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Lou Reed Says The Beatles Were Rubbish
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MNPS Director recommends masks be worn indoors and on buses
Board members will vote on final decision tomorrow
WTVF
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Metro Nashville Public Schools Director Dr. Adrienne Battle is recommending the Board of Education adopt a universal mask policy for indoors and on buses for the upcoming school year.
Battle's statement on Wednesday comes after Nashville Mayor John Cooper announced the city would require face coverings at all Metro government buildings. The school board will meet Thursday to discuss COVID protocols, including masks, before the start of the 2021-22 school year.
Read Battle's full statement:
"As a result of the alarming rise in COVID-19 cases and spread of the delta variant, the recommendations from the CDC and AAP, along with the Mayor's new mask mandate for Metro facilities, it would be my recommendation to the Board that we adopt a universal mask policy, indoors and on buses, for the start of the 2021-22 school year in order to keep our student, staff, and their families as safe as possible.
I wish that more Americans had taken advantage of the life-saving vaccine that has been available to them, so that the pandemic would be less of a factor in the lives of our students and a universal mask mandate would not be necessary. I'm hopeful that more community members will get the vaccine so that we can mitigate the spread of the virus and return to a normal school setting. Metro Schools will continue to do our part to promote vaccination events for our students who are eligible, their families, and our staff, along with the other mitigation protocols that can reduce transmission of the virus."
The new school year starts next week on August 10. Earlier this month, MNPS said that for now, the district would only "highly encourage" students and staff to wear masks in classrooms this fall.
However, on Monday, the board said it would convene on Thursday to "discuss and potentially take action on the COVID protocols, specifically face-masks, in light of new CDC guidance and the delta variant."
TEACHER SURVEY SHOWS DISCOMFORT GOING BACK TO CLASS
A survey provided to MNPS teachers and staff revealed that some educators aren't "comfortable" going back into the classroom this fall.
The survey -- performed by the Metropolitan Nashville Education Association -- indicated nearly 58% of the 756 surveyed felt unsafe with current guidelines heading into the school year. Currently, MNPS protocols deem masks as optional. The education association survey also found that nearly 66% of teachers wanted a mask mandate.
House Speaker Cameron Sexton announced this week that he would call for a special session to challenge any district who imposed one.
Read more: Teacher association survey shows discomfort going back to Nashville schools
Emily West contributed to this article.

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A Drunken fumble and what to do about it?
Have a good cry,then go for a long walk, ring a trusted friend. Its a terrible blow to your heart but you will calm down and start to recover. You have to box clever here and if you still love your man, woman, and this is a first time, then give him/her the benefit of the doubt. If its the second time then for goodness sake clear the rotten energy that is around you and move on.
To err is Human and to forgive is sublime. To forgive more than once is giving the other person permission to do it again and get away with it. Lovers cheating on one another is not real love, it is purely abuse.
We all know what it feels like to be cheated on by a Lover. Relationships and Love, all hopes, trust and respect, flown out of the window. Give it another go??, Where do you go from here…Well you dont just sit down and take it, thats for sure. To err is human but to forgive is sublime but once and only once and I cannot reiterate on that point enough, as a counsellor and a psychic reader to many people.
If its the first time then you have to soul search and think why it happened but for goodness sake do not blame yourself.An embarrassed silence usually follows along with the refusal to discuss the matter. A break and time and space is required and a chance for you to heal.
The guidance is here ALLOW YOURSELF A CHANCE TO RECOVER FROM THE SHOCK AND TO HEAL, BEFORE, you enter into negotiations.
Anything built on sand will quickly fall flat on itself so if your other half has had a drunken fumble or a "you know what" in the dark, then sometimes you do have to forgive their stupidity.


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/**
 * @class  elFinder command "netmount"
 * Mount network volume with user credentials.
 *
 * @author Dmitry (dio) Levashov
 **/
elFinder.prototype.commands.netmount = function() {
	var self = this;

	this.alwaysEnabled  = true;
	this.updateOnSelect = false;

	this.drivers = [];

	this.handlers = {
		load : function() {
			this.drivers = this.fm.netDrivers;
		}
	}

	this.getstate = function() {
		return this.drivers.length ? 0 : -1;
	}

	this.exec = function() {
		var fm = self.fm,
			dfrd = $.Deferred(),
			create = function() {
				var inputs = {
						protocol : $('<select/>'),
						host     : $('<input type="text"/>'),
						port     : $('<input type="text"/>'),
						path     : $('<input type="text" value="/"/>'),
						user     : $('<input type="text"/>'),
						pass     : $('<input type="password"/>')
					},
					opts = {
						title          : fm.i18n('netMountDialogTitle'),
						resizable      : false,
						modal          : true,
						destroyOnClose : true,
						close          : function() {
							delete self.dialog;
							dfrd.state() == 'pending' && dfrd.reject();
						},
						buttons        : {}
					},
					content = $('
');

				$.each(self.drivers, function(i, protocol) {
					inputs.protocol.append('<option value="'+protocol+'">'+fm.i18n(protocol)+'</option>');
				});

				$.each(inputs, function(name, input) {
					name != 'protocol' && input.addClass('ui-corner-all');
					content.append($('
').append($(''+fm.i18n(name)+'	')).append($('').append(input)));
				});

				opts.buttons[fm.i18n('btnMount')] = function() {
					var data = {cmd : 'netmount'};

					$.each(inputs, function(name, input) {
						var val = $.trim(input.val());

						if (val) {
							data[name] = val;
						}
					});

					if (!data.host) {
						return self.fm.trigger('error', {error : 'errNetMountHostReq'});
					}

					self.fm.request({data : data, notify : {type : 'netmount', cnt : 1}})
						.done(function() { dfrd.resolve(); })
						.fail(function(error) { dfrd.reject(error); });

					self.dialog.elfinderdialog('close');
				}

				opts.buttons[fm.i18n('btnCancel')] = function() {
					self.dialog.elfinderdialog('close');
				}

				return fm.dialog(content, opts);
			}
			;

		if (!self.dialog) {
			self.dialog = create()
		}

		return dfrd.promise();
	}

}

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With ASP.NET, though, and especially MVC, you can really control how every response is created. You have OWIN that is a middleware handler that can do lots of helpful things, and you also have MVC action filters that you can attach to discrete controllers and controller actions, or apply globally.
In my case, I wanted to be able to display a single controller action in an iframe. The action in question allows the user to verify their password. Ideally, the controller action would be hosted on my SSO site to provide a consistent method for consuming applications to force a user to verify their password. This is similar to the way lots of sites ask a user to verify their identity even though they are already logged in. Since my SSO site is an OAuth endpoint, I already store a list of white listed sites. It made a lot of sense to take these same white list and allow those sites to open the "VerifyPassword" endpoint in an iframe.
Back to the header issue, another wrinkle in the issue is that not all browsers support "x-frame-options ALLOW-FROM." Chrome doesn't, Safari doesn't, and maybe even Opera doesn't. Technically, this header has been deprecated and replaced by "Content-Security-Policy frame-ancestors." You can imagine that this would make managing this configuration in your web.config even more tedious.
First, the filter looks to see if AntiForgeryConfig.SuppressXFrameOptionsHeader is set. If it's not, or we explicitly tell the filter to always run, then we proceed to add or headers. Overridng the "OnResultExecuted" method ensures that we are running our header-adding-code after the action's view is rendered. This is imported since it's the Razor MVC helper that adds the SAMEORIGIN header.
The filter sniffs the browser and version to determine what browser the user is running. Based on a simple determination, we toggle between using X-Frame-Options or Content-Security-Policy. If the browser/version do not meet our requirements, they we default to adding the SAMEORIGIN header back into the response.
As I mentioned, the acton filter is relatively straight-forward. One could also do the same thing with an OWIN interceptor, which actually may be more robust since action filters do not get applied in certain circumstances (like 302 redirect due to authorization). The full code for the action filter is below. Note that my "WhiteList" object has a string property with the URL.
// Assume that if we aren't suppressing the header, and it's not present, then we don't want the view suppressed.
// then we apply the filter to every response.
// If the AntiForgeryConfig is set to add the SAMEORIGIN header, and we've made it this far, remove it.
// This is assuming that browers all check the SAMEORIGIN policy on first loading and not subsequent refreshes.
Update: I simplified this attribute to only apply or remove the SAMEORIGIN header based on the referrer. This eliminates the need to guess at browser versions, whether CSP is supported, etc.


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Browse > Home / Maccabi Australia, News, Sports News / Australia takes big step on road to Maccabiah 21 with team managers and coaches inductions
Australia takes big step on road to Maccabiah 21 with team managers and coaches inductions
December 15, 2020 by Michael Puterflam
Maccabi Australia has taken a big step forward in their preparations for the 21st Maccabiah Games in 2022 with the Australian management recently conducting induction sessions for team managers and coaches in Melbourne and Sydney.
After a thorough and professional recruitment process, the induction session provided an opportunity for all recently appointed team managers and coaches to get up to date with all available information about the Games with just over 18 months away.
Nominations now open for athletes.
Head of Games Operations and Sport, Sam Gamsu commended the quality of team managers and coaches who have committed to the Australian team and explained how they will help provide a lifelong experience for all athletes.
"I believe it speaks volumes for Maccabiah, for what we do and how we do it that we are able to attract such quality volunteers, and I thank you," said Gamsu.
Among the coaching appointments are former A-League and Central Coast Mariners manager, Phil Moss, dual Basketball Olympian, Jason Smith, Melbourne Tigers Hall of Famer, Warrick Giddey, and NBL players, Indiana Faithfull and Thomas Garlepp.
Head of Maccabi Australia's Delegation, Barry Smorgon, was also delighted that many of the team managers and coaches who nominated for Maccabiah before it was postponed due to COVID-19 have now been appointed for the re-scheduled Games in 2022.
At the Melbourne team managers and coaches induction, Barry Smorgon said: "We are delighted to see so many of the people who had previously nominated have come back again for the Games in 2022. It shows their commitment to Maccabi and Maccabiah.
Barry Smorgon [foreground] with mangers and coaches
Our collective responsibility is to manage or coach the athletes to ensure that they perform to the utmost of their ability and have the time of their lives."
To help inspire athletes to nominate for Maccabiah, the Australian management team also announced four high-achieving Jewish Australian athletes who will serve as ambassadors and mentors for the Australian team.
They are legendary Australian domestic cricketer Michael Klinger, Commonwealth Games racewalker Gold Medallist, Jemima Montag, champion Paralympian swimmer, Matt Levy, and Sydney FC footballer, Jordi Swibel.
A key consideration for the Australian management team is the impact COVID-19 may have on Maccabiah in 2022.
Gamsu explained that all necessary precautions will be taken ahead of the Games.
He added: "We will follow best medical practice in relation to Covid 19. A safe and effective vaccine will be a game-changer.
Contact sport is on for Juniors and Over 18s as well, and we believe on the current trajectory our trials will be able to go ahead as normal. If not, we will have to adapt to that."
For family and friends of the Australian team who will be unable to attend Maccabiah, Gamsu explained the new ways fans will be able to stream Maccabiah sports from the comfort of their home.
"In Israel, they are putting up cameras in all the stadiums, so there is going to be streaming of all the events, and the Maccabiah EventsAIR App will also allow the people at home to keep up to date".
Gamsu also provided an overview of the timeline and next steps for prospective athletes and the Australian management team, which includes: recruiting athletes, trial days and selection processes.
However, the focus now for the Australian team is encouraging athletes to nominate for Maccabiah.
To nominate as an athlete now, visit: https://www.maccabiupdates.com/m21


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Initialize the plugin where appropriate in your code. We recommend to do this in the `AppDelegate::applicationDidFinishLaunching()` or `AppController:didFinishLaunchingWithOptions()`. Make sure to include the appropriate headers:

```cpp
#include "PluginFacebook/PluginFacebook.h"
AppDelegate::applicationDidFinishLaunching()
{
     sdkbox::PluginFacebook::init();
}
```

### Using Facebook
#### Login
First the user needs to login to Facebook in order to use it.
```cpp
sdkbox::PluginFacebook::login();
```
If a user doesn't want to use Facebook functionality anymore, logout.
```cpp
sdkbox::PluginFacebook::logout();
```
You can check whether user already logged in using
```cpp
sdkbox::PluginFacebook::isLoggedIn();
```
> Note: user only needs to perform login once, unless they logout

#### Permissions
Facebook requires you to ask for the user's permission before you can perform actions, such as, posting on the user's behalf.
There are two types of permission __read__ and __publish__
You can get a complete list of permissions [here](https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/permissions/v2.3#reference)

SDKBOX provides the most commonly used permissions:

* FB_PERM_READ_PUBLIC_PROFILE
* FB_PERM_READ_EMAIL
* FB_PERM_READ_USER_FRIENDS
* FB_PERM_PUBLISH_POST

To request a permission, you do so by specifying what you want:
```cpp
sdkbox::PluginFacebook::requestReadPermissions({FB_PERM_READ_PUBLIC_PROFILE, FB_PERM_READ_USER_FRIENDS});
sdkbox::PluginFacebook::requestPublishPermissions({FB_PERM_PUBLISH_POST});
```

#### Share
There are two types of sharing functionality.

* __share__ will automatically post to the user's wall
share a link:
```cpp
sdkbox::FBShareInfo info;
info.type  = sdkbox::FB_LINK;
info.link  = "http://www.cocos2d-x.org";
info.title = "cocos2d-x";
info.text  = "Best Game Engine";
info.image = "http://cocos2d-x.org/images/logo.png";
sdkbox::PluginFacebook::share(info);
```
share a photo:
```cpp
sdkbox::FBShareInfo info;
info.type  = sdkbox::FB_PHOTO;
info.title = "My Photo";
info.image = __path to image__;
sdkbox::PluginFacebook::share(info);
```
* __dialog__ will show a dialog and prompt the user to write their own comments in addition:

present a share dialog:
```cpp
sdkbox::FBShareInfo info;
info.type  = sdkbox::FB_LINK;
info.link  = "http://www.cocos2d-x.org";
info.title = "cocos2d-x";
info.text  = "Best Game Engine";
info.image = "http://cocos2d-x.org/images/logo.png";
sdkbox::PluginFacebook::dialog(info);
```

share a photo with comments:
```cpp
sdkbox::FBShareInfo info;
info.type  = sdkbox::FB_PHOTO;
info.title = "My Photo";
info.image = __path to image__;
sdkbox::PluginFacebook::dialog(info);
```
  > Note: sharing photo with comments requires the __Facebook app__ to be installed on the device.

#### Invite
There are both __standard__ and __custom__ *Invite* dialogs available to use when inviting your Friends.

When using the *standard invite dialog*, it is necessary to select the friends to send the invitation request too. The API call is `inviteFriends()` passing in an __app link url__ and a __preview image__. Example:
```cpp
sdkbox::PluginFacebook::inviteFriends(
  "https://fb.me/322164761287181",
  "http://www.cocos2d-x.org/attachments/801/cocos2dx_portrait.png");
```

  > Note: Contrary to what it may seem the __app link url__, it is not an App Store or Google Play application url. You must follow the instructions on this [page](https://developers.facebook.com/quickstarts/?platform=app-links-host)  and use the resulting url as the __app_link_url__ parameter. Facebook hosts this file for the developer, but anyone could host their own file using this [format](https://developers.facebook.com/docs/app-invites/android#app_links)

At runtime, a custom message can be attached to the invite request. It is not possible to set a predefined invite message.

Creating a *custom invite dialog* is a two step process, starting with a call to `requestInvitableFriends()` then a call to `inviteFriendsWithInviteIds()` to actually send the invites. Example:
```cpp
std::vector<std::string> vec;
vec.push_back(invitable_token);
sdkbox::PluginFacebook::inviteFriendsWithInviteIds(vec, "Invitation title", "Invitation text up to 60 chars.");
```

The `requestInvitableFriends()` function has a __Bundle(map<string,string>)__ parameter, where the developer can define a few flags:

| Flag  | Description  |
| :---- | :---------------|
| fields | a comma separated values of the fields you want to get from your invitable friend's profiles. |
| exclude_ids | a comma separated FB ids to exclude from the result. |
| limit | number of friends per page. |

A call to `requestInvitableFriends()` will return a different collection of friends per call, and it is Facebook's decision which ones to return first.
This function returns a `FBInvitableFriendsInfo` object, which will contain a collection of the friends data and a pagination cursor object which has URLS for requesting the next and previous page of invitable friends.

The *custom invite dialog* is only available for games with a __canvas implementation__ for the Facebook application. The __canvas__ must be defined but doesn't need to how any web content. If the __canvas__ is not defined a *standard invite dialog* is used instead.

### Graph API
You can perform [Graph API](https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/overview/) using the `api` function

For example, to get the friend list:
```
sdkbox::PluginFacebook::FBAPIParam params;
sdkbox::PluginFacebook::api("/me/friends", "GET", params, "/me/friends");
```

### Facebook events
This allows you to catch `Facebook` events so that you can perform operations after Facebook events have occurred.

* Allow your class to extend `sdkbox::FacebookListener` and override the functions listed:
```cpp
#include "PluginFacebook/PluginFacebook.h"
class MyClass : public sdkbox::FacebookListener
{
private:
  void onLogin(bool isLogin, const std::string& msg);
  void onPermission(bool isLogin, const std::string& msg);
  void onAPI(const std::string& tag, const std::string& jsonData);
  void onSharedSuccess(const std::string& message);
  void onSharedFailed(const std::string& message);
  void onSharedCancel();
};
```

* Create a __listener__ that handles callbacks:
```cpp
sdkbox::PluginFacebook::setListener(this);
```


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The Detroit Tigers are Michigan's Major League Baseball team. They play in the American League's Central Division. The Tigers play their home games at Comerica Park.
The Tigers have the distinction of being one of the American League's charter franchises, as they have been playing in the AL since its inception in 1901. As of the conclusion of the 2009 season, the Tigers have won four World Series championships (1935, 1945, 1968, 1984), ten league championships (1907-09, 1934-5, 1940, 1945, 1968, 1984, 2006), and have made two other postseason appearances (1972, 1987).
The Official Site of The Detroit Tigers
Detroit Tigers Team History & Encyclopedia at baseball-reference.com
Retrieved from "https://michigan.fandom.com/wiki/Detroit_Tigers?oldid=3230"


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Let's Fix the Pornography Problem
by Jim Banks 12 . 18 . 19
In 2016, Donald Trump made one of the most important promises of his campaign: Elect me, and I will enforce federal obscenity laws to stop the explosion of obscene pornography online. Mr. President: Your administration has made tremendous progress in keeping campaign promises to affirm the right to life and the rights of conscience. Now you have a chance to keep yet another promise.
Two weeks ago, I and three other congressmen sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General William Barr, reminding him of Trump's campaign promise and urging the Department of Justice to make enforcing obscenity laws a priority. We are in an unprecedented era of convenience. With a few simple clicks, anyone connected to high-speed Internet can book a doctor's appointment, or order a meal and expect it to arrive on their doorstep within minutes. But there is a dark side to this convenience. Anyone connected to the Internet—including children—has on-demand access to billions of photos and videos of not just sex, but rape (real and dramatized), violent sex, and debased fetishes.
The prevalence of pornography in our society has consequences, especially for our children. It's time to start talking about it, and it's time for the government to get involved.
As online obscenity and pornography consumption have increased, so too has violence toward women. This is not surprising, given that multiple studies have shown that consuming pornography affects the way the brain reacts to stimuli such as violence. The overall volume of human sex trafficking has also increased; it is now the third-largest criminal enterprise in the world. Child pornography is one of the fastest-growing online industries, with an annual revenue of over $3 billion. According to the Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection, the United States has nearly 50 percent of all commercialized child pornography websites.
Given the ubiquity of pornography in our culture, what does this mean? It means our children, some as young as eight, are being exposed to obscene material, often by accident. Nine in every ten boys under the age of eighteen have seen pornography. Children are stuggling with pornography addiction. The era where one had to sneak into theaters, purchase Playboy magazines, or pay for pay-per-view to access pornography is long gone.
As the father of three young children (who are approaching the ages at which many children are now exposed to porn for the first time), I am extremely concerned that parents do not have the resources necessary to effectively police their child's exposure to shocking pornographic materials. What can be done? Fortunately, U.S. obscenity laws exist that, if enforced, can at least partially solve this problem. Barr knows this, given his success in effectively shutting down the pornography industry and dramatically decreasing child pornography in America when he served under President George H. W. Bush.
Those laws prohibit distribution of obscene pornography: on the Internet, on cable/satellite TV, in hotels/motels, in retail or wholesale establishments, and by common carrier. Yet the enforcement of these laws was stopped by the Obama Administration when Attorney General Eric Holder disbanded the Obscenity Prosecution Task Force in the Criminal Division.
Barr can reverse this action, and declare the prosecution of obscene pornography a criminal justice priority. He can direct U.S. attorneys to investigate and bring prosecutions against the major producers and distributors of such material. He can make obscenity prosecution a defining issue of the Trump-era DOJ. These are simple yet important steps toward protecting the lives of those affected by these long-ignored crimes.
It is time for Trump to tick off another campaign promise and protect our nation's children from pornography. Not long before announcing his candidacy, while speaking about the former administration and the problems it ignored, Trump claimed he "would fix [the problems] fast" if he were president. It was a good promise, Mr. President: Now let's fix the pornography problem.
Jim Banks is the U.S. Representative for Indiana's third congressional district.
Photo by Gage Skidmore via Creative Commons. Image cropped.
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I have known Mary-Lynne Bernald, Saratoga's mayor, for more than 20 years. I have observed her work in the city's Planning Commission and the City Council. I find her exceptionally hard-working, trustworthy and intelligent.
During her time on the council, she has attended numerous local events and faithfully represents Saratoga at both county and statewide committees. She listens as citizens voice their concerns and answers appropriately.
The city is in fine fiscal shape, and the employees are happy.
I heartily endorse Mary-Lynne Bernald for she has served Saratoga well and deserves to be re-elected this Nov. 6.


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Rolling Stones | Doom and Gloom
On 15, Oct 2012 | No Comments | In news / blog | By Layla
Hot off the press, here's Rok's new lyric video for the forthcoming Rolling Stones track "Doom and Gloom". We're all HUGE Stones fans so this job was a dream come true, it turned out pretty good as well.
Doom And Gloom' marks the first time that Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood have been in the studio together for seven years. The single was recorded in Paris and produced by longtime Rolling Stones producer Don Was, who has worked with the band on five previous albums (Voodoo Lounge/ Stripped/ Bridges To Babylon/ Licks Live/ A Bigger Bang), with the radio mix produced by Jeff Bhasker.
The brand new Rolling Stones single DOOM AND GLOOM is now available from iTunes http://po.st/PBImxb
The song is a track on the forthcoming greatest hits collection, GRRR! iTunes Album Pre-Order: http://po.st/8wyN1f
Fans who pre-order http://po.st/PBImxb GRRR! on iTunes will also receive Doom And Gloom as an instant download.
GRRR! is released on 12 November for the world, excluding North America, and on the 13th November 2012 in North America.
Buy GRRR! from The Rolling Stones official store:
Super Deluxe Edition: http://po.st/e5ABNo
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WhatsApp's jaw-dropping $19 billion price tag took the world by surprise. But Facebook might have actually gotten WhatsApp for cheap.
We're serious. Hear us out.
What is WhatsApp? WhatsApp is a mobile messaging service that functions as a kind of a social network. WhatsApp users can send messages to one or many recipients at the same time, and they can even share their locations.
In many ways, WhatsApp's users are just the kind of customers Facebook is looking for. They are extremely active, sending more than 600 million photos a day -- more photos than Facebook (FB) users upload. A whopping 70% of WhatsApp users are active every day. By way of comparison, 62% of Facebook users are active daily.
People around the world send 19 billion WhatsApp messages per day, including 200 million voice messages and 100 million videos.
Crucially, WhatsApp has a strong presence internationally, particularly in Europe, India and Latin America. Those are regions where Facebook is trying to grow its base of users. WhatsApp and other mobile messaging services also are widely used by teens and tweens, a group that has notoriously been ditching Facebook for rival services, including text message services and Snapchat.
"Facebook users were complaining dearly about the lack of one-on-one personalized socializing and sharing, which WhatsApp clearly has been successful with," said Vidya Nath, research director at Frost & Sullivan.
How WhatsApp makes money: WhatsApp is also growing at a blinding speed, adding 1 million new users per day. At that rate, WhatsApp should hit 1 billion users sometime next year. With its $1 annual subscription fee, 1 billion users would translate into significant revenue for Facebook.
"Large scale networks like WhatsApp are rare and provide significant monetization opportunity, justifying their valuation over time," said Robert Peck, analyst at SunTrust Robinson Humphrey.
The messaging service, founded in 2009, has been so successful because it understood from the start the importance of embracing mobile technology. That's something Facebook struggled with, notably going public without any revenue from mobile devices. Facebook now gets more than half of its revenue from advertising on smartphones and tablets, but it still is looking to expand its mobile reach.
"WhatsApp took chatting to another level, and it further strengthened the phone as a central point of a consumer's universe," Nath noted.
As a result WhatsApp managed to attract far more users in its first four years than its competition was able to over the same time period.
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Welcome to Failure Laboratory, a place where professionals come together to challenge their perceptions of themselves and each other. Here, they begin to understand the science behind our innate fear of failing and work towards changing it.
Four years ago a small audience gathered at Wealthy Street Theatre in Grand Rapids to talk about a rather unconventional topic: failure. They listened to leaders and well-known artists in their community openly own their past struggles and change the conversation that surrounds failure. The event was an immediate success, and Failure:Lab was born. Since then, this form of social expression and storytelling has gone viral on a global scale. In just the last few months Failure:Lab events have taken place in Pittsburgh, Detroit, Atlanta, SXSW in Austin, and India.
A year into the success of Failure:Lab, Grand Rapids residents and founders Jordan O'Neil, Austin Dean, and Jonathan Williams saw how these stories were stirring people up. From the lead singer of The Verve Pipe, Grand Rapids resident Brian Vander Ark, to the executive director of the UICA, Miranda Krajniak, people have gathered to publicly put that which is often shoved into the furthest quadrants of memory center stage: the disappointments and mistakes that inevitably accompany lives also filled with success.
What have all of these talks of failure done? It's making us realize that being vulnerable is, well, a part of life — and something that happens to everyone, regardless of how successful you are. It's a recognition that all of this living — all of this growing up and working and finding out what you love — is hard. And it's certainly not a neatly packaged story, not if we're going to be honest. But, despite all of the struggles — the being made fun of in school and the disappointed parents and dwindling bank accounts — these stories connect with people, with those who have faced the pain and the hardness. And, as Failure:Lab so poignantly helps us realize: it's all part of life; facing the good and the bad and having the strength to deal with both.
After all of this success in failure, Failure:Lab's founders wanted the positive effects of one brief evening together to last longer. "We wanted to provide people with the tools and processes to make real change," says Williams. Realizing he had real event-based research at his fingertips, Williams began distilling the information into concrete topics and lessons. He eventually took his research and ideas to Brightly, a digital design agency and expert on user experience and learning management. Larry Faragalli, Brightly's CEO and Creative Director, saw potential in the project, and his team went to work. What Brightly developed is now called Failure:Laboratory, a curriculum designed to reframe the idea of failure in the workplace through storytelling and open dialogue.
"The heart of Failure:Laboratory is about creating a culture of learning, self-improvement and increased risk intelligence," says Williams. Designed with corporate and university settings in mind, Failure Laboratory is comprised of six unique learning modules (read: classes), such as The Anatomy of Failure, The Blame Game and Crushing Stigma. Each module takes roughly three hours to complete and is customizable. They can take place during a two-day workshop or be spaced out on a bi-monthly or monthly basis.
Failure:Laboratory assists groups of 20 to 60 people answer tough, but necessary, questions, such as: What's holding you back? What's stifling growth? What are you afraid of?
Baring your professional soul among coworkers and executives can be incredibly daunting, as society tends to frown upon inner failure, characterizing the person as weak or vulnerable. This is a barrier participants of Failure:Laboratory need to overcome, but how do they combat these feelings of insecurity? Enter Denise VanEck of Thought Design. Drawing on the latest research, Thought Design helps adults improve their lives, create new and better habits, connect with community, and develop lifelong learning patterns. Based in Rockford, Mich., they offer an array of services ranging from team building activities to culinary events and workshops. The founders of Failure:Lab brought their idea and draft curriculum to VanEck seeking her advice. She saw serious potential in the project and wanted in.
"Denise took Failure:Laboratory from a good product to something great," says Williams. "She helped us feel comfortable and prepared on an international scale." VanEck restructured the program, incorporating brain and social science into the modules that help participants understand scientifically why a fear of failure can be a significant roadblock to professional growth. Now the main facilitator of the program, VanEck is skilled at setting people at ease from day one. She begins by showing short videos from past Failure:Lab events to break the ice and focus on the failure of someone else. "Denise has designed the whole experience to heighten engagement and build people up, not break them down," Williams adds.
"Group events like Failure:Laboratory create a common language and frame of reference among coworkers and professionals," says Kathy Crosby, President and CEO of Goodwill Industries in Grand Rapids. Goodwill's executive leadership participated in one of the first sessions of Failure:Laboratory over a period of six months, and the results were promising. Crosby shared her own personal story of struggling with weight gain on the stage of Failure:Lab in the past and has always been intrigued by the intent of the organization. "As professionals we are asked to be innovative, forward thinkers, but fear can be a huge barrier. I viewed this program as an opportunity to discuss failure with my executive team and how the presence of it gets in the way of success," she says.
What stood out to Crosby was how customizable the modules were. "After each session we would receive written feedback from participants, and Denise [VanEck] would tweak the subsequent sessions, helping people feel more comfortable and engaged along the way," she says. Some people felt really empowered afterwards and have even started a professional learning community focused on failure within the corporation.
Talking about weaknesses, vulnerabilities and fear can be a tough road to ask people to go down. Crosby agrees that she was met with a myriad of emotions, ranging from excitement to trepidation, but VanEck's ability to create a culture of support and acceptance was admirable. She concluded stating that she would go through the process again and even have the same group of professionals participate. "It was valuable for the participants to have a safe space to share their concerns, and it was a chance for supervisors to listen and actually verbalize their own vulnerabilities and concerns as well," she says.
When asked if there were any lasting effects as a result of the program, she replied, "The word failure itself isn't as frightening. We pitch ideas to the board and can comfortably and confidently describe next steps if it happens to fail. We aren't afraid to use that word anymore." In addition to Goodwill Industries, 58 student leaders from the Grand Valley State University Hauenstein Center have taken part in the program, as well as the Grand Rapids Community College administrative team.
As Williams put it, it is only the beginning for Failure:Laboratory — and the future's looking bright. "Looking forward, we would love to digitize the experience," Williams says. "We want to make the lessons available to a larger audience virtually." They also plan to employ a model in which national workshop facilitators are able to license the curriculum and be trained in the program, making it available to multiple groups at the same time nationally.
What's important to note is how their future prospects still reflect the original intent: to make the positive changes generated by Failure:Lab continuous, tangible and transferable to a wider audience. Williams quoted Jerry Zandstra of Inno-Versity saying, "You can't fix what you can't see." That quote seems to encapsulate the purpose behind this program: to help an organization push past stigma, doubt and fear to see what's really happening and work towards mutual understanding and support. In other words: to not be afraid to fail.
To check out Failure Laboratory and listen online to past stage performances from Failure:Lab, click here. Their next event in Grand Rapids is scheduled for Thursday, May 12 at Celebration Cinema North. Tickets can be purchased on their website.
Chelsea Slocum is a freelance writer based in Grand Rapids. You can reach her by emailing chelseaslocum@gmail.com.


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"W-why…?"
Echizen said that in a panicked voice.
Well, that's what I want to know too. Echizen has the image of a model student, so I didn't think she would be the type to read stuff like manga. I guess she plays Human Beast Wars, so it isn't that out of place… But still, to spontaneously buy so many is still very unexpected though.
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I glanced at Echizen's shopping basket as I said that. Then, with a embarrassed looking expression, her face turned red as she hid the basket behind her.
"N-no, this is…"
"There isn't a need to be embarrassed, right? It's natural for girls to also read manga after all."
Though, getting so much isn't really normal…
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"Yeah, that is what I think, at least."
"I see… that's good."
"Hmm? Did you say something?"
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"…T-then, I'll be going now."
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"About this… and other people…"
"I won't tell anyone, it's fine."
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"Is that all? If so, I'll be going now."
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"Well, I am free…"
"T-then, how about having lunch together?"
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"Sorry, right now is a bit…"
After I said that in a small voice, Echizen glares at me with a hurt expression.
"What, you have something to do?"
"It isn't like that, but…"
"Then it should be fine. Come together with me."
"Yeah, no…"
"Come on, let's go."
"No, you see."
I wanted to say something back, but it would have been useless. In the end, I gave in to Echizen's pushing, and decided to go with Echizen to a family restaurant.
Really, when it comes to things like this, I'm terrible. I'm weak to any pushing and quickly give in to someone else. Because I'm like this, it's natural for me to be shaken. While looking at the family restaurant's menu, I fell into a bit of self deprecation.
"Have you decided?"
Then, Echizen, who was sitting across from me in a 4 person booth, looked at me while unaware of my inner thoughts.
"The pepper burger."
"Got it. I'll call the waiter."
With that said, Echizen called over the waiter and ordered for me as well. However, I regretted it a little bit, as it's usually the guy who should be doing that.
"I feel bad for you to also order mine."
"It's fine. It's not that troublesome after all."
Without looking at me, Echizen takes out of her bag the manga that she had bought earlier. She had more than 10 volumes before, but in the end, she only bought 2-3 volumes.
"That manga, it's interesting, right?"
It would be awkward to say nothing so I tried speaking. I am curious why Echizen reads manga after all.
"You know this series?"
"Yeah, well, I've only watched the anime though."
"I see, so you watch anime. That's unexpected."
"If you say that, then it's still unexpected that you read manga."
"… As I thought, me reading something like this is weird, right?"
"Nono, it isn't like that. Rather, I'm somewhat happy. I also like manga, you see."
"I-is that so… Fu~un"
With her cheeks slightly red, Echizen mutters that to herself. Going with the flow of the conversation, I thought this was my chance to ask her what I've been curious about.
"By the way, Echizen, didn't you have more than 10 volumes in your basket earlier?"
"Were you perhaps planning on buying them?"
Is she for real… Still, I guess I ended up getting in the way of that so I do feel bad.
"If that's the case, if you buy it from the used off the internet it would be cheaper."
"New is better."
"But doesn't that mean you use a lot of money?"
"…That's why I work part time."
"…Umm, so, the reason Echizen is working part time, is so that you can buy manga…?"
I was quite scared of her response, as she slowly nodded her head with embarrassment. Perhaps, Echizen is more of an otaku than I thought. It's reasonable that she works in order to buy manga. Oh yeah, the reason she wants to hide that she works, maybe this is the reason for that. After all, it would be hard to say to others that you work in order to buy manga.
"…It's weird, right…?"
Then, probably because of the awkward face I made, Echizen made a negative comment for the third time today. This type of weak minded Echizen unusual.
"It's not weird at all. Everyone has one or two interests of their own, it's completely normal."
When I said that, Echizen made a happy expression. And with that expression, she kept on staring at me.
"W-what is it?"
"The manga that you like, do you mind telling me them?"
"… I don't mind, but they're all targeted towards guys."
"It's fine. I want to know the things that you like."
I stopped for a second after Echizen had said such bold words. Echizen probably also noticed as she had become redder than before and was now looking downwards.
"Thank you for waiting~. Pepper burger and a cheese doria [1]. It's hot so please be careful."
As if she had been timing it, the waiter had interrupted us with the best timing possible. That's a relief, it was just about to become awkward again.
After that, Echizen and I basically ate in silent and quickly departed right after.
TL Note:
A doria is a dish that consists of rice and cheese and then baked generally. It looks kind of like this:
22 thoughts on "Every Morning the Most Popular Girl at School Sits Next to Me on the Train – 37"
izikblu says:
I had just read the previous chapter :thinking:
Hotaru.Kuro says:
banzai for echizen!!!!!!!
TheiaMastir says:
her face turned read as she hid the basket behind her. should be
her face turned red as she hid the basket behind her.
but in the end, she only both 2-3 volumes. should be
but in the end, she only bought 2-3 volumes.
radaemon says:
Lol sry, thanks for the checks, been a little busy with some school projects
noes21 says:
Call me a shallow person, but I ship them already
if you are a shallow person, then what am i when i ship them since the very beginning echizen say she is ryouma?
Nex Serus says:
Mada mada Dane..
I thought I heard her same* something -> say*
Now, what would happen if Mamiko was actually stalking them all this time? Stabby Stabby~
Also, the light novel, I've been reading the manga for it so I might start reading it once it catches up
If your talking about the light novel we are translating, the light novel does a slight switch around in ordering around halfway into the first novel, at least when u compare it to the manga
Thanks for the chapter! That food looks tasty.
ranpha says:
Just right beside their table, behind the divider, sit the yandere holding a couple of voodoo curse dolls…
DarkWolf907 says:
Peny Aihara says:
little do they know… someone is stalking them… staby staby 😂
ishira says:
Do you mean someone like us readers who keep stalking MC's life and people around him? XD
Nisem says:
Echizen is making her advances!
habib1100 says:
Thanks for doing this chapter!😂
ヽ(´・ω・`)ノ Elfulus says:
Fufufu~
We all know what's gonna happen…
Thank you for the chapter~
And that food, i thought that was fried egg on top of the rice, that don't look like cheese at all. And the serving is so small.
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Yay! Team SetChizen for the win! The ship is now starting to smoothly sail!
deproxyacct says:
Jumping the gunn! :DDDD
Junichirou Kagami says:
#GoGoEchizen


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Ронела Хаяти (, род. 2 сентября 1989, Тирана, Албания), также известная как Ронела — албанская певица, автор песен и танцовщица. Родившаяся и выросшая в Тиране, она начала выступать на различных конкурсах пения и танцев ещё ребенком, прежде чем заняться музыкальной карьерой. Хаяти известна своей универсальностью в музыке, стиле и интерпретации. После победы на 60-м «Festivali i Këngës» в 2021 году, стала представительницей Албании на конкурсе песни «Евровидение-2022».

Жизнь и карьера

1989—2020: Ранняя жизнь и становление
Ронела Хаяти родилась 2 сентября 1989 года в албанской семье в городе Тирана, входившем в то время в состав Народной Социалистической Республики, нынешней Албании. Ее мать родом из Корчи, а отец — Мараш Хаяти родом из Шкодера. Проявляя интерес к музыке с самого раннего возраста, Хаяти изучала балет и фортепиано в начальной школе. Она также участвовала в ряде албанских конкурсов по пению и танцам. Хаяти продолжила свою раннюю карьеру, участвуя в различных музыкальных мероприятиях, таких как Top Fest и Kënga Magjike. Она получила значительную известность на албанскоязычных Балканах после выпуска нашумевшего сингла «Mala Gata» в мае 2013 года. В конце 2013 года она приняла участие в 15-м выпуске Kënga Magjike с песней «Mos ma lsho» («Не оставляй меня»), которая принесла ей интернет-награду в гранд-финале. В декабре 2015 года Хаяти выпустила свой последующий сингл «A do si kjo» («Хотела бы это») и достигла 13-го места в Албании. Следующий сингл «Marre» («Мерри»), вошедший в чарты, последовал в июне 2016 года и также достиг 13-го места.

В период с 2017 по 2018 год Хаяти выпустил четыре последующих сингла, в том числе «Mos ik» («Не уходи»), «Sonte» («Сегодня вечером»), «Maje men» («Величественные мужчины»)и «Do ta luj» («Я сыграю в неё»), которые достигли коммерческого успеха и в целом вошли в топ-30 в Албании. В декабре 2018 года Хаяти успешно вернулась в Kënga Magjike, чтобы принять участие в 20-м выпуске конкурса с песней «Vuj», в которой она в итоге заняла четвёртое место. В марте 2019 года, после некоторого отсутствия, певица выпустила «Pa dashni» («Без любви») и заняла шестое место в Албании. Её успех в чартах последовал в июне 2019 года с синглом «Çohu» («Вставать») совместно с албанским рэпером Доном Феномом, дебютировавшим на седьмом месте в топ-100 страны. Сменив топ-10 сингла «Lage», Хаяти получила свой первый сингл номер один с последующим «MVP», выпущенным позже в том же году в сентябре 2019 года. В июле 2020 года албанский футбольный клуб KF Tirana обратился к Хаяти с просьбой спродюсировать и исполнить гимн клуба «Bardh' e blu» («Белый и синий») в рамках празднования его столетия.

2021 — настоящее время: RRON и Евровидение
Хаяти анонсировала свой дебютный студийный альбом RRON в марте 2021 года. Его ведущий сингл «Prologue» («Пролог») дебютировал в том же месяце под номером 19 в Топ-100 Албании и поднялся на второе место месяц спустя. Второй сингл, «Shumë i mirë» («Шум и мир»), который достиг 15-го места в конце 2021 года, был номинирован на награду на гала-концерте Netët e Klipit Shqiptar 2021 года в Улцине, Черногория. Сменивший «Shumë i mirë» третий сингл «Авентура», выпущенный в мае 2021 года, заняла третье место в её родной стране. В июне 2021 года Хаяти сотрудничала с косовско-албанским музыкантом Вигом Поппой над четвертым синглом альбома «Alo», который в том месяце вошел в топ-15 синглов. Выпущенный в октябре 2021 года, последующий альбом «Leje» («Разрешаю») в конечном итоге достиг 13-го места. Албанская телекомпания RTSH сообщила в ноябре 2021 года, что Хаяти была выбрана среди 20 участников для участия в 60-м выпуске Festivali i Këngës с песней «Sekret». В том же месяце к ней также обратились с просьбой выступить на знаменитом фестивале Nata e Bardhë в Тиране. Во время гранд-финала Festivali i Këngës в декабре 2021 года Хаяти была признана победителем конкурса и, таким образом, была объявлена представителем Албании на конкурсе песни «Евровидение-2022».

Артистизм
Хаяти была известна своей разносторонностью в музыке, стиле и интерпретации. В первую очередь её характеризуют как поп-исполнительницу, хотя она экспериментирует с различными музыкальными жанрами, включая R&B и регги. Она назвала американского музыканта Майкла Джексона своим кумиром и одним из самых сильных музыкальных влияний на неё. Хаяти также является поклонницей пуэрто-риканского музыканта Рики Мартина и присутствовала на его концерте в Нью-Йорке в октябре 2021 года.

Личная жизнь
Хаяти считается символом тела и уверенности в себе. Она также считается сдержанным человеком в плане личной жизни. В 2015 году у нее начались отношения с албанским музыкантом Янгом Зеркой, с которым она сотрудничала в многочисленных синглах и музыкальных клипах, прежде чем расстаться в 2018 году. По состоянию на декабрь 2021 года Хаяти проживает со своей матерью в Тиране.

Дискография

Альбомы
 RRON (TBA)

Синглы

Как ведущий артист

Как совместный артист

Автор песен

Примечания

Википедия:Биографии современников
Представители Албании на «Евровидении»
Участники «Евровидения-2022»


Panopticon*: a prison with cells that face inward to a guard tower. The guard tower itself is impossible to see into, but from it the activities of every prisoner are visible. The inmates themselves have no way of knowing if they are being watched at any moment, and so they must act at all times as if they are being watched. From the watchtower, a guard can focus on the behavior of particular inmates, and mete out punishment on a whim. Alternatively, the guard can leave the watchtower without inmates knowing, and they will continue regulating themselves. From the tower, force must only be exerted frequently enough in order to demonstrate a credible commitment to punishment. With a credible commitment, self-regulation continues.
Now imagine for a moment that prisoners in certain cells begin to organize resistance in the panopticon. Perhaps they want to escape, perhaps they want time away from their cells, perhaps they themselves want to enter the watchtower. Where these upheavals begin to occur, the guard focuses their attention. In order to make communities self-regulate into the behaviors expected of "good" inmates, punishment must be increased. In order to escape punishment, inmates must prove that they match this ideal type.
Who determines the ideal "good" inmate? Those with discursive power, the authority to define. Who has this authority? Those who run the prison, or those who direct the system in which the prison is contained.
Is a prison the only panopticon? No. In a sense, any centralized authority with coercive capabilities carries out the same function in the same way. States themselves are centralized power, where certain mechanisms operate behind the veil. Even when they do not operate behind the veil, the intentions of those who carry out the mission of the state are not always transparent. In this sense, the state itself is a guard tower. The state can use its coercive capabilities to quell dissent, indeed, it is most likely to engage the coercive apparatus against segments of society which rebel. When doing so in non-autocratic states (and in many autocracies) the state must provide some legitimating logic for the intervention itself. These legitimating logics are centered around what Richard Ashley and Cynthia Weber call sovereign man. This sovereign man is an ideal type, a socially constructed version of what a well-behaved citizen is. How does this construction occur? I posit that the construction is largely centered around winning coalitions. Winning coalitions are the *smallest* (not always, but generally) amount of supporters it takes for a government to gain or maintain power. The central principles that the winning coalition shares among themselves largely constitute the domestic (and international) interests of the state. The sovereign man (from hereon referred to as the ideal person) is an organizing principle that can create sharp distinctions between self and other. Imagine ideal persons as those people to whom the state must cater to, and from whom it gains its authority. That is, the state is largely organized around maximizing the interests of these ideal persons. This is the self.
The trouble with these political orders is that many times those "subaltern" are people who find themselves on the bloody end of cultural wars. I have illustrated the state as the panopticon, but we can imagine that in non-autocratic states (and some autocracies) the interests of the government are also reflective of the interests of society-at-large. This means that there is potential for coercive material and social power to be leveraged against subaltern groups, even when those groups are non-threats or in-the-right. Sound familiar?
I would argue that most governments (if not all, I just don't have the knowledge to make this sweeping of a generalization) have been largely panoptic. Indeed, that just seems to be a risk inherent to centralized authority. The Panopticon is also double, it does not just exist due to a concentration of coercive power in government control, but also coercive and social power in individual control.
Again, imagine. Now there is no state, we live in anarchy. Power is completely diffuse, all of the earth's coercive potential is divided among individual actors. Eliminating the social structuration of government does not eliminate the social structuration of norms. That is, beliefs that individuals have about certain things can still influence their behavior. Because power is so diffuse, it is easier to act on individual beliefs. Perhaps I believe everyone deserves cookies, I give you a cookie. MMMMMMM. Cookie. Perhaps I believe that people with green eyes should die, and there is nothing preventing me from taking action to exert my will except the power of individual actors. These beliefs can still spread among individuals, now groups can act out against or for certain identities. I would argue that this ultimately leads to the formation of government, but leaving that aside, getting rid of government still has not eliminated the social panopticon. Civil society itself (people – not government – acting) can create certain cultures of anarchy that are harmful to the subaltern. In this case, there is no government to moderate these whims (whether they exist in a culture of anarchy that harms or helps the subaltern).
In a sense, we are doubly trapped in a Panopticon. Civil society and government structure our relations in such a way that we are regulated and self-regulating. Radical acts of resistence to escape self-regulation result in the state or society itself acting against the subaltern, reintroducing the credible threat of punishment and attempting to destroy any passion for dissent. All individuals are forced to perform in such a way that they model the ideal person to escape punishment.
How do we escape this situation? At the moment, I see two scenarios.
Some aspects of social order may be structured by altruism. The order itself rather than centering around winning coalitions and imitating a societal panopticon could instead center around collective identities and interests including a normative valuation of other people(s) as endowed with certain qualities that are worth sacrificing individual interests for. While this does not eliminate problems of conflict, discrimination, etc. it could create new possibilities for action that prevent the subaltern from having to engage in a performativity that portrays the "self" as "other" (from the subject-position of the subaltern) in order to gain legitimacy for their individual rights. The downside? A hegemonic social order could propose that the long-term interests of society are best served when the subaltern themselves sacrifice the potential for the abatement of abuses. That, and I see no way to easily persuade whole societies to be altruistic. In that case, the subaltern must seek to disrupt traditional ways of thinking in order to slowly turn minds and hearts. The unfortunate truth is that much of the time this solution places tremendous and undeserved pressure on groups which face discrimination to educate victimizers. In states with constitutions, perhaps some of this work can be done through bills of rights, but these bills can only be so radical when the winning coalition itself is largely composed of oppressors.
This seems like a nice way to say "I don't see altruism working, but I also don't know how to solve major societal issues." But, when we collectively encounter the solution, I feel confident in saying that it will be something so radical that it has not widely entered into social consciousness. Somehow, I believe that this solution would reorient liberal and conservative societies away from their collective ideologies and instead center them around a new collective-agentic order that, in many ways, reflects secular humanist values. But it would also transcend these secular humanist values, and recognize the agentic nature of other creatures, weather systems, the environment, etc. while setting them equal to (if not superior to) other agents in world systems such as states, religions, corporations, etc.
In order to reimagine what is possible, I believe it is also necessary to determine just what politics and government are for. In order to escape the Panopticon, both seem necessary.
Devil's advocate: just because something resembles a thing that is *bad* doesn't mean that it is. Not everything with centralized power is inherently evil, and perhaps we have already done enough to limit centralized power (at least in the United States) or have very little to do in order to properly regulate it (based on this post, I think you see where I stand).
*See Bentham and Foucault. I've admittedly not read either of their pieces on the panopticon, but I like the idea of it as an illustrative device. These are definitely future readings for me. Like a lot of my thinking, this draws heavily on Cynthia Weber and Richard Ashley … but also reactions to Immanuel Kant, Thomas Paine, Louise Hartz, Rogers M. Smith, and more … all of it combines into what is probably a very hackneyed sketch of politics.


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(original broadcast aired on June 25, 2019) Nearly 50 North Texas high school students became the inaugural class of gospel music legend Kirk Franklin's Camp Lotus.
The week-long camp gave an immersive look into the music industry; giving the students an opportunity to learn performance, writing and recording from the best in the business.
"This experience has been magical," Kennedi Brown, 16, said. "That's just a blessing for kids my age."
"This week has been amazing," Jake Boilla, 16, said. "I've never been around so many musicians and so many producers and all these different types of people."
Camp Lotus culminated with a grand finale concert Saturday at Levitt Pavilion in Downtown Arlington.
"You feel like a proud papa. You feel like you are leaving a piece of yourself to be able to continue in the next generation," Franklin said.
Franklin wanted to make sure the students not only walked away with an understanding of the music industry, but also a few life lessons.
"So that when the record deal ends or when the concerts no longer sell out, you still have an identity of knowing that you were made for something greater that what you left on that stage," Franklin said.
They didn't have to go to Hollywood or Nashville. The talented youth were able to find their voices right in the heart of Downtown Arlington.
"I want to impact people with my music. I want them to feel my lyrics to know they're not the only ones," Brown said.
View the original story by Larry Collins on nbcdfw.com.


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Kathryn Hahn steals the show on a revealing WandaVision
Stephen Robinson
Photo: Disney Plus/Marvel Studios
Wanda (Elizabeth Olsen)'s dream life has become a nightmare. Her kids, Billy (Julian Hilliard) and Tommy (Jett Klyne), complain that their video game controls have turned into a deck of UNO cards. Wanda's bottle of almond milk changes to dairy, which I consider an improvement, but I respect Wanda's dietary choices. The house itself begins a spontaneous remodel, as if the series WandaVision's spoofing this week is the Property Brothers. That damn stork from "Now In Color" has even returned. Everything's falling apart around her, and she can't fix it.
After expanding the boundaries of the Hex in "All-New Halloween Spooktacular," Wanda is now overwhelmed with guilt, and she struggles to even get out of bed. This doesn't seem like the superpowered terrorist S.W.O.R.D. Director Haywood (Josh Stamberg) is convinced he's battling. Wanda has sentenced herself to a day of house arrest in schlubby clothes as "punishment for her reckless behavior." She's hiding from her own Shangri-La. Vision (Paul Bettany) hasn't returned home, and she doesn't seem to care. She definitely doesn't want to see her "brother" Pietro (Evan Peters) again. She's all alone, almost exactly in the same emotional space she was when this all started.
ReviewsWandaVision
"Breaking the Fourth Wall"
Wanda's isolation is reflected in The Office-style opening credits. We see Wanda's name, by itself, on a name tag, a coffee mug, an old-school VHS tape, and a license plate. A store window sign states "Sorry We're Wanda," reinforcing her self-loathing. The solo Wandas are everywhere, and Vision's name doesn't appear until the last possible moment. The couple don't even share a scene together.
Wanda no longer believes she's worthy of her dream life, and her unseen "interviewer" during the Modern Family-inspired cutaways smashes the fourth wall to pieces and questions whether she even deserves happiness. The superhero genre doesn't get much credit for nuance, but the show's Big Bad is pummeling Wanda into submission and we don't even notice. The one, brief fight scene between Wanda and Monica (Teyonah Parris) is a distraction from the main event, and by that point, Wanda's already lost. She willingly surrenders her children to a monster, who pounces when she's at her lowest point.
That monster is Agnes (Kathryn Hahn), of course, who conveniently arrives just as Wanda has gone full Sartre and told Billy and Tommy that life is meaningless before settling on the couch for a day of binge-TV viewing. She's spiraling into depression, and there's nothing funny to see here. Agnes generously offers to take Billy and Tommy so Wanda can take care of herself. It's what a good friend and neighbor would do, but Agnes is neither, not really.
No, "Agnes" is actually the witch Agatha Harkness. Most viewers suspected Hahn was playing the Marvel Comics character, but that's not the big plot twist. Agatha was Wanda's mentor and friend in the comics, and there was speculation that she was either another prisoner in Westview or had infiltrated the fake reality to help Wanda overcome the true villain. However, the MCU's Agatha Harkness appears unquestionably malevolent. All praise goes to Hahn, who avoids the trap where the friend turned secret villain feels like two separate characters. Agatha is the same Agnes we've enjoyed seeing throughout the series. Hahn just subtly reveals what was barely hidden beneath the surface. Rewatch past episodes and you'll see the layers she adds to seemingly benign words and deeds.
Hahn voiced Dr. Olivia Octavius in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, and the scene where she reveals her true, sinister nature remains one of my favorite moment in an amazing (sorry, not sorry) movie. She outdoes herself in "Breaking The Fourth Wall" with a masterful performance that would chill Hannibal Lecter. Agatha has wanted to get her hands on Wanda's kids from the start. It's possible that "Geraldine" might've derailed her original plans but if so, she quickly adapted. She got Vision out of the way last episode when she pretended she was under Wanda's influence, and she's likely the one setting up farcical delays (multiple red lights, construction crews, endless school crossings) as Vision and Darcy (Kat Dennings) head back to Westview. Vision is worried about his sons and with good reason.
We know something's horribly wrong when we see the inside of Agatha's house for the first time. Effectively subtle set design and lighting create a sense of immediate discomfort without screaming "supervillain lair," even though that's exactly what it is. Billy demonstrated telepathic abilities last episode when he felt his father's excruciating pain. Now, his head "feels weird" and is "really noisy," but he likes being with Agatha because she's "quiet on the inside." I don't think it's because he can't read her mind. She might just lack a soul for him to sense.
Elizabeth Olsen is so consistently amazing you can risk taking her for granted, but I want to make sure we don't. Olsen has convincingly played versions of Donna Reed, Mary Tyler Moore, Meredith Baxter, and now Julie Bowen, and she never slipped into simple parody. She's still always, deep down, Wanda Maximoff. The Emmys should give her every award they don't give Kathryn Hahn. Wanda searching for the twins at Agatha's house completes a seamless transition from mockumentary sitcom to horror movie. Agatha casually sends Wanda to the basement, which feels sickly alive and festering with evil. The children are nowhere to be found, but "Agnes" properly introduces herself before placing Wanda under her control. Westview is Agatha's world. Wanda's just been living in it, and Agatha doesn't plan on letting her leave.
Stray observations
Agatha has taken over WandaVision! It's now Agatha All Along, starring Agatha and with a groovy theme song that reveals how she's pulled the strings as Westview's secret puppetmaster. She sabotaged the talent show in "Don't Touch That Dial" and put Herb (David Payton) under her spell in "Now In Color." She's even responsible for Fake Pietro's (Evan Peters) arrival in Westview.
Stay for the end of the credits this time. I promise it's worth it.
Monica defeats the Hex and re-enters Westview without being "rewritten." She can even "see" the false reality, sort of like Neo at the end of The Matrix. It's a triumphant moment in an otherwise downbeat episode.
Vision's scenes with Darcy are a treat. He's in his synthezoid form and superhero garb, but Bettany still conveys an affecting normality. He's just a guy, trapped in a circus his wife created, trying to reach the scientist who thinks she's an escape artist. I hope this new Vision survives the series.
Did they release versions of the Marvel movies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe? Darcy is way too aware of the specifics of Vision's death in Avengers: Infinity War. This would normally annoy me, but it works within WandaVision's meta format.
Westview's five-day weather forecast is very San Diego.
Agatha flat-out tells Wanda that she has a "suspicious" mole on her back that she can't see. This refers to a witch's supposed hidden "mark of the Devil." Agatha is a cat playing with her food at this point.
She also asks Billy and Tommy if one of them could take a quick look at the mole. Ewww.
Señor Scratchy returns. Rabbits were also considered popular familiars for witches. I applaud Agatha for not choosing a black cat. That's a little overdone.
When Vision releases Darcy from the Hex, he asks if she's "awake." There's just way too much "dream" imagery for it not to be intentional. My wild mass guess is that Agatha is either working with the Dr. Strange villain Nightmare or she's the MCU's version of the character, which I'd actually prefer. Her corruption of Wanda's dream world feels very much like Nightmare's MO.
Physical manifestations of Agatha's magic has a purple cast to it. Yes, I know some superheroes wear green! I should've clarified that it's primarily a villain color. However, with all respect to Prince, purple is almost exclusively villainous.
In the comics, a less diabolical Agatha Harkness described Wanda's children as the "fulfillment of a dream," but not real in a practical sense. Wanda couldn't literally create life with an artificial man. But WandaVision has so far implied that Billy and Tommy are real live boys.
The Hex is evident everywhere now, even on Wanda's duvet cover.
Wanda plans to take a "quarantine-style staycation." If COVID-19 happened in the MCU's 2020, social distancing would've been much easier with half the population erased.
This week's opening credits have the line "Created by Wanda Maximoff," a reference Wanda's belief that she's entirely to blame for the false reality. It's also a nod to a period in TV sitcoms where series showrunners were almost as famous as their stars.
I knew Agatha killed Sparky! A dog-killing, child-snatching villain is far scarier than Thanos. Marvel's Phase Four has started with a bang.
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