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Is dit het nou?
A Documentary by Bernard Coops & Nellie Stiny
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LOCKLINEA documentary about Dutch people and other Westerners in McLeod Ganj, India and their search for Happiness, Spirituality and the Art of Living.
Check out my motivation to make this documentary (Dutch)!
McLeod Ganj, India.
At the foot of the Himalayas lies McLeod Ganj, a place of pilgrimage for many Westerners craving for spirituality and buddhists from all all over the world, port of refuge for the banished Dalai Lama and many other Tibetans in exile. These Westerners left their organized homelands, their 'securities', family and friends all for one reason: to follow their heart to the place of their dreams: India. They are liberated, have their own wisdom and seem to be very confident. What kind of people are they? Why did they change the course of their lives? How do they look at the Western society? How do they deal with the difficulties of life and death? And how do you become happy?
Production phase
The extraordinary encounters and conversations with the idealistic Elio, rebellious Ria, sensitive Robert, helpful Marieke, passionate Amberjade and the poised nun Geshe Kelsang Wangmo already took place in India. We became part of the family life of Ria, Hari and their children Roshan and Viola, and followed them with our camera. We immersed ourselves in the Indian lifestyle and combed the streets and surroundings to make beautiful images. Back in the Netherlands, we viewed and categorized the filmed material, transcribed the interviews and started selecting shots.
What happens to your money?
With your help we can bring the documentary to a worthy, stimulating and qualitatively high end. We are able to film the last shots, finish the post production (editing, audio design, color grading, voice-over and subtitles), bring the documentary to the international audience and design the unique book. Check out our specified budget to see where your money is going and what we've already financed by ourselves.
The finalization
After the crowdfunding campaign we will work on the finalization of the documentary film. There will be an English version named 'Is this it?' oriented towards the international audience, and a Dutch version named 'Is dit het nou?' tailored to the Dutch audience. The finalization of both versions of the documentary is scheduled mid 2015. Even during these processes we will keep you up to date with the progress. As a supporter you will truly stay part of our project from beginning to end.
More info? Please visit our website www.isthisit.nl (ENG) and check out the progress on our Facebook Page.
Quote that inspired the maker
There is not one way to become happy, there are different ways and everybody has to find it's own way.
Leo Bormans
30 years ago Ria left her job as a hairdresser in Germany to live an insecure and compelling life in the jungle of Goa, together with the Indian sadhu Hari. Long dreadlocks, marihuana, water and chapati made way for an unusual family life with two adoptive children who came breezing in.
At age 18, Marieke (21, Dutch-Australian) lost her mother, whom she only saw once a year after her parents' divorce, due to brain cancer. Since then, she walks in het mother's footsteps on Indian soil.
Robert, a sensitive man, left the Netherlands when his physical and mental problems reached a peak. Out of sheer desperation he fled to India, away from the Western society that -in his opinion- is only focused on consuming and working, searching for the meaning of life.
Elio, artist and esthetic refugee, is looking for poverty to quench his thirst for beauty. He is taking a stand against the -according to him- common notion that 'it is better to have more, that with little means life is not worth living and the goal of life is to get more'.
20 years ago, Geshe Kelsang Wangmo (Germany) converted to Tibetan buddhism and became a nun. She is the first woman to receive a 'geshe' degree, a doctor's degree in buddhist philosophy that until then only was reserved for men.
After getting her college degree in philosophy, Amberjade (23, USA) felt a strong pressure to go to grad school, but she didn't get in. She couldn't handle the social and mental pressure, the feelings of failure and depression coming from the rejection and left for India.
Leo Bormans travels the world as "Ambassador of Happiness & Quality of Life". He is writer and inspirator. He has a Master degree in Languages & Philosophy and is the author of the international bestseller "The World Book of Happiness".
www.leobormans.be
Bernard Coops (1976) – Direction, Film, Photography & Editing
Bernard is Photographer, Filmmaker and Designer / Art Director. He graduated in Illustration at the Art Academy CABK in Kampen, the Netherlands (now ArtEZ Zwolle), where he teaches new media since a couple of years. His photography and film can be found in the Rubin Museum in New York (Bodies in Balance - The Art of Tibetan Medicine: Men-Tsee-Khang, location Dharamsala) and Galery Laguanacazul in Buenos Aires (Vectores invertidos: Artistas Internacionales). Together with his wife Nellie he engages in documentary film projects, under which "The Art of Tibetan Medicine in the World Today: Men-Tsee-Khang, location Dharamsala", about Tibetan medicine in Exile, part of the exposition "Bodies in Balance" at the Rubin Museum in New York, "No Reply", about the Tibetan self-immolations, despair, protest and deaf ears, selected for the Online Competition of the Dutch Film Festival (NFF) and the current project "Is this it?", a search for happiness. As a Designer / Art Director he made among others a videowall at the Vermeer Center Delft, worked at the station identities of the Dutch broadcast channels rtl4, rtl 7, rtl 8 and Nederland 1, and made mood films for Bugaboo, Hema and de Bijenkorf.
www.bernardcoops.nl
www.odocu.nl
www.scoopdesign.nl
Nellie Stiny (1983) – Concept, Research, Direction & Text
Nellie is Psychologist, Filmmaker and Cultural Anthropologist to be. She graduated cum laude in Clinical Psychology at the University of Amsterdam and started working as a psychologist afterwards. Together with her husband Bernard Coops she made the documentary film projects ""The Art of Tibetan Medicine in the World Today: Men-Tsee-Khang, location Dharamsala", about Tibetan Medicine in Exile, part of the exposition 'Bodies in Balance' at the Rubin Museum in New York, "No Reply", about the Tibetan self-immolations, despair, protest and deaf ears, selected for the Online Competition of the Dutch Film Festival (NFF), and the current project "Is this it?", a search for happiness. At the moment she is following a pre-master program Cultural Anthropology at the Radboud University Nijmegen.
www.mindbloom.nl
JONS is a company specialised in music composition, audio post-production and sound design. JONS produces for commercial projects, such as broadcasting channels and commercials including Discovery, TLC, Disney, Virgin, Film1, Volkskrant, Adidas and EA games. JONS also worked on more cultural projects, such as the short films Emma&Eva (special mentioning at the Los Angeles Movie Awards) and Daniel (official selection Dutch Film Festival NFF) and the documentary Transformoney 2.0 from artist Dadara.
www.jons.nl
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Geluksprofessor Ruut Veenhoven (Erasmus universiteit Rotterdam) werkt mee aan onze documentaire! Met deze samenwerking zijn wij in staat om onze documentaire, naast de bijzondere beelden en verhalen uit India, ook te voorzien van een stukje wetenschappelijke kennis over geluk en de invloed die we op ons eigen geluk hebben.
Meer beeld :-) We hebben een nieuwe appetizer voor jullie! Teaser #1 'How Ria met Hari'.
Publicaties Lees de stukken die over ons project in de media zijn verschenen onderaan.
Wat is geluk? Is het maakbaar? En zo ja, hoe kunnen we gelukkiger worden? Veenhoven is wereldwijd bekende pionier op het gebied van wetenschappelijk onderzoek naar geluk, directeur van de 'World Database of Happiness' en oprichter van de 'Journal of Happiness Studies'. In onze documentaire zal Veenhoven antwoord geven op bovenstaande vragen. Tenminste... Als we het bedrag bij elkaar krijgen met crowdfunding...
We zitten inmiddels op 20%, dankzij deze vroege supporters hebben we een vliegende start kunnen maken! Maar we zijn er nog niet... Onze documentaire heeft jullie steun hard nodig, zodat wij deze inspirerende zoektocht naar geluk vol mooie beelden, verhalen en kennis binnenkort als eerste aan jullie, de supporters, en daarna aan het internationale publiek kunnen tonen!
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Een artikel dat Nellie heeft geschreven voor de Antropologen Beroepsvereniging: 'Is dit het nou? - een audiovisueel onderzoek. Hoe de migratie van West naar Oost iemands denkbeelden en gedrag beinvloedt.'
http://www.antropologen.nl/blog/668-is-dit-het-nou-een-audiovisueel-onderzoek
Een interview voor Vox magazine, onafhankelijk magazine van de Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen: 'Crowdfunding voor geluk'.
http://www.voxweb.nl/crowdfunding-voor-geluk/
Een artikel over ons project en de crowdfunding op Documentairenet: 'Crowdfunding: Is dit het nou'.
http://www.documentairenet.nl/nieuws/crowdfunding-is-dit-het-nou/
Een interview voor het marketing weblog van Olaf Molenaar: 'Een zoektocht naar geluk van Doetinchem naar Dharamsala.'
http://weblog-olafmolenaar.nl/post/100486063418/een-zoektocht-naar-geluk-van-doetinchem-naar-dharamsala
Een artikel in Doetinchems Vizier over ons project en onze aanwezigheid op de Blije Markt: 'Doetinchemse filmmakers zoeken geluk'.
http://www.deweekkrant.nl/pages.php?page=3051394
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Sista to Watch: Public Advocate Letitia James
Occupation: New York City Public Advocate
Hometown: Brooklyn, NY
Website: http://pubadvocate.nyc.gov
Twitter: @TishJames
About Letitia James
Letitia James is the Public Advocate for the City of New York, the second highest ranking elected office in the City. As Public Advocate, she serves as a direct link between New Yorkers and their government, acts as a watchdog over City agencies, and investigates complaints about City services.
Public Advocate James made history in 2014, by becoming the first woman of color to hold citywide office in New York City. In less than two years, Letitia James has transformed the Office of the Public Advocate to deliver real results and reforms for all New Yorkers.
She has her B.A. from the CUNY's Lehman College and her J.D. from Howard University School of Law and is a licensed attorney in New York.
HIGHER HEIGHTS: What inspired you to want to work in the political arena?
PUBLIC ADVOCATE JAMES: At Lehman College, I delved into the history of our country's social and civil justice, and learned about the movement's great leaders like Thurgood Marshall, Shirley Chisholm, Barbara Jordan and A. Philip Randolph.
It was these men and women and their accomplishments that inspired me to continue my education and go to law school, so that I could one day improve the lives of those in my community, borough, and now city. The same way I looked up to Shirley as a little girl, I also want to inspire girls to go for the dreams and to really seem themselves in me.
HIGHER HEIGHTS: What advice do you have for Black women that want to spark change?
PUBLIC ADVOCATE JAMES: As Black women, we will always be confronted by the "-isms" of life, and in these instances, it can be difficult to speak up or to act. But always remember it was the courage and action of a Black woman who led hundreds to freedom in the Underground Railroad, and Black women were the ones who started and led the successful fight to desegregate Alabama's bus system. It was a Black woman who broke a glass ceiling and became the first woman to run for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination. Now, Black women are leading the #BlackLivesMatter movement.
We have ALWAYS been change-makers when it comes to improving our communities and changing the world, but it takes confidence, courage, and persistence. None of these women, including the women in your own lives, were able to spark change without the three, so always act with confidence, lead with courage, and be persistent with completing every goal you have.
HIGHER HEIGHTS: What do you feel is the single most pressing issue facing Black women today and why?
PUBLIC ADVOCATE JAMES: There is a severe disparity between the physical and mental health of Black women and other women. Black women are significantly more likely to die from breast cancer than white women; Black women are twice as likely as white women to suffer from cervical cancer; and our children are three times as likely as white children to die of asthma.
Some of this can be linked to stigmas and stereotypes such as the "strong black woman who can put up with anything," but much of this disparity is linked to external factors. Black women are more likely to reside in food deserts, areas with high levels of pollution, and have less access to healthcare services or affordable health insurance.
This inequality and disparity in our physical and mental health is dire. It is, quite literally, killing us. Just as we stand up for our civil rights in all other aspects of lives, so too must we stand up for fundamental right to access to healthcare, our fundamental right to access to healthy food, and our fundament right to a clean environment.
HIGHER HEIGHTS: Tell us about a woman mentor that has helped you on your journey?
PUBLIC ADVOCATE JAMES" Shirley Chisholm is a daily inspiration to me. Shirley was a woman who never took "no" for an answer. And just as importantly, she was a principled woman who could find common ground even with people who were diametrically opposed to her. She was a deeply compassionate woman, who cared about doing what was right, not what was politically expedient. She confidently and courageously broke glass ceilings for millions of women in the United States. As a native Brooklynite, from the community that Shirley represented as the first Black woman in Congress, it is humbling to follow in her legacy and it is a privilege that I never take for granted.
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El equiseto de invierno  (Equisetum hyemale), es una especie de arbusto perteneciente a la familia Equisetaceae.

Distribución
Se encuentra en Norteamérica, Guatemala, Europa y Asia.

Descripción
Equisetum hyemale tiene tallos articulados verticales como de juncos de color verde oscuro. La tallos  son huecos y miden hasta 90 cm de altura.

Las pequeñas hojas están unidas alrededor del tallo, formando una banda estrecha o vaina de color negro-verde en cada articulación.

Al igual que otros helechos y sus parientes, la planta no produce flores o semillas. Los tallos son generalmente de hoja caduca en climas fríos, y permanecen durante el invierno en climas más cálidos. Forma densas colonias.

Usos
Es un arbusto rizomatoso que es muy rico en silicio y fue conocido en la antigüedad por ser utilizado para pulir los metales.

Sus características y propiedades son las mismas que las de Equisetum arvense.

La cola de caballo, sola o combinada con una o varias plantas, es empleada en enfermedades renales y de las vías urinarias. En Puebla (México) se prescribe la cocción de la planta sola, mientras que en el estado de Hidalgo(México), ésta se prepara acompañada con flor de peña (Selaginella lepidophylla), cabellos de elote (Zea mays), retama (Flaveria trinervia), frutos y hojas de manzanita (Arctostaphylos pungens), y se toma como agua de uso.

Por otra parte, el cocimiento de toda la planta también es útil para tratar padecimientos del aparato digestivo como gastritis, úlceras, vómito, dolor e inflamación de estómago. Inclusive se bebe cuando hay flujo hemorroidal, o contra el cansancio.

Química
En las partes aéreas de Equisetum hyemale se han identificado los carotenoides alfa y beta caroteno, luteína su epóxido, licofíl, violaxantín y zeaxantina, los flavonoides triglucopiranósidos de herbacetín y camferol, y los alcaloides nicotina y palustrina.

Taxonomía
Equisetum hyemale fue descrita por Carlos Linneo y publicado en Species Plantarum 2: 1062. 1753.

Etimología
Equisetum: nombre genérico que proviene del latín: equus = (caballo) y seta (cerda).

hyemale: epíteto latíno que significa "del invierno".

Variedades aceptadas
 Equisetum hyemale var. affine (Engelm.) A.A. Eaton
 Equisetum hyemale var. elatum (Engelm.) C.V. Morton

Sinónimos
 Equisetum robustum var. affine Engelmann 1844;
 Equisetum hyemale var. affine (Engelmann) A.A. Eaton;
 Equisetum hyemale var. californicum J.Milde;
 Equisetum hyemale var. pseudohyemale (Farwell) C.V. Morton;
 Equisetum hyemale var. robustum (A.Braun) A.A. Eaton;
 Equisetum prealtum Rafinesque
 Hippochaete hyemalis (L.) Farw.

Denominación popular
 Cola de caballo, rabo de caballo, rabo de mula, rabo de asno, cepacaballo.
 Equiseto mecánico

Referencias

Enlaces externos

 USDA PLANTS Profile
 Equisetum hyemale in Flora of North America
Missouri Botanical Garden, Kemper Center for Home Gardening — Equisetum hyemale (scouring rush)
Floridata — Equisetum hyemale.

hyemale
Plantas medicinales
Flora de México
Flora de América Central
Flora de Europa
Plantas descritas en 1753
Plantas descritas por Linnaeus

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A group of nurses from Musgrove Park Hospital, led by Hayley Tidball and Annette Vickery, organised a Jail Break from Shepton Mallet Prison, raising £1014 for Headway Somserset.
A group of nurses from Musgrove Park Hospital, led by Hayley Tidball and Annette Vickery, organised a Jail Break from Shepton Mallet Prison - with no money the plan was to get as far away from the prison as possible, by walking, hitching, cadging lifts from buses and trains. The girls did fantastically well, getting to Wales and raising the grand total of 1,014 to help local people affected by brain injury,and for theirtheir families and carers who are supported by the charity Headway Somerset.
Last week the girls handed over the sponsorship money raised to Headways Fundraising Manager Alison Mills at the hospital.
This has been one of the most novel ways that people have raised money for us commented Alison. The girls did so well to get as far as Wales and the money raised will help fund the services we provide through our three Brain Injury Outreach Units in Somerset.
For further information about the work of Headway Somerset please visit their website on http://www.headwaysomerset.org.uk/.


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Home / World News / Winter Storm Shuts Down 81 Miles of an Interstate in the Sierra Nevada
Winter Storm Shuts Down 81 Miles of an Interstate in the Sierra Nevada
A sprawling winter storm system continued to wreak havoc on Monday in the Western United States, where an 81-mile stretch of an interstate in the Sierra Nevada remained closed by blinding snow while temperatures plunged to record lows in Seattle.
The lingering system rendered several major highways and state roads in Northern California impassable, with public safety agencies posting video warnings of the extreme conditions.
The closed roads included Interstate 80, which was shut down from Placer County near Sacramento to the Nevada state line, and Highway 50 in Sacramento Valley and the Lake Tahoe Basin, according to Caltrans.
A winter storm warning remained in effect for most of the region until 9 p.m. local time on Monday, the National Weather Service said, adding that some areas could get another two feet of snow.
"The impacts on the roads are quite severe, and travel, in some cases, will be outright impossible," Andrew Orrison, a meteorologist in College Park, Md., at the Weather Prediction Center of the Weather Service, said on Monday.
On State Route 89, an avalanche closed the road from Tahoe City, Calif., to near Squaw Valley, the site of the Winter Olympics in 1960, the California Highway Patrol said on Twitter on Monday.
The storm, which began over the holiday weekend, shattered records for snowfall and low temperatures across the West.
At a research station operated by the Central Sierra Snow Lab of the University of California, Berkeley, the snowfall for December surpassed 193 inches as of Monday morning — a record, researchers said. The previous record of 179 inches was set in 1970, said the lab, which is at an elevation of 6,894 feet.
"P.S. Sorry for the late update today!" the lab said on Twitter. "That snow was deep and hard to get through to do the measurement. It took us 40 minutes to get from the front door of the lab to where the measurement is completed 50 yards away!"
In a region that has been beleaguered by wildfires and drought, the record-setting snowfall could have its benefits. "It's really good news for the water supply out there," Mr. Orrison said.
In California, there were more than 115,000 people without power as of 11:30 a.m. local time on Monday, many of them in the Sierra Nevada region, according to PowerOutage.us, a tracking website.
While people in the Sierra Nevada contended with deep snow, the Pacific Northwest grappled with an Arctic blast after the storm left several inches of snow across the region during the weekend.
For the second day in a row, Seattle broke a record on Monday for lowest temperature on that particular day.
At the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, a low of 17 degrees was recorded on Monday, Mr. Orrison said. That broke the record of 20 degrees for the day in 1968, he said, adding that the temperature could fall further later on Monday.
On Sunday, it was 20 degrees at Sea-Tac, breaking the record of 22 degrees in 1948, the Weather Service said.
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#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
#import "MCT_SBJsonBase.h"

/**
 @brief The JSON parser class.

 JSON is mapped to Objective-C types in the following way:

 @li Null -> NSNull
 @li String -> NSMutableString
 @li Array -> NSMutableArray
 @li Object -> NSMutableDictionary
 @li Boolean -> NSNumber (initialised with -initWithBool:)
 @li Number -> (NSNumber | NSDecimalNumber)

 Since Objective-C doesn't have a dedicated class for boolean values, these turns into NSNumber
 instances. These are initialised with the -initWithBool: method, and
 round-trip back to JSON properly. (They won't silently suddenly become 0 or 1; they'll be
 represented as 'true' and 'false' again.)

 As an optimisation short JSON integers turn into NSNumber instances, while complex ones turn into NSDecimalNumber instances.
 We can thus avoid any loss of precision as JSON allows ridiculously large numbers.

 */
@interface MCT_SBJsonParser : MCT_SBJsonBase {

@private
    const char *c;
}

/**
 @brief Return the object represented by the given string

 Returns the object represented by the passed-in string or nil on error. The returned object can be
 a string, number, boolean, null, array or dictionary.

 @param repr the json string to parse
 */
- (id)objectWithString:(NSString *)repr;

/**
 @brief Return the object represented by the given string

 Returns the object represented by the passed-in string or nil on error. The returned object can be
 a string, number, boolean, null, array or dictionary.

 @param jsonText the json string to parse
 @param error pointer to an NSError object to populate on error
 */

- (id)objectWithString:(NSString*)jsonText
                 error:(NSError**)error;

@end

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F.1 How to Embed Stabs in Sections

The assembler creates two custom sections, a section named .stab
which contains an array of fixed length structures, one struct per stab,
and a section named .stabstr containing all the variable length
strings that are referenced by stabs in the .stab section.  The
byte order of the stabs binary data depends on the object file format.
For ELF, it matches the byte order of the ELF file itself, as determined
from the EI_DATA field in the e_ident member of the ELF
header.  For SOM, it is always big-endian (is this true??? FIXME).  For
COFF, it matches the byte order of the COFF headers.  The meaning of the
fields is the same as for a.out (see Symbol Table Format), except
that the n_strx field is relative to the strings for the current
compilation unit (which can be found using the synthetic N_UNDF stab
described below), rather than the entire string table.

The first stab in the .stab section for each compilation unit is
synthetic, generated entirely by the assembler, with no corresponding
.stab directive as input to the assembler.  This stab contains
the following fields:

n_strx

Offset in the .stabstr section to the source filename.

n_type

N_UNDF.

n_other

Unused field, always zero.
This may eventually be used to hold overflows from the count in
the n_desc field.

n_desc

Count of upcoming symbols, i.e., the number of remaining stabs for this
source file.

n_value

Size of the string table fragment associated with this source file, in
bytes.

The .stabstr section always starts with a null byte (so that string
offsets of zero reference a null string), followed by random length strings,
each of which is null byte terminated.

The ELF section header for the .stab section has its
sh_link member set to the section number of the .stabstr
section, and the .stabstr section has its ELF section
header sh_type member set to SHT_STRTAB to mark it as a
string table.  SOM and COFF have no way of linking the sections together
or marking them as string tables.

For COFF, the .stab and .stabstr sections may be simply
concatenated by the linker.  GDB then uses the n_desc fields to
figure out the extent of the original sections.  Similarly, the
n_value fields of the header symbols are added together in order
to get the actual position of the strings in a desired .stabstr
section.  Although this design obviates any need for the linker to
relocate or otherwise manipulate .stab and .stabstr
sections, it also requires some care to ensure that the offsets are
calculated correctly.  For instance, if the linker were to pad in
between the .stabstr sections before concatenating, then the
offsets to strings in the middle of the executable’s .stabstr
section would be wrong.

The GNU linker is able to optimize stabs information by merging
duplicate strings and removing duplicate header file information
(see Include Files).  When some versions of the GNU linker optimize
stabs in sections, they remove the leading N_UNDF symbol and
arranges for all the n_strx fields to be relative to the start of
the .stabstr section.

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CREDIT: Lina Geoushy
The Decisive Moment January 2020
Breadwinners - Lina Geoushy
David Thorp Documentary Group decisive@rps.org
The January edition of the Documentary Group journal features work from the Documentary Photographer of the Year competition.
This is our first edition of 2020 which promises to be an interesting year in many ways.
We kick off with a celebration of the 'Best of 2019' with our shortlisted, finalists and winner of Documentary Photographer of the Year. Congratulations to all our successful entrants. We celebrated their success at RPS HQ, with our Awards Event. I also have to say a big thank you to the judges: Steve Kingswell and Alys Tomlinson.
Most of this edition is dedicated to the work of those shortlisted entries including insights about the projects. We already have exhibitions of DPOTY lined up in North Wales, South Wales and Newcastle and are planning some talks and opening events. We also hope to find locations in the Midlands and nearer London or Bristol to maximise the opportunity for people to see the work.
In February, we are hosting our first Advisory Day for Associateship and Fellowship in Documentary Photography at RPS HQ. This will be a great opportunity to understand what is needed to succeed in the documentary distinctions. We plan to have more, later in the year, depending on interest and demand.
We are also working on developing a new Workshop series dedicated to documentary. It is not focussed on distinctions, but on wider aspects of undertaking a documentary project. Having said that I am hoping it will provide insights to help people with their potential distinction panels. It is still very early days and we will update you in a future issue. I really hope we can develop something that helps throughout the entire lifecycle, from conception, through planning to execution, editing and final dissemination.
We have summed up many of these ideas in a new Plan for 2020-2021 which is in this edition. We are also using this to engage RPS Regions and RPS staff with the intent of putting on more joint events.


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EFF and Other Groups Fight State Department Collection of Social Media Information … Again
By David Ruiz
EFF and 54 civil liberties organizations joined comments this week written by the Brennan Center for Justice and the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) standing up against the U.S. government's plans to collect social media information from foreigners entering the United States. This is the fifth time we've fought this battle in the past two years.
The U.S. State Department's recent proposal is to collect social media identifiers, phone numbers, and email addresses used in the last five years from all visa applicants. This plan would apply to applicants seeking both immigrant and non-immigrant visas to the United States.
EFF opposed the plan in April 2018 when it was first revealed. As we wrote then, "This questioning invades the free speech and privacy rights of foreign visitors to the U.S., as well as the rights of their American friends, families, and professional associates." We also expressed concerns about the breadth of the program, which would affect 710,000 immigrant visa applicants and 14 million non-immigrant visa applicants, according to the State Department.
The proposal undermines civil liberties for everyone, unjustifiably burdening Muslims in particular. As we said in our comments, "Policies should be based on proof, not prejudice." Further, we argue that the risks to individual rights are not justified by any meaningful national security gain:
"[T]he data collection will facilitate the bulk mining and wide-ranging use of information about travelers and U.S. citizens, including for purposes beyond those articulated in the Public Notices, amplifying the concerns above. These drawbacks are in exchange for speculative national security benefits, especially considering the vanishingly small number of vetting failures that have permitted foreign-born persons to commit terrorist attacks on U.S. soil."
This is the latest social media-based proposal by the U.S. government that poses substantial risks to civil liberties without a clear operational benefit.
In August 2016, EFF opposed the plan by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to request social media handles—like those from Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, and Snapchat—from visitors to the United States from visa waiver countries. We sent comments both individually and as part of a larger coalition. Disappointingly, the Office of Management and Budget still approved CBP's proposal in December 2016.
In April 2017, EFF joined a coalition led by Asian Americans Advancing Justice to oppose CBP's plan to ask visa applicants from China about their social media identifiers.
In October 2017, we joined coalition comments—led by the Center for Democracy & Technology—opposing the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's plan to indefinitely store immigrants' social media information in government files, including that of lawful permanent residents and naturalized U.S. citizens.
Finally, in June and then in October 2017, EFF joined coalition comments—also led by the Brennan Center—to fight yet another expansion of social media information collection. That time, the State Department empowered consular officials to ask a subset of supposedly suspicious visa applicants for information about the social media platforms they use. Under the current proposal, the State Department would now ask this of all visa applicants to the United States.
The U.S. government has repeatedly claimed—without proof—that these social media collection proposals would curb attacks on U.S. soil. The government is using the same reasoning, and the same lack of proof, to substantiate this latest proposal by the State Department. As the current coalition comments highlight:
"While no public audits have yet been released for State Department social media collection, a February 2017 Inspector General audit of DHS's existing social media pilot programs found that insufficient metrics were in place to measure the programs' effectiveness, and concluded that existing pilots had provided little value in guiding the rollout of a department-wide social media screening program. Documents evaluating these pilot programs show in further detail how they were expensive and time consuming but provided little useful information."
We hope the department withdraws its proposal and preserves the free speech and privacy of millions of visa applicants and their families, friends, and co-workers, including those in the U.S.
You can read the full coalition comments here.
Travel Screening
Congress Should Pass the Protecting Data at the Border Act
Under the bipartisan Protecting Data at the Border Act, border officers would be required to get a warrant before searching a traveler's electronic device. Last month, the bill was re-introduced into the U.S. Senate by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.). It is co-sponsored by...
Deeplinks Blog by Saira Hussain, Sophia Cope | May 17, 2019
Seventh Circuit Dodges an Opportunity to Protect Travelers from Invasive Border Searches of Electronic Devices
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in United States v. Wanjiku missed an opportunity to protect travelers' privacy rights and check the government's ability to conduct invasive border searches of electronic devices. EFF, along with the ACLU, filed an amicus brief in the case arguing...
Deeplinks Blog by Adam Schwartz | April 30, 2019
We Got U.S. Border Officials to Testify Under Oath. Here's What We Found Out
This is a guest post by Hugh Handeyside, Senior Staff Attorney, ACLU National Security Project, Nathan Freed Wessler, Staff Attorney, ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, and Esha Bhandari, Staff Attorney, ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project. It was originally posted on the ACLU Speak Freely...
Press Release | April 30, 2019
New Documents Reveal DHS Asserting Broad, Unconstitutional Authority to Search Travelers' Phones and Laptops
BOSTON — The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the ACLU today asked a federal court to rule without trial that the Department of Homeland Security violates the First and Fourth Amendments by searching travelers' smartphones and laptops at airports and other U.S. ports of entry without a warrant.The request...
Deeplinks Blog by Sophia Cope, Adam Schwartz | February 15, 2019
EFF to State Department: Respect Freedom of Speech of Chinese Students
EFF joined a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo opposing a proposal to deploy stronger vetting procedures against Chinese students intending to study in the United States because the procedures would threaten the free speech interests of both Chinese students and their American associates. Reuters reported that...
Deeplinks Blog by Sophia Cope | July 23, 2018
EFF Files Amicus Brief in Seventh Circuit Supporting Warrant for Border Searches of Electronic Devices
EFF, joined by ACLU, filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit arguing that border agents need a probable cause warrant before searching personal electronic devices like cell phones and laptops. We filed our brief in a criminal case involving Donald Wanjiku, who...
Deeplinks Blog by Sophia Cope | June 4, 2018
Federal Appeals Court Errs a Second Time on Device Privacy at the Border
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit got it wrong—again—ruling last week in U.S. v. Touset that border agents may forensically search, without any suspicion of wrongdoing, travelers' electronic devices. The Eleventh Circuit ruled in March in U.S. v. Vergara that neither a warrant nor probable...
Deeplinks Blog by Karen Gullo | May 16, 2018
EFF to New York Appellate Court: No Warrantless Searches of Devices at the Border
In a month of court victories for travelers' digital privacy, EFF continues its legal fight for Fourth Amendment rights at the border. We filed an ...
Deeplinks Blog by Adam Schwartz, Sophia Cope, Aaron Mackey | May 14, 2018
Victory in Alasaad for Our Digital Privacy at the Border
Government searches of cell phones, laptops, and other electronic devices without a warrant when we cross the U.S. border may violate the First and Fourth Amendments, according to a powerful ruling by a federal court last week in a civil rights lawsuit brought by EFF and the ACLU. It...
EFF and ACLU Can Proceed With Legal Challenge Against Warrantless Searches of Travelers' Smartphones, Laptops
Boston, Massachusetts—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and the ACLU of Massachusetts won a court ruling today allowing their groundbreaking lawsuit challenging unconstitutional searches of electronic devices at the U.S. border to proceed—a victory for the digital rights of all international travelers. EFF and ACLU...


Old Gosport's quaint forsaken church.
Whose boats by these same waves were tossed.
The preaching and the songs of praise?
With its resistless strength of stone.
The church is standing here alone.
Together, chattering of their play.
God grant their rest is sweet and sound!
Beside me in the belfry brown.
I rang the knell for Gosport town.


The adoption of the Common Agricultural Policy after 2020 is unlikely to become during the mandate of this European Parliament. But even if there is a delay, this will not delay payments to the agricultural sector in Bulgaria. This was assured by Minister Rumen Porozhanov during a discussion in Sofia.
Representatives of 9 European countries, including Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Hungary, exchanged their positions on agricultural financing. They adopted a joint declaration and agreed to maintain tied support to farmers.
This means financing the production of individual crops that each country determines on its own.
The parties are also against the introduction of a ceiling on direct payments. If it still exists, however, each country must be able to determine when and how to apply it.
Bulgarian proposals have already been submitted to the European Parliament. The Multiannual Financial Framework is expected to be approved by the end of the year.


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Depor's coach rested importance to the strategy to be used in this game and emphasized the importance of the players. He's convinced that Rudy and Arizmendi will improve. Barca B's coach expects for a tough game and doesn't complain of the international break.
Recreativo confirmed its condition of leader at Segunda after its five chaser were unable to win their games during the weekend; Depor lost a big chance to enter into the promotion zone. Real Madrid Castilla won their first game of the season.
Disappointing draw for one of the favourite teams for the promotion spots, especially after coach Devesa had his best players available for the meeting. In the end Depor B suffered a lot and scored the equalizer in the last stretch of the match.
The papers are worried as Deportivo are still playing without getting good results at the Riazor; the media analyzed the many reasons why the Galicians are having so many problems to score the goals during the home meetings.
Disappointment after Deportivo missed the victory at the Riazor, the coach and the players understand that the team needs to improve a lot in order to get better results. The president said it will be hard to make signings before the winter window.
Depor still missing the goals at the Riazor; this time the Galicians had four clear chances, but the crossbar and the lack of aim prevented the third straight win. At least the rival missed to score and therefore Deportivo got its first draw on the league tournament.
Arizmendi is a last-minute casualty and Rudy is entering into the starting eleven. Deportivo search for the second win at home and it needs to score goals for it. The rival is a team that plays much better in the second halves.
Depor's coach revealed big part of his plans for the game, including the presence of Rudy at the starting formation. Meanwhile, Mirandés' coach is respectful of the Riazor's history and the possible consequences for his team.
For the first time on the season there were no draws during one single matchday, while Recreativo is the first team that's able to stay at the top of the standings during two straight matchdays. Castilla about to break a negative record.


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Utah Woman Charged With Lewdness After Being Topless In Her Own Home
By Laurel Wamsley
A Utah woman has been charged with lewdness in her own home after her stepchildren walked into the room and saw her bare chest.
Attorneys for the American Civil Liberties Union of Utah argued this week that the statute under which Tilli Buchanan, 27, was charged is unconstitutional, and they have asked a judge to drop the charges against her and change the state law.
Buchanan and her husband had been installing drywall in the garage and had taken off their shirts that were itchy from the fibers, she told The Salt Lake Tribune.
When her stepchildren, aged 9, 10 and 13, walked in, she "explained she considers herself a feminist and wanted to make a point that everybody should be fine with walking around their house or elsewhere with skin showing," her lawyers wrote in court documents, The Associated Press reports.
Now the state has charged Buchanan with three charges of lewdness involving a child. The charge is a Class A misdemeanor.
Though her husband was similarly clad, he was not charged with a crime.
The state's lewdness statute criminalizes exposure of "the female breast below the top of the areola" in the presence of a child in a private place "under circumstances the person should know will likely cause affront or alarm."
If convicted, Buchanan faces imprisonment, fines and the requirement to register as a sex offender for 10 years.
"It was in the privacy of my own home. My husband was right next to me in the same exact manner that I was, and he's not being prosecuted," she told reporters after the court hearing.
The charges were filed after the children's mother told that authorities she was "alarmed" by the incident, according the AP.
Buchanan's case raises a number of constitutional concerns, says Leah Farrell, an attorney at the ACLU of Utah.
To begin with, "the criminalizing of behavior that many people don't consider criminal, and is normal."
Most people wouldn't consider, for instance, that they "might be brought into court because of their dealing with their dirty clothes within their house. Anything that really extends the criminal justice system into people's homes in this way is something that we're interested in looking at closer," Farrell says.
And then there's the gender issue.
"Simply because Miss Buchanan is a woman, she is facing this charge," Farrell says. "Therefore, women throughout Utah are at higher risk of facing a criminal charge simply because of their gender. There are different ideas around what morality is or is not. But the state's reach to criminalize morality based on gender and gender stereotyping is incredibly problematic."
Farrell notes that the statute's language requiring women to predict whether going topless is likely to cause "affront or alarm" imposes an additional burden that is not required of men.
Ryan Robinson, West Valley City prosecutor, would not comment on the case, except to say that city prosecutors "see our role as enforcing the law of the state of Utah as enacted by our state legislature, and we're excited to see what the judge decides."
The judge said she will rule in the coming months.
In February, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a federal judge's ruling that an ordinance in Fort Collins, Colo., banning women from being topless in public was unconstitutional. Fort Collins decided not to appeal the court's decision, after spending more than $300,000 to defend its ban.
That case concerned women being treated differently in public rather than in private. If anything, Buchanan may have a stronger case, says Farrell: "You wouldn't think you would lose those protections within the private space of your home."
The courtroom battles are one front in what's called the "free the nipple" movement.
In August, three women who were arrested and convicted for being topless at a New Hampshire beach asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear their case. They argue that the city ordinance barring women from showing their nipples in public is inherently discriminatory on the basis of gender.
Facebook has also been criticized for its ban on images of women with "uncovered female nipples except in the context of breastfeeding, birth giving and after-birth moments, health-related situations (for example, post-mastectomy, breast cancer awareness or gender confirmation surgery) or an act of protest." Instagram's policy on female nipples is similar.
More than 100 people lay nude in front of Facebook's New York offices in May, holding aloft images of female nipples in protest of the company's policies.
Laurel Wamsley
Laurel Wamsley is a reporter for NPR's News Desk. She reports breaking news for NPR's digital coverage, newscasts, and news magazines, as well as occasional features. She was also the lead reporter for NPR's coverage of the 2019 Women's World Cup in France.
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Q: Avoid loosing focus in children Feel free to edit the question title if you find something better.

I am writing a little plugin for my website,

var main = document.getElementById("main"),
  fakeInput = document.getElementById("fakeInput"),
  zone = document.getElementById("zone"),
  input = document.getElementById("input");

main.addEventListener("focusin", function() {
  zone.style.display = "block";
});
main.addEventListener("focusout", function() {
  zone.style.display = "none";
});
#main {
  width: 200px;
}
#fakeInput {
  background: blue;
  height: 22px;
}
#zone {
  background-color: red;
  height: 100px;
  text-align: center;
}
click in the blue zone :

Click in the input :

    <input id="input" type="text" />

when I click on it, it opens (great !). I can click (almost) anywhere, the "focusout" event is not triggered.
Almost, because the input child steal the focus to its parent.
I read here : http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/events/blurfocus.html

focusin and focusout
Fire at the same time as focus and blur, but bubble

In my example, It seems that the focusin event of the input field never reach its parent.
I am looking for a way to fix this, any hints ?

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The focusout event is sent to an element when it, or any element
  inside of it, loses focus. This is distinct from the blur event in
  that it supports detecting the loss of focus from parent elements (in
  other words, it supports event bubbling).

Therefore there is a difference between this.
main.addEventListener("focusin", function() {
  zone.style.display = "block";
});
main.addEventListener("focusout", function() {
  zone.style.display = "none";
});

And this.
main.addEventListener("focus", function() {
  zone.style.display = "block";
});
main.addEventListener("blur", function() {
  zone.style.display = "none";
});

See this JSFiddle.

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In my example, It seems that the focusin event of the input field never reach its parent.

In fact it does. Try to add some debug:
main.addEventListener("focusin", function(event) {
  console.log('focusin', event.target)
  zone.style.display = "block";
});
main.addEventListener("focusout", function(event) {
  console.log('focusout', event.target)
  zone.style.display = "none";
});

and you'll see

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East Dunseith és una concentració de població designada pel cens dels Estats Units a l'estat de Dakota del Nord. Segons el cens del 2000 tenia una població de 219 habitants.

Demografia
Segons el cens del 2000, East Dunseith tenia 219 habitants, 59 habitatges, i 50 famílies. La densitat de població era de 70,5 hab./km².

Dels 59 habitatges en un 67,8% hi vivien nens de menys de 18 anys, en un 23,7% hi vivien parelles casades, en un 55,9% dones solteres, i en un 13,6% no eren unitats familiars. En el 10,2% dels habitatges hi vivien persones soles l'1,7% de les quals corresponia a persones de 65 anys o més que vivien soles. El nombre mitjà de persones vivint en cada habitatge era de 3,71 i el nombre mitjà de persones que vivien en cada família era de 3,8.

Per edats la població es repartia de la següent manera: un 53% tenia menys de 18 anys, un 9,1% entre 18 i 24, un 27,9% entre 25 i 44, un 8,7% de 45 a 60 i un 1,4% 65 anys o més.

L'edat mediana era de 16 anys. Per cada 100 dones de 18 o més anys hi havia 60,9 homes.

La renda mediana per habitatge era de 8.667 $ i la renda mediana per família de 7.083 $. Els homes tenien una renda mediana de 21.250 $ mentre que les dones 13.750 $. La renda per capita de la població era de 3.026 $. Entorn del 85,7% de les famílies i el 86,6% de la població estaven per davall del llindar de pobresa.

Poblacions més properes
El següent diagrama mostra les poblacions més properes.

Referències

Comtat de Rolette
Entitats de població de Dakota del Nord


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Minnesota Hospital Fires 32 Over HIPAA Violations
Home » Healthcare Data Privacy » Minnesota Hospital Fires 32 Over HIPAA Violations
Posted By HIPAA Journal on May 12, 2011
When employees violate patient privacy rights and access Protected Health Information without authorization, it usually results in the termination of that employee's contract. However a hospital in Minnesota has recently fired 32 employees for widespread snooping on the health records of patients.
Allina Hospitals and Clinics took action against employees in two hospitals in its network; the Mercy Hospital in Coon Rapids and the Unity Hospital in Fridley. The inappropriate access all related to patients who had been admitted in the same incident; a party in a neighboring town in which individuals had suffered drug overdoses.
The party was in Blaine, and one patient died of a drug overdose and 11 more required hospital treatment. The incident was attributed to a synthetic drug that was supplied to the partygoers. An incident of this nature and scale naturally aroused the interest of hospital staff; however HIPAA Rules prevent doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals from accessing the medical records of individuals out of curiosity.
Medical records are private and can only be accessed for work purposes and any snooping, whether with malicious intent or not, is a breach of patient privacy regulations. None of the individuals concerned had any legitimate work-related reason for accessing the medical records, leaving the hospital system with no alternative but to terminate the contracts of all employees concerned.
The scale of the incident may be shocking, but this is just one of many cases of inappropriate accessing of medical records reported each month to the Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights. This year the University Medical Center in Tucson, AZ, was forced to terminate the employment contracts of three members of staff for accessing medical records that they were not authorized to view.
The Mayo Clinic also suffered a breach in which approximately 2,000 records were accessed by an employee over a period of four years at the company's Arizona Business Center.
Training Must be Provided to Help Prevent Unauthorized Accessing of PHI
Breaches caused by employees snooping on the medical records of patients is a difficult security vulnerability to tackle, and almost impossible to prevent entirely. The provision of training on HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules will help to ensure that all members of staff are made aware of the reasons why data must be protected. Training sessions should also be provided regularly to make sure HIPAA Rules are always kept fresh in the mind.
It is also essential that the staff is made aware of the actions that will be taken by the hospital if PHI is accessed without authorization, and polices must be developed to routinely monitor for inappropriate access. This will ensure that the risk of snooping and unauthorized access is kept to a minimal level.


Bandai Namco Entertainment has released their very first trailer for Puyo Puyo eSports.
Puyo Puyo eSports is releasing as a digital title for Nintendo Switch on October 25, 2018 in Japan. The game will cost 1999 yen. No word on a western release, but there are signs pointing to one.


Eating fast food exposes people to higher levels of potentially noxious chemicals known as phthalates, says research published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives.
Phthalates can leach into processed food from packaging.
Phthalates come from a class of industrial chemicals that are used to make food packaging materials and other items involved in the manufacture of fast food and dairy produce.
Previous studies have suggested that these chemicals leach out of plastic food packaging, causing contamination of highly processed foods.
Researchers at Milken Institute School of Public Health at the George Washington University in Washington, DC, led by Ami Zota, are among the first to investigate the relationship between fast-food consumption and exposure to the chemicals.
Zota and coauthors examined data for 8,877 participants. To gather the information, they distributed a questionnaire and collected a urinary sample for each respondent.
The subjects answered detailed questions on what food they had eaten, including fast food, in the last 24 hours.
The researchers tested the urinary samples to see if they contained the breakdown products of two phthalates: di-isononyl phthalate (DiNP) and di-2-ethylhexylphlatate (DEHP).
Findings showed that the more fast food an individual reported eating, the higher their exposure to phthalates.
Compared with those who had not consumed fast food, the urine of participants who ate the most fast food had 23.8% higher levels of the breakdown product for DEHP, and the levels of DiNP metabolites were 40% higher.
Meat items and grain-based foods, such as bread, cake, pizza, burritos, rice dishes and noodles, appeared to contribute the most significantly to phthalate exposure, supporting previous findings that grains are an important source of phthalate exposure.
Another chemical used in plastic food packaging, Bisphenol A (BPA), has been linked with health and behavioral problems, especially among young children. Zota's team also looked for signs of BPA among their participants.
The team found no association between total fast-food intake and BPA, but those who consumed fast-food meat products had higher BPA levels than those who had not eaten fast food.
"People who ate the most fast food had phthalate levels that were as much as 40% higher. Our findings raise concerns because phthalates have been linked to a number of serious health problems in children and adults."
Ongoing research suggests that phthalates feature in a range of personal products, toys, perfume and even foods. In 2008, Congress banned phthalates in children's toys due to concerns that they could be hazardous to health.
There is also evidence that DEHP and DiNP leach out of products and into the body, potentially causing problems for the reproductive system, including infertility.
However, they remain in use, and it could be years before large studies confirm a link between phthalates, fast food and health problems, says Zota.
Meanwhile, she suggests avoiding frequent consumption of fast foods because of the amounts of fat, salt and calories that they contain.
She says people "can't go wrong by eating more fruits and vegetables and less fast food." She adds that the health benefits of consuming whole foods "go far beyond the question of phthalates."
Medical News Today previously reported on research suggesting that phthalates in food containers can lead to hypertension.
Recent fast food consumption and Bisphenol A and phthalates exposures among the US population in NHANES, 2003–2010, Ami R. Zota et al., Environmental Health Perspectives, doi:10.1289/ehp.1510803, 13 April 2016, abstract.
George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health news release, accessed 13 April 2016.
Brazier, Yvette. "High levels of phthalates detected in people who eat fast food." Medical News Today. MediLexicon, Intl., 17 Apr. 2016. Web.


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Home›Music›Watch Now: Noé - Rabbit Hole
Watch Now: Noé - Rabbit Hole
"Rabbit Hole" served as the final single before the release of ibynoé, the debut EP from the Paris-born/LA-based songstress. And now, with the project out for just shy of a month, Noé keeps the momentum going with an official visual for the Matt Parad and Jerry Folk-produced track. Upon release, "Rabbit Hole" stood out as a departure from the previous work shared by Noé, entering the sonic stage with a far more raw and unfiltered foundation. Keeping in line with the record itself, the Matt Marenyi and Lucas Conway-directed visual experience – although as visually stimulating as Noé's video catalogue – is quite the trip into the eccentrically enigmatic headspace of Noé.
The video is chaotic, messy and distorted, with Noé seemingly trapped within the confines of a single room. Over the course of the video, she takes on various activities, is joined off and on by a group of people and, apparently, is around for the untimely death of a giant stuffed teddy bear. Viewers still experience vibrant, albeit it darker toned, colors but "Rabbit Hole" is quite the shift from the calming pastel arrangements featured in previous flicks. If the song was intended to eliminate the possibility of being boxed in sonically, the video does an exceptional job furthering that goal.
The ambiguous nature of "Rabbit Hole" leaves a lot up for interpretation, which adds dimension to the already layered record. Perhaps Noé is using the visual as a representation of an emotional state of mind. As the video rolls on, we witness Noé setting the vibe and making the most out of her predicament. Or, of course, the video could have a completely different underlying meaning – one of the highlights of Noé's work thus far is the depth of subliminal themes weaved throughout her music and accompanying videos.
Closing out "Rabbit Hole" is a powerful scene with Noé flashing the slightest of smiles. Without any flashy bells or whistles, the end of the video is able to say so much with a simple glimmer of an expression of hope.
ibynoé is available now on all your favorite streaming platforms.
Enjoy "Rabbit Hole" below.
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The Suggie does get warm but not hot, and I would suggest it needs some ventilation but Sugden may be able to direct you better to how well they work in cabinets.
Sorry I've taken a few days getting back to you.
I really love the combination of the sugden with the Harbeths, having said that I don't have a huge experience of using multiple other amplifiers with them. Alan Shaw would be keen to point out that they work well with any well designed amplifier, but my feeling is that they are very highly revealing of what is upstream from them.
I have used previously with them Rothwell amplification (stepped attenuator pre and MOSFET monoblocks) gorgeous with well recorded material but dreadful with anything mainstream. I have also had a go with base model creek amplification, lovely little amplifiers but the Suggie really projects a much bigger sound stage.


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FIRST NAVAL CONFLICT BETWEEN IRON CLAD VESSELS. IN HAMPTON ROADS, MARCH 9TH 1862. THE,
Charles Parsons
Three-stone lithograph with handcolored details, 1862
The main image is 8 11/16 x 14 1/16" (221 x 359 mm) plus nine vignettes, title and margins.
Fair condition. Water stain along bottom paper edge to just above title line. Original color is somewhat washed out, small tear along right edge, toning. As is...	LOCATION: New York City
Inventory Number: 11488
Publisher : Endicott & Co, Lith. New York.	A dramatic image of the fist battle between iron clad vessels. The Merrimac originally had been a steam frigate in the U.S. Navy. At the beginning of the Civil War the confederates captured the Norfolk navy yard where the ship was laid up. The Union forces burned the yard and all the ships there. The Confederates raised her, found the hull was still sound, and built a gun deck with a slanting citadel protected by a two inch sheath of iron. They rechristened her the C.S.S. Virginia. When news of this reconstruction reached the Federal Navy Department, they contracted John Ericsson to design a counterpart. At Brooklyn's Navy Yard. Ericsson designed and built the U.S.S. Monitor, an armor-plated raft with a revolving gun turret amidships. Both were launched in early 1862 and met just inside the entrance to the Chesapeake Bay. The battle was inconclusive - the two ships lay side by side, solidly pounding each other, yet neither incurred serious damage. Both retired from the battle after a few hours. Surrounding the main image is a series of detailed images, including six interior views of the ship and a portrait of Ericson.	18th-19th Century Subjects , Historical , Civil War
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According to Dr. Perlman, of M.I.T., scores on the new essay section of the SAT's can be predicted by the length of the essay alone, 90% of the time. Longer essay, better score, shorter essay, lower score. This is a sad state of affairs, and it is sad to note that one of the few mentally stimulating parts of the SAT test, word analogies, has been dropped. For Stopdown page on education click here.
The New York Times, May 4, 2005 pB9(L)
SAT Essay Test Rewards Length And Ignores Errors of Fact. (Metropolitan Desk)(Education Page)(ON EDUCATION) Michael Winerip.
Full Text: COPYRIGHT 2005 The New York Times Company
IN March, Les Perelman attended a national college writing conference and sat in on a panel on the new SAT writing test. Dr. Perelman is one of the directors of undergraduate writing at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He did doctoral work on testing and develops writing assessments for entering M.I.T. freshmen. He fears that the new 25-minute SAT essay test that started in March -- and will be given for the second time on Saturday -- is actually teaching high school students terrible writing habits.
''It appeared to me that regardless of what a student wrote, the longer the essay, the higher the score,'' Dr. Perelman said. A man on the panel from the College Board disagreed. ''He told me I was jumping to conclusions,'' Dr. Perelman said. ''Because M.I.T. is a place where everything is backed by data, I went to my hotel room, counted the words in those essays and put them in an Excel spreadsheet on my laptop.''
In the next weeks, Dr. Perelman studied every graded sample SAT essay that the College Board made public. He looked at the 15 samples in the ScoreWrite book that the College Board distributed to high schools nationwide to prepare students for the new writing section. He reviewed the 23 graded essays on the College Board Web site meant as a guide for students and the 16 writing ''anchor'' samples the College Board used to train graders to properly mark essays.
He was stunned by how complete the correlation was between length and score. ''I have never found a quantifiable predictor in 25 years of grading that was anywhere near as strong as this one,'' he said. ''If you just graded them based on length without ever reading them, you'd be right over 90 percent of the time.'' The shortest essays, typically 100 words, got the lowest grade of one. The longest, about 400 words, got the top grade of six. In between, there was virtually a direct match between length and grade.
He was also struck by all the factual errors in even the top essays. An essay on the Civil War, given a perfect six, describes the nation being changed forever by the ''firing of two shots at Fort Sumter in late 1862.'' (Actually, it was in early 1861, and, according to ''Battle Cry of Freedom'' by James M. McPherson, it was ''33 hours of bombardment by 4,000 shot and shells.'')
Dr. Perelman contacted the College Board and was surprised to learn that on the new SAT essay, students are not penalized for incorrect facts. The official guide for scorers explains: ''Writers may make errors in facts or information that do not affect the quality of their essays. For example, a writer may state 'The American Revolution began in 1842' or '''Anna Karenina,'' a play by the French author Joseph Conrad, was a very upbeat literary work.''' (Actually, that's 1775; a novel by the Russian Leo Tolstoy; and poor Anna hurls herself under a train.) No matter. ''You are scoring the writing, and not the correctness of facts.''
How to prepare for such an essay? ''I would advise writing as long as possible,'' said Dr. Perelman, ''and include lots of facts, even if they're made up.'' This, of course, is not what he teaches his M.I.T. students. ''It's exactly what we don't want to teach our kids,'' he said.
SAT graders are told to read an essay just once and spend two to three minutes per essay, and Dr. Perelman is now adept at rapid-fire SAT grading. This reporter held up a sample essay far enough away so it could not be read, and he was still able to guess the correct grade by its bulk and shape. ''That's a 4,'' he said. ''It looks like a 4.''
A report released this week by the National Council of Teachers of English mirrors Dr. Perelman's criticism of the new SAT essay. It cautions that a single, 25-minute writing test ignores the most basic lesson of writing -- that good writing is rewriting. It warns that the SAT is pushing schools toward ''formulaic'' writing instruction.
This is a far cry from all the hoopla when the new SAT was announced two years ago. College Board officials described it as a tool that could transform American education, forcing schools to better teach writing. A ''great social experiment,'' Time magazine said.
In an interview, five top College Board officials strongly defended the writing test but sounded more muted about its usefulness. ''The SAT essay should not be the primary way kids learn to write,'' said Wayne Camara, vice president for research. ''It's one basic writing skill. If that's all the writing your high school English department is teaching, you have a problem.''
They said that while there was a correlation between writing long and a high score, it was not as significant as Dr. Perelman stated. Graders also reward good short essays, they said, but the College Board erred by failing to release such samples to the public. ''We will change that,'' said Chiara Coletti, a vice president.
As to facts not mattering, they said it was a necessary accommodation on such a short, high-pressure test. ''We know students don't write well when they're anxious,'' said Ed Hardin, a College Board test specialist. ''We don't want them not to go forward with that little detail. Our attitude is go right ahead with that missing date or fact and readers should be instructed not to count off for that.''
Cynics say the new essay is window dressing added to placate California officials who in 2001 were calling the old SAT outmoded and were threatening to stop requiring it. In a recent paper, Edward White of the University of Arizona notes, ''As long ago as 1999, in College Board Report No. 99-3, a research team pointed out that 'writing assessments based on a single essay, even those read and scored twice, have extremely low reliability.'''
Indeed, the College Board's own advanced placement tests require multiple essays, but officials say that is not possible for the SAT, which at nearly four hours, is being criticized as too long.
''You can't base a lot on one essay,'' Dr. Camara of the College Board admitted. He said that was why the new SAT writing section also included 49 multiple-choice questions on grammar and style. Multiple-choice counts for 75 percent of the new writing grade; the essay 25 percent. ''The multiple-choice makes the writing test valid,'' he says. In short, the most untrustworthy part of the new SAT writing section is the writing sample.


The immigration courts in the United States have a backlog of over 520,000 cases. This has led to an increased failure to deliver case decisions in a fair and timely manner to those requesting for refuge or fighting deportation. Government officials report that there are a very limited number of judges in the U.S. courts who are working with a set of overburdened clerks. This has naturally led to an administrative breakdown and delays in nearly 56 courts in the nation.
Edhite Pouken Shienji is a woman belonging to Cameroon, who has been trying to seek asylum for the past 14 years. After this long delay, she was finally given a date for a court hearing. However, a last minute emergency led the judge to prioritize the cases of some Central American migrants. Shienji's hearing has now been postponed to 2019.
It seems like the U.S. courts will serve as a major hurdle in the President's plans of deporting a staggering three million immigrants who apparently hold criminal records. Thousands of these deportations would have to garner the approval of the U.S. immigration judges.
According to Benjamin Johnson, executive director, American Immigration Lawyers Association, the system was failing earlier; but it has now reached a dangerous tipping point.
Officials report that the building of this backlog started several years ago when President Obama took the initiative to step up immigration legislation. At the same time, Congress was trying to reduce spending. Hence, the problem got escalated because the hiring of judges was halted between 2011 and 2014. The immigration courts, unlike other judiciary courts, are under the administration of the Justice Department.
In the latter part of 2014, the courts were given orders by justice officials to hurry up with asylum claims that came from parents and children of Central America. As a result, all other cases were pushed back. Officials were hopeful that migrants would be immediately deported after being denied citizen status and the remaining population of Central America would be discouraged from trying to apply for migration.
There are about 161,000 cases from Central America that have seen the daylight since 2014. However, judges have only managed to complete a handful of 67,000 cases (40% of the total number) as yet.