limits and ASCEND, which are the first two schools in the district to fall under this new category. But unlike those two schools, Lazear was already scheduled to close, and converting to a charter would cost the district $1.4 million because the money the district was to save from the closure had already been included in the budget for the next fiscal year. Superintendent Tony Smith said keeping Lazear open as a charter school would throw off the district's financial plan. Smith said by closing the five schools, the district is able to increase per-pupil spending next year by five percent.
"There are way too many schools in Oakland, still," Smith told the board at Wednesday night's meeting. "When I got here, there were 20 to 30 too many schools, and at this moment going in to next year, there would be 18 fewer schools. To accomplish the aspirations we have for every kid, we have too few dollars spread too thin across the district."
But Spearman said that making a decision on a school's charter status based on financial information is "illegal," and Thomas agreed, saying in an interview after the meeting that financial implications are not among the criteria the state allows districts to use when considering charter applications. The district is supposed to consider matters such as whether the educational program will be unsound, she said.
Smith said OUSD's business office analyzed the financial implications to the district if Lazear converted to a charter because it was a question posed by the board, and that the decision on the charter status should be based on the findings by the charter office. Smith he said that while the cost of to the district of Lazear staying open is "significant," the decision came down to the charter office not approving the school's program. "At the root of this, it didn't meet the quality standard of the charter office," Smith said.
Regardless, Lazear parents, many speaking in Spanish, implored the board to keep the school open. "The Lazear children have been passed over for decades," Lazear parent Patricia De Leon told the board. "We finally have the chance so many other Oakland children have had for years. Please, please keep your promise to the Lazear families."
Thomas isn't so sure the decision didn't come down to just the numbers. She said she didn't remember the board asking for financial analysis of Lazear's conversion to a charter school in late March. "If they did, I would have probably flagged that as illegal," Thomas said.
Thomas said she would help Lazear parents find new schools for their kids if the appeal is rejected by the county and then the state board of education, which would be the final agency to handle an appeal. She said kids from Lazear have been assigned to 21 different schools in the fall, and she is going to do her best to keep them together.
"The fact that this community is going to be dispersed is a tragedy," Thomas said. "It's a tragedy to have empowered brown mothers in the Fruitvale for who are this support structure for each other disbanded."
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Lazear has been in "portable" buildings for over 20 years! Those kids had to endure pollution pouring off the freeway, then the demolition of the DelMonte canning factory follwed by the building of that mall. Millions of dollars poured into commerce, and very little into education! It's a sham and a shame! How much you want to bet the land that poor school is on will be sold to the highest bidder?


Why autism education and Cybersecurity awareness training fails and how to solve it.
Everyone tries to solve the lack of cybersecurity awareness, and everyone fails. They fail because they don't understand how our we integrate "information" into what we perceive as an expansion of our perception.
The current approach tries to address the problem via focusing on the #conscious, while the truth of the matter is that we interact with the real world via the #subconscious. As if we are not living in an age of a constant and increasingly intrusive digital distortion of our perception of reality, that is attacking our subconscious and manipulating us by knowing our biases (example: fake news). As if expansion of knowledge changes our core drivers. If knowledge was able to change people perception, people wouldn't be smoking after they see all the horrific photos on the cover of all tobacco products. We live in a digitized era. The digital world is everywhere, it is part of who "we are". Your dopamine reward system are being hacked constantly by your mobile phone apps, it is integrated into "your" physical experience. A growth of knowledge on the conscious level does not give you any measurable impact on the subconscious, because… that's why we call it "subconscious" – we can't measure it. Knowledge doesn't change perception, direct experience does. After been given the diagnose of my youngest son extreme autism I was reading and learning everything I could about it, and the impact it might have, but it didn't allowed me to understand him, nor to influence him. I didn't feel like he did, so I couldn't grasp that it means to be autistic.
Exposing the malware that is killing cybersecurity.
In the past years a new malware has been slowly yet steadily taking over our world. It spreads like wildfire throughout our society, corporate and governmental world, and by doing so it increases the probability of our annihilation. It morphed and evolved, most of our infrastructure is now compromised, and yet most people don't even recognise their infrastructure is as well.
Why you shouldn't trust (awareness) experts, what should you trust instead, and my new year resolution.
During the SANS European awareness summit, I've ended up in an interesting debate on twitter with one of the attendees (John Scott). The debate was on the observation I made that science was not part of the agenda in this major awareness summit. There was not a single scientist on stage to talk about their breakthrough research, and none of the tweets about the event (#SecAwareSummit) included any science in them.
My observations didn't go that well with John, who seems to have taken it a bit personal. To show me I was wrong he mentioned that Jessica Barker gave a talk. Yes, she did, and yes: she's a (civil design) doctor, and I barely finished Kindergarten.
When SANS finally posted the slides from the event (including the workshops that occurred before), it seems that the only one who provided external references in their slides was Jess (well done). She mentioned 5 academic papers (from 1996, 1999, 2008, 2008, 2009), one reference to TED talk (2012) and one book (2017). Only one of the research mentioned was focused on information security (2009, Self-efficacy in information security: Its influence on end users' information security practice behaviour), it used social cognitive theory, and the results suggested that simply listing what not to do and penalties associated with a wrong doing in the users' information security policy alone will have a limited impact on effective implementation of security measures.
Darn, I really wanted to sleep, I really did! I had to work on something till late tonight, already got total upset by 4pm, and when I finally ended it near midnight, I checked twitter and darn, Uber been hacked. "What the heck, they fired Joe Sallivat, their head of Information security and Craig Clark, (the?) director of legal? Wow, I must write about it". Luckily tomorrow I need to wake up early then usual. Darn lucky.


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Home News Appointments
By Cari
Lone Dencker Wisborg became ambassador of Denmark to the United States on April 8, 2019.
Most recently, she served as state secretary and chief operating officer in the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as ambassador to Spain (2011-15). Ambassador Wisborg has been with the Danish Foreign Service for more than 25 years and held various positions in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, including: state secretary for foreign policy (2015-17); undersecretary for global security (2009-11); and head of Department for Security Policy (2007-09). Ambassador Wisborg also worked as chief operating officer for the Bikuben Foundation from 2006 to 2007. Prior to that, she served as deputy head of mission at the Embassy of Denmark in Warsaw (2004-06) and as private secretary to the minister for foreign affairs (2001-03). In addition, she was head of section in the International Department of the Danish Parliament (2001-03); first secretary at the Embassy of Denmark in Tallinn; and head of section in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Ambassador Wisborg holds a master's of law degree from Aarhus University and has a teenage son.
Stavros Lambrinidis became ambassador of the European Union to the United States on April 8, 2019, having previously served as the EU special representative for human rights from 2012 to February 2019.
In 2011, Ambassador Lambrinidis was the foreign affairs minister of Greece, prior to which he was twice elected as a member of the European Parliament (2004-11) with the Greek Social Democratic Party (PASOK). He served as vice president of the European Parliament (2009-11); vice president of the Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee (2004-09); and head of the PASOK Delegation (2005-11). Between 2000 and 2004, he was director-general of the International Olympic Truce Centre, an International Olympic Committee organization. He also served as ambassador ad personam of the Hellenic Republic (1999-2004); secretary-general of the Greek Foreign Ministry, responsible for expatriate Greeks (1996-99); and chief of staff to the Greek Foreign Minister (1996). Between 1988 and 1993, he worked as an attorney at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering in Washington, D.C., specializing in international trade, transactions and arbitration.
Ambassador Lambrinidis, who was born in Athens in 1962, studied economics and political science at Amherst College and law at Yale Law School, where he was also managing editor of The Yale Journal of International Law. He is married Phoebe Kapouano and has a daughter, Chloe.
Joao Godinho Alves became commercial counselor on Jan. 4, 2019, superseding Ana Maria Alberto, who departed the post on Dec. 20, 2018. Alves previously served as deputy director general of the Mozambique Investment Promotion Centre from 2010 to 2017.
Monica Ndiliawike Nashandi became ambassador of Namibia to the United States on Jan. 11, 2019.
She previously served as Namibian ambassador to Ethiopia, Djibouti and South Sudan, as well as permanent representative to the African Union and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (2016-18). From 2010 to 2016, she worked at the Namibia Power Corp. (NamPower) as divisional manager of strategy corporate communication and electrification in the Office of the Managing Director Business Unit. In addition, Ambassador Nashandi previously served as deputy executive director of the private office of the president (2005-09); deputy permanent secretary of multilateral affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2004-05); high commissioner to the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland (1999-2004); and ambassador to Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark and Iceland (1995-99). She was also undersecretary of political and economic affairs (1991-95) and deputy chief of protocol (1990-91) at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Ambassador Nashandi held various roles in the SWAPO (South West African People's Organization) party of Namibia, including public relations officer in Windhoek (1989-90); deputy representative to the SWAPO Observer Mission to the United Nations in New York (1987-89); and a member of the Central Committee of the SWAPO Youth League and of the Secretariat in Luanda, Angola (1980-87). She was also a member of the People's Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN) from 1978 to 1980.
Ambassador Nashandi survived the Battle of Cassinga, a South African airborne attack on a SWAPO camp, in 1978, which was the year she went into exile. She holds a diploma in youth development from the Commonwealth Youth Program in conjunction with the University of Zambia, as well as a master's degree in diplomatic studies from the University of Westminster in Britain.
Born Oct. 12, 1959, Ambassador Nashandi speaks English, Portuguese, Afrikaans and Oshiwambo. She is married with three children ages 34, 28 and 7.
Rosemary Banks became ambassador of New Zealand to the United States on Jan. 11, 2019.
She has had a 40-year career in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, including six overseas assignments. She was permanent representative to the United Nations in New York and ambassador to France and Portugal, as well as New Zealand's permanent representative to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development OECD. Ambassador Banks also served as deputy chief of mission of the New Zealand Embassy in Australia and the Solomon Islands. As deputy secretary in New Zealand's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, she was responsible for multilateral, legal and consular affairs. She coordinated the emergency responses to the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the Bali bombings and the Asian tsunami. Drawing on these experiences, she led the development of a new emergency response system and guidance manual. Earlier Wellington-based positions include director of development assistance, director of the North Asia Division, director of public affairs and foreign policy adviser to the foreign affairs minister.
Ambassador Banks holds a master's degree in Russian with first-class honors from Canterbury University and a master's of science degree from the London School of Economics.
Asad Majeed Khan became ambassador of Pakistan to the United States on Jan. 11, 2019, having previously served as Pakistan's ambassador to Japan since August 2017.
A career diplomat with over 29 years of experience, Ambassador Khan has held various positions in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, including additional foreign secretary of the Americas from August 2016 to July 2017; director general of the Americas from June 2016 to August 2016; and director general of West Asia from September 2015 to February 2016, overseeing Pakistan's bilateral relations with Iran, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. He was previously posted to the Pakistani Embassy in Washington, D.C., as deputy chief of mission (2012-15) and chargé d'affaires (2013-14). He also served as additional secretary of foreign affairs at the President's Secretariat in Islamabad, handling a range of peace and security issues for the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Interior, Defence and Narcotics. In addition, as director general of the United Nations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2010 to 2011, he worked on a range of issues including terrorism, peacekeeping, U.N. reforms, human rights and sustainable development. From 2004 to 2010, Ambassador Khan served as minister-counselor at the Pakistani Permanent Mission to the U.N. in New York, where he represented Pakistan in the U.N.'s Second Committee and the Economic and Social Council. During this time, he served as the chief coordinator for the Group of 77 during Pakistan's G77 chairmanship at the U.N. in 2007, as well as vice chair of the Bureau of the U.N. Conference on Sustainable Development from 2010 to 2011. Prior postings include director of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation in Islamabad, director of economic coordination at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and second secretary at the Pakistani Embassy in Japan.
Ambassador Khan earned his doctorate in international economic and business law (LL.D.) from Kyushu University in Japan and has been a resource person at various academic institutions in Pakistan, including International Islamic University in Lahore; University of Management Sciences; Foreign Trade Institute of Pakistan; and Foreign Services Academy on International Trade, Law and WTO Affairs. He is married with two children.
Manuel María Cáceres became ambassador of Paraguay to the United States on Jan. 11, 2019, having previously served as ambassador to Brazil (2014-18), deputy foreign minister of Paraguay (2013; 2002-03) and vice minister of economic relations and integration (2010-13).
Ambassador Cáceres previously served in Washington, D.C., as minister at the Paraguayan Embassy (1995-96) and alternate representative to the Organization of American States (1993-94). In addition, Ambassador Cáceres has served as permanent representative of Paraguay to the OAS in D.C. (2005-09); ambassador to Argentina (2004); ambassador to the European Union and Belgium (1997-2001); and general director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1990-92).
He studied at the School of Law and Diplomacy at the Catholic University "Nuestra Señora de la Asuncion" in Asunción, Paraguay, and holds a master's in law degree from Harvard Law School. Born Dec. 21, 1960, in Villarica, Paraguay, Ambassador Cáceres is married to Ana María Sisa Cáceres and has two children, Sebastián and María Paz.
Carlos Alfredo Vecchio became the U.S.-recognized ambassador of Venezuela to the United States on April 8, 2019.
Vecchio was born on June 6, 1969, in Caripe, Venezuela, the youngest of three children, to Maria Teresa Demari de Vecchio, a teacher, and Rafael Vecchio, a political activist and three-term council person for Caripe. He moved to Caracas in 1987, studied at the Central University of Venezuela and earned his law degree in 1992. He did postgraduate studies in law at Georgetown University and public administration at Harvard University, where he was a Fulbright scholar at the Kennedy School of Government. In 2009, he joined Leopoldo López and Juan Guaidó to found the Voluntad Popular (Popular Will) party to oppose then-Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. In February 2014, after Nicolás Maduro came to power, López called for protests and the opposition leader was arrested shortly afterward. An arrest warrant was also issued for Vecchio, who fled to the United States. In January 2019, Vecchio was named by Interim President Juan Guaidó to serve as chargé d'affaires of the shuttered Venezuelan Embassy in D.C.
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MUSIC MISCELLANEOUS
By: Tom Becker Updated September 15, 2017
Much of American music has its roots in African-American culture. Many musical forms, from country to experimental music, evolved from or alongside the music of African-American communities. Two particularly influential African-American musical forms remain popular today: R&B and hip-hop. While both these forms share common musical ancestors, they differ in a number of specific ways. Understanding the differences between R&B and hip-hop can help illustrate the variety and complexity of African-American music and the influence it has had on world culture.
Largely secular musical forms, both R&B and hip-hop share roots in African-American religious musical traditions. The chord changes and vocal styles used in African-American churches served as the foundation for many R&B songs. While vocals in R&B tend to focus on clarity and musical virtuosity, hip-hop vocals rarely emphasize singing and stress complexity and fluidity or "flow." Backing vocals in both R&B and hip-hop feature traditional singing styles, but backing vocals usually accompany R&B singers, while they punctuate the lyrics of the rappers in hip-hop.
R&B and hip-hop share a great deal in common in terms of instrumentation, as many hip-hop songs utilize samples from R&B and R&B-influenced recordings as their foundation. R&B bands usually consist of at least a drummer, bassist and guitarist, with supplementary instruments such as keyboards and horn sections. Hip-hop tends to utilize more synthesizers than R&B, as well as samples of vocals, dialogue and sound effects as components of the instrumentation. Even so, some R&B music does incorporate digital instrumentation, and some hip-hop features live bands.
R&B music covers a wide array of subject matter, from the original blues songs of love and loss to more introspective, sophisticated songs of the contemporary period. Generally, R&B music focuses on tamer subject matter, compared with hip-hop, and it ranges from expressions of love to exclamations of sorrow. Hip-hop originated, in part, among rappers who would battle each other for supremacy in live, improvised performances. This tradition influenced much of the development of hip-hop, so that many of the lyrics concern the virtuosity of the vocalist or DJ supplying the music and beat. Hip-hop also arose, in part, from the experience of living amid extreme urban decay and reflects a harsher reality, expectations and values than R&B does.
The structure of R&B music shares more in common with jazz and traditional American popular music, compared with hip-hop. R&B songs generally have a recognizable chorus that repeats during verses, sometimes followed by a third movement or "bridge" that connects the verse to the final verses or chorus. Hip-hop tends to utilize a cyclical or repeating structure that reflects the use of a repeating sampled beat. Many hip-hop recordings have a chorus, often a sample, sung or chanted in unison live, which separates each set of lyrics.
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For Trump, it was some kind of Day 1,000 on the job
By Chuck Todd and Mark Murray and Carrie Dann with NBC News Politics • Updated: 17/10/2019
President Donald Trump speaks during a reception for Italian President Sergio Mattarella in the East Room of the White House, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019, in Washington. - Copyright Alex Brandon AP
WASHINGTON — Yesterday was Day 1,000 of the Trump presidency, as the Washington Post's Dan Zak notes (if you count Inauguration Day as Day 1).
And what a day it was.
The House of Representatives voted — by a 354-to-60 margin — to condemn Trump's withdrawal of American forces from northern Syria.
In a meeting with Italy's president, Trump repeated the conspiracy theory that somehow Russia wasn't responsible for the hack into DNC emails in 2016: "Where is the server? How come the FBI never got the server from the DNC? Where is the server? I want to see the server. Let's see what's on the server."
In a later press availability with Italy's president, Trump falsely said that the PKK — a separatist group of Turkish Kurds — is perhaps worse than ISIS: "Now, the PKK, which is a part of the Kurds, as you know, is probably worse at terror and more of terrorist threat, in many ways, than ISIS."
The president got into a spat with Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., over the senator questioning his handling of Syria and Turkey: "I think Lindsey should focus on judiciary. He ought to find out about what happened with Comey, what happened with McCabe, Lisa, what happened with Peter Strzok, what happened with President Obama, what happened with Brennan. That's what Lindsey ought to focus on."
The White House confirmed that Trump had sent this letter to Turkey's Erdogan, which was dated Oct. 9 (after Trump had already green-lighted Turkey's incursion into northern Syria): "Let's work out a good deal! You don't want to be responsible for slaughtering thousands of people, and I don't want to be responsible for destroying the Turkish economy — and I will… Don't be a tough guy. Don't be a fool. I will call you later." (Erdogan reportedly threw the letter into the trash bin.)
House Democrats stormed out of a White House meeting with Trump, with Speaker Nancy Pelosi accusing Trump of having a "meltdown."
And Trump tweeted a picture of Pelosi standing up to Trump at the White House meeting, and said she was the one having "an unhinged meltdown." (Pelosi inserted the picture into her Twitter profile.)
Outside of the president's behavior, what continues to stand out are the GOP members of Congress who compartmentalize all of it.
The pressure points they once could have used — like holding up his priorities and nominees — are gone.
Sondland's quid pro quo?
Gordon Sondland, President Trump's ambassador to the European Union, is scheduled to appear for his closed-door deposition in the impeachment inquiry at 9:30 am ET, per NBC's Geoff Bennett.
And it comes as NBC's Josh Lederman reports that Sondland, on July 10, explicitly mentioned the Ukrainian gas company linked to Joe Biden's son over negotiations about granting Ukraine's new president an audience with President Trump.
"Sondland's meeting with the Ukrainians just steps away from the White House Situation Room came minutes after a larger West Wing meeting that included then-National Security Adviser John Bolton, who had been noncommittal about scheduling a meeting between Trump and new Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy."
"Sondland directly contradicted Bolton by telling the Ukrainians that in fact, Trump was committed to meeting with Zelenskiy on the condition he open a corruption investigation, two people told about the matter tell NBC News. Bolton abruptly ended the meeting."
"But, the individuals say, Sondland then invited the Ukrainian officials to continue the conversation separately, escorting them to a private room in the White House basement, the individuals said. That's when Sondland was overheard discussing Burisma Holdings, whose board of directors former Vice President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden joined in 2014."
That certainly seems to contradict that text from Sondland on Sept. 9: "Bill [Taylor], I believe you are incorrect about President Trump's intentions. The President has been crystal clear no quid pro quo's of any kind… I suggest we stop the back and forth by text."
2020 Vision: Biden's cash-on-hand situation doesn't look like a frontrunner's
We continue to vacillate on Joe Biden's position in the 2020 Democratic race.
Is his frontrunner status more durable than the conventional wisdom suggests?
Or is he in more trouble than anyone thinks?
The cash on hand that Biden revealed in his 3rd quarter fundraising report — just $9 million, behind Sanders, Warren, Buttigieg and Harris — was evidence for the latter.
On the campaign trail today
President Trump holds a rally in Dallas at 8:00 pm ET… Beto O'Rourke holds a counter-rally in Grand Prairie, which is right outside of Dallas… Elizabeth Warren addresses a DNC Women Will Vote gala in DC… Kamala Harris and Julian Castro are in Iowa… And Amy Klobuchar remains in New Hampshire.
Dispatches from NBC's embeds
Pete Buttigieg held a health-care roundtable in Iowa, where he highlighted the differences between his plan and others' - mainly in comparison to Medicare for All after his debate performance. NBC's Priscilla Thompson reported that Buttigieg received a question centered on the middle class being unable to afford more taxes: "Buttigieg assured her neither his prescription drug plan nor his health care plan in general would require a tax increase. 'That's an advantage over the Medicare for All idea,' he said. 'That not only involve a higher tax rate on the middle class, but also there's still a hole that nobody has been able to explain and it's trillions of dollars.' As a reminder Buttigieg says his drug plan is cost neutral paid for by taxes and penalties against drug companies."
Joe Biden said President Trump led American leadership into "a free fall" while in Iowa, per NBC's Maura Barrett. Biden said Trump is the "most reckless and incompetent commander-in-chief we've ever had." Barrett reports he "laid out the timeline in which Trump 'greenlighted Turkey's invasion,' but said 'the damage has been done. You don't get do-overs when it comes to national security.'" Biden also took a swipe at Elizabeth Warren, saying he was "surprised last night in the debate when one of my colleagues said she'd remove all troops from the Middle East. You know we can be strong and smart at the same time."
Data Download: The number of the day is … $47.6 million
$47.6 million.
That's how much billionaire Tom Steyer contributed to his OWN presidential campaign in the 3rd fundraising quarter.
Outside contributions in the same amount of time totaled just $2 million.
The staggering sum was enough for Steyer to purchase enough TV time in early nominating states to help him (barely) each the polling criteria for the October and November debates. But he's still polling at just around 1.5 percent on average in national Democratic primary polls.
The Lid: Burn notice
Don't miss the pod from yesterday, when we took a deep dive into how much the Democratic candidates are raising and spending.
ICYMI: News clips you shouldn't miss
NBC's Ben Kamisar and Melissa Holzberg have a thorough look at everything we learned from the Q3 fundraising reports.
A leading gun control groupis worried about the politics of mandatory buybacks.
Here's our team's look at just what happened in that contentious meeting between Trump and congressional Democrats.
Mitch McConnell is telling Senate Republicans to prepare for an impeachment trial.
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Negitoro () is a Japanese cuisine of minced raw tuna scrape, the fatty parts of the fish that cannot be made into other meals, commonly served together with green onion. In addition to being an ingredient to sushi of various types, they are also used as a rice bowl topping, forming negitorodon.

Etymology
Multiple hypotheses exist.

Combination of green onion and toro part of tuna
One hypothesis is that negitoro is so named because it is a combination of green onion (), and  (, fatty parts of tuna).Since the 1980s, with the appearance of new toro sushi combined with pungent vegetables, the well-matched taste and combination of toro, green onion and nori seaweed have become popular.

Toro referring to something other than part of tuna
One of the restaurants hypothesized as the origin of the dish claims the dish was so named based on , a dish that was popular around the place at the time.

Negi referring to something other than green onion
In the field of construction in Japan, digging soil from the ground to constructing building is termed negiru (), and it was hypothesized that the term adopted into negiru () or negitoru () to refer to meat being scraped. Tuna fishing groups support the hypothesis. However, dictionary editors question the hypothesis, claiming there is no verifiable usage of the verb form of the adopted word negitoru (), and thus the hypothesis cannot be sustained. It has been suggested the negitoru origin hypothesis emerged after the 2000s, and until the 1990s the mainstream hypothesis on the origin of the negitoro dish was that the term is a combination of green onion () and  ().

Mass-market product
Negitoro sold to the mass market and distributed into retail channels like supermarkets is mass-produced in fish factories. They use lean meat of various fishes, including, for example, yellowfin tuna, marlin, bigeye tuna, and albacore,  then adding additives like vegetable oil, shortening, lard, antioxidants, and condiments. Dedicated fat products for the purpose of negitoro manufacturing have also been produced.

Japanese consumer groups and magazines have raised concerns about such practices being possibly misleading and raising potential health concerns. However, there are also claims that unprocessed tuna scrape is not popular.

References

Citations

Bibliography

Tuna dishes
Japanese cuisine
Sushi
Raw foods

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Q: PostgreSQL Full Text search I need to use Full Text Search with Postgresql but I don't find the way to look for a list of words from a table (using ts_query) against an indexed text field (ts_vector data type). Is ts_query just able to process a few words or can process also multiple values that come from a table?
Thanks in advance for your help.

A: Let me try to formulate an answer according to the comments given on the question (if I understand your request correctly).
Problem
You are trying to do a full text search on the table tableA, column indexed_text_field (a tsvector type) based on words that are stored as text in another table tableB in a column called words.
Solution
First, if you wish to feed PostgreSQL multiple tokens (individual words) during a full text search you have two functions at your disposal:

*

*to_tsquery()

*plainto_tsquery()

In the first function you need to split each given token with an ampersand (&). The second function can be fed any string of text and it will chop it into tokens for you. More info here.
Your challenge is that you wish to select matches based on words present in another table. This can be done in different ways, for example via a simple (INNER) JOIN:
SELECT a.* FROM tableA a, tableB b WHERE a.indexed_text_field @@ to_tsquery(b.words);

Or if you have multiple words in the words column you should most likely be using the plainto_tsquery() function to keep things simple:
SELECT a.* FROM tableA a, tableB b WHERE a.indexed_text_field @@ plainto_tsquery(b.words);

Yet, if you must use the more low-level to_tsquery() version:
SELECT a.* FROM tableA a, tableB b WHERE a.indexed_text_field @@ to_tsquery(replace(b.words, ' ', '&'));

In the latter you replace all spaces between the words with and ampersand, thus making them separate tokens. Mind the index usage on the last one though, as you might need to create an expression index on the usage of the replace() function.

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Q: "End of script output before headers: wsgi.py" when uploading a picture in Django from iOS device For some reason, sometimes when my users are uploading a pictures, I keep getting a 500 error, which I can't reproduce on my own. The only thing I can see in my django/apache/wsgi logs is this:
[core:error] [pid 17191] End of script output before headers: wsgi.py
I have no idea where to start...
EDIT #1
I changed my LogLevel to Debug and I got the following:
[Tue Dec 17 14:11:46.600635 2013] [proxy:debug] [pid 29456] proxy_util.c(1734): AH00927: initializing worker proxy:reverse local
[Tue Dec 17 14:11:46.600709 2013] [proxy:debug] [pid 29456] proxy_util.c(1785): AH00931: initialized single connection worker in child 29456 for (*)
[Tue Dec 17 14:11:46.600788 2013] [:info] [pid 29456] mod_wsgi (pid=29456): Initializing Python.
[Tue Dec 17 14:11:46.608906 2013] [:info] [pid 29455] mod_wsgi (pid=29455): Starting process 'poka' with uid=48, gid=48 and threads=15.
[Tue Dec 17 14:11:46.609425 2013] [:info] [pid 29455] mod_wsgi (pid=29455): Initializing Python.
[Tue Dec 17 14:11:46.612573 2013] [proxy:debug] [pid 29457] proxy_util.c(1694): AH00925: initializing worker proxy:reverse shared
[Tue Dec 17 14:11:46.612627 2013] [proxy:debug] [pid 29457] proxy_util.c(1734): AH00927: initializing worker proxy:reverse local
[Tue Dec 17 14:11:46.612698 2013] [proxy:debug] [pid 29457] proxy_util.c(1785): AH00931: initialized single connection worker in child 29457 for (*)
[Tue Dec 17 14:11:46.612779 2013] [:info] [pid 29457] mod_wsgi (pid=29457): Initializing Python.
[Tue Dec 17 14:11:46.616459 2013] [proxy:debug] [pid 29458] proxy_util.c(1694): AH00925: initializing worker proxy:reverse shared
[Tue Dec 17 14:11:46.616511 2013] [proxy:debug] [pid 29458] proxy_util.c(1734): AH00927: initializing worker proxy:reverse local
[Tue Dec 17 14:11:46.616574 2013] [proxy:debug] [pid 29458] proxy_util.c(1785): AH00931: initialized single connection worker in child 29458 for (*)
[Tue Dec 17 14:11:46.616644 2013] [:info] [pid 29458] mod_wsgi (pid=29458): Initializing Python.
[Tue Dec 17 14:11:46.630974 2013] [proxy:debug] [pid 29459] proxy_util.c(1694): AH00925: initializing worker proxy:reverse shared
[Tue Dec 17 14:11:46.631046 2013] [proxy:debug] [pid 29459] proxy_util.c(1734): AH00927: initializing worker proxy:reverse local
[Tue Dec 17 14:11:46.631116 2013] [proxy:debug] [pid 29459] proxy_util.c(1785): AH00931: initialized single connection worker in child 29459 for (*)
[Tue Dec 17 14:11:46.631195 2013] [:info] [pid 29459] mod_wsgi (pid=29459): Initializing Python.
[Tue Dec 17 14:11:46.664817 2013] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 29453] AH00163: Apache/2.4.6 (Amazon) OpenSSL/1.0.1e-fips mod_wsgi/3.4 Python/2.7.5 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Tue Dec 17 14:11:46.664879 2013] [mpm_prefork:info] [pid 29453] AH00164: Server built: Sep 20 2013 18:01:06
[Tue Dec 17 14:11:46.664901 2013] [core:notice] [pid 29453] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/httpd'
[Tue Dec 17 14:11:46.664939 2013] [mpm_prefork:debug] [pid 29453] prefork.c(995): AH00165: Accept mutex: sysvsem (default: sysvsem)
[Tue Dec 17 14:11:46.668668 2013] [proxy:debug] [pid 29460] proxy_util.c(1694): AH00925: initializing worker proxy:reverse shared
[Tue Dec 17 14:11:46.668748 2013] [proxy:debug] [pid 29460] proxy_util.c(1734): AH00927: initializing worker proxy:reverse local
[Tue Dec 17 14:11:46.668832 2013] [proxy:debug] [pid 29460] proxy_util.c(1785): AH00931: initialized single connection worker in child 29460 for (*)
[Tue Dec 17 14:11:46.668921 2013] [:info] [pid 29460] mod_wsgi (pid=29460): Initializing Python.
[Tue Dec 17 14:11:46.685523 2013] [:info] [pid 29455] mod_wsgi (pid=29455): Attach interpreter ''.
[Tue Dec 17 14:11:46.685687 2013] [:info] [pid 29455] mod_wsgi (pid=29455): Adding '/srv/www/poka/app/poka' to path.
[Tue Dec 17 14:11:46.685955 2013] [:info] [pid 29455] mod_wsgi (pid=29455): Adding '/srv/www/poka/app/env/main/lib/python2.7/site-packages' to path.
[Tue Dec 17 14:11:46.694283 2013] [:info] [pid 29458] mod_wsgi (pid=29458): Attach interpreter ''.
[Tue Dec 17 14:11:46.695044 2013] [:info] [pid 29456] mod_wsgi (pid=29456): Attach interpreter ''.
[Tue Dec 17 14:11:46.698253 2013] [:info] [pid 29457] mod_wsgi (pid=29457): Attach interpreter ''.
[Tue Dec 17 14:11:46.702979 2013] [:info] [pid 29459] mod_wsgi (pid=29459): Attach interpreter ''.
[Tue Dec 17 14:11:46.711173 2013] [:info] [pid 29460] mod_wsgi (pid=29460): Attach interpreter ''.

EDIT #2 My wsgi.py
"""

This module contains the WSGI application used by Django's development server
and any production WSGI deployments. It should expose a module-level variable
named ``application``. Django's ``runserver`` and ``runfcgi`` commands discover
this application via the ``WSGI_APPLICATION`` setting.

Usually you will have the standard Django WSGI application here, but it also
might make sense to replace the whole Django WSGI application with a custom one
that later delegates to the Django one. For example, you could introduce WSGI
middleware here, or combine a Django application with an application of another
framework.

"""
import os

os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "settings.prod")

# This application object is used by any WSGI server configured to use this
# file. This includes Django's development server, if the WSGI_APPLICATION
# setting points here.
import djcelery
from django.core.wsgi import get_wsgi_application
djcelery.setup_loader()
_application = get_wsgi_application()

env_variables_to_pass = ['AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID', 'AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY']

def application(environ, start_response):
    # pass the WSGI environment variables on through to os.environ
    for var in env_variables_to_pass:
        os.environ[var] = environ.get(var, '')
    return _application(environ, start_response)

EDIT #3: Logs from logs/error_log
[Thu Dec 19 18:05:58.247406 2013] [auth_digest:notice] [pid 1733] AH01757: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Thu Dec 19 18:05:58.248882 2013] [lbmethod_heartbeat:notice] [pid 1733] AH02282: No slotmem from mod_heartmonitor
[Thu Dec 19 18:05:58.300894 2013] [ssl:warn] [pid 1733] AH02292: Init: Name-based SSL virtual hosts only work for clients with TLS server name indication support (RFC 4366)
[Thu Dec 19 18:05:58.591912 2013] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 1733] AH00163: Apache/2.4.6 (Amazon) OpenSSL/1.0.1e-fips mod_wsgi/3.4 Python/2.7.5 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Thu Dec 19 18:05:58.591987 2013] [core:notice] [pid 1733] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/httpd'
[Thu Dec 19 18:06:09.626354 2013] [core:notice] [pid 1733] AH00052: child pid 1735 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Thu Dec 19 19:31:42.719739 2013] [:error] [pid 1755] (70007)The timeout specified has expired: [client 96.33.249.142:49830] mod_wsgi (pid=1755): Unable to get bucket brigade for request.
[Thu Dec 19 19:31:43.195999 2013] [:error] [pid 1769] [client 96.33.249.142:29054] mod_wsgi (pid=1769): Exception occurred processing WSGI script '/srv/www/poka/app/poka/apache/wsgi.py'.
[Thu Dec 19 19:31:43.196140 2013] [:error] [pid 1769] [client 96.33.249.142:29054] IOError: failed to write data

A: When i had this error it was cause i was sending multi-part data though post, and fixed it by changing <form method="POST">  to <form method="POST" enctype="multipart/form-data">


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How Under is bringing a unique dining experience to Norway's southern coastline
1st May 2019 | By UnSUBURBIA
Situated in the remote Norwegian village of Båly, Under is Europe's first underwater restaurant and the largest in the world.
Juxtaposition is at the heart of this project, with the sea storms of Norway's rugged coastline beautifully contrasting with the tranquillity of Under's interior. Designed by native architects Snøhetta, this is a dining experience like no other.
An aquatic approach to architectural design
On first sight, you might think Under is another building that's fallen victim of coastline erosion and ended up in the depths of the sea. But as you get closer, you see it's supposed to be there – its home is the water.
Under doesn't benefit from the warmer climes of other locations for underwater structures such as Dubai or the Maldives. It's amid the fierce roar of the North Sea. The structure has been created with reinforced, convex concrete shell, and one-metre-thick acrylic windows minimise the coastal impact caused be the harsh marine environment. But those are the conditions Kjetil Trædal Thorsen, founding partner of Snøhetta, craved – "we wanted more waves, and we wanted more wind", he said in a recent interview.
Resembling a periscope protruding out of the water, the restaurant forms of monolithic concrete tube and was designed with simplicity in mind. Measuring at 34 metres in length, the exposed outer concrete shell enables Under to seamlessly camouflage itself into the surrounding rocks to become part of the environment rather than a standout feature.
The construction of Under also took a unique approach. Over six months, the venue was built on a barge 20 metres away from its intended spot, before being manoeuvred into position on completion using a crane and tug boat. The concrete shell was then flooded to submerge it five metres to the ocean floor, before 18 bolts anchored it to the seabed.
The essence of Scandi interiors
Inside, the cragged coastline couldn't seem further away. The exterior design of Under is designed to withstand the hyperborean conditions whilst becoming part of its surroundings – the interior has been aligned to the total opposite, with peace, warmth and tranquillity at its very heart.
As you descend the staircase on the shore to enter, you'll find Under spread across three tiered levels with a flowing interior style seen throughout. An emphasis has been placed on using local resource, with native craftsman Hamran decking out the space for 40 diners, using understated furniture and soft oak cladding. The ceilings and walls are panelled with Norwegian wood too.
But Under's pièce de résistance is the panoramic acrylic window looking out into the depths of the North Sea. Sized 11 metres wide and three metres in heights, the window is an oceanic theatre with panoramic views of the icy waters taking the lead role and the marine flora and fauna making a stirring performance.
To illuminate the view, subtle lighting has been installed onto both the sea bed and the exterior of the building – Snøhetta hope these lights will attract wildlife to interact with the structure too. It removes the risk of claustrophobia by creating a space that feels open and airy, not one that is submerge under the sea.
For the cuisine, head chef Nicolai Ellitsgaard has had the unenviable task of creating a menu befitting of the location and experience. He's created a gastronomic oasis, with a food listing packed with pretty much anything you'd see floating by as you looked outside of the acrylic window. Nicolai puts his two Michelin star-worthy culinary skills to beautiful effect.
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This shot of Bernard Sumner from Bad Lieutenant featuring former members of New Order was taken tonight at the Electric Ballroom in Camden. Formed in 2007 the band consist of Bernard Sumner, Phil Cunningham, Jake Evans and Stephen Morris with Blur bassist Alex James guesting on a number of album tracks although he did not perform with the band this time. The band released their debut album 'Never Cry Another Tear' last year.
I was only at the show of four songs as I had to rush off and submit my pictures but the band did play my favourite New Order song 'Regret' three songs in. You can see more images in the gallery.


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Байдю́к — украинская фамилия. Известные носители:

 Байдюк, Лариса Макаровна (род. 1951) — украинский и российский политик.
 Байдюк, Степан Саввич (род. 1940) — советский легкоатлет.


"Biz knows how to float." This is the perfect line from the teaser. Biz really does know how to float: She floats between reality and her hallucinations of her dead father, between her depression and her upbeat mom and twin brothers, between her confusion about her own sexuality and being a good best friend to a girl she's pretty sure she's in love with but is definitely sure she can't live without, between the scattered thoughts in her head and how to play her part for the crowd of people she knows she's supposed to consider friends... Biz doesn't know how to process the world around her or how to ask anyone for help in doing so. She can't explain to anyone how her dead father appears at random times, wanting to talk to her but not wanting to listen. She can't explain how she is struggling to understand who she is and what's going on inside of her -- emotionally, physically, psychologically. And her difficulty dealing with all of this confusion not only makes her vulnerable and uncomfortable, but also leads to poor decisions and being sorely misunderstood by those around her. Yes, Biz knows how to float. But how long can she keep floating before she sinks?


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