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Innocence (2000)

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INNOCENCE
A film review by Steve Rhodes
Copyright 2001 Steve Rhodes
RATING (0 TO ****):  *** 1/2

INNOCENCE is a rarely told tale of seniors in love that is written and directed
with a graceful delicateness by Paul Cox.  Starring three veteran Australian
actors, Julia Blake (MY BRILLIANT CAREER), Charles 'Bud' Tingwell (THE DISH) and
Terry Norris, the film is superbly and touchingly acted.  Although they may be
in their waning years, the movie's seventyish characters demonstrate a palpable
zest for the essence of life and love.  The sometimes surprising story is
wonderfully moving without being overly sentimental and completely honest while
avoiding cheap theatrics.

The film opens about fifty years in the past as innocent and carefree young
lovers Claire and Andreas are bicycling down an Australian country road.
Utterly in love, they stop to kiss and caress.  Kristien Van Pellicom, who looks
like a young Rachel Griffiths, plays this younger Claire and Kenny Aernouts
plays the younger Andreas.  Shot with an oversatured look, these flashback
images are a cross between someone's memories and an old home movie.  In a film
that has so much is right about it that it's hard to list everything, it should
be pointed out that the casting of these two is quite perfect.  They look
remarkably like younger versions of the actors who play their characters fifty
years later.

We quickly cut to the present when most of the story is set.  Although they
haven't seen each other in almost half a century, Claire (Blake) accepts
Andreas's (Tingwell) offer to come and visit him.  Andreas's wife died thirty
years ago, but Claire has been married to John (Norris) for 45 years now.
(Actually, 44 years, 3 months and a few odd days as Claire will remind John
later in one of her few fits of anger.)  Besides spouses, Claire and Andreas
have children and grandchildren.  Nevertheless, their love for each other has
remained constant even if dormant all of these years.

Once they see each other again, their lives are forever changed.  Like sleeper
spies, they are roused to action and begin an affair.  You may well wonder what
an affair among seniors is like.  Certainly, the cinema gives us little guidance
as to what we should expect.  Affairs in movies rarely occur with anyone older
than middle age.

In a film that takes several unpredictable turns, one of the most unusual ones
occurs when the ever honest Claire confesses to her husband what is going on.
His initial reaction isn't what you'd expect.  Since the story focuses on the
love that Claire and Andreas have for each other, it would be easy to have John
be either unimportant or some kind of cliché.  Instead, Terry Norris infuses his
character with a mixture of hopelessness, confusion and resoluteness.  In his
best scene, John tries without success to explain his feelings to Claire.  "I'm
old," he tells her with overwhelming sadness.  "I'm tired.  I suddenly realized
that my whole life…"  His thought process trails off then, and he is so lost
that he is unable to finish his sentence.

"You know what matters in life?" Andreas asks his daughter.  "Love.  Everything
else is rubbish."  This is a perfect sentiment for our times.

INNOCENCE runs 1:34.  It is not rated but would be R for sexual situations and
nudity and would be acceptable for teenagers.

The film opens in very limited release in the United States on October 26, 2001.
 In the Silicon Valley, it will be showing at the Camera Cinemas.

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"People and Places in Context" Symposium
Publications CV
Highlights from the 2019 Crime Report
Download the 2019 Crime Report
Predicted Crime Rates App
Southern California Crime Report for 2018
Southern California Crime Report 2016
So Cal Crime Study
Egohoods
Latent Class Analysis Fix
Geocoding Crime
Synthetic Estimation
Predicted Crime Rates Application
Southern California Crime Map
Undergrad Opportunities
News to 2017
ILSSC at the American Society of Criminology Meeting 2018
Complete Thematic Panels Sponsored by ILSSC
New Ways to Think about the Temporality of Crime in Communities and Place
http://tinyurl.com/y8yxkk4u
Wed, Nov 14, 9:30 to 10:50am, Marriott, M302, Marquis Level
Chair: Dr. John Hipp Follow @hippdude1
The papers in this panel all explicitly consider the time dimension when considering crime in neighborhoods. The first considers time on a very micro scale, considering how crime in locations varies over the hours of the day. Two other papers consider longer-term change in neighborhoods by taking different approaches: one explicitly measures various types of mobility to assess their relationship with changes in crime, whereas the other takes a bottom-up approach in assessing expected levels of mobility based on the households in a neighborhood, and treating additional mobility as a latent measure of neighborhood change. The final paper takes a very long view of how the relationship between the education level of residents and neighborhood crime has changed over a 40 year period.
Land Use Features, Informal Social Control and Crime: A Longitudinal Study of Neighborhood Dynamics
Jonathan Corcoran, The University of Queensland
Renee Zahnow, The Institute for Social Science Research, The University of Queensland Follow @ReneeZahnow
Anthony Kimpton, The University of Queensland Follow @AnthonyKimpton
Rebecca Wickes, Monash University Follow @rlwickes
Chris Brunsdon, Maynooth University
Well established in criminological scholarship is the way that crime is neither spatially nor temporally uniformly distributed. Rather crime is distributed in a manner that means it is both particular places and particular times that are subject to the majority of crime events. Furthermore we know that crime varies over the course of a day and week, with periods of time the same place can function as a crime generator, a crime attractor or as a crime detractor. What is less evident is the way in which some places 'flip' from a largely crime free space to one that provides the necessary preconditions for crime to occur. In this paper we focus on commercial precincts as the context, given their functional importance in our daily lives providing places of employment, recreation and a locus for social encounters. By spatially integrating crime incident data and census information and employing circular, clustering and spline regression techniques we examine the intensity, tempo and timing of crime in these locales and generate a temporal typology for 2,286 commercial precincts across Queensland, Australia.
A Bottom-up Theory of Neighborhood Change: How Much Change Matters for Crime in Neighborhoods?
John R Hipp, University of California, Irvine Follow @hippdude1
I propose a theory of neighborhood change with three key features. First, the theory uses households and housing units as the fundamental units of analysis for understanding demographic change in neighborhoods. I propose aggregating these households and housing units to egohoods. Second, the theory is based on the key concepts of aging and obsolescence: these concepts are expressed through people, buildings, neighborhoods, cities, and cultural ideas. This concept of aging/obsolescence drives slow change in neighborhoods. Third, these households and housing units (and egohoods) are nested within a larger region, and the growth, stagnation, or decline of that larger region (based on population or economic resources) has direct consequences for mobility patterns and changes in neighborhoods. I demonstrate one implication of this theory in which insights from the demographic literature on residential mobility are used to create an estimate of expected mobility for neighborhoods (defined as egohoods) and then compare this to actual residential mobility to create a measure of unexpected residential mobility. This unexpected mobility is a latent measure of neighborhood effects, and I then assess how it is related to changes in crime for a sample of neighborhoods in Southern California from 2000 to 2010.
Decomposing Neighborhood (In)Stability: The Structural Determinants of Turnover and Implications for Neighborhood Crime
Seth A. Williams, University of California Irvine Follow @heyitsseth
Residential (in)stability remains a key predictor of neighborhood crime as one of the structural antecedents in social disorganization theory. Rooted in the Concentric Zone Model (Burgess 1925), the theory assumes instability or neighborhood turnover is attributable to individual preferences and upward economic mobility. Likewise, a large body of research seeks to understand the role of individual preferences and human capital in shaping patterns of individual mobility, with consequences for neighborhood composition. The present study takes a different approach, and attempts to decompose the oft-relied on metric of residential stability in the Census into its component parts as driven by structural and political-economic factors. These include processes of new development, demolition, forced displacement (via eviction and foreclosure), and property sales. Using data for San Francisco over the 2000-2010 period, the goal of the study is two-fold: First, I attempt to explain the variance in neighborhood turnover across socioeconomic strata and second, I ask whether the effect of neighborhood turnover on crime is general or particular to specific processes. I argue that decomposing instability provides the opportunity for more pointed policy recommendations by locating the exact processes and urban actors implicated in the form and extent of turnover across various neighborhoods.
Educational Attainment and Crime in Neighborhoods over 40 Years
Adam Boessen, University of Missouri – St. Louis
Marisa Omori, University of Miami
Since the 1970's, the number of people with college degrees has increased, and as of 2010, a third of United States now has a college degree. Less clear from this demographic trend are the consequences for neighborhood crime rates over time and space. Research on educational attainment and crime has had mixed results. More educational attainment can be associated with greater inequality and thus leading to more crime, while another approach indicates that more educational attainment can be associated with more social capital, satisfaction with the neighborhood, revitalization, civic engagement, and access to economic resources. All of which indicate that more educational attainment should decrease crime. We employ census tract and violent crime data from 1970-2010 to test how education matters for neighborhoods, and our findings indicate key differences over time and space.
New Directions in Social Disorganization Theory
http://tinyurl.com/y8f448zq
Wed, Nov 14, 2:00 to 3:20pm, Marriott, International 5, International Level
Chair: Charis E. Kubrin, University of California, Irvine Follow @cekubrin
This panel highlights innovative research on neighborhoods and crime. The novel findings from these studies push social disorganization theory in new and interesting directions.
Voluntary Organizations and Neighborhood Crime: A Longitudinal Examination of Organizational Presence, Organizational Resources, and Crime Rates
James Wo, University of Iowa
Crime events are not evenly distributed across a city, rather such events spatially concentrate in a small proportion of neighborhoods. Although the literature on communities and crime has posited that such neighborhoods are characterized by a multitude of social and ecological factors, previous studies typically choose a single factor (e.g., poverty), and then test whether it adversely impacts neighborhood crime, and if so, to what extent. The principal objective of the present study is to therefore identify the social and ecological factors of high-crime and low-crime areas. In particular, we produce models that examine a diversity of neighborhood effects on crime, including some motivated by (classical) social disorganization theory whereas others are inspired by the promise of social media data.
Collective Efficacy, Disorder, and Informal Social Control Perceptions Among Urban Youth
Christopher R Browning, Ohio State University
Paul E. Bellair, The Ohio State University
Catherine A Calder, Ohio State University
Bethany Boettner, Ohio State University
A substantial empirical literature examines the social determinants of crime, revealing that neighborhood collective efficacy exerts a significant constraint on violence. Violent crime, however, is highly uneven, concentrating in a relatively small proportion of street blocks within a larger neighborhood. It is unknown whether levels of collective efficacy correspond with the contours of violence across those locations within neighborhood in theoretically expected ways. We hypothesize that 1) collective efficacy varies at both the neighborhood and location-levels and 2) variability in collective efficacy at the location-level accounts for the differential prevalence of crimes across space within neighborhood. We employ data on over 7,000 routine activity locations reported by Columbus, OH area caregivers from the Adolescent Health and Development in Context study. Using hierarchical Bayesian models, we partition variance in collective efficacy across reporters, locations, and block groups. We then consider the link between location-specific collective efficacy and spatial variability in violent crime within neighborhood using data from the Columbus Division of Police (or the Ohio Division of Public Safety, if available). The findings bear directly on collective efficacy theory, assessing its ability to explain violence at the location-level in terms of variation in trust, cohesion, and informal control of public space.
Reconceptualizing Neighborhood Structure in Social Disorganization Theory
Nicholas Branic, University of California, Irvine Follow @nickbranic
Charis E. Kubrin, University of California, Irvine Follow @cekubrin
Social disorganization theory has emerged as a critical framework for understanding the relationship between community characteristics and crime in urban areas. While social disorganization theory has enjoyed much empirical support over the decades, studies have been limited in how they conceptualize and operationalize the structural antecedents of social disorganization. In particular, studies almost exclusively emphasize the individual impacts of poverty, instability, heterogeneity and other structural characteristics by examining their independent effects on neighborhood crime rates. Here we take a different approach, one that considers how these structural forces combine into unique constellations or patterns that vary across communities, with consequences for crime. Combining crime and Census data for neighborhoods in the Southern California region, we first conducted latent class analysis, which identified nine neighborhood typologies based on community levels of poverty, instability, and heterogeneity. We next used negative binomial regression models to examine the relationships between these neighborhood classes and crime rates. Beyond finding that neighborhoods high in poverty, instability, and heterogeneity – i.e., 'classic' socially disorganized neighborhoods – are associated with higher crime rates, as predicted by the theory, we find that other neighborhood classes are (differentially) associated with crime rates. We consider the implications of these findings for social disorganization theory.
Policing, Offenders, Victims, and the Spatial Distribution of Crime
http://tinyurl.com/ybgy9aoc
Thu, Nov 15, 9:30 to 10:50am, Marriott, M104, Marquis Level
The papers in this panel link the spatial patterns of offenders, targets, and the police. One paper considers arrest rates by race across neighborhoods for less serious crimes as a measure of police discretion. A second paper shows how targeting hot spots of crime can disproportionately impact minority communities. A third paper considers the spatial patterns of victims of crime events, and the extent to which they are victimized in locations similar to where they live. The final paper simultaneously considers the spatial patterns of offenders, targets, and the crime location to explore these victim/offender crime triangles.
Drunk, Drugged, and Disorderly: Examining Neighborhood Non-violent Arrest Rates Across Race/Ethnicity
Alyssa Chamberlain, Arizona State University Follow @awchamberlain
Lyndsay N. Boggess, University of South Florida
Research examining neighborhood structure, race, and crime focuses predominantly on UCR Part 1 violent and serious property crimes. Less research assesses neighborhoods and Part 2 crimes, such as public drunkenness, drugs, or disorderly conduct. Law enforcement exercises more discretion policing these "lower level" crimes, which may result in differential arrests across racial/ethnic groups net of neighborhood conditions. In this study, we control for economic inequality and neighborhood demographic and structural characteristics, to examine arrest rates for non-Hispanic White, Black, and Hispanic men over a six year period in a small representative city in the south.
How Far to Victimization? Individual and Neighborhood Characteristics of "Residence-to-Crime" Distances
Kevin Pedraza University of California, Irvine
Christopher Jay Bates, University of California, Irvine Follow @chrisjbates
Routine activities theory asserts crime is the convergence of both a victim and offender. Risk of victimization shift as victims conduct their routines activities. The "journey to crime" literature reveals variation in distance offender's travel to their crime location based on the offense type, individual factors, and neighborhood characteristics. However, despite "fear of crime" victimization contributing to how individual's structure their daily mobility, less is understood about the "journey to crime" from the victim's perspective. The current study utilizes a novel open-source dataset to examine how crime type, individual factors, and neighborhood characteristics contribute to the "residence-to-crime" distance for victims in a single municipality. The current exploratory study explores how crime type, individual factors, neighborhood characteristics explain the variation on the "residence-to-crime" distance. The implications for how an individual's "fear of crime" informs their routine activity patterns based on these variations in "residence-to-crime" victimizations are discussed.
"Residence-to-Crime" Convergence: An Analysis of Victim-Offender Mobility Triangles
Routine activities theory asserts crime is the convergence of both a victim and offender. Risk of victimization and awareness of crime opportunities shift as both victims and offenders conduct their routines activities. The "journey to crime" literature reveals variation in distance offender's travel to their crime location based on the offense type, individual factors, and neighborhood characteristics. Andresen, Felson, & Frank (2012) expand the "journey to crime" literature by developing the mobility triangle, incorporating the offender's home location, the victim's home location, and the crime incident location. The current study utilizes a novel open-source dataset to examine how crime type, individual factors, and neighborhood characteristics contribute to the shape of victim-offender mobility triangles in a single municipality. We further extend Ackerman and Rossmo's (2014) work by examining the individual and neighborhood factors that explain variation in "residence-to-crime" distances for both victims and offenders simultaneously. The implications for crime control are discussed based on the variations in victim-offender mobility triangles.
Exploring the Intersection of Race and Class and the Consequences for Crime in Neighborhoods
http://tinyurl.com/ybhp3xp2
Fri, Nov 16, 9:30 to 10:50am, Marriott, M101, Marquis Level
The papers in this panel explore race and class within neighborhoods. One paper explores the crime patterns in middle class Black neighborhoods over a large sample of neighborhoods. Two others focus closely on specific neighborhoods: one views the evolution of crime within master planned communities whereas the other focuses on racial crime and the development of "community" in Sikh neighborhoods. The final paper explores the determinants of inter-group violence within neighborhoods in Los Angeles over an 8 year period.
Claire Greene, University of Missouri – St. Louis
In The Truly Disadvantaged, William Julius Wilson (1987) argues that, due to black middle class out-migration, today's black urban neighborhoods comprise almost exclusively of the most disadvantaged segments of the African American population, and therefore lack the basic opportunities, resources, and social controls necessary to reduce crime. In this paper, I revisit these arguments by examining the relationship between the black middle class, neighborhood race-ethnic composition, and crime across a diverse set of cities using data from the National Neighborhood Crime Study (NNCS). The results presented here demonstrate that many black middle class families do reside in the urban core, and that most of these households are located in predominately black neighborhoods. Moreover, I find that the black middle class is "protective" against crime in black, Latino and mixed neighborhoods, but not in white neighborhoods. Overall, this study highlights the need to further contextualize the neighborhood conditions of the black middle class in contemporary urban America.
Crime and Disorder in Master Planned Communities
Since 2005, the Australian Community Capacity Study has followed three master planned communities (MPC) located in new growth corridors in Brisbane, Australia. In this study we consider the "birth" of crime in one of these communities in particular. Using crime incident data and ABS census data we assess changes in crime rates from the initial development of the community to its current established form. Specifically we focus on changes in the socio-demographic conditions and the regulatory mechanisms associated with the prevention of crime over time. Additionally, we draw on our case study data to examine how crime control might differ in master planned communities when compared to demographically similar suburbs. We also discuss strategies used by residents in MPCs to understand crime in their community when the "safe" identity of the master planned community is threatened.
Spatial Analysis of the Sikh Community
Navjyot K. Gill, University of California, Irvine
As a part of the Sikh diaspora, today approximately 500,000 Sikhs live in the United States and have created spaces and traditions that resemble the Punjab, including the establishment of gurudwaras (place of worship) and a cultural tradition of playing cards in the neighborhood park. In areas with a concentration of Sikhs, such as the Central Valley in California, Sikhs' local neighborhoods resemble a "pind" (a village) and gaavand, which is a vibrant, social neighborhood in Punjab. This research examines how the Sikh community forms public and private spaces that mirror spheres from the Punjab. Additionally, this research dissects the effects of discrimination and hate crimes against Sikhs after the September 11 terrorist attacks, especially on these public and private spaces. By conducting a case study on Bakersfield, California, which is two hours north of Los Angeles, this research dissects how these spaces have changed over time, as the Sikh population in the United States increased.
Fear and the Formation of Collective Efficacy
Benjamin J. Forthun, University of California, Irvine
While research typically finds that immigrants are less likely to offend than the native born, few studies have examined the relationship between immigration and intra- and inter-group violence. Given the challenge of specifying the proper geographic unit for assessing inter-group violence, we use egohoods given that their spatially explicit measurement minimizes the boundary problems encountered with typical administrative units. Furthermore, we move beyond cross-sectional analyses to focus on how the change in immigration inflow is related to intra- and inter-group violence over an 8-year period from 2000-07. This project combines offender and victim data with census measures to examine changes in intra- and inter-group violence for egohoods in the city of Los Angeles. We focus particularly on specific immigrant groups to create race-specific measures of immigration. We assess the extent to which immigrants from particular racial/ethnic groups moderate the observed relationships between neighborhood structural characteristics (including within- and across-group inequality) and intra- and inter-group violence over the study period.
Measuring "Neighborhood" when Assessing the Spatial Patterns of Crime
Fri, Nov 16, 12:30 to 1:50pm, Marriott, M106, Marquis Level
The papers in this panel all take seriously the question of how to measure the "neighborhood" and its interlinkage with the broader community. One paper considers the role of private versus public space in fostering social cohesion. Two of the papers consider how to measure "neighborhood" and assess the relationship of their units with levels of crime: one proposes using the street network to construct "street egohoods", whereas the other utilizes Grannis' notion of t-communities with a more accurate implementation of the construct. The final paper explicitly considers how the spatial patterns of residents results in spatial linkages between neighborhoods and consequences for crime.
Public space is contested space – owned by everybody, yet the responsibility of none. This can impact place guardianship, generate crime, and cause residents to retreat into the private realm that consequently decreases neighborhood social cohesion. By abandoning public space, neighbors have fewer opportunities to challenge stereotypes of strangers and form parochial social ties that may be important for crime prevention. As public space continues to decrease, in this paper we explore whether the expansion of private realms alter the urban social fabric by substituting chance social encounters to those that occur by invitation only. Drawing on social survey, census, cadastral data, and unique 0.34m (1') resolution remote sensing data, originally collected for capturing Australia's more furry suburban residents: the koala, we explore how public and private space influence social cohesion, perceived and actual crime. Our findings suggest that a preference for suburban housing and private yards has a significantly reduces social cohesion, and ultimately the social sustainability of urban neighborhoods.
Young-an KimUniversity of California, Irvine
We propose a concept of street egohood as a new perspective of measuring neighborhood based on urban streets. We used the street segment as a base unit and employed two strategies in clustering the street segments: (1) based on the First Order Queen Contiguity; and (2) based on the street network distance considering physical barriers. We utilized our approaches for measuring ecological factors and estimated crime rates in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. We found that whereas certain socio-demographics, land use, and business employee measures show stronger relationships with crime when measured at the smaller street based unit, a number of them actually exhibited stronger relationships when measured using our larger street egohoods. A primary contribution of the current study is to develop and propose a new perspective of measuring neighborhood based on urban streets. We hope future research can use egohoods to expand understanding of neighborhoods and crime.
Crime Patterns in T-communities
Hwawon Seo, University of California, Irvine
Current neighborhood-based crime research typically relies on the geographic area defined by the Census Bureau or other administrative agencies to define neighborhood boundaries. However, critics have long contended census-defined boundaries imperfectly operationalize neighborhoods. At the same time, sociologists emphasize the primacy of community life occurring on small, pedestrian streets. In light of these points, the current study builds on Grannis' (1998) definition of neighborhood: t-communities, which are defined by their internal access via pedestrian streets. This study utilizes Grannis' concept, but utilizes a more appropriate measure of these street boundaries to obtain more accurate measures of t-communities. While Grannis (2005) examined levels of racial homogeneity within t-communities, this study analyzes crime patterns within and outside of t-communities in Orange County, California.
Extra-local Ties, Bridging Social Capital, and Neighborhood Safety
Corina Graif,Pennsylvania State University
Rebecca Bucci,Pennsylvania State University
A great deal of work exists on the effects of neighborhood conditions on local safety but less is known about the role of extra-local conditions. Yet, to the extent that residents spend time outside their home neighborhoods, extra-local exposures to risks and resources may affect local safety independently of local conditions. The current study assesses the connection between different types of extra-local ties (bridging capital) and local safety based on a representative sample of households in Los Angeles County. It measures ties between neighborhoods based on respondents' reports of routine mobility across space for a range of activities, such as grocery shopping, commuting to work, attending church services, or using health services. Preliminary findings suggest that neighborhood safety is related to conditions in the extra-local neighborhoods where residents engage in routine activities. This connection is robust to multiple socio-demographic controls and seems to be better explained through effects on collective socialization mechanisms (bonding social capital) than through residents' experience of crime. The findings suggest that our collective understanding of communities and crime will greatly benefit from extending the predominant focus on local processes to incorporate a complementary focus on extra-local processes; from a focus on bonding capital to bridging capital.
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Shocking video! Lutheran college runs with Luther's "sin boldly" statement — Gustavus Adolphus teaches sex-in-dorm etiquette
On October 7, 2010 By Jeff FenskeIn 'Church' is the Cause of the Crash, Luther Didn't Get ItLeave a comment
"And we're the sex pistols.
Welcome Class of 2014."
Martin Luther: Sin Boldly — "No sin can separate us from Him, even if we were to kill or commit adultery thousands of times each day"
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Church college teaches sex-in-dorm etiquette
Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minn., proclaims on its website that it is "a church-related, residential liberal arts college firmly rooted in its Swedish and Lutheran heritage" and its core values are excellence, community, justice, service and faith.
But one senior is wondering just where in those values he can fit a presentation to incoming freshmen that introduces them to the etiquette of having sex in dorm rooms without being interrupted by roommates and a "lesbian" who proclaims, "I like sex. No, I love sex" and tells students, "I am normal."
The issue has been raised by student Phil Cleary on his Gustavus.campusreform.org website, where he has posted several videos captured at the 2010 orientation for freshman in the class of 2014.
The videos reveal promotions for the homosexual lifestyle: "Follow along and listen quite clear to learn of the wonderful world of the queer."
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The presentation, performed as a series of skits on a stage in a darkened auditorium, explains that "sex" and "gender" are not the same. It includes another character who proclaims, "My atheism is my most important characteristic."
Gustavus, the website states, is "a community where a mature understanding of the Christian faith and lives of service are nurtured and students are encouraged to work toward a just and peaceful world." …
Cleary said he was "traumatized" by the sexually explicit presentation in his freshman year.
"I decided to come back as a senior to get it on tape," he told WND.
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The July 7 bombers made a four-hour dummy run to London nine days before their attacks in which they visited a number of different targets, the inquest into their victims has heard.
Mohammed Sidique Khan and Shehzad Tanweer drove from Leeds to Luton where they met Jermaine Lindsay who had driven from his home in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire.
Hasib Hussain, the youngest of the bombers, did not join them, but the other three terrorists met at a telephone box outside the station.
They were dressed in similar casual clothing to the day of their attacks but only Sidique Khan and Lindsay were carrying rucksacks.
The men boarded the 8.20am train heading for London, an hour later than the train they boarded on July 7, and arrived at Kings Cross Thameslink at 8.52am.
"They acted completely natural, from my perspective," Det Insp Ewan Kindness, who examined the CCTV footage, told the inquest.
On arriving at Embankment Station, beside the Thames, at 9.49am, the men had a discussion at the ticket barrier before leaving the station for 13 minutes.
They then returned and caught the Circle Line to South Kensington where they changed to the Piccadilly Line at around 10.30am.
They were picked up by CCTV again at Baker Street and returned to King's Cross at 12.50pm.
The trip suggests they were considering different targets and may have set off their bombs at Edgware Road, Aldgate and King's Cross because their train into London was delayed as a result of problems with overhead cables.
The fourth bomb went off on the number 30 bus when Hasib Hussain had problems with his device and had to buy a new battery.


The Babylonian Code of Hammurabi was not merely a list of laws and their applicable punishments; it also dictated a wide variety of labour market regulations and price controls.
'If a man hire a field-labourer, he shall give him eight gur of corn per annum'. Herdsmen were less valued, only receiving six gur of corn per annum. To hire a 60-ton boat for a day, a 'sixth part of a shekel of silver'. These measures so weakened the Babylonian economy that they helped bring down the empire.
Forty Centuries of Wage and Price Controls by Robert Schuettinger and Eamon Butler was published in 1979 by the Heritage Foundation, in part to illustrate the folly of the policies that were being enacted in the political and economic turmoil of the Nixon–Carter years.
Perhaps this is too harsh on Hammurabi. After all, he does look a touch like Father Christmas. And it is hard to blame the ancient world for not possessing the wisdom of Adam Smith, although Nixon and Carter should have. Hammurabi instituted his political economy in an era when there were no political economists — governing the first civilization was governing in a world bereft of theoretical and ideological justifications for policy.
Even thousands of years after it was clear that the economic controls detailed in the Code of Hammurabi were self-destructive, governments practise the same flawed policies around the world. In this issue of the IPA Review, Erik Gartzke looks at the often-repeated claims of 'democratic peace', and finds them wanting (p12). He concludes that, instead, economic freedom is correlated much more closely with peace. This makes sense. Economic freedom, with its immeasurable benefits for the work and leisure of citizens, eases political pressure on governments — pressure which so often manifests itself as internal or external violence.
Looking at Africa in this context is instructive. In the pre-colonial era, free trade and free enterprise flourished — price and wage controls had no place in the continent – wide trade routes that characterised inter-tribal relations. Socialism and government regulation don't exist in the African tradition. But nonetheless the continent has been cursed for more than a century with archaic price and wage controls. 'Trade not aid' is a slogan often bandied about, but it is clear that economic freedom — policies enacted in the countries themselves—is the only solution to the African 'problem'. The path to economic freedom is rocky. Thankfully, as Nicholas McGowen details in this issue, there is an optimistic case for Africa.
This December issue is full of provocative articles. Looking at the recent revival of Bill of Rights advocacy, Rohan D'Souza asks whether more laws make more freedom. David Tribe takes a long view of biotechnology in agriculture—taking the great transition slowly just isn't an option, let alone trying to reverse it, as much government policy seems to desire. Alan Moran reminds us why football is an interna-tional game, and the AFL is stuck in Australia. Federalism continues to be a focus, as Gerard Boyce examines the distorted and dangerous workplace safety regimes around the country. And Daniel Mandel uncovers what Trafalgar means to the Anglosphere today.
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THe english and the Germans have a long history which goes back many centuries. Despite a fraught 20th century, the British royal family have a long history of marrying into German royalty, and vice versa. This is so prevalent that the real surname of the current royal family is Saxe Coburg and Gotha. Due to the events of the First World War, King George V changed the royal family's name to the House of Windsor.
If you look at our tastes, personalities and influences, the British and the Germans aren't that different, and if you look around London, you're bound to see some German influenced landmarks and sites. Whether you're staying for a luxury weekend at the hotels in Shoreditch or your a German doing a spot of British interrailing, there's plenty of exciting things to see with German influences in London.
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Based in Bloomsbury, the German Historical Institute is a research centre in Bloomsbury which is dedicated to the research and preservation of German history in the UK. with so much influence culturally on London, it's not surprising that this facility can be found in the embassy heart of the city. With annual talks, q and a's and other German based events taking place at the GHI, you can be sure to find an absorbing visit, whether to take part in events or to do some research of your own.
Prolific artist Joseph Beuys has an exhibition from the beginning of June and into July which gives you a look into his major influences. In the Thaddeus Ropac in Mayfair, you can explore the story of this highly influential artist, who as myth has led us to believe, was a world war two pilot who crashed in the Crimea and was saved by a nomadic tribe. Since then his art has been made with materials that he was saved with, felt, fat and electricity.
Whilst Beuy's work deals with the 20th century past of Germany and the darkness within, Katharina Grosse's upcoming exhibition is an absorbing exploration of chromatic colour explosions and entire walls made of paint, creating new landscapes and abstract eye soothers.
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With German draft beer and dinners served German style, the Bavarian Beerhouse is one of the most genuine German dining experiences in London. With a real traditional German atmosphere and friendly staff, the Bavarian Beerhouse is a must, even if just for nostalgic purposes.
German Deli at Borough Market
From beerhall's to food markets, the German Deli is well known for being one of the tastiest street food stalls in Borough Market. First off, you can smell it for miles, the sizzling waft of German sausage is as a mouthwatering as the sauerkraut it's served with. With so much on offer already at the tantalising market, the German Deli, professionally run by passionate chefs, this is a great treat in an historic part of the city, giving you ample opportunity to taste some wholesome and delicious German food.
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The 'N' Word
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The word 'nigger' is really a slang word of negro, which has its own negative and pejorative connotations. 'Nigger' is one of the most pernicious and destructive words that we have ever been influenced to call ourselves.
This is because of its association with the trans-Atlantic enslavement of Africans by Europeans. In England, slave traders like Drake and Raleigh, used the word to describe their cargo, and it is therefore linked with the dehumanisation process of Africans, especially those from west Africa. (It replaced the term moor and blackamoor.) It retained its stigma, throughout the Jim Crow years and was spat at victims of lynchings, as they burned alive.
Through the spread of American idioms during both world wars: in film, music and fashion, 'nigger' spread to some of the remotest places in the world. But it was always an insult. At school, it was the one word uttered by a white person, to a black, that would be guaranteed to start a fight.
The 'acceptability' of the word came through gangsta rap, and the ushering in of the urban, ghetto culture. Along with pimp, hoe, dawg, gangsta, and bitch, "nigger" (or "nigga") became an 'acceptable' word on street corners. But words have power, since they conjure up images, meaning and thoughts.
The stain and pain of this word is indelibly etched, whenever and wherever anyone utters: even as some of us, through our own hatred of ourselves, happily label ourselves with the crippling chains of enslavement.
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SAN FRANCISCO - Certain San Franciscans regard Harding Park Golf Course with such reverence that any criticism is decried as blasphemy. Well, here's blasphemy.
Harding Park's renovation is nice. Maybe even worth the $16 million it took (if it's not your $16 million, it's always worth it, right?). Nevertheless, this course is getting seriously overrated.
Once again, it's a nice, interesting play made more so by its standing in San Francisco. But to call it the third-best muni in the country behind New York's Bethpage Black and San Diego's Torrey Pines, as some publications have done, qualifies as pure fanciful lunacy.
This ranks as the equivalent of declaring Ashton Kutcher the next James Dean. Kutcher may make a few teenage girls (and Demi Moore) swoon, and he's funny pranking mostly C-list celebrities, but let's keep things in perspective.
That is what's missing in the wake of Harding Park's very public, relentlessly promoted revamp: perspective.
The favored child of the San Francisco city municipal golf scene, Harding Park's been open for about 21 months since the redesign. That's more than long enough to see the praise campaign hit hyper-drive.
Harding Park's received the kind of press, new popes and old prime ministers only dream about.
It's one thing for former San Francisco mayor Willie Brown, a noted master of exaggeration, to crow, "It's the finest municipal course in the land." It's quite another for a string of national golf publications to blindly follow Slick Willie's lead. Golf Digest's Ron Whitten used the words "resurrection, revival, restoration and renovation" so often in his gushing tribute, that I thought he'd stumbled into a screening of NBC's "Revelations" rather than a golf course.
It's exactly that kind of thing that sets Harding Park up for failure.
If you happened upon this course with large, well-tended greens and a few truly riveting holes on the back nine for $78 in San Francisco, you'd think you had a great find. After all, it's expensive to simply breathe in San Francisco as a tourist. (That will be an $8 tax for use of city oxygen, please!) Only the problem is Harding Park will never be a neat discovery, its renovation hype guaranteeing it will be held up as the best of the best.
And in this light, Harding Park comes up short.
It's no Bethpage Black. It's no Torrey Pines. In truth, it isn't even the equal of its maintenance-challenged sister San Fran muni Lincoln Park. If you took Lincoln, with its majestic views of the Golden Gate Bridge and the boats in the water and removed all the white dandelions burying its fairways, you'd have a wonder greater than Harding Park at its best.
Just don't say that around certain San Franciscans. They're likely to break into stories of how their daddy played Harding Park and their granddaddy played Harding Park before that and someday their granddaughter's going to play Harding.
"Harding Park is San Francisco," local Rich D'Nunzio said. "It's San Francisco right down to the roots of the cypress trees.
That's all well and good, but it's no reason for visitors to pay the more than double non-resident greens fee ($33 for locals). Attracting out-of-towners stands at the heart of Harding Park's plan of paying off its loans. Under the vision of Kemper Sports Management, the company running the course for the city, tourist golfers will make up 35 percent of Harding Park's players.
It's worthwhile to be part of this 35 percent. As long as you don't go in expecting a course for the ages, you'll be impressed with Harding Park. Especially the back nine.
Harding eases you into the round, makes sure you're warm and comfortable before hitting with the real tests. At No. 14, a 440-yard par 4, you shoot down into the fairway and then back up to a raised green. It's like playing golf in a chute, with all kinds of chances for trouble.
The biggest changes in the renovation come in the size of the greens. There's plenty of room now, plenty of opportunity to tinker with pin placement when the pros arrive here for the 2005 World Golf American Express Championship in October.
The possibility of landing this AM-EX tourney and other major golf events in San Francisco drove the $16 million spruce up. There's talk of hosting a U.S. Women's Open and rather far-fetched talk of a men's U.S. Open. All of this, fueling the dreams of politicians.
"Are you one of those guys who's going to write how great our course is now that it's too crowded to play it?" golfer John Reece said. "Look at this place."
Yes, there are practical disadvantages to hype gone wild. Harding Park is even more crowded than before and some veteran San Francisco golfers wondered if that was even possible. This is a round where it's best to bring your patience right along with your sand wedge.
You could have plenty of opportunity to soak in the views of Lake Merced that seem to be available on every hole of the back nine.
There are also complaints of the greens being spotty - good one week, so-so the next. People expect a lot for $16 million and there's worry the course will only be in really top shape when the major events roll around. That's forgetting where Harding Park came from though, losing sight of what it's all about.
This is still a muni course for the city and if you can't deal with a few hackers who are just learning their way into golf, you should be playing somewhere else. Golfers who keep the right attitude will be rewarded like usual when they reach the 18th tee.
The redesign moves the green back to the old practice green and the added yardage makes for a very demanding hole indeed. At 440 yards from the back tees, the dogleg left is visually intimidating, with the Lake Merced and cypress trees just daring fools to swing too bold.
It's an exhilarating finish to a satisfying course. Just not a course equal to some of the recent ridiculous claims.
Planning a trip to San Francisco just to play Harding Park the way some golfers plan a trip just to Long Island to play Bethpage Black or San Diego to play Torrey Pines is not likely to become a trend anytime soon. Despite the hype, Harding Park is not worthy of that kind of travel arranging fawning.
But if you find yourself in San Francisco, by all means play Harding Park. Play Lincoln Park too, even with its dandelions and tattered fairways, but work in Harding. It's an interesting course with plenty of history.
One of the best things about it is how it seems to be made for walking. There's nothing like getting out on Harding with a few buddies, hauling your own bags, and soaking up the San Fran air.
One of the bonuses of Harding Park is that you know you're in San Francisco when you play here. It's not a cookie-cutter resort course cut off with all contact from the city. On some of the holes you can see out onto the distinctive city architecture.
This is a fun course, full of life. You just wish it didn't carry the burden of its pumped-up press clippings. Apparently, $16 million can drive a lot of people to hyperbole.
There are much worse ways to start or finish a day than walking into the old ferry building along the pier and taking in the bustling, buzzing city market. You can get all types of fresh fruits and exotic cheeses here, more than enough to stock up for your own picnic along the water.
For those looking for an indoor sit-down meal, there's a very popular wine bar and other restaurants. Avoid the seafood shop though. Its New England clam chowder makes some chain restaurants' versions look good. And the fish and chips aren't much better.
For some of the best dim sum in the country, hit Yank Sing ((415) 957-9300) on Spear St. and Mission. The small dishes wheeled along the room on carts and chosen at your whim make you realize why people have been love with the dim sum experience for generations. The pork buns are particularly tasty.
The Omni ((415) 677-9494) in the financial district provides some shrunken rates (for San Francisco) for some super-sized rooms (for San Francisco). The hotel staff couldn't be friendlier with offering suggestions on places to eat.
Pay particular attention to their low-key hamburger joint recommendations. Just avoiding getting suckered into the $45 valet parking charge (there's a garage you can use right next door for $28 per day).
If you're into the price-is-no-object thing, the Campton Place Hotel ((415) 955-5536) and its $345 rooms is the place to be. Having undergone an extensive $15 million renovation three years ago, this 110-room boutique hotel specializes in luxury and a personal service level you cannot find in even the nicer, larger, chain hotels.
Sandy Tatum, the former United States Golf Association President and San Francisco fixture, led the renovation drive.
I enjoyed Harding on a recent trip, but I thought Presidio Golf Club was slightly better. Some great views and excellent golf course. As far as Lincoln goes, it's a disgrace to have such a beautiful site in such poor condition. What are the powers-that-be thinking? Millions of dollars could be made there!
I find it unbelievable that you think Lincoln Park Golf Course is in the same league with Harding Park. Lincoln plays like an executive track relative to Harding. Yes, there are some spectacular views at Lincoln, (17th hole looking at the GG Bridge) however Harding is much more visually appealing from a players eye. It is obvious that you have not spent much time really learning the course (s) and doing your homework on these two layouts. I respect your right to be so opinionated (mostly negative) on different subjects, however in this instance you cannot back it up. Did you even play these courses more than once, or at all?
Are you the same Ed Roseborough that grew up in Park Merced from 1958 to 1962?
If so, drop me an e-mail because we have a lot of catching up to do!
Th only great golf course by Lake Mercid is SFGC. But alas, mere mortals can't partake. However, we in Chicago aren't underserved. With muni (defined as government entity owned, public courses) offerings like George Dunn (Forest Preserve) National or the 36-hole Harborside International (Illinois International Port District) why go to the coasts?
I'd count Olympic Lakeside (Lake Merced!) as "nearby" and certainly a great course. SFGC is a true gem but as difficult to get on as Augusta or Pine Valley.
"Fanciful Lunacy" comparing Harding to Bethpage Black, but every bit as much Fanciful Lunacy to put Torrey Pines in a class with Bethpage Black!


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Luna Park est une émission de télévision hebdomadaire, consacrée à l'actualité du jeu vidéo et diffusée sur la RTBF de septembre 1993 à 1996. Elle était présentée par Sam Touzani, accompagné par un visage virtuel nommé Maniak.

Principe

Récompenses
 Prix de la meilleure émission pour jeunes "Europa Tv", Saint-Marin, 1994.

Notes et références

Émission de télévision produite en Belgique
Émission diffusée sur RTBF1
Émission de télévision vidéoludique
Émission de télévision créée en 1993
Émission de télévision disparue en 1996


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Daily Quiz 05 April
Posted bybritneyhaddad1	 April 4, 2020 April 4, 2020 Leave a comment on Daily Quiz 05 April
What was the name of Elvis Presley's wife?
Martha Presley
Portia Presley
Correct! Wrong!
Who played Dr. Strangelove (and several other characters) in the 1964 hit film Dr. Strangelove?
Mathew West
What was the top grossing film of the 1970's?
Star Wars Episode IV - A New Hope
What was the name of the main character played by Tim Burton in the 1975 hit musical 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show'?
Dr. Frank-N-Furter
Brad Majors
What was the name of John Travolta's crew in the movie 'Grease'?
The T-Birds
The Thundercats
The Cougars
The Wildcats
Who is the lead singer of U2?
What was the name of Elton John's latest tour?
An evening with Elton John
All the hits tour
Anniversary of the Rocket Man
Farewell Yellow Brick Road
What was Marilyn Monroe's birth name?
Hillary Westminster
Norma Jeane Mortenson
What was the name of Madonna's debut album?
Who was not a member of the Rat Pack?
What amendment to the U.S. constitution ended prohibition?
The 5th
The 21st
Who became Premier of Cuba in 1959?
Carlos Acosta
Where did Napoleon Bonaparte die in Exile?
What were the Roaring Twenties known for?
The invention of the Telephone
The introduction of sailboat racing
Jazz and Speakeasies
In what year was President John F. Kennedy assassinated?
Where was the first newspaper in the world started?
Who is known as the 'Man of blood and iron'?
Which is considered the oldest civilization in the world?
The 'Young Italy' movement was led by two revolutionaries, one was "Mazzini" and the other was __________?
Which of the following is known as the 'gift of the Nile'?
'Honolulu' means _____________?
Pretty Island
Vast Ocean
Long Grass
The Ionian and Cyclades are island groups of which country?
What is the capital of Turkey?
Instanbul
You can see the Great Wall of China from space.
The United States would fit into the continent of ____________ three and a half times?
What is the capital of the Philippines?
Which Ocean lies on the East Coast of the United States?
What is the largest country in the world (by area)?
Which of the following countries does NOT have a population exceeding 200 million?
Which of the following is NOT a capital of South Africa?
Who did the Black Caps lose to in the final of the 2019 Cricket World Cup?
What Super Rugby team does star first five Beauden Barrett play for?
In what year did Tiger Woods win his last Masters event?
How long has tennis great Roger Federer been in the top 10 ranked players in the world?
Where in the world was Field Hockey invented?
Who is the current world number 1 golfer?
John Rahm
What is the national sport of Japan?
Which Formula 1 team does Lewis Hamilton currently race for?
Which chess piece can only move diagonally?
How many years old are horses that are run in the Kentucky Derby?
What is the name of the Norse god of light & peace?
Ragar
What is the scientific name for quicksilver?
What was the first day of the Roman month called?
The Kalends
What did Alexander Graham Bell invent?
The Bicycle
What is the unit of currency in Laos?
What is a Violoncello usually called?
5:45 pm in military time is how many hours?
Alfred Schneider became famous as who?
What was the original name for Halloween?
Hogmany
What is the action of burning the skin to stop the flow of blood called?
Clotting
Try again next time!
Close enough!
You're a genius!


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Gaston actor orders woman to leave after she 'touches him inappropriately at Disney park'
The lady in question felt up the man playing Gaston from the iconic flick Beauty and the Beast
David KentDigital Reporter
A woman was asked to leave a Disney park after allegedly inappropriately touching one of the actors.
The lady in question allegedly felt up the man playing Gaston from the iconic flick Beauty and the Beast.
In a clip, which appeared on Reddit earlier this week, the woman could be seen attempting to pose for a picture with Gaston when she cheekily placed both her hands on his chest – which left the actor furious.
Gaston ordered the woman to leave, but at first it was unclear whether he was being serious or just playing his part as a Disney actor.
After all, he does try and harm the aforementioned Beast in the classic film.
Pointing away from the set, he told her: "Get out. Now. Leave!"
The woman then tried to touch him again, but Gaston stopped her and continued to ask her to leave.
She then said: "Really?"
And Gaston replied: "Yeah, you're done. There's children here!"
The actor kept his cool but was stern with the woman
The video was posted into the WatchPeopleDieInside reddit on Monday and has already racked up thousands of comments since.
One person agreed that the actor had done the right thing, saying "Gaston provided a stern but appropriate response…..this woman could be banned from the parks for trying it and usually a character has an accompanying cast member that can report park guest misconduct. Remember its Disneyland/World not Chippendales!"
Another added: "I have a great Gaston story. I was flexing right in front of him and he said "Small world is that way -->". I got roasted and over-cooked."
While a third pondered: "I wonder what she was doing before this clip even started? He already seemed annoyed and it must've been noticeable enough to trigger someone to video and share it."
A fourth chimed in with: "I'm really proud of that guy. the fact that he took it very serious and even said there are children here. classy Gaston is my favourite Gaston."
Pregnant Stacey Solomon 'hoping to have fifth child' after saying this baby will be last
The Script's Danny O'Donoghue says 'I'm super in love' as he lifts lid on life with secret girlfriend
Disney Resort
EuromillionsEuroMillions results: Location of mega €66m win confirmed as Irish prizes listedThe numbers called in the main draw were: 7, 12, 19, 33, 43, and the lucky stars 3 and 7
Man stabbed his former boss because he believed he was responsible for murder of Michaela McAreavey
The man's former employer survived despite suffering 19 stab wounds
Government gives green light to plans for childminders in the home to be paid as part of State support
This will pave the way for the introduction of appropriate and proportionate childminder-specific regulations


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University of New England to freeze pay to minimize hikes
Business_Finance
By Associated Press - Thursday, April 18, 2019
BIDDEFORD, Maine (AP) - The University of New England says it will freeze employee salaries to minimize further tuition hikes.
The Portland Press Herald reports that the University of New England aims to increase its tuition by 3 percent or below this fall.
The university currently charges $36,300 for tuition alone - up over 10 percent since 2015.
Employees at the university received average pay hikes of 3 percent in 2017 and 2018.
Employees received a 1.6 average pay raise in the current fiscal year.
UNE Vice President for Finance and Administration Nicole Trufant tells Maine Public the savings from the freeze will be about $700,000 or $800,000.
UNE has roughly 4,100 on-campus students and 2,250 online students. The university's over 1,300 employees include about 570 faculty members.


It is quite challenging to work with kids. So, naturally, I had a lot of questions on my mind when I agreed to take photos of a 1 yr old and 3 yr kid. Contrary to all my thoughts, it was super fun to work with my youngest models.
When I started my photoshoot, it took some time for the kids to be comfortable around the camera. But soon, they were pros and it was just super fun clicking their photos. The best part for me was the innocence on their faces. As a bonus, I got to spend the day interacting with April and Emil. They are super nice people and I had a great photo shoot.
If you are a photographer and never tried kids photography, I definitely recommend it.


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Q: Javascript links made by php in Firefox I'm working on a script and it works fine in IE and Chrome, but the links do not work in Firefox.
Basically I am using php to query a database and generate some links inside the page.
Example of the relevant link code:
<TD class="bodycopyblue"
    onmouseover="this.style.background='#FFFF80';this.style.cursor='pointer'"
    onmouseout="this.style.background='#FFFFFF'"
    onclick="getAccountDetails(<?php print $accountinfo['audio_account_id']; ?>)"
>view CDRs

The onmouseover/out code works fine. The onclick doesn't seem to be.
The function the link calls:
function getAccountDetails(account_id) {

    accountform.aid.value=account_id;
    accountform.submit();
}

Which is submitting a form:
<FORM id="accountform"
    action="accountdetails.php?month=<?php print $cdate['mon']; ?>&year=<?php print $cdate['year']; ?>"
    method="post">
<INPUT id="aid" name="aid" type="hidden" value=0>
</FORM>

The Form doesn't seem to be showing up correctly... but it's a simple form with a single hidden field. Posted using a link generated by some php.
I installed firebug, but either from my ignorance of its operation or nothing being wrong, it reports no errors.

A: What is the resulting HTML that's generated? Do a "view source" in Firefox and paste your code into the question. You will most likely see malformed HTML.

A: try
function getAccountDetails(account_id) {

        document.getElementById('aid').value=account_id;
        accountform.submit();
}

A: Firebug 1.4 and FF 3.5 work a little tricky, you need to open Firebug's console (F12, or click the Firebug icon in the lower right) and then reload the page with the console open. Click on the "Console" tab once your Firebug window is open, maybe it will show you an error.
My only other suggestion is to add a semilcolon after your JS statement.
onclick="getAccountDetails(<?php print $accountinfo['audio_account_id']; ?>);"

Firefox is usually very forgiving though--it's odd that it works in the other browsers and not FF. As a final test, take out the mouseover and mouseout events and just leave the onclick and see if it works by itself.

A: function getAccountDetails(account_id) {
    accountform.aid.value=account_id;
    accountform.submit();
}

What's accountform? If you've not done a var accountform= ... anywhere you won't get any variable with that name, except for in IE which erroneously creates variables for named items in window scope.
Don't rely on this, set accountform explicitly:
function getAccountDetails(account_id) {
    var accountform= document.getElementById('accountform');
    accountform.elements.aid.value=account_id;
    accountform.submit();
}

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Q: How to obtain just particular lines of summary on lm object This problem comes from easier problem which I managed to solve myself. So here is my original question.
In my data I have lots of categories, but i'm not interested in estimating coefficients for all of them, I just want to test the hypothesis, that there is no difference in categories. And calling summary on my object produces most information that I don't need for my report.
set.seed(42)
dat <- data.frame(cat=factor(sample(1:10, 100, replace=T)), y=rnorm(100))
l1 <- lm(y~cat-1, data=dat)
summary(l1)

How do I extract only the last line from call to summary(l1)?
In this particular case I can just used anova function
anova(l1)

and got only the info that I needed, just in different formatting than summary(l1) produces.
What if I have some kind of a summary on an object and I want to extract just particular part of summary(object) how do I do that? For example, how do I get R to print only the line of call summary(l1)?
p.s. I am aware of summary(l1)$fstatistic.

A: Try using str to explore. For example, have a look at
str(summary(l1))

the output of which includes
$ fstatistic   : Named num [1:3] 1.32 10 90

then you can try
summary(l1)$fstatistic

#   value     numdf     dendf
#1.323275 10.000000 90.000000

the p-value is a little tricker. Have a read of this post for more info, but here is a solution:
anova(l1)$"Pr(>F)"[1]
# [1] 0.2303172

...not pretty, but it seems to work!

A: OK, I'm in a literal mood, but using capture.output will return the character representation of an evaluated object. So for example, using your l1 object:
l1Out <- capture.output(summary(l1))
grep("^F-st", l1Out, value = TRUE)
# [1] "F-statistic: 1.323 on 10 and 90 DF,  p-value: 0.2303 "

Note, however, that this is not the last line of output:
tail(l1Out, 1)
# [1] ""

And for many components of the summary object, there are better ways to extract information, such as @seancarmody wrote
l1$call
# lm(formula = y ~ cat - 1, data = dat)


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Global Agenda
Agriculture, Food and Beverage
Global Economic Imbalances
Can inequality be blamed on the Agricultural Revolution?
A surprising conclusion?
Image: REUTERS/Daniel LeClair
This article was originally published by Big Think
Matthew Davis Writer
Despite the racks of meat at my deli, the aisles of canned goods at my grocery store, and the dewy lettuce at my farmer's market, some researchers contend that deciding to farm was one of the worst decisions humanity ever made. For the vast majority of human existence, we hunted and gathered. In doing so, we enjoyed a varied diet that took shockingly little work to obtain compared to farming.
When the Agricultural Revolution occurred, the combination of overcrowding of both humans and domesticated animals and switching to an unvaried cereal- and grain-based diet caused an assortment of health issues. By examining the skeletons of early farmers and late hunter-gatherers, we can see that we lost about five inches of height, which we only recovered in the 20th century. These bones also showed greater signs of diseases and illness, and early farmers lived shorter lives than hunter-gatherers.
On its face, the argument that the Agricultural Revolution was a bad thing is patently ridiculous. Modern society is possible because of the Agricultural Revolution, and other researchers are quick to point out that the hunter-gatherer way of life was very violent. Compared to modern life, the difference between how miserable people were as early farmers and how miserable people were as hunter-gatherers is very slight.
While researchers still debate how costly the transition to agriculture was, it did require us to give up something that we have yet to recover, even today: egalitarianism.
Hunter-gatherer egalitarianism
Unfortunately, we don't have time machines to travel back 12,000 years to the point in time before the Agricultural Revolution, but that doesn't mean we can't get an accurate picture of the difference between the hunter-gatherer and agricultural life.
One method is to look at existing hunter-gatherer societies. The !Kung people of the Kalahari Desert (the exclamation point stands for a clicking sound) demonstrate a sexual egalitarianism that one wouldn't necessarily expect from a nomadic tribe. While men tend to hunt and women tend to gather, these roles often overlap. Women retain control over the food they gather. Both men and women raise children equally. Studies on other contemporary hunter-gatherer societies show a similar degree of sexual equality.
Among the Hadza of Tanzania, the !Kung, and other nomadic hunter-gatherer tribes, resources are shared equally. The concept of ownership, when it exists, generally takes the form of being associated with a place or thing rather than possessing it. Hunted or gathered food is shared equally among all members of the tribe. Sometimes, a chief or elder individual will be responsible for divvying out the food, but this authority figure receives as much as the other tribe members. Generally, individuals who attempt to assert dominance or establish a leadership position are ridiculed and ostracized. From what we can tell, these practices hold true for ancient hunter-gatherers as well.
The rise of agriculture and inequality
These egalitarian qualities were not present in early agricultural societies. The big advantage of agriculture over hunting and gathering is that it enables the production of food surpluses. But agriculture is fickle. When the weather is unfavorable, or plants become diseased, hunter-gatherers shift to another food source. This can't be done in agricultural societies, which rely on a small selection of crops produced on large scales. For a relatively recent example, consider the Irish Potato Famine.
Not only are food surpluses necessary for agricultural societies to survive, they also become highly desirable to control. In fact, recent research shows that ancient societies that had greater food surpluses tended to have higher levels of inequality.
Image: Nature
Labor roles became more gendered as well. Generally, men did the majority of the fieldwork while women were relegated to child-rearing and household work. Without contributing food (and by association, without control over it), women became second-class citizens. Women also had babies more frequently, on average once every two years rather than once every four in hunter-gatherer societies.
Because somebody had to have control over surplus food, it became necessary to divide society into roles that supported this hierarchy. The roles of an administrator, a servant, a priest, and a soldier were invented. The soldier was especially important because agriculture was so unsustainable compared to hunting and gathering. The fickleness of agriculture ironically encouraged more migration into neighboring lands in search of more resources and warfare with neighboring groups. Capturing slaves was also important since farming was hard work, and more people were working in these new roles.
This division of labor and social inequality had very real consequences. For instance, while the majority of people had disastrous health compared to their hunter-gatherer ancestors, the skeletons of Mycenean royalty had better teeth and were three inches taller than their subjects. Chilean mummies from A.D. 1000 had a fourfold lower rate of bone lesions caused by disease than commoners.
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Although our quality of life has improved remarkably, the degree of inequality in our society has not. It's easy to contradict the argument that hunter-gatherer societies were better by strolling into your local supermarket, but then again, you're probably reading this in one of the wealthier places in the world. Plenty of people on Earth still live under unbelievably harsh conditions despite the unprecedented level of wealth we have. Consider the disparity between Japan's expected lifespan and Sierra Leone's: 83.7 years versus 50.1. That's a 40% gap.
Does this mean we should do what we've done for the vast majority of human history and retreat to the bush, forsake material possessions, and live off the land? Of course not. But it does highlight that inequality is not humanity's natural state, even though its one we've lived in since the invention of agriculture 12,000 years ago.
Matthew Davis, Writer
This article was originally published by Big Think.
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If this is true, how can we, as practice owners, stop tripping over our own bad managing habits and start retaining happier team members?
Being Too Logical. There's an old quote that Henderson just loves. "Work is logical, but performance is psychological." He suggests that in dealing with people, we tend to forget that logic doesn't always take into account the human element. It brings to mind a frustrated boss growling, "Why doesn't he just do it this way?" People have different ways of learning, and different ways of translating learning into performance – both of which are influenced by experience, emotions, and so much more that's "illogical" and…well, human. Sometimes as managers, we forget.
Now that we've identified three potential stumbling blocks, how can we overcome them?
Do you have courage enough to own up to your people-managing weak spots? Which of Henderson's observations rings true to you?
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