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1947 project
fake documentary
13 Rue Madeleine
I had mentioned 13 Rue Madeleine (20th-Fox, Henry Hathaway) as part of a semi-documentary trilogy that Fox made in the postwar years. Actually, I tend to prefer the term pseudodocumentary for a general fictional style that mimics documentary, but contemporary usage (producers and critics) referred to these films as "semi-documentaries."
Fox and other studios made films in this vein beyond these 13 Rue Madeleine, Call Northside 777, and House on 92nd Street, but these three adhere to a strict formula:
1) a focus on government institutions, in this case Army Intelligence. Along with this comes the foregrounding of governmental buildings and the mise-en-scene of bureaucracy.
2) a foregrounding of technology, especially the technology of mechanical reproduction or communication. Overhead projectors, PA systems, film projectors, microfilm, etc.
3) use of a variety of actuality footage, whether documentary in nature, from newsreels, or simulated in 16mm filmmaking.
4) Narratives of espionage and/or detection alternated with footage organized according to intellectual-rational logic.
Jesse Lerner remarks of the semi-documentary that it "saved studios money by beefing up low-cost narratives shot on a studio sound stage (mostly typically noirs or tabloid crime dramas) with stock B-roll filmed on location and an authoritative, documentary-style voice-over." (F is for Phony 19). I can see where Lerner is coming from, since these films initially seem cheap and stilted and the realism-on-the-sleeve ham-handed. But I think he underestimates how the addition of "newsreel" impacts both filmmaking style and narration.
First, the indoor shooting (potentially sound stage, but likely location) uses drastically different lighting style and sound design. These involve fewer attempts to dispel background shadow (generally a sign of having to light in a room with a ceiling)
... and using flat front lighting.
Second, at least in 13 Rue Madeleine, the film goes out of the way to flaunt its location shooting, showing James Cagney in Le Havre or in a real car.
Third, the narrative structure departs from the usual cause-effect chain of a fictional narrative. Much of the screen time is devoted to montages of agent training and much of the film's narrative moves only through the information provided in the voiceover. Most striking of all, the ending is abrupt and departs from the typical climax-denoument structure.
In all, I see a real attempt to adapt to new cinematic vocabularies and to do so with an experimental élan.
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Northamptonshire dining venues of distinction!
After facing arguably the most challenging six months in their history, some of the Northamptonshire's top eateries have been given a timely and much-needed boost, having been named as finalists in this year's Weetabix Northamptonshire Food and Drink Awards.
The annual competition celebrates all that is great about local produce and drink and recognises those who work so hard within the culinary sector while it is for their fabulous food, superlative service and mouthwatering menus – assessed by a willing band of mystery shoppers over the summer – that fifteen venues are now competing for further glory in two of the Awards' prestigious categories!
The first, that of 'Booker Dining Venue of the Year' (sponsored by Booker), sees nine of the county's best pubs and restaurants go head-to-head. They are (in alphabetical order):
Hibiscus, Northampton
Italian Market Kitchen, Rothwell
Nuovo, Northampton
The Griffin's Head, Mears Ashby
The Hopping Hare, Northampton
The Red Lion, East Haddon
The Saracen's Head, Little Brington
The Tollemache Arms, Harrington
The Willow and Brook, Apethorpe
Meanwhile, the six top scorers from among the plethora of entries into the 'World Cuisine Restaurant of the Year' category (sponsored by British Pepper & Spice) are (in alphabetical order):
Hashtag Justinas Chef, Northampton
Nazreen, Burton Latimer
Oren Pho, Northampton
Saffron, Northampton
The Exotic Dining, Kettering
Truva Charcoal Bar & Grill, Towcester
Following the enforced closure of venues earlier in the year as a result of lockdown, there were concerns that these categories may not have been able to go ahead but, as Awards Director, Rachel Mallows MBE DL, explains, that was never her fear: "Based on what venue owners were telling us, we just knew that the appetite was there for us press on, so we're thrilled that, despite having to rethink so much of the competition this year, our sponsors have supported us throughout and enabled us to proceed with these vital categories" she revealed.
'I'm therefore thrilled to see some new names being celebrated and not at all surprised to see some former winners, runners-up and finalists on the shortlists as they, more than anyone, appreciate what success in these awards means and what a difference it will make as we head towards what of course look set to be some further tough months ahead" Rachel added.
She also went on to pay tribute to those who played their vital role in the process – those secret diners who visited the record number of entries throughout the summer: "So many of our mystery shoppers have performed the task for a number of years and, aside from a handful who were shielding for health reasons, the response to being invited to the role was overwhelmingly positive, with so many being delighted to have the excuse to get out, try out some different eateries and perhaps even find a new favourite!" said Rachel.
"Having personally seen all of their scoresheets and knowing therefore how incredibly hard our shortlisted venues are working to create both safe and superlative experiences for their diners, I would encourage the county's foodies to go out and offer their support to all of our finalists – something which they need now more than ever!" she urged.
Having already been secretly assessed twice as part of the shortlisting process, the finalists in both categories are currently being visited by two external Mystery Shoppers who will score them on everything from staff knowledge of the menu to use of local ingredients, speed of service, and of course the quality of the food itself – not to mention the standard of their washrooms!
The results, which will see finalists across all twelve categories being awarded gold, silver or bronze, will be announced as part of a virtual online Awards celebration taking place on Thursday 12th November.
For more information on the Weetabix Northamptonshire Food and Drink Awards 2020/21, please visit the Awards' website at www.northamptonshirefoodanddrink.co.uk or call Rachel Mallows on 01933 664437 or email [email protected]
Meanwhile you can also follow the Awards, including news of the finalists in all of the categories as they are announced, on Facebook at @foodawards or Twitter and Instagram at @foodawardsHQ or on LinkedIn at @weetabixnfadawards

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"From now on, I prefer that you not refer to my genus by the derogatory word 'rat'." "The correct word is 'rattus'. It is the right of any group to define its own name. You must respect that." "Don't call me a dog anymore. From now on my correct name is 'smarter-than-a-stupid-rattus'."
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• A good Honours degree in communication studies or its equivalent from a recognised University.
• A Bachelor's degree in communication studies or its equivalent from a recognised university, and one year of relevant working experience.
• A good Honours degree in other fields of study from a recognised university, and one year of relevant working experience.
• A Bachelor's degree in other fields of study from a recognised university, and at least two years of relevant working experience.
Research Topic and Proposal对我这个读course的研究生来说,真的是太难了。但是看到Sample of Works就有信心了。"Although it is not required, applicants are encouraged to send in their sample of works, including published or unpublished research, various types of writing, multi-media products, or any other products that could help us assess a candidate."
10.TOEFL/IELTS results (apply only to graduates of universities with non-English medium of instruction). A photocopy of the result is acceptable. Instead of sending the official test score through ETS, applicants should submit a photocopy of the TOEFL/IELTS score together with all other supporting documents. The official test score sent directly from ETS should be produced for verification upon request at a later date. (因为我研究生在HK读的,所以豁免了英语。但还是考了雅思,6分很低。)Note : GRE score is not compulsory for admission to coursework programmes.


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Movie Review: "Bombshell"
By Steve Katz on	 December 18, 2019 Movies
It's become a trend of late for well-established directors from the comedy world to make the jump to drama, often taking on real-world events or heavily satirical concepts that retain their comedic sensibilities as they examine more serious subject matter. Adam McKay is perhaps the most famous example of this, leaving his early days of "Anchorman" and "Step Brothers" behind and receiving sudden praise and prestige for awards season contenders like "The Big Short" and "Vice." Just a few months ago, Todd Phillips entered the fray with "Joker," itself likely to be a major player in the Oscar race alongside its billion dollar box office.
Former "Austin Powers" and "Meet the Parents" director Jay Roach is choosing to follow a similar path, though the majority of his dramatic work has been limited to the small screen via the HBO movies "Game Change" and "Recount." His first big screen drama of note was the 2015 film "Trumbo," a political biopic centered on the Hollywood blacklist. Nothing much came of "Trumbo," but Roach is back four years later with a much higher profile project. "Bombshell" retains his political interest while widening his net to take on sexual harassment in the workplace by telling a dramatized story of Fox News, Roger Ailes and the network's spotty and troubling history of harassing young blonde reporters and staffers.
The movie follows three women who were victims of the network and its chauvinistic tendencies. On-air personalities Megyn Kelly (Charlize Theron) and Gretchen Carlson (Nicole Kidman) and behind-the-scenes staffer Kayla Pospisil (Margot Robbie) each deal with varying degrees of harassment, professional discrimination and worse at the hands of network chairman Ailes (John Lithgow). After Carlson files a lawsuit, their only chance at making a difference is by banding together to prove they aren't isolated incidents and expose the rot inside Fox News.
"Bombshell" feels like the sort of movie that takes its inevitable Oscar nomination for hair and makeup as seriously as anything else about its production. The result is a movie that's far too concerned with the accuracy of the look and its novelty to worry about silly little things like nuance and intrigue. It's one of the few cases where a live-action movie suffers from a real uncanny valley problem; the edges of Theron's face make her look startlingly like Megyn Kelly, but the eyes and the mouth are all Charlize, making for an almost disturbing visual depending on how she faces the camera. Additionally, the choice to mix archival footage of the real people with these fictionalized portrayals is utterly bizarre, creating the situation where you see a montage of images and videos of the real Roger Ailes before cutting to John Lithgow in a fat suit under gobs and gobs of makeup without expecting there to be a disconnect. I'm sure much of that decision-making was born out of a disinterest in casting someone to play Trump, but they cast everyone else in the world to play real people, burying them in metric tons of makeup in the process, so why stop there?
The problem with all of this is the feeling of artifice painted over every frame. All of these famous people are made up to look like other famous people. The choice to spend far too much time and energy making Theron and Kidman look like their real-life counterparts, only for Margot Robbie to look like she always does playing a composite character who serves as the poster child for behind-the-scenes harassment, is bizarre. Everyone and everything is a caricature, from Kate McKinnon's closeted lesbian democrat to the catty staffers in the viper pit of a newsroom. It's obvious that Roach wants to make something on the level of "The Big Short" or "Vice," and he definitely has the "Vice" side of things well covered.
In that vein, it's notable that "Bombshell" was written by Charles Randolph, one of the two credited screenwriters of "The Big Short." The fact is all over the marketing of the film, and the style is unavoidable. "Bombshell" doesn't break the fourth wall in the same way "The Big Short" does, but the chaotic cuts, the heavy reliance on narration as a mix of internal thoughts and recapping, the attempts at humor to skewer real and heavy events – all of it feels very familiar. That movie was about men behaving badly and other men dealing with the fallout, so if you squint, you can see the parallel between the financial crisis and the #MeToo movement, but there's undeniably a difference in the tenor and tone of the two scandals that doesn't necessarily filter through. The choice of title is such an obvious and lazy double meaning, while the slick editing and narration undercuts the content in a way that wasn't as egregious when examining other scandals.
Maybe it's too much to ask to expect a measured, thoughtful and respectful look at a major scandal of the #MeToo era from the male director of the "Do I make you horny?" movie and the male writer of "The Big Short," whose most significant female character was a throwaway joke involving Margot Robbie in a bubble bath. Maybe it's too much to just let actors and actresses act instead of trying to make them look and sound exactly like the people they're representing, putting all the emphasis on impression instead of character. There's something to this story – something thorny and complicated that manages to balance the men behaving badly aspect of office sexual harassment with a more nuanced portrait of the fact that the women affected by it have their own dark sides. "Bombshell" doesn't have the spine to take that on, choosing instead to lionize them in the most perfunctory way and shoehorn Margot Robbie into the proceedings. It's impressive when a movie can be met with basement-level expectations and fail to live up to them.
Starring: Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, Margot Robbie, John Lithgow, Allison Janney, Kate McKinnon, Connie Britton, Mark Duplass, Malcolm McDowell
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A Risk is an uncertain event that could impact your chosen path should it be realised. Risks are events that are not currently affecting you – they haven't happened yet. Once a risk is realised, it has the potential to become an Issue.
It is important to point out that not all risks become issues. Some risks materialise and are absorbed into a sprint/project/programme with negligable or no impact at all.
2) to minimise/manage/neutralise the impact of this risk once it has been realised.
If you succeed in point 2 then the net impact of realising the risk may be totally acceptable i.e. no issue at all.
Risks may be attributed to Political, Environmental, Societal, Technological, Legal or Economic ("PESTLE") factors.
The field of Probability is a really complex science (Actuarial Scientists make a career of it!) – I once spent a month attempting to calculate the likelihood of a High School student achieving an A-grade. Despite considering over 100 input factors, there was always something else that could affect the outcome e.g. video game preference, choice of pet and favourite TV show. I could have gone on for years.
Make the potential outcome work to our advantage (if possible!).
Risks vary in impact severity – some have the ability to dramatically affect your preferred path, whilst others come and go without much notice.
It is also important to point out that risks are usually thought to be all bad. Fact is, the net impact of realising a risk can be either positive or negative. With that said, positive risks are more regularly referred to as 'opportunities' and as such are handled differently.
With all due respect to an otherwise factual and simple explanation of risk, an "issue" is not a realized risk… at least not always.
When contingency plans are in place, trigger identified and monitored, resources available and up to speed, there is no "issue." It's (the contingency) just another piece of work (the story defined previously). There is nothing to analyze, nothing unknown, just execution. It's not an issue.
In Agile environments, one of the things you are trying to minimize is too much upfront work on developing contingencies that have a low probability or detrimental effect. You only want to build contingencies you really need and preferably just-in-time.
Tara – great article; I'm sharing ti with some co-workers!


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New COVID-19 cases in US soar to highest levels on record
People wait on line to get tested for COVID-19 on Dec. 21, 2021, in New York. More than a year after the vaccine was rolled out, new cases of COVID-19 in the U.S. have soared to the highest level on record at over 265,000 per day on average, a surge driven largely by the highly contagious omicron variant. (AP Photo/Brittainy Newman, File)
Wednesday, December 29th 2021
CHICAGO (AP) — More than a year after the vaccine was rolled out, new cases of COVID-19 in the U.S. have soared to the highest level on record at over 265,000 per day on average, a surge driven largely by the highly contagious omicron variant.
The previous mark was 250,000 cases per day, set in mid-January, according to data kept by Johns Hopkins University.
The fast-spreading mutant version of the virus has cast a pall over Christmas and New Year's, forcing communities to scale back or call off their festivities just weeks after it seemed as if Americans were about to enjoy an almost normal holiday season.
Thousands of flights have been canceled amid staffing shortages blamed on the virus.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. infectious disease expert, said Wednesday that there is no need to cancel small home gatherings among vaccinated and boosted family and friends.
But "if your plans are to go to a 40- to 50-person New Year's Eve party with all the bells and whistles and everybody hugging and kissing and wishing each other a happy new year, I would strongly recommend that this year we not do that," Fauci said.


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Sports minister Nathi Mthethwa says cabinet is discussing fans in stadiums
Mahlatse Mphahlele Sports reporter
Minister of Sport Nathi Mthethwa.
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Minister of sport Nathi Mthethwa says high-level government discussions are under way to explore the possibility of increasing the number of spectators allowed at stadiums.
The department of sport also hit back at recent persistent calls by certain figures for government to reopen up stadiums saying they are "uninformed".
EFF leader Julius Malema has led calls for the government to reopen stadiums for crowds at professional sport events, particularly Premier Soccer League (PSL) matches. The SA Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (Sascoc) said it would push for half-capacity crowds in sports grounds from next month.
Government regulations stipulate that only 2,000 spectators are allowed at stadiums for professional sport events as a precaution against Covid-19.
"Discussions are already under way through cabinet processes to look at possibilities to further increase spectator numbers. And if this is successful, it will be communicated as was done previously," Mthethwa said.
"Government is strongly committed to economic recovery and reconstruction and appreciates the reopening of spaces such as stadia. Attention therefore remains fixed on how access can be further extended without underrating the real dangers of Covid-19.
"We are comfortable that our partnership-type approach on this matter is a valuable mechanism that will also guide government and all role players' approach towards the full realisation of an economically active sport and creative sector.
"Ours has been and remains to be responsible in how we push back against the devastating effects and real dangers presented by Covid-19."
Mthethwa once again appealed to South Africans to be vaccinated against Covid-19 and allow the process to run its course as vaccination levels have not yet reached the desired goal.
The department of sport said in a statement: "The minister of sport, arts and culture Nathi Mthethwa has taken note of numerous public announcements advocating for the opening of stadiums.
"Regrettably, such calls are uninformed in light of the ongoing action taken by DSAC [the Department of Sport and Arts and Culture] over the last few months to enable access to stadiums, in a manner that protects both lives and livelihoods. While ensuring compliance with Covid-19 regulations and protocols Minister Mthethwa has consistently applied himself to such measures to enable the opening up of venues under his portfolio.
"With Covid-19 vaccines accessible to all South Africans, DSAC has embarked on a partnership-type approach with sport and creative personalities/bodies. The result of this has been the 'Play Your Part — Let's Vaccinate (City to City)' campaign, which to date, has been rolled out in seven of our nine provinces.
"This campaign essentially involves the encouragement of [sports] spectators and the broader public to vaccinate in order to ease positive decision-making regarding the reopening of venues."
"It is in the context of this well-established and continuing collaborative relationship that the return of spectators to stadia was gazetted in the Disaster Management Regulations of October 2021 and further enabled through directions issued by the minister of sport, arts and culture.
"Spectators and the venue of a sport event are consequently permitted to 750 persons or less for indoor venues and 2,000 persons or less for outdoor venues subject to strict adherence to all health protocols and social distancing measures.
"In other words, from last year in October 2021, it has been already possible for spectators to access stadia. In fact, the minister of sport, arts and culture went a step further to establish a committee of experts called the Return to Play Adjudication Committee to support organisations, clubs and individuals to ensure compliance with Covid-19 prescripts.
"This was done through submission of plans which were analysed, adjudicated, approved and monitored based on guidelines shared with the sector. Success factors recorded following this approach include numerous games last year such as Bafana Bafana against Ethiopia, Bafana Bafana against Zimbabwe and the MTN 8 final."
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The Asia interview with LGD.dd: "we will bring the title back to China"
Original: http://dota2.sgamer.com/news/201212/148489.html
The Asia's first day of matches has ended, and after an arduos day of competition, LGD has squeaked by and advanced from their group with a 2nd place group finish. Back at the hotel, we managed to get a text interview with the low-key LGD.DD (they have not taken any video interviews from anyone yet, their focus is to win first and then do interviews!). He shared a bit about his experience so far at The Asia, and analyzed the reasons behind their loss to MUFC earlier. Let us take a look together~
Q: Thank you to DD for accepting this interview with SGamer Dota2, first off say hello to everyone.
DD: Hello everyone I am LGD's DD.
Q: You've been in Kuala Lumpur for two dasys now, and in that time it has snowed in many places back in China! Can you tell everyone a bit about the weather over here?
DD: The weather here is very hot and humid, and it rains often. Everyday it's around 30 degrees celsius, so it's all about the t-shirts and shorts.
Q: Even though it's very hot outside, inside the venue it's quite cool~ Are you satisfied with the organization and preparation of the hosts this time, for example what are your thoughts on the hotel or venue arrangements, etc?
DD: The hotel is definitely quite good. But for the competition itself, I have to say that today's matches went on for a bit too long, and ended up affecting our performance to a certain extent. And especially on the main stage, it was a little bit too cool up there, the air conditioning was too strong. We were shivering all over as we sat up there.
Q: Today's headline match was the first match of the competition, where you guys lost to MUFC. What were the aspects your team faltered in that led to the loss?
DD: Our roster picks and lane arrangements had problems. And their Lone Druid completed his Radiance very early, that in addition to strong pushing in Tormented Soul, Furion… in the first push early on, our defense was too forced, and once that fight was over we'd already lost the momentum of that game, which was made worse by the fact that our roster was only suited for teamfights, not for late-game.
Q: Do you feel that MUFC are strong? Especially since hyhy is also playing for them here at this The Asia tournament.
DD: Pretty strong indeed, their ability is quite decent. Hyhy is also a very experienced played, so his joining only makes them stronger.
Q: After the match, Sylar and xiao8 reflected that Night Stalker could be switched out for Brewmaster or Sven, or the hard support could be switched out for Keeper of the Light, for a greater effect in that these heroes are very flexible. What do you think?
DD: This mainly you have to look at the rosters on each side. Though heroes like Keeper of the Light are indeed very flexible and fit in many places, only needing one other AOE skill to insta-clear creep waves, allowing a team to drag defense out for a long time. Actually, our loss to MUFC wasn't entirely down to the picks; we simply didn't expect it to be that tough, added on top of the fact that we played poorly in early game and allowed Lone Druid to get fat.
Q: After this match, xiao8 constantly repeated a phrase: "If we lose another one, we're done". In the following matches, you guys completely stomped your opponents. So the first loss was a warning to you all?
DD: Yes, it really was if we lost another match we would be dead. We had been forced to the edge of the cliff, so we could only play every match to the best of our abilities. And we are slowly finding our match form; these first matches can only be said to be warmups — the real matches will be tomorrow!
Q: Tomorrow you face off in the brutal elimination stages, and your first opponent is MITH.Trust. Any specific plans to deal with them?
DD: It's been a long time since we last practiced with Trust, plus they advanced as winners of their group B, so they cannot be underestimated. Tomorrow's matches are best of 1, so we must be wary of them and any killer strategies they may have. We will have a team meeting tomorrow morning to look at how to deal with them.
Q: Okay, we hope you will bring the championship here back to China, LGD add oil! Lastly, say something to the fans!
DD: Thank you SGamer for the interview, thank you to our sponsors Taobao, Razer, and LGD, we will bring the title back! Please support us, everyone!
Posted by AutumnWindz in Chinese Dota, Interviews
Tagged: DD, LGD, Mith Trust, MUFC, The Asia
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OnePlus 7 renders show OnePlus 6T-like design, OnePlus 7 Pro spotted in Almond colour
Renders show OnePlus 7 having OnePlus 6T-like design.
OnePlus 7 Pro Almond colour variant leaks.
Next week, OnePlus will launch the OnePlus 7(₹ 29999 at amazon) Series of phones at mulitple venues simultaneously. Leaks and teasers have somewhat confirmed the design of the OnePlus 7 Pro. However, there were several conflicting reports about how the OnePlus 7 looks. Latest renders have cleared the air over the design of the phone, and suggest that the phone will look like previous year's flagship, the OnePlus 6T.
Spotted by WinFuture, the renders show the phone having a waterdrop notch and three cameras on the back. The slider and power buttons are on the right side, and the volume rocker is on the left. The report says that OnePlus 7's display measures 6.41 inches but it won't have a 1440p resolution but is capable of 90Hz like the Pro model. Under the hood, both the phones will have the same Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 SoC with the vanilla variant having only 6GB and 8GB RAM options.
Meanwhile, the OnePlus 7 Pro has been spotted in a new Almond colour. However, there is no confirmation on the name of the colour. WinFuture says that the colour is apparently called Almond, but it looks like what manufacturers called "gold" a few years ago. This info builds on last week's development in which a Nebula Blue colour was leaked, making it the third colour option for users to choose from. The OnePlus 7 Pro will be available in Mirror Grey colour as well.
The OnePlus 7 Pro will have a 6.64-inch AMOLED display with a Quad HD+ resolution and a refresh rate of 90Hz. Along with Qualcomm's flagship mobile platform, the Pro variant will be offered with 10GB of RAM. There is a triple rear camera setup with an ultra wide-angle lens, and a telephoto lens with 3X optical zoom and 10x digital zoom. The phone has a 4,000mAh battery capacity.
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The Lay of the Last Minstrel: A Poem in Six Cantos...
HardPress, 2013 - 260 sider
The Lay of the Last Minstrel
Fuld visning - 1904
The Lay of the Last Minstrel: A Poem
The Lay of the Last Minstrel: A Poem, in Six Cantos
Sir Walter Scott, Sir,Walter Scott, Sr.
Ingen forhåndsvisning - 2012
Walter Scott was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on August 15, 1771. He began his literary career by writing metrical tales. The Lay of the Last Minstrel, Marmion, and The Lady of the Lake made him the most popular poet of his day. Sixty-five hundred copies of The Lay of the Last Minstrel were sold in the first three years, a record sale for poetry. His other poems include The Vision of Don Roderick, Rokeby, and The Lord of the Isles. He then abandoned poetry for prose. In 1814, he anonymously published a historical novel, Waverly, or, Sixty Years Since, the first of the series known as the Waverley novels. He wrote 23 novels anonymously during the next 13 years. The first master of historical fiction, he wrote novels that are historical in background rather than in character: A fictitious person always holds the foreground. In their historical sequence, the Waverley novels range in setting from the year 1090, the time of the First Crusade, to 1700, the period covered in St. Roman's Well (1824), set in a Scottish watering place. His other works include Ivanhoe, Rob Roy, and The Bride of Lammermoor. He died on September 21, 1832.
Titel The Lay of the Last Minstrel: A Poem in Six Cantos...
Forfatter Walter Scott
Udgiver HardPress, 2013
ISBN 131496125X, 9781314961256


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Apple Music fans have been waiting for this new feature for a while: the arrival of karaoke with Apple Music Sing.
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What does Apple Music Sing, the new special karaoke feature, offer?
Apple Music will go further with Sing! Because in addition to already setting the lyrics to certain songs, it will be possible to sing at the same time and adjust your voice. Just that !
The opportunity for all singing fans to make duets with great artists. The advent of real-time lyric viewing has allowed subscribers to sing along with artists, so why not record your voice along. As this feature is one of the most popular in Apple Musicthis Sing news is just in time!
This new feature will offer several things. As Adjustable voices, the possibility to control his voice level or put his voice in the place of the artist. Live lyrics will also be changed so they will be animated in time with the song.
The voices in the background, they will animate without taking over the display of the main texts. Duo screen, it will be possible to sing in Duo from Apple Music Sing.
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Low Fat Guide Line Fact or Fiction?
This has been an interesting debate that has been going on for years – my thoughts have been that if Low Fat diet and Cholesterol Drugs were supposed to be so good how come is that Heart disease is still one of the biggest killers in Western Nation Zoe Harcombe is the lead author of a new study that debunks the low-fat myths and reported on diabetes.co.uk may help clarify what happened.
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"Every last shred of evidence": Why low-fat dietary guidelines should never have been introduced
By Kurt Wood
When the US government introduced "Dietary Goals for the United States", they did not have unanimous support. The guidelines, which urged the public to cut saturated fat from their diet, were challenged by a number of scientists in a Congressional hearing. The findings were not based on sufficient evidence, they argued.
They were ignored. Dr. Robert Olson recounts an exchange he had with Senator George McGovern, in which he said: "I plead in my report and will plead again orally here for more research on the problem before we make announcements to the American public." McGovern replied: "Senators don't have the luxury that the research scientist does of waiting until every last shred of evidence is in."
And so, backed by a questionable base of evidence, the guidelines were implemented, triggering one of the most complex and controversial scientific debates of the last three or four decades.
Senator George McGovern had a big influence on the introduction of low-fat dietary guidelines. He also argued that "senators don't have the luxury that the research scientist does of waiting until every last shred of evidence is in." image source: usnews.nbcnews.com
We are only now seeing a significant challenge to the low-fat guidelines. In June of last year, Time published Bryan Walsh's "Ending the War on Fat." Walsh quotes Philip Handler, who was president of the National Academy of Sciences in 1980. He called the fat guidelines a "vast nutritional experiment." According to Walsh, "the experiment was a failure. We cut the fat, but by almost every measure, Americans are sicker than ever."[1]
"Senators don't have the luxury that the research scientist does of waiting until every last shred of evidence is in."
On June 1, 2015, Open Heart, The BMJ's cardiology journal, published "Evidence from randomised controlled trials did not support the introduction of dietary fat guidelines in 1977 and 1983: a systematic review and meta-analysis," the first study to comprehensively critique the body of evidence supporting the low-fat guidelines.
The study, led by Zoe Harcombe, argues that "dietary recommendations were introduced for 220 million US and 56 million UK citizens by 1983, in the absence of supporting evidence from [randomised controlled trials]."
The study presents a number of findings, including:
The original RCTs [randomised controlled trials] did not find any relationship between dietary fat intake and deaths from CHD [coronary heart disease] or all-causes, despite significant reductions in cholesterol levels […] this undermines the role of serum cholesterol levels as an intermediary to the development of CHD and contravenes the theory that reducing dietary fat generally and saturated fat particularly potentiates a reduction in CHD.[2]
In other words, it's generally believed that having lower cholesterol levels means having a lower risk of heart disease, and the best way to lower cholesterol levels is to reduce one's intake of fat. But the study punctured this belief: there is no real established link between cholesterol levels and risk of heart disease. Therefore, reducing fat intake isn't going to reduce the risk of heart disease.
Uffe Ravnskov, a Danish researcher notorious for challenging the conventional wisdom surrounding heart disease, makes a similar point:
Today a reduction of the intake of saturated fat is one of the cornerstones in dietary prevention of obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. However, several recent trials have documented that the main argument for this advice, its alleged influence on blood cholesterol, is questionable. More disturbing is that a large number of epidemiological, clinical, pathological and experimental studies have falsified the idea that a high intake is harmful to human health and that a reduction may be beneficial; indeed, several observations point to the opposite.[3]
Harcombe et al also identify flaws in the research, flaws that compromise the integrity of their findings. For example, many of the original studies focused on men who had suffered a myocardial infarction. But they failed to take into account that:
men who have suffered a myocardial infarction (MI) subsequently make multiple lifestyle changes (weight loss, smoking cessation, increase in physical activity, for example), which makes them a poor group for testing the lipid hypothesis.
Ms Catherine Collins, Principal Dietitian at St. George's Hospital NHS Trust, also described the failings of the original research:
Studies had small numbers (most with a history of heart disease) were highly varied in dietary and lifestyle approach, and reviewed outcomes over a short time scale – around five years on average. All these factors would influence the outcome – whatever dietary changes were made.
In short, the body of evidence that led to the introductions of anti-fat dietary guidelines was incomplete. The researchers – Harcombe et al – summarised the huge gaps:
At the time dietary advice was introduced, 2467 men had been observed in RCTs. No women had been studied; no primary prevention study had been undertaken; no RCT had tested the dietary fat recommendations; no RCT concluded that dietary guidelines should be introduced. It seems incomprehensible that dietary advice was introduced for 220 million Americans and 56 million UK citizens, given the contrary results from a small number of unhealthy men.
Whoever decided to implement the anti-fat guidelines seems to have done so by ignoring all evidence to the contrary. A few supportive studies seem to have been given a greater importance, even though, as Ravnskov notes, "A few supportive studies cannot outweigh more than one hundred studies that have falsified the hypothesis." And, having wrongfully supported the anti-fat guidelines, fresh evidence to the contrary has also been ignored. The guidelines remain unchanged. Ravnskov argues that what is "most disturbing is that the numerous contradictory epidemiological, pathological and clinical observations […] have been ignored by all guideline authors."
So the guidelines were pushed through on the back of a thin suggestion that saturated fat was the biggest cause of heart disease, without any of the rigorous, comprehensive examination that should come with it. The decision to promote anti-fat guidelines seems to stem from a selective attitude to evidence. Because, as Ravnskov notes, "any idea can be verified if one looks for confirmation only." It wasn't just flawed; it was woefully inadequate. Or, as the researchers put it: "dietary advice not merely needs review; it should not have been introduced."
Zoe Harcombe is the lead author of a new study that debunks the low-fat myths. Image source: walesonline.co.uk.
People with diabetes have been tarred with the low-fat brush as much as anybody. Historically, all the official advice, from the NHS to Diabetes UK, has urged people with diabetes to avoid fat. This despite the fact that anecdotal evidence has for some time suggested that people with diabetes find a low-carb, high-fat diet more conducive to good blood glucose control.
The NHS recommends "reducing the amount of fat" in the diets of people with type 2 diabetes, and including "starchy carbohydrates, such as pasta," while Diabetes UK suggest that people with diabetes "choose low-fat alternatives wherever possible," while having "some starchy food" every day.
Slowly but surely, the advice is changing. Last year, Dr. David Unwin published "Low carbohydrate diet to achieve weight loss and improve HbA1c in type 2 diabetes and pre-diabetes: experience from one general practice." The study, published in Practical Diabetes, indicated that a low-carb diet could enhance weight loss and improve HbA1c levels in people with type 2 diabetes, in contrast to the official guidelines of the NHS and Diabetes UK.[4]
Other studies report similar findings. Halton et al's "Low-carbohydrate-diet score and the risk of coronary heart disease" concluded that "diets lower in carbohydrate and higher in protein and fat are not associated with increased risk of coronary heart disease in women. When vegetable sources of fat and protein are chosen, these diets may moderately reduce the risk of coronary heart disease."[5]
The two pieces of advice are more or less mutually exclusive. If we cut down on carbs, we have to make up for it by eating more fat. If we cut down on fat, we have to compensate by eating more carbs. Broadly speaking, there can only be one winner. The original low-fat guidelines recognised this, telling people to "increase carbohydrate consumption to account for 55 to 60 per cent of the energy (caloric) intake [and] reduce overall fat consumption from approximately 40 to 30 per cent energy intake." But according to Richard Feinman, the Editor of Nutrition and Metabolism, "fat consumption, if anything, went down during the obesity epidemic – almost all of the increase in calories was in carbohydrates."[6]
Shops are full of low-fat alternatives to yoghurt, butter and the like. But are they the answer to heart disease and obesity?
So why were the guidelines introduced, if they were so obviously flawed from the start?
It's not the sinister conspiracy we might have hoped. In fact, the motives for introducing the guidelines appear to have been completely noble and well-meaning. On the publication of the guidelines, Senator George McGovern said:
My hope is that this report will perform a function similar to that of the Surgeon General's Report on Smoking. Since that report, we haven't eliminated the hazards of smoking, nor have people stopped smoking because of it. but the cigarette industry has modified its products to reduce risk factors, and many people who would other be smoking have stopped because of it. The same progress can and must be made in matters of nutritional health.[7]
If anything, the sincere desire to improve health may have been at fault for the implementation of such shoddily-evidenced guidelines.
"Fat consumption, if anything, went down during the obesity epidemic – almost all of the increase in calories was in carbohydrates."
Matters were exacerbated by another commendable motive: the desire to propose guidelines that ordinary people could stick to. Dr. D.M. Hegsted, Professor of Nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts, said when the guidelines were published:
It is increasingly obvious that if new knowledge is to result in new behaviours then people must be able to act, without undue obstacles, in accordance with the information they learn. The problem of education for health as it has been practiced is that it has been in isolation, not to say oblivion, of the real pressures, expectations, and norms of society which mould and constrain individual behaviour. There must be some coordination between what people are taught to do and what they can do.
This is a noble approach for the most part. Certainly, modern dietary guidelines would be more effective if they took into account the practical realities of people lives. And yet, at the same time, the approach can be simplistic. This is a complex issue, and ignoring its complexity in order to make more convenient guidelines isn't going to help anyone.
Ironically, the guidelines were introduced because "there needs to be less confusion about what to eat and how our diet affects us," yet ended up triggering one of the biggest scientific debates of the century.
The low-fat dietary guidelines are finally being challenged, with a number of experts suggesting that it's carbohydrates, and not fat, that does the damage.
When it comes to dietary guidelines, there is no simple answer. Studies will always conflict, and findings will always be questionable to some degree. Harcombe's study isn't perfect; according to Christine Williams, Professor of Human Nutrition at the University of Reading, it takes
a classical pharmaceutical approach to the evidence, with the assumption that RCTs also provide the gold standard for diet, representing the pinnacle of the evidence hierarchy against which other types of study are inevitably weaker. Most dietary guidelines have been developed using an approach which takes the degree of consistency of a number of lines of evidence as the gold standard for risk assessment. This approach uses RCTs where such data is available.[8]
And it isn't productive to insist people adhere to any one strict diet; different things will work for different people. But it is necessary to call out deeply-flawed guidelines. A number of studies have suggested a "protective effect of saturated fat from dairy products." We may be increasing our risk of heart disease by avoiding saturated fats.
Maybe so, maybe not. Decades of scientific dispute haven't put the fat versus carbs debate to bed; it's very unlikely to happen in this article. But whatever you believe, the debate shows how important it is that we insist on a thorough scientific basis for dietary guidelines. We need to ask questions of the researchers. Otherwise we're stuck with low-fat recommendations that could, just maybe, be killing us.
http://www.diabetes.co.uk/in-depth/every-last-shred-evidence-low-fat-dietary-guidelines-never-introduced/
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My new guilty pleasure, Pokemon Go, was supposed to be a fun past time. I'm in Vancouver this week attending CAST2016 and have had some time to walk around the city and hunt digital monsters. The game is fun, it is something I can easily do that doesn't really have direction or purpose. Basically it is a nice way to distract myself from normal busy life.
Pokemon Go was released a couple of weeks ago, and and has become an overwhelming success. For me though, it's been tough. The game has a lot of bugs, and every day I've been learning aspects of the game that are hidden because I am lacking 10 years of Pokemon background.
I was thinking about that nice distraction and some lessons about software development started jumping out. Especially around the idea of what lean and agile people call a Minimum Viable Product (MVP).
Minimum and viable are much more challenging than we like to think, especially when small public releases aren't possible. When I worked at healthcare companies, most of the time we thought of minimum in terms of getting value to the user. Our goal was to release smaller features, like a report or a filter on a page that displays too much data, to improve the feature bit by bit. We were making assumptions about what minimum and viable meant for our next product release, but they were somewhat based on the market and feedback from our customers. That is harder to do when minimum isn't so minimal, like in the first product release.
Where did my character go?
The concept of a minimum viable product doesn't account for overwhelming success. A piece of software that is OK for a few hundred users might be unreliable for thousands, and unusable for millions. Pokemon Go has fallen victim to its own success.
Pokemon started getting popular where I lived around my senior year in high school, but I never played the game. At this point I'm missing several years of history about the little digital monsters. But more importantly, I am completely in the dark about the game mechanics. Figuring how how to get through the game has been an exercise in talking to other players and hunting through google. Even the most simple aspect of the game, using a Poke Stop needed a quick search. There is a generation gap between me and the market this game was made for. Kids playing this game have grown up using mobile apps and might have some point of reference for how this game works. I have needed pointers on what is obvious to these players. Viable for me and the younger players familiar with a wide variety of mobile apps and game history isn't quite the same.
The other aspect of the negative scaling effect on MVPs is the inevitable software bug. No development or testing strategy, DevOps setup, or monitoring tool can account for what will happen when a product goes from zero to several million active users over night. The game in surprisingly stable right now considering how popular it is, but everyday I find bugs that require me to restart the app to get going again. Sometimes Pokestops don't load, sometimes my character doesn't display on the screen, and sometimes the game will tell me there are no Pokemon in my area. Restarts fix all of those issues temporarily.
Harping on the game isn't the point of this, I am really enjoying it. But, it is a nice example of what a minimum viable product is and isn't, and what happens when our assumptions go wrong.
Hi Justin, many agile and lean people (including me) would contend that PokemonGO is not an MVP, it is a version one if you want, but certainly not an MVP.


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Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) is a compact, readable, whole-sentence semantic annotation. Annotation components include entity identification and typing, PropBank semantic roles, individual entities playing multiple roles, entity grounding via wikification, as well as treatments of modality, negation, etc.
Note the inclusion of PropBank semantic frames ('say-01', 'send-01', 'treat-03', 'wound-01'), grounding via wikification ('London'), and multiple roles played by an entity (e.g. '11 people' are the ARG1 of send-01, the ARG1 of treat-03, and the ARG1 of wound-01).
With the recent public release of a sizeable corpus of English/AMR pairs (LDC2014T12), there has been substantial interest in creating parsers to recover this formalism from plain text. Several parsers have already been released (see reference list below) and more may be on their way soon. It seems an appropriate time to conduct a carefully guided shared task so that this nascent community may cleanly evaluate their various approaches side by side under controlled scenarios.
Participants will be provided with parallel English-AMR training data. They will have to parse new English data and return the obtained AMRs. Participants may use any resources at their disposal (but may not hand-annotate the blind data or hire other human beings to hand-annotate the blind data). The SemEval trophy goes to the system with the highest Smatch score.