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Children, Comedy
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Where to Watch: 1 episodes (1%) are available to watch free online (Nick). 70 episodes (93%) are available to stream on a popular subscription service (Prime Video & Hulu). 72 episodes (96%) are available to rent or buy from $0.99 on 6 services (iTunes, Google Play & 4 others).
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Drama, Musical
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Where to Watch: 48 episodes (100%) are available to stream on a popular subscription service (Hulu). 16 episodes (33%) are available to stream on a TV everywhere service (FOX). 48 episodes (100%) are available to rent or buy from $1.99 on 5 services (iTunes, Google Play & 3 others).
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Reality, Game Show
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Where to Watch: 5 episodes (1%) are available to watch free online (NBC). 20 episodes (6%) are available to stream on a popular subscription service (Hulu). 17 episodes (5%) are available to stream on a TV everywhere service (NBC).
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Where to Watch: 5 episodes (22%) are available to watch free online (FOX). 12 episodes (52%) are available to stream on a popular subscription service (Hulu). 18 episodes (78%) are available to stream on a TV everywhere service (FOX).
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Where to Watch: 26 episodes (100%) are available to watch free online (ABC). 25 episodes (96%) are available to stream on a popular subscription service (Hulu). 26 episodes (100%) are available to rent or buy from $0.99 on 7 services (iTunes, Google Play & 5 others).
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Year: 2018-2020Seasons: 2
Game Show, Reality
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Where to Watch: 3 episodes (21%) are available to watch free online (FOX). 14 episodes (100%) are available to stream on a popular subscription service (Hulu). 6 episodes (43%) are available to stream on a TV everywhere service (FOX).
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Reality, Drama
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Where to Watch: 3 episodes (2%) are available to stream on a popular subscription service (Hulu & Urban Movie Channel). 12 episodes (8%) are available to stream on a TV everywhere service (WE). 142 episodes (97%) are available to rent or buy from $1.99 on 5 services (iTunes, Google Play & 3 others).
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Where to Watch: 18 episodes (3%) are available to watch free online (ABC). 36 episodes (6%) are available to stream on a popular subscription service (Hulu). 1 episodes (0%) are available to stream on a TV everywhere service (ABC).
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Where to Watch: 10 episodes (100%) are available to stream on a popular subscription service (Hulu).
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Children, Animation
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Where to Watch: 3 episodes (25%) are available to stream on a popular subscription service (Hulu). 1 episodes (8%) are available to rent or buy from $1.99 on 2 services (Vudu & Verizon).
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Analyses of Blomkamp's District 9 & Abrams' Star Trek
-BaoYunCheng
I wrote these analyses immediately following the releases of these two summer blockbuster sci-fi films.
My Analysis of Peter Jackson/Neill Blomkamp's District 9:
District 9 is one of the more entertaining films of our generation. Despite its elaborate critique on systematic racism, though, the movie itself prescribes liberal racism and elitism to overcome the systematic racism.
There are 2 layers of analysis that can be made on District 9. The first is a 'superficial' critique on the UN, private contractors, and systematic racism to which the movie metaphorically makes. Because I agree with the movie's critiques and think they are obvious enough that most other 'socially conscious' reviewers will deconstruct, I will only skim through the first layer before tackling my above thesis that District 9 handles itself in a very racist and elitist fashion.
Superficial layer:
1. Critique on Systematic Racism and South African Apartheid
It should be quite obvious that the setting of the film, South Africa, is intentional. The dichotomy between the aliens and humans parallel the apartheid state's institutional segregation between South African blacks and whites, a system that formally existed from 1948 until 1994, and which exists de facto to this day with the continuation of black shantytowns (much like those depicted in the film as segregated alien communities of run-down shacks). Instead of institutionally racist policies, though, the black shantytowns exist today because of South African capitalism that has favored many white capitalists and a few black corporate barons at the expense of the majority of South African blacks.
The film beautifully captures the subconscious rootedness of racism among humans, with aliens being called 'prawns' (which we are told at the outset is a derogatory term) by even the most liberally-minded characters of the film, such as the protagonist Wikus Van De Merwe (similar to whites commonly calling African Americans 'n*ggers' throughout most of American history).
Another interesting way racism is made explicit in the film is through the alien's 'human' (but really, 'white') name: Christopher Johnson. Although the alien might have an alien name, it is comfortable enough with the name to acknowledge it among friends (i.e. to Wikus near the end of the movie). The real-life parallel to this is the erasure of African names to slaves entering America (something Malcolm detested, and hence, the X in his name).
2. Critique on UN and liberalism (liberal humanitarianism)
Like the UN, humanitarian language is used as a cover the MNU's actions to forcibly relocate aliens from District 9 to District 10. A small but important point is the authoritarianism and favoritism within UN culture, as Wikus was promoted to lead the MNU's operations early in the film. This reminded me of the behind the scenes collusion between the G8 (or the power of the Security Council) to manipulate policy in both the UN and orgs like the WTO.
3. Critique on private contractors like Blackwater
MNU was a company large enough to produce and develop weapons and have its only private army. Throughout the film, we see a lot of dirty tactics used by MNU, from medical experimentations of aliens to verbal deception (when Christopher does not want to give consent for his eviction, the MNU agents resort to nonrelated laws of pollution to coerce Christopher into signing the eviction letter).
Deeper Analysis- why District 9 is liberally racist and elitist:
4. Unintended racist portrayal of Nigerians
Admittedly, I'm not clear as to whether or not the Nigerians were intentionally portrayed in a sensationalized manner, but I'd be willing to bet that the writer/director needed some straw man as the gangster type in the film. Because the film had no social context for the looting and gangster tactics by which the Nigerians operated, it reinforces the subconscious racism held by many white liberals that certain people of color (dark-skinned) are more prone to violence and gangsterism. It is this 'backwardness' that needs to be rescued by the white missionaries that form the ranks of the Peace Corps and other international humanitarian organizations. Indeed, in the film, the Nigerians and their violent and cultish tendencies are portrayed as negatively as the private soldiers of the MNU. In one of the last fight scenes, viewers are expected to sympathize with Wikus when he faces a violent barrage from both the MNU and the Nigerians.
5. An Elite-Centric View of Liberation: One Man Can Save the World
This is one of the most common themes of Hollywood movies. In short, the film's solution relies on a hero to save the day. That the hero is white is another problem, which I will examine in point 6. The two protagonists of the film are Wikus and Christopher. I'll start with the latter, since Wikus will be covered in the next point. Why is it that Christopher is the only smart alien in the whole film (at the first encounter, MNU needs to resort to verbal coercion because Christopher is "sharp" and understands the implication of eviction)? Why does Christopher alone have to be the one to rescue his alien counterparts? Why are all the other aliens, like the Nigerians in the film, portrayed as thieves or criminals? Because the theme of the movie is liberation from oppression, the elitism provides a false and ahistorical illusion by which liberation has been achieved: namely, it counteracts the fact that all historic liberations have been products of popular and democratic movements. Sure, there have been leaders like Malcolm and Gandhi, but that they have been leaders is a testament to which their ideas and messages were reflections of the movement (and the people) as a whole. Again, this is a predominant theme in movies (i.e. the Dark Knight and Harvey Dent save the day!) and reflects the popularity of the Obamamania phenomenon (let's vote in change!). Until movements are built, though, change cannot be achieved by one or a few leaders alone.
6. The White Man's Burden: Wikus as the Liberal Racist
In a way, District 9 is very similar to Blood Diamond, Freedom Writers, and Dangerous Minds. It follows the trend in setting a white man as the key to achieving liberation. There is a common sentiment among white liberals that Wikus accurately represents through his actually 'becoming' an alien: that whites can go into communities of color (most of the times in the so-called Third World) and eventually experience some type of oppression faced by people of color. That Wikus actually transforms into an alien is the ultimate manifestation of this white fixation/imagination of becoming one of the oppressed. For the record, I do think white people have and will be persecuted for being in struggle with people of color, but I do NOT think white people can ever be a victim of white supremacy simply because, (duh), the color of their skin. The other liberally racist idea Wikus represents is that white folks can simply enter into a community of color and change it for the better. Again, lasting change is a process from below involving movements. White liberal humanitarians, so long as they are detached from the community that they purport to serve, cannot be the key to progressive social change.
My Analysis on JJ Abrams' Star Trek:
I've decided to give a quick analysis on the newest film in the Star Trek franchise. In terms of entertainment, it stands as the second best film in the franchise, only behind The Voyage Home and slightly better than The Wrath of Khan and First Contact. JJ Abrams has also done a commendable job in making one of the most sophisticated and longstanding sci-fi franchises accessible to a newer generation. Some themes I will be covering in my analysis include the liberal imperialism of the Federation, deglorification of manual labor, an elite-centric view of the world, and patriarchy.
1. Liberal imperialism of the Federation
This first point is the broadest of them all and not necessarily specific to this particular film, but to the entire Trek franchise. It's worth pointing out, however, because this film marks the beginning of the self-glorified history of the Federation. I find it appalling that throughout the Star Trek franchise, the Federation's own imperialism, patriarchy, and oppression is masked by the contrast to barbaric and evil acts of other alien empires (i.e. the Cardassian occupation of Bajor; the impulsive, warlike dark-skinned Klingon race; the drug-addicted, fight-to-death Jem'Hadar in service of the ever-expanding, conquest-hungry Dominion empire). This movie continues that trend by introducing us to Nero, an angry and impulsive Romulan who seeks total destruction of the Federation and Vulcan homeworlds. Pitted against such an irrational foe with no virtue for diplomacy, it's not hard to see the Federation as the progressive, virtuous entity. But in case there's any sympathy for Nero, we're reminded of the Federation's peace-spreading mission, or its "humanitarian armada" [an oxymoron or a Bush-ism?], early in the film by Captain Pike. It's important to juxtapose the Romulan Nero against his distant Vulcan cousins, whose logic, propriety, and alliance with the liberal Federation inevitably triggers intense sympathy by movie viewers once genocide against its race has been committed. As for the genocide of Romulus, the film never addresses or resolves the catalyst of Nero's wave of violence. I'm NOT defending Nero's actions by any means, but I think it's important to note that the Federation, despite its liberal facade, is an empire in an inter-imperialist rivalry against other empires, and thus commits numerous abuses of its own (throughout the franchise, we see examples like martial law on Earth following the Federation's faking of Dominion presence; Sisko's tampering of a hologram to trick the Romulans to attack the Dominion; Section 31, Starfleet's paralegal intelligence agency; many other great examples in DS9 Seasons 4 and beyond). A final way the Federation masks its imperialism is through the inclusion of different races that kind of says, "Hey look, we're the good guys because we have funny looking aliens and a few people of color on the bridge." I won't belabor this following point, but there are too many parallels between the Federation and US empire spreading democracy abroad.
2. Deglorification of manual labor, Glorification of militarization
If this movie did not take place in the Trek universe but in contemporary America, it would be easy to see this film as a recruitment tool or propaganda piece for the US military. Captain Pike appreciates the toughness and courage of Kirk, but sees Kirk's life on earth as a waste of talent. Such attributes, Pike reasons, is worthy of Starfleet. Like military recruitment ads, there's a sense of "Are you brave? Are you macho? Then join now!" This is accentuated by Pike's final line at the bar, "I dare you" to best your father, to which Kirk responds the next day, "I'll be an officer in 3, not 4 years." What's tragic in this story is that, like in the US, there's a stigmatization of manual/blue-collar labor (a background from which young Kirk comes). So many times it's the US capitalists and corporations that get celebrated, but the fact is, their wealth depends on the masses of workers who produce for them. This same logic can be used to explain Scotty's introduction in the film, where we see him complaining about his placement in an isolated Federation outpost. Granted, it's inhumane to be working alone, but his comment needs to be seen in the broader context of deglorification of manual labor.
3. Elite-centric view of the world
Similar to deglorification of manual labor, but more broadly speaking, the film looks down upon ordinary people like you and me. This can be seen by Spock's rescue of the five or six Vulcan elites. He claims that these are the most important Vulcans on the entire planet because all of Vulcan culture rests with them. So are the rest of the Vulcans devoid of culture? Are they lesser than the elites? It's funny that he holds the survival of Vulcanness on five or six old male elites who cannot reproduce on their own. This theme is also seen in the evaluation of Spock, where a few elites have the exclusive authority to determine whether or not he's Vulcan; and the evaluation of Kirk, where a few elites determine his fate in the Federation. So much for democracy in the 'liberal' Federation.
4. Patriarchy of the Federation
Besides, the aforementioned scene of Vulcan elders being male (besides Spock's mother), I'm having difficulty remembering any women in the movie who did not have a sexual role. From Uhara's opening scene, her sexual qualities are assessed. Ultimately, it's her sexuality that tames Spock, so to speak, from irrational breakdown. It seems that every other woman in the movie, be it having a passing role or Uhara's roommate, is in some way sexually evaluated by Kirk. Like the 'tough' ads of US armed forces, you're rarely going to see women climbing the ropes or shooting the gun. Make no mistake, the Federation, like US empire, is patriarchal.
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9 thoughts on "Analyses of Blomkamp's District 9 & Abrams' Star Trek"
Afrose says:
Bao, you have written a very good criticism of District 9. Particularly your emphasis on the lack of movement dynamics and systems of organization that the aliens might have had. The movie never addresses the contradiction that the aliens have very sophisticated technology- someone speculates that they are part of a hive whose queen has died. It becomes pretty obvious that this isn't true but there is no other hypothesis put forward. A deeper contradiction that you touched upon is that if these aliens are so scientifically advanced, they must be organizationally advanced. There's no way a million aliens traveled to earth without being organized. But the movie omits this. Also, something I noticed is that the aliens never harmed each other, and only harmed someone else when they posed a threat. They seemed much more civilized than the MNU officials.
As for your comment on whiteness, I agree that Wickus as the hero in a majority black or person of color film (lets assume that the aliens are poc, since they're treated like it) is a played out, racist element that needs abandoned. However, I do disagree with your statement that a "white" person can never be the victim of white supremacy. If our goal is partly to end whiteness, then we have to believe that white people can break with whiteness and throw their lot in with people of color. Its certainly possible for people of color and white people to be retaliated against for fighting white supremacy. Now, I don't think that Wickus throws in his lot with the aliens at all. Sure, he looks like an alien, but he cant wait to become a human again, and he screws over Christopher in the film in order to achieve his retransformation faster. So he's not much of a symbol for multi-racial solidarity.
BaoYunCheng says:
Hi Afrose, thanks for the comment and I do think you're right about white anti-racists being attacked for throwing their lot in with poc's. I think the issue is more over semantics than concept, as my argument was that white folks cannot be victimized simply on the basis of their skin color alone under white supremacy (i.e. in institutionalized ways like profiling and job application process). In my analysis, I think I was getting at the idea that some white liberals believe that they can 'experience' persecution in an institutionalized sense-even if they aren't actively fighting against white supremacy-simply by being in communities of color.
mlove says:
BYC, I think you hit on something with the limitations of the liberal imagination here.
If this movie is a take-down on the liberal imagination, it seems it is still a prisoner of it. It isn't only the deliberately cartoonish, schlocky characterization in the movie–a Peter Jackson specialty–seems to support the mocking of this imagination. It's own limits come in when the movie can't enter into the space of the aliens from their point of view.
Watching the movie you expect a radical shift in subjectivity when Wikus is forced to hide in the ghetto, where the story will now be told from the view of its inhabitants. The fact that this doesn't happen shows that this imagination is incapable of seeing the system from viewpoint of the oppressed. It's similar to David Simon and The Wire. Probably not a more fierce taking apart of the American system in television ever, but the show sees little alternative emerging from this decaying order.
The end result is, and this is what really struck me, Wikus is as horrifying as this world that is being portrayed. You can't feel anything but the deepest contempt for Wikus. This dude is a moral scumbag. Wikus is not the white liberal savior of so many of these movies–think of The Constant Gardener, or The International, which is much more self-conscious about this. He is this "hero" kind of turned inside out to reveal the monster that the white liberal hero really is.
Wikus is the perfect representative of system that creates zones of surplus humanity–zones where the system doesn't see "citizens" but "bare life".
As someone who has geeked-out to the Star Trek franchise–mainly Next Generation and Deep Space 9 (DS9 is the best)–I gotta say I liked Abrams' take on it. This is mainly because he burned out all the pretentiousness and created a summer blockbuster movie with a lot of energy and familiar stereotypes that–and this is the key–didn't take itself too seriously.
But this doesn't mean that there aren't a lot of signs of the times in the movie. Deep Space 9, like you said BYC, took apart a lot of the liberal imperialism of the Next Generation, but it didn't abandon the political and moral problems plaguing the 20th century. Abrams and his crew taking apart the Star Trek franchise isn't space clearing gesture. It's an example of deep-seated cynicism. You see this in Cloverfield when he burns down Bloomberg New York. But when you look at Lost and this re-visioning of Star Trek–two series that loudly say they are taking up the "big questions"–you get the sense of the pessimism that surrounds the whole attempt. It isn't only that both are really skeptical about figuring out answers or ways forward to these "big questions", it's like taking up these questions itself is just a gesture–just a matter of "style".
t'pau says:
At least one of the Vulcan elders Spock rescued was female, an older woman. She's not even that difficult to spot in the rescue scenes.
I thought that was a really good essay, just one thing stuck out to me: why do we think Kirk was doing manual labor before he joined Starfleet? From what Pike said, it sounded to me like he was making his living in some less-than-legal ways, as a "genius-level repeat offender."
Phrone says:
I agree with a lot about what you said about District 9, but disagreed with a lot about what you said about Star Trek.
I think District 9's biggest problem was that it had this great idea that it didn't know what to do with. It made a lot of good points (most of which you hit on) but then it bought into a lot of the same stereotypes. The only scene I really liked was when the main character was sacrificing himself to save the alien — it's a good reversal of the "heroic brown man dying to save the white man" trope (see: Ironman).
I think there's definitely a level of sexism in the Star Trek movie, but I think there were also some refreshingly positive messages.
1. Spock loved his mother. This is one of the only portrayals of a good, healthy father-mother relationship that I can think of…admittedly, I first saw the movie after reading Watchmen.
2. There is no "no means yes" here. A lot of movies have a female character who will reject the advances of the male protagonist only to sleep with him later. (See: Ironman) Here, Uhura rejects Kirk and then never changes her mind. It was refreshing to see.
3. Gaila's role was basically a stereotype waiting to happen, but there's actually a reversal of the assumed relationship (Kirk is surprised that Gaila has slept around)
4. There's a woman of color as the main romantic character! A lesser movie would have made one of the white females from TOS (such as Yeoman Rand or Nurse Chapel) the primary love interest. As a Latina, I was overjoyed to see a non-white woman's relationship being taken seriously, not pathologized, and given central place in the movie.
WaibreEntiree says:
Any model train collectors here?
My granddad left me with old lionel model trains 027 & O Scale engines #5651945 set and I'm not sure how much its worth.
The motor also needs some repair. Has anyone used these lionel trains manuals before? I need help in valuation and repair of this old set as I dont know what to do with it.
Mark Wilhelm says:
There's a good reason Christopher Johnson is the only "smart" alien. It has to do with the movie's backstory/lore. If you haven't spent the extra effort to actually research the movie's story, then you wouldn't know this.
If you haven't spent the extra effort to actually research the movie's story and pedigree (the director is South African, probably knows more about the nation's problems than you learned from Wikipedia), you shouldn't write a review of it. Do your homework next time and perhaps you won't be quick to identify supposed racism in films.

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New Year's Resolutions For Fighting Financial Crime
By Stuart Clarke
New Year often encourages me to think about the challenges, opportunities and emerging trends that will be at the forefront of our minds as we tackle financial crime in 2022 and beyond. In no particular order, these are the 5 things that I would like to either see increased focus on, or that I believe will become a more prominent topic throughout 2022.
1. Effective sharing and collaboration
The need to collaborate across public and private sectors to improve our ability to combat financial crime is clear. Bodies like FATF, for example, continue to draw into focus a need to build collaborative frameworks that not only help us to respond to financial crime, but to get on the front foot and prevent it. In 2022 it's critical that positive conversations across the public and private sectors continue to take place. In particular, collaboration is needed to address gaps in knowledge that could easily be filled by the sharing of data, in turn increasing the effectiveness of anti-financial crime efforts.
2. NFTs – and connected crime
A non-fungible token (NFT) is a form of a digital ledger stored on a blockchain and is commonly associated with digital assets such as photos, videos, or audio. NFTs grew in popularity in 2021 and are often hugely valuable. Yet with this value comes risk in the form of fraud and money laundering. Whilst there are already public examples of NFT-related fraud, I anticipate that these risks will start to move sharply into focus in 2022.
3. Improved use of technology
Investment in technology-based solutions to fight financial crime has been significant in recent years, but is it working and has it been as effective as we desired? The story of Frankenstein highlights the power of scientific ambition, but also the dangers of going a step too far. We must be careful not to build our own Frankenstein anti-financial crime solutions that fail to produce outcomes that are explainable. Instead, we need to focus on a holistic vision and workflows designed around a set of defined and integrated outcomes, and on implementing technology that is complementary and extensible. In this way, we can make sure that the use of technology is effective and coherent.
4. Less talk of AI and more talk of outcomes
Almost every 2022 prediction whether it be financial crime, cyber or counter terror initiatives will contain some reference to a broader use of AI. While I fully support the use of technology in solving complex problems, I find that we are often more focused on AI than the problems we are trying to solve. AI and machine learning are very effective at solving defined problems, however when it comes to complex problems and undefined data sets, AI is not the only solution. In 2022 I would like to see more attention directed toward defining the problem/s and ensuring that the best technology for the problem at hand is selected. For example, intelligent automation solutions are often useful in investigations that involve live, constantly changing data.
5. More focus on the environment
Environmental crimes like wildlife trafficking, illegal logging and mining are not only having a major impact on biodiversity – they are also linked to serious financial crimes on a global scale. More focus on disrupting these crimes is needed – such as proposals for a new international agreement to criminalize wildlife trafficking made by environmental crime expert John Scanlon. Our increasing environmental awareness will start to have a positive impact in 2022: I believe that in 2022 individuals and businesses alike will continue to reflect on their own impact on the environment. More businesses will strive to reduce their environmental impact and become carbon neutral, and individuals we have never been better informed on how to reduce our own footprint. Ultimately I hope that this will lead to the funds that fuel these crimes being cut off.
Watch our webinar on environmental crime with John Scanlon and Traffic here.
Taking predictions further
With changes of this nature, 2022 could prove to be the year where we finally turn the tables on exploitative financial criminals with improved collaboration and use of technology.
To talk about how we can help your organisation meet its goals in 2022, get in touch.
Beyond box-ticking: Leveraging technology to resolve complex AML investigations
AML investigations software is vital for improving financial crime outcomes in banks. The right technology will enhance the analyst's capabilities.
Hiding in Plain Sight
Matthew Redhead explores the challenges of using of open source intelligence (OSINT) in a government setting.
Regtech Innovation: Looking Beyond AI
Following our panel appearance last week, we've explored some of our thoughts on innovation beyond AI in more detail.


I haven't heard much about it but a device called the vagus nerve stimulator was approved by the FDA in 2005 for "chronic or recurrent treatment-resistant depression and bipolar disorder." It was previously approved for epilepsy treatment only. The VNS generator is implanted under the skin from the chest to the neck, around the vagus nerve that connects the brain with major organs. VNS is only recommended for people who cannot use medications due to side effects or receive no relief from mental illness.
The New York Times has a stunning piece on Katrina's latest legacy in New Orleans: unprecedented post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression and suicide in the city. The article is a grim reminder that while the world has moved past Katrina, New Orleans has not. I'm sure the same could be said for Mississippi, which gets considerably less attention.


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You are here: Home Jokes Blonde Jokes
The blonde heard that milk baths would make you beautiful, so she left a note for the milkman to leave 15 gallons of milk.
When the milkman read the note, he felt there must be a mistake. Thinking she probably meant 1.5 gallons, he knocked on the door to clarify the order.
The blonde came to the door and the milkman said, "I found your note to leave 15 gallons of milk. Did you mean 15 gallons or 1.5 gallons?"
Read more: Got Milk?
Give Her Another Chance!
All the blondes in the world were sick and tired of being made fun of, so they decided to have a meeting to prove that they are not stupid.
So the meeting leader asks a young blonde to come up and answer a few questions. The blonde comes up and the leader asks what is 1+3 to which the blonde answers 97.The crowd yells out, "Give her another chance!"
Read more: Give Her Another Chance!
Three women are about to be executed. One's a brunette, one's a redhead, and one's a blonde.
The guard brings the brunette forward and the executioner asks if she has any last requests.
She says no and the executioner shouts, "Ready!...Aim!..."
Suddenly the brunette yells, "EARTHQUAKE!!!"
Read more: Execution
Engine Failure
Fifteen minutes into the flight from Kansas City to Toronto, the captain announced, "Ladies and gentlemen, one of our engines has failed. There is nothing to worry about. Our flight will take an hour longer than scheduled, but we still have three engines left."
Thirty minutes later the captain announced, "One more engine has failed and the flight will take an additional two hours. But don't worry ... we can fly just fine on two engines."
Read more: Engine Failure
Did You Hear About the Blonde?
Did you hear about the blonde who was a pharmacist?
She got fired because she kept breaking the prescription bottles in the typewriter.
Did you hear about the blonde who was called "Sanka"?
She had no active ingredient in the bean.
Did you hear about the blonde who took an hour to cook Minute Rice?
Read more: Did You Hear About the...
Diary Of A Blonde Newlywed
Dear Diary,
Monday: Now home from honeymoon and settled in our new home, it's fun to cook for Bob. Today I made an angel food cake and the recipe said, "Beat 12 eggs separately." Well, I didn't have enough bowls to do that, so I had to borrow enough bowls to beat the eggs in. The cake turned out fine.
Read more: Diary Of A Blonde...
Three blondes were all vying for the last available position on the local police force.
The detective conducting the interview looked at the three of them and said, "So you all want to be a cop, eh?"
The blondes all nodded. The detective got up, opened a file drawer and pulled out a file folder. Sitting back down, he opened it up and withdrew a photograph, and said, "To be a detective, you have to be able to DETECT. You must be able to notice things such as distinguishing features and oddities such as scars, etc."
So saying, he stuck the photo in the face of the first blonde and withdrew it after about 2 seconds. "Now, he said, "Did you notice any distinguishing features about this man?"
The blonde immediately said, "Yes, I did. He only has one eye!"
The detective shook his head and said, "Of COURSE he only has one eye in this picture! It's a PROFILE of his face! You're dismissed!"
The first blonde hung her head and walked out of the office.
The detective then turned to the second blonde, stuck the photo in her face for two seconds, pulled it back and said, "What about you? Notice anything unusual or outstanding about this man?"
Read more: Detecting
A Death in the Family
A blonde goes into work one morning crying her eyes out. Her boss, concerned about all his employees well being, asks sympathetically, "What's the matter?" To which the blonde replies, "Early this morning I got a phone call saying that my mother had passed away." The boss, feeling very sorry at this point, tells the young girl, "Why don't you go home for the day? We aren't terribly busy...just take the day off to relax and rest."
Read more: A Death in the Family
The Complete Set Of Blonde Jokes
Q: How do blonde braincells die?
A: Alone.
Q: How do you measure a blonde's intelligence?
A: Stick a tire pressure gauge in her ear!
Q: How do you get a blonde to marry you?
A: Tell her she's pregnant.
Read more: The Complete Set Of...
A blond is living on property that she feels has too many trees. So she decides to go to the hardware store to get a chainsaw and chop down some of these trees.
She sees a chainsaw with a tag on it that says, "With this chainsaw, you can cut one hundred trees in a day!"
She buys the chainsaw.
The first day with the chainsaw, she is only able to cut down two trees.
Read more: Chainsaw
Census Taker
A blonde was sitting on her porch when a young man walked up with a pad and pencil in his hand.
"Okay, what are you selling?" asked the blonde.
"I'm not selling anything, ma'am," the young man replied. "I'm a Census Taker."
"A what?" the blonde asked.
Read more: Census Taker
A young man wanted to get his beautiful blonde wife something nice for their first wedding anniversary. So he decides to buy her a cell phone.
She is all excited; she loves her phone.
He shows and explains to her all the features on the phone.
The next day the blonde goes shopping.
Read more: Cell Phone
Two female blonde carpenters were working on a house. One blonde was on a ladder nailing. She'd reach into her nail pouch, pull out a nail, look at it, and either toss it over her shoulder or proceed to nail it into the wood.
The other blonde couldn't stand it any longer and yelled up, "Why are you throwing some of the nails away?"
Read more: Carpenters
A blonde tried to sell her old car. But she was having a lot of problems finding a buyer because the car had 250,000 miles on it.
One day, she told her problem to a friend. The friend told her, "There is a possibility to make the car easier to sell, but it's not legal."
"That doesn't matter," replied the blonde, "if only I can sell the car."
Read more: Car for Sale
Blondes Strike Back!
Well, folks, it has finally happened. The blondes of the world got together and have decided to take revenge on the brunettes:
Q: What's black and blue and brown and laying in a ditch?
A: A brunette who's told too many blonde jokes.
Q: What do you call going on a blind date with a brunette?
A: Brown-bagging it.
Read more: Blondes Strike Back!
Blondes On A Rope
There were 11 people hanging onto a rope that came down from a plane. Ten were blonde, and one was a brunette.
They all decided that one person should get off because if they didn't, the rope would break and everyone would die.
No one could decide who should go, so finally the brunette said, "I'll get off the rope."
After a really touching speech from the brunette before she let go of the rope, all of the blondes started clapping.
Blondes on an Island
There are three blondes stranded on an island.
Suddenly a fairy appears and offers to grant each one of them one wish.
The first blonde asks to be intelligent. Instantly, she is turned into a brown haired woman and she swims off the island.
Read more: Blondes on an Island
Blondes In Space
A blonde, a brunette, and a redhead, all working for NASA, were trying to figure out where to go on the next trip.
The brunette said, "We should go to Mars."
The redhead said, "We should go to the Moon."
The brunette and the redhead sat there arguing for a while.
Read more: Blondes In Space
Blonde Test Taking Secret
The blonde reported for her University final examination which consists of "yes/no" type questions.
She takes her seat in the examination hall, stares at the question paper for five minutes, and then in a fit of inspiration, takes her purse out, removes a coin, and starts tossing the coin and marking the answer sheet - Yes for Heads and No for Tails.
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Blonde Lottery
A blonde finds herself in serious trouble. Her business has gone bust and she's in dire financial straits. She's so desperate that she decides to ask God for help.
She begins to pray... "God, please help me. I've lost my business and if I don't get some money, I'm going to lose my house as well. Please let me win the lottery."
Read more: Blonde Lottery
Blonde Loses Weight
A blonde woman was terribly overweight, so her doctor put her on a diet.
"I want you to eat regularly for two days, then skip a day, and repeat this procedure for two weeks. The next time I see you, you'll have lost at least five pounds."
When the blonde returned, she shocked the doctor by having lost nearly 20 pounds.
Read more: Blonde Loses Weight


Jaroslav Hájek was brought up in Podebrady, the town of his birth, which was a spa town well known as a place where people could go to recover from heart problems. He attended primary school there but when he entered a Gymnasium it was in Prague.
Of course World War II began while Hájek was studying at the Gymnasium in Prague. After the German armies took Prague, Hájek was forced to work for the German armament industry. He completed his disrupted secondary education around the time that the war ended and, after graduating from the Gymnasium, he entered the Czech Technical University to begin a course of statistical engineering. In 1947, although only two years into his undergraduate course, Hájek began teaching as an Assistant Lecturer in the Mathematics Institute at the Czech Technical University where he studied. He received his Diplom in Statistical Engineering in June 1949, the same year as his first publication appeared.
He was among the pioneers of unequal probability sampling. The name "Hájek predictor" now labels his contributions to the use of auxiliary data in estimating population means.
Hájek's secondary school education had been disrupted by the war but this was not the end of the disruption to his career for after receiving his Diplom he had to spend two years doing military service. It was 1951 before he was free to begin his postgraduate research studies which he undertook at the Mathematical Institute of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. In 1954 he was awarded his doctorate and he continued to work in the Mathematical Institute as a Senior Research Worker.
The year he received his doctorate, Hájek married Alzbeta Galambos, who was known as Betty. This was a happy time for Hájek as he and his wife enjoyed bringing up two daughters born in the first five years of their marriage. For twelve year Hájek worked as a Senior Research Worker in the Mathematical Institute of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. It was a productive period during which he wrote 20 papers and two books: The theory of Probability Sampling with Applications to Sample Surveys and Probability in Science and Engineering which he wrote jointly with V Dupac.
During these years Hájek established himself as a foremost international authority in several different fields of statistics, particularly in nonparametric methods and their asymptotic theory. His reputation led to an increasing number of invitations to international statistical events, to service on editorial boards of international journals, and to longer stays in foreign universities as a Visiting Professor.
One important such visit was to the University of California at Berkeley which he made in 1961-62. There Lucien Le Cam was the Chairman of the Department and, despite the pressures of that role preventing him from doing as much work with Hájek as he would have liked, it was still a very useful visit.
The notion of contiguity had been developed independently by Lucien Le Cam and the present author.
Hájek developed the property of sequences of pairs of probability measures from ideas due to de la Vallée Poussin. Both Hájek and Le Cam used the concept but the name 'contiguity' is due to Le Cam.
From the moment Hájek assumed the Chair, he directed great efforts towards reforming both the content and the method of teaching, which were then, admittedly, somewhat old-fashioned and obsolete; and he succeeded. in the course of the years, he brought together a group of graduate students whom he tutored and oriented in such a superb manner that the majority of them have become renowned researchers in various fields of statistical theory.
In 1967 Hájek published (jointly with Z Sidak) Theory of rank tests but it was a work which had in fact been written four years before in 1963. Their methods use three lemmas of Le Cam in order to treat rank statistics under local alternatives and they established the efficiency of rank tests.
Hájek's health was poor for many years as he suffered from a kidney disease. By 1970 his condition was deteriorating steadily but he bravely continued his work. He proposed an International Statistical Conference for Prague and set about inviting the main speakers. The conference Prague Symposium on Asymptotic Statistics took place in 1973. Hájek realised that the conference would be his last opportunity to meet many of his friends and colleagues and indeed it proved to be the case as he died from the kidney disease several months later.
We should mention two further books by Hájek. These are A course in nonparametric statistics (1969) and Sampling from a finite population which was published in 1981, seven years after his death.


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Q: DropDownList não carrega em cadeia Tenho um método em asp.net que carrega alguns dropdowns recebendo como parâmetro o nome do dropdown. O método está funcionando perfeitamente, pois quando "debugo" a aplicação vejo que o dropdown recebeu os itens. O problema é que quando coloco a chamada no Page_Load da aplicação mais de uma vez:
CarregarCombos(ddlX);
CarregarCombos(ddlY);

Está sendo carregado na tela somente o primeiro, porém debugando os dois estão com valores.
Resumindo: Via codebehind está tudo perfeito, porém em tela o dropdown não recebe os valores.
Isso acontece também quando tento fazer:
ddlX.Enabled = true;
ddlY.Enabled = true;

Somente o primeiro é habilitado.
Gostaria de saber o motivo e a solução para esse problema.

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#if !defined(BOOST_SPIRIT_X3_CONTAINER_FEBRUARY_06_2007_1001AM)
#define BOOST_SPIRIT_X3_CONTAINER_FEBRUARY_06_2007_1001AM

#include <boost/fusion/support/category_of.hpp>
#include <boost/spirit/home/x3/support/unused.hpp>
#include <boost/detail/iterator.hpp>
#include <boost/fusion/include/deque.hpp>
#include <boost/mpl/has_xxx.hpp>
#include <boost/mpl/bool.hpp>
#include <boost/mpl/identity.hpp>

#include <vector>
#include <map>
#include <string>
#include <iterator>
#include <algorithm>

namespace boost { namespace spirit { namespace x3 { namespace traits
{
    ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
    //  This file contains some container utils for stl containers.
    ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

    namespace detail
    {
        BOOST_MPL_HAS_XXX_TRAIT_DEF(value_type)
        BOOST_MPL_HAS_XXX_TRAIT_DEF(iterator)
        BOOST_MPL_HAS_XXX_TRAIT_DEF(size_type)
        BOOST_MPL_HAS_XXX_TRAIT_DEF(reference)
    }

    template <typename T, typename Enable = void>
    struct is_container
      : mpl::bool_<
            detail::has_value_type<T>::value &&
            detail::has_iterator<T>::value &&
            detail::has_size_type<T>::value &&
            detail::has_reference<T>::value>
    {};

    ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
    namespace detail
    {
        template <typename T>
        struct remove_value_const : mpl::identity<T> {};

        template <typename T>
        struct remove_value_const<T const> : remove_value_const<T> {};

        template <typename F, typename S>
        struct remove_value_const<std::pair<F, S>>
        {
            typedef typename remove_value_const<F>::type first_type;
            typedef typename remove_value_const<S>::type second_type;
            typedef std::pair<first_type, second_type> type;
        };
    }

    ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
    template <typename Container, typename Enable = void>
    struct container_value
      : detail::remove_value_const<typename Container::value_type>
    {};

    template <typename Container>
    struct container_value<Container const> : container_value<Container> {};

    // There is no single container value for fusion maps, but because output
    // of this metafunc is used to check wheter parser's attribute can be
    // saved to container, we simply return whole fusion::map as is
    // so that check can be done in traits::is_substitute specialisation
    template <typename T>
    struct container_value<T
			   , typename enable_if<typename mpl::eval_if <
						    fusion::traits::is_sequence<T>
						    , fusion::traits::is_associative<T>
						    , mpl::false_ >::type >::type>
    : mpl::identity<T> {};

    template <>
    struct container_value<unused_type> : mpl::identity<unused_type> {};

    ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
    template <typename Container, typename Enable = void>
    struct container_iterator
        : mpl::identity<typename Container::iterator> {};

    template <typename Container>
    struct container_iterator<Container const>
         : mpl::identity<typename Container::const_iterator> {};

    template <>
    struct container_iterator<unused_type>
        : mpl::identity<unused_type const*> {};

    template <>
    struct container_iterator<unused_type const>
        : mpl::identity<unused_type const*> {};

    ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
    template <typename Container, typename T>
    bool push_back(Container& c, T&& val);

    template <typename Container, typename Enable = void>
    struct push_back_container
    {
        template <typename Key, typename Value, typename Compare, typename Allocator, typename T>
        static void push_back(std::map<Key, Value, Compare, Allocator>& c, T&& val)
        {
            c.insert(std::move(val));
        }

        template <typename Container_, typename T>
        static void push_back(Container_& c, T&& val)
        {
            c.push_back(std::move(val));
        }

        template <typename T>
        static bool call(Container& c, T&& val)
        {
            push_back(c, std::move(val));
            return true;
        }
    };

    template <typename Container, typename T>
    inline bool push_back(Container& c, T&& val)
    {
        return push_back_container<Container>::call(c, std::move(val));
    }

    template <typename Container>
    inline bool push_back(Container&, unused_type)
    {
        return true;
    }

    template <typename T>
    inline bool push_back(unused_type, T const&)
    {
        return true;
    }

    inline bool push_back(unused_type, unused_type)
    {
        return true;
    }

    ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
    template <typename Container, typename Iterator>
    bool append(Container& c, Iterator first, Iterator last);

    template <typename Container, typename Enable = void>
    struct append_container
    {
        // Not all containers have "reserve"
        template <typename Container_>
        static void reserve(Container_& c, std::size_t size) {}

        template <typename T, typename Allocator>
        static void reserve(std::vector<T, Allocator>& c, std::size_t size)
        {
            c.reserve(size);
        }

        template <typename Container_, typename Iterator>
        static void insert(Container_& c, Iterator first, Iterator last)
        {
            std::copy(first, last, std::inserter(c, c.end()));
        }

        template <typename Iterator>
        static bool call(Container& c, Iterator first, Iterator last)
        {
            reserve(c, c.size() + std::distance(first, last));
            insert(c, first, last);
            return true;
        }
    };

    template <typename Container, typename Iterator>
    inline bool append(Container& c, Iterator first, Iterator last)
    {
        return append_container<Container>::call(c, first, last);
    }

    template <typename Iterator>
    inline bool append(unused_type, Iterator first, Iterator last)
    {
        return true;
    }

    ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
    template <typename Container, typename Enable = void>
    struct is_empty_container
    {
        static bool call(Container const& c)
        {
            return c.empty();
        }
    };

    template <typename Container>
    inline bool is_empty(Container const& c)
    {
        return is_empty_container<Container>::call(c);
    }

    inline bool is_empty(unused_type)
    {
        return true;
    }

    ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
    template <typename Container, typename Enable = void>
    struct begin_container
    {
        static typename container_iterator<Container>::type call(Container& c)
        {
            return c.begin();
        }
    };

    template <typename Container>
    inline typename container_iterator<Container>::type
    begin(Container& c)
    {
        return begin_container<Container>::call(c);
    }

    inline unused_type const*
    begin(unused_type)
    {
        return &unused;
    }

    ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
    template <typename Container, typename Enable = void>
    struct end_container
    {
        static typename container_iterator<Container>::type call(Container& c)
        {
            return c.end();
        }
    };

    template <typename Container>
    inline typename container_iterator<Container>::type
    end(Container& c)
    {
        return end_container<Container>::call(c);
    }

    inline unused_type const*
    end(unused_type)
    {
        return &unused;
    }

    ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
    template <typename Iterator, typename Enable = void>
    struct deref_iterator
    {
        typedef typename boost::detail::iterator_traits<Iterator>::reference type;
        static type call(Iterator& it)
        {
            return *it;
        }
    };

    template <typename Iterator>
    typename deref_iterator<Iterator>::type
    deref(Iterator& it)
    {
        return deref_iterator<Iterator>::call(it);
    }

    inline unused_type
    deref(unused_type const*)
    {
        return unused;
    }

    ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
    template <typename Iterator, typename Enable = void>
    struct next_iterator
    {
        static void call(Iterator& it)
        {
            ++it;
        }
    };

    template <typename Iterator>
    void next(Iterator& it)
    {
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Libris Digimental A/S  (tidligere kendt som IDG Forlag) er Danmarks største forlag inden for litteratur om informationsteknologi. Virksomheden var ejet af IDG Danmark fra 1994 til 2003 og af FDB fra 2003-2009, men blev i 2009 købt af Digimental Holding der ejes af Jesper Bove-Nielsen.

Forlaget har specialiseret sig i instruktive udgivelser af e-bøger, hæfter og bøger om blandt andet It-litteratur, grafik, foto, job. Men i de senere år også oversatte personbiografier om moderne ledere som Mark Zuckerberg og Steve Jobs og oversatte virksomhedsbiografier om Apple, Google og Facebook. Envidere udgiver forlaget danske ledelsesbøger med forfattere som bl.a. Steen Hildebrandt.

Derudover har forlaget børnebogsforlaget Babu, der udgiver Hr. Mand & Lille Frøken serien (på engelsk Mr. Men & Little Miss)

Libris har anno 2007 udgivet deres titler i 14 europæiske lande.

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Android's Dream: Pinocchio
Throughout the long history of fiction, androids and gynoids – artificial men and women – have been a common element. When included as tertiary characters they are often symbols for "the other."
When treated as protagonists, they fill the tale with themes of the roles and definitions of humanity. Thus, this series is taking a close look at these artificial people. Today we're looking at Pinocchio.
Pinocchio is the protagonist of the 19th century novel The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi.
The book was originally a much shorter story, in Italian, which had been serialized. That original story was not specifically for children, as it was intended more as a political statement.
This is interesting because by the time it was translated into English, the story had undergone some changes (most notably the original ending became a mid-point depression instead, leading into a longer tale. This is mostly because of the influences of Victorian England, which was spreading quickly.
The invasive idea was that children are special, and need special things just for them. Children's books, children's meals, children's games, children's fashion; there had been no concept of these things before the 19th century, and in the mid 1880's the ideas spread to Italy, where Collodi's publisher refused to publish a story about a child, which ended in the child's death, even if the child was just a puppet.
Without that influence, we would think of Pinocchio much differently today. Of course anything Disney chooses to adapt becomes heavily twisted in American minds anyway.
In the original story, Pinocchio is not a puppet who has been granted sentience. Instead he is a magic block of wood. He was already able to talk – rudely – long before he was carved. It was, in fact, this property which made Geppetto decide that this was the perfect block from which to carve his marionette. Geppetto was not a puppet carver by trade, but rather, he wanted to use Pinocchio to make money by performing on the street.
After he was carved, however, he looked and acted so much like a real boy that Geppetto couldn't handle him. One of the first things he did was run to the police and tell them Geppetto was being mean to him, so they would lock him in jail. Pinocchio then promptly returned to Geppetto's home, where he murdered the sentient, talking cricket who had been living in the walls for a century, when the cricket warned him against disobeying adults – boys who don't listen grow up to be asses.
Later, after Geppetto returns from jail, he decides to send Pinocchio to school to help him become a 'real boy'. Pinocchio dumps the school idea, however, when, along the way he sees a marionette theater, and sells his books to buy a ticket for the show. There he finds that he is not the only sentient marionette in the world, as two others are performing on stage, apparently carved from talking wood, the same way he was. He nearly gets one of them killed however when he goes back-stage to visit them, and the puppet master pays him back more than the ticket cost just to go away.
He never again returns to Geppetto's house, however, as on his way home, he is accosted by a talking fox and cat who are respectively pretending to be lame and blind. The two try to swindle him out of his coins, but when they see that the con is taking too long to pay off, they simply attack him, and try to take his coins.
He hides the coins in his mouth, so the fox and cat hang him by his neck in a tree, hoping to get the coins when he dies. He takes so long to die, however that the animals eventually get impatient and leave. That's where the story ends as originally told, with the poor puppet boy dying in a tree, with no one to rescue him.
The story is, of course a cautionary tale against the cons of strangers and distraction from noble pursuits, but it also carries heavy symbolism. The idea of becoming a 'real boy' is symbolic of achieving a middle class lifestyle, while becoming an ass is a clear symbol of the time (more of a figure of speech in Italy) for the lower class life.
So, he could either go to school, get educated and be "real" or he could become a puppet (and eventual victim) of the government and the aristocracy (the fox and the cat). If he chose to do neither, he would instead become an ass. So, the story becomes an allegory which pushes the virtue of education and the importance of the independence of the middle class from the upper class.
Of course, the tacked on "second half" of the Adventures changes the tone of the lesson significantly, if not the message itself. If the English translation had ended there, our idea of a "Pinocchio figure" in literature would be much different today.
The symbolism remains the same, in the new portions of the story, but the challenge increases. It's not just about going to school anymore. Pinocchio must face a whole host of challenges and temptations to get there. Following the boredom induces departure of the fox and cat, Pinocchio is rescued from the tree by the blue fairy, who tells Pinocchio to go and get Geppetto to come and live with them in the forest. On his way back, he gets distracted by the fox and cat again, falling for the same con they tried on him earlier. This time they wait patiently for it to pay off, and Pinocchio is left penniless and lost.
Afterward he moves through several challenges which test his wit and morality, sometimes guided by the talking cricket who, it turns out, is not dead after all. The most famous of these id the trip to "play land," where lazy boys turn into donkeys because they play all day and do no real work. He succumbs to the temptation, and goes to play-land, only surviving the place because it turns out that wooden boys are immune to being changed permanently into asses.
When he finally managed to make it to school, he becomes a more moral person, and loses his streak of impetuousness and immaturity in a single good day of lessons. On his way to his second day of school, he display his maturity by giving all of his coins (which were supped to go toward a new suit) to the blue fairy, who claims to be dying. That night, she visits him at home in his bed and kisses him, turning him into a 'real boy' at last.
It's this second part which forms our strongest impression of what the Pinocchio story is about. Symbolism aside, it's about striving for the things you want and need in life, and not allowing distractions to take you off course. There is also a theme of redemption here as no matter how many times Pinocchio is taken off that course, he is always let to find his way back to it. No matter how far he sank, there was always a path back up to the surface, and that path was education.
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Preparedness > TIM
The suddenness of a traffic incident makes it imperative for the responders to understand their roles and responsibilities before they arrive at the scene.
The development of workable plans depends on the understanding and implementation of the Incident Command System (ICS).
Coordinating response resources from the various responding organizations is crucial to the safe and timely clearance of traffic incidents. This requires:
Clear command hierarchy
Designated responder roles and responsibilities
Clear procedures
The ability of all responders to communicate clearly and effectively
The Incident Command System (ICS), long familiar to public safety responders, is the heart of the National Incident Management System (NIMS) required by the Department of Homeland Security for the management of all hazards. ICS provides the framework for command, control, and coordination of resources at the scene of the emergency. An objective-based system, it emphasizes common terminology, integrated communications systems, and comprehensive resource management.
Regional and Statewide Programs and Institutional Coordination
To assure lasting success of a true multi-agency regional or statewide Traffic Incident Management TIM program, plans including "strategic" (high level) coordination prior to the incident is also needed. This Program or high-level institutional coordination of agency executives provides the policy and program coordination needed to assure that partner agencies will work closely together at all levels of the program and will coordinate and assist each other in the budgeting process to provide resources each agency needs to be full active partners in the program.
As part of the preparedness section, these programs address program organization, objectives and priorities, agency roles and relationships, resource allocation, and performance measurement.
Multi-Agency Programmatic Structure for TIM
Multi-Agency Administrative Teams
Formal Memoranda of Understanding and High-Level Operations Policy Agreements
The various agencies participating in a program to effectively manage traffic incidents all have different agency goals, perspectives, responsibilities, priorities, and operating cultures that can cause misunderstandings, disagreements, delays, and inefficiencies in effectively resolving a traffic incident. Establishing formal agreements and memoranda of understanding covering issues where these difficulties arise can greatly facilitate on-scene operations. Such agreements might cover subjects like incident command structure, equipment staging, traffic control, hazardous materials incident issues and procedures, crash investigation procedures, quick clearance procedures, and many other issues. Interagency agreements can also set performance goals such as response time or incident clearance time.
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Written by GetintoIAS Team | Posted on January 7, 2019 | Filed in Civil Service
Aspirants those who have taken Sociology as your optional can use this page to check your Upsc Sociology Optional Syllabus. Sociology paper consists of two papers of 250 marks each.
PAPER – I
FUNDAMENTALS OF SOCIOLOGY
1. Sociology – The Discipline:
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(a) Modernity and social changes in Europe and emergence of sociology.
(b) Scope of the subject and comparison with other social sciences.
(c) Sociology and common sense.
2. Sociology as Science:
(a) Science, scientific method and critique.
(b) Major theoretical strands of research methodology.
(c) Positivism and its critique.
(d) Fact value and objectivity.
(e) Non- positivist methodologies.
3. Research Methods and Analysis:
(a) Qualitative and quantitative methods.
(b) Techniques of data collection.
(c) Variables, sampling, hypothesis, reliability and validity.
4. Sociological Thinkers:
(a) Karl Marx- Historical materialism, mode of production, alienation, class struggle.
(b) Emile Durkheim- Division of labour, social fact, suicide, religion and society.
(c) Max Weber- Social action, ideal types, authority, bureaucracy, protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism.
(d) Talcolt Parsons- Social system, pattern variables.
(e) Robert K. Merton- Latent and manifest functions, conformity and deviance, reference groups.
(f) Mead – Self and identity.
5. Stratification and Mobility:
(a) Concepts- equality, inequality, hierarchy, exclusion, poverty and deprivation.
(b) Theories of social stratification- Structural functionalist theory, Marxist theory, Weberian theory.
(c) Dimensions – Social stratification of class, status groups, gender, ethnicity and race.
(d) Social mobility- open and closed systems, types of mobility, sources and causes of mobility.
6. Works and Economic Life:
(a) Social organization of work in different types of society- slave society, feudal society, industrial /capitalist society.
(b) Formal and informal organization of work.
(c) Labour and society.
7. Politics and Society:
(a) Sociological theories of power.
(b) Power elite, bureaucracy, pressure groups, and political parties.
(c) Nation, state, citizenship, democracy, civil society, ideology.
(d) Protest, agitation, social movements, collective action, revolution.
8. Religion and Society:
(a) Sociological theories of religion.
(b) Types of religious practices: animism, monism, pluralism, sects, cults.
(c) Religion in modern society: religion and science, secularization, religious revivalism, fundamentalism.
9. Systems of Kinship:
(a) Family, household, marriage.
(b) Types and forms of family.
(c) Lineage and descent.
(d) Patriarchy and sexual division of labour.
(e) Contemporary trends.
10. Social Change in Modern Society:
(a) Sociological theories of social change.
(b) Development and dependency.
(c) Agents of social change.
(d) Education and social change.
(e) Science, technology and social change.
PAPER – II
INDIAN SOCIETY: STRUCTURE AND CHANGE A. Introducing Indian Society:
(i) Perspectives on the study of Indian society:
(a) Indology (GS. Ghurye).
(b) Structural functionalism (M N Srinivas).
(c) Marxist sociology (A R Desai).
(ii) Impact of colonial rule on Indian society :
(a) Social background of Indian nationalism.
(b) Modernization of Indian tradition.
(c) Protests and movements during the colonial period.
(d) Social reforms.
B. Social Structure:
(i) Rural and Agrarian Social Structure:
(a) The idea of Indian village and village studies.
(b) Agrarian social structure – evolution of land tenure system, land reforms.
(ii) Caste System:
(a) Perspectives on the study of caste systems: GS Ghurye, M N Srinivas, Louis Dumont, Andre Beteille.
(b) Features of caste system.
(c) Untouchability – forms and perspectives.
(iii) Tribal communities in India:
(a) Definitional problems.
(b) Geographical spread.
(c) Colonial policies and tribes.
(d) Issues of integration and autonomy.
(iv) Social Classes in India:
(a) Agrarian class structure.
(b) Industrial class structure.
(c) Middle classes in India.
(v) Systems of Kinship in India:
(a) Lineage and descent in India.
(b) Types of kinship systems.
(c) Family and marriage in India.
(d) Household dimensions of the family.
(e) Patriarchy, entitlements and sexual division of labour.
(vi) Religion and Society:
(a) Religious communities in India.
(b) Problems of religious minorities.
C. Social Changes in India:
(i) Visions of Social Change in India:
(a) Idea of development planning and mixed economy.
(b) Constitution, law and social change.
(c) Education and social change.
(ii) Rural and Agrarian transformation in India:
(a) Programmes of rural development, Community Development Programme, cooperatives, poverty alleviation schemes.
(b) Green revolution and social change.
(c) Changing modes of production in Indian agriculture .
(d) Problems of rural labour, bondage, migration.
(iii) Industrialization and Urbanisation in India:
(a) Evolution of modern industry in India.
(b) Growth of urban settlements in India.
(c) Working class: structure, growth, class mobilization.
(d) Informal sector, child labour.
(e) Slums and deprivation in urban areas.
(iv) Politics and Society:
(a) Nation, democracy and citizenship.
(b) Political parties, pressure groups, social and political elite.
(c) Regionalism and decentralization of power.
(d) Secularization.
(v) Social Movements in Modern India:
(a) Peasants and farmers movements.
(b) Women's movement.
(c) Backward classes & Dalit movement.
(d) Environmental movements.
(e) Ethnicity and Identity movements.
(vi) Population Dynamics:
(a) Population size, growth, composition and distribution.
(b) Components of population growth: birth, death, migration.
(c) Population policy and family planning.
(d) Emerging issues: ageing, sex ratios, child and infant mortality, reproductive health.
(vii) Challenges of Social Transformation:
(a) Crisis of development: displacement, environmental problems and sustainability.
(b) Poverty, deprivation and inequalities.
(c) Violence against women.
(d) Caste conflicts.
(e) Ethnic conflicts, communalism, religious revivalism.
(f) Illiteracy and disparities in education.


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Abstract Paramount attention has been paid on solid polymer electrolytes due to their potential in enhancement of energy density as well as improvement of safety. Herein, the composite electrolytes consisting of Li-salt-free polyethylene oxides and 200 nm-sized Li6.4La3Zr1.4Ta0.6O12particles interfacially wetted by [BMIM]TF2N of 1.8 μL cm−2have been prepared. Such wetted ionic liquid remains the solid state of membrane electrolytes and decreases the interface impedance between the electrodes and the electrolytes. There is no release of the liquid phase from the PEO matrix when the pressure of 5.0 × 104Pa being applied for 24 h. The interfacially wetted membrane electrolytes show the conductivity of 2.2 × 10−4S cm−1at 20 °C, which is one order of magnitude greater than that of the membranes without the wetted ionic liquids. The conduction mechanism is related to a large number of lithium ions releasing from Li6.4La3Zr1.4Ta0.6O12particles and the improved conductive paths along the ion-liquid-wetted interfaces between the polymer matrix and ceramic grains. When the membranes being used in the solid-state LiFePO4/Li and LiFe0.15Mn0.85PO4/Li cells at 25 °C, the excellent rate capability and superior cycle stability has been shown. The results provide a new prospect for solid polymer electrolytes used for room-temperature solid-state lithium batteries. © 2017 Elsevier B.V.
GB/T 7714 Huo, Hanyu,Zhao, Ning,Sun, Jiyang,et al. Composite electrolytes of polyethylene oxides/garnets interfacially wetted by ionic liquid for room-temperature solid-state lithium battery[J]. Journal of Power Sources,2017,372:1-7.
APA Huo, Hanyu,Zhao, Ning,Sun, Jiyang,Du, Fuming,Li, Yiqiu,&Guo, Xiangxin.(2017).Composite electrolytes of polyethylene oxides/garnets interfacially wetted by ionic liquid for room-temperature solid-state lithium battery.Journal of Power Sources,372,1-7.
MLA Huo, Hanyu,et al."Composite electrolytes of polyethylene oxides/garnets interfacially wetted by ionic liquid for room-temperature solid-state lithium battery".Journal of Power Sources 372(2017):1-7.


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Review: Dustin Chapman Set To Release The Brand New Single "701"!
by Jess December 2, 2019 March 20, 2020
Rising country singer/songwriter Dustin Chapman is set to release the brand new single "701" on December 18th 2019.
Speaking about his upcoming release, Dustin said "This is a song that I personally believe many people can relate to. I wrote this song for my mother as I was all the way across the east coast hours and hours away from home receiving medical treatment for a rare disease called Achalasia. It came from a place of wanting her to know I was going to be okay no matter what circumstance I face, and along the way it turned into a song that highlights the fears along with the ambitious feelings that many feel when they realize they must leave home to follow their dreams."
This upcoming release features an emotive acoustic country backing track that captures the soulful elements behind this artist's heavenly vocals.
Dustin delivers a majestic performance that showcases his emotional & creative musical talent, which allows listeners to engage with the heartfelt undertone that features throughout this incredible single.
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The best words to describe "The Divergent Series: Insurgent", the second in the movie series, is 'too much of everything'. There are too many special effects, too loud and annoying a soundtrack, too many actors playing one not roles, though doing the most they can with them, too much gratuitous violence uncalled for, too much that doesn't make sense unless you have seen the first film, not to forget 2-3 scenes too many of the heroine tearing up.
I fell 'in love' with Shailene Woodley in "The Fault In Our Stars". She looked great and did a good job of acting as she does in this film and still has those big, shining, expressive eyes, which director Robert Schwentke fills with tears too often. As an action star and/or love interest she is always worth watching. Ansel Elgort, her lover in "Stars", is her brother in this film while Theo James has taken over the role of her boyfriend. In a role, offering the only humor in the movie, Miles Teller, who was excellent in "Whiplash", continues good work here.
The adults such as villainous Jeanine, played by Kate Winslet, Johanna, the leader of a feel good, what looks like a commune, living group, acted by Octavia Spencer, the parents of Woodley's character Tris Prior, Ashley Judd and Tony Goldwyn, along with another Leader played by Daniel Dae Kim and, sure to play a more prominent role in the next series of the film, Naomi Watts as Evelyn. Jai Courtney, an Australian actor I am not familiar with, did an impressive job as Eric.
Schwentke, the director, and screenwriters Brian Duffield, Akiva Goldsman and Mark Bomback seem to reach for violence, special effects and Woodley on the verge of crying to bother making a better, more compact movie.
If you haven't seen the first movie in this series, or read the book, the first half of "The Divergent Series: Insurgent" may be confusing. Come to think of it if you haven't seen the first film, I didn't, don't bother seeing this one.