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Q: How to get base64 of image in React Native I'm using react native image picker and image resizer to pick and then resize an image. How do I get the base64 of the image once it has been resized?
ImagePickerManager.showImagePicker(imagepicker_options, (response) => {
  ImageResizer.createResizedImage(response.uri, 550, null, 'JPEG', 100).then((resizedImageUri) => {
    //get base64 of image
  });
});

A: https://libraries.io/npm/react-native-asset-library-to-base64
ImagePickerManager.showImagePicker(imagepicker_options, (response) => {
  ImageResizer.createResizedImage(response.uri, 550, null, 'JPEG', 100).then((resizedImageUri) => {
      //get base64 of image, uri is link to asset-library://
      ReadImageData.readImage(uri, (imageBase64) => {
    console.log(imageBase64);
    });
  });
});

you might also want to read this if you haven't https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/1158

A: Actually the imagepicker_options provides a way to resize.
You can pass maxWidth and maxHeight on options.
The code:
const imagepicker_options = {
  mediaType: 'photo',
  maxWidth: 550,
  storageOptions: {
    skipBackup: true,
    cameraRoll: false,
    path: 'images',
  },
}
ImagePickerManager.showImagePicker(imagepicker_options, (response) => {
  //get base64 of image
  const base64 = response.data
});


I always wondered about the Peruvian claim to the origin of ceviche, a marinated seafood cocktail. In our part of the Gulf of Mexico, ceviche is always made with either lime juice, sour orange juice, or vinegar, all of which are products of the Old World. I wondered if the original recipe somehow had roots in the Middle East, or Far East, where vinegar and citrus come from.
But while I was in Peru, I learned about Passiflora edulis, also known as granadilla, maracuya, or passion fruit. Native to the Americas, passion fruit was used by the Incas to make ceviche from time immemorial. Vines of passion fruit can be found looping through tall trees in most home and office gardens. Almost every place I visited, granadilla or passion fruit was offered to us, free of charge, in even the most humble homes. So of course, it is incorporated into every beverage, salad, and main dish.
Not only is passion fruit sweet, delicious and a great source of vitamin C, the acid in passion fruit juice is what is needed to make ceviche. Adding an acid to any fish or meat changes its pH level, making it more acidic, and less alkaline. Changing the pH of a fish filet causes immediate changes in its molecular structure, and "denatures" the proteins, which means it changes the natural folds and twists in a protein strand. Once the protein strand changes shape, water is released from the flesh of the fish, giving it a firmer texture. The change in pH also destroys harmful bacteria, making the uncooked fish safe to eat without the need to light a fire or find a frying pan.
Bad news? Rarely can you find fresh passion fruit in the produce aisle here in the US. If you do, they are very expensive, and it's a real pain to extract the juice (One of my worst kitchen cuts was trying to wrestle open a passion fruit with a knife.) The good news is there is packaged passion fruit juice available at the grocery store, ready to use. I wasn't too clear what other juices were added to the juice product I purchased, and how that affected its pH level, so I added some fresh lime juice, for good measure.
I made my first batch of passion fruit ceviche a couple of days ago, and got rave reviews. Super easy, and an excellent option for a light, healthy summer dish.
I used mahi-mahi, which was labeled "Imported from Peru" Nice!
I was looking for a ceviche recipe for Cuaresma, I am going to try this one. I got your information from Fonda San Miguel book, I am planning to visit your store soon. . Thank you for sharing.
Hi, I hope you enjoy the ceviche! Unfortunately, my store closed in 2017, but you can always find me here online. Let me know if I can ever be of assistance! Have a great day and thanks for your note!


What makes the millennial generation - those born between the early 1980s and 2000s - tick? This is the question that has been posed by everyone from marketers to recruitment experts; all of which want know what drives the actions and choices of this influential group of people.
Now, new research has shed light on the world of millennial travellers - revealing that a desire to experience everyday life in another country and increase their own knowledge is a key motivation behind exploring pastures new.
The findings come as part of the Millennial Traveller report from the WYSE Travel Confederation which also revealed that tasty food and friendly locals sit high up on the 'ideal holiday' wish list for millennial travellers.
Just under a quarter (23%) of millennials are so keen to immerse themselves in different cultures that they try to spend time with as many different nationalities as possible when on their travels.
However, when it comes to this group's go-to source of travel information, surprisingly, word of mouth still remains popular with recommendations from family and friends topping the list for 67% of those questioned.
Further figures from the survey revealed that millennials aren't afraid to splash their cash when exploring the four corners of the globe, with 50% spending more than €1,000 for their whole trip. This figure is €100 more than the average trip spend for an international tourist.
Which destinations are millennials pouring out the contents of their holiday spending pots in?
According to research, the majority of millennials have set their sights on Australia and the United States as their preferred next trip destinations (each at 11%), followed by the United Kingdom (8%).
"Young travellers of the millennial generation represent 20% of international travellers; by 2020, 320 million international trips are expected to be made by youth travellers each year; a staggering 47% increase from 217 million in 2013."
If you are heading off to explore the rest of the globe, it's important to organise backpackers travel insurance in advance.


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The regular season in the NFL is now a thing of the past and the playoffs will be about to begin with teams that we expected and others that we expected less.
With records of 14-3, the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles have been the top teams this season. Thus, the Chiefs will obtain a pass in the 1st round of the playoffs of the American Association. The Eagles will do the same in the National Association.
Here are the 1st round confrontations.
National association
The Philadelphia Eagles (14-3) will be the team to beat in the National Conference, having been granted a first-round bye.
The Niners have been a force all season. Despite the departure of the two quarterbacks, Jimmy Garoppolo and Trey Lance, it was the very little known Brock Purdy who shone brightly. It must be said that the arrival of carrier Christian Mcaffrey, from the Carolina Panthers, did not hurt. Kyle Shanahan's men will reunite with rivals Seattle Seahawks, who qualified following a loss to the Green Bay Packers on the very last day of the regular season.
The Vikings' big purple machine is well-oiled and will face the Giants, who hadn't qualified for the playoffs since 2016.
Tom Brady's Tampa Bay Buccaneers (8-9) advanced to the playoffs with their mediocre South Division championship. The Bucs became the sixth team in history to qualify for the playoffs with a negative record. But, Brady never lost to the Cowboys, winning all seven games he played against America's Team.
The Kansas City Chiefs (14-3) emulate the Eagles and won't make the first round due to their dominance in the AFC.
The Bills are a force in the NFL. Due to their quarterback Josh Allen, they have the third-best offense behind the Chiefs and Eagles. Plus, they'll have extra motivation as they'll definitely want to go far in the playoffs for teammate Damar Hamlin, who recently suffered a cardiac arrest in a game against the Bengals. The Dolphins, who finished just ahead of the New England Patriots in the East Division standings, qualify for the first time in six years.
The last Super Bowl finalists, the Bengals, had a superb season, unlike the recent champions, the Los Angeles Rams, who were eliminated. Joe Burrow's gang won't have it easy though, as they cross swords with Lamar Jackson and the Ravens.
The Jaguars hadn't qualified for the playoffs since 2017. But they enjoyed a season-ending five-game winning streak and, let's face it, a rather weak section to secure their qualification.
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Ron Wyden and doctors organizations are lobbying for a permanent fix instead.
House Republican leaders found a way Thursday to swiftly circumvent bipartisan opposition to controversial "doc fix" legislation.
In neck-breaking fashion, GOP leadership took to the House floor in the morning and voice-voted a one-year patch to the Sustainable Growth Rate — a pricey formula that determines how much the government pays doctors who treat Medicare patients.
Republican leaders worked with their Democratic counterparts to orchestrate the ploy. As members returned to the floor when the House came into session, they discovered that the bill had already passed. Nearly all of them were surprised.
No one had the chance to vote no; no one had a chance to vote yes.
The maneuver came after a long delay amid opposition that threatened to kill the bill and had GOP leaders trying to chart a course to pass it. It was a slick move, to say the least, for a Republican leadership team that for years was obsessed with operating the House under "regular order." Even before the delay, GOP leadership was considering a voice vote. They asked Democrats early Thursday about the tactic. Democrats were initially skeptical but later agreed.
But this time, Republican leaders were constrained: They would have had to find upwards of 270 yes votes to pass the bill under the fast-track mechanism they set up. They could have waited until next week to lower that threshold to 218 votes but decided to move ahead Thursday.
In the latest in a long line of crises, physicians face a 24 percent pay cut under Medicare on April 1 if Congress doesn't act. The Senate still has to act to avert that cut.
"There was bipartisan, bicameral support for reform this year, yet too many in Congress lacked the courage and wherewithal to permanently fix Medicare to improve care for patients and provide greater certainty for physician practices," AMA president Ardis Dee Hoven said in a statement.
Some of the House opposition was from members who wanted a long-term repair to the flawed formula instead of a patch. There's growing bipartisan consensus on how to replace the formula — but deep partisan division on how to pay for it.
But House opponents didn't protest the patch, as they were able to see it pass without voicing approval or disapproval.
"The problem is if we would let it expire," Rep. John Fleming (R-La.), who said he would have opposed the bill in a roll call vote.
"I don't know if I felt comfortable if we would be able to [get another deal]," he said. "There is still a commitment from leadership that we will continue to work" on the permanent solution.
Democrats who were on the floor at the time were surprised.
"We were just assuming there would be a roll call vote," said Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.).
Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) said he would have voted against the bill.
But he said he doubts the patch bill can get through the Senate, where it's expected to come to a vote Monday.
The new chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Ron Wyden of Oregon, opposed the patch. It was also opposed by all of the major physician lobbying groups. The combination made the Republican rank and file nervous about supporting the bill.
House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid personally negotiated the one-year patch.
Wyden and the doctors organizations lobbied for a permanent fix instead, but there was no public Republican support for his method of paying for the $180 billion measure — using unspent war funds to cover part of the cost. However, Wyden said Thursday afternoon that some Republicans have told him that they might be willing to use the Overseas Contingency Operations money.
Wyden wouldn't say if he would object to the Senate trying to pass the House's doc fix bill. Instead, he reiterated that he is still hoping to get a permanent SGR repeal measure.
The House vote, he said, proves that the chamber was deeply divided.


Victoria Amplifier Co. proudly announces the introduction of its new "Regal II" vacuum tube guitar amplifier. A combo amp featuring reverb and tremolo, The Regal II is a pure, single-ended class A design that utilizes a new "Adaptive Transformer Technology" that allows for the use of one or two power tubes at the same time. Therefore, operating power is rated from 5 watts to 35 watts; and at 5 watts, it's a REAL 5 watts, not some squashed approximation of 5 watts.
The Regal II is designed around a custom bifilar output transformer that is essentially two discrete transformers driving a common speaker load. This allows for the use of any combination of common 8 pin power tubes - from a single 6V6 delivering 5 watts of pure class A power, to two EL-34's for 35 watts. And because each tube is relating to its own independent transformer winding and bias resistor, any combination of different tubes types can be auditioned. Whether it be a single 6V6 or 6L6GC or a combination of the two (yes that's right, a 6V6 and a 6L6GC at the same time) the Regal II never needs biasing or adjustments when changing tubes. This versatility is also extended to rectifier tubes; the Regal II can accept any common 5 Volt rectifier including 5Y3, 5V4, 5U4, and 5AR4 with no adjustments nessessary.
The results speak for themselves, and Victoria amplifiers continue to be acknowledged by players and critics alike as clearly superior in construction, durability, and tone among small-production, custom amplifiers built today at any price.
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text: THE START OF MY OLYMPIC JOURNEYWhen I was 13, I knew that I wanted to do something in sport, but I didnÕt know which discipline. I was really happy when I found Nordic combined. Jumping, on the one hand, and cross-country skiing, on the other hand: it seemed like a balanced process. It was not an easy decision because I told my parents that I didnÕt want to work in the family business. When I made this decision, it was also a commitment to try to do the best that I could, and to try to use every day to get a little bit better than I was the day before. At 13, it was quite late to take up something like ski jumping, but I obviously adapted pretty fast because by 1994, at the age of 18, I was at the Olympic Winter Games in Lillehammer Ð my first Games out of five. WITH SEVEN OLYMPIC MEDALS, AUSTRIA'S FELIX GOTTWALD IS THE GAMES' MOST DECORATED NORDIC COMBINED ATHLETE OF ALL TIME. HERE, HE REFLECTS ON AN OLYMPIC CAREER THAT BEGAN IN 1994, AND REVEALS HOW HIS EXPERIENCES AT THE GAMES HAVE SHAPED HIS LIFE FELIX GOTTWALDMY GAMESMY FIRST GAMESI canÕt say that I look back that fondly at my first Games in 1994, because they were not the best results for me, but those Games definitely had the biggest impact on me. I will never forget the huge crowd of 100,000 people watching the cross-country races. I was just doing my warm-up for the competition and I was going too fast [because of the energy from the crowd]. I was almost too tired by the start of the race! It was a totally new experience for me.FINDING SUCCESS I was young in Lillehammer and didnÕt have the experience of something like the Youth Olympic Games. I had to gain this experience at the Olympic Games Ð and not only in Lillehammer, but also in Nagano four years later. It took until my third Games, in Salt Lake City, for me to be able to win my first medal. I won three bronze medals there, and afterwards I had to ask myself a question: ÒWhatÕs next?Ó Having been on the podium, I decided that I wanted to stand on the top and win an Olympic gold medal. I had four years to prepare and then, at the Games in Turin, I won two gold medals and one silver. After that, I decided to retire from competition because I wanted to change my life. I was not mentally ÒfreshÓ anymore, even though I was still in shape physically. That was reason enough to quit, and I didnÕt know if I would ever come back. RETURNING TO COMPETITIONI had a two-year break from 2007 to 2009. It was a really important break. I did other things. I wrote a book and got a different perspective on the Olympic Games. But then I had this feeling. I was working for Austrian tPicturedelevision during Felix Gottwald on the way to his third Olympic gold medal in Vancouver72 OLYMPIC REVIEW MY GAMES


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Philip Seymour Hoffman Leaves Indelible Bond In 'Most Wanted Man'
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The late actor Philip Seymour Hoffman appears in a supporting role in two more Hunger Games films. But his last significant work is starring in the new espionage drama "A Most Wanted Man." The film is based on a 2008 novel by John le Carre and also features Rachel McAdams, Willem Defoe and Robin Wright. Film critic David Edelstein has this review.
DAVID EDELSTEIN, BYLINE: Part of me wishes that Philip Seymour Hoffman's final lead performance in "A Most Wanted Man" wasn't very good. I know that sounds perverse, but if he'd been flailing as an actor at the end, it would make his loss easier to bear from an artistic, if not a human, perspective. The thing is, though, the actor we see in this movie is at his absolute peak. This might even be my favorite Hoffman performance of all - dammit. It's not by a long shot my favorite of his films, but it's a strong platform. It gives him the material he needs. In this adaptation of John le Carre's 2008 novel, Hoffman plays German spymaster Gunther Bachmann, whose a bit like a post-Cold War, post-9/11 version of le Carre's most famous spy George Smiley. The director of a secretive antiterrorist unit, Bachmann smokes and drinks heavily and spends hours staring into video monitors. But this self-described cave dweller has a rare grasp of human complexity. He understands, like Smiley, that in espionage, you don't blunder in and whisk people away to be tortured. You forge bonds. You make suspects see it's in their interest to come to your side. You play the long game. The setting of "A Most Wanted Man" is Hamburg, where an escaped prisoner named Issa Karpov has just hopped off a boat. He's the devout Muslim son of a corrupt Russian general and a Chechen woman. And it emerges that he has a vast inheritance waiting for him at a German bank. Many in the intelligence community want to whisk Issa away for extreme interrogation, but Bachmann doesn't think he's a true jihadist. Bachmann thinks this sprawling port city is full of confused people with mixed sympathies and that his German superiors and hovering CIA agents are poised to destroy both lives and potential leads to bigger targets. Director Anton Corbijn serves up plenty of good foggy, rainy ambiguity. But "A Most Wanted Man" is not a clean piece of storytelling. The novel isn't either. After the fall of the Soviet Union and the rise of free range terrorism, le Carré had to relearn the art of puzzle making. The screenwriter Andrew Bovell takes that puzzle apart for the screen and then doesn't quite know what to do with all the pieces. Among the characters drawn into Issa's orbit are a Turkish mother and son, a German banker, played by Willem Dafoe, who's struggling with the corrupt legacy of his father and a CIA string-puller, played by Robin Wright, whose sympathies are veiled in a way that makes Bachmann and the audience squirm. The movie doesn't really snap into focus until the last 30 minutes when Bachmann's people roughly kidnap Issa's lawyer and human rights advocate played by Rachel McAdams and toss her in a cell. As she lies on a hard bed, Bachmann attempts to convince her that where the young man's well-being is concerned, they're on the same side.
(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "A MOST WANTED MAN")
PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN: (As Gunther Bachmann) Your choice is between us and nobody. The clock is ticking. You know they'll find him, and when they do, he'll be on the first plane back to Russia unless the Americans want him dead. We won't know where he is and nor will he.
RACHEL MCADAMS: (As Annabel Richter) He doesn't want the money. He just doesn't want it.
HOFFMAN: (As Gunther Bachmann) Half radical - half rich kid - half Russian - half Chechen - loves his mother - hates his father. You and I both know he's a (unintelligible) that has no idea what he wants.
EDELSTEIN: You listen to Hoffman in that scene and think, I'd do anything he told me. Many actors can attain emotional authenticity, but Hoffman's work here is intellectually true. He gives Bachmann every ounce of his own moral integrity. You feel no gap between the actor and his role. As Hoffman grew heavier and more sodden in the last year of his life, he became, as an actor, even more intensely inward. There's a great sadness in the character of Bachmann but, also, glimmers of childlike hope that all this thinking will somehow cut through the entrenched stupidity and violence and make the world a better place. Hoffman, I believe, had the same feeling about his acting - that by showing us the workings of a character's mind, he could do what great novelists do, connecting with us on a level most actors never approach. And though he's gone, the bond he forges with us in "A Most Wanted Man" is indelible.
BIANCULLI: David Edelstein is film critic for New York Magazine. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
David Edelstein is a film critic for New York magazine and for NPR's Fresh Air, and an occasional commentator on film for CBS Sunday Morning. He has also written film criticism for the Village Voice, The New York Post, and Rolling Stone, and is a frequent contributor to the New York Times' Arts & Leisure section.
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The board of directors of the Pamlico County Community Foundation announces 2015 awards from its community endowment, according to Pat Prescott, board president.
The Pamlico County Community Foundation was formed in 2002. Local board members include: Pat Prescott (president), Mary T. Skinner (vice-president), Heather Brewer (secretary), Cynthia Lee Mayo (treasurer), Flora Moorman (grant chair), Sally Belangia, Timothy Buck, Ann A. Holton, Gary Mastrodonato and Julia R. Mobley.
Tax-deductible contributions can be made to the Pamlico County Community Fund, which is administered by the NCCF. Contributions should be made payable to the Pamlico County Community Fund and mailed to the NCCF Regional Office, P.O. Box 3411, New Bern, NC 28564. For information on the Pamlico County Community Foundation and its community fund, contact any local board member or Kim Ball, NCCF regional associate, at 252-288-5706 or kball@nccommunityfoundation.org.


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He said one hundred and ten, and, 'course, that's all!
He's gonna arrest me and take me to the promised land?
Got my dog and got the house with most of the furnishings and a job.
Got my health back too. Doc tried to put me on anti-depressants. No way Jose! Got my medical card and take a spoonful of meds every night. Got 2 recommendations in my medical records for that old miracle herb.


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I think many of the songs you have written are real masterpieces, and I'll always listen to them and associate them with this special time.
I must say that while I'm delighted that you'll be coming out from your isolation I am really going to miss this blog! It's been great logging on in the evenings to find out what you've been up to and some of your recordings have been really fantastic – I'm looking forward to the "album". Awesome work!
I will miss this dayly routine of reading and listening, but am so happy it will be replaced my a human called yaz. This has been such an amazing project, you have done so well. Great work…GREAT WORK!
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Transdermal Entertainment, a brand new production company, has been formed to develop and produce independent, cutting-edge feature length films with mid-range budgets, as well as create an interactive medium to serve as a bridge between the filmmaker and audience.
Headed by Brandon Fowler, Transdermal Entertainment is in pre-production on two dramas, "Deterium" and "Reverie". "Reverie" will be finished by late fall 2002, and "Deterium" is scheduled to wrap in spring, 2003.
"Reverie" is about two young guys making a documentary about the homeless and how it changes their lives forever. The film was written and will be directed by Anthony Perretta and stars Nate Dushku (Antitrust), Marina Black ("Six Feet Under"), and A.J. Buckley (Blue Car). "Deterium", written and directed by Fowler, revolves around two young adults who are affected by traumatic experiences as children and follows their struggle to free themselves from their haunted past.
"I see Transdermal Entertainment becoming a sort of refuge for both emerging and established artists in the entertainment industry," Fowler says of his company. Brandon Fowler has been writing, directing, and producing independent feature films for the past four years. In 1998 he wrote, directed, and produced his first film "18", starring Dee Wallace Stone (E.T the Extra Terrestrial) and Cory Pendergast (Murder in Small Town X).
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Hey whats up Pizzas'?! This week it's National Video Game Day and we have a loaded show for you guys. We are talking about our favorite video games that the rest of the world seems to have forgotten. We start off by talking about stand up comedy, slowly transition itself into talk of things like whiskey, Destiny 2, and whether or not PewDiePie is a racist.


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El Observatorio Van Vleck (nombre original en inglés: Van Vleck Observatory; al que corresponden las siglas VVO; código UAI 298) es un observatorio astronómico propiedad de la Universidad Wesleyana, que también se encarga de operarlo. Construido en 1914, su nombre es un homenaje al antiguo director del Departamento de Matemáticas y Astronomía de la universidad, el profesor John Monroe Van Vleck (1833-1912). Está localizado en Middletown, Connecticut (EE.UU.). Fue diseñado y planificado por su primer director, el astrónomo Frederick Slocum.

Telescopios
La Universidad posee tres telescopios. Los telescopios de 16 pulgadas (410 mm) y de 20 pulgadas (510 mm) son utilizados semanalmente por la comunidad universitaria y por el público en general para la observación astronómica nocturna. El tercero, un instrumento de 24 pulgadas (610 mm) denominado Telescopio Perkins, es utilizado principalmente para la investigación, incluyendo astrónomos profesionales y proyectos de tesis de estudiantes de posgrado, así como para programas de investigación departamentales. El Perkins es uno de los telescopios más grandes de Nueva Inglaterra.

La Universidad Wesleyana participa en un consorcio de universidades que operan el WIYN, un telescopio de 9 metros ubicado en el Observatorio Nacional de Kitt Peak en Arizona. El alumnado y la facultad tienen la oportunidad de disponer de tiempo operativo de este telescopio. La Universidad Wesleyana también es miembro del Consorcio de Astronomía Keck Nordeste (KNAC).

Directores

Véase también
Anexo:Códigos de observatorios astronómicos

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Van Vleck Observatory homepage

Universidad Wesleyana

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Boy Scouts of America Ordered To Turn Over Confidential Files in Sex Abuse Case
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A California judge recently ordered the Boy Scouts of America to hand over confidential files detailing allegations of sexual abuse by Scout leaders as part of a lawsuit brought by the family of a boy molested by his troop leader.
According to a CBS/AP report, the documents sought are known as "ineligible volunteer files," which are intended to keep those accused of sexual misconduct out of the Boy Scouts. Boy Scouts officials have fought the release of these files by arguing that it will violate victims' privacy rights and that many files are based on unproven allegations. Furthermore, the Boy Scouts are asserting that these files have not been used to conceal sexual abuse.
The victim's parents in this case were told not to call the police by an official because the Boy Scouts perform their own internal investigation of sexual abuse allegations. Based the widespread sexual abuse that has occurred in this organization throughout the country, these so-called "internal investigations" clearly are either completely ineffective or nonexistent.
As an experienced Chicago trial lawyer, I feel that the Boy Scouts of America resisted releasing the "ineligible volunteer files" because the contents of the files will expose the organization's extensive concealment of sexual abuse claims over the past decades. The Boy Scouts of America owed to each boy who participates in the organization a duty to protect them from pedophiles. Unfortunately, this organization has fallen woefully short of satisfying this duty.
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Why do readers get angry about books they love?
There's something unique about reading a well-written novel, regardless of its category or genre. It's a deeply personal experience. As you read, the words fade from your immediate consciousness and you're in the moment, seeing and hearing and feeling what the character is experiencing. Unlike watching a movie or TV show, you're inside the character's head. You've become the character, emotionally. That's why we become so attached to characters in novels, and why we feel their pain so intensely.
And yet, a novel is something that we can share with others. It is a personal experience that other people have experienced too, so discussing a novel with another person is a way of communicating deep feelings. We're not alone. Someone else has been where we've been, and can understand how we feel. We can laugh at the same jokes, and cry at the same pain. We can smile at the same beauty and exclaim at the same shocks. We share. We're together.
But what happens if we disagree?
Someone is now telling you that your deep feelings are invalid. The journey you went through while reading the novel isn't quite the journey you should have taken. You're not only wrong, you're wrong in a deeply emotional, fundamental way. You read the same words, but you missed the real experience. The implication: you are flawed.
The more a novel means to its readers, the greater the potential for highly emotional debate. Young adult fiction series, in particular, is open to such emotionally charged disputes. At a time in life when change is constant and identity is still being defined, readership often finds solace in fiction.
In social media, conversation is one step removed from the natural inhibitions of personal socialization, particularly if participants don't know each other in real life. Online interactions about novels can quickly lead to disagreements, and it's not uncommon for a small sector to become strident and intense in denunciation of rivals.
The reasons are probably complex, but may be partially due to the deep emotional connection these readers feel with the characters, and the pain they endure when others disagree with their experience – the invalidation they suffer if someone implies they're wrong. Anger is a common response to buried pain, particularly when a person is unaware of it. Defense mechanisms kick in, and they lash out. These strikes provoke pain in others, and a degenerating cycle begins.
That doesn't excuse bad behaviour. People can be hurt and angry without taking it out on others. It may, however, help explain a small sector of readers who become angry and strident.
It can be difficult to deal with such behaviour, but hitting back is rarely constructive.
Moderators of forums may be able to be encourage acceptance of a variety of interpretations and block those who persist in abusive language, but public platforms aren't able to be controlled. Perhaps the best we can do is to be determined not to engage in hostile interactions, remembering that some who perpetuate the aggression are dealing with their own problems.
A few months ago I snuck into a packed-out, quiet room where Brooke Davis and Favel Parrett spoke with Courtney Collins. These soft-spoken young women held the audience at the Newcastle Writers Festival spellbound as they talked about writing and life, and telling a story "through the eyes of a child". I've reviewed Favel Parrett's Past the Shallows and Courtney Collins' The Burial, and it's high time I completed the trio with Brooke Davis' debut novel, Lost and Found.
Davis gives us the story of seven-year-old Millie, who discovers her dog dead on the road, then witnesses the death of a old man hit by a car. She receives rather confusing explanations from her parents about these events, and as she notices other things dying around her, begins to record them.
She wasn't to know that after she had recorded twenty-seven assorted creatures in her Book of Dead Things – Spider, The Bird, Grandma, next door's cat Gertrude, among others – her dad would be a Dead Thing, too. That she'd write it next to the number twenty-eight in letters so big they took up two pages: MY DAD.
Through Millie's eyes we see her mother falling apart, though she doesn't fully understand what's happening, culminating in Millie's abandonment at a department store. Her mother tells her to stand right near the Ginormous Women's Undies and says, I'll be right back. It's the last we or Millie see of her.
Millie hides out in the department store and befriends eighty-seven year old Karl the Touch Typist in the store cafe, who is adrift since losing the love of his life. When store employees discover Millie's predicament and call authorities, Karl helps her escape. Completing the main cast is Agatha Pantha, who lives across the street from Millie's house. She's an angry eighty-two year old who hasn't left her house since her husband died, but is reluctantly drawn into looking after Millie. The three embark on a journey to find Millie's mum, but discover there's more to life than they expected.
The language of Lost and Found is beguiling. Millie's voice is fresh with lack of self-consciousness, and an internal logic that comes from observation and limited information. Karl is more at home pretending to type words than saying them; his internal monologues reveal his longing to be more than he is. Agatha's outbursts at everyone and everything hide a deep anxiety and pain that she keeps at bay only with her anger.
It's a story about death and loss, how we hide from it, how we deal with it or refuse to deal with it. It's also a story about the extremes of age, the young and the old, and how those in between can fail to treat our children and elders like real people with loves, fears, hopes and dreams as important as our own.
Though Lost and Found is written in the viewpoint of all three characters, I have to confess to a preference for the Millie sections. Perhaps that's because, in spite of her losses and sadness, she maintains her hope. Ultimately it is her hope and naive longing to be reunited with her mother, in contrast with Karl's almost despairing determination and Agatha's reluctant intervention, that drives their journey, allowing them to see past their own pain and ultimately find comfort.


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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- Salem College's president is speaking out about the school's mounting debt.
The college owes about $26 million.
It has been put on probation.
The college has to show the debt has been eliminated before being taken off probation.
It owes around $26 million and was put on probation by the accrediting association.
President Sandra Doran says the college is aggressively working to reduce its debt but students won't see an increase in tuition.
"Our goal is to enhance the student experience. Everything we do from this day forward is going to be focused on that student experience and what we as a college need to do is to be make sure that every student that is here gets that experience," said Doran.
Part of the debt came from a new student center that was built in 2014 for close to $7 million. The accrediting association says the college is still in good standing.
It will have to show it's eliminated the debt before being taken off probation.


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Candidates speak at a Republican U.S. Senate forum on Feb. 3, 2022, in Fort Lupton. (Olivia Sun, The Colorado Sun via Report for America)
Colorado Republicans' path to unseating Democratic U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet could hinge on a slate of six upstart GOP candidates whose decision to try to use the unpredictable caucus and assembly process to get on the ballot is heaping volatility onto a race with national consequences.
Because the candidates all lack name recognition, even within their own party, there is no clear frontrunner and it's anyone's guess who will prevail when Republicans gather on April 9 at the GOP state assembly to decide who should advance to the June 28 primary.
"It is more volatile and more open than we've seen in a long time," Dick Wadhams, a former Colorado GOP chairman, said of this year's caucus and assembly process.
Here's how the caucus and assembly process works: Republican voters gather in small numbers at precinct caucuses to elect delegates, often based on which candidates they support. Those delegates then go on to represent their precincts — often a neighborhood — at state assembly.
Candidates running for U.S. Senate who are seeking a spot on the primary ballot through the caucus and assembly process need the support of 30% of the delegates at the state assembly to advance to the June primary.
That means a maximum of three, but more likely two and possibly only one, of the six GOP challengers going the caucus and assembly route will make the primary ballot on April 9.
U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet speaks to reporters in Clear Creek County on Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2022. The Democrat is up for reelection in 2022. (Andy Colwell, Special to The Colorado Sun)
It's the "dumpster fire of all electoral processes," said Tyler Sandberg, a GOP political consultant.
"It is a just byzantine process that is impossible for anyone to understand, let alone the average voter," he said. "It's going to be a 10-car pileup at state assembly."
Precinct caucuses, the first step in the process, were held last week at high schools across the state. And like high school, precinct caucuses are incredibly unwieldy.
Turnout can be low since caucuses force people to show up at a specific date and time, leaving some precincts with no delegates. Candidate name recognition can be little to none among caucusgoers. And delegates can always change their mind when it comes to who they support.
Add in a field of U.S. Senate candidates that GOP voters are still getting to know, and it's essentially a free for all
Attendees listen as candidates speak at a Republican U.S. Senate forum on Feb. 3, 2022, in Fort Lupton. (Olivia Sun, The Colorado Sun via Report for America)
Wadhams said he didn't think the U.S. Senate GOP slate worked very hard to try to persuade supporters to become delegates, leaving the battle to make the primary ballot especially wide open.
"In the Senate (race), most of these people are really unknown," he said. "They are people who haven't had much visibility in the party before."
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The power vacuum could be filled by a Senate candidate with the best name ID, such as state Rep. Ron Hanks, a Fremont County Republican who has embraced and spread unfounded conspiracies about fraud in the 2020 presidential election. Or it could be filled by a candidate who simply gives the best speech to delegates at the state assembly.
Hanks declined to discuss his caucus and assembly strategy, but he said he feels confident "where we're at right now."
"We've got a good plan in the works," he said. "I really have no worries on this. I'm putting this on faith."
Ron Hanks speaks at a Republican U.S. Senate candidate forum on Feb. 3, 2022, in Fort Lupton. (Olivia Sun, The Colorado Sun via Report for America)
Only Denver businessman Joe O'Dea is trying to make the Republican U.S. Senate primary ballot through the much more predictable, though very expensive, signature-gathering process. He must turn in 1,500 signatures from GOP voters in each of Colorado's eight congressional districts to secure his spot in the primary.
Going the signature-gathering route this year will probably cost anywhere from $200,000 to $500,000 for a statewide candidate, money that O'Dea, a multimillionaire, has. Hanks, by comparison, raised less than $20,000 in the last three months of last year.
The only other Republican Senate candidate with enough campaign cash or personal wealth to try to make the ballot by gathering signatures is Gino Campana, a former Fort Collins city councilman. But he opted for the caucus-assembly route instead, which at a recent candidate forum he called "the good, old-fashioned … process."
The other four Republican U.S. Senate candidates seeking to make the primary ballot through the caucus and assembly process are former talk radio host Deborah Flora, former El Paso County GOP Chairman Eli Bremer, Colorado Christian University Professor Gregory Moore and Peter Yu, who has worked in sales and marketing.
Candidates who decide to go the caucus and assembly route save money, but subject themselves to the whims of a relatively small group of fickle party insiders.
The volatility of the process was on full display in Colorado's 2016 Republican U.S. Senate primary, when El Paso County Commissioner Darryl Glenn shocked the Colorado political world after he secured so much support at the GOP state assembly that year after delivering an inspiring speech that he kept several other candidates, including favorite Tim Neville, then a state senator, from the ballot.
Glenn went on to win the GOP primary, but lost to Bennet in the general election.
Republican U.S. Seante candidate Darryl Glenn laughs during his debate with U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., at History Colorado late Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2016, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
In 2018, seven GOP gubernatorial candidates in Colorado sought ballot access through the caucus and assembly process. Only two secured at least 30% of the delegate vote: then-Treasurer Walker Stapleton and former Parker Mayor Greg Lopez.
Lopez's victory came as a shock and meant that then-Attorney General Cynthia Coffman was denied a spot on the primary ballot.
"I still have PTSD from that day," said Roger Hudson, a Castle Pines city councilman who was Coffman's campaign spokesman. "I wake up in cold sweats."
Hudson also worked on Glenn's 2016 Senate campaign, which he says was an example of how at the state assembly "anything can happen and often does."
The unpredictability of the caucus and assembly route was on full display last week for three Colorado Sun reporters who visited precinct caucus locations in Arapahoe, Douglas and Jefferson counties.
Republica caucus goers gather at Cherry Creek High School in Arapahoe County on Tuesday, March 1, 2022. (Jesse Paul, The Colorado Sun)
At Cherry Creek High School, where turnout was tepid, the first two caucusgoers a Sun reporter approached couldn't name even one of the GOP's U.S. Senate candidates. The next five all said they support Flora, a Douglas County mother who has picked up a following because of her recent activism in local school issues. She has not held elected office before.
"Deborah Flora brought national attention to what was going on in schools in her comments during school board meetings," said Jaclyn Lauer, a Republican voter from Centennial. "I was really intrigued by her tenacity and how well spoken she was."
Renee Anderson, a precinct captain at ThunderRidge High School in Highlands Ranch, said Flora is her pick in the Senate race too. She's heard Flora speak at various Republican events and had the opportunity to talk to her about water issues.
"I think Deborah Flora is very smart," Anderson said. "She has reached out to anybody who will listen. She hears what they have to say and incorporates it into how (she can) make that better at the federal level as a senator."
Deborah Flora speaks at a Republican U.S. Senate candidate forum on Feb. 3, 2022, in Fort Lupton. (Olivia Sun, The Colorado Sun via Report for America)
Wadhams said the Republican precinct caucus he attended in southern Jefferson County last week was sparsely attended, too, "which is a little surprising because there's so much enthusiasm among Republicans about the possibilities in 2022 and the fact that we have very competitive primaries."
Since precinct caucuses are where delegates to the county and state assemblies are chosen, low turnout means little competition to become a delegate.
Republicans at another precinct caucus at Arvada West High School were disappointed by the low turnout, and noted a lack of volunteers to head up precincts. There wasn't much talk about the Senate race. Conversation centered on baseless concerns about fraud caused by Dominion Voting Systems equipment, as well as a perceived need for a voter identification requirement.
"I'm still concerned about the (voting) machines," said Marc Auville, a precinct chair from Arvada, claiming the machines would benefit Democrats, and Republicans should therefore turn out in force. Mention of Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters' run for secretary of state generated nods of approval from the room.
"I think we all are," another man responded.
Colorado Sun staff writers Thy Vo and Jennifer Brown contributed to this report.
UPDATE: This story was updated at 9:40 a.m. on Monday, March 7, 2022, to reflect that Eli Bremer is trying to make the Republican U.S. Senate primary ballot through the caucus and assembly process.
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Blake Griffin produced a career-best 50-point performance and hit a game-winning overtime shot as the Detroit Pistons beat the Philadelphia 76ers.
Tuesday night's results
Philadelphia 76ers 132-133 Detroit Pistons (OT)
Blake Griffin scored a career-high 50 points, including a game-winning three-point play with 1.8 seconds left in overtime, as the Detroit Pistons edged the visiting Philadelphia 76ers 133-132.
Griffin, whose previous career best was 47 points, made 20 of 35 field-goal attempts and five of 11 free-throw attempts. He added 14 rebounds and six assists.
Reggie Jackson supplied 23 points, Ish Smith tossed in 21 off the bench and Reggie Bullock added 17 for Detroit. Andre Drummond had 14 points and 16 rebounds before he was ejected late in regulation after picking up his second technical foul.
Joel Embiid racked up 33 points, 11 rebounds and seven assists, and JJ Redick had 30 points, six rebounds and six assists for Philadelphia. Robert Covington chipped in 16 points and eight rebounds.
Philadelphia point guard Ben Simmons missed the game due to back tightness.
Points: Joel Embiid -33
Assists: TJ McConnell – 8
Rebounds: Joel Embiid – 11
Points: Blake Griffin – 50
Assists: Blake Griffin – 6
Rebounds: Andre Drummond – 16
Griffin scored the first points of overtime, a three-pointer from the top of the key. He then found Smith in transition for another trey. Philadelphia then reeled off eight of the next 10 points, including a Redick three-pointer that tied it at 128-all.
Redick missed a long two, then fouled Jackson with 20.5 seconds left. Jackson made both free throws.
Redick then came off a screen and drilled a three-pointer from the left wing while getting fouled by Jackson. Redick completed the four-point play to give the 76ers a 132-130 lead with 5.6 seconds remaining. Detroit called timeout.
Griffin then took the inbounds pass, drove the lane and made a layup while getting fouled by Covington. Griffin hit the 50-point mark to give Detroit the one-point lead.
Philadelphia took their last timeout before Embiid missed a three-point attempt at the buzzer.
Los Angeles Clippers 109-116 New Orleans Pelicans
Anthony Davis had 34 points and 13 rebounds as the New Orleans Pelicans continued their early-season roll with a 116-109 home victory over the Los Angeles Clippers.
The Clippers held the Pelicans to 24 fewer points than they had averaged in winning their first two games, but New Orleans still improved to 3-0 for the first time since the 2010-11 season.
Points: Tobias Harris – 26
Assists: Patrick Beverley – 8
Rebounds: Patrick Beverley – 10
Points: Anthony Davis – 34
Assists: Elfrid Payton – 6
Rebounds: Anthony Davis – 13
Elfrid Payton added 20 points, Nikola Mirotic had 18 points and 12 rebounds, Julius Randle scored 18 points off the bench, and E'Twaun Moore chipped in 14 points.
Tobias Harris led Los Angeles with 26 points, Danilo Gallinari scored 24, Lou Williams added 17 off the bench and Montrezl Harrell and Patrick Beverley had 12 each.
Sacramento Kings 112-126 Denver Nuggets
Nikola Jokic had 14 points and 12 rebounds in just 23 minutes and Jamal Murray scored 19 as the Denver Nuggets rolled to a 126-112 homecourt win over the Sacramento Kings.
Gary Harris added 18 points and Paul Millsap scored 15 for the Nuggets who extended their unbeaten record to 4-0, their best start to a season since the 2009-10 season when they won their opening five games.
Points: Marvin Bagley III – 20
Assists: Frank Mason – 7
Rebounds: Marvin Bagley III – 9
Points: Jamal Murray – 19
Assists: Monte Morris – 7
Rebounds: Nikola Jokic – 12
Marvin Bagley III had 20 points and Justin Jackson scored 17 points for Sacramento, who wrapped up a three-game road trip.
Sacramento became the first team to break 100 against the Nuggets, but it was window dressing given Denver built a 91-66 lead midway through the third quarter. The lead grew to as much as 27 in the fourth with Denver's starters sitting on the bench.
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The multi-year study focused on advertising efforts surrounding cholesterol-reducing prescription medications. Jayawardhana found increased levels of consumer welfare due to direct-to-consumer advertising than when compared to situations without this type of marketing. Her research, which was published in the International Journal of Industrial Organization, concludes that such efforts also spurred under-diagnosed patients to seek medical treatment.
Federal deregulation of prescription drug marketing in 1997 lowered cost barriers and enabled manufacturers to advertise prescription drugs without including a detailed summary of the product. Since the relaxation of those rules, advertising spending from pharmaceutical companies has increased by more than 200 percent.
Jayawardhana, a health economist in the college's department of health policy and management, said her study was the first to provide an analysis of consumer welfare that demonstrated a connection to the increased marketing expenditures. It also adds further support to existing academic research suggesting that direct-to-consumer advertising efforts lead to a more informed and more inquisitive consumer, which could lead to better health outcomes.
Because of the role of physician in the decision-making process, pharmaceutical companies have to market their drugs to the two purchasing agents involved—the consumer and the physician.
Jayawardhana's research indicates those advertising efforts-to both consumers and physicians-are paying off. In addition to heightened consumer awareness, targeted advertising toward physicians has both an informative and persuasive effect on the selection of the drug.
Jayawardhana, who holds master's and doctoral degrees in economics from the University of Virginia, said critics of the federal deregulation have suggested the marketing spending boom could lead to a myriad of harmful results-such as patients requesting and receiving inappropriate drugs or higher dosages than necessary from their physician.
While such incidences may be possible, it is difficult to recognize such outcomes in the data. However, because physicians act as gatekeepers for prescription drugs and consumers have limited access to advertised products, such negative outcomes may be scarce, she said.
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Q: What's the best way to setup a lookup table when indexes aren't sequential? I have two enums defined thusly
enum foo {
    foo_a = 0x1,
    foo_b = 0x2,
    foo_c = 0x4,
    foo_d = 0x8,
    foo_e = 0x10,
    ..etc..
}

and
enum bar {
    bar_a = 0x1,
    bar_b = 0x2,
    bar_c = 0x4,
    bar_d = 0x8,
    bar_e = 0x10,
    ..etc..
}

Now, there's a 1 to 1 mapping between foo_[az] and bar_[az], and I'd like to look it up quickly.  The obvious way to do this is to do something declare something like
int table[][] = {
    [foo_a] = bar_c,
    [foo_b] = bar_a,
    [foo_c] = bar_b,
    ..etc..
}

and just look it up using result = table[(enum foo)temp].  But since these enums have been declared bitwise, the size of table grows exponentially.
Is there a simpler way to set things up at compile time?
One thing I considered doing something like
int table[][] = {
    [LOG(foo_a)] = bar_c,
    [LOG(foo_b)] = bar_a,
    [LOG(foo_c)] = bar_b,
    ..etc..
}

which would reduce the memory footprint, but I'm not aware of anyway to compute LOG at compile time.
Any other suggestions?
My only restriction is the following, I can't modify the enums in anyway because changing them would result in binary incompatibility.
Edit: Compile-time solutions preferred

A: Yes, you can "compute log at compile time" as long as the argument is a power of two:
#define LOG2P2(m) (((m)-1)/(((m)-1)%255+1) / 255%255*8 + 7-86/(((m)-1)%255+12))

This works for values of m up to around 2**2040 (much larger than any type on a real-world C implementation) and there's a version that works for even larger values where I got this one from, in the answer to the following question:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/4589384/379897

A: Just make a table of pairs:
int table[2][] = {
  { foo_a, bar_c },
  { foo_b, bar_a },
  /* ... */
};

Now sort it, and if you want, copy it to a second table which is sorted by the second value to do the reverse lookup.  Then do linear search if the table is only a dozen elements, or use bsearch() if it's large.

A: If you know the value of all the enums then you can calculate the log of all the enums and store them in a buffer. Or, you can write all the log. values (you are going to use) in a file and read that file to generate the table; in that way you will calculate the log. values only for the first time.

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Europe is unusual – it can monetise culture
By norman lebrecht
From culture columnist Janan Ganesh in the Financial Times:
… In the 1960s, Europe's power to bewitch outsiders with its cultural riches was an unambiguous asset. As the continent feels its way gingerly into a very different century, I question whether that is quite so true….
None of which is to pretend that Europe is a unique store of genius. China and India are much older civilisations. But they have been poor enough recently enough to be inoculated against lethargy. The US dominated many or most art forms in the past century. But those feats are not so old as to (yet) be a source of complacency. No, Europe is unusual in the extent to which it can monetise its cultural legacy, even its built environment, and draw status from it. If the result is a relative lack of energy, it did not matter when much of the world was cut off by ideology. It matters rather more in a century of ferocious competition….
Read on here.
Mustafa Kandan says:
Europe is the mother of the modern world globally and its civilisation is no longer confined to a particular geographical location. Its emphasis on the individual and the necessity for constant change or transformation was something totally unique and (in spite of some challenges) came to dominate the world that we know today. As the mother of the modern world, it makes sense for it to be a place of pilgrimage & (as a less positive feature) kitsch.
John Borstlap says:
Yes, but its civilization is double-edged. On one hand, Enlightenment values answer universal needs of humans anywhere, so when circumstances allow for it, people embrace these values, but the downside is the erosion of local cultures, and of its own culture. Within every culture on the planet, universal human experience is encoded; but the West has – with its focus on progress – enveloped all cultural knowledge which has been inscribed in cultural traditions, with the wrapping paper of 'the past' and thereby designating everything that humans have thought, achieved, experienced in the past, as 'no longer meaningful to the present and future' of the human species. This means that much knowledge and understanding is no longer 'mentally accessible' to many people. And in the end, this black hole of ignorance of the human condition undermines the West as well, with the result that this dark side of the West is now a problem everywhere.
Roland Berry says:
Tamino says:
Which art forms did the US dominate in the last century?
In Film or Pop the US dominated popular commercialization, but artistic originality was dominated by others.
Which art forms?
Ramon Figueroa says:
Only the second half of the twentieth century, while Europe was recovering but:
Musicals. They are a great American form and, at their best, very original.
Dance. Granted, Balanchine was trained and had most of his fundamental experiences in Europe (in Russia at that, which is its own entity somewhat separate from Europe), but The United States gave him the forum where his art flourished.
Until the advent of the blockbuster, US film was extremely influential, and it is constantly referred. It continues to be extremely influential, but in a completely degraded way.
And let me tell you, classical arts, especially opera, would be in much better shape if The United States market were still a full participant in it. But that time is past. Americans are getting an increasingly bad education in and out of the classroom (for political reasons).
Modern dance. And popular commercial successes
are sometimes artistic successes as well.
Dance? How so?
Can we agree, that "The US dominated many or most art forms in the past century" is nonsense?
Really??
Here are the top 19 tourist destinations in 2019. Only 5 (26%) are European cities.
19. Bali, Indonesia — 8.26 million
18. Palma de Mallorca, Spain — 8.96 million
17. Barcelona, Spain — 9.09 million
16. Milan, Italy — 9.10 million
15. Pattaya, Thailand — 9.44 million
14. Phuket, Thailand — 9.89 million
13. Mecca, Saudi Arabia — 10 million
12. Osaka, Japan — 10.14 million
11. Seoul, South Korea — 11.25 million
10. Antalya, Turkey — 12.41 million
9. Tokyo — 12.93 million
8. Istanbul — 13.4 million
7. New York City — 13.6 million
6. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia — 13.79 million
5. Singapore — 14.67 million.
4. Dubai, United Arab Emirates — 15.93 million
3. London — 19.09 million
2. Paris — 19.1 million
1. Bangkok — 22.78 million
If you have other metrics, share them. (Sorry, FT firewall, they certainly monetized THAT!)
Don Fatale says:
Talk about monetising! Article behind a FT paywall!
Sam, I know it's not your own list but as it's all we have left to comment on… Milan gets more tourists than Rome, Florence, Venice or Prague? Been there a few times for La Scala, can't think of any other reason to be there as a tourist.
Garrett Harris says:
Venice is 26-30 million per year.
MWnyc says:
How are they measuring? I can't help thinking that the numbers for Dubai and Singapore in particular include people changing planes at the airport. (If the numbers include people that decide to spend a day or two staying in Dubai or Singapore while traveling between continents, that should count, unless those people are simply staying at an airport hotel.)
But yes, the rise of the huge Chinese and Indian middle classes is making a big difference in international tourism.
Should pilgrims to Mecca count as tourists? It just doesn't seem like the same thing.
What's the relevance to the debated subject?
There is a paywall. The fragment as in the post seems to reveal the kind of woolly generalized thinking which does not touch any real theme but meanders along vague impressions. But the lack of energy in Europe on so many fronts is a real thing.
The malaise which can be noticed in Europe's cultural field, which has been pointedly described by Emmanuel Macron in his speech at recieving the Charlemagne Prize in Aachen in 2018, is the stalemate as a result of WW II and consequent urge to break with the past, ALL past. Impoverishment was logically the end result. Hence the development of the European museum culture in the visual arts and in music where 'the repertoire' is treated by management staff as a tourist product, while performers still do their very best to keep the music alive. The bubble of classical music is a good example, as are the museums with the 'old collections' and the historic city centres where the locals are pushed-out because of the rising house prices and rich foreigners buy-up the space since living in a chique museum is status-enhancing.
https://www.elysee.fr/emmanuel-macron/2018/05/10/speech-by-m-emmanuel-macron-president-of-the-republic-on-receiving-the-charlemagne-prize-1.en
China is surely older than Europe but Lang Lang plays européan classical music and is very famous for that and not classical chinese music ! Have you ever heard of a chinese Shakespeare ? A chinese Rembrandt ? 5000 years of civilisation to produce … well, not many valuable things apart fine porcelain cups.
Nonsense. Chinese literature and especially, Chinese poetry, is a rich trove of sophistication. When it began to be translated and read in the West, it quickly found many enthusiasts. Mahler's Lied von der Erde is based on such translations. Chinese painting on rolls of silk are world famous and preserved as precious treasures. The oracle book of I Ching still poses philosophical and religious puzzles to experts, and what is more, it is an ancient oracle that still works in the modern world. Chinese opera is powerfully expressive in its ritualistic intensity. Etc. etc…..
"With China being one of the earliest ancient civilizations, Chinese culture exerts profound influence on the philosophy, virtue, etiquette, and traditions of Asia to date. Chinese language, ceramics, architecture, music, dance, literature, martial arts, cuisine, visual arts, philosophy, business etiquette, religion, politics, and history have global influence, while its traditions and festivals are also celebrated, instilled, and practiced by people around the world."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_culture
Caranome says:
Michel: your statement is ignorance laced with chauvinism. Have you ever heard of gunpowder, paper, flood control, and many other inventions/discoveries of 5,000 years of Chinese civilization? Have you heard of–let alone been to–the National Palace Museum in Taiwan, universally recognized as the greatest repository of Chinese art, where you will find Chinese Shakespeare, Rembrandt, and other masters of crafts that put others to shame? Western culture has permeated across the world because western powers have dominated the world for the past 600 years. I suggest you educate yourself a bit more than the porcelain cup of knowledge and perspective you have.
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Books of 30 Kazakhstan's writers to be translated into Spanish
Talks with potential participants of the project for translating, publishing and promotion of the collection of the Kazakh literature into the Spanish language were completed in Madrid, Spain, BNews.kz correspondent reports.
The strategic partner of this Kazakhstani initiative realized in frames of Rukhani Zhangyru program is the Spanish Ministry of Culture, and Instituto Cervantes became a consultant of the project. Visor -Libros defined as the publishing house.
Translation of the collection of samples of modern Kazakh literature into six languages of the UN is realized within the framework of Modern Kazakhstan culture in the global world project. In its turn, this project is a part of Rukhani Zhangyru program initiated by President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev. The project's goal is to present to the world today the achievements of our literature, music and visual arts, choreography, cinema and theater for the years of independence.
Anthology of modern Kazakh poetry and Anthology of modern Kazakh prose will be translated in to Spanish. The volume of the each one is five hundred pages. Every anthology includes works by 30 Kazakhstan's writers. The structure and content were approved during the special session of Kazakhstan's Writers Union.
It should be noted the relevant memorandum was signed by Secretary of the national commission for the implementation Rukhani Zhangyru program Aida Balaeva and Visor Libros publishing house president Jesus Garcia Sanchez at the Kazakh Embassy in Madrid.
«Visor-Libros» is a specialized publishing house, working with foreign literature. The editorial board of the publishing house has many years of experience in translating, printing and promoting poets and writers who represent the culture of more than 10 countries. Visor-Libros, being the recognized publisher of Spain, is also widely known in Latin America and the Hispanic population of North America. In the framework of cooperation with Kazakhstan, the publishing house will participate in the distribution of anthologies of Kazakh literature outside of Spain. As you know, Spanish is native to the population not only of Spain but also of 18 other Latin American countries, as well as a number of other countries, together comprising about 600 million people.
«The most important thing for us is to ensure the high quality of the translation, which will reach the hearts of the Spanish readers. The joint work of our creative teams should serve as a bridge for further convergence of the Kazakh and Spanish culture, strengthening relations between our countries» Aida Balaeva stated at a meeting with the Spanish publisher.
In turn, the president of Visor-Libros publishing house Jesús García Sánchez stressed that it is an honor for him to be a part of such an undertaking, as it is not a political or commercial project, but an important cultural initiative.
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by Joe Panettieri • Jul 9, 2018
Good morning, channel partners. Here are five technology news updates, insights, chatter, and plenty more to start your day for Monday, July 9, 2018.
Actually, there are 13 timely updates designed for VARs, managed services providers (MSPs), cloud services providers (CSPs), independent software vendors (ISVs), telco master agents and telco agents to sip on. Take a look:
13. Huawei & U.S. Trade Sanctions: China's Huawei, the world's largest maker of telecommunication network equipment, does not see itself becoming the target of U.S. sanctions and will keep buying U.S. chips this year, according to this report.
12. IPO Weakness: Chinese smartphone maker Xiomi had a weaker-than-expected IPO, raising questions about the company's overall business prospects.
11. IPO – IoT Devices: Arlo Technologies, a Netgear business unit, apparently will pursue an IPO. The IoT device maker's revenues reached $100.6 million in the three months ended in April, and a net loss of $5.4 million, Barron's notes. For the full year ended in December, sales more than doubled to $370.7 million, with net income of $6.5 million, the report says.
10. Investment Lawsuit: An investor and his fund face a $20.3 million fine for a "disastrous, bad faith campaign to gain control and profit" from the sale of Basho Technologies Inc., a NoSQL provider, according to Law360.
9. Talent: The U.S. information technology (IT) sector added roughly 9,600 new jobs in June, marking the fifth consecutive month of employment gains, CompTIA, says
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7. MSP Institute: SolarWinds MSP has launched MSP Institute, a playbook for MSPs designed to provide training and tips through business, sales, marketing, and technical tracks from experts and industry leaders, the company says. The move comes a few weeks after SolarWinds MSP partnered with The 2112 Group to unveil an MSP benchmarking tool.
6. Private Equity Concerns: Investors in European leveraged loans are increasingly concerned that private equity firms are making overly-aggressive adjustments to portfolio companies' earnings to support higher debt loads, Reuters says.
5. M&A – Record Activity: More than $2.5 trillion in mergers were announced during the first half of the year, as fears of Silicon Valley's growing ambitions helped drive a record run of deal-making, The New York Times reports.
4. M&A – IT Services: LinkPoint IT Solutions Ltd. has acquired Radius Technologies Inc., a Canadian managed IT services provider primarily focused on SMB customers. We'll share more details soon.
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My Leeds Story Gold Championship 396
By Nick Justice,
April 24, 2014 in Gold Championships 376-400
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Basically on my return to Gold Championships, I decided to pick up Leeds United and in recent Gold Championships I must admit this side is possibly one if not my favourite sides I own, I have been on this game since 2006 and I admit that Gold Championships are not as 'Elite' as those previous to like 2008, I love this game and although its a shadow of its former self, I will probably continue to play the game for some what many more years as im only 2 years of the 10 year mark when I started I was 11 and i'm still here at 19 nearing 20 years of age, probably quite sad..But with working full-time now having a Fiancee and a beautiful beautiful little 4 month old Girl Penelope-Rose Lorna May Justice, most of my time is spent on more important things but I still spare somewhat a bit of me time which is relaxing and just making transfers and that on here which I really enjoy or going on my way to work I log on, or after work such as now logging on and relaxing before going back to work tomorrow, so here is my plan, I intend on updating this thread with regards to my squad, results, transfers and all that jazz for my Leeds United side in Gold Championship 396, if people read and enjoy it great if not I shall enjoy creating each post. So basically the season is rather far in now, its still the first season and I've drastically changed my Leeds side and I'm trying to create a great side like Leeds had during the period in the early 2000's and late 90's, With players in my Squad as good as Florenzi(89) of AS Roma and such. I have really enjoyed building this side and Intend on creating some fun posts keeping everyone up to date on my side and what is occurring whilst I'm at the club! As previously said though working full-time and my amazing family take up a lot of time so if for some reason people decide they really wont to read each post and enjoy it there will be posts as frequent as I'm free to make them ha, as rent and bills do not pay there own way ha that takes me working 60 hours a week with 10 hour shifts six days a week, but I love my life more than anything in the world, anyway onwards and enough of blabbing on about things I know people will be bored of reading and on to the fun and exciting story of my Leeds United side. It all began on the 7th of January 2014.....
Justice took the helm of Leeds United in the Championship. He had pre-season to contend with first with games against sides such as Bahia, Oxford United, New York and a couple other league one and two English sides. But the big game was the first of the season when Justice hadn't really put his mark on his squad, when his side hosted Birmingham City where he would look to build his platform at a club which had been through a lot in the past 5 or so years of playing League One football and having minus points at one point looking as if the club may even cease to exist, but a comfortable 3-1 win Justice was off to a great start and following that a 7-0 drubbing of nearby York City made a sweet start for Justice in his rein at Leeds United. We went on to win many of games and now we sit 3rd in the Championship behind a strong Middlesbrough and only behind second placed Wigan Athletic on goal difference, as we look to gain automatic promotion to the elite English Premier League, which in Justice's and the owners plans is way ahead of scheduled. Which is much to the delight of both Club, Fans and me the manager! We have a very strong squad which has been put together by Justice.
We have played a total of 35 league games so there are only 11 remaining, so it'll be an exciting end to the season as we look to gain promotion whether in be via the Play-Offs or via Automatic promotion either way we have had a brilliant season and if all else fails we will just push for promotion again next season. So I've gone on about all the changes well there has been many with a total of 61 with both players leaving and joining as well as players who joined leaving in the same season. We have a brilliant roster now, with players who wernt quite right for the club such as Lica, Nyland and other joining and leaving in the same season but also getting rid of players who just were not really a part of the big plan despite there brilliant talent such as Ross McCormack and Lee Peltier. We now find ourselves with a brilliant set of young and yet well travelled set of players capable of competing in every competition we have been in this season.
Here is the current squad:
Goalkeepers:
Heinz Lidner(85)
Anthony Mandrea(75)
Defenders:
Lucas Mendes(87)
Tomas Kalas(86) (loan)
Robin Knoche(85)
Oliver Sorg(87)
Hrvoje Milecevic(80)
Ribiero Dodo(85)
Josh Passley(75)
Declan John(80)
Midfielders:
Josip Radosevic(82)
Rani Khedira(80)
Remi Walter(75)
Alex Mowatt(77)
Diego Poyet(76)
Chris Dawson(75)
Memphis Depay(87)
Alessandro Florenzi(89)
Kevin Kampl(88)
Adnan Januzaj(85)(loan)
Hakan Calhanoglu(84)
Fede Cartabia(84)
Nick Powell(83)(loan)
Adama Ba(80)
Sung-Woo Ryu(77)
Josepth Minala(76)
Bilal Basacikoglu(82)
Lucas Ontivero(78)
Forwards:
Diego Rolan(85)
Sam Gallagher(76)
Moussa Dembele(76)
Andreas Wiemann(87)
So as you can see still a lot of work to go, with Kevin Volland set to join hopefully got an accepted bit from unmanaged but you never know what can happen in the next 24 hours! We have a completely changed squad however many more changes are expected to come in the foreseeable future! We expect to build a stronger side should we gain promotion to the Barclays Premier League or even if we dont in order to get there within the next couple of seasons. We have has some very stand our stars this season. However due to many changes and even recently stats don't really reflect the best players we have at the club. But here is a little about Alessandro Florenzi possibly the best player at the club.
The very very talented Italian International was in a shock move to Turkey where he Joined Fenerbarche SK from AS Roma before a change in management led to his exit after he expressed his desire to leave the Turkish side. So with that be said many clubs such as Internazionale began to start a bidding war on the player but much to the shock of many people in and around the footballing world the 22 year old decided his destination would be Elland Road and Leeds United for a fee in the region of £11million. Which Justice Believed was a complete bargain for such a talented player and was so pleased to be able to sign such a talent. Florenzi has been a key player since joining scoring a number of goals and being involved in many others. The Italian is a quality player and he has shown his pure talent and ability thus far this season.
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Mark Whitehead 31 July 2018
Home secretary 'doubles' early intervention youth fund
Funding to tackle violence among young people is to be doubled as part of the Government's 'public health' approach to combatting crime.
The money for the early intervention youth fund, announced in April by Amber Rudd when she was home secretary, will be increased from £11m to £22m over two years, her successor, Sajid Javid, has announced.
The fund was unveiled as part of the wider strategy to tackle serious violent offences using methods that go beyond policing and focus more on early intervention.
It is designed to pay for projects that keep young people away from violence using a local focus and according to needs.
Police and crime commissioners who work in partnership with community safety partnerships or the equivalent can bid for the funding to deliver projects.
Mr Javid said the fund was an example of the 'public health, or multiple strand, approach' to combatting serious violence.
He said: 'Intervening early in the lives of vulnerable young people can help focus their talents on positive activities and steer them away from the dangers of serious violence.'
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