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New California Proposal Puts Pressure on Faith-Based Colleges
Title IX of the Civil Rights Act prohibits a person from being excluded from any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance on the basis of his or her sex.
Additionally, the Equity in Higher Education Act prohibits a person from being subjected to discrimination on the basis of specified attributes — namely sex — from any program or activity offered by postsecondary education institutions that benefit from state financial assistance or whose students accept state financial aid.
In both of these cases, there exists an exemption for postsecondary schools controlled by a religious organization. This was done to protect against the government interfering with the school's fundamental beliefs and tenets.
Enter, California.
In February, California Senator Ricardo Lara introduced SB 1146, which would target religious postsecondary schools and interfere with their ability to exercise their religious tenets in educational programs, activities, and facilities.
If enacted, the bill would allow seminaries to retain the exemption from Title IX, but it would remove the exemption for most religious colleges and universities. It would also require schools to publicly notify the state, students, and faculty that they are seeking exemption and the reasons why.
Not only would this be bad PR for the school, but it makes the university vulnerable to lawsuits by authorizing students to seek a remedy if they feel that they have been discriminated against in any way.
What sets a religious educational institution apart from its secular counterparts are the fundamental beliefs and tenets of the school. These beliefs inform practically every aspect of how the school operates, including chapel services, facilities, education programs, student activities, and living situations. In other words, if this bill passed, it would compromise the very things that make a religious university what it is.
The bill's supporters argue that religious schools should not be allowed to discriminate against students on the basis of gender or sexual orientation.
The question begs to be asked, though: if a student is aware of the school's beliefs but disagrees with them, why is he or she there in the first place? One must attend the school in order to be subjected to discrimination. Why voluntarily attend a school that possesses fundamental convictions with which you disagree?
While everyone can certainly agree that the safety of all students is important, one begins to wonder why a transgender student, for example, would choose to attend an evangelical university with beliefs on gender and sexuality are antithetical to their own.
The cries for tolerance from liberals and progressives begin to look more like intolerance of opposing views. SB 1146 would limit a religious institution's right to exercise their religious beliefs.
Biola University lists these examples of how the bill would impact religious schools that lose their exemption:
Faith-based institutions in California would no longer be able to require a profession of faith of their students.
These institutions would no longer be able to integrate faith throughout the teaching curriculum.
These institutions would no longer be able to require chapel attendance for students, an integral part of the learning experience at faith-based universities.
These institutions would no longer be able to require core units of Bible courses, nor offer students spiritual direction or pastoral care.
Athletic teams would no longer be able to lead faith-based community service programs.
How do you think religious universities should handle this issue? Should they should comply with Title IX and all of its implications, even if they are compelled to compromise their beliefs? Leave a comment below.
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Make every incoming student sigh a statment of faith and a statement that if their beliefs come into contradition with the collage that they may be asked to leave. PERIOD !!!!!
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Looks like Continental has decided to start charging $15 for the first checked bag at the same time they work on devaluing their frequent flier program. Yep, they've got some bad news for everyone in this round of changes. The tersely worded statement released by the airline was released on Friday morning, and it leaves a lot to be desired. For an airline that has been gaining an increasing reputation for a premium product, this seems to fly in the face of what they're trying to do.
The statement itself was odd in that it had no quotes from senior management and made no effort to try and offer a rationale. I suppose this isn't surprising because it's harder to explain in the face of declining oil prices (down below $108 last I checked). So why would they do this now?
Maybe those fall revenue forecasts are coming in lighter than they thought, so they're trying to boost them up quickly. Then again, there are so many holes, it's not going to have as great an impact as they might want. Full fare coach, military, and elite members don't have to pay. But don't worry, those elite members have far more to be angry about.
Continental is eliminating its 500 mile minimum accrual per flight. You'll now get actual miles flown. But even more likely to bother the best customers than that is the reduction in bonus miles earned. Silver elites will now get a 25% bonus over actual miles flown instead of a 50% bonus. And Platinum elites will get 100% instead of 25%, matching the Gold elite bonus which remains unchanged. This change makes some sense. The levels were previously aligned with Northwest's levels, and now these new ones will match United. While both of these make some sense, taking away a perk always angers people, and these are Continental's best customers.
For Continental to do something like this is surprising. It leaves Delta as the lone holdout from the first bag fee among legacy carriers. At NBTA, Delta CEO Richard Anderson made it clear that they thought one free bag was a fair deal and that they were committed to it. True, they charge $50 for the second bag, $25 more than everyone else, but that probably doesn't make them nearly as much as a first bag fee would.
So we now have Northwest and US Airways which have made it clear they want to be at the bottom of the food chain. American and United are sitting in the confused middle, lacking a consistent message. Continental and Delta are at the top, but Continental seems to be making some ill-advised changes that put their strategy in question, to some extent.
Will Delta follow? Or will they continue to stand by their promise to offer a premium coach experience? Will Continental continue to devalue its offering?
As you may have seen, we announced a $15 fee for the first checked bag for certain customers earlier today. While it's not our preference to do so, given the current environment, we are losing our competitive stance with other carriers. We had hoped that we would see more customers choosing Continental with other airlines charging for the first bag, but we didn't see that happen, so we think this is the right thing to do for Continental.
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Remember that Continental is heading to the Star Alliance. With that in mind it looks like Continental is trying to mirror its new Alliance partners. I'd expect to see a Segment counter added to their program soon as well, that way short hop flights would still count toward status as they do on United and US Airways.
I wonder what the fee situation will be at Delta after the merger.
CO already has a segment counter…elite qualification points…so frequent short haul customers are covered for elite qualification…the negative perception is likely worse than the actual benefit reduction. CO's savings will come in reduced award liability and in years to come that will be worth the short-term negative impact of this message.
"Continental is trying to mirror its new Alliance partners"?
Well since most of Continental's partners are outside the U.S. and haven't instituted anything quite like the changes going on in the U.S., I am not quite sure this is true.
DRG – Continental's new US partners do have this policy, so by doing this they present a unified Star Alliance policy among the US carriers.
I think Keller's argument is a bit weak. He argues that they were hoping they'd see an increase in bookings as it maintained the Free First Bag. But, they didn't see this increase so they raced to the bottom with everyone else.
If this was really what they were watching, how much data could they have collected? 1 month of August bookings. Since many close-in travelers are exempt to this fee on all carriers, you really need to watch long lead travel build, and I'm thinking that most of that build will start to happen after Labor Day.
So, although it sounds good, I'm not sure it is very genuine.
This really annoys me as I continually promote CO to my clients as the best of the bunch. I was hoping they'd continue to differentiate themselves by offering the best product without mirroring the fees being charged by US Airways and NWA. Why can't the carriers all just add a flat $25 surcharge and be done with it, this nickel and diming mentality is not winning over any customers…in fact, I'll stick to Southwest when it comes to short haul west coast flights as they seem to be the only ones committed to the no baggage fee at this point–and they still give you water and non-alcoholic drinks for free!!
Well.. the frequent flyer programs were all designed to promote customer loyalty. We all know that is a completely moot issue now. I take whatever airline can get me there nonstop or through a connection city that ISN'T ORD in the winter, or PHL or EWR EVER! That means that I will fly AA thru DFW or CO through IAH. So why should they give me more? The upgrades are essentially useless when CO flies 737s that have 8 First class seats. (I get more upgrades from NW on my CO FFQ number).
As for local news, YX is essentially going away. They will own 9 717s. That's not many planes and they will run them all the time. No flex for mechanicals, no planes "in the hanger." The good news is that the Republic EJR 170s are very comfortable airplanes!! I love them. When you compare the cabin width of a CRJ and an ERJ 170 (both with 4 seats across) its obvious. So GOOD news in that regard. No more ridiculous decisions on "Midwest Class" and two seating arrangements, and yada yada yada. The other bad news is that we business travelers cannot book fall travel reliably because YX hasn't quite decided what it will do.
Another comment I thought of – if CO is saying customers didn't really choose them because of the lack of a first bag fee, I wonder what SW is seeing with its strategy.
Hard to walk away from the revenue that comes from charging $15 for a first bag, especially if there is no noticeable upside to stealing bookings away from your competitors who have been charging the fee.
Also wanted to mention that WN saw a 5 LF point decline in August traffic – I don't know why, but I can only hope for WN that RASM hasn't seen a similar decline, which would mean that yield was the name of the gate for August.
Certainly the folks that were in charge of the NO FEES marketing campaign are a little confused and find their campaign success hard to quantify!
1) In flying any kind of weight and space is a product. Although so far we've been used to getting some weight complimentary it is definitely not free to the product providers, the airlines.
I had a short connection with United in OHR on Thursday and then to LGH. Baggage did not arrive. I ended up flying to PRN the next day with another airline. United had to fly my luggage to PRN for me with another airline. I ended up not paying for my second luggage because United couldn't place it on my last flight segment. Imagine the expenses there just because of that short connection in OHR. Imagine the reduction in junk flying around when people actually have to pay for it.
2) Enough with trumpeting Southwest as the airline not charging fees. They can only afford that because: a.) they have minimal connecting passengers b.) they do short hops where not much luggage is loaded on the belly. Even if LUV wins some passengers with this policy, it is going to increase its costs and ruin its no-frill and quick turnaround model.
$15 is a reasonable fee to prevent abuse and overloading of the system with not much extra utility. If it's integrated seamlessly in the ticketing system, I say go for it. This fee is a great inducer for the people to think about carrying that extra luggage. And if they don't want to be nickel and dimed, let them upgrade to the clubs and pay the good old prices and allow us poor people to do the flying in the cheapest way possible by paying only for the services we personally use.
Anybody remember when banks used to charge money to cash a check? They don't anymore, but they get you in other more hidden fees. We're seeing the same process in the airline business. I'm not sure that there is anything wrong with it though because that's where the customers are heading. Full service is a good thing as long as anyone will buy it. Right now that seems to be the case with some airlines in Europe and Asia, but not in the land of Walmart and Costco.
:) Sorry, still recovering. OHR should have been ORD and LGH should have been LHR. Much more palatable but 48 hours nevertheless.
i just flew CO a few days a go, but i had to whatch the bags because the rule was 50 kilos in each bag, whith a limit of 2 bags each person. im glad i missed the fee.
Nooo! Say it isn't so. I've been out of the loop traveling.
I just got back from a trip on AA. I sucked up the bag fee the first flight then upgraded on the return flight (free bags).
I was so happy to be flying CO next month, and I was looking forward to free bags and an upgrade. Doesn't look like either now.
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Q: VB.NET - How to calculate the parity bit of a byte array What is the most efficient way calculate the parity bit (if the number of active bits are odd or even) in a byte array? I have though about iterating through all the bits and summing up the active bits, but that would be very impractical purely based on the number of iterations required on larger byte arrays/files.

A: For your convenience (and my curiosity), I have done some timing tests with a parity lookup table compared to the other two methods suggested so far:
Module Module1

    Dim rand As New Random

    Dim parityLookup(255) As Integer

    Sub SetUpParityLookup()
        ' setBitsCount data from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/109023/how-to-count-the-number-of-set-bits-in-a-32-bit-integer

        Dim setBitsCount = {
        0, 1, 1, 2, 1, 2, 2, 3, 1, 2, 2, 3, 2, 3, 3, 4,
        1, 2, 2, 3, 2, 3, 3, 4, 2, 3, 3, 4, 3, 4, 4, 5,
        1, 2, 2, 3, 2, 3, 3, 4, 2, 3, 3, 4, 3, 4, 4, 5,
        2, 3, 3, 4, 3, 4, 4, 5, 3, 4, 4, 5, 4, 5, 5, 6,
        1, 2, 2, 3, 2, 3, 3, 4, 2, 3, 3, 4, 3, 4, 4, 5,
        2, 3, 3, 4, 3, 4, 4, 5, 3, 4, 4, 5, 4, 5, 5, 6,
        2, 3, 3, 4, 3, 4, 4, 5, 3, 4, 4, 5, 4, 5, 5, 6,
        3, 4, 4, 5, 4, 5, 5, 6, 4, 5, 5, 6, 5, 6, 6, 7,
        1, 2, 2, 3, 2, 3, 3, 4, 2, 3, 3, 4, 3, 4, 4, 5,
        2, 3, 3, 4, 3, 4, 4, 5, 3, 4, 4, 5, 4, 5, 5, 6,
        2, 3, 3, 4, 3, 4, 4, 5, 3, 4, 4, 5, 4, 5, 5, 6,
        3, 4, 4, 5, 4, 5, 5, 6, 4, 5, 5, 6, 5, 6, 6, 7,
        2, 3, 3, 4, 3, 4, 4, 5, 3, 4, 4, 5, 4, 5, 5, 6,
        3, 4, 4, 5, 4, 5, 5, 6, 4, 5, 5, 6, 5, 6, 6, 7,
        3, 4, 4, 5, 4, 5, 5, 6, 4, 5, 5, 6, 5, 6, 6, 7,
        4, 5, 5, 6, 5, 6, 6, 7, 5, 6, 6, 7, 6, 7, 7, 8
    }
        For i = 0 To 255
            parityLookup(i) = setBitsCount(i) And 1
        Next

    End Sub

    ' Method using lookup table
    Function ParityOfArray(a() As Byte) As Integer
        Dim parity As Integer = 0 ' use an Integer because they are faster
        For i = 0 To a.Length - 1
            parity = parity Xor parityLookup(a(i))
        Next

        Return parity

    End Function

    ' Method by Alireza
    Function ComputeParity(bytes() As Byte) As Byte
        Dim parity As Boolean = False
        For i As Integer = 0 To bytes.Length - 1
            Dim b As Byte = bytes(i)
            While b <> 0
                parity = Not parity
                b = CByte(b And (b - 1))
            End While
        Next
        Return Convert.ToByte(parity)
    End Function

    ' Method by dbasnett
    Function CountBits(byteArray As Byte()) As Integer
        Dim rv As Integer = 0
        For Each b As Byte In byteArray
            Dim count As Integer = b
            count = ((count >> 1) And &H55) + (count And &H55)
            count = ((count >> 2) And &H33) + (count And &H33)
            count = ((count >> 4) And &HF) + (count And &HF)
            rv += count
        Next
        Return rv
    End Function

    Sub FillWithRandomBytes(ByRef a() As Byte)
        rand.NextBytes(a)
    End Sub

    Sub Main()
        SetUpParityLookup()

        Dim nBytes = 10000
        Dim a(nBytes - 1) As Byte
        FillWithRandomBytes(a)

        Dim p As Integer

        Dim sw As New Stopwatch

        sw.Start()
        p = ParityOfArray(a)
        sw.Stop()

        Console.WriteLine("ParityOfArray - Parity: {0} Time: {1}", p, sw.ElapsedTicks)

        sw.Restart()
        p = ComputeParity(a)
        sw.Stop()

        Console.WriteLine("ComputeParity - Parity: {0} Time: {1}", p, sw.ElapsedTicks)

        sw.Restart()
        p = CountBits(a)
        sw.Stop()

        ' Note that the value returned from CountBits should be And-ed with 1.
        Console.WriteLine("CountBits     - Parity: {0} Time: {1}", p And 1, sw.ElapsedTicks)

        Console.ReadLine()

    End Sub

End Module

Typical ouput:
ParityOfArray - Parity: 0 Time: 386
ComputeParity - Parity: 0 Time: 1014
CountBits     - Parity: 0 Time: 695

A: An efficient way to do this is to use the x & (x - 1) operation in a loop, until x becomes zero. This way you will loop only by the number of bits set to 1.
In VB.NET for a byte array:
Function ComputeParity(bytes() As Byte) As Byte
    Dim parity As Boolean = False
    For i As Integer = 0 To bytes.Length - 1
        Dim b As Byte = bytes(i)
        While b <> 0
            parity = Not parity
            b = b And (b - 1)
        End While
    Next
    Return Convert.ToByte(parity)
End Function

A: Here is a function that counts bits.
Private Function CountBits(byteArray As Byte()) As Integer
    Dim rv As Integer = 0
    For x As Integer = 0 To byteArray.Length - 1
        Dim b As Byte = byteArray(x)
        Dim count As Integer = b
        count = ((count >> 1) And &H55) + (count And &H55)
        count = ((count >> 2) And &H33) + (count And &H33)
        count = ((count >> 4) And &HF) + (count And &HF)
        rv += count
    Next
    Return rv
End Function

Note: this code came from a collection of bit twiddling hacks I found some years ago.  I converted it to VB.

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MARCUS RASHFORD may have to leave Manchester United if he is to fulfil his destiny of becoming a world-class striker.
That's according to pundit and former Liverpool ace Jamie Carragher, who reckons that Rashford will never displace Romelu Lukaku as United's go-to poacher.
The 20-year-old has been converted into a winger by Jose Mourinho, and his goal record is suffering as a result.
However, Rashford has shown he is able to put them away when playing as a centre-forward.
The wonder kid scored in each of England's last two matches against Spain and Switzerland while leading the line for Gareth Southgate's side.
But Carragher reckons Rashford will never get that chance at Old Trafford, and may have to look elsewhere in order to progress.
Carragher told Sky Sports: "I don't see Rashford ever displacing Lukaku so long as he is there.
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Last year, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump pulled off an upset victory by targeting laid-off and disgruntled factory workers in the traditionally Democratic Midwest.
Now, the nation's largest service-worker union is mobilizing Midwest hospital employees — who have largely replaced the region's factory workers as its predominant labor force — in a bid to shape the 2018 midterm elections.
Midwest hospital workers will join fast-food workers in nationwide protests on Monday, Labor Day, as they demand a minimum wage of $15 an hour and the right to join a union.
The event — which will involve strikes by many fast-food workers but not hospital employees — will be the latest in a series of demonstrations orchestrated by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and the worker group it spawned, Fight for $15, over the past five years. In many Midwest cities, the marches are expected to end at local hospitals.
The Labor Day protests will launch a year-long drive to prod voters, particularly in Midwest battleground states, to support the mostly Democratic candidates who back a $15 minimum wage and union rights. While hospital workers can theoretically try to organize, they often are punished for doing so with undesirable shifts or other measures, worker advocates say.
Few Midwest hospital workers are unionized, while in coastal cities such as New York, Los Angeles and Seattle at least half belong to unions, Henry says. Unions give workers the right to collectively bargain and seek better pay, benefits and conditions. That has led to stark pay disparities across the country, with certain health care support occupations paying more than $20 an hour in New York, more than double the rate in Midwest cities such as Detroit and Chicago, Henry says.
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The mirror-image fortunes of the two industries are expected to persist. With Baby Boomers aging, health care is the fastest-growing U.S. industry, and its payrolls are projected to increase 21% from 2014 to 2024, while manufacturing employment is seen falling 7%, according to the NELP study and Labor Department forecasts.
Yet while manufacturing workers for decades benefited from solid middle-class paychecks and heavily unionized work forces, about 70% of hospital workers, both in the Midwest and across the U.S., earn less than $15 an hour, the NELP report says. By comparison, 42% of all workers make less than $15 hourly, the group says.
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"If we had a union, we would have a voice to discuss things like wages with management and get the answers we deserve."
UPMC spokeswoman Gloria Kreps says the hospital system has committed to increasing its current entry-level salary of $12.32 an hour to $15 by 2021. Service workers' average pay at Pittsburgh area facilities will rise to $15 by 2019.
"We know that competitive wages are essential to our organization's success as are growth/educational opportunities," she said.
The American Hospital Association did not directly address the wage and union issues but Marie Watteau, vice president of media relations, said in a statement, "A hospital's workforce is its most vital asset."
The strikes of fast-food and other workers have been credited with leading to legislation to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour in New York, California, Seattle, Washington, D.C., and Minneapolis over the next several years.
But states such as Iowa, Kentucky and Illinois have rolled back minimum wage increases passed by municipalities, NELP says. And states such as Indiana, Wisconsin and Missouri have passed "right to work" laws in recent years that allow employees not to join unions established at their jobs.
Henry says SEIU hopes to turn Midwest hospital workers into voters who will support union friendly candidates in November 2018.


"This is his legacy, both Hillary Clinton as a plausible candidate for president, and Barack Obama," Stanley Greenberg, a former Clinton pollster said before the ex-president's speech.
Clinton has appeared cool and distant toward Obama since Hillary Clinton dropped out of the race, barely communicating with him and offering lukewarm comments about him when asked.
Many political analysts and voters — particularly African-Americans — believe that the man some called "the first black president" tarnished his legacy by appearing to inject race into the primary contests.
He raised African-American ire when he compared Obama's victory in the South Carolina Democratic primary to Jesse Jackson's wins there in 1984 and 1988. Campaigning for his wife on the eve of the New Hampshire primary, he called Obama's opposition to the Iraq war a "fairy tale."
Clinton adamantly denied that he played the race card during the campaign, calling the charge a "myth and a mugging," but his comments and conduct on the campaign trail soured many voters and caused bad blood between the Clinton and Obama camps.
Wednesday night, Clinton praised his wife's campaign and said the bruising Democratic primaries "tested and strengthened" Obama for the general election ahead.
"Everything I learned in my eight years as president and in the work I've done since, in America and across the globe, has convinced me that Barack Obama is the man for this job," Clinton said. "He has the remarkable ability to inspire people, to raise our hopes and rally us to high purpose. He has the intelligence and curiosity every successful president needs."
Earlier in the day, some people close to the Clintons said the former president and Obama were aggressively working to mend their relationship and predicted that Clinton would give Obama his hearty support.
"This is going to be a much warmer thing than you had with (Ronald) Reagan and (Gerald) Ford, it's going to be a much warmer thing than you had than (Edward) Kennedy and (Jimmy) Carter, (Bill) Clinton and (Al) Gore," said James Carville, one of the architects of Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign. "There are a lot of positive things that are happening."
In his speech, Clinton took aim at President Bush and Republican presidential candidate John McCain, saying they have presided over a declining U.S. economy and a loss of America's standing in the world.
"These challenges cry out for American ideas and American innovation," Clinton said. "When Barack Obama unleashes them, America will save lives, win new allies, open new markets and create new jobs for our people."
Obama youth parade continues, but will it last?


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IRISH LEAGUE: Kilmartin and Elebert turn down Glenavon contract offers
Andy Kilmartin. Pic by Pacemaker.
Published: 18:23 Sunday 21 May 2017
Glenavon have confirmed exits for David Elebert and Andy Kilmartin - with both players opting to turn down one-year offers to stay at Mourneview Park.
The Lurgan Blues missed out on European football and a financial £200,000 jackpot with defeat to Ballymena United in the recent Europa League play-off final.
David Elebert. Pic by PressEye Ltd.
Manager Gary Hamilton is set for a summer of tough talks as he attempts to retain exisiting players and recruit fresh targets within a restricted budget.
However, Hamilton and the club proved keen to keep both Elebert and Kilmartin on board.
Glenavon's official website has reported Kilmartin's choice to move on as due to the 34-year-old midfielder having agreed a "two-year deal with improved terms at another club".
The club website has also confirmed the offer of an "appearance-related" contract to 32-year-old Elebert, with the centre-back declining the terms.
"I wish to thank Andy and Dave for their services to the club," said Hamilton, who adopts a policy of limiting contracts to players over 32 years old to one-year deals. "In my opinion they were two of the best pros I have ever worked with, both in my playing and management days.
"I'm gutted to lose the two of them but understand and respect their reasons and wish them all the best in the future.
"They will always be welcomed back to Mourneview."
Andrew Mitchell rejects claims he struggled under Glenavon pressure as his focus turns to Glentoran challenge
Serious oil spills leave several NI roads 'like sheets of glass'


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Et boksplot eller kassediagram anvendes indenfor beskrivende statistik (deskriptiv statistik) som en metode til at illustrere median, kvartiler samt eventuelt maksimum og minimum i et sæt numeriske værdier.

Kassens øvre og nedre grænse viser øvre og nedre kvartil, og kassen indeholder således halvdelen af de observerede værdier. Kassen deles af en streg ved medianen; skævhed i observationerne viser sig ved, at medianen ikke er midt mellem øvre og nedre kvartil.

Kassen kan suppleres med "haler" (stiplede linjer i figuren), som illustrerer de ydre observationer i materialet. Følgende metoder kan anvendes til at fastlægge halernes længde.
 Maksimum og minimum, eventuelt fraset ekstreme værdier ("outliers"). I figuren er frasete ekstreme værdier markeret med en lille cirkel.
 En standardafvigelse over og under middelværdien for observationerne.
 8. og 92. percentil.
 2. og 98. percentil.
Listen er ikke udtømmende, og der er ikke praksis for at indikere, hvilken af metoderne er anvendt.

Outliers er de observationer, som ligger uden for 1,5 kvartilbreddes rækkevidde fra selve "boksen". Kvartilbredden findes ved at trække 1. kvartil fra 3. kvartil.

Der kan dannes flere bokse for forskellige delmængder af observationer. Dette vil synliggøre forskelle eller ligheder mellem de forskellige delmængder. Bredden af den enkelte boks kan anvendes til at synliggøre den enkelte delmængdes "tyngde", f.eks. antallet af observationer i denne.

Boksplot anvendes bl.a. til at illustrere finansielle kursdata, hvor der f.eks. dannes en boks pr. handelsdag.

Statistik
Diagrammer

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I'm a laid back person, a hopeless romantic, I like to try new things, I love the outdoors and the various activities that come with it, I prefer the rural lifestyle city living, I pride myself in being true southern gentleman, I like to read, I am big foodie, I like to travel, I have great sense of humor, but I do know when to be serious, I am a dog person, I love hunting and fishing, I prefer a quiet evening out or at home, or a bonfire rather than going to a night club. I was raised to treat women with respect and honor. I was raised also to treat all people with kindness, and avoid those who don't. If you want to know anything else just ask.
I am looking for someone who treats me with respect that I deserve, love me for who I am, and someone who works alongside me and compliments me, as I should compliment them. I am looking for someone who is willing to try new things.
I am big movie watcher I currently have over 200 movies in my collection, it gives me something to do on a nasty rainy day. I watch a lot of classic movies, I also like martial arts movies, comedies, action, science fiction, some drama, and some horror. But my favorite of all time has to the western comedy "McLintock" starring John Wayne. My second favorite is "Casino Royale" starring Daniel Craig.
My favorite book is Where the red fern grows.
I am a meat and potatoes kind of guy, and I love a variety of foods. I am also willing to try something new at least once. I am very fond of my comfort foods, you know like mac and cheese, grilled cheese, stuff like that. I like to cook and try different recipes.
My taste in music is varied, but the genres I listen to most are country, jazz, hip-hop (not to be confused with rap), rock, latin music, and a little bit of pop, and a little bit of rap mostly the older stuff. My favorite country singers George strait and Lady Antebellum. My favorite jazz musicians are Incognito and Dexter Gordon. My favorite hip-hop artists are Lupe Fiasco, Substantial, and Cise Star. With Rock I like Joe Satriani, and a Japanese Rock named Jinn. My favorite Latin arists are Aventura, and Prince Royce. I really don't have favorite pop artist. My favorite rappers are Tupac Shakur, and Snoop Dogg.
I am a jeans and tee shirt kind of guy, but I do know how to dress up when an occasion calls for it.
I have the class clown kind of humor, a little goofy. I also have a little bit of a sarcastic side. One thing I will not do is intentionally offend, or intentionally hurt someones feeling, or disrespect someone for the sake of humor. I tend to be a bit of prankster also.
I love hunting, fishing, traveling, watching, movies, listening to music, reading, and I am interested in experiencing what life has to offer.
I've been to Tennessee, very briefly in Kentucky, various places throughout North Carolina, various places throughout my home state of South Carolina, various places throughout Georgia, various places throughout Florida. I want visit other countries in my near future, and add to the list states I've been to also.
I try to keep an open mind about things, I try to stay positive, optimistic, I try to be courteous, and understanding. So I feel I am very adaptive.
I would like it to be in an open air beach front bungalow, away from cell phones, and everyday life, with plenty of good wine, good food, and with my special someone we'll walk along the beach sharing ideas about life, and bright future plans or adventures, and that evening we'll have dinner on the beach overlooking the ocean with a full moon casting it's golden reflection on semi calm waves.
I tend to be laid back, caring, thoughtful, fiercely loyal, open minded, positive, courteous, I am willing to help, I can be stubborn at times, If wronged I can very distant with an individual. I work at trying to stay drama free person and I try to avoid people keep it stirred up. I try to avoid confrontations and seek the peaceful route, this doesn't mean though that someone can do whatever they want to me, and I sit there and do nothing. I feel I have a great sense of humor, but I do know how to be serious when the time calls for it.
I am looking for someone who is positive, open minded, willing to try new things, optimistic, great sense of humor, someone who has similar interests in my hobbies, or if they're not interested won't stop me from enjoying my love for them, but most of all I want someone to stand by me, who respects me, and loves me unconditionally, because I will be there trying my very best to love them, and respect them unconditionally also.


Presenters speak on how we've failed to incorporate Smart Growth strategies and provide insight on policies, and ways we can advocate for Smart Growth changes.
The event is at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, May 14, at Gleason Works, 1000 University Avenue. Tickets: $15, free to students with ID.
Hilton Hotel considering old buildings on Main St.


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The Freshman Survival Guide
Completely Revised and Updated
Interactive RA
Ask the iRA
Catholic Campus Ministry Association's Crossroads
Student Survival and the CCMA
A Q&A with the authors of The Freshman Survival Guide
Of the many challenges campus ministers face, few are as difficult as helping first year students make the transition to college life. Sadly, the tales of freshmen leaving home anxious to begin a new life on campus only to crash and burn are all too common. It was with that reality in mind that longtime BustedHalo.com editor in chief Bill McGarvey and Nora Bradbury-Haehl -a Busted Halo contributing editor and 20-year veteran of youth ministry- began discussing what they might create to help both students and higher education professionals manage this transition. What emerged from their conversations was The Freshman Survival Guide: Soulful Advice for Studying, Socializing, and Everything in Between…a comprehensive handbook with a twist not found anywhere else.
Bookstores are filled with guides for picking a college, getting into college, and getting good grades but McGarvey and Bradbury-Haehl felt they all used a very one-dimensional approach. These books didn't take into account how challenging college was – not only for the mind, but for the body and spirit as well.
College is a time for asking questions; small ones like how to deal with a difficult roommate to big questions such as "what am I doing with my life?" The Freshman Survival Guide is the first truly holistic look into the lives of college students and life on campus. Addressing everything from studying to sex to spirituality, The Freshman Survival Guide deals with the whole student, treating the intellectual, physical, emotional and spiritual lives of college freshmen as intimately connected aspects of their overall success.
Since its publication in April 2011, tens of thousands of copies have been purchased by everyone from students and parents to orientation staffs, residence life professionals and campus ministries. But years before it became a book, CCMA and its members were among the earliest supporters of The Freshman Survival Guide when it was still just an online feature at BustedHalo.com. In fact, CCMA's strong support was instrumental in attracting a bidding war between two of the world's biggest publishing houses for the rights to publish a print edition.
On the eve of the start of the spring semester, the authors took some time to talk with CCMA about their research and how schools are using their book as a resource.
CCMA: What makes The Freshman Survival Guide different from other college guides?
Bill McGarvey: Nora and I always wanted to include all the practical information found in all the other college guides out there, but we were surprised that no one had really tried to go deeper than that. We both knew from our own experiences–particularly in Nora's work in ministry–that the issues are much more substantial than "should I bring my X-box with me to my dorm?" For most students going to college, this will be the most freedom they've ever experienced. Beyond all that, there are big questions about who they are and who they want to become that are percolating as well. For us, it just seemed painfully obvious that not discussing the emotional and spiritual challenges happening with them would be a huge omission and really wouldn't reflect the reality that countless students are experiencing.
CCMA: The first words of the book's introduction are, "There are options." Why start the guide this way?
McGarvey: That line actually came from a student survey we did at the University of Iowa. I was pulling together some research at the end of our writing process and that simple line from a young woman in her junior year at Iowa just jumped out at me. I believe the question was "what single piece of advice would you like to tell incoming freshmen?" It struck me that her comment encapsulated what the whole book was trying to do. We had no illusions that we could shelter college freshmen from the realities of life on campus, nor did we have any desire to. These students are well aware that they now have the freedom to push the boundaries. Our approach has always been to speak to them like adults and let them know that countless other people have been through this before and they can learn from those people's collective wisdom and experience. Our hope is to remind them that they mow have options and information in front of them to make good decisions.
CCMA: The Freshman Survival Guide is layered with contributions from educators, campus ministers, counselors and college students. What was the research/interview process like?
McGarvey: Because we began doing this as an online only feature a few years ago, we really had a head start in terms of research when we got the book deal. A real turning point for us came a while back when we decided to bring together campus ministers from different faith traditions to discuss how they handled various issues with incoming freshmen. We had a priest, a rabbi, a minister and a Muslim scholar talking to each other. It sounds like the beginning of a bad joke, but it really worked and it opened my eyes to how much all of their experience and advice harmonized so beautifully. There weren't doctrinal issues or anything like that. All of them had a deep concern for the well being of their students and had seen a lot of tough situations in their years of campus ministry. After all was said and done, the book truly was the culmination of years of research, interviews and surveys with hundreds of students, administrators, professors, education experts, psychologists and campus ministers from across the country.
CCMA: Why is it important for campus ministers, in addition to students, to read this book?
Bradbury-Haehl: Campus ministers were a great resource to us as we wrote the book, the wisdom they shared, the tips they had to offer students made the book so much stronger. In many ways The Freshman Survival Guide is Best Practices Seminar for and by campus ministers.
CCMA: What is the biggest mistake freshman make when they start college?
Bradbury-Haehl: Skipping Class. Without a parent and the normal structure of their "old lives" back home, too many students too early on think that skipping a class or a few classes is not a big deal. It turns out to be the thing that takes them out of the game. Go to class. We say it again and again throughout the book but we can't seem to say it enough. We tell students (there's a whole chapter on going to class!) that no matter what– tired, depressed, sick, angry, or whatever–get your butt in that chair, especially during that first month. Once they understand this new landscape they might, near the end of the semester, realize they can miss one, but not going to class early on is the slippery slope to disaster freshman year.
CCMA: You have a chapter called, "'Growing Up' Your Religion." Tell me about that.
Bradbury-Haehl: One of the things we challenge students to do in the book is to not settle for little-kid knowledge of their own faith tradition… grow it up. In the same way, they wouldn't settle for a grade school understanding of math, physics, history, or English, they need to look at the scholarship of their religious tradition before they make a decision to stay or go. They shouldn't presume that what they've been exposed to thus far is the entirety of what the tradition has to offer.
CCMA: How can schools use The Freshman Survival Guide?
Bradbury-Haehl: Some schools are using it in Campus Ministry as a handout to new students. Others have written programs around it and are using it in their Res. Life programs. Some schools have established a curriculum around the book and are using it in their First Year Experience programs. Another college sent it out to incoming freshmen with their acceptance letters.
CCMA: After writing this book, what would you do differently if you could repeat your freshman year?
Bradbury-Haehl: If I were a freshman now, I would avail myself of the resources on campus. There are so many people on campus who are there to help! Academically, socially, emotionally, there are professionals and resources there for students to use and I was not aware as a freshman of how many people were "on my side."
CCMA: Talk about the book's web presence.
McGarvey: Our book was born out of the web which is a highly interactive medium and the students we are trying to reach are deeply enmeshed in that world so it was never in question that the book needed a strong online component. The book really needed to be as interactive as possible so in each chapter we point readers to additional content/quizzes etc on our site or via Facebook and twitter (@freshmanguide). We plan on using some of that information for future editions.
But one of the things we are most excited about online is our Interactive RA. We have a team of RAs from around the country available to answer questions students might have or might be embarrassed to ask their own RA. Our team of RAs also blog frequently about topics they are coming across on campus.
The Freshman Survival Guide is available for purchase wherever books are sold. Special bulk discounts for CCMA members are available as well. Please email bulkbuys@nullthefreshmansurvivalguide.com for information.
Giuseppe Holthaus says:
Spiritual can be enhanced by always making sure that you have compassion to everyone. *
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The new product taster is for tasting and trying food during cooking. It's a spoon on one side and a fork on the other, and the fork does an additional trick: it has a small hook for testing pasta while cooking. The taster has an aesthetically slim form and is a functional 10.8" long.


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Q: Unable to create machine image from VM instance in gcp I am unable to create machine image from the existing vm instance in gcp. It shows following error as shown in the image attached link.could anyone help to create a machine image. I did set the project using set project command. gcp machine image

A: The command does not have the command flag --zone. Replace with the flag --source-instance-zone.
gcloud compute machine-images create


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Terje Hals (7 February 1937 – 19 December 2010) was a Norwegian jurist and police chief.

He was born in Drammen, and graduated with the cand.jur. in 1962. He was a police superintendent in Uttrøndelag from 1970 and police inspector from 1971. He served as chief of police in Troms from 1976 to 1986 and in Moss from 1986 to 2001.

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1937 births
2010 deaths
People from Drammen
Norwegian jurists
Norwegian police chiefs


I purchased A Discovery of Witches for the Kindle last summer on the strength of a recommendation from a friend, and started the book while in hospital having labour induced at the end of August. I read around half before we were allowed home (mostly while waiting for the pills to take effect). Once we got home I had other things to read and since I hadn't been entirely enthused I forgot all about A Discovery of Witches. Until about a month ago, when something brought it to mind and I decided I might as well finish the thing. So I did, and immediately purchased Shadow of Night and read that, too and then cursed because the final installment of the trilogy is not out yet. You could say I got more caught up in it now that I was then.
So why did I not care too much for it in August? Well, in a word: Vampires. I've never been a big fan, and the whole Twilight thing with sparkly vampires and abusive or at least unhealthy relationships has ruined what little interest I might once have shown. Not that I've read (or seen) Twilight, it just feels like I have because of the barrage of information about it from both fans and critics. Anyway, Matthew is, if not exactly sparkly, a little too shiny in the first half of the first book. Besides, the 'tall, dark and handsome with a troubling past but a heart of gold' thing is really not very inventive.
However, Diana, her untried and unpredictable powers and her penchant for history eventually hooked me, despite rather than because of the relationship with Matthew. Besides, the novel is teeming with interesting 'supporting actors'. And yes, of course I am curious to see how it all ties together at the end – I sure hope it does.
Shadow of Night is the more interesting book if you're into history, as Diana and Matthew go back to Elisabethan London. Harkness obviously knows her stuff, though she wreaks havoc with several real historical characters' reputations (and that's part of the fun). Having Kit Marlowe as a deamon makes perfect sense, for example. The tiny little historical details are the best, though, and I vastly enjoyed that part of the story.
However, and there is a big However – or more accurately: Several of them.
I still don't feel engaged in the love story. I'm engaged in Diana's happiness, so have to accept that Matthew may be part of that, but it's a bit like seeing you best friend fall for a douchebag: A big part of me wants her to snap out of it (though I realise that's an unlikely outcome considering the rest of the plot). That's one big However.
The other, which is less of a narrative problem and more of a 'perhaps this is too close to Twilight after all' sort of social issue is that there really are some major skeletons in Matthew's and the de Claremonts' closets. Really major. There's more than a bit of 'I used to be a bad boy but you changed me' meme going on. I don't like it. It may be elegantly resolved in the third book, so I will suspend judgement.
So will I buy the third book the moment it is out? Probably. And then I'll get back to you. In the meantime: If you like vampires that are almost sparkly, you might want to check this out, if not, this is probably not the book for you. I'm not sure it's the book for me.
Ps. Bøkene gis ut på norsk av Pax, oversatt av Elisabet W. og Marius Middelthon. De to første har fått titlene Alle sjelers natt og Nattens skygge.


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A Liga Feminina de Basquetebol (LFB) de 2008/2009 foi a 11ª edição, competição organizada pela Federação Portuguesa de Basquetebol,  É disputada por 11 equipas, em duas fases. O Olivais Futebol Clube conquistou o seu 2º Título.

Primeira Fase

Clasificação Liga Feminina Fase Regular

Calendário Fase Regular

Segunda Fase

Play-offs

Calendário Play-offs

Quartos de Final

Meias finais

Final

Referências

http://www.fpb.pt/fpb2014/start_fpb_2014

http://www.fpb.pt/fpb2014/!site.go?s=1&show=com&id=2240&layout=classificacao

http://www.fpb.pt/fpb2014/!site.go?s=1&show=com&id=2240&layout=resultados

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Kostel svatého Zikmunda je filiální římskokatolický kostel postavený v barokním slohu v 18. století. Původně byl chrám ve správě Římskokatolické farnosti ve Stráži pod Ralskem. Nachází se u křižovatky ulic Mimoňské a U Potoka ve Stráži pod Ralskem v okrese Česká Lípa. V těsném sousedství kostela se nachází barokní budova fary, hřbitov a parčík se sochou císaře Josefa II. Společně s farou je kostel chráněn jako kulturní památka.

Historie

Původní gotický farní kostel ze 13. století byl zasvěcen svatému Mikuláši. Když panství získali Vartenberkové, došlo roku 1413 ke změně zasvěcení na svatého Zikmunda.

V letech 1772–1779, již po přestavbě gotického kostela na renesanční, byl na stejné místo postaven hrabětem Františkem Hartigem zhruba do dnešní podoby pozdního baroka nový kostel. Architektem nové stavby byl J.J. Kunz, který starý kostel nechal zbořit. Nový kostel byl vysvěcen 2. května 1781. Drobné stavební úpravy probíhaly i v 18. a 19. století. Z předchozího období zůstala věž, která byla přistavěna již roku 1605.

V letech 1735–1884 byli v kryptě před hlavním oltářem pohřbíváni příslušníci šlechtického rodu Hartigů, kteří byli poslední vrchností ve Stráži pod Ralskem.

Od roku 1945 stavba postupně chátrala. V roce 1960 byl kostel uzavřen a poté využíván jako skladiště. Teprve kolem roku 2000 začaly z iniciativy mimoňského faráře Václava Horniaka postupné opravy. Podílelo se na nich i město.

Současné užívání
Farní kostel dnes slouží k pravidelným bohoslužbám (středy, neděle). Vede je zpravidla mimoňský farář Václav Horniak (excurrendo).

Kostel byl zpřístupněn i na Noc kostelů v květnu 2013 i o rok později, kdy v něm proběhla celá řada zajímavých akcí.

Architektura
Kostel stojí na půdorysu latinského kříže. Věž se nachází v rizalitu dlouhého ramene. Po jižní straně presbytáře je pravoúhlý přístavek. Vnějšek kostela je členěn vpadlými poli. Vnitřek kostela je sklenut plackovými klenbami. Výmalba vnitřních kleneb a bosáží pochází z 80. let 19. století. Výmalba boční kaple z let 1980-1982 je od akad. malíře Vojmíra Vokolka.

Vybavení
Zařízení kostela je z 18. století. Autorem obrazů Dobrého pastýře, sv. Ignáce a "Nechte maličkých přijíti ke mně" je Josef Führich, který je namaloval v letech 1841-1844. Původní nástroj 1726 – Stráž pod Ralskem, výstavba nových varhan v kostele sv. Zikmunda se 14 rejstříky. Varhany se nezachovaly, roku 1912 je nahradil nový nástroj Heinricha Schiffnera.

Současné varhany Martina Zausse pocházející původně z Chebu, byly v roce 1953 přeneseny regenschorim Janem Vovsem do Děčína, kostela sv. Františka na Husově náměstí. V roce 2000 byly prodány na díly do Stráže pod Ralskem, aby je následně nainstaloval a opravil varhanář Pavel Truhlář se svým synem. Financováno z programu Rozvoje venkova. 26.11. 2006 nástroj opětovně vysvětil litoměřický biskup Mons. Pavel Posád.

Dispozice:

I. manál: Principal 8´, Hohflŏte 4´, Doppelflŏte 8´, Gedakt 8´, Dolce 8´, Octave 4´, Picollo 2´ (původně Gamba 8´, zbavena strojku a zkrácena), Mixtur 2fach.

II.manuál: Nachthorn 8´ (zkrácený, na nepůvodním popisku Lesní roh), Flute harmonique 8´, Still gedakt 8´, Salicional 8´, Quinte 2 2/3´(zkrácená, nepůvodní popisek, Fugara), Flute harmonique 4´, Flute 2´ (zkrácená, na nepůvodním popisku Flétna lesní).

Pedál: Zartflōte 8´, Still gedakt 16´, Subbas 16´, Octavbas 8´ (zkrácený, původně Violon).

Pomocná zařízení: Tremulant II. man., Manual koppel II/I, Pedal koppel I/P, Pedal koppel II/P, Suboctav koppel II/I, Superoctav koppel II/I. Kolektivy: PP, P, mF, F, FF, Pleno, anulátor. Sklopné šlapky Jalousie schweller pro II. manuál, crescendo/decrescendo. Kalkant z levé strany. Dmychadlo Laukhuff.

poznámka: Po transferu do Děčína v r. 1953 se nástroj na zdejší kůr stavebně nevešel, proto byly nejdelší píšťaly zkráceny na 1/2. Provedla firma Mỗlzer Kutná hora (zápis uvnitř, zápis na vnitřní straně hracího stolu Jana Vovsa).

Okolí kostela
Kostel stojí na hřbitově, do něhož vede barokní vstupní brána. V parku severovýchodně od kostela stojí socha císaře Josefa II.

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Reference

Literatura

 ZÁHORA, Jan. Historie a popis varhan Martina Zausse v Děčíně-Podmoklech, 1975.

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Michael Fassbender Tackles Macbeth
Move over, Steve Jobs—Fassbender delivers a brutally powerful performance as Shakespeare's bloodthirsty tyrant.
Melissa Holbrook Pierson
Updated Jun. 26, 2017 12:19PM ET / Published Dec. 10, 2015 1:00AM ET
Not a moment too soon.
If ever there was a time for Shakespeare's goriest and most presciently admonitory play to return, this is it. We could use its warning about the obliterating powers of world-eating ambition pushed into our unheeding faces.
Self-serving, mean-hearted, psychopathic presidential hopefuls, I'm talking to you.
Macbeth is back in its fiercest iteration (and that is saying something given some of its predecessors) thanks to Michael Fassbender's coruscating performance in the title role. True to the play's recurring theme of paradox—"Two truths are told"; "cannot be ill, cannot be good"; "Fair is foul, and foul is fair"; "When the battle's lost and won"; "Nothing is / But what is not"—he plays the murderous Scot as two things at once: savage and battling with regret. He nails it, right between the eyes.
Macbeth needed the coming of cinema for its fullest realization as conceived by the playwright: Only film can properly manufacture the augurs melting into air, the ghosts that are manifestations of interior guilt and external acts both. Not to mention natural-looking blood, which in director Justin Kurzel's balletic treatment spews, flies, viscously drips. The Isle of Skye scenery is cold and vaporous. Color correction plays an increasingly critical role in modern filmmaking, rarely bigger than here. The palette varies from distancing gray to an equally distant (curious so) fire orange, in scenes of candlelit interiors and reflected bloodshed and the somewhat inscrutable decision to render the pivotal occurrence of Birnan Wood coming to Dunsinane in the form of forest-fire smoke.
Then again, it mirrors the particularly heinous way Kurzel's screenwriters choose to have Macbeth dispatch Macduff's family, "all my chickens and their dam / In one fell swoop." This Macbeth conquers fear (another of the play's major subjects) by becoming supremely fearsome.
Cinema, too, could only deliver one of the most chilling points this adaptation makes: boys. This war was fought by children. Just as wars throughout history have been and continue to be. The camera lingers on the innocent faces, alive and in a moment to be dead, of those comprising the army whose blood will arc through the air so poetically in slow motion. We are meant to understand clearly they are just boys.
Boys who go to make and meet death with weapons that have been lovingly strapped onto their bodies.
And then the musical score sounds with an undeniable echo of the high-low siren, dreaded song of modern-day disaster.
You need nothing more overt to connect these dots. Shakespeare is already, and always, contemporaneous. By making a bloody allegory out of the bones of a king's ascent in 1050, Shakespeare foretold the rise of every tyrant since he wrote the play in 1606, the year after the Gunpowder Plot. Its warning about the dangers of personal ambition in statecraft is every bit as valid today, when people in astonishing numbers are getting blown apart in service of their leaders' often misguided beliefs (minds "filled with scorpions" most probably).
That's Shakespeare for you: elastically adaptable to every age. His clay is elemental circumstance and primal human psychology, and those never change. The cinema's greatest directors were naturally attracted to the ultimate tale of portentous violence: Welles, Polanski, Kurosawa (and one relative unknown, Billy Morrissette, whose 2001 Scotland, Pa. transfers the action to seventies America and the reign over Scotland to pre-eminence in the drive-thru burger trade; it's near brilliant in its translation of dark tragedy to dark but humorous period piece).
Someday in the future the 2015 Macbeth may bother viewers with the dated look of today's visual bag of tricks: bullet-time slowmo and hypersped shots; an unavoidable resemblance to combat video games. It looks so much of our time it looks "real," much as Polanski's version did to audiences in 1971—though the hairstyles now scream Bee Gees, and the latest in special effects that permitted the "dagger of the mind" to hover just out of actor Jon Finch's grasp might prompt a laugh today. The YouTube user who posted a clip of the climactic fight scene aptly sums up the movie's effect today: "raw. real. hilarious." It is raw and real because Polanski knew pitiless, knew vicious; this was the film he chose to shoot after the Manson Family's murder of his pregnant wife among others. Brute opportunism and unalloyed horror are almost the entire plot.
It is harder to know precisely which aspects of the multivalent play Orson Welles intended to tease out in 1948, except to show the world that Shakespeare could be immediate, popular, and filmed under budget, unlike most of Welles's extravagantly creative visions. His love for the timeless poetry appears paramount, while the mise-en-scène—appropriately foreboding, lush with foggy vistas and charcoal tonalities—is the equally beloved mistress. Alas, the actors' attempts at a Scots burr form a near-insurmountable barrier to the experience: Most of the time you wonder why they're trying to get the right Ukrainian accent. Jeanette Nolan crushes the subtleties of Lady Macbeth's psyche with her bare hands. Then there are the pasteboard crowns (provided by cheapskate Republic Pictures). Not Welles's fault, but once Burger King comes to mind, he's hard to forget again.
The one cinematic Macbeth that may never age is Throne of Blood, Akira Kurosawa's magisterial transposition of the play to feudal Japan. At once spare and richly metaphoric, it is a towering example of film's ability to manifest the world of the mind. Or rather, Kurosawa's ability to do so, in part through the exquisite device of Toshiro Mifune's genius. He does not act; he embodies. The desolate landscape (the slopes of Mt. Fuji) is one with the desolating acts of the increasingly unhinged self-appointed executioner.
His death at the end is an appropriately gory, and singular, one. In fact, the choice of a Macbeth's final dismissal is one of the most telling acts of directorial interpretation. The good old swordfight, followed by beheading, is true to the letter. But the particular spirit may find better deaths in store. One of the most powerful Macbeths I ever saw was acted by students under a local director of uncommon talent. In his staging, the monster-king was not run through by Macduff's vengeful sword. His skull was bashed in with his own shield. Every blow sent a shock through the seats. Exposed, unafforded even a shred of protective glory from the duel's pretty minuet, the audience was made to face pure savagery.
Kurzel's Macbeth likewise has the insistence of a rawness that yet remains subtle. You can't look away, and you don't want to: The film's beauty is its ugliness and vice versa, true to the source's infinite paradox. The play leaves room to insert motives only hinted at in the original. In this case the screenwriters have marked bolder outlines around the Macbeths' childlessness: both their grief at the death of their son, and the loss of a royal heir, are the buried cause of their cruelty. There is also the suggestion that Lady Macbeth sexually intoxicates her husband: She coldly incites him to murder and become "so much more the man" while in flagrante delicto; the man he is, is not good enough for her.
Whispered even more softly is the intimation that only murder will get her off. As it is, she is wholly unmoved by her husband's embrace.
Marion Cotillard's Lady Macbeth—like those before her—is likely to be a divisive subject. The character is a divisive subject: a woman who begs to become a woman no more, so she will feel no remorse from acts of "direst cruelty," is not comprehensible. Only with the explanation given her emotions in Kurzel's rendering can they become understandable. The British press (the film has been released there already) has hailed Cotillard as practically perfect. Certainly, there is a vacuity in her eyes. Neither her ruthlessness nor her repentence is entirely convincing, because she seems not entirely natural.
On second thought, that does make her the perfect Lady Macbeth.
But it is Fassbender's unyielding performance that drives this Macbeth. His is an internal combustion acting method. There is continual detonation going on somewhere below, while what shows on the surface is the strength of its containment. Despite his widely praised depiction of Steve Jobs in the recent biopic, his casting is ironically credited in part with the movie's box-office failure. Variety reported he "lacks the drawing power to open the picture." If there is justice in the unlikely world where Shakespeare becomes a blockbuster, this movie should change that. His draw will become electromagnetic.
In Fassbender's Macbeth the conflict between suspicion and ambition first unmakes him, then forges him a mighty armor against human feeling. It happens to the warrior who is called upon to commit murder in the name of country or clan, as if that could cleanse the act. For a human, it never can: We were given no separate place in our hearts for brutality that is just and brutality that is not. There is only deadening, and the injurious aftermath in the mind that may never get quite right thereafter.
Shakespeare's knowing works fit every era because the one act in which we never fail is repeating our mistakes. A reprise of this 400-year-old tragedy will always contain a timely caution. At this moment, for an America acceleratingly suspicious of the Other, perceived as coming to take what is rightly ours, where the ambitious usurper waits to step into the moral void created by fear, it is this: We will have a tyrant to lead us, all right. I don't think I'm reading this wrong. If I am, then we will be spared our role as Ross, who must cry of his burdened land, "Alas, poor country!"


FORUM ICE > All Sports > Football > ForumICE NFL Dynasty League > Hello?
I was wondering same thing. I'd still be in if guys still have interest.
I'd probably stick around if there's enough interest.
I'm in - not much time left for a rookie draft and FA Draft - any interest in starting from scratch with a full draft- maybe scrap the rookie keeper rule and expand the keepers to 6 or 7...or any other ideas...???
Sorry guys, been so busy the last couple of weeks I haven't had much time available. We should keep this league going, and get keepers in asap. If everyone's committed, the rookie draft shouldn't take more than a couple of days. We could try to fit a live draft in soon as well. Perhaps Sunday, Monday or Tuesday night?
I won't be around much today (Saturday) but will have time Sunday-Tuesday to get everything inputted into Fantrax, so let's get those keepers in.
I have a guy in line for a GM position. Hailing from Ireland he's ready to go.
No one is touching my team, the team that I built, the team that partly ruined my first marriage. I'm pretty sure there's at least one GM that doesn't quite have what it takes, you know the type "I have too many responsibilities " as he removes the curlers from his girlfriends hair. That will be the team the new guy takes over.
Hey... wtf did I do to deserve that?!!?!
Habspatrol that was not directed at you, I was referring to the GMs we've lost over the years.
Oh nevermind I get it.


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Robert M. Lindner (May 14, 1914 – February 27, 1956) was an American author and psychologist, best known as the author of the 1944 book Rebel Without A Cause: The Hypnoanalysis Of A Criminal Psychopath, from which the title of Nicholas Ray's 1955 film was adapted. His book described a psychopath as someone who is "incapable of exertions for the sake of others". Lindner's arguments on gambling psychology are well regarded and have been noted as "definitive statements" by the American Academy of Political and Social Science.

Early life and education
Robert Mitchell Lindner was born in New York City on May 14, 1914, to Charles and Sadie (née Schwartz) Lindner. He was educated in the public schools of New York and earned a B.A. at Bucknell University. In 1937 he married Eleanor Johnson (1910-1996) while a graduate student at Cornell University, where he was awarded an M.A. in psychology in 1935 and a Ph.D. in psychology in 1938.

Career
Lindner soon became head of the combined psychiatric-psychological services department of the federal penitentiary in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. It was here that he compiled the case history later published as Rebel Without a Cause (1944). He also studied psychoanalysis while undergoing a training analysis with Theodore Reik, who had only recently fled from Nazi-controlled Austria. When the United States entered World War II, Lindner joined the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps at the rank of lieutenant junior grade. He left the service at war's end and settled in Baltimore, where for ten years he maintained a large private practice in psychoanalysis and served as chief consultant to the Maryland Department of Corrections. He also became a senior training analyst at Reik's new institute, the National Association for Psychoanalysis, which was one of the few organizations through which psychologists ( who were not medical doctors) could pursue psychoanalytic training.

Among the large number of patients he treated during this period, the best known to have been publicly identified was the author Philip Wylie, who settled in Baltimore in 1952 to undergo a full analysis with Lindner, whom he had been seeing intermittently since meeting him while serving as a Navy officer during World War II.

In 1947-1948 he served as the Maryland state chairman of the liberal Progressive Citizens of America, which became the state organization for Henry A. Wallace's quixotic 1948 third-party presidential campaign. In 1948 he was added to the national board of the PCA.

The movie adaptation of Rebel Without a Cause brought Lindner a measure of notoriety when it was released, although the story by Nicholas Ray bore no relation to the case history in Lindner's book. In 1954 the publication of "The Jet-Propelled Couch" as a two-part article in Harper's caused a small sensation with its tale of the delusional psychosis of a key government scientist, "Kirk Allen", who believed he was living a parallel life as overlord of a distant star system, and his treatment by Lindner. The true identity of "Kirk Allen" has been debated since, though it is likely that he was political scientist and intelligence operative Paul Linebarger, who became a well-known science fiction writer under the name Cordwainer Smith. It was collected in The Fifty-Minute Hour (1955), a collection of five case studies from his clinical practice. An ambitious attempt to adapt the story into a musical with songs by Stephen Sondheim came to nothing. In 1957 it was dramatized as an episode of TV's Playhouse 90 as "The Jet Propelled Couch" starring Donald O'Connor, Peter Lorre, David Wayne, Gale Gordon, and Vampira.

Lindner was active in a number of professional associations. He was a fellow of the American Psychological Association, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and an officer of the Medical Correctional Association. In 1953 he was elected an honorary fellow of the Fortean Society.

Death
Robert Lindner died on February 27, 1956, at Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he had been a heart patient since January 14. At the time of his death he had started work on another book, The Wizard, which was to have been a study of a psychoanalyst. Shortly after Lindner's death plans were made for a memorial research foundation to be called the Robert Lindner Foundation. Norman Mailer, who had become friends with Lindner after reading Prescription for Rebellion, came to Lindner's funeral and became one of the sponsors and donors in setting up the foundation, along with Wylie, Max Lerner, Gerald W. Johnson, and Baltimore businessman Morton Abrahams. Theodore Reik was appointed to the foundation's professional committee, and delivered two lectures under the auspices of the foundation later that year.

Works

References

External links
 Rebel Without a Cause on Amazon.com
 Correspondence of Robert Lindner and Norman Mailer on Project Mailer

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1956 deaths
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