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To build the terms dictionary, it is necessary to identify, to count the terms and to acquire them and for all that, to find corpora, to locate the terms by deciding if a word group constitutes or not an entry in the dictionary. In the case of a compound noun is a possible lexical entry, we codify the entry and we add it in the dictionary. More than 3000 terms were extracted and listed manually. Most of them are NA, NDN and NN. The elaborate dictionary will be added to INTEX and will make it possible to analyse computer science texts. Various applicability are possible such are the information retrieval, the machine analysis of texts, the generation of texts and machine translation. The method of extraction is manual; a semi-automatic method of extraction is actually programmed in C++ Builder and tested. The ATNs are used.


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Each bag consists of 56% wholegrain corn meal.
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What I do like about the new Hoops and Crosses is the wholegrain content that kids can't taste at all when they eat the crisps.
Eating a diet that includes wholegrain can help our health along nicely by providing a rich source of fibre. Getting fibre into my children so easily has to be a good way to go.
I know friends of my kids who eat no wholegrain at all, so as a wholegrain snack, it is perfect for lunchboxes and trips out. We didn't get a chance to try out playing x and o's on a piece of paper as the bag was dived upon by children desperate to eat them. We'll just have to wait until the next time we have them in the house.
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Q: How to check the performance of word embedding I have used the gensim Word2Vec model and applied it in my list of documents. Well , the word embedding is getting created. I want to know if Word2Vec is performing well on my list of documents. Is there any metrics to measure that? How will I understand if Word2Vec has really worked well on my document corpus or should I try some different embedding?
Below is the code I have used from gensim.
import gensim
model = gensim.models.Word2Vec(documents , size=150, window=10, min_count=2, sg=1, workers=10)

A: There's no universal definition of "performing well". It depends on your end-goals.
Why do you want to create word-vectors? What value do you expect them to provide?
With the answer to those questions, you can 1st review the results in an informal, ad-hoc fashion: look at some of the words nearest-neighbors (the results of wordvecs.most_similar(query_word)) to see if they make sense to you, for your needs and problem-domain.
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A plan for philosophy of social science circa 1976
image: Imre Lakatos
My Ph.D. dissertation in philosophy was written between 1974 and 1977 and was accepted in 1977. The topic was Marx's theory of science as embodied in Capital, and it was one of the early attempts to join an analytical philosophical perspective with careful study of Marx's ideas. The title of the dissertation was Marx's Capital: A Study in the Philosophy of Social Science. The dissertation proposed a different way of attempting to understand Marx, and it also proposed a different approach to developing the philosophy of social science — an approach that gives greater attention to the details and history of social-science research. This part of the introduction to the dissertation describes the view I then had of the purposes and current deficiencies of the philosophy of science.
The image of Imre Lakatos is used above because his work from the early 1970s was part of the inspiration for the more contextualized and historical view of the philosophy of social science described in this introduction. I found Lakatos much more stimulating than Kuhn in the early 1970s.
The full introduction is posted here. The full dissertation is posted here.
The philosophy of social science
The philosophy of social science is not a particularly strong area within contemporary philosophy. To some degree it suffers from the division between continental and analytic philosophy. Analytic philosophers have stressed the positivist theory of science, and have consequently come to social sciences with some distrust, while continental philosophers have been preoccupied with the relation of social science to philosophy, rather than the more central question of the defining characteristics of social science. Neither approach has been conducive to the project of constructing a viable, systematic, and sympathetic theory of social science. More importantly, however, the philosophy of social science suffers from its proximity to the philosophy of natural science. The analytical theory of science took shape in the hands of philosophers whose primary training was in natural science, and consequently, whose chief examples were drawn from the natural sciences. Philosophers of social science have all too often shown a tendency to merely import into their field the categories and questions formulated with respect to natural science, rather than posing questions and categories more closely tailored to the real outlines of typical social sciences.{6} It may eventually turn out, of course, that all sciences have the same epistemological structure; but that issue ought not be prejudged. The philosophy of social science needs, therefore, to develop a theory of social science which is not parasitic upon theories of natural science.
Ideally, a philosophy of social science ought to contain an analytical theory of social science which directs attention at the particular trouble spots of social knowledge. It ought to include a discussion of the peculiar nature of the subject matter of social science, an account of the characteristics of social explanation, an account of the relation between empirical evidence and theory in social science, and so forth; and more generally, it ought to consist of a set of questions and categories specifically suited to the special problems confronting social explanation and social theory. Contemporary philosophy of social science fails to come forward with such a theory, in large part because it formulates its theory of science in terms of concepts suggested by the philosophy of natural science.
This diagnosis of the weakness of philosophy of social science indicates that the philosophy of natural science bears a large responsibility for that weakness; happily, however, it is now able to provide the beginnings of a method of philosophical inquiry which can begin to undo that damage. For in the past two decades the philosophy of natural science has witnessed an important transformation in its method of inquiry. It has been transformed from an attempt to provide high-level abstractions concerning the basic concepts of explanation, confirmation, empirical significance, theory choice, and the like, to an attempt to provide a more detailed theory of scientific practice through detailed studies of particular examples of scientific inquiry. Historians of science have argued that the philosophy of science will benefit from greater attention to particular scientific theories and programmes of research, and increasingly philosophers have accepted this judgment. And this shift of attention has already begun to pay off in the form of theories of science which correspond more closely to the actual nature of science, and which thereby come closer to explaining science as a form of human knowledge.
I suggest that the philosophy of social science can benefit from the application of this historical method: its theory of social science can be enriched and corrected through closer attention to actual case studies drawn from the history of social science. Such studies have the potential of suggesting new categories and new questions concerning the nature of knowledge about society and history, and they provide the means by which the analytical theory of science itself may be assessed.
We may get a better idea of the logical relations between case studies of that sort and the formulation of a more general theory of science by working out a rough taxonomy of the logical structure of the philosophy of science.{7} The philosophy of science is (at least in part) a meta-level theory of the epistemological, methodological, and structural characteristics of science. If all scientific theories share certain epistemological characteristics in common, these certainly ought to be part of that theory of science; and if there is diversity, the theory of science ought to indicate the dimensions around which such diversity occurs. The theory of science ought to answer questions like: What is scientific explanation? How are scientific theories organized? How are scientific hypotheses given empirical justification? The theory of science, in other words, attempts to codify the most general characteristics of scientific knowledge.
On this account the theory of science stands at the greatest degree of abstraction: it attempts to make assertions which are true of all or most sciences. At the opposite end of the spectrum stands the particular scientific hypothesis or system: Darwinian evolutionary theory, Newtonian mechanics, Piaget's psychological theory, and so forth. Each such theory is an attempt to apply empirical rationality to the problem of explaining some complex domain of phenomena; and each advances a theory to the scientific community for some form of evaluation or acceptance. The crucial point to note, however, is that each such theory is an extended and complex argument, in which the principles of inference are almost always left unstated. The scientist engages in a complex form of empirical reasoning, but he does not codify that process of reasoning. For each such example of an empirical hypothesis and explanation, therefore, it is possible to attempt to unravel the implicit standards of empirical rationality, or the implicit conceptions of scientific explanation, inference, evidence, and so forth. This process is in large part the domain of the history of science; however, its results are of plain importance to the general theory of science described above. For if we suppose that any scientific theory rests upon a complex and unstated "grammar" of scientific inference and argument, we may sensibly ask whether there are any regularities among those implicit. theories of science. These particular theories of science embody the set of standards of empirical rationality which guide and regulate the particular scientist, and they constitute part of the raw material for the analytical theory of science. They are what the analytical theory of science is a theory of.
Using this basic taxonomy of the philosophy of science, it is possible to restate the innovation in the practice of the philosophy of science which was described above as having occurred of late: historically minded philosophers of science have argued that we ought to make more explicit the relationship between the two levels of theories of science, and ought to pay more attention to the concrete theories of science implicit in particular scientific systems when formulating and criticizing the analytical theory of science. We ought, that is, to formulate an analytical theory of science which is more sensitive to the particular details of the actual practice of scientific explanation and justification, rather than relying on a priori and unsystematic arguments about science in general.
1. Consider social theorists like Louis Althusser, Nicos Poulantzas, Lucio Coletti, and Maurice Godelier; empirical sociologists like Tom Bottomore, Ralph Miliband, and J. H. Westergaard; economists like Paul Sweezy, Maurice Dobb, and Ernest Mandel; and historians like E. P. Thompson, Eugene Genovese, Eric Hobsbawm, and Albert Soboul.
2. For a description of a similar project in the biological sciences, consult David Hull, Philosophy of Biological Science (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1974), pp. 5-7. Consider also Norwood Hanson, Patterns of Discovery, An Inquiry into the Conceptual Foundations of Science (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1965, p. 2.
3. Louis Althusser and Etienne Balibar, Reading Capital, trans. Ben Brewster (London: New Left Books, 1970), pp. 30-1;Louis Althusser, For Marx, trans. Ben Brewster (London: New Left Books, 1969), pp. 34-5.
4. David McLellan, Karl Marx (New York: Viking Press, 1975), pp. 303-305; Albrecht Wellmer, Critical Theory of Society (New York: Herder & Herder, 1971), Chap. 2; Carl Boggs, Gramsci's Marxism (London: Pluto Press,·1976) Chap. 1.
5. Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 2nd ed. ·(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970); Norwood Hanson, Patterns of Discovery; Imre Lakatos, "Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes," Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge, ed. Imre Lakatos & Alan Musgrave (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1970); David Hull, Philosophy of Biological Science. These works share a commitment to constructing a theory of science based on a close reading of some specific scientific theory.
6. Cf. Richard Rudner, Philosophy of Social Science (Englewood Cliffs., N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1966). This is a good example of such studies.
7. Consider Israel Scheffler, The Anatomy of Inquiry (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1963), pp. 3-15, for a similar discussion and taxonomy of the philosophy of science.
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Harvey v. Commonwealth
The Supreme Court held that Respondents, who were both previously adjudicated to be sexually violent predators and were committed to the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services after a trial court determined that they had violated the terms of their conditional release, were not entitled to a State-appointed psychological expert to assist them in a hearing. Respondents filed motions asking for a court-appointed psychological expert to assist them in a hearing to determine whether they violated the conditions of their release and whether those violations rendered them unsuitable for conditional release. Specifically, Respondents argued that, because they were indigent, the Due Process Clause required the appointment of an expert. The circuit courts denied the motions and determined that Respondents violated the conditions of their release. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding that given the temporary, expedited nature of the hearing and the other protections afforded Respondents, including the right to counsel, the Due Process Clause did not require the State to appoint an expert. View "Harvey v. Commonwealth" on Justia Law
Posted in: Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Supreme Court of Virginia
Spinner v. Commonwealth
The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the court of appeals affirming the trial court's denial of Defendant's motion to suppress and affirming Defendant's convictions, holding that that trial court did not err in denying Defendant's motion to suppress. Defendant was convicted of first degree murder and robbery and sentenced to life imprisonment. Defendant appealed the denial of his motion to suppress evidence obtained as a result of a police interrogation, arguing that his constitutional rights under Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966), and its progeny were denied because the interrogation took place under circumstances requiring Miranda warnings prior to questioning and that the warnings he was given were constitutionally insufficient. The court of appeals affirmed the convictions, holding that Defendant was effectively advised under Miranda. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding (1) the trial court properly found that no Miranda warnings were required; and (2) the warnings given to Defendant were a fully effective equivalent of the warnings required by Miranda. View "Spinner v. Commonwealth" on Justia Law
Brown v. Warden
The Supreme Court dismissed Petitioner's petition for writ of habeas corpus, holding that the petition was untimely under Va. Code 8.01-654(A)(2). In 1970, Petitioner was convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Petitioner was subsequently resentenced to life imprisonment. In 2016, Petitioner filed the present petition for a writ of habeas corpus, asserting that new evidence exculpated him. While acknowledging that his petition was untimely, Petitioner argued that the limitation period violated the Suspension Clause of Va. Const. Art. I, 9. The Supreme Court disagreed, holding (1) Petitioner's petition was time barred; and (2) Petitioner's inability to question and present new evidence bearing on his factual guilt or innocence did not violate the Suspension Clause. View "Brown v. Warden" on Justia Law
Posted in: Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Supreme Court of Virginia
Collins v. Commonwealth
March 28, 2019 by Justia Inc
The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the court of appeals affirming Defendant's conviction after the trial court had denied Defendant's motion to suppress, holding that the exclusionary rule did not apply under the facts of this case. Defendant was convicted of stolen property. At issue on appeal was whether the trial court should have excluded evidence obtained by police officers during a warrantless search of a motorcycle parked on a private residential driveway. The case made its way to the United States Supreme Court, which held that the automobile exception to the Fourth Amendment does not permit a police officer to enter the curtilage of a home without a warrant in order to search a vehicle parked on that curtilage. The Supreme Court left for resolution on remand whether the warrantless intrusion on Defendant's house may have been reasonable on a different basis. On remand, the Supreme Court affirmed the trial court's denial of Defendant's motion to suppress, holding that the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule applied because, at the time of the search, a reasonably well-trained police officer would not have known that the automobile exception did not permit him to search a motorcycle located a few feet across the curtilage boundary of a private driveway. View "Collins v. Commonwealth" on Justia Law
Reyes v. Commonwealth
February 21, 2019 by Justia Inc
The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals affirming the order of the circuit court denying Defendant's motion for continuance pursuant to Va. Code 19.2-159.1, holding that there was no reversible error in the court of appeals' judgment. Defendant pled guilty to a single charge of robbery. At a sentencing hearing, Defendant sought and was granted a continuance to July 15. On July 14, Defendant filed a motion to substitute counsel and also sought a continuance pursuant to section 19.2-159.1. The circuit court declined to substitute counsel and denied the motion for continuance. The court of appeals affirmed, ruling that Defendant failed to demonstrate exceptional circumstances to obtain a last-minute continuance. On appeal, Defendant asserted that section 19.2-159.1 required him to obtain private counsel, which he had done, and that he was therefore entitled to a continuance. The Supreme Court disagreed, holding that the statute confers no rights on defendants, and therefore, defendants are entitled to no remedy if a court declines to substitute counsel and grant a continuance for counsel to prepare. View "Reyes v. Commonwealth" on Justia Law
The Corporate Executive Board Co. v. Department of Taxation
February 7, 2019 by Justia Inc
The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the circuit court granting summary judgment in favor of the Tax Department on the Corporate Executive Board Company's (CEB) complaint alleging that its income tax assessments violated the "dormant" Commerce Clause and the Due Process Clause of the United States Constitution and that the assessments were "inequitable" under the Tax Department's regulations, holding that the circuit court did not err in declining to grant relief. CEB sought relief from the assessments for the years 2011, 2012, and 2013 and requested a redetermination of its income tax. The circuit court found in favor of the Tax Department. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding (1) the Tax Department's apportionment of CEB's income tax was in accord with constitutional requirements; and (2) the regulation allowing relief did not apply under its plain language. View "The Corporate Executive Board Co. v. Department of Taxation" on Justia Law
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Johnson v. Commonwealth
October 18, 2018 by Justia Inc
The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the Court of Appeals denying Defendant's appeal from the circuit court's order revoking twenty years of Defendant's suspended sentence and resuspending fifteen years after finding that Defendant was in violation of the conditions of his probation, holding that the admission of hearsay evidence in the probation revocation proceeding did not violate Defendant's right to confront witnesses against him under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Defendant was convicted of rape. After he was released on probation, the circuit court issued a capias for Defendant's arrest on the ground that he had violated the conditions of his probation. At a probation revocation hearing, the circuit court ruled that certain hearsay evidence was admissible. The circuit court ultimately determined Defendant to be in violation of the conditions of his probation. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding that the circuit court did not violate Defendant's right to confront witnesses against him. View "Johnson v. Commonwealth" on Justia Law
Secret v. Commonwealth
The Supreme Court affirmed Defendant's convictions of arson of an occupied dwelling and nine counts of attempted first-degree murder, holding that the trial court did not err in denying Defendant's motion to suppress his confession and did not err in denying Defendant's motions challenging the sufficiency of the evidence of his specific intent to commit murder. On appeal, Defendant argued that his confession, given after he was informed of his Miranda rights, was the product of an intentional and coercive interrogation technique proscribed in Missouri v. Seibert, 542 U.S. 600 (2004) or was otherwise involuntary. The Supreme Court disagreed, holding (1) Defendant's post-Miranda warning inculpatory statements were voluntary, and thus admissible; and (2) the evidence was sufficient to establish Defendant's specific intent to commit attempted first-degree murder. View "Secret v. Commonwealth" on Justia Law
Tirado v. Commonwealth
August 9, 2018 by Justia Inc
The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals upholding Defendant's conviction for rape, holding that the circuit court's finding that Defendant's waiver of his rights under Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966), was knowing and voluntary and that the court's decision to admit into evidence a recording of Defendant's interview with police officers was not in error. On appeal, Defendant challenged the denial of his motion to suppress statements he made during the police interrogation. Defendant argued that his statements made to police officers through an interpreter were obtained involuntarily and that he did not make a knowing and intelligent waiver of his rights under Miranda. The court of appeals affirmed. The Supreme court also affirmed, holding (1) the record supported the circuit court's finding that Defendant had the requisite level of Spanish comprehension to make a knowing and intelligent waiver of his Miranda rights; and (2) the circuit court did not abuse its discretion in concluding that there was an adequate foundation to admit the recording of the interview into evidence. View "Tirado v. Commonwealth" on Justia Law
Severance v. Commonwealth
The Supreme Court affirmed Defendant's convictions and sentences for the capital murder of two individuals within a three-year period in violation of Va. Code 18.2-31(8), holding that the punishments did not violate the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution. In a multi-count indictment, Defendant was charged with the capital murder of Ronald Kirby in 2013 and the capital murder of Ruthanne Lodato in 2014. Both counts relied upon Va. Code 18.2-31(8), which states that the "willful, deliberate and premeditated killing of more than one person within a three-year period" is capital murder. A jury found Defendant guilty of both charges, concluding that he murdered Kirby within three years of Lodato and that he murdered Lodato within three years of murdering Kirby. Prior to sentencing, Defendant argued that punishing him for two capital murder convictions under section 18.2-31(8) would violate double jeopardy. The trial court rejected the double jeopardy argument, convicted Defendant of two counts of capital murder, and imposed two life sentences. The Court of Appeals affirmed. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding that Defendant was not punished twice for on criminal act because "killing two victims at two different times in two different places constitutes two different criminal acts." View "Severance v. Commonwealth" on Justia Law


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Home Gossip News I'm being framed for supporting Jonathan - Orubebe cries out
I'm being framed for supporting Jonathan - Orubebe cries out
Former Niger Delta Minister, Elder Godsday Orubebe, has said that he was being persecuted for his support and closeness to former President Goodluck Jonathan.
Sppeaking at a press conference in Abuja today,Orubebe, who is being charged to the Code of Conduct Tribunal, declared that he had never demanded and collected a bribe throughout his six-year sojourn as a minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
"I was served with Code of Conduct Tribunal summons on Friday last week and the paper, which I personally signed and collected stated that I was expected to appear before them on November the ninth.
"I was taken aback by the news that I had already been arraigned. This tells me that it is an issue of witch hunt which is not good for this country. It is not good to take me to the public court before being tried.
"The issues contained in the summons are that I took N50 million bribe from one of the contractors who handled a project for the ministry of Niger Delta and another N20 million from the same contractor as well as not declaring my plots of land in Asokoro and Kyame districts of Abuja. I find these charges very empty and frivolous."


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The company serves industrial, human and animal healthcare industries.It conducts research and development programs through its on-site CL2 biofilm research laboratory in Canada.
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This fruity tropical lassi is thick, sweet, and absolutely delicious. Since it's packed full of Vitamin C, it will help ward off those pesky winter colds going around.
'Tis the season for colds, the flu, and stomach viruses. The flu has been making it's rounds. It started with my mom, and it's currently attacking my little brother. Needless to say, I've been keeping a safe distant from my parents' infected house.
I want no parts of it. Who's going to make the food if I can't? Squirrel?
In order to ward off the merciless flu virus that has been taking the country by surprise, I've been eating a lot of citrus and sipping on daily smoothies that have been packed to the brim with Vitamin-C and immune-boosting antioxidants.
Every Florida Grapefruit contains at least 100 percent of your daily recommended amount of Vitamin C, a nutrient that supports a healthy immune system. Not only is Florida Grapefruit rich in vitamin C, but it's also rich in vitamin A, potassium, and fiber. Right now, Florida Grapefruit is at its sweetest and juiciest.
I love the mango lassi from my local Indian restaurant, so much that I usually crave it on a weekly basis. It's sweet, tangy, and filling. I decided to get creative and added pineapple chunks and a large grapefruit (peeled, of course) to the blender with the mango and Greek yogurt. I also added a touch of honey for sweetness.
This tropical lassi blends up sweet, tangy, and thick.
Sip on one of these daily to help fight the winter blues.
A classic lassi with a tropical twist. It's full of sweet mango, juicy pineapple, and bright Florida grapefruit.
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Such a great twist on a lassi! But all that talk about being sick has me in panic attack mode. When's spring???
Jennie!!! I love this! Packed full of Vitamin C and refreshing?! I totally need one of these!! beautiful!!!
I hope your family recovers from the flu soon! This lassi is gorgeous, and I absolutely love the idea of using grapefruit juice to bump up the vitamin C and the flavor.
It a snowy and cold day here in Kansas so this lassi would be perfect to bring a little bit of happy sunshine to us! LOVE it!!
I've been on a total citrus kick lately – I crave it all the time! This grapefruit + mango + pineapple combo sounds great!
This looks so refreshing, delicious and beautiful! Grapefruit is such a tasty addition!
Vitamin C sold me on this drink. Well it looks pretty darn perfect too!
My hubby loves Mango Lassis, but I love the addition of grapefruit and pineapple to add more fin tropical flavor. I have to try this!
I love how bright and summery this is! It's been overcast more often than not up here in NJ, so I feel like one of these lassis would taste like a ray of sunshine, and I need that.
Sing it, girl! I love lassis and this one sounds like the perfect way of preventing illness. A lassi a day keeps the doctor away, can I get a woop woop?!
Yum! Steer clear of the sickos! The hubs and I just fully recovered from the flu and it.was.horrible. Love that your Vitamin C'ing it up and this looks like a terrific way to do it!
I LOVE lassis. My dad grew up in India and he's always make us traditional lassis when we were kids. Loving this tropical spin to it though and it's so perfect with all the good citrus right now!
oh my goodness I want to reach out and grab that, looks super tasty! I just love sweet and tangy things like this.
Ha! I laugh out loud when I think of my husband taking care of the food too. His idea of taking care of food is lots and lots of take out :) Love this lassi – it looks so delicious!
TROPICAL GOODNESS!!!! seriously everyone around here is sick: everyone. i just finished some ongoing sinus attack thing, the wee one was sick for a few days with a fever, and now mr. table is coughing the night away (FUN FOR EVERYONE!) with a cold. I can't.
except for this lassi and then i totally can.
OMG. this sounds so delicious and makes me think of sunshine!


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With summer a distant memory, and the harvest period having drawn to a close, Hallowe'en (All Hallows Eve) or Oíche Shamhna was considered a turning point in the traditional calendar year. Cattle were brought from summer pastures to fields closer to the family homestead, and corn, apples, turnips and potatoes were all harvested and stored at this time, along with turf and wood needed as fuel for the cold nights ahead.
As the beginning of the dark season, Oíche Shamhna (literally 'November Night'), or Hallowe'en, celebrated at sundown on the 31st of October, has long stood out in popular tradition as a time particularly associated with the spirits of the otherworld, and individuals out travelling the road at this time were considered liable to meet with the fairies, the dead or the púca (the mischievous phantom horse that would abduct wayfarers, taking them on terrifying rides across the countryside by night).
Halloween divination games, Dublin, 1935.
Regarding Hallowe'en night, Canon John O'Hanlon's 1870 publication titled Irish Folk Lore relates that,
'the dark and sullen Phooka is then particularly mischievous and many mortals are abducted to fairy land'.
However, help is at hand, and we are told that, should we meet with the fairies on this night, those who have been abducted away to the otherworld by them can be returned to us by our throwing the dust from under our feet at their group. Sage advice, though it is worth remarking that indiscriminately throwing dust at groups of passers-by is not advised on this (or any) particular evening.
It was customary on Hallowe'en for bands of youths to group together and call to houses in their locality. They travelled in disguise, wearing masks, old clothes or rags, and on calling upon a house the frightening troupe would enter, playing music on whistles and melodeons, and dancing, while entreating the occupants of the house to 'help the Halloween party'. For those disinclined to venture forth and face the unseen spirits traipsing the roads on this night however, there was much merriment to be had at home, for a little feast was always prepared for the family at Halloween. Since the vigil of The Feast of All Saints has for many centuries been held as a day of abstinence, traditional foods consumed at this time contain no meat, consisting instead of apple pies, dumplings, barmbrack, colcannon, stampy, punch, tea, fruit and nuts.
'Any Apples or Nuts!', Halloween Guisers, Dublin, 1935.
Halloween foods offered more than mere sustenance however, and often foretold the future of those who ate them. This can be seen most commonly in the barmbrack fruit cake into which a ring, silver coin, thimble, chip of wood, rag, or other items were mixed in the making of the cake. The ring foretold marriage, while the coin indicated wealth. Those who found the thimble may have been a little less enthusiastic about their discovery, since it suggested a life of spinsterhood (with a button foretelling bachelorhood). The rag meant poverty and the chip of wood indicated that the finder would be beaten by their spouse! Finally, a little religious medal suggested life as a priest or nun.
A ring might similarly be placed into a bowl of colcannon around which many children sat to eat. With each child armed with a large spoon (and with a life of solitude looming into view) a flurry of potato would ensue in which colcannon flew through the air, over hair and into eyes, with all in eager haste to find the precious ring within.
'Ducking For Apples on Halloween', from Robert Chambers' 'Book of Days', 1864.
Individuals unsatisfied by the preternatural suggestions made on this night by either cakes or potatoes had further recourse however to the peeling of apples to foretell their futures. An apple, peeled in one long strip and let fall on the floor, would reveal the initials of one's spouse-to-be. If both fruit cake, potato and apple all failed however, a salt herring, eaten before bed, would ensure that one's future spouse would appear in a dream that night offering a cup of water to quench the thirst of the dreamer.
Before retiring for the night (and with a life of gloomy solitude now fully established in the mind) a feast was sometimes prepared for the ancestral dead who were understood to return at this time. The table would be set, the floor swept and a good fire would be put down in the hearth to show welcome to the spirits of our forebears, who would duly partake of the feast laid out for them and finish up the Halloween night's proceedings in mirth and merriment, the cares of the living a likely source of great amusement for them.
Child at Hallowe'en Bonfire, Old Court, Bray, county Wicklow, 1980
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If everything is viral, then nothing is.
So, the last post I wrote 'Herding cats – you can't control what your fans want to read or watch' explained that you can't control your readers, and that the onus is on you to respond to your readers' wishes and not the other way around.
Well today, I have a message that on the surface is almost as bad: not only can you not control your readers; you can't entirely control the content either.
Last November, I won the 'Most Read Article' award at Mediablaze's inaugural internal awards ceremony. Proud and delighted as I was for the recognition, let me tell you a secret: the piece I won the award for took around 15-20 minutes to research and write.
Now, by contrast, pieces that took hours of painstaking research, transcribing and actual writing have sunk without a trace. As pieces I've written go, it was nowhere near the best. It wasn't even in my personal Top 10 for 2014.
This is true wherever I've written before – from Mediablaze clients like Merrell, ESET and Tesco, to independent publications like Wired and The New Statesman.
Ask any publisher off the record, and they'll tell you the same thing: you can't guarantee a viral hit. Even the phenomenally successful Upworthy recently explained that just 0.42 percent of their posts break the 1 million views mark, and less than one percent breaks 500k, and Upworthy reaches over 27 million unique visitors per month.
So if anybody promises you viral success – best-case scenario is they're not telling the truth, as it can't be guaranteed.
If people can't share your content easily, they won't. Experiment with different layouts and split test the hell out of them to ensure it's easy for the laziest of readers to tell people about your article.
Something that would go viral for The Guardian won't for The Sun. That's an extreme example, but you should know your audience well enough to figure out the kind of content they're likely to share.
It's very tough to be totally original on the Internet, but maybe a new spin on an old topic will help? Repeating verbatim what was last week's viral hit is a surefire way to make your audience cynical.
Being sharable isn't the same as being good. It has to either be something that people will know will benefit others (so funny their lungs hurt, so incredible advice they HAVE to pass it on). If people don't share, its viral reach is limited.
If only 0.42 percent of Upworthy's articles have reach, then you're going to find that even less works for you to begin with. Keep trying – something will surprise you.
Don't just stick to words for your next hit: consider video, audio, cartoons, infographics – even a webgame – as the way forward. Embracing a mix of media and channels will broaden reach.
We've had some big-hitting articles in my time here at Mediablaze, but if everything is viral, then nothing is. Not everything can or will go viral: accepting that is part of the process, and makes it all the more worthwhile when you land a megahit.
It's impossible to predict, even with the steps above. Are you feeling lucky?


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Coronavirus: NJ reports 12 deaths, 86 positive cases in group homes for disabled
Gene Myers
Twelve people with developmental disabilities who live in homes and centers overseen by the state have died of complications from COVID-19 and 86 more have tested positive, according to state officials.
The information was released a week after advocates complained that individuals with disabilities and their aides or caretakers in group homes had been forgotten during coronavirus planning.
"We are deeply saddened by the tragic passing of these valued members of our New Jersey community. Every loss is felt deeply, and every one of these amazing souls will be missed," said Human Services Commissioner Carole Johnson.
The Department of Human Services, which oversees the Division of Developmental Disabilities, is not able to provide numbers of the daily care aides who have tested positive for COVID-19, said spokesman Tom Hester.
Marge Saponara's son Michael Saponara has autism, bipolar disorder and "behavior issues" that include "severe self-injury." He lives in a group home in Bergen County that is overseen by the Division of Developmental Disabilities.
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"What did they think was going to happen? Nobody gave them a second thought," Saponara said.
Michael Saponara is 29, and his mother said he is "large and hyper." His main chances to socialize come in the form of daily therapeutic programs run by health care professionals who understand his severe conditions. The programs have been closed for weeks. He's been cooped up alone in his small room.
"He doesn't understand any of this," she said. "I had to get extra medication for him to keep him calm."
He's punching himself.
"He likes his routine, and he doesn't understand what is going on," she said.
In addition to programs being canceled, the house he lives in was put on "lockdown because two people who work there tested positive," his mom said.
Kathy Walsh, president and CEO of The Arc of Bergen and Passaic Counties, said the service providers for people with developmental disabilities in group homes and apartments were not included in the planning.
In particular, Arc and companies like it have been trying to get personal protective equipment for staff as they continue in their jobs while many other workers across the state are staying home in an effort to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
The division posted guidelines on use, removal and disposal of personal protective equipment such as masks and gloves, but group homes and other facilities across the state have to acquire their own safety gear.
Group home managers said getting the safety equipment is the biggest challenge they face. Staffs have daily duties that include preparing meals, feeding, dressing and washing an estimated 25,000 residents, many currently in situations similar to Michael Saponara's.
Advocates say the group home companies got the run-around from state agencies in early March when they tried to get on the distribution list for PPE from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which maintains a "strategic national stockpile" of resources that can be used during public health threats.
The New Jersey Department of Health said it could speak only to the distribution of stockpile resources to hospitals, and referred questions about PPE for group homes back to the Division of Developmental Disabilities.
Ultimately, Alexandra Altman, deputy press secretary at the governor's office, pointed to Department of Health and Human Services guidelines that read: "These items are only available through the normal retail channels. The Division will advise if federal, state or local partners are able to make them available in the future."
The Arc of New Jersey has 20 chapters that serve about 15,000 people with severe disabilities who live in its homes and take part in its programs. Statewide, the company has about 5,000 full- and part-time employees. Its CEO Thomas Baffutto said the pandemic "shows where we have gaps in the system."
In the gaps sit vulnerable New Jersey residents whose disabilities can put them in COVID-19's high-risk category and the thousands of workers who provide round-the-clock care for them.
"These people get paid $13 an hour and you are asking them to do the impossible here," Marge Saponara said.
Baffutto said companies like his need to be given the same priority as nursing homes and hospitals, since his employees are also providing care in this emergency. Arc and its counterparts have plans that include barring visitors and monitoring staff health.
"All residents of group homes are staying in place. They are following all of the CDC protocols. No one can come into the home unless they've taken their temperature," he said. "They are wiping everything down. We are testing our staff members when they come in."
Group home residents depend on them, so his employees continue to go to work each day, Baffutto said. He reached out to Gov. Phil Murphy's office and the state Department of Health in an effort to lobby for these workers to be recognized on the same level as those at nursing homes and hospitals.
"Our individuals tend to be more vulnerable and would have more serious consequences from the virus," Baffutto said.
From a supervised apartment to the developmental center where he currently lives, Jenn Brown's son Kyle, 23, has been in a variety of programs. If there's one thing she's learned through the years, it's that people like her son, who has autism and "requires complicated care," are low on the totem pole.
"I often feel like prisoners have more rights than my son does," she said.
Brown received a letter Saturday informing her that "a staff member was diagnosed with coronavirus on March 26."
"In a phone call this morning we were told that the virus is on campus. There are people who live there that are sick and there is staff that is sick," she said. "I haven't seen my son since February. We stayed away to try to make sure that everybody was healthy. We used to visit him for five days a week, so this has been super hard. The staff sounds very upset and stressed. They are having to reuse masks, and they don't have sufficient PPE."
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Laos: Letter to UN Member States ahead of human rights review
Geneva	 16 January 2020
Open Letter: UN member states must highlight Laos's severely restrictive civic space environment at its upcoming UN human rights review
As you will be aware, Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) will face its third review under the UN's UPR mechanism on 21 January 2020.
Following its last review in 2015, the government of Lao PDR committed to reassess the policy framework and restrictions on domestic and international civil society organisations and facilitate an enabling environment for them; to fully respect and ensure freedom of expression by revising legislation; to ensure freedom of assembly in accordance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR); and to investigate individual cases such as the enforced disappearance of human rights defender Sombath Somphone.
In total, member states made 33 recommendations to the Lao government that directly relate to barriers to open civic space. Since then, the government has partially implemented just three of these recommendations.
In a submission to this UN review cycle, the Manushya Foundation, FORUM ASIA and CIVICUS outlined some of the most serious concerns facing civil society in Lao PDR. The submission found that the country's persistent failure to uphold its commitments has resulted in continued unwarranted restrictions to civic space and acute shortcomings with respect to right to freedom to freedom expression, assembly and association, and in the protection of human rights defenders.
In Laos's pre-UPR session, held in December 2019, independent civil society organizations highlighted that the situation for fundamental freedoms had worsened, particularly in relation to online surveillance.
We are encouraged by Laos's renewed commitment to the sustainable development goals which it reaffirmed during its UPR pre-session. However, we remind states, and the Lao government, that civic space is central to the achievement of all of the SDGs, and without engagement of independent civil society, any improvements in SDGs are cosmetic at best.
Based on our research, the government continues to exercise pervasive control over civil society, which faces severe restrictions as a result. Extensive surveillance, reprisals and the criminalisation and enforced disappearance of human rights defenders have created an environment in which it is all but impossible to speak out.
While the right to freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and association are guaranteed in the Constitution of Lao PDR, an array of restrictive laws and government decrees continue to exist that serves to restrict civic freedoms and criminalise any expression perceived as critical of the government. This lack of civic space has meant many people fear speaking up about corruption or the violation of rights resulting from development projects and investments, specifically those related to land and sustainable development.
A new Decree No. 238 on Associations that came into effect in November 2017 imposes severe restrictions on civil society organisations (CSOs) and force CSOs to maintain close relations with the state, making independent human rights organisations virtually non-existent. Further, international CSOs also face challenges operating in the country.
The UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights said in March 2019 after his visit to Lao PDR that he "received countless reports from people inside the country and who have recently fled Laos about the extent to which people feel they are not able to speak freely and fear reprisal for expressing criticism of government policies".
Given this environment, and the lack of political will demonstrated thus far by the government of Lao PDR to uphold its civil space obligations, we urge states to ensure that civic space remains a key issue raised during this third cycle of Laos's UPR.
This means ensuring freedom of association, freedom of expression, freedom of peaceful assembly, the right to operate free from unwarranted state interference, the right to communicate and cooperate, the right to seek and secure funding, and the state's duty to protect. At a minimum, such recommendations should include:
Take measures to foster a safe, respectful, enabling environment for civil society, including through removing legal and policy measures, which unwarrantedly limit the right to association.
Relevant laws and regulations should be revised - in particularly, Decree No. 238 on Associations and Decree No. 13 of 2010 on INGOs - to guarantee that undue restrictions on freedom of association are removed and to bring them into compliance with 22 of the ICCPR.
Ensure that human rights defenders are able to carry out their legitimate activities without fear or undue hindrance, obstruction or legal and administrative harassment.
Establish a new commission tasked with carrying out a prompt, thorough, independent, and impartial investigation aimed at determining the fate or whereabouts of human rights defender Sombath Somphone.
Ensure freedom of expression and media freedom by all bringing national legislation into line with international standards. In particular, Article 65 the Penal Code (propaganda against the state), the Media Act of 2008 and Decree No. 327 on Internet-Based Information Control/Management, should be reviewed to ensure that national legislation are in line with the best practices and international standards in the area of freedom of expression.
Extend a standing invitation to all UN Special Procedures mandate holders and prioritize official visits with the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression and the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association.
Emilie Pradichit, Director, Manushya Foundation
Ahmed Adam, Programme Manager, United Nations Advocacy, FORUM-ASIA
David E. Kode, Advocacy & Campaigns Lead, CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation
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Tonight we welcomed another journalist to our group, taking some time to talk about everyone's experiences and the impact Shakespeare has had on them. I won't get into specifics since I don't want to spoil anything that might be in the final piece, but suffice to say that, again, the ensemble members who chose to share were eloquent, honest, and enthusiastic.
Following our discussion, we launched into scene work, continuing to plug our Othello into scenes for which she missed the blocking. Even with cameras present (which make all of us nervous), the ensemble did great work, whether on stage or in pairs working on lines. Although we are in the home stretch and the pressure is on, everyone is staying pretty calm.
Our casting appears to have at last been finalized, although there's always a chance that someone will still leave the group. While it has been empowering and invigorating for the women in our group to stick with the project through performance – it gives them a sense of accomplishment they may never or rarely have had – in past years we have sometimes had to deal with an ensemble member dropping the group at the very end of the process. We always hope that everyone will stay through the end, but it doesn't always happen.
We were fortunate enough to be given two Thursday afternoon meetings in addition to our regular Tuesdays and Fridays in the final two weeks leading up to our first performance, and today was one of those days.
We got to work right away, even while waiting for people to arrive, choreographing the fight between Cassio and Montano. We came up with a short fencing sequence that can be repeated until the fight is broken up by Othello. It's looking good.
We then plowed through scene work aggressively and effectively, with our goal being to finish scene work this week and begin running the show next week. We banded together and got an incredible amount done on this extra day.
One moment that stuck out today was the arrival of our Bianca at exactly the moment she is supposed to enter the scene we were working on. Without missing a beat, she joined right in, seamlessly. Even with the limited number of times we've worked on her scenes, as a seasoned member of the ensemble she is on top of her lines and cues, always showing extreme dedication to the group and her work in it.
We spent some time at the beginning of today's meeting trying on and working with props and costumes. I had initially hesitated to do this today, but as always when the ensemble's opinion outweighs mine, we went with what the majority wanted and brought everything into the classroom we usually use on Fridays.
Once we had spent some time on props and costumes, we dove into the final scene of the play. After we reviewed the scene's blocking, plugging in our Othello, we ran it. Our Othello set the tone by fully committing to the rage and sadness her character experiences, and the result was that everyone else bumped it up a notch to meet her. At one point I looked over at an ensemble member who is not in the scene, and she was weeping. "This is just so sad," said another woman.
Our Brabantio then quietly asked if we could work her scenes, since she took over the role from someone else and hasn't had any rehearsal time with it. "I know, and I'm so sorry," I said. "It's all right," she said, "I'll be fine as long as I can do it a couple of times." We worked the first scene of the play, and, to our delight, she already has all of her lines memorized – she is totally prepared. It would have been great for her to have more rehearsal, but as it is, she's making it work – and making it work well.


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