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Episode #133: Meredith Talusan, author of FAIREST
May 26, 2020 racruzzoFairest, Meredith Talusan, Non-Fiction, The Digital Sala Leave a comment
This episode is produced in collaboration with The Digital Sala, an online Filipinx literary festival which launched in April 2020.
Meredith Talusan is an award-winning journalist and author. She has written features, essays, and opinion pieces for many publications, including The New York Times, The Guardian, The Atlantic, VICE, Matter, Backchannel, The Nation, and the American Prospect. She has contributed to several books including the New York Times Bestselling Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture edited by Roxane Gay. Her memoir, Fairest, is forthcoming from Viking / Penguin Random House.
Fall, Poetry, Uncategorized
Episode #126: Las Peregrinas
November 21, 2018 racruzzoLas Peregrinas, Poetry Leave a comment
Las Peregrinas was an idea first birthed by Yaccaira Salvatierra and co-organized with Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo. They wanted California women's voices to be in conversation with other border states and communities as a way to share and heal. Each of the four peregrinas honors her antepasados and the border in her poetry and together they share a reverence for those who have gone before them.
Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo, a first-generation Chicana, is the author of Posada: Offerings of Witness and Refuge (Sundress Publications 2016). A former Steinbeck Fellow, Poets & Writers California Writers Exchange winner and Barbara Deming Memorial Fund grantee, she's received residencies from Hedgebrook, Ragdale, National Parks Arts Foundation and Poetry Foundation. Her work is published in Acentos Review, CALYX, crazyhorse, and American Poetry Review among others. A dramatization of her poem "Our Lady of the Water Gallons," directed by Jesús Salvador Treviño, can be viewed at latinopia.com. She is a cofounder of Women Who Submit and a member of Macondo Writers' Workshop.
Marisol Baca is the author of Tremor (Three Mile Harbor Press). She has been published in Narrative Northeast, Riverlit, Shadowed: An Anthology of Women Writers, Acentos Review, among other publications. Marisol won the Andres Montoya poetry scholarship prize. She received her Master of Fine Arts from Cornell University where she won the Robert Chasen poetry award for her poem, Revelato. Currently, Marisol is an English professor at Fresno City College.
Yaccaira Salvatierra's poems have appeared in Huizache, Diálogo, Puerto del Sol, and Rattleamong others. She is a VONA alumna, the recipient of the Dorrit Sibley Award for achievement in poetry, and the 2015 winner of the Puerto del Sol Poetry Prize. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and a Best of the Net. An educator and art instructor, she lives in San José, California with her two sons.
Vanessa Angélica Villarreal was born in the Rio Grande Valley borderlands to formerly undocumented Mexican immigrants. Her work has recently appeared in the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day feature, Buzzfeed Reader, Pinwheel, Epiphany, Southern Indiana Review, Apogee, Poor Claudia, PBS Newshour and elsewhere. She is the author of the collection Beast Meridian (Noemi Press, Akrilica Series, 2017) and is currently pursuing her doctorate in English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where she is raising her son with the help of a loyal dog.
Fiction, Poetry, Political, Uncategorized, Winter
TBJ at AWP in Washington D.C.!
February 17, 2017 racruzzoAWP in DC, Writing Conference Leave a comment
We took the show on the road to AWP (Associated Writing Programs) Conference in D.C.! Check out our flash episodes (or flashisodes) here.
No Walls AWP
Interviews with Rio Cortez, Janice Sapigao, Joseph Legaspi, Esteban Rodriguez, Clem Heard, Dolapo Demuren live at the conference.
Open Invitation for Recordings of Refusal and Resistance on The Blood-Jet Writing Hour!
November 13, 2016 racruzzo Leave a comment
The Blood-Jet Writing Hour's mission has always been to "spotlight vibrant and (aesthetically, culturally and linguistically) diverse and underrepresented voices from the literary world."
We continue stand in solidarity with immigrants, refugees, people of color, LGBTIQ people, women, people with disabilities, women, and the Muslim community. It is more important than ever to amplify these voices.
If you are a poet, artist, writer, critic, and/or educator from these communities, we'd love to invite you to send a recording of a poem, quotation, and/or reading recommendations of refusal, resistance, and love.
You may also reflect on your experiences of recent events in the recording. For those of you who teach poetry/creative writing, how are you going about this in you classroom? For those of you writing/not writing, what are you reflecting on? How are you finding the words?
In the recording, please introduce yourself – you can mention what you do (I.e. educator, writer) and if you'd like, your publications and website/Twitter so folks can find your work. Feel free to record previously published work; just cite the journal / lit mag.
Don't worry about length. I'll post them as soon as I receive them.
You can record on your phone on "Voice Memos" or any other convenient recording app, then send it to me (rachelle.a.cruz@gmail.com) as an MP3.
Please feel free to send this request to any other writers/poets who would like to contribute.
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Episode #118: Angela Peñaredondo, author of ALL THINGS LOSE THOUSANDS OF TIMES
September 6, 2016 racruzzoAll Things Lose Thousands of Times, Angela Peñaredondo, Poetry Leave a comment
Episode #118 with poet Angela Peñaredondo, author of ALL THINGS LOSE THOUSANDS OF TIMES!
Born in Iloilo City, Philippines, Angela Peñaredondo is a Pilipinx/Pin@y poet and artist (on other days, she identifies as a usual ghost, comet or part-time animal) . He book, All Things Lose Thousands of Times is the winner of the Hillary Gravendyk Poetry Prize. She/Siya is author of the chapbook,Maroon (Jamii Publications). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in AAWW's The Margins, Four Way Review, Cream City Review, Southern Humanities Review, Dusie and elsewhere.
She/Siya is a VONA/Voices of our Nations Art fello, a recipient of a University of California Institute for Research in the Arts Grant, Gluck Program of the Arts Fellowship, Naropa University's Zora Neal Hurston Award, Squaw Valley Writers Fellowship and Fishtrap Fellowship. She/Siya has received scholarships from Tin House, Split This Rock, Dzanc Books International Literary Program and others. Angela resides in Southern California, drifiting between deserts, beaches, lowly cities and socially engineered suburbs.
Also, here are Angela's video poems from the Center for Art and Thought:
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2015 Favorites: Stephanie Hammer
December 15, 2015 racruzzoBookstores, Podcasts, Poetry, Stephanie Barbe Hammer Leave a comment
It's that time of year! We've asked guests and contributors we've featured on The Blood-Jet Writing Hour in 2015 to share with us their favorite books, literary magazines, and reading series from the year.
This post features poet Stephanie Hammer. She writes:
Favorite magical realist novel: Ryka Aoki, He Mele A Hilo
Favorite self-destructing poetry collection: Chiwan Choi, GHOSTMAKER
Favorite fictional dog book: Andre Alexis, Fifteen Dogs
Favorite somewhat sexual podcast about fictional crushes: hearteyes
Favorite poetry writing prompts blog: John Brantingham's 30 Days til Done
Favorite town visited in China with huge Buddha statue: Laitan
Favorite about to be published poetry chapbook by former student: Angela Peñaredondo, Maroon
Favorite new literary journal: mud city
Favorite reading recommendation: Vickie Vertiz recommending Reyna
Grande's The Distance Between Us
Favorite performance art podcast series about global warming: Heather Woodbury, As The Globe Warms
Favorite local bookstores:
Los Angeles: Chevalier Books
Port Townsend: Writers Workshoppe
Stephanie Barbé Hammer has published work in Mosaic, The Bellevue Literary Review, Pearl, NYCBigCityLit, Rhapsoidia, CRATE, and the Hayden's Ferry Review among other places. She has been nominated for a Pushcart prize 4 times in poetry, fiction and nonfiction categories. She published her first novel in 2015, THE PUPPET TURNERS OF NARROW INTERIOR (Urban Farmhouse Press). Her other books include the prose poem chapbook Sex with Buildings (Dancing Girl Press, 2012) and a full length poetry collection HOW FORMAL? (Spout Hill Press, 2014). Stephanie is an award winning teacher and Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Riverside. She now teaches at writers' associations, conferences, galleries, bookstores and most recently, at two private universities in China.
Poetry, Review, Uncategorized
"Safekeeping the Stories We Cannot Turn Out into the Night": On Michelle Peñaloza's Landscape/Heartbreak
December 14, 2015 racruzzolandscape/heartbreak, Michelle Penaloza, Poetry, Review Leave a comment
By Leah Silvieus
Some years ago, the Scientific American[1] published a piece on a study that showed that music has the ability to affect the human heartbeat. Like a Verdi aria that causes the heartbeat to synchronize with the music, Michelle Peñaloza's Landscape/Heartbreak (Two Sylvias Press 2015) walks beside us through journeys of loss across the city of Seattle. As she writes in the opening essay of the collection:
And what happens to words when walking with someone? Walking changes the quality of conversation. Your bodies have something to do: the distance you traverse together, the observations you make, fill any silence, and yet—silence becomes more acceptable. Even comfortable. Walking side by side for miles, your breath and stride fall in time together. Your heart works in tandem with the other heart walking beside you.
Peñaloza's idea for the project began simply enough, as she writes on her website: "my heart broke and I went on a very long walk." What has followed is a frank and tender meditation on trauma, memory, and the relationship between inner and outer landscapes:
What kind of story can a city tell if this isn't just the corner of Broadway and John, but the corner where X learned that Y never really loved him? Or if this isn't just the hospital across the street, but the place where Z told her mother she loved her for the very last time? How does access to the narratives of the people in a city change the way we experience that city's physical landscape?[2]
During the year Peñaloza worked on the project, she accompanied 22 friends, friends of friends and strangers as they retraced the paths across Seattle where their hearts had been broken. All of the walks began at the Hugo House in the Central Capitol Hill neighborhood and covered almost 120 miles.
Throughout this collection, Peñaloza walks alongside her readers, encouraging them to listen – not only to what did happen, but also to what did not: "The plot is over but still we mull / the coulda, woulda, shoulda / even as the oceans rise and the petals fall. You might have stayed with him forever." There are myriad traumas ghosting behind these poems: "people who'd lost children and mothers and fathers and lovers, who'd been traumatized by the hate of others, who'd been cheated on and lied to, who'd cheated and lied, who'd been fearful and brave." ("Notes from the Field") Landscape/Heartbreak also addresses those heartbreaks we cannot name: "Of course I pray to you. Bending low my head / silently pleading for what I can't ever seem to find: / the few, right words, the ones that could be enough," she writes in "Prayer to the Patron Saint of All Lost."
The beauty and raw precision of the language in Peñaloza's collection evokes the feeling that one is physically and emotionally walking beside her and her fellow heartbreak walkers. "We touch the Scotch broom and lilacs / erupted in spring, notice the renegade ferns / growing upon the stumps of old docks," she writes in "We Walk a Heart Around Lake Union." The cadence and clarity of Peñaloza's images carry an almost palpable weight: "Because of the lentils in jars, the hydrangeas drunk on pennies, the grafted apple trees, the Italian plums, and Rainier cherries," she writes in a prose poem, "A Strange Constellation of Desires," "Because he told me he loved me. Because I believed him."
We can never feel the losses of Landscape/Heartbreak as acutely as those people who suffered them firsthand. Peñaloza, however, gives us these sorrows in the form of hydrangeas, neon signs and rusted nails and asks us to hold them, to sit with them, to feel the weight of their stories – even, or especially, if we aren't sure what to say in response. As she says in her introduction: "Don't say you understand. Don't say everything is going to be okay. Do not ever say that things happen for a reason. Say nothing. Listen." Reading this collection is as heartbreaking as its title promises, but it is also a prayer of intercession for lost things and for the aspects of ourselves that we lose along heartbreak's journey. Everything might not be okay. We might never understand. We might not find a reason behind our suffering. Landscape/Heartbreak knows all of this and still accompanies us along the difficult way, assuring us that we need never walk alone.
[1] http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/music-therapy-heart-cardiovascular/
[2] http://www.michellepenaloza.com/theidea/
Leah Silvieus
Leah Silvieus is a poet and interdisciplinary artist whose work has been featured at the O, Miami Poetry Festival and at the Asian American Women Artists Association in San Francisco. She also has received grants and fellowships from Fulbright, Kundiman, US Poets in Mexico, and the Voices of Our Nation Arts Foundation. Her writing has been featured in Asian American Poetry & Writing, CURA, The Collagist, and diode, among others. Currently, she divides her time between Florida and New York where she works in the yacht hospitality industry. You can visit her athttp://leahsilvieus.wordpress.com/
The Life of a Missing Woman: A review of Carla Kaplan's Miss Anne in Harlem
November 4, 2014 racruzzo Leave a comment
Reviewed by Heather Buchanan
The Harlem Renaissance was populated by talented and ambitious poets, writers, and dramatists. In the background stood their patrons, mostly white men whose contributions and support were well documented. Behind these men stood another group of patrons and promoters who, until now, lived in the shadows. Collectively, they were known by one name: "Miss Anne." In Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance, author Carla Kaplan casts light on these shadows and explores the reasons behind Miss Anne's omission from history.
Kaplan opens Miss Anne in Harlem with, "I did not set out to write this book," a fitting irony to a story full of ironic twists about this little-known history of the Harlem Renaissance. A Distinguished Professor in American Literature and a Guggenheim fellow, Kaplan realized she was on to something while working on her previous book, Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters. Her inability to locate information on the white females in Harlem that Hurston had befriended led to the creation of Miss Anne in Harlem.
Miss Anne held a precarious position in American society, for she was never completely accepted in any one social sphere. Her entire existence (or lack thereof) was dependent upon her acceptance by others. To her fellow whites, she was viewed as obsessed with "slumming" with Negro men and most likely insane; to the Negro poets, writers, and dramatists she supported, she was their flippant and self-appointed savior. In the 1920s, it was considered scandalous for white women to spend time on W. 125th in Harlem, but "Miss Anne" did exactly that, and much more.
At the outset, Kaplan outlines the familiar categories of white women of the Jazz Age that we are fairly familiar with: the Flapper, the Gibson Girl, and the Bohemian. At first glance, it would appear that Miss Anne would simply be considered a subset of one or all of these categories. However, after having conducted a considerable amount of research, Kaplan argues that "Miss Anne" deserves a category of her own.
Kaplan does not lay every reason for Miss Anne's "absence" at the feet of race and gender politics, however. There is another issue to consider: There were white female patrons and activists who consciously chose to remain in the shadows, women like NAACP founder Mary White Ovington. This factor could arguably be the key characteristic that creates a subset of Miss Anne, or yet another type of Jazz Age woman altogether who was taken a little more seriously—a woman who chose to stay in the shadows for the sake of the "cause."
In addition to reconstructing Miss Anne, the book also provides interesting background information on turning points in Harlem Renaissance history, most notably the complicated four-way professional relationship between Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Alain Locke and patron Charlotte Osgood Mason, their "Godmother," over the play Mule Bone. The Mason case serves as an example of how Miss Anne could be construed as a domineering, disruptive force if someone made the mistake of getting on her bad side.
Scholarly merit aside, Miss Anne in Harlem reads like a great mystery novel, as it reconstructs the life of a missing woman. Thanks to Kaplan's considerable storytelling skills, the reader finally gets to know something about this enigmatic woman. Whether or not her involvement in the Harlem Renaissance is to be lauded or condemned, Miss Anne finally has a place in history.
Heather Buchanan is the owner of Aquarius Press, now celebrating its 15th year. Willow Books, its literary division, develops, publishes, and promotes writers typically underrepresented in the field; recent collaborations include the publication of Cave Canem XII. A graduate of Wayne State University and the University of Michigan-Dearborn respectively, Heather has taught Composition, English, African American Literature, and World Literature at several colleges and universities. In addition to teaching, Heather presents on arts and literature at conferences across the country, most recently for the Ragdale Foundation. She has directed many events and conferences, including LitFest Chicago, Midwest Poets & Writers Conference, and the Idlewild Writers Conference. A Poet-in-Residence emeritus for the Detroit Public Library system, Heather also served on the Board of Governors for UM-Dearborn's College of Arts & Sciences Affiliate and was the COO of the Wayne County Council for Arts, History & Humanities. A musician, she is currently working on a World War I centennial book and music project honoring the Harlem Hellfighters. She has been a reviewer for BlogCritics and MyShelf and has blogged for publications such as Poets & Writers.
Episode #104: Feliz Lucia Molina, author of UNDERCASTLE
May 18, 2014 racruzzoFeliz Lucia Molina, Magic Helicopter Press, Poetry, Undercastle Leave a comment
Episode #104! Featuring Feliz Lucia Molina and music by El Amparito.
Feliz Lucia Molina was born and raised in the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles. A Kundiman and MacDowell Colony Fellow, she holds a BA from Naropa University, an MFA from Brown University, and is a PhD candidate at the European Graduate School. She is an editor at Continentand lives in Los Angeles. UNDERCASTLE (Magic Helicopter Press, 2013) is her first book.
Episode #103: Michelle Chan Brown, author of DOUBLE AGENT
March 8, 2014 racruzzoDouble Agent, Michelle Chan Brown, Poetry 1 Comment
Episode #103! Featuring Michelle Chan Brown and music by El Amparito.
Michelle Chan Brown's Double Agent was the winner of the 2011 Kore First Book Award, judged by Bhanu Kapil. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Blackbird, Cimarron Review, Linebreak, The Missouri Review, Quarterly West, Sycamore Review, Witness and others.
A Kundiman fellow, Michelle received her MFA from the University of Michigan, where she was a Rackham Fellow. She was a Tennessee Williams scholar at the Sewanee Writers' Conference and received scholarships from the Vermont Studio Center and the Wesleyan Writers' Conference. Her chapbook, The Clever Decoys, is available from LATR Editions. She lives with her husband, the musician Paul Erik Lipp, in Washington DC, where she teaches, writes, and edits Drunken Boat.


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Review: Snoopy – A Peanuts Collection
I now have the first in the new series of hardcover reprints of selections from the Kaboom! Peanuts comic book series. Snoopy: A Peanuts Collection features stories about Snoopy (surprise, surprise!), written (or adapted from Schulz) by Jason Cooper, Vicki Scott, Alexis Fajardo, Shane Houghton, with art by Donna Almendraia, Vicki …
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While Hallmark has seen fit not to grant us another book adaptation of A Charlie Brown Christmas this year (sniff), they have issued another new book for the reason-for-the-season crowd. Blessings from Peanuts: Thoughts on Faith to Make You Smile is a hardcover gift book which collects a number of Bible and religion-themed …
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There have been many book biopgraphies of Charles Schulz published, and some of them have been deeply researched, craftily told, and carefully fact-checked. This podcast is about the other ones.
A weak Christmas for the Peanuts book fans
While there certainly are some interesting new Peanuts books out for the shopping season this year, there are some notable absences. No 1990s edition of The Big Book of Peanuts, what had been an annual release of all the Peanuts daily strips, coming out a decade at a time. These books …
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In this episode, the AAUGH Blogger talkes with Andrew Farago, author of The Complete Peanuts Family Album and curator of San Francisco's renowned Cartoon Art Music, about has favorite minor Peanuts characters and other grand topics!
I'm to blame for Schulz forgeries!
EBay is, unsurprisingly, awash in fraud. It gets pulled in many ways, including knock-off items and forgeries. Cartoonist Terry Beatty (currently of the "Rex Morgan" newspaper strip) has been doing a good job of highlighting tracings and fakes being passed off as original drawings by famous cartoonists – and given …
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Review: The Complete Peanuts Family Album
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If you are in the market for a diamond engagement ring, are you open to considering something other than the real thing? Learn a few things from people who are happy to buy moissanite engagement rings for their beloved. You might end up discovering something totally new and amazing.
In terms of brilliance and fire, there is nothing like genuine diamond gemstones. What if you can get something very similar for only a fraction of the cost of a diamond ring?
Moissanite is a gemstone that is manufactured in a laboratory and now used in many different types of jewelry, including engagement rings. The stone can be sourced from nature, but it is rare gem originally discovered in a meteor crater — a hole made by a rock that landed on the earth from outer space. It is named after discoverer Henri Moissan.
Fortunately, scientists have found a way to replicate the naturally occurring stone with the carefully monitored culture of silicon carbide crystal. With the help of science, we can now enjoy the beauty of a less expensive gem that has comparable qualities. While diamonds are rated with a hardness of 10, moissanite has a hardness of 9.25. That is good enough if you are looking for durability and longevity.
If you are wondering how something that is produced synthetically can be comparable to the qualities of diamonds, then you should know a bit more about the process of producing moissanite. Silicone carbide crystals grown in laboratories are subjected to extreme heat and pressure, which result in a gemstone that is comparable in strength and qualities to a real diamond. Actually, it is better in certain aspects than a diamond, specifically its refractive index. As a result, the synthetic gem has more fire than the natural one.
A gorgeous engagement ring need not cost you the entire contents of your savings account. You can purchase jewelry with gems that are superb in quality but affordable as well.


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Q: Parsing non-nested XML tags in R I am trying to parse a number of documents using the excellent xml2 R library. As an example, consider the following XML file:
pg <- read_xml("https://www.theyworkforyou.com/pwdata/scrapedxml/westminhall/westminster2001-01-24a.xml")

Which contains a number of <speech> tags which are separated, though not nested within, a number of <minor-heading> and <major-heading> tags. I would like to be process this document to a resulting data.frame with the following structure:
     major_heading_id  speech_text
     heading_id_1       text1
     heading_id_1       text2
     heading_id_2       text3
     heading_id_2       text4

Unfortunately, because the tags are not nested, I cannot figure out how to do this! I have code that successfully recovers the relevant information (see below), but matching the speech tags to their respective major-headings is beyond me.
My intuition is that it would probably be best to split the XML document at the heading tags, and then process each as an individual document, but I couldn't find a function in the xml2 package that would let me do this!
Any help would be great.
Where I have got to so far:
speech_recs <- xml_find_all(pg, "//speech")
speech_text <- trimws(xml_text(speech_recs))

heading_recs <- xml_find_all(pg, "//major-heading")
major_heading_id <- xml_attr(heading_recs, "id")

A: You can do this as follows:
require(xml2)
require(tidyverse)
doc <- read_xml("https://www.theyworkforyou.com/pwdata/scrapedxml/westminhall/westminster2001-01-24a.xml")

# Get the headings
heading_recs <- xml_find_all(doc, "//major-heading")

# path creates the structure you want
# so the speech nodes that have exactly n headings above them.
path <- sprintf("//speech[count(preceding-sibling::major-heading)=%d]",
                seq_along(heading_recs))

# Get the text of the speech nodes
map(path, ~xml_text(xml_find_all(doc, .x))) %>%
# Combine it with the id of the headings
  map2_df(xml_attr(heading_recs, "id"),
          ~tibble(major_heading_id = .y, speech_text = .x))

This results in:

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Samsung is getting closer to making full-screen phones a reality
Image source: Zach Epstein, BGR
The Galaxy S10 hasn't even been out a week yet, but Samsung is already looking toward the future. In a briefing this week, Samsung made it clear that while the Infinity-O display of the S10 is a "milestone," it's also a stepping stone on the path to a true full-screen display — one unimpeded by hole punches or bezels.
"Punching a hole in the OLED display is a very challenging technology," explained Yang Byung-duk, vice president of Samsung's Mobile Communication R&D Group Display, according to Yonhap News Agency. "We tried the technology for Galaxy's 10th anniversary model and think the strategy worked as a result."
The Galaxy S10 represents the limits of smartphone design in 2019, but Samsung's plan is to eventually bury all of the sensors and cameras underneath the display, leaving nothing but a perfectly preserved screen. Yang admits that it won't be possible to build the true all-screen phone of the future for at least a few more years, but says it should be possible to hide the camera beneath the display within the next year or two.
Yang also revealed during the briefing that Samsung is considering building a Crystal Sound OLED display, which allows the screen to double as a speaker. LG used similar technology in its G8 ThinQ last year.
While the smartphone industry is steadily marching toward the total elimination of bezels, notches, and holes on the front of the phone, the technology hasn't quite caught up with the vision of the phone makers yet. That said, don't be surprised if the Galaxy S11 or S12 has a camera tucked under the glass display.
Tags: Galaxy S10, Samsung
New Pixel 3 Lite XL benchmark points to the reborn Nexus phone we've been waiting for


If you have a pet, you know Halloween is not for humans only. My daughter has dogs who do not go out except to use the potty, so they do not go out at Halloween. When we had our cocker spaniel, she was super friendly and we would take her for a walk around the block every Halloween because she loved the attention! If you want your pup to participate in Halloween, you just need to be safe about it and everyone will have a good time. Here are a few tips to follow for a successful holiday for your doggie!
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Indoor Pets: If you have a dog who stays indoors, you wan to keep them confined while kids are coming to your door. The constant ringing of the bell and seeing all the strangers at your door can cause your pup undue anxiety.
Treats: Candy is OK for kids but not for your dog. Many Halloween treats can make your dog sick, can choke them and in some instances, can be fatal. Instead of giving them edible treats, give them a fun toy to play with like the Hello Kitty dog toys from PetSmart. These are a great alternative for your pet to allow them to enjoy the holiday as well.
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Do you take your pet our for Halloween?


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However, again don't over do it. But it is worthwhile to point out that fat should make up to 25-40% of your diet.
What are the good fats? What are the bad fats?
Monounsaturated or polyunsaturated and omega fats, these are the ones found in fish and nuts. They help metabolism and cholesterol.
The bad fats are the food high in saturated fats such as red meat and cheese.
Avoid the bad fats and increase the good fats and you can improve your inflammatory response. This will aid the healing process of tissue damage and fighting infections.
In your post meal workout recovery avoid high fatty foods. Of any kind. They fats can affect your ability to store glycogen which means that you may not store those lovely carbs you eat for energy. This could damper you energy levels and performance for your next training session.
Don't eat fat before, after (especially during) your workout. Use and abuse those carbohydrates. Must go back to that supermarket and tell those girls the truth about fat.
How much calories does MY activity burn?


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We rarely give enough credit to our sneakers. They stabilize and cushion our feet, and in doing so, the rest of our bodies during our workouts. When your sneakers break down from use, the rest of your body can be affected, causing ankle and knee pain all the way up to back pain and potential injury. A good rule of thumb: change your sneakers with the seasons.
Take a look at your sneakers. Are the treads on the bottom worn? How does the heel look? Is it symmetrical or worn on one side? How do they feel when you run or walk? Cushiony or not so much anymore? Does the shoe feel supportive? If you can, go to a sneaker store and compare your current sneakers to the same or similar ones that are new. How do they compare? Try on a new pair – do they feel much fresher than your worn pair?
Take inventory of your body: are your feet, knees, or ankles achy lately? How does your lower back feel? How does your body feel during and after a workout or run? How do your feet, knees, and ankles feel while running and exercising? These questions will help you determine the state of your current sneakers and whether you need another pair.
Runners have specific needs (and so do walkers and cross trainers). Quality sport stores will have instruments to determine your stride – does your foot lean inward or outward? What kind of feet do you have? What kind of support do you need? All these questions will help the salesperson direct you to the right brand and style of sneaker.
Remember, once your sneakers breakdown, your feet, ankles and knees soon follow.


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John Mayer to Play Two Full Sets On Tour: What Songs Has He Played Live the Most?
See the odds for having your favorite song appear on his setlist
John Mayer is readying to embark on the most gloriously "John Mayer" tour the world has ever seen. After lending his talents to play with Dead & Company, the "Gravity" singer is stepping back into the spotlight in the best way possible.
For the first time in his two decades of making music, John Mayer is hitting the road with no opening act and two full sets of solo music. A three-month run kicks off July 19 in Albany, NY. "Two full sets of music allows me to make sure everybody gets what they came for," he shared to social media.
Click here for a full list of tour dates.
This is my first tour without an opening act. Two full sets of music allows me to make sure everybody gets what they came for. --: https://t.co/gtFjPydqF8 pic.twitter.com/D40npQf0Tj
— John Mayer (@JohnMayer) July 13, 2019
With dozens of tracks in a catalogue that spans through years of consistent hits, Mayer has plenty of material to choose from. The singer-songwriter is catering to young fans brought on by his personality and hilarious "New Light" music video, along with longtime listeners captivated by classics like "Daughters."
Can you expect to hear your favorite John Mayer song live? We're hoping two full sets will cover at least 30 songs, so here are the 30 tracks that have appeared on his setlist the most- according to Setlist.fm. While all the expected tracks appear, fans have also begged for rarities like the elusive "Walt Grace's Submarine Test, January 1967" to appear during his extended performance.
30. "Dear Marie," Paradise Valley (122 plays)
29. "Heartbreak Warfare," Battle Studies (127 plays)
28. "Come Back to Bed," Heavier Things (131 plays)
27. "Cross Road Blues," Robert Johnson cover (133 plays)
26. "Comfortable," Inside Wants Out EP (134 plays)
25. "Love Song for No One," Room For Squares (141 plays)
24. "Queen of California," Born and Raised (147 plays)
23. "Something's Missing," Heavier Things (149 plays)
22. "City Love," Room For Squares (153 plays)
21. "Free Fallin'," Tom Petty cover (160 plays)
20. "Good Love Is On the Way," Try! (John Mayer Trio) (184 plays)
19. "Daughters," Heavier Things (193 plays)
18. "83," Room For Squares (201 plays)
17. "Half of My Heart," Battle Studies (202 plays)
16. "Clarity," Heavier Things (206 plays)
15. "Back to You," Room For Squares (229 plays)
14. "3x5," Room For Squares (234 plays)
12. "I Don't Trust Myself (With Loving You)," Continuum (280 plays) (tie)
"Belief," Continuum (280 plays) (tie)
11. "Who Says," Battle Studies (282 plays)
10. "My Stupid Mouth," Room For Squares (308 plays)
9. "Neon," Room For Squares (317 plays)
8. "Bigger Than My Body," Heavier Things (322 plays)
7. "Slow Dancing in a Burning Room," Continuum (332 plays)
6. "Vultures," Continuum (392 plays)
5. "Your Body Is a Wonderland," Room For Squares (442 plays)
4. "Waiting on the World to Change," Continuum (446 plays)
3. "Gravity," Continuum (461 plays)
2. "No Such Thing," Room For Squares (572 plays)
1. "Why Georgia," Room For Squares (624 plays)
While the songs he plays most frequently are skewed towards albums that have been out the longest, newer tracks like "I Guess I Just Feel Like," "New Light," "Changing," and "In the Blood" are also very likely to be played this tour.


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By Josephine Rowe
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He'd imagined his father was down there too, though in fact...
Eating from the dictionary
Les Murray
The world's biggest radio telescope is under construction in Western Australia
Star noise
Michael Lucy
The women of outback Queensland kick off their heels in Australia's smallest town
Hay ladies
Emilie Zoey Baker
Josephine Rowe
150 years ago, the Cooper-Duff children got lost in the Victorian bush
Lost ones
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The president of Kiribati goes on a fact-finding mission in the Arctic
Cold comfort
John van Tiggelen
Practising medicine away from the big cities
The rural doctor problem
Karen Hitchcock
Greener than the hills
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Road freight is expensive, dirty and dangerous. Why are our governments addicted to it?
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Frank Moorhouse's 'Australia Under Surveillance' and David Horner's 'The Spy Catchers: The official history of ASIO, 1949–1963'
The watchers
David McKnight
Gambler and MONA founder David Walsh has written a book
A welcome contradiction
Amanda Lohrey
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Someone gives you the sun, moon and stars, do you hang on to the wrapping?
Does he even know about me?
Cricket, how could he?
There was no truth she meant to protect him from. Other people are going to lie to you, she'd told him once, and some are going to do it out of what they think is kindness. Not me, though. I'm never going to. You might as well get used to it.
At the boat-hire, Cristian buys three hours from the man who has run the shed for the past two decades, and likely before. Cristian recalls seeing him there, all through the '90s – hair a little less wild then, a little less white – bringing the boats in or directing them out, otherwise leaning in the shaded doorway of the hire shed, perpetually in the act of rolling a cigarette he never seemed to get around to smoking. He's doing so now, licking the gummed edge and letting it hang on his lip, unlit, a thin cocoon. He lumbers bearlike across the dock, looks down at Cristian's suede bluchers, up at his stiff-collared shirt – Just get outter church? – and leads him to a silver tinnie, unhitching it with an in-ya-get.
Cristian knows he's thinking tourist. It's mostly tourists who hire. On the jetty, two children squat to stare into the buckets of live bait while their father threads their hand-reels, socking hooks with worm flesh as he explains about the bells. It's a story that Cristian has overheard many times before: if you stick your head under the water at just the right time of day, you'll hear the old church bells ringing.
His mother had had no patience for that sort of thing.
They don't know what the hell they're talking about. The church was shifted out along with everything else. Stick your head under the water and all you're going to hear is your ears getting wet.
She'd told him other stories. What she called the true Provost stories. Of how the new town remembered the old, and over the years had inched down the mountainside, trying to sneak back to it. Of weekends spent watching boys freedive the drowned town. They would row out with rocks to use as sinkers, tipping over the sides with them hugged tight to their chests so they'd reach the bottom fast and easy, wouldn't waste any time or breath getting down there.
It gave them longer to look around, she'd said.
Look around for what?
Oh, they just wanted to see for themselves. They wanted to get down deep enough to look in the windows of the houses that got left behind. Like there were people still down there living watery ghost lives or something. Sitting down to breakfast at the table like normal, but when you pour out the cereal it just goes everywhere like fish food. That's what they wanted to see, things like that.
Out there on the water she'd looked glamorous. Even rowing, her forehead creased with the effort of sawing the oars back and forth, and the humidity pressing her fine hair flat. Her dress was tucked up to keep from the slimy water sloshing in the bottom of the boat.
Sometimes she'd rowed them out over the house where a man had maybe killed his wife and child, or maybe not. It had been a talky sort of town, she'd said, and that talk just seemed to increase with the altitude after the relocation. The town had been flooded the year after the girl and her mother were found dead in their kitchen. No one ever said how. Too awful, was the only answer that parents would give. Too awful to talk about, perhaps because they did not really know, and the rumours were outrageous and conflicting. Something about poison, but whose fault, and maybe an accident? But let's all watch and just see how the fella copes …
Most people's houses had been trucked out of the valley, up the side of the mountain. But that house was either too rickety or too sad, and it stayed where it was. The roof tiles were salvaged but the rest was left to the flood. Cristian's mother's house got left behind as well, feasted on by white ants Cristian's grandfather had been happy enough to surrender a three-year battle to, knowing the termites' mingy victory would be short-lived.
It was the other house, the roofless, too-awful-to-talk-about house that the boys had dived down to explore. Hugging stones to their chests all those years ago. Sometimes they had surfaced with things held between their teeth or tucked into the pockets and belt loops of their cut-down denims. Things they called evidence: rusted cutlery; a brown glass bottle, medicinal or sinister. Someone said that if you pulled up the waterlogged floorboards you'd find – what? Proof. Of what? You know. How he. You know. And when they couldn't bring back proof they'd surface with stories. Something down there. Something grabbed me. Swam past two shadows in the doorway. Swear it then. I swear.
She'd known the daughter, of course. Emily. Hair short and soft and black as cat's fur. And her teeth when she laughed were like a cat's, small and sharp. His mother and Emily had clattered over the town's corrugated dirt streets on boys' bicycles. Torn pages out of great-grandmother's leather-bound King James and dared each other to eat them.
And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird …
Was that it? His mother had shivered, out there above the town. Em had said Ecclesiastes tasted best.
Cristian unlaces his shoes and peels his damp socks from his feet. His shins are white from the Sydney winter, from too many months lived under office fluorescents. He has brought no food, no water. Just the old biscuit tin and its sifting cargo. There's an ache in his fillings for the store-bought cake his mother had taken out to the lake each year: fake cream, icing shiny and hard like a beetle's back. Nothing close to what she could have made herself, but she had thought it bad luck for a person to bake their own birthday cake, and his own efforts would have been a clotted mess. They would take their sandwich crusts and empty drink bottles home with them, but they'd crumble up some of the cake and scatter it over the side like rice at a wedding. Watch the white sugary sponge dissolve into the lake water, splashing away any fish or ducks who tried to paddle in and eat it.
Not for you. Not for you.
This is what he remembers, looking towards the ghost gums at the lake's edge, hoping for something concrete, familiar, that might act as a point of reference. There is no such thing. Even the boatshed is gone from sight, and there is nothing to indicate whether or not this is the right place. The lake tells him little, dumbly reflecting the mud-coloured sky. Cristian takes the lid from the biscuit tin, sees the powder and bone gravel, and cannot do it. He gives himself a minute to recover his nerve, thinks he could maybe drop the entire tin over the side. But that would be worse somehow – he can't explain it, even to himself – like burying someone alive.
Cricket, can you just do as you're asked?
But alone on the lake he feels helpless. Stranded. He opens and closes the tin, unable to look at its contents. He opens and closes his fists. From a great distance he watches his trembling, over-scrubbed hands fumble the lid off the tin. OK, he says to the hands. OK. But they scramble to close it up again.
Her body was tiny when she finally slipped out of it. When he went to collect the ashes, he thought there must have been a mistake, because what they gave him couldn't have filled a coffee jar. But she'd always been a little thing. Where was there room for a tumour? No one knew how her body had hidden it, a growth the size of a clementine. It had been kept secret until it was too late.
Why do they always measure cancer by fruit, she'd wanted to know. Why always citrus?
Well. Orange you glad it wasn't a grapefruit?
It had exhausted him to even think it, let alone say it aloud, but there was the sound of her laugh, her real laugh with the huskiness it had acquired since she'd started therapy. They were outside that afternoon, under the loquat tree, the fallen fruit soft and rotting under their shoes. The air was boozy with ferment, and the effects of the chemo weren't yet too visible. She sat in a dining chair, a blue towel draped around her shoulders. It might have been a moment in which to pretend things were otherwise. But she'd seen the other patients around the ward, their hair falling out in great drifts, and decided that wasn't for her.
You'll do it? she'd asked. I'm tired of all these strangers touching me. I just don't have the patience for it anymore. I've never really had the patience for anyone else, but now I'm excused from pretending.
She held her hand out for the clippers and adjusted the setting, then handed them back to him. Just give me a number 3. It's all going to go anyway.
He'd started underneath, at her nape, so if she changed her mind they could rescue it to something less drastic. But she stared straight ahead as the shoulder-length tresses of copper blonde fell into the grass around their feet. He was thinking that he should save some, remembering the envelopes of baby curls she'd kept, the date and his age in months noted in blue biro. But that kind of keepsaking didn't belong to the deep end of life. It would look morbid. Unhopeful. He left the hair where it fell, two inches of pale grey already showing at the roots. Two inches, what did that amount to in weeks? Five or six? That was how long ago she'd given up on hair dye. She put her hand up to check his progress, brushing fingertips over the soft stubble.
Isn't it funny, she said. It's what I used to give you.
He turned off the clippers, leaving her with a fine fox-silver fuzz that rubbed away over the following weeks, until she was a vulnerable, newborn-looking creature, but with sharp, haunted features. She lived long enough to see it grow back, a darker grey, in tight, dense curls. Then something got into her chest, fluid on the lungs, and she didn't have the strength left to fight it off.
He's late bringing the boat back, the unemptied biscuit tin balanced on his knees. As he rows into shore he can see that the blue doors of the boatshed have been pulled closed and the buckets of live bait are gone from the jetty. He docks and bangs a few times on the side of the shed. Inside there is radio noise, talk at commentary speed, but he can't make out the sport. Something from the daylit side of the globe.
There is the sound of a bolt sliding, and the boatman opens the door, chest hair sprouting from the low neck of his navy singlet.
I'm sorry, Cristian says. I'm late.
I see that. He looks Cristian up and down, for the second time that day, his eyes coming to rest on the biscuit tin tucked under Cristian's arm. Hopeful, maybe, for the offer of a Monte Carlo.
Cristian starts to explain but the man just nods, and Cristian can see him putting it all together – the good shoes, the absence of fishing gear.
Come in for a tick.
He leads Cristian into the boatshed, under low-hanging bulbs in safety cages and past the rows of upturned boats in hibernation, awaiting trout season.
The man doesn't give his name and Cristian doesn't ask it. But he accepts a sweating can of beer and lowers himself into a folding chair. The surrounding walls are lined with shelves, and these are buckling with their load of old manuals and fishing guides, pages crenulated and thickening in the damp, and rusty souvenirs dredged up from the old town.
Some years earlier, a drought sucked half the lake away and the town rose right up out of the mud like a sludgy, shipwormed beast. Former residents returned to tread gingerly across the lakebed, old shoes breaking through the thin, brittle layer baked over the softer, rich mud. From this they unearthed the detritus of their own histories. Things not worth the taking three decades earlier had appreciated down there in the silt, and people fished out bicycle parts, letterboxes, typewriter keys, the iron frame of an upright piano. Then the rains came back and the town was swallowed again.
Here are the photographs and newspaper clippings, tacked along the boatshed wall, mildew blooming under the glass frames. The townspeople picking over the lakebed like prospectors.
His mother is there among them. Like all the rest, she'd put on old shoes and walked right out over the cracked mud, across the not-lake. Right up to the empty windows of that too-awful house to see if the table was still set. All she saw, she said, was a roomful of rocks.
Come on then, the boatman says. Are we going? Have you got her? And Cristian hauls himself up from the chair to follow. Outside the air is cool and heavy, and it can no longer be said where the lake and the night divide (moon slapping boatside as if to spur them on). There is a charge now, a change in the air. A resonance. Whatever comes after a bell has rung out and the sound has drifted away.
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Home National President directs EOBI to pay outstanding pension dues to a widow
President directs EOBI to pay outstanding pension dues to a widow
Tue, 5 Oct 2021, 2:04 PM
ISLAMABAD, Oct 5 (APP): President Dr Arif Alvi has set aside an impugned order of the Wafaqi Mohtasib on a widow's plea, directing the Employees' Old Age Benefits Institution (EOBI) to make payment of pension arrears since the death of her husband during 2017.
The directive was issued on the instant representation made by the complainant, Mst Ayesha Arif widow of Mr Arif Mehmood, assailing the order of Wafaqi Mohtaisb of 25-11-2020 in which it upheld EOBI's decision of grant of pension along with payment of six months arrears under survivor's pension against her claim made on 06-08-2019.
As per directive of the President's Secretariat (Public), the compliance of the same case should be made within thirty days of the receipt of the said order.
The hearing of the case was held on July 14. The president in an order noted that section 22B of the Act 1976, dealt with Survivors' pension, under which the surviving spouse became entitled to pension.
"It nowhere inhibits or restricts the entitlement as in Section 22 (3) of the Act. Since Section 22B deals exclusively with Survivors' pension, it operates independently," the finding said.
The order further said that as general rule applicable to Muslims on the death of a Muslim, the succession opened without any intervention and the rights vested in the Muslim heir automatically as held in Ghulam Ali and others vs Mst. Bhulam Sarwra Najis PLD 1990 SC1.
"Thus in view of the provisions of Section 22B of the Employees' old Age Benefits Act, 1976 and general principles, it is obvious that the complainant is entitled to pension from the date of the death of her husband. The learned Mohtasib omitted to take note of this important aspect of the case and turned down the complainant's grievance on untenable basis," it added.
The Wafaqi Mohtasib had upheld a decision of the Agency against grant of pension arrears to the complainant since the death of her husband on 29-09-2017.
The Mohtasib, in its order, moreover, had not found any mal-administration on part of agency in terms of Article 2 (2) of P.O. No. 1 of 1983 and rejected the complaint in terms of Regulations 23 (3) of the Wafaqi Mohtasib (Investigation and Disposal of Complaints) Regulations, 2013.
The deceased husband was getting pension from the EOBI till his death. The complainant (widow) moved a plea for survivors' pension which was allowed by the agency with effect from 01-02-2019 along with grant of only six months arrears.
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Q: Canceling the default submit button in ASP.NET I have an ASP.NET application where there's a few ASP.NET buttons and several plain HTML buttons.  Anytime there's a textbox where a user hits enter, the ASP.NET button tries to submit the form.
I know I can change the defaultButton, but I don't want there to be any default button.  I just want it so when the user presses enter it doesn't do anything.
I've tried setting defaultButton to blank, but that doesn't seem to work.  How do I prevent the form from being submitted by the ASP.NET button when enter is pressed?

A: You can set the button's UseSubmitBehavior = false
btnCategory.UseSubmitBehavior = false;

A: Here is what I used to fix this problem.
<form runat="server" defaultbutton="DoNothing">
        <asp:Button ID="DoNothing" runat="server" Enabled="false" style="display: none;" />

A: I also had this problem with an ImageButton on my MasterPage (the Logout button) being set as the default button (so whenever someone pressed Enter, it would log them out). I solved it by using the following line in the Page_Load event on every child page, which is a bit of a work-around, but it works:
Form.DefaultButton = cmdSubmit.UniqueID;

Hope this helps someone else.

A: <asp:TextBox ID="TXT_Quality" runat="server" Width="257px"
onkeypress="return key_Pressed(event, this);">
</asp:TextBox>

function key_Pressed(e, textarea)
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    var code = (e.keyCode ? e.keyCode : e.which);
    if(code == 13)
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Twenty-four hour news stations, blogs, e-zines, newspapers, movies and electronic tickers; information about our world is literally everywhere. BlackBerries and loaded cell phones have even put the world in our pockets. Kids today grow up flowing in this ever-expanding, live information stream. But has it made them more informed, or just more jaded? How can we keep them from drowning in it?
This is where teaching media literacy comes in. While it has many definitions, media literacy can best be understood by experiencing what it allows students to do; a media literacy curriculum enables students to choose where they get their information and how they interpret it. But it goes beyond that.
Media literacy provides the tools necessary to recognize that the choices of "where" and "how" are being made, often subconsciously. This awareness can help the student develop from a passive receptacle to an active assimilator who disassembles the packaged message and examines its contents and designer. For example: Who produced the movie or news program? Is the producer a person or corporation? Who or what owns the rights, and who are they trying to reach? Are all sides presented in the same light, and are any facts omitted?
This article offers basic introductory material for use with ninth to 12th graders. The first lesson involves students looking at their media consumption and learning to understand it better. It is an introduction to media literacy intended to familiarize students with the definition of media literacy and why it is important. Students will examine the front pages of three different types of newspapers:a weekly town/community paper, a daily local newspaper and a daily national newspaper.
The teacher should guide the class through a discussion of what the lead stories are and who their target audience is. Three different students will locate the publishing information for one of the papers and share it with the class. A homework assignment to research background information regarding the publishers will be given.
Secondly, a week-long assignment aimed at increasing students' understanding of media literacy and the extent and influence of media in their lives will be assigtned. This involves the students tracking their own media habits by charting their television viewing, reading materials and Internet habits. Information gathered will be used in a follow-up assignment.
Brief Overview of This Unit: This lesson aims to help students become savvy, critical users of all types of media.
Focus: This lesson is intended to familiarize the students with the definition of media literacy and why it is important.
Key Facts, Concepts and Vocabulary Words: media literacy, media, rhetoric, perspective, publisher, target audience.
Performance Objective: Students will be familiar with the idea of media literacy and the extent and influence of media in their lives.
Motivating Device: Copies of three different newspapers front pages (one national, one local and one community newspaper).
Ask students what the main story is for each paper.
Ask what group of people they believe the stories are directed towards.
Use as segue to new terms (Media literacy, target audience, etc.).
Pick three students and give them each one of the newspapers. Ask the three students to find the publisher information and share it, and discuss where it can be found with the class.
Divide the class into three groups and assign each a publisher to research for homework. Each student writes two to three paragraphs on their assigned publisher and reference their sources.
Materials Needed for this lesson: Copies of the three newspapers; Photocopies of front pages to handout.
Chart: So students can get used to thinking about the various types of media that affect their lives and become aware of their own consumption.
Written assignment: Writing practice and to familiarize the teacher with students' source choices.
What is My Media Consumption?
Directions: For one week, use the provided chart and keep track of shows, movies, ads, articles, news stories, anything in the media that you pay attention to regularly, and media items that happen to grab your attention.
For purposes of this assignment, a medium product is defined as a specific television show, magazine, e-zine, newspaper, movie, bulletin-board, pop-up ad, blog or documentary.
Who or what produces and finances this particular show, movie, e-zine, news program, etc.?
Is there a moral, social or political point of view associated with your choice of medium product? If so, what is it, and how is it delivered through your choice?
Do you think there is a relationship between who finances your medium product and the point of view it represents?
Newspaper Clip Art from Microsoft Word, 2007.


What exactly is cross-site request forgery? According to many studies, cross-site request forgery, or CSRF, is amongst the top three most common vulnerabilities in web applications. Yet in spite of the prevalence of this common vulnerability, many developers are either unaware of the concept, or have difficulty grasping the severity of this vulnerability and the methods to prevent it. Here we will attempt to clarify the concept and explain some of the potential solutions and outline the ones which work and the ones which don't.
What is Cross-Site Request Forgery?
Let's say there exists a website called testsite.com, and this site has user accounts. It is given that an admin user is able to delete the user account for "bob" by visiting the URL testsite.com/user.php?delete=bob. If a non-admin user visits this URL, nothing will happen because they don't have admin privileges.
Now when the admin of testsite.com visits this page, he won't see anything because http://testsite.com/user.php?delete=bob is not a valid image. However testsite.com still received a request, and if the admin is logged in, the action will be performed and bob's account will be deleted.
This is the simplest form of CSRF. Typically the more interesting types of actions on a website will be performed using POST, so an img tag or hyperlink won't be a possible attack vector in most cases, but it's still possible to include auto-submitting forms and AJAX requests to perform CSRF.
What Prevention Methods Do Not Work?
The idea: Otherwise known as "security through obscurity". The concept is to create a cookie for the user containing some secret data such as an MD5 hash of the current timestamp. When the user visits a page with a form, the secret cookie will be set, and upon submitting a form, the backend code will verify that the cookie is set.
Why it doesn't work: Cookies are part of every request. Once a user has a cookie set, it doesn't matter whether or not the user intended to send a request to the site, the cookie will be there either way.
The idea: If the user has a session id then the user already viewed the page before submitting data to it.
Why it doesn't work: While the above statement is true, it doesn't prove that the user viewed the page immediately before submitting the data for the same reason that secret cookies aren't valid proof, and additionally it proves absolutely nothing in the case that the target website has an XSS vulnerability to use as an attack vector for the CSRF attack.
The idea: Only use POST requests for performing data-altering actions. This will prevent img tags and hyperlinks from being usable as attack vectors.
How Can I Effectively Prevent CSRF?
There are a number of effective solutions, each with differing technologies, constraints, and weaknesses. The solution generally accepted as the "best" is the Synchronizer Token Pattern. We'll begin by explaining the most common implementation of this popular design pattern, and then go into some detail on alternative solutions.
This design pattern is typically considered the recommended technique for preventing cross-site request forgery attacks. It has a handful of different implementations, but the common attribute of each of them is the presence of a unique 'token'.
The most common implementation of the synchronizer token pattern consists of generating a unique token for each user and storing it in the session. When displaying a form or sensitive URL, this token should be included as a hidden input, GET parameter, or posted in some other way along with the other POST data.
Here is an example of a basic framework for CSRF prevention using synchronized tokens in PHP: PHP CSRF Prevention Framework.
One somewhat effective measure for preventing CSRF is to include a challenge for the user such as a CAPTCHA or requiring the re-entry of the user's password. When these techniques are properly implemented, they can prevent CSRF fairly successfully, however it isn't always feasible to include a challenge in every request, and it can have a negative impact on user experience.
Referer is generally considered a weak identifier. While it's quite easy to spoof the referer, it's not possible in the context of a CSRF attack, and additionally the method requires no memory usage for things such as sessions. However, this technique can be circumvented on GET requests using a redirect vulnerability. Additionally, it should be noted that https domains do not send the referer header when the destination is not also https.
It should also be noted that many browsers don't send the header at all, or that sometimes users like to set their own website as the referer so that their link will appear in a site's logs. Under this circumstance, a user who legitimately intended to perform an action would be rejected.
[One] approach to solving CSRF is to send a "Same-Origin" header with requests, setting its value to "YES" if the referrer is of the same origin as the requested content and "NO" otherwise. While this one-bit approach can be effective against CSRF, it doesn't seem robust enough for deployment.
Some sites post data cross-site when they own multiple domains. Additionally, a state-changing request might not be actually intended: an open redirect might be exploited, thus spoofing the content submission.
Nearly all of the above-mentioned techniques can be easily circumvented when an appropriately significant XSS vulnerability is present on the target website including the synchronizer token, checking referer, and checking the origin header. Only the challenge-response technique is safe from an XSS attack vector.
Assume you have a page on your website, testsite.com/test.php. Here we have a hard-coded CSRF token to simplify the demonstration.
If you try out this experiment yourself, upon accessing this page, you should see the text "Successful post".
I like the article, but i'd show more examples. I felt that for beginners this could be a good thing. But the theory is very well explained.


Population: 117,500 (2010 census). No monolinguals (Ministry of Education, Adygea Republic). Ethnic population: 129,000 (2010 census). Total users in all countries: 575,900.
Location: Adygea republic; Karachay-Cherkessia republic, Krasnodar krai, and Stavropol krai.
Language Status: 2 (Provincial). Statutory provincial language in Adyghea (1995, Constitution, Adyghea Republic, Article 2).
Dialects: Shapsug (Sapsug), Xakuchi, Bezhedukh (Bzedux, Bzhedug, Chemgui, Temirgoj), Abadzex (Abadzakh, Abadzeg), Natuzaj (Natukhai). Similar to Kabardian [kbd].
Language Use: 96% speak it as L1. All domains. All ages. Positive attitudes. All also use Russian [rus].
Language Development: Literacy rate in L1: 99% (Ministry of Education, Adygea Republic). Literacy rate in L2: 100% (Ministry of Education, Adygea Republic). Taught in primary schools. Literature. Newspapers. Radio. TV. Dictionary. Grammar. NT: 1991.
Writing: Arabic script, Naskh variant [Arab], no longer in use. Cyrillic script [Cyrl]. Latin script [Latn], used in Turkey.
Other Comments: In the Republic of Adygea, the name 'Adyghe' is synonymous to Circassian, which includes both Adyghe (i.e. Western Adyghe or Western Circassian) and Kabardian [kbd] (Eastern Adyghe or Eastern Circassian). Muslim.


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Natalie Gillard | Bio
Natalie Gillard is the creator of FACTUALITY, a facilitated dialogue, crash course, and interactive experience, that simulates structural inequality in the United States. Over the last six years, Natalie has led virtual and in person FACTUALITY facilitations for over 50,000 global participants.
FACTUALITY has supported the diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives at hundreds of multinational companies, universities, government agencies, and nonprofits (including Google, Twitter, FOX, American Express, Under Armour, Converse, Yale, Princeton, UCLA, Stanford, Boston University, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Rikers, United Way, Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, American Heart Association and more).
FACTUALITY has been featured in Amazon Best Seller | The Memo: What Women of Color Need To Know To Secure A Seat At The Table and Baltimore Magazine's Best of Baltimore issue. Factuality has raised and donated over $20,000 to organizations that advance social equity and became an icecream flavor, through a partnership with social justice ice cream brand, Taharka Brothers.


Microsoft is expanding its "AirSim" Artificial Intelligence (AI) research project to include car simulation which will help advance the research and development of self-driving vehicles.
Microsoft open-sourced "AirSim" earlier this year, which is a high-fidelity system, for testing the safety of artificial intelligence systems.
"AirSim comes with a detailed 3D urban environment that includes a variety of diverse conditions, including traffic lights, parks, lakes and construction sites. Users can test their systems in several types of neighborhoods, including downtown, semi-urban, vegetation and industrial environments," Microsoft writes in its blog post.
AirSim has been developed as a plugin for "Unreal Engine", a popular tool for game development. It means that the car simulation is decoupled from the environment it runs in. "You can create an environment for your specific needs, such as a city or rural road, or choose from a variety of environments available online, and then simply drop in the AirSim plugin to test your self-driving algorithms in that environment," says Shital Shah, Principal Research Software Engineer at Microsoft.
AirSim extensibility also allows researchers and developers to incorporate new sensors, vehicles or even use different physics engines. In future releases, Microsoft aims to add new sensors, better vehicle physics, weather modeling and even more detailed realistic environments.


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Башанта́ — аул в составе Арзгирского района (муниципального округа) Ставропольского края России.

География
Расстояние до краевого центра: 168 км.

Расстояние до районного центра: 15 км.

История
Аул основан в 1869 году.

В 1870-м упразднён образованный недалеко от озера Довсун на речке Чограй аул Чограй - Старая Башанта. Он был сожжён калмыками за угон у них туркменами во время авламыка (набега) большого количества овец. Туркмены-соинаджи из Чограя ушли в аул Верхний Озек-Суат и составили его соинджийское население. Човдыры и часть игдыр откочевали из сожжённого аула к Летней Ставке и образовали впоследствии поселения Айгур в 1879 году и Едисан-Гора в 1884 году. Другая часть игдыр приняла участие в основании в 1889 году аула Эдильбай (современное название Эдельбай) в Кондрашкиной балке. Через год из эдильбайцев выделилась группа хозяйств, поселившаяся в верховьях речки Чограй в ауле Башанта.

В 1904 году в ауле было образовано одноклассное училище министерства народного образования.

В 1930 году в Башанте организован колхоз им. Тельмана (в 1950 году влился в колхоз «17 партсъезда»).

В советское время село Башанта в административном отношении входило в состав Туркменского района Северо-Кавказского края (с 1937 года — Орджоникидзевского края, с 1943 года — Ставропольского края); в 1941 году оно было включено в состав Арзгирского района.

На 1 марта 1966 года аул числился в составе Арзгирского сельсовета с центром в селе Арзгир.

До 16 марта 2020 года аул входил в упразднённый Арзгирский сельсовет.

Население

По данным переписи 2002 года в национальной структуре населения преобладают туркмены (93 %).

Инфраструктура
 Дом культуры
 Фельдшерско-акушерский пункт
 Улицы: Дружбы, Махтум-Кули, Морозова, Оджаева, Спортивная
 Вероисповедальное кладбище аула Башанта (общая площадь 50 000 м²)

Образование
 Детский сад № 3
 Основная общеобразовательная школа № 11. Открыта в августе 1988 года как Башантинская восьмилетняя школа.

Связь и телекоммуникации
В 2016 году в ауле введена в эксплуатацию точка доступа к сети Интернет (передача данных осуществляется посредством волоконно-оптической линии связи).

Примечания

Ссылки

Населённые пункты Арзгирского района

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Trade means economic growth, and the EU in its trade relations promotes a sustainable growth model as defined by the European Green Deal and EC Digital Strategy. The EU is committed to promoting sustainable development and universal values in all areas of its external action, including in trade and investment. Its trade policy promotes and protects sustainability standards and human rights in ASEAN, through unilateral trade preferences that aim to reduce poverty; bilateral and regional FTAs that implement labour and environmental requirements; and export control policy, such as in relation to products made with forced labour.
The EU is a global leader on Responsible Business Conduct, and its Action Plan on Human Rights and Democracy sets as a priority to reinforce human rights as a responsibility of all actors of society, including business enterprises. It holds regular dialogue and consultations with stakeholders across ASEAN who are involved in the monitoring and implementation of sustainable development and human rights commitments by trading partners, including CSOs, human rights defenders, national human rights institutions and the business sector.
EU-Philippine high-level panel strategises to revitalise trade and investment in post-pandemic era


The Park District of Oak Park announced today that it has been awarded the prestigious "Platinum International Safety Award". Earning this award demonstrates that the aquatic facilities operated by the Park District consistently exceed industry standards in risk management and epitomize aquatic safety excellence. International Aquatic Safety Awards are presented to deserving aquatic facilities by Jeff Ellis & Associates, Inc. – International Aquatic Safety and Risk Management Consultants.
International Aquatic Safety Awards are presented annually to participants in E&A's Comprehensive Aquatic Risk Management Program (CARMP) and are based on the results of multiple random unannounced Aquatic Facility Operational Safety Audits throughout the year. These audits include undercover video surveillance of individual lifeguards while they protect their Zone of Protection® areas, in order to accurately evaluate their professional diligence. Additionally, individual and team basic life support and rescue skills are evaluated, along with simulated emergencies that measure the effectiveness of established Emergency Action Plans. The audit concludes with administrative, supervisory and facility evaluations. International Safety Awards are presented only to E&A's most elite clients. Presented in three levels – Silver, Gold, and Platinum – only the top 3% of E&A clients in the world receive a Platinum International Aquatic Safety Award each year.


Red Sox Nation cried, smiled, and celebrated on October 27, 2004.
October 27th marks the fifth anniversary of the Red Sox reversing the 86 year curse. Damn five years went by quickly (I hate getting old!), but I remember that night like it was yesterday. It was a crisp clear autumn night with a full moon. I was meeting all my friends at the Grand Canal in Boston to witness arguably the most exciting, incredible, and unbelievable moment in Boston Sports History.
The Red Sox were on the cusp of finally Reversing that f@$#@*& curse!
However, let's step back and rewind back to the ALCS versus the hated Yankees. After dispatching the LA California Angels of Anaheim at Disney in the Divisional Series, the Sox sputtered and were left for dead after a 19-8 thrashing at home. They were in a three games to none hole. Everyone in Red Sox Nation began to focus on the Patriots, Bruins, and Celtics (If you really thought they were coming back from down 3-0, you are a liar or a psychic).
Baseball season in Boston was over.