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Pittsburgh player questioned after racing sausage is whacked with bat at Miller Park
A member of the the Brewers' on-field promotional group participating in the sausage race was struck by a bat swung by Randall Simon of the Pirates.
Pittsburgh player questioned after racing sausage is whacked with bat at Miller Park A member of the the Brewers' on-field promotional group participating in the sausage race was struck by a bat swung by Randall Simon of the Pirates. Check out this story on jsonline.com: https://jsonl.in/2F86MfU
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Published 1:26 p.m. CT Jan. 23, 2018
In this video screen grab, Pittsburgh Pirates first baseman Randall Simon (marked by red arrow) can be seen taking a swing at Guido, the Italian sausage character (yellow arrow), during the sausage race at Miller Park on July 9, 2003.(Photo: Wire services)
Editor's note: This story originally appeared in the July 10, 2003, edition of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
The nightly sausage race, a popular feature at Milwaukee Brewers home games for several years, took a bizarre and ugly turn Wednesday night at Miller Park that led to sheriff's deputies questioning Pittsburgh Pirates first baseman Randall Simon.
A 19-year-old female member of the "Super Team," the Brewers' on-field promotional group, was racing past the visitors' dugout wearing the giant Italian sausage costume when she was struck from behind by a bat swung by Simon, who was standing on the dugout's top step.
The female employee, who was identified by a club official only as Mandy, crumpled to the warning track in front of the dugout and another racer, a 21-year-old woman identified by a club official as Veronica, tripped over her and fell to the ground as well.
After several seconds, Veronica helped Mandy to her feet and the two finished the race and exited the field. Both were treated for injuries in the first aid area at the stadium, where they were interviewed by Milwaukee County sheriff's deputies and officials from Major League Baseball's security department.
The incident, which took place in front of a crowd of 22,490, was captured by TV cameras and replayed several times.
"This is one of the most outrageous things I've ever seen inside a ballpark or outside a ballpark," said Rick Schlesinger, the Brewers' executive vice president of business operations.
"It sickened me to see it."
Schlesinger did not divulge the girls' names or the extent of their injuries, citing confidentiality laws. He did say that Simon was interrogated by sheriff's deputies at the ballpark.
Asked whether the club or the victims would press charges, Schlesinger said: "It's in the hands of the Sheriff's Department right now. We'll let that run its course."
Sheriff's department Deputy Inspector Sherry Warichak said Simon was expected to be booked and released late Wednesday, and probably would be ordered to appear in the Milwaukee County district attorney's office this morning.
The injured characters suffered scraped knees and were treated by the stadium's first aid staff but did not require hospitalization, Warichak said.
"At this point I don't think there were any other injuries, but that remains to be seen," Warichak said.
Schlesinger said he spoke to Larry Silverman, the vice president and legal counsel for the Pirates, after the incident.
"I do not view this as a reflection on the Pirates organization," Schlesinger said. "This is an insane act by a person whose conduct is unjustified."
Super Team member Ryan Borghoff, 16, raced wearing the bratwurst costume.
"The whole things is unbelievable," said Borghoff, who recently finished his sophomore year at Waukesha West High School.
"I didn't really know what happened. We were doing . . . a race where one person takes the lead and then another person passes him. It was my turn to lead, so I ran out front. I didn't really know what was going on. All of a sudden, I was by myself.
"He didn't hit her on the head," Borghoff said, referring to Mandy. "He just hit the costume and she fell over. These things are so top-heavy that it doesn't take much."
Borghoff went on to win the race. "Somebody had to, I guess," he said.
The sausage race occurs after the sixth inning, and Simon wasn't playing at the time. When he pinch-hit in the top of the seventh, Simon was roundly booed by the crowd. He grounded out in what turned into a 2-1 Brewers victory in 12 innings.
The costumed mascots, usually members of the Super Team pep squad or the Brewers' grounds crew, race along the infield warning track, from the left-field corner to the area beyond the home dugout on the first-base side.
The incident took place on the one-year anniversary of the 73rd All-Star Game at Miller Park, which finished in a controversial tie.
Journal Sentinel staff writer Jesse Garza contributed to this report.
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Q: Are they different Sigma algebras generated by a semialgebra and an algegra? Are they different Sigma algebras generated by a semialgebra $A$ and an algegra $A'$ of subsets of a set $X$?
where the Algebra $A'$ is obtained by all the disjoint collection of all finite unions of sets from $A$.
If yes, any proof? (I have proved only that the sigma algebra generated by the semialgebra is a subset of the other but I cannot prove the other direction)
Thanks!!

A: If I understand you, your question is:

If $\mathcal{A}$ is a semialgebra and $\mathcal{A}'$ is the algebra of finite, disjoint unions of members of $\mathcal{A}$, then is $\sigma(\mathcal{A}) = \sigma(\mathcal{A}')$?

The answer to this question is yes. Clearly, $\sigma(\mathcal{A}) \subseteq \sigma(\mathcal{A}')$, as you have already observed.
For the other inclusion, observe that $\sigma(\mathcal{A})$ contains every finite, disjoint union of members of $\mathcal{A}$ because it is a sigma-algebra and therefore closed under finite unions. Thus, $\mathcal{A}' \subseteq \sigma(\mathcal{A})$. Since, $\sigma(\mathcal{A}')$ is the smallest sigma-algebra containing $\mathcal{A}'$, we conclude that $\sigma(\mathcal{A}') \subseteq \sigma(\mathcal{A})$.

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Loughborough swimmer Louise Hansson produced an outstanding performance at this weekend's FINA World Cup in Berlin to bring home a trio of medals.
The Sweden international took a stunning gold – with a new lifetime best – in the women's 100m backstroke final to blow away a competitive field.
It was a brilliantly executed race from Hansson as she finished ahead of Canada duo Maggie MacNeil (56.16) and Kylie Masse (56.31) by hitting the wall in 56.03 seconds.
Hansson came into the race in fine form after also winning silver in the women's 100m individual medley with a time of 58.33 seconds – just behind Israel's Anatasia Gorbenko (57.90).
Earlier in the day, the 24-year-old had taken fourth in the women's 50m backstroke final with a new personal best and Swedish National Record (26.07).
Hansson, who performed at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, capped off a wonderful weekend by winning another silver in the women's 100m butterfly on the final day of action. Competing in another tough field, she held on for another podium finish with a time of 55.49.
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Q: Criteria of regularity that a Cayley's Diagram should meet . As referred in the Visual group theory Book by Nathan Carter- The unofficial definition of a group says that :
A group is a collection of actions satisfying the rules:
1. there is a predefined list of actions that never change.
2. Every actions is reversible.
3. Every actions is deterministic.
4. Any sequence of consecutive actions is also an action.
then the appearence of a Cayley's Diagram should be such that the above rules are satisfied.
Now the question is that the following figure satisfies the above rules but is still not a cayley's diagram:

The reason the book states is that it is so because the group lacks regularity i.e.
it does not repeats every one of its internal pattern throughout the whole diagram.
I can't understand what role does 'regularity' in cayley's diagram has to do with condition for being a group.

A: A graph can be a Cayley diagram only if all the subgraphs consisting of blue edges (and the adjacent vertices) are isomorphic, and all the subgraphs containing red edges (and the adjacent vertices) are isomorphic (this generalises to more generators). This is essentially what "regularity" is getting at.
In this example, it is not regular because the top red region is different from the bottom two red regions. To utilise this to find a contradiction, note that the blue edges imply that there is a symmetry along them (obtained by swapping as follows: $1\leftrightarrow5$, $2\leftrightarrow6$, $3\leftrightarrow7$, $4\leftrightarrow 8$). However, this is not a symmetry of your graph!

A: This is why the definition you've given from Visual Group Theory (excellent text!) is only an informal definition.  Several of the statements in the definition are somewhat unclear in their meaning, which is why you want to move on to a more formal definition at some point.  A way we can see that this diagram fails to be a Cayley diagram with direct reference to the rules of groups is to think of successive application of the "red" operation in different cases.  If you apply red (r) twice to node 5 then you get back to node 5.  This implies that rr = e, where e is the identity.  However, if you apply r twice starting from node 1 then you end up at node 3, and so we conclude that rr is not e.  I think in the informal definition this is violating the condition that actions are deterministic - i.e. that a given sequence of operations will always have the same result.
In terms of more formal definitions it is violating something that is implied but not usually stated in the definition of a group.  There is a rule for combining group elements and the combination of two group elements is another group element (condition of closure).  What is implied, but not usually stated here is that for any three elements satisfying ab = c, if they satisfy this relation some of the time then they must satisfy it all of the time.  That is, there is an explicit set of unchanging relations relating the group elements to each other.  This is part of the implied meaning by saying that "a rule for combining elements exists".


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Perhaps Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows should have been a trilogy. Splitting the sprawling finale to author J.K. Rowling's boy wizard saga into three parts — as opposed to its chosen two-part incarnation — might have come across as shameless profiteering (admittedly, a not-uncommon practice in this town), but it wouldn't have been without merit. At 759 pages, Rowling's source novel is said to be a rather dense work, plot-wise; surely it could have easily warranted another installment?
I only say this because Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1, though certainly a decent film, clearly strains from the effort required to fit the book's proceedings into a two-act structure. While Part 2, slated to open approximately six months from now, is alotted the story's meaty parts — namely, the spectacular Battle of Hogwarts and its emotional denouement — Part 1 must bear the burden of setting the stage for the grand confrontation between the forces of Light and Dark magic and framing the predicament of its three protagonists, teen wizards Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe), Hermione Granger (Emma Watson), and Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint), in suitably dire terms. And it's quite a heavy burden indeed.
As the film opens, the evil Lord Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes), having assumed control over Hogwarts since the events of the preceding film, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, has wasted no time in initiating his reign of terror. As far as historical evil-dictator analogues are concerned, Voldemort appears partial to the blueprint laid by Stalin as opposed to that of his genocidal pact-pal, Hitler. Enemies of the Dark Lord's regime are prosecuted in dramatic show trials, presided over by the Grand Inquisitor, Dolores Umbridge (Imelda Staunton), while muggles (non-magic folk) and half-bloods are denounced as ''undesirables'' and "mudbloods" in Soviet-style propaganda posters and forced to register with the authorities.
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Federal policies make it harder for noncitizens to move out of poverty
Max De Faria, 2021 Emerson National Hunger Fellow via the Congressional Hunger Center and Noemí Wilson, EYA Policy Intern via the United Methodist Church
While the COVID-19 pandemic decimated the working class in the United States, many families turned to federal assistance programs for support to survive when things felt like they were falling apart. However, as the toll of the pandemic rose, the disparities between citizens and noncitizen residents widened astronomically. The results of a survey by the Urban Institute show how immigrant families' experiences of hardship has been compounded by the pandemic. Over 30 percent of immigrant families reported worries about meeting their basic needs (Figure 1) in December 2020. The pandemic exposed the impact of xenophobic rhetoric at a national scale that has threatened immigrant communities and pushed them further away from asking for the assistance they need to survive.
Figure 1: Urban Institute. "Many Immigrant Families with Children Continued to Avoid Public Benefits in 2020, Despite Facing Hardships." May 2021.
Despite having some poverty alleviating resources provided to them, many immigrants avoid collecting government benefits because of immigration concerns, such as being prosecuted by Immigration Customs Enforcement ("ICE") which can lead to deportation and family break-up (more below on how noncitizen participation in anti-poverty policies functions). The aforementioned survey conducted by Urban Institute found that 20 percent of adults in immigrant families avoided any noncash benefits out of fear. When focusing on low-income families, this percentage increases to almost a third. In regards to health, 8 percent avoid programs such as Medicaid and other free or low-cost medical care. Approximately 10.1 percent avoid food and nutrition programs such as SNAP, WIC, emergency food assistance and more. Finally, 7.2 percent avoid utilizing housing subsidies and emergency rental assistance.
These numbers appear small but they do not fully capture the fear noncitizens experience when accessing benefits. While some risk their safety and claim benefits anyway, the "chilling effects" experienced by many immigrant communities, that were exacerbated because of the Trump-era 'public charge' rule, can cause many community members to struggle against not having enough food, experiencing housing insecurity and more. Chilling effects can be explained as families avoiding benefits to assist with necessities because they are concerned about green card/immigration status or immigration enforcement. These chilling effects have been reported by 36.2 percent of immigrants in regard to housing. For health programs, 40.2 percent reported chilling effects. The highest reported area of these chilling effects are food and nutrition, where 50.2 percent of immigrants reported chilling effects. Noncitizen communities face the double burden of xenophobic anti-poverty policies and hyper-policing that have created the current levels of fear.
Qualifying for anti-poverty programs is exceedingly difficult for noncitizens.
There are many misconceptions and confusion about which noncitizens can access federal anti-poverty programs. Current practices limit access to some anti-poverty programs for certain immigrant and refugee populations, unfairly denying access to individuals without documents and many individuals who recently arrived in the United States. The misconceptions and confusion stem from the fact that noncitizen communities are divided into three categories when determining access to anti-poverty programs, with several exceptions (discussed below): qualified immigrants who entered before August 20, 1996; qualified immigrants who entered following August 20, 1996; and nonqualified immigrants.
In order to qualify according to the 1996 welfare reform, noncitizens must be at least one of the following:
Lawful permanent residents (LPRs),
Refugees or asylees,
Cuban/Haitian entrants,
Individuals granted withholding of deportation by U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services,
Individual granted conditional entry to the country,
And certain battered spouses and children.
For these 'qualified' noncitizens who arrived prior to the enactment of The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (P.L. 104-193, also known as "welfare reform"), they are generally able to access anti-poverty programs in the same manner as U.S. citizens. Similarly 'qualified' noncitizens that arrived after former President Clinton signed the 1996 bill into law are required to wait at least five years after being granted their qualified status in order to access some anti-poverty programs. There are only rare circumstances in which individuals without documents or who fail to meet any of the above criteria are eligible to access federal anti-poverty programs.
Access to anti-poverty programs vary dramatically for different categories of noncitizens.
Under The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, "qualified" noncitizens were sorted into two categories, with those who entered on or after the legislation took affect facing new requirements to qualify for these critical anti-poverty programs. This law required immigrant families wait at least 5 years since the date that they were deemed a "qualified" noncitizen in order to access antipoverty programs.
There are some exceptions across many programs. For instance, victims of trafficking and their beneficiaries are eligible to receive benefits from several anti-poverty programs. However, these circumstances that would qualify otherwise ineligible noncitizens are exceptional and quite rare. Resultingly, the accessibility of these programs varies dramatically for different groups of noncitizens, as seen in the chart below.
Programs "Qualified" Noncitizen (Entered before August 20, 1996) "Qualified" Noncitizen (Entered on/after August 20, 1996) Not "Qualified" Noncitizen
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Eligible under certain circumstances Eligible after 5-year requirement or under certain circumstances Eligible only in rare circumstances
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Eligible Eligible after 5-year requirement or under certain circumstances Eligible only in rare circumstances
HUD Public Housing Eligible EXCEPT some Cuban/Haitian Entrants Eligible after 5-year requirement EXCEPT some Cuban/Haitian Entrants Eligible only in rare circumstances
HUD Housing Choice Voucher and Section 8 Project-Based Rental Assistance Programs Eligible EXCEPT some Cuban/Haitian Entrants Eligible after 5-year requirement EXCEPT some Cuban/Haitian Entrants Eligible only in rare circumstances
Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Eligible under certain circumstances Eligible if LPR has 40 quarters of work after 5-year requirement or under certain circumstances Eligible if receiving SSI on August 20, 1996 or in rare circumstances
Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Eligible Eligible under certain circumstances (with state options to expand to children under 21 and pregnant people) Eligible under certain circumstances (with state options to expand to children under 21 and pregnant people)
Full-Scope Medicaid Eligible Eligible under certain circumstances (with state options to expand to children under 21 and pregnant people) Eligible under certain circumstances (with state options to expand to children under 21 and pregnant people)
Figure 2: Adapted by Max De Faria from National Immigration Law Center, "Overview of Immigrant Eligibility for Federal Programs (Revised July 2021)".
Much like how families with noncitizens must jump through bureaucratic hoops to qualify for anti-poverty programs, they face similarly troubling requirements in attempts to access the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) or Child Tax Credit (CTC). These refundable tax credits help low-income workers and families by supplementing their income. Qualifying for these tax credits requires that individuals have a Social Security Number (SSN). That caveat, however, means that noncitizens who have Individual Tax Identification Numbers (ITINs) are not be eligible for some refundable tax credits like the EITC. Mixed-status families with children who have SSNs qualify for the CTC. Prior to the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, families with children who have ITINs qualified as well. Since that legislation however, children with ITINs are unable to qualify for these powerful anti-poverty tools.
Advocates have called for these inequities to be address and for the information regarding the accessibility of tax credits be more effectively disseminated in immigrant communities. The SSN requirements for these tax credits force many noncitizen families to lose out on credits that they would have otherwise qualified for. These policies are xenophobic considering ineligibility singles out noncitizens despite the fact that they participate in American society like citizens by paying taxes, contribute their labor to the economy and deserve equal rights to critical benefits as well.
How we can fix these complex, xenophobic policies…
Ending poverty, which lies at the heart of our mission at RESULTS, requires expanding access to these key anti-poverty programs for noncitizen communities. Poverty does not care about immigration status. A study conducted by Children's HealthWatch found that over 35 percent of families where the mother is foreign born experience food insecurity compared to less than 25 percent of families where the mother was born in the United States (Figure 3). Combatting these inequities between citizens and noncitizens requires re-evaluating access to federal anti-poverty programs for families with noncitizens.
Figure 3: Children's HealthWatch. "Disparities in Household Food Insecurity by Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity." November 2018.
Advocates have been calling for the end of anti-immigrant rules in public policy. The most recent success of this advocacy has been the Biden Administration's decision to reverse the previous administration's expansion of 'public charge'. There is still a desperate need to effectively communicate this change and encourage noncitizens to access programs that would benefit them. Advocates have also suggested the federal government take the following steps to expand access for noncitizen communities:
Expand access to federal anti-poverty programs for noncitizens. Current federal policy requires that noncitizens who arrived after 1996 wait 5 years before 'qualifying'. This arbitrary timeline inhibits many noncitizen families from accessing programs that will keep their families from falling further into poverty, keeping a roof over their heads and food on their tables. Removing this five-year requirement would ensure all immigrant families can access programs when they need it. Additionally, further expanding the definition of 'qualified' noncitizen would enable more families to benefit from these programs. Allowing more noncitizens to access these programs would ensure that no families in the United States are suffering from poverty due to xenophobia codified in laws and regulations.
Create pathways to legal immigration status, and eventual citizenship, for individuals without documents. Current laws and regulations make it exceedingly difficult and burdensome for individuals without documents to be able to access the federal anti-poverty programs discussed earlier in this piece. The xenophobic reasons for denying access to anti-poverty programs forces many families, even those with U.S. citizen children, to forgo desperately needed assistance in order to ensure the safety and togetherness of their families. The need to develop these pathways to citizenship are desperately needed now more than ever – particularly given the 50 percent rise in detentions of noncitizens by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) under President Biden between January and May 2021. Creating pathways to legal status and citizenship for individuals without documents will enable all families living in the United States to access the programs that they require to meet their basic needs.
Remove stigma associated with anti-poverty programs. Even after the above steps are complete, there will continue to be many barriers for noncitizens and their families to access crucial anti-poverty programs. In order to further alleviate these barriers, the federal government should take steps to address the stigma connected with using anti-poverty programs such as cash assistance and SNAP. Moreover, taking steps to address the racialized stereotypes of who requires such assistance will further undo the harm suffered by noncitizens of color, who face the double burdens of xenophobia and racism. Ending this stigma will require coordinated efforts to re-educate the public regarding what federal anti-poverty programs are, the qualifications for such programs, and who are the people turning to such assistance. Undoing this stigma will further enable families in need, especially those with noncitizens, to engage with these programs and use them to keep their families from continued suffering in poverty.
Taking these actions will benefit families with noncitizens who crucially need access to these programs now during economy recovery from the fallout of the pandemic as well as in the future even when the pandemic ends. These steps are just the first of many needed to create long-lasting change for noncitizen communities and to end xenophobia in federal anti-poverty programs.
Noncitizen families deserve to know that when push comes to shove anti-poverty programs are available to them as well. Ending poverty demands that we end public policies that are riddled with xenophobic rules and regulations. Equitable inclusion of noncitizen families ensures that all individuals residing within the United States can access the anti-poverty programs that will keep their families housed, fed, and warm all year long.
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Scottish Sun on Sunday sales figure settles to same level as former Scottish News of the World
THE Scottish Sun on Sunday registered an average sale last month of 238,017 – down by around 85,000 on its launch issue in February, of 323,000, but placing it around the figure of the now defunct Scottish News of the World, which, last March, had an average sale of 244,789.
The News of the World was closed in July, amid allegations of phone-hacking and The Scottish Sun on Sunday, published by the same company, emerged less a new News of the World and more a Sunday version of The Sun.
Among the papers to immediately benefit from the demise of the News of the World were the Daily Star of Scotland – Sunday, the Sunday Mail, the Sunday Mirror, The People and the Scottish Sunday Express.
Says the Audit Bureau of Circulation today, of those, the Sunday Mail – which lost its title for a week as the biggest-selling newspaper in Scotland when The Scottish Sun on Sunday was launched – its year-on-year sales in Scotland figure, between March 2011 and last month, was down by 12.6 per cent, from 339,871 to 296,874.
During February, its average sale in Scotland stood at 347,541, meaning a shedding of around 51,000 between February and last month.
Last month, the Daily Star of Scotland – Sunday had an average sale in Scotland of 41,562, 77.2 per cent up on 12 months' previously, but down on its February average of 53,912.
Similarly, last month, the Sunday Mirror had an average sale in Scotland of 21,259, down 2.5 per cent on 12 months' previously and also down on its February average of 36,391.
In a similar vein, The People last month had an average sale in Scotland of 12,129, down 8.3 per cent on 12 months' previous and also down on its February figure of 20,540.
And, again last month, the Scottish Sunday Express had an average sale in Scotland of 33,934, down 1.1 per cent on 12 months' previously and also down on its February figure of 37,319.
Also among the figures issued by the ABC, the Sunday Herald dipped below the 30,000 mark, its sales in Scotland during last month registering an average 29,362.
In summary, the daily newspapers figures – issued at midday – concern sales in Scotland between March 2011 and last month and reveal the following:
Daily Mirror – 7.1 per cent drop = from 23,461 on average in March 2011, to 22,802 last month;
Daily Record – 9.5 per drop = from 288,717 on average in March 2011, to 261,081 last month;
Daily Star of Scotland – 11 per cent drop = 68,397 to 60,878;
The Scottish Sun – 4.5 cent drop = 329,795 to 314,726;
Scottish Daily Express – 10.5 per cent drop = 66,516 to 59,481;
Scottish Daily Mail – 2.6 per cent drop = 109,945 to 107,026;
Daily Telegraph – 6.3 per cent drop = 19,892 to 18,813;
Financial Times – 16.8 per cent drop = 3,815 to 3,173;
The Herald – 9.4 per cent drop = 50,444 to 45,660;
The Guardian – 11 per cent drop = 13,287 to 11,826;
i – 46.3 per cent up = 11,293 to 16,526;
Independent – 32.2 per cent drop = 7,780 to 5,275;
The Scotsman – 10 per cent drop = 40,864 to 36,797; and
The Times – 12.1 per cent drop = 20,790 to 18,274.
Meanwhile, the Sunday titles' sales figures in Scotland were as follows:
Daily Star of Scotland – Sunday – 77.2 per cent up = 23,443 to 41,562;
Sunday Mail – 12.6 per cent down = 339,871 to 296,874;
Sunday Mirror – 2.5 per cent down = 21,797 to 21,259;
The People – 8.3 per cent down = 13,228 to 12,129;
Scottish Sunday Express – 1.1 per cent down = 34,317 to 33,934;
The Sunday Post – 9.9 per cent drop = 219,459 to 197,783;
Scottish Mail on Sunday – 0.4 per cent up = 93,453 to 93,862;
Independent on Sunday – 3.8 per cent down = 6,616 to 6,364;
The Observer – 8.5 per cent down = 17,335 to 15,863;
Scotland on Sunday – 19 per cent down = 54,020 to 43,790;
Sunday Herald – 5.3 per cent down = 30,999 to 29,362;
Sunday Telegraph – 4.3 per cent down = 17,192 to 16,459; and
Sunday Times – 11.8 per cent down = 57,565 to 50,777.
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Forget Miley Cyrus. Check out Disney's Chinese underwear ad.
By Daniel Brook
The May issue of Vanity Fair hits newsstands tomorrow, but it's already made the cover of the New York Post. The issue features a photograph of Miley Cyrus, star of the Disney Channel's mega-hit Hannah Montana, clutching a satin sheet to her otherwise naked torso. Cyrus quickly disavowed the photograph, which was taken by Annie Liebovitz: "I took part in a photo shoot that was supposed to be 'artistic' and now, seeing the photographs and reading the story, I feel so embarrassed," she said in a statement. "I never intended for any of this to happen, and I apologize to my fans who I care so deeply about." Disney, for its part, shared Cyrus' outrage. Disney spokeswoman Patti McTeague told the New York Times that "a situation was created to deliberately manipulate a 15-year-old in order to sell magazines."
Reading McTeague's comment over coffee yesterday morning, I couldn't help but think of an advertisement I'd seen a few months ago while on a reporting trip to China. I was walking from my Beijing bed-and-breakfast to a nearby subway station when I was stopped in my tracks by a billboard that made the controversial 1990s Calvin Klein underwear ads look artistic by comparison. Staring down at the throngs of shoppers on Beijing's Xinjiekou Nandajie Avenue, a busy commercial thoroughfare about a mile west of the Forbidden City, was a white girl who looked all of 12, reclining in a matching bra-and-panties set adorned with Disney's signature mouse-ear design. In a particularly creepy detail, the pigtailed child was playing with a pair of Minnie Mouse hand puppets. In the upper left-hand corner was the familiar script of the Disney logo.
Not believing my eyes, and on an assignment that touched on images of Westerners in the Chinese consumer's imagination, I snapped a photo:
After reading of the Cyrus flap, I e-mailed my photo to Disney's McTeague. I was curious: How did the company square its position on the Liebowitz photo with its risqué billboard in China?
McTeague passed on commenting and forwarded the image to Gary Foster, a spokesman for Disney's consumer-products division. He called me from a business trip (to China) to disavow the ad. "It has caught us totally by surprise," Foster told me by phone from Guangzhou. He explained that Disney contracts with a host of licensees, who produce and market products for the Disney brand. Foster said that licensees are contractually bound to clear all advertising with Disney's corporate offices. "We have literally hundreds of licensees making our products. They are supposed to submit any kind of imagery to us before it is used, but it's hard to enforce that sometimes," he said.
Foster said he didn't know which ad agency prepared the ad, how old the model was, or where the photo shoot took place. But he was sure it was the work of a Disney licensee: Shanghai Zhenxin Garments Co. Ltd., which makes underwear for girls and teens. China is notorious for its intellectual-property pirates, and Disney is a frequent victim, with people illegally slapping the Disney name and logo on items all the time. Could this have been the case with the billboard, I asked Foster. "No. Unfortunately not this time," he replied. He assured me the billboard would be removed immediately.
It is legitimately difficult for a company as big as Disney to keep track of all its subcontractors. Then again, Disney has learned the hard way the importance of keeping track: Disney's response to the billboard recalls its response to exposés of labor conditions in the factories of its Chinese licensees', where subcontractors were actually breaking local wage, health, and safety laws. Here, of course, it's rules of taste and propriety that are involved, and the ad may play differently to a local audience than it did to me and Foster. The age of consent in China is 14, compared with 18 in Disney's home state of California. "I don't want to make excuses for them at all because it is not anything that we would ever approve, but in other parts of the world this is not unusual at all," Foster said. "In fact, in Europe, they have similar type of taste, if you will. Here in China that's not unusual at all, but it's not usual for the Disney brand."
It may be a small world, after all, but not everyone shares Burbank's mores, and you can't be too careful protecting your brand: You never know when a Chinese licensee, or an American glossy, will deviate from the Disney way.


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The biggest investment trends to watch for in 2021
We cast our eyes over some of the biggest investment trends dominating the headlines, ask what they mean for private
investors and wonder how they might play out in 2021.
Written By: Flora Harley, Knight Frank, 01 Mar 2021
Emerging markets are back into focus
Tech and healthcare are big on the agenda thanks to the pandemic
Identifying the "of-the-moment trends" and correctly identifying those that will constitute the "new normal" is where value will be found
Safe-haven income-producing real estate, such as offices, in the most liquid global centres that demonstrate market resilience will appeal
Those who bet big on Bitcoin last year have reaped rewards, with Forbes noting that the surge has even created new billionaires
Running of the bulls
Overvalued, in a bubble, inflated – a selection of current favoured ways to describe equity markets, particularly those in the US which hit record highs last year, despite the Covid-19 pandemic. Since early 2009, the S&P has risen nearly 500%, recovering quickly after a sharp blip in March 2020.
However, as analyst Capital Economics points out (among other factors), though valuations for some equity markets look high by historical comparisons, this is justified by lower-than-average interest rates.
Swiss bank UBS notes that all the conditions (rapid rises in Bitcoin being one of them) indicative of speculative investing, which helps create equity bubbles, are currently present in the market. But, it argues, ultra-low interest rates and continuing government stimulus measures mean stocks and shares are still attractive.
That the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic was followed by the Roaring Twenties a century ago has led some commentators to revisit the phrase, but this time wondering if the boom can be replicated without the hangover.
A weaker dollar, concerns over US equity valuations, a bounce back in commodity values and the potential for strong post-pandemic corporate earnings growth (28%, reckons a UBS note) has brought emerging markets back into focus.
David Bailin, Chief Investment Officer at Citi Private Bank, notes a general "movement to high growth Asian markets and a tactical move to Latin American markets" as two of Citi's biggest investment themes.
Plenty agree. The benchmark MSCI Emerging Markets Index had already gained 9% during 2021 at the time of writing (21 January), largely driven by Asian tech and e-commerce businesses. Local stock markets have also hit record highs.
Not everybody has been swept along, with some investors citing the risks surrounding corporate and political governance for their reluctance. Bloomberg's fear– greed indicator, which measures selling strength versus buying strength, for the MSCI measure, has climbed to its highest level since October 2011.
"New normal" opportunities
The two biggest industries to have garnered attention and opportunity during the pandemic are tech and healthcare. Formerly "disruptive" businesses like Zoom are now mainstream.
But will touchless technologies continue to dominate as the hangover from the pandemic rolls on? Could edtech and digital health be used to bridge inequalities across both advanced and developing economies? Will we still be using virtual hangouts when meeting in person becomes a viable option once more?
Identifying the "of-the-moment trends" and correctly identifying those that will constitute the "new normal" is where value will be found.
Joe Biden's presidency also ushers in another kind of new normal. We discuss ESG investing in other articles, but Biden's immediate reversal of his predecessor's decision to leave the Paris Climate Agreement, and his less heralded, but arguably more important, moves on climate change accounting, will give a big boost to environmental investors.
Real estate's appeal
In an environment of volatile equity markets and lower yielding bond markets, the investment case remains for the right sort of real estate.
As well as offering potential for diversification and inflation-hedge benefits, real estate that harnesses asset, geographic and market resilience has the potential to access the benefits of local growth drivers, the upside of structural change and recovery from the pandemic.
Different sectors capitalise on divergent trends. Residential assets take advantage of demographic changes, whereas data centres and life sciences capture the rise of innovation, which tends to occur during periods of dislocation.
Parts of the retail sector are facing the effects of an acceleration of structural changes that were already occurring before the pandemic, as e-commerce increases globally. Yet much of the industrial sector is benefiting from the same change and has continued to see firm relative demand.
The type of real estate targeted will depend on the portfolio balance. Some will be looking to capitalise on these trends but there is also evidence of continued weight of money targeting core, safe-haven income-producing real estate, such as offices, in the most liquid global centres that demonstrate market resilience.
The new gold
Cryptocurrencies, particularly the most notorious, Bitcoin, have been touted by their disciples as the new safe-haven alternative to gold since 2014.
Over 2020, the value of Bitcoin rose by more than 300%, breaking the US$40,000 mark for the first time in early January. This, however, was followed by a fall of US$10,000 in a matter of days, highlighting its volatility.
One thing supporting valuations is relative scarcity. While the supply of gold rises by around 1.25% each year, only 21 million Bitcoins will ever exist, with an estimated 18.5 million already having been "mined" and as many as 4 million "lost".
Although regulators remain sceptical, funds and investment banks are starting to come on board, lending crypto a bit of wider credibility.
Those who bet big on Bitcoin last year have reaped rewards, with Forbes noting that the surge has even created new billionaires. But is this the ultimate bubble?
For those with a high appetite for risk the pay- off could be huge. JP Morgan suggests a long-term price possibility of US$146,000, while the more bullish Tyler Winklevoss has said its value could even rise as high as US$500,000. With such wild price instability, though, Bitcoin is unlikely to steal gold's safe-haven status any time soon.
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Cey Adams, a New York City native, emerged from the downtown graffiti movement to exhibit alongside fellow artists Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring. He appeared in the historic 1982 PBS documentary Style Wars which tracks subway graffiti in New York. As the Creative Director of hip hop mogul Russell Simmons' Def Jam Recordings, he co-founded the Drawing Board, the label's in-house visual design firm, where he created visual identities, album covers, logos, and advertising campaigns for Run DMC, Beastie Boys, LL Cool J, Public Enemy, Notorious B.I.G., Maroon 5, and Jay-Z. He exhibits, lectures and teaches art workshops at institutions including: MoMA, Brooklyn Museum, Museum of the City of New York, New York University, and MoCA Los Angeles. He recently designed the Smithsonian Anthology of Hip-Hop and Rap that includes 9 CDs with more than 120 tracks and a 300-page book with 11 essays and never-before-seen photographs. The Anthology captures the evolution of hip-hop from its earliest days in the late 70s up to contemporary artists of today.
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You just submitted your AMCAS application, secondary applications, and are anxiously awaiting interview invitations. You survived the pre-med prerequisite classes, nailed the MCAT with flying colors, and highlighted all of your extracurricular activities. The only thing standing between you and the medical school of your dreams is the interview. You have worked so hard in medical school, and nailing your interviews is one of the last, and most important, steps to the next phase of your life and beginning of your career. With some thoughtful preparation and planning, the interview season will be a busy yet fun and exciting time for you to find the medical school of your dreams.
Know yourself and your priorities, and know what programs you are looking for. For some applicants, having research opportunities is high on their priorities list. For others, working with underserved populations and public health opportunities are most important. Regardless of what it is, know your personal goals and what will make you the happiest. At the same time, stay open-minded to different schools because they may surprise you. Go to every interview until you have an acceptance. After that, you can be pickier about which ones you attend.
It is okay to cancel interviews, but do so in a timely manner, preferably no less than 2 weeks to the interview date. If you find you are no longer interested in the program but have scheduled the interview already, it may be in your best interest to go ahead with the interview anyway.
Know your application and your personal story. Many interviews will start off with the open-ended question "Tell me about yourself." Others will inevitably ask "Why do you want to go to medical school?" or "Why do you want to come to this program?" You should these practice common questions in order to provide genuine answers while highlighting your unique story. A little bit of preparation can go a long way in helping you feel more confident during the interview process.
Prepare a dark-colored, conservative suit that fits well and that you will be comfortable in. This is not the time to stand out with your outfit. For ladies, pants or skirts are fine, whichever you are more comfortable in. Keep skirts to approximately knee length and jewelry to a minimum. For men, wear a conservative tie. Have an extra shirt/blouse or two, just to be safe.
Arrive to the interview on time, preferably early. Be kind and courteous to everyone that day. Not only is this good professionalism in general, but it is also in your best interest because you never know who will have a say in your application. Do not check your phone during the interview day. It looks like you are not interested in the program. Stay present and engaged with the people around you. Even if there is downtime, there will usually be someone to chat with, such as a student, the interview coordinator, or other applicants. Get to know them in a professional yet friendly way because you may see them again at some later point in your career.
After the interview day is over, it is appropriate to send thank-you notes to your interviewers unless you are requested specifically not to. Do not over-communicate in the post-interview period if you have not heard back from a school regarding your application status. This can appear unprofessional and may even drop your chances of being accepted at a particular program.
After completing the interview and communicating appropriately afterwards, there is nothing to do but wait for acceptances to roll in. Enjoy the time with your friends and family, keep it low key, and stay centered as you wait. You are in the home stretch!


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Happy New Year Global Voices!
Posted 27 December 2008 0:57 GMT 1	 · Written by Ivan Sigal
Global Voices has undergone some exciting changes in the past year, and a recap is in order.
In August I had the pleasure of joining this wonderfully energetic and talented group of writers, translators, activists, and bloggers. As the new [2] Executive Director I've been learning every day, and I am proud to be a part of this community as we expand our networks and look for new ways to sustain our work.
In 2008, we've had a number of big changes. First, after being supported since 2005 by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, Global Voices took a big step towards its future by registering as an independent nonprofit organization. We are now officially "Stichting Global Voices," a Netherlands-based foundation dedicated to supporting and facilitating citizen media and blogging.
Our mission remains the same: to call attention to the most interesting conversations and perspectives emerging from citizens' media around the world; to support the emergence of new citizens' voices; and to advocate for online freedom of expression around the world.
While we continue to have strong informal ties to Berkman, we now have a constituted board [3], a growing staff [4], and independent administration. While our registration is Dutch, we remain resolutely global in character and virtual in our operation.
We have no office; instead the world is our workspace. Our board members hail from Tokyo, Rio de Janeiro, Hong Kong, Bahrain, Utah, and Massachusetts; our staff are in Trinidad & Tobago, Taipei, the Hague, Washington D.C., Toronto, moving between Copenhagen, Puerto Rico, and New York, or simply homeless, caught on the jetways between Antananarivo, Dhaka, Durban, El Alto and Kolkata. Our editors hail from places such as Brasilia, Cochabamba, Almaty, Kiev, Paris, and Beijing, and our authors are simply everywhere.
From the start, Global Voices has been a project powered equally by a volunteer, community effort and by the support of donors. In 2008 that community has continued to grow; we now have some 120 authors [5] and some 130 translators [6] contributing their time and effort to make GV a success.
Financially, GV has also continued to grow. Our donors have included the MacArthur Foundation, Reuters, the Knight Foundation, Hivos, the McCormick Tribune Foundation, Google, and the Open Society Institute. In 2009 we're also lucky to be supported by the Media Development Loan Fund on strategic planning, as a fiscal sponsor, and on funding support. We also have the support of the New World Foundation and the Arca Foundation. And while the financial collapse in 2008 has been hard on everyone, we're hopeful that we'll be able to maintain and grow Global Voices through a combination of volunteer effort, donor support, partnerships with other media, syndication, and possibly select advertising.
With that in mind, we've recently set up a donations [7] mechanism, to help us cover the costs of running our newsroom, paying our server expenses, and supporting our small, dedicated staff. Even a small contribution will help us to keep bringing you the best of online stories and news from many languages and around the world.
On programs, we've had an excellent year, and are tremendously excited by all the work and projects that await us in 2009.
A group of Global Voices authors at the GV Summit in Budapest in June 2008 (photo by Joi Ito [8])
Our newsroom is garnering international recognition for its work finding and amplifying unheard stories; we're finding that we are particularly useful in times of crisis and natural disaster. These stories are gathered on our Special Coverage [9] pages, which in 2008 focused on events such as the Kenyan elections violence, the Myanmar cyclone, the Sichuan earthquake, the South Ossetia conflict, and the Mumbai, India attacks. We also ran popular special projects together with Reuters around the Beijing Olympics [10], and Voices without Votes [11], about the U.S. presidential elections. For 2009 we're looking forward to continuing our coverage of underexposed and underrepresented stories, especially in light of the continued decline in international media coverage around the world.
Our outreach initiative, Rising Voices [12], now supports 17 projects to bring blogging and online media to underrepresented communities. Rising Voices is developing from a micro-grants and training program into a network of online community media projects that support and help each other by sharing best practices, training, and knowledge. We're sponsoring another round of micro-grants in January [13], and planning to expand the network beyond grantees to support other projects in the burgeoning citizen media community.
Our translation community, Lingua, [12] is now translating Global Voices content to 16 languages. Lingua has grown [14] incredibly, from only Chinese and Spanish in early 2007, to "one of the largest volunteer-based online translation communities in the world. [15]" The Lingua community is likely to keep growing in 2009, with another five languages in line to set up sites.
Our Advocacy [16] project has had a busy year, in the face of increasing pressure and attacks on bloggers around the world. In 2008, Internet journalists became the most targeted [17] of all media producers in repressive environments. In response, GV Advocacy has reported on online media persecutions in 40 countries, conducts training and advocacy at conferences and workshops, and provides resources and guides for blogging anonymously and using web 2.0 tools for advocacy. We've translated our guides into seven languages and seen more than 12,000 downloads in the past 14 months. In 2009, we'll be continuing with these projects, and also expanding our news coverage of attacks against bloggers, including podcasts and video reporting.
One of the best things about the Global Voices community is the constant brainstorming about new ideas, projects, and ways of working. GV started as an experiment in the power of networks, and some of our most successful projects have grown out of ideas generated and driven by individuals in our network. For 2009, I'm certain we'll see ideas come together that are only possible when many work on a common goal, but with each contributing their own specific skills, knowledge, and enthusiasm.
With that in mind, we encourage you to join us! Subscribe to our daily digest [18] email and RSS feeds [19], and don't hesitate to contact us if you would like to become a Global Voices author, translator (or donor!).
Thanks to all, and Happy New Year.
Article printed from Global Voices: https://globalvoices.org
URL to article: https://globalvoices.org/2008/12/27/happy-new-year-global-voices/
[1] Image: https://globalvoicesonline.org/
[2] new: https://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/07/17/global-voices-introduces-executive-director-ivan-sigal/
[3] board: https://globalvoicesonline.org/about/board-of-directors/
[4] staff: https://globalvoicesonline.org/about/#GVTeam
[5] 120 authors: https://globalvoicesonline.org/authors/
[6] 130 translators: https://globalvoicesonline.org/lingua/
[7] donations: https://globalvoicesonline.org/donate/
[8] Image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/joi/2623889633/in/set-72157605875973583/
[9] Special Coverage: https://globalvoicesonline.org/specialcoverage/
[10] Beijing Olympics: https://globalvoicesonline.org/specialcoverage/beijing-oympics-2008/
[11] Voices without Votes: http://voiceswithoutvotes.org/
[12] Rising Voices: https://rising.globalvoicesonline.org/
[13] another round of micro-grants in January: https://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/12/23/rising-voices-seeks-micro-grant-proposals-for-citizen-media-outreach/
[14] grown: http://www.xtimeline.com/timeline/Global-Voices-Project-Lingua
[15] one of the largest volunteer-based online translation communities in the world.: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Lingua
[16] Advocacy: https://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/
[17] most targeted: http://cpj.org/imprisoned/cpjs-2008-census-online-journalists-now-jailed-mor.php
[18] daily digest: https://globalvoicesonline.org/subscribe/
[19] RSS feeds: https://globalvoicesonline.org/feeds/
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Lost & Compiled is a collection of early mixes of songs from 2007-2013 as well as some previously unreleased works. The concept for the release came from the idea that songs that Deupree writes go through so many permutations that by the time they are released they have left behind a trail of ghosts. Sometimes when he goes back to early versions of songs he will hear something more relaxed, free, and less perfect... a point in the song's life where the stress of finishing it or the polish of a "final" mix hasn't yet taken place.
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Lost & Compiled is a CD that Taylor Deupree has been wanting to make for years and, finally, as part of his 2014 Japan tour (with Illuha, Stephan Mathieu and Federico Durand) it has come to light.


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Born in Krakow 1931, Zvi Hecker grew up in Samarkand, studied Architecture in Technion, Haifa, painting at Avni Academy, Tel Aviv, taught Architecture at Université Laval, Quebec and Universität für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna. In 1960 set up his practice in Tel-Aviv and in 1991 in Berlin.In Israel he designed Bat-Yam City Hall, Dubiner House (with A. Neumann and E. Sharon) The Spiral Apartment House, Palmach Museum of History, Tel Aviv (with R. Segal), the Military Academy in Negev; in Europe the Jewish School, Berlin, the Memorial Site in Lindenstrasse, Berlin (E. Weizmann and M. Ulman), the Jewish Centre in Duisburg, The Royal Dutch Police Complex in Schiphol, Amsterdam. He lives and works in Berlin.


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Astrology (from Greek ástron "star" and logos "speech", "fable"): a method of prognostication based on the assumption that there is a non-arbitrary connection between the positions of stellar constellations and planets, on the one hand, and events and, especially, human characters and destinies on earth, on the other. Astrology is unrelated to ►astronomy, but closely linked to ►esotericism.
Astrology traces back to early human cultures that made use of seemingly random phenomena such as the course of a group of flying birds, the appearance of sacrificial animal entrails, or the constellations in the sky for their decisions and predictions. In the course of time, people gave up on the more intricate methods -- after all, it would be not just cruel but also quite expensive to slaughter sheep each time you need to make a prediction. Thus it is that the simpler, less intricate methods of fortune-telling, such as astrology, are the ones that have been preserved to this day.
The basic principle of classic astrology is "As above, so below": there are non-trivial correlations between the positions of constellations and other heavenly bodies up above in the sky and events down here on Earth, correlations which may be attributable to causal influence by the stars (etc.) on the earthly or to some more mystical natural harmony between the two. Here "above" does not refer to the annual seasons, but to the positions of the planets in relation to one another and to the stellar constellations. As the paths of planets are more or less fixed, a person's character will depend only on the time and place of her birth. (As early as 400 A.D., Augustine pointed out that this is incompatible with the observed existence of persons who are born at the same moment and yet go on to have radically different characters and destinies -- an early and still-influential argument against astrology.) Even her future fate, just like the fates of companies, nations, plans, book projects, websites, and so on, depends on the positions of the planets and stars. Thus, character studies and predictions based on the basic principle of astrology can be established much more quickly and with much less effort than intricate psychological or market analyses.
Horoscope for this online encyclopedia*
While early astrologers took to directly observing the sky, nowadays the positions of sun, moon, and planets needed to compile a character sketch or make a prediction are read off of a table and applied to the zodiac constellations in a graphic diagram, the so-called horoscope. Astrologers connect the positions with colored lines and then read up the corresponding character traits in their astrology books.* These character traits are often linked to the phenomena "depicted" by the corresponding constellations; thus, Libra (the Scales) is associated with indecisiveness, Leo (the Lion) with consciousness of power, and Taurus (the Bull) with stubbornness.
Unfortunately, many astrologers run into strange difficulties even at this basic level of computation. For example, traditional Western astrology still uses a table with assignments of seasons to constellations that dates back to ancient times. However, due to precession in the axis of the Earth -- something that has been occurring for 25,870 years -- the stars are now located at firmament positions very different from those they occupied back then. For this reason, the constellations of classic astrology no longer match the birth dates. If you were born between 11/23 and 12/21, for example, you are designated a Sagittarius, but the sign that you were actually born "under" is Scorpio.
An Embarrassing Discovery
This embarrassing detail was made known to astrologers at the beginning of the 20th century. However, many still continued calculating by the old system. They justified this by claiming that the constellations used in astrology were "virtual" constellations that have nothing to do with the real ones up in the sky but instead are contingent upon the axis of the earth. This, of course, contradicts the principle of "As above, so below". Consequently, some astrologers switched instead to an updated correlation of time periods with constellations, which naturally yielded completely different results from the traditional system. Still others dispensed with predictions altogether in favor of psychological counseling, using horoscopes and zodiacal signs only as stylistic or heuristic accessories.
The confusion is increased by the existence of additional astrological systems -- Egyptian, Indian, ancient Babylonian, Chinese, and Ancient Greek -- that use widely different constellations and names for constellations and, accordingly, offer totally different predictions for any given birthdate. Some systems take the earth's precession into account; others don't. To date, astrologers have been unable to reach a consensus on which of the numerous methods delivers the best predictions and character analyses, or even on whether it matters at all which method you use.
Several attempts have been made in the second half of the 20th century to demonstrate the efficacy of astrology with the help of statistical research. In 1955, the French psychologist Michel Gauquelin published a dramatic study showing a strong tendency for the planet Mars to have been either rising or culminating in the sky at time of birth for a group of 500 athletes -- the so-called Mars effect. Critics, however, pointed to the biased selection of athletes considered by Gauquelin, which they claimed undermined his results. Further examinations of the effect by other scientists lead to inconclusive results; sometimes an effect was found, sometimes no effect at all, and sometimes even the opposite effect. In 1991, the French Commission for Paranormal Phenomena (CFEPP) launched a comprehensive investigation of all studies conducted hitherto in order to eliminate every possible source of error. The investigation came to the result that no evidence for the existence of a Mars effect could be found.
* Computer programs are also frequently used to generate horoscopes. Here are some upbeat predictions generated for this online encyclopedia: You trigger exciting and deep discussions. You are charismatic and very popular with other people.
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We are located in Orange County on the Beach Boulevard of Cars at 16701 Beach Blvd., Huntington Beach, CA 92647. 1/2 mile south of the 405 or San Diego Freeway at the corner of Chrysler Drive next door to Huntington Beach Chrysler Jeep and are attached to Huntington Beach Dodge.
Geo Coordinates: 33.720611,-117.989341
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Getting to the roots of Fiddler on the Roof's runaway success
"Every ethnic group on Earth shrugs its shoulders and has a special relationship with God and
is philosophical about things and wants its kids to marry the correct person in the correct
That's all true. It's also why the story and the stage musical, which opened in 1964, is so
outrageously popular and enduring. It's relatable. Two thumbs down for the illustrious Mr.
Ebert.
"Exactly," says Max Lewkowicz, the Montreal-born documentary filmmaker, speaking from
his home on Manhattan's Upper West Side. "It's not a Jewish story. It's universal."
Lewkowicz is the director of Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles, a lively, thoughtful new doc which
tells the origin story of Fiddler on the Roof. The film makes its world premiere on Wednesday
at the Toronto Jewish Film Festival. Vancouver distributor Pacific Northwest Pictures recently
picked up the Canadian rights to the documentary, which is slated for a Canada-wide release
on Aug. 9.
When reviewer Ebert wrote about the roots of the Fiddler story, he was referring to Tevye the
Dairyman, a series of stories by Sholem Aleichem about small-town Jewish life in Czarist
Russia at the turn of the 20th century. Originally written in Yiddish, the tales revolved around
a good-willed Ukrainian milkman and his troublesome daughters of marriageable age. Anyone
with even a passing familiarity of Broadway show tunes is aware that Tevye was not a rich
The deeper story is "camouflaged," in the words of Lewkowicz, whose 2016 HBO documentary
Underfire: The Untold Story of Pfc. Tony Vaccaro uncovered the exploits of a camera-toting
combat infantryman in the Second World War. "Fiddler on the Roof is not what it seems,' he
says. "Below the surface, what so many people relate to around the world is the basic elements
of the human condition."
Lewkowicz's Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles is so titled because of the miraculous following the
musical has achieved since the original Broadway production opened at the Imperial Theatre
on Sept. 22, 1964, Before that premiere, financial backers and media wags were skeptical of the
musical's prospects, reasoning that it was too ethnic to find a mainstream audience. Upon
seeing a tryout version of Fiddler at Detroit's Fisher Theatre, a Variety critic savaged the
musical: "None of the songs are memorable," he sniffed.
As it happened, if that critic had invested money in Fiddler instead of panning it, he would
have been singing a different tune – as in, If I Were a Rich Man. In their book Broadway: The
American Musical, Michael Kantor and Laurence Maslon wrote that the production (starring
Zero Mostel, and directed and choreographed by Jerome Robbins) earned $1,574 for every
dollar invested in it.
Grabbing nine Tony Awards, Fiddler had the first musical theatre run in history to surpass
3,000 performances. It spawned five Broadway revivals and, as mentioned, the Jewisondirected
film, which starred Israeli actor Chaim Topol and took home three Academy Awards.
Besides the gaudy box office and juicy backstage stories – Mostel loathed Robbins, we learn –
Lewkowicz was interested in the musical's soul.
"I still cry when I see it," he says. "So do a lot of people. I wanted to find out why."
The Norman Jewison-directed film version of Fiddler on the Roof took home three Academy Awards.
Using archives and interviewees (including 93-year-old Sheldon Harnick, the lyricist of Fiddler
on the Roof), the documentary weaves a contextual chronology from 1905 and the violent
persecution of Jewish people, to the societal upheaval of the 1960s to the relevant human
struggles – refugees, women's rights – of today. Themes covered include family values and the
loss of traditions and cultural identity.
On a personal level, Lewkowicz was affected by the relationship of the milkman and his three
daughters who resist the Matchmaker, Matchmaker tradition of arranged marriages, no matter
how darn catchy the song is. "I look around today, and I see how woman are taking control of
their lives," Lewkowicz says. "As a father of two daughters, that part of Fiddler really gets to
Tears, toe-taps and biddy-biddy-bums too. Maybe the success of Fiddler on the Roof wasn't
such a miracle at all. Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles premieres on May 8 at Toronto's Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema, as part of the Toronto Jewish Film Festival (May 2 to 12).


FaerieCon West is this weekend!
I will be a guest at 2014 FaerieCon WEST – her new FaerieCon West Event Page is up on Facebook HERE with more details about the show! For directions, hours & other FaerieCon West news visit the official site HEREI will be there all day, every day at booth #06 with as much artwork as I can bring with me from Florida! Stop by & say hi =) I will also be bringing some of my "Tiny Treasures" originals - details on that HERE (come early for those!). The show opens at noon on Friday!
PLEASE NOTE: As Jasmine & Matt are both away at FaerieCon, shipping on Strangeling eBay store items, ACEOs, original paintings & Limited Edition Canvas prints will be delayed until they return on February 25th. All other items will ship as usual, please bid on auctions, etc. as per usual – just expect a few days' delay on shipping and emails from Jasmine & Matt directly.
16″x8″ Acrylic Painting - AVAILBLE – either in person at FaerieCon this weekend, or on eBay here, or at Strangeling.com hereSigned Prints and Lt. Ed. Canvases are here, we ship worldwide.
This painting features one of my favourite creatures – trilobites! I collect their fossils, and enjoy painting pictures of them. Prehistoric creatures of the sea, no longer with us, but beautiful nonetheless (think of them as ancient horseshoe crabs). This beauty loves them too! Perhaps she's a little sad about all the world's creatures that are now extinct….. This painting is for another oracle deck project, a deck that will be all water-themed, being written by my two sisters Kachina Glenn and Amber Logan & being published by Blue Angel Publishing. I love this piece, be sure to look for it in my upcoming Water themed Oracle deck.
Jasmine is returning to WonderGround Gallery at Disneyland in Anaheim, California on March 1st from 11:00am – 1:00pm for a special signing event & to debut some brand new Disney paintings! She will be debuting official Disney contracted paintings featuring Belle, Alice & other Disney art. Click HERE for more details.
Jasmine returns to MegaCon at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida! All Jasmine-related details can be found at her Megacon Facebook Event Page HERE. For other MegaCon information, details, guest lineups, etc. visit the official site HERE.