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Why (and how) embodied cognition matters to AI: a canned history
Caution: this is an irresponsible, incomplete, and self-serving sort of history the upshot of which is, essentially, that the work that I personally am doing is exactly the work that will make AI possible. This is useful for explaining why it is I do what I do (and offers the advantage of brevity and clarity), but is maybe less useful for understanding AI. For a somewhat more responsible version of a similar argument, please see my "Embodied cognition: A field guide".
scientists suppposed that if we could only describe human cognition entirely in terms of logic–that is in terms of abstract symbols being transformed by abstract rules–then implementing this in a computer would be easy, since, after all, computers are just logic machines. However, it turns out that not only was it a bit difficult to describe people this way, but we operate according to a collection of more specialized processing mechanisms, and that logic is not the natural formalism to describe or implement these systems (even supposing that it were possible in principle to do so, which is a questionable supposition). It is the case that there were some early successes in logic-based AI–I am thinking of such things as the General Problem Solver (GPS), Automated Mathematician (AM), and EURISKO— but the artificial systems that resulted from this method were too abstract. They could "think" all right, in the sense of solve equations and make logical deductions, but they couldn't do anything autonomously in the world, because their symbols were essentially meaningless to them, ungrounded in any experience. This is all cognition and no embodiment.
The reaction against this failure was to build systems from the ground up, that started and stayed grounded in their environments and were able to do actual things with real input. The primary form this reaction took was the building of systems like Braitenberg Vehicles, simple neural-network controlled robotic systems, and subsumption architecture based systems like Genghis and Attila, that learned how to do things like move about and react to simple stimuli in real or simulated environments. Well, these systems were grounded, all right, but (you guessed it) too grounded, unable to do anything other than simple things in particular environments. One of the attractive things about logic is that it is, like language, compositional; from a small set of elements, you can build up many different and highly complex structures. Neural nets are not compositional, and so they are inherently limited. All embodiment and no cognition.
So, what's the right way to approach AI?
My approach to threading this particular needle–something I call action-grounded cognition, and which, I argue, is the true embodied cognition approach–is to adopt the structure of logic, that is, rule-based transforms of representations, but replace these abstract elements with their biologically-grounded counterparts. Thus, representations are not abstract, but defined in terms of the situated perceptual-motor abilities of the agent; and the rules are not like modus ponens, but specialized motor-based transforms (operations on affordances).
There is biological evidence that brain areas primarily associated with motor control are also used to support higher-order cognitive functions like working memory and language processing. (See, e.g. "How to study the mind: An introduction to embodied cognition", and "The massive redeployment hypothesis and the functional topography of the brain".)
Since affordances, the perceived availability of objects for certain kinds of interaction, aren't just motor programs, but interpretations of the environment, this opens the possibility that the motor control system is also, already, a primitive meaning processor. This would offer one explanation of how it is even possible to leverage motor control to support and constrain higher-order processes like language understanding.
The pie-in-the-sky claim is that a motor-control system using action-grounded representations and biologically-based transform rules could both drive the behavior of an organism in its environment, and serve as the basis of higher-order cognition. This would solve the symbol-grounding problem, among other things.
I've already developed a theory of representation based on this approach (see "Content and action: the guidance theory of representation", "A brief introduction to the guidance theory of representation" and "Representation, evolution and embodiment"), and am starting a project to understand motor-control, as it supports higher-order cognition, along these same lines, with the eventual aim of describing affordance-transform rules of the sort described.
Related approaches include studies of cognitive blending and conceptual metaphor, on the assumption that the ultimate source domains supporting conceptual blends or mappings are basic features of human experience like locomotion. (Consider the mapping: Life is a journey. The thesis is that this mapping guides us to think about life in the same way that we think about moving around in the environment.) These approaches are compelling as far as they go. However, neither of these approaches can explain how it is that base domains like locomotion are even available for conceptual mapping in the first place (without assuming that the source domain is in fact the already conceptually-interpreted experience of things like locomotion, which rather begs the question), and thus neither can offer as deeply and fundamentally grounded an account of higher-order cognition as the approach I am advocating.


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Q: Accessing multiple keys within an array by ID I have an array like this:

let productsArray = [
    { name: 'Mandala - horgolt dekoráció', id: '148332', price: '3000', src: '200913183702_148332.jpeg', motto: 'Tipp: tedd egyedivé saját díszítéssel!'},
    { name: 'Nyulak fatörzsben', id: '971487', price: '5800', src: '200526104718_971487.jpeg', motto: 'Legyen vidám napod!' },
    { name: 'Filc díszek', id: '761519', price: '2800', src: '161029211220_761519.jpeg', motto: 'Legyen szép a karácsonyod!',}
];
console.log(productsArray);

If I get the ID from a button, how can I access the other keys within the array? For example, I know the ID=148332, so I need the price and the name. I need this without back-end if possible.
Thank you,

A: To do this in an optimized way, you'll want to have a data structure with the id's mapped to the objects.  This will reduce lookup time significantly, since you know what record you want and you don't need to parse all of the records.
Build the new data structure like this...

let productsArray = [
    { name: 'Mandala - horgolt dekoráció', id: '148332', price: '3000', src: '200913183702_148332.jpeg', motto: 'Tipp: tedd egyedivé saját díszítéssel!'},
    { name: 'Nyulak fatörzsben', id: '971487', price: '5800', src: '200526104718_971487.jpeg', motto: 'Legyen vidám napod!' },
    { name: 'Filc díszek', id: '761519', price: '2800', src: '161029211220_761519.jpeg', motto: 'Legyen szép a karácsonyod!',}
];

const productsHash = [];
productsArray.forEach((product) => {productsHash[product.id] = product;});

console.log("What is the data for id 761519?");
console.log(productsHash[761519]);

And then access a part of the data structure simply with productsHash[761519], or, in terms of your application, maybe something like productsHash[someuservalue].

A: To elaborate on Kunal's comment, you can use Array.prototype.find in the following way:

let productsArray = [
    { name: 'Mandala - horgolt dekoráció', id: '148332', price: '3000', src: '200913183702_148332.jpeg', motto: 'Tipp: tedd egyedivé saját díszítéssel!'},
    { name: 'Nyulak fatörzsben', id: '971487', price: '5800', src: '200526104718_971487.jpeg', motto: 'Legyen vidám napod!' },
    { name: 'Filc díszek', id: '761519', price: '2800', src: '161029211220_761519.jpeg', motto: 'Legyen szép a karácsonyod!',}
];

const idFromButton = '148332'; //assuming you got this value from the button id
const foundProduct = productsArray.find((el) => el.id === idFromButton);

console.log(foundProduct);

A: you can use findIndex method in order to find the index of that object if you want to edit it or use find method if you just want the value.
find example

let productsArray = [
    { name: 'Mandala - horgolt dekoráció', id: '148332', price: '3000', src: '200913183702_148332.jpeg', motto: 'Tipp: tedd egyedivé saját díszítéssel!'},
    { name: 'Nyulak fatörzsben', id: '971487', price: '5800', src: '200526104718_971487.jpeg', motto: 'Legyen vidám napod!' },
    { name: 'Filc díszek', id: '761519', price: '2800', src: '161029211220_761519.jpeg', motto: 'Legyen szép a karácsonyod!',}
];

const id = '148332';
console.log(productsArray.find(item => item.id == id));

findIndex example

let productsArray = [
    { name: 'Mandala - horgolt dekoráció', id: '148332', price: '3000', src: '200913183702_148332.jpeg', motto: 'Tipp: tedd egyedivé saját díszítéssel!'},
    { name: 'Nyulak fatörzsben', id: '971487', price: '5800', src: '200526104718_971487.jpeg', motto: 'Legyen vidám napod!' },
    { name: 'Filc díszek', id: '761519', price: '2800', src: '161029211220_761519.jpeg', motto: 'Legyen szép a karácsonyod!',}
];

const id = '148332';
const getObjectIndexInProductsArray = (id) => productsArray.findIndex(element => element.id === id);
console.log(productsArray[getObjectIndexInProductsArray(id));

the last example will give you the index of the object so you'll be able to change this place in the array

A: You can use find.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Array/find

let productsArray = [
    { name: 'Mandala - horgolt dekoráció', id: '148332', price: '3000', src: '200913183702_148332.jpeg', motto: 'Tipp: tedd egyedivé saját díszítéssel!'},
    { name: 'Nyulak fatörzsben', id: '971487', price: '5800', src: '200526104718_971487.jpeg', motto: 'Legyen vidám napod!' },
    { name: 'Filc díszek', id: '761519', price: '2800', src: '161029211220_761519.jpeg', motto: 'Legyen szép a karácsonyod!',}
];

const output = productsArray.find(({id})=>{ return id === '148332' });
console.log(output);

function findElementById(arr,_id){
  return arr.find(({id}) => { return id === _id});
}

console.log(findElementById(productsArray, '148332'));
console.log(findElementById(productsArray, '971487'));

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Justia › US Law › Case Law › California Case Law › Cal. App. 2d › Volume 44 › Rawlins v. Lory
Rawlins v. Lory
[Civ. No. 11458. First Dist., Div. Two. April 4, 1941.]
MINNIE RAWLINS, a Minor, etc., Respondent, v. MARTIN W. LORY et al., Appellants.
D. W. Brobst for Appellants.
Phillips & Munck and Felton L. Watson for Respondent.
Plaintiff sought damages for personal injuries alleged to have been caused by the wilful misconduct of defendant Martin W. Lory. The cause was tried by the court sitting without a jury and plaintiff had judgment against defendant Martin W. Lory and the parents of said defendant in the sum of $1750. Defendants appeal from said judgment.
Defendants' main contention on this appeal is that the evidence was insufficient to show wilful misconduct on the part of defendant Martin W. Lory. We find no merit in this contention. There was some conflict in the evidence but considering, as we must, the evidence most favorable to plaintiff together with all legitimate inferences therefrom, the trial court was justified in determining that the following were the circumstances under which the accident occurred.
Plaintiff and defendant Martin W. Lory were school companions of the ages of 14 and 15 years respectively. Plaintiff was riding as a guest of said defendant at the time the accident occurred. Another school companion, who was driving another automobile, passed said defendant on Racine Street in the city of Oakland shortly before the accident occurred. Said defendant followed the other car at a high rate of speed, turned sharply to the left into North Street and ran into the far curb on North Street and overturned. [44 Cal. App. 2d 23]
Racine Street was but 36 feet wide between curbs and North Street was but 32 feet wide between curbs. There was no other traffic in the vicinity at the time. As said defendant travelled along Racine Street, he was first travelling at a speed of about 30 miles per hour. Said defendant then stated to plaintiff that the brakes were not working properly and plaintiff asked to be let out of the car. Said defendant did not heed her request but continued on increasing his speed to between 40 and 45 miles per hour after the other car had passed him. Defendant was going at that speed when he attempted to negotiate the turn into North Street.
The trial court found that said defendant was guilty of wilful misconduct in that (1) he intentionally operated the automobile at a speed of 40 to 45 miles per hour, which speed was excessive at the time and place; (2) he deliberately disregarded the protest of plaintiff and her request to allow her to leave the automobile; (3) he proceeded at said excessive speed, and intending to "hang the corner", turned abruptly to the left into North Street; and (4) he suddenly applied the brakes which were defective and known to him to be defective. The trial court further found that said acts of wilful misconduct were done by defendant in reckless disregard of the safety of plaintiff, well knowing that injury to plaintiff would probably result therefrom and that said wilful misconduct caused the automobile to overturn thereby injuring plaintiff.
[1] Defendants concede that defendant Martin W. Lory was travelling too fast but they state that "speed, of itself alone, is not wilful misconduct". This may be conceded for the purposes of this discussion but all of the circumstances, including the speed at which said defendant was driving, may be considered when determining the question of whether he was guilty of wilful misconduct within the meaning of the statute. (Haas v. Jones, 29 Cal. App. 2d 650 [85 PaCal.2d 579]; Francesconi v. Belluomini, 28 Cal. App. 2d 701 [83 PaCal.2d 298]; Chandler v. Quinlan, 25 Cal. App. 2d 646; Wright v. Sellers, 25 Cal. App. 2d 603 [78 PaCal.2d 209]; Candini v. Hiatt, 9 Cal. App. 2d 679 [50 PaCal.2d 843]; Norton v. Puter, 138 Cal. App. 253 [32 PaCal.2d 172].)
The term "wilful misconduct" has been frequently defined and the language of the court in Turner v. Standard Oil Co., [44 Cal. App. 2d 24] 134 Cal. App. 622 [25 PaCal.2d 988], has been consistently followed and approved. The court there said at page 626, "Wilful misconduct, within the meaning of this statute, may be defined as intentionally doing something in the operation of a motor vehicle which should not be done or intentionally failing to do something which should be done under circumstances disclosing knowledge, express or to be implied, that an injury to a guest will be a probable result." [2] It is not necessary that there be a deliberate intention on the part of the driver to injure the guest, but it is essential that there be an intentional act or omission on his part under circumstances disclosing the requisite knowledge, express or implied, of the probability of injury to the guest. In determining whether the circumstances are sufficient to disclose implied knowledge of such probability, an external standard is applied. In Stacey v. Hayes, 31 Cal. App. 2d 422 [88 PaCal.2d 165], one of the authorities relied on by defendants, the court said at page 426, "The probability of injury to the guest from such act or omission must have been an apparent consequence to a man of ordinary prudence and intelligence."
[3] It is entirely clear in the present case that the defendant driver intentionally did certain acts which he should not have done. It is conceded that he was intentionally driving at an excessive speed and accepting, as did the trial court, the testimony most favorable to plaintiff, it appears that he was intentionally travelling at such excessive speed with knowledge that the brakes were not working properly and after ignoring plaintiff's request that she be allowed to leave the car. It is also a legitimate inference from the testimony that the defendant driver was racing to overtake the other car and that he was engaging in what may be termed skylarking in "hanging the corner" into North Street. By the term "skylarking" we mean the indulging in antics or the cutting of capers with such automobile. (See Webster's New International Dictionary, 2d ed.) [4] It is a matter of common knowledge that such skylarking at high rates of speed is engaged in at times by drivers, and particularly by youthful drivers, merely for the sake of the thrill which it produces and with reckless indifference to consequences. [5] A driver who engages in such conduct is "knowingly flirting with danger" without necessity compelling him to take the chance. (See Francesconi v. Beluomini, [44 Cal. App. 2d 25] supra; Chandler v. Quinlan, 25 Cal. App. 2d 646, 648 [78 PaCal.2d 235].) The probability of injury to a guest from such conduct is an apparent consequence to any person of ordinary prudence and, applying the external standard above mentioned, any driver engaging in such conduct is charged with implied knowledge of the probability of such injury. The type of conduct which we have termed skylarking appears to be the precise type of conduct, or at least one of the types of conduct, which the legislature had in mind when it used the term "wilful misconduct" in the so-called guest statute and whenever the testimony shows, directly or by legitimate inference, that a driver was engaging in such conduct, such evidence is sufficient to show wilful misconduct and to support a finding thereof. As above indicated, we are of the view that such was a legitimate inference from the testimony in this case.
[6] Defendants further contend that the evidence was insufficient to support the finding to the effect that the defendant driver was operating the automobile with the consent of his parents. Plaintiff concedes that there was no evidence to support this finding, it appearing that said parents did not own said automobile or know of its existence. In this connection, it may be stated that the defendant driver and his companion who was driving the other car above mentioned had temporarily exchanged cars shortly before the accident. But the above mentioned finding was an immaterial finding here for it was alleged in the amended complaint, admitted by the answer and found by the trial court that the parents of the defendant driver had signed and verified the application of the defendant driver for his operator's license. This last mentioned finding was admittedly correct and the parents were therefore jointly and severally liable with the defendant driver under the provisions of subdivision (a) of section 352 of the Vehicle Code. The liability imposed by said subdivision (a) is in no way dependent upon the consent, express or implied, of his parents to the driving of the automobile as is the liability imposed by subdivision (b) of said section.
[7a] Defendants further contend that "the findings are prejudicially erroneous in that damages are awarded in one sum with no finding as to special damage". The amended complaint alleged general damage in the sum of $10,000 and special damage, including expenses incurred for physicians, [44 Cal. App. 2d 26] medicines and hospitalization, in the sum of $311.50. These allegations were denied by the answer. Evidence was offered in support of the allegations of special damage and objection was made thereto upon the ground that the parents of the plaintiff were the ones primarily liable for the expenses incurred and that said parents were not parties to the action. (McManus v. Arnold Taxi Corp., 82 Cal. App. 215 [255 P. 755].) The objection was overruled and the evidence was admitted. The trial court found that "As proximate results of the said wilful misconduct of the defendant Martin W. Lory, the plaintiff suffered injuries to her person consisting of a fracture of the right wrist, extensive lacerations of the wrist, a laceration in the region of the right elbow, and pain, suffering and shock, and the plaintiff was compelled to and did incur expenses for medicines and hospitalization, to her damage in the sum of $1750.00."
[8] Before considering the failure of the trial court to make a specific finding on the issue of special damage, it is appropriate to consider whether the evidence of the expenses necessarily incurred was properly admitted in this action. The bill covering said expenses was made out in the name of the plaintiff and said bill had not been paid. Anna Rawlins, the mother of the plaintiff, was appointed guardian ad litem and she caused these expenses to be included as elements of plaintiff's claim for damages in this action. Under these circumstances, we believe that evidence of such special damage was properly admitted and that plaintiff was entitled to recover such special damages in this action under the doctrine of waiver, "such waiver operating in the nature of an emancipation and conferring upon the child the right to recover said ... expenses." (See McManus v. Arnold Taxi Corp., supra [82 Cal. App. 215, 224 (255 P. 755)].) Unlike the situation presented in the McManus case, there was no claim made here that there was any negligence on the part of the parents of plaintiff which would affect the right of plaintiff or her parents to recover such special damages.
[7b] Having concluded that plaintiff was entitled to recover said special damages, we turn to the question of whether the failure of the trial court to make a finding on that issue constituted prejudicial error. It may be conceded that the failure to make such finding constituted error (James v. Haley, 212 Cal. 142 [297 P. 920]; Scoville v. Keglor, 27 Cal. [44 Cal. App. 2d 27] ApP.2d 17 [80 PaCal.2d 162]), but as was said in the last mentioned case at page 30, "It does not in all cases follow that errors of this description are prejudicial to the losing party." The only special damages alleged and proved were the expenses incurred in the sum of $311.50. The uncontradicted evidence showed that the amounts charged for the various services were reasonable and that said expenses were necessarily incurred. It further appears from the quoted finding that the trial court intended to award general damages and also special damages covering said expenses in the total sum of $1750. The evidence shows that said total award was entirely reasonable and defendants make no claim that it was excessive. While we believe that the judgment might be affirmed without additional findings upon the ground that said error was not prejudicial, it appears that this is an appropriate case for this court, in affirming the judgment, to make additional findings. (Linberg v. Stanto, 211 Cal. 771 [297 P. 9, 75 A.L.R. 555]; Hodges v. Gonzales, 5 Cal. App. 2d 86 [42 PaCal.2d 359].) We therefore find that as proximate results of the wilful misconduct of defendant Martin W. Lory, plaintiff suffered special damage in the sum of $311.50 and general damage in the sum of $1438.50, making a total of $1750.
The judgment is affirmed.
Nourse, P. J., and Sturtevant, J., concurred.
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Protests in China are not rare – but the current unrest is significant
Protesters march along a street in Beijing on Nov. 28, 2022.
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Teresa Wright, California State University, Long Beach
Street protests across China have evoked memories of the Tiananmen Square demonstrations that were brutally quashed in 1989. Indeed, foreign media have suggested the current unrest sweeping cities across China is unlike anything seen in the country since that time.
The implication is that protest in China is a rarity. Meanwhile, the Nov. 30, 2022, death of Jiang Zemin – the leader brought in after the bloody crackdown of 1989 – gives further reason to reflect on how China has changed since the Tiananmen Square massacre, and how Communist party leaders might react to unrest now.
But how uncommon are these recent public actions? And how do they compare with the massive weekslong demonstrations of 1989?
Having written extensively on protest in China, I can attest that protests in China are not at all uncommon – but that doesn't make what is happening now any less significant. Alongside similarities between the current street actions and more typical protests of recent years, there are also parallels between the demonstrations today and those in 1989. Yet differences in China's international status and domestic leadership reduce the chances for liberal democratic transformation now.
Not so unusual, but still unique
The current protests are ostensibly about the Chinese government's strict "zero COVID" policies. They were triggered by a deadly fire in the northwestern city of Urumqi on Nov. 24, with some residents blaming lockdown rules for hampering rescue efforts. Unrest has since spread to multiple cities, including Beijing and Shanghai.
The specifics are unique to the pandemic. But in many respects, what we are seeing is not new or unusual – protests, in general, are not rare in China.
In fact, from 1990 through the present, popular protests have been more frequent and widespread in China than they were in the years leading up to the Tiananmen Square-centered demonstrations.
According to Chinese government statistics, the yearly count of domestic "mass incidents" or "public order disturbances" – euphemisms used to refer to everything from organized crime to street protests – rose from 5,000 to 10,000 in the early 1990s to 60,000 to 100,000 by the early 2000s.
Despite the lack of official numbers since 2006 – which ceased to be published after that year – verbal statements by Chinese officials and research by scholars and nongovernment organizations estimate the number of yearly protests to have remained in the high tens-of-thousands.
When protests turn political
This is not to say the recent multi-city protests are unsurprising or insignificant. To the contrary, the current media spotlight is, I believe, well-deserved.
Nearly all the thousands of protests appearing every year in the post-Tiananmen Square period have been localized and focused on specific material issues. They occur, for example, when villagers feel they are unfairly compensated for land acquisitions, when private sector workers are not paid, or when residents suffer from environmental degradation caused by waste incinerators.
In contrast, the anti-lockdown protests have emerged in numerous cities – reporting by CNN suggests there have been at least 23 demonstrations in 17 cities. They are also all focused on the same issue: COVID-19 restrictions. Moreover, they are targeted at central Party leaders and official government policy.
For the the closest parallels in terms of size of protest, one has to go back to the late 1990s and early 2000s.
From 1998 to 2002, tens of thousands of state-owned enterprise workers in at least 10 Chinese provinces demonstrated against layoffs and enforced early retirements. And in 1999, roughly 10,000 members of the now-banned spiritual movement Falun Gong amassed in central Beijing to protest their suppression and demand legal recognition.
But these protests were directed at issues that specifically affected only these groups and did not critique China's top political leaders or system as a whole.
The only post-1989 examples of overt collective political dissent – that is, public action calling for fundamental change to the mainland's Chinese Communist Party-led political system – have been exceedingly small and transpired off the streets. In 1998, activists formed the China Democracy Party, declaring it a new political party to usher in liberal democratic multi-party governance. Though the party persisted openly for roughly six months, establishing a national committee and branches in 24 provinces and cities, its leaders ultimately were arrested and the party driven underground.
A decade later, a group of intellectuals led by writer Liu Xiaobo posted online a manifesto called "Charter 08" advocating for liberal democratic political reform. Liu, who later received the Nobel Peace Prize, was jailed as a result. He remained in prison until his death, from untreated cancer, in 2017.
And while the massive and sustained protests in Hong Kong over the past decade exemplify political dissent, protesters' demands have remained confined to political reform in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China.
Calls for change and for Xi to go
So how much do the current anti-lockdown protests resemble the demonstrations that shook the regime in the spring of 1989?
Both have involved urban residents from various walks of life, including university students and blue-collar workers.
And in each case, the demands of protesters have been mixed. They include specific material complaints: In 1989, it was the impacts of inflation; in 2022, it is the effects of lockdowns and incessant PCR testing.
But they also include broader calls for political liberalization, such as freedom of expression.
The Goddess of Democracy stood as a symbol of protest during the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations.
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Indeed in some ways, the protesters of 2022 are being more pointed in their political demands. Those on the streets of at least two major cities have called on President Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party to step down. Demonstrators in 1989 refrained from such system-threatening rhetoric.
That reflects the changing political realities of China then and now. In early 1989, Party leadership clearly was split, with more reform-oriented leaders such as Zhao Ziyang perceived as sharing the activists' vision for change. As such, demonstrators saw a way of achieving their aims within the communist system and without a wholesale change in leadership.
The contrast with today is stark: Xi has a firm grip on the party. Even if Xi were to miraculously step down, there is no clear opposition leader or faction to replace him. And if the party were to fall, the resultant political void is more likely to bring chaos than orderly political transformation.
Yet if the Chinese Communist Party is a different entity now than it was in 1989, its response to unrest shares some traits. Central authorities in 1989 blamed the protests on foreign "black hands" seeking to destabilize China. The same accusations have been raised in online posts now.
In fact, the government response to recent protests follows a pattern that has played out time and again in post-1989 protests. There is little to no official media coverage of the protests or acknowledgment by central Chinese Communist Party leaders. At the same time, local authorities attempt to identify and punish protest leaders while treating regular participants as well-intended and non-threatening. Central criticism – and possible sanction – of local officials portrayed as violating national policies follows. Meanwhile, there are moves to at least partially address protester grievances.
It is a messy and inefficient way to respond to public concerns – but it has become the norm since 1989.
Teresa Wright, Professor of Political Science, California State University, Long Beach
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2. If you are going to treat yourself, what is your favorite "cheat meal"?
3. Where would go and what would you do on your dream vacation?
Take a summer long trip to various spots in Europe. Take in all the history but also…sit by the pool!
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Girlfriend has eating disorder, says she wants to leave me so I don't get hurt
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I have a girlfriend who suffers with I believe bulimia. She has had it for a while and refuses to get help when I speak to her about it. She is currently back home in Bulgaria visiting family and it all seems to have got worse. She is now telling me she will leave me when she gets back but wants to be with me for a few more days when she does. She says she doesn't want help and doesn't want to live anymore and that's the reason why she wants to leave me so I don't get hurt. I need to know how to go about this, she is constantly talking about the future with us so its all confusing and I need help with what to say when she gets back as I don't want to do it through text. I need to convince her to get help and I can't just let her leave me because she doesn't want me to see her die.
Any tips/help would be nice.
BobJ48
As I'm sure you are coming to see, eating disorders are serious business, when it comes to the metal turmoil they cause ! One might think they were about food and loosing weight, but they are about so much more than that !
The person can be overcome by waves of different feelings. At one point, when their mind is clearer, and they can have thoughts of the future like other people do. The next moment they can find themselves overcome with despair and self-hate, and wonder if life is worth living. It can be an emotional storm for them, and unsettling for us, and something that's difficult for us to know how to address.
They can also feel terrifically guilty, and worry about the mental burden they are being for all of their loved ones. So they will often feel like pushing those people away, thinking that somehow we will be better off if we never have to think of them anymore.
So yes, what do we say in response to that ? We can't really tell them that they just need to get better, because they often don't feel like they can. So it can be hard to know how to respond, it's true.
My sense is that it's good if we can try and show them that we understand some of the thoughts that they must be having. We understand how terrible they must feel, we understand how much they must hate themselves sometimes, we understand how toxic depression can be, and we understand their fears about the future. And we understand the sense of guilt they must feel about causing worry for their loved ones. In my experience it helps things a little, if they can believe that we understand about all of those things. Like it helps them feel that they can be more open with us ?
Which may help settle their anxiety a little ?
But yes, I'm never sure there are any magic words we can say. The best we can do is show that we are not frightened about acknowledging and talking about the sorts of fears that we know they are having. Just being able to name them…that may take away some of their power, at least within the interactions that we share with them.
In any case, I hope this note helped a little, and that you will feel OK about continuing to write here.
Bob J.
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Health disparities are associated with a broad, complex, and interrelated array of factors. Diagnosis, progression, response to treatment, caregiving, and overall quality of life may each be affected by race, ethnicity, gender, environment, socioeconomic status (SES), age, education, occupation, and other as yet unknown lifetime and lifestyle differences. For example, a multi-ethnic epidemiologic study indicated that prevalence rates for Alzheimer's disease may be higher for African Americans and Hispanics than for other ethnic groups. Another study found a striking relationship between SES and health and longevity. Gender differences in health and longevity are observed across racial and ethnic groups. We must first understand these differences and their interactions and then work to develop behavioral and public health interventions to reduce disparities and increase quality of life for all of our older citizens.
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About a year or so ago, my family decided to make the effort to reduce or eliminate harmful chemicals in various areas of our lives. We started with cleaning which was easy enough and then moved onto our skin and beauty routines. That's where it became a little harder. Soaps and body washes were easy enough to find and after a bit of looking I was even able to find more natural solutions for oral care, hair and shaving. But there was one area that still eluded me...long-lasting deodorant!! And let's be honest...this is an area you don't want to mess around with. It's okay if people call you a bit crunchy...or even a hippie. Being concerned with living greener is a GOOD thing. But being called stinky? Well, that's not so good! There HAD to be an option that worked well and was more natural as well. With this already crazy hot summer, I needed something NOW! So, I drove down to my local Whole Foods store to see what I could find.
In the past, I'd tried a few other natural anti-perspirant options and was not pleased with the results. I found that they either didn't work...or smelled absolutely, positively horrible! Yuck! I don't want my deodorant to make me smell worse before I've even started to sweat!! I want my kids and my husband to want to cuddle me at the end of a long day, not turn up their noses in disgust. And quite frankly, I don't want to smell myself smelling less than wonderful either! So given my previous experience with natural deodorants, while I was hopeful about Tom's of Maine, I was also a little apprehensive!
Summer has only just started, but we have already been hitting 80s and 90s here in Indiana! But it's the humidity that's the worst! One step outside and you could be instantly drenched! (Glamorous, right?) Needless to say, my Tom's of Maine got put to the biggest test it could, right off the bat! And thankfully, it WORKED! It went on smoothly and lasted all day! And, despite being unscented I found it actually had a very subtle 'clean' smell to it...very refreshing!
Finally, I can have a great working, long lasting deodorant that will keep me smelling great from morning until night. A deodorant that can survive everything summer throws at it, without using those harsh ingredients I'm trying to limit. Finally, I don't have to choose between smelling good and living more naturally. With Tom's of Maine, I can truly have it all.
Is there an area that YOU have struggled to find more natural alternatives for? Perhaps you too have struggled with the battle of deodorants? Have you tried Tom's of Maine antiperspirants? As always, I love to hear your thoughts.
I am trying to bring more and more "natural" alternatives into our home. I wish I could have everything natural, but most things are just more expensive than others. But this is one I will sure check out!
I am in need of a new deodorant, looks like a good one Ill have to try! Makeup has been a hard area to find naturally, but recently I found a line of Tarte's brand that carries a vegan line, which I have tried and loved!
I will have to try this as I have so far been woefully unsuccessful and stinky with other deodorant only preparations.
I got a pretty bad rash at first, but that's normal. Getting a rash is kindof your body's response from switching from the mainstream deodorants to a more natural option. I usually alternated between using nothing and using this kind. It works great now and no rash! I also like Taylor's Pits!


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Q: Spring TransactionTemplate doesn't handle exceptions When I try to catch DataIntegrityViolationException and convert it to my custom exception, catch block is not executed.
As an example I used code from this:
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As a result, ServicePointRepository throws DataIntegrityViolationException that is handled at my controller layer, and the code during runtime seems to be avoiding catch block.
What am I doing wrong?
This is the code from PersistenceService:
@Autowired
private ServicePointRepository servicePointRepository;

@Autowired
private BusinessExceptionFactory businessExceptionFactory;

@Autowired
private TransactionTemplate transactionTemplate;

@Override
public String save(final ServicePointDTO servicePointDTO) {
    final ServicePointEntity servicePointEntity = mapToEntity(servicePointDTO);
    return transactionTemplate.execute(status -> {
        try {
            return servicePointRepository.save(servicePointEntity).getId().toString();
        } catch (DataIntegrityViolationException e) {
            throw businessExceptionFactory.createBusinessException(AlreadyExistException.class, CommonError.ALREADY_EXIST);
        }
    });
}

A: You need to define a PersistenceExceptionTranslationPostProcessor post processor to proxy your repositories with logic to convert proprietary exception to Spring DataAccessException hierachy. Also remember to mark your repositories with the @Repository annotation for them to be detected and proxied
@Bean
public PersistenceExceptionTranslationPostProcessor exceptionTranslatorPostProcessor(){
   return new PersistenceExceptionTranslationPostProcessor();
}

or equivalent in XML

A: this is the correct method:
    @Override
public String save(final ServicePointDTO servicePointDTO) {
    final ServicePointEntity servicePointEntity = mapToEntity(servicePointDTO);
    try {
        return transactionTemplate.execute(status -> servicePointRepository.save(servicePointEntity).getId().toString());
    } catch (DataIntegrityViolationException e) {
        throw businessExceptionFactory.createBusinessException(AlreadyExistException.class, CommonError.ALREADY_EXIST);
    }
}

also, this method should not be marked as @Transactional


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Star Trek: Discovery EP on Episode 2's Shocking Casualty, New-Look Klingons and Next Week's 'Pilot Reset'
By Dave Nemetz / September 24 2017, 7:30 PM PDT
Courtesy of CBS All Access
Red alert: This post contains spoilers from the first two episodes of Star Trek: Discovery. Boldly go forward at your own risk.
We're only two episodes into Star Trek: Discovery… and we're already down one captain.
Episode 2 of the highly anticipated Trek series — only available to CBS All Access subscribers — ended with Michelle Yeoh's Captain Georgiou getting fatally stabbed by Klingon warrior T'Kuvma before Burnham shot him dead with a phaser. And things only got worse for Burnham: She pled guilty to mutiny for neck-pinching Georgiou in the premiere and was stripped of her Starfleet rank and (yikes) sentenced to life in prison.
We know Burnham eventually gets out and onto the bridge of the USS Discovery — a ship we still haven't even seen yet! — but it's still a bold beginning for the first Trek TV series in more than a decade. And after an endless string of delays, executive producer Alex Kurtzman is relieved that he can finally share Discovery with the Trek fandom: "I've been holding my breath for a year and a half," he tells TVLine.
Kurtzman (who co-wrote the pilot with departed co-creator Bryan Fuller) weighs in on the decision to kill off Georgiou, Ned Stark-style; the show's new take on the Klingon race; the decision to make fans pay a monthly fee to watch the rest of the season; and the possibility of more nods to the original Trek series. (Short answer: Yes, very possible.) Plus, he drops a few intriguingly vague hints about what's on tap for the rest of the season. Readers… engage.
TVLINE | Captain Georgiou felt like a major character, but then she's killed at the end of Episode 2. Was that always the plan, to have her just be in the very beginning of the series?
The first thing that I'll reiterate, which was also said at Comic-Con, is: Have patience with us. Let's wait and see what happens. But yes, this was always the plan. Going back a year and a half ago, when Bryan and I were first working on the story, part of that idea was to set up an incredibly complicated emotional situation for Burnham, to put her in a place at the beginning of the season where she was in real trouble, where anything that you had predicted going into the series would be rendered moot by the end of the second episode. In a way, the idea was: Set the audience up to believe it was going to be about one thing, and then pull the rug out from them by the end of the second [episode].
[Burnham] is Starfleet's first mutineer, and she has just lost her dearest friend and surrogate mother, and is now carrying the weight of responsibility for having started a war with the Klingons, which she, and the audience, will have to evaluate over the course of the season. If she started the war, did she do the best that she could? Would the war have started anyway? These are all big questions that the series will wrestle with. And I think what I loved about the boldness of it was… once we started thinking in those terms, anything became possible. We knew from the very beginning that we wanted this season to be about how to hold onto your optimism in the face of great adversity. There's been a lot of controversy among fans. A lot of articles said, "Oh, are they throwing away the core idea of Trek?" Which is Gene Roddenberry's uniquely optimistic vision of the future, and that answer to that is: absolutely not. You can't do that. That is what Star Trek is about. But sometimes the best way to reinforce that message is through adversity, and to really ask yourself, "How far are you willing to go to protect that ideal?" And that's what the season's going to be about. So all of those story elements came together and felt like the right launching pad for us.
TVLINE | How is Burnham welcomed onto her new ship, the Discovery? From the trailer, it looks like a lot of people blame her for starting this war.
Well, I would definitely not say she is "welcomed" onto the ship. [Laughs] Which is also dramatically very interesting. In some ways, we always looked at Episode 3 as a pilot reset, because now she's in an entirely new ship. You'll find some original crew members, but a whole new crew, composed of the core Discovery cast. And her placement on that ship and her relationship to that crew is going to be entirely defined by what happened to her [in the first two episodes]. She, and they, will have to struggle through that.
TVLINE | The Klingons have a drastically different look here. They're almost more alien than we've seen in the past. Why the reinvention?
One of the core tenets of Star Trek is a fundamental understanding of "the other," and "the other" tends to not look like we do. I think we wanted to exaggerate that, and bring that to the foreground, because one of the main objectives of our show is to understand their culture and, to use a strange word, humanize them and to see where they're coming from. I've gone through a couple different design versions of Klingons, because we did a little bit of reinvention in the second movie, [Star Trek:] Into Darkness. And it's a very controversial choice when you begin to play around with anything Star Trek-related [Laughs], let alone the look of the Klingons. There was a lot of early reaction: "Oh God, what are they doing? Are they destroying the Klingons?" But I think all Trek fans understand that if you are making decisions based on a genuine respect for canon and a love for story, and for the big themes and big ideas that Trek is about, you tend to get latitude.
TVLINE | We do see Sarek in the premiere, and we know Harry Mudd is coming, and Discovery is only set a decade before the original Trek series. Any chance we might see more familiar characters, or even just nods to the original series?
For sure. We're operating in a time that has been referenced within canon, but not entirely elaborated on. So that gives us some freedom to invent certain details, as long as we're consistent with the details that everybody knows about. Harry Mudd is a great example of that. Yes, we can, and should, meet characters who exist within the universe at the time, and the question is: How do you present them in a way that is consistent to the vision of the original characters, but also bring something new to the table? To me, it's the hardest part about doing Trek, but it's the most rewarding if you get it right.
TVLINE | Episode 1 ends on a huge cliffhanger. Did you deliberately craft that as a hook to send people to CBS All Access to see how it's resolved?
Absolutely. There's no question. We're asking a lot of our audience. We're asking them to go pay for the rest of the story, and we're all very aware of that. And we're aware that it's been a controversial choice. I think the responsibility that we feel… is to make the money worth it. I'm very happy to pay for Game of Thrones. And if we can deliver something of that scope and scale, and of that visceral, emotional experience, and that long-term character investment… I know I can't get something like Game of Thrones on network television, and that's why I'm happy to pay for it. So our responsibility is to make sure that we deliver to our audience and fans a Star Trek that exceeds the boundaries of network TV.
TVLINE | Episode 2 ends on sort of a cliffhanger, too, with Burnham being stripped of her rank and sentenced to prison. Is the entire season set up like that: highly serialized, with each episode leading into the next?
There's no doubt. Not every episode ends on a cliffhanger, but many do. And it's because there is an evolving, serialized story, which has been incredibly liberating and exciting for us. Unlike the original series, which is more of a mission-of-the-week, this is a much longer-term arc, and what we love about it is the ability to live in the emotional lives of the characters, episode to episode. Whatever they experience, they carry with them into the next episode, and whatever storylines are set up are often long-term arcs that will require many episodes to play out. It's a lot more fun to write, honestly.
TVLINE | So does the war between Starfleet and the Klingons span the entirety of Season 1, then?
Hmmm, that's a tricky question you're asking me. [Pause] I'm gonna say yes.
TVLINE | Is the series still planned to be an anthology, with a new timeline and characters each season?
There was early conversation about that. I know that was something that Bryan had really liked. But I think what we felt was that these characters are so interesting to us that we would not want to leave them at the end of this season.
TVLINE | Anything else you can tease that's coming up later this season?
There's just so much to spoil! I'm trying to figure out how not to spoil it. Well, I think Burnham is going to be tested in many ways, as is the rest of the crew. Old ghosts may come back to haunt her over the course of the season. The duality of her character, the line between human and Vulcan, is going to be a challenge for her. The war may not play out exactly as we think. And I think that's all I can really tell you. [Laughs]
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