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ASA Files Amicus Brief With Supreme Court in Support of Marriage Equality
The American Sociological Association (ASA) filed an amicus curiae brief yesterday with the Supreme Court of the United States in the same-sex marriage cases currently pending before the court. The ASA's brief highlights the social science consensus that children raised by same-sex parents fare just as well as children raised by different-sex parents.
Sociologists Available to Discuss Same-Sex Marriage
With the Supreme Court of the United States expected to rule imminently in the case of Obergefell v. Hodges, which addresses the matter of marriage equality and the constitutional status of state bans on same-sex marriage, the American Sociological Association (ASA) has a number of sociologists available to discuss same-sex marriage.
Managed Informality: Regulating Street Vendors in Bangkok
The article focuses on the relationship between street vendors and local authorities in Bangkok. We examine the goals, the means, and the effects of everyday regulation of street vending. We document how the district administration produces and maintains informality by creating a parallel set of rules where street vendors enjoy negligible rents and little competition. We provide detailed empirical evidence on earnings, rents, fines, and rules regarding commercial real estate.
Exceptional Outgroup Stereotypes and White Racial Inequality Attitudes toward Asian Americans
Stereotypes of outgroups help create social identificational boundaries for ingroups. When the ingroup is dominant, members employ individualist sentiments to justify their status. In this study, we build on advances in social psychological research that account for multiple outgroup stereotypes. We argue the Asian American model minority stereotype is analogous to the "cold but competent" position of perceptions toward Asians in Fiske's stereotype content model.
Orange Is Still Pink: Mental Illness, Gender Roles, and Physical Victimization in Prisons
Although research has established a very strong relationship between the presence of a psychiatric disorder and victimization in prisons, some gaps remain in our understanding. This study considers the importance of gender differences in this relationship. Estimates based on the 2004 Survey of Inmates in State and Federal Correctional Facilities show that psychiatric disorders have a stronger relationship with victimization among male inmates than among female inmates. Yet the size of the gender difference varies greatly depending on the specific disorder.
Race, Immigration, and Exogamy among the Native-born: Variation across Communities
Did rising immigration levels change racial and ethnic exogamy patterns for young adults in the United States? Adding local demographics to Qian and Lichter's national results, the authors examine the relationship between the sizes of the local immigrant populations in urban and rural areas and U.S.-born individuals' exogamy patterns in heterosexual unions, controlling for the areas' racial compositions.
Socioeconomic Attainments of Japanese Brazilians and Japanese Americans
This paper investigates the socioeconomic attainments of Japanese Brazilians and Japanese Americans. The findings indicate that Japanese Brazilians have higher levels of education and wages than white Brazilians, while Japanese Americans have higher levels of education and wages than white Americans. These results are inconsistent with a conventional "white supremacy" model that is popular in contemporary American sociology.
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Haydn in plain sight
If you were to name the greatest composers in the Western musical tradition, three or four names would come up uncontested.
Yes, you might have your favorites beyond these, and good arguments can be made, but by consensus, you would have to name Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven and …
Bach, because he is the source. He towers above everyone in his emotional power and technical brilliance. Different composers can fill the needs of various moods, but you can listen to Bach in any mood. He is universal.
Mozart, because no one ever had such fluency of expression or more immediate melody. Music seemed to grow from him like peaches from a tree.
Beethoven, because no one ever strove higher or struggled more painfully to find the exact note, the exact emotion, the exact nexus of human and transcendent.
You might nominate Richard Wagner, or Franz Schubert. Johannes Brahms or Claude-Achille Debussy. Stravinsky or Schoenberg. All good choices, in their way, but the name that comes up more than any other as worthy of the company of Bach, Mozart and Beethoven is Franz Joseph Haydn, yet he is so often overlooked. His name does not spring up with the alacrity of the Big Three, but is almost always mentioned: And yes, there is Haydn.
Why is he given such short shrift? He is one of the Big Four. He practically invented the symphony and the string quartet; at least gave them the form we have encountered them ever since. And the wealth of his invention is mind boggling. He wrote 104 symphonies (depending on how you count), with almost as many minuets and yet, not one of those minuets could be mistaken for any other. How can you create that many third movements and yet make each one emotionally, melodically and rhythmically distinct? And memorable.
His music has never left the repertoire, but is so often played as a warm-up piece to start a quartet recital, or tucked into a symphony program before the Big Piece after the intermission. We pay him lip service, but seldom really listen. Mostly, he is a pleasant bit of music before we have to wake up for the Mahler or Sibelius that will follow.
I believe the reason is that for many of the more popular composers, you don't actually have to listen: You can let the music wash over you in emotional colors and flavors. You just float downstream with the tunes. (I don't mean that if you do actively listen, you won't find a logical argument, but that for most concertgoers, the musical argument is beside the point; Tchaikovsky swells your heart whether you recognize a sonata form or a polonaise).
But Haydn is music meant to be listened to actively, because what he does in his work is to give you a pattern of notes, and then take you on a journey of wit, through the permutations afforded by that pattern of notes. Your ability to follow all the clever things he does is the key to your understanding — and your pleasure. Yes, there are some good tunes, but they are the grist for his art, not the point of it.
Certainly, all good composers do this, but none to quite the degree you find with Haydn, or to quite the point. Through most of his career, he wasn't writing for the common public, but for a sophisticated audience, who could follow his clever construction and deconstruction of the sonata form, or the variation form. In other words, they listened actively. I.e., they got the joke.
Nikolaus I
His boss through most of his time at the Esterhazy estate was Prince Nikolaus, an avid music lover and himself a performer on the baryton — a now obsolete instrument, a sort of combination cello and guitar. Haydn wrote 126 trios for his employer to play on that instrument.
Because the prince was musically knowledgable, his court followed suit, and it meant that Haydn could inject his music with many a musical in-joke his audience would enjoy. I use the word, "joke," but that doesn't mean they are meant to be overtly funny. No, the "joke" was some catch or punchline the audience was meant to pick up on, like an odd key change, or the turning upside-down of a them. Some of them are funny, but the point is the wit — the cleverness.
Wit is a word that meant something different, larger and more important in the 18th century than it does now. We tend to use the word as synonymous with "comedy." We expect to laugh at wit. A witty saying, a witty remark.
But in the century of Haydn (and before, to some extent), wit was an entire class of thinking. It meant, as Sam Johnson expressed it, "a kind of discordia concors; a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike." Or in his other formulation: "The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together."
An easy example: his Symphony No. 60 in C, called "Il Distratto," or the absent minded, or distracted. The first movement is a pile of jokes, from the very first notes: a pompous introductory fanfare that goes absolutely nowhere, followed by a spritely tune. In Haydn's style, a first theme is usually followed by a second theme in a contrasting key and mood. But here, the second theme also goes nowhere; it consists of just one note and its ornaments, over and over, losing speed and energy until, as if the orchestra has forgotten where it is and what it is doing, suddenly wakes up and charges ahead with renewed energy. (Link here).
The conductor Kenneth Woods describes it as funny and modern. "Possibly the funniest and most modern symphony ever written", going on to say that "Haydn uses most of the 20th-century 'isms' in this piece—surrealism, absurdism, modernism, poly-stylism, and hops effortlessly between tightly integrated symphonic argument and rapid-fire cinematic jump-cutting. This is Haydn at his absolute boldest—he undermines every expectation, and re-examines every possible assumption about music."
And at the very end, the orchestra stops, mid-phrase, and retunes the violins, before getting back to business. Yes, that is musical slapstick, but no one did it any better before PDQ Bach.
Or the finale of his Symphony No. 61, a sprightly prestissimo punctuated throughout by comic oboes playing the same two notes over and over again. Never changing; over and over. Da-dah. (Link here). Da-dah. (Click on the timing listed in the dooblydoo for the last movement).
Or the opening of final movement his quartet, Op. 76, no. 5, which places the kind of cadential chords used to punctuate the end of a movement instead at the very beginning. (Link here). And, of course, the movement ends with the same final chords.
Fugue theme, Symphony No. 70
My favorite is the finale of Symphony No. 70, which begins with a joke: Five repeated notes, quietly played, repeated several times, lulling you into a reverie, then, the same five notes blasted at full volume, waking you up. It does this again, and you figure, this is going to be one of Haydn's great jests, then, just when you think you have it figured out, a great, furious and very serious fugue breaks out, occupying the center of the movement. Finally, back to the five-note joke, ending with a forte crash of those notes. Light-hearted, or deadly serious — you can't tell. (Link here). That is yoking heterogeneous ideas together by violence.
But it all depends on an audience with some knowledgable expectation of what is likely to happen, so when it doesn't, it comes as a delightful surprise. If you don't have this background, it just becomes pleasant tunes.
The string quartets came with a knowledgable audience built in. They were not meant so much to be heard by an audience, as played by amateur musicians at home, and so the pleasure in them is as much in the playing as in the hearing. And the wit is there for the musicians to enjoy.
When Prince Nikolaus died, Haydn was freed to travel and make his reputation outside the estate. His music became more public, and instead of his symphonies being made up of cleverness piled on cleverness for the delectation of connoisseurs, he made them bigger, louder and gave each one at least one great joke for the middle-class audiences to remember, like the most memorable scene from a movie they could talk about over coffee after it was over. So, there is the tympani bang in the "Surprise" symphony, the Turkish military band in Symphony No. 100, the tick-tock in his "Clock" symphony and the righteous, bumptious fart joke made by the contrabassoon in the slow movement of his Symphony No. 93.
This is not to imply that Haydn was all punchlines and gags. There is great depth of emotion in many of his works. Take for one, the Seven Last Words of Christ, a liturgical piece, originally for orchestra and later turned into a piece for string quartet (the version most often heard today). It is eight great adagios, one after the other, meant to evoke an introduction and the last seven utterances of Jesus on the cross (Link here). It is Haydn's genius to be able to write them so distinctly that you never have the feeling of one long slow piece, but rather seven great, separate meditations.
Or, the Piano Variations in F-minor, written over the death of his closest female friend, Maria Anna von Genzinger, one of his most sober compositions.
Sometimes Haydn's wit is funny. Sometimes, it is profound. It is always surprising. It is meant to surprise.
And Haydn's wit can be found in some of his most serious works. The opening of his oratorio, The Creation, depicts primordial chaos in a disjunctive series of phrases and fragments in disparate tonalities (Link here). And when, after that, the choir sings, very quietly, "And God said, let there be light, and there was …" all heavens break out in trumpets and kettle drums in a great C-major chord" "LIGHT!!!!" (Link here). It is a simple, even naive effect, but in live performance can make the hair on the back of your neck stand up. Wit can also render the sublime.
Of all the great composers, Haydn seems the most sane and even-tempered. Bach could bluster to city officials and get into fights. Mozart could squander his money. Beethoven had his heaven-storming bouts of choler. But Haydn found decent happiness on this earth and expressed in his music a satisfying sense of order and sanguinity, if occasionally a touch of mischief. His is the happiest music I know that is not also simple-minded.
I spend this much time on Haydn, because I love him. As I get older, I find that Haydn's music has a staying power that sustains me. I can confidently turn to any piece and find deep and abiding pleasure.
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package com.reyansh.audio.audioplayer.free.Dialogs;

import android.app.AlertDialog;
import android.app.Dialog;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.annotation.NonNull;
import android.support.v4.app.DialogFragment;
import android.view.View;

import com.reyansh.audio.audioplayer.free.Common;
import com.reyansh.audio.audioplayer.free.R;
import com.reyansh.audio.audioplayer.free.Utils.PreferencesHelper;
import com.github.channguyen.rsv.RangeSliderView;

/**
 * Created by Reyansh on 23/04/2016.
 */
public class RecentlyAddedDialog extends DialogFragment {

    private RangeSliderView mSmallSlider;
    private int mNoOfWeeks;
    private Common mApp;
    private AlertDialog mAlertDialog;
    final RangeSliderView.OnSlideListener listener = new RangeSliderView.OnSlideListener() {
        @Override
        public void onSlide(int index) {
            mNoOfWeeks = index + 1;
            if (mNoOfWeeks == 1)
                mAlertDialog.setMessage(mNoOfWeeks + " " + "Week");
            else
                mAlertDialog.setMessage(mNoOfWeeks + " " + "Weeks");
        }
    };

    @NonNull
    @Override
    public Dialog onCreateDialog(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        AlertDialog.Builder builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(getActivity());
        View view = getActivity().getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.dialog_recentlyadded, null);
        mSmallSlider = (RangeSliderView) view.findViewById(R.id.rsv_small);
        mApp = (Common) getActivity().getApplicationContext();
        builder.setTitle(R.string.recently_added_desc);

        if (PreferencesHelper.getInstance().getInt(PreferencesHelper.Key.RECENTLY_ADDED_WEEKS, 1) != 0) {
            mSmallSlider.setInitialIndex(PreferencesHelper.getInstance().getInt(PreferencesHelper.Key.RECENTLY_ADDED_WEEKS, 1) - 1);
        } else {
            mSmallSlider.setInitialIndex(PreferencesHelper.getInstance().getInt(PreferencesHelper.Key.RECENTLY_ADDED_WEEKS, 1));
        }

        if (mNoOfWeeks == 1) {
            builder.setMessage(PreferencesHelper.getInstance().getInt(PreferencesHelper.Key.RECENTLY_ADDED_WEEKS, 1) + " " + "Week");
        } else {
            builder.setMessage(PreferencesHelper.getInstance().getInt(PreferencesHelper.Key.RECENTLY_ADDED_WEEKS, 1) + " " + "Weeks");

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        mSmallSlider.setOnSlideListener(listener);

        builder.setPositiveButton(R.string.ok, (dialog, which) -> {
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            dismiss();
        });

        builder.setNegativeButton(R.string.cancel, (dialog, which) -> dismiss());
        builder.setView(view);
        mAlertDialog = builder.create();
        return mAlertDialog;
    }
}

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A Story From the Struggle – The Kindest Lie
by K. L. RomoPosted on January 22, 2021
In her debut novel, Nancy Johnson explores racial injustice and social inequality.
Nancy Johnson's eloquently written, introspective, and emotionally resonant debut novel, The Kindest Lie, is a timely commentary on social justice, race relations, and what it means to be Black in today's America.
Ruth Shaw struggles to accept her past while trying to embrace her present. Growing up poor in a small auto-factory town in Indiana — "a town that killed dreams before they took root" — Ruth's greatest wish was to overcome poverty and leave her hometown behind.
She'd disappointed her family, and herself, by giving birth at 17. Her grandmother then arranged for her son's adoption. It was a secret she buried way down deep, and she "protected the lie of her past at all costs," telling no one, not even her husband.
Now a successful chemical engineer and married to Xavier, a VP at PepsiCo, she has everything. And with Obama the newly elected president, her hopes have wings: "With a brother on his way to the White House, they had state-sanctioned permission to dream."
Ruth and Xavier's prosperity allows them to buy a townhome in Bronzeville, "the Black Metropolis," on Chicago's South Side, a community rich in African American history. Living both in luxury and within earshot of gunfire, they've proven they haven't totally sold out:
"Somehow, Black people had re-engineered gentrification there — rehabbing houses, stimulating the economy, and turning the place into their own mecca. The neighborhood reminded her of herself, a process of tearing down and building back up, making something out of nothing."
Ruth remembers what it was like to grow up poor and less-than. "It had taken her years for her to love her own dark skin, almost the color of their shiny new walnut hardwood floors." Now that she's made it, she should feel satisfied and accomplished, but her "feet remained stuck in the quicksand of her past. How could she enjoy that kind of ease when she carried something so heavy?" — abandoning motherhood for a Yale education.
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I read a wonderful book on Psalm 23, the man was a shepherd of sheep. His description of caring for sheep and this verse has always stayed with me.
1.	Free of all fear.
2.	Free from friction with others of their own kind.
3.	Free from torment by flies or parasites.
4.	Free from the feeling to need to find food and be free of hunger.
The Bible says fear has torment, have you ever been tormented by thoughts? It's hard to lie down when thoughts are buzzing around your head. People/family/co-workers can cause friction and provoke us to do things that we would probably never do. Sheep poke at other sheep. Sheep need to be free from torment by flies or parasites, if not dealt with, it can lead to bad health problems. Like us we have to ward off people who want to hang on to us, they can become a parasite and affect our health. They need to be free from the feeling of a shortage of food. Money can get tight and worry overtake us.
But notice what Jesus said, notice the birds….they aren't worried, your heavenly father will take care of you. Getting worked up and worried will not add to your day or life. God does not give us fear….because there is none in Him to give. My sheep know my voice….keep listening for His voice everyday, this will bring peace to you. Learn the language of love, prefer one another. Learn how to walk in love, it will reduce the stress in you that others want to impose on you. Flies can drive sheep to distraction, but the good shepherd will anoint the head of the sheep to protect them from pest. Spending time in the presence of the Lord, brings peace and quietness to our souls. Speaking the Word, memorizing it, prayer and worship can free us.
David tended sheep in dry climates and green pastures are not common. The shepherd had to clear the land, seed it and water the land. Like Jesus does for us, he helps cultivate our lives and longs to see us grow. Only spending time with our shepherd, Jesus will we find ourselves free of torment. He will help us discern how to deal with others. Let Him bring peace to your soul and lead you to a place of peace and contentment.
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Ultralife Corporation Reports Third Quarter Results 27 KB
NEWARK, N.Y., Oct. 30, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ultralife Corporation (Nasdaq:ULBI) reported breakeven operating results on revenue of $16.1 million for the quarter ended September 28, 2014. For the third quarter of 2013, the Company reported an operating profit of $0.7 million on revenue of $20.4 million.
"On the strength of a 36% increase in commercial sales in Battery & Energy Products, consolidated sales to commercial customers surpassed sales to Government/Defense customers for the third consecutive quarter and Battery & Energy Products sales grew 3%. Our strategy to embed our battery systems into the design of our commercial customers' products is bearing fruit and giving us a strong foundation to continue to grow commercial sales while strengthening our customer relationships," said Michael D. Popielec, Ultralife's President and Chief Executive Officer.
"Communications Systems remains challenged by sluggish government tactical communications spending," added Popielec. "Nevertheless, based on customer feedback, our value proposition meets the needs of diverse governmental entities for reliability and mobility, and therefore we continue to invest in new product development supporting our Communications Systems business development activities. With a strong balance sheet and growing contribution of Battery & Energy Products towards the Company's operating profitability, we have the resources to continue strengthening our position with Government/Defense customers while growing our commercial business."
Revenue was $16.1 million, compared to $20.4 million for the third quarter of 2013, a $4.3 million, or 21%, decline reflecting an increase of $0.4 million in Battery & Energy Products sales offset by a $4.7 million decrease in Communications Systems sales. Battery & Energy Products sales were $13.9 million, compared to $13.5 million last year, a 3% increase, with sales to commercial customers increasing 36% and Government/Defense sales decreasing 25%. Communications Systems sales were $2.1 million, compared to $6.9 million for the same period last year, a decrease of 69% reflecting ongoing soft order flow from Government/Defense customers and continued delays in approving U.S. Government orders. On a consolidated basis, sales to commercial customers accounted for 53% of total revenue, up from 30% last year.
Gross profit was $4.5 million, or 27.9% of revenue, compared to $6.1 million, or 30.1% of revenue, for the same quarter a year ago. The 220 basis point decrease reflects primarily the lower mix of Communications Systems sales. Battery & Energy Products gross margin was 27.4%, 70 basis points higher than the 26.7% reported last year reflecting increased sales of higher margin commercial products. Communications Systems gross margin was 31.3% compared to 36.9% last year, a decrease of 560 basis points on lower volume and unfavorable product mix.
Operating expenses were $4.5 million, $.9 million or 17% lower than last year primarily due to continued reductions in discretionary spending, the timing of certain expenses related to new product development and lower sales commissions. Operating expenses were 28.3% of revenue, compared to 26.9% for the year earlier period.
With gross profit nearly equal to operating expenses the Company reported a slight operating loss of $55,000 for the fiscal 2014 third quarter. For the comparable period last year, the Company reported operating income of $0.7 million.
The Company reported a net loss of $.3 million, or $0.02 per share, compared to net income of $0.6 million, or $0.04 per share, for the third quarter of 2013.
During the third quarter, Ultralife repurchased 160,557 shares under its 1.8 million share repurchase program.
Despite the Company's commercial sales momentum, management now expects revenue for the year to be up to 20% below last year given the reduction in global government and defense spending exacerbated by the continued timing uncertainties of several Communications Systems projects. As a result, management expects an operating loss of approximately 3% - 4% of sales for the year.
Management cautions that the timing of orders and shipments may cause variability in quarterly results.
Ultralife Corporation serves its markets with products and services ranging from portable power solutions to communications and electronics systems. Through its engineering and collaborative approach to problem solving, Ultralife serves government, defense and commercial customers across the globe.
Cash and cash equivalents $15,571 $16,489
Inventories, net 28,500 26,053
Property, equipment and improvements, net 9,897 10,202
Accumulated other comprehensive loss (450) (614)
Treasury stock (8,247) (7,658)
Noncontrolling interest (112) (99)
Total liabilities and shareholders' equity $87,540 $90,194
September 28, September 29, September 28, September 29,
Communication systems 2,149 6,854 6,546 17,443
Total revenues 16,062 20,361 $46,546 58,659
Battery & energy products 10,100 9,906 29,510 31,025
Operating (loss) income (55) 652 (2,475) (847)
Other (expense) income:
Interest income 3 13 12 27
Interest and financing expense (56) (66) (153) (199)
Miscellaneous (158) (8) (128) (31)
(Loss) income from continuing operations before income taxes (266) 591 (2,744) (1,050)
Income tax provision (benefit) 60 (16) 177 135
Net (loss) income from continuing operations (326) 607 (2,921) (1,185)
Income (loss) from discontinued operations, net of tax - 15 (61) 159
Net (loss) income (326) 622 (2,982) (1,026)
Net loss attributable to noncontrolling interest 3 22 13 31
Net (loss) income attributable to Ultralife (323) 644 (2,969) (995)
Other comprehensive income:
Foreign currency translation adjustments 29 32 164 53
Comprehensive (loss) income attributable to Ultralife $ (294) $ 676 $ (2,805) $ (942)
Net (loss) income per share attributable to Ultralife common shareholders - basic:
Continuing operations $ (.02) $ .04 $ (.17) $ (.07)
Discontinued operations - .00 .00 .01
Total $ (.02) $ .04 $ (.17) $ (.06)
Net income per share attributable to Ultralife common shareholders - diluted:
Continuing operations $.04
Discontinued operations .00
Total $.04
Weighted average shares outstanding - basic 17,490 17,467 17,510 17,461
Weighted average shares outstanding - diluted 17,532
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UPDATE: As of September 19, 2016, Tropical Storm Julia has deteriorated to a remnant low and the National Hurricane Center will no longer issue advisories.
MIAMI, Florida - NOAA's National Hurricane Center in Miami, Florida has issued a Public Advisory at 5 p.m. EDT on Sunday, September 18, 2016, due to the presence of Tropical Depression Julia off the coast of South Carolina.
Tropical Depression Julia is stationary 110 miles southeast of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. A turn toward the north is forecast to occur tonight, and that motion is expected to continue into Tuesday. On the NHC forecast track, the tropical cyclone is expected to be near the coasts of South Carolina and North Carolina by Monday afternoon or evening.
Tropical Depression Julia has maximum sustained winds of 30 mph (45 km/h), with higher gusts. NHC forecasters say that some strengthening is possible during the next day or so.
Spaghetti models are in general agreement that Julia will slowly meander towards the Outer-banks of North Carolina. After 48 hours, the computer models begin to disagree widely, which is also reflected by the circular "cone of uncertainty" drawn by the National Hurricane Center.
Tropical Storm Julia is the first Atlantic named storm to form over land since 1988.


A few days back a friend posted on her Facebook that work life balance is a myth. With two little kids and a full-time job, a sentence like this gets my attention. I agree it's hard to find even a day when I have it in balance. For me, the weight shifts every week, make it everyday, depending on what I have going. Depending on what time of day you ask me, I may be trying hard to get one or the other in order.
What I do find, however, are moments when things are working in harmony and it is those moments that make it wonderful.
What do you think? Is it a myth? Or you have work and home in harmony with a good balance?
When you add to this question a healthy, balanced meal, things get even more complex. And that's where a dal like this comes in handy.
The recipe is my sister-in-law's who started making this when my niece was little. Now I have started making it as well. What makes it even better is it gets cooked in a pressure cooker.
I recently saw Bong Mom Cookbook and Indian Food Rocks showcasing their pressure cookers and I wanted to join in even though I am late for the event. So I wrote to Jaya of Desi Soccer Mom and she graciously accepted my request.
I don't know what I would do without my pressure cookers. I use it several times during the week to boil dal, make sabji, make a quick chole, rajma, other lentils and sometimes even murgir jhol. When Lil A was small I made his lunch in a little pressure cooker. In a few months it will be Tiny M's turn to eat delicious stuff made fresh in a pressure cooker just for him.
I own three cookers, a small Hawkins, medium Prestige one and a big Futura pressure cooker.
I mostly make the dal with carrots and peas, but you can add any vegetable of your choice.
Heat oil and ghee in a pressure cooker. Then temper it with asafoetida, cumin seeds and chilli.
Then add the washed moong dal and the vegetables and saute for a couple of minutes. Add the turmeric powder, cumin seed powder, and salt and let it mix together for another 1-2 minutes.
Add double the amount (and a little more) of water, so for 1 cup I add about 2 1/2 cups of water. Close the lid and move the heat to medium high. Let it cook for 3 whistle and turn it off.
The dal is now ready to eat. Serve with rice and a salad.
comforting food definitely,makes me hungry.
Quick, Easy, Comforting and Nourishing!!! Aar ki chai... The dal looks delish!


POLONEZ is a funding programme addressed to incoming researchers who may apply for 12-24-month fellowships in host institutions in Poland.
4.Opportunity to participate in research and non-research training programmes organised by the NCN.
Proposals must be submitted in English via OSF submission system. Access to the system available on the 15th of September 2015.
For more information please see POLONEZ 1 Guidelines for Applicants.
National Science Center(NSC) invite researchers interested in applying for the POLONEZ 1 fellowship for a web chat, in English, that will be held on the 15th of October 2015, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Also NSC invite all POLONEZ 1 applicants to use the POLONEZ 1 Partner Search Tool, a match-making section created in order to establish new cooperation between incoming researchers and Host Institutions in Poland.


Pierce Brosnan, talks about working with action star Jackie Chan in 'The Foreigner' in the latest issue of Men's Fitness.
"He's actually chasing me the whole time, so we have no real fight sequences... it's more of a thriller," he explains.
"But Jackie was just amazing to watch," says the former James Bond. "Now, I did the fight sequences in Bond: So many hits to the neck over the years, I got spurs in my neck; I hung and swung on wires, did driving, motorcycle, and water work."
"But nothing like Jackie... when he releases the Kraken, it's like, wow, man! You're in the presence of a grandmaster. He was a real joy to be around."
Brosnan is also asked whether he ever played GoldenEye 007 on Nintendo 64, which is considered to be one of the best video games of all time.
"I tried to play with my boys when they were little, and I think I shot myself in the foot," he laughs.


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Description: A Java web application to translate text into a different language.
Technologies: Google Translate API, Gson API, Spring MVC, Maven, JSP, cURL, and Heroku
Demo URL: https://nameless-cliffs-3186.herokuapp.com/translate
Submission URL: https://www.hackerleague.org/hackathons/hackru-spring-2015/hacks/web-application-leveraging-spring-framework-and-google-translate-api


High performance digital standard servo, can be common use in robots, mechanical arms, climbing cars and remote control toys.
The main features are fast heat dissipation,big torque high compatibility ,sensitive and responsive ect.
Good choice for university professors and students who are interested in developing software for robot parts.


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Q: regex regarding symbols in urls I want to replace consecutive symbols just one such as;

this is a dog???

to

this is a dog?

I'm using
str = re.sub("([^\s\w])(\s*\1)+", "\\1",str)

however I notice that this might replace symbols in urls that might happen in my text.
like http://example.com/this--is-a-page.html
Can someone give me some advice how to alter my regex?

A: So you want to unleash the power of regular expressions on an irregular language like HTML. First of all, search SO for "parse HTML with regex" to find out why that might not be such a good idea.
Then consider the following: You want to replace duplicate symbols in (probably user-entered) text. You don't want to replace them inside a URL. How can you tell what a URL is? They don't always start with http – let's say ars.userfriendly.org might be a URL that is followed by a longer path that contains duplicate symbols.
Furthermore, you'll find lots of duplicate symbols that you definitely don't want to replace (think of nested parentheses (like this)), some of them maybe inside a <script> on the page you're working on (||, && etc. come to mind.
So you might come up with something like
(?<!\b(?:ftp|http|mailto)\S+)([^\\|&/=()"'\w\s])(?:\s*\1)+

which happens to work on the source code of this very page but will surely fail in other cases (for example if URLs don't start with ftp, http or mailto). Plus, it won't work in Python since it uses variable repetition inside lookbehind.
All in all, you probably won't get around parsing your HTML with a real parser, locating the body text, applying a regex to it and writing it back.
EDIT:
OK, you're already working on the parsed text, but it still might contain URLs.
Then try the following:
result = re.sub(
    r"""(?ix) # case-insensitive, verbose regex

    # Either match a URL
    # (protocol optional (if so, URL needs to start with www or ftp))
    (?P<URL>\b(?:(?:https?|ftp|file)://|www\.|ftp\.)[-A-Z0-9+&@#/%=~_|$?!:,.]*[A-Z0-9+&@#/%=~_|$])

    # or
    |

    # match repeated non-word characters
    (?P<rpt>[^\s\w])(?:\s{0,100}(?P=rpt))+""",

    # and replace with both captured groups (one will always be empty)
    r"\g<URL>\g<rpt>", subject)

Re-EDIT: Hm, Python chokes on the (?:\s*(?P=rpt))+ part, saying the + has nothing to repeat. Looks like a bug in Python (reproducible with (.)(\s*\1)+ whereas (.)(\s?\1)+ works)...
Re-Re-EDIT: If I replace the * with {0,100}, then the regex compiles. But now Python complains about an unmatched group. Obviously you can't reference a group in a replacement if it hasn't participated in the match. I give up... :(

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Every time I think co-operative thinking cannot surprise me any longer in this world, somebody proves me wrong. Astra Taylor is a writer, activist, and documentary filmmaker. In her thoroughly researched and comprehendingly presented The People's Platform, she debunks some of the myths surrounding the advantages of the internet, which in just 20 years has changed everything about the way we live. Taylor warns against users becoming oblivious consumers exploited by power and greed which often hide behind seemingly benign services. She champions an "open, egalitarian, participatory, and sustainable culture" where people are "put before profit", and gives practical advice about how such goals can still be attained.
First published in the Cape Times, 1 August 2014, p. 32.
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New Kentville Writers Group a comfortable space to share, develop ideas
Kirk Starratt (kirk.starratt@kingscountynews.ca)
Published: Apr 08, 2018 at 11:24 a.m.
Organizer Dana Mills, a published author, is looking forward to working with the six members of the Kentville Writers Group. - Kirk Starratt
KENTVILLE, NS - It's a comfortable space where writers can collaborate and encourage each other to harness the power of imagination.
Kentville Writers Group organizer Dana Mills said this is the first workshop of its kind that he has facilitated. The six-member group meets in the community room in the Kentville Library on the first Saturday of the month at 1 p.m. for a two-hour class.
He said the plan is to work on three pieces of writing during each class and he's currently working on putting a schedule together.
Mills said Kentville Library branch manager Julie Johnson suggested the idea of a writers group to him. Mills had a book of short stories called Someone Somewhere published by Gaspereau Press of Kentville in 2013 and he's currently working on a novel.
Mills also works in the Annapolis Valley Regional Library's administrative office in Berwick and he delivers books to branches between Windsor and Annapolis Royal.
Mills, who has participated in writers' groups before, said he likes having a comfortable space to share and further develop ideas. It's beneficial to have a group of people with a similar interest in writing to collaborate with.
"It's almost like you have to build an atmosphere of trust because it can be a vulnerable thing to share something that can be quite personal to you," Mills said.
He's looking forward to working with the group, which is currently full. Mills said it's important to get to know each other's work and to respect it. He knows that they have a good group in Kentville, as it was "very comfortable right from the get-go."
The Kentville Writers Group organized by author Dana Mills meets at the Kentville Library on April 7.
Following the April 7 meeting, member Lynn Pulsifer said she's always enjoyed writing and she reads a lot. She has been looking for a writing club to join for a few years.
"I have participated in them before but sometimes when life gets busy and we have other things to do, writing is not something that happens," Pulsifer said. "Joining a writing club gives you that incentive and stimulus to get that writing going again."
Pulsifer, the town's deputy mayor, said she was looking forward to working on her assignment. She and two other group members will be submitting pieces of writing at next month's class, perhaps a chapter in a book, a short story or a poem.
She said the pieces would be reviewed and critiqued by the group, a way to generate some constructive criticism. The following month, the other three group members will submit something for review.
Kirk.starratt@kingscountynews.ca
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Bargain-Loving Brits in The Sun Documentary series. Single mum Vicky is launching her own bar. Vikki, owner of Hepburn's Hair Salon, has become co-owner of Frash Radio Spain. (S2 Ep 7)[S] Fri, Jul 5, 11:15 AM Channel 5 55 mins
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In 2014 we met with Groundworks to discuss an idea they had for a landscape and heritage project. After a successful bid to the National Lottery's Heritage Lottery Fund, Saltscape project was launched.
Saltscape are a partnership that protects, enhances and celebrates the distinct landscape of the Weaver Valley. As a result, their work is split up into four sections; Salt People, Salt Skills, Salt Industry Salt Nature.
Saltscape is scheduled to run from 2015-2017 with a large range of partners delivering numerous services and products.
Our role was to support the local community in conserving the salt landscape through developing participants multimedia skills while connecting them to their local environment.
Our projects led us to work with people across all age groups. We found ourselves working in primary schools, college and university environments. Time has flown by and we can't believe we've reached the end of the Saltscape project.
This project saw us working with young people to build and improve on photography techniques. We held two workshop events during September at Winsford and Middlewhich Libraries. We used these venues and nearby surroundings to teach basic camera skills. This allowed for fun and learning to be combined with interaction of the local environment.
Working with Students from Mid Cheshire College's Foundation Degree Graphics Department. Students got to experience working for a real client and put their creativity towards a good cause. With learning new skills along the way. Advertising materials were produced. The aim of these designs were to encourage people to get out and enjoy the landscape. Their work was hailed by Northwhich Guardian who wrote about MakoEducation's work with Saltscape.
Media students at Mid Cheshire College undertook three film making projects, learning, planning, filming and editing. The films introduced and connected the students to the work that Saltscape partners were delivering. For example, interviewing a Park Ranger and documenting the future plans for Saltscape and Canal and River Trust.
Those involved behind the cameras, got to develop film making skills using Saltscape as a real life study case. Working with a brief, researching and editing content is a valuable experience preparing young people for the workplace.
Primary school students worked together to produce podcasts. The focus being their favourite local places. We worked with them to plan, produce and get young people thinking about their local environment. Winsford Guardian also wrote an article piece on this project.
Students worked together in pairs to write a script. They then used iPads to record their interviews and then broadcasted them to their class. Through this, they are also gaining a better understanding of the environment and their own creativity.
Mako Education's approach to this project was so refreshingly positive and energising.
It's been a real pleasure to work with Sean. He is brimming with enthusiasm and creativity from many years of working with communities, schools and young people. This breadth of experience has allowed us to adapt our projects to reach wider audiences more effectively. MakoEducation have been a truly flexible partner, able to work to shifting budgets and priorities and get some great outcomes for the people we work with. They would always be my first choice to run a project with young people.
The project has been a huge success. We would like to thank Saltscape for the opportunity to be part of the project. A full list of the other partners making up Saltscape Landscape Partnership can be found on their partners page. Also, a thank you to all of the people that we have worked with produced excellent media work. Travelling to schools, museums and libraries was always a pleasure getting to see the weaver valley landscape in all of it's glory. As well as the community's efforts to preserve their local heritage.


Many people wonder what happens to Gently nappies in landfill where the conditions are variable and not the same as industrial composting conditions. We decided to test this out and placed a Gently Insert in the ground for 6 months. There was no turning of the soil or addition of other materials that might speed up the biodegradation. So really kind of a worst case scenario. As you can see from the attached pictures there was almost nothing left after 6 months!
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Q: Office 365 out of office assistant We have Office365 and Exchange 2010 SP1 in a Hybrid setup.
Most of the users in the cloud have the Out Of Office Assistant working fine. However, there is at least one user that is not working (that is hosted on the cloud).
The out of office assistant doesn't work internally or externally for that user. The user is able to set it up normally, but when external or internal users sent emails to this user there is no out of office automatic reply sent.
I have already checked Out of office assistance not working externally, http://community.office365.com/en-us/forums/158/p/63862/244004.aspx#244004 and http://community.office365.com/en-us/forums/158/t/53858.aspx?PageIndex=2.
Everything seems fine. The user is not forwarding emails to another mailbox, and there doesn't seem to be anything special about the user. Not sure how to troubleshoot.
When using the PS Session to the cloud the Get-Mailbox 'affected mailbox name' | Get-MailboxAutoReplyConfiguration looks correct.
Please advise. Thanks.

A: I opened a case with Microsoft. They connected to my computer and had me 2 hours going back and forth doing tests (they were very polite, and tried to help).
Their suggestions are the same above. That didn't help. However, they thought that my profile having too many rules (+100) might have something to do.
Offline I cleaned up my rules, deleting a lot of rules that I had disabled (~20 rules). That fixed the issue.
It seems that some rule was corrupted, or my total rules count didn't allow Exchange to add the rule for the automatic reply. In any case, my situation is resolved.

A: Problems are in roules. Clear roules and it will work fine to end user. I had that same problem.
I really don't understand why do you need 100+ roules.
y clent had same problem, but I deleted "cloud" user and recreated the account and it worked fine. Of course, you need to backup data before deleting user. He was in P1 plan and didn't use SharePoint.


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Scenic Bull's Gap, located in the southern reaches of the Talladega National Forest east of Sylacauga, hosts many colorful neotropical songbirds. Among them are Summer and Scarlet Tanagers, Black-throated Green Warblers, Ovenbirds and Worm-eating Warblers. We may even find Blue-headed Vireos, which breed in the higher elevations.
Black-throated Green Warbler by alabamabirder.com Charles Grisham.
We will also visit Red-cockaded Woodpecker colonies that are located west of Bull's Gap, along AL Hwy 148. As time permits, we will also visit other sites within the national forest featuring habitats that favor species such as Prairie warblers, Yellow-breasted Chats and Northern Bobwhite.
Worm-eating Warbler by alabamabirder.com Charles Grisham.
Please note that the terrain can be uneven on the forest service road at Bull's Gap (southern terminus of the Skyway Motorway), and we will start our walk at 1400 feet elevation and ascend to 1800 feet – in the span of about a half-mile. Those who wish, and who are in a vehicle with good clearance and capable of handling rutted roads, may park in a small gravel parking area located part way up the ascent.
Blue-headed Vireo by alabamabirder.com Charles Grisham.
Meeting Place and Travel Plans: Our meeting place is the parking lot at the Publix at Lee Branch near Greystone (410 Doug Baker Blvd, Birmingham, AL 35242-2682). We will depart from here at 7:00 a.m. and caravan, via US Hwy 280, to Sylacauga, where we'll reconvene at the McDonald's in downtown Sylacauga (701 W Fort Williams St, Sylacauga AL 35150-2441) at 8:00 a.m. Please note that if you wish to have breakfast first, please arrive at the Sylacauga McDonald's in advance of the group's arrival and allow yourself enough time to eat, as our stop here will be brief.
This will be an all-day trip, so bring a picnic lunch, drinks and snacks. Remember, weather this time of year can be changeable, so dress appropriately. Have a full tank of gas. Bring your binoculars and spotting scopes.


Pedro has scored 48 goals in the 150 league games he completed against Atletico Madrid on Saturday and is just seven matches away from making it 250 appearances in all competitions for the Club.
Xavi is now just one game away from game number 700 for the Club. Last night saw him start alongside Busquets and Iniesta for the first time since the game in San Mames.
Dani Alves picked up his fifth yellow card and will miss next week's game at Levante.
It was the fourth game on teh run that Alexis, Cesc and Pedro formed the front line, having started against Getafe in the league and the cup and against Elche.
This was Barça's third goalless draw of the season - their second against Atletico Madrid. The other team to hold them were Osasuna in Pamplona.
All three games against Atletico Madrid this season have ended in draws, with the 1-1 draw in the Super Cup first leg the only game with goals.
Sergi Roberto, who came on on 81 minutes for Pedro last night, has now played in all of the team's last 12 games, starting five of them.
Barça made 766 passes, 651 successful, whilst Atletico Madrid made 346, with 240 of them successful.
Messi and Neymar appeared together for the first time in two months - the last time they played together was against Betis, when Messi came off injured. On Wednesday against Getafe, Messi made his reapperance, but Neymar nmissed out with a stomach bug.
The only other time the two have drawn 0-0 in the league was in he 2003/04 season.
Barça stay top for another week and have now led the table for 57 consecutive weeks.
This was Barça's third clean sheet on the run, following the wins against Elche and Getafe. That makes it 15 games from 30 that the team have not conceded a goal so far this season.


For more, have a look at Laundry Outlaws, and my clothes-hanging tutorial.
I've started reading your book on Crows online.
It is fascinating stuff. Especially when you get into all the "spirtual" stuff people think that crows portend.
Anyway…. love your stuff, your blog, your way of looking at things etc. Keep up the great wild life, (notice it's two words) life.
I loved this post when it first came out, because it nudged me to set up our clothesline, which turned out to be great timing. Our dryer died days later, for good. It was a really old one with a belt that's no longer available.
This last weekend we finally bought a "new to us" dryer, and I was also shocked at how warm & fluffy they came out. It had me & my husband giggling as we folded clothes!
I've been following your blog for a few months now, and was so excited to hear you on New Dimensions! We've been hanging our laundry for a couple of years — at first it was because we had funky wiring and was too scary to keep using the dryer. THEN we figured out that we were saving about $50 a month by hanging the laundry. THAT money funding the new breaker box – but we still hang the laundry. I use the savings to help fund a trip somewhere warm in the winter.
The incredible thing to me is that any community could get away with banning drying clothes on the line! I can relate to the frozen-board part of that description, having lived in the Sierras for the past 23 years… I suspend a rack from the pulley for the emergency Coleman lantern in winter, to take advantage of that heat that migrates up to the ceiling.
I heard you too on New Dimensions and your words struck deep cords within me and I will get your book. Thanks for the reminder of purchasing at indie bookstore. I have felt a special connection to crows for a long time…maybe because they are so numerous in the NW. I appreciated your saying that shaming ourselves into saving our mother earth and her sister creatures, trees etc. are not sustaining or self nurturing ways to go about it. PS I have been hanging my clothes a long time thinking I would get more wear out of them. Thank You for sharing your wisdom!
In Love and Gratitude to you.
Your dear relative Lourice had her modesty as well as her four clotheslines in the back yard. She made a practice of hanging her sheets and towels on the outside 2 lines, and all undergarments then went up in between, out of sight.
The circle of life…I loved nothing more than playing between the sheets as they hung in the sunshine. Now we hang ours on wooden hoop-racks on the back porch during the summer or in the girls' playroom in the winter. The girls scurry right under the sheets and revel in the sweet-scented solitude.
I keep hoping for lines in the house. Thanks for the tip about the coated line. Seems worth the investment.
I am enjoying your posts and heard you interviewed on the radio. Our clotheslines is made of Dacron and is from a boating store. This line is designed not too stretch very much. Plus we have it tied to a heavy duty spring on one end so it never sags. Coated line is from a form of vinyl, the most toxic plastic on earth to create, use and dispose of, (it off gases, too). We also spaced our poles so we can hang a hammock when there are no clothes hanging to dry and the weather is nice!
My dryer quit working about two years ago and we have never replaced it. We use a couple clothes drying racks. What I like about them is that they are so portable. I can move them to which ever space is not being used and I can take them outside when ever the weather cooperates.
Great post! I love hanging our laundry outside in the dry season, and would like to do it year-round. I'm wondering what the humidity is like in your house– I live in Seattle as well, in an old house with a cold basement. We heat only the kitchen and living rooms, and when we dry clothes inside (or boil pots uncovered) there during the winter, mold grows on the windowsills and the clothes smell sour after spending two or three days on the line. Running a dehumidifier might be a help, but I can't bring myself to buy another appliance. Any thoughts?
Thanks, Anna. Hmm. Have you tried just hanging them in the cold basement? If your basement is dry, it could work–clothes don't really need warmth to dry, though it helps. It's true we don't have a very humid house, and our basement is a dry one (chilly though!), which definitely contributes to the success of an indoor line. Let us know if you find anything that works, and I'll keep pondering.
I've embraced line drying this year and am looking toward our Seattle rainy season with dismay for the first time. Any thoughts for Anna? We're in the same situation.


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Disability advocates rip Kylie Jenner wheelchair photo shoot
By Michael Pearson, CNN
Updated 2:24 PM EST, Wed December 2, 2015
Khloe Kardashian and boyfriend Tristan Thompson were the subject of reports in April that Thompson had been spending time with other women during her pregnancy. Let's "katch" up with the rest of her famous family.
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The most famous of the Kardashian clan is undoubtedly Kim Kardashian West, who has gained publicity for everything from "breaking the Internet" to bleaching her hair blonde to ... well, pretty much everything she does gains publicity. At the least, she can usually be seen with her family on the E! series "Keeping Up With the Kardashians." The middle Kardashian daughter is married to rap star Kanye West and has a daughter, North, born in 2013. She gave birth to a son, Saint, in 2015 and in January 2018 daughter Chicago was born via surrogate.
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Kourtney Kardashian is the oldest of the four Kardashian siblings. She works with her sisters in the fashion business. She and Scott Disick were together from 2006 to 2015 and have three children.
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Khloé Kardashian is the youngest of the Kardashian daughters and along with Khloe has starred in some spinoffs of their family's famous reality show. She had been married to former NBA star Lamar Odom but filed for divorce from him for the second time in May 2016. She previously filed in 2013, but put the divorce on hold when he was found unconscious in a Nevada brothel. The pair settled their divorce in December 2016. A year later she confirmed she was expecting her first child with her NBA player boyfriend Tristan Thompson.
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Rob Kardashian has been on "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" but has been uncomfortable in the spotlight his sisters love so much. He dated pop star Adrienne Bailon for a time and performed on season 13 of "Dancing With the Stars" but has generally kept a low profile (for a Kardashian, anyway). He was involved with model and personality Blac Chyna and their show "Rob & Chyna" followed the couple's tumultuous relationship and the arrival of their daughter, Dream. The couple split and in July 2017 Chyna was granted a temporary restraining order after he posted personal info about her on social media.
Kylie Jenner, the youngest of the clan, has also made her mark with modeling and social media. In 2015, she made headlines with a relationship with rapper Tyga. In February 2018 she gave birth to her first child, a daughter she and boyfriend rapper Travis Scott named Stormi.
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In March 2018, Kendall Jenner answered rumors that she is gay in an interview with Vogue. Fans have watched the model grow up on "Keeping Up With the Kardashians," and she has made the most of the opportunity, hosting awards shows, endorsing products and walking high fashion runways.
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Kris Jenner, the matriarch of the family, was married to Los Angeles lawyer Robert Kardashian until 1991 and then married Olympian Bruce Jenner a month after the divorce. She's hosted a talk show, "Kris," and been a regular presence on "Keeping Up." She split from Bruce in September 2014; he later transitioned to Caitlyn Jenner.
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Caitlyn Jenner shot to fame as the winner of the 1976 Olympic men's decathlon, becoming "the world's greatest athlete." An occasional actor and longtime broadcaster, he married Kris, his third wife, in 1991. The pair have two children together, Kendall and Kylie. In 2015, she announced that she was transgender.
Brandon Jenner, Bruce Jenner's son by his second wife, Linda Thompson, had a reality show even before the rest of the family: 2005's "The Princes of Malibu" with his brother, Brody. Brandon is now in a music duo with his wife, Leah Felder, the daughter of Eagles guitarist Don Felder.
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Brody Jenner has practically grown up in front of the cameras. Before "Keeping Up With the Kardashians," he was in "The Princes of Malibu" with brother Brandon, "The Hills" on MTV and "Bromance," a "Hills" spinoff. He's the younger son of Bruce Jenner and Linda Thompson.
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The family patriarch was Robert Kardashian, a Los Angeles attorney who first became famous to the rest of the country as one of O.J. Simpson's best friends, the man who hosted Simpson after the 1994 murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. Kardashian, who's the father of Kim, Khloe, Kourtney and Rob, married Kris in 1978 and divorced her 13 years later. Robert Kardashian died in 2003.
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Hip-hop star Kanye West was taken into the family orbit after he started seeing Kim Kardashian in 2012. The couple had a daughter, North, the next year and married in May 2014.
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Scott Disick had been with Kourtney Kardashian since 2006. The two have three children. Disick has struggled in the glare of the Kardashian spotlight, admitting to anger issues and getting into tiffs with other members of the family. The couple eventually split amid rumors that he cheated.
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Odom married Khloe in 2009, but despite getting a reality series of their own -- "Khloe & Lamar" -- the marriage struggled. Khloe filed for divorce in 2013. Odom, who won the NBA Sixth Man of the Year award in 2011, was waived by the New York Knicks in 2014 after a 15-year professional career.
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Khloe Kardashian and Cleveland Cavaliers basketball player Tristan Thompson went public with their relationship in September 2016. The pair weathered some criticism early on as Thompson's ex-girlfriend, Jordan Craig, was pregnant with their child at the time.
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The Kardashian clan
Kylie Jenner is being criticized for a photo shoot in a wheelchair
The photos are offensive and disturbing, critics say
Kylie Jenner. As a sex doll. In a wheelchair.
What could go wrong?
Plenty, say disability advocates, who argue that the photo spread for Interview magazine is at best a tone-deaf disaster.
"It's deeply disturbing," said Emily Smith Beitiks, associate director of the Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability in San Francisco.
"People with disabilities are already seen as powerless, and this just reinforces that," she said.
The images, published Monday on the magazine's website, feature the 18-year-old reality TV personality wearing fetish outfits.
In many of the photos, she appears stiff, with a blank expression that makes her resemble a sex doll. In one shot, she is seen inside a wooden shipping crate. In another, a man totes Jenner on his side like a package, her arms and legs rigidly outstretched. In some, she is seated in a wheelchair.
While the sexualized nature of the images generated some commentary, it's the wheelchair shots that have provoked the most intense reactions.
"I'm constantly infantilized because of my wheelchair, denied even the idea of sexuality and agency let alone desirability. But Kylie?" Atlanta writer Kayla Whaley tweeted. "She gets paid and praised to wear the shallowest possible illusion of my disability for a few hours."
Reaction to the shoot was swift and broad.
"So disabled models can't get work or advance in the fashion industry but Kylie jenner can use a wheelchair and be classed as edgy," Twitter user @Bendy_Mermaid posted.
So disabled models can't get work or advance in the fashion industry but Kylie jenner can use a wheelchair and be classed as edgy 👌
— Beth (@BethElizabethuk) December 1, 2015
"Oh I see! When I'm in my wheelchair noone can look me in the eye but when Kylie Jenner sits in a wheelchair it's FASHION. Silly me," Twitter user @amysgotmilk said.
The images are troubling for a variety of reasons, Beitiks said.
They highlight the often devalued portrayal of disabled people in popular culture and the vanishingly small role of the disabled in fashion and entertainment, she said.
Lady Gaga received similar criticism a few years ago for performing in a wheelchair, but the images featuring Jenner are much worse, Beitiks said. "I think she's literally being objectified made to look like a sex doll, and this wheelchair is an added element of passivity they're adding on."
In other words, they're pushing both disability and gender objectification buttons at the same time, she said.
An apology would be nice, Whaley said Tuesday, although she doubts it will happen.
And maybe start including people living with disabilities in creative discussions about art, fashion and media, she said.
"Just include us," she said.


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Posts tagged with "no place on ballot in presidential primary"
President Donald Trump. (Photo source: The Independent)
California Senate passes measure to keep Trump off 2020 ballot unless he releases tax returns
The California State Senate has passed a bill that would require candidates appearing on the presidential primary ballot—including President Donald Trump, who is gearing up to run in 2020—to release five years' worth of income tax returns.
The Presidential Tax Transparency and Accountability Act (SB-27) was approved in a 27-10 vote in the State Senate, The Hill reports. The act would require California's Secretary of State, within five days of receiving the returns, to make redacted versions of the returns available to the public on his or her website.
According to The Hill, the bill represents a response to the president's continuing refusal to release his tax returns as presidential candidates traditionally have done, claiming he is under audit.
"We believe that President Trump, if he truly doesn't have anything to hide, should step up and release his tax returns," said State Senator Mike McGuire (D), who co-authored the bill.
All ten Republicans in the State Senate voted against the bill's passage.
"I get that playing the resistance card may be good politics for the majority party, but I would submit that it's bad policy for Californians," Senator Brian Jones (R) told the Associated Press.
Other presidential candidates would also be subject to the bill, but several 2020 Democrats already have released their tax returns.
Similar bills are making their way through the Washington State and New Jersey State legislatures, The Hill said.
Research contact: @thehill
This entry was posted in Politics and tagged Associated Press, California State Senate, Five years of income tax returns, New Jersey State, no place on ballot in presidential primary, No returns, President Donald Trump, Senator Brian Jones (R), Senator Mike McGuire (D), The Hill, The Presidential Tax Transparency and Accountability Act (SB-27), Washingotn State on May 3, 2019 by Poll-Vaulter.


The White House and The Wall Street Journal traded barbs late Saturday and early Sunday morning over the accuracy of quote from President Donald Trump during an interview with the newspaper. "I have a great relationship with Prime Minister Abe of Japan and I probably have a very good relationship with Kim Jong Un of North Korea. I have relationships with people, I think you people are surprised," WSJ quoted Trump as saying. But White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders fired back, and Trump tweeted on Sunday morning that the WSJ misquoted him. "Obviously I didn't say that. I said 'I'd have a good relationship with Kim Jong Un,' a big difference," he said, adding: "They just wanted a story." The newspaper posted its own audio recording on Saturday night, saying it stands by its reporting.


The "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks: I'd like some "ordinary" corn, please.
I guess some people were calling this popcorn "ordinary". I guess it isn't. Thanks, Shannon.
I have a funny photo with unnecessary quotations, how do I send it to someone that can blog it?
This sign reminds me of that story, "The Emperor's New Clothes". They are assuring you that the un-ordinary (non-existent) popcorn really IS in those apparently empty bags they're selling for $3-6.
I guess calling it "Extraordinary" popcorn would be well too "ordinary"
Doesn't having the "not" and the quotes make it like a double negative? I think they're trying to confuse people just to get them to pony up $3 or (gasp) $6 for some totally ordinary popcorn.
It sounds very defensive and bitter. This is NOT "ordinary" popcorn, ok????