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HomeArtsCanadian Sport Film Festival prepares for 9th instalment with 23 films
Canadian Sport Film Festival prepares for 9th instalment with 23 films
May 15, 2017 Daanish Rehman Arts, Film, Lifestyle, Sports
The Canadian Sport Film Festival prepares for their highly anticipated 9th instalment that will take place on June 9th, to the 11th, at the TIFF Bell Lightbox.
The CSFF will be screening 23 different films with an expansive variety of topics and stories, ranging from feature and short-length films, to documentaries and animations, all with a common thread: the power and importance of sports in the everyday lives of people of all creeds and colours, and its power in shaping those identities. To watch the trailer for this years CSFF, click below!
The festival will be opened by the film Keepers of the Game, the story of an all-Native girl's Lacrosse team with aspirations of being the first Native Women's team to win a Section Championship. Directed by Emmy-winner Judd Ehrlich The film tells the tale of a team of girls who strive to break ground for the Native women to come after them, all while trying to honour the very traditions on which the game was founded upon. Watch the trailer below!
Alongside Keepers of the Game, there will be the world premier of the film Kuklos, and The Crossing.
Attendees of the festival will have a chance to see how rugby changed the lives of a small group of Kiwi farmers, all while showcasing the development of masculinity through the rites and passages that come with being in a New Zealand rugby team in The Ground We Won. The trailer is as below!:
The festival will even illustrate the stories of the war-torn basketball courts of Turkey in Baglar. The festival aims to portray the value of sports all around the world and how they individually cultivate a sense of identity in peoples around the world. The trailer for Baglar is below!:
Russell Field, CSFF Executive Director says, "We're proud to be presenting a diverse programming lineup that continues to uphold the Canadian Sport Film Festival's mandate of educating, engaging, and entertaining through sport in film." He explains that "these films draw our attention beyond the podiums and award-ceremonies, we're reminded of the unique, challenging, and passionate human stories that relate to the games we play, and in many cases, remind us why we play them."
The list of the movies playing are:
• Friday:
○ Crossing the Line
○ Keepers of the Game
• Saturday:
○ The Surrounding Game
○ Salluit Run Club
○ Requiem for a Running Back
○ Hillsborough
○ The Ground We Won
• Sunday:
○ Daddy Loves You
○ Baglar
○ Olympic Pride, American Prejudice
○ Crossing the Line (second screening)
For times and tickets to the shows, please click right here!
Tickets have been available since May 10th, so make sure you get your tickets quickly if you want to attend any of them! This is a highly anticipated event, so don't wait for it to sell out!
About Canadian Sport Film Festival
The telling's of vulnerable, passionate stories about people and their relationships to sports is brought to you by the Canadian Sport Film Festival. The CSFF tries its best to showcase diversity in film and filmmakers by including international films to portray the stories of those that often go unheard. The CSFF aims to engage Canadians in these uplifting stories and in doing so, hopes to encourage Canadians to achieve health of the body and of the mind.
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Daanish Rehman is a 20-year-old Karachi-born Journalism student at Carleton, writer for the Toronto Guardian, multi-instrumentalist, and lover of most foods. With experience in Radio Broadcasting and Web writing, Daanish looks to get his hands in many fields as possible, all while making some great connections along the way.
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Golden Week helps China's travel apps inch toward recovery
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The Chinese National Day holiday, known as "Golden Week" for spurring travel and other consumption, ended on Thursday. This year, the holiday was watched particularly closely—as the last major holiday of the year, it was seen as a harbinger of whether China's battered tourism industry would rebound quickly following the onset of the pandemic early this year.
Shift to domestic travel
Competition among travel platforms
Edging toward normalcy
New regulations lend pressure
Although the virus may be less of a concern for Chinese tourists compared with those in other countries, the government and consumers themselves remained cautious about traveling overseas.
・Golden Week travel this year was primarily driven by domestic travel, when in recent years the holiday has been viewed as a time for Chinese tourists to take overseas trips.
・Last year there were more than 7 million (in Chinese) overseas trips made during the holiday. This year, various restrictions on visa applications and quarantine requirements have made cross-border trips impractical.
・The focus on domestic trips could further slow a full rebound for China's largest online travel platform, Trip.com, which earned around 35% of its revenue through international travel in the first half of 2019.
・Demand for short journeys increased, giving rise to self-driving tourism as more holiday makers sought to avoid package tours and exposure to crowded public transportation centers.
・The shift boosted car rental businesses during the holiday. The number of car rental days on Trip.com platform climbed 50% compared with a year ago, the company said in a statement sent to TechNode. Average spending per car rental order exceeded RMB 2,000. Southwestern Yunnan province and southern Hainan province were popular tourist destinations for those driving themselves.
・The shift to domestic tourism has weighed on China's largest online travel platform, Trip.com. The company has been focused on growing its international travel business amid sharpening competition from Alibaba's Fliggy and Meituan in domestic travel.
・In 2018, the company said that it was aiming for its global travel business to make up 40% to 50% of its total revenue within five years.
・Trip.com expects its revenue to drop by around 50% year on year in the third quarter after it reported that its second quarter revenue plunged 64% year on year.
・China's online travel industry is among the worst-hit sectors by the pandemic, which began spreading widely in the country during Spring Festival holiday, the world's largest human migration event.
China, where the coronavirus first appeared late last year, had an early start advantage in post-pandemic economic recovery as the government's measures to control the spread of the virus have largely proved effective. However, the impact of the epidemic is expected to linger as rates of infection worldwide remain stubbornly high.
・China tourists generated RMB 466.6 billion ($69.7 billion) in revenue from 637 million domestic trips during the eight-day Golden Week holiday, according (in Chinese) to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. The holiday was extended by one day thanks to overlap with the Mid-Autumn Festival this year.
・The number of domestic trips was around 80% of last year's 782 million during the seven-day holiday, which generated nearly RMB 650 billion in tourism revenue.
・Revenue from this year's Golden Week tourism accounted for around 70% of revenue earned during the same holiday a year ago. This is a significant improvement over tourism revenue earned during this year's Tomb Sweeping Day in early April, which sank 80% compared with a year ago.
・China's tourism watchdog expects the country's tourism revenue as well as the number of tourists to halve in 2020.
・Official controls have loosened, but remain in place. Scenic spots like Beijing's Forbidden City required online reservation in advance and operated at 75% capacity during the holiday. Municipal governments including Shanghai recommended that students and their families refrain from travel. Those who traveled out of the city would have to quarantine for 14 days, which effectively eliminated travel plans for many families, even short-distance trips.
In addition to the travel slowdown brought by the pandemic, China's tourism industry is also facing new challenges from the government, which is stepping up regulation of the market.
・China's first laws regulating online travel platforms and agencies took effect on Oct. 1. It includes a raft of rules that ban the abuse of big data and other new technologies used in unfair business practices such as user targeting to boost prices, removing negative user reviews, and more.
・Consumers have accused large Chinese online travel platforms, including Trip.com and Alibaba-backed Fliggy, of charging higher prices to customers who they think will be willing to pay more for the same product or service by analyzing user data. Both companies have denied the allegations.
・Implementation is expected to quash such practices in the online travel market, where price manipulation is common. It may also act as an example for other sectors that are though to use similar tactics, such as ride-hailing and e-commerce.
・The rules could have short-term cooling effects on revenue while long-term benefits could include better user retention. An industry analyst told Xinhua (in Chinese) that without the rule, there was little reason to do away with the practice, which could grow revenues 20%.
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Browser Interviews: Spencer Greenberg
5 Sep 2021 • 19 min read
Baiqu: Welcome to The Browser Interviews, today I'm sitting with Spencer Greenberg, who is a mathematician and entrepreneur in social sciences and the Founder of ClearerThinking.org. Welcome to the Browser.
Spencer: Thanks for having me.
Baiqu: So Spencer, if you're ready, I'm going to ask you for a bunch of recommendations.
Spencer: Sure, sounds great.
How to practice critical thinking and rational reasoning
Baiqu: All right. Recommendation one, what would you recommend if someone wanted to know more about critical thinking, rationality, et cetera.
Spencer: Well, a phenomenal new book came out about this topic recently, called The Scout Mindset by Julia Galef, who's a friend of mine. It's really a wonderful book, I highly recommend it. It's all about the benefits that we get from trying to think more clearly and why some people are better at this than others and about the things you can do to become a better critical thinker.
Baiqu: What are some of the findings or learnings from the book that you think people can take away? Like how do you become a more critical thinker? And I guess, like, what does that mean in different contexts?
Spencer: Yeah. One of the things that the book emphasises is that a lot of times we're not actually even trying to figure out the truth. We have other motivations, like we're trying to impress others, or we're trying to no protect ourselves, or not look bad, these kinds of things. And so a key aspect of the book is really trying to get clear on like, when are you in truth seeking mode? Which the author calls "scout mindset," that's what it refers to. Versus when are you in what you call "soldier mindset," which is where you're trying to win an argument, you're trying to prove yourself right. So, a key aspect of it is trying to notice when you're really in "scout mindset" versus "soldier mindset." And that step of noticing is like a key aspect in becoming a better critical thinker.
Baiqu: I see. What is truth seeking then within the paradigm of this book and what are the benefits of being in "scout mindset"?
Spencer: Yeah so truth seeking is about trying to see the world as it actually is, rather than the way you want it to be, or the way that would make you look the best, and so on. And the benefits are obvious when we think about things in our life where the outcome really matters, right? If you're getting medical treatment, you want to make sure you get the best medical treatment, not just one that seems like it's going to work, but won't actually work. Where it becomes a little less obvious are in things in our social lives, like, do you really want to know the truth about how much your friends like you. Or do you really want to know the truth about how good you are at activities? Or do you want to just believe that you're better than you are? And The Scout Mindset makes the argument that a lot of times, we're not in truth seeking mode, when in fact we would benefit from being more of a truth seeker. Where by seeing the world more clearly, we can make better decisions, we can achieve our goals more accurately. We can have better outcomes, yet we tend to be too often in "soldier mindset" where we're just trying to prove a point or beat someone in an argument.
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Baiqu: Hmm interesting. So if I wanted to find out if my friends actually liked me, what should I look out for? Or how should I enter a "scout mindset"?
Spencer: So one thing that I find really valuable my own life is trying to seek out criticism. Not just kind of passively accept criticism, well that's useful, but actually actively seek it out.
So for example, I have a podcast called Clearer Thinking and recently we did a listener survey where I explicitly asked our listeners to critique the show and say, what do you most dislike about it? What could I do better as a host? And I find that kind of seeking feedback really, really useful. And although a lot of people would think, oh, this is kind of scary. You can actually do a form of this in your own social life, where you can say to your friends, "hey, I'd really like to know how to be a better friend. What do you think I could do better as a friend?" You can present it in a way where people are like, oh, you know what? It would be really cool if you did this. Or, it kind of bothers me when you do that. It might sound unpleasant, it might be a little bit unpleasant. But you can actually become a better friend, and then in the longterm have better relationships, have people like you more and so on. So the short-term cost of finding out the truth may actually pay off a lot in the longterm.
In fact, if you're interested in this topic, our website clearerthinking.org, we have over 50 free interactive tools that relate to all different critical thinking topics. And we actually have one on seeking criticism, so you can find the seek criticism tool on our website along with many others.
What is Clear Thinking
Baiqu: Cool. And tell me a bit more about ClearerThinking.org. I mean the name in itself is very self-explanatory. What got you to Clearer Thinking? Why are you interested in this? And what are you doing to help people think more critically?
Spencer: Yeah so I think of it as both being about society as a whole and about our own lives. So in terms of society as a whole, as the years progressed, our technology gets more and more advanced and the world gets more and more complicated. And I believe that society has to get wiser in how it deals with these complexities. And if we don't, that one day, we're going to have extreme problems in society. You know, we already have many problems, but I think they could get worse and worse.
Just as an example, before we invented nuclear weapons, humanity literally had no way to wipe itself out. Now we've invented a way to wipe ourselves out, if we're not really careful with how we handle them, we could end our species through some stupid war. And if you look at the history of nuclear weapons, it's absolutely shocking how many times we came close to full-on nuclear war and we narrowly avoided it. Nuclear weapons are just one example.
Another example is bioterrorism. 20 years ago, nobody could have created a super-virus more deadly than COVID. Now, biologists actually know how to create more deadly viruses, in 20 years from now, they're going to know how to do it much better than they do today. So if we're not incredibly careful with how we handle this technology, one day, we could have a virus that's 20 times worse than COVID that someone purposely creates. So that's just two examples, but you can go through many, many different examples of this, that as a society, we have to get wiser. And I think critical thinking is a really important piece of that. We have to be able to understand how to see the world as it is, figure out how to solve these really important challenges.
So that's kind of the society-wide view. The second piece is individually in your own life. I think there's so many ways that we individually could benefit from being clearer thinkers. So that's really what a lot of our tools are focused on. I mentioned we have over 50 free tools, they're each interactive and each teach you a different piece of critical thinking or helping you understand yourself. That's everything from trying to help you avoid common biases, like the sunk cost fallacy or the planning fallacy, to teaching you how to think about evidence, so like bayesian thinking, and many other topics.
Baiqu: You, are a mathematician as well as an entrepreneur. Do you think of yourself as a critical thinker, is that why you became a mathematician or do you think you became more of a critical thinker through your academic and professional training?
Spencer: Well, I think the reality is math teaches one type of critical thinking, but it's a small subset of the full field. So you could be a great mathematician and not a great critical thinker broadly. What it teaches you to do really well is to think super logically and deductively like a implies b, implies c, and to find flaws in those kinds of deductive chains. Also if you study probability theory, it can teach you about probabilistic thinking, which is really useful. So those are parts of critical thinking, but critical thinking is much broader than that. And as Julia Galef points out in her book The Scout Mindset, a significant part of it is just intentionality. Like actually wanting to know the truth, being willing to deal with the short-term discomfort of realising you're wrong in order to ultimately have better long-term outcomes. So yeah, this was just kind of many pieces of that. So I think for me, I've been interested in critical thinking or rationality from a young age where I started noticing that my mind didn't always work as well as I wanted it, and noticing that I would jump to false conclusions, or be biased in different situations, and really saying how do I get better at this? How do I make my mind work more effectively at figuring out the truth.
Is rational thinking and emotional reasoning compatible?
Baiqu: For me I think what's interesting is that, at least in school systems that I've been brought up in, they seem to paint this false dichotomy of rationality versus emotional reasoning or like intuitive thinking. What are your thoughts on that?
Spencer: Yeah, that's such a great question because it really is such a false dichotomy. I have a TEDx talk I did on this thing I called the FIRE framework, which is a way of thinking about when should you use your intuition versus when should you use your kind of reflective, analytic reasoning? And one of my main points in that talk is that you really need to rely on both. They're both really powerful tools, and to say, I'm just going to use my emotional or intuitive reasoning or, I'm just gonna use my reflective reasoning, is like saying I'm just going to use my left arm or I'm just going to use my right arm. It makes no sense. Really, the way to use your mind most effectively is to learn the strengths and weaknesses of the different parts of your mind, and then fuse them together to get the best outcomes. So I think there's no contradiction at all between the intuitive and the reflective. In fact, they're just different useful tools that we can leverage to help us achieve our goals.
How to be more rational in a conversation?
Baiqu: So usually at this point, I would ask you my second question, which is how do you come across as being smart in a conversation. But given your expertise, I'm going to tailor the question slightly. So how would you come across as being more rational in a conversation?
Spencer: Well, I'd like to rephrase this. How do you actually be more rational in conversation rather than just come across? Because I think if your goal is just to come across as rational, I feel like you're starting on the wrong foot. So I think to be more rational in a conversation, a really useful framing is trying to really understand why people believe what they do. So let's say someone disagrees with you, try to get into the mode of curiosity. So instead of immediately trying to shoot down what they say, or refute them because they're disagreeing with, try to get into a curious mindset and say, oh that's interesting, let me explore why we disagree and really try to ask follow up questions to get the root of the disagreement. I think that actually is incredibly powerful tool because first of all, it helps you learn a lot more in conversations. Second of all, people actually appreciate it. They appreciate that you're interested in them, and that you want to understand their perspective, and can actually create a bond between you. Instead of, if you immediately try to shut down or defend yourself, then actually that can create distance and create a sense of animosity.
How to become a better truth seeker?
Baiqu: Very good point.
I mean, this is interesting, right in terms of the current context when it comes to having a conversation with someone that you disagree with, and in terms of this idea of truth seeking. A lot of people seem to have their own ideas of what the truth is about specific topics. We're obviously all living within our own realities and some of that is shared with our community, whether that's physical or virtual or ideological. So when it comes to having a rational conversation, when it comes to seeking truth, how do you do that when everyone's definition of truth is slightly different?
Spencer: Yeah. Well, I don't know that people's definition of truth is fundamentally different. Like I think people generally agree that truth is the way the world actually is right? It's like a correspondence between an idea and like matter, or atoms, or particles or, you know what I mean? But I think that you're totally right that people's approach to understanding the world is very, very different. So one thing that I find really useful to remember is that every simple theory of how the world is, is wrong. Every single one. And once you really internalise that, it means that to understand the world, it's useful to have these simple theories, but you can't just have one. If you're stuck in just one frame, if you think communism is the answer to everything, or capitalism is the answer to everything. If you have just one frame, then you're definitely going to be really, really wrong because the world's too complicated to understand through one simple theory.
However, if you can go and you can understand, what is right about the communist way of looking at things, what did they get right and what did they get wrong? What about the capitalist way of looking things? What did they get right? What did they get wrong? If you can put on a mindset temporarily and try to say what's good about this way of looking, and what ways is it inaccurate, then you can adopt another one and another one and another one. That's kind of how you successively approximate becoming a better and better true seeker, and actually figuring out what's true.
Baiqu: So looking at different frameworks and different theoretical approaches to the world, would that be applicable to religious frameworks as well as say conspiracy frameworks?
Spencer: Yeah, absolutely. I mean, here's the thing. If you take someone who's born in a particular religion, chances are they're going to continue being in that religion. So essentially, one way to think about what they're doing is they're making a bet for their eternal soul that they happen to have been born in the one true religion. Just by chance their parents happened to have the one true religion, and if they're unlucky and their parents don't know the one true religion, then they're just in a false religion their whole life. So now there are a lot of social costs to changing your religion. You know, if you're born in an area where everyone's religious and you decide to truly challenge that and question that, there might be a social cost. So you have to really think about, do I actually want to know the truth? If my religion is false, do I want to know it? Right? And maybe the answer is no. Maybe even if it's false, you want to keep living it. Fine.
But if in the world where it's false, you want to know that's false. Then the way to approach that is to say, okay, let me try to temporarily adopt different perspectives. Not go look at what the naysayers say to try to shoot them down. That's the wrong mindset. That's a "soldier mindset," but you want to go in with the "scout mindset" and say let me look at what the naysayers say, and let me see what the strongest arguments they make are. Let me see the good points they have, let me see what contradictions they're pointing out that actually seem like contradictions. And you want to do that, adopting a bunch of different perspectives, one by one. Then you want to try to synthesise everything you've learned, and that will give you a much more accurate perspective.
Best Amazon purchase and how to buy things rationally
Baiqu: Hmm thanks. Thank you for that.
The next question is, over the period of the pandemic, what has been your best online patches?
Spencer: Yes, so quite a different genre of question.
So one of my best online purchases is this headset I'm wearing right here. It's a wireless headset. I can move around, I'm not tethered to my computer. And I have to say in a world where you're on zoom meetings a lot, where you're at your computer a lot, this is just so great. Because if I'm in a meeting where I don't have to keep my video on, I can go make a cup of tea while I'm talking to someone, or even just pace around to get a little bit of movement while I'm stuck in my apartment. So I think getting a wireless headset for your computer, super nice. This happens to be a Jabra, but there's a whole bunch of, of different brands that make these kinds of things.
Baiqu: Okay, so here's a bit cheeky question. When you're buying things, or when you're looking for a particular product, do you also apply critical thinking to that process? Or are you just more kind of impulsive? Like, oh, I really want those and I'm going to get it.
Spencer: I do try to apply critical thinking to everything, but it doesn't mean that you sit there scrutinising the pros and cons, because I think this is one mistake when people are trying to do "naive" rationality or "naive" critical thinking. They say, oh, the rational choice to consider every single advantage, every single disadvantage. But the reality is, you have to think well, if I'm about to do a purchase for $5, if I think there's a 20% chance this could improve my life, the most rational thing might be just spend the $5, try it out, see if it helps you, and then if not give it away or what have you. Because the cost is so cheap. Now if on the other hand you're buying a $2000 purchase, let's say you're considering buying a new, really expensive mattress, because you think it might help you sleep better, then you might want to really do your due diligence and really try to understand what are the pros and cons of different mattresses. Can I try it out before I purchase it and so on. So yeah I do try to bring it to everything, but it doesn't mean that you're constantly doing pros and cons lists. You really trying to take into account how much time is it worth spend spending on this topic?
Baiqu: So in terms of critical thinking, trying to think more rationally, is it kind of like a muscle that you build up and once you get better at it, it's easier to apply it across the board and the things that you do in your life, or do you find it sometimes tiring to try and remind yourself to be a critical thinker about different aspects of your life?
Spencer: I think it's very hard to normally act one way and then just suddenly switch when you really need it to act a different way. So you could imagine in theory, someone who is irresponsible on all the little things in their life, but then on the big things they suddenly become really responsible. Like it could happen, maybe, but it seems much more plausible that you have to build up a habit of a way of being. You kind of create yourself through your habits. And so if you have a habit of being responsible on little things, I think it's more likely to make you responsible on the big things. And I think it's the same with critical thinking. If on the little things you let yourself engage a really sloppy thinking, or motivated reasoning, or you just try to prove yourself right. Then when you get to the big topics, you're like I'm going to really be a good, critical thinker, I think it's probably not gonna happen. You're not going to have the habit of doing it, and also you're just not going to have honed your skills over time. I think you should try to apply it systematically. Basically what that means is trying to adopt a mindset of caring about what's true, adopt a mindset of thinking about different ways of looking at a problem. Trying to gather evidence on both sides. Whenever you're trying to gather evidence just on one side, but that's not critical thinking, that's not rationality, that's just trying to prove yourself right
Best cure to an existential crisis
Baiqu: Okay. And then onto my next question. What would you recommend as a cure or a balm to an existential crisis?
Spencer: Yeah so one of our tools I think can be pretty good for this. It's called our Intrinsic Values Test. Basically what it does, is it asks you a whole series of questions about what you most fundamentally value. And we've done a bunch of research on this, we've looked at how do philosophers categorise values, how to psychologists do it, how to political scientists do it, how do career coaches do it and so on. And then we've also run our own study where we had people submit 3000 different things that they think they intrinsically value and we categorised it all and we ran a statistical analysis. So this tool will actually give you a customised report of your intrinsic values.
So if you just search for Clearer Thinking intrinsic values test, you can find that, and it's totally free.
Baiqu: How do you think that can be applied then when trying to think through an existential crisis? Like whether, if it's just about life in general or work or your personal relationships, how do you apply your intrinsic values to that?
Spencer: Yeah. So if you think about human decision-making. Very often what happens is we set some goals for ourselves, we make some plans to try to get to those goals, and then we have to make decisions along the way as we're executing those plans. But what people often lose sight of is there's a thing that comes even before the goal, which are your intrinsic values - your intrinsic values are the things that you fundamentally care about, not as a means to other ends, but you care about them for their own sake. And they're the things that you would care about, even if they got you nothing else.
So for most people, their own pleasure is at least one of their intrinsic values. They care about feeling good. But most people have many other intrinsic values as well. For example, you probably want the well-being of your loved ones, you may care intrinsically about longevity, like living a long life, you probably don't want to die tomorrow, even if it's painless. You probably also care about other things in the moral domain, like you probably care about being an honest person and being well thought of by others and so on. So your intrinsic values are sort of this core stuff that your goals ideally should emanate from. In other words, your goals should be chosen to reflect how to produce a lot of your intrinsic values. A lot of people kind of miss that step, and so when people have existential crises, there's a lot of different types, but a common type is when they spend a bunch of their life in pursuit of a goal and then they realise at some point that the goal doesn't get them the thing they want.
Favourite music, article, and daily habit
Baiqu: I think I'm going to go on your website right after this interview and try and find out what my intrinsic values are. I'd be very curious.
Then on to our last question, can you recommend a piece of music, an article that's stuck with you or left an impression, and a daily habit that you practice?
Spencer: Okay that's a tough one. So for a piece of music, I recommend Level Up by Vienna Teng. It's a really energising song, but one of the cool things I like about it is it has kind of the feel of religious music. It has a kind of the vibe of Christian rock and things like that, but in a secular, non-religious context. And I think it's kind of a cool song.
So one article that I think is a really interesting one, is on the blog Slate Star Codex, which has become extremely popular blog recently. And it's called The Toxoplasma of Rage. It's actually an old blog posts, but it's about the way that these cases in society can get people really upset and then cause a lot of fighting between different groups. So imagine your latest news story where something happens in the news, and the left interprets it one way and the right interprets another way, and everyone yells at each other and fights. It's about that phenomenon and kind of gives a theory about why those kinds of situations happen.
Baiqu: Hmm. Will definitely check that out. Then finally, a daily habit.
Spencer: Yeah so I think one of the best kind of meta habits you can make is that every morning, you can have a certain sequence of things you do, and it could start really small. Like a really good one to start with is just drink a tall glass of water when you wake up. Then what's cool is if you can get yourself doing that everyday, you can tack something on the end of it. So as soon as you finished your glass of water, maybe you should stretch for three minutes. And then you can tack something else under that. Okay after that, maybe I'll do a five minute meditation and so on. So, so the idea of this kind of meta habit is that once you've built a little seed of it, you can just keep adding things to it, and you can tweak it over time to make it fit your life as your life changes. So you can use it as your habit for whatever you need in your life at that moment.
Baiqu: And what's yours?
Spencer: Sure yeah. So mine is I wake up, drink a tall glass of water. I had a shoulder problem, so I do stretches for my shoulder, which after I started implementing this is like almost completely cured my shoulder problem, which was amazing. Just like a couple minutes of stretching a day. Then after I'm done with that, I do some planks for just for core strength. Then I go have a protein bar, which is like my morning breakfast. I have this healthy kind of protein bar that I actually really recommend, it's called Nocow Bar if you're into that kind of thing. And then after that, I usually just get going beginning my day.
Baiqu: Well, thank you, Spencer, for all your recommendations. All the links and things will be in the show notes so everyone can go and check out your recommendations, as well as your podcast, and your website.
Spencer: Yeah. Thank you so much for having me on, if anyone found this interesting, I'd love for you to check out my podcast called Clearer Thinking.
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Finally finished – the second of the "floating quilts". The first one is smaller with 2 rows of 4 rectangle. This one has 3 rows of 5 rectangles. The blocks and sashing in both quilts are the same size.
This is my experiment – I wanted to see in reality not only the differences in the size, but also in the quilting technique. I quilted the small one with a walking foot with straight lines, the big one is free-motion quilted. I decided to quilt only the white fabric with two patterns : pebbles (white fabric in the rectangles) and waves (sashing). I have used my new thread from Superior Threads So Fine! #50 in white and I am happy with the result. The quilting looks finer and the thread does not stand out. I think I shall use the thicker thread (a #40 or #30) for straight line quilting or free-motion quilting with a larger pattern and the #50 thread for fine, dense quilting.
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EnBW Baltic 1 ist der Name des ersten deutschen kommerziellen Offshore-Windparks in der Ostsee. Er liegt 16 Kilometer vor der Küste Mecklenburg-Vorpommerns, nördlich der Halbinsel Fischland-Darß-Zingst innerhalb der 12-Seemeilen-Zone. Der Windpark wurde am 2. Mai 2011 offiziell in Betrieb genommen und besteht aus 21 Windenergieanlagen und einer Umspannplattform.

Betrieben wird der Windpark von dem Energieversorgungsunternehmen EnBW. Den Netzanschluss stellt der Netzbetreiber 50Hertz Offshore.

Geschichte
Die ersten Projektplanungen begannen bereits 1997. Es wurden die Umweltverträglichkeitsuntersuchungen, ein Raumordnungsverfahren sowie das Genehmigungsverfahren nach dem Bundes-Immissionsschutzgesetz (BImSchG) durchgeführt. Am 22. Februar 2005 schloss das Raumordnungsverfahren mit einer positiven landesplanerischen Beurteilung des Gesamtprojektes.
Das Land Mecklenburg-Vorpommern wies im Mai 2005 das Vorhabengebiet als besonderes Eignungsgebiet für die Windenergienutzung aus; der Bund erteilte am 31. März 2006 die BImSchG-Genehmigung für den Windpark. Von März bis September 2010 wurden alle 21 Windenergieanlagen und die Umspannplattform errichtet.

Seit Anfang 2011 ist die Umspannplattform über ein Seekabel mit dem Festland verbunden und speiste am 3. April 2011 die erste Kilowattstunde Strom in das Netz ein. Die feierliche Inbetriebnahme erfolgte am 2. Mai 2011 durch die damalige Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel. Vom 17. September bis 15. Oktober 2011 standen alle Anlagen still, weil ein Schlepper die Umspannstation gerammt hatte und daraufhin ihre Funktionsfähigkeit überprüft werden musste.

Technischer Aufbau

Im Windpark stehen 21 einzelne Windenergieanlagen (WEA) mit einer installierten Gesamtleistung von 48,3 MW sowie eine Umspannplattform, die die Spannung von 33 kV zur Weiterleitung an Land auf 150 kV hoch transformiert. Bei den Windenergieanlagen handelt es sich um den Typ SWT 2.3-93 der Firma Siemens Windenergie mit einer elektrischen Leistung von je 2,3 MW.

Das Installationsschiff Sea Power installierte im August 2010 die Windkraftanlagen.
Die Anlagen haben eine Nabenhöhe von 67 m über dem Wasser und einen Rotordurchmesser von 93 m. Die vorhandene Wassertiefe liegt zwischen 16 m und 19 m, die mittlere Windgeschwindigkeit bei ungefähr 9 m/s. Als Fundament für die Windenergieanlagen dienen sogenannte Monopiles. Die ca. 37 m langen Stahlfundamente wurden vom Installationsschiff Seaworker mit jeweils rund 3000 Rammschlägen in den Meeresboden gerammt.

Die Grundfläche des Windparks hat die Form eines Dreieckes mit einer Größe von ca. sieben Quadratkilometern.
Die Eckkoordinaten des Windparkgebietes im WGS-84-System betragen:
  (Nordwest-Ecke)
  (Nordost-Ecke)
  (Südwest-Ecke)

Netzanschluss
Für den Netzanschluss von Baltic 1 nutzt 50Hertz Offshore eine Übertragung mittels 150-kV-Drehstromtechnik. Hierfür setzt man ein Kabel ein, das mit dicht vernetzten Polyethylen (VPE) isoliert ist. Über eine 77 Kilometer lange, mit Dreiphasenwechselstrom betriebene Leitung, wird die elektrische Energie zur Konverterstation Bentwisch bei Rostock geführt. 61 Kilometer davon liegen als Seekabel in der Ostsee. Das Kabel hat einen Leitungsquerschnitt von 1200 mm² Kupfer, ein Gewicht von 105 kg/m und einen Durchmesser von 30 cm. Die Isolierung besteht aus vernetztem Polyethylen (XLPE). Neben seinen drei Kupferleitern ist zusätzlich ein Lichtwellenleiter für die Mess- und Steuerdaten im Kabel integriert. Ummantelt von einem mit Bitumenlack beschichteten Metallschirm erhält das Kabel seinen Schutz vor Beschädigungen und Korrosion.

Um das Seekabel verlegen zu können, waren folgende Schritte nötig:
BergungDetektierung und ggf. Bergung von Anomalien oder Munition am Meeresboden
Pre-TrenchingStellen mit hartem Meeresgrund wurden durch Grabungen aufgelockert
Ökologische BaubegleitungGenehmigungsauflagen bezüglich Bauzeitbeschränkungen und Feintrassierung im Bereich von Riff-Biotopen
JettingNachdem ein Unterwasserroboter eine Rinne am Meeresgrund gespült hatte, wurde das Seekabel in den Boden eingelassen und daraufhin eingeschlossen
AnlandungsdükerDer Küstenbereich wurde ebenso wie andere sensible Bereiche durch horizontale Bohrungen unterquert

Auf der Umspannplattform im Windpark stellt 50Hertz eine Schaltanlage bereit, die für die Verteilung der Energie sorgt. Um den Stromfluss zu gewährleisten wurden für die Kabelleitungen zusätzlich Kompensationsdrosseln angebracht, die die verlustbehafteten Blindströme reduzieren sollen. Auf der anderen Seite der Leitung errichtete 50Hertz analog die Schaltanlage und Kompensationsspule im Umspannwerk Bentwisch. Dazu kommt ein weiterer Transformator, der die meerseitige Spannung zur verlustärmeren Übertragung auf Höchstspannung hochtransformiert. Ausgehend vom Umspannwerk wird die Energie des Windparks in das deutsche Netz gespeist.

Seit 2020 ist das Kabel (und der 288-MW-Offshore-Windpark EnBW Baltic 2) integriert in die 400-MW-Combined-Grid-Solution; sie verbindet Ost-Dänemark und Deutschland.

Kosten und Nutzen
Die Kosten für den Windpark EnBW Baltic 1 veranschlagte das Unternehmen auf 200 Millionen Euro. Bei einer von EnBW angegebenen Spitzenleistung von 48,3 Megawatt ergeben sich damit spezifische Investitionskosten von 4140 Euro/kW.
Die Europäische Investitionsbank (EIB), die KfW IPEX-Bank, die Landesbank Baden-Württemberg (LBBW) und die niederländische NIBC Bank gewährten für das Projekt Ende 2011 einen Kredit von insgesamt 138 Millionen Euro.

Der prognostizierte jährliche Energieertrag des Windparks von etwa 185 Gigawattstunden entspricht dem Energiebedarf von rund 50.000 Haushalten, wodurch pro Jahr 167.000 Tonnen an CO2 eingespart werden können.
Das würde einer Auslastung von 3830 Volllaststunden pro Jahr oder etwa 44 % entsprechen.
Nach dem ersten vollen Jahr Betrieb teilte EnBW mit, dass der Stromertrag um etwa 20 % über den Erwartungen gelegen habe.

Kritik
Umweltschützer fürchteten Auswirkungen auf den Vogelzug. Es wurden Risiken für die Schifffahrt wegen der Nähe zur vielbefahrenen Wasserstraße in der Kadetrinne befürchtet. Vertreter der Gemeinden auf dem Darß fürchteten, dass der Windpark Urlauber abschrecken könne. Bislang bestätigten sich die Befürchtungen nicht. Studien weisen eine hohe Akzeptanz von Windparks bei Urlaubern nach. Auch stellen sie in Aussicht, Windparks könnten sich mittelfristig als 'Refugien der Natur', als Rückzugsgebiet für bedrohte Arten, etablieren.

Siehe auch
 Liste der Offshore-Windparks
 Offshore-Windpark EnBW Baltic 2

Literatur
 Forschungsprojekt EnBW Baltic 1. In: Schiff & Hafen, Heft 6/2011, S. 103, Seehafen-Verlag, Hamburg 2011,

Weblinks
 EnBW Baltic 1 Offshore-Windpark Internetauftritt des Betreibers
 Beschreibung der Netzanbindung (mit Video)

Einzelnachweise und Fußnoten

Baltic 1
Windpark in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
EnBW-Kraftwerk
Erbaut in den 2010er Jahren
Windkraftanlage in Europa

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Пра́вило Клечко́вського, також пра́вило Ма́делунга () — правило, що визначає послідовність заповнення електронами електронних орбіталей. Сформульоване Всеволодом Клечковським.

Вважається, що електрони першопочатково займають орбіталі із меншою енергією рівня, яку характеризує головне квантове число. Тому, згідно з цим правилом, послідовне заповнення орбіталей відбувається по мірі зростання для них суми головного та орбітального квантових чисел (n+l). А за умови рівності цієї суми першою заповнюється орбіталь із меншим значенням головного квантового числа.

Наприклад, 4s-підрівень (n=4, l=0) заповнюється перед 3d-підрівнем (n=3, l=2). А 4p-підрівень (n=4, l=1), маючи однакову із 3d-підрівнем суму квантових чисел, заповнюватиметься після нього, оскільки має більше головне квантове число.

Додатково, на кожній з орбіталей не може бути більше від двох електронів (виконується принцип Паулі), а також при розміщенні електронів на вироджених орбіталях, вони спочатку займають кожну вакантну орбіталь по одному електронові, а лише потім паруються (виконується правило Гунда).

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WRITING A WOMAN'S LIFE
by Carolyn G. Heilbrun ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 26, 1988
In this tribute to the generation of women poets born from 1923-32, Heilbrun (English/Columbia; author of Toward a Recognition of Androgyny, Reinventing Motherhood and, under the Amanda Cross byline, several mystery novels) writes: ""It was the task of this generation more to dismantle the past than to imagine the future."" The splendor of Heilbrun's slim book is that she manages not only to criticize past biographers of women as ill-equipped with the vocabulary or myths to describe the nonromantic ""plots"" of women's lives, but also ""to imagine the future"" of both better lives for women and better Lives of women. Much of the feminist ground she covers is familiar, however, as she goes back and forth between the limitations that literary and social conventions impose on women's Lives and lives. Women have been limited both by the traditional female marriage plot, which she says involves abandoning all hope of freedom and self-expression, and by the male ""quest"" plot, which offers freedom only in exchange for abandoning one's identity as a woman. Women should learn to express their anger, and must not define themselves solely through service to others. All of these central platforms of the women's movement are intelligently presented, but Heilbrun does not stop with dismantling the past. She offers minibiographies of a number of famous women: George Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Adrienne Rich, Dorothy Sayers, and, most revealingly, herself. She is most free to ""imagine the future"" when she puts aside her academician's voice and writes about her persona as the mystery writer Amanda Cross. As she welcomes middle age for both her character Kate Fansler and herself, she looks forward to a rich future for women: ""In the end, the changed life for women will be marked, I feel certain, by laughter."" Lengths ahead of most attempts to formulate a feminist methodology for biography or criticism, Heilbrun's suggestions are compelling.
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Cheaters like Trump See Cheaters Everywhere
by Leo Gerard | Aug 30, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Democracy, This Is The GOP
Two Republican judges ceded their principles last week to Ohio Republicans intent on suppressing the African-American vote. The Ohio GOP, like their counterparts nationally, have decided that if they can't win minority voters, they will cheat.
So over the past decade, Republicans across the country have perpetrated fraud in the form of voter ID laws, limits on early voting, restrictions on voter registration and other onerous requirements to make it difficult for minorities, young people and senior citizens to vote – requirements described as voter suppression in numerous lawsuits filed to overturn them.
Last week, two George W. Bush-appointed judges said Ohio Republicans could eliminate "Golden Week" when registration and voting may occur on the same day. The third judge on the panel, one appointed by President Barack Obama, dissented, writing that abolishing the week "imposes a disproportionate burden on African-Americans."
Now along comes Donald Trump claiming he'll lose the election only if Democrats cheat at the polls. He pointed his finger at Pennsylvania and Philadelphia in particular. The City of Brotherly Love is a filthy den of schemers and scam artists, according to Trump. Pennsylvanians living west of the city line are little better in Trump's estimation.
Trump besmirched Pennsylvania's reputation despite the fact that Keystone GOP officials admitted in a lawsuit won by voting rights groups in 2014 that there was absolutely no in person voter fraud in the state. None. But that doesn't matter because when Republicans like Trump cheat, they think everyone else cheats too.
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At an Aug. 12 rally in Altoona, Trump called on his supporters to sign up to stand sentry as poll watchers "in certain areas" which other speakers made clear was Philadelphia. So, essentially, Trump was asking white, rural residents to travel to Philly, which is 45 percent black, and try to intimidate voters. Good luck with that.
Here's what he said: "We're going to watch Pennsylvania. Go down to certain areas and watch and study and make sure other people don't come in and vote five times. . .If you do that, we're not going to lose. The only way we can lose, in my opinion – I really mean this, Pennsylvania – is if cheating goes on."
U.S. Rep. Bill Shuster, a Republican from southeast of Pittsburgh, spoke on Trump's behalf at the event, accusing Philadelphians of nefarious deeds:
"The people in western and central Pennsylvania have to overcome what goes on down in Philadelphia. . .The cheating, what they do – we've got to make sure we're doing the job here in central Pennsylvania."
The thing is: There is no cheating. The GOP could find absolutely no case of in person voter fraud – not one – when it desperately needed one, just one, to justify its burdensome voter ID requirements after they were challenged in a lawsuit by the ACLU of Pennsylvania and other voting rights groups.
In the end, the state of Pennsylvania, then completely run by Republicans – governor and both houses of the legislature – stipulated in court that, in fact, there was no in person voter fraud in Pennsylvania. So, of course, there was no way the GOP could justify its excessive voter ID requirements that would have disenfranchised as many as three quarters of a million Pennsylvanians.
This had followed a swirl of publicity around a videotaped statement by GOP leader of the Pennsylvania House, Mike Turzai, in which he announced that the then-new voter ID law was "gonna allow Governor Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania."
That would occur, of course, by disenfranchising people who intended to vote for President Obama's reelection, including many Philadelphia residents. It would occur by GOP cheating.
In 2014, Pennsylvania courts overturned the voter ID law. This year, the Ohio decision aside, that has been the trend of most court rulings. Many judges have cited the disproportionate effect these voter suppression laws have on minorities. And just like in Pennsylvania, the laws' defenders have failed to provide evidence of the in person voter fraud that the legislation is supposedly intended to prevent.
The ACLU and voting rights groups have secured victories in Wisconsin, North Carolina, Texas and North Dakota this year.
In July, a federal appeals court struck down the North Carolina voter ID law, saying it deliberately "target[ed] African-Americans with almost surgical precision" in an effort to depress black voter turnout. As to the lawmakers' contention that the legislation was needed to prevent in person voter fraud, the judges said voter ID, "imposes cures for problems that did not exist."
In the Badger State, the judge wrote, "The Wisconsin experience demonstrates that a preoccupation with mostly phantom election fraud leads to real incidents of disenfranchisement which undermine rather than enhance confidence in elections."
In North Dakota, a federal judge found the voter ID law placed an undue burden on Native Americans and wrote, "No eligible voter, regardless of their station in life, should be denied the opportunity to vote." He found that voter fraud in the state has been "virtually non-existent."
On July 20, a federal appeals court ruled that the Texas voter ID law violated the U.S. Voting Rights Act. This was the fourth time in nearly four years that a federal court decided that the law discriminated against black and Hispanic voters. But, still, the Texas GOP wants to implement it.
They're the cheaters. The North Dakota Republicans are cheaters for trying to prevent Native Americans from voting. North Carolina Republicans are cheaters for deliberately targeting African Americans with surgical precision to prevent them from voting. Pennsylvania Republicans are cheaters for trying to prevent African-Americans, students, seniors and other likely Democrats from voting in an attempt to assure Romney a victory and their own re-elections.
Trump is a cheater as well. He cheated small businessmen and craftsmen repeatedly during his multiple bankruptcies, denying them payment for work they performed for him in good faith. Likewise, Trump reported on his sworn financial disclosure forms to election regulators that the Trump National Golf Club in Jupiter, Fla., was worth $50 million, but when it came to paying taxes on the property, he told Palm Beach County it was worth a measly $5 million. Similarly, Trump bought $65,000 in jewelry from a New York store, then had an empty box shipped out of state to evade sales tax – in a scam he got caught at.
That's how he can accuse Philadelphia and Pennsylvania – without any evidence at all – of trying to steal the election from him. He'd do it.


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	while idx != -1:
		idx2 = token.find(')',idx+2)
		if idx2 == -1: break
		key = token[idx+2:idx2]
		if not config.has_key(key): break
		token = token.replace('$(%s)' % key, config[key])
		idx = token.find('$(')
	return token

def read_ti_xcconfig():
	contents = open(os.path.join(cwd,'titanium.xcconfig')).read()
	config = {}
	for line in contents.splitlines(False):
		line = line.strip()
		if line[0:2]=='//': continue
		idx = line.find('=')
		if idx > 0:
			key = line[0:idx].strip()
			value = line[idx+1:].strip()
			config[key] = replace_vars(config,value)
	return config

def generate_doc(config):
	docdir = os.path.join(cwd,'documentation')
	if not os.path.exists(docdir):
		print "Couldn't find documentation file at: %s" % docdir
		return None

	try:
		import markdown2 as markdown
	except ImportError:
		import markdown
	documentation = []
	for file in os.listdir(docdir):
		if file in ignoreFiles or os.path.isdir(os.path.join(docdir, file)):
			continue
		md = open(os.path.join(docdir,file)).read()
		html = markdown.markdown(md)
		documentation.append({file:html});
	return documentation

def compile_js(manifest,config):
	js_file = os.path.join(cwd,'assets','net.iamyellow.tihqx.js')
	if not os.path.exists(js_file): return

	from compiler import Compiler
	try:
		import json
	except:
		import simplejson as json

	path = os.path.basename(js_file)
	compiler = Compiler(cwd, manifest['moduleid'], manifest['name'], 'commonjs')
	method = compiler.compile_commonjs_file(path,js_file)

	exports = open('metadata.json','w')
	json.dump({'exports':compiler.exports }, exports)
	exports.close()

	method += '\treturn filterDataInRange([NSData dataWithBytesNoCopy:data length:sizeof(data) freeWhenDone:NO], ranges[0]);'

	f = os.path.join(cwd,'Classes','NetIamyellowTihqxModuleAssets.m')
	c = open(f).read()
	templ_search = ' moduleAsset\n{\n'
	idx = c.find(templ_search) + len(templ_search)
	before = c[0:idx]
	after = """
}

@end
	"""
	newc = before + method + after

	if newc!=c:
		x = open(f,'w')
		x.write(newc)
		x.close()

def die(msg):
	print msg
	sys.exit(1)

def warn(msg):
	print "[WARN] %s" % msg

def validate_license():
	c = open(os.path.join(cwd,'LICENSE')).read()
	if c.find(module_license_default)!=-1:
		warn('please update the LICENSE file with your license text before distributing')

def validate_manifest():
	path = os.path.join(cwd,'manifest')
	f = open(path)
	if not os.path.exists(path): die("missing %s" % path)
	manifest = {}
	for line in f.readlines():
		line = line.strip()
		if line[0:1]=='#': continue
		if line.find(':') < 0: continue
		key,value = line.split(':')
		manifest[key.strip()]=value.strip()
	for key in required_module_keys:
		if not manifest.has_key(key): die("missing required manifest key '%s'" % key)
		if module_defaults.has_key(key):
			defvalue = module_defaults[key]
			curvalue = manifest[key]
			if curvalue==defvalue: warn("please update the manifest key: '%s' to a non-default value" % key)
	return manifest,path

ignoreFiles = ['.DS_Store','.gitignore','libTitanium.a','titanium.jar','README','net.iamyellow.tihqx.js']
ignoreDirs = ['.DS_Store','.svn','.git','CVSROOT']

def zip_dir(zf,dir,basepath,ignore=[]):
	for root, dirs, files in os.walk(dir):
		for name in ignoreDirs:
			if name in dirs:
				dirs.remove(name)	# don't visit ignored directories
		for file in files:
			if file in ignoreFiles: continue
			e = os.path.splitext(file)
			if len(e)==2 and e[1]=='.pyc':continue
			from_ = os.path.join(root, file)
			to_ = from_.replace(dir, basepath, 1)
			zf.write(from_, to_)

def glob_libfiles():
	files = []
	for libfile in glob.glob('build/**/*.a'):
		if libfile.find('Release-')!=-1:
			files.append(libfile)
	return files

def build_module(manifest,config):
	from tools import ensure_dev_path
	ensure_dev_path()

	rc = os.system("xcodebuild -sdk iphoneos -configuration Release")
	if rc != 0:
		die("xcodebuild failed")
	rc = os.system("xcodebuild -sdk iphonesimulator -configuration Release")
	if rc != 0:
		die("xcodebuild failed")
    # build the merged library using lipo
	moduleid = manifest['moduleid']
	libpaths = ''
	for libfile in glob_libfiles():
		libpaths+='%s ' % libfile

	os.system("lipo %s -create -output build/lib%s.a" %(libpaths,moduleid))

def package_module(manifest,mf,config):
	name = manifest['name'].lower()
	moduleid = manifest['moduleid'].lower()
	version = manifest['version']
	modulezip = '%s-iphone-%s.zip' % (moduleid,version)
	if os.path.exists(modulezip): os.remove(modulezip)
	zf = zipfile.ZipFile(modulezip, 'w', zipfile.ZIP_DEFLATED)
	modulepath = 'modules/iphone/%s/%s' % (moduleid,version)
	zf.write(mf,'%s/manifest' % modulepath)
	libname = 'lib%s.a' % moduleid
	zf.write('build/%s' % libname, '%s/%s' % (modulepath,libname))
	docs = generate_doc(config)
	if docs!=None:
		for doc in docs:
			for file, html in doc.iteritems():
				filename = string.replace(file,'.md','.html')
				zf.writestr('%s/documentation/%s'%(modulepath,filename),html)
	for dn in ('assets','example','platform'):
	  if os.path.exists(dn):
		  zip_dir(zf,dn,'%s/%s' % (modulepath,dn),['README'])
	zf.write('LICENSE','%s/LICENSE' % modulepath)
	zf.write('module.xcconfig','%s/module.xcconfig' % modulepath)
	exports_file = 'metadata.json'
	if os.path.exists(exports_file):
		zf.write(exports_file, '%s/%s' % (modulepath, exports_file))
	zf.close()

if __name__ == '__main__':
	manifest,mf = validate_manifest()
	validate_license()
	config = read_ti_xcconfig()

	sdk = find_sdk(config)
	sys.path.insert(0,os.path.join(sdk,'iphone'))
	sys.path.append(os.path.join(sdk, "common"))

	compile_js(manifest,config)
	build_module(manifest,config)
	package_module(manifest,mf,config)
	sys.exit(0)

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Shreveport City Council is considering spending $220 million. Here's what it means to you.
Scott Ferrell
New fire engines. New fire stations. A new central police station. Millions of dollars in infrastructure projects and upkeep.
These are just some of the items that are in the Citizens' Bond Committee's $220 million bond proposal.
Whether the bond proposal gets to voters in November or in the spring is one question. And whether the price tag will be $220 million or something less is also to be determined.
The Shreveport City Council is expected to answer those questions at its meeting on Tuesday.
More than just governmental policy, the proposed bond will affect the citizens of Shreveport in various ways.
Who's paying for this?
The taxpayer, of course, is paying for this.
The good news, according to Shreveport Mayor Adrian Perkins, is the proposal won't come at the cost of raised taxes. The proposal would be a continuation of the 6.2 mills dedicated to expiring bonds. And, as Perkins pointed out in his op-ed last month in The Times, property taxes are at a 35-year low in Shreveport with millages declining each of the last three decades.
Of course, this being politics, not everyone is sold on the idea.
Some point out that while the bond proposal isn't raising taxes, it's not ending one either by continuing the millage. Instead of letting the general obligation bonds from 1996 and 1999 just roll off the books this would extend the millage.
Others have expressed concern about the city's overall financial health.
Caddo Parish Republican Party chairman Louis Avallone wrote in an op-ed of his own that the proposal would nearly double the city's debt. Avallalone points out the city owes $246 million from past general obligation bonds and other debts.
And then there is the price tag.
The $220 million wish list may end up being just that -- a wish list. It would be the largest bond package in the city's history.
Shreveport City Councilman John Nickelson expressed some concerns about the price tag of the bond proposal.
"The City has many critical needs that must be funded with bonds,'' Nickelson wrote The Times in an email response to questions. "We have to maintain our roads and bridges. We need to repair our water and sewerage systems. And we must give our police officers and firefighters the tools they need to keep us safe.
"But I think we can do what we need to do with this bond proposal for substantially less than $220 million, and I intend to work with Mayor Perkins and my colleagues to save as much of the public's money as possible.''
Amendments could bring down the amount of money to be spent in the bond proposal, making the $220 million less realistic.
What is Shreveport getting?
Every citizen's life would likely be affected in some ways by the bond proposal because of how broad it is.
While most of the city's leadership is in agreement over the needs, the questions will likely center around dollars.
Perkins, for example, pointed out the needs of the Shreveport Fire Department in his op-ed.
"The Shreveport Fire Department has several run-down fire stations and single-bay stations that either need to be renovated or replaced,'' he wrote. "They also have numerous fire trucks that have outlived their commission. The committee's proposal allocates funds for new fire trucks and much-needed capital improvements.''
The Shreveport Fire Department's equipment wish list includes 22 fire engines, five ladder trucks, one heavy rescue truck and one air supply trailer.
The fire engines come at a proposed cost of $650,000 each. Two of the ladder trucks (110 feet) cost $1.4 million each. Three of the ladder trucks (77 feet) have $900,000 price tags. The heavy rescue truck is $900,000 and the air supply trailer is $110,000.
"We had a really in-depth conversation at the public safety meeting,'' City Councilman Grayson Boucher said Friday. "I said, 'Chief, we're kind of on a Yugo budget and you're wanting to buy Cadillacs.''
Boucher said he is working on an amended proposal that would still provide funding for the fire equipment, but would cut the cost significantly.
Then there are proposals to relocate Fire Station 14 and Fire Station 15 and build a new fire station for Fire Station 11. Those projects may not be funded at the original request.
The Shreveport Police Department would get a new central police station in the bond proposal. Perkins wrote the current central station is "in disrepair'' and is "deplorable.''
The proposal "provides funds for a new central police station and police substations, which increase the presence of law enforcement throughout our community,'' Perkins wrote in the op-ed.
Some on the City Council agree with the needs of the fire and police departments, but are also watching the bottom line.
"Of course I want us to be as frugal as we can be with taxpayers' monies,'' Boucher told The Times. "The facts are that we have some critical issues like fire department equipment and police department facilities and equipment. The City unfortunately does not have the cash to make those improvements without the approval of a bond.''
The proposal extends to other areas affecting the citizens of Shreveport -- roads ($25 million on original proposal), drainage (nearly $25 million on original proposal) and upkeep of SPAR buildings.
The City Council could approve a bond proposal -- either the original $220 million one or an amended one -- and have it on the ballot for voters to decide on Nov. 16. Or the Council could push it back to the spring. Or nix it altogether.
There will be a work session on Monday before Tuesday's council meeting.
Then, the proposal's fate will be decided.


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Launched in 2012, the Award aims to promote high quality education research, produced by African universities, research centers and research networks. There are four award categories: (1) emerging educational researcher, (2) accomplished educational researcher, (3) outstanding mentor of educational researchers, and (4) enabling institutional environment for education research.
The terms and conditions of participation in the competition are available on line at www.adeanet.org/eraa. The organizing committee strongly encourages women to participate in the 2017/2018 Education Research in Africa Award.
Research on education is crucial for African education systems to function well. It provides decision-makers with the information they need to orient policy, conduct reform and enhance the quality, equity, relevance and efficiency of their education and training systems. Yet, education research in Africa remains limited and underused. Among the main factors explaining this, there are the inadequate institutional environment for education research and the persisting weak involvement of higher education in the policy-making process.
ERAA ultimately seeks the institutionalization of a culture of quality research that contributes both to informed decision-making and to the effective implementation of promising reforms and practices.
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Switzerland Banned Public Homophobia And Biphobia
Switzerland now protects gay, lesbian and bisexual people from public hate speech, but this isn't a beautiful victory.
In 2017, the UN Human Rights Council expressed concern over the increase in hate speech against LGBTQ people in Switzerland and urged the country to "adopt comprehensive legislation against discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity."
Recently, a petition was launched to add an amendment to the non-discrimination law to put an end to such hate speech.
Under the amended law, homophobic comments made in public would be punishable with up to three years in prison. This covers comments made on tv, social media posts, and in public venues.
Opponents immediately said that this would run counter to freedom of expression, but the initiative had received the support of the Government and Switzerland's main political parties.
The petition collected enough signatures to force a referendum which took place last weekend and during which 63.1% of voters approved the amendment. Only 36.9% of voters opposed it, which was a surprise as many thought the results would be closer.
"Many Swiss people tend to overrate how modern our country is," explains Anna Rosenwasser of the Swiss Lesbian Organisation.
After France, Great Britain, and Belgium, here is another European country that penalizes public incitement to hatred of gay, lesbian and bisexual people and public denigration of an individual's sexual orientation.
"The extension sends a vital message to homosexual and bisexual people, and the Swiss society overall, that hatred has no place, and that violence is not legitimate," said Caroline Dayer, an expert and researcher on preventing violence and discrimination.
A representative of the LGBTQ organization Pink Cross Switzerland welcomed the result of the referendum:
"The result proves a strong sign of acceptance for lesbians, gays, and bisexuals. After the clear yes, the LGBTI community will use this momentum to achieve the consistent implementation of the penal code and to enforce marriage equality."
But what about transgender people who are also victims of discrimination and hatred?
The original plan was to include them in the initiative, but the Council of States, which is the highest parliamentary chamber in Switzerland, vetoed it. They felt that the criteria were too vague. Don't ask me what this means, I find it difficult to understand.
This victory has a taste of incompleteness, but I hope that things will continue to evolve so that transgender people can, in turn, be protected against discrimination and hate speech.
At the moment, Switzerland is still a little behind most of its European neighbors in terms of LGBTQ rights, but it is becoming increasingly LGBT friendly.
ILGA (International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex Association) ranked Switzerland 27th out of 49 European countries in their 2019 report, with an unglamorous score of 29 out of 100. In comparison, Germany scored 47, France 63, and Great Britain 67.
To finish here's last-minute news about marriage equality: a bill is on its way through parliament. So there could soon be a new LGBTQ victory in Switzerland where only civil unions are possible for same-sex couples.
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Switzerland Became The 29th Country To Legalize Marriage Equality
82% Of Swiss Support Legalization Of Marriage Equality
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