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Is Google Returning to China with a Censored Search Engine?
On Oct 14, Google CEO Sundar Pichai acknowledged the company's plans of launching a censored search app for China. However, Google is still considering whether to launch a censored version of its search engine in China. The company's plans to return to China, a market it abandoned over censorship issues eight years ago, were first reported in August.
Although Google's core services, Google Search, Gmail and YouTube, remain blocked in China, the company is involved in providing digital tools and support to large a number of Chinese app developers and manufacturers, mobile companies and advertisers, who want to reach out to their global customers.
However, Pichai said that the plan was in "very early" stages and may not progress. That said, there are challenges aplenty for Google in China, which the company needs to overcome. Moreover, the news comes at a time when tech and Internet companies are being punished by investors amid renewed concerns over user data privacy and security.
Can Google Return to China?
On Oct 14, Pichai acknowledged Google's leaked plans of creating a censored search app for China. He said that the censored search app could serve over "99% of queries". However, Pichai also said that the plan was in very early stages and may not take off. That Google was trying to make a possible return to China was reported initially in August. The proposal had drawn criticism from employees.
The company also publicly confirmed the existence of such a project during a Senate committee hearing in late September. Although Google's core services, Google Search, Gmail and YouTube remain blocked in China, the company has played a key role in supporting local tech companies. Google provides digital tools and support to a large number of Chinese app manufacturers, developers and advertisers, who want to reach out to global customers.
The search engine giant decided to pull out of China in 2010 over censorship issues. However, it has been providing its digital services and tools to many local companies.
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Concerns of a regulatory clampdown on how tech and Internet companies handle user data, has been looming large on a number of companies. A regulatory clampdown means restricted use or ad-free paid service, which will weigh on the companies as they tend to lose users, who can't afford pair service.
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 Hans Jurk (1920–2002), deutscher Maler, Grafiker und Karikaturist
 Thomas Jurk (* 1962), deutscher Politiker (SPD)
 Ulrike Jurk (* 1979), deutsche Volleyballspielerin
 Walter Jurk (* 1904), deutscher SS-Führer

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Kenyatta Cultural Luxury Safari
Nairobi National Museum, Nyeri, Samburu, Nakuru, Lake Baringo, Maasai Mara, Karen Blixen House – 9 days
Jomo Kenyatta is well known for his service as Kenya's first president (1963-1978). However, he was also a noted African political figure, a vanguard in the fight for African independence, and a respected anthropologist. After pursuing studies at Moscow University and University College, London, Kenyatta published the classic text "Facing Mount Kenya, which was a groundbreaking ethnography and historical text of the Agikuyu people.
Accordingly, this safari focuses on the cultural sights and scenes that make Kenya a cultural beacon in Eastern Africa (intermixed with heavy doses of wildlife, of course.) The trip starts at the Kenya National Museum in Nairobi. The museum has a significant collection of tribal craft, many of Joyce Adamson's paintings, a section about Kenya's fauna and flora and of course, lots of information about Kenya's history.
After an overnight at one of Nairobi's premier hotels, the safari moves on to Nyeri. Nyeri was originally a garrison which burgeoned into a trading center for European settlers who produced cattle, wheat and coffee. Nyeri was the center of the Mau Mau resistance which helped Kenya obtain its independence. Further, Nairobi is the gateway to the lush and gorgeous Aberdare National Forest, and provides spectacular view of Mount Kenya. This destination combines culture and wildlife like no other in Kenya.
Then it is on to Samburu. Samburu National Reserve is home to the dignified Samburu people, nomads and relatives of the Maasai. Samburu is home to wildlife species rarely found elsewhere, including Grevy 's zebra, gerenuk gazelle, oryx, reticulated giraffe and the Somali ostrich.
The next stop is gorgeous Lake Nakuru, an ornithological paradise. Lake Nakuru is a very shallow strongly alkaline lake 62 km2 in extent. It is set in a picturesque landscape of surrounding woodland and grassland next to Nakuru town, the home of Kenya's second President, Daniel Arap Moi. You can expect to see Flamingo (Greater and Lesser) and other water birds including a variety of terrestrial birds numbering about 450 species in total. Side trips can be arranged to Hyrax Hill where Louis and Mary Leakey found some of the oldest evidence of human habitation and in the early 1920s.
Near Nakuru lies Lake Baringo. Lake Baringo, is one of the Great Rift valley's beautiful geological formations. The 170km² lake is fresh water and it has a charming camp site and luxury lodge on its shores. Its main attraction is the fabulous bird life which abounds here and attracts enthusiasts from all over the world. The demand is such that the lodge, Lake Baringo Club, has a resident ornithologist who conducts bird walks and evening slide shows. The lake teems with crocodile and hippos invade the shore every evening and stroll within meters of the tents. The lodge and campsite have lots of trees, which ring with bird song. Further, Lake Baringo is home to the Njemps people who are relatives of the Maasai and the Samburu.
Of course, no wildlife safari is complete without time at the Maasai Mara. The Maasai Mara is the Kenyan portion of the ecological plains which include the Serengeti, which lies in Tanzania. Lions, zebras, giraffes, elephants and numerous antelopes roam these vast grasslands, keeping company with any other species the safari traveler can think of, from hippos, to elands. Golden grasslands are dotted with various species of Acacia or thorn trees. You might run across cheetahs, hyenas or leopards if you are very lucky.
Of course, a cultural safari must include a visit to a village of the famed Maasai people. A nilotic and nomadic people who make their home in Kenya, Tanzania and other parts of east Africa, the Maasai roam the plains of East Africa searching for suitable forage for their cattle. The Maasai are an extraordinary and proud people who have managed to keep their traditional lifestyle when western influences to change is all around them. They are pastoralists who do not hunt for meat or farm the land. They herd cattle and goats and rely on the leather, blood, meat and milk of their cattle for their livelihood. In a visit to one of their manyattas, you will get to see how they care for their livestock, watch the proud warriors or morans sing and perform their cultural dances, and have an opportunity to admire or purchase their famed and beautiful beadwork.
Then it is back to Nairobi where our final stop is the beautiful home of the famed writer, Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen) who penned the historical and literary classic, "Out of Africa." Her home is impressive in its own right, a remarkable piece of period architecture surrounded by impressive and well-selected flora. The Baronness Blixen was a pioneering settler of Kenya, and her influence on the mythological image of Kenya, as well as her dramatic romance with safari legend Denys Finch Hatton are an appropriate capstone to a celebration of Kenya's culture.
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Wishing all our readers the very best for 2019!
Now that was a non-stop season! Southboom was 'choc-a-bloc' full as was the beach with many happy families enjoying all the village facilities. Christmas Lunch at the Club was full and the New Year's party was good fun. The morning 06.30-08.30 times for golf were extremely popular as always and the afternoons were steady. Always great to see the returning home owners and regulars, especially the families with all the different generations. A few commented they had been to Plett for the last few years and couldn't wait to get back to Southbroom with its lovely laid-back, relaxed vibe! There were also many first-time visitors to the club and course, which is always lovely to see and listen to their feedback & their reactions!
Welcome 2019! Main Beach at capacity!
Thanks to Tim & Lee Hutchinson for their great sponsorship of theannual Douglas Green Bellingham Golf Day!Always a popular day and this is one of the longest standing sponsor days we have!
Delighted First Place winners in the Ladies field Cracking the Day with First Place honours, John Pinnoy and Bones Coertzen. Just thrilled to finish first!
Thanks to the Pro Shop suppliers for helping make The Pro's Day a special one. Hearty congrats to first place finishers Dave Page & George Wright & Karin Asbock & Hannah Hierhold.
Another thanks to all the Members for supporting The Major Alliance Club fundraising day on the 5th Jan 2019. A great way to start the year!
Congratulations Greg Fox, Dave Fox, John Fox and Bob Thomas!
Bob shot 69 breaking his age on the day & on the Pro Day! Awesome Golf Bob!
The FootJoy Cooler Box Sock promotion was drawn and won by Warren Petersen. Here is his delighted son Bradley collecting it to take home to the family! We so enjoyed seeing this awesome family & friends pic posted on facebook. Thanks to all involved for letting us use it as well! Great people, lovely vibe. Hope to see you all at Easter if not before!
Bradley Petersen Making great holiday memories!
The Ladies Christmas Hamper was won by Lynn Blackstock and 2nd place Gjetrud Kok.


For those looking for reasonable accommodation here are the details for the travel lodge many of us stayed at last year. It's around 15 - 20 minutes from the track, but was reasonably priced (especially if booked early) and it has the benefit of a Toby Carvery next door which is cheap and good for evening meals and breakfast.
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New Research: Unwanted Pregnancies Become Wanted Children
by Rebecca Oas Ph.D. on Jun 26, 2013 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured
From the stage at the recent Women Deliver conference, former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's daughter Chelsea revealed that her much-admired maternal grandmother was the child of unwed teenage parents who "did not have access to services that are so crucial that Planned Parenthood helps provide."
Chelsea's grandmother was born of an unintended pregnancy. And new research shows that her family is not alone in treasuring a person who – if Planned Parenthood had been successful – would not have been born.
"Every child a wanted child" is the rallying cry of family planning organizations that promote abortion as a way to achieve that goal. The New York Times Magazine recently described a study of women who were turned away from abortion clinics because their pregnancies were too far along. Researchers found that in the vast majority of cases – 95% – the mothers bonded with their babies. A significant percentage later denied having ever sought an abortion, despite the fact they were included in the study on that basis.
In a different long-term study, Dr. Rebecca Callahan observed a similar change in attitude among mothers with unwanted pregnancies in rural Bangladesh. Although 42% of the women initially labeled their pregnancies as unwanted, over half of them changed their views retrospectively. Over 60% of women who originally stated their intention to have no more children classified subsequent births as wanted or, at worst, mistimed. Callahan presented her findings at the 2013 meeting of the Population Association of America.
Instead of focusing on the positive finding that women's initial aversion or ambivalence about pregnancy does not mean the child will be unwanted, Callahan expressed concern that "the rationalization of births as wanted distorts the true level of unintended pregnancy."
While neither study examined why the women's preliminary attitudes toward their pregnancies were negative, both were dismissive of the mothers' eventual change of heart. "It's psychologically in our interest to tell a positive story and move forward," Dr. Katie Watson told The New York Times Magazine. "[I]t's wonderfully functional for women who have children to be glad they have them,"
The fact that many wanted children result from unwanted pregnancies calls into question the very reason for organizations like Planned Parenthood and the United Nations Population Fund, whose mission statement seeks "to ensure that every pregnancy is wanted."
The Guttmacher Institute, founded by Planned Parenthood, publishes articles warning of the dire consequences for "unwanted" children – implying that they would have been better off never being born. Despite current research demonstrating that an unplanned pregnancy does not necessarily predict an unwanted child, these findings are rarely used to develop interventions to encourage expectant mothers to embrace their unplanned offspring or consider placing them for adoption.
Experts have observed a tendency among researchers to make these recommendations reflective of the priorities of their organizations. The ongoing study by an abortion advocacy group examining women turned away from abortion tends to downplay the findings that characterize abortion or unnecessary or harmful. Gynecologist Dr. Byron Calhoun described how medical journals routinely downplay the link between abortion and preterm birth despite the evidence contained in the articles they published.
This article is courtesy the "Friday Fax" of the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (C-FAM).
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This Statement of Position (SOP) amends the AICPA Audit and Accounting Guide Health Care Organizations (Guide) to address how nongovernmental not-for-profit health care organizations should report gains or losses on hedging and nonhedging derivative instruments under Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 133, Accounting for Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities, as amended. The SOP requires the following: 1. Not-for-profit health care organizations should apply the provisions of FASB Statement No. 133 (including the provisions pertaining to cash flow hedge accounting) in the same manner as for-profit enterprises. 2. Not-for-profit health care organizations should provide all the disclosures required by paragraph 45 of FASB Statement No. 133, including disclosures related to reclassifications into earnings of gains and losses that are reported in accumulated other comprehensive income. Although those organizations are not otherwise required to report changes in the components of comprehensive income pursuant to paragraph 26 of FASB Statement No. 130, Reporting Comprehensive Income, such organizations should separately disclose the beginning and ending accumulated derivative gain or loss that has been excluded from the performance indicator (earnings measure), the related net change associated with current period hedging transactions, and the net amount of any reclassifications into the performance indicator in a manner similar to that described in paragraph 47 of FASB Statement No. 133. The SOP also amends the Guide to clarify that the performance indicator (earnings measure) reported by not-for-profit health care organizations is analogous to income from continuing operations of a for-profit enterprise. The provisions of the SOP are effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2002. The provisions of the SOP should be applied prospectively as of the beginning of a fiscal year. Not-for-profit health care organizations that reported derivative gains or losses in a manner inconsistent with the conclusions of the SOP in financial statements issued prior to adoption of the SOP are not permitted to reclassify those gains or losses upon adoption. Those organizations are required to disclose in the notes to the financial statements what the performance indicator reported in the year of adoption would have been if the reporting practices followed before adoption of this SOP had continued to be applied.
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Accounting Standards Executive Committee, "Proposed statement of position : Accounting for derivative instruments and hedging activities by not-for-profit health care organizations, and clarification of the performance indicator;Accounting for derivative instruments and hedging activities by not-for-profit health care organizations, and clarification of the performance indicator" (2002). Statements of Position. 291.


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Kentucky reports 4 adults have died of the flu this season
(AP) – Kentucky health officials say four people have died of the flu this season. The Kentucky Department for Public Health reports that the four people who have died of influenza since September are all adults.
On Thursday, the city of Louisville reported its first death of the flu season.
Louisville health officials say the victim who died Dec. 7 was an elderly person who had not been vaccinated and had underlying medical conditions.
Health officials say the current flu season in Kentucky runs from September to May 2020.
Louisville has seen a sharp rise recently in flu cases.
by Jim Alexander / Jan 29, 2020
EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WEHT) -- Nine tri-state First Responders will be presented with 39 automated external defibrillators (AEDs) at a ceremony on Wednesday.
The ceremony will take place at 11:00 a.m. in the main lobby of the Deaconess Orthopedic & Neuroscience Hospital, located on the Deaconess Gateway Campus.
DAVIESS COUNTY, Ky. (WEHT) -- Daviess County Sheriff's deputies have responded to a car that has driven into a lake with the driver nowhere to be found.
The Masonville Fire Department said around 4:40 a.m. crew were dispatched to Hillbridge Road in Utica for the report of a vehicle off the roadin a ravine.
EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WEHT) -- During the January Traveling City Hall, Evansville Water & Sewer Utility (EWSU) officials will present an overview of the First Avenue Water Main Replacement project, estimated to include 7,900 ft. of new water main pipe.
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Last Witness to Adolf Hitler's Final Days in Berlin Bunker Dies at 96
Last Witness: Rochus Misch recalled Adolf Hitler?s final days in the Berlin bunker during an interview. Image by getty images
By Reuters September 6, 2013
Rochus Misch, the last surviving witness of Adolf Hitler's final days in the Berlin bunker who always referred to the Nazi dictator as "the Boss", has died in his home at the age of 96, his book agent said on Friday.
Misch, who told Reuters in a 2007 interview at his home that there was a strange silence in the bunker as the battle for Berlin raged above in April 1945, had been suffering from the effects of a recent heart attack when he died on Thursday.
"His family was with him when he died," Misch's agent, Michael Stehle, said. Misch died in the modest house in south Berlin where he had lived since 1938.
In the 2007 interview, Misch – who worked as Hitler's bodyguard, phone operator and courier for five years – said: "Life in the bunker was pretty normal. Hitler was mostly very calm."
He said historians, filmmakers and journalists always got it wrong when they described the mood in the bunker as Soviet forces closed in on Hitler in the final days of the Nazi regime.
"It was much less dramatic than shown by many historians, filmmakers and journalists," said the former soldier. "The worst thing was the silence … Everybody was whispering and nobody knew why. That's why it felt like the bunker of death."
Misch remained neutral on Hitler up to his death.
"History is history, it was the way it was and nobody should lie about it," he said, refusing make judgements about the past.
Misch was not ashamed to talk about pleasant moments with Hitler just as was depicted in the internationally acclaimed 2004 German film "Downfall", which drew controversy for showing Hitler's rarely explored human, as well as brutal, side.
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When asked about the happiest time in his life, Misch pulled out pictures of Hitler and his close associates at the Nazi leader's summer Berghof residence in the Bavarian Alps.
"The best time I ever had was Berghof," Misch said. He pointed to a picture showing Hitler, surrounded by children and the Third Reich's architect, Albert Speer. "It was wonderful, like a holiday. The boss was very relaxed when he was there."
Misch was the last survivor of the final days of the bunker. Another, Bernd von Freytag Loringhoven, died in 2007. Misch was a burly man with silver hair and appeared in a number of documentary films about Hitler and the bunker.
"No matter who wanted to see Hitler, no matter if it was (propaganda chief Joseph) Goebbels, (Luftwaffe chief Hermann) Goering or anyone else, they had to get past me," said Misch. "Regardless of who called, I picked up the phone."
The only soldier allowed to carry a weapon in the bunker, Misch joined the SS in 1937 aged 20 and was wounded in 1939 in Poland. He recovered and was reassigned to Hitler's chancellery.
He was captured after the war and spent nine years in Soviet prisons. Back home, he launched a house-painting business.
Misch said he stayed in the bunker even after Hitler let others leave. He said it was his duty as a soldier. With the war clearly lost, Hitler killed himself on April 30, 1945.
"I was prepared for it and was just waiting for the moment," Misch said. "When the door opened I saw Eva (Braun) lying with her legs bent so that her knees almost reached her chin. I will never forget that."
Later, Misch saw Hitler's corpse covered by blankets and with only his shoes protruding. "There was a complete silence," he said. "I went to the commander and said: "'The Fuehrer is dead'. My colleague then said, 'Now the boss is to be burnt'."
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Julius Stewart was a figure and genre painter from Philadelphia who spent almost his entire life in Paris. From the 1880s through the first decade of the 20th century, he ranked with John Singer Sargent as one of the most popular expatriate American painters in Paris. He was following a genre begun by his friend, Jean Beraud, but Stewart's more vivacious work was considered especially American.
He painted the life he thoroughly enjoyed -Parisian high society. Stewart's works are spirited and realistic, full of fashionable women, sumptuous fabrics and elegant drawing rooms. In addition to portraits of his well-to-do friends, Stewart fullfilled commissions for portraits of society figures and celebrities, among them the actress Sarah Bernhardt. "His portrayal of Bernhardt in the double portrait, Reading Aloud (circa 1883, private collection) is nearly identical to that of the female reader inAn Enthralling Novel, right down to the facial features, center-parted upswept hairdo, ruffled high-necked blouse, and embroidered jacket. Both paintings were executed around the same time, so it is probable that the reader in An Enthralling Novel is Bernhardt. Period photos from the mid 1880s of Bernhardt show her with the same hairstyle and style of clothing." (Carol Strone Art Advisory)
Stewart was born in 1855, and his family settled in Paris when he was ten years old. His earliest painting is dated 1876. His father, William Stewart, was an outcast art collector, who specialized in works of the contemporary Spanish-Roman school, including Zamacois, Fortuny and de Madrazo. These artists had a great influence on Stewart. In the 1880s, he studied with Zamacois and de Madrazo, as well as with Jean Leon Gerome.
Stewart's first success was being chosen to exhibit at the Paris Salon in 1883. His reputation was firmly established with, The Hunt Ball (1885, Essex Club, Newark) and The Hunt Supper (1889, Buffalo Club, New York) was shown at the Paris Exposition. His high society women portraits show a particular fascination with their evolving roles in a changing society, from the depiction of beauty for beauty's sake to the portrayal of the educated sophisticate. In An Enthralling Novel he succeeds in conveying the reader's concentrated attention to the book, thus portraying her as a well-read woman and not just another pretty face.
At the same time that Stewart was painting high society scenes, he painted nudes out-of-doors, a subject more acceptable in France than in America in the 1890s. By 1905, he had a religious crisis and conversion, toning down his subject matter. At the beginning of World War I, he served in the Red Cross ambulance corps and suffered a nervous breakdown.
Stewart remained a bachelor, and died in 1919, having returned to the United States.
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Area Synagogues Welcome New Rabbis
Eric Schucht
Several area synagogues welcomed new rabbis this summer.
Some traveled across the country, while others have been a part of the community for decades. We spoke to three of them about what motivates them, what their backgrounds are and what they've got planned for the future.
Rabbi Sigal Brier (Courtesy of Rabbi Sigal Brier)
Rabbi Sigal Brier
Temple Judea of Bucks County welcomed Rabbi Sigal Brier in July.
Born and raised in Israel, she has lived in the Philadelphia area for most of her life. She is a longtime faculty member at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in Massachusetts and most recently worked as a rabbi at large and as spiritual leader of Kesher Shalom in Abington.
Brier has a master's degree in organizational psychology from West Chester University and a master's degree in Jewish studies from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Wyncote. She has years of experience as a congregational rabbi and described herself as a scholar, spiritual mentor, inspirational teacher, artist and musician, with training in religion, psychology, art, yoga and meditation. Her goal is to encourage spiritual conversation, connect with people and build community.
"I'm looking forward to enhancing the reach of my work into another community and growing something together," Brier said, adding that the life of a rabbi is "an interesting and meaningful path to follow. I'm doing it because it's interesting in a way that enriches people's lives."
A yogini for more than 30 years, she is trained in many yogic, holistic and psycho-spiritual modalities, she said. Brier spoke of her ideals in 2013 at TEDxCapeMay in a presentation titled "Be Yourself, No Matter What They Say." She's also been featured on CBS Sunday Morning and National Public Radio.
"Being with reality is to face the challenges of life and remember the beauty of it as well," she said. "So my job as a rabbi is helping people put into spotlight that beauty and also help people in dealing with their challenges, suffering and pain. For me, inspiring and helping is really important to the job."
Brier said the Temple Judea community welcomed her with open arms, and she's grateful for the openness of its members to hear out new ideas, as the rabbi brings "a little bit of a different flavor to the congregation."
"The nicest people, well- meaning, very welcoming people," Brier said. "They are open and desiring to learn, and you can't ask for much more."
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Rabbi Shai Cherry
Rabbi Shai Cherry made a career for himself in the world of academia. But since July, he's been at Congregation Adath Jeshurun, where he replaced Rabbi Barry Kenter, who served as interim rabbi for the past year.
Cherry grew up in San Mateo, California, and most recently worked as a professor at the University of San Diego. He made the decision to move across the continent to pursue the pulpit for a change of pace and new scenery.
"I see my role as a Jewish educator," Cherry said. "I'm looking to honor the members' desires to be empowered and shape their own Jewish lives. And to the degree that people want to enhance the Jewish content of their lives, I'm here to provide that enrichment."
Cherry began his career as a Jewish educator in 1988 after coming home from a year of volunteer work in Israel. He earned his bachelor's in philosophy, politics and economics from Claremont McKenna College and later completed a doctorate in Jewish thought and theology at Brandeis University in 2001. His dissertation was on Jewish responses to Darwinism.
Cherry went on to serve for four years as a Mellon Assistant Professor of Jewish Thought at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee. In 2009, he was ordained at the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies at the American Jewish University in California.
Cherry's research focuses on biblical interpretation and the nexus between science and Judaism. In 2007, Cherry wrote his first book, Torah Through Time: Understanding Bible Commentary from the Rabbinic Period to Modern Times. The textbook serves as a user-friendly guide to Jewish biblical commentary. His next book, Coherent Judaism, is expected to be published sometime next year.
The rabbi said he decided to come to the Elkins Park congregation because of the type of community its members have developed.
"I was attracted to AJ because they had recently undergone an extensive evaluation of what their members wanted and were willing to contribute. So this is a relatively decentralized synagogue where the membership drives the vision, and that was attractive to me," he said. "I've been impressed by how thoughtful the members have been about integrating me into the community and providing me with the best possible launching pad to be successful in this community."
Rabbi Alanna Sklover (Courtesy of Rabbi Alanna Sklover)
Rabbi Alanna Sklover
Rabbi Alanna Sklover was drawn to the rabbinate starting in her senior year of high school. At one time, she considered a career as a teacher, therapist or social worker, but the sense of community-building and tradition that Judaism is steeped in attracted her to a career as a rabbi. She started at Or Hadash, A Reconstructionist Congregation, in August. She replaced Joshua Waxman, president of the Board of Rabbis of Greater Philadelphia, who was at Or Hadash for 15 years.
Sklover comes to the Fort Washington congregation from the Germantown Jewish Centre, where she worked since 2013 as director of lifelong learning.
"I'm excited to be joining the really wonderful community at Or Hadash," Sklover said. "I've been struck by how warm and welcoming this community is and how every member, whether they've been a part of Or Hadash for 35, 36 years since its founding or just a couple of years, seems to reflect that what keeps them there is a sense of feeling at home, and that's something my family and I have experienced since we joined the community."
Sklover attended Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Wyncote, where she received her rabbinic ordination with a specialization in the congregational rabbinate in 2013. She has a bachelor's degree in theater and religion from Goucher College and studied at Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Conservative Yeshiva.
The rabbi joins the congregation with her wife, Rebecca, and their 2-year-old daughter, Bina. As a member of the LGBTQ community, Sklover was profiled by the Philadelphia Gay News in July.
Sklover said one of her passions is encouraging people to express Jewish culture in their own way, which is why she's interested in innovation.
"For me, it's all about Jewish community and about a Judaism that feels both relevant and resonate. When our traditions feel old and musty, and our traditions feel like things we are following because someone once told us to or because that's the way my grandparents did it, yes, they have meaning, but they don't have the same kind of contemporary resonance," she said. "For me, it's about a Judaism that feels authentic and feels deeply grounded and rooted in tradition in our history and lineage, but that also fits and is in line with both our values and the rhythm in which we live our lives as contemporary folk."
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Dating in the 21st century can be very confusing. We have complicated ways of connecting that didn't exist 20 years ago, and many of our conversations with romantic partners happen via text message.
Comedian Aziz Ansari has a lot to say about this. In his first book, "Modern Romance," Ansari worked with sociologist Eric Klinenberg to explore how we date in the digital age. They talked to hundreds of single people across the world, asking how they connected with romantic partners.
Ansari and Klinenberg discovered that the culture of finding love had evolved dramatically, fueled in part by the invention of cellphones and the explosion in online dating.
They also found that a lot of people had questions about texting etiquette.
Though the three-day rule has floated around as solid advice for what seems like forever, Ansari and Klinenberg found it to be a myth.
After you meet someone you like, they concluded, the best time to send the first text is that same day. Touching base sooner rather than later keeps the romantic momentum going.
"After seeing hundreds and hundreds of messages in women's phones," Ansari writes, "I can definitively say that most of the texts women receive are, sadly, utterly lacking in either thought or personality."
Instead, mention something you talked about when you first met that person. Show the person you actually listen to what he or she says.
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At the same time, try not to overdo it, because sarcasm or offbeat humor can be hard to decipher over text.
It's best to text in the afternoon or evening and not early in the morning or late at night, Ansari and Klinenberg say. Otherwise, you run the risk of waking the person up.
Waiting an hour or two will make you seem more desirable because it shows that you have other things going on in your life. That said, don't wait too long, which could show a lack of interest.
"Plz" and "Idk" may be OK in texts with friends, but Ansari and Klinenberg say you're better off using proper English with your crush.
Former President Barack Obama, probably texting Michelle to make dinner plans.
Invite your crush to do something specific at a specific time. It shows that you're interested in actually spending time with the person, rather than just penciling him or her into your schedule.
Sending a slew of texts isn't a substitute for actually getting to know someone IRL (in real life), Ansari says.
When you do plan that first date, he recommends following what he dubs the "Monster Truck Rally Theory." Don't take your date out to a mundane place like a coffee shop or a restaurant — go somewhere exciting like, say, a monster-truck rally. An interesting date helps you see what it's really like to be with a person.


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Read my 2014 article on Veggie on Universe Today here.
Although at first the zinnias didn't look promising. But it turns out all they needed was a little extra astronaut attention.
It seems E.T.'s not the only one in space with a knack for gardening!
In response the ground team developed a how-to manual for growing space zinnias in the Veggie station, but left the final gardening decisions up to the astronauts – unlike many other experiments that are run basically by-the-book. As a result the plants bounced back, eventually producing the lovely orange bloom above.
Read more on the success of the Space Flower here.
Experiments like Veggie will help to develop systems for sustainable plant growth in space, which will be great for producing food on long-duration missions as well as giving spacecraft-bound astronauts other living organisms to raise and care for in a "community garden," something which has been found to have physiological and emotional benefits.
More crops for Veggie are heading to the orbiting laboratory aboard SpaceX CRS-8 in Feb. 2016. The Veg-03 run will include two sets of Chinese cabbage and one set of red romaine lettuce. In 2018, there are plans to launch dwarf tomato seeds to the space station.
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PTC Therapeutics Raises 50M in Equity Financing
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PTC Therapeutics, Inc., a South Plainfield, NJ-based biopharmaceutical company, completed a $50m equity financing.
The round was co-led by new investor The Column Group and existing investor Delphi Ventures, with participation from Credit Suisse First Boston, HBM BioVentures, Novo A/S, Celgene, and other existing and new investors.
In conjunction with the investment, general partner at Delphi Ventures, Deepa Pakianathan, Ph.D. will join the company's Board of Directors.
Commenting on the financing, he said: "This round of funding increases financial flexibility for PTC as it prepares to commercialize its internally discovered and developed lead product. We believe the commercial launch of ataluren will represent a new paradigm in the treatment of genetic disorders".
Ataluren is an investigational new drug designed to enable the formation of a functioning protein in patients with genetic disorders due a nonsense mutation.
PTC focuses on the discovery, development and commercialization of orally administered small-molecule drugs that target post-transcriptional control processes, addressesing multiple therapeutic areas, including genetic disorders, oncology, and infectious diseases.
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RACS has moved to 30 Botany Street, Randwick NSW 2031.
As the Sydney Children's Hospital is expanding, our supporter and key partner, the University of New South Wales, has offered RACS a new home. We're just a 2 minute walk from where we were before. Our contact details are the same.


I thought I'd try to make my own cards this year and have almost finished. The design is from a drawing done at San Rafael in late August and is in seven colours, partly relief printed and partly screenprinted. The last colour is still to be done. They're printed on Strathmore 5 x 7" acid-free blanks. The card stock has a marked texture which I wasn't expecting but the ink went on smoothly without any problems. The thing is that I almost never send cards -- this year will be different because I made them myself . . . not sure it makes sense?


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PULASKI COUNTY -- Three PCSSD schools have been recognized by the Office for Education Policy (OEP) at the University of Arkansas as schools that are "Beating the Odds." Students at Oak Grove Elementary, Harris Elementary and Mills Middle demonstrated high growth on the ACT Aspire even though the school serves a high percentage of students who participate in Free... READ MORE >
PCSSD to Host WillSub Hiring Event
PULASKI COUNTY, Ark. -- Are you interested in working with PCSSD as a substitute teacher? Pulaski County Special School District is partnering with ESS Arkansas (WillSub) for a special hiring event on January 30. The hiring event will be held at PCSSD Central Office from 10 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. Check out the event page for detailson how to register and what you'll... READ MORE >
Registration Now Open
PULASKI COUNTY, Ark. -- Registration for the 2020-2021 school year is official open. Here are the important registration dates for new and returning students:January 6 – May 1, 2020: Arkansas School Choice Applications acceptedJanuary 13, 2020: Online registration opens for students new to the District in grades K through 12.February 3 – May 1, 2020: Returning... READ MORE >
Volunteer for PCSSD Science Fair!
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Do you have a strong passion for science as well as knowledge about the scientific method? If so, we'd love to have you help with the annual Pulaski County Special School District Science Fair!The event will be held Wednesday, February 7, 2020 at UA Little Rock in the fitness center. Students from across the district will present their science... READ MORE >
Vision Day 2020
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- This Martin Luther King Jr. Day the UAMS Eye Institute will be providing free comprehensive eye exams and free glasses to students ages 5 - 18 who failed their nurse-administered exam. According to publicly available data, children at schools across the district failed their vision screening without seeing an eye doctor. It is important for... READ MORE >
Changing the PCSSD library system for the new age
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Biscuits! District 4th Grade Reading Challenge
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Mills University Studies High School (MUSHS) JROTC Comet Battalion has challenged the Lonoke High JROTC Jackrabbit Battalion to a push-up challenge at half time during tonight's football game. Push 4 A Cure! In doing so, they are challenged to match our concessions contributions or give a worthy donation. Additionally we will have a Stuff The Pink Boot activity... READ MORE >
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Introducing the new PCSSD app. It's everything PCSSD, in your pocket. Here's a quick tutorial video on how to navigate the app. And don't forget to turn on your notification settings to get important updates and announcements from the district office as well as your child's school. READ MORE >
PBIS Kicks Off Across PCSSD
We celebrated PBIS Kick Off Week September 9 - 13 across PCSSD. Schools dressed up, danced, laughed and encouraged positive behavior through PBIS approaches. What is PBIS you might ask? It stands for Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports. It is not a packaged curriculum, scripted intervention, or manualized strategy. PBIS is a framework that helps schools... READ MORE >
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PCSSD Offers Flu Vaccinations
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Longer Recess Helping Students and Teachers
Arkansas public schools are required by law to have longer recess periods this year, and it seems students and teachers are liking it. Third-grader Joseph MacDonald loves learning."Just to tell you, I do know most of my countries," MacDonald said.He said recess helps him soak in all his lessons. "I think that's what recess is for, so it'll run your energy down... READ MORE >
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Iraí de Minas is a Brazilian municipality located in the northwest of the state of Minas Gerais. Its population  was 7,027 people living in a total area of 357 km². The city belongs to the mesoregion of Triângulo Mineiro e Alto Paranaiba and to the microregion of Patrocínio.  It became a municipality in 1962.

Location
The municipality is located in the region of the Alto Paranaíba, just north of the Nova Ponte Reservoir, which is fed by the Rio Anzol and the Ribeirão Santa Juliana.  The elevation of the town center is 951 meters.  Highway connections are made by local road to BR-365, which connects to Uberlândia.  Neighboring municipalities are: Monte Carmelo (N); Patrocínio (E); Pedrinópolis and Perdizes(S); Nova Ponte and Romaria (W).

Distances
Monte Carmelo: 30 km
Patrocínio: 62 km
Uberlândia: 76 km
Belo Horizonte: 495 km

History
The first settlers were bandeirantes looking for precious stones.  The discovery of the diamond Estrela o sul in 1852 caused the arrival of great numbers of prospectors to the region.  A settlement was formed with the name  Espírito Santo do Cemitério, later changed in 1909 to Iraí, a Tupi word meaning "river of honey".  In 1943 the name was changed again to Bagagem, after the nearby river.  In 1962 Iraí became a municipality with the present name.

Economic activities
The most important economic activities are cattle raising for meat and dairy, commerce, and agriculture, with the main crops being coffee, corn, rice, and citrus fruits. The GDP in 2005 was R$65 million, with 346 million generated by services, 06 million generated by industry, and 19 million generated by agriculture.  Iraí de Minas is in the middle tier of municipalities in the state with regard to economic and social development.   there was one banking agency in the town.  There was a modest retail infrastructure serving the surrounding area of cattle and agricultural lands.  There were 895 automobiles in all of the municipality (2007), about one for every 07 inhabitants.

Iraí de Minas has a small municipal area and therefore little available land for agriculture.  In the rural area there were 474 establishments (2006) occupying 39,000 hectares (planted area: 5,800 ha,; natural pasture: 29,000 ha.; and woodland: 3,800 ha.).  About 1,500 persons were dependent on agriculture.  60 of the farms had tractors, a ratio of one in 08 farms.  There were 19,500 head of cattle in 2006.  The main crops were coffee, corn, rice, and soybeans .

Health and education
In the health sector there were 03 health clinics and 01 hospital with 19 beds.  In the educational sector there was 04 pre-primary schools, 04 primary school, and 01 middle school.

Municipal Human Development Index: 0.757 (2000)
State ranking: 236 out of 853 municipalities
National ranking: 1,672 out of 5,138 municipalities
Literacy rate: 87%
Life expectancy: 71 (average of males and females)

The highest ranking municipality in Minas Gerais in 2000 was Poços de Caldas with 0.841, while the lowest was Setubinha with 0.568.  Nationally the highest was São Caetano do Sul in São Paulo with 0.919, while the lowest was Setubinha.  In more recent statistics (considering 5,507 municipalities) Manari in the state of Pernambuco has the lowest rating in the country—0,467—putting it in last place.

See also
 List of municipalities in Minas Gerais

References

Municipalities in Minas Gerais


The intimate link between landscape and urban planning has long been denied and underestimated. In spite of the "good intentions" of certain scholars, practitioners and policy makers across Italy, Spain and other EU countries, their efforts are undermined by rigidly framed, sector-focused laws and by a concept of landscape defined in purely aesthetic terms. We have established the importance of identifying tools used to integrate the various approaches that "urbanism" and landscape planning adopt in dealing with urban planning to date. In fact, even with the prospect of significant environmental legislation, the discipline is still unable to incorporate the concept of landscape and its associated values. The work presented, throughout the course of the treatise, shows that a real opportunity for Strategic Environmental Assessment can be fully exploited if properly devised, becoming the "cross-linkage" to facilitate plan integration of environmental, economic and social sustainability. However, the matter triggers new questions, above all regarding the participation of people to promote and realise plan policies, identifying landscape values belonging to their territory. These questions remain open, as we need to indicate and specify a real approach that can be referenced.


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Q: C - Junk characters on output Let's say, I have two programs - input.c & output.c
All I want to do is send some payload/characters in "half pyramid" format into another one using execl() function.
input.c
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/wait.h>

#define SIZE 1024

int length;

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    pid_t pid;
    char *target;
    //char payload[length+1];
    char payload[SIZE + 1];
    int status;
    int i = 0;

    if(argc < 2)
    {
        printf("Usage %s <length> <target>\n", argv[0]);
        exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
    }

    length = atoi(argv[1]);
    target = argv[2];

    while(i < length)
    {
        pid = fork();

        if(pid != 0)
        {
            waitpid(-1, &status, 0);
            //exit(0);
        }

        if(pid == 0)
        {
            payload[i] = 'A';
            payload[i + 1] = '\0';
            execl(target, target, payload, NULL);
            //printf("%s\n", payload);
        }
        ++i;
    }
    return 0;
}

Commented passages are just for debugging purposes. Because As you can see (while trying), when you want just print it, everything works properly.
output.c (or if you want 'target.c')
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    char buffer[30];
    strncpy(buffer, argv[1], sizeof(buffer));
    printf("Output: %s\n", buffer);

    return 0;
}

When I compile input.c like:
gcc input.c -o input

& output.c:
gcc output.c -o output

Ok. Now, everything is prepared. Let's say, I'd like to send a payload - length 6
./input 6 ./output

but all I get on output is just this (or simply with another junks characters):
Output: A
Output: 0A
Output: 0,A
Output: 0,�A
Output: 0,�8A
Output: 0,�8�A

I tried so many things, but all of them failed and output was still the same, as you can see above.
I'd be very grateful if anyone can help me and possibly show me where is problem. Can be problem in using fork() and execl() functions together?

A: Got it, you should not update payload in the child block code...
Here's a fix (cannot test it now) :
 while(i < length)
    {
        pid = fork();
        payload[i] = 'A';
        payload[i + 1] = '\0';

        if(pid != 0)
        {
            waitpid(-1, &status, 0);
            //exit(0);
        }

        if(pid == 0)
        {
            execl(target, target, payload, NULL);
            //printf("%s\n", payload);
        }
        ++i;
    }

[removed unrelated sentence]
EDIT  (additional explanations) : payload updating must be in both parent and child code. If you don't understand why, I can add more explanation.
EDIT2 (as requested). You want update payload for the next forked child process. In your code, all child code is replaced by execl() into target code. So the fork() is executed only by the first parent process (the root one).
You have to update payload by the first parent and make it accessible too all the children. Putting it into this block won't work either :
// block only executed by the first parent.
if(pid != 0)
{
    waitpid(-1, &status, 0);
}

Therefore, You must update it in a place both accessible by the parent and the child : after the fork(), before if(pid == 0) block.
In your code, you increment i in the common block, but the parent's payload is never updated. So in the child block, just before the execl(), your adding 'A\0' at the end of an uninitialized C string.

A: When your program forks, it creates a new process. This new process, after if(pid == 0), alters the payload, and runs exec (ie executes output, which then dies. I.e, your change of payload stays in the child, and does not affect the parent process. Only ++i does, which is why you're seeing unitialized data.
Move payload change before fork (or at least out of child-only block), so it's in the parent as well.

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New research finds potentially thousands of black holes orbiting within a few light-years of the galactic center.
At the center of our galaxy is a massive black hole. This black hole, called Sagittarius A*, is approximately 6 million times the mass of our sun, and the gravitational field it generates is enough to keep our entire galaxy orbiting it. But Sagittarius A* is not the only black hole at the center of our galaxy: New research from Columbia University suggests that the galactic center could hold thousands more.
The Columbia researchers gathered data from NASA's Chandra X-Ray Space Telescope, which studies the night sky looking for x-rays from stars, black holes, and other galaxies. In this case, the researchers looked at signals coming from a few light years around Sagittarius A*, hoping to find a handful of black holes nearby.
Black holes by themselves don't tend to give off any x-rays, but when they're orbiting around another star they do. In this case, the researchers managed to find a dozen such black holes with companion stars. Because nearly all black holes are loners, this suggests that there could be upwards of 10,000 total black holes in the center of our galaxy.
An illustration of Sagittarius A*, the large black hole at the center of our galaxy, surrounded by the dozen smaller black holes detected by recent research.
This new finding could help scientists looking to study black holes by giving them many more known black holes to study. Prior to this, scientists had only located a few dozen black holes in our entire galaxy. Perhaps this result could be the first in a series of new discoveries about these strange cosmic objects.


From 10th to 12th Century, there were two political states in China. One is called Liao, ruled by a minority group in northeast China. The other is called Song, ruled by the Han majority. Liao intruded Song from time to time. The two states had been at war for a long time.
In the Song state, there was a family of Yang serving as senior military officials. All family members, father, mother and their eight sons, were adept in martial arts skill.
One day, Liao invited the Song Emperor for a peace talk. Song didn't know whether it was a trick or not. So they sent Yang family's eldest son to disguise as the Song emperor to go for the talk, guided by the other seven sons. On the way, there were ambushed by the Liao troop. Three sons died and the fourth son, Silang, was captured. He didn't tell Liao troop his true identity.
Silang then lived in the Liao territory. He was a handsome guy with excellent martial art skills. The Liao empress liked him very much and betrothed her daughter to him. He and the princess loved each other and later they had a son. Nobody in the Liao knew that Silang was the son of the Yang family that served for the Song state.
The war continued between the two states. Fifteen years later, Liao state carried out a military operation on a large scale. Silang, the princess and the Liao empress all went to war along with other Liao troops. The Song state sent Silang's brother, the sixth son of the Yang family, as commander-in-chief of the Song troops.
Hearing that his mother and brother came, Silang wanted to see them. But he couldn't pass the strategic pass unless he got the arrow from Liao empress. Silang worried but he couldn't tell anyone about his situation. The princess saw that he was upset all the time, so she asked why. Silang then told her his true identity. He asked the princess to help him get the arrow so that he could see his mother. The princess agreed to do so but she was concerned Silang wouldn't return. Silang promised to be back overnight.
So the princess took her son to see the Liao empress. She pinched the baby and the baby cried. Not knowing what happened, the Liao empress came to care for her grandson. The princess took the chance to say that her son wanted to have the arrow to play with. The empress was fond of her grandson very much, so she took out the arrow and asked the princess to give it back the next day.
Silang took the arrow with him and passed the strategic pass. He went to the Song military camp and met his younger brother. The two brothers cried emotionally over each other's shoulders when they met for the first time after a separation of 15 years. Silang also went to visit his mother. Knowing that her son was still alive, mother was very happy and surprised. The three talked for the whole night and soon it was daybreak. Reluctantly, Silang waved goodbye to them and set off for the Liao military camp.
When passing the Liao strategic pass, however, he was recognized and then arrested. Knowing that her son-in-law was indeed a senior military official of the Song state and that the Liao princess even helped him to the see his mother without permission, the Liao empress was very angry and ordered to kill Silang. The princess, taking the baby with her, asked her mother to forgive him. The empress finally allowed Silang to go home to visit his relatives.


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Usually the word comes from our mouths in a nasty tone, more spat than spoken. We look down on the people who aren't assimilated into our own cultures, who represent elsewheres instead of heres.
Yet being a tourist isn't a bad thing. It means you are willing to admit your lack of knowledge about the culture before immersing yourself in learning. It means you are curious about the past and present of places you aren't yet familiar with. It means you will work to use a unique dialect that consists mainly of pointing, nodding, and a few mangled, mispronounced phrases from a guidebook.
Tourists, unlike the locals, bring fresh eyes to the world's most astonishingly gorgeous sights. Those who live there take their hometown's unique beauty for granted, but tourists never do: everything is exciting and worth seeing for someone who has never experienced that place before.
There's a reason that certain places in our world are considered tourist attractions: they have historical, artistic, or cultural merit. They draw in our natural curiosity and our interest in new cultures and lifestyles. Why wouldn't world travelers want to see those societal artifacts?
Using "tourist" as a derogatory term only discourages people from seeing a country's important places. When we expressly shame people for tourism, we devalue their craving to understand.
We would never judge someone for reading the classics, yet we spit "tourist" (or worse) at groups stopping to photograph a street scene. Classic literature has been read by millions of people worldwide over decades and centuries, just like our "tourist attractions" invite huge crowds every day to experience their engaging beauty. Yet locals will impose shame on people for wanting to see what makes their towns magnetizing and worthwhile.
Let's revel in tourists, be willing to gesture wildly back, and forgive them for their mistakes instead of shaming them for wanting to see what distinguishes each culture from every other.


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9 - Making and Marketing in the Bilingual Periphery: Materialization as Metacultural Transformation
from Part III - Time, Place, Circulation
By Nikolas Coupland, Helen Kelly-Holmes
Edited by Jillian R. Cavanaugh, Shalini Shankar, Northwestern University, Illinois
Book: Language and Materiality
Print publication: 19 October 2017, pp 165-184
1 - Introduction: Sociolinguistic theory and the practice of sociolinguistics
By Nikolas Coupland, Cardiff University
Edited by Nikolas Coupland, University of Wales College of Cardiff
Book: Sociolinguistics
Published online: 05 June 2016
Print publication: 20 June 2016, pp 1-34
Theory and practice are terms that are often set in opposition to each other, but not for very good reasons. This is a book about theory, but it is not a book that is, one might say, 'couched in abstractions with little relevance to the real world of language use'. Who needs theory, if that's what theory is? On the contrary, theory is about what we see and experience in the social world of language, and about how we impute meaning to actions. As language users, we are all theorists, although the discipline of sociolinguistics has particular responsibilities in fostering, through its theory, awareness of what happens at the interface between language and society, and in reviewing what we know and what we have not yet adequately explained. So this is actually a book about practice too – practices of using language and practices of interpreting language in society.
My main task in the chapter is to set the scene for the nineteen chapters that follow; I introduce the chapters and the structure of the volume in the second half of this chapter. Before that it may be useful to comment in quite general terms on 'theory', and then on 'sociolinguistic theory', the object of debate in this volume, and its historical status in the field. That will lead to an overview of the types of theory that sociolinguistics has aligned with to date, and might profitably align with in the future. This is a necessary debate in itself, especially if it is right to observe that sociolinguistics has entered a phase where 'theory is everywhere' and that this is radically influencing what sociolinguistics is and what it does. But we are also arguably in a phase where discussion of what counts as theory, and why it matters in so many practical regards, is still generally lacking. In other words, we need to keep revisiting some basic metatheoretical questions about sociolinguistics, following a line of reflexive commentary started by Figueroa over twenty years ago. Figueroa (1994) set out the different principles and assumptions that supported the research of three of the 'founding fathers' of sociolinguistics, Labov, Gumperz, and Hymes.
Print publication: 20 June 2016, pp v-vii
Part III - Sociolinguistics, place and mobility
Print publication: 20 June 2016, pp 199-200
Part IV - Power, mediation and critical sociolinguistics
Part II - Language, markets and materiality
Print publication: 20 June 2016, pp viii-x
Part VI - The evolution of sociolinguistic theory
20 - Five Ms for sociolinguistic change
from Part VI - The evolution of sociolinguistic theory
Sociolinguistic change
In a few earlier publications I have lobbied for sociolinguists to begin working with a conception of sociolinguistic change (Coupland 2009; 2014a,c). Androutsopoulos (2014a) uses this concept in titling his comprehensive volume, Mediatization and Sociolinguistic Change, and in his introduction to that book (2014b) he points out that the phrase has been in fitful circulation for some years with a range of different meanings. To my mind the idea of sociolinguistic change is both liberating and focusing for sociolinguistics. It liberates the field to look beyond 'language change', which has set its sights on highly constrained sorts of change. The idea of sociolinguistic change focuses sociolinguistics by requiring it to be specific about what other sorts of change are then in question (principally in relation to what is generally called social change). In other words, theorising sociolinguistic change will entail reconsidering what priorities sociolinguistics should have in connection with change, why, and with what implications.
The present chapter firstly (in the rest of this section) extends this view of sociolinguistic change, vis-à-vis language change and social change; sociolinguistic change is broadly defined as consequential change over time in language–society relations. Then, in later sections, several of the main themes that have emerged in the earlier chapters of this book are reconsidered – all of them explicitly relevant to sociolinguistic change in this sense and able to contribute to the further theorising of this concept. The five themes, or thematic clusters, can be referred to (without undue artificiality) by five 'm'-led keywords: markets, mobility, modalities, media, and metacommunication. Overlaps between this list and earlier sections and chapters of this book are, therefore, easily visible. It is unlikely that the whole of what we should call sociolinguistic change can ultimately be contained within changes in these five thematic dimensions. On the other hand, separately and together, they account for a substantial part of the changes in language–society relations that have already been debated in earlier chapters.
My brief comments on social theory in Chapter 1 pointed to ambiguity in the use of this term, but also to repeated efforts in the social sciences to establish, in broad theoretical terms, how a given society stands in its historical trajectory, from different critical standpoints.
Print publication: 20 June 2016, pp i-iv
Part I - Theorising social meaning
Print publication: 20 June 2016, pp 35-36
Preface and acknowledgements
Print publication: 20 June 2016, pp xi-xii
I would like to express my thanks to the many people who have shown confidence in this book project and patience in the face of delays in its completion. I had originally envisaged this book as a short review of 'sociolinguistic theory', written in my own name. As time went on, and as the field expanded and theory proliferated, I came to realise the impossibility of shouldering even the core of this task myself. It was once possible to argue that there was rather little theoretical ambition in sociolinguistics. Even if originally true – not true any longer!
The project then evolved into one based on 'theoretical debates', necessarily so because many of the emerging theory-rich perspectives came from different parts of what I take to be sociolinguistics – the fertile and shifting multi- and interdisciplinary fields of enquiry where language and society come into contact with each other in so many ways. This made any single theoretical vision contentious in its wider context. What was needed, I latterly realised, was to bring as many as possible of the leading researchers into this debate, and I am again grateful that so many of them have been willing to play along.
In the pages of this book many different voices interact with each other, sometimes harmoniously, sometimes less so, but in all cases with importantly distinctive ways of representing what we know in the field of sociolinguists, what we need to know, what we can generalise about, what generalising means, where we are heading, and what next, with a modicum of 'so what' thrown in too. In some cases the debates in question have been actual collaborative discussions based around first drafts of the chapters that appear here. Regrettably, I was not able to realise my ambition of circulating all or even most of such drafts around the full set of contributors, theme by theme. Coordinating the timing of different contributors' writing, and my own, and getting to a finishing line, proved to be enough of a challenge. But a spirit of debate certainly comes through the chapters: All contributors are striving for consolidation and clarification, and often genuine innovation and agenda-setting, and to this extent the book serves as an opportunity to take stock across many of the central fields of sociolinguistic research and to conceive of future developments.
Part V - Sociolinguistics, contexts and impact
Theoretical Debates
Edited by Nikolas Coupland
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Sociolinguistics is a dynamic field of research that explains the role and function of language in social life. This book offers the most substantial account available of the core contemporary ideas and arguments in sociolinguistics, with an emphasis on innovation and change. Bringing together original writing by more than twenty of the field's most influential international thinkers and researchers, this is an indispensable guide to the newest and most searching ideas about language in society. For researchers and advanced students it gives access to the field's most pressing issues and debates, as well as providing a platform for new initiatives in sociolinguistic research.
Sari Pietikäinen, University of Jyväskylä, Finland, Alexandra Jaffe, California State University, Long Beach, Helen Kelly-Holmes, University of Limerick, Nikolas Coupland, University of Technology, Sydney
Book: Sociolinguistics from the Periphery
3 - Conventional and transactional authenticities in small-culture tourism
Print publication: 02 June 2016, pp 70-107
1 - Small languages in new circumstances?
2 - Reflexivity and small languages


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