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M K GANDHI : SOURCES IDEAS AND ACTIONS (English) (Hardcover)
By: Dr. R.K. Sinha was born in a small village in Muzaffarpur, Bihar in 1934. He was educated at Patna University and the University of Calcutta. He holds a Master degree in English and also in Prakrit, Jainology and Ahimsa. He was awarded a Ph-D Degree by Bihar University for his resea... View More Dr. R.K. Sinha was born in a small village in Muzaffarpur, Bihar in 1934. He was educated at Patna University and the University of Calcutta. He holds a Master degree in English and also in Prakrit, Jainology and Ahimsa. He was awarded a Ph-D Degree by Bihar University for his research work on Gandhiji. Dr. Sinha was a Minister in Bihar in 1971 and a Minister of State Labour and Parliamentary Affairs in the Janta Party Central Government led by Sri Morarjee Desai (1977-79). He retired as University Professor of English from B.U. Muzaffarpur, Bihar in 1966. Dr. Sinha has been a social and political activist for the last five decades.
ISBN: 9788184300536 Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan Year of publishing: 2016
"I have to give you a depressing answer much as I don't like to. The glamour of modern technology money and power is so seductive that no one -1 mean no one -can resist it. And it may be that because...Read more
"I have to give you a depressing answer much as I don't like to. The glamour of modern technology money and power is so seductive that no one -1 mean no one -can resist it. And it may be that because of Gandhi we got our freedom before we were ready before we had developed our character to match the responsibilities. The handfuls of Gandhians who still believe in his philosophy of life in a simple society are mostly cranks." --C. Rajgopalachari "There is no difference between the British and their Indian successors. More than 25 years after independence the poor are worse off than they were before. When Bapu talks about service to the country better conditions for the poor he did not mean TVs radios and cars for the middle classes. He was talking about the basic requirements for physical life - two square meals a day clean clothes and shelter. What about the use of Brahmacharya and the freedom struggle when all of us are going to jail." --J.B.Kriplani "Long before I retired from the world our Government had swept aside most of the nascent element in the constructive programme as it's scrambled to industrialise the country on the western model." --Vinoba Bhave "In India Gandhism is dead. Gandhi is completely forgotten. It's the story of the Buddha all over again. When I was in India recently I said in my speeches again and again "Why do you not honour your own Prophets? Your Government does all the things that Gandhi opposed the British for doing--arm itself to the teeth neglect the villages and the poor support a huge uncaring remote bureaucracy." --Abdul Ghaffar Khan (from Ved Mehta 's Mahatma Gandhi and his Apostles)
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To enhance our understanding and comprehension of customer, I offer Webster's definition as a logical starting point: 1) a person who buys, especially on a regular basis; 2) a person with whom one must deal. At the end of the day customers are the sole provider of every business—the revenue stream that pays for everything else. You can have the best product, the best accountant, the best management, and so on, but you have nothing without a revenue stream. And the revenue stream is the direct contribution of sales, period. Nothing happens until something is sold.
Let's look at the six types of customers.
1.External Customer. These are the people and organizations who have a need for your product or service. They purchase your stuff in exchange for money. They have a budget and will give you some of it in exchange for a solution that meets their needs and expectations. Given that, I affectionately refer to external customers as ones with the bag of money. They have the financial autonomy to decide where and how they will spend their budget—the bag of money. The question is, who gets the bag of money, you or your competitor? Who has earned the confidence and trust of the customer? You and your competitor are vying for a piece of their budget—the best solution wins. Know this: Customers vote with their money and complain with their feet.
2.Allies. These are the users of your product or service, not the ultimate decision maker. These customers usually don't have a bag of money but they play a vital role in your success. They do not make the final decision but they may have tremendous impact on the outcome. They are often closely connected to the bag of money and positioning them as an ally to your cause is critical for your success. You must earn their trust and confidence if you expect them to support you at the bag of money level. A caution about allies: They have veto power, the authority to say no. They can give you a hundred no's but can't give you the one yes needed to close the deal. I have seen countless selling hours wasted on allies with the hope of closing the deal. However, allies can be a tremendous wealth of information. Pick their brains and learn how you can differentiate yourself from the competition. Customers buy differences, not similarities. It can sometimes be difficult to ascertain who the bag of money is and who the allies are. Ask questions early in the call to determine who's who in the zoo. Shrink your sales cycle by understanding the players within your accounts. Simply ask them who else may be involved with decisions.
3.Internal Customer. These are fellow employees and managers within your place of business. They support you and make you look good to your external customers. Appreciate them and treat them with respect. Unfortunately, they are often the victims of your blamefest: "The jerks in production screwed up again ..." or "The idiots in shipping messed up . . ." or "Management gave me a lousy price . . ." and so it goes. Poor internal relationships can have fatal consequences for your external customers. I recently saw an anonymous quote that supports my point. "We have less to fear from outside competition than from inside conflict, inefficiencies, discourtesy, and bad service." So true. Take ownership for customer concerns. After all, you are an ambassador for your company, so don't abdicate responsibility for late deliveries, poor service, and inadequate support. Customers really don't care whose fault a problem is or how it happened. Customers aren't interested in fixing the blame.
They want to fix the problem. It's up to you to quarterback all of the company's resources to resolve their problem.
When you work in harmony with your internal customers, external customers become the beneficiary of your internal relationships. In company after company, I see sales working in isolation from other departments. Sales cannot fly solo and expect to service the expectations of external customers. Long-term success means having your entire company and all its resources focus on its customers.
Be aware too of your own personal internal customers, such as family, spouse, and parents. View your kids, spouse, or significant other as your personal internal customers. They also deserve respectful treatment.
5.Born-Again Customer. These are previous customers who no longer do business with you. For some reason they have forgotten about you or they are still upset with you. I suggest you dig up their file, give them a call, and settle any outstanding grievance. Put your ego aside and offer restitution to satisfy the customer. Do what it takes to resolve the situation. Make amends. Very frequently they will once again be receptive to doing business with you. They often become loyal customers provided you resolve the problem to their satisfaction.
As you work with your customers, you will find the Sequential Model is applicable to all six types. Remember: Pay particular attention to your internal customers.
6.Bag of Wind. You guessed it, these people have little or no impact on the decision. They are often an easy point of entry into an account but they seldom contribute to the sales process. In fact they do more harm than good by creating a false sense of authority. There is nothing worse than wasting valuable selling hours on people who cannot help advance the sale. However, I'm not suggesting to ignore these people but rather exploit their knowledge to deepen your understanding and confidence about the account. They may also provide clarity as to who the allies are and who the bag of money is. Knowing these people can prove to be a huge advantage; knowledge is power.


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Caterpillar Raises Dividend, Sets New Financial Targets, Gives Updated Enterprise Strategy at Investor Day
Thu May 02, 2019 - National Edition
Caterpillar has significantly improved its financial performance over the course of the last two years.
Caterpillar will host a meeting with investors and analysts May 2, detailing the progress made in executing the company's enterprise strategy, its plans for future profitable growth and its intention for more consistent and enhanced return of capital to shareholders.
"Our enterprise strategy for profitable growth is working. We achieved or exceeded the financial targets we communicated during our 2017 Investor Day, which resulted in record profit per share in 2018 and the first quarter of 2019," said Caterpillar Chairman and CEO Jim Umpleby. "We will continue to execute our strategy while investing to double services sales by 2026, an area of significant opportunity for further profitable growth."
Strategy Driving Improved Profitability, New Margin Targets
Caterpillar has significantly improved its financial performance over the course of the last two years. On about $55 billion of sales in 2014, Caterpillar's adjusted operating margin performance was 11 percent. At the 2017 Investor Day, Caterpillar targeted improving adjusted operating margin by 2 percent to 5 percent the next time sales returned to that level. In 2018, Caterpillar sales and revenues were again about $55 billion and its adjusted operating margin of 16 percent was at the top end of the targeted improvement range. The company is now targeting future adjusted operating margins through the cycles of three to six percentage points above historical performance from 2010 to 2016.
Caterpillar attributes much of its improved profitability, as well as its confidence to achieve future targets, to the execution of its enterprise strategy for profitable growth through operational excellence and investing in expanded offerings and services. These investments are guided by the Operating and Execution Model, which helps the company allocate resources to the products and services that generate the greatest returns. With the success of the company's strategy execution, strong cash flow generation and its commitment to maintaining a competitive and flexible cost structure, Caterpillar's balance sheet remains strong. The existing balance sheet capacity will also support inorganic growth opportunities.
Returning Value to Shareholders
Reflecting this improved performance and profitability, the company's board of directors authorized an increase to the quarterly cash dividend of 20 percent to $1.03 per share of common stock, payable August 20, 2019, to shareholders of record at the close of business on July 22, 2019. Caterpillar expects to increase the dividend in each of the following four years by at least a high single-digit percentage. With its remaining free cash flow, the company intends to repurchase shares on a more consistent basis, with the goal of at least offsetting dilution in market downturns.
"Through the execution of our strategy, Caterpillar is now a stronger and more profitable company that can produce higher free cash flow through the cycles," said Umpleby. "We plan to return substantially all ME&T free cash flow to shareholders through dividend increases and more consistent share repurchases to create more long-term value for shareholders."
Emphasis on Services Growth
Caterpillar's executive leadership team will describe its plans to grow services, which offer additional opportunity for profitable growth. Caterpillar intends to double ME&T services sales to about $28 billion by 2026, from a 2016 baseline of about $14 billion.
Caterpillar's services offerings encompass all the ways the company supports customer success after the equipment purchase, including aftermarket parts sales and digitally-enabled solutions. Services aim to maximize asset utilization and minimize downtime for customers, making them more efficient and lowering their owning and operating costs while providing a more consistent revenue stream for Caterpillar and improving profitability through the cycles.
The full investor presentation can be found at www.caterpillar.com/investors.
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Q: Why does using "Step over" feature in XCode debugger hide issue with weak property that ought to be strong I've just finished debugging an issue where an iOS Google Map (GMSMapView) showed on some devices and in some iOS version simulators, but not others.  It was odd that it broke on a 32-bit iOS 7 device and 64-bit iOS 7 simulator, but not other combinations, indicating it wasn't an iOS version specific or 64-bit specific, but something else.  Anyway, the fact that it was a GMSMapView and had strange variation in behaviour across devices/simulators may be an aside, but perhaps it's related to the question and someone can explain it in the context.
Basically, I had a property something like:
@property (weak, nonatomic)GMSMapView *myMap;
And had been assigning it in viewDidLoad with something like:
self.myMap = [GMSMapView mapWithFrame:CGRectMake(0.0, 0.0, self.view.bounds.size.width, self.view.bounds.size.height) camera:self.myPosition];
As previously mentioned, this worked on some device/simulator combos but not others, which was odd.  Changing myMap from weak to strong made it work on all combinations.
I experienced some strange behavior during debugging though which made this difficult to establish.  I started by putting a breakpoint on the line that assigned a value to self.myMap (listed above) to check the line was being hit.  Now, when debugging, it hit this breakpoint as expected.  What was strange though is that the following behavior differed depending on whether I hit Continue program execution or Step over.  If I hit Continue program execution, self.myMap was still nil a few lines later where I had another breakpoint.  If I hit Step over and then immediately after hit Continue program execution, self.map was assigned properly when the breakpoint a few lines later was hit.
So, an execution of the same program resulted in a different assignment of the weak property self.myMap based solely on whether or not I hit Step over after hitting the first breakpoint.  So my primary question is:
Why would a different progression through the debugger cause a different result?
And I guess this may or may not be somehow related to the weak variable working on some device/simulator combos but not others.  For reference, XCode 5.1.

A: I've had issues like this before between release and debug builds. There is some difference in timing between when weak references are nilled out, presumably because the debugger is holding on to references for some reason. I don't know the details of how ARC is implemented but it seems to be a fairly consistent pattern.
Directly assigning a newly created object to a weak reference is wrong - under the rules of ARC it would be instantly deallocated and nilled out, because nothing else has a strong reference to it.
This is the main reason I don't like to have view or IBOutlet properties set to weak - there is no need, since views don't get unloaded any more, and it just leads to subtle bugs like this.

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Having your own car gives you a sense of freedom. You are free to move about the country as you please. Though, this also means that if your vehicle develops trouble, you can find yourself stranded. These following tips can get your car back on the road again.
TIP! You don't always need a repair-person for your car troubles. There are many things you can fix easily.
You need to buy a good battery charger and have it in your vehicle at all times. Dead batteries are a common problem, and you should always have a charger or cables on you at all times. It is also important to understand how to properly connect the charger to the battery.
Don't underestimate how important it is to have some kind of emergency kit within your vehicle. Your kit should include jumper cables, tire changing tools and maybe some extra gas. Add some blankets, a flashlight and some batteries in case your car breaks down at night.
Ask many questions about your car when you bring it in for repairs. These questions can involve issues you're dealing with and what you can do to avoid them in the future. Preventing issues can save you a lot of money.
Look at the reviews of local auto shops online. This can inform you of how the general public views their customer service skills as well as how well they do when it comes to solving the problem. It will allow you to find a shop that has everything you're looking for.
TIP! Before taking your car in, ask friends for referrals. Your loved ones might have some good recommendations for you to check out.
Be careful of mechanics who will do unnecessary work on your vehicle. They should contact you before doing any extra work. Avoid mechanics that have previously done work without your go ahead.
Just because you have a car that isn't working, doesn't mean it will cost you quite a bit of money to repair it. In many cases, you can fix your car's problems on your own. Make use of the preceding information to get back on the road.


If you are a soon-to-be first time homebuyer, congratulations! This is a memorable event; one that many people long to achieve. Owning a home provides an endless amount of advantages over renting, perhaps the most important of all being that your money is actually being invested in something. When paying rent you never see a return, but the exact opposite is true for those who make the switch to home ownership.
Unless the housing market tanks when you need to sell, you can always expect at the very least a slight increase in your property value. Equity is something to be cherished, but with this exciting new life venture comes a major responsibility, one that comes in the form of a mortgage.
Committing to a 15, 20, or 30 year, six-figure loan (the average price most first time buyers pay) is no small matter, and as such requires a ton of research and preparation on your part. Adhere to the below advice to ensure you make all the right moves with your mortgage.
You already know the importance of securing a low loan interest rate; given that even a ¼ point difference can affect the amount of interest you pay by thousands of dollars, finding a reputable lender that understands market conditions is absolutely critical. It is this last point that usually throws first time buyers for a loop.
Not all lenders are the same; those touting their ability to get you an ultra low rate may not be the best option in every situation. Generally speaking, the cheaper the lender's fees, the more complicated and drawn out the mortgage process. Exceptions definitely exist, but staying the cautious course is always highly recommended.
You may encounter issues with communication, underwriting that is performed by 3rd party agents instead of your lender directly, and unexpected setbacks. Remember, the sooner you can close the deal, the better.
Having all your financial ducks in a row will greatly facilitate the paperwork procedure, which means providing an up-to-date record of your income and debts.
Realtors are superb at finding buyers' dream homes and negotiating the final price of the home (after all, this is their job), but they usually are not experts in determining comparable sales and the affordability for a client. Even the most trusting of agents have their commissions in mind, so it is up to you to know your mortgage budget. Do not hesitate to ask your lender to justify any uncertain fees, as well as if there is room for negotiation.
Above all, your personal financial standing is crucial for obtaining a great mortgage. Verify that you have not missed any payments and that you have a sizable down payment on hand (preferably 20% or more), and remember, when all the forms are filed and signed, do not forget to enjoy yourself in your new home!


Looking forward to see what 2011 brings. Remember to always be open to exploring new music, you'll never know when you find an amazing new artist and album.
What was your top 10 albums of 2010? Please feel free to share your thoughts below and thanks for reading.


Apple Poll: What Do You Want to See at WWDC?
Apple's Worldwide Developers' Conference kicks off next week. Which rumored announcement do you most want to see?
CUPERTINO, Calif. ( TheStreet) - The rumor mill is running full tilt ahead of Apple's ( AAPL - Get Report) Worldwide Developers' Conference (WWDC), which kicks off in San Francisco next week.
The tech giant is said to be planning a MacBook refresh for its annual developer event.
The next version of Apple's operating system, iOS 6, could also debut at WWDC, according to media reports. New features are rumored to include a new map app, Facebook ( FB integration, Siri for iPad and automatic app updates.
Apple's Worldwide Developers' Conference kicks off next week.
Apple has promised a big focus on software at WWDC, which will take place at San Francisco's Moscone Center from June 10-15.
The Cupertino, Calif.-based firm used last year's WWDC to unveil its iCloud, and launched the iPhone 4 at the 2010 event.
Apple zealots, however, will be eager to hear any snippets of information about the much-anticipated iPhone 5, which is expected to appear later this year, as well AS hints about the company's rumored Apple TV.
What are you most looking out for at WWDC next week?


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The Papal visit had some businesses stressing out about the crowds and disruptions – even Wake Up Yoga in Fairmount.
While normally offering a variety of weekend classes to help people relieve stress, the facility only be offered a 10 a.m. class on Saturday and no classes on Sunday.
Student manager Alane Goldberg believed this was the easiest solution.
"It would be impossible for some of our students to get to the facility," she said.
However, there were some positive aspects of the weekend for her.
Not only has Goldberg found this weekend difficult but some of her students and most prominent yogis have as well. Being in a bustling city can cause a lot of stress and many students find yoga a soothing way to let go of it.
Maureen Zdanis, a yogi for about 13 years, decided to leave for the weekend.
"Yoga helps me stay in shape and slow down and remember how important self-care and my relationship with myself is," Zdanis said.
However, with the weekend flu of commotion, Zdanis left the city to visit family.
Nonetheless, a few students stuck around and worked with the abbreviated schedule.
Elizabeth Harvey feels like the benefits of yoga are just too great to pass up.
"It keeps my head calmer," she said.
Harvey has been a regular yogi for the past five years. She finds that it has helped her better deal with life in the city.
"I walk to/from work and as a pedestrian, I would often get pretty angry by the time I reached my destination because of the 'all about me' drivers and cyclists on the sidewalks," Harvey said.
While she still can get mad, she has noticed a significant change since beginning yoga.
Polinsky taught classes Friday night and Saturday morning.
Yoga classes at the Fairmount studio will resume their regular schedule on Monday. Due to the stressful nature of the weekend, Goldberg believes there could be an increase in people attending next week.
"With everything being so hectic this weekend, it's definitely possible that more people will attend next week in order to relieve stress," Goldberg said.
– Text and images by Nathan Grubel and Matt Bernardini.


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A Tribute To Feminist and Civil Rights Icon Aretha Franklin
By Nicolette Wong
"I didn't think my songs would become anthems for women. But I'm delighted. Women probably immediately feel compassion and relate to the lyrics. We can all learn a little something from each other, so whatever people can take and be inspired by where my music is concerned is great."—Aretha Franklin speaking to TIME magazine in 2017
Last month, we lost Aretha Franklin to pancreatic cancer. The world wept. Dubbed "the queen of soul," the 76-year-old was easily one of the most defining voices of our generation, inspiring people around the globe. From a young age, she used her voice to spread joy to others. Born in Memphis, Tennessee in 1942, Aretha began her musical career when her family relocated to Detroit and she started singing gospel at the church where her father ministered. Throughout the illustrious career that would follow, gospel music continued to be the foundation of her sound.
The fact that Aretha's death was mourned around the world is a testament to the power of music that acts as a universal language and bridges people from all walks of life. Half a century later, her melodies still continue to make bodies sway and hearts flutter. Perhaps more importantly, Aretha's music hit a mark many musicians tend to miss: when she sang, it wasn't simply for the sake of singing or commercial success. Aretha used her voice as a tool for good. Channelling the millions she made into philanthropy, she had a passion for making the world a better and more inclusive place and was a vocal advocate for civil rights and feminism.
Her contributions to feminism and the African American community
In 1949, feminist scholar Simone de Beauvoir diagnosed the problem with the female empowerment movement in her seminal book The Second Sex. The now-famous statement that "women do not say 'We'" gestured to the lack of solidarity among women, who were beholden to the men in their lives. Like de Beauvoir, Aretha wanted the disenfranchised classes—both women and the African American community—to stand up to those who had either figuratively or literally enslaved them. She made regular appearances at civil rights events and was a close confidante of Martin Luther King Jr., whose funeral she eventually performed at. Demonstrating her generosity, she posted bail for the civil rights leader Angela Davis after the state incarcerated her for being a "dangerous terrorist" (she was later acquitted). Aretha proclaimed: "I have the money. I got it from black people and I want to use it in ways that will help our people." Her enormous capacity for kindness and compassion is why she remains so widely loved.
Another example of Aretha's impact on people's lives is her hit song Respect. The chart-topping and Grammy-winning number inspired a whole generation of women to become more assertive. Whenever it came on the radio, people would stop dead in their tracks, pause whatever they were doing, and let their bodies shimmy along as Aretha's powerful vocals filled the room. Despite the song's enduring popularity, many don't know that the song was initially released by Otis Redding, and the lyrics are about a man getting the respect he expects from his wife. When Aretha decided to put her own spin on it, she turned the bopper into a feminist anthem, taking on the persona of an independent woman making a no-nonsense demand for respect and recognition—a sentiment quite radical for its time. Radiating a confidence channeled by women everywhere today, she crooned, "What you want, baby I got."
Aretha's success in the music world at a time where racial segregation and gender discrimination were so prevalent made it all the more groundbreaking. In 1987, she became the first woman to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, paving the way for other legends like Tina Turner, Patti Smith, and Madonna behind her.
She stayed faithful to her roots
"She was a black woman in a white man's world. She was rooted in the black church, she was bathed in the black church, and she took the black church downtown and made folks that didn't know what the Holy Ghost was shout in the middle of a concert."— Civil rights leader Al Sharpton at Aretha's funeral service
Throughout her career, Aretha won seventeen Grammy and her 1967 album I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You is often hailed as the greatest soul album of all time. She scored ten Top Ten hits between 1967 and 1968 alone and released numerous best-selling albums. When she was first starting out, she faced the pressure to make her music more jazz or pop to pander to commercial tastes. Yet, she remained true to herself and continued to make the music that she wanted to, carving out a niche for herself with her signature sound—earning legions of followers in the process.
Despite the fame and fortune, Aretha never lost sight of her beliefs. She stayed close to her family and chose to remain in Detroit, the place where she grew up—and continued to be an active member of her community. Mourners at her Detroit funeral spoke at length about how much she loved the place, describing how she was a constant sight around the city and readily contributed to any fundraisers or community causes. Many expressed the sentiment that their days would be made just by catching a glimpse of Aretha, whom they considered to be remarkably down-to-earth—or like one of them.
Her legacy
Aretha was unafraid to live life on her own terms and didn't succumb to fashion whims and trends. She owned her curves and didn't let them dictate what she could or couldn't wear. Fur coats, neon colours, floor-length gowns, sequins, feathered cuffs that resemble pom poms, full Afros—whatever Aretha wore, she wore with a brazen audacity. She didn't have a size zero Hollywood body, yet she rocked it, which resonated with girls all over the world who realised that they should never have to apologise for who they were or feel like that they had to look a certain way.
Contemporary standards of beauty aren't as cruel as they once were. It's starting to dawn upon the world that we cannot and should not expect women to fit into the Hollywood mould in order to be deemed "beautiful," and that physical attractiveness is only skin deep. While society has a long way to go before it stops objectifying women, we have pioneers like Aretha to thank for not confining to societal norms.
Despite growing political unrest and racial tensions that still persist today, Aretha represents a symbol of hope—for breaking down cultural barriers and being an icon of black pride. Her music, imbued with her experiences, tragedies and dogged resilience, has become a rallying cry for people around the world. Speaking at her funeral service, Stevie Wonder paid homage to the legend: "Through the pain, she gave us the joy and said, 'Let's make love great again.'"
Thank you, Aretha, for making the world a brighter place.
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I have hair the color of Rock & Rye, on purpose. If you haven't heard of Faygo pop, made right here in Michigan, I'm not interested in being your friend.
I'm what one might call feisty. This includes, but is not limited to, being an anxious, super social and fun, geek/nerd/jock/fair queen-type hybrid, overachiever, can't-say-no-non-profit volunteer junkie, petite syrah (sirah) lush, dirty martini drinker, beer snob (unless I'm tubing down a river, in which case it's PBR-or screwdrivers from an OJ bottle), foodie, crazy about my dog Walter (#walterthewonderdog for all of you Tweeps), madly addicted to lip gloss and sunscreen, a hopeless romantic, a liberal, a communications professor, PR professional, and a vegetarian, well, vegan-ish. I run for fun, okay, not really fun, mostly so I can stuff my face with delish musings from home and professional kitchens.
I work for a pretty rad PR shop in Grand Rapids, write for a FUN regional magazine, and in my spare time I am a doctoral candidate in public policy, and teach PR/Comm to newbie professionals–hey someone should love/teach/coach those monsters, may as well be me.
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package org.grobid.trainer.evaluation;

import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;

import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.StringTokenizer;

import org.grobid.trainer.LabelStat;
import org.grobid.trainer.Stats;
import org.grobid.core.exceptions.GrobidException;

import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;

import static org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers.is;
import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.hasSize;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertThat;

public class EvaluationUtilitiesTest {

	public File getResourceDir(String resourceDir) {
		File file = new File(resourceDir);
		if (!file.exists()) {
			if (!file.mkdirs()) {
				throw new GrobidException("Cannot start test, because test resource folder is not correctly set.");
			}
		}
		return(file);
	}

	@Test
    public void testMetricsAllGood() throws Exception {
        String result = "a I-<1> I-<1>\nb <1> <1>\nc I-<2> I-<2>\nd I-<1> I-<1>\ne <1> <1>\n";
        //System.out.println(result);
        Stats wordStats = EvaluationUtilities.tokenLevelStats(result);
		Stats fieldStats = EvaluationUtilities.fieldLevelStats(result);

		LabelStat labelstat1 = wordStats.getLabelStat("<1>");
		LabelStat labelstat2 = wordStats.getLabelStat("<2>");

        assertThat(labelstat1.getObserved(), is(4));
        assertThat(labelstat2.getObserved(), is(1));
        assertThat(labelstat1.getExpected(), is(4));
        assertThat(labelstat2.getExpected(), is(1));

        labelstat1 = fieldStats.getLabelStat("<1>");
		labelstat2 = fieldStats.getLabelStat("<2>");

        assertThat(labelstat1.getObserved(), is(2));
        assertThat(labelstat2.getObserved(), is(1));
        assertThat(labelstat1.getExpected(), is(2));
        assertThat(labelstat2.getExpected(), is(1));
    }

    @Test
    public void testMetricsAllFalse() throws Exception {
        String result = "a I-<1> I-<2>\nb <1> <2>\nc <1> I-<2>\nd <1> <2>\ne <1> <2>\n";
		//System.out.println(result);
        Stats wordStats = EvaluationUtilities.tokenLevelStats(result);
		Stats fieldStats = EvaluationUtilities.fieldLevelStats(result);

        LabelStat labelstat1 = wordStats.getLabelStat("<1>");
		LabelStat labelstat2 = wordStats.getLabelStat("<2>");

        assertThat(labelstat1.getObserved(), is(0));
        assertThat(labelstat2.getObserved(), is(0));
        assertThat(labelstat1.getFalseNegative(), is(5));
        assertThat(labelstat2.getFalsePositive(), is(5));

        labelstat1 = fieldStats.getLabelStat("<1>");
		labelstat2 = fieldStats.getLabelStat("<2>");

		assertThat(labelstat1.getObserved(), is(0));
        assertThat(labelstat2.getObserved(), is(0));
        assertThat(labelstat1.getExpected(), is(1));
        assertThat(labelstat2.getExpected(), is(0));
    }

	@Test
    public void testMetricsMixed1() throws Exception {
    	// label of c is false
    	// token 80 precision for label <1>, 0 for label <2>
    	// field: precision and recall are 0, because the whole
    	// sequence abcde with label <1> does not make sub-field
    	// ab and de correctly label with respect to positions
        String result = "a I-<1> I-<1>\nb <1> <1>\nc I-<2> <1>\nd I-<1> <1>\ne <1> <1>\n";
        //System.out.println(result);
		Stats wordStats = EvaluationUtilities.tokenLevelStats(result);
		Stats fieldStats = EvaluationUtilities.fieldLevelStats(result);

        LabelStat labelstat1 = wordStats.getLabelStat("<1>");
		LabelStat labelstat2 = wordStats.getLabelStat("<2>");

        assertThat(labelstat1.getObserved(), is(4));
        assertThat(labelstat2.getObserved(), is(0));
        assertThat(labelstat1.getExpected(), is(4));
        assertThat(labelstat2.getExpected(), is(1));
        assertThat(labelstat1.getFalseNegative(), is(0));
        assertThat(labelstat2.getFalseNegative(), is(1));
		assertThat(labelstat1.getFalsePositive(), is(1));
        assertThat(labelstat2.getFalsePositive(), is(0));

        labelstat1 = fieldStats.getLabelStat("<1>");
		labelstat2 = fieldStats.getLabelStat("<2>");

        assertThat(labelstat1.getObserved(), is(0));
        assertThat(labelstat2.getObserved(), is(0));
        assertThat(labelstat1.getExpected(), is(2));
        assertThat(labelstat2.getExpected(), is(1));
    }

    @Test
    public void testMetricsMixed1Bis() throws Exception {
    	// variant of testMetricsMixed1 where the I- prefix impact the field-level results
    	// with field ab correctly found
        String result = "a I-<1> I-<1>\nb <1> <1>\nc I-<2> I-<1>\nd I-<1> <1>\ne <1> <1>\n";
        //System.out.println(result);
		Stats wordStats = EvaluationUtilities.tokenLevelStats(result);
		Stats fieldStats = EvaluationUtilities.fieldLevelStats(result);

        LabelStat labelstat1 = wordStats.getLabelStat("<1>");
		LabelStat labelstat2 = wordStats.getLabelStat("<2>");

        assertThat(labelstat1.getObserved(), is(4));
        assertThat(labelstat2.getObserved(), is(0));
        assertThat(labelstat1.getExpected(), is(4));
        assertThat(labelstat2.getExpected(), is(1));
        assertThat(labelstat1.getFalseNegative(), is(0));
        assertThat(labelstat2.getFalseNegative(), is(1));
		assertThat(labelstat1.getFalsePositive(), is(1));
        assertThat(labelstat2.getFalsePositive(), is(0));

        labelstat1 = fieldStats.getLabelStat("<1>");
		labelstat2 = fieldStats.getLabelStat("<2>");

		/*System.out.println(labelstat1.toString());
     	System.out.println(labelstat2.toString());
     	String report = EvaluationUtilities.reportMetrics(result);
     	System.out.println(report);*/

        assertThat(labelstat1.getObserved(), is(1));
        assertThat(labelstat2.getObserved(), is(0));
        assertThat(labelstat1.getExpected(), is(2));
        assertThat(labelstat2.getExpected(), is(1));
    }

    @Test
    public void testMetricsMixed2() throws Exception {
        String result = "a I-<1> I-<1>\nb <1> <1>\nc <1> I-<2>\nd <1> I-<1>\ne <1> <1>\n";
        //System.out.println(result);
        Stats wordStats = EvaluationUtilities.tokenLevelStats(result);
		Stats fieldStats = EvaluationUtilities.fieldLevelStats(result);

        LabelStat labelstat1 = wordStats.getLabelStat("<1>");
		LabelStat labelstat2 = wordStats.getLabelStat("<2>");

        assertThat(labelstat1.getObserved(), is(4));
        assertThat(labelstat2.getObserved(), is(0));
        assertThat(labelstat1.getExpected(), is(5));
        assertThat(labelstat2.getExpected(), is(0));
        assertThat(labelstat1.getFalseNegative(), is(1));
        assertThat(labelstat2.getFalseNegative(), is(0));
		assertThat(labelstat1.getFalsePositive(), is(0));
        assertThat(labelstat2.getFalsePositive(), is(1));

        labelstat1 = fieldStats.getLabelStat("<1>");
		labelstat2 = fieldStats.getLabelStat("<2>");

        assertThat(labelstat1.getObserved(), is(0));
        assertThat(labelstat2.getObserved(), is(0));
        assertThat(labelstat1.getExpected(), is(1));
        assertThat(labelstat2.getExpected(), is(0));
        assertThat(labelstat1.getFalseNegative(), is(1));
        assertThat(labelstat2.getFalseNegative(), is(0));
		assertThat(labelstat1.getFalsePositive(), is(2));
        assertThat(labelstat2.getFalsePositive(), is(1));
    }

    @Test
    public void testMetricsMixed3() throws Exception {
        String result = "a I-<1> I-<1>\nb I-<2> <1>\nc <2> I-<2>\nd <2> <2>\ne I-<1> I-<1>\nf <1> <1>\ng I-<2> I-<2>\n";
        //System.out.println(result);
        Stats wordStats = EvaluationUtilities.tokenLevelStats(result);
		Stats fieldStats = EvaluationUtilities.fieldLevelStats(result);

        LabelStat labelstat1 = wordStats.getLabelStat("<1>");
		LabelStat labelstat2 = wordStats.getLabelStat("<2>");

        assertThat(labelstat1.getObserved(), is(3));
        assertThat(labelstat2.getObserved(), is(3));
        assertThat(labelstat1.getExpected(), is(3));
        assertThat(labelstat2.getExpected(), is(4));
        assertThat(labelstat1.getFalseNegative(), is(0));
        assertThat(labelstat2.getFalseNegative(), is(1));
		assertThat(labelstat1.getFalsePositive(), is(1));
        assertThat(labelstat2.getFalsePositive(), is(0));

        labelstat1 = fieldStats.getLabelStat("<1>");
		labelstat2 = fieldStats.getLabelStat("<2>");

		/*System.out.println(labelstat1.toString());
     	System.out.println(labelstat2.toString());
     	String report = EvaluationUtilities.reportMetrics(result);
     	System.out.println(report);*/

        assertThat(labelstat1.getObserved(), is(1));
        assertThat(labelstat2.getObserved(), is(1));
        assertThat(labelstat1.getExpected(), is(2));
        assertThat(labelstat2.getExpected(), is(2));
        assertThat(labelstat1.getFalseNegative(), is(1));
        assertThat(labelstat2.getFalseNegative(), is(1));
		assertThat(labelstat1.getFalsePositive(), is(1));
        assertThat(labelstat2.getFalsePositive(), is(1));
    }

    @Test
    public void testMetricsReal() throws Exception {
    	File textFile = new File(this.getResourceDir("./src/test/resources/").getAbsoluteFile()+"/ex.txt.txt");
		if (!textFile.exists()) {
			throw new GrobidException("Cannot start test, because test resource folder is not correctly set.");
		}
        String result = FileUtils.readFileToString(textFile, "UTF-8");
        result = result.replace(System.lineSeparator(), "\n");

        Stats wordStats = EvaluationUtilities.tokenLevelStats(result);
		Stats fieldStats = EvaluationUtilities.fieldLevelStats(result);

        LabelStat labelstat1 = wordStats.getLabelStat("<body>");
		LabelStat labelstat2 = wordStats.getLabelStat("<headnote>");

        assertThat(labelstat1.getObserved(), is(378));
        assertThat(labelstat2.getObserved(), is(6));
        assertThat(labelstat1.getExpected(), is(378));
        assertThat(labelstat2.getExpected(), is(9));
        assertThat(labelstat1.getFalseNegative(), is(0));
        assertThat(labelstat2.getFalseNegative(), is(3));
		assertThat(labelstat1.getFalsePositive(), is(3));
        assertThat(labelstat2.getFalsePositive(), is(0));

        labelstat1 = fieldStats.getLabelStat("<body>");
		labelstat2 = fieldStats.getLabelStat("<headnote>");

		/*System.out.println(labelstat1.toString());
     	System.out.println(labelstat2.toString());
     	String report = EvaluationUtilities.reportMetrics(result);
     	System.out.println(report);*/

        assertThat(labelstat1.getObserved(), is(1));
        assertThat(labelstat2.getObserved(), is(2));
        assertThat(labelstat1.getExpected(), is(3));
        assertThat(labelstat2.getExpected(), is(3));
        assertThat(labelstat1.getFalseNegative(), is(2));
        assertThat(labelstat2.getFalseNegative(), is(1));
		assertThat(labelstat1.getFalsePositive(), is(1));
        assertThat(labelstat2.getFalsePositive(), is(0));
    }

}

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Contact centers are undergoing a significant technology-enabled transformation. Traditionally, the contact center has been a back-office function focused primarily on operational performance and cost reduction. Today's modern contact center has a broader, more strategic role; namely to provide stellar customer experiences, drive up customer loyalty and increase revenue.
Two fundamental changes are helping drive this transformation.
First, is the shift to the cloud. This disruption of the on-premises contact center market and legacy contact center vendors is just beginning.
The shift to the cloud is opening the door to the next technology-enabled transformation for the contact center: Artificial Intelligence (AI).
AI is transforming the technology landscape, and the gateway to AI is access to vast quantities of data. The contact center itself is a very rich source of this data, from call detail records, to the full recordings of every call and contact you have with your customers. And, with recent advances in automatic speech recognition, those voice recordings will quickly become a source for training machine-learning models.
While AI technology is often focused on automating workflows to replace humans (as in self-driving cars), our focus is not on the replacement of agents, but instead on augmenting live agents with AI – we call this Agent Augmentation.
Virtual Agents and Agent Assistance both are ways to augment a live agent. Virtual agents will deliver a human-like, voice-enabled conversational interface, which will replace IVR systems. Virtual agents could work standalone completely servicing a customer, or could be guided and directed by a live agent. Agent Assistance is AI guiding human agents to the best answers as fast as possible.
IVR systems have been around for decades and attempt to direct customers to the right agents, sometimes offering some limited self-service capabilities. Interactive Voice Assistants (IVA) represent an evolution of the IVR and aim to make it as easy to talk to the computer as you would a person. In practice, IVAs are often slow and frustrating for the caller. Both IVRs and IVAs have improved call deflection and costs savings for businesses, but in most cases, a delightful experience has remained elusive and customers don't like them, preferring in most cases to speak to a human as quickly as possible.
AI plays a critical role in replacing these frustrating systems with natural conversational virtual agents, which can quickly resolve common issues and seamlessly connect to humans when necessary. As Gartner noted in a recent report, "the ongoing consumerization of AI — through the growing use and effectiveness of AI-enabled assistants such as Alexa and Google Assistant — boosts end users' awareness of, and expectations for, intelligent conversational interfaces to enterprise products and services."2 As such, enterprises need to ensure they exceed those customer expectations. This is now achievable with AI.
The AI platforms required to produce realistic and human-like virtual agents is finally within view. Microsoft and Amazon each offer considerable AI capabilities in their platforms, as do IBM and Salesforce. And Google's recent "Contact Center AI" platform moves that ball forward quite dramatically, with technologies like Dialogflow, AutoML, Topic Modeler, advances to ASR and more.
With these advances in AI – and ones I predict will come in the near future – it is entirely possible that the role of Tier 1 agents will be automated through Virtual Agents, which will allow those Tier 1 agents become Tier 1.5 or Tier 2 agents, seamlessly shifting to higher complexity work and engaging in real time with Virtual Agents when necessary.


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On behalf of Villarini & Henry, L.L.P. posted in Violent Crimes on Thursday, December 20, 2018.
Many victims of violent crimes in New York experience post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This condition can cause a number of emotional issues and can have a long-term impact on a crime victim's mental health. The Mayo Clinic offers the following information on PTSD, including how you can get help.
Does New York have the death penalty?
On behalf of Villarini & Henry, L.L.P. posted in Violent Crimes on Monday, October 1, 2018.
When someone is convicted of a violent crime, he or she faces some of the most severe punishments that the legal system can hand down. In some states, this means such a conviction could get you the death penalty. However, in New York, according to the Death Penalty Information Center, there is no death penalty.
How can I prevent a home break-in?
On behalf of Villarini & Henry, L.L.P. posted in Violent Crimes on Sunday, August 5, 2018.
Home robberies are a terrifying prospect to residents of New York. That's why preventing them from occurring is so important. While not all robberies entail violence, you don't want to risk you and your family's lives to the whims of a dangerous criminal. Accordingly, home security company ADT offers the following advice to help keep your home safe.
On behalf of Villarini & Henry, L.L.P. posted in Violent Crimes on Friday, July 20, 2018.
At Villarini & Henry, L.L.P., we are serious about the way we protect our clients from harm. Sometimes, this entails our defending them against unconstitutional charges wrought by overzealous New York prosecutors and police forces. However, we also do our best to nullify even the threats that exist besides a criminal conviction — and before the court procedures begin.
What are considered violent crimes?
On behalf of Villarini & Henry, L.L.P. posted in Violent Crimes on Friday, July 13, 2018.
Almost any crime in New York can be looked at as violent in some way. Even if it didn't physically harm you, if you are crime victim, it can leave you feeling violated and unsafe. However, there are only specific offenses that are actually classified as violent crimes for legal purposes, as explained by the FBI. These crimes are the most offensive and those that cause severe physical harm to victims. Once you see what they are, it is easier to see why they are considered violent.
On behalf of Villarini & Henry, L.L.P. posted in Violent Crimes on Friday, May 4, 2018.
You may not be surprised to hear that Buffalo continues to rank among the top cities in the U.S. in the number of violent crimes committed each year. In 2016, the city came in 15 on that list, according to Buffalo Business First. There were 2,887 violent crimes that year, including 41 murders and manslaughters, 1,033 robberies, 1,640 aggravated assaults and 173 rapes.
On behalf of Villarini & Henry, L.L.P. posted in Violent Crimes on Sunday, April 8, 2018.
In New York and throughout the United States, victims of crimes are often asked to choose their attacker out of a physical or photograph lineup. Although this method of perpetrator identification is still widely used in the U.S., flaws in the procedure can lead to wrongful conviction of an innocent person. According to the Innocence Project, 354 people have been exonerated from their criminal sentences after DNA evidence proved they were innocent of committing a crime. At least 70 percent of those cases involved eyewitness misidentification. Why are innocent people being picked out of eyewitness lineups on such a regular basis?
What is the difference between Murder 1 and Murder 2?
On behalf of Villarini & Henry, L.L.P. posted in Violent Crimes on Thursday, March 29, 2018.
If you face murder charges in New York, this is very serious indeed. Even though New York abolished the death penalty for murder and all other crimes, you could face life imprisonment if you are convicted of murder.


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Tag: noah baumbach
NYC-born US director and screenwriter (1969-) (Wikipedia entry)
This new Noah Baumbach film has just been released on Netflix, so currently everyone seems to have an opinion about it. Why not let me add mine to the mix, for what very little it is worth at this point.
Despite being primed to dislike this film that appears to be about wealthy white people falling out of love — not to mention some kind of pointed self-fiction dealing with the director and his first marriage — I did really like this film, which in some of its textures and characters reminds me of last year's Private Life (another Netflix film, albeit one that didn't even get any cinema screenings over here sadly). This is about Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson, who have been married ten years but find themselves drawn apart, as much because they want different things than anything they particularly dislike about the other person — though of course those all come out. It's a film that's dealing with divorce as an idea, working through all those feelings but working them out in public on film. I was expecting more of a character assassination of the wife, but she comes across to me as pretty reasonable, whereas it's Driver's character who can be the real ass most of the time. There are laughs and there's tension, but most of all there's really excellent acting that supports this central couple (my confession is I've never been a huge fan of either Driver or Johansson), most notably Alan Alda and Laura Dern as the competing divorce lawyers, though it's nice to see Julie Hagerty on screen again.
Director/Writer Noah Baumbach; Cinematographer Robbie Ryan; Starring Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson, Azhy Robertson, Laura Dern, Alan Alda, Julie Hagerty; Length 136 minutes.
Seen at Curzon Soho, London, Saturday 23 November 2019.
Categories Classification: 15, Country: USA, Rating: EXCELLENT•Tags 2019, adam driver, alan alda, azhy robertson, divorce, film reviews, films seen at the cinema, julie hagerty, laura dern, los angeles, new york, noah baumbach, relationship drama, robbie ryan, scarlett johansson, usa
While We're Young (2014)
Published on 13 January 2016 20 August 2019 by Ewan MLeave a comment
Another story of the New York middle classes from its latter-day poet laureate Noah Baumbach, and however insufferable one might expect it to be, While We're Young actually treads a rather fine and well-judged line for much of its running time. The overall impression by the end is of it being more a drama than a comedy thanks to its extensive disquisition on ethics in documentary filmmaking, but in getting there it does a good deal of wryly amusing legwork as established filmmaker Ben Stiller finds himself being usurped by young pretender Adam Driver. It's at its strongest in observing the generational differences between Stiller and his wife Naomi Watts, and Driver and his wife Amanda Seyfried, as the older couple find themselves inspired and energised by their youthful counterparts (I suppose one would call them hipsters). Unlike some of the film's reviewers, I don't find them particularly ridiculous, but it's in the nature of Stiller's characters to overanalyse such things to the point of ridiculousness, and at that he remains a master. Still, I do prefer Baumbach's looser collaborations with Greta Gerwig (most recently, Mistress America).
Director/Writer Noah Baumbach; Cinematographer Sam Levy; Starring Ben Stiller, Naomi Watts, Adam Driver, Amanda Seyfried, Charles Grodin; Length 97 minutes.
Seen at home (Netflix streaming), London, Monday 21 December 2015.
Categories Classification: 15, Country: USA, Rating: GOOD•Tags 2014, adam driver, amanda seyfried, ben stiller, charles grodin, comedy, drama, film reviews, films seen at home, naomi watts, new york, noah baumbach, sam levy, usa
Mistress America (2015)
Published on 21 August 2015 22 August 2019 by Ewan MLeave a comment
Screwball comedy seems to be back in with US cinema at the moment, perhaps an expression of yearning for a long-gone era when filmmakers got to just indulge their borderline-sociopathic characters with witty wordplay, showing little regard for the naturalism that seemed so important to the New American Cinema of the 60s onwards. It allows for a rush of pure cinephilia, but unlike Peter Bogdanovich's recent She's Funny That Way, Noah Baumbach's film, co-written by his star Greta Gerwig, has a more contemporary feel. It's still based around suffocating WASPy upper-middles making their idle way through life, a milieu familiar from Frances Ha (or the sitcom Girls, featuring co-star Lola Kirke's sister), but it mines that for some excellent laughs. Much of this is at the expense of Kirke's first-year college student Tracy and her pretentious literary fellows (she's a budding writer), but the source is Gerwig's irrepressible Brooke, just turned 30 and still living precariously in New York City. Brooke has big plans but a history of others taking them on to achieve the success she can only fantasise about, and Tracy steps into this role as a potential sister-in-law (thanks to their parents' impending marriage). One imagines the film could collapse at any moment — plenty of the relationships within it do — but it all manages to nimbly keep afloat and keep the laughs coming, even when some of the emotional terrain becomes more fraught. Gerwig's Brooke is a complex character, at once warm and good to be around but also with a streak of mean self-absorption, nothing near as excoriating as the literary poseurs of Listen Up Philip (another film sharing some of the same terrain), but certainly challenging to those around her. Baumbach's style though seems to be lightening up a little, making for more enjoyable films, and this one is equally driven by its musical soundtrack, heavy on the 80s synth sounds of such bands as Orchestral Maneouvres in the Dark — and that at least is enough to keep me happy.
Director Noah Baumbach; Writers Baumbach and Greta Gerwig; Cinematographer Sam Levy; Starring Lola Kirke, Greta Gerwig; Length 84 minutes.
Seen at Picturehouse Central, London, Monday 17 August 2015.
Categories Classification: 15, Country: USA, Rating: GOOD•Tags 2015, comedy, film reviews, films seen at the cinema, friendship, greta gerwig, lola kirke, new year's resolution 2015, new york, noah baumbach, university, usa, written by a woman
Frances Ha (2012)
Published on 12 August 2013 24 October 2019 by Ewan M2 Comments
I started keeping a spreadsheet (well, a notebook originally) of films I'd been to see around the time I started going to university. My best friend of the time would take me along to interesting-sounding movies, and among the films of that first year was Noah Baumbach's debut Kicking and Screaming (1995), about which I don't remember much except that it dealt with aimless university graduates and had a tricksy narrative structure. I imagine if I'd been a few years older I'd have identified with the characters more, after a few years studying film and reading the classics, and certainly I had some aimless years in my 20s (I'm not convinced I've really progressed far from there, actually, save perhaps for a more stable living situation). It's the same middle-class world of New York-based artists and intellectuals that Baumbach has mined in those of his films I've seen since then, and if it's the kind of milieu that I chiefly associate with movies (whether his or Whit Stillman's, Wes Anderson's, Woody Allen's or the recent 'mumblecore' movement), then it's certainly a comfortable milieu. Yet it can sometimes feel suffocatingly airless, preying on generational narcissism; I saw characteristics in this past year's Stuck in Love and it's evident here too. And yet, I am sucker for this kind of thing and Frances Ha does it with exceptional charm.
Part of this charm is the way it shamelessly draws on its influences, while being sure to carefully credit them. It very clearly wants to be a Nouvelle Vague film — François Truffaut's iconic actor Jean-Pierre Léaud is namechecked and Georges Delerue music from his films is used, while the protagonist even visits Paris at one point — and at its best it could stand alongside those early-60s films of Truffaut, Godard and Rohmer with its watchful camera and short spontaneous scenes. The black-and-white photography recalls Raoul Coutard in those years, or perhaps more apropos, the Gordon Willis who shot Woody Allen's high period films, particularly the monochrome Manhattan (1979). It just imparts to everything a kind of timelessness: Frances Ha is set in the present, but in its music and visual cues it constantly harks to the past.
The resulting tension is reflective of the stasis in which its eponymous central character — well, almost eponymous, as her surname is longer than "Ha" — finds herself. I've seen it described as a 'coming of age story' and perhaps that's right, or at least suggests something of the heroine's struggle, and yet she's 27 years old: she's out of university, unsuccessfully pursuing a career as a dancer, unable (or unwilling) to sustain a relationship and unsure what to do. There's a heartbreaking stretch of the film where everything just seems to go wrong for her, not in a melodramatic way, but just that way that things go sometimes (missed connections, misunderstandings, social embarrassments). But the film isn't thankfully out to be misanthropic or to wallow in misery: Frances may have difficulty achieving her vaunted ambitions, but she is a stubborn character.
I've talked already about some of the ways the film is charming, but chief among them is its star (and co-writer) Greta Gerwig, an heir to Allen's neurotic heroines of the 1970s without the WASPy excesses. She manages to pull off the kind of 'free-spirited' role that's too often a lazy (male) screenwriter's idea of femininity (Manic Pixie Dream Girls, anyone?), without sacrificing her right to be taken seriously as a character. There's plenty of resulting comedy too, such as a wonderful scene where she is breaking up with her boyfriend but is able to animatedly take a phone call from her best friend Sophie (Mickey Sumner). Frances frequently, in fact, punctures a sombre gathering with her cheerful (and at times tactless) humour.
What it all adds up to is unclear: it's mostly a persuasive portrait of one type of late-20s ennui, loosely organised by the different addresses in which Frances lives, thereby charting her move towards increasing security. Part of what I like about it is identifying with what I want to imagine my own 20s were like, but there's also plenty that I think is valuable and wonderful and even heartwarming.
Director Noah Baumbach; Writers Baumbach and Greta Gerwig; Cinematographer Sam Levy; Starring Greta Gerwig, Mickey Sumner; Length 86 minutes.
Seen at Cineworld Fulham Road, London, Saturday 10 August 2013.
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Swift Creek Township (also designated Township 18) is one of twenty townships within Wake County, North Carolina, United States. As of the 2010 census, Swift Creek Township had a population of 50,225, a 41.6% increase over 2000.

Swift Creek Township, occupying  in south-central Wake County, includes portions of the towns of Cary and Garner and of the city of Raleigh.

Swift Creek is also an unincorporated community within Wake County, located between the municipalities of Raleigh, Cary, Apex, and Garner.

A non-binding referendum on incorporation for the Swift Creek area was held in November 2000. Out of 4,220 votes cast, 2,492 (58%) voted in favor of incorporation.

See also
 Swift Creek, North Carolina

References

Townships in Wake County, North Carolina
Townships in North Carolina


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Andrew Jett November 10, 2019 7:00 pm
Western Michigan Broncos (6-4) at Ohio Bobcats (4-5)
College Football: Tuesday, November 12, 2019 at 7:30 pm (Peden Stadium)
The Line: Ohio Bobcats +1 -- Over/Under: 64 Click Here for the Latest Odds
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The Western Michigan Broncos and the Ohio Bobcats will match up in college football action on Tuesday.
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In the win over Ball State, Western Michigan QB Jon Wassink has 124 yards passing, with 131 more and a TD rushing. LeVante Bellamy added 157 yards with three scores on the ground, and Giovanni Ricci had a 33-yard catch to lead the receivers.
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In the loss to the RedHawks, Ohio QB Nathan Rourke led the rushing with 89 yards and two scores, and passed for 133 and a TD. Isaiah Cox had 35 yards receiving off two catches.
The Broncos are 5-0 ATS in their last five after an ATS loss and 1-4 ATS in their last five in November. WMU is 0-6 ATS in the last six road games and 3-13 ATS in their last 16 after a straight-up win.
Meanwhile, Ohio is 9-4 ATS in the last 13 after a straight-up loss and 37-18 ATS versus a team with a winning record. The Bobcats are 1-5 ATS in their last six conference games and 0-5 ATS in the last five home games.
Since their loss to EMU a couple weeks back, the Broncos have put up two pretty solid offensive performances with 84 combined points scored. That makes at least 35 in three of the last four games for Western Michigan.
Over on the Bobcats' side, they had a nice scoring run going for a couple of games before falling to Miami, so I'm not completely on that bandwagon right now. I'm going to have to stick with the Broncos here.
Andrew's Pick Western Michigan Broncos -1
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The Fourth Assembly Public Accounts Committee undertook an inquiry into the Welsh Government's acquisition and ownership of Cardiff Airport following publication of the Auditor General for Wales report (PDF 3MB) (27 January 2016). That Committee published its report into The Welsh Government's acquisition and ownership of Cardiff Airport (PDF 458KB) in March 2016.
Due to time restraints, the Welsh Government did not respond to the recommendations contained in the Committee's Report at the end of the Fourth Assembly. The previous Committee recommended in its Legacy Report, that its successor Committee considers the Welsh Government response when available and seeks an update on the implementation of the recommendations in autumn 2016.
The Committee considered the Welsh Government response during an evidence session in November 2016. The Committee continued to monitor progress at the Airport in both evidence sessions and correspondence with the Welsh Government between 2017 and 2019.
The Committee held a further evidence session with Cardiff Airport in summer 2019 and scrutinised the Welsh Government in September 2019. Following that session, The Committee Chair wrote to the Welsh Government and the detailed response will was considered in November 2019.
The Committee held further evidence sessions with Cardiff Airport in March 2020 and the Welsh Government in November 2020.
Evidence Session
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1. Cardiff Airport
Roger Lewis Deb Barber Huw Lewis
Monday 3 June 2019
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2. Welsh Government
Andrew Slade
Deb Bowen Rees
Terry Morgan
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Correspondence from the Welsh Government - 3 March 2021 PDF 635 KB
Correspondence from the Welsh Government - 1 February 2021 PDF 251 KB
Letter from the Committee Chair to the Welsh Government - 14 December 2020 PDF 177 KB
Correspondence from the Welsh Government - 12 November 2020 PDF 297 KB
Correspondence from the Welsh Government - 24 February 2020 PDF 420 KB
Letter from the Committee Chair to the Welsh Government - 14 January 2020 PDF 117 KB
Correspondence from the Welsh Government - 13 December 2019 PDF 315 KB
Correspondence from the Welsh Government - 30 October 2019 PDF 301 KB
Letter from the Committee Chair to the Welsh Government - 4 October 2019 PDF 129 KB
Letter from the Minister for Economy and Transport - 20 September 2019 PDF 264 KB
Letter from the Committee Chair to the Welsh Government - 5 December 2017 PDF 134 KB
Welsh Government update - 6 November 2017 PDF 331 KB
Welsh Government update - 30 March 2017 PDF 281 KB
Letter from the Welsh Government to the Chair - 16 January 2017 PDF 173 KB
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Messianic Jews Attacked in Beersheba
Posted on December 29, 2005 by Richard Bartholomew
Compass Direct (via Crosswalk) reports on the latest anti-Christian disturbance in Israel:
Orthodox Jews disrupted a Messianic congregation's worship service in the Israeli town of Beersheba on Saturday (December 24)…The agitators struck Messianic believers in the face, back and stomach. Though one received a blow near his eye, no one needed medical attention.
"Messianics" are Jews who believe that Jesus was the Messiah, but who maintain a Jewish identity and style of worship. They claim to have about 10,000 members in Israel, although authoritative figures are hard to come by. But here's an interesting detail:
The Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Beersheba, Yehuda Deri, stood outside speaking to demonstrators during the incident. The police handcuffed two of the more violent agitators but then released them in Deri's presence.
(Deri is the brother of Aryeh Deri, the disgraced one-time leader of the Shepardic Orthodox Shas political party)
…One Christian tried to videotape the incident, and when demonstrators yelled that this was "forbidden on Shabbat" (Jewish Sabbath), he told them he was not Jewish. But police forbid him to use his video camera, saying it would constitute a provocation. Others, however, did take photographs and videos of the demonstration.
This assault follows attacks on Messianics and Jehovah's Witnesses in Arad and Holon, which I discussed here. It is also part of a long campaign against the Beersheba group. Back in 1998 Compass reported (again, emphasis added):
In a November 28 incident in the Negev town of Beersheva, rumors were spread in synagogues that Messianic Jews planned to baptize Jewish children. A mob estimated by police to number 1,000 "haredim" (ultra-orthodox) Jews started to surround a Christian and Missionary Alliance Church rented by the local congregation of Messianic Jews for their Shabbat (Sabbath) gathering.
…Natan Aridan, a history professor at Ben-Gurion University, described the latest attack to the "Jerusalem Post" as reminiscent of anti-Semitic attacks in Eastern Europe. "I witnessed a pogrom," he said. "There can be no other word for it."
The siege lasted for about three hours, and the crowd only disseminated after being addressed by local rabbis, [elder Olavi] Syvanto said. A policeman remained at the site to keep order, but later on, leaders of the congregation were told to take charge of guarding the compound themselves.
This infuriated [Charles] Kopp, chairman of the United Christian Council in Israel.
"I think this is intolerable. If a synagogue anywhere in the Western world is attacked, the police will be there until the situation is settled. Likewise, the Israeli police should be there as long as needed. Period."
UPDATE: A first-person account of the attack is available here.


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