That night I received a call from the hospital that he had been rushed there. He had pneumonia and had difficulty breathing. I stayed with him the rest of the night, and in fact the following 3 days. He was dying. I called My brothers and sisters and they had reluctantly come to see him, along w my ailing mother. We were all there as a family one last time. The 3rd night I shooed everyone away and stayed with my father alone. He was near death. The nurse came in late at night and looked at me as if to say "I'm going to end this now". I nodded and she gave him a lethal dose of morphine. I knew this was it so I held him in my arms as he let his last breath out. I felt a reconciliation with him at that moment. We had taken our journeys apart, then back together with God's grace.


"I sometimes substitute grapefruit juice for the pineapple juice and/or vodka for the rum. Try every combination 'till the sun rises!"
Fill a highball glass with ice, and pour in the pineapple juice, rum, vanilla schnapps, and triple sec. Stir to mix, and garnish with lime and maraschino cherries to serve.
Very good. I used vanilla vodka because that was all I had and squeezed the juice from the lime wedge into my drink. Took the edge off.
This is a large drink that is pretty potent. You can barely taste the alcohol. All I can say is if you can make it 'til dawn without passing out, you're doing good!
This is absolutely wonderful. A nice, clean refreshing flavor. Great balance, and use of all ingredients.


Haiku app_server crashed twice today in BPrivate::BTokenSpace::RemoveToken() However, I don't know how to reproduce that.
I had this as well already, I just can't reproduce it at will.
Same here. Happened sometimes when closing some windows (Terminal, mostly).
Fixed in hrev17198 - the ServerApp could have been deleted before the last WindowLayer.


Claire is an actor, a writer and a marketing communications specialist. With experience in impro, sketch comedy, theatre and film, Claire specialises in storytelling.
A sketch series developed for Instagram.


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It has been almost three years since the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, during which time we have been placed under a constant threat of terror and asked to exercise vigilance in our daily lives. Your commission was created by law to investigate "facts and circumstances related to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001" and to "provide recommendations to safeguard against future acts of terrorism," and has now issued its "9/11 Commission Report" [pdf]. You are now asking us to pledge our support for this report and its recommendations with our tax money, our security and our lives. Unfortunately, I find your report seriously flawed in its failure to address serious intelligence issues that I, as a witness to the commission, made you aware of. Thus, I must assume that other serious issues I am not aware of were also omitted from your report. These omissions cast doubt on the validity of your report and therefore on its conclusions and recommendations. Considering what is at stake – our national security – we are entitled to demand answers to unanswered questions, and to ask for clarification of issues that were ignored and omitted from the report. I, Sibel Edmonds, a concerned American citizen, a former FBI translator, a whistleblower, a witness for a United States Congressional investigation, a witness and a plaintiff for the Department of Justice Inspector General investigation and a witness for your own 9/11 Commission, request your response to the following questions and issues.
After the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, we, the translators at the FBI's largest and most important translation unit, were told to slow down or even stop translation of critical information related to terrorist activities so that the FBI could present the United States Congress with a record of an "extensive backlog of untranslated documents" and justify its request for budget and staff increases. While FBI agents from various field offices were desperately seeking leads and suspects, and completely depending on FBI HQ and its language units to provide them with needed translations, hundreds of translators were being told by their administrative supervisors not to translate and to let the work pile up (please refer to the CBS 60 Minutes transcript from October 2002 provided to your investigators in January-February 2004). This issue has been confirmed by the Senate Judiciary Committee (please refer to Sen. Grassley's and Sen. Leahy's letters during the summer of 2002, provided to your investigators in January-February 2004). Apparently, this confirmed report has been substantiated by the Department of Justice Inspector General Report (please refer to DOJ-IG report "Re: Sibel Edmonds and FBI Translation," provided to you prior to the completion of your report). I provided your investigators with a detailed acount of this issue and the names of other witnesses willing to corroborate this (please refer to tape-recorded 3.5 hours testimony by Sibel Edmonds, provided to your investigators on Feb. 11, 2004).
Today, almost three years after 9/11, and more than two years since this information has been confirmed and made available to our government, the administrators in charge of language departments of the FBI remain in their positions and in charge of the information front lines of the FBI's counterterrorism and counterintelligence efforts. Your report omits any reference to this most serious issue, foregoing any accountability whatsoever, and your recommendations refrain from addressing this issue, which will have even more serious consequences. This issue is systemic and departmental. Why does your report exclude this information despite the evidence and briefings you received? How can budget increases address and resolve this misconduct by mid-level bureaucratic management? How can the addition of a new bureaucrat, the "intelligence czar," in a cocoon away from the action, address and resolve this problem?
Melek Can Dickerson, a Turkish translator, was hired by the FBI after Sept. 11 and placed in charge of translating the most sensitive information related to terrorists and criminals under the Bureau's investigation. Dickerson was granted top secret clearance, which can be granted only after conducting a thorough background investigation. Dickerson used to work for semi-legit organizations that were FBI targets of investigation. She had ongoing relationships with two individuals who were FBI targets of investigation. For months, Dickerson blocked all-important information related to these semi-legit organizations and the individuals she and her husband associated with. She stamped hundreds, if not thousands, of documents related to these targets as "not pertinent." Dickerson attempted to prevent others from translating these documents important to the FBI's investigations and our fight against terrorism. With the assistance of her direct supervisor, Mike Feghali, she took hundreds of pages of top-secret intelligence documents outside the FBI to unknown recipients. With Feghali's assistance, she forged signatures on top-secret documents related to 9/11 detainees. After all these incidents were confirmed and reported to FBI management, Melek Can Dickerson was allowed to remain in her position, to continue the translation of sensitive intelligence received by the FBI, and to maintain her top-secret clearance. Apparently bureaucratic mid-level FBI management and administrators decided that it would not look good for the Bureau to have this security breach and espionage case investigated and publicized, especially after the Robert Hanssen scandal. The Melek Can Dickerson case was confirmed by the Senate Judiciary Committee. It received major coverage by the press. According to Director Robert Mueller, the inspector general criticized the FBI for failing to adequately pursue the espionage report on Melek Can Dickerson. I provided your investigators with a detailed and specific account of this issue, the names of other witnesses willing to corroborate this, and additional documents.
Today, more than two years since the Dickerson incident was reported to the FBI, and more than two years since this information was confirmed by the United States Congress and reported by the press, the same people remain in charge of translation quality and security. Dickerson and several FBI targets of investigation hastily left the United States in 2002, and no criminal investigation has been opened. Not only does the supervisor who facilitated this criminal conduct remain in a supervisory position, he has been promoted to supervising Arabic language units of the FBI's counterterrorism and counterintelligence investigations. Your report omits these significant incidents, and your recommendations do not address this serious security breach and likely espionage issue. This issue needs to be investigated and prosecuted. The translation of our intelligence is being entrusted to individuals with loyalties to our enemies. Important "chit-chats" and "chatters" are being intentionally blocked from translation. Why does your report exclude this information and these serious issues despite the evidence and briefings you received? How can budget increases address and resolve this misconduct by mid-level bureaucratic management? How can the addition of an "intelligence czar" solve this problem?
More than four months prior to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, in April 2001, a long-term FBI informant/asset who had been providing the bureau with information since 1990, provided two FBI agents and a translator with specific information regarding a terrorist attack being planned by Osama bin Laden. This asset/informant was previously a high-level intelligence officer in Iran in charge of intelligence from Afghanistan. Through his contacts in Afghanistan, he received information that: 1) Osama bin Laden was planning a major terrorist attack in the United States targeting four or five major cities; 2) the attack was going to involve airplanes; 3) some of the individuals in charge of carrying out this attack were already in place in the United States; 4) the attack was going to be carried out soon, in a few months. The agents who received this information reported it to their superior, Special Agent in Charge of Counterterrorism Thomas Frields at the FBI Washington Field Office, by filing 302 forms, and the translator translated and documented this information. No action was taken by the special agent in charge, and after 9/11 the agents and the translators were told to "keep quiet" regarding this issue. The translator who was present during the session with the FBI informant, Mr. Behrooz Sarshar, reported this incident to Director Mueller in writing, and later to the Department of Justice Inspector General. The press reported this incident, and a report in the Chicago Tribune on July 21, 2004, stated that FBI officials had confirmed that this information was received in April 2001. Furthermore, the Chicago Tribune quoted an aide to Director Mueller saying that Mueller was surprised that the Commission never raised this particular issue with him during the hearing. Mr. Sarshar reported this issue to your investigators on Feb. 12, 2004, and provided them with specific dates, locations, witness names, and contact information for that particular Iranian asset and the two special agents who received the information (please refer to the tape-recorded testimony provided by Mr. Sarshar on February 12, 2004 and given to your investigators). I provided your investigators with a detailed and specific account of this issue, the names of other witnesses, and documents I had seen. Mr. Sarshar also provided the Department of Justice Inspector General with specific information regarding this issue (please refer to DOJ-IG report "Re: Sibel Edmonds and FBI Translation," provided to you prior to the completion of your report).
Over two years ago, and after two unclassified sessions with FBI officials, the Senate Judiciary Committee sent letters to Director Mueller, Attorney General Ashcroft, and Inspector General Glenn Fine regarding the existence of unqualified translators in charge of translating high-level sensitive intelligence. The FBI confirmed at least one case: Kevin Taskesen, a Turkish translator, had been given a job as an FBI translator, despite the fact that he had failed all FBI language proficiency tests. In fact, Kevin could not understand or speak even elementary-level English. He had failed English proficiency tests and did not even score sufficiently in the target language. Still, Kevin Taskesen was hired, not due to a lack of other qualified translator candidates, but because his wife worked at FBI HQ as a language proficiency exam administrator. Almost everyone at FBI HQ and the FBI Washington Field Office knew about Kevin. Yet, Kevin was given the task of translating the most sensitive terrorist-related information, and he was sent to Guantanamo Bay to translate the interrogation of and information for all Turkic language detainees (Turks, Uzbeks, Turkmens, etc.). The FBI was supposed to be trying to obtain information regarding possible future attack plans from these detainees, yet the FBI knowingly sent unqualified translators to gather and translate this information. Furthermore, these detainees were either released, detained or prosecuted based on translations by unqualified translators knowingly sent there by the FBI. Sen. Grassley and Sen. Leahy publicly confirmed Kevin Taskesen's case (please refer to Senate letters and documents provided to your investigators in January-February 2004). The program 60 Minutes showed Kevin's picture and listed him as one of the unqualified translators sent to Guantanamo Bay, as confirmed by the FBI. The Department of Justice Inspector General provided a detailed account of these problems. I provided your investigators with a specific account of this issue and the names of other witnesses willing to corroborate this.
After over two years since Kevin Taskesen's case was publicly confirmed, and after almost two years since 60 Minutes broadcast Taskesen's case, Kevin Taskesen remains in his position as sole Turkish and Turkic language translator for the FBI Washington Field Office. After admitting that Kevin Taskesen was not qualified to translate sensitive intelligence and investigation of terrorist activities, the FBI still keeps him in charge of translating highly sensitive documents and leads. Those individuals in the FBI hiring department who facilitated the hiring of unqualified translators due to nepotism/cronyism remain in their positions. Yet your report does not mention this case or the chronic problems within the FBI translation, hiring and screening departments. Accountability for those responsible for these practices that endanger our national security is not brought up even once in your report. Why does your report exclude these serious issues despite the evidence and briefings you received?
In October 2001, approximately one month after the Sept. 11 attack, an agent returned a certain document to the FBI Washington Field Office to have it re-translated. This special agent rightfully believed that, considering the suspect under surveillance and the issues involved, the original translation might have missed information that could prove valuable in the investigation of terrorist activities. After this document was received by the FBI Washington Field Office and re-translated verbatim, the field agent's hunch appeared to be correct. The new translation revealed certain information regarding blueprints, pictures and building material for skyscrapers being sent overseas. It also revealed illegal activities in obtaining visas from certain embassies in the Middle East through network contacts and bribery. However, after the re-translation was completed and the new significant information revealed, the unit supervisor in charge of certain Middle Eastern languages, Mike Feghali, decided NOT to send the re-translated information to the special agent who had requested it. Instead, Feghali sent the agent a note stating that the translation was reviewed and that the original translation was accurate. Feghali argued that sending the accurate translation would hurt the original translator and would cause problems for the FBI language department. The special agent never received an accurate translation of that document. I provided your investigators with a detailed and specific account of this issue, the name and date of this particular investigation, and the names of other witnesses willing to corroborate this. This information was also provided to the Department of Justice Inspector General.
Only one month after the catastrophic events of Sept. 11, while many agents were working around the clock to obtain leads and information, the bureaucratic administrators in the FBI's largest and most important translation unit were covering up their past failures, blocking important leads and information, and jeopardizing ongoing terrorist investigations. The supervisor involved in this incident, Mike Feghali, was in charge of important Middle Eastern languages within the FBI Washington Field Office, and had a record of previous misconduct. After this supervisor's prior misconduct was reported to the FBI's higher-level management, the Inspector General's Office, the United States Congress, and the 9/11 Commission, he was promoted to supervisor of the FBI's Arabic language unit. Today, Mike Feghali remains in the FBI Washington Field Office and is in charge of a language unit receiving the chit-chat that our color-coded threat system is based upon. Yet your report contains zero information regarding these systemic problems that led us to our failure in preventing the 9/11 terrorist attacks. In your report, there are no references to individuals responsible for hindering past and current investigations, or those who are willing to compromise our security and our lives for their career advancement and security. Why does your report exclude this information despite all the evidence and briefings you received?
After almost three years, the American people still do not know that thousands of lives are jeopardized under apolicy of "protecting certain foreign business relations." The victims' family members still do not realize that answers they have sought relentlessly for over two years have been blocked in the interest of "safeguarding certain diplomatic relations." Your hearings and your report did not even attempt to address these unspoken, unwritten practices, although, unlike me, you were not placed under any gag. Despite your full awareness of criminal conduct by high-level government employees, you have not proposed criminal investigations, even though you are required to do so. How can budget increases resolve these problems when some of them are caused by unspoken practices and unwritten policies? How can an "intelligence czar" override these policies and practices?
I am writing this letter in light of my direct experience within the FBI's translation unit in the crucial months after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and in light of my firsthand knowledge of certain cases within the Bureau's language units. As you are fully aware, the problems cited in this letter are by no means based upon personal opinion or unverified allegations. As you are fully aware, these issues and incidents have been confirmed by a senior Republican senator, Charles Grassley, and a senior Democrat senator, Patrick Leahy. As you know, according to officials with direct knowledge of the Department of Justice Inspector General's report on my allegations, "none of [my] allegations were disproved." As you are fully aware, even FBI officials "confirmed all [my] allegations and denied none" during their unclassified meetings with the Senate Judiciary staff over two years ago. However, your commission's hearings, 567-page report and recommendations do not include these serious issues, major incidents and systemic problems. Your report's coverage of FBI translation problems consists of a brief microscopic footnote (Footnote #25). Yet your commission is geared to start aggressively pressuring our government to hastily implement your measures and recommendations based upon an incomplete and deficient report.
In order to cure a problem, one must have an accurate diagnosis. In order to correctly diagnose a problem, one must consider and take into account all visible symptoms. Your Commission's investigations, hearings and report have disregarded many visible symptoms. I am emphasizing "visible" because these symptoms have been long recognized by experts from the intelligence community and have been written about in the press. I am emphasizing "visible" because the specific symptoms I provided you with in this letter have been confirmed and publicly acknowledged. During its many hearings your commission chose not to ask the questions necessary to unveil the true symptoms of our failed intelligence system. Your Commission intentionally bypassed these severe symptoms and chose not to include them in its 567-page report. Now, without a complete list of our failures pre-9/11, without a comprehensive examination of true symptoms that exist in our intelligence system, without assigning any accountability whatsoever and, therefore, without a sound and reliable diagnosis, your commission is attempting to divert attention from the real problems and to prescribe a cure through hasty and costly measures. It is like putting a gold-lined porcelain cap over a deeply decayed tooth without first treating the root.


Creed, the latest Rocky movie, directed by Ryan Coogler, have released a brand new featurette titled 'Finding Family'.
The film explores a new chapter in the Rocky saga and stars Academy Award nominee Sylvester Stallone in his iconic role. The film also reunites Coogler with his Fruitvale Station star Michael B. Jordan as the son of Apollo Creed.
Once in the City of Brotherly Love, Adonis tracks down Rocky (Stallone) and asks him to be his trainer. Despite his insistence that he is out of the fight game for good, Rocky sees in Adonis the strength and determination he had known in Apollo—the fierce rival who became his closest friend. Agreeing to take him on, Rocky trains the young fighter, even as the former champ is battling an opponent more deadly than any he faced in the ring.
Check out the new featurette below!
Creed is released across the UK on 15th January 2016.


The National tourism agency announced that between September 17th – 20th 2009, Bulgaria will be presented at the tourism expo JATA WTF in Tokio.
According to tradition, the tourism expo lasts for three days. During the first day, the event is open only for professionals from the tourism business. The remaining two days are open to the public.
The Bulgarian advertising stall will take up 36 sq. m. in the sector Europe.
To reinforce the year of Bulgaria in Japan – 2009 – the advertising stall of Bulgaria will feature several attractions for the wide audience. Sampling of rose juice, Bulgarian wine, yogurt and many other curiosities will be provided at the stall.


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I love Twitter, and I've learnt so much since I joined it a mere 4 year ago. Yet recently, I'm getting tired of having the same old arguments going round and round the same territory, with people seeing to talk past each other, using the same word to mean different things. For example, take the word 'engagement.' To one person, this is obviously a great thing – who wouldn't want their pupils absorbed in their learning? For this person, the opposite of engagement is disengagement, and surely nobody wants their pupils disengaged. Yet for another person 'engagement' means something completely different. For them, it is shorthand for an approach to education that they reject; one that thinks the content of what we teach is inherently boring to many pupils, so therefore needs to be dressed up in 'fun', thereby tricking pupils into learning. For this person, anyone advocating 'engagement' has woefully low expectations of children and is short-changing them with fun 'edutainment' instead of substance. For such people, the opposite of 'engagement' is learning. So if these two people, with their different definitions of engagement have an exchange of views on Twitter, it will appear to each other that the person they are arguing with is advocating either disengagement or baby-sitting.
Each brings their own prior learning to the table. One person remembers their own terrible school experience of dull, dreary, soul crushing lessons that all but extinguished any desire to learn and is motivated by their resultant burning conviction to ensure their lessons breathe light, life and passionate interest into those who experience them. The other cringes as they remember their earlier exhausting attempts to dupe pupils by disguising the learning with some complicated, 'fun' activity and subsequent relief when later on, they just started teaching directly and found that a much better way of arousing a passionate interest. No wonder they don't agree. Both are fighting an enemy the other cannot see.
This morning, I read this very interesting interview with Dylan Wiliam. One of the bits that really got me thinking was this.
It seems rather pompous to say that when we tweet, we are seeking to 'teach.' Yet I certainly engage with Twitter in order to learn and indeed I have learnt an awful lot. And yes, sometimes I hope what I say will help other people learn. I am sure there are many reasons to go on twitter, to be entertained, for banter, for company, to show off, for that self-righteous thrill of point scoring, but also to be inspired, to learn things and to share what you have learnt with others, hoping that some may find it useful; it's that last reason that motivates me to write blogs.
All of which is a long prelude to what comes next. The more I argue over the same ground again and again, the more I am aware that I am being misunderstood. I am saying words which to me have a clear and obvious meaning yet they're being taken to mean something quite different. I also know this works the other way around too and I completely misunderstand what other people are saying. For example, someone says 'child-centred' and, building on my prior experience, I imagine the crazy excesses of having to teach via an integrated day and how much more everybody learnt when I stopped doing that and actually taught children stuff. When they might mean something quite different. (Or they might not, that's the problem, it's hard to tell). It's so easy when arguing with someone to imagine the worst possible version of what they are espousing, and the best possible version of what you are arguing for. If they do the same, that's a recipe for more heat than light. The hidden lives of our prior experiences make mutual misunderstandings inevitable. Human nature exacerbates the problem, with people falling into 'in-crowds' and 'out-crowds', retweeting and sub tweeting and eye rolling and argument by GIF. I believe some people even DM catty messages to each other about third parties.
However, today the better side of my nature is on the bridge and what follows is simply an attempt to genuinely help people understand what those of us who are advocating 'traditional' teaching mean. Or possible clear up what we don't mean. Probably, the social media bubble being what it is, I am preaching to the choir but hey ho.
First of all, that word 'traditional.' The scope for misunderstanding this word, (and its rival 'progressive') is immense. There was a great blog this week about just this problem. If people had a bad experience of very formal education, the 'traditional' tag is like a red rag to a bull. But take heed, the word does not imply that everything back in the olden days was rosy and we should bring back the cane, sit four year olds in rows and bore children into a stupor. It's used in contrast with the term 'progressive.' Progressive sounds so lovely, who doesn't want to be progressive? But here, 'progressive' does not mean 'the opposite of regressive' but is rather a description of a philosophical tradition in which the writings of such people as Rousseau, John Dewey and Jean Piaget are foundational. For a fuller description, see Greg Ashman here. Summarising self-proclaimed progressive Alfie Kohn, Greg Ashman describes progressive education as one where students help to direct the curriculum, students seek and find their own answers, a focus on intrinsic motivation that eschews coercion and the drawing of a distinction between knowledge and understanding in order to focus on the latter. Traditional education, by way of contrast believes that teachers are experts in their subject and therefore they should design the curriculum and teach it explicitly. Traditional teaching believes that there is a 'tradition' of knowledge that students are entitled to.
The second misunderstanding is that when we speak of knowledge, we only mean acquiring facts. That's not the case at all. Knowledge can be divided into declarative knowledge and procedural knowledge. Declarative knowledge includes concepts and rules as well as facts and will allow us 'to recognize things, make judgments, classify things, discriminate differences and identify similarities.' Procedural knowledge is knowledge that produces action, that enables us to do stuff. It is goal directed, whereas declarative knowledge (the kind of knowledge that includes, but is not limited to facts) just sits there waiting to be of service. It doesn't of itself result in any action. Procedural knowledge actually enables us to do things. Most obviously, it involves motor behaviour; learning to play the guitar or catch a ball are both forms of procedural knowledge. To throw a ball, you don't need to also know the physics behind it, you don't need factual knowledge of how it all works. You need to build motor memory and that is a form of knowledge learnt through paying attention and repeated practice. But procedural knowledge isn't only about muscle movement, it also lies behind enabling us to use declarative knowledge. Solving an equation or balancing a chemical reaction, both involve turning declarative understanding into procedural knowledge. There is so much more to knowledge than just facts (as useful as they are).
People sometimes refer to the ability to do such things as acquiring skills rather than procedural knowledge. The word 'skills' however, is particularly problematic as it is used to mean several different things. For example, it is used to describe dispositions such as resilience and behaviours such as collaboration, it is also used to describe things such as inference and problem solving, which traditionalists are more likely to see as different kinds of disciplinary knowledge, and then again it is used for procedural knowledge.
The third misunderstanding is to think that traditionalist teachers are only interested in knowledge rather than understanding. Again this is quite wrong. What traditionalist teachers assert is that it is impossible to understand something unless you know something about it. This is because understanding, properly understood, is simply having lots of well organised knowledge that is connected together. I wrote about this recently in my previous blog so I won't repeat that again here. Understanding is literally made out of knowledge. So it is possible to know something without understanding it but it is not possible to understand something without knowing it. This diagram by Efrat Furst explains it well.
The fourth common misunderstanding is to think that therefore, traditionalists think that lessons should be formal lectures where the lecturer does 99% of the talking, the learners role in the process inherently passive. This is not the case. The kind of explicit instruction most traditionalists favour – and like anything it is a broad church, so there will be differences in emphasis – is highly interactive. It will involve questioning not just of the few eager clever clogs but of everybody present, through strategies such as 'cold calling', using mini whiteboards, individual exercises interspersing the teacher explanation. It might involve discussing things in pairs or even doing a short bit of drama. In a maths lesson, it might well involve children using manipulatives. What is more, it does not preclude the use of other ways of sharing the information other than a teacher talking (though this will be the most common way). A video clip might be used if it is a more effective way of explaining something – for example, an animation of the heart beating might well be a better way of explaining the role of the heart and lungs in the circulatory system than just a verbal description. Who wouldn't show the clip of Commander David Scott dropping a feather and a hammer at the same time on the moon to show that without air resistance, objects fall at the same rate.
Traditionalist teachers also follow up the explicit teaching phase with 'shed loads of practice' – gloriously shortened to SLOP. If learning is to stick, long term, it needs to be practised over and over, to the point where it becomes automatic and can be recalled without conscious effort. Some of this practice might even involve tightly planned opportunities to 'discover' aspects of what is being taught, for example, variation theory can be used to devise the kind of deliberate practice that helps learners notice patterns, similarities and differences. However, there would always be some sort of teacher commentary at some point to draw attention to things that might not have been noticed.
The final misunderstanding I am going to cover is the erroneous belief that traditionalist teachers adhere to a crude 'transmission' model and don't realise that learners build – or construct – their learning on what they already know. Of course traditionalist teachers do believe they have a tradition worth sharing (or transmitting, though the word lacks nuance). Whereas while traditionalist teacher eschew constructivist teaching, they are well aware of constructivist learning theories. Learners build on what they already know and construct meaning out of the connections formed between their established and new learning. See the point about understanding above. Efrat Furst explains this in more detail here.
In fact, I'd go so far as to say that traditionalist teachers are more concerned about prior learning than progressive teachers because of the pivotal role prior learning plays in whether we understand or misunderstand something. Misunderstanding occurs when we connect bits of knowledge together in the wrong way. For example, if we know that addition can be done in any order so 2+3=5 and 3+2=5, when we learn about subtraction, we think that this also can be done in any order so think that 5-2=3 and 2-5=3. We've made a false connection between our new knowledge and our existing knowledge.
This is why questioning and other forms of formative assessment are so important to try and ascertain that the right connections are being made and to address misconceptions as soon as possible, before they become too established. It is also why traditionalist teachers use explicit teaching that breaks knowledge down into very small sub steps to minimise the risk that wrong connections will be made. Traditionalist teachers are really aware of the 'curse of knowledge', the difficulty 'experts' have in realising how complicated something really is and therefore overwhelming students working memories by trying to teach too much at once. Indeed, in what is probably the 'purist' form of traditionalist teaching, the Direct Instruction method designed by Engelmann, concepts are meticulously broken down into minute sub steps, carefully explained and regularly practised so that the new learning has the best possible opportunity to connect to prior knowledge in the right way.
Aren't labels funny. My husband swears he is a social constructivist, yet he does all this stuff. Maybe when we label ourselves or others, that is more about the group of people we want to belong to (or not belong to), more about the kind of people we believe ourselves to be.
 I'm not saying that there are not also honest to goodness, downright disagreements where people understand perfectly well what the other is saying. Such disagreements are (I think) often disagreements about what each other values. Possibly.
 Well that's not quite what Harry said, but it's how I connected it to what I already knew!
 Though I also click on people I am pretty sure I will disagree with too. Sometimes even with an open(ish) mind!
 With each discipline determining what is meant by the term, so terms mean different things in different subjects. 'Explanation' in history has a different meaning than 'explanation; in science for example. Even something apparently straightforward like 'observation' means something different depending on whether you are doing something in an art lesson or a science lesson. What is worthy of observing will differ.


"A project led by the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory will combine artificial intelligence with massive amounts of data and industry experience from a dozen U.S. partners to identify places where the electric grid is vulnerable to disruption, reinforce those spots in advance and recover faster when failures do occur.
Called GRIP, for Grid Resilience and Intelligence Project, the project builds on other efforts to collect massive amounts of data and use it to fine-tune grid operations, including SLAC's VADER project. It's one of seven Grid Modernization Laboratory Consortium projects aimed at boosting grid resilience that will receive up to $32 million in funding as part of the DOE's Grid Modernization Initiative. GRIP was awarded up to $6 million over three years.
The project will use both machine learning, where computers ingest large amounts of data and teach themselves how a system behaves, and artificial intelligence, which uses the knowledge the machines have acquired to solve problems.


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Alexandr Shabliy (born April 18, 1993) is a Russian mixed martial artist who competes in the Lightweight division of Bellator MMA. As of March 14, 2023, he is #2 in the Bellator Lightweight Rankings.

Background
Alexander was born in the city of Rostov-on-Don to a Russian father and Dargin mother, Shabliy practices Eastern Orthodoxy. With his grandfather being a Cossack, he incorporates into his post-fight speechs by the way of his headgear. In parallel with going to first grade, his parents enrolled him in the Shotokan karate section, where the guy went three times a week. Since study and training took up all his free time, in the dashing 90s, Shabliy simply had no time to get involved with bad company. He achieved good results in sports, and graduated from school with good marks.

A key role in the development of Sasha as a fighter was played by his coach, Belousov Nikolai Pavlovich, who directed his student in the right direction and introduced him to mixed martial arts. However, this happened much later, and until that moment the athlete competed, won the first victories, which was encouraged by his father. Despite the fact that the house of the Shabliyev family burned down and they were forced to move to a hostel, Vasily found an opportunity to reward his son for the victory with a small amount of money.

Over time, along with his friend, Alexander switched to boxing, then to Thai boxing, and after that - combat sambo and hand-to-hand combat.

Mixed martial arts career

Early career
But, by the time he came of age, he was first invited to the ProFC event, where he made his lightweight debut as a professional MMA fighter. But, in parallel with this career, he managed to take care of his personal life, education and a good position.

The first 4 fights under the auspices of the domestic promotion, which Shabliy completed quite quickly, finishing his opponents with three submissions and one technical knockout. But in October 2011, he suffered his first loss to Mamour Fall, although the fight was very close and he lost by split decision. After, the athlete tried himself in the Oplot Challenge, but eventually returned to ProFC, starting to smash both foreign and Russian fighters there.

Arsen Ubaidulaev became the second opponent to defeat him, submitting Shabliy with a rear-naked choke. However, Alexander rematched Arsen and knocked him out with a flying knee in the first round. Then, the prospect racked up victories after victories, and entered such leagues as ACB and Fight Nights Global. There he had a chance to meet with more serious opposition, but only Eduard Vartanyan managed to stop the representative of the Peresvet team, beating him by the way of split decision.

Having scored a solid record in Russia, Shabliy decided to temporarily move to the United States in order to gain experience from Western colleagues, and to try to sign with a Western promotion. When the arrival to the States took place, the athlete was accepted into the American Top Team, where he trained for 4 months, but he did not succeed in becoming part of a major promotion. As the pandemic hit,  Alexander had to return to his homeland.

However, after a short period of time, his manager went to Bellator, and after fruitful negotiations, the parties managed to come to a common denominator.

Bellator MMA
In February 2021, it was announced that Shabliy had signed a multi-fight deal with Bellator MMA.

He made his promotional debut on May 21, 2021 at Bellator 259, defeating Alfie Davis, a Briton with 4 win streak, via unanimous decision.

In his sophomore performance, Shabliy faced Bobby King on December 3, 2021 at Bellator 279, defeating his opponent via unanimous decision.

Shabliy faced former Lightweight champion Brent Primus at Bellator 282 on June 24, 2022. He picked up his first stoppage in the promotion, winning the bout via TKO in the second round.

Lightweight Grand Prix
On January 11, 2023, Shabliy was announced as one of the 8 participants in the $1 million Lightweight Grand Prix, with his quarterfinal bout against Tofiq Musayev taking place on March 10, 2023 at Bellator 292. Shabliy won the bout in the third round, finishing Musayev with a body kick that rendered him unable to continue.

Personal life
The athlete is married to a girl named Maria, whom they married when he was 20 years old, and the couple has two sons - Timur and Dima. In addition, along with the career of a deputy, Shabliy became the director of the very ProFC league in which he began his fighting path. Shabliy studied at the Russian State University of Justice, where he study a degree of law, which he uses as a deputy of the Rostov City Duma.

Mixed martial arts record

|-
|Win
|align=center|23–3
|Tofiq Musayev
|TKO (body kick)
|Bellator 292
|
|align=center|3
|align=center|0:29
|San Jose, California, United States
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|-
|Win
|align=center|22–3
|Brent Primus
|TKO (punches)
|Bellator 282
|
|align=center|2
|align=center|1:22
|Uncasville, Connecticut, United States
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|-
|Win
|align=center|21–3
|Bobby King
|Decision (unanimous)
|Bellator 272
|
|align=center|3
|align=center|5:00
|Uncasville, Connecticut, United States
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|-
|Win
|align=center|20–3
|Alfie Davis
|Decision (unanimous)
|Bellator 259
|
|align=center|3
|align=center|5:00
|Uncasville, Connecticut, United States
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|-
|Win
|align=center|19–3
|Alexandre Cidade
|Decision (unanimous)
|ProFC 66
|
|align=center|3
|align=center|5:00
|Rostov-on-Don, Russia
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|-
|Win
|align=center|18–3
|Adriano Martins
|Decision (unanimous)
|Fight Nights Global 87
|
|align=center|3
|align=center|5:00
|Rostov-on-Don, Russia
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|-
|Win
|align=center|17–3
|Miroslav Štrbák
|KO (punch)
|Fight Nights Global 82
|
|align=center|2
|align=center|3:02
|Moscow, Russia
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|-
|Win
|align=center|16–3
|Gleristone Santos
|KO (knee and punches)
|ACB 67
|
|align=center|1
|align=center|2:41
|Grozny, Russia
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|-
|Loss
|align=center|15–3
|Eduard Vartanyan
|Decision (split)
|ACB 49
|
|align=center|3
|align=center|5:00
|Rostov-on-Don, Russia
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|-
|Win
|align=center|15–2
|Michael Brightmon
|TKO (punches)
|ACB 41
|
|align=center|1
|align=center|1:07
|Sochi, Russia
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|-
|Win
|align=center|14–2
|Ryan Quinn
|KO (head kick)
|WFCA 16
|
|align=center|3
|align=center|0:13
|Grozny, Russia
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|-
|Win
|align=center|13–2
|Haotian Wu
|TKO (punches)
|Kunlun Fight 29
|
|align=center|1
|align=center|3:05
|Sochi, Russia
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|-
|Win
|align=center|12–2
|Gusein Esenbaev
|TKO (flying knee & punches)
|ProFC 57
|
|align=center|1
|align=center|4:07
|Rostov-On-Don, Russia
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|-
|Win
|align=center|11–2
|Haitham ElSayed
|Submission (heel hook)
|ProFC 56
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|align=center|1
|align=center|1:29
|Kursk, Russia
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|-
|Win
|align=center|10–2
|Luca Puggioni
|Submission (heel hook)
|ProFC 55
|
|align=center|1
|align=center|1:09
|Krasnodar, Russia
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|-
|Win
|align=center|9–2
|Arsen Ubaidulaev
|KO (flying knee)
|ProFC 53
|
|align=center|1
|align=center|1:48
|Rostov-On-Don, Russia
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|-
|Loss
|align=center|8–2
|Arsen Ubaidulaev
|Submission (rear-naked choke)
|ProFC 49
|
|align=center|2
|align=center|2:18
|Khimki, Russia
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|-
|Win
|align=center|8–1
|Michael Doyle
|TKO (punches)
|ProFC 47
|
|align=center|1
|align=center|0:34
|Rostov-On-Don, Russia
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|-
| Win
| align=center|7–1
| Tarkan Ali Erokcu
|TKO (punches)
|ProFC 45
|
|align=center|1
|align=center|0:17
|Grozny, Russia
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|-
| Win
| align=center|6–1
| Arvydas Zilius
|Submission (armbar)
|ProFC 41
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|align=center|1
|align=center|1:53
|Rostov-On-Don, Russia
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|-
| Win
| align=center|5–1
| Abudokar Dukarey
|Submission (triangle choke)
|Oplot Challenge 1
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|align=center|1
|align=center|1:05
|Kharkiv, Ukraine
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|-
| Loss
| align=center|4–1
| Mamour Fall
|Decision (split)
|ProFC 36
|
|align=center|3
|align=center|5:00
|Khasavyurt, Russia
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|-
| Win
| align=center| 4–0
| Łukasz Bugara
| Submission (guillotine choke)
| ProFC 30
|
| align=center|1
| align=center|0:49
| Rostov-On-Don, Russia
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|-
| Win
| align=center| 3–0
| Denis Aleksandrov
| Submission (rear-naked choke)
| ProFC 29
|
| align=center| 2
| align=center| 3:57
| Rostov-on-Don, Russia
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|-
| Win
| align=center| 2–0
| Semen Selyukov
| TKO (punches)
| ProFC 26
|
| align=center|2
| align=center|0:36
| Rostov-On-Don, Russia
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|-
| Win
| align=center| 1–0
| Vahe Zakaryan
| Submission (guillotine choke)
| ProFC 18
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| align=center|1
| align=center|1:23
| Nalchik, Russia
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See also
 List of current Bellator fighters
 List of male mixed martial artists

References

External links

1993 births
Living people
Lightweight mixed martial artists
Russian male mixed martial artists
Bellator male fighters
Eastern Orthodox Christians from Russia

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The Regionalliga () is the fourth tier in the German football league system. Until 1974, it was the second tier in Germany. In 1994, it was introduced as the third tier. Upon the creation of the new nationwide 3. Liga in 2008, it became the fourth tier. While all of the clubs in the top three divisions of German football are professional, the Regionalliga has a mixture of professional and semi-professional clubs.

History of the Regionalligas

1963–1974
From the introduction of the Bundesliga in 1963 until the formation of the 2. Bundesliga in 1974, there were five Regionalligas, forming the second tier of German Football:

Regionalliga Nord, (covering the states of Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein, Bremen and Hamburg)
Regionalliga West, (covering the state of North Rhine-Westphalia)
Regionalliga Berlin, (covering West Berlin)
Regionalliga Südwest, (covering the states of Rheinland-Palatinate and Saarland)
Regionalliga Süd, (covering the states of Bavaria, Hesse and Baden-Württemberg)

The champions and runners-up of the respective divisions played out two promotion spots to the Bundesliga in two groups after the end of the season.

In 1974, the two 2. Bundesligas, Süd and Nord became the second tier of German Football and the Regionalligas ceased existing for the next 20 years.

1994–2000
In 1994, the Regionalligas were re-introduced, this time as the third tier of German Football. There were initially four Regionalligas:

Regionalliga Süd, (covering the states of Bavaria, Hesse and Baden-Württemberg)
Regionalliga West/Südwest, (covering the states of Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland and North Rhine-Westphalia)
Regionalliga Nord, (covering the states of Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein, Bremen and Hamburg)
Regionalliga Nordost, (covering the states of Brandenburg, Berlin, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia and Saxony; i.e. the former GDR and the city of Berlin)

Between 1994 and 2000, promotion to the 2. Bundesliga was regulated without much continuity. It was a problematic rule, as becoming champion of a division did not automatically mean promotion for that team. The champions of the South and West/Southwest divisions were automatically promoted, however, along with one of the two runners-up. The champions of the North and Northeast divisions had a play-off to decide who would get the fourth promotion spot. This rule was justified because there are more clubs in the southern part of Germany than the north.

In 1998, the promotion rule was changed again: the winner of the play-off between the North and Northeast division champions was promoted, while the loser faced the runners-up from the West/Southwest and South divisions in another play-off for the remaining promotion spot.

2000–2008
In 2000 the number of Regionalligas was reduced to two:

Regionalliga Nord, (covering northern Germany)
Regionalliga Süd, (covering southern Germany)

The new divisional alignment was not bound to certain states any more so teams were moved between the divisions in order to balance club numbers. This led to some clubs in the Southern division being geographically further north than some northern clubs, and vice versa.

The champions and the runners-up of both divisions were promoted to the 2. Bundesliga.

2008–2012
In 2008, the Regionalliga was demoted to become the fourth tier of football in Germany after the introduction of a new nationwide 3. Liga. However, there was an expansion to three divisions:

Regionalliga Nord, (covering the states of Brandenburg, Berlin, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, Saxony, Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein, Bremen and Hamburg)
Regionalliga Süd, (covering the states of Bavaria, Hesse and Baden-Württemberg)
Regionalliga West, (covering the states of Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland and North Rhine-Westphalia)

"Covering" meant that the single divisions were annually re-aligned to geographic location by a DFB committee in order to have 18 teams assigned to each division every year. This led to teams assigned to a division other than their geographical one. An example for this is BV Cloppenburg, who was assigned to the Western division for the 2008–09 season despite being located in Lower Saxony.

2012–present
In October 2010, yet another reform of the Regionalligas was decided upon, with the number of leagues expanding to five and beginning play in the 2012–13 season. Under this new format, the old Regionalliga Nordost would be re-established and the new Regionalliga Südwest and Regionalliga Bayern would be created. The Südwest would take clubs from the southern portion of the Regionalliga West and also everything from the Regionallia Süd outside of Bavaria. It was also decided to limit the number of reserve teams per Regionalliga to seven.

The five league champions and the runners-up of the Regionalliga Südwest play-off for the three promotion spots in a home-and-away series. The new leagues consist of up to 22 clubs in their inaugural seasons but were reduced to between 16 and 18 clubs. The Regionalligas are not be administrated by the DFB but rather by the regional football associations. In regards to reserve teams, initially only seven were permitted per league, however, this rule may be subject to change under certain circumstances. Reserve sides of 3. Liga teams are not permitted in the Regionalliga.

The reorganisation of the Regionalligas so soon after the last changes in 2008 became necessary because of a large number of insolvencies. These were caused by a lack of media interest in the leagues combined with large expenses and infrastructure demands. The five Regionalligas from 2012 are:
 Regionalliga Nord, (covering the states of Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein, Bremen and Hamburg)
 Regionalliga Nordost, (covering the states of Brandenburg, Berlin, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia and Saxony)
 Regionalliga West, (covering the state of North Rhine-Westphalia)
 Regionalliga Südwest, (covering the states of Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland, Hesse and Baden-Württemberg)
 Regionalliga Bayern, (covering the state of Bavaria)

Some regional football associations also made changes to the league system below the Regionalliga in their area. From the 2012–13 season, the Bavarian Football Association split the Bayernliga into a northern and a southern division, and increased the number of Landesligas from three to five.

Changes to promotion rules from 2018

At the 96th DFB-Bundestag in December 2017, delegates decided to change the promotion rules and, without success, reduce the number of leagues to four. To achieve this, a temporary solution was put into place for the 2018–19 and 2019–20 seasons. Four teams were promoted and there were three guaranteed promotion places from the champions of the five regional leagues. The champion of the southwest league, which gave up its second playoff place, were promoted automatically in the next two seasons. Additionally there were two teams promoted from the other four regional leagues. In the 2018–19 season, the champion of the northeast league were also be promoted directly. The winner of the third guaranteed promotion place was decided by the drawing of lots. The remaining two regional league champions of the 2018–19 season faced off in a two-legged playoff determining the fourth promotion place. The two regional leagues whose teams took part in the playoff automatically had promotion places for the 2019–20 season. As a result, the third division has had four relegation places.

At the 97th DFB-Bundestag in 2019, a working group under DFB vice-president Peter Frymuth unsuccessfully proposed a system involving four rather than five regional leagues. Instead, the delegates reformed the promotion scheme from the 2020–21 season, in which there continued to be four promotions to the 3. Liga. The Regionalliga West and Southwest each provide a fixed direct promotion. Another direct promotion place is be assigned according to a rotation principle among the Regionalliga Nord, Nordost and Bayern champions. The representatives from the remaining two Regionalligen determine the fourth promoted club in two-legged playoffs.

Maps
The history and development of the Regionalligas in maps:

League setup

Licensing
A club that wants to play in the Regionalliga must meet two conditions. First, the team must qualify for the league. Second, the club must obtain a license from the DFB. This license is granted if the club can prove that they are financially sound, that their stadium conforms to the security regulations, and that they have a working youth section.

Promotion
The champions of three divisions are automatically promoted; the remaining two take part in the promotion round to the 3. Liga at the end of the season for the fourth promotion. Reserve teams are also be eligible for promotion unless the respective first team is playing in the 3. Liga.

Relegation
At least the bottom two teams of each division are demoted to their respective Oberliga. In the Regionalliga Nord, the fourth-to-last team is also be demoted if it loses a play-off against the Oberliga Niedersachsen runner-up. The third-to-last team participates in the play-off if the Nord champion is promoted and no team relegated from the 3. Liga is from the north. The actual number of teams relegated from every division depends on the number of relegations from the 3. Liga and promotions from the Oberliga.

As clubs in the Regionalliga must have their teams licensed by the DFB on a per-season basis, a team may also be relegated by having its license revoked or by going into administration. Reserve teams are also relegated when the respective first team is relegated to the 3. Liga.

Squad rules
Matchday squads in the Regionalliga must include at least six players of German nationality and under the age of 24, two under the age of 21, and a maximum of three non-EU players.

Champions

1963–1974

1994–2000

2000–2008

2008–2012

2012–present

References

External links
Regionalliga on the official DFB website
News, results, statistics, team and player profiles at Weltfussball

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Dr. Christopher FashunCampus News
Christopher Fashun of Hope College Music Faculty Receives Fulbright Award to Study Afro-Brazilian Music and Culture
January 22, 2018 — by Greg Olgers
Dr. Christopher Fashun of the Hope College music faculty has had a passion for Afro-Brazilian music since being introduced to it during his own undergraduate days in Minnesota.
Throughout his career as a music educator, he has valued the opportunity to teach Brazilian music and culture, and he was offered the opportunity to start a Brazilian music program when he joined the Hope faculty in 2015.
As a recipient of a Postdoctoral Scholar Award in All Disciplines through the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program, Fashun will spend four months in Salvador da Bahia in northeastern Brazil. Through the intercultural exchange, he seeks to develop an even deeper understanding of Afro-Brazilian music, religion and culture, and how that knowledge will enrich the educational experiences of not only his students at the college but those beyond the Hope campus.
"To understand Afro-Brazilian music holistically, it needs to be presented with its cultural and social milieu," said Fashun, who is an assistant professor of music and director of orchestras at the college. At the same time, he noted, the music can provide a powerful way of enhancing intercultural understanding.
The belief guides his teaching, where his courses include a world music course focused on Brazil and the Brazilian Drumming Ensemble. Within the field of music education, however, he hasn't found much research on the topic from which to draw.
"The body of Afro-Brazilian research has thoroughly covered the music itself," he explained. "Within the field of music education, I have yet to find significant research that focuses on the various ways Afro-Brazilian music is taught within Brazilian culture, both to Afro-Brazilians and non-Afro-Brazilians."
Fashun continued, "This project will provide the infrastructure of knowledge to disseminate information about Afro-Brazilian culture using music as the means to embody deeper intercultural understanding."
He is especially grateful that the Fulbright award will enable him to spend May to August of 2019 in Salvador da Bahia, a crucial location for his work.
"Salvador da Bahia is widely acknowledged as the Afro-Brazilian capital of Brazil where music is a powerful means of expression and is central to Afro-Brazilian culture and identity," Fashun said. "Not only does the music create a communal bond for both Afro-Brazilians and Brazilian society, it is the thread that connects all other facets of Afro-Brazilian identity that include race, religion, social relationships, socio-economic opportunities and politics."
He previously visited the city in December 2016 through a research grant from Hope College and studied with Mestre Mario Pam, the music director of the historic Afro-Brazilian group, Ilê Aiyê, and founder of the non-profit organization Tambores do Mundo (Drums of the World). During his return visit next year, Fashun will reconnect with Mestre Pam and others at the Federal University of Bahia to study the various ways Afro-Brazilian music is shared and taught within the city. The work will result in a substantial collection of songs and accompanying rhythms that he will publish jointly with Mestre Mario Pam.
Upon his return to Holland, Fashun hopes to teach Afro-Brazilian music to children participating in after-school programs at Hope, in addition to enriching the experiences of his Hope College students. The Brazilian Drumming Ensemble also performs educational assemblies in area schools in addition to performing on campus for events like the college's annual "IMAGES: A Reflection of Cultures" program. "One of my visions for the group is to teach people about Brazilian culture in West Michigan and beyond," Fashun said. He is also organizing a Caraval show at the Park Theatre on Friday, April 13, that will feature not only the Brazilian Drumming Ensemble, but the Hope College Jazz Arts Collective and local bands.
Fashun holds a Bachelor of Music degree in music education from St. Olaf College, a Master of Music degree in percussion performance from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Doctorate of Musical Arts degree in orchestral conducting from the University of Iowa. Prior to coming to Hope, he taught at Goshen College and St. Ambrose University.
He has concentrated his study of world percussion in Brazilian and Afro-Brazilian music and dance for more than 15 years, and his training has included attending the annual California Brazil Camp taught by some of the most popular Brazilian musicians. He presented a session on Afro-Brazilian music during the Michigan Music Conference in 2017 and is scheduled to do so again during this year's conference, taking place on Thursday-Saturday, Jan. 25-27, in Grand Rapids.
The Fulbright Program, which is the flagship international educational program sponsored by the U.S. government, has sponsored the exchange of students and scholars for 70 years between the United States and many other countries around the world through a variety of initiatives to "increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries." The Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program sends approximately 800 American scholars and professionals per year to approximately 130 countries, where they lecture and/or conduct research in a wide variety of academic and professional fields. In the words of Senator Fulbright, "International educational exchange is the most significant current project designed to continue the process of humanizing mankind to the point, we would hope, that men can learn to live in peace — eventually even to cooperate in constructive activities rather than competes in a mindless contest of mutual destruction . . . We must try to expand the boundaries of human wisdom, empathy and perception, and there is no way of doing that except through education."
14 Feb Academics
Sharing Courses? Google It
Hope College will be joining Alma, Albion and Calvin Colleges in their partnership with Google to share courses via interactive whiteboards and videoconferencing.
18 Sep Academics
Boerigter Center for Calling and Career to Celebrate Its Debut with an Open House on Sept. 28
Hope College will celebrate its new Boerigter Center for Calling and Career with a ribbon cutting on Friday, Sept. 28, at 1:30 p.m. at the front patio of the DeWitt Center, with an open house following immediately.
20 Jul Academics
Hope Teacher Education Program Continues to Be Recognized as One of Michigan's Best
The teacher-education program at Hope College has continued its history of ranking as one of the state's best, placing second in the 2018 Educator Preparation Institution Performance Score report of Michigan's Department of Education.


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make appropriate text displays easily available to preschoolers.
are more in demand by adults or their preschool children.
devices, and the important issue of naturally emerging literacy.
before a novel idea seems reasonable and worth exploring.
in an illiterate village in Ethiopia.
the tablets and are using applications to learn to read English.
to read naturally if the child is already well schooled in spoken language.
could impact learning written language.
is given along with the first cue, no learning of the second cue is found.
The second cue was redundant with the first, and no surprise was involved.
a similar failure could occur when it is paired with a written word.
even if it is redundant with the spoken ones she already knows.
Actually, acquired reading will solve a problem previously believed unsolvable.
reading skills when exposed to appropriate written language in a meaningful context.
written language a prevalent source of experience for the child.
such as smart watches being deployed by Google, Apple, and Samsung.
present text during the child's many meaningful interactions.
reading on augmented reality eyeglasses in the form of a streamline head-up display.
information delivered over a display in front of the eyes.
will be taken for these possible implementations.
such as an additional interface between doctors and patients.
of the computer when they are interviewing patients.
who also has the doctor's view of the patient.
toys, such as a play wand or an embellished camera.
For example, a baby might be looking at her mother smiling.
which the child sees superimposed on her experiencing mother smiling.
but consider Amazon's Fire Phone.
games just by pointing the camera at them and tapping a button.
identification and a written labeling of the child's world.
of the child in written language.
reading ability of the child.
So for example, a very young child might see only the word, give.
a watch a child is wearing, or on a head-up display.


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import angular from 'angular';
import uiRouter from 'angular-ui-router';
import jobHistoryComponent from './job-history.component';

let jobHistoryModule = angular.module('job-history', [
  uiRouter
])

.config(($stateProvider) => {
  $stateProvider
    .state('job-history', {
      url: '/job-history',
      template: '<job-history></job-history>'
    });
})

.directive('jobHistory', jobHistoryComponent);

export default jobHistoryModule;

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As Afghan and international leaders met in Kabul, following the London Conference earlier in 2010, they sought to commit to strategies that can lead the people of Afghanistan to a brighter, more secure future. These policy notes aim to inform discussion on how to proceed in areas related to governance, justice and development. Based on AREU's recent and ongoing research, they provide a timely reminder of the evidence base around some key topics of relevance to the conference.


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Ken Chandler: New York Post
by on May 29, 12:00 AM
New York Post Publisher KEN CHANDLER is leaving the newspaper after three years at the helm and 29 years with its parent News Corp., according to Editor & Publisher. Chandler will become CEO of the Natural Energy Solutions Corp., a multimedia company specializing in health-related information. News Corp. Deputy Chief Operating Officer Lachlan Murdoch will become the Post's publisher, sharing operational oversight with the paper's general manager, Geoff Booth, the paper said. During Chandler's tenure in the top business-side position, the Post has seen dramatic circulation increases, due in part to single-copy sales prices that dropped the daily newsstand rate ...
Douglas Campbell & James Trainer: Intermedia Marketing
Intermedia Marketing Solutions, Inc., an integrated multimedia marketing-solutions company, today announced it has promoted DOUGLAS CAMPBELL to the position of President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board. Campbell, one of the company's original founders, has served as President of one of Intermedia Marketing's marketing divisions for the last three years.
Cable Neuhaus: Folio Magazine
CABLE NEUHAUS has been named editor in chief of Folio magazine. He last served as general editor of Entertainment Weekly magazine, writing a weekly column and editing digital media coverage. He joined the publication in 1990.
Duane Bruner: MediaCom
MediaCom, one of the world's leading independent strategic media planning and buying companies, announced today that DUANE BRUNER has been named Regional Director of MediaCom's Latin America division, beginning July, 2002. He was previously Regional Director of MediaCom Europe. Bruner began his career with MediaCom in New York in 1986, working on accounts such as P&G and Kraft and General Foods.
New York American Marketing Association Board Members Elected
The New York American Marketing Association has elected its new Board of Directors for fiscal year 2003. They are: President: JAMES MCDOWELL, VP of Marketing BMW of North America, LLC.; President Elect: EUGENE DUNKIN, President of Godiva International; First Vice-President: LEE ANN DALY, SVP, Marketing of ESPN, Inc.; Re-elected directors are: Bruce Meyers, Marketing and Advertising Consultant and Bruce Zanca, Independent Communications and Marketing Consultant.
Charles Olivia: Vindigo
Charles Oliva, former Director of Product Marketing & Business Development with At Road, Inc., has accepted the position of Vice President of Marketing at Vindigo, the leading developer of location-based applications for wireless and mobile devices. Oliva will focus on customer acquisition and retention for Vindigo 2.0, the company's immensely popular personal navigation application, which for $24.95 per year helps subscribers to find places to eat, shop, and play in over 25 major cities.
Kristian Wilson: TrafficMarketplace
TrafficMarketplace, a subsidiary of Vivendi Universal, has recently named KRISTIAN WILSON to the role of Marketing Director. In this role, Wilson will be accountable for new product development as well as management of major web publisher relationships. Wilson previously held similar media roles with Seattle based Avenue A, as well as Publicis-Seattle, and THINK Seattle.
Clifford Marks: Regal Entertainment Group
Regal Entertainment Group, a leading motion picture exhibitor owning and operating the largest theatre circuit in the United States under the Regal Cinemas, United Artists Theatres and Edwards Theatres brands, has appointed former ESPN/ABC Sports Executive CLIFFORD MARKS, President, Marketing and Sales of Regal CineMedia. Marks, who is based in New York, will oversee the development and expansion of Regal CineMedia's advertising, sales, promotion and marketing business. Marks has spent the last 13 years at ESPN/ABC Sports, most recently as Senior Vice President overseeing its $2.0 billion sales organization.
Jeff Zucker & Scott Sassa: NBC
One day after claiming victory in the end-of-season ratings race, NBC on Wednesday reshuffled its executive ranks, expanding the role of its programming chief, JEFF ZUCKER, and reassigning West Coast President SCOTT SASSA. Zucker, who was executive producer of NBC's "Today" show before being named NBC entertainment president 18 months ago, will assume the responsibilities previously handled by Sassa, including the company's production house, NBC Studios, and its licensing and syndication arm, NBC Enterprises. Sassa will remain with NBC, a unit of General Electric Co., "working on strategic projects" and exploring "ways to extend the corporate brand." He will report ...
Omnicom Group elected four directors
Omnicom Group elected four directors Tuesday at its annual meeting of shareholders in New York. Leonard S. Coleman Jr., Peter Foy and Gary Roubos were re-elected, and Robert Clark, dean of Harvard University Law School, became a new member. Their new terms expire in 2005. At the same time, two longtime directors, Allen Rosenshine, worldwide chairman and CEO of BBDO, and Keith Reinhard, worldwide chairman of DDB, resigned their seats, while five others - James Cannon, Bernard Brochand, Tom Harrison, Michael Greenlees and Jean-Marie Dru - did not stand for re-election. That leaves a board with 11 members -- down ...
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Let's begin with a little review of the family of Lazarus. As John pointed out, Lazarus is the one Jesus raised from the dead. But that is not the only time we meet this family of Lazarus and his two sisters. Another familiar story about them is the one where Jesus and the disciples come to their house and Martha serves the supper while Mary sits at the feet of Jesus. Martha, as you recall, became upset with her sister and Jesus reminded Martha that Mary had chosen the better part; to be with Jesus.


In the plantless space on our patio, between the Virginia creeper on the railing and the common ivy along the eaves, a leaf curl spider has tethered its home between both of these climbers and a dogwood tree. It has been in this residence for a couple of months, building a new web each night.
The ivy is flowering now at the start of Autumn. With the choice of other flowers diminishing, the bees have decided that the ivy is the nectar of choice. I suspect there are two hives competing for this resource, as I've seen bees leave their feast to pursue and harass an incoming bee.
Given the proximity of the spider, it's no surprise that bees regularly stumble into the previous night's web. After lots of tossing and turning, the bees miraculously free themselves and buzz off for some intensive grooming.
I watched another bee blunder in, and was tempted to go to its assistance as it thrashed about and turned somersaults. If I did, then it would likely be left in a hopeless tangle on the ground. So I waited in suspense.
When the bee had twisted the threads to the point where only one strand of web held a e limb, a single black leg appeared from within the spider's home, and touched the line leading to its captive.
I'm not quite sure what happened next. There were two massive jerks on the leash holding the bee. Was the bee making an almighty effort to free itself. Or was the spider testing the response of a possible victim?
Either way, the bee suddenly broke free and drifted downwards, out of sight.
I need to make a comparison between this experience and another.
Just yesterday I saw the terrible might of the Australian airforce on display. An RAAF Hornet Jet Fighter thundered down the length of our local lake, orange flames flickering from its exhausts. The shock of the raw sound slammed into us – hands raced to cover delicate ears. Oh, the fury and the glory of it.
This display lasted for four more passes, and then the fighter soared skywards – as I have often heard said – like a homesick angel and disappeared.
It was wonderful, and yet, before we had even reached the car, I could no longer remember it. Not truly. And I love aircraft. I could remember being in awe, but not the awe itself.
In a weeks time, I will still remember the bee freeing itself, but the poor hornet will be almost forgotten.


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Sunrise and sunset times in Cresswell
Check out today's and tomorrow's sunrise and sunset times in Cresswell, England, United Kingdom, as well as the whole calendar for February 2023.
Sunset in Cresswell, England was 2 hours, 58 minutes ago
Tomorrow will be 3 minutes longer than today in Cresswell
Cresswell,
February 2023 - Cresswell, England - Sunrise and sunset calendar
Sunrise and sunset times, civil twilight start and end times as well as solar noon, and day length for every day of February in Cresswell.
In Cresswell, England, the first day of February is 8 hours, 47 minutes long. The last day of the month is 10 hours, 43 minutes, so the length of the days gets 1 hour, 55 minutes longer in February 2023.
Year distribution of sunrise and sunset times in Cresswell, England - 2023
The following graph shows sunrise and sunset times in Cresswell for every day of the year. There are two jumps in the graph that represent the hour change for Daylight Saving Time (DST) in Cresswell, England.
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In accordance with Rule 13d-1(k) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the undersigned agree to the joint filing on behalf of each of them of a Statement on Schedule 13G (including any and all amendments thereto) with respect to the Common Stock, $.001 par value, of Fibrocell Science, Inc., a Delaware corporation, and further agree that this Joint Filing Agreement shall be included as an Exhibit to such joint filings.
The undersigned further agree that each party hereto is responsible for the timely filing of such Statement on Schedule 13G and any amendments thereto, and for the accuracy and completeness of the information concerning such party contained therein; provided, however, that no party is responsible for the accuracy or completeness of the information concerning any other party, unless such party knows or has reason to believe that such information is inaccurate.
This Joint Filing Agreement may be signed in counterparts with the same effect as if the signature on each counterpart were upon the same instrument.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have executed this Agreement as of June 1, 2018.


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Frank and his assistant were very efficient and answered all my questions.
Frank did exactly what I expected and answered a couple of my concerns in language I understood. Bottom line...he did a great job.
Absolutely great service and personal relationship. My one concern is use of too much cologne/after shave. I experience respiratory distress and found I had difficulty breathing through the following morning.
Monthly filter changes on to Tempstar split systems.
Signature cooling preventative maintenance onto rooftop units and capacitor replacement.
Monthly filter changes on for rooftop units.
Furnace shut down and 2 master cool startups.


At apple we offer three options on new garage doors.
Remote control sectional door, this is slightly more expensive than the roller door option, available in any RAL* colour and fitted in one day. 10 year guarantee.


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     * A list of all the fields in this table.
     *
     * The array is indexed with the field name.
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    public $fields;

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     * A list of all the indexes on this table.
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I've been thinking about majoring in engineering next year in college and needed some opinions. What type of engineer are you? How long did you have to go to college for? Do you make a decent salary? And do you enjoy your job? Thanks!
EVERYONE has something they don't like about their job, but overall I love it. If I were to win the lottery, this is the type of thing I'd be doing. I would form my own company and pursue projects I think would be more interesting though.
One of my main likes about the job is that you're treated like an adult, unless you prove you can't be trusted. Many jobs will keep you on a short leash. As an engineer you're allowed some leeway in how you get things done as long as you produce results.
School can be tough, but a person of reasonable intelligence can get through it if he really wants to. Starting pay, depending on region, discipline, and school reputation is roughly $45-55K(US) annually.
Control systems. Eight years for two bachelor degrees and two masters degrees, each in something different involving engineering (except for one BA). I made a decent salary but it got much higher when I went into engineering management. Engineering work is always a mental challenge so it keeps your brain happy. If you are on the right projects you can also do some great free travel and ahve accomplishments you can brag about.
I have been an electrical engineer for almost 30 years. My specialty is electromagnetics (antennas, communications, radar, etc.). I have a BS, MS and a PhD. I took 4 years to get the BS, one year to get the MS and the equivalent of about 3 more years to get the PhD. It is not uncommon for folks with my educational background and experience to make $150K/year. Starting salaries for engineers with a BS are in the $60K range.
I love my job as I actually get paid to design, fabricate and test (sometimes in flight) hardware that is put to actual use by customers.
You must love mathematics and physics and be willing to work very hard in school. If not, I would recommend against pursuing a career in engineering. I recommend finding a career that will keep your interest and be fun, regardless of how much one gets paid.
How many engineering collages availble in India for corrospondance B E in Metalurgy ?
Which of these degrees is BEST?


Julie Hinders is the Ceo of Ackley, IA based Presbyterian Village.
Hinders is the authorized official for Presbyterian Village.
Presbyterian Village operates as a home delivered meals supplier, which falls under the general category of suppliers.
You may reach Hinders personally by phone by dialing (641) 847-3531.
The general telephone number Presbyterian Village is (641) 847-3531 and the fax number is (641) 847-3428.
The address of the practice location of Presbyterian Village is 502 Butler St Ackley, IA 506011730.


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Q: Including and excluding specific records I want to find some of buyer who had special condition (in this case, transaction >= 600000 called star member)
In this case, I want to find out star member (transaction >= 600000) who exists in January 2020 and March 2020, but it does not include star member who is doing transaction in February 2020.
here's my syntax
SELECT users_id
FROM order_star_member
GROUP BY users_id
HAVING SUM(CASE WHEN MONTHNAME(createdAt) = 'January'
                THEN total_price_star_member END) >= 600000
   AND SUM(CASE WHEN MONTHNAME(createdAt) = 'March'
                THEN total_price_star_member END) >= 600000
    AND NOT EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM order_star_member
    GROUP BY users_id
    having sum(case when monthname(createdAt) = 'February'
    THEN total_price_star_member END) >= 600000);

and here's my fiddle
https://dbfiddle.uk/?rdbms=mysql_8.0&fiddle=2c85037215fe71f700b51c8fd3a5ae76

on my fiddle, the expected result are the users_Id 15 because that id order at january and march but not in february

A: First in the inner t we group by month to determine all the star members.
The outer grouping groups by user_id. Their score is the sum of their star_member.
For February (m=2 (February being the second month) on the first line of the query below) if they are a star_member, they get an penalty (-100) as an arbitrary value that the SUM cannot overcome.
The only way a month_score=2 can exist if if a user has a star_member being true (1) for both January and March but not February.
SELECT users_id, SUM(IF(m=2 and star_member, -100, star_member)) as month_score
FROM
  (SELECT users_id,
          MONTH(createdAt) as m,
          SUM(total_price_star_member) >= 600000 as star_member
  FROM order_star_member
  WHERE createdAt BETWEEN '20190101' AND '20190331'
  GROUP BY users_id, m
) t
GROUP BY users_id
HAVING month_score=2

fiddle

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Thank You For Taking The Time To Visit My Online Gallery.
To me photography is a combination of art, energy and adventure and allows me to share some of the beautiful places God has created.
I have been involved with photography since my freshman year in college when I realized it would allow me to fuse together three driving forces of my personality - an ever wondering imagination, my love for adventure and a passion for being outdoors.
Through my images I hope to share with you the beauty, adventure and emotion I felt while witnessing these very special places.


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Baseload, Hydropower
Global hydroelectric power could double by 2050, WEC report says
By Michael Harris | 5.21.15
Global hydroelectric power capacity could double to 2,000 GW by 2050 or sooner, according to a report released this week by the World Energy Council.
The study, titled "Charting the Upsurge in Hydropower Development", was presented during the World Hydropower Congress in Beijing.
The report notes that hydropower worldwide has seen a resurgence since 2005 "due to better management and understanding of what technology can provide", WEC said, with ancillary benefits like water storage also making hydro an attractive consideration.
Hydropower has also benefitted significantly from changing attitudes from international financiers like the World Bank, as well as support from organizations including the World Wildlife Fund and The Nature Conservancy.
Still, WEC secretary general Christoph Frei said, there is further room for hydroelectric growth — particularly in developing countries.
"The future lies in the opening up of new markets through cross-border trade and power pools and devising appropriate market conditions, such as renewable incentives, clearer price signals for additional services and flexible generation," Frei said. "Whilst some governments and multilateral banks are supporting and encouraging neighboring nations to cooperate and share the same water resources, more innovative solutions are needed."
China, India, Brazil and countries in southeastern Asia hold the most potential for rapid growth, the report said, with a number of the world's greatest producers of hydroelectric power still having vast untapped resources.
"The research shows that the hydropower sector is continuing to grow," International Hydropower Association chief executive Richard Taylor said.
Hydroelectric expansion could be further encouraged, the report said, should border tariffs make hydro more conducive as an export revenue generator.
"Large-scale projects will always be a challenge because there are so many authorities and stakeholders involve," Taylor said. "No projects move forward without the government concerned understanding hydropower. It is their responsibility to create the right conditions to bring forward the best projects.
"The spectrum of development models is increasing, and these will vary according to the local expertise and access to markets. If hydropower's contribution is to double, we need to share the knowledge that will lead to informed decisions that meet today's sustainability criteria."
Droughts impacting many parts of the world should also make storage-based hydropower an attractive consideration, WEC chair Marie-Jose Nadeau said, given what has been coined the "energy-water nexus."
"As the world moves to cleaner energy resources and water becomes an increasingly valuable commodity in many regions, it will influence the choice of energy options," Nadeau said. "Governments must take a leading role in addressing the vicious cycle of rising water and energy demands."
The report is available for viewing in its entirety via the World Energ6 Council's website.
Michael Harris
I provide daily content and updates for HydroWorld.com, which is the online extension of Hydro Review and Hydro Review Worldwide magazines. I am also responsible for assembling materials for our weekly electronic newsletter and video newscast.
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From Bollywood to Hollywood: How Irrfan Khan won the heart of both
Published on: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 8:59:45 UTC
News Agency: CNN
Iconic Indian actor Irrfan Khan has died at 53. Best known for his roles in Slumdog Millionaire, Life of Pi and the Inferno, Khan leaves a legacy of lasting roles. CNN's Vedika Sud reports.
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