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Welcome New Faculty
By Orlee Marini-Rapoport '19 Associate Editor Sep 13, 2017
Whit Sheppard '83 Returns to Campus
Whit Sheppard '83 returned to campus on Sep. 26, ending …
The Role of Politics in the Classroom
The Confederate flag. Threats of nuclear war. Brett Kavanaugh. The …
Stallings' Paradise
After English Teacher Andy Stallings' first year teaching at Deerfield …
Boys' First Boat Rows to Bronze at Nationals
The boys' crew team first boat finished off the year …
Pandemic Game Review
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Thomas Bergeron, Orchestra and Chamber Music Director, has taught at several colleges, including Williams and Amherst. He is currently the Principal Trumpet for the Springfield Symphony and has two albums. He has "a secret life as a hip hop artist," has "just started a career as an amateur baker," and believes "that music has the power to heal our body, mind, spirit, and global social divides."
Marshall Carroll, Library Director, comes to Deerfield from Mercersburg Academy. He has coached wrestling, water polo, and soccer and led international trips to Poland and Ireland. He is "excited to work with students in many capacities across campus…and looks forward to hearing feedback from students about how the library fits their needs."
Patricia Chambers, History Teacher, comes to Deerfield from the Taipei American School, previously teaching at the Loomis Chaffee School and working in children's publishing. Ms. Chambers was co-captain of the women's varsity swim team at Williams College her senior year. In addition to teaching history, she will be the head coach of the boys varsity swim team.
Deborah Costello, Math Teacher, comes from Trinity Prep School, having previously taught at both Lake Forest Academy and Taipei American School. She has worked for over 20 years at the College Board. She said, "Mathematics is logical, elegant, and beautiful. The fact that it's also pretty useful is icing on the cake."
Anthony Ferraro, Physics Teacher, taught at the International School of Berne, Switzerland for the past five years, after graduating from Yale University. In Switzerland, he joined a steel pan group.
Julie Graves, Math Teacher, has taught everything from precalculus to number theory in Fiji with the Peace Corps, at Phillips Exeter Academy, and the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics. She enjoys gardening and quilting.
Megan Hayes-Golding, Science Teacher, moved into Dewey with her wife and three cats after teaching for 13 years. She traveled to Deerfield from Atlanta on a motorcycle, a journey that lasted over six days! She "felt connected to the landscape in a way that's just not possible in a car." Ms. Hayes-Golding loves geocaching, camping, and hiking.
Beth Hooker, Sustainability Education Coordinator and Assistant Director of the CSGC, lives in Amherst with her husband and two daughters, one of whom is currently a Deerfield student. Dr. Hooker previously taught at Hampshire College and Mount Holyoke College. She will teach environmental science.
Daniel Houston, Language Teacher, comes from the Cardigan Mountain School, previously teaching at other schools and serving in the Marine Corps. Mr. Houston lives with his wife, Ms. Kellie Houston, and his daughter, Evelyn. He grew up on a dairy farm in Contoocook, New Hampshire, and loves pistachio ice cream.
Amanda Howe, Assistant Academic Dean, moved to Deerfield last year after working in independent schools for 25 years. She has four daughters: a training fellow with Ballet Austin in Texas, a sophomore at Deerfield, and twins in ninth grade at Bement. She also has two cats: Puck and Plie.
Callie Hughes, Math Teacher, taught at the Country Day School in Costa Rica for the past two years after teaching at the Foxcroft School for three years. While she still misses Costa Rica, she is "really excited to get back to skiing."
Erin Hutchinson, College Advisor, worked at the Admissions Office at Washington & Lee University for ten years. She owned a Fiber Arts shop, where she taught knitting, crochet, and quilting — she "brought more yarn and fabric with [her] to Deerfield than anything else." She has an identical twin and is a black belt in American Freestyle Karate. She lives in the Village with her sons, Jason and Donald, her husband, and a yellow lab.
Hannah Insuik, Science Teaching Fellow, graduated from Deerfield in 2013. She is "excited to work with the counseling center at DA on… breaking down mental health stigma on campus." Ms. Insuik remarked, "It is an incredible honor of mine to be back teaching among those people who inspired me to teach… and it is great to be back home."
Chrissy Kopp, History Teacher, has worked in many Deerfield offices and taught at several schools, including Phillips Academy. She enjoys history because "it's the next best thing to a having access to a time machine, time turner, or the Tardis." She said, "You may see me around campus with my seven-year-old daughter…Say hi!"
Bakir Mohammad, Philosophy & Religion Teacher, has lived in the UK and Beirut for most of his life. He will be at Deerfield for 14 weeks. At King's Academy in Jordan, he is part of Department of Ethics, Philosophy and Religion and coaches JV soccer and Ultimate Frisbee.
Patrick Moriarty, College Advisor and Head Varsity Baseball Coach, spent 22 years as a Correctional Case Officer and 12 years as the head varsity baseball coach at Cathedral/Pope Francis High School. Mr. Moriarty was inducted into the Cathedral High School Hall of Fame and won a Western Mass D1 Championship. He lives with his wife, son, and daughter.
Chinyere Odim, English Teaching Fellow, graduated from Swarthmore College in 2017. She grew up in Brooklyn and was captain of her high school's Varsity soccer, track, and field teams. She's taken Chinese, Japanese, and Spanish for over two years each.
Forest Reid, Math, Computer Science, and Physics Teacher, taught at several schools, including Northfield Mount Hermon and Burke Mountain Academy. He holds a bachelor's in astrophysics from Tufts University and a master's in physics from Brown University.
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With a new introduction by Alan Sica. Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) is often regarded as the beleaguered, neglected genius of pre-Enlightenment Naples. His work-though known to Herder, Coleridge, Matthew Arnold, and Michelet-widely and deeply appreciated only during the twentieth century. Although Vico may be best known for the use James Joyce made of his theories in Finnegans Wake, Croce's insightful analysis of Vico's ideas played a large role in alerting readers to his unique voice. Croce's volume preceded Joyce's creation of "Mr. John Baptister Vickar" by a quarter century. During the last 25 years Vico's ideas about history, language, anti-Cartesian epistemology, and rhetoric have begun to receive the recognition their admirers have long claimed they deserve. Increasing numbers of publications appear annually which bear the stamp of Vico's thinking. Even if he is not yet so renowned as some of his contemporaries, such as Locke, Voltaire, or Montesquieu, there are good reasons to believe that in the future he will be equally honored as a cultural theorist. As a theorist of historical process and its language, there is no more innovative voice than his until the twentieth century-which explains in part why such figures as Joyce and R.G. Collingwood freely drew on Vico's work, particularly his New Science, while creating their own. If Vico was Naples' most brilliant, if uncelebrated, citizen prior to the Enlightenment taking hold in Southern Italy, then Croce (1866-1952) is surely the city's most important thinker of modern times, and the single indispensable Italian philosopher since Vico's death. When a genius of Croce's interpretative prowess, evaluates the work of another, it is inevitable that an explosive mixture will result. A great virtue of this book is its fusion of Croce's unique brand of idealism and aesthetic philosophy with Vico's epistemological, ethical, and historical theories. If Vico's theory of cyclical changes in history, the corsi e ricorsi, remains fruitful, it might be argued that Croce's evaluation of his countryman' ideas represented the next turn of the philosophical wheel toward enlightenment.
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The recent book Mediocrity and Excellence: A radiography of science and education in Romania, vol. 6, published by professor Petre Frangopol presents different aspect concerning research and education in Romania. Thus, in the first part, the conclusions of the Round Table Discussions organized at University of Bucharest, are described in details. In the following sections of the book, some important Romanian scientific personalities are presented with the recommendations to be elected as full members of the Romanian Academy. In the book are included some interviews with scientists involved in the policy science and education. Professor Petre Frangopol presents also interesting aspects of the history of the Institute of Atomic Physics and of the Iași University. Related strongly by Constanța as his native town, he present interesting aspects related to the cultural aspects of the city and the history of his family. Finally, in this book, the information about the contributions of some Romanian scientists and publications in open access journals are discussed.


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Home » Retro Computing » Gary Kildall's death investigation
Gary Kildall's death investigation
Dave Farquhar Retro Computing May 24, 2016 November 13, 2018 1990s, Bill Gates, Gary Kildall, keyboard shortcuts, Steve Jobs, survivors, video game
Gary Kildall's death investigation, or the seeming lack thereof, has taken on mythical proportions. Gary Kildall's story seems to have that effect on people.
How I heard of Gary Kildall's death
Gary Kildall on his television program, Computer Chronicles, in 1985. Gary Kildall's death investigation, and the sketchy details surrounding his death, fascinate retro computer enthusiasts today.
I was selling computers at retail when I heard of Gary Kildall's death. We had a few copies of Wordstar for Windows and someone asked about it. I said it was easier to remember the keyboard shortcuts in Wordstar than Wordperfect.
"You sound like a CP/M guy," said someone who overheard me. "Did you hear that Gary Kildall died last month?"
I hadn't, and he wasn't surprised. I was curious, so I went to the library and found a whole lot of nothing. A month or two later, I found a mention in a computer magazine column that Kildall had died in a barroom fight but it gave no specifics.
If you're only vaguely aware of Kildall, he was an unheralded industry pioneer, a talented developer who was always 5-10 years ahead of everyone else. He recognized the value and usefulness of the Intel 8008 architecture (and microprocessors in general) that others missed. But he lacked Bill Gates' business sense and Steve Jobs' marketing savvy. For a time, his products sold themselves, but once that day passed, he and his company faded into obscurity.
So obscure that he died in 1994 at the age of 52 with surprisingly little coverage of it. Most people have heard the airplane story, which can be told without even mentioning Kildall's name. In death, Kildall created another myth about himself.
Early accounts of Kildall's death
The lack of coverage of his death and vagueness about the cause of death only made me more curious, so I kept digging, even years later. What I found was that early accounts of Kildall's death were all over the place. The accounts generally agreed that he had an accident and died a few days later, and that was about it. The accounts didn't even agree on the date of the accident, and the cause of death ranged from a heart attack to a fall from a ladder to a barroom brawl. Now that more newspapers have their 1990s archives online, it's possible to figure out that the accident happened on Friday, July 8, that he initially refused medical treatment, was in and out of the hospital over the weekend and died in the hospital on Monday, July 11.
What was the accident? Forbes said he walked into a bar on July 6 (it didn't mention the Franklin Street Bar & Grill by name) wearing motorcycle leathers and Harley Davidson patches, a "would-be biker" who got into a shoving match with some "real bikers," and he sustained head injuries.
There are two, and perhaps three, problems with the Forbes account. First, Forbes got the date wrong. Second, Kildall owned multiple motorcycles. He didn't fit the stereotype of the outlaw biker, but calling him a "would-be biker" seems a bit unfair. He was neither the first nor the last wealthy middle-aged man to take up motorcycling. Now, those problems don't automatically mean the rest of the Forbes account is wrong, but it makes the whole thing sound more like a rumor you heard in the software aisle of a big-box retail store.
Early newspaper accounts
The hometown paper of both Kildall and Bill Gates, the Seattle Times, reported an injury happened at the Franklin Street Bar & Grill, he had been in the bar between 2 and 20 minutes, and witnesses turned around and saw him on the floor. The paper also noted that the story was changing, and authorities didn't expect that story to hold up.
It was investigated as a suspicious death, but no charges were ever filed. The Los Angeles Times initially reported the autopsy failed to determine the cause of death.
Harold Evans' account
Later accounts, including the one in Harold Evans' They Made America, stated Kildall died of a brain hemorrhage, caused by a blood clot between his skull and his brain. Evans' account of the events in the bar were that he stumbled, fell, and was found on the floor next to a video game. That story doesn't line up with the Forbes account but it lines up pretty nicely with the Seattle Times account–one minute he was there, the next minute he was laying on the floor, and there was confusion about how he ended up there and even how long he had been in the bar.
Did the hemorrhage cause the fall, or did the fall cause the hemorrhage? Either is possible. There's some question whether the fall was an accident in the first place. But remember, after the fall, Kildall was coherent enough to initially refuse medical treatment. If the fall had been anything but an accident, it would have been out of character for him to remain silent about it. Remember, Kildall was bitter that Bill Gates had stolen his legacy and was a bit outspoken about it. If someone had taken a swing at him, Kildall would have said something.
Evans went on to say Kildall visited the hospital twice over the ensuing weekend. The doctors couldn't find what was wrong with him. Then he died unexpectedly. And of course he was cremated, which only lends to the air of conspiracy.
That's an important detail too. He had survivors, including two adult children. If there was any doubt in their minds that his death had been anything but an accident or natural causes, it's hard to imagine them going through with a cremation within a week of his death.
Still, the barroom brawl story persists. I admit it's more interesting. A forgotten inventor, bitter with his plight, went into a bar, got into a shoving match, fell, died a few days later, and no charges were ever filed. There's an air of mystery and conspiracy about it. Maybe someone killed him to silence him, even! That's a great story, one that even feels a bit like a Shakespearean tragedy. There's only one problem with it. It's not true.
What really happened? A 52-year-old man walked into the Franklin Street Bar & Grill on Friday, July 8 and fell after being there a few minutes. He refused medical treatment initially. Then he realized afterward that something was wrong and did seek medical treatment. He died on Monday, and the autopsy showed he suffered a brain hemorrhage, caused by a previously undiagnosed blood clot.
There's a saying that says to never let the truth get in the way of a good story. Kildall never shook the CP/M airplane story in life, and can't shake the barroom brawl story in death.
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Always nice to be reminded of the early days. This post lead me back to a previous one "Was CP/M overrated?" in which you wonder about the origins of PIP as a name for copy. Perhaps I can help. I was first introduced to personal computers back in a982 when I was working at AT&T in an interactive videodisc group (right around the time of divestiture). I was hired as a Producer but all of us had Sony SMC-70 computers with dual floppy drives running CP/M with WordStar 3.x and dBase II. At some point I needed to some files to another disk and was introduced to PIP by one of the programmers. I asked why it was called PIP instead of something more logical like, say, copy. PIP I was told was a acronym for Peripheral Interchange Program. Whether it was true or whether the programmer was just blowing smoke I have no idea.
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Thanks for that explanation. All I'd ever heard was that he copied the command and syntax from DEC minicomputers. So to check out what you'd been told, I did a Google search on "peripheral interchange program" and sure enough, that was a command on PDP-6, PDP-8, PDP-10, and PDP-11, and that was what inspired Kildall.

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Chabros International Group: A World of Wood
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Industry: Fabrication and manufacturing
The Chabros International Group case examines how a Lebanese multinational wood company confronts a drastic drop in its largest subsidiary's sales after 2008's global economic crisis. Antoine Chami, Chabros's owner and president, was reviewing his company's 2009 end-of-year financial statements and, in particular, a 30 per cent drop in sales in Dubai. In 2007, a year before the global economic crisis, Chami had invested more than $11 million to acquire and expand a sawmill in Serbia to meet Chabros's growing lumber sales demand. With a much higher capacity to produce lumber and a much lower probability to sell it, Chami had to decide what to do to overcome this challenge. Should he close parts of his Serbian sawmill? Should he try to boost his company's sales to use all of his sawmill's available capacity? If so, should Chabros try to increase sales within the countries where it already operated (UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman, Egypt) or should it expand into a new country (Algeria, Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, Syria, Tunisia)? Would Morocco, among other countries, be the best country to expand into? Was it the right time to embark on such an expansion?
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Ján Piroh (17. prosince 1946, Považská Bystrica – 30. ledna 2003, Bratislava) byl slovenský dokumentarista, známý především filmy s horolezeckou tematikou a cestopisnými reportážemi.

Studium a začátky
Ján Piroh studoval v letech 1961 až 1965 uměleckou fotografii na Střední škole umělecko-průmyslové v Bratislavě. Po ukončení studia se pokoušel dostat na pražskou FAMU a dva roky pracoval jako fotograf pro Duslo Šaľa. V roce 1969 byl přijat na obor filmové a televizní kamery do Prahy. Po absolvování studia v roce 1973 získal místo kameramana v zpravodajském filmu Studia krátkých filmů (Štúdio krátkych filmov) v Bratislavě a do roku 1982 se podílel na tvorbě žurnálů Týden ve filmu a Sonda. Mezi jeho tehdejší spolupracovníky patřili Igor Dobiš, Štefan Bujna, Mikuláš Fodor, Ľudovít Veselý a jiní. V roce 1976 se mu podařilo natočit první samostatnou reportáž Výstup na Rysy, která se objevila v devátém čísle filmového žurnálu Sonda.

Charakteristika tvorby
Už v reportážích byla u Jána Piroha přítomna autorská invence, schopnost vytěžit z události její humorné i kritické aspekty. Tato zpravodajská zkušenost ovlivnila i dokumentární tvorbu. Piroh spojil pozitivní publicistické zaujetí, které připomíná Kudelkova díla ze šedesátých let, s dokumentaristickou vyvážeností tvaru. Poetiku Pirohovy tvorby charakterizují občansky angažovaná témata, například ekologie, ale i reportážní kameramanské stylizace. K formě jeho děl patří i prolínání hraných prvků s dokumentárními.

Dokumentární filmy
Díky zrušení interního nařízení o zákazu režírování filmů jinými než interními režiséry Studia krátkého filmu mohl Jan Piroh debutovat v roce 1978 filmovým portrétem o mistryni sportu Anně Matouškové 22 + 4. V rámci aktuálně politického dokumentárního filmu natočil v roce 1980 film Smetisko (Smetiště), ve kterém zobrazil znečišťování životního prostředí v Bratislavě se zaujetím bezprostředně zainteresovaného. Od ostatních podobných filmů se Smetisko odlišuje tendencí dopátrání se skutečně poslední příčiny špatného stavu. Publicistická reportáž ovlivnila i
Kroniku 1825 dní (1981) o bilanci volebního období v Petržalce. V díle Ťažké plechovky, kontrola, ľahký koniec (1981) spojuje dokumentární a hrané prvky.

Ve filmu Malebná cesta dolu Váhom (1983) pokračoval Ján Piroh v ekologických tématech - sleduje znečišťování Váhu od pramene až k ústí, funkčně využívá kontrast s textem o Váhu ze začátku 19. století. Oproti jeho předchozím dílům je zřejmé stupňování stylizačních postupů (zejména v epizodách). Příkré kontrasty, ironie a expresivní stylizace podmiňují sugestivnost známých faktů. I v tomto snímku spojuje autor dokumentární a hrané prvky.

K vrcholům Pirohovy tvorby patří celovečerní film Kangchenjunga (1981) zaznamenávající přípravy, cestu a výstup horolezecké expedice na himálajskou horu Kančendženga. Na rozdíl od předchozích i následujících podobných filmů Piroh nekladl důraz na turisticko-estetické záběry hor či takzvanou objektivitu reportáže, ale upřednostnil obrazový deník. Autor pokračoval v úsilí o odkrytí skrytých obsahů horolezeckých expedic jak ho naznačil již Druhý výstup na Nanga Parbat Dušana Trančíka. Piroh expedici do Himálají ani nekomentuje, ani nepopisuje, ale zobrazuje důsledně prizmatem osobních zkušeností. Pro Kangchenjungu je příznačná rovnováha zážitku a vyčerpávající informace o průběhu události.

Snímek Volanie v tiesni (Volání v tísni, 1984) se pohybuje ve sféře publicistiky, která přibližuje práci příslušníků Veřejné bezpečnosti na Silvestra a Nový rok 1984. V následujícím období se Ján Piroh věnoval už pouze hranému filmu. K dokumentu se vrátil až v devadesátých letech, kdy pracoval v STV Bratislava (1992 až 1994). Od roku 1995 natáčel dokumentární filmy pro Českou televizi a českou filmovou společnost Febio (Jak se žije, OKO, Zpověď, Cestománie a GEN – Galerie elity národa).

Hraná tvorba
Ján Piroh spolupracoval jako druhý kameraman na hraných filmech režiséra Juraje Jakubiska
Na shledanou v pekle, přátelé (Dovidenia v pekle, priatelia!, 1970/90), Tisícročná včela (1983), Pehavý Max a strašidla (1987).

Režijní debut Jána Piroha v hraném filmu Sagarmatha (1988, supervize Juraj Jakubisko) navazuje na dokumentární film Kangchenjunga. Piroh natočil dramatický příběh o horolezecké výpravě na Mount Everest. Film se pokouší o realistické zachycení atmosféry ve výpravě, o odhalování složitých mezilidských vztahů ve vypjatých nebezpečných situacích a o zachycení dramatického zápasu lidské vůle a touhy po překonání nebezpečí.

Výběrová filmografie

Dokumentární filmy
 22+4 (1978)
 Smetisko (1980)
 Odsun ranených (1980)
 Kangchenjunga (1981)
 Ťažké plechovky, kontrola, ľahký koniec (1981)
 Teplota vzduchu 50 °C, vlhkosť 97% (1981)
 Malebná cesta dolu Váhom (1983)
 Volanie v tiesni (1984)
 V tieni manéže (1995)
 Kontajner náš každodenný (1997)
 Cestománie (1999)

Hrané filmy
 Sagarmatha (1988)

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Amid heightened tensions and the ongoing IDF closures in the Hebron district, Israeli settlers enter Kafr Haris village nr. Hebron overnight to perform religious rituals. Palestinians in the area report that a group of Israeli settlers have been setting up a new illegal settlement outpost outside the village. Meanwhile, IDF troops conduct raids in Silwad village nr. Ramallah, sparking clashes with stone-throwing Palestinian youth; 1 Palestinian is seriously injured. Late at night, IDF troops arrest 10 Palestinians and issue 1 arrest summons during further raids and house searches nr. Hebron, Bethlehem, Nablus, and Jenin; and patrol in 5 villages nr. Hebron. In East Jerusalem, Israeli forces arrest 3 Palestinians suspected of stone-throwing in Issawiyya. They also conduct raids in the Old City, breaking up a minor physical confrontation between Jewish Israelis and Palestinian youths (7 Palestinians are assaulted and 4 are arrested). Meanwhile, a Palestinian demolishes a room of his home in Silwan to avoid paying Israeli demolition fees. Along Gaza's border, IDF troops open fire on Palestinian farmers working nr. Khan Yunis, causing no injuries. In s. Israel, Israeli forces arrest several bedouin Palestinians after they try to stop an Israeli bulldozer from leveling land outside their village, al-Araqib. (MNA, WAFA 7/24; MNA 7/25; PCHR 7/28)
The Israeli press reports that the mayor of Yatta village, along with several human rights organizations, has submitted a petition to Israel's High Court of Justice to lift the IDF's closure of Yatta, which was imposed in the wake of the 6/8 attack in Tel Aviv. The petition states that all entry and exit from the village has been prohibited since 7/2, when the closure was re-enforced. The mayor reportedly complained to the IDF, which responded that the closure will continue because it is a "military-security need" and that it is "part of the effort to prevent further attackers from leaving the area." (HA 7/24)
The Israeli press reports that the Jerusalem Municipality's Local Planning and Construction Comm. presented plans for 770 settler housing units between the Gilo settlement and Bayt Jala late last week. The Israeli authorities previously approved 1,200 units in the area, and the reports today appear to cover the same development. (MNA 7/24)
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Momentum builds across Cape Cod to ban plastics
Christine Legere @ChrisLegereCCT
Jan 15, 2020 at 9:23 PM Jan 16, 2020 at 5:30 AM
A handful of Cape towns are working to prohibit the use of disposable polystyrene cups, bowls, trays and containers commonly used for takeout food and leftovers.
A handful of Cape Cod communities are working to do their part for human health and environmental preservation by prohibiting the use of disposable polystyrene cups, bowls, trays and containers commonly used for takeout food and leftovers.
In Yarmouth, the Recycling and Solid Waste Advisory Committee is working on a proposal for a town meeting in the fall. In Chatham and Orleans, previously voted bylaws went into effect Jan. 1. And in Falmouth, prohibitions began in September.
Expanded polystyrene, frequently referred to by the brand name Styrofoam, is not biodegradable, and such products frequently end up in the environment, affecting wildlife in the water and on land.
Their chemical components also are believed to be a risk to humans, during the manufacture of the polystyrene products and possibly leaching carcinogens into food when takeout containers are heated.
The community bylaws restrict use of polystyrene items in schools, concessions, farmers markets, food trucks and other such venues.
Some of the bylaws, such as the provisions instituted in Orleans, also prohibit use of other items that commonly accompany takeout orders, such as plastic straws, cup lids and cutlery. Biodegradable or recyclable alternatives are now required.
Orleans business owners knew the restrictions were coming, but there were challenges to finding solutions that would work.
Costs are higher for recyclable or compostable products, fewer suppliers offer them and it can take time for customers to get used to the changes.
Bilyana Yoreanova, the manager of Hole In One in Orleans, said she noticed the difference when the bakery started using paper cups for hot coffee. "The foam cup was easier to hold," she said. Some customers are asking for cup sleeves, which results in an additional business cost.
Will Hollinger, one of the owners of Three Fools, a sandwich and pizza restaurant in Orleans, said some increased costs related to the switch from polystyrene resulted in customers being charged more for some products.
When it came to the change from plastic to compostable bamboo cutlery, however, the cost of 29 cents per package was too great to pass along. It isn't just a matter of expense, Hollinger said. He doesn't like the experience of eating with bamboo utensils. While he is considering going back to using regular silverware, the move would require permission from the Board of Health and the removal of a few seats in his restaurant to meet septic flow requirements.
Still, Hollinger said he understands the need for the new restrictions. "At the end of the day, the bylaw is good for the environment," he said.
A few towns away in Yarmouth, selectmen say they would support adoption of a polystyrene reduction bylaw that would prohibit use of items such as cups and takeout containers, but are not on board with additional provisions that would prevent the use of plastic cutlery. During a discussion in the fall, Selectman Eric Tolley said prohibiting plastic cutlery in a town that's a tourist destination is unrealistic, since many visitors rely on takeout food.
During a meeting Tuesday, advisory committee member Mary Vilbon, who also is executive director of the Yarmouth Chamber of Commerce, said a prohibition on plastic cutlery would be a burden for businesses. "You're asking a lot from businesses if you put everything at once," Vilbon said.
Committee members agreed and voted not to include additional items, such as cutlery, in the polystyrene reduction bylaw. "That could be a separate bylaw maybe a year from now," co-chairwoman Jill Talladay said.
Yarmouth's businesses were sent an online survey this week, asking whether they use polystyrene or alternatives, and what concerns they might have with a local polystyrene reduction bylaw.
Kate and Mark Corliss opened Old King's Coffeehouse on Route 28 in West Yarmouth last year. The couple decided to use environmentally friendly materials for their takeout cups, which are made from paper, with a reinforced layer to protect customers from the heat of the brews within. They also sell thermal metal travel mugs and reusable steel straws.
Scofflaws of the Cape's polystyrene restrictions may end up paying fines. In Dennis, violators are charged $50 for the first violation, $100 for the second and $200 for the third and subsequent offenses. Yarmouth's draft contains similar penalties.
Orleans kept it simple: $50 per offense. And in Chatham, the first offense merely results in a written warning, while the second offense prompts a $25 fine and the third a fine of $50.
Provincetown's bylaw, which went into effect in June, includes prohibitions on polystyrene cups, plates and takeout containers, along with plastic straws, cup lids and cutlery. The town also instituted some steep penalties for violators, with a $300 fine for third and subsequent offenses.
Nantucket was the region's front-runner in curbing the use of Styrofoam products. Islanders approved the bylaw in 1990.
Staff writer Denise Coffey contributed to this report.


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Academic excellence at the heart of ESSEC
Moving beyond the department/field logic, at ESSEC we are fully aware of the necessity to develop research across disciplinary frontiers. Indeed, in understanding complex social and business issues, cross perspectives may allow us to provide the relevant answer. This is the role of our research centers and centers promoted by ESSEC.
Center of Research in Economics, Finance & Actuarial Sciences on Risk (CREAR)
CREAR is a self-standing organization operating within the ESSEC Research Center. Its purpose is to foster research in the field of quantitative analysis on financial and insurance risks. In the context of the new risk based regulation (Solvency 2, Pillar 1 and ORSA, Swiss Solvency Test, Risk Based Capital from NAIC), it is focused on (re)insurances and bank-insurances. It is a structured dynamics in the field of risk analysis, which facilitates the exchanges between professionals and academics, may generate possible collaborations on identified problems and conducts research in these areas. With the support of the Bank-Finance-Insurance Group of the French Society of Statistics, and the support of the French Institute of Actuaries (IA), it plans to establish productive links with similar international research laboratories and companies. Visit the CREAR website for more information about seminars and publications.
European Center for Law and Economics
The European Center for Law and Economics is a center for excellence where the work and activities of both disciplines meet, within a comparative European and global perspective. There is a growing awareness of the interaction between judicial systems on one hand, and a company's performance within their legal regulation systems. Judicial risk and the overall legal environment culture are considerations that are increasingly strategic at the highest level of decision-making in companies; the legal management team is frequently part of the company's strategy committee.
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Energy and Commodity Finance - Research center (ECOMFIN)
The Energy and Commodity Finance at ESSEC Business School aims at promoting research and disseminating knowledge in the field of commodity markets and energy finance. This goal is pursued by undertaking research projects and hosting activities for incentivizing interaction across disciplines including finance, economics, financial mathematics, operations research, and management science. Focus is put on bridging international collaborations among researchers at a worldwide level. The center organizes scientific conferences, runs a monthly webinar, supervises a dedicated graduate track, and manages Argo Review, a journal devoted on cutting-edge knowledge in the field.
CONcertation, Négociation, Environnement, Conception et Territoires (CONNECT)
Concertation is becoming a major stake in decision processes in the development and environment field. It is a practice which is developing in France and many other countries in reply to both the conflictual nature of development projects, socio-technical controversies controversies, and the wider public questioning of experts and authorities. The CONNECT center has given itself an objective of shedding light on the input and limits of these systems of concertation via the conducting of transdisciplinary research based on challenges designed by the center's researchers and their partners.
Institute for Research and Education on Negotiation (IRENE)
The Institute for Research and Education on Negotiation (IRENE) was created by ESSEC in 1996 in order to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in negotiation, mediation, stakeholders' dialogue and conflict resolution. Since 2008, ESSEC IRENE has been directed by Aurélien COLSON, Professor of political science at ESSEC. IRENE's activities are structured around programmes that share the same philosophy: breaking the walls between research, training, teaching and fieldwork to achieve better results.
• Regarding research: IRENE includes PhD candidates, publishes works and hosts an international network of researchers. Since 2008, IRENE has organized 68 Interdisciplinary Research and Education on Negotiation (SIRENE). In 2019, IRENE organized an international conference "The military and negotiation" with the War College (French Ministry of the Armies.
• Regarding training: IRENE organises seminars for higher education institutions (including ENA since 1997), for companies and for international organisations (such as the European Commission since 2004, several UN agencies, the French Ministry of the Armies since 2010, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 2010, the EEAS since 2011). Each year, around 2,000 people participate in our trainings.
• On the ground: IRENE has contributed to conflict resolution; in 2008, IRENE became the first French organisation to join EPLO – European Peace-building Liaison Office. From 2012 to 2021, the European Commission asked IRENE to lead the Governance Team of the European Union's Centres of Excellence for CBRN Risk Mitigation, notably in the Sahelian region, in Western Africa, in the Caucasus and the Balkans.
To this day, ESSEC IRENE has worked in 82 different countries. In July 2010, IRENE opened IRENE ASIA in Singapore, a platform where researchers and practitioners from Europe and Asia can exchange on negotiation, mediation and conflict resolution. In June 2014, IRENE opened IRENE EUROPA in Brussels.
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L'ESSEC est membre du Labex MME-DII (Modèles Mathématiques et Economiques de la Dynamique, de l'Incertitude et des Interactions), qui associe dans un projet commun, centré sur la modélisation mathématique, économique et financière, plus de 150 chercheurs en sciences économiques, en mathématiques et en physique. Il réunit ainsi sept établissements franciliens d'enseignement supérieur et de recherche : l'université de Cergy-Pontoise (laboratoires THEMA, AGM et LPTM ), l'université Paris Nord (laboratoire CEPN et LAGA), l'université Paris Ouest (laboratoire Modal'X), l'ESSEC Business School, l'université Panthéon-Assas (laboratoire LEM), l'université d'Evry (laboratoire EPEE) et le CNRS autour d'un projet interdisciplinaire.
Le laboratoire MME-DII constituera un centre de référence international dans la modélisation des processus aléatoires, des décisions en situation d'incertitude et de la dynamique des interactions individuelles. En associant des savoirs aux frontières des connaissances en mathématiques, en sciences économiques et en physique théorique, le laboratoire MME-DII permettra d'éclairer des grands enjeux sociétaux allant de la prévention des crises financières à la gestion des risques environnementaux.
In 2009, ESSEC entered a research agreement with Cergy-Pontoise University (UCP) and the CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research) THEMA, one of the principal research centers in applied microeconomics in France. Research within the THEMA research laboratory has mainly focused on economic policy issues involving international microeconomics and macroeconomics. The research synergies between ESSEC economists and the THEMA research lab have since gained substantial momentum.


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SmartAdvice: Craft Vision Statement So It Motivates And Leads
Vision statements must reflect the organization and involve everyone, so make them simple and achievable, The Advisory Council says. Plus, consider your company's needs for archiving and what's already in use when choosing business-messaging systems, and staying up-to-date on security patches will help keep Windows NT-family operating systems safe.
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Topic A: After the extended economic downturn, we need to create a new vision for the organization. How do we do that?
Our advice: An organization's vision should communicate what the organization wants to be, to both internal and external audiences.
A vision is a statement of self-worth. Its purpose is not only to motivate employees to take meaningful action, but to give leadership a standard for monitoring progress. It also tells external audiences how your organization wishes to be viewed.
A successful vision is dependent upon:
Here are some things to consider about each step:
Vision-Development Process
Let the business drive the vision.
Involve all stakeholders in its development; otherwise, they won't consider it theirs.
Assign responsibility so that it's clear how each person, including each stakeholder, can contribute.
Seek expert facilitation to reach a vision supported by all.
Revise and reiterate; you'll likely go through multiple iterations before you're satisfied.
Start from where you are to get to where you want to go.
Build in the values of the organization: Every organization has a soul. Tap into yours, and adjust as needed. A vision built on your values will not just hold promise but also deliver on it.
Build on the core competencies of the organization: A vision is useless if it can't be put into operation. This requires recognition of your organization's strengths and weaknesses.
Factor in your style: A vision must reflect the leader's style. You can't sustain action that goes against it.
Make it visual: A picture is worth a thousand words.
Make it simple to understand: Complex language and disconnected statements have little impact--people can't implement what they don't understand.
Make it achievable: A vision is an organization's dream for the future. Unachievable goals discourage people.
Phase it in: Reach for the sky--in stages.
Make it actionable: If it's too abstract, no one knows what to do next.
Communicate often: Internal communications are the key to success. People need to see the vision, identify with it, and know that leadership is serious about it.
Create messages that relate to the audience: To adopt a vision, people must see how they can achieve it, and what's in it for them.
Create messages that inspire action: It's not what you say, but how you say it.
Identify key milestones: While traveling to your destination, acknowledge the milestones along the way.
Monitor your progress: A strategic audit, combined with key metrics, can be used to measure progress against goals and objectives.
Use external audit team: An external team brings objectivity, plus a fresh perspective.
The timing is right for a new vision, one that will reinvigorate and imbue optimism in your organization. But remember, no matter how idealistic it is, it also must be realistic.
-- Sourabh Hajela


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Wisc. student exposes political bullying by teachers
April 1, 2013 | Michael Dorstewitz | Print Article
Benji Backer and Wisc. Gov. Scott Walker. Photo credit benjibacler.com
A Wisconsin high school freshman recently published an eye-opening article chronicling an ongoing campaign of bullying — not by fellow students but by teachers — for not toeing the progressive line.
School is not just a place for learning a curriculum of study, but also — perhaps more importantly — to learn how to think. From the recently published essay of 15-year-old Appleton resident Benji Backer, we now know that some instructors are no longer teaching how to think — but rather what to think.
He related that the harassment started when he was 12 and began receiving public notice for his GOP volunteer work. He recounted being repeatedly taken aside by one teacher in particular and told "how stupid, wrong and misguided [he] was for being Republican."
Changing schools didn't help.
Before the Scott Walker victory had completely died down, a substitute choir teacher presented a union propaganda video to the class, followed by a 10-minute lecture on the "failings" of Gov. Walker. Again, this was choir.
During the 2012 election, an English teacher occasionally spent large portions of class time talking politics and how Gov. Walker's policies with respect to public unions affected him personally, leaving him with a teacher's salary that was "too low to support his family." A subsequent check of public records indicated he made over $100,000 a year. And we wonder why our students are failing.
Backer detailed the latest incident, this time in Civics class with a substitute teacher.
Every day we watch a ten minute show called CNN Student News. The substitute asked us to recap the show and discuss it in class. The first part of the show had to do with gun control. Instead of having us discuss the topics as she said she would, she decided to share her views. She talked almost twenty minutes. In those twenty minutes, she said the recently released picture of Obama shooting a gun was forced out by the conservative and far-right members. She explained how she believed Obama's birth certificate was forced out, therefore this was too. For about five minutes, she called all Republicans racist. According to her, she had never seen such discrimination against a president and President Obama has been the most ill-treated president in the history of the United States, all because the Republicans don't want a black man in the White House.
We should have seen it coming, but we didn't. The signs were all there but have only recently come to the surface. Texas students being taught that 9/11 was our fault. Teachers pulling down and stomping on the American flag. Students being told to stomp on "Jesus."
Students should once again be taught to think, reason and form their own opinions. That means their own thoughts and beliefs shouldn't be ridiculed but rather encouraged.
I only hit a few of the highlights of young Mr. Backer's experience with the public education system. Click FreedomWorks.org to read more.
Michael Dorstewitz
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Q: Nokogiri Exclude HTML Class I'm trying to scrape the names of all the people who commented on a post in our Facebook group. I downloaded the file locally and am able to scrape the names of the people who commented plus the people who replied to those comments. I only want the original comments, not the replies... it seems like I have to exclude the UFIReplyList class but my code is still pulling all the names. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
require 'nokogiri'
require 'pry'

class Scraper
  @@all = []

  def get_page
    file = File.read('/Users/mark/Desktop/raffle.html')
    doc = Nokogiri::HTML(file)
    # binding.pry

    doc.css(".UFICommentContent").each do |post|
      # binding.pry
      author = post.css(".UFICommentActorName").css(":not(.UFIReplyList)").text

      @@all << author
    end

    puts @@all
  end
end

Scraper.new.get_page

A: Traverse ancestors for every .UFICommentActorName element, to reject those contained within a .UFIReplyList element.
@authors_nodes = doc.css(".UFICommentActorName").reject do |node|

  # extract all ancestor class names;
  # beware of random whitespace and multiple classes per node
  class_names = node.ancestors.map{ |a| a.attributes['class'].value rescue nil }
  class_names = class_names.compact.map{ |names| names.split(' ') }
  class_names = class_names.flatten.map(&:strip)

  # reject if .UFIReplyList found
  class_names.include?('UFIReplyList')

end

@authors_nodes.map(&:text)


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What does Telles think of Shaw's excellent form?
Mark Froggatt
Sunday 24 January 2021 11:18
Alex Telles has heaped praise on his Manchester United team-mate Luke Shaw and stressed how their competition for the left-back position is helping everybody.
Telles joined the club from FC Porto last summer as Ole Gunnar Solskjaer continues to strengthen the squad, with a view to having two high-quality operators vying for each position in the team.
Since making his debut in the UEFA Champions League win over Paris Saint-Germain, Alex has racked up 12 appearances in total and could make it 13 in today's Emirates FA Cup tie against Liverpool.
The popular 28-year-old has watched from the bench in recent weeks as his team-mate Shaw caught the eye in defence, most notably shining in last weekend's Premier League game at Anfield.
Watch as Alex Telles discusses the form of Luke Shaw in our pre-match interview.
In an exclusive interview to preview today's 17:00 GMT kick-off at Old Trafford, Telles outlined his admiration for Luke and explained how they are pushing each other to improve all the time.
"I'm very prepared to play," reported Alex at the Aon Training Complex on Friday. "I'm also very happy with the performances of Luke and his hard work.
"I came here to play. And both me and Luke really develop together, both in training and games. I've played and have put in some good performances as well.
"United benefit from this as well, United the club, because we win by having good players available. And if needed I'm here, ready, focused and prepared to play.
"And once again I repeat that I'm really happy for Luke Shaw, his great performances and contributions."
Telles has experienced several high-profile rivalries while playing for his former clubs across Europe and the 28-year-old is quick to highlight one of the most intense when pressed on the subject.
"I've played in a lot of derbies," he told us. "Porto v Benfica, Galatasaray v Fenerbahce, the Milan derby and I think that the greatest, or the biggest rivalry, for me is Porto v Benfica. It's a game with a lot of history, it's a huge rivalry. Not just between the football clubs but also between the two cities. So for me I think it would be that one where the rivalry is the greatest."
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Asked about United's rivalry with Liverpool, Alex is learning more about it now that he's a Red and hopes to experience it for the first time in today's FA Cup fourth-round tie.
"I think I maybe started to understand how big the rivalry is when I came to Manchester United," he said. "These are two really big clubs, both with a massive history. I think all the games between the two sides from the beginning right up until now have been competitive, and I saw in the previous game how great the rivalry was and I'm sure we will be very prepared for this match."
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Tag: Kenji Tsukishima
Blood is Dry (血は渇いてる, Kiju Yoshida, 1960)
Posted on August 19, 2019 by Hayley Scanlon
In the new post-war economy, everything is for sale including you! Kiju (Yoshishige) Yoshida's second feature Blood is Dry (血は渇いてる, Chi wa Kawaiteru) takes its cues from Yasuzo Masumura's earlier Technicolor corporate satire Giants and Toys, and Frank Capra's 1941 comedy Meet John Doe in taking a faceless corporate drone and giving him a sense of self only through its own negation. The little guy is at the mercy not only of irresponsible capitalist fat cats, but of his own imagination and the machinations of mass media who are only too keen to sell him impossible dreams of individual happiness.
The action opens with a grandstanding rooftop speech from a former CEO to his distressed workforce informing them that because of "indifferent capitalism" this small business is going bust and everyone's out of a job. Then, dramatically, our hero Kiguchi (Keiji Sada), steps out with a pistol and threatens to shoot himself, proclaiming that he no longer cares for his own life but doesn't want anyone else to lose their job. Another worker, Kanai (Masao Oda), tackles Kiguchi and the gun goes off. Thankfully, he is only mildly wounded but Kiguchi's case reaches the papers who make it into a human interest issue exemplifying the precarious economic conditions of the modern society. While he's still somewhat current, an enterprising advertising executive hits on the idea of getting Kiguchi to act as the face of their campaign, bizarrely attempting to sell life insurance with the image of a man putting a gun to his head while proclaiming that "it's high time everyone is happy".
When we first meet him, Kiguchi is indeed a faceless, broken man at the end of his tether. His noble sacrifice is interpreted as an act of war on an unfair capitalist society, but as he later affirms in exasperation, Kiguchi had no political intent and never considered himself as acting with a greater purpose, he was simply terrified at the prospect of losing his job which is, in a sense, also his entire identity. Shy and mild-mannered, he stammers through speeches and curls himself into a hostile ball of awkwardness in front of the camera but ad exec Nonaka (Mari Yoshimura) is sure that only makes him a better sell for being "real" and relatable. Like the hero of Meet John Doe, however, Kiguchi starts to buy into his own hype. He fully embraces his role as the embodiment of the everyman, at once gaining and losing an identity as he basks in the unexpected faith of his adoring populace.
Kiguchi's conversion wasn't something Nonaka had in mind and it frightens her to realise she has lost control of her creation. Meanwhile, Nonaka's ex, a paparazzo with a penchant for setting up celebrities in compromising situations in order to blackmail them, has it in for Kiguchi as the personification of his own dark profession. He resents the idea of using "suicide" as a marketing tool and the cynical attempt to sell the idea of happiness through the security of life insurance which, it has to be said, is a peculiarly ironic development.
Kiguchi's liberal message of happiness and solidarity does not go down well with all – he's eventually attacked in a taxicab by a right-wing nationalist posing as a reporter who accuses him of being a traitor to Japan, and it's certainly not one which appeals to the forces which created him. Nevertheless, he does begin to capture something of the spirit of the man in the street who just wants to be "happy" only to have his message crushed when his image is tarnished by tabloid shenanigans and left wondering if the only way to reclaim his "artificial" identity is to once again destroy himself in sacrifice to his new ideal.
Yet Kiguchi's motivation is both collectivist and individual as he claims and abandons his identity in insisting that he belongs to the people. His confidence is born only of their belief in him and without it he ceases to exist. Kiguchi's entire identity has been an artificial creation with an uncertain expiry date and his attempts to buy it authenticity only damn him further while his actions are once again co-opted by outside forces for their own aims. The little guy has achieved his apotheosis into a corporate commodity leaving the everyman firmly at the mercy of his capitalist overlords, dreaming their dreams of consumerist paradise while shedding their own sense of self in service of an illusionary conception of "happiness".
Tagged 1960, 1960s, Aiko Ikumi, Akie Kokubu, Akio Tanaka, Asao Sano, Chieko Tanakura, Chiharu Kuri, Goro Matsumiya, Hajime Iseki, Hikaru Hayashi, Hirayoshi Aono, Hiro Tashiro, Hiroko Morita, Hiroshi Takemura, Ichiro Mikuni, Ichiro Sugai, Ikichi Ishii, Japan, Japanese, Junichi Tanaka, Junko Hara, Kaneko Iwasaki, Keiji Sada, Keiko Hori, Kenji Tsukishima, Kiju Yoshida, Kiyoshi Inayoshi, Koji Ando, Makoto Asakawa, Mari Yoshimura, Masahiko Arima, Masaki Ono, Masanao Kawakane, Masao Oda, Miyoko Nakamura, Natsuko Arai, Rokko Toura, Shigeomi Sato, Shinichi Tanaka, Shinichiro Mikami, Shinjiro Matsuzaki, shochiku, Shutaro Kawatani, Susumu Mizushima, Susumu Shirai, Takamaru Sasaki, Takao Kiyomiya, Takeharu Harigae, Takeo Matsushita, Takeshi Hasegawa, Teruo Shindo, Toichiro Narushima, Tomoko Uemura, Yukari Yamashina, Yuko Kashiwagi
Good-for-Nothing (ろくでなし, Kiju Yoshida, 1960)
In the mid-1950s, Nikkatsu had accidentally provoked social outrage with a series of films later known as "taiyozoku" or Sun Tribe movies which revolved around aimless post-war youth who largely rejected the strident ambition of their parents for lives of dissipated abandonment. While the original author of the book that kickstarted it all fully intended to create moral panic, Nikkatsu perhaps hoped to capitalise on the inherent cool of adolescent rebellion and did it seems find an audience they hoped to continue courting with their youth movies even after the forced end of the taiyozoku movement. Shochiku, the home of polite melodrama, was a world away from Nikkatsu's brand of angry young man but declining receipts encouraged them to get in on the action and so they began giving some of their younger ADs a chance to direct features in the hope of finding bold new voices who could speak to youth (a demographic their usual fare was not perhaps reaching).
Among these directors, Kiju (Yoshishige) Yoshida would go on to greater heights of avant-garde cinema but his Shochiku debut is perhaps more or less the kind of thing the studio was looking for. Released in the same year as Koreyoshi Kurahara's The Warped Ones, Good-for-Nothing (ろくでなし, Rokudenashi) is another tale of youth gone wild only one with a much deeper sense of self pitying futility which casts its ill-fated hero as a noble soul left without purpose in the rapidly stratifying society of post-war Japan.
Against a heady yet whimsical jazz score (composed by Shochiku stalwart Chuji Kinoshita, brother of Keisuke), the action opens with a gang of petty delinquents kidnapping the secretary of one of their fathers, Hisako (Kakuko Chino), as she leaves the local bank. Toshio (Yusuke Kawazu) is in many ways the typical taiyozoku hero in that he is extremely rich and therefore filled with ennui because his life has no real purpose. He is not, however, the hero of Yoshida's film. Gradually, our focus shifts to the intense figure of university student Jun (Masahiko Tsugawa) who, unlike the other members of the gang, remains internally conflicted as to the forward direction of his life and his complicated relationship with Toshio.
Whereas the taiyozoku films most often focussed on the bright young things of the new era – the children of those who had become rich in the post-war economy but had few values and were content to bury themselves in imported hedonistic pleasures, the "heroes" of Good-For-Nothing are the collaborators. If the taiyozoku were despised by the older generation as parasites living off inherited wealth and contributing nothing to society, then the guys like Jun are the parasites on the parasites. This is perhaps a view Jun holds of himself, wilfully embracing the "rokudenashi" label as expression of his intense self-loathing and acting in accordance with its values as an act almost of self-harm.
Toshio rebels against his sense of powerlessness in the darkest of ways – by setting his sights on taking his father's "haughty" secretary down a peg or two. He may not like her confidence, self possession, and earnest determination towards honest industry but it is exactly these qualities which begin to attract Jun as representative of the society he has rejected but secretly longs to belong to. A poor student, he's tried doing things the "right" way – part-time jobs, hard work etc, but has little interest in the student movement and views himself as "weak" for allowing himself to be swayed by the easy life of those like Toshio even in the full knowledge that he cannot live that way forever and his time at the beach will be as short as a summer vacation.
Hisako sees the conflict in Jun and tries to pull him towards a more positive path but is also attracted to him because of his darkness and nihilistic ennui. She too is unhappy with the status quo, living with her brother and his wife who quarrel about money and the disappointments of the salaryman dream while the office playboy hassles her at work and is only spurred on by her constant rejections. Hisako knows getting involved with Jun is playing with fire, especially if it keeps her in the orbit of the continually declining Toshio whose worrying behaviour is perhaps enabled by his well meaning liberal (though arch capitalist) father who is hoping his son will find his own way through hitting rock bottom, but salvation is a temptation it's difficult to resist.
The heroes of the taiyozoku movies are aimless because they have no economic imperatives towards individual progress, but those like Jun or indeed like those of The Warped Ones are aimless because they see no sense of purpose in an intensely class bound society in which, paradoxically, all the cards are held by men like Toshio. Some, like Jun's gang mate, decide the best way forward is to become a willing underling living off Toshio's largesse who is, in his own way, intensely lonely and filling the friendship void with minions. Others, like Hisako, decide to plug on anyway despite the disappointments of socially conservative success. For men like Jun, however, the prognosis is as grim as in much of Yoshida's later work, suggesting his nihilism is justified because there is no hope for men without means lost in the widening gulf of post-war inequality where any attempt at moral righteousness is likely to be rewarded only with further suffering.
Original trailer (Japanese with French/Traditional Chinese subtitles)
Tagged 1960, 1960s, Chuji Kinoshita, Fumio Watanabe, Hizuru Takachiho, Isao Sasaki, Isao Suenaga, Japan, Japanese, Junichiro Yamashita, Kakuko Chino, Kei Sato, Keiko Wakaba, Keizo Sasagawa, Kenji Tsukishima, Kiju Yoshida, Koji Moriishi, Masahiko Tsugawa, Masanao Kawakane, Masao Mishima, Noboru Endo, shochiku, Shoji Yasui, Toichiro Narushima, Yoji Doki, Yoshihide Sato, Yosuke Hayashi, Yusuke Kawazu


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Darrell Davis
Darrell Davis was born in 1962 in rural Texas but spent his early years in the Los Angeles area. These diverse early experiences generated a desire to dissect, understand, and create. This lifetime passion naturally led to undergraduate art and postgraduate architecture studies. All of these influences are seen in his work today as he strives to learn, grow and push this envelope in every new piece. In a style that he and a few of his contemporaries lovingly refer to as "impatient realism," he touches his audience. Darrell brings together the softness, fluidity, and grace of his living subjects with clean geometric lines. By maintaining structure and composition, he manages to meld the two into something quite powerful and impactful. Davis was recently awarded the National Sculpture Society's Gold Medal and Maurice B. Hexter prize at its 80th annual Exhibition held at the Tampa Museum of Art and Brookgreen Gardens. Davis is an elected member of the National Sculpture Society, California Art Club, American Society of Marine Artists, and Society of Animal Artists.


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Arn Anderson reveals details on Unabomber gimmick pitched for Luke Harper in WWE
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Luke Harper, who was recently cleared to return to action after being sidelined with an injury, is being advertised for upcoming Raw events. That could be an indication that he will be on the Raw brand. It's interesting because we heard a few weeks ago that the plans were for Harper to rejoin Bray Wyatt and Erick Rowan on Smackdown Live so plans may have changed or it's a temporary move for the live events.
WrestlingNews.co reader Vicente L. sent word that Harper is being advertised for WWE's upcoming tour of Peru and Chile.
They will be in Santiago on 10/5 and 10/6 and then the roster heads over to Santiago De Surco in Peru for a show on 10/7 and Ruminahui, Quito on 10/8. Harper is scheduled to face Sin Cara and Sami Zayn on that tour.
Since he is cleared to wrestle, I wouldn't be shocked if WWE decided to have him return at Clash Of Champions or Monday Night Raw. Harper has been out of action for the last several months after dislocating his patella. He also had a torn MPFL ligament. His return timetable was expected to be in August or September so he seems to be on schedule.
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Is Mama June expecting another child?! That's exactly what the mother-of-four implied in the riveting season three premiere episode of From Not To Hot, which aired on WE tv on Mar. 15. It all started when 39-year-old June, who went from weighing 460 pounds to becoming a size 4 after having gastric sleeve weight loss surgery in May 2016, stepped on the scale and realized she somehow gained more weight than usual. She then suspected she may be pregnant with her boyfriend, Geno Doak's baby.
Another scene in which June and her daughter Alana "Honey Boo Boo" Thompson, 13, went to The Six Chow House restaurant in Studio City, CA and ordered food, hinted that the grandmother may also be having pregnancy cravings. "Everything tastes good and smells good," June says while in the restaurant.
To top things off, June's other daughter Lauryn "Pumpkin" Shannon, 19, also caused pregnancy suspicion when she could be heard telling her husband, Joshua Efird, "Mama kicked us out because she's pregnant." Finally, in another scene, June talks about possibly being pregnant when she says, "If I'm pregnant, he better get his s–t together." Although the pregnancy talk was plenty, it looks like we're going to have to wait until the next episode, which airs on WE tv on Friday, Mar. 22 at 9 p.m.
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Dr. Sokoloski writes: "My graduate student (Adrian Lucy) is searching for new symbiotic stars and has identified a few candidates. What we need is some fast photometry (any filter, but V or B would probably be best) to check for CV-like flickering. If we find flickering, it would confirm that these giants are actually newly discovered symbiotic stars!
"Ideally, we would want light curves that are at least a few hours long, with cadences of no longer than, say, 20 minutes (with even shorter cadence being even better, if the error bars do not become too large)...[The cadence depends] on the size of the telescope being used. Basically, we need the error bars to be small enough to detect flickering with an amplitude of about 10% or a few tens of percent."
Fast photometry (V or B preferred) as described above is requested.
The AAVSO observations will not only help determine if these targets are symbiotics, but will also help refine the candidate selection procedure by showing whether fast flickering or spectroscopy provides a better clue.
More candidates will be announced from time to time as Mx. Lucy's research proceeds; observers will be informed via AAVSO Alert Notices and posts to the AAVSO forum thread given below. Observers will also be informed via posts to this thread when candidates need no longer be observed.
Please submit observations to the AAVSO International Database using the names given in the table above. Again, be sure to include spaces in names as shown above.


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Q: Rails Json String Length I am trying to pass JSON to an API, which has the possibility to be fairly long due to including territory codes.  When restricting the territories to 20 or 30, everything works fine, but when extending this to 250, the API call does not take place.  Checking the length of the JSON string, it is around 5000 characters.
The problem only occurs in production, and not in development.  The app is deployed on AWS Elastic Beanstalk.  When checking logs I get no information at all, as if it just stopped at a certain point and ignored it.

A: If you are passing the JSON via GET request, please note the URI in an HTTP request has certain limit. You may want to pass the data as POST.


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Classrooms As Homes For Creative, Engaged Research
by Robert Gutsche
Paper and a cut-out of the iPhone 6 Plus combine to create an experience of paper prototyping for students to design long-form media for mobile devices. Illustration and photos by Robert Gutsche, Jr.
This article was written in collaboration with Susan Jacobson and Jacqueline Marino.
It had been years since Alexa Jane used markers, tape, scissors and pens to make something. Today, though, she and others are taking to cardstock and paper, taping and drawing to discuss the next generation of mobile news.
"I prefer to have the hands-on… I don't even remember the last time I was that crafty." - Alex Jane, Digital Media Studies major, Florida International University.
"I prefer to have the hands-on," says Jane, a Digital Media Studies major at Florida International University's School of Journalism and Mass Communication. "It's easier to illustrate this way what we like instead of using text."
Audience Analysis undergraduate students at Florida International University pilot a session of paper prototyping for funded research into audience interest in long-form multimedia journalism. by Robert Gutsche, Jr.
Jane and her team construct screens and designs for interactive graphics to insert into a folder with a spot cut to the actual size of an iPhone 6 Plus.
By cutting and pasting text and interactive elements on long, narrow strips of paper, the students work to transfer a long-form style article about rising sea levels in South Florida from the laptop to the mobile screen.
This is paper prototyping – a method of using Post-its, pens and imagination to design features of interactive media.
A cut-out of an iPhone 6 Plus takes center stage in prototyping where students use paper to create new features and screens for a web-based long-form project that they redesign for mobile use. Photo by Robert Gutsche, Jr.
Used throughout the professional world to varying degrees and with a variety of alterations of the method, paper prototyping engages journalists and media users with thinking about design, interactivity and functionality of new formats and platforms.
Research Project at RJI
The prototyping these students are doing is a pilot for part of a research project led by three Research Scholars at the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of Missouri.
Building upon an article about digital long-form journalism published in the journal Journalism, the project engages students and media users from communities in Ohio and Florida in ways that explore the degree to which long-form multimedia journalism is desired by audiences. It also looks at how the form may be molded for mobile audiences or altered to become a sustainable form of journalism for large and small media outlets.
In the process of preparing for this project, we challenge the role of funded research in the classroom, the value of qualitative methods in audience studies of journalism, and the influence of social and cultural approaches to complicate both the field of Journalism Studies and students' classroom experiences.
And, of course, sometimes things are worth doing, too, because they are just fun. Talking about paper prototyping, Jane says, "I don't even remember the last time I was that crafty."
Research Happens
Starting this summer at Kent State University's IdeaBase, Jacqueline Marino has been using with eye-tracking to see how users interact with long-form projects, such as the Guardian's Firestorm and rue89.com's piece on Haiti on iPads.
A heat map from eye-tracking done at Kent State University shows where users focus their attention on The Guardian's Firestorm multimedia project. Image captured by Jacqueline Marino.
Participants in that study have been reading long-form projects while wearing Tobii 2 glasses. Marino is analyzing the data collected by software that measures what types of content the participants view and for how long. When combined with other forms of inquiry that are part of our project, we can surmise as to what attracts and maintains audience attention in long-form journalism.
As part of funded research from the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute, researchers use eyetracking to examine audience interactions with long-form journalism. Video courtesy of Tobii.
This semester, researchers at FIU are finishing up a second round of focus groups with paper prototyping that have participants design long-form projects for mobile devices. An earlier set of focus groups asked participants to describe how they liked viewing content on both laptops and mobile screens.
Also this semester at FIU, Susan Jacobson is examining the step-by-step experience of users who view online apps, including an interactive map related to sea level rise designed by students and faculty here last year.
These opportunities provide students with further insight into the research role of many faculty and universities and the purpose of research to better the industry. Additionally, these funded opportunities not only contribute to new knowledge and innovation by bringing much-needed public and private funding into classrooms in ways that shape courses and student experiences.
True innovation in the classroom, though, appears in the convergence of engagement, practice, and theory.
Critique & Criticism in the Classroom
Paper prototyping in a course on Audience Analysis introduces students to issues and challenges of funded research, qualitative methods, and cultural approaches to media studies. by Robert Gutsche, Jr.
In an age ruled by analytics, media classrooms must continue (or, in some cases, begin) to embed student experiences with critical/cultural interpretations of production, content and audiences.
Students interacting with concepts of long-form journalism through this experience are also introduced to cultural interpretations of media symbols, social and cultural messaging through literary forms, and participatory methodologies.
By reading Nightingale's "The Handbook of Media Audiences," students were able to join classroom experiences that combine theory and practice, such as scenario planning, cultural examination of news, and community-based journalism.
"It was hard to read because of the disruption with the pictures and the sound," said undergraduate Daniela Estrada, who has worked on piloting focus groups for the RJI project. "I guess nobody likes to read that much nowadays."
Still, questions remain that can be played-out in future engaged research-based classrooms:
In what ways do we assess students' interactions with research? Is there a need for new rubrics to measure learning related to the intersection of theory and practice?
How do we bridge the time lapse of research? Students tend to move on from courses – and even some programs – before research is completed and published.
What must journalism programs do to blend and apply research more into skills classes or vice versa?
Feel free to comment below to help drive the conversation.
FIU journalism major Jessica Fuentes contributed reporting to this post.
Robert Gutsche Jr. is an assistant professor at Florida International University's School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Susan Jacobson is also an assistant professor at FIU's School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Jacqueline Marino is an associate professor at Kent State University School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
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On Friday Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's office, in conjunction with Built In Chicago, announced that 19 startup and technology companies in Chicago's Tech Sector raised a collective $265 million dollars in Q3 2013. This is an amazing testament to the success of Chicago's startup and technology ecosystem.
The biggest raisers were Network Merchants with $100 million, Cleversafe with $55 million, and Avant Credit with $20 million. Additionally, the breadth and depth of Chicago's growing digital economy was evident in this fiscal quarter with nearly 40 startups receiving funding, 19 of those raising more than $1 million or more. 44 new startups came online.
Last week, Built In Chicago released the Top 100 Digital Companies report on the Chicago technology sector, which had some outstanding news for Chicago's digital technology sector. In 2012 367 startups launched– that is one new startup every 24 hours in Chicago (up from one every two days in 2011). The total employment in the tech sector ballooned to over 40,000 people, up more than 20 percent from the previous year. And more than 1,500 technology companies now call Chicago home.
The diversity of Chicago's technology companies is also notable. No sector of the digital economy occupies more than 33 percent, ensuring that all five major sectors (software, ecommerce, agency, consumer web, and b2b web) have a significant share of the digital market. Additionally, 90 percent of the technology companies in Chicago are now more than 5 years old, meaning that there is a level of maturity in the companies as they move into the next stage of their development.
Chicago is preparing for Chicago Ideas Week next week, which will bring together entrepreneurial speakers, innovators, and thought leaders from across the country to Chicago for a week of amazing discussions, talks, lectures, hacking and more. You can find out more about Chicago Ideas Week here.


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