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Posted on March 14, 2013 by Keval
Amidst all the anger and animosity towards Nickelodeon, I've noticed that some of that anger has trickled onto the plates of The Legend of Korra's creators, Mike and Bryan. I've read comments along the lines of Why aren't Mike and Bryan announcing the release date? and I hate how the creators won't give us Book 2's release date. While I respect the passion that some of these fans clearly have for the show, I couldn't live with myself if I didn't call them out.
What these fans are saying is completely inaccurate.
In this scenario, Mike and Bryan are essentially being framed for a crime that they didn't commit. They are taking the blame for something that is completely out of their control because, quite frankly, Book 2's release date is completely out of Mike and Bryan's hands.
Mike and Bryan have no say in the release date for their series' as well as the announcement for the release date. That decision lies solely in the hands of – you guessed it – Nickelodeon. Nickelodeon makes that decision on their own terms and they do not involve Mike and Bryan at all.
So if you want to complain to someone about not knowing the release, don't complain to Mike and Bryan, don't complain to me (ridiculous, I know, but I have heard complaints for not announcing a release date), and don't complain to the voice actors involved in The Legend of Korra.
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Back to one of my all-time favorite blogging topics: the Nickelodeon network. Only this time, I'm here to defend their most recent acts of stupidity. Over the last few months, there have been several instances where Legend of Korra fans have almost expected an announcement for Book 2's release date. In both instances, fans were severely disappointed.
The first instance was when fans expected a trailer of some sort to air during the television premiere of The Last Airbender. I don't really feel like reiterating why exactly this was expected, but if you're interested in that, you can read my first official "I Hate Nickelodeon" fan mail that I posted a few months ago.
After the fandom got over that, we all got our hopes up for the Nickelodeon Upfront 2013 where Nickelodeon revealed their television line up for the upcoming year. Most of us expected them to announce a Book 2 release date since a Book 1 release date had been announced at the 2012 Upfront. We were disappointed once again when no news showed up, and all of you unleashed your anger into an open thread I posted when I was too disgusted to rant.
I've now digested most of this ridiculousness and I think I'm starting to see things a bit more clearly. What if Nickelodeon hasn't revealed a release date because they literally don't know it themselves? What if we've been complaining about not having information that doesn't even exist? It's certainly a possibility, and it might even be reality.
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Nickelodeon Upfront 2013 Begins February 26th – Announcement for Book 2 of The Legend of Korra's Release Date Seems Likely
Posted on February 13, 2013 by Keval
Note: Big thanks to the commentor by the alias of JB for notifying me about the Upfront's release date.
Every year, Nickelodeon holds an event called an "Upfront", which is essentially the Comic-Con equivalent for Television Networks. During these Upfronts, Networks talk about their upcoming television schedule for the year. They discuss shows that will be returning to the network and talk about what fans should expect during the new seasons.
During March of last year, Nickelodeon held their 2012 Upfront and basically gave a rundown of their 2012 Television Schedule. They discussed the newly planned seasons for Spongebob Squarepants, Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness and many other popular Nickelodeon shows. More importantly, they discussed Book 1 of The Legend of Korra. Nickelodeon's 2012 Upfront gave us the release date for Book 1 as well as a new trailer for the series.
Throughout this current off-season, Nickelodeon has failed to even mention Book 2's existence. For any Legend of Korra fan that hasn't done his or her homework, Book 2 doesn't even exist. I was a little disappointed in the network for not capitalizing on apparent opportunities, but another opportunity has arisen: the Nickelodeon 2013 Upfront is scheduled for February 26th where the Network is expected to talk about their entire 2013 television schedule.
Based on passed history, it's practically confirmed that Nickelodeon will at least mention Book 2 since it will be a part of their 2013 schedule, but I think we'll get more than a simple mention.
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Nickelodeon Knows the Release Date for Book 2 of The Legend of Korra, But They Won't Reveal It
Posted on January 27, 2013 by Keval
Warning: This rant may not be suitable for children or adults in love with the Nickelodeon.
Clearly, I'm a bit frustrated with the "glorious" network that brought The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra to television. Just when we thought we'd get some official news about Book 2, specifically a trailer, Nickelodeon pulls the rug from underneath us and laughs. If the executives over at Nickelodeon were the least bit competent, they'd understand how advertising Book 2 during a commercial break of The Last Airbender was so perfect.
Most of the Avatar fans, both young and old, were all watching Nickelodeon together for the first time since the season finale of Book 1. When you have an entire fan base rounded up, you capitalize, but Nickelodeon ignored it. Like I have said before, The Legend of Korra is probably the most mature animated series Nickelodeon airs on their network. To think that all Legend of Korra fans are avid Nickelodeon watchers is ridiculous.
There's a good chunk of the fan base that doesn't even watch Nickelodeon unless The Last Airbender or The Legend of Korra airs. They've outgrown the network; it's as simple as that. Obtaining a moment in which all the fans, both young and old, are watching the network is rare. It doesn't come by that often, but when it does, Nickelodeon needs to take advantage of the scenario. They need to advertise Book 2 and show its fans that it still does exist. They need to rejuvenate the fan base that's been left dead in the water since Comic-Con.
Besides, viewers who don't take part in the online fandom likely know nothing about Book 2. Why should they? Ever since Book 1 ended, Nickelodeon has not even mentioned Book 2 on their network. How can you expect older fans that are not a part of the online fandom to even know about Book 2? It's not like they spend their free time watching Spongebob Squarepants (at least I hope not). There's no way for Book 2 to even be advertised to them. There was an opportunity when a lot of these older fans were watching The Last Airbender movie on Nickelodeon, but the network blew that chance. Realistically speaking, I don't think there is another way to massively advertise Book 2 to the older fans that don't watch Nickelodeon.
But surly Nickelodeon has its own plan, right? I personally wouldn't think too much of their current "plan." Up to this point, their "plan" has screwed the older fans and they're currently screwing us online-fans. Why? Because based on how the Twittersphere's been rolling these days, it looks like Nickelodeon has set a release date for Book 2, but they aren't telling us the date for reasons that defy logic.
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The Last Airbender Movie will Premiere Tomorrow on Nickelodeon, Should we expect a Trailer for Book 2?
After several years of waiting, Nickelodeon has finally decided to premiere The Last Airbender movie on their network. The Last Airbender will be making its first television premiere this Monday (tomorrow), January 21st at 6 PM, on Nickelodeon. Now I'm not writing this post to further bash this movie since I know that a lot of people who visit this blog seem to like the movie. I don't know why, maybe they're seeing something in it that I'm not.
Anyways, the premiere of The Last Airbender comes at a very interesting time. January is coming to a close and February will start up fairly soon. After a shortened month in February, we have March and then finally April, which is believed to be the release month for Book 2. That means we only have about 3 months left until Book 2 of The Legend of Korra supposedly begins.
However in the world of television exclusively, Book 2 of The Legend of Korra doesn't even exist. Since the conclusion of Book 1, Nickelodeon hasn't even mentioned the existence of Book 2 of The Legend of Korra on TV.
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Rainbow Club is a monthly enamel pin and sticker club I run through Patreon. Every month has a new animal theme, and every month I'm making enamel pins and stickers of that animal to send out to pin club members. Are you ready to discover this month's theme?
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In March, all pin club members will receive axolotl enamel pins and stickers!
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Even with the high risk, they still towed this path. In Saudi Arabia of all places!
No, they didn't plan to go to hajj. That was just a cover up; the powder business na the koko.
Igbo not ibo. What do you mean by that? Does a crime has a tribe mark attach to it that they must always be a particular tribe found when such crime is committed?
That is not their route. Their root is Asia mostly Malaysia, Cambodia and China.
These ones use excuse they are going for hajj and use it to carry drugs. As you can see many of them are Moslem names.
Forget that thing. They must have done change of name to be able to go to d country, dts very easy to do na.
Ibo people no dey carry last for this kain thing.
Countries like Saudi Arabia, Malaysia have zero tolerance for drug trafficking. It is written all over the airport that trafficking of drugs attracts death penalty.
It's very sad to have such a long list of Nigerians but the truth is they won't learn.
I am telling you honestly. Don't be surprised after this, some people will still be caught in such act.
Most Asian countries: Indonesia, China, Singapore etc.
It was announced twice by the pilot back in 2014 when I visited Singapore. The pilot kept pleading "Let me remind you that Singapore is a country where possession of Hard Drugs is punishable by Death. If you have any hard drugs on you, please leave it in the aircraft." Why would anyone still take such risks.
Some think they can use juju to fool the scanning machines, not knowing that Jazz no reach that side.
These people don't listen even when they know the repercussion for drug trafficking. A friend of mine told me when he traveled to Indonesia, that each few kilometer there are sign post written and pinned on the ground with the inscription "Penalty for drug pushing is death".
People read this and still go ahead with drug dealings. My sympathy to their various families. Such a terrible way to die.
No one should tribalise this post o.
Hahahaha 09:36 leave me ooh. Truth be told, things like this aren't good to be tribalised, for crimes cut across all divides. The fact remains that they are Nigerians and disgracing the image of the country.
Lmao, and you just did that.
Yoruba and hausas come and carry your drug trafficking brothers and sisters eeeh. Later unah go call Bini ashewos,is it not better to be an ashewo than a drug baron with death sentence hanging on your neck .
Unah know una self. Lemme catch you people condemning other tribes here again.
Anon 10:42..That list is fake, those people changed their names before traveling, I have a friend there from Delta babe who changes her name to " Kafayat"..
No mercy for them at all,its well.
This is a horrible thing to families. The government should go through their files to see if they are really caught with hard drugs. If indeed they are guilty they should face the music. But if they are not the government should protect them and see that they freed and brought back home. Cos the amount of racism Nigerians face abroad is terrible and unbearable.
I thought twas only Igbo's that commit crimes outside Nigeria..oh i guess not.
Looking at the names on the list, all tribal bigots are coming out with venoms and chants of na this tribe do this one pass,na that tribe do that one pass!! Well, sorry to burst your bubble, these countries does not know tribe. All they know is Nigeria and our passport. We can sit here and engage in tribal bashing all we want, we are jointly affected, it is our image that is tinted, we will collectively be treated awfully by these countries.
Untill we start holding each other accountable for our wrongdoings as a nation and not tribe, we will continue to be publicly and internationally shamed and treated poorly by countries with as much lower or none existing moral decency than Nigeria.
Until we begin to name and shame these bad eggs(family members inclusive) on and off socais media, our date in the hand of countries remains the same. By the way I am a full fledged Ìgbo woman.
Word Ella. To the rest of the world, you are NIGERIAN not Yoruba or Igbo or whatever tribe.
You have spoken well, Ella.
Of all places, it's Saudi Arabia. Una get hrt o o, bcos even an unborn child 'literally'knows it's a no go area for anything drug related. Nothing like abeg once u're caught. Brazil, Spain, Italy, SA & other flash points for drug biz , where they have mild penalty, no dey pay again? Rest ur souls in advance.
Religion is opium of the people. what will make Saudi authority to classify kolanut as illicit drug? Most of these people are pure victims of primitive shariah legal system. Too sad to read of this injustice going on Saudi Arabia.
Maybe if we apply that law for kidnappers, kidnapping and ritual will decrease.
They never listen. That's how one indirectly is talking about drugs. How he moved drugs when he was younger. I asked him where are the proceeds, NOTHING. I was just using corner eye to look at him, will never get close to him or allow him visit.
I didn't ask anything, just said how i wish someone will gift me money this easter, bobo started with how you can make a minimum of 500k moving drugs within Nigeria and millions outside Nigeria. Told him where is the money around you? Nothing! Told him my mum is a widow, don't want to kill her before time and such monies are never used for anything good. When i wasn't excited. he said he has stopped, since he became born again. Goodluck in your stopping. Nigerians don't listen!
My dear pls RUN away from such men, don't even keep them as friends.
if I hear that kind thing I will block you as a friends straight. There is no one that carries drugs that don't have connect in criminal underworld.
Beds and Roses... I have taken off. Infact, yesterday i stepped out and was standing infront of the gate, a luxury car drove by. someone who looks like him was pointing at me before i could look properly and wave the car zoomed off. I wanted to call him to ask if he drove by? I really hope its me just being paranoid.
I'm boning the guy. I can't. Don't have liver. Aha! To lie for me is a problem, i will be sweating buckets. I can't abeg. I no sabi.
Na wah oh, this is so sad!
When you do the crime, you do the time. I don't have pity for such ppl. You didn't see U.S. or any European country to carry drugs, you went to an Arab country with death penalty. And these things are spelt out clearly to them. They have zero tolerance for drugs.
I thought it's only Igbos that commit this kinda crime. Where are wailers of my beloved brothers? Rest in peace my Nigerian brothers and sisters.
These countries don't want a high population of useless drug users and rise in crimes. An extremely rich country like Singapore with an equally extremely low crime rate want to keep their country that way. I don't blame them, countries should have standards, especially when they worked so hard to rise out of poverty and transform the nation.


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Cowboys Ezekiel Elliott Sets Record, Guts Out 97 Yards Rushing
It wasn't pretty, but he got the job done.
By Dave Halprin@dave_halprin Nov 20, 2016, 4:15pm CST
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There weren't many open lanes to run through, and the hits were hard. The Dallas Cowboys knew that it would be tough to run the ball against a Baltimore Ravens defense that is number one against the run in the NFL. Teams average only 73 yards per game against the Ravens stout front. The Cowboys were nonetheless committed to at least having a decent showing on the ground, and in the end Ezekiel Elliott gutted out 97 yards rushing the ball.
The first half was one the Cowboys offensive line would like to forget at the Ravens held Elliott in check with only 26 yards on the ground. Dallas finally got it going in the second half, although many of the runs were short ones and ended with Elliott taking big shots from one or more Ravens defenders. Elliott's longest run on the day was 14 yards and it took 25 carries for him to get those 97 yards (3.9 yards per carry).
Elliott did add to his yardage on the day with four catches for 30 yards. But what was most impressive was the way Elliott just kept plugging away, hammering at the Ravens defense until they softened up some in the second half. On the Cowboys final drive of the game, when they were trying to protect a seven point lead, Elliott carried the ball 9 times for 30 yards. While not impressive in yards, it helped Dallas burn over six minutes off the clock and get Dan Bailey a chip shot field goal.
Elliott also set the Cowboys rookie rushing record during the game, beating the long-standing record of Tony Dorsett. In 1977 Dorsett had 1,007 yards helping the Cowboys to a Super Bowl win.
.@Tony_Dorsett here to witness @EzekielElliott surpass his #DallasCowboys rookie rushing record! #Respect pic.twitter.com/nTusFNSlUH
— Dallas Cowboys (@dallascowboys) November 20, 2016
Elliott now has 1,102 yards on the season, and while he may not break Eric Dickerson's rookie rushing record, he's been exemplary for Dallas. His pass protection and his abilities as a receiver complement his running abilities, making an all-around back. On a day when he really had to grind it out, he still managed 97 yards against the best rushing defense in the NFL. He took the hard hits and kept plugging away.
Congrats on an excellent rookie season so far, Zeke!

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It is with great sadness that the Southern Illinois Electric Cooperative Board of Directors announces the death of board member Bob L. McIntosh who passed away on June 20, 2020. A board director since 2013, Bob dedicated 7 years of service to the member-owners of SIEC.
"Bob was our board vice president and always made well-informed decisions for the membership and employees," said David Johnston, executive vice president and general manager of Southern Illinois Electric Cooperative. "The value he brought forth as a man and director will certainly be missed."
Over the years, Bob served the board as vice president, secretary-treasurer and finance committee member. He also represented SIEC's interest as a voting delegate for many state and national committees.
Bob was a gentle and kind man that was always willing to listen and make informed decisions. He will be missed here at SIEC. We would like to thank his wife Sue and his entire family for sharing Bob with us through the years.
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MINSK, 30 January (BelTA) – I am in favor of lifting all the sanctions on Belarus provided there are steps on the part of Belarus, U.S. Charge d'affaires to Belarus Robert Riley told the media on 30 January, BelTA informs.
I discuss this topic with my colleagues at different levels all the time. I also discuss it in different Belarusian ministries. I always maintain that my interest and our interest are in the full abolition of sanctions, Robert Riley said. The sides, however, are not at that point yet, he added.
The USA has reviewed the existing sanctions every six months during the last two years and has suspended them for another period of time, the diplomat recalled. The next review will take place in April. "I cannot predict the results since they will discuss and analyze a great deal of questions. We always say frankly which steps should be made to make the abolition of sanctions possible. We will proceed with these discussions with our Belarusian partners and we will do everything to reach such a state in our relations when the abolition of sanctions is possible," Robert Riley remarked.
The U.S. sanctions against Belarus damage the bilateral relations, Robert Riley underlined. He also stressed that Belarus and the United States cooperate in many fields. "We interact in such areas as international security, border security, and fight against crime. We discuss matters related to finances and economy," he clarified. "Belarus-USA relations represent quite a wide scope of activities. The sanctions certainly cast a shadow on them. We are working hard to make the abolition of sanctions possible," the diplomat added.
When asked whether the U.S. ambassador will return to Belarus, Robert Riley noted that the two countries regularly discuss this topic, and both sides are interested in settling this question.


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Proposals And Precis
It's that time of year again and this time I submitted a proposal for a paper...AND a panel!!!
At the Southwest Conference for Popular/American Culture Association.
And that brings me to a classic episode of THE AGENCY where we interview and chat with George Sieg, a professor in Albuquerque and an expert on ESOTERICA. I hope to host a panel this year at the conference in his department.
If you would like to read my proposals...I will post them on my PATREON artist site.
I intend to create an inventory of navigational motifs in the films THE COUNSELOR, No COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN and the novel BLOOD MERIDIAN. I'm approaching this accounting two ways, first using Robert Fludd's stage design based on Elizabethan Occult Philosophy and second, by extracting the ways that gestures, memory and direction by way of Evelyn Tribble'swork on Distributed Cognition in theatre. I will demonstrate that number, clothing, and location in McCarthy offer an opportunity to use the works as time-keeping devices and navigational resources.
The appeal of occult philosophy by artists for elite patrons during the Renaissance held the ideal of a unified framework of natural philosophy by uncovering work from Antiquity combined with their conception of magic. The Elizabethan Occult school of thought believed they would attain a higher form of knowledge and that mathematics had a kind of magic. They believed reconciling Antiquity with their own contemporary knowledge would offer unimaginable power. (Roseen Giles)
I will continue by finding and explicating McCarthy's celestial content and arguing such content connects his work to an older tradition by preserving navigational tools within artworks.
I plan on exploring the jewelry and wardrobe choices of Yanty Yates in the movie THE COUNSELOR and Mary Zophres dozens of plaid shirts in NCFOM. Mapping the locations in each of these stories I view the locations in the same way an FBI profiler might look at the crime sites of a serial killer to find a pattern, there by demonstrating Robert Fludd's concept of "As Above, So Below." The Renaissance had a practice of hiding valuable content in decorative or atmospheric aesthetics. The hidden layers of content I find in McCarthys writing is a structure found across cultures reflecting the concept of mind and knowledge and functions like a library for the memory.
Approaching Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem's character) as a personification of the sun demonstrates the gnostic principle of "as above so below" that captivated Renaissance thinkers. Anton Chigurh becomes cast as a myths-poetic metaphor for the sun's journey in the summer of 1980, Texas when a "killer heat wave" unrelented for weeks until…"Earth turning on its axis was enough to do the trick." (The Dallas Morning News, Aug 5, 2010)
In a similar manner I propose that Malkina (Cameron Diaz's character) in THE COUNSELOR is the personification of Venus while utilizing Jeff Cooley's analysis of a Sumerian astro-myth. Malkina's movements in the movie allow us to explore her as being a keeper of maths, navigation and astronomy. These two character's as well as Blood Meridian's the kid and Judge, portray the concept of mind embedded in a unitary tradition throughout many art genres. The kids birth in BLOOD MERIDIAN occurs during a meteor shower, aligning his arrival with other literary heroes Krishna, Jesus and Hamlet also associated with celestial bodies at birth.
The Crown Continued
We chat about THE CROWN on this weeks episode. I think this is the best season of THE CROWN and I have endless curiousity about the writers and their thoughts on power, greed and what creates character. By character I mean how humans build character and ethics. THE CROWN season 4 seems to put a heavy blame on family. The responsibility of building chracter lies in what we teach our children in our communities. The many roles in the season cold work as personifications for approach to society. The Queen represents Liberalism. Liberalism seems to credit itself with all the good of the life yet they don't do the hard work at making ggodness and ethics for all of the society.The liberal dependance on good manners and customs creates compassion is an illusion. (thats not why we practice good manners, we practice them so when life presents us with heightened emotions we don't run rough-shod over each other) Prince Philip seems to represent Libertarianism with it's vitality for the individual working around freedom in a control system. He can get away with his betrayals as he is a freshman thinker in an oppressed society. Prrince Charles is the personification of conservatism which feels it is doing good by holding on to tradition therefore it's paid its dues and should be able to find love. But there is no freedom for love in a Conservative framework. Thatcher is postmodernism. And she is the predessessor to Trump. They think there is no meaning in life therefore they can reject the good works of labor, mock the military as if it is there for their own granduer, and the elite population is decadent and follows mindless customs. The dysfunction of the royal family mirrors the dysfunction of all communities who do not do the work of teaching community and social justice either through caring and support for the less fortunate, or assuring that all of a citizenry have food, meaningful work, and health care and shelter. And that shelter also means warmness, kindness and company. Princess Diana was the manifestion of the Shakespearean concept that a corrupt country can only be healed by rebirth. Adeath by violence then rebirth (se HAMLET and A WINTERS TALE as examples) . Although the stag hunt in this season was a play on the mythology of Diana and evading a hunter, capturing Charles...it is really that a vrgin princess was captured and eventually killed in order to reboot the UK. I can only imagine that the palaces must become public property and museums or tourist sites like Vesailles. The profit of turism going straight back to the citizenry and infrastucture of the country. I think the same thing must eveolve in te USA. Route 66, the museums in DC, the great cities and economy of the fallen USA transformed into a tourist economy to support the people. This transformaton occured in France, Italy where robust democracies have tempered extremists like Thatcher, Bushes, Regans and Trumps.
Kiss The Ground
I love the movie KISS THE GROUND. It's on Netflix.
Here is another documentary that is related here on Youtube....
The Story Of Stuff
I'm warching lots of environmental documentaries. Inspired by MY OCTOPUS TACHER. Here is a 2009 independant doc...
The Crown Twice
I'm so into this season of THE CROWN. I,m watching it twice for sure. I plan on talking about it this week on our podcast on androids or if you prefer for iPhones.
The Aristocrats: Art VS Fundamentalism
I recently rewatched the fascinating documentary about the worlds dirtiest joke. The joke is part of an oral tradition since vaudeville era. It's part storytelling device and spectacle of Grotesque. The joke is vulgar, an improv tale developed by the teller. In 2005 the documentary THE ARISTOCRATS interviews over a 100 comedians who deconstruct, analyse and perform the joke. This isn't for everyone. It's so vulgar it often includes incest, bizare sexual acts, bestiality, scat and any number of repulsive activities that transgress our customes and decorum. Everyone has done this joke. There is a clip of The Smothers Brothers discussing the joke and it brought tears to my eyes. George Carlin and Phylis Diller are so beautifully welcome sights for sore eyes. There is every disgusting act you couldn't even imagine. And the punchline is always the same. Women and men will have different ways of finding shock value. And most audiences know the joke so the mystery is in the build up before the punch line. Evryone knows the punchline. The joke has three sections. The set up: a man goes to his agent and pitches a stage show. Then the client describes the act. Sex with one's whole family, golden showers, the family dog, sliding in shit, etc. Then the agent asks..."whats the name of the act?" "The Aristocrats." It's fantasy...art...comedy...performance. It's stories built out of other stories...which is what art is....and is an opportunity to think about what is art? What is originality? What do we learn about our society from such stories and release? The joke is an opportunity for storytellers to render an insane scenario showing off their storytelling skills and imagination. This documentary is a 10/10 and is brilliant including Christopher Walken telling the joke.
Sometimes I have laughed at the punchline because of the delivery by the comic. What I couldn't help but notice this viewing is that what I thought about was...Quanon. This joke has taken a dark turn to literal application. The definition of fundamentalism is a literal appication of a sacred text. Or the strict adherence to the basic principles of any subject or discipline. What Quanon as a generator of an urban legend has created...is the idea that there is a a terrible sexual transgression in our society. They describe the incest, pedophilia, and vulgar acts and the punch line is Tom Hanks. This conspiracy theory has co-opted an oral tradition in art....to literally apply it to society today as if its truth. And that my friends is a good example of fundamentalism and fascism.


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Robert Benmosche Is Pretty Sure People Angry At AIG Re: Bailouts Sit At Home Thinking, "Look at them, with their free EZ Passes"
"People are angry because they want to blame somebody else. They don't take responsibility for their own goddamn lives. 'I've never been promoted, because they don't like me and there were these guys at AIG, look at them they have free lunches and EZ Pass and look at me I don't get a free lunch.' These people make me nuts. Get off your goddamn ass and do something. That's what the people at AIG did, They picked up their asses and went to work." [Pressler, related]
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Robert Benmosche Waxes Nostalgic
Robert Benmosche Has His Reasons For Not Working Out Of AIG's Corporate Headquarters
Bonus Watch '14: Robert Benmosche
Robert Benmosche Is Sorry He 'Trivialized' The Deep South Lynchings, Which, If You Think About It, Is Exactly What People Did Re: The AIG Lynchings
Robert Benmosche Expects Government To Be Out Of AIG's Hair Soon, Taxpayers To Get Their Money At Some Point
Robert Benmosche Is Gonna Take Off Now
Robert Benmosche Is "Feeling Great"
Robert Benmosche's Balls Are Bigger Than The Government's Collective Sack, Says Robert Benmosche


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2019-2020 Engaged Scholars
The Engaged Scholars Initiative seeks to develop, support and connect leaders who can advance co-created knowledge, critically engaged pedagogies, institutional change, and collaborative action to address societal issues.
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SIRRY ALANG
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, SOCIOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY AND PROGRAM IN HEALTH, MEDICINE, AND SOCIETY
Sirry Alang is a medical sociologist and a health services researcher. Her research focuses on the social determinants of health and health inequities. Sirry strives to cut across disciplinary and methodological boundaries to find ways to improve population health. For her, this entails prioritizing mixed methods and community-based participatory action research approaches. Her current work explores structural racism within the healthcare system and how it affects the organization and delivery of health services. She investigates what racism within mental health systems looks like, highlight its role in creating inequities in access to and use of mental health services, and identify steps to confront structural racism, ultimately eliminating inequities. Connected to this work, she is exploring social exclusion and isolation among marginalized populations. I research dimensions of social exclusion in medical settings among Latinx populations and Black men. She also cares about how structural racism operates across several institutions to affect health. Specifically, she explores police violence as a social determinant of health. Her work identifies mechanisms through which policing policies and practices affect the health of marginalized groups, and explores programmatic and policy solutions that might be useful in addressing excess morbidity and mortality that result from policing. She is also a teacher. She creates opportunities for students to integrate classroom education with social action and community engagement. My students significantly engage in social action and with organizations or individuals whose work or perspectives are relevant to an issue that they are interested in. Her training: she obtained a BSc. in Sociology and Anthropology from the University of Buea in Cameroon, an M.A. in Sociology from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and a Ph.D. in Health Services Research, Policy and Administration from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
SAMANTHA FRISK
COORDINATOR OF SERVICE-LEARNING AND VOLUNTEER PROGRAMS, ACADEMIC AFFAIRS
Samantha Frisk launched into the world of engaged learning as an AmeriCorps*VISTA with Campus Compact of Maine and Washington. There she found language and practices that complemented her hope to cultivate just, equitable communities. This lead to serving at the University of Southern Maine where Samantha currently coordinates an office which supports the design and delivery of academic and co-curricular service-learning. She also teaches for the Honors Program, was recently appointed Co-Chair of the President's Intercultural and Diversity Advisory Council, and for the past 5 years, has served as a facilitator in an Intercultural Program at the Center for Grieving Children. Samantha holds a B.S. in Mathematics and International Service from Valparaiso University, and M.S.Ed. and Graduate Certificate in Culturally Responsive Practices in Education and Human Development from the University of Southern Maine. She seeks continuous anti-racist training and guidance from decolonizing pedagogies, local organizers, and community partners.
RAÚL GUTIÉRREZ
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF SPANISH, LANGUAGE STUDIES
HOLYOKE COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Raúl D. Gutiérrez has been a full-time faculty member at Holyoke Community College since 2013. He also is the One Community Holyoke Coordinator and the Community College Public Humanities Center (CCPHC) Coordinator at HCC. He teaches Spanish language and Latinx Studies. In spring 2017, he taught the first Introduction to Latin@ Studies at HCC. Raúl has conducted research on how to include community service in intermediate foreign language classes through the Service Learning program at HCC. He has worked on creating the upcoming Latinx Studies major at HCC. His areas of interest include community engagement in the academic setting and contemporary Latin American and Latino literature and film. He is especially interested in the cultural and artistic production in the Mexico-U.S. border. He is the advisor of the LISA Club (Latino International Student Association). He holds Bachelors and Master's degrees from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
DAVID HARKER
DIRECTOR, CENTER FOR CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
David Harker is the Director of the Center for Civic Engagement at Ithaca College. Dr. Harker joined IC in December, 2016 from Colorado College, where he was Director of the Collaborative for Community Engagement. David earned his PhD (and MA) in Sociology from Boston College, where he wrote his dissertation on the ways students create meaning in their service-learning experiences – particularly if they saw their work connected to larger social movements or political engagement. David also taught in the areas of service-learning, civic engagement, higher education, political engagement, and social movements at Boston College, Tufts University, The College of New Jersey, and Colorado College. He has numerous publications in the areas of service-learning and community engagement, and is passionate about providing students with opportunities and resources to develop as active engaged citizens. David is originally from Ewing, New Jersey, and attended The College of New Jersey as an undergrad. He loves living in, learning about, and getting engaged in the Ithaca community with his partner Kelly, baby daughter Ramona, and dog Ginny. David is incredibly excited to join the ESI cohort with such impressive colleagues to engage in important critical research on our field. He also hopes this research informs his efforts to continue to deepen civic engagement and community partnership work at Ithaca College.
NINA JOHNSON
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY
COORDINATOR, PROGRAM IN BLACK STUDIES
Nina Johnson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and the Coordinator of the Program in Black Studies at Swarthmore College. Consistent with her previous study in Urban Studies (BA, Penn), African-American Studies (BA, Penn) and Culture, Communication and Criticism (MA, New York University), her research interests lie in the areas of inequality, politics, race, space, class, culture, stratification and mobility. She has recently published papers on issues of community and residential choice relative to the experience of upward mobility (A Long Way From Home: Race, Community, and Educational Opportunity) and a sociology of Black Liberation and contributed to a documentary (Turning A Corner, Beyondmedia Productions) on the legal, economic, and social barriers to exiting prostitution. She has done work on a project that looks at representations of race, class and place in mid century black novels, including the work of James Baldwin, Richard Wright, and Zora Neale Hurston and a community video project on the impact of Islam on black religious, social and political life in Philadelphia and the Delaware Valley. Based on her dissertation research (PhD Sociology, Northwestern University 2012), her book project revisits Du Bois' and Frazier's classic works and considers issues of identity and meaning making processes among the black elite, its relationship to the larger black population, and its role in any projects of collective racial advancement. Her current research is a multi-method study of the impacts of mass incarceration at the neighborhood level, which is complimented by her teaching courses in Urban Sociology and public policy using the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program pedagogy. She wholeheartedly endorses every word of James Baldwin, but finds the following particularly prescient in shaping and informing her work, "The time has come, God knows, for us to examine ourselves, but we can only do this if we are willing to free ourselves of the myth of America and try to find out what is really happening here."
ENOCH LAMPTEY
BRISTOL COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Enoch Lamptey is currently a full-time professor at Bristol Community College. He obtained his doctorate degree in Sociology from the University of Akron, Ohio in 2017. Prior to obtaining his PhD in the US and his master's degree in Sociology and Gender from the London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom (England). In terms of research, he is interested in topics ranging from family/marital relationships and health outcomes, medical sociology (health inequalities), social stratification, specifically class, gender, and race/ethnicity in the US, civic engagement, democracy, and community engagement. His dissertation at the University of Akron focused on the contextual effects of the relationship between marriage/family processes, gender, and health in a developing country such as Ghana. Aside from his dissertation research area,he is currently working on a paper titled "Negative Acculturation, Socio-economic Status, and Immigrants' Health: Re-Examining the "Hispanic Paradox" and the Interaction Effect of SES and Duration in the US on the Health of Foreign-Born Immigrants", which is about to be submitted to the Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health. Using a nationally representative data from the NHIS (pooled data from 2010-2014; sample size=85,314), I examined the interconnections between duration in the US and SES on self-reported health and hypertension. Additionally, he has a couple of co-publications on studies ranging on topics such as the association between religious beliefs and intimate partner violence in Ghana, and Acculturation Effect and Birth-Weight among Immigrants in the US. With respect to teaching, whilst at the University of Akron, he taught courses such as sociology of health and illness, introduction to sociology, and sociology of the family. he then had a one-year full time visiting professor position at Carroll College in Helena, Montana. At Carroll College, he taught causes which included medical sociology, gender, health and medicine, social problems, research methods, sociology of gender, and introduction to sociology. He is currently teaching sociology of social problems and principles of sociology at Bristol Community College, MA.
PROGRAM DIRECTOR, DC SCHOOLS PROJECT
CENTER FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE RESEARCH, TEACHING AND SERVICE
Jessica Lee is a first generation Korean American and college graduate from Portland, Oregon, where she attended Lewis and Clark College for her BA in International Affairs and Foreign Languages. She attended the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in Monterey, California for her Master's in Public Administration, with a concentration on international management and returned to Portland to work with the Asian Pacific American Network of Oregon at the intersections of racial justice, immigration, education, and health equity in Oregon's communities of color. In 2013, she joined the Center for Social Justice team at Georgetown University as the D.C. Schools Project Program Director, where she works with 15 student leaders and approximately 160 tutors to provide English language and literacy skills support to children, youth, and adults of low-income, immigrant backgrounds in the D.C. area. As a social justice educator, Jessica focuses on consciousness raising and social justice framework development with her students, to be able to better serve and advocate for D.C.'s immigrant communities. Jessica has been in D.C. for the last 7 years working in API communities and the broader immigrant community supporting racial and migrant justice work, advocating for domestic violence survivors, mentoring youth of color, and providing college readiness and access programming for D.C.'s low income youth.
MICHAEL NORDQUIST
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ENGAGED LEARNING AND RESEARCH
As Executive Director of The College of New Jersey's Center for Community Engaged Learning and Research, Michael is responsible for facilitating TCNJ's curricular and co-curricular community and civic engagement activities in the Trenton, NJ, region, specifically the Center's three main programs: Community Engaged Learning (CEL), TCNJ Bonner Community Scholars, and Community Engaged Research and Initiatives. Prior to being appointed to this position, Michael served as CEL Coordinator of environment-related activities at TCNJ's Bonner Institute for Civic and Community Engagement, and worked with faculty, students, and community partners in implementing high-quality CEL experiences. Michael is also an affiliate faculty member of the TCNJ Political Science Department, teaching courses on political theory, environmental politics, and social justice. Before to coming to TCNJ in 2012, Michael was an assistant professor in the Department of History and Political Science at Albertus Magnus College in New Haven, Connecticut, where he also served as interim department chair. He earned his Ph.D. in political theory from the University of Minnesota—Twin Cities, and his BA in Politics and German Studies from Ithaca College. Michael's scholarly interests revolve around questions of how to create effective democratic agents of change in a contemporary context that is, at times, openly hostile to democratic practice. In particular, Michael is interested in integrating the insights of radical democratic political theory—critiques of neoliberal logic and liberal notions of agency, and broadened conceptualizations of political action, specifically—into the scholarship of service learning and community engagement. He is excited to join the Engaged Scholars Initiative to become a part of a community of practice that thinks critically about the ethics, politics, and impact of their work, while working collaboratively to enhance the transformative potential and impact of the field.
KIMBERLY ROGERS
Kimberly B. Rogers is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Dartmouth College. She received her Ph.D. from Duke University in 2013. Kimberly's intellectual work is motivated by two main questions: How do people interpret social interactions and know how to act and feel within them? How do interactions reflect and contribute to social inequality? Her research aims to uncover the mechanisms through which social inequalities are perpetuated, identifying inflection points for social change. Kimberly works to build connections between academic knowledge about inequality and the people and organizations equipped to leverage this knowledge for social intervention. In her teaching, she shows students how to use sociological theory and research to identify inequalities and be change-makers in their own lives and local communities. Her introductory course is part of Dartmouth's Gateway Initiative, which supports active learning in large-enrollment classes. Her methods class and upper-level course on the social psychology of inequality both incorporate social impact practicums in collaboration with the Dartmouth Center for Social Impact, having students develop research designs and collect data for nonprofit organizations in the local community. Her course on status and power in social interactions teaches students to engineer theoretically and empirically-grounded interventions to reduce inequalities found at Dartmouth. In her institutional and disciplinary service, Kimberly works to develop programming and policies that support vulnerable communities, and has a special interest in mentoring those navigating a system designed to advance others' interests over their own. She routinely engages students in inequalities-focused research, and mentors a variety of undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral students and early career scholars through professional organizations, campus institutes, and other forums.
JENNIFER ROSALES
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, CENTER FOR ENGAGED PEDAGOGY
Jennifer Rosales recently joined Barnard College as the Executive Director of the Center for Engaged Pedagogy. Previously, she was the Director of Research and Evaluation at the Center for Social Justice Research at Georgetown University, Teaching and Service. At the CSJ, she conducted research on social justice issues, arts, and education and supported faculty and student research in these areas. She worked with faculty across the university and abroad on grant-funded research about education and community engagement. She is conducting research on social and emotional learning and arts education in DC Public Schools and co-authoring a book Media Literacy of the Oppressed: Designing at the Margins (Routledge forthcoming). In addition, she led the evaluation plan, implementation and analysis for the various community engagement programs. She taught Research Methods for Justice and Peace Studies and co-taught courses on qualitative field research and evaluation. She is part of Campus Compact's 2019-2020 Engaged Scholars Initiative. She earned her PhD, MA (Media Studies), and BA (History) from the University of Southern California.
MARQUITA TAYLOR
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR FOR INNOVATION AND LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
DWIGHT HALL, CENTER FOR PUBLIC SERVICE & SOCIAL JUSTICE
Dr. Marquita Taylor is a Leadership Engineer and Researcher who conducts high quality in-depth qualitative and quantitative research in the areas of entrepreneurship and human development. In her current role, she is the Assistant Director for Innovation and Leadership Development at the Center for Public Service and Social Justice at Yale University. Her aptitude and academic excellence have resulted in her passion to lead and research, which has been fostered through the pursuit of a Doctorate in Leadership for the Advancement of Learning and Service, while obtaining a certificate in Race and Equity from the University of Pennsylvania. She earned her Master of Business Administration in 2012 immediately after receiving her Bachelor of Arts degree in Business and Management and Political Science. She champions inclusivity and equity in education among diverse groups, particularly underserved populations and women. Moreover, her career objectives include inspiring and cultivating all to pursue socially responsible endeavors while building non-cognitive, entrepreneurial and leadership skills for the betterment of communities and personal outcomes. During her doctoral studies, she founded The Woman Doctor, a nonprofit in which she works to inspire women and girls to pursue higher education while building noncognitive, entrepreneurial and leadership skills- this year she will award her first academic scholarship. After several years in the corporate sector and within government agencies she became a Professor. She teaches in the School of Business at Concordia University, and has taught business at the University of California Los Angeles.
SARA SHUMAN
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR AND DIRECTOR OF THE BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN PUBLIC HEALTH
URBAN PUBLIC HEALTH AND NUTRITION
LA SALLE UNIVERSITY (PA)
Dr. Sara Shuman has a Ph.D. in Public Health from Temple University with a concentration in Social and Behavioral Health. She holds a Master of Public Health from the University of Arizona. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Public Health program at La Salle University. Dr. Shuman's research focuses primarily on immigrant health, gender-based violence, and community-engaged teaching. She is especially interested in mixed-methods research and works in Philadelphia and globally. Dr. Shuman has been working with unauthorized immigrant populations in the United States for ten years and her recent research has focused on the relationship between intimate partner violence, physical and mental health, and help-seeking behaviors among undocumented immigrant women in South Philadelphia. This research resulted from community-based work with Puentes de Salud, a health and social service non-profit in Philadelphia where she has volunteered since 2010. She is currently the Director of Promotoras at Puentes de Salud.
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MPI alerts on scams and phishing
/ News/ Media releases/ Research initiative to rejuvenate hill country
Research initiative to rejuvenate hill country
Email: media@mpi.govt.nz
An innovation programme that aims to develop precision fertiliser application for hill country is to receive government funding through the Primary Growth Partnership.
The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) has approved co-funding of $5.13 million for the seven-year Ravensdown "Transforming Hill Country Farming" PGP programme.
This amount will be matched by the fertiliser co-operative Ravensdown, making the overall base funding for the project $10.26 million.
The new PGP programme will combine remote-sensing of soil fertility on hills with GPS-guided aerial topdressing, to improve hill country productivity and reduce nutrient runoff.
The research partners are Massey University's Precision Agriculture Group and AgResearch.
The Ravensdown programme expects to generate $120 million a year in economic benefits to New Zealand by 2030.
"This is an excellent example of harnessing modern technology to transform farming on hill country, which is facing some serious challenges," says Scott Gallacher, MPI Deputy Director-General.
"This research partnership will help enable hill country farmers to grow more pasture and increase returns, as well as reduce the environmental effects of fertiliser application," Ravensdown CEO Greg Campbell says.
"If we grow more pasture, our beef and sheep production will rise at a time when those farmers desperately want to reverse the gradual decline of the past years," he says. "The challenge has been: how do you better feed those hill country soils so they can grow more grass without wasting fertiliser or degrading the environment?"
"Variability amongst hill country soils is high, and scattering a blanket of fertiliser from the skies leads to less than optimal use of precious nutrients – which is bad for farmers' bottom line and the environment," added Mike Manning, General Manager R&D.
The research will develop remote sensors which can scan for areas that need different amounts of fertiliser to other areas. A fertiliser plan can then be prepared and sent to the GPS-equipped topdressing planes.
"This combination of technology is a world-first. Innovations like these all add up to a great export story for New Zealand farming," said Professor Ian Yule of Massey University.
"New Zealand has been at the forefront of the development of the use of remote sensing in agriculture for the past 10 years and this project provides the opportunity to apply that technology directly to increasing production and farm profitability while improving environmental management in the hill country," said Professor Yule.
AgResearch will play a key role in the development of integrated systems, so the benefits will be captured by including the all-important precision application of nutrient by topdressing aircraft.
"New Zealand has been a world leader in the development of pasture measurement for the past 10 years and this project provides the opportunity to apply that technology directly to increasing production and farm profitability while improving environmental management in the hill country," said Dr Robyn Dynes, Senior Research Scientist at AgResearch.
Meanwhile auditable proof-of-placement maps provide better information to make future decisions and demonstrate compliance with regional council regulations," added Robyn.
The seven-year programme is planned to begin this year with the gathering of data from eight research farms which will feed into development of the systems needed to apply the fertiliser to the land.
The partners are in the process of negotiating a PGP contract, prior to programme commencement.
About Ravensdown:
As a co-operative 100% owned by farmers, Ravensdown exists to optimise soil fertility and farm profitability in a sustainable way for farmers who need to improve their productivity and lower environmental footprint. Beyond fertiliser production, we provide a comprehensive range of key farming inputs, technical advice and technologies at lowest sustainable cost delivered how, where and when they're needed.
About the Primary Growth Partnership:
The Primary Growth Partnership (PGP) is driving the future market success of the primary industries through long-term innovation programmes that are jointly funded by government and industry. PGP is administered by the Ministry for Primary Industries.
There are 15 announced PGP programmes (of which 13 are contracted and 2 pending) as at 26 June 2013. The total PGP funding commitment from government and co-investors in these programmes is $674 million.


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New Faces® Modeling & Acting Advice
SIMONA FUSCO - ADVICE
Advice From Top Model and Actress Simona Fusco Stratten
From her beginnings as a successful teen model in Europe – Lacoste being her first job – Simona Fusco Stratten is now referred to as "The most spectacular looking blonde since Marilyn Monroe". If that were not enough to have every fashion house and casting agent at her door, Simona's resume reads like a rise to the A-list.
Appearing in Maxim Magazine, as well as many high-end campaigns, including Ferrari, Hawaiian Tropics, Fendi and Guess? Simona also stars in the hit HBO show Entourage.
Simona Fusco Stratten: What It Takes To Be A Hot Model
New Faces recently sat down with the blonde bombshell star of the film Beerfest, and Maxim model to get her take and advice about the modeling and acting industry.
New Faces: Tell us about how you got started in modeling and acting, including the leading part in Oliver Stone's Lolita that you turned down at the age of 14?
Simona Fusco Stratten: I started modeling at the age of 10 for Lacoste in Europe. I always knew that I wanted to become an actress and it only grew when people such as Oliver Stone approached me when I was 15.
New Faces: You grew up in Italy and Austria, later moving to Hollywood, do you think it was essential for your career to make that move or could you have achieved success at home?
Simona Fusco Stratten: There are lots of opportunities no matter where you are – especially with a site like New Faces that allows you to sign up all around the world and connect with agents. Even now, I still do magazine interviews, shoots and TV show appearances back home in Europe.
New Faces: You have been involved with countless big-name modeling campaigns, including Coca-Cola, BMW, Ferrari, Guess? And Fendi for Vogue Magazine. Did you always aspire to be a model, and are you still excited when you see yourself in print?
Simona Fusco Stratten: I never aspired to be a model. Of course I still get excited when I see myself in print, commercials or movies. Watching your performance is also good for improving your skills.
New Faces: Adding to your accolades, you were one of the finalists in WWE's "Raw Diva Search", airing on Spike TV, tell us what that experience was like and what you learned from it?
Simona Fusco Stratten: WWE was great for getting rid of performance anxiety. Imagine being in front of a huge live audience as well as having hundreds of thousands of viewers. Not much room for error!
New Faces: You recently starred in the Warner Bros. comedy "Beerfest" about two brothers traveling to Germany for Oktoberfest. Did you enjoy the role and what aspects of the character, if any, would you say reflected your own personality?
Simona Fusco Stratten: Beerfest was one of the funniest movies I have done! Broken lizards...what else do I have to say! They are incredibly talented and hilarious. Which aspects of my character reflected my personality....all of it, I am Ulsa!
New Faces: In addition to your film career, you can be seen in the hit HBO series Entourage – which New Faces casts for – what made you want to appear on the series and having done both film and television do you prefer one over the other?
Simona Fusco Stratten: I am a big fan of Entourage. It also completely reflects the lifestyle of an actor living in Los Angeles. Do I prefer TV to movies or vice versa? I love both as long as the project interests me and awakens my spirit inside.
New Faces: What advice would you give to aspiring models and actors?
Simona Fusco Stratten: To follow your role models and do the genres you love, especially at first! My role model is Goldie Hawn. I love comedy and view myself as a comedic actress.
New Faces: What advice would you give regarding all the attention that successful models and actors get and how do you deal with all the attention?
Simona Fusco Stratten: To be honest I don't notice it that much. Never enough attention I guess!
New Faces: What projects are you currently working on, and can you tell us a bit about them?
Simona Fusco Stratten: I am currently working on two other projects. One of them is a comedy and the other a horror movie. I want to try going to the other extreme!
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Q: Asynchronous SQL Operations I've got a problem I'm not sure how best to solve.
I have an application which updates a database in response to ad hoc requests. One request in particular is quite common. The request is an update that by itself is quite simple, but has some complex preconditions.

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*For this request the business layer
first requests a set of data from the
data layer.

*The business logic layer evaluated
the data from the database and
parameters from the request, from
this the action to be performed is
determined, and the request's
response message(s) are created.

*The business layer now executes the
actual update command that is the
purpose of the request.

This last step is the problem, this command is dependent on the state of the database, which might have changed since the business logic ran. Locking down the data read in this operation across several round-trips to the database doesn't seem like a good idea either. Is there a 'best-practice' way to accomplish something like this?
Thanks!

A: In simple terms when you execute the update command you are concerned that the database may have changed?
Then call stored procedures that are written defensively and will only update if the data is in an acceptable state when they are called (by checking the foreign key references, data integrity etc.).
Let me know if I can help in mocking up some aspect of this.

A: You could store the original state of the modified business objects and compare the original objects to their database counterparts to check if anything has been changed.
If changes have been made, then you either have the choice to merge the objects based on the original, modified and stored (database) objects, or to cancel the update and tell the client the update has failed.

A: this is kind of difficult, because there are not many specifics in the question, so I'll just give a simple example that you may be able to apply to your situation.
Load all the data as well as the last changed date (yyyy-mm-dd hh:mi:ss.mmm)
SELECT AAA,BBB,LastChgDate FROM YourTable WHERE ID=xxxxxx

do your business logic
save the data
UPDATE YourTable SET AAA=aaaaa,BBB=bbbbb WHERE ID=xxxxxx AND LastChgDate=zzzzzz

If the row count !=1 then error someone else has changed the data, otherwise the data is saved.

A: Use a proper transaction isolation mode and do everything in a singe database transaction (i.e. start transaction in step 1. and commit after step 3.).
Your question is a little bit vague, but my guess you either need SNAPSHOT or READ COMMITTED mode.

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Q: PapaParse : Arrays undefined after reading - React.js I am reading in a CSV file from a URL path using Papa.parse. The only issue is that once this is read in, I can not calculate the length and therefore iterate through the array to only access certain information in order to calculate min/max of certain columns.
This throws the error:
Uncaught TypeError TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'length')
when trying to calculate the length of the array parsed.
Is there any reason to why Papa.parse does this? I have used it with Promise functions to merge data using Mapbox JS, however I have had issues with accessing the data within the parsed object.
I know Papa is an asynchronous library, I have attempted to put this into a function with no avail. I wish to use these min/max_val values later on for data-driven styling so I would like it to be accessible and not undefined after calculation.
The code used is as follows:
let access_base;
let t;
let csv_data;

const csvData = Papa.parse(url, {
    skipEmptyLines: true,
    dynamicTyping: true,
    download: true,
    complete: function (input) {
    access_base = input.data;
    }
});

t = access_base.length;

for (var i=1; i<t; i++) {
    csv_data.push(access_base[i][3])
};

var min_val = Math.min(csv_data);
var max_val = Math.max(csv_data);

I have also attempted:
const csvData = Papa.parse(url, {
    skipEmptyLines: true,
    dynamicTyping: true,
    download: true,
    complete: function (input) {
        getMinMax(input.data);
    }
});

 function getMinMax(access_base) {
   var t = access_base.length;
   let csv_data;
   for (var i=1; i<t; i++) {
        csv_data.push(access_base[i][3])
   };
   var min_val = Math.min(csv_data);
   var max_val = Math.max(csv_data);
}

Any help would be great. Thank you.

A: There should be no issue with the getMinMax function version of your code. As you state it is a asynchronous library, therefore all of it has been done within the Papa.parse function and it can be parsed to other functions. Check that your URL is displaying the data correctly. You can also parse it to a Promise and debug it to see that it is reading your CSV successful:
    function papaPromise(url) {
        return new Promise(function(resolve,reject) {
            Papa.parse(url, {
                download: true,
                header: true,
                skipEmptyLines: true,
                complete: resolve,
                dynamicTyping: true,
            });
        });
    }


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Feminist Chicana Voice
Emplumada by Lorna Dee Cervantes.
by Linda Napikoski
Linda Napikoski is a writer and grassroots activist with a J.D. international law. Her editorial focus is on feminism and global human rights.
article edited with additions by Jone Johnson Lewis
Born: 1954 in San Francisco
Known For: Chicana poetry, feminism, writing that bridges cultures
Lorna Dee Cervantes is recognized as a significant voice in feminist and Chicana poetry. In fact, she has referred to her adoption of the label "Chicana" as a feminist identification within the Chicano movement. She is critically acclaimed for writing poetry that bridges cultures and explores gender and various points of view.
Born in San Francisco and raised in San Jose, California, Lorna Dee Cervantes has Mexican and Chumash heritage on her mother's side and Tarascan Indian heritage on her father's side. When she was born, her family had been in California for several generations; she has called herself "indigenous Californian." She was raised in her maternal grandmother's home, where she discovered books in homes where her mother worked as a domestic worker.
Lorna Dee Cervantes became an activist when she was a teenager. She was involved with the Women's Liberation Movement, NOW, the Farm Workers Movement, and the American Indian Movement (AIM), among other causes.
Poetry Debut
Lorna Dee Cervantes began writing poetry as a teenager and compiled a collection of her poems at age 15. Although her "debut" poetry collection, Emplumada, was published in 1981, she was a recognized poet before that publication. She participated in the San Jose poetry scene, and in 1974 she read one of her poems at a theater festival performance in Mexico City, which brought her accolades and attention in Mexico.
A Rising Chicana Star
It was not unusual to hear Chicano/a poetry performed as spoken word, not just consumed as a written medium. Lorna Dee Cervantes was a prominent voice of the rising generation of Chicana writers during the 1970s. In addition to writing and performing poetry, she founded Mango Publications in 1976. She also published a journal called Mango. The heady days of running a small press from the kitchen table led to further involvement with Chicano writers such as Sandra Cisneros, Alberto Rios, and Jimmy Santiago Baca.
Women's Experiences
Early in her poetry career, Lorna Dee Cervantes reflected on her mother and grandmother in her writing. She contemplated their place in society as women and as Chicana women. Chicana feminists often wrote of the struggles they faced fitting into white society, paralleled with the struggles of gender in society.
Lorna Dee Cervantes described Emplumada as a woman's coming-of-age and as a rebellion against the male-dominated Chicano movement. She resented being considered disloyal to Chicano social justice ideals when she pointed out sexism in the movement. Poems such as "You Cramp My Style Baby" directly confront the sexism in Chicano men and how Chicana women were treated as second class.
When her mother was killed brutally after Emplumada had been published, she integrated grief and and a strong sense of injustice in her 1991 work. From the Cables of Genocide: Poems of Love and Hunger. Themes of love, hunger, genocide, grief, interweave with her understandings of culture and women, and with a vision of what affirms life.
Lorna Dee Cervantes attended Cal State San Jose and UC Santa Cruz. She was a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder from 1989-2007 and briefly directed the Creative Writing program there. She received multiple prizes and fellowships, including the Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Award, the Pushcart Prize, NEA fellowship grants, and the American Book Award for Emplumada.
Other books by Lorna Dee Cervantes include and Drive: The First Quartet (2005). Her work continues to reflect her ideals of social justice, eco-consciousness, and peace.
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Delaware's 1862 election account revived
According to Bald Cypress Books founder Chris Slavens, "Military Interference With the Election in Delaware, November 4, 1862" might be the most explosive book ever published in Delaware, yet it is almost completely unknown today. SUBMITTED PHOTO
Local publisher Bald Cypress Books announced the release of a new edition of "Military Interference With the Election in Delaware, November 4, 1862," an important but rare title last published by the Delaware General Assembly in 1863.
The nearly 500-page book contains the sworn testimonies of 128 citizens about politically motivated harassment, assaults, illegal arrests and imprisonments, and election tampering up and down the state, coordinated by a faction of Delaware politicians and enforced by federal troops.
Notable figures interviewed during a two-month investigation include Gov. William H. Ross of Seaford, Gov. William Cannon of Bridgeville and Gov. William Burton of Milford. The proceedings were led by Dr. Gove Saulsbury of Dover, then a state senator who would later serve as governor. The book includes the testimonies of citizens from nearly every town in the state, offering a glimpse of Delaware as a bitterly divided border state during the Civil War.
Bald Cypress Books was founded by Chris Slavens in early 2020 for the purpose of publishing books about the history and folklore of the Delmarva Peninsula. "Military Interference" is his first reprint. Slavens transcribed the original text over the course of several months, working from a scanned copy of the hard-to-find first edition.
"This might be the most explosive book ever published in Delaware, yet it is almost completely unknown today," said Slavens. "The testimonies within its pages prove beyond a reasonable doubt that there was a conspiracy to throw the election of 1862, and that the rights of numerous Delawareans were violated for political reasons."
Even so, he notes that he did not express an opinion about the allegations in his brief introduction to the new edition. "I didn't write the book, and didn't feel it was my place to insert my interpretation of its contents. Readers can make up their own minds. My goal was simply to revive and preserve an important Delaware book," he said.
Hardcover and paperback editions are available through major online retailers including Bookshop.org and Barnes & Noble, or locally via baldcypressbooks.com.
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Immigration & The Border
Nielsen says U.S. is working on migration crackdown agreement with Central America
One Democrat said "no amount of verbal gymnastics will change" that the homeland security secretary knew the administration had a policy to separate families at the border.
Nielsen at border security hearing: 'We don't use cages for children'
March 6, 201901:31
By Daniella Silva
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said Wednesday that the U.S. was working on an agreement with Central American countries to crack down on migration, human trafficking and so-called caravans of migrants and refugees as she faced fierce criticism from Democrats about the separations of children from their parents at the border.
The U.S. was expecting to sign "a historic regional compact" with Northern Triangle countries to "counter irregular migration, human smuggling, trafficking and the formation of caravans" in March, Nielsen said during her first congressional appearance since Democrats won the House in the midterm elections.
Last month, Nielsen traveled to Central America to meet with officials from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador to discuss migration and regional security issues.
During an at-times tense hearing before the House Homeland Security Committee, Nielsen faced pointed questions from Democratic lawmakers about the family separations, President Donald Trump's declaration of a national emergency at the southern border and a policy of forcing some migrants to wait in Mexico after seeking asylum in the U.S.
Lawmakers repeatedly criticized Nielsen over her statements that the Trump administration did not have "a policy" of separating migrant families, despite then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions announcing the "zero tolerance" policy last spring. Under that directive, migrant adults who crossed the border illegally faced prosecution, leading to them being separated from their children.
"No amount of verbal gymnastics will change that she knew the Trump administration was implementing a policy to separate families at the border," Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., said of Nielsen.
Rep. Kathleen Rice, D-N.Y., asked Nielsen: "Were you aware that the zero tolerance policy would lead to minors being separated from their parents? Yes or no?"
NewsThousands of allegations of sexual misconduct toward migrant children reported
"As a consequence for a parent going to jail, we in this country do not take the children to jail," Nielsen responded.
Rice said she took Nielsen's response "as a yes."
Later, Nielsen repeated there was never a family separations policy, prompting Rice to heatedly respond: "When you knew that that policy was going to result in children having to be taken away from their parents. That is a policy. You should admit it."
Rice also asked if there had ever been a separated parent deported without finding out if the parent wanted their children deported with them.
"To the best of my knowledge, every parent was afforded that option," Nielsen said.
But as part of a class-action lawsuit, it was revealed that hundreds of parents were deported without their children under the policy last spring, and lawyers have since been working to contact those parents to advise them of their right to be reunified.
In June, a federal judge ordered the reunification of more than 2,700 children who were separated from their parents under the policy. Lawyers from the American Civil Liberties Union are now pressing for the government to reunite potentially thousands of children who were separated before the policy's official announcement.
During Wednesday's hearing, Nielsen also said the administration's goal was to expand its recent policy of forcing some migrants to return to Tijuana while they await asylum hearings in the U.S. "across the border." Officials said last week the policy would be expanding beyond Tijuana in the coming weeks.
Nielsen defended Trump's declaration of a national emergency at the southern border, saying it was not a "manufactured crisis."
PoliticsSince Trump restricted flow at border, more migrants trying to sneak through undetected
During her opening remarks, she said immigration officials saw a 30 percent increase in February of migrants crossing the southern border, adding that at the current pace the U.S. was on track to encounter one million migrants at this year.
She also defended the president's incorrect remarks that there were never "so many apprehensions ever in history," saying that "in some places, we have had record months of families."
Her testimony comes a day after Customs and Border Protection released data showing about 76,000 migrants without the proper documentation to enter the U.S. either presented themselves at legal ports of entry or were apprehended by Border Patrol.
Officials said it was the highest total for February since 2007. Still, it did not set an overall record for border traffic. Before 2008, monthly border crossings were consistently over 100,000, and were higher than 200,000 per month in 2000.
Daniella Silva
Daniella Silva is a reporter for NBC News, specializing in immigration and inclusion issues, as well as coverage of Latin America.


I think this is probably one of the best Halloween ideas I have seen so far! I love it!
If your kiddos are too young to craft, you should still consider doing this project. Yes, you will end up doing all of the work putting it together, but it will definitely be worth it! Just think of how much fun your little one will have knocking down a pyramid of tin cans with their spooky, mummy ball!
In the next couple of days, I plan on making this game for my 11 month old babies. If it turns out cute, I will post pictures on my Facebook page.
This great idea comes from Keeping It Simple. Make sure to visit Kaysi's website for more awesome craft ideas!