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Take-Two: Red Dead Redemption 2 Sold More Than 24 Million Copies
This week, Take-Two Interactive released its fourth quarter and full year results, showing significant annual growth, and a stronger bottom line for the full year.
Though the focus of the fiscal 2019 report was Red Dead Redemption 2, the final results for the year may say more about Grand Theft Auto V and the NBA 2K series.
The expectation was that Red Dead Redemption 2 would almost single-handedly drive the company's profits as the game has sold an impressive 24 million units worldwide. Take-Two's report surprisingly showed that, toward the end of the year, Red Dead Redemption 2's sales had slowed, whereas Grand Theft Auto V and NBA 2K continued to command sales, thus driving Take-Two's financial results.
Furthermore, new evidence has emerged pointing to a Red Dead Redemption 2 port for PC. Two employees's LinkedIn accounts suggested that they worked on the highly acclaimed project's supposed port.
Beyond Red Dead Redemption 2, Take-Two also credited NBA 2K and better-than-expected sales for Grand Theft Auto Online and Grand Theft Auto V. NBA 2K19 has sold more than 9 million copies matching the figures of NBA 2K18 by the same time last year. However, most of this consumer spending for the franchise occurred in the last quarter – up 79 percent.
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Westworld Season 2 Returns To HBO This April
Michael Allio March 29, 2018 Movies & TV, News, premiere Leave a comment 2,966 Views
Westworld Season 2's long-anticipated release date was revealed via the show's Twitter account this morning.
HBO's philosophically driven Sci-Fi Western makes its triumphant return April 22, 2018.
If you haven't seen the first season of Westworld, you need to get on board HBO's new flagship series. In addition to taking inspiration from Michael Crichton's 1973 sleeper hit, Westworld explores several philosophically relevant themes in present human society. Especially relevant themes including the basis of conscious individualism, the morality of having a consequence-free world, and humanity's fast-paced adaption of AI. Westworld's well-executed exploration garnered the show well-deserved critical acclaim. Westworld took a year-and-a-half hiatus from its December 2016 season one finale due to the showrunner's desire to match the first season's high bar of quality.
Some noteworthy scenes sprinkled in the Westworld Season 2 trailer hinted at the direction of several returning characters. It seems like Dolores, Teddy, and the Man in Black appear determined to free Westworld's hosts from the park's violent guests. Meanwhile, Maeve continues the search for her daughter, driven by past trauma inflicted upon her by the Man in Black. Maeve does this while determining her own capacity for free will and whether or not her programming dictates her desires. Bernard has sided with Westworld's human staff for the moment due to his own identity crisis. The brilliant programmer strides amongst the staff's encampments as they prepare for the onslaught of self-aware android hosts.
Westworld Season 2's premise appears centered around the developing conflict between the human staff and the self-aware hosts. Fans of Westworld finally have some answers about Season 1's cliffhanger finale. Mentions of Westworld's coolest easter eggs were conspicuously absent from the official trailer reveal. The possibility of a Samurai World and the human society outside of the Westworld theme park were the most notable exemptions. It appears that these plotline's relevance in Westworld Season 2 will be revealed once the show returns.
Check out the Westworld Season 2 official trailer below.
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2 of the Best Canadian Midstream Energy Stocks to Buy Now
If you're looking to buy high-quality energy stocks that are reliable and that you can hold for years, here are two of the best to consider.
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Daniel joined the Motley Fool Canada team in 2019 with years of experience in banking and investing. Growing up the son of a proprietary stock trader and educator, Daniel's always found joy in helping Canadians to improve their financial situations. With the Motley Fool, Daniel sees an even more rewarding way to impact Canadians positively. A student and great admirer of Warren Buffett, he's always looking for investments offering growth at a reasonable price. Outside of finance, Daniel enjoys spending his time with family, sailing, and watching Formula One.
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There's no question that in the current market environment, while most companies are struggling and facing significant headwinds, Canadian energy stocks are some of the best to buy.
After two years of the pandemic, there were already favourable tailwinds for energy stocks. But now, after the sanctions placed on Russia as a result of the war in Ukraine, energy stocks are some of the biggest beneficiaries.
Most investors, when they think of energy stocks, will think of a producer such as a company like Suncor.
And while producers will be some of the biggest gainers as oil prices rise, they're also some of the most volatile and highest-risk stocks. These stocks and their performances are tied much more to the price of oil.
So, today, that may be positive, but it's not always helpful. This is why investors may want to look at owning other types of energy stocks as well.
Therefore, if you're looking for some of the best Canadian energy stocks to buy now, here are two that offer exposure but without the volatility of a producer.
One of the best Canadian energy stocks to buy and hold for the long haul
One of the first energy stocks to look at buying anytime you want exposure to energy, but especially in this environment, is Parkland (TSX:PKI). Parkland is one of the best energy stocks to buy now for several reasons.
First, its exposure to rising energy prices and recovering demand offers a tonne of potential. In addition, the stock is also undervalued. Furthermore, Parkland has well-diversified operations that are also significantly defensive.
In addition to its fuel refining and marketing, Parkland also owns tonnes of convenience stores, which typically have robust sales. So, not only can it benefit from rising energy prices, but Parkland is also one of the top stocks to count on while consumers face higher inflation.
At roughly $36 share, Parkland offers an attractive dividend yield of 3.6%. In addition, the stock trades at a forward enterprise value-to-EBITDA ratio of 7.7 times — well below its five-year average of 9.1 times.
If you're looking for Canadian energy stocks to buy today, Parkland is certainly one of the best there is.
A well-diversified energy and utility stock
Another high-quality stock that offers investors exposure to energy, but is also a safer business that you can have confidence buying in this environment, is AltaGas (TSX:ALA). AltaGas is one of the best energy stocks to buy because it has incredibly safe utility assets coupled with a unique midstream business.
In recent years, the stock has done a tonne of work to divest its non-core assets and pay down its debt. Now, with AltaGas in a much stronger financial position, it's a high-quality stock to own for the long haul.
In the short run, its significant utility operations will be crucial to ensuring that the stock isn't too volatile, and that much of its cash flow is predictable.
For 2022, AltaGas is expecting to report earnings per share of roughly $1.80 to $1.85. That would give the stock a forward price-to-earnings ratio of roughly 16.5 times today.
Plus, over the longer run, AltaGas's midstream segment offers a tonne of growth potential, especially exporting liquified natural gas from its Ridley Island Propane Export Terminal in B.C.
So, while the stock trades undervalued and offers a yield of roughly 3.6%, it's certainly one of the best energy stocks to buy now.
Fool contributor Daniel Da Costa has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool recommends ALTAGAS LTD.


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Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, Ph.D., Barbara and Stephen Friedman Professor of Liturgy, Worship, and Ritual, will speak at Temple Israel of Hollywood on the topic, "Founders, Baby Boomers, and Beyond: The American Jewish Project of Our Time" on Friday, January 27. Click here for further information.
Dr. Jonathan Krasner, Associate Professor of the American Jewish Experience, delivered a paper at the International Workshop on New Understandings of Gender, Love, and the Jewish Family, on January 1-3 at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. His paper was entitled Contested Boundaries and Values: the Road to Gay and Lesbian Ordination in the Reform Movement. The workshop was co-sponsored by the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, and the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies at Brandeis University.
Dr. Bruce A. Phillips, Professor of Sociology & Jewish Communal Studies, presented two papers at the recent American Jewish Studies Conference: "Methodological and Theoretical Narratives About Intermarriage, A Quantitative Perspective" and "Demographic Narratives and Identity Research." Dr. Phillips was invited to become a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Religion and Civic Culture at the University of Southern California.
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Medical device makers stand to gain if Neil Gorsuch approved for Supreme Court
The state's device makers stand to gain if Supreme Court nominee confirmed.
By Jim Spencer Star Tribune
March 5, 2017 — 1:47pm
WASHINGTON – When hearings on Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch begin later this month, questions will likely center on hot-button issues like women's reproductive rights, travel bans, immigrant deportations and state voter identification laws.
But one of the most strongly expressed opinions Gorsuch would bring to the nation's highest judicial body is a belief that federal law protects medical device makers from lawsuits filed by patients injured by their products.
As an appeals court judge in the U.S. 10th Circuit, Gorsuch wrote an important 2015 opinion that denied a woman the right to sue Medtronic for injuries she said were caused by the company's improper off-label promotion of its Infuse bone graft.
The Supreme Court declined to hear that case — Patricia Caplinger v. Medtronic — on appeal. In doing so the high court cemented Gorsuch's interpretation of a legal concept called pre-emption that scholars say will largely deny people hurt by medical devices the right to sue manufacturers in state courts, even if their products were used in ways the U.S. Food and Drug Administration never approved.
In the Caplinger opinion, Gorsuch asserted: "Nothing depends on whether the plaintiff seeks to use state law to impose requirements for off-label uses or on-label uses. Rather, by its terms, the statute pre-empts any effort to use state law to impose a new requirement on a federally approved medical device."
Gorsuch added that "a state's judgment that a device is unsafe for a particular off-label use could require design changes that adversely affect the device's safety for on-label uses."
GLEN STUBBE • Star Tribune
Medtronic's Infuse bone graft was at the heart of the case, which Gorsuch ruled on in '15.
Having a Supreme Court justice who takes such an approach is good news for the medical device industry, which employs tens of thousands of workers in Minnesota and is home to one of the country's most robust medical technology sectors, said John Dornik, an attorney at the Minneapolis firm of Siegel Brill, who also teaches product liability at the University of Minnesota.
Gorsuch's take on pre-emption means device makers can seek FDA approval for an easily documented, limited use of a product but enjoy virtual immunity for all untested, potentially dangerous off-label uses of the product, including those it knows about and promotes, Dornik said.
"Once they get FDA approval, they get to escape any lawsuit for anything that states like Minnesota would hold them accountable for," Dornik said of Gorsuch's interpretation.
Product liability specialist David Prince, professor emeritus at Mitchell Hamline School of Law, agreed. Gorsuch's opinion "lets device companies off the hook for injuries caused by off-label uses," Prince said.
Prince, who studied Gorsuch's opinion when it was issued in 2015, reread it when President Donald Trump nominated Gorsuch for the high court. Prince called the judge a "classic textualist," meaning he is loath to read anything into a law. In that sense, Prince believes, Gorsuch assumes the absence of references to excluding off-label uses from federal pre-emption are intentional, not an oversight.
Gorsuch's take is that "if Congress had wanted to say it, they would have written it down," Prince explained.
Device companies Medtronic and St. Jude Medical did not comment on Gorsuch, nor did the Advanced Medical Technology Association, a national trade group known as AdvaMed. Medical Alley, the trade group that represents more than 600 medical technology businesses in Minnesota, took no position on Gorsuch's nomination. The organization's chief executive, Shaye Mandle, said the judge's position on pre-emption was consistent with many other federal jurists. And, he added, it is the right call given the need for flexibility in developing new medical treatments.
Untested off-label uses of medical devices are a matter for doctors and patients, not device companies, Mandle maintained. Once the FDA approves a device for a single use, "doctors and patients are free to use the device any way they see fit."
Dragging device companies into court every time "a doctor and patient decision doesn't work out" would create "chaos in the system," Mandle said.
How a company's promotion of off-label uses of products figures into that system remains an ongoing legal debate. In the case of Infuse, the discussion surrounds a product used 85 to 90 percent of the time in ways the FDA did not approve.
Lawyers representing thousands of patients who, like Caplinger, claim injuries related to off-label Infuse uses say the product could not have spontaneously achieved such a high level of off-label use and that Medtronic pushed unproven, risky uses. They point to what they say are examples of Medtronic teaching doctors to use Infuse off-label and paying them incentives to do so.
Medtronic denies that it has improperly promoted Infuse or violated federal misbranding and product adulteration statutes.
"Doctors are governed by standards of care," said Dornik, who has handled medical malpractice cases. They don't typically take chances on off-label uses. "They are educated on them by manufacturers."
With Gorsuch on the Supreme Court, Dornik added, users of Infuse or any other medical device would face a "patient beware" system.
Without data to support a device's safety, patients will be exposed to unknown risks. No law compels physicians to warn patients that devices are being used on them in off-label, untested ways.
"How does the patient even know that they are taking a risk?" Dornik asked. "If they don't know, they are still stuck with the result."
The solution for Gorsuch is legislative, not judicial.
"Not everyone may agree with how Congress balanced the competing interests it faced in this sensitive and difficult area," he wrote in the Caplinger opinion. "We can surely imagine a different statute embodying a different judgment. But strike a balance Congress had to and did, and it is not for this court to revise it by beating a new path around pre-emption nowhere authorized in the text of the statute and nowhere recognized in any of the Supreme Court's many forays into this field."
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Public sector TV probe to get extra time
Acting Competition Commissioner Karel van Miert has given France, Italy and Spain a stay-of-execution over politically sensitive funding schemes for public TV broadcasters.
By Peter Chapman
June 2, 1999 5:00 pm CET
Van Miert wrote to all three in February demanding that they justify the licence fee and other ad hoc government cash handouts still given to public sector broadcasters even though they now compete head-on for advertising revenue with private channels.
A spokesman for the competition chief said only Italy had met the end-of-March deadline for a response. The Commission is, however, seeking further information from Rome before making up its mind and has extended Spain and France's deadlines.
Earlier this year, Van Miert promised to act on long-standing complaints from private sector rivals France's TF1, Italy's Mediaset and Spain's Telecinco over the special treatment offered to their respective state-funded rivals France 2 and 3, RAI and TVE.
This followed demands from EU governments that competition officials abandon plans to launch general guidelines on state aid in the TV sector and instead deal with complaints on a case-by-case basis.
An annual 879-million euro pay-out to the two French broadcasters, tax exemptions to Italian broadcaster RAI and soft loans to Spain's TVE are among the schemes under the spotlight.
The ongoing investigation coincides with the entry into force this month of the Amsterdam Treaty, which contains a protocol safeguarding member states' right to define the public service remit of broadcasters.
At this stage, the Commission is only seeking to decide whether existing funding schemes fall within the scope of the EU's state aid regime. But this may lead to in-depth investigations which could be followed up with tough action.
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Check back often for an interview with a Gananoque Lions Club Member. See why they joined Lions and find out that they are people just like you that, want to help others in need and to work together making our community a better place.
When did you join Lions and who sponsored you into the Club?
I joined the Gananoque Lions Club on June 1st 1966 and was sponsored by Lion John Mabee.
Why did you become a Lion?
Early in my life I began thinking about entering the health profession in some way when I "grew up". My parents owned a small corner grocery store in the West Ward of Gananoque so as a child I had easy access to the candy case. This "sweet tooth craze" resulted in me spending many hours in the dental office having decayed teeth repaired or extracted. Gananoque had 3 generations of the Mabee family in the dental profession over the years and I came to know both John and his father, Carleton, very well. I was also very active in sports throughout my high school years and lost a few teeth on the football field. During my visits with John and Carleton they were always encouraging me to give Dentistry some consideration as a lifetime career and that I did. When I finally made that choice to become a Lion, they couldn't have been happier or more supportive.
Have you been the recipient of any Awards? What were they?
Awards received can be broken down into Lions and Personal (Academic/Athletic) etc.
Lions: LCF Lifetime Member presented by 1000 Islands and District Lions Club of which I was their Guiding Lion throughout their 1st year of existence.
The Helen Keller Foundation Award was presented by my Gananoque Lions Club.
There were also Awards of Appreciation from the District Governors when I served as Zone Chairman and Deputy District Governor during their term.
Personal: At Gananoque High School I earned my school letter and both wings to complete the set.
What was your favourite project over the years?.
With my favorite projects over the years I will include from Lions activities those listed in #3 plus the Lions Fairs, the Big Bash, our annual Cruise In, Ribfest and PumpGanFest. They are or were fun so it is difficult to pick one over the other. Not only do we have fun but we bring joy to the community with our efforts.
As far as my personal life, I will say that my favorite project has to be our '47 Buick Super Sedanet. The car has always been owned by my family so that in itself makes it special. It was driven until 1959 and then for the next 30 years was stored in a galvanized steel garage and only taken out once a year to drive it around the block, change the oil and check the antifreeze. In 1989-90 we decided to bring it back to life with some TLC and start to show it off. In 1991 we joined the A4C (Antique Car Club of Canada), the AACA (Antique Automobile Club of America) and BCA (Buick Club of America). In numerous car shows over the years we have won awards but the most noteworthy are those earned at National and Grand National Meets. They say that patience is a virtue and that is so true when you are competing at that level. Eventually we were "rewarded" for all of our efforts. The Buick cannot win anything higher than what it has already achieved; namely, AACA Grand National Senior, an AACA National Special Award and BCA National Gold Senior.
My mother was so proud of her car and we were fortunate enough to win the AACA GN Junior 1st trophy in 2010, the year she died. That year she had the opportunity to hold the trophy and have her picture taken with her car outside Carveth where she resided for the last 6 years of her life.
What makes a good Lion in your eyes?
To me a good Lion is one that makes every effort to live up to the oath that he or she swore when joining Lionism. There are very few that are able to attend every meeting or help with every function but all that we ask is that you do something. Do not just be a "knife and forker".
My favorite hobbies are the '47 Buick (naturally), skiing, scuba diving and anything sports related.
I'm not an avid reader other than my dental journals, auto magazines, etc.
Did being a Lion make any differences in your life over the years?
It only helped to re-enforce my belief in caring for and helping the less fortunate. I guess that is one reason I became a dentist and also why I became a Lion. We Serve. I feel strongly that the biggest reward in life is not monetary gain but the satisfaction that one gets from doing good to help others. When we leave this life we will take nothing with us but we will be remembered by what with did while we were here. I SERVE through Lions but Flora and I also SERVE as volunteers at Carveth Care Centre. They always welcome volunteers to their ranks.
Tell me something about yourself that you don't think people would know about you? Is there a story your family talks about?
Those that have not known me all of my life might find it hard to believe that I was a very cuddly lad who weighed in at 240 pounds through most of my teenage years. That definitely put me in good stead on the football field. Even with that weight I excelled in all sports that I entered and there were many. When I turned 21 I lost 40 pounds all by natural means and over the last 15 years or so I have lost another 30. I am gradually fading away wouldn't you say?
At this point in time you do not want to know the stories that my family is talking about.
What is your favourite memory so far in your life?
My favourite memory(s) in my life are marrying my high school sweetheart (Pat Copeland), graduating from University of Toronto, starting my dental practice and the birth of our son and daughter. Those were the years and the best of times!!! Unfortunately I lost Pat in 1972 to acute myelogenous leukemia.
Flora has rekindled my love of life.
I hear that you have become "The Bionic Man in the Lions Club". Tell me about that.
I am sure by the graphic reports that Flora sends out that most members already know that, thanks to modern medicine, I am slowly but surely becoming the Bionic Man but definitely not the Million Dollar Man. In 2009 I had my right hip totally replaced. In 2011 my left hip was totally replaced. This past November I had a total reverse right shoulder replacement and rotator cuff rebuild. All surgeries were a success. After the hip surgeries I was back downhill skiing but the weather and the recent surgery have nixed this season's skiing. I'm already looking forward to next winter. Once one reaches a certain age there are some resorts where us old farts can ski FREE so that is a good reason to get up and get moving. You only live once so do all that you can.
"For 50 years I have been proud to be a Lion and to live up to our motto of We Serve. I look forward to many more years in the Gananoque Lions Club".
Lion John Hampton recently received his "50 Year Pin" for his dedication and years of service to our Community. He also served as our Club President in 1972 and 2011.


Next weekend is that Labor Day Weekend you may have heard about here and there, and we've got a LOT of y'all coming to visit us for that time period. As you might guess, there are going to be a LOT of attractions, restaurants and sights waiting for you upon arrival.
"Experience a time of worship unlike any other during Dollywood's Rock the Smokies on Saturday, Sept. 2. This powerful Christian rock music festival includes a number of the genre's biggest acts, including Casting Crowns and Third Day founder Mac Powell. During this day-long celebration, guests can enjoy inspirational music and all of the great thrill rides and exciting attractions Dollywood has to offer.
You can get tickets for this event at www.rockthesmokies.com.


The AT Internet SDK enables you to store, on the user's device, any hits that couldn't be sent due to loss of Internet connection. For this, the SDK uses Windows ApplicationDataContainer API.
Use of this feature is subject to the subscription to an option. This feature may increase the disk space that your application occupies on a user's device.
You can set up the storage management mode directly within the Tag Composer interface, or via the Tracker's SetConfig method.
Required: Hits are only stored when a loss of connection is detected.
Always: Hits are never sent. They are directly stored on the device.
Never (by default): Hits are never stored. If a loss of connection is detected at the same time as an attempt to send the hit, the hit will be lost.
At any moment (if an Internet connection is established), you can request that stored hits be sent.
This method sends all stored hits in an asynchronous manner, and deletes them if the send was successful. If the send failed, two new attempts will be made during the next hit send. If all attempts fail, the hit will be deleted from storage.
Thanks to this method, you may decide at which moment you want hits to be sent. By setting the storage mode to always, you can simply call the Send method to trigger sending at the desired moment.
You can recover the list of saved hits at any moment. To do this, the get method of the Offline class is available in the Tracker.


Dr Teena has over a decade of experience within the dental industry, having worked since 2007 as a dentist in Australia. She began her dental studies in India, her country of birth, before making her way to Australia in 2003 to complete her dental exams. From childhood, Dr Teena was encouraged by her father to pursue a career in dentistry due to the field being held in high-regard, particularly in India. Dr Teena's desire to help others and her admiration for the health industry also led her to pursue this path, and as soon as she began to study dentistry, her passion for the field began to soar even higher. Although Dr Teena has in-depth experience and training in many types of dental treatments, she is particularly passionate about providing gentle and friendly dental care to children. As a mother of two herself, Dr Teena possesses a greater understanding of a child's needs, along with the ability to put her younger patients at ease by making their dental experience fun, rather than stressful.
Along with children's dentistry, Dr Teena is also passionate about helping older patients to maintain excellent oral health and comfort. She frequently creates and fits dentures and enjoys the long-term, friendly relationship she has with her patients. Dr Teena's believes in helping both young and old, she also provides trusted and affordable dental services to patients of all ages. She has always enjoyed oral surgery (particularly extractions), along with the sense of accomplishment that comes with helping a patient overcome their dental concerns. Dr Teena continues her professional development through regular courses, helping her to stay on-top of the latest technologies and procedures so she can provide her patients with unparalleled dental care.
Dr Simon Briggs services dental practices throughout NSW providing high quality consistent treatment for patients.
Dr Simon Briggs began his mobile practice in 2000 on returning from 2 years studying and working in the UK.
After graduating with his BDS(syd) in 1997, Dr Briggs worked in the Maxillo Facial department of three prominent hospitals in London and Wales. He returned to Sydney with his Fellowship from the Royal College of Surgeons (FDS RCS) London, and began teaching and working at Westmead Hospital, Sydney.
Dr Briggs obtained his Diploma of Clinical Dentistry in Intravenous Sedation and Pain Control in 2000 and he began servicing several practices in the Sydney area with dental surgery, IV Sedation, dental implant procedures and bone regenerative procedures.
Dr Briggs has completed multiple courses internationally and domestically in bone grafting, oral implantology, Advanced Life Support and Intravenous Sedation.
He is a member of Australian Dental Association (ADA).
Today, Dr Briggs has become a mentor in implant techniques for a number of colleagues and practices, placing well over 350 implants per year.
As well, Dr Briggs is highly trained in Dento-Facial Aesthetics and provides patients with various options of treatments including relaxant injections, Dermal Fillers and aesthetic therapies. He is a member of the Australasian Academy of Dento-Facial Aesthethics.
His other professional memberships include the Australian Dental Association, Australian Society of Implant Dentistry, Australian Society of Dental Anaesthesiology and the International College of Oral Implantology.
In his spare time, Dr Briggs enjoys spending time with his wife and four children, collecting wine and playing soccer and tennis.


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Q: SQL CASE and Union any idea what is wrong with this statement.
I am just trying to get grades from three different tables and take an average of that. then assign a pass/fail based on the average value.
CREATE OR REPLACE MODEL `bqml_test.ModelTest`
OPTIONS(model_type='logistic_reg') AS
SELECT *,
  AVG(combined.label) as average
CASE WHEN average > 0.4 then 'pass'
  ELSE 'fail'
  END as success
FROM (SELECT * FROM `interns2022.uniqueIdGrades.1617`
UNION ALL SELECT * FROM `interns2022.uniqueIdGrades.1718`
UNION ALL SELECT * FROM `interns2022.uniqueIdGrades.1819`
UNION ALL SELECT * FROM `interns2022.uniqueIdGrades.1920`)
CASE
WHEN
Course_Grade = "A" then 1
WHEN
Course_Grade = "B" then 0.8
WHEN
Course_Grade = "C" then 0.6
WHEN
Course_Grade = "D" then 0.4
WHEN
Course_Grade = "F" then 0.2
Else 0
End as label as combined
GROUP BY unique_identifier

A: I found it hard to read the SQL you had up so I did the best job I could to try to recreate what you were going for.  I also don't know what DBMS you are using.  Hopefully this helps get you on a good track.
I created a CTE, like a virtual table with all your intern tables to put them all into one set.  Then used a select statement to get the data from them.  You should be able to apply your case logic, however you will need to put an outer query if you want to average up all the grades.  HTH.
WITH CTE_UNIONGRADES
AS
(

SELECT * FROM interns2022.uniqueIdGrades.1617
UNION ALL
SELECT * FROM interns2022.uniqueIdGrades.1718
UNION ALL
SELECT * FROM interns2022.uniqueIdGrades.1819
UNION ALL
SELECT * FROM interns2022.uniqueIdGrades.1920
)

SELECT
Z.Unique_Identifier
, CASE WHEN AVG(Z.label_combined) > 0.4 THEN 'Pass' ELSE 'Fail' END AS SuccessStatus
FROM
(
SELECT Unique_Identifier
, CASE WHEN Course_Grade = 'A' then 1
     WHEN Course_Grade = 'B' then 0.8
     WHEN Course_Grade = 'C' then 0.6
     WHEN Course_Grade = 'D' then 0.4
     WHEN Course_Grade = 'F' then 0.2
     Else 0 End as label_combined

FROM
CTE_UNIONGRADES
) Z

GROUP BY
Z.Unique_Identifier

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I landed in New York this morning, and I'll stay until Thursday. If anyone feels like taking a beer and discussing programming languages (or something else), don't hesitate to mail me or comment on this blog.
Martin Fowler writes about one language, and neatly encapsulates what I think about the subject in the way I would have written it, if I were actually a good writer. Go read.
I have been asked for the slides of my FOSCON presentation. They can be downloaded in PDF format from here: http://ologix.com/JRubyWhirlwindTour.pdf.
As you almost certainly now at this time, IronRuby was released the beginning of this week (read more here, here and here). Now, this of course begs a few question. But first things first: note that Microsoft have decided to host the project on RubyForge, and will do so sometime next month. Not only that, it's actually a very open source license called MsPL: Microsoft Permissive License. If you look at the license, you will see that it's almost exactly a BSD license, except that the patent restrictions have been clarified. Obviously, I'm not a lawyer, but I can say that this license seems very nice and will allow good usage of IronRuby in many cases.
The code base is strictly limited right now. The things that actually work is most of the core language structure, the Array and String classes and .NET Interop. Of course, that is an extremely large achievement to have this working so well. Also, the compiler seems to generate very good code and judging from microbenchmarks, it has the possibility of having very good performance. It's important to remember that many of the more important corner cases aren't supported yet, and it is these that usually drags the performance of Ruby implementations down. I'm confident that Lam and company can handle this, though.
Overall, I would say that this is looking very good. I would recommend .NET people to take a look at it, and also try to contribute. Very soon, you will be able to contribute code back to everything except the core compiler and DLR.
Finally, the question on everyones mind: when will IronRuby be finished? I don't know, but I think it can happen with 6-12 months. The concerns raised two months ago have been resolved internally by Microsoft, which makes IronRuby a very real and important project.
Right now we're trying to decide if JRuby should upgrade from Java 1.4.2 to Java 5. There are some compelling reasons for this, but I'm not a 100% sure it's a good idea. Any comments from my readers?
In practical terms, this will mean that JRuby 1.0 will continue to be supported on 1.4.2, but new development will only work on Java 5 or higher. There is talk about using retrotranslator for handling 1.4.2 compatibility in later versions.
So. Please, comments and opinions!
I am at OSCON with Roy Singham, the founder of ThoughtWorks. We're here as sponsors. If you are here too - Roy likes nothing more than an argument about anything related to a) the merits of various languages, b) Agile versus waterfall, c) the best cell-phone. Seriously, if there is something interested that should be big for custom-app dev in the enterprise, tell Roy or the other ten ThoughtWorkers here about it and we'll help make it happen. Come by our booth at the left side of the expo hall if you want to find us.
I had a very good time at FOSCON III with the Portland Ruby Brigade yesterday. There were lots of entertaining talks too. I would say that my "lightning talk" wasn't really a lightning talk at all. Unless you count the speed of my talking... I managed to race through all my 22 slides - all of them shock full with information - in the time alloted to me. Hopefully people learned something from it.
Chad Wathington demonstrated Mingle which also was very nice.
John Lam showed us a taste of IronRuby, and also talked some about the implementation particulars that made certain things faster in IronRuby than on MRI. Interesting stuff, but I'm looking forward to the full talk tomorrow.
Alan McKean from GemStone showcased GemStone/JRuby - still a work in progress though. For those of you who don't know what GemStone is, think extremely powerful object persistence. And they're building a new version for Ruby, on top of JRuby. Very cool.
JRuby is totally Java compliant and runs on any Java.
JRuby performance is on par with the C implementation, on average.
It's got a standard. It's got full closures and a few more neat futures. And it has prototype object orientation; a very different object model compared to the standard of inheritance based object systems like Java, Ruby and Smalltalk.
On closer inspection, the prototype based object system is not really such a big deal. In fact, you already have it in Ruby. Just use Object.new and Kernel.clone. Not very practical in Ruby, but you can do it without any problem. Remember that the difference between dup and clone is that clone will actually copy the metaclass of the object, while dup just makes the duplicate use the same real class.
Further, I really don't believe in the idea that there will be a next big language. Call me strange, but just because we've had this cycle two or three times doesn't mean it will continue like that. I believe development is qualitively different now compared to 15 years ago. The challenges we meet are different and demand different tools. One single language will not cut it. I think the future lies in layered languages with different properties.
So, I will attend and present at FOSCON 2007, which is arranged by the Portland Ruby Brigade (PDX.rb), and the theme is Really Radical Ruby. It's on Tuesday, more information here. It seems to be an interesting event, so please show up!
I have not yet decided what I'm going to talk about. JRuby will be involved in some way of course. Anyone have any request about what I should talk about?
Next week I'll be at OSCON in Portland. I won't be speaking, which means I'll probably be able to enjoy other peoples presentations instead. Hopefully I'll get to meet lots of people too. Say hi if you see me!
I'll be presenting at RailsConfEU in September too, and that is gearing up to be a really interesting conference. RailsConf in Portland was awesome, and if the EU version can match a 10th of that energy, it's going to be wonderful.
I'm not sure if this is well known or not, so I've been meaning to write a quick notice about it. The short story is this: JRuby can run RSpec and RBehave. Why is this important? Well, you can write code that tests Java code using RSpec and RBehave, meaning that it will be possible to get much more readable tests, even for code living in Java land.
Even if your organization won't accept writing an application in Ruby, it would probably be easier to get the testing done in Ruby. And writing tests in an effective language means that you will either write more production code, or more tests. Either of those are a quite good outcome.
This is a perfect example of the intersection where JRuby's approach can be very powerful, utilizing the existing Ruby libraries to benefit your Java programming.
Peter Cooper have opened a "sister" site to RubyInside, called JRubyInside. It seems very promising; the address is http://www.jrubyinside.com.
One of the features of Ruby which I sometimes like and sometimes hate, is ZSuper. (So called, because it differs from regular super in the AST.) ZSuper is the keyword super, with arguments and parenthesis, which will call the super method with the same arguments as the current invocation got. Of course, that's not all. For example, if you change the arguments, the changes will propagate to the super implementation. Not only if you change the object, but if you change the reference, which I found non intuitive the first time I found it.
The first time I saw this, the words WTF passed through my mind. In fact, that still happens sometimes. What is happening here? Well, obviously, it seems as if the passing of arguments to the block somehow clobbers the part where MRI saves away the closure over passed arguments. I have no idea whatsoever what the false value comes from. Hmm. But now that I think about it (this is just a guess), but I believe it stands for the fact that the arguments should be splatted into one argument. (That's the one called args in the block). If it had been true, they should refer to different variables. I think there is some trickery like that involved in the splatting logic in MRI.
Anyway. Is this a bug or a feature? I can't see any way it could be used in an obvious way, and it runs counter to being understandable and unsurprising. Anyone who can give me a good example of where this is useful behavior?
And presto, you should see 610 printed quite soon. This is JRuby executing Rubinius bytecode. I was quite happy about how it was to get this far with the functionality. Of course, JRuby doesn't support most bytecodes yet, only those needed to execute this small example, and similar things. We are also using JRuby's internals for this, which means that Rubinius MethodContext and such are not available.
Another interesting note is that running the iterative Fib algorithm like this with -J-server is actually 30% faster than MRI.
This approach is fun, and I have some other similar ideas I really want to look at. The best part about it though, is that I got the chance to look at the internals of Rubinius. I hope to have more time for it eventually. Another thing I really want to do some day is implement a Jubinius, which should be a full port of the Rubinius runtime, possibly excluding Subtend. I think it could be very nice to have the Smalltalk core of Rubinius working together with Java. Of course, I don't have any time for that, so we'll see what happens in a year or two. =) Maybe someone else does it.
Of course, you can call all accessible (and some inaccessible) methods on these objects, just like if you were working with it from Java. Use the API's and take a look. You can change things without problem.
JRuby::reference will return the same object sent in, wrapped in a Java Integration layer, meaning that you can inspect and modify it to your hearts like. In this way, you can get at the internals of JRuby in the same way you can using evil.rb for MRI. And I guess these features should mainly be used for looking and learning about the internals of JRuby.
So, have fun and don't be evil (overtly).
I have spent a few hours adding some useful features these last days. Nothing extraordinary, but things that might come in handy at one point or another. The problem with these features is that they are totally JRuby specific. That means you could probably implement them for MRI, but noone has done it. That means that if you want to use it, beware. Further, they exploit a few tricks in the JRuby implementation, meaning it can't be implemented in pure Ruby.
So, that was the disclaimer; now onto the fun stuff!
As you know, in Ruby everything is accessible in some form or another, and you can do almost everything with the metaprogramming facilities. Well, except for one small detail which I found out while working on the AR-JDBC database drivers.
Of course, using this should be avoided at all costs. But it's interesting that such a powerful thing can be implemented using about 15 lines of Java code.
This returns the Java AST representation directly, using the Java Integration features. That is old. What is new is that I have added pretty inspecting, a nice YAML format and some navigation features which makes it very easy to see exactly how the AST looks. Just do an inspect or to_yaml on an AST node and you will get the relevant information.
Well, I guess that's all I wanted to show right now. These last small things I've added because I believe they will be highly useful for debugging JRuby code.
I also have some more ideas that I want to implement. I'll keep you posted about it.
Among all the features of Ruby that JRuby supports, I would say that two things take the number one place as being really inconvenient. Threads are one; making the native threading of Java match the green threading semantics of Ruby is not fun, and it's not even possible for all edge cases. But that argument have been made several times by both me and Charles.
This code is totally obvious; we iterate over all instances of Class in the system, and print an inspected version of them if the class is a subclass of Test::Unit::TestCase.
Before we take a closer look at this example, let's talk quickly about how MRI and JRuby implements this functionality. In fact, having this functionality in MRI is dead easy. It's actually very simple, and there are no performance problems of having it when it's not used. The trick is that MRI just walks the heap when iterating over ObjectSpace. Since MRI can inspect the heap and stack without problems, this means that nothing special needs to be done to support this behavior. (Note that this can never be safe when using a real threading system).
So, the other side of the story: how does JRuby implement it? Well, JRuby can't inspect the heap of course. So we need to keep a WeakReference to each instance of RubyObject ever created in the system. This is gross. We pay a huge penalty for managing all this stuff. Many of the larger performance benefits we have found the last year have revolved around having internal objects be smarter and not put themselves into ObjectSpace until necessary. One of my latest optimizations of regexp matching was simple to make MatchData lazy, so it only goes into OS when someone actually uses it. RDoc runs about 40% faster when ObjectSpace is turned off for JRuby.
I would say that this code solves the problem more elegantly and useful than ObjectSpace. There are no performance degradation due to it, and it will only effect subclasses of the class you are interested in. What's the best benefit of this? You can use the -O flag when running JRuby, and your tests and rest of the code will run much faster and use less memory.
As a sidenote: I'm putting together a patch based on this to both Test::Unit and Rails. ObjectSpace is unnecessary for real code and the vision of JRuby is that you will explicitly have to turn it on to use it, instead of the other way around.
Anyone have any real world examples of things you need to do with ObjectSpace?


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On a tiny planet, the grandson of a hero is bored. Then he finds out the sword his grandfather used is still around somewhere.
You can use space to jump regardless of direction as well.
F5 saves the game, F6 loads the game.
Graphics & music = perfect mood. I like it!
The game felt a bit like Fez, which is a great thing. All the text did get annoying sometimes though.
Great game. Not much to put a finger on here - the graphics, music and gameplay are all solid. The movement was a bit hard at first. Great job!
Ahh I'm stuck ^^ Is there any walkthrough?
It looks really good from the video. I wish I could say more, but unfortunately there is no linux version.
Very interesting! I have to say the art style and the audio are very perfect, and I enjoyed this game very much!
I've killed all the villagers! An then I saved the world! With no walktrough. It was challenging and fun. My favourite LD game until now. Congrats!
Whoa, my brain refused to cooperate after a couple of minutes of playing this game. Not that it's a bad thing. It refused to cooperate in a good way. Perfect graphics and sound.
I haven't found the sword, though.
Very polished and well put together. I'm impressed that this was possible in 48 hrs.
Very good but strange controls and behavior. Platform are (too) hard to find (I suppose it's on purpose). Very good music and graphics.
Very nice! Nice graphics and an interesting gameplay concept. Having all those stabbers everywhere might not have been the best idea, since sometimes I would die like 50 times before finally getting to where I wanted to go, but that's a pretty minor criticism. Nice game!
I couldn't figure out where to go, but other than the framerate being a bit low, and the oddity of the controls switching with the gravity, it felt really well-done.
This has great potential. Unfortunately the genre classic mechanism of gravitational switching jumps is countered by the controls.
Funny game with really nice visuals, well designed and plays well even if the character is bit hard to control.
Good game. The music, art, mood - all is awesome. I have got the "bad" ending.
The control scheme is really hard to get used to. Nice graphics and story though, I was impressed.
Loved it! One of my favorites so far. The little world is charming and the (very talkative) NPCs give it some character. I love the exploration style of gameplay and deaths were not at all punishing, which is important because this game is all about learning the weird physics and dying a lot. I managed to beat it, though at the end I think I exploited a bug to win (how are you supposed to get up that long beanstalk?): If you are on a corner, you can slowly drift diagonally away from that corner by holding both directions, as long as no other gravities get in your way. You can do this to the grandpa platform.
This was really great! Everything fit together really well. Very well done!
Very well put together, clever physics, impressive graphics, appropriate music.
Besides the jumps across gravity zones being a little finicky, I'm still not sure how to get from the key to the sword, even though I saw it happen in the walkthrough.
Really enjoyed your entry, really great mood and everything fit together very well!
A great entry! Very nice art and i like the switching gravitation. The transition between gravitational directions should just be smoother. Currently it feels quite awkward at times due to the instant switching. Got to the same end you've shown in your video and i really like it. It's unusual. :) Didn't find the other end, though.
Wow, that was bloody hilarious. Found the controls a little hard to come to grips with, but other than that it was really excellent! Loved the art.
It was hard to get used to the controls, but it was very pretty and I liked the music.
This is beautiful!!!!!!! And the music is very cool, good job on writing it first. Also, thank you for the postmortem!
48h, really ? That's very impressive! Some jumps were very hard! But I enjoyed it.
One of the best looking games I saw since now. Really good job! 48h? Unbelievable!
Got stuck for a while there, but was able to get to the ending shown in the walkthrough. Great game - with beautiful graphics, good music (kinda reminds me of Dizzy game series) and interesting mechanics. Liked it!
I dislike platformers a bit, but this game is rad! Even dying is fun! You achieved being dead in this game is lesser frustrating then in other platformer games.
I just got stuck in on place, couldn't get forward/backward.
I love it, though, will play it again!
Only flaw: Controls were a bit confusing around the corner. Maybe you should have add the option to not use absolute directions, and just left = counter-clockwise, right = clockwise.
impressive. Love the mechanic, and definitely want to keep playing it. Nice work!


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WASHINGTON – She's a bright and shining star on Fox News and in her first book, Finding the Bright Side, Shannon Bream opens up about her life, faith, and some of the ups and downs she's experienced along the way.
Just like many of her guests on Fox News @ Night, Shannon is consistently in the middle of the action with what many would call a dream job.
"I love what I do," she told CBN News. "It feels like a huge blessing and a gift."
Shannon sat down with CBN's Jenna Browder at the Museum of the Bible to talk about her book and how she got to where she is today.
She grew up in Florida going to church and Christian school, eventually choosing Liberty University for college. That's where she met her husband, Sheldon Bream.
"We had friends who kept trying to put us together," Shannon explained. "We were always dating other people and we had a friend in common who finally came to me one day and she said, 'You're here at this football game. He's here at this football game. You're going to meet right now.'"
Beauty Pageants and Law School
While at Liberty, Shannon took the crown as Miss Virginia. She went on to law school at Florida State University and more pageantry, winning the Miss Florida title.
It was around this time Sheldon proposed but not long after their engagement, Shannon writes about what she calls, "The Darkest Cloud," when doctors diagnosed Sheldon with a brain tumor.
A Shocking Diagnosis
"To be 24 – and we were engaged and planning our life together – and to get those words, to get that news, it's totally out of left field and so unexpected," said Shannon.
The church was a huge support, from diagnosis and surgery to Sheldon's difficult recovery.
"We would get letters and notes or calls from people, from churches we'd never heard of, never visited, didn't know anyone there but they said, 'We heard about your story and we just wanted to let you know that we're praying for you,'" Shannon tearfully recalled. "As a Christian, it was just so overwhelming to know that there were people who were just the body of Christ that we would never meet."
Newly married and out of school, Shannon learned quickly law wasn't for her and started interning at a local news station.
"I eventually decided a few months into that I loved it so much – the police scanners and the breaking news and just the unpredictability of live television – that I decided to kind of take the leap."
The Road to Fox News
She eventually got hired at the CBS affiliate in Charlotte, North Carolina. After a short stint there, NBC in Washington, DC picked her up. It was at a speaking conference where she met Fox News' Britt Hume who offered her a job when he learned about her legal background.
It didn't take long for Shannon to begin moving up at Fox, filling in on the anchor desk and eventually getting her own show.
Excruciating Pain Made Her Feel Like Life Was Over
One major trial she's had to deal with is a painful disease that affects her eyes.
"Around my 40th birthday, I started to have extraordinary pain in my eyes and it was only happening overnight and I couldn't figure out what the source was of this but it would literally shoot me out of bed in enormous pain, doubled over," Shannon explained.
The excruciating pain went on for almost two years before a doctor was able to diagnose her, though he told her there would be no cure.
"I just sat there crying in my car and just saying to the Lord, 'This is it. This is the end for me. There's nothing else I can do,'" Shannon said. "And I explain in the book how I'm not someone whoever feels like I've audibly heard the voice of God but I felt in my spirit and I heard Him say to me in that moment, 'I will be with you.' Not, 'I'm going to heal you. I'm going to take this away. You're never going to have this pain again.' Just, 'I will be with you.' And I felt like that promise sustained me and I knew it was true. I knew His presence would be with me despite the fact that there was no cure."
With that same doctor, Shannon was able to manage the pain and eventually underwent surgery. Today she says her eyes aren't perfect but they're about "95 percent better."
The Decision to Remain Childless
One reoccurring question Shannon says she gets, especially in Christian circles, is about her decision to not have kids. She says she knew early on she didn't have what she calls "Mom Genes."
"The Lord creates us all in different ways and gives us all different passions and different paths," she said, adding that she has many young people in her life but feels her true calling is her career.
As for what's next, she's not sure but is keeping an open mind and heart.
"I try to say to myself, this is the season that the Lord has you here. Don't hold too tightly to it because you don't know what other adventures or things are coming down the line and I just try to be open to what the Lord may have next."


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Playground for the World's Sexual Fantasies
Posted on February 19, 2016 February 28, 2016 by Spring 2016 Student
Kamala Kempadoo begins her monograph, Sexing the Caribbean: Gender, Race, and Sexual Labor, with the following quote: "Territories that once served as ex-havens for the colonial elite are today frequented by sex tourists, and several of the island economies now depend upon the region's racialized, sexualized image" (1). This statement sets the tone for the rest of her book as she analyzes the intersection of gender, sexuality, and race with economics in the Caribbean. Kempadoo argues that there is an engrained "heteropatriarchy" seen through Caribbean societies, which draw from colonial theory to continue oppressive practices to further economic advances in the islands (9). Sexing the Caribbean strives to provide its audience with a dynamic, non-Western ethnocentric understanding of the history and role of prostitution and sex labor in the Caribbean today.
Sexing the Caribbean begins with the historical background of colonial involvement in the islands, like Jamaica, Trinidad, and Curacao, and how race came to be sexualized. Kempadoo retells the history of different areas in the Caribbean being settled by colonial powers, which imposed new social hierarchal frameworks that were mostly based on race (5). Even after emancipation from these white men, white bias still defined sexual relations as local men began to prefer one skin color of women to another. Here the introduction of the "SanDom," or "a migrant woman of lightly brown skin tone with a slender though shapely body and loosely curling hair," became a common reference in society (144). Kempadoo continues to explain the impact of migrants to the countries located in the Caribbean, not only racially but also economically. Through her retelling of women's internalization of gender roles and their role in society as sex workers, she highlights the intersection of race and economics. The intersectionality of race and economics was explored by Kempadoo in her analysis of sex laborers and the job opportunities available to them based on race. It was intriguing to read about how women in the Caribbean took pride in the fact that—for the majority of sex laborers—they envisioned themselves as their own boss, creating their own hours; it was a form of women empowerment in a paternalistic society. Sex became a source of power for women as they "capitalized upon white men's sexual desire for women of color" (54). Women in this environment established their dominance and power by setting boundaries with clients—such as certain body parts like lips and breast were off limits—and defined the notion of romance and love for their community. Through this loophole of empowerment, women of the Caribbean found a way to be economically sufficient and gain power in society. Although Kempadoo champions the strength of these women of color, she also recognizes that not every woman was so lucky to gain a hold in society. For example, she touches on stories of women acting as "pimps" of other women, and men controlling the income and working hours of a prostitute. Just as women affected each other, men visiting the Caribbean also played a role in determining the economics of prostitution. As tourism plays a huge part in the economics of the Caribbean, Kempadoo also interviewed many male tourists looking for female company. She states that, "The woman are not, in the imaginations of the men, prostitutes who are having sex for money, but are perceived as poor women who genuinely enjoy the sex" (123). This particular framing shows the different global perspectives of prostitution and how the local interpretation based on colonial history and job opportunities greatly differ.
Kamala Kempadoo says that her work draws on the foundations of Third World feminism, which is based on gender relations and "material-feminist traditions" (11). As written about in her work, she relies on a bottom up approach to her qualitative research through interviews, recording personal stories, and local opinions and myths (11, 65). Kempadoo shares little research has been done on this region of the world in regards to the "historical racialization of social relations" (55, 64). Therefore, the basis of her data collection—before she could conduct any interviews—relied on the works of scholars, historians, and anthropologists (17). Synthesizing the information of other scholars is how Kamala Kempadoo situates herself in conversation with other authors. By learning the structure of society and the influence of cultural in specific areas, Kempadoo could contextualize the impact that colonial history had on defining race and sexuality in the Caribbean. Important structural factors Kempadoo had to analyze ware the legal codes written about prostitution. I found this aspect of her work to be a strength of her argument as it gave the readers a better understanding of the time and history of how government played a part in regulating prostitution (89). As well as relational structures, the author continually references to the importance of needing to know the local slang, like SanDom, to comprehend the complexity of the history and role sex laborers play in everyday society.
While reading Sexing the Caribbean, Kamala Kempadoo did a brilliant job of both intriguing and greatly disturbing her readers. As a political science major, I find one of the most intriguing features of sex work in the Caribbean to be the role of the government institutionalizing legal regulations for prostitution by women, but also, on the flip side, criminalizing the economic transactions of sex by homosexual or bisexual men. This in depth analysis of the intersectionality of politics and sexuality was very interesting to me. One story she including about "The Happy Camp in Curacao" was particularly disturbing and illustrative of the oppressive situation surrounding sex (90). Kempadoo did a wonderful job of drawing her readers in through similar stories of how men referred to workingwomen. One quote that stood out to me was a man referring to a woman as "butt ugly" (124). The way Kempadoo reflects the cultural interpretation of "hegemonic constructs of sexuality" served her purpose as hooking the audience into the conversation about sexuality and politics in the Caribbean (2).
Another area I thought Kempadoo did justice in explaining was the role of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the Caribbean. Kempadoo acknowledges that "AIDS is now established as the leading cause of death in the Caribbean" and the "initial problem of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the Caribbean is traced to gay sex tourism" (167). She traces the history of the epidemic as well as explains the role this disease has in the local communities regarding gender roles, sexuality, and economic consequences. One question I had for the author was how the organizations targeting vulnerable populations, such as female sex laborers, and the government interacted since the government regulated these "vectors of disease" in the first place and criminalized homosexual acts (169, 170). Another question I had for Kempadoo is why she did not focus on organizations—if any—trying to reach homosexual sex laborers as she previously states the illness was introduced via "gay sex tourism" (167). Also I have questions about how the these organizations were continuing to operate within a society that regulates and perpetuates a stigma of discrimination against sex workers. Many scholars forget to include the vulnerable populations, such as sex workers, migrants, and adolescents, but Kamala Kempadoo successfully created a mental picture of the complexity of the HIV/AIDS issue at hand in the Caribbean. As someone who has an interest in medical humanities, her inclusion of medical violence as a disturbing aspect of daily life was very effective. She discusses how although "the government tolerates all activities in the name of servicing male sexual desires" many at risk groups for contracting HIV are denied healthcare and treatment (102).
Kamala Kempadoo effectively outlines the influence of colonial history on the racial and economic boundaries seen today in the Caribbean, especially when discussing women in sex work. She also includes a political aspect to her analysis, which adds another dimension to her argument that gender roles were established by colonial powers and instilled in local culture. Kempadoo demonstrates strength as an author by equally intriguing and disturbing her audience as well as providing an informative historical and legal context. Sexing the Caribbean should definitely be read by students participating in a Gender and Sexuality Studies course, if they have an interest in human rights and prostitution, or would simply like to be well aware of the impact of colonialism has today on social structures and sex work.
Kempadoo, Kamala. Sexing the Caribbean: Gender, Race, and Sexual Labor. New York: Routledge, 2004. Print.
Posted in Book ReviewTagged Caribbean, colonial, economics, empowerment, HIV, Kemala Kempadoo, patriarchy, prostitution, race, sex, tourism


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Mai Spann-Wilson, a student working towards his masters in social work, recently released an album as a means to take control of his life and channel his talents. Everyone craves the freedom to pursue individual
19 September 2011 Alexandra Olivier Features, People You Should Know
Mai Spann-Wilson, a student working towards his masters in social work, recently released an album as a means to take control of his life and channel his talents.
Everyone craves the freedom to pursue individual goals. That's why students change majors every week, attend schools their parents didn't and study topics that they're passionate about.Mai Spann-Wilson, a masters in social work student, is channeling his drive to help the less fortunate in Philadelphia with his newly released album, "Freedom Papers."
"I chose to go into social work because I feel like my greatest gift from God is to go and counsel people," Spann-Wilson said. "I just have a passion to work with people."
This passion is apparent throughout his work. He uses Philadelphia as a landscape to help shape and frame his originally written music.
"I've been surrounded by singers and piano players my whole life," he said. "I've been writing poetry for as long as I could remember."
As a poet, Spann-Wilson realized that what set his poetry apart from others was that he was "always rhyming." This led to an easy transition from poet to rapper.
But Spann-Wilson has more than just conscious punch lines and rhymes–his neo-soul, R&B singing broadens his reach compared to other artists.
Spann-Wilson explained his title of his album, "Freedom Papers," to have a personal connection. When freed slaves travelled, they were asked to present their freedom papers–he is using his newly released album to take control over his life's goals and most importantly, his talents.
"This album is kind of like me taking control of my own talent–I'm not deciding if I'm just a singer or just a rapper. I'm just making music," he said.
Spann-Wilson, who studied at the University of Maryland, College Park before making his journey to Temple, performed in various venues around that immediate area and has extended his music to University of Pennsylvania.
He hopes that with the release of his album–at no cost to the listener–it will help broaden his fan base and get his name out there.
While in a band, he performed frequently but being new to Temple's social scene, his performing has been put on pause.
"The point as a new artist is to first get out there. Developing my fan base will be that leg up to hopefully break me into the industry," he said.
Bringing it back to the community, he hopes his music will make people think as well as make their heads bob.
His recorded album features an array of topics for any avid music listener to relate to. Noting his top three, he considered them his favorites for different reasons.
"There isn't one song on my album that I don't like," he said. "'Cold World,' I think is going to be the least popular song on the album until my fans get to know me better just because it's kind of deep. Or 'Let's Go' because it's a head banger or 'Never Knew a Love,' a smooth love song that I sing the chorus."
Students can download Spann-Wilson's album, "Freedom Papers," for free at maispann.bandcamp.com.
Alexandra Olivier can be reached at alexandra.olivier@temple.edu.
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Great story! Thanks for sharing Mai's story with us. I wish him well.