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newswire article commentary united states 10.Oct.2003 13:58
imperialism & war | media criticism
It's proven: FOX news makes you dumb!
author: Patrick Angstrom Poore
New study shows that 80% of people who listen to Fox news believe at least one total falsehood about the invasion; link to Fresh Air interview where Bill O' Reilly walks out and cries; and a FAIR action alert about O'Reilly's false statements about the LA times.
Note: This article is not intended as support for mainstream media or NPR. It is a slam on FOX and O'Reilly
And while I'm contributing the character assassination of Bill O'Reilly (see below) - someone who's credibility does need to be assassinated - let me offer a couple more facts, very useful for talking to regular folks out there.
in a recent, rigorously documented poll conducted by The Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA), it was revealed that:
of the 80% of people who said they get their news primarily from broadcast media (TV\Radio), 18% get their news solely from FOX - the highest single source percentage (NPR\PBS was 3% of that same group)
Checking for misperceptions about the Iraq invasion, 80% of Fox listeners believe at least one of the following falsehoods:
a) WMD have been found in Iraq
b) the US has found demonstrable evidence linking Saddam Hussein and Al-Qaida
c) Most of the world backed the US invasion of Iraq
23% of NPR\PBS listeners believe at least one of the falsehoods
Even better, 45% of FOXwatchers believe all three, compared with 4% NPR listeners.
There was no mention of KBOO listeners, but I bet it's even smaller.
http://www.pipa.org/
Speaking of uninformed, on to Bill O'Reilly. FAIR documents yet another utterly false statement recently made in defense of the Governator.
Also, check out the Terri Gross's interview with him a couple of days ago, where he walks out like a petulant child. Of course, she could have asked him about his book, but...
http://freshair.npr.org/
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From: "FAIR" < fair@fair.org>
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To: "FAIR-L" < fair-l@comet.sparklist.com>
Subject: O'Reilly Smears LA Times on Sex Abuse Story
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 11:20:07 -0700
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Media analysis, critiques and activism
http://www.fair.org/activism/oreilly-latimes.html
O'Reilly Smears L.A. Times on Sex Abuse Story
In his continuing criticism of the Los Angeles Times for printing stories
about Arnold Schwarzenegger's alleged record of groping and sexual
assault, Fox News host Bill O'Reilly (10/8/03) pointed to what he saw as a
double standard: "Do you think the L.A. Times sent a squad of reporters to
Arkansas to investigate Bill Clinton's problems with women? No, it did
not."
In fact, the L.A. Times did investigate Clinton sex stories in Arkansas.
A 4,000-word piece appeared on the paper's front page on December 21,
1993, running under the headline "Troopers Say Clinton Sought Silence on
Personal Affairs." This article was one of the first to report on the
scandal known as "Troopergate," which led to Paula Jones' lawsuit against
Clinton and thus indirectly to Clinton's impeachment.
Later on in the same broadcast, O'Reilly charged that the L.A. Times
"didn't send a squad of reporters to go down there and interview Kathleen
Willey and all of the other people. They did not do it." The paper could
not have interviewed Willey "down there"; she was a White House volunteer
who accused Clinton of sexual misconduct at the White House. She came
forward to tell her story in 1998, and her case had nothing to do with
Arkansas. Her allegations were featured in a front-page L.A. Times story
It's not unusual for O'Reilly to slam the L.A. Times, a paper he often
criticizes for being too left-wing (once calling it, for example, the
"pro-Palestinian newspaper of record out there in L.A."-- 2/21/03). Such
attacks helped Schwarzenegger supporters dismiss detailed and consistent
accounts from women who said that they had been abused by the film star as
mere partisan mudslinging.
ACTION: Contact the O'Reilly Factor and ask them to issue a correction
about the host's erroneous charge that the Los Angeles Times failed to
investigate Clinton's "problems with women" in Arkansas.
mailto: oreilly@foxnews.com
link to previous article 10.Oct.2003 14:58
empire slayer link
link to previous article about this, with a couple comments: http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2003/10/272988.shtml
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2003/10/272988.shtml
a helpful graphic 10.Oct.2003 15:35
reposter link
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/EJ04Ak01.html
http://cursor.org
faux news: all the lies that are unfit to print
No Petulant Child 10.Oct.2003 17:26
repub link
He didn't storm out like a child, he never raised his voice. He just told her what he thought about her and said quietly, this interview is over.
I listened to it 10.Oct.2003 18:18
PHH link
He sounded like a ranting nut to me. It was like something from Monty Python.
Oh please... 10.Oct.2003 21:29
anonymous link
He was practically yelling at her. As she said, he got to give a lecture and have the last word, because he hung up.
He should realize 11.Oct.2003 02:58
He should realize that he has a problem. He may need medication, or at the very least anger management classes. Who else ends up red-faced and nearly yelling in interviews and other public appearances? He's always the one who loses his cool. That discussion with Al Franken is another example.
But then, normal people wouldn't do what he does for a living.

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Q: Android Tap on background and have it zoom in
Possible Duplicate:
How to click at a certain location that fits for all phones?

So basically I want it so I tap on my certain area and when I tap it it will zoom into a certain area in the background picture

This is my image
Basically if you click on the playground it will zoom into that area.
How can I do this?

A: Might I simply suggest the classes GestureDetector and MotionEvent?

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Q: A Grothendieck topology on $\Delta$ Is there a choice for a Grothendieck topology on $\Delta$ for which most interesting simplicial sets are sheaves (like representables, horns and boundaries, and more generally all categories)? I suspect I can look at the Segal condition as a sheaf condition, but I'm not able to go further, nor I find information googling something similar to my question (which is, I admit it, somewhat vague).

A: No, there is no such a topology. In fact, the simplex category $\mathbf{\Delta}$ admits only two Grothendieck topologies, namely the indiscrete topology (which is the canonical topology in this case), and the discrete topology; and sheaves, in either case, are not interesting.
The indiscrete topology on $\mathbf{\Delta}$ is given by the maximal sieves, i.e. it is the topology with covering sieves
$\{\Delta^n\mid n\in \mathbb{N}\}$. All simplicial sets are indiscrete-sheaves. More generally, all presheaves on any category are indiscrete-sheaves.
Let $\tau$ be any topology on $\mathbf{\Delta}$ that is finer than the indiscrete topology, then there exists $[n]\in \mathbf{\Delta}$ and a $\tau$-covering sieves $S\subsetneq \Delta^n$, and hence $\mathrm{id}_{[n]}\notin S_n$. For every $i\in [n]$, one has
$$
{(\sigma^i_{n})}^\ast(S)\subset \Lambda^{n+1}_i \bigcap \Lambda^{n+1}_{i+1}
$$
that $\sigma^i_{n} \partial_{n+1}^i=\sigma^i_{n} \partial_{n+1}^{i+1}=\mathrm{id}_{[n]}\notin S_n$. Thus, in particular, $\Lambda^{n+1}_i$ is a $\tau$-covering sieve, for every $i\in [n+1]$. Let $\underline{j}:[0]\to [n+1]$ denote the unique morphism in $\mathbf{\Delta}$ whose image is $\{j\}$, for some $j\in[n+1]$. Then,
$$
\underline{j}^\ast (\bigcap_{\substack{i\in [n+1]\\i\neq j}} \Lambda^{n+1}_i)=\underline{j}^\ast (<\partial_{n+1}^{j}>)=\emptyset_{[0]}.
$$
Thus, the empty sieve $\emptyset_{[0]}$ is a $\tau$-covering sieve. For every $[m]\in \mathbf{\Delta}$, one has $0_m^\ast \emptyset_{[0]}=\emptyset_{[m]}$, for the terminal morphism $0_m:[m]\to [0]$. Therefore, $\tau$ is the discrete topology on $\mathbf{\Delta}$, i.e. all sieves in $\mathbf{\Delta}$ (including the empty sieves) are $\tau$-covering sieves. The discrete-sheaves are precisely the terminal simplicial sets. Hence, the indiscrete topology is the canonical topology on $\mathbf{\Delta}$.


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What are the top ten new gadgets of 2008? Well they are not ten to be exact , they are fourteen.
Lets list them all here and give some detailed info about each of them:
3M MPro 110
Casio EX-F1 Camera
BUG Labs' Base and Modules
Eye-Fi Explore SD Card
Polaroid ZINK
Sleek Audio SA6 Headphones
Vision Research's V12 Camera
Livescribe Pulse
Ugobe Pleo
Samsung AIRAVE
Tonium Pacemaker DJ System
1) 3M MPro 110
Laptops, cellphones and other portables can shrink only so far before their displays are unusable. 3M decouples screen size from gadget size with the first micro-projector. It can show 50-inch-diagonal images in a dark room and 10-inch images under bright light. The tech debuts bundled with a one-hour battery in the handheld MPro110. By next year, 3M expects to squeeze the projector (itself the size of a matchbox) into cellphones, MP3 players and other gadgets.
3M beat other companies in the pocket-projector race by refining a well-known design instead of developing exotic technologies such as miniature lasers. Like many tabletop projectors, this model uses a set of prisms to direct light from a lamp onto an imaging chip that sets the color and intensity of each pixel in the projection. But rather than using separate lenses around the prisms, 3M molded prisms with rounded edges that act as built-in lenses. To keep power and size down, the projector's lamp is a one-watt LED with a special lens to concentrate the light beam so that none of it goes to waste.
The 5.4-ounce MPro110 has inputs for laptops, digital cameras and cellphones to display video at standard-definition-TV quality (640 by 480 pixels). So it's not only a great tool for business presentations, but also the cheapest giant-screen TV. $360
2) Casio EX-F1 Camera
I was about to buy a bulky high-speed camera setup costing upward of $5,000 when the EX-F1 came along. It's magical—essentially snapping pictures before I push the shutter button (by auto-filling its memory with 60 six-megapixel photos every second). And it captures slow-motion video at up to 1,200 frames per second. The resolution and image quality aren't as high as in a pricier rig, but the EX-F1 is small enough to carry everywhere. As a result, I've caught explosive chemical reactions, the acrobatics of dragonflies, and a host of other things that happen at faster-than-human speed.
Casio's coup was recognizing that the necessary tech—fast image sensors and processors, big memory buffers to hold the images until the memory card records them—already existed in consumer-grade camera components. And it bet correctly that amateurs like me would trade a little quality to get their hands on this kind of high-speed power. $1,000;
3) BUG Labs' Base and Modules
With BUG, you snap together parts to build any device you dream up. The system's brain is the BUGbase, a tiny Linux computer with four slots for plugging in a growing range of modules. Use the GPS receiver and camera modules, for example, to build a point-and-shoot that adds location tags to photos and posts them on the Web. Write custom software in Java, or download dozens of free applications that make the modules work together. BUGbase, $350; modules, from $60
4) Eye-Fi Explore SD Card
By squeezing a Wi-Fi transmitter onto the main chip of a two-gigabyte memory card, Eye-Fi allows a camera to automatically beam photos to a computer or upload them to the Web. It can also use Wi-Fi to find its location and geotag photos to display on a map. From $80
5) Polaroid ZINK
In 1948, Polaroid introduced on-the-spot photo printing with the Land Camera. It continued making instant film until this year, when a successor emerged in the PoGo, a full-color, pocket-sized printer for digital cameras based on an idea that Polaroid's founder, Edwin Land, had 30 years ago.
Land challenged his researchers, including a recent MIT grad named Stephen Herchen, to make color printers smaller by eliminating the need for liquid ink. Over the years, they explored technologies such as the heat-activated dyes used in fax machines and clear chemicals that produce color when mixed. Every method took too long or produced prints with low image quality or longevity.
The breakthrough finally came in 2000, when Polaroid developed a dye that's clear in its solid, crystalline form but turns permanently colored when the crystals melt and change shape. Because different-colored crystals have their own melting points, it's possible to create a full-color image with one pass of a printhead that applies precise, pinpoint doses of heat. Polaroid was developing a consumer product with this technology when it went bankrupt in 2001 and became simply a brand name for budget electronic products.
In 2005, a group of former Polaroid employees formed Zink (short for "zero ink") Imaging, with Herchen as chief technology officer. They converted a Konica Minolta paper factory to make paper embedded with the heat-activated dyes and recruited Alps Electric to build the printer. Zink is licensing the technology so companies can build printers directly into devices such as digital cameras. But the first partnership is with its old parent company to make the Polaroid-branded PoGo, which turns out richly colored 2-by-3-inch photos. $150
6) Sleek Audio SA6 Headphones
Everyone's ear canals have unique shapes that affect hearing; some of us pick up high frequencies better, while others are attuned to bass. These in-ear headphones are the first that let you tweak the acoustics to suit your ears—or your taste—avoiding the distortion that results from adjusting the equalizer on your music player. For more thump on hip-hop tracks, attach the bass modules to the back of each earphone, adding larger chambers for the sound to resonate. Make vocals stand out by changing the treble filter on the earpiece to one that allows more high frequencies through. $250
7 ) Vision Research's V12 Camera
To catch every detail of the gymnastics and track-and-field competitions at the Beijing Olympics, NBC brought in the most powerful slow-motion camcorder: a prototype of the Vision Research V12. The faster the camera, the slower its video playback, and the V12 is the record holder. It shoots video at up to one million frames per second at low resolution and captures high-definition at 6,933 fps, seven times as fast as its nearest competitor, Vision Research's own Phantom HD. The pixels in the V12's sensor are about five times the size of those in an SLR, allowing them to absorb enough light even at ultrafast shutter speeds. To process the torrent of data, the camera breaks the task into smaller operations that run simultaneously. From $87,000
8.) Livescribe Pulse
In 2002 I got my first digital pen, which captured handwriting as an image file, eliminating the need for paper notes. Or so I thought. Unfortunately, my full-speed penmanship was just as illegible in electronic form. Six years later, Livescribe solved that problem. Its Pulse uses the same technology to track its location on specially printed paper, but it pairs the text with an audio recording. At a meeting, I jot only cursory notes while the pen records every sound (except the scratching of pen on paper, which it filters out). Later I can tap my pen to the pad or click with my mouse on the screen to select a section of my notes and hear exactly what people said at the time. From $150
9) Ugobe Pleo
The most lifelike robotic pet can see, hear, and feel your touch. Six computer chips process the input and produce lifelike reactions, such as crying if it's left in the dark. Pleo moves naturally using 28 motors and joints—for example, arching its back when stroked. The dino also learns from experiences (such as staying away from your noisy canary) and displays emotions. You can even download behavioral-modification packs or use the free programming kit to customize its personality. $350
10) Nikon D90
This 12-megapixel SLR records high-def video by holding its shutter open even when you're not snapping a pic (the same trick that lets it show a live preview of your shot on the LCD). Add any Nikon lens to apply unique effects, like the warped, wide view from a fisheye lens. $1,000 (body only)
11) Samsung AIRAVE
No bars at home? No problem. Airave acts like a mini cell tower, routing calls into Sprint's network over your home's high-speed Internet connection. Each Airave box handles up to three simultaneous calls, which can start at home and switch to a regular tower when you step outside, or vice versa. $100, plus from $5 per month;
12) iTunes App Store
The App Store's dead-simple interface makes it easy to search for and download games, sports tickers, news readers and other programs. One-click installation and a central repository (accessible from the phone itself) transforms your phone or iPod into a pocket-sized computer. Free to $450
13) Amazon Kindle
With the paper-like legibility of electronic ink, long battery life, and the ability to hold thousands of pages, e-book readers were already quite handy. But Amazon made them even more convenient by adding a free cellular connection for plucking newspapers, magazines—even entire books—out of the air in seconds. $360; downloads from $1
14) Tonium Pacemaker DJ System
The Pacemaker is the first portable digital music player that lets you mix two songs together live, the way DJs do with a pair of turntables. The 120-gigabyte hard drive stores up to 30,000 songs, which you browse by moving your finger around a circular touchpad like the iPod's. The gadget allows you to speed up or slow down a pair of songs so their beats match and to adjust the pitch so that the songs you mix are in the same key.
$875
Source: Popsci.com
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I'm a huge fan of the Pulse Smart Pen. I go to ASU and taking notes with the pen makes my life so much easier.
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IBM and Sybase are focusing on connecting mobile users to data in the home office.
Sybase Inc. and IBM are looking to arm the un-wired world with database products that manage the flow of data to wireless devices and enable richer presentation of data on those devices.
As a result, both companies are promising to improve the productivity of mobile workers by giving them access to the latest data.
Sybase, of Dublin, Calif., in the first half of next year will roll out two products—Unwired Server and Unwired Toolkit—that work with its iAnywhere embeddable database. The former enables applications running on Palm OS devices to present a common user interface and use a common installer. Unwired Toolkit adds enhancements to the companys Pocket PowerBuilder development environment, according to Marty Beard, Sybases senior vice president of corporate development.
Separately, IBM this month released two editions of its DB2 embeddable database: DB2 Everyplace Version 8, for enterprises, and DB2 Everyplace Express, aimed at small and midsize businesses.
DB2 Everyplace Version 8 includes a raft of features designed to make it easier for developers to connect applications on mobile devices with data sources in a home office. For instance, a new feature called WebSphere Everyplace Access offers enhanced data synchronization. Support for the Armonk, N.Y., companys DB2 Information Integrator makes linking to enterprise applications or business intelligence software easier, officials said.
An enhancement that particularly appeals to DB2 Everyplace user Barb Walker is new support for additional databases. An earlier version of the software Walker was using restricted the number of databases open at one time, she said, which limited the scope of data being sent to mobile applications that she developed for.
"I had [a lot of different applications] I wanted to go into; I wanted to put holds on each of them ... [but] I had to halt production because I could only have one database," said Walker, IS application developer at Fischer Group Inc., in Crestview Hills, Ky. The DB2 Everyplace upgrade "helps a lot because I can do block scheduling on handhelds for every activity," Walker said.
Linking the embeddable version of DB2 with IBMs integration software will expand the usefulness of mobile devices, said Janet Perna, IBMs general manager for data management solutions. With DB2 Everyplace and Information Integrator, "you could join information in an Oracle [Corp.] database with file data and now have access to that through pervasive devices [and DB2 Everyplace]," Perna said. "A lot of companies want to provide their employees with mobile devices that access their corporate databases."


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Barriers between Realities: Irrational Thinking and the Quantum–Classical Divide
By Mariette DiChristina on July 1, 2018
Credit: Nick Higgins
We may think we have an ability to be fair and impartial—to make decisions and judgments based on the weight of evidence. But unfortunately, we humans are all irrational. When faced with an overwhelming amount of information, our brains take shortcuts; instead of taking time to analyze, we may accept a group decision or a trusted expert. Worse, even when we have time to consider our decisions, we prefer to interpret the evidence to fit our preexisting beliefs, called confirmation bias. And even if we can clear the first two hurdles, we may fall prey to social motivations. We may accept beliefs that seem more likely to improve personal status, or that conform to the views of a political party, or that even help us find a partner.
This month, we take a look at "The Science of Antiscience Thinking," co-authored by researchers Douglas T. Kenrick, Adam B. Cohen, Steven L. Neuberg and Robert B. Cialdini. What happens when our irrational tendencies encounter the process of science, which promises an unvarnished view of reality, based on testing and collected evidence—on facts? Perhaps unsurprisingly, we celebrate the fruits of research when the process yields something we value—a cure for a disease, say, or the latest smartphone. But what if we don't like what we hear? We reject it. Sadly for us, some problems, such as global climate change, mean that we can't dally forever. On the bright side, psychologists have developed strategies—such as a change of perspective—to help counteract our natural inclinations. It's a welcome dose of optimism for a sometimes puzzling world.
Speaking of confounding topics, how about the strange, probabilistic quantum-mechanical world versus our everyday "classical" world, where everything seems to be hard and fast? In this issue's cover story, "Crossing the Quantum Divide," science journalist Tim Folger lays out upcoming efforts by physicists to explore where one realm passes into the other.
How the body's cycles crossed the line from folk medicine into modern science is the topic of "The Clocks within Our Cells," by science writer and essayist Veronique Greenwood. She describes an emerging field called chronomedicine, which is testing timed treatments of diseases such as cancer and rheumatoid arthritis. Someday personalized monitoring of circadian rhythms may support different treatment times for each of us.
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Q: Android lifecycle library: Cannot add the same observer with different lifecycles I have an app I'm working on that's using the lifecycle library but I'm getting an IllegalArgumentException that says "Cannot add the same observer with different lifecycles" I only add observers in onCreate which I thought would be safe. Most of my observers are added via anonymous classes which I assume can't be the issue here since the observer is never recycled. One is using this:
private GpsState gpsState;

void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    getLifecycle().addObserver(gpsState);
    gpsState.observe(this, (state) -> {
        // ...
    });
}

In this example GpsState extends LiveData to provide the current state of the GPS and implements LifecycleObserver to be able to refresh certain values when reaching an ON_RESUME state.
Any idea what I might be doing wrong?

A: In my case the problem was at lambda method of observer is empty. I just tried to add something to it and problem was solved. For example:
gpsState.observe(this, (state) -> {
                Log.d(this.getClass().getSimpleName(), BaseNavigationActivity.this.toString());

});

Most likely that JVM define anonymous classes that use only static references and for such cases it become kinda singleton, so you will have same instance all the time you reference such class.

A: I had the same issue, these lines of code solved it:
sharedViewModel.getFriendsList().observe(this, object: Observer<ArrayList<User>> {
    override fun onChanged(t: ArrayList<User>?) {
        CurrentUser.friendsList = t
    }
})

A: As thehebrewhammer said in a comment, I had the same issue because of Kotlin SAM-Lambda optimization.
viewModel.myLiveData.observe(this, Observer {
    NavigationBackEvent().post()
})

This SAM-Lambda doesn't access anything of the class and will be compiled to a singleton for optimization.
I changed it to a class initialization for forcing new instance at each run:
viewModel.myLiveData.observe(this, MyObserver())

and
class MyObserver : Observer<MyType?> {
    override fun onChanged(it: MyType?) {
        NavigationBackEvent().post()
    }
}

A: Based on previous responses all you need to do is create a new Object every time you subscribe your observer.
gpsState.observe(this, object: Observer<GpsState> {
    // ...
});

PD: I assumed that GpsState is the data type you want observe. In my case was Long


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I read this article and found it very interesting, thought it might be something for you. The article is called BREAKING: ResMed to Acquire MatrixCare EHR for $750M and is located at https://hitconsultant.net/2018/11/05/resmed-acquire-matrixcare-ehr/.
Connected care company ResMed announced it will acquire MatrixCare, a provider of long-term care EHR software, for $750M to expand its out-of-hospital SaaS portfolio. Named "Best in KLAS" for long-term post-acute care software, MatrixCare's solutions help Accountable Care Organizations, skilled nursing and senior living providers, life plan communities, and home health organizations to connect, collaborate and prosper as we migrate to a fee-for-value healthcare system.
In addition to electronic health record components purpose-built for any LTPAC care-setting to create a true, person-centric, e-longitudinal health record and enable LTPAC providers to efficiently manage the populations under their care. MatrixCare's technology solutions currently serves15,000+ providers across nursing, life plan communities, senior living, and private duty.
These new care settings complement ResMed's current SaaS offerings in home medical equipment, home health and hospice delivered through Brightree and HEALTHCAREfirst, companies it acquired in February 2016 and May 2018 respectively. With more than 6 million cloud-connected devices for daily remote patient monitoring, ResMed devices and software solutions help treat and manage sleep apnea, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and other respiratory conditions. With its 6,000-member team strives to improve patients' quality of life, reduce the impact of chronic disease and save healthcare costs in more than 120 countries.
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Sondheim's Into the Woods to Become a Disney Flick
Author: Kathy CeceriKathy Ceceri
The Walt Disney Studios has announced that Rob Marshall, director of the latest installment in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, will be directing a film version of the Sondheim musical Into the Woods. As the press release describes it:
Into the Woods weaves together the story of several of the most beloved fairytales (Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk, Rapunzel) into the original story of a Baker and his wife who try to reverse a curse on their family in order to have a child, exploring the consequences of the characters' wishes and quests and their desire for "happily ever after." With music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book and direction by James Lapine, "Into the Woods" earned 10 nominations at the 1988 Tony Awards, winning three including best score and best book of a musical. The 2002 Broadway revival won a Tony for best revival of a musical.
Even though the show is based on children's fairytales, it is not really aimed at kids. By Act II the storylines start to get mixed up and everything takes a turn for the worst.
On the other hand, I never thought kids would go for Tim Burton's adaptation of Sondheim's Sweeney Todd, about a mass murderer and his girlfriend who turns the bodies into meat pies, but my sons loved it. (In fact, it inspired my then 11-year-old to create a Lego MOC of the barbershop scene, complete with trap door and pie shop, using a white minifig cape colored with red marker for a barber's apron.) There's also a popular student version that makes the show kid-friendly by leaving out the entire second act.
And Marshall directed the excellent 2002 movie version of the musical Chicago, as well as the 1998 stage revival of Cabaret, so he's experienced in the genre. Some news sources are reporting that Sondheim will be writing new songs for the film.
So I'll be reserving judgment until I see how this project develops. A Sondheim production is always worthwhile, and Marshall seems equal to the task.
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Mental Health Conditions Can Dramatically Increase Chances of Debt Problems
by Amie Sparrow on 25 March 2019 Read in
More than 1.5 million people in England are struggling with spiralling debt and ill mental health
New research by the Money and Mental Health Policy Institute has shown the scale of links between financial difficulty and mental health problems. The charity is asking the government to use its upcoming Consumer White Paper to make sure people with mental ill health get a fairer deal from essential services (banks, energy and broadband providers) and more protection from aggressive debt collection.
We know that the combination of #mentalhealth problems & financial difficulty can have a devastating impact on people's lives - which is why we're calling on the government, the NHS, businesses & regulators to take action: https://t.co/R5bzd6c9GH pic.twitter.com/sSyPARhHp6
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The charity - founded by Martin Lewis from MoneySavingExpert - analysed national data from the Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey, which surveyed more than 7,500 people across England. The analysis showed:
1.5 million people in England are currently struggling with both problem debt and mental health problems at the same time.
People with mental health problems are three and a half times more likely to be in problem debt than those without mental health problems.
Nearly half (46%) of all people in problem debt are also experiencing a mental health problem.
The research also shows that certain mental health conditions in particular can dramatically increase a person's chances of facing financial difficulties. It shows that people with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) are almost six times more likely to be in problem debt than people without a mental health problem. People with bipolar disorder or depression are around five times more likely to experience serious financial difficulty than people without mental health problems.
"When you're struggling with your mental health it can be much harder to stay in work or manage your spending, while being in debt can cause huge stress and anxiety — so the two issues feed off each other, creating a vicious cycle which can destroy lives. Yet despite how connected these problems are, financial services rarely think about our mental health, and mental health services rarely consider what's happening with our money," Helen Undy, Chief Executive of Money and Mental Health, said.
"The government has an opportunity to use its upcoming Consumer White Paper to introduce minimum standards that people with mental health problems can expect across essential services like energy and banking, to ensure that they get a fair deal. That should include help to avoid problem debt, and better protection from aggressive debt collection practices when it does happen.
"And ensuring that money advice is routinely offered to people using mental health services would increase recovery rates, as well as improving the financial wellbeing of the 1.5 million people currently dealing with this terrifying combination of problems."
Money and Mental Health is calling for wide-ranging action from the government, the NHS, banks, energy providers and regulators to reduce both the psychological impact of problem debt, and the chances of someone with mental health problems falling into financial difficulty.
You can help by joining the Stop the #DebtThreats campaign by signing the petition.
If you are worried about debt and mental health, help is available.
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Please don't miss this chance; I will list more things once the current one sold. In the need to clear stocks and make more funding (reasons below ;) ).
It has been a month since I quit my day job, because in the end I simply thought it was no longer worth staying for. If you follow me on instagram you might have seen that I was building a new dollhouse. The dollhouse will be the next post, and hopefully by then I can decide how I want to decorate the dollhouse kitchen.
But the good news I can tell you is finally.... FINALLY... both my doctor and physiotherapist "declared" that I do not need further therapy. I am making a promise to myself to swim on every Saturday for self-therapy.
1. Joining another local Doll Event at Scape on November 10th, 2013 with Snowfern again! More details should be available soon.
3. Being a student again; as I am planning to attend summer class/ home stay in Japan.
Hoping all my plans will go well, and if all is well I will be gone for at least 5-6 weeks. I hope before then I can have less things in my current room in case that I have to leave for so long. And hopefully by the time of the Doll Event, I will have new things to show as well.