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Q: Make disabled feature persistent after a submit button is hit I have a form with multiple drop downs and a submit button. Based on any choices made from DropDown I am disabling other drop down's but right after I hit the submit button, it refreshes the page and set disabled drop downs to enabled. How can I make those drop downs disable even after the page is refreshed.
Below is my Script:

My JSP Page:

<form id='form' method='post' action='/test/'>
<input type="hidden" name="action" value="checker">

<select id="type" name="selectionOne">
    <option value="main">selection1</option>
    <option value="one">Selection2</option>
    <option value="Two">Selection3</option>
    <option value="Three">Selection3</option>
</select>

<%                       // tried to do in JSP but did not work???
    String typeChker = request.getParameter("selectionOne");
%>

<select id="Parts" name="partially">
    <option value="1">1</option>
    <option value="12">12</option>
</select>
<%
    String dur = request.getParameter("partially");
%>

<select id="country" name="ally">
     <option value="6">USA</option>
    <option value="9">UK</option>
</select>
<select id="today" name="aty">
    <option value="123">Today</option>
   <option value="6">tomorrow</option>
</select>
<input type="Submit" Value="Submit">
</form>

After a Submit button is hit, it calls servlet to provide the response based on those selection, hence refreshes the whole test.jsp How do I make the disabled value persistent
until the user doesn't change the option by itself.
Please correct me if I amd oing anything wrong and what is it I need to add to have it persistent.

A: Either set a cookie in Javascript when disabling the dropdown, read that cookie on page load and disable again in Javascript. Or move the disabling into JSP and use the session.
To disable in JSP, you could do something like this:
<%
boolean blnOneIsDisabled =  //get from session
String oneIsDisabled = (!blnOneIsDisabled) ? "" : "disabled='true'";
%>
<select id="type" name="selectionOne" <%=oneIsDisabled%> >

A: I am kinda confused what you are doing with the submit button, but you can try using jquery with the .on('submit"). The preventDefault() should stop it from refreshing the page.
$(function () {
    $('form').on('submit', function (e) {
     //code to run when submitting
      });
      e.preventDefault();

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A few years ago, I started a small biotech company, which was awarded a DTI 'Smart' award for innovation.
Finishing preparations for tonight's debate on entrepreneurship. Having founded my own award-winning biotech company, I have a lot to say!
@teh_walrus it was a biotech company aiming to collect virgin female fruitflies! Trust me, this is an important task … and a big market!
During 2005/6 the company was in the process of being struck off the register of companies.
The company only filed one set of accounts, on 08/12/2004.
The company's accounts are small companies' accounts which mean they perfectly reasonably and legally don't include full details; however they so include two items of interest: what appears to me to be a loan to the company of £20,000 and a loss on the profit loss account of £5,574. From the published information it looks like a very small enterprise, which wasn't around very long (only operating for a year or so) and made a loss.
I think it is excellent that Mr Huppert has had experience of running a company. If elected he will be able to draw on his experiences trying to work with the likes of the HMRC and Companies house and the current bureaucracy in general.
While I'm publishing this article because I think its important for Cambridge electors to be able to see the scale, and degree of success, his business had; I don't think we in Britain should be as culturally critical of failure as we are and we should look favourably on those who've taken a business idea on and tried to make a go of it (as long as they're not irresponsible and don't leave large debts behind).
One thing I am very concerned about the tax rises in the Liberal Democrat manifesto published this week. One is a substantial hike in capital gains tax which would affect entrepreneurs like Huppert if they are looking to sell on their business. While the Lib Dems are trying to create a fairer tax system, and that's something I support I think we have to be careful not to get rid of legitimate tax breaks which we currently do give people who start their own businesses, who generate wealth and create jobs. Some Lib Dems have been talking this week about clamping down on companies, trusts and other means the rich use to avoid tax; as they've been slipping "companies" in there I'm again worried that, as with capital gains tax, they might accidentally end up targeting the wrong people.
Something I think we really have to do is take commercialisation of the UK university's research outputs more seriously. While it doesn't look at all as if Huppert's company came into this category, we need to ensure academics are not creating companies merely to tick a "route to commercialisation" box on a research grant application. Universities across the UK need to provide much better support for commercialisation, and we need to ensure the profits made get recycled back into universities where they ought be providing a major funding stream. I've written more about this in my article on Higher Education Cuts.
This entry was posted on April 16, 2010 by Richard Taylor.
Hmm, not sure I agree with that last bit, Richard. Capital gains only affects shareholders, not the business itself.
I think it is an important economic distinction to make – Corporation Tax is when companies pay tax on operating profits, capital gains is what shareholders pay when they sell shares at a profit (this does affect entrepreneurs who own their own companies, but should affect the profitability of the companies themselves).
As for lumping business into the tax dodgers clan, this is undoubtedly the case, for some large multinationals at least. Look at the Guardian's Tax Gap series from last summer ( http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/series/tax-gap ). Lib Dems are simply saying that if companies want to come up with some complex arrangement to protect investors from risk (holding companies etc) they are required to get the revenue to approve it first, rather than report it afterwards and hope they don't get investigated, as happens at the moment.
I like your investigative research here though, good work! Thanks for an interesting article.
When it comes to small business and startups which are looking to be sold on capital gains is critically important.
Entrepreneurs often start companies, prove the business model, and sell them on. These people will, accidentally, be penalised under the Lib Dem proposals.
As part of a move to flatter taxation there will need to be a consideration of which "loopholes" are actually intentional and serve a purpose – such as those which encourage people to build businesses. I would rather such benefits were given more positively to entrepreneurs rather than existing as loopholes. The Lib Dem proposals are useful and helpful and in the right direction; they can be tweaked and turned into something great for Cambridge and which can support the UK's economic recovery.
So his experience seems to be in collecting a government grant, spending it and then closing down! Hardly the stuff of entrepreneurial endeavour!
Dr Huppert's company was probably one set up to exemplify some technology or research market sustainability. SMART awards are only made to companies so it couldn't be done as a research grant.
It's entirely normal for such a company to make a loss and, if the project showed the business wasn't feasible, entirely sensible to shut it down. Working in this field in the past decade, it's quite normal to see an attrition rate for young research companies at this stage.


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Спеціальні історичні дисципліни — джерелознавчі галузі знань, що вивчають окремі типи історичних джерел та розробляють теоретико-методологічні засади їх зовнішньої та внутрішньої критики. Спеціальні історичні дисципліни виникають як комплекс прикладних навичок роботи з документами.

Приблизно в XVIII ст. відбувається становлення спеціальних історичних дисциплін як наук.У 1950-1960-х роках розпочалася нова хвиля розвитку спеціальних історичних дисциплін, що супроводжувалася формуванням більш ґрунтовної теоретичної бази спеціальних історичних дисциплін та їх класифікацією.

Нині спеціальні історичні дисципліни слугують для розв'язання вузьких завдань — критики джерела, а з іншої сторони — ставлять самостійні завдання у різноманітних ділянках історії (наприклад, генеалогія не лише відслідковує кровні зв'язки, а й дозволяє історикам говорити про зміни в соціальній стратифікації того чи іншого суспільства; палеографія не лише допомагає при читанні давнього документу, а й дає нам цінну інформацію про таку складову культури як письмо, що водночас дає нам змогу говорити про рівень розвитку культури того чи іншого народу, етносу тощо).

Єдиної класифікації спеціальних історичних дисциплін не існує. Останнім часомколи? в Україні набула поширення класифікація, яка передбачає поділ спеціальних історичних дисциплін на ті, що вивчають особливі види джерела (сфрагістика — печатки, нумізнатика — монети) та ті, що застосовують особливі методи при роботі з джерелами (палеографія, хронологія тощо).

Достеменно невідомо кількість спеціальних історичних дисциплін, кількість яких коливається від 50 до 80. Така ситуація зумовлена тим, що багато дослідників виділяють нові спеціальні історичні дисципліни із вже існуючих: епіграфіку з палеографії, медальєрику з нумізматики.

Більшість спеціальних історичних дисциплін — компоненти джерелознавства, яке свого часу з археографією та архівознавством зараховували до спеціальних історичних дисциплін. Наразі їх кваліфікують як спеціальні галузі історичної науки (СГІН).

Спеціальні історичні дисципліни
 Археографія — спеціальна галузь історичної науки (СГІН), що займається вивчення історії публікації історичних джерел та розробляє теорії та методику їх видання.
 Археологія — самостійна історична наука, яка вивчає побут, матеріальну культуру людей минулих епох за археологічними знахідками (артефактами).
 Архівістика — наука про методи роботи з архівами (про історичні і сьогоднішні прийоми збирання, зберігання, опрацювання і опублікування).
 Архівознавство — спеціальна галузь історичної науки, яка вивчає історію розвитку архівної справи.
 Архонтологія — наукова дисципліна, яка вивчає історію посад у державних, міжнародних, політичних, релігійних та інших громадських структурах. Об'єктом вивчення є хронологія, послідовність змін посадовців, їхні біографії та інші дані.
 Бібліографія — наука про бібліографічні записи — замітки для каталогізації списку книг і джерел.
 Боністика — допоміжна історична дисципліна, що вивчає грошові паперові знаки, банкноти, цінні папери, векселі.
 Вексилологія — наука про стяги, прапори, хоругви та інші предмети історичної символіки.
 Генеалогія — родознавство, допоміжна історична дисципліна, що вивчає: 1) історію родів; 2) родовід якоїсь людини. Генеалогія пов'язана з такими суміжними науками, як геральдика, дипломатика, євгеніка, історія та інші
 Геральдика — наука, що вивчає герби, які належать особам, родам, корпораціям, самоврядним громадам, територіям.
 Дендрохронологія — порівняно нова наука, методи якої лежать на межі з біологією, археологією і і метеорологією. Її методи уможливлюють датування артефакту (археологічної знахідки) на основі підрахування кількості і товщини кілець деревини. Товщина шару залежить від метеорологічних чинників даного року. Також можна дослідити, наприклад чи був даний рік врожайний. В посушливі роки кільця формувалися дуже тонкі.
 Джерелознавство — це спеціальна галузь історичної науки, що вивчає історичні джерела, теорія і практика їх використання в історичних дослідженнях.
 Дипломатика — наука, яка досліджує документ з точки зору наукової критики, тобто визначає придатність знайдених документів до історичного дослідження. Вона покликана для викриття фальшивки, а також встановити юридичну процедуру при оформленні документів.
 Емблематика — спеціальна історична дисципліна, яка займається дослідженням емблем — умовно-символічних зображень певних понять чи ідей, які виконані у графічній або пластичній формі, мають конкретний зміст і не потребують спеціального витлумачення.
Енциклопедистика — спеціальна історична дисципліна, присвячена історії енциклопедичних видань, теорії та методології їх підготовки.
 Епіграфіка — наука про увічнення написів, скажімо на пам'ятниках, будинках, надгробках, меморіальних таблицях, а також на прапорах, хоругвах.
 Епістологія — наука, що вивчає типи і види особистих листів древнього світу і середніх віків.
 Історична бібліографія — наука про опубліковані джерела (манускрипти і передруки)
 Історична географія — наука, яка розглядає географічне середовище в історичній перспективі, або вказує на історичні зміни в даному регіоні, займається реконструкцією адміністративного поділу, природного середовища, культури, господарювання (економічна історія) i політики(політична історія) того чи іншого регіону.
 Історична демографія — наука про демографію населення, яка лічить популяцію людей в різних місцевостях і епохах.
 Історична картографія — наука, яка займається історичними картами і методами їх виробництва.
 Історична хронологія — одна із допоміжних історичних дисциплін, наука про методи обліку часу, системи датування(види календарів).
 Кодикологія — допоміжна медієвістиці і палеографії наука, що вивчає рукописи, які записані в кодексах, грамотах і книгах ще до епохи друкарства.
 Криптографія — наука про розшифрування закодованих текстів, тісно пов'язана з дипломатикою, історією міжнародних відносин і дипломатією.
 Неографія — розділ палеографії, який вивчає письмо після відкриття друку.
 Нумізматика — наука, що вивчає старовинні монети та медалі. Фундаментальна для економічної, політичної історії, відіграє важливу роль в археологічному датуванні.
 Палеографія — історико-філологічна дисципліна, об'єктом дослідження якої є історія письма, його еволюція (переважно на основі давніх пам'яток) та характерні особливості (графічні форми знаків і літер, пропорції та конфігурації їхніх складових частин; місце і частота вживання окр. літер; видів скорочень; шрифтів та ін.) на певних етапах розвитку, вивчення систем тайнопису (криптографії), особливостей оздоблення рукописів і написів (зокрема, орнаментів, мініатюр). Звичайно палеографія вивчає системи літочислення, а також предмети, пов'язані з письмом (матеріали, на які нанесено текст, зокрема пергамент, тканини, берест, папір і філіграні на ньому; знаряддя писання; барвники, зокрема чорнила, за допомогою яких написано чи оздоблено текст; форми оправ книжок тощо).
 Папірологія — наука про рукописи, записані на папірусі.
 Пресознавство — наука про часописи і періодичні видання.
 Просопографія — наука, що досліджує особу.
 Сфрагістика — наука про печатки і штемпелі. Тісно пов'язана з геральдикою.
 Фалеристика — наука про медалі, ордени та інші відзнаки.
 Фемінологія історична  — галузь історичних знань, що вивчає жінок в історії, їх місце та функції у суспільстві.
 Філігранологія — спеціальна історична дисципліна, що займається вивченням водяних знаків на давніх паперах.
 Уніформологія (військова) — історична дисципліна, що вивчає історію виникнення і розвитку, а також характерні особливості службової та, в першу чергу, військової форми одягу. Інші назви — мундирування, уніформоведення.

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 Войцехівська І. Н., Дмитрієнко М. Ф. Спеціальні історичні дисципліни  //
 Майстерня історика. Джерелознавство та спеціальні історичні дисципліни / Ярослав Дашкевич; [Львівське відділення ІУАД ім. М. С. Грушевського НАН України]. — Львів : Літературна агенція «Піраміда», 2011. — 792 с.
 Спеціальні історичні дисципліни : навч. посіб. / Г. В. Бондаренко; Східноєвроп. нац. ун-т ім. Лесі Українки. — Луцьк : Вежа-Друк, 2015. — 423 c.

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The birth of a new child is always an exciting event, and there is no better way to welcome a new life into the world and celebrate the birth than to follow the practices and teachings of the Prophet Muhammad. This ritual is sunnah and mustahabb, so it is not sinful to forgo the practice, but it does offer a wonderful opportunity for modern Muslims to connect with their storied history and show devotion to Allah.
What Is Aqiqah?
It is the ritual sacrifice of an animal, or two animals, on the occasion of a child's birth. In the days of the Prophet Muhammad, he and his companions performed this ritual each time they were blessed with a newborn child. By performing Aqiqah, families can follow in this tradition of expressing gratitude to Allah and conferring His blessings upon the child.
When Should Aqiqah Be Performed?
The best time to perform this is seven days after the child is born. If this isn't possible, it's also fine to perform this sunnah 14 or 21 days after the birth. Parents or guardians who cannot perform Akikah at one of these designated times can also do so at any subsequent 7-day interval until the child reaches puberty. Some parents opt to perform this ritual during the Qurban period, which falls between the 10th and 13th Dhulhijjah.
Purpose of Aqiqah
It is mentioned in a hadeeth of the Prophet that every child is in pledge for his Aqiqah. Some scholars believe this means that if the child dies during childhood, he will not be able to intercede for his parents unless Akikah has been performed. Others interpret it as a ridding of the Shaytan and a means of offering protection to the child, meaning that children may miss out on good things if parents do not perform this ritual. Either way, it's clear that this ritual sacrifice plays an important role in protecting the child, even if it is considered sunnah and is not mandatory.
Benefits of Aqiqah
The benefits of Aqiqah extend beyond offering protection and blessings to the child. This tradition also gives parents the chance to announce the birth of their child as a blessing from Allah and to celebrate that blessed occasion with family members, friends, and neighbors. It is also sunnah for both parents and the poor to feast on the meat obtained during the slaughter, meaning that this wonderful Sunnah also leads to a wealth of nutritious food that can, and should, be shared with the poor.
Conditions of the Animals in Aqiqah
The animals to be slaughtered during the performance of Akiqah must be either goats, cows, or camels. Cows must be more than three years old, goats must be more than two years old, and camels must be over the age of six. The animals must be free from any defect or handicap, including blindness, illness, lameness, and undernourishment, and must be slaughtered in the correct ways.
For newborn boys, when performing Aqiqah Singapore parents should slaughter two animals. If they are welcoming a baby girl into the world, they should slaughter one animal. Either way, the conditions of the animals must be the same as those dictated for animals slaughtered in Qurban.
What Is Qurban?
Qurban is the ritual sacrifice of livestock to Allah. It is only performed during the 10th and the 13th Dhulhijjah, when Muslims around the world sacrifice goats, sheep, cows, or camels as an homage to the Prophet Ibrahim's willingness to sacrifice his own son, Ismail. By performing Qurban Singapore, families can also participate in this important ritual.
The time for slaughter begins soon after sunrise on the 10th Dhulhijjah after adherents of Islam have had time to perform two short rakaat and two short khutbah. Followers of Allah then have until sunset on the last day of Tasyriq, the 13th Dhulhijjah, to perform Qurban.
Camels and cows can fulfill the sunnah for up to seven people, while sheep and goats cannot be shared among families. Following the slaughter, one-third of the meat must go to the poor. Traditional Muslim families will then split the rest of the meat evenly among their families and their neighbors, relatives, or friends.
Although Qurban is considered sunnah muakkadah and is not mandatory, the Prophet Muhammad stated that "there is nothing dearer to Allah during the days of sacrifice than the sacrificing of animals" (Ibn Majah). The sacrifice brings Muslims closer to Allah.
Differences Between Aqiqah and Qurban
Let's recap the most important differences between Akikah and Qurban. First, Akiqah is only performed once in a person's lifetime before the adherent reaches puberty, but ideally on the 7th, 14th, or 21st day after the birth. Qurban, on the other hand, can be performed every year.
A second important difference is that there is no limit on how many animals can be sacrificed when performing Qurban. With Akikah, the sunnah is one goat for a girl and two goats for a boy, although camels or cows may be substituted. It's also acceptable to perform Akikah during Qurban, provided the timing works out.
Both Akiqah and Qurban were performed by the Prophet Muhammad and early followers of Islam. Both are sunnah, although Aqiqah gives thanks for the birth of a child while Qurban gives thanks for day-to-day lives. Both traditions remain alive and well in Singapore and across the world today.
Expecting a child? It's best to register for Aqiqah Singapore Services in advance. Devout parents owe it to Allah and to their children to perform Akiqah. The whole family can perform Qurban together as long as there are seven or fewer members by slaughtering a camel or a cow rather than a goat or a sheep, but don't assume that is enough. It's important to offer thanks to Allah and receive His blessing on the occasion of a new birth.
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DISNEY+ Review: 'The Imagineering Story' stands out, 'The Mandalorian' shrouded in secrecy
Disney+, 2019.
I was among the lucky press members that got to get a sneak-peek at some of the new shows coming to Disney's new streaming service, Disney+, starting on November 12th, 2019. Read on for my thoughts and reactions!
Disney+ is almost here! The highly-anticipated streaming service looks to take over the lion's share of the streaming market when it is made available on Tuesday, November 12th, 2019. While there will be TONS of content for consumers to dig into at launch (see a full list here), some of the new shows were made available to critics (like me) BEFORE the general public.
Sadly, easily the most popular and exciting new series coming to Disney+ is Jon Favreau's "The Mandalorian," the first-ever live-action Star Wars TV series that has been the flagship title of Disney's new service. Unfortunately, this show was NOT shown to critics, as I'm sure that A) it's critic-proof and B) the premiere episode apparently contains a MASSIVE spoiler regarding not just this series, but the entire Star Wars Universe. Woah baby. That being said, check back here for a full review of The Mandalorian after November 12th.
So here then are the shows - and Disney+'s first original movie - that WERE made available, with my initial thoughts.
The Imagineering Story
Clearly the best of the new programs that were previewed, "The Imagineering Story" is a six-part docu-series that chronicles the origins of Walt Disney Imagineering, "a place best described as equal parts artist studio, design center, think tank and innovation laboratory."
The first two episodes (the only two supplied to critics in advance) tells the origins of DisneyLand in California, and Walt's tireless involvement to bring something new to the landscape of family entertainment. It's interesting enough, but by the end of the first episode, we reach Walt's death in 1966, and how the Disney company as a whole was in shambles without him. The second-episode shows how the Imagineers picked up the pieces, finishing Walt Disney World and Walt's last dream, EPCOT Center, in the middle of a Florida swamp.
This series is a MUST-SEE for every Disney fan, and especially fans of the theme parks, as there are countless nuggets and interesting tidbits included on how most every ride came to be.
Lady and the Tramp (2019 movie)
Lady (voiced by Tessa Thompson) and Tramp (voiced by Justin Theroux) in Disney's live-action LADY AND THE TRAMP. KC Bailey Copyright: (c) 2019 Disney Enterprises, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
It's not essential viewing, nor is it ground-breaking, but this new live-action "Lady and the Tramp" is probably the best symbolism of what we can expect on a whole from Disney+: Unfettered, digestible family entertainment. Gone also are even the faintest point of objections from the original 1955 classic (you won't for example, find the stereotype-laden "The Siamese Cat Song"), making sure that this is a family story for Disney's entire global audience.
It features voice talents from Tessa Thompson, Justin Theroux, Sam Elliott, Ashley Jensen, Janelle Monae, Kiersey Clemons and Thomas Mann. It's as harmless as they come, and it may not be much of a surprise that the first Disney remake on the new streaming service isn't quite a dog, but it definitely lacks bite.
The World According To Jeff Goldblum
Perhaps the most intriguing new entry in Disney+'s array of original content is this curious show...that lands with a bit of controversy around it. You see, Jeff Goldblum was recently in the news defending the likes of Woody Allen, a PR-nightmare that I'm sure the folks at Disney would have rather not had attached to their new launch.
But controversies aside, "The World According to Jeff Goldblum" was actually an intriguing, pleasant surprise. Watching the trailer, Goldblum's eccentric brand and style may be an acquired taste and not for everybody, but the episodes made available for critics (the first four) were actually incredibly entertaining and dare I say, educational. The quirkiness that Goldblum displays in the trailer is muted quite a bit, and it allows us to focus on the section of culture that he highlights each episode. We see Jeff jump right in to the worlds of sneakers, ice cream, tattoos and denim, and each time you'll come away with something new.
Jeff Goldblum proves to be a fun companion helping us to explore these worlds, and of all the shows that I viewed, this is the one that I would probably have been least likely to watch on my own. Now that I have though, I'm oddly anticipating more adventures with Mr. Goldblum, and feel comfortable following him anywhere.
Encore!
It's definitely a strange premise: "Encore!" comes from host and executive producer Kristen Bell, who reunites actual high school musical casts years later, as they try to re-create their original performances. For example, the first episode centers on classmates from Santana High School in California, who come together 23 years after their original production of "Annie."
As this is a reality-docu-series, there is lots of real-life drama that spills in, and the show ends up not being all that much about the production after all. That's good when it leads us into some unexpected emotional territory, but it's bad in that - at an hour long per episode - there doesn't seem like enough time exists to properly explore each group. Usually with a series like this, we get to know the "characters" over several hours as the show unfolds, but with "Encore!" each episode jumps to a new set of people dealing with new sorts of drama. The format seems like a good idea, but it isn't executed properly...it's almost like you want a couple of"encore" episodes from each group of real-life people that "Encore!" brings to our attention.
Marvel's Hero Project
It's hard not to be a fan of a series that focuses on real-life "superheroes," ones that don't wear capes or fight crime. In "Marvel's Hero Project," inspiration is the true star and it takes on several roles, in the forms of kids across the country who are doing amazing things in their communities and for the world at large.
The shows begin with Marvel Comics executives defining and pin-pointing which real-life hero we will be spending time with over the course of the half-hour-long episode. We then learn about each hero and what they are doing that is so extraordinary. The episodes end with Marvel rewarding the hero with some sweet Marvel swag, some major congratulations and even a unique, personalized comic book featuring them as the star. What's not to love?
Forky Asks A Question
Pixar's newest popular animated character (voiced by Tony Hale) had to make some sort of an appearance on Disney+, and he does so in the form of "Forky Asks a Question," incredibly short (like 3-minutes long) animated vignettes where Forky learns about life. "What is Money?" and "What is a Friend?" Forky asks in the two "episodes" provided to critics.
At best, these are cute but forgettable spots. At worst, this is the most pointless Disney+ exercise at launch. Are these for adults? Then I get the lofty, tongue-in-cheek themes. Are these for kids? Then why just 3-minutes long? I'm not quite sure who is going to go out of their way for this series, who is going to remember any of these, or who would demand to see more. But I guess the good news is that it will take you just about 30 minutes to get through the 10 "episodes" that will be made available at launch.
Noelle (2019)
The only other original Disney+ film provided to critics in advance (besides "Lady and the Tramp"), "Noelle" is perhaps the most "woke" Christmas comedy of all-time. Santa's kids, Noelle (Anna Kendrick) and Nick (Bill Hader) must take the torch when the job of Santa Claus is to be passed down to them, as it has for generations in their family.
There has rarely been a more sanitized film, even for a Christmas movie..."Oh my garland!" and other various Christmas puns pass as jokes, and in the first scene of the movie, Santa steps on a "hidden Mickey"...as if it wasn't already obvious enough what sort of crowd this is geared towards. Hader and Kendrick are naturally hilarious, but here, they join an otherwise impressive cast (Shirley MacLaine and Billy Eichner appear as well) that seem to be happy enough just throwing another lump of coal down into the Disney+ stocking...a stocking that is stuffed with enough other presents to make this a forgivable misfire.
Of all of the new content provided to us in advance, this is the only series that I didn't get to...I didn't think I'd be the best judge of the show, seeing that I've never seen any incarnation of High School Musical whatsoever. But according to RottenTomatoes.com, this show holds a 71% "Fresh" rating, with a mix of love and hate from critics across the board.
Disney+ Details: According to the official Marvel site and Star Wars site countdown timers, Disney Plus launches in the United States at the following times on November 12:
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Three duties in a time of Trump
Posted on December 5, 2016 by Stephen J. A. Ward
In the turmoil of a Trump election victory, and the dawn of a robust right-wing American government, it is time to do journalism ethics with utmost seriousness.
Journalism ethics is not a set of formal rules that students are forced to memorize and then find these ideals inoperable in the workplace.
Journalism ethics is the heart and soul of why you are a journalist, and why it matters.
Today, this soul-searching begins with a large question: What sort of journalism does America need to meet the great political challenges ahead?
What is the point of journalism practice in a time of Trump?
My answer is: to protect liberal democracy by embracing three related duties:
the duty to advance dialogue across racial, ethnic, and economic divisions
the duty to explain and defend pluralistic democracy against its foes
the duty to practice the method of "pragmatic objectivity"
The duties work together to promote an egalitarian, plural, tolerant, democratic polity, which should be the political goal of public journalism. The duties work against a populist democracy dominated by a "strong man," where freedom is freedom for the most powerful and abrasive.
The duties oppose the untrammeled, vengeful will of intolerant citizens who see the election as a "winner take all" victory for their side.
trump time
One cannot discuss the point of a practice in the abstract. Journalism ethics begins with some perception of the media's social context. What is this context?
We live in a time of danger for moderate, liberal democracy with its divisions of power, freedom of expression, protections for the rights of all citizens, and the empowerment of minorities despite the displeasure of traditionalists.
Trump time has been a long time coming.
It has been long prepared for by: bad education, American insularity, and the myth of exceptionalism; incorporation of fundamentalist religion into politics; the deepening of economic inequality; seeing strength in guns and the person of violence; mistaking 'in-your-face' ranting for honest, democratic communication; and the worship of fierce partisanship over compromise.
Other contributors: An extreme patriotism which views those who disagree as enemies of the state; regarding America as white, male-dominated, and Christian; an insouciance toward fact and a suspicion of intellect; the preference for character assignation over rational argument; a fear of 'others' and the replacement of thought by slogan.
The result? A society populated by too many politically ignorant and apathetic consumer citizens, easy targets of demagogues. Now, these unsteady forces have the power of social media to create a totalitarian mindset in the heart of what was once the world's greatest liberal democracy.
Given this uncertain future, what should journalists do?
There are two options that should not be followed. One option is for journalists to counter the bombast and distorted statements of the Trumpites by producing a bombastic, counter-balancing opposition press. There is already too much rant-induced media.
"Here is where the first media duty arises: the duty to promote dialogue across divisions."
The second option is for journalists to see themselves, delusionally, as only neutral chroniclers, as stenographers of 'fact' as the political drama unfolds. This is an outdated notion of objectivity formulated in the early 1900s for a different social context.
The best response lies between journalistic ranting and the mincing neutrality of stenographic journalism: it is a democratically engaged journalism committed to three duties.
A democratically engaged journalism is not neutral about its ultimate goals. It regards its ethical norms and methods as means to the flourishing of a self-governing citizenry. Here is where the first media duty arises: the duty to promote dialogue across divisions.
In a column on this site over a year ago, in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attack, I talked about the media's duty to mend. Journalists have a duty to convene public fora and provide channels of information that allow for frank but respectful dialogue across divisions. They seek to mend the tears in the fabric of the body politic.
In a time of Trump, the duty to practice dialogic journalism is urgent. This means challenging stereotypes and the penchant to demonize. It means linking the victims of hate speech to citizens appalled by such discrimination, building coalitions of cross-cultural support.
Go 'deep' politically
However, fostering the right sort of democracy-building conversations is not enough.
Conversations need to be well-informed. Here is where the second duty arises.
Journalism needs to devote major resources to an explanatory journalism that delves deeply into the country's fundamental political values and institutions, while challenging the myths and fears surrounding issues such as immigration.
The movement of fact-checking web sites is a good idea but insufficient. It is not enough to know that a politician made an inaccurate statement. Many citizens need a re-education in liberal democracy—those broad structures in which specific facts and values takes their place. They will be called on soon to judge many issues that depend on that civic knowledge.
"Journalism needs to devote major resources to an explanatory journalism that delves deeply into the country's fundamental political values and institutions…"
John Stuart Mill once said that if we do not constantly question why we hold basic beliefs, they become "dead dogma." How many citizens would be hard-pressed to say what democracy is (beyond voting) or exhibit an understanding of the history and nature of their own constitution beyond phrases such as "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness"? How many have a virulent and imbalanced commitment to the Second Amendment alone?
Such a democracy is flying blind and vulnerable to demagogues.
Here is a small list of some topics for explanatory political journalism:
The idea of a constitutional liberal democracy: Not liberal in the derogatory sense of favoring big government but liberal in making the basis of society the protection of a core of basic liberties. Plus, the idea of constitutional protection of the rights of all citizens, including minorities, against the wavering, often tyrannical, will of the majority.
The division of powers: The extent of the powers of a president and his duty to uphold constitutional rights including not threatening action against critical speakers. Also, the idea of judicial independence from any president who would try to tell the courts what rights to recognize or reject.
Deep background on immigration: Especially the difference between immigrants and refugees, the international refugee agreements, and the human face of the immigrants and refugees who come to this land.
The meaning of political correctness: Its origins, the abuse of the term, and its 'cover' for hate speech. Plus investigations into groups that support hate speech and thinly 'disguised' racism online.
The difference between a free press and a democratic press: A free press values the freedom to say what it likes, no matter what the harm done. A democratic press uses its freedom to strengthen and unify plural democracy, while minimizing harm.
Pragmatic objectivity
In carrying out these two duties, journalists are not neutral chroniclers. They are avid investigators of the facts, but they are not stenographers repeating other people's alleged facts. They accept the third duty, of pragmatic objectivity—to systematically test the social and political views of themselves, and others.
Those who adopt pragmatic objectivity are engaged journalists who see their norms and methods as means to a larger political goal—providing accurate, verified and well-evidenced interpretations of events and policies as the necessary informational base for democracy. Their stories are not without perspective or conclusions, yet such judgments are evaluated by criteria that go beyond citing specific facts, from logical rigor to coherence with pre-existing knowledge.
"…the third duty, of pragmatic objectivity—to systematically test the social and political views of themselves, and others."
Pragmatic objectivity recognizes that any code of journalism ethics is based on a more fundamental political and social conception of a good society—in this case an egalitarian and plural democracy. Within this overarching set of values, journalists can go about being as factual, verificational, and impartial in daily practice as they please. But they do not pretend that they are completely neutral, without values and goals. Objectivity is not a value-free zone.
In my book, The Invention of Journalism Ethics, some years ago, I introduced this idea of pragmatic objectivity as a method for testing any form of journalism. My aim was to provide a substitute for the traditional idea of news objectivity as eliminating interpretation and perspective. I believe this conception is now a timely norm for today's journalism.
Ethics as political morality
In sum, the new social context calls on journalists to clarify their political goals and roles.
In the days ahead, the key issues of journalism ethics will be questions of political morality—the way we think a democracy ought to be organized, and the media's role in it.
Many journalism conferences focus on practical "tool box" tips, such as using new technology; or, they focus on how to attract audiences through social media.
Yet, when a country enters an uncertain political period, journalists need to return to journalism ethics and political themes, just as such themes arose during the civil rights movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s.
For many journalists and news organizations, the next several years will be a severe test of their beliefs and ideals—and their will to defend them.
Journalists will not escape the searching question: Why are you a journalist?
Stephen J. A. Ward is an internationally recognized media ethicist, author and educator. He is a distinguished lecturer in ethics at the University of British Columbia, Courtesy Professor at the University of Oregon, and the founding director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin. His book, Radical Media Ethics: A Global Approach, won the 2016 Tankard Book Award.
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Should moderators fact-check the presidential debates? Yes, in moderation
Posted on October 9, 2016 by CV Vitolo & Jordan Foley
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump square off in the first 2016 presidential debate. Photo by Hofstra University and used here with permission.
If there is one thing we've learned from years of judging at intercollegiate debate tournaments across the country, it is that the best decisions are made when both sides are held to the highest standards when constructing arguments.
Rather than intervening, we allow debaters to make mistakes, capitalize on strategic misfires, and argue their way to victory. We are acting as adjudicators, not moderators, and are often the sole voice in declaring a winner. In presidential debates, however, the voters are the adjudicators, and moderators must act as communicative conduits to ensure an informed electorate capable of making the best possible decision.
Caught between two seemingly irreconcilable perspectives on their role as either minimalist facilitator or relentless truth-seeker, moderators seem unable to escape scrutiny. Faced with inevitable conflict over nuanced topics distilled into value-laden sound bites, how should moderators ethically define their role within this vast political spectacle? Under what circumstances should a moderator interrupt the flow of the debate to fact-check a candidate? Answering these questions first requires some understanding of how presidential debates have evolved throughout history.
Rather than serving as mere facilitators, moderators have a primary responsibility to act on behalf of voters.
The first televised debates occurred in 1960 between John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon and, according to presidential debate historian Alan Schroeder, included attempts by producers to craft a more interactive dialogue between the candidates though that format was vetoed by campaign advisors. Since then, presidential debates have matured from events that were, at times, glorified press conferences, to structured discussions with ample room for direct interaction between the candidates. More recent debates have seen increased participation from both moderators and audiences; it was not until 1988 that moderators began asking opening questions, and the town hall format was not introduced until 1992.
The use of YouTube and Twitter during the 2008 presidential debates demonstrates voters' desire for candidates to respond directly to their voices. This election season, the Trump and Clinton campaigns agreed to historically weak restrictions on direct exchanges between the candidates, renewing conversations about the degree of moderator involvement.
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While it may be most objective for moderators to stay out of the debate, simply asking questions and enforcing the agreed-upon rules, this has become difficult in practice. The increasing amount of direct contact between candidates has created an occasional volley wherein a candidate will directly ask the moderator to intervene and influence their opponent's behavior. For example, in the 2012 election cycle, Candy Crowley was pulled into several procedural disputes between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, in addition to engaging in a heated fact-check over the Benghazi attacks. During the 2016 vice presidential debate, Elaine Quijano repeatedly intervened to enforce time constraints and refocus the candidates' attention. Increased interaction, then, often necessitates a more active moderator to keep the debate from becoming unruly.
Moderators should first provide candidates with a chance to fact-check their opponent for themselves.
Going beyond drawing the moderators in to resolve a disagreement, candidates occasionally criticize their questions, behavior and ethics altogether. Ted Cruz's tirade against the presidential primary moderators serves as an excellent example of how moderators are often forced into a more participatory role.
Open criticism by a candidate during the debate brings even the most passive moderators into the spotlight and grants them considerable influence over the direction of the discussion. Cruz was raising an important point about what ethical standards moderators ought to uphold when crafting their questions and what the function of debates ultimately should be.
Presidential debates should inform voters of each candidate's values and the policies they plan on implementing, but ultimately, candidates are interested in winning voters through whatever means necessary. That emphasis on swaying voters, often at the expense of accurately conveying political agendas, is a deeply flawed model for educating those who decide the fate of American leadership for the next four years.
Ideally, voters would be motivated to investigate claims made by each candidate. For many, however, the presidential debates and subsequent polarizing articles will determine the direction of their ballots. The stakes are far too high for candidates to present incomplete or inaccurate visions of their presidencies.
If candidates continue to peddle such thoroughly discredited information without acknowledging their context, they should expect immediate and impartial pushback.
If the goal of debates is to create an informed electorate, candidates should conduct the vast majority of fact-checking onstage. The reality, of course, is that candidates are incentivized to rebut only with the information that most benefits them, regardless of its proximity to the truth. Moderators, on the other hand, are agreed upon by both campaigns for their ability to act as neutral arbiters in a highly politicized environment. If candidates are to merely use the debate stage to reiterate their respective talking points, then there is no purpose in having a moderator at all.
Rather than serving as mere facilitators, moderators have a primary responsibility to act on behalf of voters. This is a difficult line to walk, as moderators must intervene in a way that benefits voters in every ideological corner. This requires particular attention in deciding where to fact-check so as to not become a focus of the discussion themselves. Each campaign has a core set of mistruths that it has relied on, from Trump's support of the initial invasion of Iraq to Clinton's claim that she never received classified emails on her private server while secretary of state. If candidates continue to peddle such thoroughly discredited information without acknowledging their context, they should expect immediate and impartial pushback.
Moderators should first provide candidates with a chance to fact-check their opponent for themselves, but then be ready to supplement the rebuttal with factual statements about previous political positions and figures from relevant primary sources. Additionally, introducing a topic or question with contextualizing information for those unfamiliar with the issues can raise the level of discourse and make it clear when a candidate is having an "Aleppo moment."
the audience
How candidates respond to argumentative pushback in a debate is valuable information for voters, even if candidates dodge the follow-up question. A moderator doesn't have to act as the "truth squad," to use Chris Wallace's words, to point out that a candidate is ignoring the original question or violating the agreed upon rules for speaking time limits. The audience can and will decide for themselves – but the moderator can still provide a useful context for potential voters to navigate issues. If our democratic problem is that we have an electorate that is overwhelmingly cynical, polarized and politically apathetic, we need debate moderators who will bridge candidates where they agree, highlight their differences and help voters translate abstract policies into their tangible impact on everyday life.
The audience can and will decide for themselves – but the moderator can still provide a useful context for potential voters to navigate issues.
Massive media spectacles like the debate draw an atypical audience that otherwise steers clear of politics, and that's a wonderful thing. In this unique moment, moderators should not offload their journalistic responsibility to inform citizens onto dedicated fact-checking venues that publish hundreds of pages of post-debate fact-checks that many voters will never read. That being said, whoever ends up the 45th President of the United States will not do so solely because of the fact-checking decisions made by moderators. Broader dynamics are at play, but moderators can help set standards for how well-prepared we expect candidates to be when it comes to informing the public.
Ultimately, the onus is on voters to seek out resources and cast informed ballots, just as we have spent countless hours educating ourselves to fairly adjudicate debates. Moderators should have some obligation to be active facilitators in that process. They should not become the center of the story, but to write them off as passive, neutral facilitators of candidate conversation is to abdicate their responsibility to vocalize the needs of voters.
CV Vitolo is the Director of Debate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a doctoral student in the Communication Arts department. Their research concerns public deliberation and discourse surrounding science and medicine.
J ordan Foley is the Assistant Director of Debate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a doctoral student in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication. His research focuses on political communication, media psychology and public opinion.
Posted in Fact Checking, Featured News, Features, Politics	| Tagged debate, debate moderators, election, ethics, fact check, journalism, journalists, presidential debate
Anna Therese Day and the jailed journalists whose stories we never hear
Posted on February 16, 2016 by Lindsay Palmer
The UW-Madison community is still recovering from the shock of UW alum Anna Therese Day's recent arrest in Bahrain. Day and her crew were in Bahrain over the weekend, covering the anniversary of the Gulf nation's Shia-led uprising in 2011. The four American journalists were detained Sunday on allegations that they had participated in attacks against police officers and falsely claimed to be tourists. As more information filtered out, international media also reported that Bahrain authorities accused the journalists of participating in the new rash of protests that they had been covering.
On Tuesday morning, NBC quoted the journalists' lawyer as saying that Day and her crew had been formally charged, but then released without travel restrictions. CNN also said the journalists were on their way to the airport. International news organizations continued to cover the incident as it unfolded.
Family says UW-Madison alumna @ATDLive and three fellow journalists are free and out of Bahrain after arrest https://t.co/rjTNp8zJZ2
— Nico Savidge (@NSavidge) February 16, 2016
A graduate of the political science department at UW-Madison, Day has made a name for herself as a respected freelance journalist. She has worked with major news outlets like CNN, Al Jazeera English, and The New York Times. She is also a co-founder of the Frontline Freelance Register, an organization that fights for the safety of freelance journalists around the world.
The arrest of Day and her crewmembers, who have not been publicly named, provides an important opportunity to examine the dangers that journalists face when they cover stories in politically tense regions. As the Committee to Protect Journalists reports, officials in Bahrain have often conflated the journalistic act of covering local uprisings with the political act of participating in these protests. Reporters without Borders also says that media freedom is constantly under attack in the Gulf nation, with photographers, correspondents and online journalists constantly being arrested and even tortured for their work.
Day's experience has the potential to shine some light on these issues. Yet, her incident also has the potential to illuminate something a bit messier, something that journalists and scholars need to address more often. The sad fact is that most of the journalists who have been persecuted in Bahrain over the past few years are not westerners like Day. Instead, they tend to be local to Bahrain or the Middle Eastern region, and thus more vulnerable to oppression.
Take, for example, the case of Ahmed al-Fardan, a photojournalist who is currently serving a three-month prison sentence in Bahrain for taking pictures of a protest. Like Day and her crew, al-Fardan was accused of participating in the protests he was trying to cover. Unlike Day and her crew, al-Fardan is still in prison.
Or what about Ahmed Radhi, a freelance journalist arrested for criticizing Bahrain's relationship with Saudi Arabia? He's been in prison for several months now, on terrorism charges. What's more, he's told the Bahrain Human Rights Center that security forces tortured him in order to get him to confess to the heavy "anti-state" charges brought against him.
Why aren't the CNN's and the BBC's and the Al Jazeera's of the world telling us more about these local journalists, who suffer just as much (if not more) than foreign correspondents? Put another way, what responsibility do Western news outlets have when it comes to informing the world about the plight of journalists who aren't necessarily from the "West?"
The tendency in mainstream, Western news organizations is to give exposure to communities with whom Western news audiences can more easily "relate." In the context of international reporting, this "relatability" is often subtly racialized and regionalized. We saw this in the overwhelming coverage of the Paris attacks in late 2015, for example, as well as in the notable silence when similar attacks occurred in Beirut and Nairobi right around the same time. We're seeing it again in the coverage of Day's arrest and subsequent release.
Though there is an understandable comfort in familiarity, one media ethicist asserts that in a globalized world, the media can do much more than feed us familiar images of ourselves. In his 2013 contribution to Stephen J.A. Ward's book on global media ethics, scholar Nick Couldry argues that global media do not resolve or reduce the disagreements and diversity that define the current age. Instead, global media can bring these differences into view, inspiring a more important set of questions. As Couldry puts it, how do we "live sustainably together through media," despite our differences?
Protesters in Bahrain show solidarity with Egypt. File photo dated Feb. 4, 2011 from Mahmood al-Yousif.
If Western news outlets were to approach their coverage of Day's arrest from this perspective, they would necessarily show more interest in the ongoing persecution of local journalists in Bahrain. On one level, these journalists' detention serves to expose Bahrain officials' refusal to live sustainably with differences in their own nation. Since the 2011 uprisings, Bahrain officials have cracked down on dissenters with oppositional perspectives, refusing to create a space in which multiple viewpoints can coexist.
On another level, the continued detention of local reporters in Bahrain shows that there are huge disparities among the world's journalists, disparities that need to be better understood. Visiting correspondents may have different agendas than local journalists, for example. On top of that, local journalists must deal with working conditions that are inherently riskier than those of Western reporters. In an increasingly interconnected world, these distinctions should be of interest to Western news organizations and their audiences. And it's the news outlets' job to bring these issues into the light.
There is more to the story of this recent arrest than the figure of the young American freelancer who made it home. Courageous and brilliant, Day's own work has repeatedly pointed to the nuances of foreign reporting as well, encouraging more dialogue on the dangers that journalists face. News organizations and journalism scholars need to treat Day's experience as a larger opportunity to talk about the people who haven't yet been released — the people who may never be released at all.
Posted in Feature articles, Featured News, Features	| Tagged anna therese day, arrests, bahrain, dangerous journalism, international reporting, jail, journalists


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