How is Fluid Intelligence Different from Crystallized Intelligence?
To the uninformed person, this may seem like whether we are flexible or adamant in our thinking and rationalities! However, everybody has fluid and crystallized intelligence. Let's learn about them and their differences.
The first time the terms fluid intelligence and crystallized intelligence are mentioned, it feels like the world is challenging your intelligence and calling you adamant and unaccommodating! But once you gather what it means, you are all ears! Psychology is really such an interesting subject.
Fluid intelligence and crystallized intelligence were coined by Raymond Cattell - a renowned psychologist known for his significant contributions to understanding human intelligence and his famous 16PF Questionnaire.
Even prior to Cattell, the idea of there being two different kinds of intelligences was making its rounds in the psychology fraternity.
Charles Spearman was the first one to have developed the theory of general intelligence (g). He theorized general intelligence and then segregated it into two basic types, viz. educative and reproductive. This is what laid the foundations for the concepts of fluid intelligence (Gf) and crystallized intelligence (Gc).
Basic understanding and comprehension skills is what comes under fluid intelligence. Fluid intelligence is like your means to understand your world. It encompasses learning abilities, logic, problem-solving abilities, pattern recognition and the likes.
Fluid intelligence is hence, independent of any knowledge or information we may have gathered prior to a particular instance of the application of fluid intelligence. It does not 'increase' or 'decrease' with age per se, because it talks more about our abilities and abilities cannot be quantified.
However, according to a study conducted by Susanne M. Jaeggi, fluid intelligence can be improved through training (the original research paper can be found on the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences website). It is said that fluid intelligence is at its peak in young age but declines steadily with age.
Crystallized intelligence deals with acquired knowledge which we can recall and reuse at a later point of time. The acquisition and expansion of crystallized knowledge thus, depends on fluid intelligence. It is that which one acquires through experience of the world around us. Reasoning ability is also a part of our crystallized intelligence.
Education, experience, environment, all contribute to it; but they CAN contribute because of our ability to comprehend these things, or - in other words - our fluid intelligence. Crystallized intelligence can hence be quantitatively increased.
By the time man had begun to inquire about 'human intelligence' and what it exactly means, what is its nature, etc., the idea of there being multiple intelligences had already held ground. Different kinds of things need different abilities, and our general intelligence is equipped with all the necessary devices to deal with it.
Fluid intelligence (Gf) is like the software of a phone, for example. The software is what enables different applications to run smoothly on the phone. Crystallized intelligence, on the other hand, are the applications themselves. You can acquire innumerable number of applications on your phone.
However, if the software of your phone does not support a particular application, it won't be able to run the application! Fortunately, it is not so crude for humans. The amount of crystallized intelligence a person acquires does depend on his/her fluid intelligence, but we are not altogether at the mercy of this intelligence!
Different parts of the brain - or rather, different brain-systems - are responsible for fluid and crystallized intelligence. Fluid intelligence involves all the systems related to short-term memory - one of them is the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. On the other hand, crystallized intelligence is dealt with by brain systems involved in long-term memory.
It is believed that the fluid intelligence of an individual is affected in diseases such as Autism spectrum disorders (ASD), Autism spectrum conditions (ASC), and even Asperger syndrome, etc. This could probably answer why such people are still exceptionally gifted in doing certain things or tasks that are governed by acquired crystallized intelligence.
There are several tests that have been devised by leading psychologists to 'measure' these two types of intelligence that every human being possesses. A couple of the most common tests to measure fluid intelligence is the RPM - Raven Progressive Matrices, and the Cattell Culture Fair IQ Test.
Even apart from medical reasons, these tests are fun to take - maybe you could take one yourself. Chances are you will do well. But if you don't, don't be bogged down! You are probably just tired! Look forward to solving your doubts and keep exploring!


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Health beliefs, optimism, and preventive health decisions in Hong Kong Chinese
Julian C. L. LAI, P. Nicholas HAMID, Sheung-Tak CHENG
Department of Health and Physical Education (HPE)
The effects of components of the Health Belief Model and optimism on preventive intention were examined in 220 Hong Kong Chinese. Two Health Belief Model variables, benefits and barriers, were experimentally manipulated for an imaginary flu outbreak and a hypothetical vaccine. Participants indicated their intentions to take the hypothetical vaccine after reading each of the treatment combinations defined by the two Health Belief Model variables. Results of an ANOVA suggested that higher benefits and lower barriers were associated with stronger behavioral intentions to take the vaccine. Optimism, however, had no significant effect on preventive intentions. Implications of these findings for future research among Chinese were discussed. Copyright © 1999 Select Press, Corte Madera, CA, 415/435-4461.
Journal of Social Behavior and Personality
Lai, J. C. L., Hamid, P. N., & Cheng, S.-T. (1999). Health beliefs, optimism, and preventive health decisions in Hong Kong Chinese. Journal of Social Behavior and Personality, 14(1), 147-158.
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It's easy if you try hard enough. Just take one leap, one hundred feet plunging. One hundred hands pulling you down. One hundred feelings of liberation. Inhale, exhale, the rhythmic pulse a hundred times quicker. Adrenaline, windswept locks, half crested smile. One hundred ways to do it, but you chose this. One leap. It's the only way you tell yourself. Total and utter liberation. Sense? Yes, liberation; you keep telling yourself. A hundred voices whisper, a million thoughts running. Goodbye. Shut up, shut up, shut up. It's the only way. You take the plunge, one hundred feet. Oh, how brave. It's the only way. You close your eyes, a hundred flashes. The shutters slowly closing in on you. And then the inevitable – silence. Liberation.
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4 Architect & Design Publications to Know About
If your organization serves the architect and design industry, knowing the editorial format of A&D publications is essential. From a PR perspective, this knowledge allows you to better communicate your brand's story. It can also drive greater brand awareness and perception. And yes, it can even generate leads and sales opportunities.
As B2B PR agency that works with many brands in the A&D industry, we have our pulse on numerous publications that reach key A&D decision makers.
It's our job to know the editors at these A&D publications. We also know their editorial format. We understand the issues they cover and don't. We know what stories to pitch and how our clients might gain coverage.
In short, these architect and design publications are our editorial partners. We seek to be a resource to help them and our clients achieve mutual goals.
Architect and Design Publications Leading the Way
Here are four architect and design publications that should be on the radar of any brand serving the A&D community.
Architectural Products
As its name suggests, Architectural Products places a strong amount of its editorial coverage on product news and product innovation. AP aims to separate itself through its case study method: "An editorial presentation of products framed by a success story." In other words, these articles show how products, materials and systems add value to a project. AP also covers the industry with editorial commentary and noteworthy projects. It does a great job of covering major trade shows ranging from AHR Expo and NeoCon to AIA and Lightfair.
AP has long been a friend to Spaulding Communications. Their editorial staff is always receptive to story pitches. They regularly include byline articles and case studies authored by manufacturers. We also enjoy the annual Product Innovation Award (PIA) contest. AP publishes six times a year. Learn more about AP.
Spaulding Communications worked with AP to get a client's new products featured on the front page of their publication following NeoCon.
The Architect's Newspaper
The Architect's Newspaper (AN) covers a wide range of industry news and projects. It bills itself as a publication that delivers "up to the minute news." The print edition is published eight times per year and boasts an audience of about 100,000. It administers several awards, including the Best of Product Award. This is a great award for manufacturers looking to gain credibility for their innovative products.
Its sister publication, AN Interior, is published three time a year. It has an estimated national audience of about 60,000. AN Media Group also puts on the Facades+ and TECH+ expos. Its digitally-based C|E Strong platform connects manufacturers with architect firm decision makers. It provides webinars, CEU programs, workshops and conferences to support professional growth. Learn more about The Architect's Newspaper.
AN has well developed sections for architecture, design, art and urbanism, in addition to current events, newsletters and award postings.
Interior Design is the grande dame among industry design magazines. Where to start? It has an international scope and massive editorial coverage. It features some of the most jaw-dropping, cutting-edge commercial and residential projects.
It publishes thoughtful articles by its staff and design leaders. We love their "10 Questions With…" Interior Design is also a leading voice at NeoCon. It produces a ton of content and events for the show, including the NeoCon Show Directory and NeoCon's Show Daily. It also hosts the venerable Best of Year, Hall of Fame Awards and HiP Awards. Its product–focused Market Tabloid comes out twice a year. According to its 2020 media kit, Interior Design has a global reach of 9 million, which spans its print, online and social media platform audiences. I'm just touching the surface with all that Interior Design and Sandow have to offer. Learn more about Interior Design.
Interior Design's Market Tabloid, published in the spring and fall, is an excellent way for brands to gain exposure for their new products.
Interiors + Sources
Interiors + Sources recently unveiled a new brand look, and we love it! But the heart of what makes this publication so special has not changed. As its "Sources" term implies, the publication places a great deal of emphasis on the products and materials being used in commercial interior design.
We love the publication's wide range of content. It offers thought-pieces from industry leaders. It also showcases inspiring projects and product-focused feature articles. We love its Product Q&A articles and its Sources section. The I+S editorial staff has always been open to story pitches and is a pleasure to work with. Learn more about Interiors + Sources.
We partnered with the editorial staff at I+S on a Product Q&A article to promote HAT Collective's new height-adjustable work desk.
Architect and Design Publications and Your Brand
What's been your experience working with these architect and design magazines for editorial coverage? What are your favorite architect and design publications?


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Q: Refactoring a field in eclipse When i rename a variable in eclipse using Ctrl+1 it doesnt rename the getter/setter methods.  Is there any way to rename the methods as well.

A: Use Alt+Shift+R on the required field. In the dialog that appears select 'Open Rename Dialog' and check the corresponding checkboxes

A: Rename the field using Refactor > Rename and choose "open rename dialog" in the tooltip. Or, simpler, press Ctrl+R twice.
In the rename dialog you can then choose to rename the getter and the setter of the field as well.
The setting you apply there is persistent, so after checking Rename getter and Rename setter, the next inline-rename will honor the setting as well and rename the getters and setters.

A: Select Field - > right click - > Refactor-> encapsulate field.

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import React, { PropTypes } from 'react'
import { Router } from 'react-router'
import { Provider } from 'react-redux'
import Helmet from 'react-helmet'
import defaultLayout from '../../config/layout'
import clone from 'clone'

class AppContainer extends React.Component {
  static propTypes = {
    layout: PropTypes.object,
    history: PropTypes.object.isRequired,
    routes: PropTypes.object.isRequired,
    routerKey: PropTypes.number,
    store: PropTypes.object.isRequired
  }

  render () {
    const { layout, history, routes, routerKey, store } = this.props
    let newDefaultLayout = clone(defaultLayout);
    // delete newDefaultLayout.script;
    return (
      <Provider store={store}>
        <div style={{ height: '100%' }}>
          <Helmet {...Object.assign(newDefaultLayout, layout)} />
          <Router history={history} children={routes} key={routerKey} />
        </div>
      </Provider>
    )
  }
}

export default AppContainer

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Machteld van Voorne (décédée le ) était la fille de Gerard van Voorne et Heilwich van Borselen.

En tant que dame de Montjoie, Valkenburg, Voorne et vicomtesse de Zélande, elle était une femme de premier plan en Hollande, en Zélande, en Gueldre et dans la région Rhin-Meuse.

Elle s'est mariée deux fois: en 1323 à Dirk Loef (III) van Kleef († 1332), comte de Hülchrath, seigneur de  et Oedt et en ± 1336, à Thierry IV de Valkenburg († 1346), seigneur de Montjoie et Valkenburg. Les deux mariages sont restés sans enfants.

Notes et références

Sources
 Kort, J.C. (1972): Inventaris van het archief van de Heren van Voorne, Burggraven van Zeeland, 1272-1371, Nationaal Archief, Den Haag. A lire au format PDF
 Engen, H. van (2009): Machteld van Voorne in Digitaal Vrouwenlexicon van Nederland, Instituut voor Nederlandse Geschiedenis, Den Haag

Articles connexes
 Liste des seigneurs de Valkenburg

Liens externes

Noblesse néerlandaise
Histoire de la province de Zélande
Décès en 1372

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Q: SnakeYAML is instantiating ArrayList instead of HashMap I need to parse the following YAML file.
arguments:
  - Database
  - Fold
  - MetaFeature
  - Algorithm
  - Config
processes:
  - id: MetaFeatureCalculator
    command: "python metaFeatCalc.py {Database} folds/{Fold} de/{MetaFeature}/{Algorithm}.csv"
    in: [Database, Fold]
    out: [MetaFeature, Algorithm]
    log: "mf/{Fold}/{MetaFeature}.out"
  - id: Tunner
    command: "java -jar tunner.jar {MetaFeature} alg/{Algorithm} {config}"
    in: [Metafeature, Algorithm]
    out: [Config]
    log: "mf/{Metafeature}/{Algorithm}.out"
recipeDefaults:
  - Database: ["D1"]
recipes:
  - id: Ex1
    uses:
      - Database: ["D1", "D2"]
      - MetaFeature: ["M1", "M2"]
      - Algorithm: ["A1", "A2"]
      - Config: ["C1", "C4"]
  - id: Ex2
    uses:
      - Folds: ["F1", "F2", "F5"]
      - MetaFeature: ["M1", "M2"]
      - Algorithm: ["A1", "A2"]
      - Config: ["C1", "C4"]

And I created the following POJOs to receive this data.
Repo: https://github.com/Pacheco95/ExperimentLoader
@Data
public class Experiment {
  private HashSet<String> arguments;
  private HashSet<Process> processes;
  private HashSet<HashMap<String, HashSet<String>>> recipeDefaults;
  private HashSet<Recipe> recipes;
}

@Data
public class Process {
  private String id;
  private String command;
  private HashSet<String> in;
  private HashSet<String> out;
  private String log;
}

@Data
public class Recipe {
  private String id;
  private HashSet<HashMap<String, HashSet>> uses;
}

And this class to test the parser:
public class ExperimentLoader {
  public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
    InputStream is = args.length == 0 ? System.in : Files.newInputStream(Paths.get(args[0]));
    Yaml yaml = new Yaml();
    Experiment experiment = yaml.loadAs(is, Experiment.class);
    Gson gson = new GsonBuilder().setPrettyPrinting().serializeNulls().create();
    System.out.println(gson.toJson(experiment));
  }
}

The parser seems to work well, but running this code in debugging mode some fields was instantiated with the correct type (HashSet) while others dont. They was instantiated as ArrayLists (I have no idea what kind of magic happened here).
This is a snapshot of degubbing window:

Output from my test class:
{
  "arguments": [
    "Fold",
    "MetaFeature",
    "Config",
    "Database",
    "Algorithm"
  ],
  "processes": [
    {
      "id": "MetaFeatureCalculator",
      "command": "python metaFeatCalc.py {Database} folds/{Fold} de/{MetaFeature}/{Algorithm}.csv",
      "in": [
        "Fold",
        "Database"
      ],
      "out": [
        "MetaFeature",
        "Algorithm"
      ],
      "log": "mf/{Fold}/{MetaFeature}.out"
    },
    {
      "id": "Tunner",
      "command": "java -jar tunner.jar {MetaFeature} alg/{Algorithm} {config}",
      "in": [
        "Metafeature",
        "Algorithm"
      ],
      "out": [
        "Config"
      ],
      "log": "mf/{Metafeature}/{Algorithm}.out"
    }
  ],
  "recipeDefaults": [
    {
      "Database": [
        "D1"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "recipes": [
    {
      "id": "Ex2",
      "uses": [
        {
          "MetaFeature": [
            "M1",
            "M2"
          ]
        },
        {
          "Folds": [
            "F1",
            "F2",
            "F5"
          ]
        },
        {
          "Config": [
            "C1",
            "C4"
          ]
        },
        {
          "Algorithm": [
            "A1",
            "A2"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "Ex1",
      "uses": [
        {
          "MetaFeature": [
            "M1",
            "M2"
          ]
        },
        {
          "Config": [
            "C1",
            "C4"
          ]
        },
        {
          "Database": [
            "D1",
            "D2"
          ]
        },
        {
          "Algorithm": [
            "A1",
            "A2"
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

My dependencies:
<dependencies>
  <dependency>
    <groupId>junit</groupId>
    <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
    <version>4.11</version>
    <scope>test</scope>
  </dependency>
  <dependency>
    <groupId>org.projectlombok</groupId>
    <artifactId>lombok</artifactId>
    <version>1.18.8</version>
    <scope>provided</scope>
  </dependency>
  <dependency>
    <groupId>org.yaml</groupId>
    <artifactId>snakeyaml</artifactId>
    <version>1.24</version>
  </dependency>
  <dependency>
    <groupId>com.google.code.gson</groupId>
    <artifactId>gson</artifactId>
    <version>2.8.5</version>
  </dependency>
</dependencies>

Has anyone had this problem? I cant find a solution.

A: Your problem is probably type erasure:

When type-safe (generic) collections are JavaBean properties SnakeYAML dynamically detects the required class. […]
It does not work if generic type is abstract class (interface). You have to put an explicit tag in the YAML or provide the explicit TypeDescription. TypeDescription serves the goal to collect more information and use it while loading/dumping.

While you do not use abstract classes or interfaces, I assume that SnakeYaml has a problem with discovering the nested generic types of HashSet<HashMap<String, HashSet>>. The documentation suggests adding a TypeDescription; however that does not solve your problem because the interface is designed so that you can only specify the type inside the outer HashSet, but not inside the inner HashMap. The fact that the interface does not expect nested containers also hints that this is your problem.
A workaround would be to add explicit tags inside your YAML to the sets that fail to load properly:
- Database: !!set ["D1"]
- MetaFeature: !!set ["M1", "M2"]

If you don't want to do that, you basically have two other options: Patch this feature into SnakeYAML, or use the low-level API and generate your types manually from the parser events.


Upon leaving the ACE-WIL PD on November 15th, I was once again reminded of what an incredible group of WIL professionals I am fortunate to know. We truly have such a special community of dedicated, caring, and innovative colleagues to connect and learn from and I walked away from this PD feeling energized by my conversations and more knowledgeable in how I can better support students and our stakeholders.
I also walked away feeling older as I realised the gap between me and Generation Z is steadily growing and what I previously thought was cool and how to best connect with them, is slightly skewed (more on that later).
The day began with a lively generational icebreaker BINGO activity by the membership committee. It was a great activity that got everyone up and learning more about our each other and what perhaps has shaped who we are today. It also brought up fond memories of growing up with cabbage patch kids, rollerskating, and Coleco Vision.
Darelle Odo, SFU Business Co-op Coordinator, was the keynote speaker and moderated the student panel which followed. Her engaging presentation style, rich and relevant research and knowledge on Gen Z, and the rapport she established with the student panel, was definitely a highlight of the day. The value in understanding Gen Z and how to best support and connect with them has an incredible impact on our day to day work in WIL. For example, I learned that Gen Z prefers face to face coaching/communication (texting must be old fashioned now!) and are interested in engaging and detailed job descriptions that address culture and the potential impact a student may have. The topic is so relevant and important to the work we do and Darelle's keynote and student panel highlighted many more takeaways than the two above. If you were n't able to attend the session, I highly recommend reaching out to Darelle to learn more. We will also post the notes from the day in the resource section on the website.
After lunch, everyone got on their feet to share best practices in engaging students in the 21st century. Members rotated through 4 topics dealing with international students, WIL curriculum, mental health and strategies for reflection. Each topic elicited shared challenges and innovative strategies to promote teaching and learning with our students and stakeholders. The breakout sessions and sharing of best practices is something that I look forward to each PD and the openness of everyone to share their best practices is fantastic.


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Author: Claire Lehmann
Fighting COVID-19: Australia's (Largely Untold) Success Story
Published by Claire Lehmann
On Friday, May 15th, pubs around Sydney re-opened after being closed for two months, a development that caused one delighted Sydneysider to observe: "Clinking that first glass… felt like I'd sloughed off a thousand years of sadness." In fact, it had been roughly two months—a period during which 24 million Australians, myself included, observed a lockdown on all non-essential services. There are still many restrictions in place. And it will be months, if not years, before all aspects of society return to business as usual. But overall, the easing of restrictions has come faster than many Australians expected, in large part because the lockdown policies worked. The country has witnessed only about 7,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 103 deaths. Daily new cases spiked in late March in the low 400s, but then plummeted rapidly, and now are typically within single digits. It was once believed that, absent a vaccine, long-term herd immunity might be the only way to stop this pandemic. But examples such as Australia show that many countries may be able to …
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Dealing With a Once-In-A-Century Pathogen
Back in 2015, Bill Gates published an editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) warning that the world would likely see a pandemic in the next 20 years. He was writing in the aftermath of the Ebola outbreak in Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia, and argued that while the world had an effective system for containing Ebola, it did not have adequate preparation for dealing with a disease with a substantially higher transmission rate. "[O]f all the things that could kill more than 10 million people around the world, the most likely is an epidemic stemming from either natural causes or bioterrorism." Gates likened preparation for dealing with epidemics to preparation for another global threat—war: The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has a mobile unit that is ready to deploy quickly. Although the system is not perfect, NATO countries participate in joint exercises in which they work out logistics such as how fuel and food will be provided, what language they will speak, and what radio frequencies will be used. Few, if any, …
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Lessons from Australia's Bushfires: We Need More Science, Less Rhetoric
Over the last two weeks, the Royal Australian Navy has been evacuating thousands of residents fleeing uncontrollable bushfires in the south-eastern part of my country. Amid scenes of desperate Australians being rescued from beaches, national-security writer Craig Hooper has called the operation a "mini-Dunkirk." HMAS Adelaide conducting flight operations operating off Eden. @Australian_Navy #AustralianBushfire pic.twitter.com/XREgyctFv7 — Commander Australian Fleet (@COMAUSFLT) January 6, 2020 At least 24 lives have been lost, and many others are missing. Hundreds of homes and businesses have been incinerated, as have more than 60,000 square kilometres of bushland. The Premier of my home state of New South Wales, the region that's been worst affected, describes the crisis as "uncharted territory," with some towns at risk of being completely wiped out. Prime Minister Scott Morrison, who took a brief holiday at the start of the crisis, has been accused of poor leadership. And critics have taken the opportunity to demand that Australia's climate policy be immediately overhauled to reflect this national disaster. But what exactly is causing this year's extreme fire season? …
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What do you do when you want to speak about an issue in the workplace but find that ill-informed policies penalise you for doing so? What do you say when your son or daughter comes home from school and tells you that "capitalism is racist?" What course of action do you take when your friend or colleague is presumed guilty for a transgression they never committed? We've covered these types of situations extensively at Quillette since our inception. And we're proud of doing so. Not just because these are important issues of justice and fairness, but because many of these stories would never have reached a wider audience without our platform. Who else would have published the story of a mathematician having his paper "disappeared" because of its politically incorrect hypothesis? Or the plight of a young anthropology journal founder who was ousted by a mob led by a famous author? When an individual has had their professional reputation unfairly tarnished, or is hounded by a social media mob — or has their right to due …
How David Graeber Cancelled a Colleague
At the height of the #MeToo scandal in 2018, when dozens of actresses were coming forward with sordid testimonies about Harvey Weinstein's sexual predation, a much more obscure scandal was unfolding around an academic journal involving the anthropologist David Graeber. The journal—HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory—was imploding after Graeber, a former editor-at-large, alleged that members of staff had been treated in "shocking ways" and made a public apology, distancing himself from the enterprise. No specifics were given, but accusations spread like wildfire on social media. Many treated the scandal as a pretext to demand that the discipline of anthropology itself undertake a period of introspection and soul-searching. Some said that this was anthropology's #MeToo moment. HAU was set up as a digital publication by the Cambridge PhD student Giovanni da Col in 2011, while he was working in the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit under the supervision of Caroline Humphrey. While many students have had concerns that anthropology is a field in decline, da Col actually wanted to do something about it, by establishing …
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Retraction notice
An author by the purported name of Archie Carter sent us an article that appeared on our web site under the title "DSA is Doomed" for several hours today. After it appeared, we got a tip that it contained false information. When the author couldn't supply answers to our follow-up questions in timely fashion, we pulled the article after notifying the author of our concerns. We retract the article and apologise for the error.
At Australian Ballot Boxes, the Left's Empathy Deficit Came Home to Roost
The result of Saturday's federal election in Australia is being treated as the most staggering political shocker in my country since World War II. Scott Morrison, leading the Liberal Party, looks to have won a majority government—a result that defies three years of opinion polling, bookie's odds and media commentary. In the aftermath, analysts on both sides are trying to explain what went wrong for the centre-left Australian Labor Party, and what went right for the centre-right Liberals. Some attribute the result to Morrison's personal likeability, and his successful targeting of the "quiet Australian" demographic—the silent majority whose members feel they rarely have a voice, except at the ballot box. Others cast the result as Australia's Hilary-Clinton moment: Bill Shorten, who resigned following Saturday's loss, was, like Clinton, an unpopular political insider who generated little enthusiasm among his party's traditional constituencies. In 2010 and again in 2013, he roiled the Labor Party by supporting two separate internal coups, machinations that cast him as a self-promoter instead of a team player. The swing against Labor was …
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Cambridge Capitulates to the Mob and Fires a Young Scholar
We live at a time where academic freedom is under threat from ideologues and activists of all persuasions. The latest threat comes from St Edmund's College, Cambridge, where administrators appear to have capitulated to a mob of activists (students and academics) who mounted a campaign to have a young scholar fired for "problematic" research. The back-story was covered by Quillette last December. The norms of academia—which have been built up and preserved by institutions such as Cambridge for centuries—demand that academics engage with each other in a scholarly manner. That is, if one academic has a problem with the methods or conclusions of another's research, he or she should address those concerns within journals, according to established procedures, which other scholars can then read and respond to, including the academic whose research is being challenged. Today, due to the hyper-specialisation of academic fields, most academics will not be able to judge the quality of scholarship that is published in journals outside their field. That's why when research is peer-reviewed it is done by experts in the …
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A College President Stands Up for Academic Freedom
What happens when university students call on authority figures to censor students or staff at institutions of higher education? At Yale such students have been awarded prizes, at the University of Missouri they've been successful in forcing administrators to resign, at Claremont they were able to force their president to implement a long list of demands, and at Evergreen State College a throng of students were allowed to take control of the campus while harassed faculty sought refuge off-campus. At other colleges around America, and even on campuses in the U.K., Canada and Australia, university administrators have met illiberal student mobs with a parade of mealy-mouthed platitudes and prostrations. This pattern of weakness has been dismaying for all people who value academic freedom and open inquiry. This week, however, a line has been drawn by David Yager, President of Philadelphia's University of Arts (UArts). In response to students calling for the censorship of Camille Paglia—one of the most admired humanities scholars in the world—he articulated a full-throated defence of intellectual freedom, showing administrators of supposedly superior …
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Q: maven artifactId hadoop 2.2.0 for hadoop-core I am migrating my application from hadoop 1.0.3 to hadoop 2.2.0 and maven build had hadoop-core marked as dependency. Since hadoop-core is not present for hadoop 2.2.0. I tried replacing it with hadoop-client and hadoop-common  but I am still getting this error for ant.filter. Can anybody please suggest which artifact to use?
previous config :
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
    <artifactId>hadoop-core</artifactId>
    <version>1.0.3</version>
</dependency>

New Config:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
    <artifactId>hadoop-client</artifactId>
    <version>2.2.0</version>
</dependency>

Error:
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:3.1:compile (default-compile) on project event: Compilation failure: Compilation failure:

[ERROR] /opt/teamcity/buildAgent/work/c670ebea1992ec2f/event/src/main/java/com/intel/event/EventContext.java:[27,36] package org.apache.tools.ant.filters does not exist

[ERROR] /opt/teamcity/buildAgent/work/c670ebea1992ec2f/event/src/main/java/com/intel/event/EventContext.java:[27,36] package org.apache.tools.ant.filters does not exist

[ERROR] /opt/teamcity/buildAgent/work/c670ebea1992ec2f/event/src/main/java/com/intel/event/EventContext.java:[180,59] cannot find symbol

[ERROR] symbol: class StringInputStream

[ERROR] location: class com.intel.event.EventContext

A: We mainly depend on hdfs api for our application. When we migrated to hadoop 2.X, we were surprised to see the changes in dependencies. We started adding dependencies one at a time. Today we depend on the following core libraries.
hadoop-annotations-2.2.0
hadoop-auth-2.2.0
hadoop-common-2.2.0
hadoop-hdfs-2.2.0
hadoop-mapreduce-client-core-2.2.0

In addition to these we depend on test libraries too. Based on your needs, you may want to include hadoop-hdfs and hadoop-mapreduce-client to the dependencies along with hadoop-common.

A: Try with these artifacts, word fine on my sample project wordcount
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
    <artifactId>hadoop-common</artifactId>
    <version>2.2.0</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
    <artifactId>hadoop-core</artifactId>
    <version>1.2.1</version>
</dependency>

A: Maven dependencies can be got from this link.
As far as hadoop-core dependies goes, hadoop-core was the name for hadoop 1.X and just renaming the version to 2.X wont help. Also in a hadoop 2.X project using the hadoop 1.X dependency gives an error like

Caused by: org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RemoteException: Server IPC version 9 cannot communicate with client version 4

Thus it is suggested not to use it. I have been using the following dependencies in my hadoop
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
    <artifactId>hadoop-client</artifactId>
    <version>2.7.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
    <artifactId>hadoop-hdfs</artifactId>
    <version>2.7.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
    <artifactId>hadoop-mapreduce-client-core</artifactId>
    <version>2.7.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
    <artifactId>hadoop-mapreduce-client-jobclient</artifactId>
    <version>2.7.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
    <artifactId>hadoop-mapreduce-client-common</artifactId>
    <version>2.7.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>

You can try these.


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St. Cloud Man Sentenced in March Rape of Unconscious Woman
Richard Leguil Published: August 23, 2018
Photo: Stearns County Jail
ST. CLOUD -- A St. Cloud man will serve eight and a half years in prison after being sentenced for raping a woman in her shower in March.
Twenty-seven-year-old Nicholas Behling pleaded guilty last month to one count of 1st-Degree Criminal Sexual Conduct in what's called a Norgaard plea. A Norgaard plea is where a defendant claims they were too drunk or under the influence of chemicals to recall the facts of what happened.
According to the criminal complaint, officers responded to the woman's home in north St. Cloud in March. The woman told police she had come home, feeling sick from a night of drinking and fell asleep in the shower. She said Behling was brought to her home by a friend. She said he then went into the shower and forced himself on her while she repeatedly told him no.
Court records show Behling initially denied any sexual contact with the woman, at one point even denying knowing the victim's name. However, he later admitted to being in the shower with her and said the sex was consensual.
Behling will get credit for just over five months already served and have to register as a predatory offender. He will be on probation for ten years after his release.
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This was followed by a short break whereby members dispersed to complete the tour of the Complex and prepare for Zuhr and Asr prayers.
By the grace of Allah this year we were blessed with excellent weather befitting a picnic and PAAMA members and their families took advantage of the glorious weather and made the most of it. By mid-afternoon the barbeque was in full swing with a giant bouncy castle and rides laid out on the grounds for the children to play on. The food was in abundance and of varied selection.
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Directions: Answer these questions on the basis ofthe information given below:
Each question is followed by two statements I and II. Indicate your responses based on the directives given in choices:
The average weight of a class of 100 students is 45 kg. The class consists of two sections, I and II, each with 50 students. The average weight, WI, of Section I is smaller than the average weight, WII of Section II. If the heaviest student, say Deepak, of Section II is moved to Section I, and the lightest student, say Poonam, of Section I is moved to Section II, then the average weights of the two sections are switched, i.e.. . the average weight of Section I becomes WII and that of Section II becomes WI. What is the weight of Poonam?
Statement 1: I: WII-WI = 1.0.
Statement 2: II: Moving Deepak from Section II to I (without any move from I to II) makes the average weights of the two sections equal.
question can be answered using I alone but not using B alone.
question can be answered using II alone but not using A alone.
question can be answered using I and II together, but not using either I or II alone.
question cannot be answered even using I and II together.
Consider integers x, y and z. What is the minimum possible value of x2 + y2 + z2?
Statement 1: I: x + y + z = 89.
Statement 2: II: Among x, y, z two are equal.
Rahim plans to draw a square JKLM with a point a on the side JK but is not successful. Why is Rahim unable to draw the square?
Statement 1: I: The length of OM is twice that of OL.
Statement 2: II: The length of OM is 4 cm
ABC Corporation is required to maintain at least 400 Kilolitres of water at all times in its factory, in order to meet safety and regulatory requirements. ABC is considering the suitability of a spherical tank with uniform wall thickness for the purpose. The outer diameter of the tank is 10 meters. Is the tank capacity adequate to meet ABC՚s requirements?
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Statement 2: II: The tank weights 30,000 kg when empty, and is made of a material with density of 3gm/cc.
Suppose you have a currency, named Miso, in three denominations: 1 Miso, 10 Misos and 50 Misos. In how many ways can you pay a bill of 107 Misos?
How many pairs of positive integers m, n satisfy 1/m + 4/n = where n is an odd integer less than 60?
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Over Rupees 4 but less than Rupees 5
Over Rupees 13 but less than Rupees 14
Consider the set S = {2,3, 4, … 2n + I} , where n is a positive integer larger than 2007. Define X as the average of the odd integers in S and Y as the average of the even integers in S. What is the value of X-Y?
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Ten years ago, the ages of the members of a joint family of eight people added up to 231 years. Three years later, one member died at the age of 60 years and a child was born during the same year. After another three years, one more member died, again at 60, and a child was born during the same year. The current average age of this eight-member joint family is nearest to
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In a certain zoo, there are 42 animals in one sector, 34 in the second sector and 20 in the third sector. Out of this, 24 graze in sector one-and also in sector two. 10 graze in sector two and sector three, 12 graze in sector one and sector three. These figures also include four animals grazing in all the three seotors are now transported to another zoo, find the total number of animals.
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Sara Nelson December 13, 2021, 2:50 am
The UK government has recently announced that cat microchipping will be mandatory in the UK.
This is a huge win for animal welfare organizations and pet owners who have been pushing for this change to happen.
Advantages of cat microchipping
Under new pet microchipping laws recently announced by the Government, lost or stray pet cats are more likely to be returned home safely.
The new plans claim that all cat owners must ensure their pet is microchipped before they reach the age of 20 weeks.
Their contact details will then be stored and updated in a pet microchipping database.
Owners who fail to have their cat microchipped will have 21 days to get the procedure done, or they may face a fine of up to £500.
The new microchipping rules result from a Government call for evidence and consultation, in which 99% of respondents supported the proposal.
The introduction of compulsory cat microchipping was an essential manifesto commitment in the UK government's support to the Action Plan for Animal Welfare, which committed to putting it into effect.
Cat population increase in the UK
There are over 10.8 million pet cats in the UK, with as many as 2.8 million unchipped, making it next to impossible to reunite them with their owner if they go missing or are stolen.
Eight out of 10 stray cats coming into cat shelters are also not microchipped.
The procedure involves placing a tiny chip with a specific serial number beneath the cat's skin.
"Every day, we see how important microchipping is for cats and for the people who love them – whether it's reuniting a lost cat with their owner, identifying an injured cat, or helping to ensure an owner can be informed in the sad event that their cat has been hit and killed by a car."
Cats Protection's Head of Advocacy & Government Relations Jacqui Cuff
This number may be read by a scanner and verified in the microchip database to assist and reunite lost pets with their original owners.
Plans made in microchipping pets
The UK Government has also collaborated with the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons to create new rules, which require veterinarians to scan healthy dogs' microchips to help prevent being put down in error.
The Government is also conducting a study on the dog microchipping rules and related microchipping database systems to determine whether changes can be made.
This is also after pet microchipping scams happened around the UK with fake registrations.
When the new cat microchipping regulations are implemented after a review, the government ensures that any adjustments to the microchipping regime are introduced along with the new cat microchipping laws.
The government's policy of microchipping pets is part of a broader plan to raise the country's world-leading standards in animal companion welfare. It follows several recent announcements designed to improve pet care.
Cats, like dogs, can quickly get lost or stolen if they are not wearing identification tags.
Microchips make finding missing cats easier and reuniting them with their families!
Comment below if you agree/disagree with microchipping your cat.
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Houston City Councilman Fires "Community Outreach" Director Who Ranted Against Islam
Leif Reigstad
Trebor Gordon ranted against Islam last month, and now the (former) staffer for at-large councilman Mike Knox has been fired.
Screenshot, Facebook (since deleted)
Leif Reigstad | June 16, 2016 | 8:00am
Almost a month after he was caught on video ranting against Islam at a meeting for the Harris County GOP Precinct 415, Trebor Gordon was fired from his position on the staff of at-large Houston city councilman Mike Knox.
Gordon made national news after the video went viral, showing him railing against Islam in an attempt to keep a Muslim man, Syed Ali, from serving in the Republican party.
"I move to remove the chairman and founder of the Muslim Council of USA Syed Shaid Ali on the grounds that Islam does not have any basis or any foundation. It is in total opposite of our foundation," Gordon said at the meeting. "I would ask you to take into consideration the fact that Islam and Christianity do not mix.
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"We can continue to try to be inclusive and I get that. That matters to me," Gordon continued. "But I will also tell you that during my prayer this man did not bow his head. During the Pledge of Allegiance he did not utter a word, he didn't even try to fake it and move his lips. He halfway tried to put his hand over his heart for the Texas pledge. If you believe that a person can practice Islam and agree to the foundational principles of the Republican Party, it's not right. It's not true. It can't happen. There are things on our platform that he and his beliefs are in total opposite from."
Gordon did not respond to messages seeking comment.
Despite the videotaped outburst and Gordon's documented public history of raging Islamaphobia (he consistently spewed anti-Islam sentiments on his Facebook and Twitter pages), Knox, while condemning Gordon's remarks, said last month that Gordon would retain his role as the councilman's "Director of Community Outreach," and would continue working on special projects, including assisting minority-owned businesses.
But now Knox appears to have changed his mind, per a press release from his office announcing Gordon's termination.
"It has become apparent that this is increasingly becoming a distraction in this office and is getting in the way of us being able to actually perform our function, which is to represent the citizens of Houston," Knox said in an interview at his office on Wednesday. "So at some point, although you may have a moral idea one way or the other, the pragmatic thing is, we have to be able to function. It became apparent that Mr. Gordon was not going to be very useful to me in that regard, so we decided to dismiss him."
Knox again said he was unaware of Gordon's anti-Islam stance until the videotaped incident, but a quick survey of Gordon's since-deleted Twitter feed would have clearly showed that he held Islamaphobic beliefs. These tweets, for example, were posted well before Knox hired Gordon in January:
When asked why he was unaware of this, Knox said that he's "not a big Facebook person" and that he doesn't "pay much attention" to social media. He wouldn't elaborate on the vetting process he used when he made the decision to hire Gordon. According to Knox, the details of how exactly an Islamaphobic man came to serve on the staff of a city councilman and earn a public salary while working primarily with minority communities is a "private personnel issue."
Knox did indicate, however, that he'll maybe do a more thorough background check when he searches for Gordon's successor.
"We will seek someone to replace that position at some point in the future, and we will use a system that I think will be more effective," Knox said. "Let's just leave it at that."


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Crepicardus niger – gatunek chrząszczy z rodziny sprężykowatych i plemienia Crepidomenini.

Taksonomia
Gatunek został opisany w 1895 przez E. Candèze'a. W rodzaju Crepicardus tworzy wraz z C. candezei, C. raffrayi i C. puncticollis grupę gatunkową candezei.

Występowanie
Gatunek jest endemitem Madagaskaru.

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Q: (svn+ssh) getting bash to load my PATH over SSH This problem comes up with me trying to make svnserve (Subversion server) available on a server through SSH. I compiled SVN and installed it in $HOME/bin. Local access to it (not through SSH) works fine.
Connections to svn+ssh fail due to:
bash: svnserve: command not found

Debugging this, I've found that:
ssh user@server "which svnserve"

says:
which: no svnserve in (/usr/bin:/bin)

This is strange, because I've updated the path to $HOME/bin in my .bashrc, and also added it in ~/.ssh/environment. However, it seems like the SSH doesn't read it. Although when I run:
ssh user@server "echo $PATH"

It does print my updated path!
What's going on here? How can I make SSH find my svnserve?
Thanks in advance

A: You can try launching the command via a bash using the -l command so it acts as a login shell
ssh user@server "bash -l -c 'which svnserve'"

As noted in comments I left above, you'll need to escape all $ so variables get expanded on the server and not locally. E.g.:
ssh user@server "bash -l -c 'echo \$PATH'"

update:
Regarding you question on why .ssh/environment does not take effect, I believe the default config for SSHd would be to ignore user environments. You need to specifically enable it in /etc/ssh/sshd_config (or similar) and add:
PermitUserEnvironment yes

update 2:
If you do not have access to /etc/ssh/sshd_config, a possible (but not ideal) solution would be to use public-key authentication to launch svnserve on login.
See http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.4/svn.serverconfig.svnserve.html#svn.serverconfig.svnserve.sshtricks
Note that this will affect your ability to log in normally via SSH. To do so, you need to bypass the public key authentication:
svn -o PubkeyAuthentication=no user@server

A: As it happens, .bashrc and .bash_profile are only executed if you're in an interactive shell. When you login through ssh, you are not in an interactive shell, therefore your custom PATH definitions are never run. You can associate a script to non-interactive sheels using BASH_ENV. Check also .ssh/environment which gives you another alternative. The best way to know about this is by doing man ssh.
Good luck!

A: You can execute an env command:

ssh servername "env PATH=$REMOTEPATH which svnserve"

A: I have the same issue with HostMonster, due to a recent change they made. I found a workraound in an old email thread at http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2007-02/0204.shtml:
On your workstation:

*

*edit ~/.subversion/config: locate [tunnels] and add the line ssh=~/svnssh

*create ~/svnssh as in the link:
#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/ssh $1 /<ur_bluhost_home_path>/sshsvnserve -t

*chmod +x ~/svnssh
On your bleuhost account:

*

*create ~/sshsvnserve, same content as the link:
#!/bin/sh
/<ur_bluehost_home_path>/bin/svnserve $*

*chmod +x ~/sshsvnserve
That's it. The config [tunnels] change modifies the command run by svn when handling the svn+ssh namespace and use ur ~/svnssh script instead. The script invokes ssh and passes in the full path to sshsvnserve on ur bluehost account. And sshsvnserve redirects everything to the full path of svnserve, as u install it. Worked for me, no $PATH required.

A: Set the variable BASH_ENV to '~/.bashrc'.
ssh servername "BASH_ENV='~/.bashrc' which svnserve"

From man bash:

When bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a  non-inter‐
         active  shell with the --login option, it first reads and executes com‐
         mands from the file /etc/profile, if that file exists.   After  reading
         that file, it looks for ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, and ~/.profile,
         in that order, and reads and executes commands from the first one  that
         exists  and  is  readable.

and

When  an  interactive  shell that is not a login shell is started, bash
         reads and executes commands from  /etc/bash.bashrc  and  ~/.bashrc,  if
         these  files  exist.

and

When  bash  is  started  non-interactively,  to run a shell script, for
         example, it looks for the variable BASH_ENV in the environment, expands
         its  value if it appears there, and uses the expanded value as the name
         of a file to read and execute.

From man ssh:

Additionally, ssh reads ~/.ssh/environment, and adds lines of the format
       "VARNAME=value" to the environment if the file exists and users are
       allowed to change their environment.  For more information, see the
       PermitUserEnvironment option in sshd_config(5).

From man sshd_config:

PermitUserEnvironment
               Specifies whether ~/.ssh/environment and environment= options in
               ~/.ssh/authorized_keys are processed by sshd(8).  The default is
               "no".  Enabling environment processing may enable users to bypass
               access restrictions in some configurations using mechanisms such
               as LD_PRELOAD.

A: I was able to get ssh to run commands using the remote path by running:
ssh dist@d6 "bash --login -c 'env'"

This loads the remote .profile, etc. Here env can be replaced with what ever command you'd like.
I have authorized keys so didn't need a password to run the command or ssh.


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What Happens When It's Over
What Happens When It's Over
by Rowan Public Affairs
Chris Hodder looks at some of the issues that might be created once the Treasury turn off the Coronavirus support taps.
A few months ago, the government were considering whether to wind-up the British Business Bank. It had been created to get overcautious banks lending to businesses during the credit crunch years after the 2008 financial crash. One of the issues that they were facing recently was that, partly due to Brexit, businesses were actually not keen to borrow money and were in fact building up healthy reserves of their own.
These reserves will prove crucial in the upcoming months. Most businesses have gone into some kind of stasis due to the COVID-19 lockdown and although business activity may be continuing in a limited form, or even expanding (food retail figures released today show a boom in this sector), many businesses have furloughed staff and shut their doors. If you are an airline, for example, most of your revenue has simply ceased for the foreseeable future and you may not be expecting "business as usual" for many months.
The government's assistance to business is vital in making sure that, although revenues will be down, staff costs (the single biggest cost item for many businesses) do not become a burden on solvency and therefore staff can remain employed and ready to work once the government gives the go-ahead for doors to re-open. This is cross-sectoral, so most of the economy will benefit from this help, even small businesses and the self-employed – though a glaring support gap remains for those small entrepreneurial worker owned companies which operate on a combination of salary and dividend payments for their workforce.
Infrastructure will also remain in place. In the example of the airline, airports and planes have not evaporated, so besides continued maintenance, there is no reason why the business cannot simply restart where it left off once demand returns. Conceptually, you could consider it to be like a very, very, very long Christmas shut-down.
There is plenty of demand for goods and services in waiting with consumers itching to spend the money they've been earning whilst at home. The main issue will be satisfying that demand. If there are delays, then it could mean that inflation will creep into the system as demand outstrips supply and prices increase. With the Bank of England base-rate being so low, cheap money may even exacerbate the problem. However, in the short-term, this stimulus will be good to generate much-needed growth.
There may be some problems for demand higher-up in the service economy. Businesses will be wary about spending on all but essential services in the short-term until confidence returns. We have already noted that advertising revenue has started to decline across various newspapers. The question here will be how quickly things return to normal. With Brexit slowly ebbing away as a concern and the virus (hopefully) put to bed, the lack of certainty which has made businesses wary of spending recently will disappear and investment can continue.
Politically, however, there will be some choices that need to be made. There is an expectation that once antibody testing kits have been developed and distributed, those who have tested positive for the SARS-Cov-2 antibody will be able to return to work first which means that demand will ramp up in dribs and drabs rather than all in one boom. This will obviously ease any initial supply problems. However, millions will need to remain at home as either testing has not reached them yet, they haven't been given the all clear, or the supply crunch means that the businesses they work for have no stock. Much of the economy is wholesale and retail, so this will be a significant problem. Picture this: all your workers have been tested and given the all-clear, but your suppliers aren't yet open.
This uneven re-opening means that government will have to think carefully about when to cut-off the economic support. This could either be a taper or a firm cut-off date. A taper makes more sense as the government could begin setting conditions on the support offered or varying the sectors supported, for example, requiring businesses to document the reasons for closure in the first instance with stricter conditions a few months later. However, many businesses will be keen to get staff back working (and bored staff keen to do so), so this could be a naturally diminishing problem.
Another concern is the productivity lag between the staff working and then earning the company a profit. In practice, many businesses with a long lead time (e.g. a high-end guitar maker – weeks to manufacture, months to sell) might struggle to pay someone from revenue earned in the first few months. In these instances, furloughing is counter-productive because those businesses can't afford to have the employees not work, so government assistance may have to extend to subsidising the pay of formerly furloughed workers. The government would likely argue that the aforementioned British Business Bank can help with bridging the lag, but regardless, companies will still be wary of borrowing during a crisis.
With this in mind, the Chancellor is going to have to think hard about how to end the assistance schemes, but keep the taps turned on. Government loans are the only logical way to do this for the medium-term (unless the commercial sector sees an opportunity). I suspect the British Business Bank will be around for some time yet.
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Is Donald Trump a fascist? If so, is that a bad thing?
Well, no. "Fascism" and "national socialism" (another term that Kagan throws around in a devil-may-care fashion) were born of grave social and economic crises ineffectually faced by liberal governments between the two world wars. The fascist movements adopted an emphatically anti-democratic stance. They commonly resorted to "exemplary" violence. They sought to commandeer elections to create an obstructionist group in the legislature so as to paralyze democratic politics.
None of this is true of Donald Trump. He has never proclaimed his opposition to democracy. The Trumpsters have engaged in minor violence on rare occasions and usually only when provoked by leftists trying to prevent Trump from speaking. Trump has no party.
Undoubtedly, the established parties have been put through the wringer in the past decade. The Republican Party has been battered by the Tea Party movement and now by the Trump insurgency. The Democrats saw their settled succession overthrown by Barack Obama and now tested by Bernie Sanders. American voters aren't just falling into line. The question of what is behind these movements is enormously important.
I'm not planning on voting for Trump, although his opponents may yet talk me into it.
 Small "l" liberal: representative governments; an executive that can be evicted from office when it loses the support of the majority in the legislature; checks and balances; bills of civil rights and the rule of law; more or less free and fair elections. The New Deal's reliance on Southern white voters doesn't disqualify it. I suppose.
 Tying a Socialist mayor to a tree in the town square, then pouring castor oil down his throat, or kicking a newspaper editor to death in front of his wife and children for example.
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'Dark Knight Rises' Shooting Victim Stopped to Help Young Mother
Injured teen helped keep a young mother and her young children safe.
By KEVIN DOLAK and STEPHANIE WASH
Colorado Movie Theater Shooting Heroism
Jarell Brooks springs to action when he realizes danger to fellow moviegoers.
July 20, 2012 — -- A Colorado teenager who survived the mass shooting at a midnight screening of "The Dark Knight Rises" in Aurora this morning helped keep a young mother, her young child and her 4-month-old infant safe even though he was injured himself.
Jarell Brooks, 19, has been released from Denver General Hospital and is now recovering at home after he suffered a gunshot wound to the leg after James Holmes, once a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Colorado, allegedly set off smoke bombs and opened fire on the unsuspecting audience, killing 12 people and injuring at least 50 in the attack. He was quickly apprehended by authorities.
PHOTOS: Colorado 'Dark Knight Rises' Theater Shooting
Brooks said that when Holmes started shooting everyone scrambled for the exits. While trying to get out of the theater, he saw a woman, later identified as Patricia Legarreta, struggling to get herself and her two children out. He said he crawled on top of Legarreta in an attempt to push her and the kids out the door but then couldn't get out himself.
Brooks told ABC News that even though he's recovering at home, he is still shaken by the attack.
"At the end of the aisle, I ran into a woman. She yelled, 'My kids!' and I saw she had two young kids with her," he told ABC News. "I made sure they got in the aisle and pushed behind her to make sure she got out of there."
That's when Brooks said he felt a shot to his leg. Brooks said he was shot in the thigh, and fell to the ground.
Patricia Legarreta was also hit.
"We fell together," Brooks said. "I picked myself back up and continued to the back exit door, on one leg."
Legarreta was at the movies with her fiance and their two young children that night when she was shot. Her infant son was on the floor but wasn't hit.
"I was thinking, I have to get this family out, without getting hit myself. I managed to do one," Brooks told ABC News.
Legarreta was hit with buckshot and released from the hospital Friday morning. She is now recovering at home, where she spoke with ABC News and confirmed what happened -- that when she stood up to move her daughter, she was shot, and Brooks hit the ground with her.
She said that she remembered yelling, "I got hit," and Brooks screaming in pain.
The young mother said that after the shooting stopped she didn't really know what happened but was relieved to know that there were young men like Brooks in the world.
"It makes me feel glad because I felt helpless," she said. "Everybody at that moment was going through it, and to know that someone had that mindset, it makes me feel happy to know that in times of trial, there are good people out there."


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QUEERatives | Dominic Savaglio
Angelica Cruz and Joseph Harvey|November 15, 2018
When one finds their tribe in life, it can be difficult to find a place within that community. This can be especially difficult for young people who are not only just entering the world, but are on the verge of self identity. For Dominic Savaglio, 24, they found a tribe within the queer community and their artistry was the key to contribute and solidify their placement.
Growing up, Savaglio listened to a lot of oldies music, which later translated into punk and psycobilly music throughout their time in high school. Through the small concert venues and backyard events of these genres, they saw that there was a queer subculture.
"A lot of the queer community kind of falls around those categories whether it comes from pop or punk or oldies it all picks apart from certain stuff," Savaglio said.
When you enter Savaglio's creative space, you step into the ballads of their brain. You're instantly transported to a punk venue at a gritty dive bar. The decor and their own art pieces are chilling yet welcoming. The details are like soothing whispers that transports viewers into an out of body orgasmic experience. There's real stories within their pieces, their own stories. You see that in their environment, their work and them self.
Savaglio's art consists of a lot of punk aspects that share a correlation with not only queerness, but aspects of horror.
"There is a lot of dark parts that I think come out of my art as well as within the queer community too, but there's also a beauty with in it that I can find as well," they said.
Their art continues to evolve as they are in the process of figuring out their style. Essentially, they see it as a part of their journey.
"Personally, it's still a journey as I figure out what it is but there's I guess certain things within my own pieces that I don't even really notice but do have some aspects of queerness," Savaglio said.
It's the minimal details within their drawings that speak the loudest volumes of queerness. From sketching a non-gendered figure, to having more floral aspects within a piece, Savaglio's drawings can be symbolic and open for interpretation. Inevitably, they want to create for themselves and the queer community. Because like their art, there's continued growth in their identity.
"If there's people I want it to identify with it or grow from it would be queer individuals, the gay community and the transgender community," Savaglio said.
Regarding their gender identity, Savaglio does not conform nor adhere to the sanctioned and binaried gender norms of our heteronormative society. Instead, they identify as gender fluid/non-binary and their preferred pronouns are their, they and them.
Even though they identify a certain type of way, Savaglio feels that individuals don't necessarily have to express or display themselves in that identity for others. They believe that you can identify in any type of way and you don't necessarily have to outright express. "You just have to do it so you're comfortable with yourself," Savaglio said.
These ideas are what inspire the young artist to continue with their art. To further their career, they want to pursue tattooing. Through tattooing, they would display their art so people could see it physically on themselves. These tattoos would pose as a reminder of a narrative that's familiar and powerful to their own.
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2) Tinted red and made transparent over CSPAN video
3) Red motion is when they doctored video speed
4) Sped up to make Jim Acosta's motion look like a chop
5) I've edited video for 15+ years
6) The White House doctored it pic.twitter.com/q6arkYSx0V
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Angelica Cruz is the Pop Editor and Columnist for SAC.Media. She is also a content producer/editor for Substance magazine. She is majoring in film and journalism and her favorite things are Chance the Rapper and Project Runway. She also currently has two hundred (and counting) matches on Tinder.
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Established habits can be obliterated when returning from a break in the Sun, staycation, or time away from the office.
Whilst the opportunity to unwind has a significant impact on both job satisfaction and productivity,its hard to get back into your routine. The first few weeks back is often when I find it most difficult to restore well-formed habits, including writing content.
This is reflected across the Passle network with posts created slightly down quarter-over-quarter (-6.2%), August/September compared to May/June.
MIND charity provide some helpful suggestions for hitting the ground running when you get back into the office after time off - find their tips linked here. In particular, it is essential that you set yourself goals and define time to make them a priority.
Moreover, embedding content creation within your existing processes will streamline the exercise. For example, when I meet with a client I will listen out to their key challenges and use my content as a way of addressing their issues (thus this post).
I make sure to nurture my key stakeholder conversations by using content as a way of demonstrating my expertise. In doing so, I position myself (hopefully) as a trusted advisor to my key contacts.
Additionally, if you can find inspiration from other sources and draw analogies between your profession and what's occurring in the world then this will make your content more relatable.
The inspiration for this particular post came as I was reading about Tiger Woods' remarkable comeback and PGA Tour win ahead of the Ryder Cup. Look forward to the weekend ahead!
And then there he was on Sunday at East Lake in Atlanta, coming down the 18th fairway about to win the Tour Championship with thousands of the faithful stampeding in his wake, dressed in the victory red of old, coming home like some sporting saviour, back from the dead, indomitable once again.
He was once 'a distant ghost, a beautiful memory banished'.
Now, Tiger Woods is well and truly back.


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5 must-try Alabama pizzas – Alabama NewsCenter
When people think about Alabama, pizza may not come to mind.
Barbecue? Of course. Fresh seafood? Yep. But pizza? Many critics scoff and say you can only find good pizza in places like New York City, Chicago and Detroit.
But those critics are wrong, because there are places all over Alabama that serve some seriously delicious 'za. It would be easy to make a list of 100 Alabama pizzas you should try, just saying.
But for the sake of brevity, I narrowed it down to five pizzas you should try. I tried to include a little bit of everything. There are the crowd favorites (the Sticky Fingers at Terry's Pizza), the unique one (Soul Pie at Slice) and the pizza you should get while on vacation at the beach (the Chicken Club at Papa Rocco's).
Now, let's get down to business.
Soul Pie at Slice Pizza and Brew
725 29th St. S., Birmingham and 3104 Timberlake Drive, Vestavia Hills
The Soul Pie at Slice Pizza and Brew is made with turnip greens, black-eyed peas, Conecuh sausage, grilled red onion, bacon, pepper jack and cheddar cheeses. (Tamika Moore)
If you're looking for a unique pizza, then you should make your way to Slice as soon as possible. The popular Magic City pizzeria serves some of the most unique slices you'll ever try – and they're all made with fresh, locally sourced ingredients.
There's the Lakeview pizza, which is topped with horseradish sauce, roasted cherry tomatoes, caramelized onions, shaved red onions, asiago and arugula. There's the Wing and a Prayer, which is piled with ranch dressing, red and green onions, blue cheese crumble, bacon, braised chicken and tomatoes. You can't go wrong with either of these choices.
But the most unique – and most surprisingly delicious – 'za at Slice is the Soul Pie. The crust is topped with black-eyed peas, Conecuh sausage, turnip greens, bacon, grilled onions, and pepper jack and cheddar cheeses. None of these ingredients seem as though they should work on a pizza, but they do. Just give it a shot.
Extra Special Pizza at Mata's Greek Pizza and Grinders
1708 Quintard Ave., Anniston
The Extra Special Pizza at Mata's Greek Pizza and Grinders in Anniston is among the must-try pies. (Haley Laurence)
Chances are, when you get to Mata's, you'll have to wait in a long line to order. The wait is worth every second and more. That's because the pizzeria serves some of the best pizza around – and many (including me) say it's the best in the state.
Mata's, which has been open since 1980, serves some seriously impressive pies, but since you can't try them all at once, you should order the Extra Special Pizza. This pie is a must-try: It consists of onions, green peppers, mushrooms, and black and green olives, which are sprinkled with feta cheese then smothered in lots of white cheddar cheese. And I mean a lot of cheese, y'all. It's like going to cheese heaven.
Remember while ordering that the pizzas at Mata's aren't like most of the other pizza joints: The toppings are piled so high on the thick crust that one piece will go a long way. Not that you'll mind leftovers.
Sticky Fingers at Terry's Pizza
7900 Bailey Cove Road SE Unit A, Huntsville
The Sticky Fingers at Terry's Pizza in Huntsville is among Alabama's must-try pies. (Matt Wake)
If you grew up in the Rocket City, you probably have fond memories of Terry's Pizza. The local chain was a Huntsville landmark, and it was the first place that many people tried pizza for the first time. It opened in 1959 and closed in 2006 because of the death of the owner, Lou Pejza.
Luckily for Rocket City natives, the owner of local grocery chain Star Super Markets bought the recipes and started selling the pizzas at his stores. And even more luckily, a brick-and-mortar Terry's Pizza opened in 2018 so people could get the full restaurant experience while eating their pizza.
While you're at Terry's, you must try the Sticky Fingers, which is one of their signature pies. The crust is stacked with mushrooms, sausage, pepperoni and extra cheese, and it's a flavor explosion. Take one bite and it's pretty obvious why it's a customer favorite. And if you'd like, you can order the Sticky Fingers pie as a Chicago-style deep-dish pizza.
The Aretha's Franklin at Pie Factory
Locations in Florence, Muscle Shoals and Jasper
The Aretha's Franklin at Pie Factory is among the must-try pies in Alabama. (Haley Laurence)
Pie Factory has locations in Muscle Shoals, Florence and Jasper. (Tamika Moore)
The Shoals area is known for its musical heritage. Legends from the Rolling Stones to Bob Seger to Aretha Franklin have recorded in the river region.
When the Pie Factory opened in Florence in 2013, they paid homage to that musical heritage and the area's history while naming some of the pizzas after musicians. You'll find the Muscle Shoals Sound pie, which is a feast of hot sauce, double pepperoni and mozz piled on top of a thin-style crust. You'll definitely enjoy that one.
But our favorite Shoals-named pizza has to be the Aretha's Franklin. It's a ranch-based pie topped with red onion, hot sauce, chicken, gorgonzola, jalapenos and chives. I normally don't like jalapenos on pizza, and I loved this one. My dining companion normally doesn't like chicken on pizza, and she loved it. It's just a good pizza, period.
Best of all, Pie Factory has expanded to Muscle Shoals and Jasper, so you can enjoy these pies in even more places across Alabama.
The Chicken Club Pizza at Papa Rocco's
101 W. 6th Ave., Gulf Shores
The Chicken Club at Papa Rocco's in Gulf Shores is one of Alabama's must-try pies. (Haley Laurence)
Papa Rocco's is a favorite place for pizza at the beach. (Haley Laurence)
I know "the beach" probably doesn't pop into your head when you think about pizza. But maybe it should, because Papa Rocco's has some seriously fun pizza – and an even better atmosphere.
The popular Gulf Shores bar bills itself as the "home of warm beer and lousy pizza," so immediately you know they don't take themselves too seriously. There's usually live music every night and photos of famous guests dot the wall – you'll find pictures of folks like Mike Ditka, Tom Brady and Kenny Stabler. Plus, you're just a walk away from the sandy white sands of the Gulf beach. It doesn't get much better than that.
If you're in the seafood mood because you're at the beach, there are seafood pizza options. But since pizza is a comfort food, why not go for the ultimate comfort food by ordering the chicken club pizza? The hand-tossed crust is topped with alfredo sauce, chicken, mozzarella, tomatoes, bacon bits and spinach, and it's super delicious.
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Obituary: Scott Williams of Alpine
By Tom Michael
Published September 11, 2015 at 7:37 AM CDT
Builder Scott Williams describes his renovation of the Mercantile Building in Valentine, Texas, February 2015 (Tom Michael/KRTS)
Scott Williams of Alpine was a builder and a renovator. On big projects ranging from The Capri in Marfa to the Mercantile Building in Valentine. He also worked on personal residences in Marfa, Alpine, and throughout the Transpecos. Here he is in February on Marfa Public Radio:
My name is Scott Williams and we're at the Valentine Mercantile Building in Valentine, Texas. It served the ranching region out here for probably about 70 years. Oh, I love the history. It's just a lot of fun to bring back the old building.
He is survived by his father, Jack, his wife Karen and his daughter Mariah – all in Alpine – and daughter Jessica of San Antonio. His siblings are his brother Jeff in Alpine and his sister Jaclyn in Midland.
Memorials may be made to the Melanoma Research Foundation (reference Scott Williams, POB 685, Alpine TX 79831) and the Chihuahuan Desert Research Institute in Fort Davis. There will be a graveside service at Elm Grove Cemetery in Alpine on Tuesday (September 15) at 11 AM.
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