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Why we need basic understanding of feminism to talk about sexual assault
Filed under: culture,media,policy,social justice — ononehand @ 4:55 pm
I'm seeing a lot of conversations stir up around victim advocacy and feminism in policy and reporting regarding the recent Rolling Stone story about campus sexual assault. A lot of it is the appropriate review of journalistic standards after a story that, at this point, has definitely not gone well for anyone. Some of it is veering into a critique on whether sensitivity to victims should play a role in reporting at all, or responding to a situation in which such sensitivity was misapplied to launch a campaign against victims.
For anyone who's still confused or anxious about the need for feminist perspectives, allow me to put it this way.
One of society's challenges addressing sexual assault is that dealing with a real story will almost automatically entail some cognitive dissonance. When you are speaking to and about victims who talk about sexual assault, your presumption (based on overwhelming statistical likelihood) should be that they are being truthful and potentially traumatized — yet when you are speaking to and about offenders, all who are implicated in a crime are presumed innocent until found guilty. Both of these are in some ways "liberal" principles and both are necessary to prevent irreparable harm to people. Yet they are cognitively dissonant. It can be confusing to understand how you can empathize totally with victims and at the same time remain fair on matters of due process.
This is why society needs a mindful and sophisticated system for dealing with sexual assault. That includes victims advocates (who are in a separate role from judge and jury, incorporating some elements of the role of a mental health professional and some elements of the role of a personal attorney) and why the public and media should strive for a similarly mindful and sophisticated attitude towards it.
What else should be part of that sophisticated system? Part of it addresses the bullshit, shaming and contradictory expectations we pile on women regarding their sexuality.
Rape is wrong because it violates a person's bodily integrity, privacy, and trust in others — it does so in principle, but also with likelihood to do psychological damage. (You'll notice that this is completely neutral towards a victim's gender.) In the eyes of traditional society, however, rape is wrong because it tarnishes a woman's sexual purity and innocence (which is a gendered interpretation). Therefore, society tends to asses harm done to women by sexual assault by evaluating a victim's state of purity and innocence prior to being sexually assaulted, and continues to question their purity and innocence afterward by evaluating whether they display too much or too little trauma to be trustworthy. Society also tends to be distrustful and patronizing toward women's memories and interpretations — this can include police, investigators and prosecutors, who are usually men. That's utterly immoral and damaging to put a victim through.
Identifying these gender-based double standards, and shifting towards gender equity, is feminism. I don't think society's approach to sexual assault can be considered sophisticated, or even competent, without universal understanding of feminist perspectives.
Campaigns to change attitudes towards sexual assault are often challenged by skeptics speaking as if there are "two sides" to the issue. Granted, on any topic, every individual has her or his own experience and so there is an unlimited number of "sides." But I think it's very ironic when one cause, seeking to improve general understanding of what sexual assault is and the harm it does to victims so that the incidents don't happen in the first place, are asked to consider the other "side" — the experience of the accused. Mind you, the main goal of anti-rape activists, who are painfully aware that many offenders are said to "seem like nice guys" who for whatever reason fail to register the humanity of a person they victimize, is to change the culture to prevent there from being victims or offenders in the first place.
We are universally educated about due process — yes even feminists are — so we don't need to lecture women, feminists or victims advocates about due process. They all know what it is. But feminist perspectives, though diverse, still face misunderstanding and resistance. So, yes, you need to learn about feminism to speak competently about sexual assault, because in the absence of that knowledge there is bias. There's room for different viewpoints when you get there, but you have to have that basic groundwork of knowledge to play a positive role.
A simple trick to stop 'arguing' and be really persuasive
Filed under: culture,science — ononehand @ 2:07 pm
Tags: advice, culture, how-to, ideas, lifehacking, persuasion, psychology
There's a tendency to think of persuasion in terms of winning an argument or debate. You're trying to be rational: you're thinking that if you defend your position with logic and evidence, and prove that the counter-arguments are false, the other person is now obligated to switch to your view.
If only life were so simple. In your mind you have proven you are right, but the other person is just thinking she or he needs to do some homework to come up with a better rebuttal tomorrow. Once you set someone up as your intellectual adversary they are not going to cross the line to join you.
That might be why political debates don't have a significant influence on elections, no matter how well one side does or how eloquently the positions are argued. People root for the candidate they already support, and the arguments can stir up enthusiasm but they don't "convert." There's a very different way that candidates vie for votes.
The reality is that people in the day-to-day world believe things because they want to. There are just far too many competing ideas and decisions to make to investigate each one objectively. Everyone is able to weigh different factors — pros and cons — to arrive at an opinion or decision, but the weight people grant to each factor comes down to how much they like and identify with it.
Persuading effectively comes down to this simple approach:
Identify an idea that you and your audience can already agree on. (Common values or principles, something you might both say is a problem, a universal need, etc.)
Validate your audience's existing beliefs, observations and experiences.
Explain that those same reasons drive you to stand where you do.
And that's basically it. People are very inclined to side with you simply because you are someone with similar concerns and reached the conclusion you did.
The main goals are to be relatable — the person you are trying to persuade is your peer, not inferior to you — and to emphasize your area of agreement so much that the other factors fade from mind.
Here's the important part: DO NOT argue points where you disagree. Acknowledge them as valid points and then steer the conversation away from them. No matter how ridiculous you think they are and no matter how strong your evidence against them is, you're not going to convince people their own interests or ideas are wrong. They will always be a factor, but you can say that a different set of factors (the ones that support your cause) are more compelling for you.
Think back to the last time you observed a political campaign. One thing you won't see a candidate do is try to get voters to change their minds about their basic ideals and principles. They won't try to convert liberals into conservatives or convert conservatives into liberals, but the candidates will jump and tumble over each other trying to validate the experiences and values of crucial swing voters.
They'll say, "We know that families in Ohio are struggling." (something that they've poll-tested to be sure the audience they're targeting agrees). "Jobs have been shipped overseas, and too many people are worried whether the manufacturing industry — once the backbone of the American economy — is ever going to come back…" (validating the audience's existing worries and experiences) "…which is why I have a plan to create more than a million new manufacturing jobs over the next five years."
This candidate might disagree with the target audience when it comes to immigration policy, foreign policy or social issues, but isn't going to try to sway their minds on those things. She'll just keep hammering on areas where she and the audience agree, and try to make the election all about those things.
Now I call this a "trick" because that's what it is; while it comes instinctively to many people, it's a technique that can help you towards high-minded goals as well as goals that are very selfish and manipulative. If you're trying to get people to turn against their own interests, eventually they're going to figure that out and you might never gain their trust again. And if someone senses over time that you're only feigning commonality to persuade them without being open to their ideas as well, they're going to get really annoyed and stop listening to you. You're better off if you're looking to learn from people as much as to persuade them.
So be genuine and authentic, approach everyone by trying to find your common ground, and stop wasting your energy arguing! (Unless it's something you really enjoy doing.)
Journalists: Stop Rolling Over For Your Detractors
Filed under: culture,media — ononehand @ 7:02 pm
Tags: media bias, press
Journalism is an important institution in the free world. Few dispute this. Journalism is an important institution in America, too; one so valuable that the framers of our Constitution chose to codify the freedom of the press in the First Amendment.
We live in a complicated world. Few dispute this. Nobody has time to absorb information found in every corner; ordinary Americans do not have time to resolve, for themselves, the inner happenings of the titans on Wall Street or the troubled alleys in Afghanistan. Ordinary citizens do not have time to investigate potential corruption in government or the potential outcomes of current economic trends.
We the people rely on other people to gather that information for us: we rely on journalists.
People will criticize the press for doing just that. This is not a new or controversial statement. The act of journalism has been imbued with constant accusations of "bias," since its beginning, and on many occasions in history governments as well as private institutions have tried to shut it down. The way this story is written clearly benefits the Left, or benefits the Right, a detractor will say.
That may be true. But a story is still a story. (more…)
Out Front Colorado's Stuff Gay People Like: Being Shirtless
Filed under: culture — ononehand @ 10:00 am
If a straight man suddenly strips off his shirt in public, it means he wants to fight somebody. Either that or he just found out there's a bee in it. But the bottom line is that wearing shirts is considered the norm for most straight guys.
Not so for gay men, who take great pleasure in letting everyone know when they've been to the gym, and reminding them of it, again, and again, and again. A gay man requires little provocation to bare skin and any of the following factors suggest shirtlessness: It's a nightclub. He's jogging. It's a sunny summer day. Somebody shouted "strip!" A webcam is on. He's just been brutally defeated at beer pong. It's his Connexion profile. He's in California. He wants to get back at his boyfriend, or ex-boyfriend. He is in a gay-themed advertisement. His drunk friend made an unserious comment about him taking off clothes so now he has to make her regret it. He's at Pride. Someone is taking a picture. He is dancing. It is part of his Halloween costume. He wants you to see his tattoo.
And when it comes to willingness to take off pants in public, gay guys are light years ahead of straight guys. (more…)
Healthcare Reform: Post-Mortem
Filed under: culture,elections,policy — ononehand @ 1:05 am
Tags: healthcare
Two comments; first: Yeah! We did it! Change!
And then: what the hell happened?
We had a popular new Democratic president with outstanding rhetorical skills, elected with the biggest percentage of voters in 20 years – largely on plans to reform healthcare – allied by the biggest Democratic majority in congress since 1976 – and in spite of that it took a year-long, caustic and fierce battle to the brink of political suicide to enact a bill that is so moderate and incremental that a liberal Republican could have thought of it. Indeed it has key elements John McCain supported in 2008 and looks somewhat like what Mitt Romney enacted in Massachusetts.
I'll say it again: "Obamacare" is moderate and incremental. It doesn't go as far to cover everyone as we will need to go in the future, and some will say it doesn't even go far enough for now. Yet we've come out with a country more divided, with a more fearful status-quo, than we have seen since the Civil Rights era.
Lets create a scale of government involvement in a healthcare system for perspective. A totally government-run and non-optional healthcare system where all doctors and healthcare workers are government employees – say Cuba's system – is ranked as 100 in government involvement. A totally unregulated "Ayn Rand's Dream" free-market system where you only get what you can personally pay for even if you're dying, and providers can set whatever price they want, will be a 0 in government involvement.
That would mean "Obamacare" moved us from about a 25 to a 35. Most of the developed world is between 50 and 90.
The National Health Service in the U.K., in which the government employs all doctors but a small minority of citizens still choose private plans and there are small fees for most services, would be a 95. Canada's government-insured system where the government pays for care but you get it from private doctor's offices and hospitals, would be about a 60 with some government and some market. A private insurance system that contains one "public option" letting people buy insurance from the government if they want – a true balance letting individuals opt for a government or private system – would be about a 45. Switzerland's system with compulsory health insurance from nonprofit private companies (banned by law from earning a profit on their services) would be about a 40. America's pre-2010 system, which guarantees care in worst-case scenarios where you are broke but dragged to the hospital bleeding, and provides mostly-free care to seniors, some poor people and veterans – but is mostly market-run and leaves many uninsured – would be about a 25. The new system, when fully initiated after 2014, will ensure that anyone can some level of routine care if they want it and enforces penalties to encourage everyone to do so, but from private companies that earn lots of profit for providing care. It's a 35.
The changes will make a big difference for many uninsured and under-insured Americans, but the post-"Obamacare" American healthcare system is still one of the most right-leaning and market-oriented systems in the developed world. And the right-leaning half of the country is treating it like the plague.
So, what the hell happened!?
One word: politics. (more…)
The Current Debate Over American Education is Classist
Filed under: culture,social justice — ononehand @ 9:29 pm
You can't convince me how you believe in the potential of kids from low-income, failing schools, and then in the same breath argue that people who grew up in those schools are bad candidates to be teachers.
But that's what a recent article in Newsweek seems to do, in a discussion of the need to fire teachers whose students underperform, and the need to recruit new teachers who came from more prestegious colleges.
I don't dispute the article's sentiment towards bad teachers, but this quote from a sidebar in the Newsweek article caught my eye: in "2000, 37% of teachers [came] from colleges with SAT scores in the lowest 5%," explaining that this happens because teaching is an "undesirable" fall-back job.
The SAT, like the ACT and every standardized test, does not measure intelligence: it measures the value of your pre-college education. So if the public education system is flawed – and the Newsweek article argues yes, it is – it seems ridiculous to be judging students or their colleges on what their SAT scores were or what their school's average SAT scores were. Consider also that a college with SAT scores in the lowest 5% are not representing the lowest 5% of students, but rather, the lowest 5% SAT-scoring colleges, which still select from higher-performing high school graduates and represent closer to the 50th percentile of all students.
Essentially, the statement in Newsweek is like saying low-income people who graduated from urban schools with average test scores and worked their way through school at the city college are a black stain on the educational system as teachers, compared to students who went to major universities and lived in the dorms. This is a prime example of the politics of privilege.
Yes, there are myrad problems with schools in America, which is why, as Newsweek itself cites, kids who grow up in low-income households underperform middle-class students, and black and hispanic kids underperform white kids in public schools year after year. It has been a permanent problem plaguing the country and proving that some injustice is taking place. And while teacher incompetence might be a factor in school districts everywhere, it does not explain the fullness of this disparity.
Poverty is one of the most obvious unaddressed factors here, but here's something else that stands a chance of explaining much of this issue. The vast majority of teachers are white and come from middle-class backgrounds. In schools where the majority of students are Hispanic or black, the white teachers are a "ruling class" of sorts in an intrinsically sensitive situation as the ones making crucial decisions for and wielding authority over people who are different from them. We know that to grow up white in America is to be instilled with subtle and overt cues that your own culture, values and experiences are superior; considering the power a teacher has over her or his students, it would be so easy for conscious and unconscious biases to affect the students. Teacher training programs often pay some lip-service to diversity, but cannot be truly effective unless they are led and organized by people from diverse backgrounds who aren't afraid to "go there."
Perhaps the fact that white, middle-class people who have not been thoroughly trained in anti-racism dominate the American teaching class is responsible for some of the following facts: (more…)
J.K. Rowling explains the Benefits of Failure
Filed under: culture — ononehand @ 12:10 pm
Tags: education, privilege, stratification
I was inspired by this video where J.K. Rowling, the author of Harry Potter – who was living off of government welfare when she wrote her first book – explains the benefit of personal failure and disadvantage.
J.K. Rowling Speaks at Harvard Commencement from Harvard Magazine on Vimeo.
I've often had mixed feelings about academia, which seems to, on one hand, be a noble realm of liberalism and ideas, designed to encourage our brightest minds to collaborate for a common good. On the other hand, academia is full of institutions of privilege that are designed take smaller distinctions in competence and intelligence on admissions requirements, and make them big distinctions through opportunity and prestige by the time of graduation.
It seems that the ultimate goal of presidents and faculty members who aim to make their academic institutions "prestegious," is to aid and increase social inequality and stratification. They want to give their graduates the best footing compared to everyone else, and the differences between the Ivy Leaguer and the non Ivy Leaguer are much greater after graduation than before.
That's hardly the utopian aim of bettering society, and hardly makes education "the great equalizer."
My personal experience colors my mood towards academia. I don't think I lacked the intelligence to go to a prestegious out-of-state school; teachers and counselors pointed me in that direction from an early age and insisted I was sufficiently talented. I think that I didn't have that opportunity because it was too expensive and because personal burdens I have faced made a single-minded quest for success impossible. My dream was to go to NYU, and while my high school grades and test scores were sufficient, I realized it was out of my price range by a factor of five. Similarly, I think that the privileges I have had by being white and middle-class and male are unearned, and I don't know if I could get even to where I have gotten if my background was different.
These are all questions we have to face living in a society that deems itself a "meritocracy," that still holds a comparitive model of success even as it attempts to develop a fair and coherent system for evaluating success.
Those feelings really come to a head when it comes to my thoughts an institution such as Harvard, which, as a liberal person, I want to defend from the irrational hatred of the Right, yet I have seen much conceit and privilege come from there, as well as ideas that are much less than progressive. How does one, then, gracefully address the unearned privileges that go unrecognized in Harvard's student body, and yet honor the hard work and merit that its graduates have invariably accomplished?
I think that J.K. Rowling, who saw some period of despair after she graduated from college, does a brilliant job of putting the culture of success in privileged academia in proper context without making assumptions or rabble-rousing.
Harry Potter is often slighted by elites in literature and art as being unintellectual and phillistine; I had plenty of English professors who reflected that sentiment. But she is also the person who made writing – a traditionally poorly-paying profession – into the most lucrative, as she is the richest person in the United Kingdom today. It is hard to say her interpretation of literature is less valuable or prestegious than theirs in light of that, and it's hard to knock on her in light of a speech that is similarly nuanced and insightful.
This video is two years old, but I stumbled upon it today and had to pass it on.
Confession: I Have a Farm on Farmville
Filed under: culture,sociology — ononehand @ 12:30 pm
Tags: facebook, internet
I used to reflexively put all my friends' application items on "hide" when they showed up on my Facebook news feed. That included annoying, meaningless notifications like "Christina could use some help fertilizing her crops!" or "Dan found a baby calf on his FarmVille, will you give it a home?"
When I saw a friend obsessively tending to her FarmVille Farm, I asked what it was about, and she was happy to explain. Farmville looks kind of like SimCity – a game I loved as a kid – except that instead of zoning for homes you plant crops, and come back to harvest them when they are grown, which brings in money you can put into buying equipment or more crops. In the communication era there is an added social element that traditional computer games from my youth didn't have, and that is in peer networks; in Farmville you can send gifts to other users or add them as "neighbors" in the game so they come fertilize your crops, which scores you both points. You can decorate your farm to make it look nice for when visitors see it on their own computers, and there are even certain items on Farmville that you can only get with the help of others, which help you advance or bring in cash.
The game looked amusing enough, so I said why not and signed myself up – it's free, and I figured you can put in as much or as little time as you want to. But there's a problem with that kind of test-the-waters approach – FarmVille is addictive. It's designed to give you early rewards, along with increasing responsibility. They start you off with a surge of excitement as you harvest fast-growing crops (strawberries mature in four hours) and advance through the early levels quickly. But as soon you plant something, you give yourself the requirement of coming back soon or face the risk of having unharvested crops linger too long and "wither" to brown twigs, turning moneymakers to money sinks.
A quick google search will indicate how many people are hooked on this game – there are dozens of blogs devoted to Farmville tips and strategy, and communities both for and against the rapidly-growing phoenomenon. At the time of me writing this on January 11, 2010, there are about 75 million people using Farmville across the world (and growing exponentially as each user brings in two or three friends). To put that in perspective, if each of those users spent an hour a day on the game (which would not be far-fetched and many people put much more time into it), the application would be accumulating as many hours of attention as the entire economy of a small country or a medium-sized American state. Picture every working-aged person in Ohio waking up at dawn to harvest the digital pumpkins and plant daffodils, which will be ready in 2 days.
I remember when I was sixteen and people treated the Internet as a geeky thing that socially-awkward people were drawn to. "You actually have a website up there?" someone would ask with a wrinkled nose, talking about my Friendster account or, later on, my profile on an early version of Myspace. "How creepy. You talk to people? Are they, like, stalkers or something?" Now, virtually everyone under the age of 40 along with a hefty dose of those over 40 have Facebook accounts. Maybe Farmville is the next Facebook, if the 70 million users (and growing!) are any indication: this stuff can catch on fast.
Now I'm checking my Facebook friends' news feeds for brown or golden chicken eggs somebody found in a chicken coop that, if clicked, will give my farm new chickens or occasionally other treats like a fig tree or water trough.
A friend told me I was being ridiculous. "That isn't even real," she told me, and asked me how a pursuit that can only serve to be cyclical (harvest crops to earn money to plant crops) is worthwhile.
Well, I said, isn't that cycle a lot like the way the real world works? FarmVille is like capitalism, intrinsically connected to the idea of perpetual growth. Think about it: all you really need to survive as a human being is 2,000 calories a day, a roof over your head and maybe, you could argue, medicine. Things like television, computers, brand name clothing and updated styles in furniture are all vanity and excess. Things we grow so used to that we consider them "necessities" and couldn't imagine living without them. Plop a guy from 40,000 BCE into our society and he'll be thinking how about I set up a leather tent in your back yard, work an hour a day to pay for canned beans and rice and have 23 hours of free time to do whatever the hell I want? That's the life! Most people aren't the caveman, though; most of them work hard for extra pay and buy nice things all for the sake of keeping up with the Joneses, which is all I'm doing on my farm – harvesting crops, buying expansions and keeping up. I don't want my friends reaching level 15 before I do!
I have only been on FarmVille for three days. I am generally motivated by novelty, but novelty by definition doesn't last. I'm sure that as time goes by the excitement will wane and harvesting virtual crops will settle into the same smooth daily predictability of checking my inbox or brushing my teeth. I'll let the artichokes sit ripe for a few hours till I have time to get them, maybe losing one or two to withering every now and then but generally keeping things regular and comfortable.
In the meantime, my first crop of yellow bell peppers is ninety-five percent grown and I am absolutely thrilled. A few of my friends fertilized them for me, so we'll have bulging, sparkling yellow produce in no time. I could leave them alone to look pretty on my farm, but instead I'll harvest them the second they finish, to plant new seeds – time is money! We value hard work here on FarmVille!
In the beginning, and I suppose even now, I'm a little embarrassed to be caught up in this. I'll click "ignore" when the game prompts me to post eggs on my wall for friends to collect from me – instead I email them directly to someone who sent eggs to me first. I don't want people to see lots of FarmVille notifications on my public wall and realize that I'm obsessed with a computer game.
But outsiders oughtn't be so quick to judge, really. If you haven't gotten on FarmVille yet, open an acre and see if you can play for a half an hour without getting as hooked as you were as a kid when you brought home your first baby pet.
Seriously, I dare you.
How do you pronounce 2010?
Filed under: culture — ononehand @ 2:00 pm
Tags: just for fun, language
I was hoping that 2010 would be the first year we start pronouncing years the way they were pronounced every year of my life until 2000. That would be, 2010 is "twenty ten" rather than "two thousand and ten," the same way that 1999 was "nineteen ninety nine" instead of "one thousand nine hundred and ninety nine."
But if you follow YouTube and television – which are collectively the the pulse of American culture – it seems that less than a full day into the year we have already gotten on in the habit of pronouncing 2010 the same way we pronounced 2009. Maybe this won't be year it changes back to the more efficient pronunciation, and it's possible that a change won't become popular for a few more years until 2013; we've already gotten accustomed to saying "two thousand twelve" when we talk about the film 2012, and those habits stick. According to some, the last decade was full of "the two thousands" in part because of the pronunciation of the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey
Speaking of the last decade, the way we refer to 2000-2009 as a historic period might be an even more poignant issue of nomenclature, since everyone, even now, stumbles when describing the decade we just got through. The "two thousands" sounds extremely clumsy, and does not parallel "the sixties" or "the nineteen hundreds" the way "the twenty hundreds" would. (Some have suggested "the naughts" as a good way to say it, reflecting the zeros as well as the fact that we're leaving the decade on a sour note of lost productivity and political stalemates.)
In most Online polls, a majority of respondents preferred "two thousand and ten" to "twenty ten," and a few had some irritable or extremely angry comments directed at those who would pronounce 2010 in a new way. They'd be singing a different tune if newscasters switched their pronunciation and everyone had to follow in.
To me, "twenty-ten" sounds better and smoother, but whenever I mention the year the words that come out of my mouth are the same old "two thousand and ten," running just on instinct. Perhaps the naysayers are not being stubborn or moralistic about a petty issue so much as just being more honest than I am about what they're likely to do.
2012: Colonialism Revisited?
Few would see a movie like 2012 expecting a heartrending story line or touching lesson in human nature. From the onset the purpose of the film is clear: we're going to blow this place up.
That was certainly the reason I rushed to see it on opening night, after the trailer laid it out for us in telling sneak peeks: Acres of city blocks slide like clods of dirt into the Pacific Ocean. A Buddhist monk rings a sacred bell as a tidal wave the size of a continent washes over the desolate Himalayas, killing him. 2012 boasts itself with scenes that are as awe-strickening as they are disturbingly beautiful.
As far as that goes, the only criticism I can offer is that the film pivots, about a quarter of the way in, from going too slow to suddenly going way too fast. A few mild tremors shake Los Angeles in the first part of the film – during a painfully tedious exposition to let characters reveal their cliche family backstories – and then without warning, Southern California splits itself apart in an abyss as deep as the Marianas Trench. The next thing we know, Yellowstone Caldera is erupting as a supervolcano in a bang so powerful it sends out shockwaves and a mushroom cloud akin to a Hydrogen bomb. (True to action movie form, the explosion rips over the hills at thousands of miles per hour until it approaches our protagonists fleeing in a lumbering motor home, and slows to their pace for their nail-biting escape. The explosion seems to pause or even retreat for several minutes as they scramble out of the vehicle into a parked airplane, but quickly re-accelerates to barely kiss the tail of their plane as it speeds away, churning with black smoke, glowing rocks and lava all the while.)
By the time Yellowstone has erupted, the world is basically over. The skies darken. Subsequent scenes of destruction are posed as an afterthought. "Oh, by the way," the President's Chief of Staff explains to aides in Washington, "Rio de Janiero was just destroyed by an earthquake" (cue footage of Christ Redeemer crumbling off its perch), then in a similarly decontextualized scene, we watch St. Peter's Basilica collapse and kill the entire hierarchy of the Catholic Church along with prayerful masses (we see nothing of the rest of Rome, though). When our protagonists get their airplane to Las Vegas, most of its hotels and casinos have already anticlimactically collapsed into the core of the Earth in a giant earthquake, and we witness the ruins of Las Vegas astride a seemingly infinite abyss. Washington D.C. is next to go, at a pace that is almost too fast to comprehend; an earthquake takes down the Washington Monument, then a gigantic, yawning tidal wave rises out of the Atlantic and looms over the city (which is covered by volcanic ash from Yellowstone), but the film cuts away just as the U.S.S. John F. Kennedy, an aircraft carrier, lands on top of the White House.
Scenes such as this will continue through the rest of the film, revealing impending disasters but ending before the actual destruction ensues. Tidal ways loom up, but we cut away before the waves strike, and we assume that the characters who stood watching it are killed. Earthquakes begin but leave the scene before they reach their full strength. In other cases, we happen upon a ruined city that has already been destroyed, as happens with Honolulu, covered by lava. Most often we get even less than this: a military commander tells a diplomat that "Tokyo has been destroyed by an earthquake. Singapore has been wiped out by a wave." The most dramatic disaster scene of the film remains the drawn-out Los Angeles earthquake from the beginning.
The thing that is notably missing from the film is discussion of the Mayan prophesy (or rather, rumor) of destruction in 2012 that is its impetus and namesake. If the film had the spiritualistic or supernatural overtone, then maybe the rapid succession of perfect coincidences that destroy the Earth's cities would have a haunting poignancy. Instead, we are left only with science to explain what is going on, and the science falls flat. (According to 2012, solar flares make the lower Earth's crust melt and the continents slide around through the ocean like leaves on a pond.) We learn that the planets line up in such a way as to lead to these events every 650,000 years, even though there has certainly never been an event like this in Earth's history, which has been through almost 7 thousand 650-million year periods in its 4.5 billion years. As exposited in the film, the geophysical anomalies leading to the Earth's destruction cause the continents to shift thousands of miles in the blink of an eye – something that requires them to move at tens of thousands of miles per hour, yet nobody on the ground is flung into space as would realistically happen if that occurred. This all happens magically on the ground without so much as cough of disturbance in the atmosphere, as observers in airplanes don't figure out that land masses have moved until suddenly what they thought should be Guam turns out to be Tibet.
It is the end of the film that really gets me, though (Spoiler Alert). Beyond all the drama of survivors taking refuge in gigantic futuristic arks (tickets cost a billion Euro, so it is the world's richest people who survive – our middle-class protagonists are stowaways) that the world's governments had been building all along for mankind's survival, the last scene in the movie tells us where humanity will go to rebuild: Africa.
According to the final scenes of 2012, in all the earthquakes and tectonic shifting, Africa has risen in elevation so much that it avoided being washed over by tidal waves that obliterated the rest of the planet. The Cape of Good Hope is now the highest point on Earth, which is, confusingly, where the world's governments decide to set up humanity again, on the peaks of what will likely turn out to be glaciated mountains (sounds like paradise, right?). Our protagonist tells his children, who mourn the loss of their Southern California home, that they will find new homes where they are going.
But – uh – don't people already live in Africa? Mayans were the first ethnic group be written out of 2012, Latinos are strikingly absent from the casting, and now the narrative suggests that native Africans are absent from the Earth. Forgive me for my politics, but it seems that having the world's billionaires land on a dark-skinned continent to "re-build humanity," as the story explains, is just a tad colonialist. There is no reference to the African governments, which were evidently not even part of the international ark-building program to begin with. I'm confused if the film's writers see all Africans simply as tribal nomatic peoples, or as so militaristically primitive that it just doesn't matter whether or not they already own the land you want to take. Perhaps the pending television series will elucidate this further.
I would say that 2012 has the basic structure of a great disaster movie, with awe-inspiring computer-generated explosions akin to Armageddon and Independence Day. But it tries too hard to be something else; if its all about the disasters, then the disasters should follow the same natural arc that any good story line does: subtle at first, but introduced to witnesses (in this case, the world's population) through a gradual process of discovery, first with small bad news, then in steps to full awareness. In 2012, everyone outside a secretive government agency finds out that the world is ending after it is already well under way. There is no great "pending doom" scenes as occur in the latter parts of The Knowing where the horizon glows red with what is to come. There is no gradual escalation of events like the way small volcanic eruptions and gas emissions precede the big climactic pyroclastic explosion in Dante's Peak. For the full effect, panic needs to slowly build through political wrangling, small cities taken down, riots, disasters following realistic trajectories, looting and then outright terror before the world's ultimate demise rather than mundane obliviousness until suddenly your home and city is swallowed by the Earth.
Finally, the end of the movie leaves out bits of information that nerds like me are interested in most. What is the state of natural flora in preserved Africa, or in the rest of the world? The closing scene zooms out to show us a remodeled Africa (with drastically altered coastlines), the lone continent that has not been stripped bare by waves, and its central parts are still green. But what about the rest of the Earth? Does Florida border Argentina now? Is Antarctica to turn into a tropical paradise? The producers were either too lazy or just didn't think audiences would care enough to want to see what has changed. In a movie that utterly lacks a decent human story, there is too much emphasis on the human story when those of us who did like the film liked it for one reason alone: the awe-inspiring natural world.


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Christmas movies get raunchy with VH1's 'Naughty or Nice'
VH1 is sexing up the holidays this year with a slate of "Naughty or Nice" Christmas movies that are definitely not for the kiddies.
The slate includes "The Bitch Who Stole Christmas," starring RuPaul; "Let's Get Merried," in which women at a bachelorette party talk graphically about sex; and "Miracles Across 125th Street," starring Nick Cannon (more on that later).
"We wanted to break the mold in a loud way," Nina L. Diaz, president of content for MTV Entertainment Group, told the Los Angeles Times. "Christmas movies usually offer comfort food, which is great. But Christmas films that are disruptive, edgy and more diverse are long overdue.
"We also wanted to open doors to fresh voices and have a more inclusive slate of movies that you haven't seen before."
"The Bitch Who Stole Christmas" (Dec. 2 at 9 p.m.) features "a workaholic big-city fashion journalist" who's sent to "a Christmas-obsessed small town," according to a press release, "when she finds herself in the middle of cutthroat housewives, a high-stakes 'Winter Ball' competition, and a sinister plot." As the LA Times noted, it includes double-entendres including, "If by construction you mean handling heavy pipes with my hands, then yeah, I do construction." RuPaul is joined by co-stars including Michelle Visage and Krysta Rodriguez.
RuPaul in "The Bitch Who Stole Christmas," airing this Thursday (Dec. 2) on VH1.
"I'm a sucker for Christmas movies … But we've had enough of that regular, boring formula," Visage told the LA Times. "This movie has the most drag queens ever, and they're doing what they do — bringing the fun."
"Hip Hop Family Christmas" (Dec. 6 at 9 p.m.) — starring Keri Hilson, Ne-Yo, Terrence J, Jodi Lyn O'Keefe and Serayah — revolves around a famous hip-hop family that "agrees to participate in a live Christmas television special to address negative press and soften their image."
"Hip Hop Family Christmas."
In "Let's Get Merried" (Dec. 13 at 9 p.m.) — executive-produced by Eva Longoria — a "bachelorette weekend at a Christmas-themed adventure park gets all kinds of holly jolly when a hard-partying, down-on-her-luck, holiday-hater decides to get married." Stars include Mishel Prada, Tahj Mowry, Nicole Power and Xosha Roquemore.
"Miracles Across 125th Street (Dec. 20 at 9 p.m.) features Cannon as a Harlem rapper who, after battling drug addiction, "returns to his family's church to confront his past on Christmas Eve." He's joined by Lil' Kim, Tommy Davidson, Rickey Smiley, Teyana Taylor and others.
There's also "Adventures in Christmasing," which premiered Monday night, in which "a highly successful and meticulous talk show host" (played by Kim Fields) finds her holiday upended "when her network persuades her to spend three days in the wild with superstar adventurer & television survivalist Finn Holt (Adrian Holmes) for a holiday television event." Fields is an executive producer and collaborated with Rhonda Baraka on the idea for the movie.
"I enjoy the genre, but I especially enjoy pushing the envelope in the genre," Fields told the LA Times.
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CNN suspends Chris Cuomo 'indefinitely'

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Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans is a Gram-negative organism, strongly associated with aggressive forms of periodontitis. An important virulence property of A. actinomycetemcomitans is its ability to form tenacious biofilms that can attach to abiotic as well as biotic surfaces. The histone-like (H-NS) family of nucleoid-structuring proteins act as transcriptional silencers in many Gram-negative bacteria. To evaluate the role of H-NS in A. actinomycetemcomitans, hns mutant derivatives of serotype a strain D7S were generated. Characteristics of the hns mutant phenotype included shorter and fewer pili, and substantially lower monospecies biofilm formation relative to the wild type. Furthermore, the D7S hns mutant exhibited significantly reduced growth within a seven-species oral biofilm model. However, no apparent difference was observed regarding the numbers and proportions of the remaining six species regardless of being co-cultivated with D7S hnsor its parental strain. Proteomics analysis of the strains grown in monocultures confirmed the role of H-NS as a repressor of gene expression in A. actinomycetemcomitans. Interestingly, proteomics analysis of the multispecies biofilms indicated that the A. actinomycetemcomitanswild type and hns mutant imposed different regulatory effects on the pattern of protein expression in the other species, i.e., mainly Streptococcus spp., Fusobacterium nucleatum, and Veillonella dispar. Gene ontology analysis revealed that a large portion of the differentially regulated proteins was related to translational activity. Taken together, our data suggest that, apart from being a negative regulator of protein expression in A. actinomycetemcomitans, H-NS promotes biofilm formation and may be an important factor for survival of this species within a multispecies biofilm.


A leaking roof left un-fixed will lead to serious damage. Signs of leaks include water entry in the roof, damp insulation and even stains or mould. Severe roof damage as a result of storms can be reduced if roof repairs and maintenance are carried out before they get too bad.
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Q: Need to update a query from dropdown section Mates, I have this dropdown menu and I need to update a section and the database with a radio button whenever any user clicks it. I' m not sure how can I achieve it.

My dropdown looks like this

  <button onclick="myFunction()" class="dropMenu">Welcome: <?php echo $_SESSION['username']; ?></button>

  <form class="form">

Make Resume Public?

      <input type="radio" id="switch_left" name="switch_2" value="yes" checked/>
      Yes
      <input type="radio" id="switch_right" name="switch_2" value="no" />
      No

</form>

    <?php
    $switch_2 = $_POST['switch_2'];

    $qry = "UPDATE resumes SET public = :public WHERE memberID = :memberID";
    $stm = $db->prepare($qry);
    $stm->bindParam(':public', $switch_2, PDO::PARAM_STR);
    $stm->bindParam(':memberID', $uid, PDO::PARAM_STR);
    $stm->execute();
    ?>

    <?php
    $stmt = $db->prepare("select * from jobs where jobposterID = '".$_SESSION['memberID']."'");
            $stmt->execute();
            $jobs = $stmt->rowCount();
    ?>
    <a href="<?php echo DIR; ?>my-jobs.php"> MY JOBS (<?php echo $jobs; ?>)
    <a href="<?php echo DIR; ?>applied-jobs.php"> APPLIED JOBS
    <a href="<?php echo DIR; ?>viewed-jobs.php"> VIEWED JOBS
    <a href="<?php echo DIR; ?>logout.php"> LOGOUT

and i needed this portion to be updated whichever gets clicked should update database and remain selected
<form class="form">

Make Resume Public?

      <input type="radio" id="switch_left" name="switch_2" value="yes" checked/>
      Yes
      <input type="radio" id="switch_right" name="switch_2" value="no" />
      No

</form>

    <?php
    $switch_2 = $_POST['switch_2'];

    $qry = "UPDATE resumes SET public = :public WHERE memberID = :memberID";
    $stm = $db->prepare($qry);
    $stm->bindParam(':public', $switch_2, PDO::PARAM_STR);
    $stm->bindParam(':memberID', $uid, PDO::PARAM_STR);
    $stm->execute();
    ?>

Appreciate your help and time.

A: I am assuming that you are able to update the database.
Here is the code to get the radio button selected
        <?php
        $switch_2 = $_POST['switch_2'];

        $qry = "UPDATE resumes SET public = :public WHERE memberID = :memberID";
        $stm = $db->prepare($qry);
        $stm->bindParam(':public', $switch_2, PDO::PARAM_STR);
        $stm->bindParam(':memberID', $uid, PDO::PARAM_STR);
        $stm->execute();
        ?>

        <?php
        $stmt = $db->prepare("select * from jobs where jobposterID = '".$_SESSION['memberID']."'");
                $stmt->execute();
                $jobs = $stmt->rowCount();
        ?>
        <a href="<?php echo DIR; ?>my-jobs.php"> MY JOBS (<?php echo $jobs; ?>)
        <a href="<?php echo DIR; ?>applied-jobs.php"> APPLIED JOBS
        <a href="<?php echo DIR; ?>viewed-jobs.php"> VIEWED JOBS
        <a href="<?php echo DIR; ?>logout.php"> LOGOUT

    <form class="form" id="form_abc" action="">

Make Resume Public?

          <input type="radio" id="switch" name="switch_2" value="yes" <?php echo ($public =='Yes') ? 'checked' : ''; ?>/>

          Yes

          <input type="radio" id="switch" name="switch_2" value="no" <?php echo ($public =='No') ? 'checked' : ''; ?> />
          No

    </form>

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With just enough spicy kick and loads of chicken, it is hearty enough for a one-bowl meal.
Heat oil in an electric skillet over medium heat (300°F). Add onion and jalapeño (if using) and cook, stirring often, for 2-3 minutes, or until just starting to brown.
Add chicken, garlic, oregano, cumin, and chili powder. Stir for 2 minutes, breaking up chicken chunks. Add the chicken broth, beans, chilies, and lime juice. Simmer (350°F) with lid off for 8 minutes.
Canned chicken can be substituted with 2 cups cooked, chopped chicken.
The chili can be made up to two days in advance and simply reheated on the stove to serve.
Use corn for a different twist! Fresh, frozen, or drained canned corn can all be used.
This recipe is sometimes called "white chili" because it contains white beans instead of red kidney beans. Don't like Great Northern beans? Use black, kidney, or pinto beans instead.


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Eytan Fox
Eytan Fox (Hebrew: איתן פוקס; born on August 21, 1964) is an Israeli film director.
Fox at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival world premiere of Yossi's Story
(1964-08-21) August 21, 1964
New York City, New York, U.S.
Film director, producer, screenwriter
Partner(s)
Gal Uchovsky
Eytan Fox was born in New York City. His family immigrated to Israel when he was two. His father, Seymour Fox, was a Conservative rabbi and a professor of Jewish education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.[1] His mother, Sara Kaminker-Fox, was the head of the Jerusalem city council and involved in Jerusalem urban planning. Fox has two brothers, David and Danny.[2] He grew up in Jerusalem, served in the army, and studied at Tel Aviv University's School of Film and Television. He is openly gay and many of his films contain themes of homosexuality, as well as the effect the Israeli–Palestinian conflict has on interpersonal relationships.[3]
Fox and his partner, Gal Uchovsky,[4] have a long-term relationship.[5] They are also professional collaborators, Uchovsky, a screenwriter, producer and journalist, is involved in much of the scriptwriting for Fox's movies.[6]
His 2002 film Yossi & Jagger is a portrayal of the love between two young Jewish military men while completing their mandatory national service. In 2004 film Walk on Water, he takes on the thorny topics of racism/discrimination and confronting the Nazi past of two young upper class Germans. Lior Ashkenazi plays a Mossad assassin under cover as a tour guide. In 2006 film The Bubble, he asks the big question: What is love? as the film follows three young Tel Aviv residents, a female political activist and her two gay roommates, one of whom (the same actor from Yossi & Jagger) falls in love with a Palestinian (who also appears as a waiter) while on border guard duty as part of his national military service.
In 2006, Fox was the first recipient of the Washington Jewish Film Festival's Decade Award, a prize given to a filmmaker whose work has made a significant contribution to Jewish cinema over a period of at least ten years.[7]
After (1990)
Shirat Ha'Sirena (Siren's Song, 1994)
Ba'al Ba'al Lev (1997)
Yossi & Jagger (2002)
Walk on Water (2004)
The Bubble (2006)
Yossi (2012), a sequel to Yossi & Jagger
Cupcakes (Bananot) (2013)
Florentin (1997, TV series)
Tamid Oto Chalom (2009, TV series) released in UK and US in 2011 as Mary Lou, and starring Ido Rosenberg, Alon Levi, and Dana Frider
Thejewishweek.com Archived 2011-05-17 at the Wayback Machine
Seymour Fox
Eytan Fox, Biography Archived 2011-06-02 at the Wayback Machine. Omanoot
Juergens, Brian (February 11, 2008). "Eytan Fox's "Gad" to tell the story of a gay Jewish hero in World War II". AfterElton.com. Retrieved September 29, 2011.
http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/magazine/most-israeli-gays-are-right-wing-mediocre-and-boring-and-want-a-husband-and-children.premium-1.465922
'Who Will Write the History?' - Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone From Yahoo! News Archived 2007-08-10 at the Wayback Machine
"Washingtondcjcc.org". Archived from the original on 2011-08-09. Retrieved 2011-07-26.
Eytan Fox on IMDb
"Between Sex And Country: The Films of Eytan Fox"
"Eytan Fox Brings Israeli Films to America"
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El municipio de Rock Creek (en inglés: Rock Creek Township) es un municipio ubicado en el condado de Bartholomew en el estado estadounidense de Indiana. En el año 2010 tenía una población de 1424 habitantes y una densidad poblacional de 20,67 personas por km².

Geografía
El municipio de Rock Creek se encuentra ubicado en las coordenadas . Según la Oficina del Censo de los Estados Unidos, el municipio tiene una superficie total de 68.88 km², de la cual 68,84 km² corresponden a tierra firme y (0,06 %) 0,04 km² es agua.

Demografía
Según el censo de 2010, había 1424 personas residiendo en el municipio de Rock Creek. La densidad de población era de 20,67 hab./km². De los 1424 habitantes, el municipio de Rock Creek estaba compuesto por el 97,82 % blancos, el 0,7 % eran afroamericanos, el 0,35 % eran asiáticos y el 1,12 % eran de una mezcla de razas. Del total de la población el 0,84 % eran hispanos o latinos de cualquier raza.

Referencias

Enlaces externos

Municipios de Indiana
Localidades del condado de Bartholomew (Indiana)

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October 11 (Solar) – Constellation, a subsidiary of US energy provider Exelon Corporation (NYSE:EXC), has acquired Southern California-based solar systems developer PFMG Solar LLC, Constellation said on Wednesday.
The transaction is part of Constellation's strategy to expand its retail solar business to a broader customer base and to grow its distributed energy in California. Prior to the transaction, PFMG Solar was a subsidiary of Spear Point Energy LLC. The acquired business develops solar power systems for public-sector customers.
"This purchase is a natural expansion of our existing retail solar business," said Jim McHugh, CEO of Constellation. "It enables us to grow our solar footprint in California, the most active U.S. solar market, and extend our Constellation Offsite Renewables (CORe), energy efficiency and other retail energy offerings to new markets," he added.
PFMG Solar and Constellation have worked together in recent years to develop and install 42 MW of solar generation. The joint solar projects were for school districts and government agencies across the West Coast, specifically in California and Arizona, the buyer said.
Constellation currently has more than 360 MW of operating or under-construction solar power plants across the continental US.


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Pat Dalton (6 September 1918 – 15 September 2011) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood and North Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Dalton was transferred to Shepparton as a Policeman with the Victorian Police in 1947 and was cleared from Heidelberg to East Shepparton.

Dalton later coached Shepparton East in the Central Goulburn Valley Football League in 1948 (to a premiership)  and 1949 (last).

Dalton was runner up in the Central Goulburn Valley Football League best and fairest award in both 1948  and 1949.

Dalton coached the newly formed City United in the Goulburn Valley Football League in 1950 (runners up) and 1951 (3rd).

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1918 births
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia)
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North Melbourne Football Club players
Ivanhoe Amateurs Football Club players


Sauté lamb and onion in oil in a small Dutch oven over medium heat for 10 minutes, stirring frequently. Add beef broth; cover and simmer mixture for 20 minutes.
Remove from heat, and pour mixture into a greased 2 1/2- quart casserole. Add remaining ingredients; stir well.
Cover and bake at 350° for 1 hour and 15 minutes. Uncover and bake an additional 10 minutes or until liquid is absorbed.


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Man convicted in 2013 fatal shooting
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A 22-year-old Parkway Village man was convicted Wednesday of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in the 2013 killing of Kadrian Woods.
Memphis police responded Aug. 25, 2013, to the 3200 block of Danville Circle where Woods was lying on the ground. He had been shot two times — once in front and once in the back — and was pronounced dead at Delta Medical Center. According to an affidavit of complaint, Coynick Boswell shot the victim during an argument.
According to trial testimony, Boswell was upset that the victim had paid him $40 in fake currency for Xanax three weeks earlier, said Assistant District Attorney Colin Campbell.
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Q: WiFi Won't Reliably Connect On Ubuntu Server Bootup/Reboot I am using Ubuntu Server 14.04.2 LTS and the micro wireless adapter TP-LINK TL-WN725N.
I am having trouble with automatic connection when booting up. If I reboot 10 times, it may only connect 4-6 times. When it fails, I can always get it to connect with:
sudo ifdown wlan0
sudo ifup wlan0

lsusb output:
user@ubuntu:~$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 058f:6377 Alcor Micro Corp. Multimedia Card Reader
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0bda:8179 Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 046d:c534 Logitech, Inc.
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

dmesg before restarting network:
user@ubuntu:~$ dmesg
[   16.105721] EXT4-fs (sda1): re-mounted. Opts: errors=remount-ro
[   16.801211] R8188EU: INFO indicate disassoc
[   17.145207] init: failsafe main process (651) killed by TERM signal
[   17.524498] init: network-manager main process (767) terminated with status 127
[   17.524520] init: network-manager main process ended, respawning
[   19.066032] init: plymouth-upstart-bridge main process ended, respawning

interfaces file:
user@ubuntu:~$ sudo vim /etc/network/interfaces
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet static
address 192.168.1.150
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.1.1
wpa-ssid the-ssid
wpa-psk the-pw
dns-nameservers 8.8.8.8 192.168.1.1

ifup output that successfully connects:
user@ubuntu:~$ sudo ifup wlan0
ioctl[SIOCSIWAP]: Operation not permitted
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument

UPDATE:
Additional, hopefully helpful info:
I ran wpa_cli -i wlan0 status and it returns Failed to connect to non-global ctrl_ifname wlan0 error: Permission denied.
I looked at /var/log/upstart/network-interface-wlan0.log and it shows Failed to connect to non-global ctrl_ifname: wlan0 error: Read-only file system.
dmesg after sudo apt-get purge network-manager:
[   14.539832] R8188EU: Firmware Version 11, SubVersion 1, Signature 0x88e1
[   14.660066] floppy0: no floppy controllers found
[   14.660083] work still pending
[   14.916594] MAC Address = e8:de:27:a3:e7:f6
[   14.921775] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[   14.921802] cfg80211: World regulatory domain updated:
[   14.921806] cfg80211:  DFS Master region: unset
[   14.921809] cfg80211:   (start_freq - end_freq @ bandwidth), (max_antenna_gain, max_eirp), (dfs_cac_time)
[   14.921814] cfg80211:   (2402000 KHz - 2472000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm), (N/A)
[   14.921817] cfg80211:   (2457000 KHz - 2482000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm), (N/A)
[   14.921821] cfg80211:   (2474000 KHz - 2494000 KHz @ 20000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm), (N/A)
[   14.921824] cfg80211:   (5170000 KHz - 5250000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm), (N/A)
[   14.921828] cfg80211:   (5735000 KHz - 5835000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm), (N/A)
[   16.233140] R8188EU: INFO indicate disassoc

UPDATE 2: Results of sudo ifdown wlan0 && sudo ifup -v wlan0:
Configuring interface wlan0=wlan0 (inet)
run-parts --verbose /etc/network/if-pre-up.d
run-parts: executing /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/ethtool
run-parts: executing /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/wireless-tools
run-parts: executing /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/wpasupplicant
wpa_supplicant: wpa-driver nl80211,wext (default)
wpa_supplicant: /sbin/wpa_supplicant -s -B -P /var/run/wpa_supplicant.wlan0.pid -i wlan0 -D nl80211,wext -C /var/run/wpa_supplicant
Starting /sbin/wpa_supplicant...
ioctl[SIOCSIWAP]: Operation not permitted
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument
wpa_supplicant: creating sendsigs omission pidfile: /run/sendsigs.omit.d/wpasupplicant.wpa_supplicant.wlan0.pid
wpa_supplicant: ctrl_interface socket located at /var/run/wpa_supplicant/wlan0
wpa_supplicant: configuring network block -- 0
wpa_supplicant: wpa-ssid "the-ssid" -- OK
wpa_supplicant: wpa-psk ***** -- OK
wpa_supplicant: enabling network block 0 -- OK
ip addr add 192.168.1.150/255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255           dev wlan0 label wlan0
ip link set dev wlan0   up
 ip route add default via 192.168.1.1  dev wlan0
run-parts --verbose /etc/network/if-up.d
run-parts: executing /etc/network/if-up.d/000resolvconf
run-parts: executing /etc/network/if-up.d/ethtool
run-parts: executing /etc/network/if-up.d/ntpdate
run-parts: executing /etc/network/if-up.d/openssh-server
run-parts: executing /etc/network/if-up.d/upstart
run-parts: executing /etc/network/if-up.d/wpasupplicant

A: Use the following command
sudo gedit /var/lib/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.state

make sure that these attributes are identical.

[main]
NetworkingEnabled=true
WirelessEnabled=true
WWANEnabled=true

Save the file and restart network manager as follows:

sudo service networkmanager restart
sudo service network restart

Use the following command if you want a specific adapter to be used and not the whole network manager to start

sudo ifconfig

For wireless connection use

sudo iwconfig

To get a list of all the adapters that you have on your machine with their names

sudo ifconfig wlan0 up

You can replace wlan0 with the adapter name that you have on your machine in case you have wireless connection.

sudo ifconfig eth0 up

You can replace eth0 with the adapter name that you have on your machine in case you have wired connection.

A: This is same Realtek driver problem. You can install a good driver with fixes. Run
sudo apt-get install git
git clone https://github.com/lwfinger/rtlwifi_new.git
cd rtlwifi_new
make
sudo make install

And reboot.


All on ground floor: Lounge/kitchen/diner, shower room with toilet and basin, 1 double bedroom (separated by curtain).
Ground floor: Lounge/kitchen/diner, 1 double bedroom. First floor: Bathroom with shower over bath and toilet.
Living area: With satellite TV and patio doors leading to terrace.
External stairs to entrance. All on first floor: Lounge/kitchen/diner. Shower room with toilet and basin. 1 double bedroom.
Study/library: With French doors leading to garden.


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Marriott Again Sides With Xi Jinping, Refusing to Host the World Uyghur Congress
By Jennifer Van Laar | 12:30 AM on November 20, 2021
AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File
Marriott International's been simping for China's Xi Jinping for a few years now, first firing an employee who simply liked a pro-Tibet tweet, then praising the dictatorial way in which the CCP dealt with the pandemic they caused. Now, they've gone even further by refusing space to the World Uyghur Congress, which was holding a conference in Prague, Czechoslovakia.
According to Axios:
Working with local partners in Prague, organizers for the conference reached out to several hotels for quotes, Zumretay Arkin, the Munich-based program and advocacy manager for the World Uyghur Congress tells Axios. The group then sent a representative to visit the Marriott.
"At first, the person didn't mention the background information on the conference and the organization that was organizing it," Arkin says. That information came up during the visit.
Not long thereafter, an email arrived from an events manager at the hotel:
"Thank you very much for your visit today. Unfortunately, I have to inform you that we are not able to offer the premises. We consulted the whole matter with our corporate management. For reasons of political neutrality, we cannot offer events of this type with a political theme. Thank you once again for your time and understanding."
The email from the events manager was sent October 1.
The Chinese Embassy in Prague condemned the World Uyghur Congress's conference and all politicians that participated. Axios also reported:
The World Uyghur Congress has repeatedly drawn the ire of Chinese authorities, who have declared it a terrorist group for allegedly fomenting unrest in Xinjiang, though the group does not promote violence and is on no international terrorist lists.
When Axios contacted Marriott's corporate offices in the Washington, DC area, a spokesperson said that when the email from their property in Prague referenced "corporate management," they meant the local hotel, because hosting the conference would not have violated any "political neutrality" policy. However, earlier this year Marriott took the step of pausing contributions only to lawmakers who "voted against certification" of the 2020 presidential election after the events of January 6, which was a much more political stance than that taken by some other multinational corporations, which paused all political contributions at that time.
And, as the Independent Women's Forum's Inez Stepman pointed out, Marriott took a very concrete position supporting an actual terrorist organization, Black Lives Matter, and called out "pervasive racism" in the United States:
Can't host a Uyghur conference for reasons of "political neutrality" but here's what @MarriottIntl had to say about Black Lives Matter. You absolute cowards. pic.twitter.com/SRRkZJBMig
— Inez Stepman ⚪🔴⚪ (@InezFeltscher) November 20, 2021
Seems pretty politically UN-neutral to me, and that what Marriott's afraid of, more than anything, is inspiring the ire of leftist organizations and communist dictators.
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Stepping out-of-the-box and doing something different is rarely easy. However, that doesn't mean we should shy away from out-of-the-box thinking and techniques. We often must take a different approach in order to get a different outcome.
In November, the Petersburg City Public School Board is expected to vote on a proposal that some consider out-of-the-box - a recommendation to implement a year-round school education program at two of our academically struggling schools, Peabody Middle and A.P. Hill Elementary.
Will such a program increase student achievement at Peabody Middle and A.P. Hill Elementary?
My answer, we won't know unless we try. I do know that similar programs in other school divisions have worked. A study by the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC) found that such a program did increase student performance among populations similar to those within the Petersburg school division.
Just like athletes, students need constant practice to become proficient learners. Twenty additional schools days, under a year-round program, will be in the form of intersessions - which will allow students to brush-up on basic skills and to expand their knowledge with enrichment activities. By having a shorter summer break, students are less likely to lose skills mastered during the school year.
I think it's fair to say that the majority of Petersburg citizens support a year-round education program. Parents with children at Peabody Middle and A.P. Hill Elementary filled-out surveys regarding the issue. The majority of respondents indicated they wanted such a program.
What's been done in the past to increase student performance at Peabody Middle and A.P. Hill Elementary has had limited success in meeting state accreditation. Our students deserve a quality education! Perhaps, a year-round education program is a piece of the puzzle that will help turn the tide.


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Robles "does not contemplate" the possibility of not obtaining support for budgets
The Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles, said today that the Government "does not contemplate" the possibility of not collecting the necessary support to approve the general budgets of the State for 2019.
Robles, who has inaugurated in Madrid the exhibition "175 years of our flag", has stated about the accounts of the State: "We are working on budgets with a broad social content and we make a call to responsibility".
"I think that the parties have to think not in a partisan way, but they have to think in terms of citizens, they are budgets that respond to the criteria of stability that Brussels has set for us and at the same time that they try to make a social commitment ", the minister added.
Robles has indicated that he believes "that in these cases we must make a State approach and not a purely partisan approach".
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Jennifer Holmes (Nottingham, 1944) was an artist, painter and sculptor. Her work, mainly in oil, watercolour and mixed media, largely draws on the people, themes and landscapes of Casa Rosa, Assisi (Umbria, Italy), where she lived for thirty years.
After graduating from Ravensbourne College of Art in London, she attended an MA at Nottingham University Department of Fine Art while teaching at the Nottingham College of Art. During her early career she completed several study trips to the US (New York, Georgia) and worked on set design for off-Broadway theatre. In the following years, she also collaborated on productions with the Aldwych and the Royal Court Theatre in London. Working from a studio in Space, the first studio enterprise by Bridget Riley in St. Katherine's Dock, her work focused mainly on sculpture and the production of works for films such as A Clockwork Orange.
Traveling extensively in the following years between the UK, Italy, France and Sweden ,Jennifer's work centered on watercolour, drawing and painting, with an emphasis on portraiture and landscape. In 1994 she was commissioned by the Conventual Franciscans of Assisi to paint a companion piece to the 13th century Tavola of Santa Chiara, a work that has since been widely reproduced in books and guides to the life of St. Francis. Many commissions of various scales and in various media have followed from individuals and religious institutions around the world.
Much of her work is inspired by the Umbrian landscape and the people who inhabit and cultivate it throughout the seasons. Over the past 20 years her work has been exhibited widely both in group shows and solo exhibitions.


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Q: How to set default translator in configs.ini? I'm using Zend Framework 1.10.7 and I'm looking for a way to set the default translator.
I know I could set it in Bootstrap.php but I would like to set it up in the configs.ini to gather most of my generic config.
I guess it needs to specify a registry key (registry_key ?).
By the way, does the Zend_Controller_Router use this default translator automatically or I need to explicitly use Zend_Controller_Router::setDefaultTranslator() ? And then, could it be done in the configs.ini yet ?
Thank you.

A: Here is what I did :

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*added these lines to /application/config/application.ini:

resources.translate.registry_key = "Zend_Translate"
resources.translate.adapter= "Array"
resources.translate.default = fr_FR
resources.translate.content = APPLICATION_PATH "/language/fr.php"

*

*the '/application/language/fr.php' file consists only of:

return array(
  'isEmpty' => "Ce champ est obligatoire",
  ...
);
You can lookup the keys ('isEmpty', 'notAlnum', ...) in the validators (they are at the start of each classes of Zend/Validate/*.php).
Note that this is one of the quickest way and is only usable on a small site with a single language. See http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.translate.adapter.html for better suited adapters and functionnality if needed.

A: Well if you use the Zend_Application_Resource_Translate wont it take care of this for you? The default reg key is Zend_Translate.
i used this the one and only time ive used translation with Zend and it worked out pretty well for me, YMMV: http://blog.vandenbos.org/2009/07/09/zend-framework-per-module-translation-sources/


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Home All News BFF-02 Asylum 'under attack' at Europe's borders: UN
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Asylum 'under attack' at Europe's borders: UN
GENEVA, Jan 28, 2021 (BSS/AFP) – The UN voiced alarm Thursday at
increasingly frequent pushbacks and expulsions of refugees at Europe's
borders, warning that the very idea of asylum itself was under attack on the
The United Nations refugee agency called on countries to create
independent monitoring mechanisms to ensure the right to seek asylum and to
investigate violations.
Gillian Triggs, UNHCR Assistant High Commissioner for Protection, said the
agency had "received a continuous stream of reports of some European states
restricting access to asylum, returning people after they have reached
territory or territorial waters, and using violence against them at borders."
"The pushbacks are carried out in a violent and apparently systematic
way," she lamented.
"Boats carrying refugees are being towed back. People are being rounded up
after they land and then pushed back to sea. Many have reported violence and
abuse by state forces."
The UNHCR also warned that people arriving by land were also being
informally detained and forcibly returned to neighbouring countries "without
any consideration of their international protection needs".
– Pushbacks 'simply illegal' –
The 1951 Refugee Convention, the European Convention on Human Rights and
EU law requires states to protect people's right to seek asylum and
protection, even if they enter a country illegally, the agency pointed out.
International law also protects against so-called refoulement — returning
asylum seekers to places where they risk persecution and torture, it said.
"Respecting human lives and refugee rights is not a choice, it's a legal
and moral obligation," Triggs stressed.
"While countries have the legitimate right to manage their borders in
accordance with international law, they must also respect human rights."
"Pushbacks are simply illegal." UNHCR said it had made its concerns clear
to European countries and had called for "urgent inquiries into alleged
violations and mistreatment".
The agency pointed out that the number of migrants, refugees and asylum
seekers arriving in Europe has been steadily declining.
In 2020, some 95,000 arrived by sea and land, down 23 percent from 2019,
and down 33 percent from 2018.
"With so few arrivals to Europe, this should be a manageable situation,"
the UNHCR said.
"It is regrettable that the issue of asylum remains politicised and
divisive despite such declining numbers."
The agency said it realised some European countries were carrying a
"disproportionate responsibility" in taking in new arrivals and called on
other countries on the continent to do their share and demonstrate
"solidarity".
It also urged European countries to uphold commitments to refugee
protection, meaning they should admit asylum seekers at their borders, rescue
those stranded at sea and allow them to promptly disembark.
UNHCR has repeatedly lambasted countries which close their doors to
desperate refugees — in particular European nations that have left migrants
stranded at sea for long periods of time and supported repatriation to chaos-
wracked Libya.
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Twitter roasts Kanye for 'SNL' performance
Kanye West wore a sparkling water costume for his performance on the season premiere of "Saturday Night Live."
Posted: Oct 1, 2018 6:26 AM
Updated: Oct 1, 2018 6:39 AM
The credits began to roll on "Saturday Night Live," but musical guest Kanye West still had plenty to say.
After performing several songs on the show Saturday, the rapper went on a rant about President Trump as "SNL" went off the air.
West's comments were captured by comedian and former "SNL" cast member Chris Rock, who posted a video on Instagram Stories from his verified account.
"I want to cry right now, black man in America, supposed to keep what you're feeling inside right now," West sang while wearing what appeared to be a "Make America Great Again" hat.
The musical artist has long drawn controversy for his vocal support of President Trump and other, inflammatory comments.
"There's so many times I talk to like a white person about this and they say, 'How could you like Trump? He's racist,'" West said from the stage as other musicians, cast members and guests -- including Saturday's host, Adam Driver -- stood behind him.
"Well, if I was concerned about racism I would've moved out of America a long time ago."
West also said that the country needs to have "a dialogue and not a diatribe." His speech was met with a mix of boos and cheers from the audience.
When contacted by CNN, NBC said it had no comment on West's remarks.
The rant followed a performance earlier in the show that had West, along with Lil Pump and Adele Givens, sing a new song, "I Love It," while dressed as a bottle of sparkling water.
Those on social media found the musical performance worth watching but kind of bizarre.
"I'm watching Kanye on SNL and is it possible I inhaled some LSD," tweeted Sopan Deb, a culture writer for the New York Times.
West alluded to his "SNL" performance Sunday by tweeting an image of his wife, Kim Kardashian West, spraying water from a bottle Photoshopped to look like her husband.
It's a playful reference to a famous 2014 magazine cover in which Kardashian West sprayed Champagne from a bottle into a glass perched on her butt.
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Corona Notes: Lockdown Realities In Canada
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By Surya N. Acharya	 On May 7, 2020
Lethbridge is nestled in southern part of the province of Alberta, Canada, with just over one lakh population. I live here with my wife. We were excited about the prospect of visiting Odisha in April, 2020, to meet our family, including my 93-year-old father-in-law, and friends. But COVID-19 had other plans.
Like most other parts of the world, there was complete lockdown in the country, although our area is sparsely populated and has registered only a few infected people (17 till May 3). Needless to mention, Canada's population (3.7 crore) is less than that of Odisha (4.6 crore) despite being the second largest country in the world behind Russia in terms of total area.
This kind of a situation had never happened before. So everyone, including us, was apprehensive about life during the lockdown. The biggest adjustment for us has been staying at home for about 23 hours a day without taking time off from work and being unable to visit our grandchildren who live only two hours away. The Alberta government has not barred inter-city travel but we, like many other Albertans, are practising it.
I feel I am not very efficient working from home in spite of being equipped with 24×7 fast internet facility, phone, facsimile and all kinds of computer-related gadgets. Consequently, the tasks a research scientist needs to perform on a daily basis are not proceeding satisfactorily. Laboratory, greenhouse, growth cabinet and field plot work have come to a halt. Our centre is managing only the essential services, such as watering the plants growing indoors, feeding animals and insects involved in research, with skeleton staff.
The second most difficult adjustment has been buying the necessities of life while following restrictions like maintaining physical distance put on shoppers and coming across empty shelves, which one had never seen before. Although most stores are open, items such as toilet papers and hand sanitizers are either not available or are being rationed. Countless requests from leaders and administrators to avoid hoarding have largely fallen on deaf ears and non-perishable items have at times been scarce.
The last but not the least adjustment for us has been dealing with too much contact between us and proximity to snacks. Both of us are now working from home; only one did in the past. Simple things such as what temperature the room should be set at and who would go where for conference or video calls have to be negotiated constantly. Proximity to snacks is a problem for people who can gain weight just by looking at food! Little wonder, both of us have gained some serious weight and
will now need new clothing!
(The writer is a Research Scientist, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, and an alumnus of OUAT, Bhubaneswar)
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package org.onosproject.tetopology.management.api;

import com.google.common.base.MoreObjects;
import com.google.common.base.Objects;
import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableList;
import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableMap;
import com.google.common.collect.Lists;
import com.google.common.collect.Maps;
import org.onosproject.net.DeviceId;
import org.onosproject.tetopology.management.api.link.NetworkLink;
import org.onosproject.tetopology.management.api.node.NetworkNode;

import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

/**
 * Default Network implementation.
 */
public class DefaultNetwork implements Network {
    private final KeyId networkId;
    private final List<KeyId> supportingNetworkIds;
    private final Map<KeyId, NetworkNode> nodes;
    private final Map<KeyId, NetworkLink> links;
    private final TeTopologyId teTopologyId;
    private final boolean serverProvided;
    private final DeviceId ownerId;

    /**
     * Creates an instance of DefaultNetwork.
     *
     * @param networkId            network identifier
     * @param supportingNetworkIds supporting network identifier
     * @param nodes                list of nodes within the network
     * @param links                list of links within the network
     * @param teTopologyId         TE topology identifier
     * @param serverProvided       whether the network is received from server
     * @param ownerId              the the controller identifier owning this topology
     */
    public DefaultNetwork(KeyId networkId, List<KeyId> supportingNetworkIds,
                          Map<KeyId, NetworkNode> nodes, Map<KeyId, NetworkLink> links,
                          TeTopologyId teTopologyId, boolean serverProvided,
                          DeviceId ownerId) {
        this.networkId = networkId;
        this.supportingNetworkIds = supportingNetworkIds != null ?
                Lists.newArrayList(supportingNetworkIds) : null;
        this.nodes = nodes != null ? Maps.newHashMap(nodes) : null;
        this.links = links != null ? Maps.newHashMap(links) : null;
        this.teTopologyId = teTopologyId;
        this.serverProvided = serverProvided;
        this.ownerId = ownerId;
    }

    @Override
    public KeyId networkId() {
        return networkId;
    }

    @Override
    public List<KeyId> supportingNetworkIds() {
        if (supportingNetworkIds == null) {
            return null;
        }
        return ImmutableList.copyOf(supportingNetworkIds);
    }

    @Override
    public Map<KeyId, NetworkNode> nodes() {
        if (nodes == null) {
            return null;
        }
        return ImmutableMap.copyOf(nodes);
    }

    @Override
    public NetworkNode node(KeyId nodeId) {
        return nodes.get(nodeId);
    }

    @Override
    public Map<KeyId, NetworkLink> links() {
        if (links == null) {
            return null;
        }
        return ImmutableMap.copyOf(links);
    }

    @Override
    public NetworkLink link(KeyId linkId) {
        return links.get(linkId);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean isServerProvided() {
        return serverProvided;
    }

    @Override
    public TeTopologyId teTopologyId() {
        return teTopologyId;
    }

    @Override
    public DeviceId ownerId() {
        return ownerId;
    }

    @Override
    public int hashCode() {
        return Objects.hashCode(networkId, supportingNetworkIds,
                                nodes, links, serverProvided, teTopologyId, ownerId);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean equals(Object object) {
        if (this == object) {
            return true;
        }
        if (object instanceof DefaultNetwork) {
            DefaultNetwork that = (DefaultNetwork) object;
            return Objects.equal(networkId, that.networkId) &&
                    Objects.equal(supportingNetworkIds, that.supportingNetworkIds) &&
                    Objects.equal(nodes, that.nodes) &&
                    Objects.equal(links, that.links) &&
                    Objects.equal(serverProvided, that.serverProvided) &&
                    Objects.equal(teTopologyId, that.teTopologyId) &&
                    Objects.equal(ownerId, that.ownerId);
        }
        return false;
    }

    @Override
    public String toString() {
        return MoreObjects.toStringHelper(this)
                .add("networkId", networkId)
                .add("supportingNetworkIds", supportingNetworkIds)
                .add("nodes", nodes)
                .add("links", links)
                .add("serverProvided", serverProvided)
                .add("teTopologyId", teTopologyId)
                .add("ownerId", ownerId)
                .toString();
    }
}

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John Rogers Cooke (June 9, 1833 – April 10, 1891) was a Confederate general during the American Civil War. He was the son of Union general Philip St. George Cooke and the brother-in-law of Confederate cavalry leader Jeb Stuart.
3 Post-War life
The son of a career army officer, Cooke was born at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri. After studying at Harvard, Cooke was commissioned into the United States Army in 1855 as a second lieutenant of the 8th Infantry. When Virginia seceded from the Union, in 1861 Cooke followed his brother-in-law, Jeb Stuart, south. To his dismay, his father remained loyal to the Union.[1]
Civil War[]
In April 1862, Cooke was elected colonel of the 27th North Carolina Infantry. Although, wounded at the Battle of Antietam, he was able to keep the field and was promoted to general on November 1, 1862.[1]
Leading a brigade in action at the Battle of Fredericksburg, Cooke was badly wounded when a bullet entered over his left eye and fractured his skull. He was able to return to the field in April 1863. In October 1863, while commanding a brigade in A.P. Hill's corps, Cooke was again seriously wounded at the Battle of Bristoe Station during Hill's attack on the Union II Corps. His shinbone was shattered and he was knocked out of action for some time. He passed the time by serving on courts of inquiry in Richmond. Cooke returned to duty but was once again wounded in the leg at the Battle of Spotsylvania, but remained on the field to lead an assault on horseback. Cooke was wounded seven times during the Civil War.[1]
Post-War life[]
When the War ended, Cooke went to Richmond, and became a merchant. He was an active member of the community and was one of the founders of the Confederate Soldiers Home in Richmond. The family breach with his father—who had stayed loyal to the Union—was healed some time after the end of the War. Cooke died in Richmond, Virginia and is buried there in Hollywood Cemetery.[1]
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Edwards Holidays wins prestigious travel award
Edwards Holidays has achieved silver in the 2018 British Travel Awards. The announcement was made on 28 November at a glamorous Gala Awards ceremony which was held in London and attended by more than 800 people from the travel industry.
The British Travel Awards is the largest consumer voted awards in the travel industry with almost 300, 000 travellers casting their vote this year.
Managing Director, Jason Edwards said: "We are absolutely delighted to have won a British Travel Award, I cannot emphasise how proud I am of the team and how grateful we are to our brilliant customers for voting. This kind of recognition is particularly special as we are primarily based in South Wales and these awards span the whole of Britain."
British Travel Awards' chief executive Lorraine Barnes Burton said: "Edwards is to be congratulated on winning the silver award. The British Travel Awards are the only travel industry accolade voted for exclusively by the consumer and the Awards serve to recognise all that is great about travel, as experienced by the travelling public. To win a British Travel Award is a true achievement."
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