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After last week's rain affected, Irish Open we move to England for what is still known (for now) as the European Tour's flagship event, the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth.
Over the years, Europe's top names have turned out for this event and whilst the field is not as strong this year, this week will create as much excitement as ever.
When I say the field is not as strong, this year's Masters Champion, Danny Willett headlines the event supported by the likes of; Shane Lowry, Russell Knox, Francesco Molinari, Martin Kaymer and two-time winner, Luke Donald.
In addition there is a plethora of top European Tour regulars here, in the hope that they can win this prestigious event.
Some excellent players have won here over the years, recent winners include; Byeong-hun An, who won his first European Tour event here last year, Rory McIlroy who won in 2014 and then Matteo Manassero and Luke Donald complete the winners list for the last five years.
Donald (2011 and 2012) and Manassero (2013) may have faltered in recent years and neither have won since winning here but they were both well respected players at the time and both are more than capable of contending even this week, at a course they both like.
Donald has played some decent golf of late in America, highlighted by his runner-up finish at the RBC Heritage six weeks ago and he will be hoping he can get his first win in four years on familiar territory this week.
Manassero is a different prospect altogether. It has been quite some time since he has contended on Tour and has only been in the top-5 twice since that win here, finishing T4 the week after that win a the Nordea Masters and then another T4 finish, this time at the Scottish Open in 2014.
Not to dwell on the past it is important to look at what the guys teeing it up this week will need to do well in order to play well here at Wentworth.
BMW PGA Key stats and trends:
Greens in Regulation – Last year's winner An ranked 1st in GIR for the week, whilst Rory ranked a more modest, 22nd en-route to victory the year before. McIlroy as he often is though seems to be the anomaly. Before he won, the last three winners all ranked inside the top-4 with Manassero ranking 4th (runner-up Khan ranked 1st), Donald ranked 10th in 2012 but 3rd in 2011 and Khan ranked 3rd when he won in 2010, so clearly hitting greens is fairly imperative.
Course Experience – An was one of just three debutants to win in the event's history (Event was established in 1955).
British winners – Due to the location of the event, this test unsurprisingly favors British players and since Colin Montgomerie went on his run of winning it three times in a row between 1998-2000, there have been seven other British winners.
With all this in mind, here are my picks for the 2016 BMW PGA Championship.
Rafa Cabrera Bello 28/1 (General) 2pts e/w: Cabrera Bello whilst often frustrating for punters is very much a top-tier player on the European Tour and now he is inside the top-30 of the World Rankings it is about time he had a recent win to show for it.
The Spaniard has not won since 2012, but the form he has been in, on both sides of the pond is absolutely immense. In 9 starts on the European Tour in 2016, he has not missed a single cut and his worst finish is a T36 effort in Malaysia.
His T8 finish last week at the Irish Open was his fourth top-10 of the season, if you include his 3rd place finish at the WGC- Match Play.
He finished runner-up in back-to-back weeks in the Desert swing back in January and I am confident he can go one better here.
In addition to his good play in Europe, Bello has played well in America, finishing T17 at the Masters, T11 at the WGC- Cadillac Championship and 4th at the Shell Houston Open, so minus a win he is having probably his best season of his career worldwide so far.
Bello's form at Wentworth, much like his career is a bit erratic but there is some hope too. In seven starts in this event he has missed four cuts but also finished inside the top-17 on three occasions, so if he makes the weekend he generally finishes fairly high up on the leader board. Finishes of 15th, 16th and 17th when making the cut is enough for me to pull the trigger because should he play Saturday and Sunday this year, I am confident he can get that win his play so far this season deserves.
James Morrison 70/1 (General) 1pt e/w: Morrison grabbed his second win on the European Tour around this time last year, when winning the Open de Espana in the middle of May and I am hoping that May proves a fruitful month for him again.
Morrison secured his European Tour card for the first time in time for 2010 season and went on to win that same year, at the Madeira Islands Open. In addition to that win he also went on to finish runner-up at the Open de Espana.
He looks to have found a similar level in his game to that of his debut season over the last twelve months or so and looks a good bet to find another win this year.
The Englishman has had three top-15 finishes in nine starts this year, including a 10th place finish at the Irish Open last week and a 4th place finish when defending the Open de Espana last month.
At this course he has two top-11's and three missed cuts in five appearances here, so assuming he makes the weekend this week, he looks a good bet to go close.
Through 36 holes back in 2012, Morrison held a four-stroke lead over compatriot Luke Donald but faltered to let Donald win this event for the second time.
I do however believe after getting his second win last year he may well be better equipped to win, should he get out in front again this time around.
He is in good form generally this year, missing just two cuts in Perth and China and now he is back home I am confident he can improve on a decent effort at the Irish Open last week.
Marc Warren 100/1 (General) 0.5pt e/w: Simply put, Marc Warren is far too big of a price not to bet this week. The three-time European Tour winner will be looking to end his almost two-year wait for his next win, at a course that clearly suits his game.
Whilst the Scot has been out of form this season (4/10 cuts made), he has shown flashes of good form over his last two events, especially last week where a round of 78 killed his chances of improving on his T23 finish at the Irish Open.
He is a big price due to his struggles throughout the season but he is playing a course he absolutely loves this week and I am confident he can build on last week and get himself into contention here.
In his last four starts at this course, Warren has finished 18-16-2-27 and that 2nd was a play-off loss to the aforementioned, Matteo Manassero.
If you factor in his second best showing of the season last week, with his obvious affinity with the course he looks great value at three-figure odds and I am willing to take a chance that he can up his game here.
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I have the same problem as you mention:
I can't even figure out how to spawn different creatures and have them move. I've got all of the assets for the individual enemies such as the animtree, animset and physics asset but all I can do is spawn the skeletal mesh through the actor factory. I can't get it to move around at all and it spawns with no collision and is floating above the ground.
I notice no answer or at least no answer that I can see anywhere here. This is important for me after creating the skeletal mesh and anim and I can't use it inside Kismet
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We've got our whole editor transfered over to our own game so that when we test and play the game or package it, we're running our own assets. With that we've already got our own custom player controller and we're spawning our own characters. They show up as the player and the bots in all game modes.
The thing I want to do is start building a singleplayer mission style level and I wanted to use kismet to drive the enemies but I can't even figure out how to spawn different creatures and have them move. I've got all of the assets for the individual enemies such as the animtree, animset and physics asset but all I can do is spawn the skeletal mesh through the actor factory. I can't get it to move around at all and it spawns with no collision and is floating above the ground. If I use the same enemy in a crowd spawner, it's on the ground and moves and animates just fine.
So how do we spawn different enemies and have them do different things that are scripted? Do we need to create code for all of the custom pawns? If so, that's not a problem but I don't even see anywhere in the actor factory to pick anything other than UTBot and UTPawn, so how do we tell it to spawn this one and not a default one?

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Najstarszym festiwalem teatralnym i jedynym teatralnym konkursem aktorskim w Polsce są Kaliskie Spotkania Teatralne, organizowane od 1960.

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The Festival is set to start on the 23rd of August, with the main day (Day 7) set to take place on Monday 29th August. It will be on this day when the main ceremony occurs, with the dancing attended by the King signalling a public holiday in Swaziland. This year's event will include a restaurant with in the arena marquee open to the public from 8am to 7pm, with food provided by Ocean Basket, Royal Swazi Sun & SNTC (traditional food)
This ceremony is a centuries old tradition where the Kingdom's unmarried and childless females present their newly cut reed to the Queen Mother to protect her residence. The King sometimes makes use of the occasion to publicly court a prospective fiancée or Liphovela.
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The highlight of the event is the reed-giving ceremony - one of Africa's largest and most colourful cultural spectacles. The maidens gather at Ludzidzini dressed in traditional attire; bright short beaded skirts with colourful sashes revealing their bare breasts to dance and sing and celebrate the unification of the Kingdom's women. His Majesty King Mswati lll joins the celebrations to pay tribute to the maidens.
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Jimmy Butler scored 25 points in a 112-101 victory for the Sixers to force a seventh game, with the winner set to face the Milwaukee Bucks.
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Great Weekend Reads
Thread: Great Weekend Reads
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I get a couple of weekly emails that are digests of the best recent mag articles & more. There's always something of interest, and never enough time..... Here's this week's batch.
--"Has Trump Killed the GOP?" -- Politico Magazine: "12 political gurus discuss the most pressing question of 2016." http://politi.co/1PL9D2g
--"Air Head," by Nathan Heller in The New Yorker: "How aviation made the modern mind." http://bit.ly/20d2yfJ
--"When America's Titans of Industry and Innovation Went Road-Tripping Together," by Shannon Wianecki in Smithsonian: "Thomas Edison, Henry Ford and their friends traveled the country in Model Ts, creating the Great American road trip in the process." http://bit.ly/1PFSxMW
--"The Great Whiskey Heist," by Reeves Wiedeman in March's Men's Journal: "How one distillery worker enlisted friends, family, and a few fellow steroid enthusiasts to liberate hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of premium bourbon, one barrel at a time." http://mjm.ag/1JOqIpC (h/t Longform.org)
--"Ann Selzer Is The Best Pollster In Politics," by Clare Malone in FiveThirtyEight: "How her old-school rigor makes her uncannily accurate." http://53eig.ht/1WTeXA9
--"Who Owns the Sun?" by Noah Buhayar: "Warren Buffett controls Nevada's legacy utility. Elon Musk is behind the solar company that's upending the market. Let the fun begin." http://bloom.bg/1PLx1g7 See the cover , which shows a wrestling match between the billionaires with Buffett gripping Musk in a headlock http://bit.ly/1KMPmSm
--"Inside Facebook's Decision to Blow Up the Like Button," by Sarah Frier in Bloomberg BusinessWeek: "A giant version of [the like button] adorns the entrance to the company's campus in Menlo Park, Calif. Facebook's 1.6 billion users click on it more than 6 billion times a day-more frequently than people conduct searches on Google." http://bloom.bg/1nECmth
--"Why Tokyo is the World's Best Food City," by Dave Chang in Lucky Peach: "Nothing comes close." http://bit.ly/1OVmPhv (h/t TheBrowser.com)
--"The Wreck of Amtrak 188," by Matthew Shaer in tomorrow's N.Y. Times Magazine: "What caused the worst American rail disaster in decades?" http://nyti.ms/1ShEJix
--"The Dark Underside of the Show-Dog World," by Mark Seal in Vanity Fair: "In the wake of the possible murder of a prized Irish setter, Mark Seal examines the impassioned personalities who devote their lives to dogs, and the tense rivalries that can become sinister." http://bit.ly/1ZZMkRT
--"The Epic Fail of Hollywood's Hottest Algorithm," by Benjamin Wallace in New York Magazine: "When Ryan Kavanaugh wasn't hanging out with Bradley Cooper, or leasing a horse for Kate Bosworth, or negotiating a Golden Globes shout-out from Christian Bale, or bringing a baby wolf to the office, he was talking up the sweetest game in Hollywood: the chance to invest in movies that seemed certain to succeed." http://bit.ly/1nUUVte
--"Who Poisoned Flint, Michigan?" by Stephen Rodrick in Rolling Stone: "A writer returns home to find a toxic disaster, giant government failure and countless children exposed to lead." http://rol.st/1Tt1P4M
--"The Real Legacy of Steve Jobs," by Sue Halpern in the NY Review of Books: "Even as a multimillionaire, and then a billionaire ... Jobs sold himself as an outsider, a principled rebel who had taken a stand against the dominant (what he saw as mindless, crass, imperfect) culture. You could, too, he suggested, if you allied yourself with Apple." http://bit.ly/1SqFnIQ
FUTURECAST - "Apple builds secret team to kick-start virtual reality effort," by FT's Tim Bradshaw : "Apple has assembled a large team of experts in virtual and augmented reality and built prototypes of headsets that could one day rival Facebook's Oculus Rift or Microsoft's Hololens, as it seeks new sources of growth beyond the iPhone.The secret research unit includes hundreds of staff from a series of carefully targeted acquisitions, as well as employees poached from companies that are working on next-generation headset technologies." http://on.ft.com/1NH569n
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Re: Great Weekend Reads
longform.org has the best reads from the US.
"If you go far enough to either extreme of the political spectrum, Communist or fascist, you'll find hard-eyed men with guns who believe that anybody who doesn't think as they do should be incarcerated or exterminated. " - Jim Garrison, Former DA, New Orleans.
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Longform is very good, but you are being very definitive. There are several aggregators that provide a similar service. A look at the front page of Longform today shows significant duplication with my list which came from Politico. Both Alexis Madrigal and Pocket also do good lists albeit with different emphasis.
http://longform.org/
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Thanks. Must check politico out.
GREAT WEEKEND READS, curated by Daniel Lippman:
--"Cheap cab ride? You must have missed Uber's true cost," by Evgeny Morozov in The Guardian: "When tech giants such as Google and Uber hide their wealth from taxation, they make it harder for us to use technology to improve services." http://bit.ly/1Pd6xki
--"The Noma Way," by Tienlon Ho in California Sunday Magazine : "One chef, ten weeks, thirty dishes, and hundreds of new ingredients. How Danish superstar René Redzepi created an entirely new restaurant in Australia." http://bit.ly/1KwsxHW (h/t Longreads.com)
--"Scammers and Spammers: Inside Online Dating's Sex Bot Con Job," by David Kushner in Rolling Stone: "Sexy, single and artificially-intelligent - fake profiles are wooing lonely hearts on sites far beyond Ashley Madison." http://rol.st/20yWD51
--"The Walter White of Wichita," by Cristina Costantini and Darren Foster in Fusion: "George Marquardt was an eccentric gadgeteer in Kansas. But his self-taught chemistry made drug dealers millions. And when federal agents finally caught him, America's first fentanyl epidemic came to a screeching halt." http://fus.in/1PqwwCu
--"The Strange, Crazy Afterlife of a Reality TV Star," by Washingtonian's Luke Mullins: "Step into Tareq Salahi's house and you'll pass a framed Washington Post article crowning him a 2009 Person of the Year." http://bit.ly/1QMsg2O
--"The 100 Jokes That Shaped Modern Comedy," by Jesse David Fox in New York Magazine: "From the Marx Brothers to The Simpsons, Richard Pryor to Amy Schumer: 100 bits, sketches, and one-liners that changed humor forever." http://bit.ly/1S6ALsH
--"The Problem with Jewish Museums," by Edward Rothstein in Mosaic Magazine: "Ours is an era of museums celebrating the identity of nearly every group and ethnicity. But something else takes place when the identity in question is Jewish." http://bit.ly/1PqwTwZ
--"The epic uncool of Philip Seymour Hoffman," by Nathan Rabin in The Dissolve: "When Philip Seymour Hoffman died of an accidental drug overdose on February 2, 2014 at age 46, it felt like a huge part of the past two decades of cinema had disappeared as well, as if all the wonderful characters he created were on some level buried with the man who played them." http://bit.ly/1K4aWae
--"A Conversation With The New York Times' A.O. Scott," by Isaac Chotiner in Slate: "On the purpose of film criticism, the academy's diversity problem, and why Leo DiCaprio shouldn't get an Oscar for 2.5 hours of grunting." http://slate.me/20yXcM8
His new book, "Better Living Through Criticism: How to Think about Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth" -- $17.76 on Amazon http://amzn.to/1QMviUX
--"The Bouvier Affair," by Sam Knight in The New Yorker: "How an art-world insider made a fortune by being discreet." http://bit.ly/1QjqP9j
--"Inside the Eye: Nature's Most Exquisite Creation," by Ed Yong in February's National Geographic: "To understand how animals see, look through their eyes." http://bit.ly/1QMsEye (h/t Longform.org)
--"The Road to Little Dribbling," by Bill Bryson in Penguin: "Read the prologue from Bill Bryson's hilarious new book: 'One of the things that happens when you get older is that you discover lots of new ways to hurt yourself.'" http://bit.ly/1USHbcW
--"The congresswoman who grew up in a gas station," by Arizona Republic's Rebekah L. Sanders: "U.S. Rep. Kyrsten Sinema's journey from homelessness to holding a Ph.D., law license and an office on Capitol Hill." http://bit.ly/1S6TCUF
--"In Search of Forty Winks," by Patricia Marx in The New Yorker: "Gizmos for a good night's sleep." http://bit.ly/1mjWUpi
--"The Lives and Lies of a Professional Impostor," by James C. McKinley Jr. and Rick Rojas in tomorrow's Times: "He had spent 25 years stealing Social Security numbers and fabricating new aliases ... Though fraud has become an increasingly invisible offense in a digital world, [Jeremy] Wilson ... has portrayed himself as a Scottish-born D.J., a Cambridge-trained thespian, a Special Forces officer and a professor at M.I.T." http://nyti.ms/1Q1f1hY
--"How Joan Didion the Writer Became Joan Didion the Legend," by Lili Anolik in Vanity Fair : "Joan Didion arrived in Los Angeles in 1964 on the way to becoming one of the most important writers of her generation, a cultural icon who changed L.A.'s perception of itself." http://bit.ly/1TK7iob
GREAT WEEKEND READS, curated by Daniel Lippman, filing from NYC, where he's seeing "Hamilton" tonight:
--"We Are Hopelessly Hooked," by Jacob Weisberg in the N.Y. Review of Books: "Once out of bed, we check our phones 221 times a day-an average of every 4.3 minutes ... What does it mean to shift overnight from a society in which people walk down the street looking around to one in which people walk down the street looking at machines?" http://bit.ly/1TgAdka
--"How America Is Putting Itself Back Together," by James Fallows on the cover of March's Atlantic: "Most people in the U.S. believe their country is going to hell. But they're wrong. What a three-year journey by single-engine plane reveals about reinvention and renewal." http://theatln.tc/1Xof2Mm ... See the cover. http://bit.ly/1objORU
--"A Country Breaking Down," by Elizabeth Drew in the N.Y. Review of Books: "The near-total failure of our political institutions to invest for the future ... has left us with hopelessly clogged traffic, at risk of being on a bridge that collapses, or on a train that flies off defective rails, or with rusted pipes carrying our drinking water." http://bit.ly/1oaVFdX
--"Can This Man Save U.S. Soccer?" by Amanda Ripley in the March issue of The Atlantic: "How one teacher is attempting to train a generation of globally competitive players--starting with their coaches." http://theatln.tc/1PHWMIG
--"American Pharoah's Second Life as a $200-K-A-Night Stud," by Monte Reel in Bloomberg Businessweek: "The world's fastest horse could earn more in the shed than he made on the track." http://bloom.bg/1SmgWxD
--"Could You Stomach the Horrors of 'Halftime' in Ancient Rome?" by Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz in LiveScience.com:"With a flourish, trapdoors in the floor of the arena were opened, and lions, bears, wild boars and leopards rushed into the arena. The starved animals bounded toward the terrified criminals, who attempted to leap away from the beasts' snapping jaws." http://bit.ly/241nMg4
--"The Killing of Warren Weinstein," by Daniel Bergner in tomorrow's N.Y. Times Magazine: "After the American aid worker was abducted in Pakistan, his family undertook a delicate negotiation in hopes of securing his release. But then they got word that he had died - in a United States drone strike." http://nyti.ms/1R0ax8g
--"Why anti-intellectualism is the real snobbery," by Steven Poole in The Guardian, reviewing "Pretentiousness: Why It Matters" by Dan Fox:"Calling something pretentious is lazy, vacuous and smug - after all, it's good at times for our ambition to outstrip our abilities. Those who invoke bluff 'common sense' are the actual snobs." http://bit.ly/1Lln5T9 ... Pre-order -- $15.95 on Amazon http://amzn.to/1Wi9S3x (h/t ALDaily.com)
A bonanza for political science junkies.
60 page catalog of new and existing publications from the Brookings Institute
http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Press/catalogs/Brookings-Spring-2016-Catalog_web.pdf?la=en
GREAT WEEKEND READS, curated by the indispensable Daniel Lippman:
--"Bearing Witness to the Rise of ISIS: The Story of Anna Therese Day," by Gail Sheehy on Jezebel: "As unlikely as it may seem, the story of Anna Day, an intrepid and slight blonde twentysomething from Idaho with a name like a Beatles song, is entangled with the saga of how peaceful political change sought by young Arab activists collapsed against the genocidal appeal of the ISIS narrative." http://bit.ly/1QCoCFU (h/t Longform.org)
--"Selfies, Dating, and the American 14-Year-Old," by Nancy Jo Sales in Vanity Fair , in an adaption from her new book "American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers": "As crushes go from real-life likes to digital 'likes,' the typical American teenage girl is confronted with a set of social anxieties never before seen in human history. ... Nancy Jo Sales observes one 14-year-old as she gets ready to embark on her first I.R.L. date." http://bit.ly/24tyaxq ... $20.27 on Amazon http://amzn.to/21xZvMl
--"The Real Story of Germanwings Flight 9525," by Joshua Hammer in GQ: "One year after a young pilot crashed a German airliner into the remote French Alps-a suicide and mass homicide that transfixed and horrified the world-Joshua Hammer investigates what really happened that day." http://bit.ly/24txW9q (h/t TheBrowser.com)
--"Head in the cloud," by Sophie McBain in The New Statesman: "As we download ever more of our lives on to electronic devices, are we destroying our own internal memory?" http://bit.ly/1oFaYLP
--"MFA vs. CIA: A writer considers an alternate life as an undercover agent," by Jennifer duBois in Lapham's Quarterly: "[T]here are parallels in the underlying qualities of their practitioners: an interest in psychology, a facility with narrative, a tendency to position oneself as an observer, and a willingness to lie and call it something else." http://bit.ly/1TczUrb (h/t ALDaily.com)
--"How Randy Newman and His Family Have Shaped Movie Music for Generations," by David Kamp in Vanity Fair: "Sure, you know of the Oscar-winning composer behind Toy Story and his endearingly offbeat songwriting, but Newman, 72, is also the patriarch of a clan that has helped shape movie music since the talkies. David Kamp chronicles the Newman version of the American Dream." http://bit.ly/24txKHa
--"An Honest Thief," by Justin Peters in The Long+Short: "How free-culture pioneer Aaron Swartz fought for the free exchange of information, and lost." http://bit.ly/1TJ6jWd (h/t Longreads.com)
--" The Longform Guide to Rich Kids": "Paris Hilton, Princeton phonies, and the prince who blew through billions-a collection of articles on young money." http://bit.ly/210yxLo
--"How Mark Zuckerberg Should Give Away $45 Billion: It's complicated," by Michael Hobbes in HuffPost: "Last year, six of the 10 largest charitable donations in the United States came from the tech sector, solidifying Silicon Valley's place as the epicenter of the newer, bigger, disrupty-er philanthropy." http://huff.to/1UqjyKN
--"Preparing for the Collapse of the Saudi Kingdom," by Sarah Chayes and Alex De Waal in TheAtlantic.com: "It can't last. The U.S. better get ready." http://theatln.tc/1QLLol2
--"Hunting Boko Haram," by Joshua Hammer in The Intercept: "The U.S. Extends Its Drone War Deeper Into Africa With Secretive Base." http://bit.ly/1XQg5Fd
- "One Day, 625 Delays," by Robert Kolker in New York Magazine: "A mechanical failure at Union Square cascaded into hours of underground hell, revealing just how fragile the subway really is." http://nym.ag/1mX8JCq (h/t TheBrowser.com)
--"Expedia Thinks It Can Help You Find the Dream Vacation You Didn't Know You Wanted," by Bloomberg Businessweek's Drake Bennett : "Can the mid-'90s travel survivor thrive by understanding the psyche of the modern traveler?" http://bloom.bg/21xWonK
--"Jennifer Garner's Frank Talk About Kids, Men, and Ben Affleck," by Krista Smith on Vanity Fair's March cover: "The silent center of a tabloid hurricane, Jennifer Garner is finally speaking out. ... [S]he talks about breaking up with Ben Affleck, dealing with the pain, and keeping her kids and career in focus." http://bit.ly/1UprifZ ... The cover http://bit.ly/1S7eNFp
--"What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team," by Charles Duhigg in today's N.Y. Times Magazine, in "The Work Issue: Reimagining the Office":"New research reveals surprising truths aboutwhy some work groups thrive and others falter." http://nyti.ms/1pdHBAF
--"The Scold: Mr. Money Mustache's retirement (sort of) plan," by Nick Paumgarten in The New Yorker: "[T]he central tenet of Mustachianism is 'financial freedom through badassity.' ... Mr. Money Mustache is the alias of a forty-one-year-old Canadian expatriate named Peter Adeney, who made or, more to the point, saved enough money in his twenties, working as a software engineer, to retire at age thirty." http://bit.ly/1T38PX5
MEDIAWATCH -- "Will Shortz: Everything You Wanted to Know About Crossword Puzzles," by NYT's Susan Lehman in a Times Insider podcast : "What's the most commonly used word in the paper's puzzles? (Answer: 'era.') What is the puzzle master's obsession with Oreos - which, a reader notes, seems like an answer four times a week? In this spirited podcast, Mr. Shortz ... also offers advice for young puzzlers, an anecdote about a crossword custom designed for former President Bill Clinton and thoughts on the connection between puzzles and ... Ping-Pong (another Shortz obsession.)" http://nyti.ms/1TdO9w7
--"The Plot to Take Down a Fox News Analyst," by Alex French in tomorrow's N.Y. Times Magazine: "For years, Wayne Simmons claimedto be a former C.I.A. operative.Then one ex-spook got suspicious." http://nyti.ms/1RsR39V (h/t Longform.org)
--"The Bidding War," by Matthieu Aikins in The New Yorker: "How a young Afghan military contractor became spectacularly rich." http://bit.ly/1TJxhvy
--TODD PURDUM in Vanity Fair, "St. Paul's Before and After the Owen Labrie Rape Trial": "There are two very different accounts of what happened the evening of May 30, 2014, at the elite prep school between 18-year-old scholar-athlete Owen Labrie and a 15-year-old freshman girl. ... Alumnus Todd S. Purdum investigates his alma mater." http://bit.ly/1TYW7rg
--"Trumping Liberty," by J.C. Derrick in the World Magazine: "Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. has embarked on a mission to elect Donald Trump. How will a polarizing political endorsement affect a top evangelical school?" http://bit.ly/1QSc6Cg
--"This Lawyer is Hollywood's Complete Divorce Solution," by Bloomberg Businessweek's Claire Suddath: "No one separates the rich and famous better than Laura Wasser." http://bloom.bg/1nl4r7P (h/t Longreads.com)
--"Wanna Be Startin' Somethin': A History of the Windows Start Menu," by Tom Warren in The Verge: "Microsoft's most identifiable product has had 20 years of ups and downs." http://bit.ly/1VW9ebV
--"The Daily Telegraph through the eyes of its readers," by Christopher Howse:
"As The Daily Telegraph publishes its 50,000th edition, we look back at the vivid snapshots of history detailed in readers' letters to the Editor". http://bit.ly/1SnBJQZ
--"Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond?" by Edward Jay Epstein in the Feb. 1982 issue of The Atlantic: "An unruly market may undo the work of a giant cartel and of an inspired, decades-long ad campaign." http://theatln.tc/1Tv5j8D
--"Naughty words," by Rebecca Roache in Aeon Magazine: "What makes swear words so offensive? It's not their meaning or even their sound. Is language itself a red herring here?" http://bit.ly/21NIJsH (h/t ALDaily.com)
--"Why the literati love Muhammad Ali," by FT's Janan Ganesh: "A new exhibition showcases the boxer's hero status. But it's his less saintly side that is a magnet for literary big-hitters". http://on.ft.com/1Tw3PuL
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Great list, Count, and no paywalls that I saw. I expected to be blocked from The New Yorker on your earlier list but wasn't. I have an NYT sub, so that was fine. The Atlantic is offering two free trial issues and of course the Guardian has no paywall, just requests donations.
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thx. I think you can get access to most Atlantic material, just maybe not the current edition, without a sub. I don't have one. And there are easy technical ways to bypass paywalls such as the Economist.
http://www.theatlantic.com/
Good to know. I only have one or two subs at a time and switch them around, but I get withdrawal symptoms then and something I can only call 'austerity rage' As the cuts bore down, the paywalls went up.
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--"Jesus of Nazareth, Whose Messianic Message Captivated Thousands, Dies at About 33," by Sam Roberts in Vanity Fair: "Roberts, an obituary writer for The New York Times, imagines how, given the facts available then, his predecessors might have reported the aftermath of an execution in the Middle East one Friday two millennia ago." http://bit.ly/1UZby4C
--"The Men Who Gave Trump His Brutal Worldview," by Michael D'Antonio, author of "Never Enough: Donald Trump and the Pursuit of Success," on Politico Magazine: "Tutored by his fiercely ambitious father and tough-as-nails high school coach, the GOP frontrunner has only one ethical code: life is combat." http://politi.co/1LYiY5C... $15.16 on Amazon http://amzn.to/1g8Rlak
--"This Professor Knows Why You Hate Ted Cruz's Face" --Washingtonian Staff: "(He read the other candidates' faces, too.)" http://bit.ly/1M1RDiU
--"Emma Smith on The Best Plays of Shakespeare" - interviewed by Beatrice Wilford on FiveBooks.com: "In the first of a series marking the 400th year since the playwright's death, we ask Shakespearean scholar Emma Smith to pick her five favourite plays." http://bit.ly/1MHUeyx
--"Murder in Mayfair," by Peter Pomerantsev in The London Review of Books, reviewing "A Very Expensive Poison: The Definitive Story of the Murder of Litvinenko and Russia's War with the West," by Luke Harding: "As he lay dying Alexander Litvinenko ... found it increasingly hard to open his mouth to talk, as he became yellow and shrivelled, he cursed himself for letting his guard down: he had assumed he was safe after receiving asylum and citizenship in the UK." http://bit.ly/1MHUqhg ... $12.93 on Amazon http://amzn.to/1RS7lfM (h/t TheBrowser.com)
--"The Strange Case of a Nazi Who Became an Israeli Hitman," by Forward's Dan Raviv and Yossi Melman in Haaretz: "Otto Skorzeny, one of the Mossad's most valuable assets, was a former lieutenant colonel in Nazi Germany's Waffen-SS and one of Adolf Hitler's favorites." http://bit.ly/1RRUhds
--"How to Hack an Election," by Jordan Robertson, Michael Riley, and Andrew Willis on Bloomberg Businessweek's international cover: "Andrés Sepúlveda rigged elections throughout Latin America for almost a decade. He tells his story for the first time." http://bloom.bg/1RRUqxm ... The coverhttp://bit.ly/1qkEUOn
--"How Meryl Streep Battled Dustin Hoffman, Retooled Her Role, and Won Her First Oscar," by Michael Schulman on the cover of April's Vanity Fair, in an adaptation of his upcoming biography "Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep" (out April 26):"At 29, Meryl Streep was grieving for a dead lover, falling for her future husband, and starting work on Kramer vs. Kramer, the movie that would make her a star and sweep the 1980 Oscars. ... Schulman recounts the struggles-physical, emotional, and intellectual-that launched Streep's legend." http://bit.ly/1RRUw8l ... The cover http://bit.ly/1RuAL4x ... $20.35 pre-order on Amazon http://amzn.to/1pUgx9P (h/t Longform.org)
--"#Jihad: Why ISIS is winning the social media war," by Brendan I. Koerner in Wired: "The group's closest peers are not just other terrorist organizations, then, but also the Western brands, marketing firms, and publishing outfits-from PepsiCo to BuzzFeed-who ply the Internet with memes and messages in the hopes of connecting with customers." http://bit.ly/1Y4E0jF ... Video of Koerner on CBS This Morning: Saturday" http://cbsn.ws/1Y6qImE
--"The Longform Guide to the Dark Side of Hollywood": 8 pieces on "Corruption, venality, and tragedy: a collection of picks on what lies beneath the glitter." http://bit.ly/1M7kPVN
--"Crowd Source," by Davy Rothbart in California Sunday Magazine: "Inside the company that provides fake paparazzi, pretend campaign supporters, and counterfeit protesters." http://bit.ly/1SGsWYC (h/t Longreads.com)
--"The Secret History of Tiger Woods," by Wright Thompson on the cover of the upcoming "Fame" issue of ESPN: The Magazine: "The death of his father set a battle raging inside the world's greatest golfer. How he waged that war -- through an obsession with the Navy SEALs -- is the tale of how Tiger lost his way." http://es.pn/248L2rC (h/t Longreads.com)
--"The Secret Shame of Middle-Class Americans," by Neil Gabler on the cover of The Atlantic's May Issue, "The Money Report": "Nearly half of Americans would have trouble finding $400 to pay for an emergency. I'm one of them." http://theatln.tc/1ShzIp5 ... The cover. http://bit.ly/1YLRNMt
--"A Mysterious Startup, a Mountain of Money, and The Quest to Create a New Kind of Reality," by Kevin Kelly on the cover of Wired's upcoming May issue (out nationally next week): "The world's hottest startup isn't located in Silicon Valley-it's in suburban Florida. Kevin Kelly explores what Magic Leap's mind-bending technology tells us about the future of virtual reality." http://bit.ly/1YEjFBW ... See the cover by photographer Sebastian Kim of Magic Leap founder Rony Abovitz, with light beaming out of his eyes. http://bit.ly/215P5TL
--"Why Luck Matters More Than You Might Think," by Robert H. Frank in The Atlantic: "When people see themselves as self-made, they tend to be less generous and public-spirited." http://theatln.tc/23OKMkM
--"The $2 Trillion Project to Get Saudi Arabia's Economy Off Oil," by Peter Waldman on the cover of the latest Bloomberg Businessweek: "Eight unprecedented hours with 'Mr. Everything,' Prince Mohammed bin Salman." http://bloom.bg/1Qt0ncP
--"Who says bacon is bad? How the World Health Organization's cancer agency confuses consumers," by Reuters' Kate Kelland: "Processed meat, such as bacon, ranks alongside plutonium as a carcinogen, according to an arm of the WHO. Here's how such assessments happen - and what they mean." http://reut.rs/1QsXd8Z
--"David Foster Wallace's Perfect Game," by John Jeremiah Sullivan in The New Yorker: "The game is French to the core-not one but two of France's early kings died at the tennis courts ... They called it jeu de paume, the 'game of the palm,' or 'handball,' if we want to be less awkwardly literal about it. (Originally they had played it with the bare hand, then came gloves, then paddles, then rackets.)" http://bit.ly/1WhM6H1
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Some important things about the Yemen conflict
The recent crisis in Yemen has been in the making for decades, not just years. It escalated into an armed conflict months ago and now regional intervention has meant an all-out war. The meltdown in Yemen is putting the entire region closer to conflagration with far reaching impact. There is not a lot of knowledge on what has led to this, who the main players are and why they are involved, so let's take a look at some important things related to Yemen Crisis.
Who are the Houthis?
Ethnicity: Yemen's majority population is Muslim with small Jewish, Christian, Hindu and Bahai minority presence. Zaidis (or Zaydis), a sub-sect of Shia Islam make up nearly one-third of Muslim population while the rest are predominantly Sunni Shaf'i Muslims.
Houthis: Houthis, followers of Zaidi sect of Shia Islam are predominant in North and North West bordering Saudi Arabia.
Zaidis: They are named after Zayd bin Ali, grandson of Imam Hussain – who Zaidi Shias consider their fifth Imam; unlike the mainstream Twelver Shia Muslims who do not consider him an Imam but follow the chain through his brother Imam Muhammad Baqir. Their Dogmas: The Zaidis, unlike Twelver Shias, do not believe in infallibility of the Imams, neither do they consider the institution of Imamat as a divinely appointed spiritual institution.
They also reject the concept of occultation of the Imam and believe in a living Imam only.
The Zaidis follow the Hanafi school of thought in matters of fiqh or jurisprudence which puts them in a starkly different position from Twelver Shias who follow the Jafri school of thought.
On matters of leadership of community, like the Sunni Muslims they believe it should be decided by consultation so they do accept the first three Sunni caliphs.
The Zaidis have some prominent differences with the Twelver Shias but they are generally considered in the fold of Shia Islam. However, they seem very close to Sunni Islam and have enjoyed good relations with local Sunni Muslims.
Houthi Rebellion: The origin of present day Houthi movement goes back three decades in the form of an ethno-religious organisation named Shabab-al-Momin. The agenda of this organisation was to create awareness among Zaidi youth in Yemen on the socio-cultural and political history of the Zaidi Shias as the state narrative and textbooks sought to completely wipe off the fact that Yemen was a Zaidi Imami ruled dynasty once. This group eventually turned political, staging non-violent protests in 2004 and it was state sanctioned violent crackdowns on them that resulted in the Houthi-initiated a militant wing. The Houthis, with other Yemenis especially of the Northern region, have been in an active rebellion since 2004 and it gained momentum after the Arab Spring. The Houthis have led rebellion against long-time President Saleh (himself Zaidi Shia) and when he was replaced with President Hadi (Sunni), they continued rebellion against him as well on failure of the government.
What has led to the situation in Yemen?
Poor Economy: Yemen is the poorest and most under developed of all Arab nations. Most Yemenis are farmers, craftsmen and herders while the country's economy mainly depends on foreign aid and remittances sent in by foreign workers of Yemeni descent.
It is home to the youngest (median age 19 years) and the fastest growing population in the region, is low on oil and water (both running out by 2017 in capital city Sanaa.
Failed State: The country has been on every failed-state list for years as a fragile state and ironically, the joint US-Saudi strategy to fix problems has been to keep droning AQAP (Al-Qaeda in Arabian Peninsula) and hope for the economic and political issues to settle. Not surprisingly, it did not happen.
Major Problems: Lack of legitimate leadership, poor socio economic conditions of masses, lack of resources, rising population, strong presence and recruitment drives by AQAP/ISIS have led to a popular rebellion.
Government: The government for decades has been a personal monarchy instead of a stable institution. Yemen needed institutions to bridge regional and ethnic divisions to assure fairness in political and economic processes which could have provided employment and growth opportunities, but a personal-style government proved an obstacle for decades.
Unification of Yemen: North Yemen, South Yemen and Yemen Arab Republic were unified in 1990 to form the present day Yemeni state but the country has been in turmoil since, largely because of a lack of settlement on various issues between Northerners and Southerners.
Islamic Islah Party and President Saleh: The wave of Arab Spring engulfed Yemen as well where the Yemenis (both Sunnis and Zaidis alike) took to the streets; however, the main organised opposition bloc was the Islamist Islah Party (similar to the Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt) so it had to be taken into account for any possible solution. Riyadh, for obvious reasons, wanted minimum share for Islah party so the final solution agreed was for President Saleh to step down (after more than three decades in power) but it was ensured that his party remains influential to counter influence of Islah Party.
Comparing Houthis and ISIS: While some are comparing Houthi rebels with ISIS in Iraq and Syria for the mere fact that they are rebelling against the state; they are failing to understand that Houthis are not ideologically driven but by socio political reasons – they do not attempt to implement Sharia or form an Islamic state (in fact they have hesitated to govern Yemen even after President Hadi stepped down recently); and they are not killing or attempting to kill Yemen's Sunnis or non-Muslim minorities.
Why is Saudi Arabia bombing Yemen?
Saudis take the Houthi rebels as an Iranian proxy, and them enjoying any form of power, a sign of rising Iranian influence in a neighbouring country. Some reports do suggest that Iran have provided weapons to the Houthi. The war in Yemen look like a proxy war between Riyadh and Tehran.
Who benefits from chaos in Yemen?
Iran? Iran definitely does not benefit from chaos in Yemen but it doesn't have much to lose either considering it does not share borders with Yemen – it does not have any significance presence in the country or strong economic ties.
Saudi Arabia? Saudi Arabia will not prefer to have a neighbour which shares a thousand-mile border with it to be in further chaos especially considering it is home to Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula as well as emerging pockets of ISIS.
US? Yemen has been used as a base by the US forces to launch drone attacks against Al-Qaeda, therefore it is not in the interest of the US for the chaos to prevail long term in Yemen.
AQAP? AQAP has long enjoyed lack of political stability in Yemen to thrive in the region and further chaos will only help them strengthen themselves and expand with impunity. Al-Qaeda and ISIS will be set to become the biggest winners in the growing chaos in Yemen
What is Pakistan's stake in Yemen?
Recent reports by CNN suggest Pakistan has provided 15 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia for the Yemeni war.
Does Pakistan have any stake in Yemen? Pakistan shares no borders with Yemen – the situation in Yemen has no direct impact on Pakistan's territory. Pakistan has no significant military, economic or cultural relations with Yemen and therefore Pakistan is not bound in any way to jump into this war.
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The Atomic Weight of Racism
Posted by decollins1969 in 1, Academia, culture, Eclectic, Politics, Pop Culture, race
Academia, Atoms, Black History Month, Capitalism, Carbon, Exceptionalism, Frederick Douglass, Higgs Boson Particle, Ida B. Wells, Imperialism, Institutional Racism, Martin Delany, Metaphors, Narcissism, News Media, Physics, Public Intellectuals, Quantum Physics, Racism, Social Media, Subatomic Particles, Systemic Racism
Visual representation of grand unified theory, explaining physical forces at cosmic and quantum levels, via Garrett Lisi, circa 2010. (http://functionspace.com).
A few months ago, I found myself pondering the many years in which I and a cadre of experts, scholars, and trolls have written and talked about American racism. The evidence (or lack thereof) that those who fight for racial justice and those who fight for White supremacy (or at least, a White-dominated status quo) have gathered. The sense of righteous indignation or dispassionate sense of racial superiority expressed in sound bites, at conferences, in classrooms, in faculty and staff meetings. I found myself thinking, "We're never going to convince the majority that they have built themselves a hypocritical house of cards, are we?"
Of course this is true. A person doesn't have to be a pessimist or fatalistic to arrive at this conclusion. Long before Ta-Nehisi Coates or the great late Derrick Bell, or James Baldwin or Malcolm X, or even W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington, there was the sense that the house that racism built could never be broken down with faith and words alone. Frederick Douglass, Martin Delany, and Ida B. Wells (or Wells-Barnett) said as much in the nineteenth century. It would take action, perhaps even, a calamity to break down this house.
I started thinking about American racism as an atom, then. It could be as simple as a hydrogen atom, but despite the preponderance of Americans who will live out their lives in willful ignorance, America and its racism is a bit more complicated than one proton and one electron. That's the America most of my students think they live in. When it comes to racism, America is more like a carbon or iron atom before being smashed at light speed in a particle accelerator in Switzerland. With lots of protons, neutrons, and electrons. Enough so that it could combine with anything and corrupt everything.
A visual representation of a carbon atom, electrons, protons, an neutrons, February 1, 2016. (http://periodic.lanl.gov/).
Carbon is very much a constantly morphing combinator. Scientists can make virtually endless chains and structures with carbon — along with its companions, oxygen, nitrogen, and hydrogen — giving us plenty of other organic compounds not found in nature. That is American intersectionality in a nutshell, between racism, class inequality, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia, and other -isms that combine and recombine from one generation and one issue to the next. Stereotypes, microaggressions, and death by a thousand cuts, are its results.
But carbon molecules in the natural world already exists in long and almost endless chains. Our DNA and its double-helix strands, the structure of hydrocarbons that make up petroleum and natural gas. Even without the interventions that make interpersonal, individual, and internalized racism the fodder for social media and American politics, structural racism and institutional racism are already well embedded in America's vast array of institutions.
Then there's the stuff that's beyond the mix of the six electrons, six protons, and six neutrons that make up a carbon atom. Quarks, leptons, bosons, among as many as 248 subatomic particles — including gluons, neutrinos, and photons. The newly discovered Higgs boson particle (as of 2012), for instance, is apparently what provides matter mass.
The subatomics of American racism, though, are fairly well-known and haven't been new to us researchers for decades. Imperialism, American exceptionalism, narcissism, and capitalism. They all help give mass to American racism, so that it is not just a matter of perception, or, as some mavericks have suggested, a disease or psychosis. These are the particles that convert the energies of racism into a tangible, weighty reality.
An example of simulated data modeled for the CMS particle detector on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. (where collision of two protons would produce a Higgs boson particle and release energy, in blue), October 1997. (Lucas Taylor/CERN via Wikipedia). Released to public domain via CC-SA-3.0.
Yet atoms and their subatomic particles aren't forever. Heck, electrons are often in two places at the same time, their quantum locations change so often. The way scientists know all this is through atom smashing at places like the Hadron collider in Switzerland. It takes a tremendous amount of energy to smash protons straight into a group of atoms to explode its subatomic contents. Ultimately, somewhere between fusion, fission, and smashing, to break down the carbon-like atom that is American racism. But I don't think those of us working to do so should hold our collective breath.
Irksome American Conversations on Gender & Race With "Impact"
Posted by decollins1969 in 1, culture, Eclectic, Marriage, Politics, Pop Culture, race
"Impact", "Impacted", American Conversations, Bigotry, Cliches, Discourse, Feminism, Interracial Marriage, Interracial Relationships, News Media, Platitudes, Racism, Social Media, Strong Women
Wonder Woman, October 30, 2012. (http://tvequals.com).
I've wanted to write about this one for a few months now. Post-Tropical Cyclone Sandy or not, this one is important to me. The fact that so much of our discourse in traditional media, social media and everyday conversation remains so much more about cliché commentary than about any exploration of the meaning behind the words we say.
I've already looked at the laziness that a monopolized media has created in the world of journalism (see my recent post "The Make-Believe Media" from earlier this month). But this is about more than the "both sides do it" media world. It's about the contradictions between the style in which we use our words and the substance within. The reality behind our words, then, becomes buried, and has made us all a little bit more ignorant in the process.
For me, three random examples stand out:
"We Can Do It!" – Rosie the Riveter poster [1942], by J. Howard Miller, October 30, 2012 (Wikipedia). In public domain.
1. "I'm a strong woman" – This could also be "I'm a smart woman," or "I'm a bitch," or "I'm a tough woman," or a hundred other phrases I see every day on Twitter or hear in our public discourse. Even if this is meant to show some sort of feminist solidarity, it seems trite to proclaim strength as part of a conversation about gender (or any other topic, for that matter). I learned my lesson more than thirty years ago, courtesy of Crush #1, at the ripe old age of twelve, to not spend so much of my time telling people how smart I was (see my "Was I Really In Love In 7th Grade?" post from March '12).
Really, how weird would it sound for me at six-three and 230 pounds to say that "I'm a strong man?" Or in commenting about all the abuse I survived, that "I'm a tough man?" I think that most of us can recognize a strong, tough, intelligent woman without the use of underwhelming language. I think most of us regardless of gender genuinely admire women who are who they are without saying the words all day and every day. To slightly misquote the name of the foundation that Lance Armstrong just stepped down from, just live strong, be strong and stay strong, and tell others females (and occasionally males) to do the same.
2. "Interracial/multiracial marriages are on the rise" = a less racist/post-racial America – Yeah, if there hadn't been a long history of grossly unequal interracial relationships in this country for the previous two hundred years prior to the late '80s. This isn't to say that the average American citizen isn't less bigoted or racist than they would've been thirty years ago. But a sexual or even marital bond doesn't automatically mean a lack of prejudice. It certainly doesn't mean a massive empathy for and participation in social justice and other human rights causes. Just like with any relationship or marriage, people from different ethnic backgrounds can also come together for all the wrong reasons, can be abusive, and can even be racist.
Mildred Loving and Richard Loving (famous for landmark Supreme Court Loving v. Virginia (1967) miscegnation case), January 26, 1965. (AP). Qualifies as fair use under US Copyright laws – subject of post and no other photos available.
Making an exception for a few Whites, Blacks, Latinos or Asians as an individual doesn't mean that one doesn't generally view Whites as racist, Blacks as intellectually inferior, Latinos as "illegals" or Asians as "model minorities." The fact that interracial marriages have been on the rise for nearly thirty years merely proves that the taboo against these marriages has broken down, not that the nation isn't divided around the issue of race.
Manny Pacquiao v. Antonio Margarito (true meaning of the verb "impact"), Arlington, TX, November 13, 2010. (AP via http://9run.ca).
3. The growing use of impact as a verb and an adverb: Whether "impact," "impacted," "impacting," or "impactful," most of the time, this term is used incorrectly, especially in terms of politics. Take the use of impact during the 2012 Presidential Election cycle. "Nothing has impacted the 2012 race more than Romney's 47% tape." Really? Did someone take the recording and literally hit Mitt Romney in the head with it until he was rendered unconscious? If that didn't occur, then the correct sentence would be "Nothing has had more of an impact on the 2012 race than Romney's 47% tape."
It's as if journalists, reporters, pundits, commentators, intellectuals and scholars have forgotten that there are other, better words in the English language to use than impact. Like "affect," or "effect," or "influence," or "sway," or "transform," or "change." There are NFL color commentators and WWE announcers who use the word impact more correctly than most in the news and social media worlds. But this incorrect overuse is apparently here to stay, affecting and infecting our already ignorant use of language.
All of these uses of language irk me, because if we are to ever have real discussions of serious issues, we need our language to have real substance to it. Not just platitudes and clichés that wouldn't survive Fashion Avenue if they took the form of a dress.
The Make-Believe Media
Posted by decollins1969 in 1, culture, Eclectic, eclectic music, Movies, music, Politics, Pop Culture, race
"Both Sides Do It", "Dirty Laundry" (1982), Anchors, Columnists, Commentators, Jay Rosen, Journalism, Journalists, Liberal Bias, Mainstream Media, Make-Believe Journalism, Media, News Media, Objectivity, Print Journalism, Pundits, What Are Journalists For? (1999)
What media can get wrong (Election 1948, SCOTUS Obamacare Decision), November 3, 1948 and June 28, 2012 [October 17, 2012].
I get so tired of so many "journalists," commentators and columnists saying the same thing over and over again. About the 2012 Presidential Election, about education, about race relations, about crime, about virtually anything anyone with a working brain cares to think about.
For more than four decades, our media has become like the color commentators for an old World Wrestling Federation (now WWE) event between "Rowdy" Roddy Piper and Hulk Hogan. Where the mere appearance of journalism and fairness has become more important than any actual substance. Where pitching fake debates about actual facts about real events and trends is normal business. Overall, the news industry — TV, print, radio and Internet — is about as professional an operation as a hole-in-the-wall bar attempting to become a strip club.
"If it bleeds, it leads," whether it's Ruth Chris Steakhouse or the mainstream media, October 17, 2012. (http://sanfrancisco.com).
Jay Rosen's '99 book What Are Journalists For? and Don Henley's '82 hit "Dirty Laundry" have plenty in common. They both unmask the news business as just that, a business. All of these ideas about objectivity, access and coverage for mainstream journalism in all its forms are just that, ideas. In actuality, news has grown into another form of entertainment, sometimes in the most literal sense (read The Onion and watch The Daily Show and The Colbert Report as but three examples).
Perhaps the most glaring falsehood of all is that the media is a mere reflection of society, and that journalism's role is to be the mirror that stands apart, reflecting both the light and the darkness of our world. Both Rosen (in a scholarly tone) and Henley (with sarcasm-dripping lyrics) call bull crap on this idea.
There are too many lies that the media tells itself for me to go through all of them in one blog post, but there are particularly pernicious ones that I need to address here:
1. The built-in "liberal media bias:" This one is about as true as "dolphins fly" and "parrots live at sea" (thank you, Stevie Wonder). Fact is, the news media, with the exceptions of FOX News, represents a centrist view of the US and the world. Period. When's the last time anyone has heard CNN discuss creating a single-track Pre-K to twelfth grade college and work preparation school system? Since when does the New York Times recommend the legalization of marijuana or the decriminalization of heroin and cocaine? Has the Washington Post ever suggested that America's imperialist foreign and economic policies were the ultimate reasons for 9/11? These are all liberal positions, and yet, they get next to no play except maybe on non-mainstream TV and rags, liberal talk radio and progressive blogs.
2. The media's goal is "objectivity:" Are we really that daft? Scholarly objectively went out the window in the humanities and social sciences in the '80s, because it was obvious that scholars are actually, well, people. Last I checked, journalists, commentators, editors, columnists, anchors and talk show hosts are, too. Their collective main goal – to sell a story to the public (or, in many cases, to others in the media world), and overall, to make money for their newspaper, radio station, news channel or website. For if the business makes money, folks in the media get to keep their jobs and their prestige.
Gold bars and the earth on a set of brass scales (inspired by An Inconvenient Truth [2006]), August 2, 2011. (http://drpinna.com).
3. The "both sides do it" argument: The fact that the media has turned into about five different monopolies has led to this idea that there are two equal and opposite sides to everystory. It's been true of the mainstream coverage of this election, but it's applicable to everything they show the public. Climate change, some say "yes" (as in 99.8 percent of all scientists) and some (scientists paid off by Scaife, Olin, and the Heritage Foundation) say "no." Trayvon Martin, was he a victim or a thug? Look, we all know that life has much more gray than the media is capable of capturing, but most rags and news outlets have long given up trying to provide a full story. All in the name of selling more newspapers, driving up ad sells and pushing up Nielsen ratings.
Megyn Kelly, FOX News, September 27, 2011. (http://huffingtonpost.com).
4. People in the media world are intelligent and sophisticated: This one is a keeper. To be sure, there are plenty of brilliant folk associated with CNN, MSNBC, The Huffington Post, and the New York Times. But most journalists aren't as smart as we tend to assume. Fact is, journalists are good at two or three things: asking lots of questions, looking professional in front of a camera and writing in middle school sentences. I could've done two of these three by the time I finished sixth grade. Since most folks in news spend most of their time talking with each other, their brilliance is self-evident. They certainly don't need to check in with us for our approval.
I'm sure that the likes of Megyn Kelly, Soledad O'Brien and Tom Friedman won't be reading my blog to see what I've said about their business. After all, they have the pen and the mic, and I'm just an aspiring writer and professor with a blog. But I know something they don't. You can't live in the world of make-believe forever.


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Q: How do I manage sessions in a hybrid Ruby/GWT system? I currently have a Ruby on Rails system, and there are plans to port it to GWT. Before we do this, the powers that be want to have a proof of concept with part of the site being written in GWT to show that GWT can use and display the current content. The flow of data in the GWT portion of the system is as follows:

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*Client sends an RPC call to the GWT server

*Server receives RPC call, then makes an equivalent Ajax request to the Rails system

*Server generates a Java object from the result of the Ajax request, passes it back to client

The issue I'm running into now is managing user session data across both systems. We only have 1 Tomcat instance, and that has its own type of sessions, and then our Ruby system uses ActiveRecordStore to store session data in the database.
The problem here is that when the Tomcat system talks with the Ruby system, if the GWT client has made a login request, the last user to log in from the GWT system has all outgoing Ajax requests being performed in the Rails system as if they're the current user since the Tomcat system looks like a single client to Rails.
Anyways, how can I make it such that if a user begins a session with the Tomcat system, the Ruby system will be aware of this and have an equivalent session so that even though the Tomcat server is a single client to it, the Rails system is aware of the fact that many different users are communicating with it from that single client.

A: I think the best way to solve this would be to use cookies instead of a database to store the session. Rails supports this natively, actually it's the default cookie store for some time now. The cookie itself is signed by a server secret to prevent user tampering. I think the Rails implementation uses Ruby marshaling to dump/load the data so you might have to implement it in Java, or you can implement your own cookie manager on both sides using the same idea.
It is also possible to just use the Ruby code from JRuby in your Java application.

A: I don't know about RoR, but in most web technologies sessions are maintained using cookies. If you preserve the cookies (for a given user) across multiple calls from your Java server to your RoR instance, you should be all good.

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