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IMMORTALITY — The Science of Living Forever
Although Ageing can be beautiful, it may become obsolete
One of the oldest dreams of the human race is the achievement of immortality. Ancient Chinese alchemy has long searched for the secret to immortality, while in western alchemy, the search to transform the 'base' into 'gold' has ever been a quest for the transcendent. Similarly, the mythological allegories of the fountain of youth and the Holy Grail also have elements of immortality running through them. The ancient Greeks envisaged a kind of immortality where an individual would be remembered for all eternity by future generations, thus living forever by the awe and reverence of our remembrances.
There is no doubt, whatever your conception immortality and whatever time, place or culture you may hail from, it is a certainty that at some point you have flirted with the idea of living forever. Well, the days of merely 'flirting' with the idea are perhaps almost over. Modern science is making great strides in biology, biotechnology and computer science with staggeringly important discoveries being made every year — discoveries that may just be leading us into an immortal future. Before we can look at the relevant scientific evidence we need to clear up our understanding of 'immortality' — what is it, what exactly do we mean by 'immortal'?
IMMORTALITY, WHAT IS IT?
At a language level, we can see that the word 'immortality' is formed from the word '-mortality' plus the prefix 'im-'. Mortality means, "the ability to die" and the prefix "im-", is a negation. So the first stab at a definition for immortality could be, "the lack of ability to die". But, on closer inspection, this definition is too broad and imprecise. The inability to die says nothing about our ability to age or regenerate our bodies.
Imagine the horror of not being able to die, yet ageing infinitely into a less and less usable body. Imagine that after 10 000 years every bone in your body was broken, no hair on your head, completely blind and the worst case of senile dementia in the universe — This form of immortality would be a curse and not a boon at all.
Ok, so there's more to it than simply 'not dying', the kind of immortality we usually imagine includes other ideas — ideas like living forever with a robust and healthy body that forever regenerates itself and maintains a peak physique. Our new conception of immortality includes a lack of ageing or degeneration over time, immunity to disease and the ability to recover fully from physical and chemical traumas that might afflict us from time to time.
This last conception of immortality is the kind of definition modern science is trying to achieve. Presently there are three main strategies for achieving immortality scientifically. The first strategy currently being pursued is through the biological sciences, which hope, through genetic engineering and pharmaceutical intervention to be able to reverse and stop the ageing process.
The second strategy being pursued is through biotechnology and the use of cybernetics and Nano-biological computing systems to try to achieve the same thing.
The third strategy being pursued is purely technological in nature and tries to do away with the 'frail' human body altogether whilst keeping elements of our psychology, identity and memory intact.
In the next section, we will take a look at each strategy in turn to get a clear picture of what is happening and how much progress has been made to date.
THE SCIENCE OF IMMORTALITY — 3 STRATEGIES
STRATEGY 1 — BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES + MEDICINE + AGRICULTURE
The dominant strategy used by modern western scientists thus far has been based on a biological, medical and agricultural centred approach. The idea was to treat or cure disease with modern pharmaceuticals; improve nutritional quality, quantity and availability; and treat trauma as best as possible via surgery and rehabilitative care. Arguably, the aims of this approach were more modest than the extremely ambitious goal of striving for immortality, but it is the same need or desire which motivates the development of this strategy — the desire to live longer and healthier. Scientists were simply happy to extend the average expected human lifespan. Nowadays, however, this strategy is being taken to the extreme with some research being focused on the development of biological, medical and genetic techniques to limit or stop ageing altogether.
There are three main aims of this strategy:
Remove the causes of cellular ageing
Grow and replace organs as needed in the case of failure or trauma
Cure all disease and illness via medicine, nutrition and lifestyle
Many different hypotheses are currently been actively researched to explain the causes of cell death. One of the most promising of these is research into telomeres. A telomere is a small sequence of genetic material (DNA) inside each cell. Each time the cell divides, the telomere gets a little bit shorter, until, after many cell divisions, the telomere reaches a certain critical shortest length and the cell will then begin to naturally die. You can think of the telomere as a sort of biological clock that records the age of cells in terms of the number of divisions it has undergone. The shorter the telomere 'tail' the older the cell. At the critical length, the telomere programs the cell for death. This cell death is natural and necessary for survival. If our cells weren't programmed to die then we would develop all sorts of growths and tissue imbalances — cancer.
Research programs across the world have been trying to work out a way to lengthen telomeres safely, without causing cancer and the results have been mixed, but promising. Telomerase is an enzyme that acts on the telomere and serves to lengthen it, so research into telomerase has been a dominant feature of this strategy. If our cells can't die due to time-based effects than our bodies could potentially exist indefinitely –age-related degeneration could be a thing of the past.
Advances in genetic science and research into stem cells have also made progress in leaps and bounds which also allow us to grow organs and tissues for people and then transplant those organs. You may have heard or seen the rather macabre images of lab mice with whole ears or noses growing out of them, this is the key research that may allow for the human race to replace damaged, old or degenerated organs as needed.
Problems facing this approach are the fact that currently, lengthening telomerase runs a high risk of causing multiple global cancers. Another factor that still needs to be solved is whether cells will age but not die, thus sentencing humans to an immortal life in a useless aged and decrepit body. Time will tell if this strategy will be successful at stopping the ageing process.
STRATEGY 2 — BIOTECH, NANOTECH & CYBERNETICS
In this strategy, we are no longer simply looking to chemically, pharmaceutically or medically help the body to become immortal. In this strategy, research is trying to create little machines, smaller than our tiniest cells that roam around in our bloodstreams and tissues, fighting viruses and bacteria, repairing cells and regenerating tissues.
It may sound like science fiction, but believe me this will be a reality one day. Tiny Nano-sized robots could in theory edit cells at a molecular level, which means that even DNA could be altered, shifted and repaired in real time. Nano sized robots that are capable of safe and controlled interactions with the body are still far off, but the latest research has been extremely promising.
With nanotechnology we would never suffer from disease, decay, degeneration, ageing or any other physical affliction. Our bodies may in fact literally be able to regenerate themselves using atoms and molecules from the environment.
Alternatively, the science of prosthetics has also come a long way and with new materials emerging from Nano engineering becoming more and more cheaply available each day it shouldn't be too hard to imagine replacing large parts of the human body with cybernetic prosthetics.
The modern cyborg is no longer merely relegated to the realm of cheesy 'b' grade science fiction movies — it may become a reality for us in the not too distant future. Replacing body parts with intelligent, functioning mechanical systems makes it really easy to maintain, repair and replace those parts.
Ultimately, the problems currently facing this strategy are many and diverse. How do we safely program Nano-bots to function in the body? Do we even know enough about health, disease, ageing, biology and death to know what to program the bots to do in the first place?
Advanced prosthetics are amazing — look at Oscar Pistorius' functional legs that allowed him to run the 100m faster than I ever could — but how far are we going to push it? Would we make replacement brains? Is that possible? We still need to know what we are doing before we can program biologically smart machines and we would still be vulnerable to electro-mechanical environmental effects.
This approach shifts the goal posts; however, the clear ambitious winner is the research into Nano-technology. If these problems are solved there is a really strong case for immortality in the near future.
Strategy 3 — Beyond Human
If the source of our mortality is the 'frail' human body, then why don't we just do away with it? This is the ultimate form of immortality and is the basis of a whole movement in modern western society — transhumanism.
Ask yourself the following question: If my memories, conscious experiences and sensory perceptions are simply the result of highly complex neurological activity, then surely I can simulate this activity using software that performs computations on appropriate hardware? Could I perhaps download my functioning brain into a digital framework that simulates my brain, right down to the atomic level?
Some researchers believe that this may be possible, given enough computer power. Just recently, scientists were able to completely simulate a part of a rat's brain (right down to the molecular level). Eventually, we will have computers that can simulate entire human brains and nervous systems.
Would it be possible then to give rise to digital consciousness? Perhaps, futurists like Raymond Kurzweil and others predict that we should have cheap, widely available and cost effective computing power that will be able to do this in the very near future.
Such a technological achievement would have very serious implications for humanity as a whole. Without a biological body we would be immune to all disease, ageing and limitations, provided that there was always a suitable device to run our software, we would always be 'alive'. This strategy is the most ambitious possible since it transcends what we know about being human — it is trans-human in nature.
If you don't believe that human consciousness is the sum total of our nervous system's functioning, or you don't believe that human consciousness could arise out of mere computation, then this strategy may not be appealing. Also, it may be difficult to really grapple with the meaning of 'alive' when the playing field becomes so utterly alien.
If we could upload our consciousness into a digital space then perhaps real A.I. is also possible. The short term problems with this strategy are simply a matter of scaling — we need more computing power and then we need to simulate an entire human nervous system — this is definitely possible. But, we can't be sure that consciousness would arise from such simulations at all. Essentially, humanity would become immortal 'ghosts in the machine' and it remains to be seen if such a thing is possible.
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Q: Interpretation of the consistency property of a loss function I am looking for an interpretation of the consistency property of a loss function used for classification (e.g., the SVM's hinge loss: $V(t)=\max(0,1-t)$).
I copy from Wikipedia:

Furthermore, it can be shown that for any convex loss function
  $V(yf_0(\vec{x}))$, where $f_0$ is the function that minimizes this
  loss, if $f_0(\vec{x}) \ne 0$ and $V$ is decreasing in a neighborhood
  of $0$, then $f^*(\vec{x}) = \operatorname{sgn}(f_0(\vec{x}))$ where
  $\operatorname{sgn}$ is the sign function. Note also that
  $f_0(\vec{x}) \ne 0$ in practice when the loss function is
  differentiable at the origin. This fact confers a consistency property
  upon all convex loss functions; specifically, all convex loss
  functions will lead to consistent results with the $0-1$ loss function
  given the presence of infinite data. Consequently, we can bound the
  difference of any of these convex loss function from expected risk.

Could anyone please explain why the fact that a loss function enjoys the consistency property is important?

A: An estimator is consistent if an estimate for parameter of interest θ, θ* approaches the true parameter  θ0 as the sample size increases. The property is often refereed to as asymptotic consistency. You can look it up on wiki or any intro to stats book. Heuristically, it is obvious that one wants to choose a loss function that will estimate the true θ0, at least when the sample size is large. There is a lot to be said about proper model structure in addition to loss function and their influence of consistency and efficiency.
If you want to learn about the related information theory , i'd recommend:
Burnham & Anderson. "Model Selection and Multimodel Inference: A Practical Information-Theoretic Approach".
And any linear model book will tell you about the properties of OLS and associated estimators; including SVM.
That's my best simple interpretation of your question. best of luck.

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Although she's a fan-favorite character for Young Justice fans everywhere, Miss Martian is a relatively new addition to the DC Universe, first appearing in 2006's Teen Titans #37 by Geoff Johns and Tony Daniel. Since her creation, the character has appeared in other media adaptations of the DCU including Young Justice, DC Super Hero Girls and the live-action Supergirl series on The CW where she has found a much wider audience.
With Young Justice: Outsiders poised to return for its mid-season premiere in a few weeks, here's a primer on M'gann M'orzz, from her comic book origins to her appearances in various DC television adaptations.
Miss Martian was initially created because Johns and Daniel didn't have access to Supergirl to join the Teen Titans at the time, so they created M'gann to take her spot on the roster. As a White Martian that doesn't have the same antagonism shown by other members of her race, M'gann M'orzz's power and abilities are appropriately similar the Martian Manhunter. These include super strength, speed, enhanced senses, telepathy, intangibility, flight, invisibility, shape-shifting, telekinesis, x-ray vision, heat vision, a healing factor and decelerated aging. Despite being decades old, M'gann's Martian physiology makes her physically resemble a teenager.
Miss Martian joins the Teen Titans sometime after the Infinite Crisis in the mid-2000s, taking on the simplified name Megan Morse. After an encounter with her evil future self, M'gann struggles to contain the darker impulses of her White Martian physiology and leaves the team for a time to calm her mind. In the DC Rebirth era, it is the Martian Manhunter who assigns Miss Martian to join the Teen Titans as a liaison between the two teams. Eventually it is revealed that J'onn had placed M'gann on the team to for her well-being with her teammates to help keep her White Martian impulses in check.
Introduced as the niece of the Martian Manhunter at the start of the animated series Young Justice, M'gann took her Earth name and physical appearance from an old sitcom Hello, Megan! which she watched growing up on Mars. After joining the team, M'gann claims to be a Green Martian to help earn the team's trust and begins a romantic relationship with Superboy. Eventually Miss Martian meets Marie Logan, the actress who starred on Hello, Megan! and gives her a son a life-saving blood transfusion which inadvertently leads him to develop shape-shifting powers and become the superhero Beast Boy, with M'gann later becoming the boy's surrogate mother figure.
By the start of Young Justice: Outsiders, Miss Martian has admitted to her White Martian physiology and embraced it, taking her pale, white, hairless form. Now living with Superboy, she is unhappy when he answers Nightwing's call to rejoin the team but concedes after accepting Superboy's subsequent marriage proposal.
In Supergirl, M'gann is a White Martian who abhors the violence between her race and the Green Martians and attempts to save refugees from the conflict on Mars. Failing this, M'gann retreats to Earth where she quietly lives on the planet under the human disguise of Megan Morse. Upon learning her true identity, the Martian Manhunter blames her as part of her race for the death of his family and has her imprisoned at D.E.O. headquarters.
J'onn eventually learns of M'gann humanitarian efforts back on Mars and has her released. The two enter a romantic relationship and she assists the D.E.O. in repelling an attempted Daxamite invasion of Earth in the Season 2 finale. M'gann leads a faction of pacifist surviving White Martians back to Mars following the Daxamite's defeat and reunites J'onn with his missing father during Season 3.
As a character trying to overcome the hostile implications of her heritage, Miss Martian has a much different appreciation of humanity than her surrogate uncle. With the character more comfortable with being honest about her White Martian background going into the second half of Young Justice: Outsiders and reintroduced in the comics during DC Rebirth, Miss Martian is well on her way to joining the most elite sphere of DC's heroes.


My first ever trip to an Eyebrow Sculpting Artist was overdue. Amanda Peterson from Bespoke Brows showed me all the wrong things I was doing with my eyebrows such as shaping and plucking them myself. I first started tweezing and plucking my brows when I was 16.
Despite all the years of tweezing and plucking some of my eyebrow hairs grew back within 6 weeks. I was then able to grow and style these hairs into my new shape. After seeing Amanda I promised I would never ever pluck my eyebrows the way I used to.
It's amazing what well groomed and shaped brows do to your face. For me eyebrows are like the frames I use to frame my oil paintings. If I use the wrong frame, no matter how stunning the oil painting is, it can ruin the entire look of the painting.
My first consult with Amanda took 1 hour and 30 minutes. Initially I thought why on earth would she need that long to look at my eyebrows if I was doing everything right? Well I was so wrong!
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Amanda answers some eyebrow questions and shares some of her brow tips that everyone should know about, before plucking their precious eyebrow hairs.
1. What are the top eyebrow trends for 2014?
We are seeing and will continue to see thick bushy brows in 2014. So how do we translate this 'On trend' catwalk look to still work in the office and at play? Be sure to have your brow artist tidy up any stray hairs and give the brows a little definition. Off the catwalk, brows that are too unruly can make you look a little unkept.
2. Whose eyebrows do you envy?
Cara Delevigne is certainly the poster girl for full brows at the moment, but I have always adored Jessica Alba's eyebrows. She wears them soft, and the colour always compliments whatever hair colour she is sporting. She has the right idea. Eyebrows should lend themselves to the face not try to be the star of the show.
3. Tips for having the best-shaped eyebrow?
– Forget all the eyebrow rules about where the arch should be and where the eyebrow needs to start! Work with your brow not against it and you will reveal its true potential!
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Q: GWT designing using java programming I have created one gwt application. In the client package i inculded two java file contains gwt coding. In the first java program i included one Hyperlink when this Hyperlink is clicked it should redircted to Second file which also contains some GWT coding. I dont know how to redirect the java file.
Help me on this issue...
Regards,
Raji

A: Bakkal is correct, you want to think about swapping out Widgets instead of navigating to a different web page. Here is some code to illustrate this point:
  /** The main panel associated with your GWT app's content */
  private Panel contentPanel;

  public void onModuleLoad() {
    PageA pageA = new PageA();

    // When the user clicks 'GotoB' navigate to pageB.
    pageA.onButtonClickedHandler(new ClickHandler() {
      @Override
      public void onClick(ClickEvent event) {

        PageB pageB = new PageB();
        contentPanel.clear();
        contentPanel.add(pageB);
      }
    });

    contentPanel = new VerticalPanel();
    contentPanel.add(pageA);

    RootPanel.get("gwtAppBody").add(contentPanel);
  }

A: You can use a Hyperlink that switches a panel from PageA to PageB.
You have to think more like an application developer instead of a web "pages" developer with GWT.

A: Check out the MVP pattern for creating GWT web apps. This is the answer to all your "gwt page switching questions" ;)
The pattern integrate an history managing system with some view while respecting the MVC (Model-View-Controller). They called it MVP (Model-View-Presenter) and gave it their own flavor. Add some UiBinder (new in GWT since 2.0) to create your view and you're in for a good ride!
If you don't know what is a design pattern, don't be afraid to ask, people will be happy to answer

A: As mentioned by bakkal, you should probably focus the Events and responding to those events by taking some action on backend, returning some Model and updating your View. In conventional web applications, most of the time(if not using AJAX), you don't deal with events. However, when working with AJAX and GWT it will be helpful to introduce MVC in the GWT's part. This HMVC Pattern may be useful.


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Small signs that something might be amiss with Isla's health had begun a few months earlier.
"In March last year Isla started her period, which was a little more painful than I remember, but we didn't really think anything of it," says Paula.
"But by July Isla said she was getting out of breath when having underwater swimming races with Raph in the pool.
"She also didn't want to go on their trampoline as it gave her a pain in her bladder. After the diagnosis we realized this was because the tumor was bouncing on it."
By late August, Isla was suffering unexplained bleeding between periods. Paula knew something was wrong so made an appointment with a paediatrician. The next day, at a hospital in nearby Nice, Isla underwent an ultrasound scan and other tests. When the results came in the family were devastated.
Isla had a malignant germ cell tumor, which grows in the cells that form the eggs in the ovary. They are rare and affect roughly one in 200,000 women. In men they can develop in the testicle where the sperm is formed.
"It was hard to take in as everything had happened so fast," says Paula.
"But the care was phenomenal. A week later, Isla was starting chemo."
For Isla, having a clear diagnosis was helpful. "A lot of the time leading up to the diagnosis I didn't feel right, but I didn't expect it to be cancer," says Isla. "I thought it would be something like an allergy or an intolerance.
"I didn't take it in that we were going to a cancer department, and only realized that afterwards. When I went back into the doctor's room after being examined, mum was crying – although she had been crying a lot the day before that. Then the doctor started to explain it was cancer and I think I was just in a state of shock."
Because of ongoing Covid restrictions, it was decided Paula would be mostly with Isla at the hospital while Gary took care of Raphael.
"We made a decision which was best for our family," explains Paula. "I probably cope better with stress and I don't think he could have seen his little girl going through all this in hospital on a daily basis. But he could still come in every day and cheer her up."
When Gary visited, Paula would either spend time with Raphael or go for a short run, which she still does most days. "When we were over the initial shock and the medical team had explained everything, having that sporting background helped," says Paula. "We had a treatment plan – like all the training plans I have followed over the years, and it was something we could stick to and see things improving."
The prognosis was good with a high chance of it being successfully cured with surgery, and in Isla's case, chemotherapy too, which started in September, just as she was starting a new school term. The drugs were delivered intravenously five days in a row, taking seven hours each time.
posted Tuesday July 20th
by Adrian Monti


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Definition of Digital Technology
At our school we recognise that pupils will be using hardware and software throughout their career and will need to understand how that technology and hardware works. However in order to become proficient users of technology pupils should also understand how systems work and are built and also how to design, build and improve systems themselves.
Our pupils are therefore taught the basics of programming, networking and how to build a computer. These skills are applied in relevant contexts to show pupils the relevance of these skills.
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The extremists who want to overthrow the state
In Iceland, a trial begins in January against two men who are suspected of terrorist plots. The men deny it, but according to the police have extreme right-wing views, and are said to have planned an armed attack against, among other things, the Alltinget, the Icelandic parliament. The threat from within has also been seen […]
This is how the ice between the EU's highest leaders is felt
Why do UK prime ministers insist on standing behind a podium in the middle of the street and giving speeches? Can the United States of Europe become a reality in the future? And has the breakfast offer in the EU buildings changed after Brexit? In this year's first episode, Europapodden answers questions from your listeners. […]
This is how Putin's war affects Russian speakers in the Baltics
In Conflict this week heads David Rasmusson and Carina Holmberg out on a trip to Estonia. Latvia and Lithuania. Three countries that have gone through the cracks in support for Ukraine. At the same time, they have pushed for ever tougher EU sanctions against Russia, despite the fact that it also damages their own economies. […]
That's how Putin has united the Nordics
The borders were closed and Nordic cooperation collapsed during the corona pandemic. The split was a reminder that neighborliness cannot be taken for granted. But today the playing field is different and the rekindling of the Nordic relationship is a fact. Russia's large-scale invasion of Ukraine and the new security policy situation have once again […]
This is how the war in Ukraine could end | The radio correspondents Live 2022
When Russian President Vladimir Putin launched what he describes as a "special military operation" in February, many observers believed that the Ukrainian forces would find it difficult to defend themselves against Putin's military might. But so far Ukraine has offered stiff resistance and Russian forces have not managed to approach the capital Kyiv or threaten […]
Assassination attempt in Oslo, "NATO's Achilles heel" Lithuania, fatigue to be vaccinated against corona and the summer before elections
Norway in grief and dismay In Oslo, an attack has been carried out on people who were sitting in restaurants, with dead and injured. The security police have declared the highest terrorist warning as a precautionary measure. The arrested suspect is known for Islamist links, but also for mental problems. Swedish Radio correspondent Carina Holmberg […]
Right now: Finland says yes to NATO
The Finnish Parliament says yes to applying for membership in the NATO defense alliance. Hear our correspondent Carina Holmberg on site in Finland about the vote. We broadcast directly in the app SR Play and on the web.
The story of NATO – this is how the defense alliance works
The invasion of Ukraine has increased the Swedes' willingness to join NATO and the government is working at a fast pace. In just a couple of weeks, a security policy report will be presented, before a possible membership. But how did NATO come about and how do you become a member? In P4 Världen we […]
RIGHT NOW: "Pandemic exacerbates social disparities"
The Norwegian Corona Commission presents its second report and hands it over to the Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre. "The pandemic has exacerbated social inequalities in society," said Commission President Egil Matsen. Hear our Norwegian correspondent Carina Holmberg and Ulrika Björkstén, Ekot's science reporter, comment on the report.
Magdalena Andersson does not want to wait with a decision on NATO
The question of Swedish and Finnish NATO membership comes to the fore with Russia's invasion of Ukraine. On Tuesday, the Prime Ministers of Finland and Sweden, Sanna Marin and Magdalena Andersson, held a joint press conference. Sweden's and Finland's decision on NATO According to Ekot's commentator Tomas Ramberg, the point is to show that Sweden […]
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Bryan Cranston, on the Road
In honor of Breaking Bad's final stretch, which premieres this weekend, GQ presents an outtake from Brett Martin's August cover story on Bryan Cranston, about a lost episode from his life.
By Brett Martin
In September of 1976, at the age of 20, Bryan Cranston was at a crossroads. For several years, he had been taking law enforcement classes at junior college, pointed toward entering a degree program in police science. At the same time, he had discovered acting. Unable to decide between them, he simply took off with his brother, Kyle, crisscrossing the country on a two-year motorcycle odyssey. They slept on golf courses and in cemeteries. "If it was a weekday, we'd look for a church or synagogue that had a patch of grass," he says. "Weekends we'd find a school and climb the fence." They took odd jobs along the way, including gigs with carnivals, and they wintered near cousins who lived in Daytona Beach where Bryan sold towels and sunscreen at a hotel by day and began dabbling in the local theater by night as an actor and precocious producer.
One of the brothers' local hangouts was the Hawaiian Inn, where a man named Peter Wong staffed the kitchen. "Nobody liked Peter. He was an angry miserable man, except he loved ladies. He hated men. Every man. He always carried around a wad of cash, to go the dog track or jai alai," Cranston says. "We used to sit around and play 'How would you kill Peter Wong?' Like, 'I'd cut him up and put him in his moo goo gai pan.'"
So, what ever happened to Wong?
"Oh, somebody killed him."
Indeed, not long after the Cranstons had departed, the "diminutive Oriental," as the Daytona Beach Evening News had it, was found in the trunk of his car. A suspect was soon arrested, but police attention briefly lingered on the two motorcycle-riding brothers heard plotting his death before leaving town. "You know, they asked, 'Who didn't like Peter Wong that's no longer around?' 'Well, there were those Cranston Boys….' But we were already up in North Carolina or Virginia by then."
And on the way to a different life. It was at the end of his two years on the road, as winter set in on the east coast, that Cranston had his epiphany. He and Kyle were holed up in a rest stop along the Blue Ridge Parkway, waiting out a storm. "There were two slabs of cement, with just four posts and a roof, and a picnic table on them. Nobody else was there, so we just drove our bikes right up onto the slab. We were there for six days, because it never stopped raining. Never even got light. And we never saw another soul. So, you know, it's like prison: you're playing gin rummy, you're doing push-ups. Finally, one day, we'd done all that playing, and I started reading a book of Ibsen plays I had. I started Hedda Gabler. And I'm reading and reading and suddenly I look up and it's dark. It caught me by surprise. I'd gotten so carried away and it was like, Bing! I wonder if I should pursue this: Something that I love and can hopefully be good at, instead of something I was good at but not in love with. I thought, 'I think I'm going to do this. In fact, I know I'm going to do this.'"
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Our Fall Raise-A-Reader Fundraiser is quickly coming to a close. This weekend is your last chance to collect sales! For those families who require additional time to collect those last minute orders, we have added a few important dates below!
Online orders will be accepted until Monday, October 10.
The best part is, you can continue to purchase items from our online store YEAR ROUND, all you need to do is enter our schools store ID 3730223 at www.qsp.ca and ALL PROFITS will go directly to West Royalty Elementary!!
Thank you for your continued support! Each year we are so fortunate to be able to afford the opportunity to support our teachers and students with the profits we raise through this FUNdrasier!
On behalf of all teachers, staff, students, and your Home and School, THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!
West Royalty Elementary School is teaming up once again with Indigo to raise money for your child's homeroom class libraries.
Indigo will generously donate 20% of every purchase back to West Royalty Elementary School! The donations will be divided up among each classroom to help the enrichment of their classroom libraries.
Come on out to the Charlottetown Indigo store on Thursday September 29th and Friday September 30th from 5:30-9:30pm to support the love of reading in our school !
We are just one week away from International Walk to School Day! For many parents, the car has become the main means of transporting children to and from school. The result has been a gradual decrease in the numbers of children walking and wheeling to and from school on a regular basis.
International Walk to School Day promotes: increasing daily physical activity, improving safety, enhancing the environment, reducing levels of crime, developing community cohesion, promoting social interaction and reducing traffic congestion, pollution and speed near schools.
Join us on Wednesday, October 5th (Rain date: 6th). We are hoping to have groups leaving from 3 locations this year. If you are available to volunteer at one of the following, or if you want to form a group of your own, please let us know: Designated spots of departure are West Royalty Community centre, West Royalty Soccer Field (Lower Malpeque Road), Parricus Mead subdivision. Leaving at 7:40am. As with all school outings a valid criminal record check is required.
Groups usually meet at around 7:40 am and walk to school together. We still need a chairperson and volunteers at the starting locations. The more the better! If you can help or want more information, contact westroyaltyhs@gmail.com.
The West Royalty Home and School Association would like to say a huge thank you to the administrators, teachers and school staff who helped ensure all our children's safety during yesterdays school evacuation.
It's reassuring to know our children are in such good hands everyday but especially during an event like the one we experienced yesterday.
The Family of Schools District Advisory Councils will be holding our first meeting on October 5th for the 2016/17 school year!
At this meeting we will be discussing key priorities and issues that can be identified for our school community, and ways to address these priorities.
Please feel free to contact me at vanessaeford@hotmail.com or by telephone 902-213-6112 with your input on your child's education here on P.E.I. and have a voice to make a difference!
We Learn, We Build, We Play with… LEGO® Bricks.
This is a hands on after school enrichment class where students design and build educational models including motorized machines. Each session has a theme with 2 levels of builds for grades 1-3 and advanced builds for grades 4-6. Problem solving & critical thinking skills are developed while creativity and self-confidence are encouraged. Math & science are applied to real world situations while architecture and engineering concepts are explored. Our fun-filled model plans reinforce S.T.E.M. based principles using LEGO® Bricks. Kids are motivated and retain more of what they learn when lessons are related to something they enjoy, like LEGO® Bricks!
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The Dr. Helen MacDonald Collaboration Facilitation Scholarship is an initiative of the PEI Home and School Federation to nurture a new generation of educational leaders, with an eye to seeing their talents used to help home and school, locally and provincially, become even better at those collaborative discussions.
The scholarship covers the full tuition costs for candidates to obtain a Collaborative Leadership and Facilitation Certificate from the University of Prince Edward Island.
The deadline for applicants is September 14 by 4:00 pm.
To apply you must be a member of a local home and school association in Prince Edward Island.
Home and School Leadership Training workshops will be held on Monday, September 26 from 6:30-8:30 pm at Morell consolidated and Tuesday, September 27th from 6:30-8:30 at Queen Elizabeth Elementary.
Any Home and School Volunteers are welcome.
You will learn where you fit into the education system, executive roles, committee roles, other volunteer roles, how to engage with the federation, how to communicate effectively with local board and department of education, how to advocate for change and where change is needed in the system.
The workshop is free to all volunteers island wide! Free handouts and light refreshments provided!
School resumes Tuesday Sept 6th and there is no better time to brush up on some key safety tips.
Prince Edward Island RCMP have posted some great information for drivers, students and parent/guardians at http://www.rcmp.gc.ca/en/news/2016/2/time-head-back-school-and-rcmp-pei-have-safety-tips.
Read up and have a happy and safe back to school.


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Help support the Peace River Audubon Society as we work toward our mission: to engage in educational pursuits involving birding and the conservation of our natural environment.
From noon May 1 until noon May 2 go to the Giving Challenge homepage www.givingpartnerchallenge.org and search for Peace River Audubon Society. These funds will be used locally with a special emphasis on education. The 2018 Giving Challenge is presented by the Community Foundation of Sarasota County with giving strengthened by The Patterson Foundation. Enter your gift of $25 or more and The Patterson Foundation will provide a 1:1 match for each online donor's contribution – up to $100 per donor, per organization. Please share information about this important funding raising event — the Giving Challenge.


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For the third year in a row, Apple is the world's most profitable company. In general, compared to last year's ranking, the total profit of the 50 most powerful companies has grown in step with the growth of the global economy. For example, the total revenue of the 500 largest companies on the Fortune Global 500 amounted to more than $30 trillion (USD). American companies edged out a few Chinese state banks and state energy corporations from the top of the ranking. The presence of a handful of Japanese, Korean, European and Russian companies on the list mitigates the tough global competition for resources and global cash flow between the US and China. However, in 2019, the figures might become much gloomier, particularly if US President Donald Trump triggers a trade war between America and China and the EU. As we know, one of the main reasons for the Great Depression in the United States was a large-scale trade war. In the event of a similar event, the world economy can be expected to inevitably and quickly fall into recession, with a high risk of a repetition of the 2008 financial crisis.
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Not recommended under 5, PG to 10 (Violence, Scary scenes)
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details of classification and consumer advice lines for Furry Vengeance
a review of Furry Vengeance completed by the Australian Council on Children and the Media (ACCM) on 16 September 2010.
Children under 5 Not recommended due to violence and scary scenes
Children aged 5-10 Parental guidance recommended due to violence and scary scenes
Children aged over 10 OK for this age group
This section contains details about the movie, including its classification by the Australian Government Classification Board and the associated consumer advice lines.
Name of movie: Furry Vengeance
Classification: PG
Consumer advice lines: Mild comedic violence
Length 91 minutes
This review of the movie contains the following information:
a synopsis of the story
use of violence
material that may scare or disturb children
sexual references
nudity and sexual activity
use of substances
the movie's message
Furry Vengeance is a children's comedy directed by Roger Kimble. The film follows the story of Dan Sanders (Brendan Fraser), who moves his family from Chicago to the remote Oregon town of Rocky Springs for a year, while he manages a property development project for Leyman Enterprises. Although Sanders considers this position an opportunity to improve the family's financial security, his wife, Tammy (Brooke Shields) and son, Tyler (Matt Prokop) feel isolated and unhappy in their new surroundings. It also soon becomes apparent that Neil Leyman (Ken Jeong) is a tyrannical and unethical boss, with no qualms about destroying native environments for profit, despite the supposedly "green" nature of his company.
As Dan focuses on meeting Mr. Leyman's escalating demands, Tammy and Tyler become increasingly dissatisfied with their lives in Rocky Springs. Another emerging problem is that the local forest animals have begun acting together to fight the land development that will destroy their homes. They devise countless ways to sabotage the project and make Dan's life miserable. As Dan becomes increasingly disturbed by the animals' cunning and often malicious actions, his family and work crew begin wondering if he has developed psychological problems. The situation escalates until Dan is forced to re-evaluate his current priorities and ultimate life goals.
Themesinfo
Children and adolescents may react adversely at different ages to themes of crime, suicide, drug and alcohol dependence, death, serious illness, family breakdown, death or separation from a parent, animal distress or cruelty to animals, children as victims, natural disasters and racism. Occasionally reviews may also signal themes that some parents may simply wish to know about.
This film involves the themes of loneliness, isolation and relationship breakdown. In addition, although intended to be comedic, there are several references to war and recurring negative references to mental illness and dementia.
Use of violenceinfo
Research shows that children are at risk of learning that violence is an acceptable means of conflict resolution when violence is glamourised, performed by an attractive hero, successful, has few real life consequences, is set in a comic context and / or is mostly perpetrated by male characters with female victims, or by one race against another.
Repeated exposure to violent content can reinforce the message that violence is an acceptable means of conflict resolution. Repeated exposure also increases the risks that children will become desensitised to the use of violence in real life or develop an exaggerated view about the prevalence and likelihood of violence in their own world.
There is a great deal of physical and verbal violence in this movie including:
The forest animals set off a rock fall to intentionally force an unidentified Leyman employee off the road and over a cliff, presumably to his death
Mr. Leyman continually yells at Dan and other employees
Leyman Enterprises' security guard yells at and threatens Tammy;
The forest animals attack the security guard
One scene depicts a flashback to various historical eras, when men who had tried to clear sections of the forest for settlement purposes were attacked by forest animals
Tyler yells at his father
Dan is attacked by a racoon, which bites, kicks and urinates on him. In retaliation, Dan hurls the racoon into the undergrowth
The forest animals purposely set off a rock fall causing Dan to have a car crash
A racoon unplugs the step-machine while Dan is using it, and this sends him flying over the handlebars and into the wall-mounted flat screen television
A squirrel purposely knocks an acorn into Dan's muesli, so that he damages his teeth
Skunks sneak into Dan's car and then spray him, causing him to crash the car
A large goose intentionally chases Dan into a bush that is full of bees, causing him to receive dozens of stings over his entire body
Dan has a nightmare that the forest animals are attacking him, knocking him down and throwing rocks and sticks at him
Hundreds of forest animals go on a rampage at a Forest Festival event, intentionally scaring and injuring the people there by shrieking and chasing, kicking, punching and throwing things.
Under fiveinfo
Children under five are most likely to be frightened by scary visual images, such as monsters, physical transformations.
In addition to the above-mentioned violent scenes, there are some scenes in this movie that could scare or disturb children under the age of five, including:
A large, upright grizzly bear suddenly appears from the forest and chases Dan; and
Dan dreams that he rolls over in bed to find Tammy has developed a frightening racoon face.
Aged five to eightinfo
Children aged five to eight will also be frightened by scary visual images and will also be disturbed by depictions of the death of a parent, a child abandoned or separated from parents, children or animals being hurt or threatened and / or natural disasters.
In addition to the above-mentioned violent scenes and scary visual images, there are some scenes in this movie that could scare or disturb children aged five to eight, including the following:
A squirrel sitting on the road appears as though it will be run over
Dan tries to run over a racoon
Dan aims a crossbow at a racoon and threatens to shoot it
Dan yells at and chases a racoon
Mr. Leyman tries to shoot a racoon with a tranquilliser rifle.
A bird lures Dan onto the roof, where he slips and falls from the second storey. Dan then remains unconscious in the paddling pool until morning
Aged eight to thirteeninfo
Children aged eight to thirteen are most likely to be frightened by realistic threats and dangers, violence or threat of violence and / or stories in which children are hurt or threatened.
Younger children in this age group may also be scared by some of the above mentioned scenes
Over thirteeninfo
Children over the age of thirteen are most likely to be frightened by realistic physical harm or threats, molestation or sexual assault and / or threats from aliens or the occult.
Children in this age group are unlikely to be disturbed by anything in this film.
Some products are used in this movie, such as Apple computers. In addition, there is a brief musical reference to the Mission Impossible theme. There is also mention of Bruce Lee and Hannah Montana, and fleeting visual references to films such as The Blue Lagoon, Grease, Braveheart and Risky Business.
There are some mild sexual references in this movie, including:
Dan says he has to remove a leech from his "no-no zone"
Tyler's girlfriend ponders aloud about kissing him
There are no direct depictions of nudity or sexual activity in this movie, however, there are some mild scenes where:
Dan kisses his wife Tammy briefly
Dan is shown naked from the waist up, taking a bath
Dan is shown apparently wearing a bra
There is some use of substances in this movie, including:
An unidentified man smokes a cigar.
There is some mildly coarse, threatening and discriminatory language in this movie, including:
"I'm in Hell"
"Amazon woman" (said as a put-down)
"Out of the way, fuzzball"
"I'm going to crush you"
Several references to animal excrement
Many negative comedic references to mental illness
Furry Vengeance is a comedy containing some clever animation but with little humour for older audiences. Most of the intended laughs revolve around people and animals intentionally injuring one another or animal poo/urine jokes. While children will find some of these incidents funny, adults may become frustrated with the film's lack of substance. Further, the continual depiction of animals as calculating, almost sadistic creatures is a little unsettling. The focus on revenge through aggressive action also establishes a confusing sub-text, which muddies the films' intended message that success cannot be gained through selfish deeds.
Values in this movie that parents may wish to reinforce with their children include:
consideration for others
kindness, rather than aggression.
This movie could also give parents the opportunity to discuss with their children attitudes and behaviours, and their real-life consequences, such as
The potentially serious consequences of aggressive actions, in comparison to the benefits of learning how to share and work together
The actual vulnerability of many animals, and their inability to defend themselves in the sophisticated manner depicted in the film
The stigmatising consequences of discrimination for people with dementia or a mental illness.
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Directed by Steven Spielberg
Written by Matt Charman, Ethan Coen & Joel Coen
Music by Thomas Newman
Mark Rylance as Rudolf Abel
Tom Hanks as James P. Donovan
Amy Ryan as Mary Donovan
Austin Stowell as Francis Gary Powers
Dakin Matthews as Judge Mortimer Byers
Will Rogers as Frerick Pryor
The last couple of months has been hard-going for those wanting to see the annual flurry of Golden Globe and Oscar contestants. You had to be quick getting in to see them around us, because the Multiplexes soon had Star Wars – The Force Awakens on six or seven screens, and children's films for Christmas on the rest of the screens. The big contenders like Bridge of Spies flew through. This has been great for business for the second-run community cinemas. Last week, all four showings of The Lady & The Van in Wimborne, Dorset were sold out and we couldn't get tickets. This week Bridge of Spies is packing them in at the community cinema … the multiplex is only showing it at 6 pm Mondays in a studio cinema. So this month is catch up time on the big releases at one of the three community cinemas near us.
Bridge of Spies is the true Cold War tale of Soviet spy Rudolf Abel, arrested in Brooklyn, and who was exchanged for U2 pilot, Gary Powers, after he was shot down over the Soviet Union in May 1960. Powers was on a high level spying mission flying from Pakistan to Norway. The details in the film are all close to accounts. Powers ejected but couldn't free his oxygen tube. He was captured but failed to use the suicide pin hidden in a silver dollar, as he had been instructed to do. Why an Irish rock band thought U2 a good name is a mystery.
Mark Rylance has the first 5-10 minutes of screen time and immediately intrigues as Russian spy Rudolf Abel. Spielberg had been chasing Mark Rylance for years. Rylance has became one of the few greatest, if not THE greatest actor in current British theatre. He has largely eschewed film or TV, but was cast as Thomas Cromwell in Wolf Hall on TV. Speilberg got him, and got a sublime performance from him too. Theatre critic Michael Billington has described Rylance as a "shapeshifter"- he seems to change stature and size radically to fit the part he's playing. Here, it's slight, small, late middle-aged. In the play Jerusalem he's the powerful beefy Johnny Rooster, and in Twelfth Night he played a tiny, birdlike Olivia in a black dress. Then Tom Hanks is so at the alpha end of A list that he gets his name alone over the film title. He did in Castaway too, but he was alone on a desert island for much of it. So you have two of the finest actors, at their peak, with contrasting approaches. The mix is fascinating.
Mark Rylance as Rudolf Abel, Tom Hanks as James P. Donovan
Tom Hanks has described how working with Rylance and his unpredictable pauses and hesitations was an education as well as keeping him right on his toes. Tom Hanks has by far the most screen time in his role as the principled, Constitution-abiding fair-play honest American Lawyer.
Abel and Donovan face the court
James Donovan was an insurance specialist lawyer, who was pushed into defending Abel so that the world would see Abel was getting a fair trial. He was expected to lose, and also expected to be reviled in Cold War America. Inevitably, he really tried hard to defend him … you know the plot. It's in The Conspirator, where James McAvoy has the same role in 1865, defending those plotting to kill Lincoln and Seward. You've seen it a dozen times on TV from LA Law to Murder One to The Good Wife … the principled lawyer forced to defend the indefensible, citing the Constitution, and putting their all into it. A solid American storyline indeed, but done here with Spielberg's expertise, a Coen brothers script and Tom Hanks in the lead role,
After the court case: Donovan is reviled because Abel got 30 years, not the electric chair
All this was happening as the Berlin Wall was being built, and after losing the case, Donovan is dispatched to East Berlin to negotiate an exchange of Abel for Powers. Being such a good guy, he insists on also freeing a young American student arrested on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall as it is being built. The CIA couldn't care less about the student.
Cold, slushy, dull, ominously grey Berlin is created, as is a creaky filthy old East German train. Commuter train journeys are a running motif. In New York, Donovan feels the opprobrium of the Great American Public for defending a Dirty Commie Ruskie spy while on his daily commute. In East Berlin, he sees kids scaling the wall and being shot down from the commuter train window. At the end, when he's been revealed as a hero, he receives smiles of acknowledgment on the train.
Building the Berlin Wall
Berlin is chilling. There's a remark from Vogel, the East German lawyer (or rather government official), that the Russians insist on keeping the World War Two ruins intact and unrepaired as a reminder. It's true too. They did. We were in East Berlin in 1991, and people pointed out the thousands of bullet marks in the Pergamon museum walls … it was the scene of intense hand to hand fighting in 1945. The Soviets had insisted the bullet and shrapnel scars stay unrepaired as a warning. Don't try it again! In West Berlin, the bullet marks had largely been repaired. The Hitler bunker area had been left as it was in 1945, a stark, crumbling reminder. Reunification has seen new blocks of flats, the new parliament and the American Embassy rise in the area as well as the holocaust memorial. I somehow feel the skeleton ruins of buildings, and filthy pockmarked grass with lumps of concrete and twisted metal around the Hitler bunker should have been left exactly as they were. And who'd want to live in an apartment on top of it? This film conveys that 1960-1961 East Berlin, not the hip 21st century one. Perversely, with its preserved leafy 19th century streets, and spanking-new hotels, the old East Berlin is now far more attractive than its 1950s hastily built Western counterpart. However, I thought the street around Checkpoint Charlie was wider than that, but it may have changed.
Donovan and East German police
Quality? It's Spielberg. Tom Hanks and Mark Rylance are the memorable roles, but every supporting actor just "fits the part." Tom Hanks manages to be upright, intensely serious but still gets odd laughs, and throughout the East German sequence is supposed to be fighting a cold – good runny nose make-up.On the script, "fucked up" is the only swearing, and used just two or three times when Donovan is arguing with the CIA. How much more effective it is to use swearing sparingly, but with drama at the right time.
Thomas Newman's soundtrack is powerful. He's one of the SEVEN Newman family composers, along with dad Alfred, uncle Lionel, brother David and cousin Randy. The music is unobtrusive early on, as it should be, but builds to an exciting ending then beautifully melodic "return to the USA."
The accuracy of the story is shown in the attached link to the REAL James P. Donovan's account of his first meeting with Abel from his book Strangers On A Bridge (1964). Some of it is word for word.
Oscar predictions (January 2016) and I won't alter them when all is known:
Best supporting actor, Mark Rylance.
Best original music: Thomas Newman
Already nominated for Golden Globes and BAFTAs.
MARK RYLANCE ON THIS BLOG:
Nice Fish by Mark Rylance and Louis Jenkins
Farinelli & The King, by Claire Van Kampen, Wanamaker Playhouse, 2015
Richard III – Apollo 2012 Mark Rylance as Richard III
Twelfth Night – Apollo 2012 Mark Rylance as Olivia
Jerusalem by Jez Butterworth, West End
La Bête by David Hirson, West End, 2010
+ film and TV
Wolf Hall, TV Series (as Thomas Cromwell)
Bridge of Spies, directed by Steven Speilberg


Ms. Magdalena Navarro currently serves as Senior International Program Manager in the International and Academic Affairs Office (IAAO) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). In that role, she is responsible for the preparation, coordination and implementation of bilateral and multilateral cooperation agreements with national metrology institutes (NMIs) or other international bodies, and provides liaison between NIST laboratories and their counterparts in governmental and non-governmental organizations in China, Japan, Spain, Israel, Brazil, and several other countries in South America. Since 1999, she has managed the U.S. technical review process of the U.S.-Israel Bi-National Research and Development (BIRD) Foundation and the U.S.-Israel-Jordan Industrial Development (TRIDE) Program.
From 1992 to 1999, she was a physical scientist working in the Optical Technology Division of the NIST Physical Measurement Laboratory (formerly Physics Laboratory) conducting research in the areas of photometry and radiometry.
Ms. Navarro joined NIST as a biologist in the Fire Measurement and Research Division of the NIST Engineering Laboratory (formerly Building and Fire Research Laboratory (BFRL). She did experimental work in the area of toxic potency of combustion products to further develop the N-Gas Model, an approach for predicting the toxicity of complex combustion mixtures.
Ms. Navarro worked from 1987 to 1990 as a biologist in the Division of Intramural Clinical and Biological Research at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) where she was part of the team on clinical research in alcohol abuse and panic disorder.
Ms. Navarro received two M.S. in Engineering Management and Information Technology System from George Washington University in 2000. She earned her B.S. in Biology and a minor in Chemistry from the University of Maryland in 1987. She has authored and co-authored numerous scientific publications. In 2011, she received the NIST Bronze Medal and was inducted as a distinguished scientist to the Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society.


Comparative Politics is a field in Political Science. As its name suggests, in comparative politics is all about the comparison in politics. In comparative politics, we study about the comparison between different political practices in different states. In easier words, we can say that comparative politics is a study about the different politics in different countries and compare them with each other.
Comparative politics is the study of domestic politics, political institutions, and conflicts between the two countries. Comparative politics combines the study of comparison of political experience, institutions, behavior, and processes of the systems of government in two or more different countries. In Comparative politics, the study of extra-constitutional agencies and their immediate connection is also included.
Braibante had defined the Comparative Politics as Comparative politics is identification and interpretation of factors in the whole social order which appears to affect whatever political functions and their institutions which have been identified and listed for comparison.
Comparative politics is a key area of Political Science. Comparative politics is not only about the comparison of the political structure of different countries, but it is also about the comparison of political activity, political process, and political power. The study of features and legal power also comes under the study of comparative politics.
The main motive of comparative politics is to improve the ongoing condition of any state or country. The improvement can be implemented on the present system of ant state or country by adopting the already successful and proven system of other countries.
Although it's not really easy as when we compare one state with others in terms of politics than many more things like culture, the literacy rate of citizens plays an important role in it.
Comparative politics also use to reduce the tensions or the resolution of conflicts between the two countries. Comparative politics is not defined only by the object of its study, but by the method, it applies to study political phenomena.
Comparison with others has been a common habit in human. We compare many things with others to take the right decision and history of this human trait is as old as the existence of human civilisation. Same applies in the case of comparative politics.
The Politics written by Aristotle has the mention of comparative politics. In this book, he compares "constitutions", by introducing his famous typology. Aristotle did a comparison of 158 countries and that's how the comparative politics was started.
In the Bible also some statements of comparative politics are mentioned. In ancient Greek also some systematic comparative politics were performed. Hence, we can say that comparative politics is an age-old practice.
Nature of comparative politics is comprehensible if you have understood its characteristics and significances. So let's have a look at the characteristics and significance of Comparative Politics to know about its nature and scope.
Here we will discuss the top 5 characteristics of Comparative Politics.
Essentially Descriptive Studies: To compare the politics of different countries, it's essential to have a descriptive study of them. Until you know in-depth about the politics of different countries, you will not be able to compare them and produce a productive result.
We can take the reference of the famous book "Governments of Continental Europe" edited by James T. Shot. Here he mentioned about the similarities and differences between Switzerland, Germany and the U.S.S.R. this comparison will not be possible without the descriptive studies of mentioned countries.
Historical-Legalistic-Institutional Approach: For the descriptive study of political institution, two typical approaches are available; first is historical and the second is legalistic. Through Historical approaches, we can compare the evolution of the French Parliament or the German Representative Assemblies. And through a legalistic approach, we can study the legal power of various branches of government and their relationships with reference to the existing constitutional and legal prescriptions.
Essentially Parochial: Most of the studies on comparative politics have been done on Western European institutions. So it is essentially parochial.
Essential Static: in traditionally comparative politics' study the dynamic factors like growth and change are ignored. That makes comparative politics more static.
Essentially Monographic: The most important studies of foreign political systems have taken the form of monographs that have concentrated on the study of political institutions of one system or on the discussion of a particular institution in different systems.
Comparative Politics is an important part of Political Science. In Comparative Politics, we study the difference and similarity between the two countries and try to find out why they for what they are. Comparative Politics describes how other countries in the world function politically and how they are different from your countries.
Now let's discuss the scope of Comparative politics. The scope of comparative politics includes the subject of political power. Here the term political power can be defined by a different writer and politics experts. Carl J. Friedrich describes it as, 'certain kind of human relationship' and, Lasswell says "The making of the decision is an interpersonal process: the policies which other persons are to pursue are what is decided upon.
Power as participation in the making of decisions is an interpersonal relation. Politics thus connotes a special case in the exercise of power an exercise of power – an exercise in the attempt to change the conduct of others in one's own direction".
All Political Structures: A complete knowledge of political structure is essential for comparative politics. This study includes the study of all the formal and informal, governmental and extra-governmental institutions and their structure.
Functional Studies: the knowledge of how all the formal and informal institutes work within the country includes in comparative politics.
Study of Political Behaviour: Another important part of the scope of Comparative Politics is the study of Voting behavior, political participation, leadership recruitment, elite behavior, mass politics, etc.
Study of Similarities and Differences: How two countries are similar and how are they different from each other is the main topic of study on comparative politics.
Study of all Political Systems: the political system of any country defines its nature and the voting culture. There is a huge difference of thinking between a democratic country's citizen and a nondemocratic country's citizen.
The aforementioned scopes are just a few. In comparative politics, everything includes which has some relevance with the country or countries.
Comparative Politics is an old concept and since the ancient time its scope become wider. To summarise the comparative politics we can say that this study is a systematical comparison of different countries without being biased, or having some philosophical axes. Having a clear thinking process is an essential factor that a comparative politics researcher must have.
Already many things have been written related to this topic but frequent changes in a change in the political economy, culture, conflict, government, rights, and public policy create more opportunities for new researchers in the field of comparative studies.