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Connecting with the Arts: A Teaching Practices Library, 6-8
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Revealing Character
A language arts teacher and a visual art teacher ask eighth-graders to demonstrate their understanding of a novel's characters by creating unusual ceramic place settings.
Mineral Springs Middle School
Visual Art, Language Arts
Students create ceramic place settings based on literary characters.
The Integrated Instruction
Kathy Adams, 8th-Grade Language Arts Teacher
Cindy and I had been looking for a way that we could create a fairly complex unit together. And when I told her about a novel that I intended to use with the kids called The Weirdo, she was really excited. I had in mind to find out what the students knew about character development, theme development, and even plot development – from a visual product that they would produce.
Cindy Ellis, Visual Art
So we took the idea of the place setting, like Judy Chicago used with The Dinner Party, and asked the students to represent characters in the book. And they were able to see how they can manipulate, mold, and form different materials to express the different characteristics of that character. I was trying to get them to think in terms of how they can use elements such as color, shape, form, and texture to help create the message – the feeling – they want to send.
Watching the Video
Before You Watch
Respond to the following questions.
How do you connect with another teacher in order to develop projects that meet both of your goals?
If students have difficulty expressing themselves in language, what are ways to help them gain confidence in this area?
What advantages might there be to infusing art-making into a literature study?
Watch the Program
As you watch take notes on the collaboration between Kathy (language arts) and Cindy (visual art). What goals, knowledge and skills do they each bring? How are their teaching styles similar and/or different? Write down what you find interesting, surprising, or especially important about their collaboration.
Reflect on the Program
What struck you about the collaboration between Kathy and Cindy? How did their roles change as they moved from their own into one another's classrooms?Reflect on the Program
What elements of the study made it possible for students to delve into challenging emotional subjects in their art work?
What evidence did you see that students were able to apply what they were learning?
What role did Judy Chicago's work The Dinner Party play in the project? Many people would find the subject matter of her work – which often deals with the details of human anatomy – challenging material for adolescents. Would you use an artwork of a controversial or explicit nature, and if so, how would you prepare students to view and discuss it?
Connecting to Your Teaching
Reflect on Your Practice
What challenges do your students have in reading and making sense of works of literature?
How can you use artworks to provide inspiration for students, or as models for the ways they can express themselves?
Who in your school might you collaborate with on a project that fuses story interpretation and visual art making?
What constraints of time, scheduling, and resources would you face in trying to collaborate closely with another teacher? How might you overcome these obstacles?
Adaptations/Extensions To Consider
Scale it back: Use less elaborate materials – ask children to paint round wooden plates or paper plates representing characters and themes in a novel.
Connect to your interests: Choose a different artist whose work speaks to you and share it with students as the model or inspiration their own creative work.
Selected Unit Materials
Who's Coming to Dinner? A unit overview including a book summary, themes, learning goals, materials, activities, and national standards (PDF)
Art Project Planning Sheet: A graphic organizer for planning and designing place setting projects (PDF)
Chicago, Judy. The Dinner Party. New York: Penguin Books, 1996. ISBN: 0140244379 (paperback); ISBN: 0670859575 (hardbound)
Lippard, Lucy, Lucie-Smith, Edward, & Thompson Wylder, Viki D. Judy Chicago. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 2002. ISBN: 082302587X
Taylor, Theodore. The Weirdo. New York: Harcourt Children's Books, 1991. ISBN: 0152949526
The Artchive
http://www.artchive.com
An archive of images, text, and articles made available for educational purposes
The Web Gallery of Art
https://www.wga.hu/
A virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance, and Baroque periods
Art in Context
http://www.artincontext.com/
This site provides public access to information that is added by curators, dealers, artists, writers, and others from around the world
ArtCyclopedia
http://artcyclopedia.com/
An art search engine for locating images and museums
Judy Chicago: Through the Flower Homepage
http://www.judychicago.com/
An organization dedicated to creating a cultural legacy built upon the vision embodied in Judy Chicago's work through education, exhibition, and preservation
Faces, The Ultimate Composite Picture
http://www.pimall.com/nais/faces.html
Composite picture software (CD-ROM) containing a database of 4,000 facial features that can be used to create endless combinations of faces
Mineral Springs Middle School, Winston-Salem, N.C.
Mineral Springs Middle School is located in Winston-Salem, N.C. Its 410 students are mostly African American, with a growing number of Hispanic students and a minority of students of Caucasian and racially-mixed backgrounds.
Arts play a fundamental role at Mineral Springs. Mineral Springs is one of more than 30 A+ Schools, all emphasizing the arts across the state. The philosophy of the A+ Schools derives from Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences: a belief that the arts stimulate in-depth learning and holistic knowledge in students, resulting not only in higher achievement, but also in lowering the incidence of behavioral problems and absences from school. The staff at Mineral Springs includes full-time teachers of dance, vocal music, instrumental music, visual art, and drama. Through the creative use of allocated positions, Mineral Springs has resisted arts funding cuts and maintained a high number of professional arts faculty to carry out its mission.
The Mineral Springs curriculum includes classes for sixth-, seventh-, and eighth-graders in visual art and photography, orchestra and band, choral music and piano, drama and video production, modern dance, and performance arts. Artists who have state teaching certification and professional status in the arts community teach these classes. Collaborations among arts faculty include student exhibits, concerts, performances, demonstrations, and "informances" scheduled during the entire school year. In addition to this selection of arts courses, the non-arts teachers routinely include the arts in their instruction.
School information compiled from the Mineral Springs Middle School Web site:
https://www.wsfcs.k12.nc.us/Domain/2427
Q&A With Teachers
Kathy Adams, Language Arts
How long was the study of The Weirdo in language arts?
The unit of study on The Weirdo took approximately four weeks. This class met daily for 65 minutes each day. I try to teach one novel each grading period – this unit took place during the third quarter and was the third book we had studied.
How would you describe the academic level of the students in this class, and the challenges they face?
The academic level of this class ranged from students reading on approximately a third-grade level to those reading well above eighth-grade level. These students face the challenges of most working poor families in the U.S. Most of my students' parents work at low-wage jobs and have little formal education. Most of these students have limited experience with art and literature outside the walls of the school. I chose to do this unit with this particular group because they had expressed interest in creating visual art products, and they were very interested in the novel we were studying.
How had you collaborated with arts teachers before, and what did you learn that influenced this project?
I collaborated with the dance teacher extensively the previous spring to create an integrated unit on the Harlem Renaissance. I enjoyed the challenges and rewards of working with a gifted arts teacher. This experience led me to seek collaborative projects with other arts teachers. I admired the work of our visual art teacher, Cindy Ellis. Cindy and I collaborated early in the year on a smaller project involving the Underground Railroad and quilt making. Our project on The Weirdo grew out of lunchtime conversations and a deep desire on our parts to have a chance to do a major project together. I love the novel The Weirdo and I thought Cindy would have exciting ideas on how to incorporate visual art into a collaborative effort.
You use technology very seamlessly and naturally as part of your teaching. How did that come about?
I laughed when I read that I use technology "seamlessly and effortlessly." I struggle to include technology in my classroom because I believe that it is a "hook" to get kids excited about activities that they might otherwise consider mundane and boring. I do not consider myself to be technologically savvy; however, I strive to keep abreast of new ways of teaching and learning. Although I have taught for almost twenty-two years, I am constantly discovering new and better ways to inspire students to learn. If that means I have to break out of my "comfort zone," then I do it.
What preparation for this unit had students already had in language arts classes?
We had worked on characterization and theme all year through novel and short story studies. The students were quite comfortable with studying themes, as we had sought to identify the author's messages in each work that we read. Both of these objectives are a part of the North Carolina Standard Course of Study for language arts.
Prior to the art activity, students read the novel and completed several written assignments designed to address the concepts to be explored through art. They completed several graphic organizers created to encourage exploration of the characters in the novel and the ways in which each character changed as the story progressed.
How did this project fit with your goals and standards for eighth-grade art?
Students met a number of arts standards in this project. First, they planned, organized, analyzed, and refined solutions to solving a creative problem, which is our first state competency goal. They met the second goal by selecting various media for their effectiveness in the artistic solution, as well as by applying techniques and processes with each material they selected.
By creating their place settings, students used subjects, themes, and symbolic representation to communicate intended meaning, another state and national competency goal.
Finally, when students "set the table," presented their works, and examined the work of their classmates, they were involved in our sixth competency goal (fifth in the National Standards) – assessing the merits of their work and the work of others.
The student work is beautiful. What previous arts learning (particularly in ceramics) did these students have before undertaking their projects?
Most of Kathy's students were enrolled in my regular art class and had some exposure to the media and processes we used in this project. But there were a few students who had not had an art class since the fifth grade, and we felt they would benefit from a hands-on introduction to clay modeling techniques. So the day before, students experimented with manipulating, joining, and carving the clay. Potential problems were confronted, and the students were able to reach a comfort level using the medium.
What tie-ins with the community did you find for this project?
During this project some of the students were working on bowls to donate to the Empty Bowl event. This event raises hunger awareness as well as money for the Second Harvest Food Bank of Western North Carolina.
In conjunction with the Empty Bowl event and an exhibit on shelters, The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art invited all the art classes in our system to submit a place setting (one from each school). I chose our place setting from Kathy's group.
What other artists would you like to use as a basis for collaborative projects?
To examine themes such as identity, I would focus on artists like George Segal, Frida Kahlo, and Chuck Close. Collaborating on the theme of conflict, I may use Pablo Picasso. Most recently, I used the Hudson River School artists as we examined nature and our environment.
1 Revealing Character
2 Breathing Life Into Myths
3 Two Dance Collaborations
4 Constructing a Community
5 Making Connections
6 Exploring Our Town
7 Creating a Culture — The Story Begins
8 Analyzing a Culture — The Story Continues
9 Folk Tales Transformed
10 Preserving a Place for the Arts
11 Can Frogs Dance?
12 Finding Your Voice
Produced by Lavine Production Group, Inc. in collaboration with EDC's Center for Children and Technology and the Southeast Center for Education in the Arts. 2005.
ISBN: 1-57680-755-X
Supplementary: Connecting with the Arts — Revealing Character
Video library program guide
Supplementary: Revealing Character — Who's Coming for Dinner?
A unit overview including a book summary, themes, learning goals, materials, activities, and national standards (PDF)
Supplementary: Revealing Character — Art Project Planning Sheet
A graphic organizer for planning and designing place setting projects (PDF)
Program 1 Revealing Character
Program 2 Breathing Life Into Myths
A language arts teacher draws on puppetry techniques and help from her school's theatre teacher to engage her sixth-graders in exploring Greek myths.
Program 3 Two Dance Collaborations
In a first-time collaboration, a dance teacher and a science teacher combine forces to explore the laws of motion with a seventh- and eighth-grade dance class. At another school, a dance teacher and a math teacher work with sixth graders on imaginative interpretations of the idea of circles.
Program 4 Constructing a Community
A visual art teacher and a social studies teacher use the distinctive architecture and history of their school's neighborhood to help eighth-graders see their community in a new light.
Program 5 Making Connections
Teachers of music, visual art, and theatre build thoughtful connections to topics their seventh-graders are working on in social studies and language arts.
Program 6 Exploring Our Town
Seventh and eighth grade students explore Thornton Wilder's classic play Our Town from the perspectives of theatre, music, visual art, language arts, and social studies.
Program 7 Creating a Culture — The Story Begins
Sixth-graders develop their own cultures, complete with language, clothing, artwork, and rituals. Weeks of hard work culminate in a surprising twist. This program is the first of two parts.
Program 8 Analyzing a Culture — The Story Continues
Students become archaeologists, analyzing artifacts from other student-created cultures. They then design a museum exhibit from those artifacts. This program is the second of two parts.
Program 9 Folk Tales Transformed
A visiting theatre artist works with a language arts teacher and a visual art teacher to help eighth-graders transform folk tales into original scenes that the students perform.
Program 10 Preserving a Place for the Arts
When faced with budget cuts, the staff of a rural middle school finds innovative ways to keep the arts a viable part of the curriculum.
Program 11 Can Frogs Dance?
A dance teacher and a science teacher ask seventh-graders to compare the anatomy of frogs and humans. Then a language arts teacher coaches the students in a lively debate about whether a frog should be allowed to join a ballet company.
Program 12 Finding Your Voice
Drawing on themes of conflict and genocide that eighth-graders are studying in their World Cultures class, four arts teachers organize an interdisciplinary unit that encourages students to use their artwork as a form of protest.
Supplementary Introduction — Connecting with the Arts
A Teaching Practices Library, 6-8
Supplementary Appendix — Connecting with the Arts


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Thanks for stopping by! I hope you have a rosey sort of day.
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So agree with you Wendy, we need vegetation!!! We have a wind chill advisory with chills of -35. Schools are closed again today! After the cold will come more snow. This quilt makes me smile and know that we are a day closer to Spring.
I like the rose fabrics. The squares do make kind of an optical illusion when you look at it as a whole.
Looks like a fun and fast quilt that would also allow showing off beautiful free-motion quilting. Lovely fabrics too!
That's a great pattern for large print fabrics. The colors are so pretty in this one.


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Gary Landrieu, a right-wing candidate for Louisiana governor, uses racial slur on local radio show
He is running as an independent candidate for governor on an anti-immigrant platform that echoes Trump's rhetoric
By Travis Gettys
Published August 30, 2019 4:00PM (EDT)
Gubernatorial candidate Gary Landrieu	(AP/Melinda Deslatte)
This article originally appeared on Raw Story
A right-wing candidate for Louisiana governor used a racial slur during an appearance on a local radio program.
Gary Landrieu, a cousin of former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu, is running as an independent candidate for governor on an anti-immigrant platform that echoes President Donald Trump's rhetoric, and he dropped the N-word in response to an apparent prank caller to a radio show, reported Right Wing Watch.
The caller referred to Landrieu as a "piece of sh*t" during Wednesday's broadcast of WGSO-AM's "Chicks on the Right" program, and the hosts and the candidate taunted the man for using profanity.
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I Am Maris: Portrait of a Young Yogi
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It's More Fun in the Philippines! – Top 11 YouTube Vloggers You Need To Watch
Hey guys, welcome to my new blog post where I'll be sharing my Top 11 Favourite YouTube Vloggers. I'm extremely looking forward to going back to the Philippines and it's all thanks to these guys and their amazing art of Vlogging. Now I've got a serious travel bug!
For most of you who don't know me personally, I was born in the Philippines but was raised most of my life, since 7 years old, in Canada. I was back for a very short period several years ago, but didn't get a chance to see much.
There have been more and more visitors especially vloggers that are flocking to the Philippines simply because 'It's More Fun in the Philippines'. Yes, this is the slogan from the latest campaign by the Department of Tourism Philippines. Without sounding like I'm writing a social studies report on my country, I'm gonna keep this short butbgive you a little education on the country.
Pearl of the Orient
The Philippines, also known as the 'Pearl of the Orient', is a Southeast Asian country with over 7000 islands. The main capital is Manila, where I was born, and is famous for the phrase 'Thrilla in Manila'. (This was a boxing match between Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali in 1975 which the winner, Ali, won the boxing fight earning him the title called 'Thrilla in Manila')
The country is surrounded by the Pacific Ocean and so travelling to neighbouring countries isn't as easy as driving there. A plane ride or by boat is required.
A famous explorer named Ferdinand Magellan, a Portuguese explorer, who brought Spanish Fleet to the Philippines and started the Hispanic Colonization. You can even find a large memorial of the Magellan Shrine in the city of Cebu in the Philippines. The country became a part of the Spanish Empire for more than 300 years. The Japanese and United States eventually occupied the country until after World War II, when it was eventually recognized as an independent nation.
Tagalog and English are the main languages spoken in the Philippines, though there are plenty of dialects that vary by region throughout the country. Spanish was the official language during the Spanish rule, and so the Filipino language currently has many Spanish loanwords. If you know any Filipinos, you'll find a large majority of them have Spanish surnames.
Alright, education is over. If you wanna learn more on the country, Google it my friend, coz there's a lot of history there.
Philippines Travel Vloggers
Ok now for the fun part, a list of my favourite YouTube Vloggers that I've been following and watching recently. These guys have covered a large portion of the Philippines and have vlogged their favourite hotspots in the country.
After seeing these videos, my 'must visit list' now include Coron, Bohol, Cebu, Siargao, Samar, Batanes, El Nido, and Boracay.
The quality and editing of these videos are amazing! Now I feel like I need to get my own drone so I can take amazing shots like these when I visit the Philippines. Who knows, maybe I'll reach out to these guys so they can be my tour guide.
Without further ado, let's get right to it! Let's go checkout my favourite Philippines videos from these YouTubers.
THE FIGHTER BOYS!
I recently found out about these guys through some Philippine celebrities who hung out with some of them. I watched one vlogger and eventually learned about the rest of the friends that are part of this group called 'The Fighter Boys'. These guys are mostly foreigners who now live or have extended stays in the Philippines. They each individually have their own YouTube channels and are scattered throughout the country but come together once in a while to go on a 'Fighter Boys' trip.
Let's meet them!
Bret Maverick
Fearless & Far (Mike Corey)
Finn Snow
Becoming Filipino (Kyle Jennerman)
Daniel Marsh
Now check out the rest of these amazing YouTubers!
Wil Dasovich
Jackson Groves
Gareth Leonard
Bisayang Hilaw
Making it Happen Vlog (Mike & Nelly)
The Juicy Vlog (George & Lucy)
So what do ya think? Hours of entertainment watching these videos! These are just some of my favourites. Go check out the rest of their videos. I'll apologize ahead of time for keeping you busy with too much screen time. It's so worth it though, you're welcome!
Now, do you wanna check out Finn Snow's top 10 favourite places to visit in the Philippines? It's a must see!!
Hope you enjoyed this post! Til next time…XO
***This is not a sponsored post. I do not own any of these videos, video credits to their respective owners.
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Both records were held by Chinese teammate, Li Bingjie, who came in 3rd tonight with a 16:19.71.
16-year-old Wang Jianjiahe put on a show in the opening event – the women's 1500 – at the 2019 Pro Swim Series – Des Moines stop, blazing to a 15:46.69. In addition to her significant time drop from her personal best of 15:53.01, Jianjiahe shattered the Chinese and Asian records. Both records were held by Chinese teammate, Li Bingjie, who came in 3rd tonight with a 16:19.71. Binjie held the records at 15:52.87 from the 2017 Chinese Nationals meet.
Jianjiahe is now 2nd in the world this year, only 1 second behind Katie Ledecky, who swam a 15:45.59 at the first stop of the Pro Series in Knoxville in January. This also makes her the fastest junior swimmer (under 18) in the world this year by an absolutely gigantic margin. Another important note, this time is over 6 seconds faster than she went to end last season 3rd in the world. Moreover, she is still a stretch from Ledecky's World Junior Record, which stands at 15:28.36. Jianjiahe does still have some time to close in on that record, but for right now, she's still 18.5 seconds off it.
Jianjiahe swam a really consistent race, only floating up to 32 seconds for a 50 split two times during the race. Additionally, her only other splits that weren't 31-point were the first and last 50s.
Is Katie doing another meet somewhere else?
At 16 Katie Ledecky was 15:36. So jianjiahe is in reasonably close proximity especially if to remember that this result was shown in the beginning of the season and she may wasn't tapered or somehow specially prepared. On the other hand it was the first ever time when Katie swam this event in international meet and the progress that followed was unprecedented.
Asian swimmers typically aren't much faster in the summer than at the beginning of the season. It's not fair to compare anyone with Katie of the same age but Jianjiahe's time is still impressive.
Typically, yes, but Han Bingyan's (is she still with him??) athletes tend to be a little more progressive than most in China. I think Wang is breaking the mould.
Interesting detail: After the race Wang was congratulated by Kristel Kobrich and none of such move was done by Li Bingjie. Both Chinese swimmers stayed on the different sides of their lanes waiting for the end of the race to avoid probably accidental contact.
It looks like a revelry is very strong. Li set three national records in 2017 and was named female Sun Yang. That was the first record she lost to Wang Jianjuahe and i think more is coming.


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Venture funding for digital health companies leveled off in the first quarter of 2019, dropping 19% compared to Q1 2018, according to a new report.
The American Medical Association is teaming up with Sling Health to give startup entrepreneurs access to physicians' perspectives on where technology can be applied to fix real-world clinical problems.
There are resources available to healthcare startups if they know where to look.
Digital health startup Xealth has raised $11 million from Novartis, a digital therapeutics company, and medical device companies Philips and ResMed.
When Providence St. Joseph Health's chief digital officer hosted a Reddit "Ask Me Anything" forum a week ago, he got more than he bargained for.
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Q: api.LookupUser([u.user_id for u in userlist]) With Python, I have a userlist with a bunch of userids [1234,321,1203,2348,45955] and so forth.  I'm trying to pass the userids into the api.LookupUser function.
This function usually takes one user_id at a time.  For example, api.LookupUser(user_id=123)
Is there an easy way to pass each value from the userlist into the function?

A: I think you are looking for this
users = (api.LookupUser(user_id=x) for x in userids)

Or, at least in Python3,
users = map(api.LookupUser, userids)

And these return a generator, so you'll call  next(users) to get the next value. I believe this also delays the API call, so you aren't getting all the users at once and bogging down the API
So, looping though that generator
for u in users:
    print(u)

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module VTEX
  class ProductTransformer
    class << self
      def map(products, client)
        products.map do |product|
          product_id = product.delete(:id)
          ref_id = product.delete(:ref_id)

          next unless ref_id

          {
            id: ref_id,
            vtex_id: product_id,
            updated_at: Time.now.utc.iso8601,
            vtex: {
              sku: ref_id,
              name: product.delete(:name),
              description: product.delete(:description),
              permalink: product.delete(:link_id),
              available_on: product.delete(:release_date),
              meta_keywords: product.delete(:key_words),
              meta_description: product.delete(:title),
              is_visible: product.delete(:is_visible),
              is_active: product.delete(:is_active)
            }.merge(product)
          }
        end.compact
      end

      def product_from_pub_api(json, wombat_product, client)
        json[:name] = json.delete('productName')
        json[:brand] = json.delete('brand')
        json[:description] = json.delete('description')
        json[:permalink] = json.delete('linkText')
        json[:categories] = json.delete('categories').reverse.map do |c|
          c.gsub!(/\A\/|\/\Z/,"")
          c.split("/")
        end
        json[:variants] = []
        json.delete('items').to_a.each do |variant|
          variant[:sku] = variant.delete('referenceId').first['Value']
          variant[:vtex_id] = wombat_product[:vtex_id]
          variant[:vtex_sku_id] = variant.delete('itemId')
          variant[:name] = variant.delete('name')
          variant[:full_name] = variant.delete('nameComplete')
          variant[:barcode] = variant.delete('ean')
          variant[:images] = variant.delete('images').to_a.map do |img|
            {
              url: img['imageUrl'],
              title: img['imageText']
            }
          end
          offer = variant.delete('sellers').first.try('commertialOffer')
          variant[:price] = offer.try('Price')
          variant[:list_price] = offer.try('ListPrice')
          variant[:hand_on_count] = offer.try('AvailableQuantity')
          variant[:vtex_options] = {}
          variant.delete('variations').to_a.each do |option|
            variant[:vtex_options][option.delete(':').parameterize.underscore.to_sym] = variant.delete(option).join(", ")
          end
          new_info = client.get_sku_by_ref_id(variant[:sku]) || {}
          json[:variants] << variant.merge(new_info)
        end
        json[:specifications] = []
        json.delete('allSpecifications').to_a.each do |spec|
          json[:specifications] << {
            name: spec.delete(':'),
            value: json.delete(spec).join(", ")
          }
        end
        json.reject!{ |k,v| ['Especificações:','productReference','link','complementName'].include?(k) }

        parent_sku = json[:variants].select { |sku| sku[:sku] == wombat_product[:id] }.first || {}
        json[:variants].reject! { |sku| sku[:sku] == wombat_product[:id] }

        wombat_product = {
          id: wombat_product[:id],
          vtex_id: wombat_product[:vtex_id],
          vtex: {
            updated_at: Time.now.utc.iso8601,
          }.merge(json)
        }.merge(parent_sku.slice(:sku, :vtex_sku_id, :price, :list_price, :cost_price, :images, :height, :width, :length, :weight_kg, :is_active))
      end

      def product_from_skus(stock_units, wombat_product, client)
        product_id = wombat_product[:vtex_id]
        ref_id = wombat_product[:sku]

        stock_units.map! do |unit|
          if new_info = client.get_sku_by_ref_id(unit[:ref_id])
            unit.merge(new_info)
          else
            unit
          end
        end

        parent_sku = find_parent_sku stock_units, ref_id, client
        variants = map_variants stock_units, ref_id, client

        wombat_product = {
          id: wombat_product[:id],
          vtex: {
            updated_at: Time.now.utc.iso8601,
            variants: variants,
            specifications: map_specifications(client, product_id)
          }
        }.merge parent_sku
      end

      def find_parent_sku(stock_units, ref_id, client)
        if unit = stock_units.find { |u| u[:ref_id] == ref_id }
          {
            sku: unit[:ref_id],
            vtex_sku_id: unit[:id],
            price: unit[:price],
            list_price: unit[:list_price],
            cost_price: unit[:cost_price],
            images: map_images(client, unit[:id])
          }
        else
          {}
        end
      end

      def map_variants(stock_units, ref_id, client)
        stock_units.map do |stock_unit|
          stock_unit_id = stock_unit.delete(:id)
          variant_ref_id = stock_unit[:ref_id]

          next if variant_ref_id == ref_id

          {
            sku: variant_ref_id,
            vtex_id: stock_unit.delete(:product_id),
            vtex_sku_id: stock_unit_id,
            price: stock_unit.delete(:price),
            list_price: stock_unit.delete(:list_price),
            cost_price: stock_unit.delete(:cost_price),
            images: map_images(client, stock_unit_id)
          }.merge stock_unit.except(:product_id)
        end.compact
      end

      def map_images(client, stock_unit_id)
        images = client.get_image_list_by_stock_keeping_unit_id stock_unit_id

        images.map do |image|
          {
            url: image[:url],
            title: image[:description],
            dimensions: {
              height: image[:height],
              width: image[:width]
            }
          }
        end
      end

      def map_specifications(client, product_id)
        specifications = client.get_product_specifications_by_product_id product_id

        specifications.map do |spec|
          {
            name: spec[:name].delete(':'),
            value: spec[:description]
          }
        end
      end
    end
  end
end

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Many are the details surrounding the closing of a company sale or acquisition. Some details seem more important than others. Insurance fine points fall into a special class and deserve particular attention and care. In the hustle and bustle leading up to a closing, CEO's and CFO's should not succumb to a default stance of "let the insurance agents handle it." Insurance is simply too important.
Coordinating coverage at a time of transition, such as a sale, is often like fitting the pieces of an elaborate puzzle together. It takes great care by the parties' management/ownership, insurance agents and underwriters to make sure that no puzzle pieces fail to fit, or even worse, "turn up missing" when they are needed most.
Insurance details matter whether a sale is a stock sale or merger (either of which may trigger "change of control" termination provisions in the sold company's policies), or an asset sale (where property and rights transfer from one entity to another).
Time Period. Are there any time period gaps, of even a minute, between buyer's and seller's coverage?
Coverage Nature. Have the respective policy natures been taken into account by the insurance advisors? This question becomes especially important when buyer and seller have fundamentally different liability coverage types ("claims made" vs. "occurrence based"). Is a "tail" policy necessary or recommended for the seller's claims made policy?
Policy Rights. Should the other party(ies) be named an "additional insured" or "additional named insured" on a party's policies? Should the other party(ies) receive a certificate of insurance with its ongoing rights to reasonable notice before policy change or termination?
Automatic Coverage. Sometimes acquiring companies engaged in frequent acquisitions have master policies that automatically include acquisitions, subject to meeting various requirements. Should the acquirer rely on these policies, or tailor coverage to the particular risks of the target and the sale structure?
Policy Exclusions. What policy exclusions apply to the seller's and buyer's policies, respectively, as relate to coverage both pre- and post-closing, and therefore to the target's risk profile and the acquirer's risk assumption?
Communication. Has there been good communication and coordination well in advance, not only between each party and their insurance agents, but also between the seller's and buyer's agents? For example, a conference call among all parties' insurance agents and those at the buyer and seller responsible for insurance matters?


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Princeton Public Schools will welcome two experienced educators to the district in January. Kathie Foster is slated to head the Department of Curriculum & Instruction. Rebecca Gold will assume the helm of Human Resources.
Dr. Foster was approved as Interim Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum & Instruction by the Board of Education Tuesday evening. She is anticipated to be approved by the Mercer County Superintendent later this month. Dr. Foster served as the Superintendent of Schools for the Robbinsville Public School District between 2016 and 2020. Starting in January, she will replace Dr. Robert Ginsberg until a permanent replacement is found.
In addition, Princeton Public Schools will welcome Rebecca Gold to the district in January as the Interim Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources. Ms. Gold was Director of Personnel and Administrative Services for Lawrence Township Public Schools, as well as Director of Educational Technology, between 1986 and 2015. She replaces Michael J. Volpe, who left the district in December.
"Princeton Public Schools is able to attract outstanding educators and I am pleased that Dr. Foster and Ms. Gold will work with us while we complete our searches for permanent replacements," said Carol Kelley, PPS Superintendent of Schools.
"Both Dr. Foster and Ms. Gold have many years of valuable experience as educators in New Jersey and specific knowledge and understanding of public schools in Mercer County. I look forward to working with them," Dr. Kelley added.
Dr. Foster served both as Superintendent and Assistant Superintendent in Robbinsville, as well as Principal of the Pond Road Middle School. She was awarded an Ed.D. with distinction from the University of Pennsylvania after completing the Mid-Career Doctoral Program in Educational Leadership. In addition, she has a Master's of Educational Administration degree (with distinction) from Rider University and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Hope College in Holland, Michigan.
Ms. Gold, who will serve as Interim Assistant Superintendent for Human Resources, spent more than 25 years in leadership roles while at Lawrence Township Public Schools. Most recently, she served for more than two years as the Interim Director of Human Resources at Hamilton Township Public Schools. She also serves as Assistant Director of Retirement & Benefits for the New Jersey Principals and Supervisors Association (NJPSA). Ms. Gold has a Master's Degree in Education from Brooklyn College, City University of New York, as well as a Bachelor's Degree from Brooklyn College, City University of New York.
In addition, Ms. Gold is a co-founder of CJ Pride, the Central Jersey Program for the Recruitment of Diverse Educators, a consortium of more than 50 school districts in New Jersey working together to recruit diverse educators for New Jersey schools.
"It's a pleasure to welcome these two distinguished educators to our team," said Dr. Kelley.
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Is your consulting firm like toothpaste? In case you're scratching your head, trying to figure out where this is going, there's an easy answer: No. Of course not. Your offering isn't creamy and there's no limit to how much consulting you can bring on a plane.
Most emails sent to renew past clients are as dull as stagnant pond water: "Hi, haven't been in touch for some time since the Grimley project. Hope you are well. I've been having some great successes with recent clients and would love the chance to catch up.". You know, something boring like that. And you wonder why you don't hear back. They went comatose while reading. There's one wacky little thing you can do differently to catch their attention and get a response.
Social media is the world's largest platform for people to exchange, argue, and find humor in their opinions and interests. Facebook alone had 2.27 billion monthly active users in Q3 2018. That's roughly a quarter of the world's population. But where do businesses fit in?
Successful client service means doing great work AND exceeding the client's expectations. If the client worries unnecessarily, gets surprised, or is somehow unaware of the scope of work, the consultant has done a poor job of communicating. For experienced principals, this sounds like a platitude.
Accountability expert, keynote speaker, and author Samuel Silverstein aims to continually cultivate accountability in diverse organizational cultures. When he left the corporate world and sold his business, he started to hasten skills in writing, speaking, and consulting.
Would you like to hang out together in the beautiful hills of Los Angeles in a private villa for a full day of building your business with "the Zipursky cousins"?
A few days ago, the FBI charged dozens of high profile celebrity and wealthy families with attempting to use bribes to get their children admitted into elite universities, including Stanford and Yale. There's been a lot of discussion around this topic, and I thought I'd add in my comments as well. My first (tongue-in-cheek) reaction was: Why would someone illegally bribe their way into an Ivy-caliber university when they can do so legally by donating a building instead?
The birth and death in a single day of a proposed deal between Aon and Willis Towers Watson is a salutary reminder of the turmoil still impacting the people services and consulting sector.
Think you can't do video? I used to think the same thing. And I still have a long way to go to find my "camera" face and voice.). But a sure-fire way to get started is to have a repeatable blueprint you can follow every time. That's what I have for you today.
There are times when I'm more than happy to go with the flow—I'll cheerfully stop for a chat when I bump into a friend, am happy to lose track of time when I'm engrossed in a good book, and enjoy exploring new places without a detailed itinerary.
The PARADE Method (tm) is an approach to answering resume-oriented job interview questions. It is an approach I developed that is tailored for answering these questions in job interviews for management consulting, as well as interviews for senior executive positions in industry.
Recognize the fact that your leads are human. When someone buys something from you, they have a Value (V) in mind for the service they're buying.
When it comes to digital, the GCC has been pulling its punches, and a full-throttle digital take-off has not quite happened to the extent that it has elsewhere. That may be about to change.
One of the biggest revelations I've learned about relationships (professional and personal), I picked up years ago from McKinsey. It was such a simple yet transformative concept. Here's the story. At McKinsey, when I worked with a new client, I would conduct a round of initial introductory meetings with each member of the executive team. This was an opportunity to meet them, introduce our role of the project the CEO requested, and a chance to get to know them.
I'm writing this from the island of Antigua where we're here on a Rotary service project, "Improving Education Through Technology." We have 10 Bellevue school district students from the technology program working on computer networks and installing Wi-Fi networks. There are similarities and differences between Antigua and the US. Some of the similarities include: It doesn't matter where you are, people are people. Some are different colors, different sizes, have different customs, etc.
There are 4 surprising trends impacting the future of work. When we think of future of work we often hear and think of AI and robots. However there are some surprising trends that are impacting the future of work that are all about very real human values shifts.
Tasneem Azad originally wanted to be an astronaut. Seriously. She studied hard and even exchanged letters with NASA as a teen. Over time, however, she came to realise that being isolated from the world, several thousand miles away in orbit, wasn't an ideal career for a people person like herself.
Intellectual horsepower is overrated. "I'm too stupid to do that," isn't helpful and it's probably not true. We're capable of learning Photoshop, We can figure out the arithmetic behind our analytics. We can follow a nuanced discussion of strategy. We can learn to read a balance sheet and we can get sophisticated about long-term decision making. If we're being honest, the real reason we don't do this work isn't that we're stupid.
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from __future__ import unicode_literals

from django.utils.translation import ugettext as _

from reversion.admin import VersionAdmin

from ..base.choices import STATUS

class ArticleAdmin(VersionAdmin):
    actions = ('make_published', 'make_draft',)
    date_hierarchy = 'created'
    list_display = (
        'title', 'author', 'status', 'category_title',
    )
    list_filter = ('modified', 'status',)
    prepopulated_fields = {"slug": ("title",)}
    raw_id_fields = ('author', 'category', )
    search_fields = ['title', 'content', 'category__title']

    history_latest_first = True

    def category_title(self, instance):
        return instance.category.title

    def make_published(self, request, queryset):
        rows_updated = queryset.update(status=STATUS.published)

        if rows_updated == 1:
            message_bit = _("1 article was")

        else:
            message_bit = ("%s articles were") % rows_updated

        self.message_user(
            request,
            _("%s successfully marked as published.") % message_bit
        )

    make_published.short_description = _("Mark selected article(s) as published")

    def make_draft(self, request, queryset):
        rows_updated = queryset.update(status=STATUS.draft)

        if rows_updated == 1:
            message_bit = _("1 article was")

        else:
            message_bit = ("%s articles were") % rows_updated

        self.message_user(
            request,
            _("%s successfully marked as draft.") % message_bit
        )

    make_draft.short_description = _("Mark selected article(s) as draft")


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Here are a few of the improvements we continue to make to our website:
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Each page on our website will be compatible with language information-assist systems, including audible speak-back software and Braille translators. These forms of information assistance are available on all our website pages. We are also working on providing sign language interpretation and pre-recorded audio content in synchronized media as an alternative to text.
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We have addressed missing label tags on images throughout our website to make it easier for persons with visual or cognitive disabilities to find information on our site. We are working towards having a corresponding image for every page on our website that you can use as an alternative to text. We are making every reasonable effort to render images functional so that one can find the content one is looking for quickly. We are making it possible to navigate content without having to distinguish among colors.
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All or nothing. Good or Bad. You're either first or you're last. Left or right. You're either with us or against us. My way or the highway — this is the general nature of partisan political rhetoric, and in election season it can quickly become a race to the bottom. Let's take a look at a few key events over the past two weeks, but also take a lesson in telling the difference between the brisket and the baloney.
On Jan. 12, two small U.S. Navy boats drifted into Iranian waters in the Persian Gulf following a mechanical issue. The high-speed, low armor-crafted vessels were halted and disarmed by the Iran Revolutionary Guard forces. The sailors were detained for a total of 14 hours, with a diplomatic dialogue open throughout the entire process between Iran and the U.S. No one was harmed or injured in the process, though the Iranian officials broadcasted footage of the detainment including a U.S. sailor reading a statement that included an apology for crossing into Iranian territory. This news event, and the status of Iran-US relations will be the central illustration to look at some formulaic reactions.
The degree of partisanship in a country's politics can vary depending on a number of factors. I will exclude the effect of lobbying of the political donor class for my purposes today, but also say that it is important to look at who financially supports a politician when looking at what they do. A common tie that binds, at least in representational democracies, is that partisanship reacts to how much a representative's constituency will reward it.
I would hasten to say that there are many structural ways the U.S. government is pushed toward political partisanship. There's gerrymandered electoral districts where the constituent base leans left or right so much that it almost guarantees a party an election win. This does not encourage a legislator to reach across the aisle to seek broader appeal. In the Presidential nomination process, particularly the Republican race because of the bigger field, you have a structure where primary voters for the nomination differ politically from the majority of the overall electorate. There's a fight for media attention and debate minutes, while also needing to appeal to a different constituency before the general election. The nominee is faced with pivoting back to the middle or doubling down. The amount of dissection in the 24-hour news environment is also a contributing factor, when daily actions or statements are looked at through a winning/losing or "political points" lens. Partisanship is then encouraged as the actors know there are always political points up for grabs, and that to stand out they need to show or state they are "the most" or "the best" on an issue.
The curves for how far someone can go to the left or right on an issue can vary right down to the individual, but there are enough examples to at least be illustrative. It can be thought of in terms of a law of diminishing returns that can also have negative returns (of voters) as positions staked along various issues.
The entrenched partisanship approach takes the view that your political opposition is wrong about everything which you disagree with, and that the results of anything they propose will be bad. It generally means not lauding the things you agree about or positions of theirs that you support. For example, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie was criticized for praising President Obama for the coordination of federal aid given to his state following Hurricane Sandy. It explains why there is very little conciliation toward President Obama, John Kerry, and the State Department's diplomacy with Iran.
Relations between Washington and Tehran have warmed significantly under the Obama administration. Since 1979, Iran has been extremely adversarial with the United States. We won't get lost in the historical baggage, but relative to the past, getting the nuclear deal signed, having the detained sailors released unharmed in less than a day, and the release of Jason Rezaian and other jailed Americans is a positive sign. From the Iranian perspective, the sanctions relief is viewed as a victory, though not without some opportunity cost to what they conceded in the nuclear agreement. In Iranian politics, coziness to the West has a political price, though it looks as though it has reached the tipping point where the government wants the benefits of better relations more. However, it is not politically acceptable for many Republican presidential nominees to say anything good about it.
Here's how it's done. You can break out the hindsight arguments: "the results of X were bad because I could have got a better result" — generally without specifics as to how they would have differed or as to why the results would have been measurably better. In the Navy-detainee case, politicians stated basically that under their leadership, Iran wouldn't dare detain Americans, or that they would have responded with such military force that Iran would have somehow given them back sooner without escalation. Without robust evidence as to how and why, beware the phrase "lack of leadership", because it is a message that sounds like it's a good point, while in reality it is too ambiguous to ever be proven.
Another tactic is superlatives, saying you're opponent has been the worst, or that you're better or the best on issue X. In the context of Iran, or for that matter terrorism, candidates aspire to be seen as the toughest or that they would go to further lengths to stamp out America's enemies. Part of the tendency towards superlatives comes from simpler messaging ("X Bad, Me most against X"). Nuanced responses to complex issues doesn't make for good sound bites, and can be turned into criticism that your opponent is unprincipled. It is also used to imply that anything less than the hardest stance is bad or weak overall. It explains why it can be very difficult politically to loosen crime laws over fears they will be labeled weak on crime.
Over-generalizing someone's position and applying it to even entirely different issues is another tactic. When you frame an issue as dichotomous (e.g. must be A or B) rather than something with nuance or pieces, you can morph a "Pro-A" position into "Anti-B" when they may not be the same thing. The White House policy with Iran right now is a very small portion of trust with a huge portion of verify. Those opposing the nuclear deal agreement have much less trust, if any, for Iran. The story is then framed as the White House being Pro-Iran (and further to that, anti-America). A great example of this tactic is Pro-Life versus Pro-Choice, where both sides do the same trick. Pro-Lifers frame Pro-choice as Pro-Abortion, and Pro-choice supporters frame Pro-Lifers as Anti-Woman. Another example is those who press for bans on Shari'a Law — that not specifically supporting their ban proposal is somehow pro-Shari'a. It doesn't compute that unconstitutional laws don't need to be specifically banned in order to prevent their implementation.
The strawman, another tool, is basically using a counter-example, implying that its existence completely disproves the other side's argument. It ignores that there are often trade-offs to decisions, and implies that somehow any bad result negates the benefits in other areas. Iran abolished thousands of centrifuges, but because of the release of previously-seized money to Tehran, the nuclear deal was criticized as a complete failure or as a disaster. It makes the assumption that a negotiation will result in complete victory to one side. Look at how San Bernadino was morphed from a failure to prevent a terror attack into the conclusion that the Obama administration is actively endangering Americans. An instance of failure is not complete failure. It's taking a position that no result would be considered good enough — that sub-optimal cannot still be considered good overall.


Beautiful job with this prompt. I love your voice, but mostly I love your heart.
Thank you Karen. That makes me so happy and thank you for hosting the swap. It's a challenge every time and I love it!
I think, as a parent, we all share that fear. I know I have the same one. But I think you rock, so you're golden.
First, thank you for my AWESOME prompt! I hope you get a chance to hope over to my blog and see what I did with it. *snicker, snicker* Yeah, I went there.
As for your post---greatness! You embodied that motherhood fear so gracefully, and I love how you ended it. Gave me chills. You Rock!
Yay! Just got back from preschool pick up I'm going to get reading now. Thank you for your unbelievable compliments on my post!
I seem to be doing that a lot lately. ;) Thanks for stopping by.
You did a beautiful job of that prompt.
The "what if's" are awful but the rewards are so sweet.
Isn't that the truth. The rewards are so sweet! Thank you Meg.
I hear you loud and clear. I feel that guilt every single day. Guilty that I went and got a part time job that tears me away from my daughter three days a week, guilty that I get frustrated when she spends the next four days on top of me trying to make up for missed hugs and kisses, guilty that I get annoyed when she gets sick, guilty that I let her room get unmanageably dirty before I finally get up and do anything about it, so many things to feel guilty about. Sometimes I have to stop and look at my daughter and realise she is a bright, healthy happy little girl to remember we're doing ok. Great job on this topic!
I'm right there with you- shaking in my boots every day, but facing down that fear all the same (what else can you do, right?). I guess it's all part of being a mom, but like a lot of things that come with the title, I wish it weren't always so hard.
"Having children is a game changer." Preach on sister!
Great words. I'm sure All Mom's have felt this way at times. I know I did. Somehow though we do find the right words...because we have to. To guide our children in the right direction. My 2 boys are 32 & 25. Both in relationships with good jobs. While they were growing up I had my doubts, but a strong value system and morals will bring them to a successful place. You are on the right track. Pat yourself on the back MOM!!!
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IMB notes concern over small tanker attacks in SE Asia
News • London, 29/10/2014
While pirate attacks on the world's seas have fallen for the third consecutive year, small tanker hijacks by armed gangs are escalating in Southeast Asia, reveals ICC's International Maritime Bureau (IMB) in its latest piracy report.
IMB's 2014 third quarter global piracy report notes a total of 178 incidents so far this year, down from 352 for same period in 2011. In the first nine months of 2014, pirates killed three crew, kidnapped five from their vessels and took 369 seafarers hostage. A total of 17 vessels were hijacked, 124 were boarded and 10 were fired upon. There were 27 further reports of attempted attacks.
"It's encouraging to see the huge decrease in maritime piracy and armed robbery over the last few years, thanks mainly to international navies deterring pirates off East Africa, and improved onboard security," said IMB Director, Pottengal Mukundan. "However, there has been a worrying new rise in attacks against small coastal tankers in Southeast Asia. We advise small tankers in particular to remain vigilant in these waters and report all attacks and suspicious small craft to the IMB's Piracy Reporting Centre."
Oil thieves
IMB's Piracy Reporting Centre says gangs of thieves armed with knives and guns are making Southeast Asian waters increasingly dangerous for small tankers carrying products such as gasoil or marine diesel oil. Boarding the ship at sea, pirates hold the crew hostage for a short time while they unload all or part of the cargo, which they then use, or sell locally. Of the six vessels hijacked worldwide in the third quarter of 2014, five were in Southeast Asia.
Indonesia recorded 72 incidents between January and September, including 67 armed robberies and five hijackings. In two separate hijackings off Pulau Bintan in September, 26 crew were taken hostage. Elsewhere in Indonesia 59 vessels were boarded and there were eight attempted attacks. Waters off Pulau Bintan saw more attacks than any other area in the world, with 27 incidents reported. The incidents were low level thefts or attempted thefts from vessels at anchor or berthed. The report commends the efforts taken by the Indonesian Marine Police in addressing the problem areas.
Somalia's forgotten hostages
With just 10 incidents reported so far in Somalia this year, there is a risk that international attention will turn away from the 40 hostages still being held for ransom by suspected Somali pirates.
"Some of those crewmembers have been held captive there for more than four years now, with fading hopes of immediate release," said Mr Mukundan, adding that seafarers should not underestimate the continuing threat of Somali piracy.
The number of incidents reported in Nigeria has dropped noticeably, down to 13 in the first nine months of 2014, from 29 in the same period last year. Elsewhere in the Gulf of Guinea, Ghana recorded four incidents in 2014 compared with no incidents in 2013. This includes the hijacking of two product tankers – and theft of their cargoes – and a fishing vessel and the taking hostage of 86 crew members.
IMB offers the latest piracy reports free of charge Click here to request a PDF version of the report by email.
Latest attacks may also be viewed on the IMB Live Piracy Map.
For further information, please contact
Pottengal MUKUNDAN
Director, IMB
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China's ambition burns bright – with Xi Jinping firmly in charge
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Written by Nick Bisley.
The most important political event of 2017, the 19th Chinese Communist Party Congress, has concluded. And while there was much to digest, one image above all stands out: Xi Jinping's political dominance and his burning ambition for China.
The party congress is held every five years and has two main functions. The first is to lay out the policy program for the coming half-decade. The other is to confirm the people who will occupy the key leadership roles within the party. In short, it's about policy and people.
Xi made clear that the People's Republic of China's history can be divided into three eras. The first was the creation of the republic, led by Mao. The reform period, led by Deng Xiaoping was its second. Now the third era, in which the "Chinese dream of national rejuvenation" to be realised by Xi, has begun. With the Leninism of party centrality has also come a disturbing nascent cult of personality.
The tone was set at the Xi's opening address. Formally presenting the work report of the 18th Central Committee, he outlined the huge steps China has taken over the past five years and his vision for China over not just the next five years, but out to 2049 – the centenary of the People's Republic of China's foundation.
He affirmed that within a few decades, China would become a prosperous modern socialist society and the world's most important country, both in terms of national power and international influence.
Gone is the old dictum that China has to bide its time and hide its power. Humility and caution have been replaced by confident and assertive leadership.
Xi also declared that China would remain economically open and provide leadership on climate change and other environmental concerns. The centrepiece of China's international policy will be the Belt and Road Initiative that is now part of the party's constitution.
But Xi was equally stern about threats and challenges, whether from within or beyond – the country would use all means to defend its interests and sovereignty. This means China's muscular approach to disputes in the East and South China Sea, with India and elsewhere, is certain to continue.
Hard work, ongoing reform and leadership will be needed to bring all this about. The only force capable of doing this, made clear at the congress, is the Chinese Communist Party.
While nods were made toward market forces playing a more important role in resource allocation, the congress' message was unmistakable: the key player in the economy, indeed in all aspects of Chinese life, will be the party. This is Leninism for the 21st century.
And the party will be unified around an austere vision laid out by Xi. The anti-corruption program that has been such a significant part of his first five years in office will become a permanent campaign.
Xi had launched the anti-graft measures to root out the significant problem of corruption, but also to eliminate rival centres of power. That will be a core element of party business in the future.
In his first five years, Xi focused on consolidating his power base, unifying the party and presenting a more confident face to the world. The congress made clear that the next five are about paramount leader Xi driving China to its position atop the international totem pole.
At the very start of the congress, the opening address gave a clue as to what was coming the work program presented by Xi was "for a new era".
To formalise this on the congress' final day, delegates unanimously voted to incorporate "Xi Jinping thought on socialism with Chinese charactersitics" into the party constitution. His is now a core purpose of the party and marks him out as the most powerful figure within the party for so long as he remains alive.
Prior to the congress there was much speculation about whether or not he would seek to break the party norm of two five-year terms as general secretary. By this move he has rendered such questions moot.
Whether he remains in office for more than five years or whether he formally stands down has become almost immaterial: he will be the dominant figure in the country.
To reinforce this, when the new seven-man standing committee of the politburo was announced the day after the congress' conclusion there was no obvious successor as part of the grouping. All five of the new faces – Li Zhanshu, Wang Yang, Wang Huning, Zhao Leji and Han Zheng – will need to retire at the next congress. So while the leadership is new, it is entirely subordinate to the general secretary.
Xi now clearly sits atop the party and the party commands China. Over the coming three decades China will seek to become the world's dominant country.
Notwithstanding Xi's huge confidence there is a very considerable amount of work to be done to realise these ambitions. It is far from certain whether China's economy be reformed in the ways necessary to drive the levels of growth needed to fuel this program.
Equally, the party will face continual challenges of unity and legitimacy.
Internationally, it is difficult to imagine the US acquiescing to China's desire to supplant it at the centre of world affairs.
Nick Bisley is the Executive Director of La Trobe Asia and a Professor of International Relations. He tweets at @NickBisley. This article was first published on The Conversation and can be found here. Image credit: CC by Wikipedia Commons.
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