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Lipshitz is a child psychologist who writes books about child development. The Rugrats parents all love to refer to Lipshitz when he kids do something unexpected, Didi and Chaz especially.
Angelica and Susie are three years old, so they are between being a baby and a bigger kid, meaning they can talk to both.
Goober is character created by the Lipshitz foundation, who were worried that Reptar was a bad influence on kids. Goober is a gofer, who is happy and smiley. His catchphrase is "Can I have a hug?". Dil loves Goober.
There are a few ways to tell the twins apart. Lil wears a pink bow in her hair. Phil has blue shorts and blue shoes. Lil wears a diaper and pink shoes.
Yes. Nickelodeon released a lot of the episodes on VHS and have only just started releasing episodes on DVD. Most of the episodes available on DVD are in compilation with episodes from other seasons (for example a Christmas themed DVD with all the Xmas episodes on) or other Nick shows.
There are two versions of the opening credits. The original pre-2001 opening shows Tommy playing with a mechanical cat which Phil and Lil run around. Angelica is playing dress up with the adults clothes while Chuckie is riding the vaccum cleaner. All the while, Grandpa is asleep, not noticing what is going on. When Stu and Didi get home, Didi picks up Tommy and he squirts his milk towards the screen to form the Rugrats logo. In the episodes after 2001, Tommy and Dil are playing with a remote controlled plane, which is being flown by Cynthia. Grandpa is again, alseep and doesn't notice any of this going on. Chuckie is in the bathroom, playing with the toilet paper, he slips on a ball and falls over. Angelica meanwhile is chasing the plane with Cynthia in it and she ends up outside where we see Phil and Lil playing with bugs, Kimi in the sandbox and Susie jumping a rope. Didi comes out with cookies which the kids all run to, as this is happening Spike gets hold of the controls for the plane which crashes into the Angelica, who sends the cookies flying into the air. These spill over the screen and reveal the Rugrats logo.
Dil is the youngest character, he's about 3 months old in the series and a few weeks old in the Rugrats Movie. Tommy is one year old. Phil, Lil and Kimi are all around 15 months old. Chuckie is 2 years old and Angelica and Susie are both 3 years old. The ages of the adults are never given.
Rugrats merchandise (various) is available from the Klasky Csupo store http://www.store.yahoo.com/cooltoons/ Rugrats merchandise (various) is available the Nick.com shop http://shop.nickjr.com/category/index.jsp?categoryId=1029096 Rugrats books, cds, dvds and video and computer and video games are all available from Amazon.The US site has links with toys r us which also sells some Rugrats toys, dolls, puzzles etc. http://www.amazon.com (US site) http://www.amazon.co.uk (UK site) Rugrats books are available from Barnes and Noble http://www.bn.com (America only) Rugrats posters can be bought from Art.com http://www.art.com Ebay has a lot of new and used, rare and widely available Rugrats items. http://www.ebay.com (US site) http://www.ebay.co.uk (UK site) Please get permission for adults before buying anything online. It is important you do not give out personal information, so please get an adult to order for you.
No, Rugrats was cancelled by Nickeloden so there are no new episodes after 'Fountain of Youth/Kimi takes the cake'. However Klasky-Csupo are working on several special movie length episodes featuring the gang as babies. These will be based on popular fairy takes, such as Snow White and will be direct to video and DVD. It is possible that Nick may show these on TV at some point in the future.
Chuckie was voiced by Christine Cavanaugh until she retired from voice acting in 2001. She also voiced 'Babe' the pig from the movie of the same name. Since the episodes that aired in 2002 Chuckie has been voiced by Nancy Cartwright, who is better known as the voice of Bart Simspson.
My Sweet Little Chuckie Though I must leave you behind me, This poem will tell you where you always can find me. When a gentle wind blows, that's my hand on your face. And when the tree gives you shade, that's my sheltering embrace. When the sun gives you freckles, that's me tickling my boy. When the rain wets your hair, those are my tears of joy. When the long grass enfolds you, that's me holding you tight. When the Whippoorwill sings, that's me whispering, 'Night night.
Chuckie's mom and Chaz's first wife was called Melinda. In the mother's day episode we learnt that Chuckie's mother died when he was a small baby. Chaz kept her things which he shares with Chuckie, in this episode and in Rugrats in Paris. Melinda made Chuckie's bear Waa Waa for him.
Timmy Mcnulty as we know him doesn't appear in Preschool Daze, despite being the same age as Angelica and Susie. However the character of Jake is voiced by Tara Strong, who voices Timmy in the main Rugrats series and it was revealed in "Preschool Daze" (the episode of Rugrats we first see Angelica and Susie at school) that Jake is Timmy's middle name.
Preschool Daze follows Susie and Angelica at Preschool and introduces us to their teacher Miss Weemer and all of their classmates, some of whom appear in the All Grown Up series.
All Grown Up is based on the 10th anniversary special of Rugrats where the babies grew up with the help of a 'time machine'. This was then adapted into a spin-off series which follows the teenage Rugrats through their lives ten years on, we follow them and some of their new and old friends at school and on various other adventures.
The theme music was created by Mark Mothersbaugh. Mark also did the music for the first 65 episodes (until 1996) after which he was joined on the credits by Bob Mothersbaugh & Rusty Andrews.
You can go to the Klasky Csupo website at www.cooltoons.com where they have an email address to get in touch with them.
Preschool Daze was originally intended to be a series based on Angelica and Susie's time at preschool. It was screened in the summer of 2005 on Nicktoons TV in the UK and Ireland. The four episodes are available on the Rugrats Tales from the Crib DVDs. Two are included on the Snow White release and the other two are included on the Three Jacks and a Beanstalk release.
Rugrats and All Grown Up play on Nickelodeon and Nicktoons TV in many countries, including the USA, the UK, Europe, Asia and Australia. Check the official websites for schedules as they often change. They also show on YTV in Canada, BBC and ITV in England, RTE in Ireland and France 3 in France.
The Rugrats font is called 'Rugrats'. The show also uses another font which is called 'Woody'.
Nickelodeon first aired Rugrats in the US on August 11, 1991.
It was created by Arlene Klasky and Gabor Csupo. Their company Klasky Csupo also animated The Simpsons, and in 1990 after the success of this show, they made the pilot episode of Rugrats.
Rugrats is an old word used to describe kids who are so little that they still crawl around on the floor.
The website is only updated in my spare time, therefore anything that has been submitted since the last update is saved up and added once I have time. Some things may take longer for me to add. For example if you send in a story, it will take me time to read it through to make sure the language etc is suitable for the site. If you submitted an idea for a site feature, it will have been put on a 'to do' list for the site and will be added in time.
If and when I need staff to help out with sections of the site I will advertise on the site, so please see the homepage for announcements and how to apply.
Providing video clips and/or episodes for you to watch or download is a tricky thing because of copyright issues. Videos also require a lot of server space and I don't have the space to store them.
Nope! No ads here! I try to keep the site as family friendly as possible, so if you ever do see adverts they'll be ones to sites that are safe for kids.
If you have a fansite about the Rugrats then of course I will! If you have another kind of website then I will only add it if it is 100% family friendly. That means it cannot contain anything that would be unsuitable for children, including any bad language. If you have a kid friendly site then I'd be happy to add your link to our kids links page. Just use the contact form to get in touch and I'll add the link the next time I update. Please select the 'Link' option from the drop down box.
Some of the features (games etc.) use Flash, if you cannot see them you might need to download Flash Player which you can get for free from macromedia.com. Also some of the games use Java applets or script, so you need to make sure these are enabled on your browser in order to play. Most browsers have them turned on automatically. If you are unsure, ask an adult. If a feature is not working and it has no label indicating that it is currently offline then please email me and let me know.
It is very unusual that a link wouldn't work on the site. It could be that I am updating the page you are trying to look at. Try it again in a few minutes. If it still doesn't work, use the email form to let me know - please try to give as much detail as possible, such as the page the link was on. If the entire site does not work, this could be because the server is having problems, or because I have run out of bandwidth for the month. This isn't likely, but is possible.
My site uses CSS (Cascading Style sheets) to tell your web browser what colours to show, where to display the content, what size font to use etc etc. If your browser doesnt support CSS it might show as a long list. This is easy to fix, just update your browser to the newest version. If you don't know how, ask an adult to do it for you.
Our picture gallery runs off a script which is made by a company called 4images. It uses a database to store the pictures which makes it easier to manage and update. Because of this you need your own webspace that has a MySQL database installed on it if you want to put it on your own site. This means you can't put it on a myspace layout.
I make the website using a programming language called HTML, which is what websites are written in. Some of the pages also use PHP, which is a different kind of programming language that tells the site to get things from a database. It might sound complicated but it actually makes the site easier to manage and update!
I live in England and we say and spell a lot of words differently than they do in other countries, like the US. For example in England we say 'colour' whereas it is 'color' in America - these words are pronounced the same in both countries, just spelled differently!
I get a lot of email every day. I try to respond as quickly as I can but sometimes I just have too much to do. Sometimes its because I don't know the answer to your question and I'm trying to find out for you. If I haven't replied in a couple of weeks, try sending another email.
This is an UNOFFICIAL website. As such, I don't have any connection with Klasky Csupo, Viacom or Nickelodeon. I am not one of the characters, I do not work on the show. The short answer is no! I can't and won't be sending out merchandise, unless we have been running a competition. On a related note, please do NOT send me your personal addresses through email.
If you've drawn a Rugrat picture you'd like to show in the Fan Drawings gallery, I'd be happy to put it up. Just email it to me. Just go to the Contact section (on the menu) and use the email form to let me know you have a picture you'd like to send in. Please select the 'Fan Drawing' option from thje drop down list. I'll email you back so you can send your drawing.
When sending me Rugrats images and sounds please make sure we don't already have them on the site. If you got them from another website please say so when you send them. When using things from other sites I like to get permission first. If it is something you got yourself which you would like me to put up, I'd be happy to and will credit you in full, either on the relevant page or in the 'Credits' section. Please email me about the file you are sending before you send it - I have a strict spam filter set up on all of my email accounts, including the ones for this site and so need to be expecting a file attachment from you. You can send me info on the Rugrats series or All Grown Up any time you like. It is always welcome!
I would rather you didn't. Almost all of the crafts I have here are exclusive to this site and it takes me a lot of time to create them and the PDF files for you to download. If you really want to use one of the crafts, please email me and let me know where and how you will be using it. Please remember all crafts are provided FREE of charge and should not be used for profit in any way.
I scan most of the Rugrats pictures on my site. The captures from the shows and movies were obtained using a TV device that lets you watch TV on your computer. None of these images belong to me, they are all copyrighted to Klasky-Csupo, Nickelodeon and Viacom. To make the specialised site graphics, I use Adobe Photoshop CS, Paint shop Pro and Adobe Illustrator CS using graphics I have scanned. Some of the non character based graphics I draw myself using the computer.
All pictures on my site that I obtained myself are tagged with my site name (Sarah's Rugrats), initials (SRR) or site address (www.sarahs-rugrats.co.uk or www.sarahs-rugrats.com) Some of the Dil images may be tagged Bananas about Baby Dil, BABD or the site address. This site also belongs me. I tag the images Iobtain myself because Ispend a lot of time scanning images, colour correcting them, editing out background colours and patterns, resizing and optimising them for the Internet. They are tagged to acknowledge the time I spend doing this. If you use them on your own site please DO NOT edit out the tags. If you do feel it necessary to do this please credit my site for the images you use. Any pictures on the site not tagged in this way were either donated by visitors (and so their origins are not known) or used from Nick.com or the Cooltoons (Klasky Csupo) website. These images are usually tagged to say so.
No, I'm not, I'm just a fan of the show. I have nothing to do with the Rugrats, the actors who do the voices of the characters, or any of the companies who produce it.
You can but please do not remove the tags. If you are going to remove the tags then please credit this site. Please save images to your own computer and upload them to your own webspace. My webspace is NOT FREE - I pay for it, so direct-linking to my images costs me money. Direct linking means you do not save the image, but use the address it is stored at on my server to show it on your own site. My server logs all traffic in and out of my site, if Icatch you direct linking to anything on my site I will ban you from viewing it.
I can send you Rugrats pictures. BUT i get a lot of requests for pictures through email and it is much easier if you use the Gallery to get them yourself. We have one of the largest Rugrats picture galleries on the web so you should be able to find lots to choose from. If you have a special picture request, or need images larger for special projects or school work, then please email me and I'll see if I can help you.
T-shirt transfers are provided in PDF format. See 'How do i use PDF files?' Load your printer with the T-shirt transfer paper. Print the PDF file but when the print box comes up. Print only the last page (by typing the page number into the box) The transfer picture appears to be back to front but will appear the right way around on the t-shirt. You MUST print onto the transfer paper. The T-shirt MUST be blank and if possible white because this gives better results. Place the Transfer onto the side of the shirt you want it to appear on. Get a grown up to iron over the transfer for a few minutes.
The digi-rats were originally provided by nick.com as part of their promotion for Rugrats in Paris. I decided to provide them here in case they were ever taken down from the Nick site. Download the file as you normally would. See 'How do i save files?' The file will be an .exe file. All you need to do to use it is double click it and the Rugrat will be loaded and will start walking around your screen.
con sets are provided in zip files. See 'How do I use Zip files?' Once you have extacted the images you can change the icons on your desktop. To change the icon of a particular folder or file, right click the current icon and select 'Properties' from the pop up menu. You will see a button that says 'Change Icon...' press this and it will show you default icons. Use the 'Browse...' button to search for the icon files you downloaded. Select the one you want and click 'OK'. You may need help from an adult when doing this. Please get permission from the computer owner before changing icons.
To download a desktop wallpapers click on the preview image to load the larger version. All desktop wallpapers are available for 800x600 screen size, some are available for larger screen sizes. When the large image has loaded right click on it with your mouse and choose the "Set as Wallpaper" option. The picture should now be displayed on your desktop Alternatively you can save the image to your computer first and then set it as wallpaper. To do this use the mouse button to right click on your desktop. In the window that pops up, choose the Background tab and click on the 'Browse' button. Find the file on your computer and click OK. The desktop paper should now show up.
If you want to save the file to your computer to use again or to print off later, use the 'Save' option on the toolbar (looks like a little floppy disk) Please remember that the crafts provided on this site are completely FREE of charge and should not be used elsewhere or to make a profit in any way.
To print the crafts and activites contained in the PDF files, wait until the pages have loaded then use the Print button on the toolbar (looks like a little printer) to print the page(s) off. Alternatively, you can go to the 'File' menu and scroll down to the 'Print' option.
A lot of our crafts etc. are now in PDF files. These are small files which are easily downloaded. Most computers should be able to open them but you may need to update your Adobe Acrobat Reader (www.adobe.com) The file might take a few minutes to show up, depending how fast your internet connection is. It will load Adobe Acrobat Reader for you directly, without you having to save anything and will display the file. Please be aware that all crafts and activities contained in PDF files are provided on this website for FREE. They should not be used elsewhere without permission from me and should not be sold on or distributed for profit in any way.
Download the zip file as you would a regular file. See 'How do I download files?' for more information. The zip file will save onto your computer and you will need a program like WinZip to open it. If you do not have WinZip you can download it off the internet (http://www.winzip.com) Once you've opened the zip file you need to extract the files from the zip. Just use the "Extract" button and then choose somewhere on your computer. Click Okay and the files will appear in the location you sent them. They'll also still be in the zip file, just in case you accidentally delete them!
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If you think some things are too hard to measure, or if your business colleagues find measurement nearly impossible on some of the things they care most about, Douglas Hubbard's book will open your eyes to more creative ways of tackling measurement challenges.
Although this is a business book based around dealing with measurement challenges in a business context, the measurement principles he espouses are broadly applicable. It is not hard to think of applications in the sciences (of course) but equally in the arts. Basically any situation in which something has to be measured, ranked or compared as a platform for decisions is amenable to the measurement methods explained herein.
Douglas invented Applied Information Economics, a measurement method that has proven useful supporting tricky decisions in IT, R&D and other situations. Douglas also wrote The Failure of Risk Management: Why it's Broken and How to Fix It, which perhaps explains why there is a light sprinkling of risk management measurement examples in the present text. Information security/risk management professionals will feel right at home.
Douglas' core thesis is that, if you currently have no meaningful measures of something, then almost any observation of it probably counts as a worthwhile measurement since it provides additional information based (more or less) on fact. Just because an observation might be subjective and vague does not necessarily mean it is worthless. We might not be able to elaborate on why the Mona Lisa is such an iconic image in precise, scientific terms but that widely held subjective perception is certainly enough to account for a large part of its market value.
To be frank, it's hard to think of any substantive weaknesses in the book, except maybe for one issue stemming from my own peculiar bias. While I accept Douglas' premise that observers can be taught to moderate their own biases (to some extent, anyway) in order to make their measurements more objective and accurate, I found the repeated references to 'observer calibration' a little distracting. Reading between the lines, it sounds as if Douglas sells 'observer calibration' courses. That said, Douglas outlines the process dropping big hints about how the calibration occurs, so this is at worst a soft-sell.
This book will cost you 30-odd dollars from Amazon. If you are anything like me, you will be thinking of real-world applications within the first few chapters, re-framing your own approach to measurement, and starting to make use of the measurement concepts before you finish reading it. Since very few business decisions would not be improved by better information, the book should pay for itself in a few hours and from there on it's all gravy.
Get it. Read it. Contemplate it. Put it into action and pass it on.


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Wicked Problems
Beyond the Election
This fifth and final installment in a series of blog posts on Imperative 21's plan for resetting the American and global economies should go out with a bang. In it, I should be able to talk about how we can turn those dreams into realty. Instead, I'm afraid I have to disappoint you with a wishy washy message. We can make some progress in the months to come, but we will have to take at least three other, significant steps before we can truly achieve what the Imperative 21 team calls an economic reset.
Before digging in, I should also note the obvious. I wrote this post during the final two weeks of the 2020 American presidential election campaign. The timing is a coincidence that wasn't planned by either the Imperative 21 team or me. Their launch coincided with the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Milton Friedman's (in)famous New York Times magazine article on shareholder responsibility. It then took me six weeks to write all of these blog posts.
In any event, I'm glad the timing worked out the way it did, because this final post in the series also allows me to present my take on the election whose results will go a long way toward determining how we go about turning the abstract Imperative 21 mandates into reality.
It is not my job to tell you how to vote, although if you know my work at all, you won't have any trouble guessing whom I will be voting for.
Rather, I want you to see that we will face momentous challenges no matter who wins on November 3.
In fact, whatever happens, we will face an uphill struggle because the individuals and organizations who have doubts about our ability to design for the future, invest in social justice, and be accountable to all stakeholders are powerful indeed.
Nonetheless, I will use to the rest of this post to show you some first steps we can take as a society and, more importantly, you can take as an individual.
The Imperative 21 Series
The Imperative 21 Campaign
Design for Interdependence
Invest in Justice
Stakeholder Responsibility
Stakeholder Accountability
Washington 2021
I'm going to start in a way that might seem to contradict what I just said.
The elections are important. However, I don't expect to see the government take dramatic policy shifts toward the Imperative 21 policy goals whoever wins.
I italicized those whoever wins in the previous section for a reason. While I do think that whoever wins in November will make a huge difference, it will not propel us very far or very fast toward Imperative 21's goals.
It is safe to assume that any newly elected government will make some non-trivial changes in the post-pandemic world, whenever and however we get there. That's the case because pretty much everyone agrees with the sentiment embodied in a phrase first used in the development community which has since been taken over by such different political leaders as Boris Johnson and Joe Biden–build back better.
A Biden administration with a democratic majority in the Senate will almost certainly enact policies that point us in the directions toward the first two imperatives, for example:
Design for the future by rejoining the Paris Agreements and doing a lot more to combat climate change
Invest in social justice by addressing systemic racism in law enforcement, expanding access to health care coverage, and more
There are also some areas in which a second Trump administration might outpace the democrats despite the o outgoing government's failure to carry out most of its grassroots oriented economic policies. In particular, Republicans have gone a lot farther than democrats in introducing empowerment zones that should ultimately benefit people of color and other currently underserved communities.
At the same time, I'm convinced that neither party could be expected to make much explicit progress toward the three imperatives in the flurry of action that is likely to occur after the presidential inauguration in January. Slogans like build back better are just that, slogans that do not have much "meat on their bones" yet.
There are many reasons why that's the case. Near the top of any such list is both parties' reluctance to use the kind of "big picture lens" look that the Imperative 21 team employed in analyzing what is wrong with the status quo. As a result, it is hard for them to come up with an integrated approach to rebuilding the economy after the COVID-19 pandemic ends in ways that also addresses our country's and the planet's unmet needs. That's especially true of the third imperative—being accountable to all stakeholders—which almost never appears in either party's list of even long term goals.
That's a wordy way of saying that they have not set what organizational theorists call SMART goals—specific, measurable, agreed-upon, realistic, and time driven, In the end, these will be key to developing the metrics against which we will both measure our success and determine that everyone's interests and needs are being met.
Yet, we are even farther away from enshrining SMART goals or stakeholder accountability as central tenets of American public policy. We can get there, but we'll have to turn our attention away from Washington first.
Beyond Washington
When I was in graduate school in the late Middle Ages, I had to specialize. As a result, I didn't have time to take some courses that could have directed me toward peace studies earlier in my career, including ones by Robert Axelrod on modeling complex systems.
For the purposes of this post, however, I should have spent more time with the late Jack Walker who was then doing pathbreaking research on state governments. I read his papers in some of my other courses and poo-pooed his idea that states often acted as laboratories in which policy makers try out new ideas that only later make it onto the national agenda.
I find myself returning to his ideas (with some metaphorical egg on my face) frequently twenty years since his untimely death in an automobile accident when he was only in his mid-fifties.
We all know about California's role in setting state environmental standards that become national because the state is so big. Most political scientists recognize that the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) was based heavily on policies adopted in Massachusetts when Senator Mitt Romney was that state's governor.
Had he lived, Walker would have seen that he had only scratched the surface and would have seen that innovations emerge at other sub-national levels, too.
Many of them take the form of public private partnerships and began when for profit companies began to take the kinds of steps Imperative 21 had in mind, often in the communities in which they work and/or are based. Because I've spent much of my career in higher education, I'm drawn to ones in which colleges and universities invest in their local communities. Oberlin (where I went as an undergraduate) and Colby (where I spent the first sixteen years of my teaching career) have invested tens of millions of dollars from their endowments in rejuvenating their local communities in ways that will benefit both "town and gown" in due course. George Mason University (where I now have a research appointment) has long been known for its role in co-creating the entrepreneurial spirit of Northern Virginia's technological companies and is now actively engaged in dealing with region's social, economic, and environmental problems. It's not just GMU. In their 2018 book on small cities that "work," Our Towns, James and Deborah Fallows invariably found that local colleges and universities invariably played a pivotal role in the dozens of local turnaround stories they documented.
Sometimes, government isn't involved in the initial stages of these efforts that begin wholly in the private sector. Salesforce is perhaps the best known of the large corporations that have unilaterally decided to take steps to deal constructively with climate change, systemic racism, and dozens of other problems. Since its creation in 1999, the company and its founder Marc Benioff have found themselves on the front lines as I laid out in a review of his most recent book, Trailblazer. From day one, it has followed what Benioff calls its 1-1-1 rule. It goes beyond the money. Everything the company and its employees do is anchored in a series of core values that are also integral to Imperative 21's mission.
We've barely scratched the surface of what can be done at the grass roots level in ways in which established institutions like governments and colleges only play a minor and supporting role. Two examples should be enough to illustrate this point and serve as an intellectual bridge to the next one.
George Mason's Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict ResoIution is currently exploring ways of working with partners around the country to create truth and reconciliation commissions and other institutions that can help heal the scars of four centuries of American racism. I'm also lucky to be involved very much on the fringes of Zebras Unite, which is a network of six thousand entrepreneurs world-wide who are starting businesses most of which would find the Imperative 21 mandates too limiting!
Change Our Culture to Build Our Movement
You should now be able to see how these kinds of initiatives fit into broader demands for even broader change that I've also been writing about since the pandemic and everything else hit earlier this year. As impressive and as ambitious as they are, initiatives like Imperative 21 are not going to be enough unless they are:
Woven together with other similar initiatives into reasonably coherent movements that can have an impact nationally
Using them to accelerate the cultural changes that are already underway
Imperative 21 sees the importance of at least the first of those two bullet points. One of its leaders likens its efforts to a bow tie. At the center (the equivalent of the knot) is its core mission of changing what corporate leaders do. The "bows" represent its need to form alliances with other who can, in turn, create advocacy networks for the economic reset.
If my reading of recent events and the history of movements for social change is correct, they can't produce lasting policy changes unless they are based on the adoption of new cultural norms as well. Benioff and other visionary leaders understand some of this when they cite entrepreneurship guru Peter Drucker's famous line about business and their long-term success, "culture eats strategy for breakfast" which Benioff and so many others cite
Ours is a culture that still—and perhaps increasingly—venerates individual success, which is something we see in everything from the widespread reluctance to wear masks to the belief that we are all looking out for "#1." As long as those are our dominant cultural norms, we are not likely to be able to build the kinds of lasting movements Imperative 21 or Benioff have in mind.
To that end, Upswing, the most recent book by Robert Putnam points us in a promising direction. As I suggested in reviewing the book elsewhere, Putnam uses mountains of data to show that we are in a period not terribly different from the Gilded Age of the late nineteenth century in which similar cultural norms led to rampant inequality and declining confidence in core public and private sector institutions.
The book becomes both relevant and hopeful when Putnam contrasts the two gilded ages with the years spanning the 1930s through the 1970s during which norms that valued "we" or collective goals outpaced those that stressed "me" and selfish individualism.
There is every reason to believe that movements that stress our common humanity could take us even farther today. We are more aware of our interdependence and of the costs of living in a "dog eat dog" world. Relatively few Americans have been exposed to systems or complexity theory, but most of us at least vaguely understand that "what goes around comes around" in all areas of our lives.
I'm seeing promising signs of movements on both fronts even though most of us have our attention fixed squarely on the election in which neither long-term economic change nor building grass roots movements has played a featured role. So much is going on that you should not have trouble finding a promising, culture-shifting movement being built where your live and work.
Don't expect to find the perfect movement that meets all of your needs and hopes to solve all of our problems. Like Benioff did when he created Salesforce, you may have a lofty goal in mind, but it will take lots of twists and turns and false starts before you get there.
Only one thing is clear. If you don't take that first step, we'll never get there.
How You and I Fit In
It is also not my place to suggest what you should do. That depends on your specific interests, skill set, and the rest of the microcosm of your daily life. It won't be the same as what Imperative 21 or Benioff or Putnam are doing. It certainly won't be the same as what I'll be doing—identifying, publicizing, and connecting existing movements, while helping them out when and where I can.
However, the post-election and post-pandemic (whenever that is) period will provide us with huge challenges and huge opportunities to reset the economy and a whole lot more. If you haven't done so, be sure to vote and then take some time to plan how you can be part of the economic, environmental, and political reset that we will be able to build.
Next Time: My Grandson, World Peace, and Other Fourth Grade Achievements
I have not been writing as much as usual this fall because I've been spending days with my grandson as he navigates fourth grade on line. I've learned a lot, including how today's teachers are dealing with racism in their classes and why fourth graders love Minecraft.
The other day, his teacher mentioned all the problems the world faces which prompted me to remember John Hunter's World Peace Game which he developed for fourth graders. As soon as I finish this blog post, I'm going to get a copy of the video he made so I can show it to Kiril during his asynchronous learning time (what I think of as homework) time tomorrow.
I'll write up what he and I learn next week.
The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the Alliance for Peacebuilding or its members.
Chip Hauss2020-11-11T11:44:22+00:00
About the Author: Chip Hauss
Chip Hauss is Senior Fellow for Innovation and Board Member Emeritus at the Alliance for Peacbuilding.
On Coups and Reconciliation
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AHRC observes today, August 19 "World Humanitarian Day 2018″
The American Human Rights Council (AHRC-USA) joins the world's community in recognizing World Humanitarian Day that falls today August 19. This occasion comes amidst a world full of conflict and wars in addition to several other pressing crises such as hunger, disease, displaced populations, and record refugee populations that is over 100 million people around the world who are in dire need of basic aid.
The United Nations General Assembly declared August 19 as World Humanitarian Day in memory of 22 staff members who were killed in Iraq as a result of the terror bombing of the UN headquarter in Bagdad in 2003. It is a day of remembrance of those who lost their life trying to help provide humanitarian relief to others. The unfortunate reality is that humanitarian aid workers increasingly are subject to kidnappings and killing.
On this day, AHRC salutes and recognizes all the humanitarian aid workers across the globe, those who risk their own lives to help the helpless and try to provide the much needed humanitarian aid often under extremely dangerous circumstances. AHRC calls upon the world community to spare no effort to help protect the humanitarian workers and calls on all countries of the world to cooperate to provide them all means of safety and protection.
"On this day we remember all the heroes of humanitarian work who died trying to help the less fortunate around the world. The dedication of these humanitarian workers is literally a matter of life or death for the vulnerable populations they serve" said Imad Hamad. AHRC Executive Director. "On this day we salute all humanitarian workers, those who have gave up their life helping others and those who are still in the field enduring hardships to save humanity. To them we say thank you for being humanity's true heroes," continued Hamad
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In the countdown to the Aesthetica Art Prize call for entries deadline on 31 August, we interview 2016 panel judge Pavel S. Pyś, Exhibitions & Displays Curator at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds. Pavel frequently contributes to Frieze, Mousse and ArtReview, was the winner of the inaugural Zabludowicz Collection Curatorial Open and is one of the three curators in residence at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin.
A: As Exhibitions and Displays Curator at the Henry Moore Institute, what tasks does your day-to-day role include?
PP: There's really no day-to-day standard schedule. Depending on what's urgent, I could be researching, writing, meeting artists, travelling, negotiating loans, preparing loan documentation, checklists and floor plans, working with my colleagues to manage fabricators and shippers, tracking down artworks and lenders. The Institute has a wonderful Research Library, open to all, so if I'm lucky I might manage to steal some time to spend here reading and thinking.
A: You recently curated Carol Bove / Carlo Scarpa at the Henry Moore Institute. Can you talk about the dynamic generated between these two artists, and how the show shed new light on their practices?
PP: In 2011 we began a conversation with Carol, whom we invited to exhibit at the Institute. During our conversations she became familiar with Scarpa, whose work would have a major influence on her practice in the next four years. We invited Carol to show a selection of works ranging from 2003 through to newly commissioned sculptures, alongside Scarpa's exhibition furniture, sculptures and architectural prototypes. While Scarpa is predominantly known as an architect, we wanted to highlight his engagement with exhibition display and sculpture. The exhibition forged a conversation between Carol and Scarpa for the first time, emphasising shared concerns with how sculpture is given meaning through display and context.
A: In your opinion, why are awards such as the Aesthetica Art Prize important for emerging and established artists today?
PP: Awards and competitions are important opportunities for artists – they bring new audiences and attention to their work and often provide the chance to focus on a specific facet of their practice. The Aesthetica Art Prize is an excellent opportunity for artists and newly graduating students to gain exposure to a wider audience, as well have their work promoted internationally.
A: In December, the Institute will present the first posthumous display of work and archival material by Christine Kozlov. Why is this show important for the Institute and the rest of the art world?
PP: Christine Kozlov (1945-2005) belongs to a generation of conceptual artists who sought to dematerialise sculpture. With time, this project failed, as so much of conceptual and minimal art persists through objects – discreet works, but also photographs, books and ephemera. During the time that Kozlov made work (roughly between 1966 and 1970), sculpture was not a medium she was overtly concerned with. However, many of her pieces take the form of objects, which explore the possibility of material carrying information, as well as how we perceive and experience space. Bringing together works, archival material, photography and contextual documents, this exhibition explores the relationship between Kozlov's conceptual concerns, the material she chose to convey these through and her place within sculpture's history.
A: As a judge for the Aesthetica Art Prize 2016, what will you be looking out for?
PP: Quality, new ideas and an engagement with the space of York Art Gallery, where the 2016 Aesthetica Art Prize Exhibition will take place.
1. Owen Waterhouse, Möbius 1.00, 2014. Courtesy of the artist.


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Q: Recursive value in a function I am trying to develop a simple class-based function that will modify a previous value determined by the function, that is, it is a recurrence relationship.
In essence, I am developing my own random number generator which will work the same way the current Random class works, i.e.
Dim ran as New Random(123456)
For i = 0 To 9
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I can successfully do this using a class-based method simply by sending a value ByRef, but as you know for a method call, the old value to be modified needs to be placed inside the call to the method.  Thus, I am trying to overcome use of a method or a global typed variable, and rather would like the instantiated class to somehow remember what the current value is.
The example code below attempts to multiply the value _value by 2 during every function call, so the expected result would be 2, 4, 8, 16, etc.  However, even though a 2 is initially sent to the constructor, the value of _value is always returned as zero.
Class Example
    Public _value As Integer
    Public Sub New(ByVal _value)

    End Sub
    Public Function Value() As Integer
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    End Function
End Class

Private Sub Button1_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
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End Sub

A: Normally fields are Private. If you want to expose data from your class you would use a Public Property.
Change the name of the parameter for Sub New. If properly qualified your name will work but it is confusing. You must do something with the passed in value! Assign it to your field _value.
Your Function has no return value. It simply changes the value of _value. If you don't return anything use a Sub. Change the name of your Function to something meaningful. Add a Return statement to send a value back to the calling code.
Private Sub Button1_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
    Dim x As New Example(2)
    For i = 0 To 9
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Class Example
    Private _value As Integer
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So, the next time you fall in love with the resume or the skills or the product knowledge or the fact that the candidate was an athlete in college or…, be certain that you don't gloss over red flags in the interview. If you acknowledge them, you could save yourself from a lot of pain that you could have avoided.
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The Villages E-Flyers is a chartered AMA club. The Polo Grounds are privately owned and are not part of the Villages. We as a club pay for an additional insurance rider through AMA that protects the property owner against liability. Therefore, membership in the Villages E-Flyers is mandatory in order to fly there. However, it is possible that one accident involving a model and a spectator, club member or property could revoke our flying privileges. It's in the E-Flyers best interest that all members keep flying as safe as possible. Our flying site is well maintained at very little cost to the club.
1. The regular flying site is the north field 3 unless advised otherwise via club e-mail or posted sign.
2. Maximum ready to fly weight of a plane/drone is 6 pounds. However, a member may request a waiver to fly a plane/drone heavier than 6 pounds. The waiver shall be issued by the Board of Directors and shall apply to a specific plane/drone. Each additional overweight plane/drone will require a separate waiver.
3. Flying "fast" ducted or high rpm models is allowed provided the pilot demonstrates the ability to fly it in a safe manor.
4. Aerobatics such as loops, rolls, etc. should be performed not closer than the center of the field.
5. PILOT STATIONS are 25 ft. behind the active runway and flying area, which would normally put the pilot at the green boundary boards, as the "runway" is considered to be 25 feet in front of the boards.
6. Do not hog the flying stations. After your flight give other pilots a chance to fly.
7. Only five pilots shall be flying at a time. Keep your flight time to 10 minutes when the field activity is heavy.
8. Do not fly over or in close proximity to workers that may be on the field.
9. Unless otherwise notified, due to maintenance or an event at the polo field, flying is every Monday thru Friday from 7 AM till 12 noon. Evening flying is also permitted using the west side of the field as the pilot station. THERE IS NO FLYING ON SATURDAY OR SUNDAY.
10. Drones, 3D flying and Helicopters should be flown in a designated area, which is the extreme north end of field 3. When we are requested to fly at an alternate field, the location for Drones, 3D flyers and Helicopters shall be determined by a Board Member or Safety Officer present at the field.
11. If you are flying on the old 72 MHz frequencies check with other pilots on your channel before you turn on your transmitter.
12. Do not fly alone. One additional responsible person must be present at the field. This is for your safety.
13. Please inform all non AMA guests/visitors to stay at least 10 feet behind the pilot stations for safety reasons.
14. Flying using First Person Video (FPV) must be done in accordance with the procedures outlined in AMA document 550.
15. AMA Membership is mandatory. All aircraft must contain owner information in compliance with AMA rules.
16. Prospective instructors shall be recommended by the Chief Flight Instructor and approved by the Board. An instructor may teach without a buddy box with the approval of the Chief Instructor.
17. An experienced pilot may teach a friend with the approval of the Chief Instructor or in his absence a Board Member's approval.
18. Obstructions such as a windsock are to be located at least 5 feet behind the flight stations, so as to not block or distract a pilot's view of the runway or flying area.
19. If a new member or guest flyer declares that he/she is experienced, he/she must demonstrate the ability to fly safely and be in complete control of the aircraft. This will be accomplished by the first flight being witnessed by an Instructor, Board Member, or Safety Officer. If the member or guest fails this demonstration, he/she will be required to fly with an instructor until deemed proficient.
20. All members must display their Club ID Badge in order to fly.
21. Students must pass a flight review before soloing. Flight review shall include demonstration of the ability to control the aircraft in flight, fly left or right hand traffic pattern, Figure 8, taxiing, takeoff, and landing. Knowledge of battery and propeller safety is also required.
22. Guests or temporary residents may fly without joining the club for up to one month a year, and must be AMA members.
1. All flight operations are to be kept within the perimeter of the polo field, but no closer than 25 feet to the border boards.
a. It's best to have an assistant launch the aircraft. The assistant is to launch larger aircraft at least 25 feet beyond the "border boards" while the pilot remains at the flight station. The pilot announces "ON THE FIELD FOR A HAND LAUNCH," making sure the other pilots hear you. This allows an extra safety margin if complete control is not achieved in the first few seconds of flight. The assistant declares "off the field" when returning to the flight stations.
b. Hand launch of "MICROS" may be accomplished from the pilot station. Announce "HAND LAUNCHING A MICRO" so that other pilots are not distracted when they see an aircraft fly close to them. Micros must be flown from a regular pilot station (General Rule 5) and are counted as one of five pilots as per General Rule 7.
c. All aircraft must be cleared off the field as quickly as possible.
a. Before entering the field, position yourself so you can walk straight out to your aircraft, 90 degrees to the flight line. DO NOT WALK ON A DIAGONAL TO THE AIRCRAFT.
b. The person on the field has the right of way. If you have an in flight emergency (dead stick or control malfunction) you may have to sacrifice the aircraft to avoid the person on the field.
c. Announce your intentions to other pilots: "ON THE FIELD". Make sure all pilots hear you. Check to make sure no one is taking off or landing before entering the field.
d. If you're retrieving a damaged aircraft, make sure all large and small parts are picked up. Return to the pits as quickly as possible as other pilots may be waiting to land or takeoff.
e. Once you're off the field, announce "CLEAR OF THE FIELD". This is a courtesy to the other pilots so they know the field is clear for normal operations.
4. When someone announces that they are "ON THE FIELD", they have the right of way. All pilots must fly in a manner as to not endanger the person on the field.
5. TAKEOFFS: Taxi the aircraft out to the runway/active field, 25 feet beyond the border boards before commencing the takeoff roll.
6. LANDING: When setting up for landing, announce your intentions to the other pilots, "LANDING LEFT TO RIGHT" or "LANDING RIGHT TO LEFT". This will insure that the other pilots give you the right of way. Try to land into the wind.
8. Do not at any time overfly the pilot stations, pits or spectator areas.
9. If you are having trouble controlling your aircraft or lose sight of it, ask for help. "I DON'T HAVE IT" is the usual cry. There may be someone standing by that can help you get it back safely.
10. During times of low flying activity, flights may exceed 10 minutes. Also, at these times, a pilot may choose to be seated away from a pilot station. This is permitted, however a red colored clothespin must be attached to a pilot station number indicating it's in use.


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Home World News South Asia Sea of devotees throng historic Sikh shrine in Punjab
Sea of devotees throng historic Sikh shrine in Punjab
Sultanpur Lodhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi pays obeisance at Ber Sahib Gurudwara in Punjab's Sultanpur Lodhi on Nov 9, 2019. (Photo: IANS/PIB)
Sultanpur Lodhi (Punjab) (IANS) A sea of devotees from across the country thronged the historic Gurdwara Ber Sahib here on Monday, a day ahead of the 550th birth anniversary of the first Sikh guru, Guru Nanak Dev.
The highly revered Gurdwara Ber Sahib is where Guru Nanak gained enlightenment at the end of the 15th century.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah will pay obeisance at the shrine later in the day. Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar and Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur will also be present.
President Ram Nath Kovind will address the celebrations on Tuesday.
A majority of the pilgrims are coming from Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi, Bihar and Maharashtra. Even devotees are coming from abroad, largely from Britain, Canada and the US.
"For the past one week, we are getting an average of 4-5 lakh devotees at the gurdwara every day. Today and tomorrow, we are expecting over 25 lakh devotees," an official at the shrine told IANS.
Ninety langars or community kitchens are running round-the-clock in the town to serve the visiting devotees.
A grand light and sound show is being conducted every evening here to sensitise the masses about the teachings and philosophy of Guru Nanak Dev. The show will continue till November 15.
Security has been beefed up and closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras have been installed to manage the crowd in all the prominent places, a senior police official told IANS.
Organisers say the desire of devotees is to pay obeisance at the historic Gurdwara Ber Sahib and to have a 'shnaan' (dip) in Kali Bein. The devotees are feeling fortunate to have achoola' (sip of water) from the holy Bein.
It is believed that Guru Nanak disappeared into the waters of the Bein rivulet, reappearing three days later as the enlightened Guru. The ground of Gurdwara Ber Sahib marks the spot, where Guru Nanak entered the rivulet.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on November 9 morning paid obeisance at the Ber Sahib Gurdwara, before heading for Dera Baba Nanak in Gurdaspur district to inaugurate the Kartarpur Corridor and flag off the first lot of pilgrims to visit Kartarpur Sahib Gurdwara in Pakistan's Punjab province.
The three-storey Gurdwara Ber Sahib was built by the ruler of Kapurthala in the mid- 20th century and features slender octagonal pillars, a marble sanctum and stucco designs at the entrance.
Sultanpur Lodhi, some 200 km from Chandigarh, is dotted with gurdwaras commemorating events from Guru Nanak's life.
Along with Gurdwara Bebe Nanaki, built to honour Guru Nanak's sister, is the Gurdwara Sant Ghat, about two km upstream of Ber Sahib, where he emerged from his three-day immersion in the Bein.
Hatt Sahib honours the grain store, where Guru Nanak was employed; and the 13 weights, used by the Guru Nanak to measure provisions are preserved here.
The prison cell, where the Guru was imprisoned under false charges is Gurdwara Kothri Sahib; and Guru ka Bagh is where Guru Nanak lived with his wife, Sulakhni, and their two sons, Baba Sri Chand and Baba Lakhmi Chand.


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timestamp = datetime.now().strftime('%Y%m%d-%H%M%S')
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Wheeler Lake is a trail that stock machines should approach with caution—or not approach at all. But that's fine for JK-Forum folks, because most members don't know what "stock" even means. Watch this video of a bunch of members tackling everything the obstacles on this scenic trail can throw out.
Jeeps are as American as hell. But what makes them great here makes them just as great overseas. One of our buddies even spotted a Wrangler in the parking lot at the Tokyo Motor Show! So in the spirit of international cooperation, check out this video from the European Jeepers Jamboree in Hesdin, France.
The Toyota Hilux is rightly lauded as one of the most capable and durable pickups in the world. And while Forum member kam points out this video shows off a couple of mates wheeling in the outback more than it does a head-to-head competition, that doesn't change the fact the Toyo faceplants.


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If offered an opportunity during an interview to ask questions, be sure to prioritize what questions you ask to learn as much as you can about the position's responsibilities, expectations, deliverables and requirements. Most interviewers initially set aside only a short amount of time for an interview, so you want to learn as much as you can as quickly as you can.
This will help you evaluate the fit for yourself, gain a clearer understanding of what they believe are the most important skills and accomplishments to possess, and gain a better understanding of the position.
How would you describe the company work environment?
How would you describe the management philosophy?
What are the most important personal skills and characteristics for a candidate to possess to be successful in this position, and to be a fit for your company's environment/culture? Why?
What are the most important skills, work experiences and accomplishments a candidate must possess to be successful in this position? Why?
What is not being done now that they need/want or must be done by this position?
What must the candidate hired for this position accomplish over the first 3 to 6 or 9 months? What will the candidate hired for this position most likely need to accomplish beyond these immediate needs once needs are met?
What other criteria do you consider essential when you're evaluating a candidate for this position? Why?
What, about the company, convinced you to join and/or stay throughout the years?


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In this video we demonstrate the versatility the Farmboy HD provides to the Bobcat Toolcat 5600. While we show the Farmboy HD pulling a box blade in this video, this is far from the only use it provides. With this 3-point hitch the Toolcat could now operate aerators, planters and disc harrows, as well as any other standard Category 1 implements.
In this video we show the Farmboy pulling a box blade behind the Kubota RTV 1100. This 450 lb box blade is not the only implement the Farmboy is able to operate, however, because the Farmboy is a standard Category 0 and 1 3-point hitch.
Here we have removed the FARMBOY from the rear of the Kubota RTV 110 and installed it on the front, along with our snow plow (The Plowboy). We have also added our Hydraulic Kit, which allows for adjusting the height and the tilt of the Plowboy with just a flick of a switch. The weight of this complete unit is 230 lbs, well within Kubota factory specifications.
In this video we are demonstrating the Plowboy, our 3 point snowplow. Also equipped on this Kubota RTV 900 is the Farmboy, as well as our Hydraulic Kit. The Hydraulic Kit is what allows the plow to change from going up and down, to going side to side, with just the flick of a switch.
In this video we have a Kubota 900 equipped with our Farmboy pulling a Grade Master at Poplarville Kubota Sales in Mississippi.
In this video we have attached both our Farmboy 3-point hitch and our hydraulic angling snowplow (the Plowboy) to a RTV 900. Our system provides hydraulic down pressure, allowing you to dig into tough patches of ice an snow. This is also useful for back dragging and clearing out areas in front of garages and doors.


The Food Link Group of Rikki and Beng Dee has brought Hawker Chan to Quezon City.
Hawker Chan is the world's first Michelin-starred street food stall from Singapore which opened its first Philippine outlet at SM Mall of Asia.
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Q: Replace only if string exists in current line I have a line such as:
sed -i 's/mystring/newstring/' $target

This command will change all mystring to newstring.
What I want now is: when the program sees mystring, how can I check for the current line if the string searchstring exists or not? If it exists, newstring is 1; otherwise, newstring is 0.

A: Solution
Assuming your input file $target contains the following:
some text mystring some other text
some text mystring a searchstring
just some more text

This command:
sed -i -e '/searchstring/ s/mystring/1/ ; /searchstring/! s/mystring/0/' $target

will change its content to:
some text 0 some other text
some text 1 a searchstring
just some more text

Explanation
The script contains two substitute (s) commands separated by a semicolon.
The substitute command accepts an optional address range that select which lines the substitution should take place.
In this case regexp address was used to select lines containing the searchstring for the first command; and the lines that do not contain the searchstring (note the exclamation mark after the regexp negating the match) for the second one.
Edit
This command will perform better and produce just the same result:
sed -i -e '/searchstring/ s/mystring/1/ ; s/mystring/0/' $target

The point is that commands are executed sequentially and thus if there is still a mystring substring in the current line after the first command finished then there is no searchstring in it for sure.
Kudos to user946850.

A: This is from the sed one-liners page:

OPTIMIZING FOR SPEED: If execution speed needs to be increased (due to
  large input files or slow processors or hard disks), substitution will
  be executed more quickly if the "find" expression is specified before
  giving the "s/.../.../" instruction. Thus:
sed 's/foo/bar/g' filename         # standard replace command
sed '/foo/ s/foo/bar/g' filename   # executes more quickly
sed '/foo/ s//bar/g' filename      # shorthand sed syntax

Speed is not the issue of the question at hand, but the syntax hints help formulating the solution:
sed -i '/searchstring/ s/mystring/1/; s/mystring/0/' $target


You will find below the horoscope of Vincenzo Peruggia with his interactive chart, an excerpt of his astrological portrait and his planetary dominants.
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Vincenzo Peruggia (October 8, 1881, Dumenza, Italy - 1925, Haute-Savoie, France) is the man who once stole the Mona Lisa. Theft In 1911 Vincenzo Peruggia perpetrated what has been described as the greatest art theft of the 20th century. The former Louvre worker walked into the museum one day and, noticing the room containing the Mona Lisa had no guards or visitors, took the painting off its pegs, removed it from the frame, and walked out of the Louvre with it under his arm. Vincenzo hid the painting in his apartment in Paris. Supposedly, when police arrived to search his apartment and question him, they signed documents on top of the painting, which was hidden under the kitchen tablecloth.
Here are some character traits from Vincenzo Peruggia's birth chart. This description is far from being comprehensive but it can shed light on his/her personality, which is still interesting for professional astrologers or astrology lovers.
In a matter of minutes, you can get at your email address your astrological portrait (approximately 32 pages), a much more comprehensive report than this portrait of Vincenzo Peruggia.
Vincenzo Peruggia, the nocturnal North-western quadrant, consisting of the 4th, 5th and 6th houses, prevails in your chart: this sector favours creativity, conception and some sort of specialization or training, with helpfulness and relations as strong components. You need others' cooperation in order to work properly, although you are not very expansive: creating, innovating and thinking are what matter most to you because this self-expression enriches you and totally satisfies you.
Like the majority of Earth signs, Vincenzo Peruggia, you are efficient, concrete and not too emotional. What matters to you is what you see: you judge the tree by its fruits. Your ideas keep changing, words disappear, but actions and their consequences are visible and remain. Express your sensitivity, even if it means revealing your vulnerability. Emotions, energy and communication must not be neglected; concrete action is meaningless if it is not justified by your heart, your intellect or your enthusiasm.
Vincenzo Peruggia, Fire is dominant in your natal chart and endows you with intuition, energy, courage, self-confidence, and enthusiasm! You are inclined to be passionate, you assert your willpower, you move forward, and come hell or high water, you achieve your dreams and your goals. The relative weakness of this element is the difficulty to step back or a kind of boldness that may prompt you to do foolish things.
Air is under-represented in your natal chart, with only 8.23% instead of the average 25%. Air symbolizes the values of communication, exchanges with others, but also adaptability and flexibility abilities: if you don't get out of your cocoon to talk, to show interest in others, and to socialize, you may have problems understanding others. Because of your lack of flexibility or of your refusal to adapt yourself, you may be suddenly overwhelmed by events. You should get into the habit of talking, of phoning, and of thinking in terms of "mobility, flexibility, adaptability, change" in every circumstance. It will spare you so many troubles!
The emphasis is on succedent houses in your chart, namely, the 2nd, 5th, 8th and 11th houses, Vincenzo Peruggia: this configuration usually endows a personality with affective and sensitive qualities. Obviously, to the detriment of self-confidence or self-assertion, but your heart qualities may be very important. These houses also favour realization. Time and patience are part of their characteristics. However, they are only indications and you must include them in the rest of your chart in order to see whether they are validated or not!
In your natal chart, the three most important signs - according to criteria mentioned above - are in decreasing order of strength Taurus, Virgo and Sagittarius. In general, these signs are important because your Ascendant or your Sun is located there. But this is not always the case: there may be a cluster of planets, or a planet may be near an angle other than the Midheaven or Ascendant. It may also be because two or three planets are considered to be very active because they form numerous aspects from these signs.
The 5th, 6th and 9th houses are the most prominent ones in your birth chart. From the analysis of the most tenanted houses, the astrologer identifies your most significant fields or spheres of activity. They deal with what you are experiencing - or what you will be brought to experience one day - or they deal with your inner motivations.
After this paragraph about dominant planets, of Vincenzo Peruggia, here are the character traits that you must read more carefully than the previous texts since they are very specific: the texts about dominant planets only give background information about the personality and remain quite general: they emphasize or, on the contrary, mitigate different particularities or facets of a personality. A human being is a complex whole and only bodies of texts can attempt to successfully figure out all the finer points.
You are the very type of the researcher endowed with great intellectual and imaginative capacities, Vincenzo Peruggia, and your curiosity is very deep. Researches, riddles and mysteries appeal to you and with a remarkable sixth sense and intuition, you endlessly try to unearth the truth, in all areas, like a psychoanalyst or a detective. You are a very secretive and introverted person, you find it difficult to open up and you rather prefer psychoanalysis. In spite of your clear-sightedness, you find it hard to deal with people: your critical mind, tinted with irony and causticity, may be destructive, especially since your determination and your stubbornness do not incline you to giving up. You are fond of provocations and you handle contradictions skilfully even though you may come across as dishonest.
Vincenzo Peruggia, inside yourself, feelings are strong and powerful. However, you never show them before weighing up and considering all the possible consequences of your words and your actions: fieriness and spontaneousness are toned down because you cannot help controlling yourself, probably due to your modesty, your discretion or your shyness; you are frightened because you are so concerned with other people's opinion that you see passion, or expressing your feelings too quickly, as sources of danger. However, you are helpful, simple, and you do not fuss around. Reason prevails in your love life but your heart may flare up when the context is well organized and everyday life is cautiously handled with good sense, tidiness and cleanliness. Your sensitivity prompts you to avoid excesses and outbursts and this is how you think that you can achieve happiness without risk.
The ruler of the Ascendant, Vincenzo Peruggia, is Jupiter. In Taurus, it endows you with prudence and patience. You work with perseverance, and you are committed to finishing off what you have undertaken, because you are not the kind of person who would throw up the towel easily. You are happy to reap the fruits of your labour, and why not, to make your business thrive.
It is difficult to find a more sensitive person than you, Vincenzo Peruggia. You are able to contain your aggressiveness and it may be hard for you to exteriorize your feelings. You are usually passive and you draw your strength from inertia and resistance more than from the will to take action. Your mood is changing, you show little of yourself and you may surprise with your inopportune reactions that come late, when people have forgotten what it was all about. The only area where you express yourself with zeal and where your actions are successful is the area of home or, more symbolically, in the fields where you can achieve security. In other words, you need to feel comfortable before you can move, in concrete matters as well as in sexuality.
This text is only an excerpt from of Vincenzo Peruggia's portrait. We hope that it will arouse your curiosity, and that it will prompt you to deepen your knowledge of astrology, as well as to visit and use the wide range of free applications at www.astrotheme.com.
Your Life Path is influenced par the number 9, Vincenzo, the path of travel and transcendence. You know how to take a new look at yourself and how to broaden your horizon. You are driven by the thirst for achievements and you cultivate the sense of the sacred and of sacrifice. Life teaches you to constantly push further the limits of your ego. Your destiny is based on altruism and devotion. You are very generous and you always listen to people's needs, which is among the reasons why you are very much sought after. You also show little interest in socializing or social futilities. Your spiritual growth means much more than worldly frivolities, even though it means that you have a hard time remaining grounded when you experience difficult circumstances! Your Life Path prompts you to learn, to increase the number of enriching experiences, and to constantly progress. You are interested in intellectual matters, and you set yourself high objectives. Meditation and contemplation are your valuable assets.


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The Chatham Hospital Float was awarded First Place at the annual 2018 Siler City Christmas Parade.
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As part of World Diabetes Day, Chatham Hospital will be offering free blood sugar checks on 11/14 in the hospital Atrium from 12pm to 2pm.
Group from Chatham Rehabilitation Services gathered to participate in a Habitat for Humanity build.
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Music|Can Michael Jackson's Legacy Ever Really Be Derailed?
The documentary "Leaving Neverland" details devastating allegations of sexual abuse. How do fans process them, and Jackson's body of work?
Earlier this week, HBO aired the two-part documentary "Leaving Neverland," which details accusations of child sexual abuse against Michael Jackson from two men, Wade Robson and James Safechuck.
The film has had deep reverberations. Oprah Winfrey came out in support of the accusers, interviewing them for a television special. And the conversation around the film has placed Jackson in the cross hairs of several ongoing conversations about how culture made by people accused of heinous crimes will be dealt with in the future. The film is likely to have an impact on the value of his estate, and the way any future Jackson projects unfold. At the same time, Michael Jackson superfans have been pushing back against the film, suggesting it amounts to little more than rumor.


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Evaluating 'The Help'
Exploitation said Akiba Solomon at Colorlines without actually seeing the film. "I can't bring myself to pay $12.50 … to watch these sisters lend gravitas to Stockett's white heroine mythology," she said and recommended Eyes on the Prize and The Warmth of Other Suns instead.
Sappy said Alyssa Rosenberg at The Atlantic. "Stockett's novel presented a vision of segregation in service of a feel-good story, but the film version of The Help is even more distant from the virulence of American racism," she said. "Whether you're black or white, liberation's just a matter of improving your self-esteem." She suggested Freedom Riders instead.
Both/and said a group of black professional women at The Root. "Too often, we are afraid to discuss the harsh realities of our shared American history. We all know black maids raised white children in the South during slavery and after. White people are part of that story and have a point of view," said one. "I realized the group I went with actually had much more in common with the white women portrayed in the film than we did the black women. That's great news about how far we've come, but it also made me think seriously about what we're doing (if anything) to honor their legacy," said another.
Get behind it, said NAACP chairman Roslyn Brock at The Los Angeles Times. "My grandmother was a domestic in Florida, and when she passed, almost two generations of families whom she had taken care of sent condolences saying what an important part she was to their family. And it never really connected with me until I saw this movie."
Inspiration, said Mary J. Blige in an interview with ABC News about the theme song she wrote for the movie. "They're all living proof of surviving out of a bad situation by holding onto each other and encouraging each other through all of that stuff to do better," she said.
See and discuss, said an integrated group of 300 Christian women in Charlotte, North Carolina, who will screen the movie together Saturday and then meet at a church to discuss it, the Charlotte Observer reported.
Do something about today's "help," said the National Domestic Workers Alliance in a YouTube video.
For a plot summary, check out Terri J. Haynes' book review right here at Urban Faith.
How about you? Are you going to see The Help?
Natasha S. Robinson on August 11, 2011 at 4:04 pm
Thanks for sharing. Here is my review after reading the book and watching the movie:
http://blog.christianitytoday.com/women/2011/08/watching_the_help_as_an_africa.html
Christine A. Scheller on August 11, 2011 at 5:09 pm
Wonderful post Natasha! If I'd seen it before we published, I would have linked to it.
Katelin on August 11, 2011 at 4:13 pm
smh…to me, it boils down to being another white savior movie. I will probably see it eventually, but only so that I can converse with better background. The book to me was just ripe catharsis for white, liberal guilt: http://awe.sm/5PYmr
Yours is a thoughtful post too Katelin! Thanks for the comment.
Sam Van Eman on August 11, 2011 at 4:15 pm
Nothing like clear advice here, Christine. Ha! I hope to see it. Then I can figure out what category I fit in.
Sam, If you read the opinions of the two women above, you'll understand my dilemma. Besides, I wanted to get readers thinking about the issues around the movie, not offer advice. I was highly skeptical, but may go see it with some friends who invited me now that I've read such interesting and diverse reviews.
Ann Kroeker on August 11, 2011 at 5:21 pm
Thanks for this round-up, Christine. So many perspectives! I read the book–now I need to see the story and see how it compares.
(See the story played out in film form, that is)
You're welcome Ann! If you see it soon, do let us know what you think.
Charity Singleton on August 11, 2011 at 5:25 pm
Christine – I loved the book and am planning to go to the movie this weekend, but your round up here has really opened my eyes to how different people see the same piece of file or literature from such different perspectives. I NEED these other perspectives. I also followed the links to both of your commenters, and really appreciated their view points. Thanks for this!
You're welcome Charity! The fact that the movie has us thinking and talking is a good thing.
Sheryl Bullock on August 11, 2011 at 7:23 pm
Christine, I've listened to the audiobook, but not seen the film yet. Some critics feel it is too shallow a depiction of the realities in the years of the civil rights movement. It is not meant to be a documentary. It is a very small slice of life from the South in the 60's from the vantage point of the author's childhood having experienced a black maid as part of her household for many years. I'd suggest people watch Katie Couric's hour long interview with Stockett online if they get a chance. Stockett was unaware of the "big picture" happening outside her privileged world. But as she grew she began to understand. I like Mary K. Blige's take on it….the fact that this story enlightens us tremendously and causes us to respect and admire their perseverance in such difficult situations. They made incredible contributions. This book finally gives recognition for all their sacrifices. I'm looking forward to seeing the film.
Deidra on August 12, 2011 at 9:42 am
When I was younger, and a movie about race relations, Jim Crow, racial injustice, slavery, or segregation would be released, I remember hearing my mother say, "I really don't want to go see that. It'll just make me mad. And I don't like being mad." My mother's mother was a domestic worker – one of "the help" like Aibileen and Minnie. My nephew now attends the exclusive and elite private school where my grandmother once scrubbed the floors and toilets. Hence, the rub for me. My skin is brown, and I speak from first-hand experience when I tell you that still causes problems for some here in America. At the same time, however, I can send my children to private school if I choose, I can buy a house, I can vote, I can ride on the bus in any seat I choose. So I sat in that movie – one of a handful of women with brown skin in an audience of mostly white women – and felt a check inside myself about the times I've made someone stand outside in the bushes because I didn't think they measured up.
Christine A. Scheller on August 12, 2011 at 10:03 am
Thanks Deidra. The fact that you expressed excitement about seeing this movie is one reason I thought perhaps I should give it a chance.
The Association of Black Women Historians gave it an erudite thumbs down:
http://www.abwh.org/images/pdf/TheHelp-Statement.pdf
karenzach on August 19, 2011 at 10:17 am
Thanks for this, C. I love how you were able to pull from so many sources to get a look at The Help. I did see it and I did love it, tho I recognize the flaws. I would also say that as a white woman who grew up in the South, the stereotypes projected in the film version weren't limited to just blacks.
Christine A. Scheller on August 19, 2011 at 12:20 pm
Thanks for your input Karen. I couldn't bring myself to spend $20 on this film. I was invited by some girlfriends who loved the book and also didn't want to spoil their experience if they loved it and I was busy analyzing it. I'll see it when my cable company offers it on my TV, which will be sometime after the conversation has died down.
Marcus Goodyear on August 29, 2011 at 4:21 pm
I'm a bit too much of a guy's guy to see The Help, but it looks like a good rental. Very interesting summary of the various viewpoints on the movie. I know my friend Deidra (above) was really excited to see it, and took a whole group of friends. And I trust Deidra.
I trust Deidra too, Marcus. Thanks for featuring our round-up at TheHighCalling.org!
Caroline Starr Rose on August 29, 2011 at 10:24 pm
I loved it and found it true to the book, my favorite read of 2010.


This set of lesson plans and materials introduces pupils to the importance of toilets to staying healthy.
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The lesson plans include films, animations and case studies such as Pinki's (above), and can be used as the basis for a number of lessons, and allow the teacher to choose whether to cover all aspects of the plans or just a few. There are suggested questions for pupils which can be used for written work or class discussion.


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