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TSSAA Volleyball Format is a JOKE
By Expectus, October 26, 2012 in Volleyball
vb71 0
Similar to smdad, I've been to state a few times with 3 different formats: 1) pool play followed by 8 team bracket, 2) pool play followed by 4 team bracket, and 3) current "double" elimination bracket. I agree that using pools to knock it down to 4 teams is unfair since the pools can be unbalanced. Pools and 8 team bracket is probably the fairest, but it takes more games to finish it. The current double elimination bracket is a good compromise. It does seem to get it down to the two best teams. Not requiring the "if necessary" game in the finals is the only thing that seems unfair.
If you view the first two days just as a way to narrow it down to the two best teams, then leaving out the "if necessary" game doesn't sound that bad. Certainly it sounds fairer than a single elimination bracket without any kind of seeding.
Isn't this the way basketball has been run in the state forever? The teams are set based on the luck of the draw. If you get a bad draw you go home after one.To be the state champions means that you have to eventually beat every other team before you. It doesn't matter what game it is. I think the single elimination bracket is much better. If a team is good enough they really will not worry about seeding. Some are just happy to be there anyway and usually only a few reallly have a chance to win anyway.
clifford20 6
I don't have a big problem with it. The pool play set up was tough cause 3 of the best 4 team could be in the same side and only the top two go. I think this happened one year in AAA when arguably the 3rd best team in the tournament did't get out of pool play. I think this is the best way because it assures the two best teams get to the finals. Speaking of that, there was finally a competitive state finals in a couple of divisions. AAA finals are typically a 3 or 4 game sweep. Good to see that.
PHargis 9
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I'm not really sure why this discussion exists right now. This has happened. The Tournament is over, finished. What happened, the TSSAA, like it does everything else, ran all of this by the member schools and it was accepted so they did it. There was no complaint. It was agreed and is over. Now the subject has been brought up and for next year the TSSAA can present their thoughts again. The schools have a chance to redo in or recommend it but they need to do it right now. The issue of private schools should be the same way. But when its done, it should be done as part of the classification discussion.. and left alone until the next reclassification. The schools will vote to how they want it. But when ots done, its done. I like it the way it is because the other way gets things finshed to soon. The extra game at the end, I have no thoughts on. I that willts just an extra game and likely will increase costs. Schools decusion. Same as with private schools which I think is the wrong thing to do but if that is how it works would not oppose it. There will always be a large group of A class private schools. How its handled, its handled that way. no delay and the decision may be the same as it is now, an option. But it is a decision.
clubonlyforus 1
Why does it seem like PHargis is the only one who is allowed to post and have opinions? If the opinions of others are different, then PH wants to end discussion. Obviously there were some replies to this thread unlike a lot of PH's threads. I like to read everyone's opinion even if it includes beating the dead horse all the way until next season.
You say that you do not understand why this discussion is going on and a few sentences later you state that the issue needs to be addressed now. I do think, as clubonlyforus stated, you seem to be upset that you didn't start this thread. This is actually something interesting unlike 95% of your posts.
That certainly is a good point if it were total true but no one has been kept from introducing opinions except if the post got away from what this site was originally set up to be, High School Volleyball. It did veer away from that quite a few times and a number of times things were mentioned that sat there for a while with no response and rather than let the died subject or subjects dominate the site, we just moved on to something else. In no way was Coacht or Play4Keeps involved with that, it was a way I thought to keep the site more interesting. There was no doubt, in my mind, that there was a shortage of viewpoints as sometimes it was forgotten the demographics of who mostly were looking in to the sit. And its just like why I am having to answer this, it really has nothing to do with the topic and could take us away from important issues and the history of and how we got to the format to start with. It was because, my opinion, baack during that time, a lot of fansw were searching for ways to get the sport publicized. Interest had beeen waning and the game was not widely understood. Some thought a seearch for aq better format was the answer and others thought or many other things like the times the tournaments were held was a problem. There was a genuine effort, IMO, by the TSSAA to acknowledge and help the situation and this is why so many formats were tried. It may have looked disorganized but is seemed to me a genuine effort.
The format is the issue and I haven't seen there has not been a continued effort to tweek the problem such as even televising the finals, putting coaches who are color commentors to spice up the presentation.
By saying that its over meant the results of what has gone on the last 3 days has concluded but does not mean that the TSSAA will not try to find a better way I think. We have 5 Champions and it does not diminish what has happened by some great players and coaches and officials in any way. Their viewers outnumber the rest of the viewers significantly.
Edited October 27, 2012 by PHargis
Interest had been waning and the game was not widely understood? Volleyball began to explode in high school in the mid-nineties, way before coacht was here and before you were introduced to the game. Many were working to see that volleyball did grow and I do not see how you can say interest was "waning".
71, an opinion, like yours. Saw it visabily. Can recount what has happened?
I do not even understand what you are talking about. Please clarify.
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Man, I am LOVING this conversation its nice to see I'm not the lone ranger on this one. Why should the state tournament be any different than the NCAA? One and done. We play a region of 8 and then on to the elite 8. Every match is all or nothing. Bring your A game or go home.
And off topic but the fact that Brentwood and Ravenwood played each other 8 times in one season is insane. This should NOT happen. The should play in district and then post season. The should not match up during tournaments...ever. I can't believe the TSSAA allows this to happen. But again, this is just one woman's opinion...carry on
I'll answer your comment with a comment and even go back further. 71, you came on this site in Oct 77. Why did you even bother? You've posted 80 times in 4 years mostly around Tournament time and a little before. This has nothing to do with the format but all of the format changes that were trying to be implemented happen the couple of years before that. Were you involved? Why, when CoachT started this site in 1990's, put his money and time into a hobby he says, for promotion, were you involved? His story is well documented and he did it for a reason. I agree that you may have quietly done your thing but many others did the same thing, some for selfish motives and some just because they loved it. It was a good sport but not going anywhere and after all girls basketball was the thing along with AAU. Sorry Volleyball was good but no structure. CT did one thing along with the computer, it gave the sport structure and visability along with a way to provide quick information, whether you like it or not. After all, how many newspapers knew that scores duing that time and earlier, even existed. Not many and if it was there, it was a blurb that was hard to read. My posts, uninteresting?? Score detail does get that way but color along with it does not. And opinion only brings out those who have a contrary opinion, not necessarily the same opinion. Why would you want that any way? Coacht found a need and generated a vehicle and in Volleyball, found Pageman, a stats guy who had some newspaper background and a personality. He traveled the State, and loved the game. Not sure in the early 2000's where you were but not on the State scene. It was obviosu to PM that the sport had no definite structure and everyone just did their own thing. One side of the State knew nothing about the other side or their players, coachs and very little about their fans. Evolving from this came an expanded Coacht with over 90000 members, partisons, players and fans. I take it you are not a fan of CT. In some way it took away some of your space. CT is still trying to find its difinitive nature and some of us have taken it where its not as it has been started and have gotten into the virtual area of untouchable space which is not, in times past, not been the norm.
Its just like changing the way the format used to be, and why did we try this. Just like today politically, change does not mean success. Smetimes it means destructive, costly failure. Coacht did and has put visibility on all of those things because with help of fans nothing is sacred.
I say all of this to say all of this could have been done and the changes made in the game without a vehicle like Coacht is living in the past. Since 2007 when you came aboard, it hasn't been of much inbterest to you. You did try to get aboard. And that is what is happening here with this subject. Somebody says there is a problem and its being discussed. From a readers point of view, I sensed an overkill from those who have just worked hard in Murphy Center to put on. arguably, the best performance has had in a STate Championship. They didn't select the format. They just made it look the best they could. And I would say, Chill. Somebody is going to analyze this with what has been said and nake it better. And as far as Coacht and his part, you have been an important part and after all its just information, if you don't like it turn it off. Or participate to make it better. And to my friemd Clubisforus. This is a High School Volleyball Site as I have been told and if it changes, someone will say its been changed. Thats way beyond my pay grade.
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Willy T. Ribbs: My lessons from Ali
On the night of June 3 around 1 a.m. in Texas, Willy T. Ribbs went quiet on the other end of the phone.
Willy T. Ribbs: My lessons from Ali On the night of June 3 around 1 a.m. in Texas, Willy T. Ribbs went quiet on the other end of the phone. Check out this story on IndyStar.com: http://indy.st/24UKowc
Jordan J Wilson, IndyStar Published 6:49 p.m. ET June 16, 2016 | Updated 8:08 p.m. ET June 16, 2016
Willy T. Ribbs made history in 1991, when he became the first African-American driver to qualify for the Indianapolis 500.(Photo: 1991 photo by Jeff Atteberry/IndyStar)Buy Photo
About 1 a.m. on June 3 in Texas, Willy T. Ribbs went quiet on the other end of the phone. Mark Dill had called to give his close friend the bad news, and he didn't need to hear anger or sorrow to know how deeply Ribbs was hurting.
Ribbs, 61, said enough with his unusual silence.
"You prepare yourself for a person like Muhammad Ali to die, you say 'eventually,' " Ribbs said Thursday at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, where he is competing this week in the Brickyard Vintage Racing Invitational. "And then when the day arrives, it's surreal, and you're sort of in denial because how does someone with that much presence and stature … finally pass?"
That morning, the world of sports stopped in its tracks — even if just to catch its breath — as the news out of Scottsdale, Ariz., broke: "The Greatest" had died after years of battling health issues. Athletes, coaches and ordinary people alike shared stories about how Ali, the boxer and the man, helped inspire and open up possibilities to millions far and wide.
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But Ribbs' relationship with Ali wasn't from a distance. It may have started that way when Ribbs admired him as a kid, but all that changed in 1977 when Ribbs, then a 21-year-old race car driver living in London, heard from a local sportswriter that Ali was staying at the London Hilton.
He also had heard that Ali went running at 6 a.m., so he waited for him in the lobby. When Ali emerged from the elevator, Ribbs asked if he could run with him through Hyde Park.
"No," Ali said, walking out the doors.
Ribbs followed. "Hey, I waited up all night to go run with you. I'm here from the United States, and I'm driving race cars. And I'm no bum."
Ali turned to Ribbs, smiling a bit. "OK, but run behind me."
They ran that way for a while, until Ribbs said Ali started questioning him about why he was in England. For racing, Ribbs said. Ali asked if he had won. When Ribbs said yes, that got Ali's attention.
"You get scared?" Ali asked him.
"No," Ribbs answered. "You ever get scared of Joe Frazier?"
"I'll knock you out," Ali joked. They laughed.
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Back at the hotel about half an hour later, Ribbs assumed his brush with "The Greatest" was done, and that was OK with him. That half hour was "the greatest wish I could ever be granted."
Except Ali wasn't done with him. Ali invited Ribbs for coffee and breakfast in his top-floor suite, where they talked about each other's careers. Namely, what Ali believed Ribbs — who would later become the first African-American to drive a Formula One car when he tested in 1986 and the first to qualify for the Indy 500 in 1991— would face in a sport "that didn't want (him) there."
"He said, 'You're not in stick-and-ball sports, where a lot of black athletes have gone,' " Ribbs said. "You are going to have to be tougher than them, because you're a pioneer in your sport, and you're going to be tested every day because you're not going to be wanted by a lot of people in the sport."
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Ribbs was tested. He said he could feel that the NASCAR world never wanted him, but that he never let that rejection keep him from racing his best. Ali's words, Ribbs said, gave him the resolve to endure the worst NASCAR culture could throw at him.
Like Ali, Ribbs didn't keep quiet about things he thought were wrong. There was no love lost between him and NASCAR's leadership, and he drew criticism for never speaking fondly of it. Because to Ribbs, to speak out was to do the right thing, just as Ali had told him.
"That was Muhammad Ali to me," Ribbs said. "He was character. He was strength."
Before Ribbs left Ali's suite that morning in 1977, Ali stopped him and asked, "You coming back tomorrow?"
"Yes, I am," Ribbs replied. Because how could he say no?
Ribbs trained with Ali countless times for nearly a decade after their meeting in London. On Ali's advice, he always trained in a boxing gym when he was preparing for a race. Two reasons: Boxing builds stamina and sharp reflexes, as essential to racing as they are to boxing.
To this day, Ribbs said, he still has bags with which he trains in his Texas home — but no, he never climbed into the ring with Ali. For every moment Ribbs spent training with Ali as an athlete, he took just as much time to learn from him as a person.
Ribbs never went to college, entering racing right out of high school. But he considers himself lucky to have gone to "Muhammad Ali University." If Ribbs could have his way, every kid in the country would be required to take a class about Ali before graduating high school.
"How he treated people and how people deal with each other and communicate," Ribbs said, "that right there, every man, woman and child can learn from.
"And I'll pass that on. If I have the chance at any time, I will pass it on."
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Boxing legend Muhammad Ali is introduced to the crowd before the start of the 87th Indianapolis 500, May 25, 2003. He rode atop a pace car. Here, Ali shares a moment with Andy Granatelli (far left) as the pace car pulls into the pit lane. Rich Miller/IndyStar 2003 file photo
Mayor Hudnut presents a key to the city to Muhammad Ali at an Indiana Black Expo lunch at the Indiana Convention Center at Indiana Black Expo, July 17, 1987. University of Indianapolis Digit
Boxing great Muhammad Ali kisses Camille Brown, 18 months old, during the 1987 Indiana Black Expo luncheon, July 20, 1987. Jim Rider/IndyStar 1987 file photo
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Muhammad Ali makes a handkerchief disappear during as of his magic tricks in the Pacers' locker room after a game against the Utah Jazz, Dec. 17, 1999. Karen Ducey/IndyStar 1999 file photo
Muhammad Ali received the BankOne Marshall "Major" Taylor award at the Indianapolis Colts Classic Coaches Luncheon at the Indiana Convention Center Friday. At left is Bank One Chairman Dennis Bassett, Friday, Oct. 3, 2003. John Severson/IndyStar file photo
Muhammad Ali jokes with a Pacers basketball player in the corridors of the Conseco Fieldhouse after a game with the Utah Jazz, Dec. 17, 1999. Karen Ducey/IndyStar 1999 file photo
Boxing legend Muhammad Ali signs autographs during the national semifinal game between the Michigan State and Wisconsin at the the Final Four Saturday, April 1, 2000, at the RCA Dome in Indianapolis. Chuck Robinson/AP
Boxing legend Muhammad Ali watches from the stand as Michigan State takes on Wisconsin in the national semifinals of the Final Four at the RCA Dome in Indianapolis Saturday, April 1, 2000. Chuck Robinson/AP
12/17/99. 43940. staff photo/Karen Ducey. stand alone -- Nine- and 10-year-old boys line up for autographs from Muhammad Ali in the corridors of the Conseco Fieldhouse after a Dec. 17, 1999, game against the Utah Jazz. Some of the boys were on a basketball team with Muhammad Ali's son, Assad, who was also at the game. Karen Ducey/IndyStar 1999 file photo
In this Sept. 27, 2014, file photo, Muhammad Ali is shown before the Ali Humanitarian Awards ceremony in Louisville, Ky. A spokesman for boxing great Muhammad Ali says the former heavyweight champion is being treated in a hospital for a respiratory issue. Spokesman Bob Gunnell said Thursday, June 2, 2016, that Ali is being treated by doctors as a precaution. Timothy D. Easley/AP
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Q: Why Tcl expr does not equal 2 true boolean values? I have this script:
$ cat tmp/bool.tcl
puts "[expr [expr True] == [expr true] ]"

I expect it prints 1 because both "True" and "true" are boolean true so they should equal, but I get 0:
$ tclsh tmp/bool.tcl
0

Of course this is simplified code. The real code generates boolean values in string, "True", "true", "Yes", "yEs", etc.
Do I have to make them all lower case before comparing them?
I do not understand why the above code does not equal.

A: % puts "[expr [expr True] == [expr true] ]"
0

Let's look at what each side does:
% expr True
True
% expr true
true

So, both recognized as boolean values, but not equal. Let's convert those strings to a "canonical" boolean form:
% set a True
True
% set b true
true
% expr {$a == $b}
0
% expr {!!$a == !!$b}
1

What's going on here: step-by-step
% expr {$a}
True
% expr {!$a}
0
% expr {!!$a}
1

The native "true/false" values are "1/0" respectively. And clearly 1 == 1
Opinion: this feels like it goes back to Tcl's "everything is a string" roots, and the strings "True" and "true" are unequal.

A: The == operator is defined to do (the documentation in the expr page itself is more obscure):

numeric comparison if possible, exact string comparison otherwise

Neither True nor true is numeric, so exact string comparison is used. The two values differ in the first character of their string representation; they are therefore not equal in the sense of ==.
To compare uncontrolled boolean values for equality, invert them first as the result of the ! operator is both boolean and numeric (i.e., it's 0 or 1):
set a Yes
set b tRuE
expr {!$a == !$b}

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"We need to be better at communicating about strategies and goals. We need to boost the quality of leadership and managers need to give better feedback!" These are some of the comments we often hear from companies when we talk about what it takes to boost employee engagement, retention and an interest in development. There is plenty of research on the link between engaged employees and the financial performance of companies. Most management teams understand the importance - the big challenge, however, is finding the right tools to make it happen.
Last fall, I wrote an article for a Swedish media in which I reflected on whether there is a universal formula for ensuring employee satisfaction, leadership quality and learning in an age when change is the norm. One in five Swedes is actively searching for a new job, and the performance of Swedish managers is mediocre in a global context.
The connecting thread is a lack of clarity at all levels. A lack of clarity about the company's strategy and goals, a lack of clarity about the role of the manager and a lack of clarity about what is expected of the individual.
But is there actually a universal formula? Are there magical keys that can unlock the problem? I believe there are. One of these keys is effective communication.
Effective internal communication promotes employee engagement, helping them to understand and work in line with the overriding goals and strategies, which creates satisfied customers and has a positive impact on the company's financial performance.
However, successful internal communication requires reflection on our use offeedback. Feedback is one of the most important communication tools in our toolbox. It can be used to identify strengths and weaknesses, to develop managers and employees and to solve problems.
How are internal communication and feedback connected? Let's start with the definition of communication. "Communicationis the transfer of thoughts and ideas between people to achieve understanding." Meaning that communication is adialoguefor the purpose of achievingunderstanding.
To ensure understanding, there needs to be some sort of reflection of the message. And this is where feedback comes in. Feedback is quite simply adialoguebetween people thatreflectshow a person sees another person's behavior or performance. Feedback is therefore a fundamental part of achieving effective two-way communication. Without feedback, communication is nothing more than information.
This makes feedback the primary component in the communication process, because it gives the sender the opportunity to analyze the effect of the message. It helps the sender ensure that the recipient has interpreted the message correctly. Feedback is therefore a necessary element in communication for achieving understanding.
Internal communication is often viewed as a message from upper management that is passed down through the company via managers to the staff. But it tends to be more about informing than about communicating. If we want employees to understand the objective of what is being "communicated", we need to start by explaining "why" and by listening to the managers' and the employees' reflections. Only then can we find out whether the message has been understood correctly.
Focusing on feedback in internal communication ensures acommon understandingof the message. It also makes managers and employees responsible for reflecting on and feeling involved in the process of sharing responsibility.
In our ever-changing work lives, feedback is necessary for creating a positive working environment, where employees feel involved in the changes, and for establishing an atmosphere of understanding and security. It gives employees the opportunity to contribute with ideas and promotes a climate of innovation, thereby making the best possible use of the employees' knowledge and skills.
This makes managers the most important communication channel. They are closest to the employees on a day-to-day basis, and they need to be able to convert the overriding strategies and goals into understandable and operational intermediate goals. The employees need to understand "why", the value of it and what is required to contribute to the common goals. And the managers are the best people to explain how their work assignments relate to the strategic objectives.
Think of feedback aseffective listening, where you can find out whether the employees have understood the communication while at the same time showing them that their input is valued. That in itself promotes motivation and participation. Feedback is one of the cornerstones of development as well as a type of learning that contributes to more motivated employees. They feel seen and that their work is important, and it feels good to go to work.
For management, it is therefore important to specify the goals and objectives of the communication and to specify what is expected of the managers. It's about having managers who serve as ambassadors. To achieve this, the company needs to invest in supporting their managers in the development of their leadership skills.
In this lies a great challenge, but also huge profits for companies, which can use feedback to breed success through effective internal communication! To make it work, the connecting thread is clarity at all levels. Clarity about the company's strategy and goals, clarity about the role of the manager and clarity about what is expected of the individual. That is the key to progress.
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Louisville police officer shot during Breonna Taylor riots walks in for roll call one night after attack — and the response is fantastic
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One of two Louisville, Kentucky, police officers who were shot during Wednesday night protests showed up for roll call the very night after he was shot and hospitalized.
What's a brief history here?
A suspect — identified as 26-year-old Larynzo Johnson — reportedly opened fire on two officers, identified as Maj. Aubrey Gregory and Officer Robinson Desroches, during Wednesday night unrest following the announcement of an indictment in the Breonna Taylor case.
Authorities arrested and charged Johnson with two counts of assault in the first degree and 14 counts of wanton endangerment in connection with the assault on Gregory and Desroches.
You can read more about the indictment in the Taylor case here.
What are the details?
Viral video shows the moment Gregory — wearing a hooded sweatshirt that appears to read "Nobody cares, work harder" — walked into a room where roll call was being held.
Gregory was shot in the hip during the Wednesday night protests and transported to a local hospital for treatment. Desroches was shot in the abdomen and was taken to the hospital for emergency surgery. Desroches remains hospitalized in stable condition and is expected to recover from the attack.
In the video of Gregory's return, raucous applause erupts as the major, who is commander of the Louisville Metro Police Department's Special Operation Division, humbly makes his entrance and waves off the attention.
On Thursday night, the department shared video of Gregory's return to its Facebook page, writing, "Last night, two LMPD officers were shot in the line of duty during our response to the local protests."
"We're happy to share this short video of Majory [sic] Gregory, walking in to [sic] one of our roll calls less than 24 hours after being shot," the posting continued. "Major Gregory is still recovering from his injury and is not back to full duty ... yet."
The post concluded, "The other officer shot is still recovering."
At the time of this reporting, the video has been liked more than 9,600 times.
Johnson, who was taken into custody Wednesday night, is set to be arraigned on Friday.
In a statement, LMPD interim Chief Robert Schroeder said that the attack "could have been so much worse."
"Last night's situation could have been so much worse for our officers and for the people who were protesting when the gunfire rang out," Schroeder said according to the Louisville Courier Journal.
"We are extremely fortunate these two officers will recover."
The outlet reported that Johnson's arrest citation said the suspect's actions "showed an extreme indifference to the value of human life."
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The most amazing place I've ever been.
Well, it's at least one of them. I'm checking this one off my bucket list, although I didn't even know I wanted it on there – until I got there. It was all just part of a days work, co-leading a workshop to Bolivia for Workshops with Purpose. Our project was to take a team of photographers to join with Food for the Hungry (FH) in Bolivia, and give them our time and talents as photographers creating images they can use in promoting their amazing work. We had instruction time, teaching the photographers about working abroad, connecting, workflow, and the intricacies of intimacy with their camera gear. We also spent long days working with FH staff, visiting people in the communities to document the projects and services they provide. It was truly amazing to see their generous hearts and success of their efforts. We just needed to help them share it.
We headed up a few days before the workshop started, to do a little exploring at a place we'd heard amazing things about – the salt flats of Uyuni, about an hour flight from La Paz. My 13 yr. old son, Nikko, came with me on this trip. When I told him I was doing a workshop in Bolivia to help and teach photographers how to give back with photography, he said, "I want to go!" How does a father refuse that!? My good buddy, Benjamin Edwards, who was one of the co-leaders on the workshop also came and brought his 11 yr. old son. Two other photographer friends of ours from past workshops decided to join us as well. Our adventure was in motion.
The salt flats are amazing. It's one of those places that photos will never quite do justice. You have to stand there, feel the intense sun and struggle to breath in the crisp air – unadulterated and close to the heavens at 12,000 ft. high. You have to stand there and be small, in the vastness of 4000 sq. miles of glistening white salt crystals. You have to be there at night, so close to the millions of stars you've never seen before – feeling as though you could reach out and touch them, their reflections surrounding you like you're floating through space. You have to hear the amazing peace and quiet where the loudest sound is your own heart, beating in your ears, working harder to deliver every breath. You just have to go there.
Normally this time of year is the dry season up at Uyuni. Many people prefer to come during the fall, when the rains create the thin layer of water and reflections that are so dramatic and amazing. As luck would have it, they had a very unusual rain storm just 2 days before we arrived, leaving us with incredible reflection pools, puffy clouds, and azure skies.
Our guides picked us up at the airport, and after some introductions they said, "We're going to take you to lunch at the most beautiful restaurant in the world!" We knew what they meant. Eating a sandwich from the tailgate of a pickup while enjoying the salt flats would absolutely be the perfect picnic to me. Little did we know, or expect, the incredible experience they had planned for us. After a long dirt road, 4 wheeling through mud, then driving out in to vast, smooth salt flats, we parked at a beautiful spot and they said they would get lunch ready. We were so overwhelmed taking photos and gawking at our surroundings that we didn't realize at first they were setting up something quite fantastic. Out came the white table cloth, red ribbons, wine glasses, silverware, dishes of hot chicken Milanese, rice, fresh vegetables, salads, wine, sparkling water...oh, wow.
Our 2 days in Uyuni went by like minutes, then we flew back to La Paz to meet up with the rest of our workshop attendees, flying in from all corners of the U.S. The La Paz airport is located at over 13,000 ft. elevation, so the first thing you notice when you get off the plane is your head pounding. Fortunately, none of our team experienced extreme altitude sickness. Fatigue, yes, but no whiners. Just a team of big-hearted photographers, ready to get busy and photograph.
It took us another 2 days to make our way out to Torotoro, a small town amidst an incredible national park. Driving out there, on a dusty cobblestone & dirt road, felt as though we were entering Jurassic park. Fittingly, Torotoro is home to fossilized dinosaur footprints, and huge caves, from the age of prehistoric beasts. The intense beauty of the drive again made 6 hours feel like minutes, as we marveled at the epic landscapes unfolding around every turn in the road.
We spent the next 2-1/2 days working in Torotoro, visiting and photographing locals, sponsored or supported by Food for the Hungry programs. It was amazing to see how much FH has contributed to the growth of the community – encouraging self-sustenance and education on nutrition. Malnutrition is a huge problem there, especially among very young children. We documented as much as we could, hopefully providing them with images they could use to promote their cause and bring awareness to the need in the area. Our hearts and media cards runneth over.
This was the perfect trip to test and refine some of my travel gear. We had to pack as light as possible, while still carrying a professional level of photo equipment. My main camera bag was my MindShift Rotation 180 Pro. This a fantastic bag that I briefly reviewed when I first got it. Now that I've had a chance to take it with me on an Africa safari, and through Bolivia, I have a much better idea of how it functions in the field and holds up. I'm a fan! First and foremost, this pack is comfortable to carry all-day, full of gear. It fits great, is highly adjustable, and is well balanced. Rotating the main camera section to the front is a quick and simple affair, making your essential lenses and gear readily accessible without having to remove the pack itself. I attached an accessory bag to the belt to hold my 70-200mm and everything I needed was right at hand.
The top section of the bag has a removable padded lens insert, for even more photo gear. However, I would usually remove this top section and use the large compartment for my daily essentials – warm jacket, snacks, first-aid, extra water, etc. There are outer pockets, perfect for my rain jacket, water bottle, and sunscreen. There is a place for everything, and everything fits perfectly in its place. Carrying a camera shoulder bag while walking for miles a day is miserable. I would never intentionally do that. A backpack is the only way to go, in my opinion, but other backpacks I've owned also require you to dismount it to get at your gear. While this is still better than lugging a shoulder bag, you have to be intentional about stopping and digging out a lens and I'd often find myself not pulling out the ideal lens because it would take too long or be too much trouble. With the Rotation 180, there are no excuses, and I like that. In this way, I actually believe this pack can make you a better photographer.
Our liaison from FH, Abi, volunteered to model for us one afternoon for a lesson on location lighting. The bottom of the Rotation 180 pack swings easily from out of the pack to the front, for easy access to lenses and other goodies, like lip balm.
When photographing peanuts, you have to be on your A-game. FH helping the local community start a peanut factory, providing jobs and income.
We visited the locals to tell stories of how they have been assisted by FH. We spent the entire day walking from home to home, usually in remote places. The pack carried everything I needed comfortably.
At the end of the day, we sat with some locals, waiting for the thunder and lightning storm to arrive that evening.
At the end of one particularly long day, we sat and watched a storm brewing. Fortunately, the Rotation 180, as with nearly all MindShift and ThinkTank gear, has a dedicated rain cover which deployed just in time to protect my gear from the rains as we walked back to our hostel. As we hid under the awnings and cheered at the amazing thunder and lightning show above us, we had no idea that the ensuing storm would also bring hail the size of gum-balls that would soon destroy all the crops of the local farmers. The next day was a sad day – to again walk the villages and see the devastation to the crops.
Our 10 days in Bolivia flew by. It seems like just a dream now. To have shared this experience with my son is one of the most special memories of my life. To have shared it with my best friends and new friends from the workshop makes it even better.
I hope the images inspire you to get out there, see the world, and use your photography to change it for the better. Every little bit makes a difference. Maybe in the process you'll inspire a young person to want to change the world too, and that really is a gift with un-imaginable value.
If you'd like to be considered for participation in our next Workshops with Purpose, drop us a note from our facebook page. Who knows where the adventure will take you!


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We are in Gov. Bob Graham's rental campaign plane, which is stout and bouncy, not unlike the governor himself, and we are going to someplace called "Bartow." Rumor has it that there is agriculture in Bartow. Graham is going there to show his concern for it.
On the plane with the governor is the press corps, including a couple of political reporters from Big Time out-of- state papers that are very interested in this race because (a) it is considered crucial to the Republicans' hopes of retaining control in the Senate and (b) it is nice and warm in Florida. The press corps is not crazy about landing in Bartow. The press corps frankly does not care about agriculture except insofar as it results in lunch. The press corps would rather hear Graham talk about his opponent, incumbent Sen. Paula Hawkins, and her hot new campaign issue, The Pipeline That Will Leak And Explode.
This is an issue that materialized out of the air, literally, in the form of two Hawkins campaign commercials suggesting that Graham is willing to let this pipeline spew oil and flame all over the state. Graham, who has long portrayed himself as a friend of nature, the Everglades, bunny rabbits, etc., fought back with a counter-commercial -- featuring a photograph of Hawkins that makes her look like she lost the Miss Room Freshener Pageant because the judges thought she was too vacuous -- in which prominent ecology nuts say that they favor the pipeline and like Bob Graham and think Hawkins' commercial is basically alligator poop.
But in a way, Graham has lost the round, because he had to spend money to make a commercial responding to an issue Hawkins raised in HER commercials.
The whole thing sort of reminds you of Coke vs. Pepsi, only with less substance.
Anyway, Graham would prefer not to talk about the pipeline, because it's Hawkins' issue. What he often does, in situations where he doesn't want to talk about what the press wants to talk about, is launch into lengthy anecdotes with powerful sedative properties. This time, up in his rental plane, he decides to talk about the manufacturing of phosphate, which has something to do with agriculture and which they apparently make bales of in the Bartow area. Graham knows all about how to make phosphate. The trick, he shouts to the Big Time reporters over the roar of the engines, is to get rid of the slime. The Big Time reporters try very hard to appear interested in slime disposal -- this man is, after all, a governor -- but it is clear they would prefer to read the instructions on their airsickness bags.
Finally I get a chance to ask Graham: "Will Faye Dunaway be having your baby?"
"I have too much respect for Miss Dunaway and what she stands for in America to answer that question, " he says. "If there's going to be any statement made, I think she should do it."
We land in Bartow, which apparently consists of a hangar. Inside the hangar is a smallish agricultural crowd, which Graham, using his oratorical skills, immediately whips into a stupor. He is not a gifted speaker. He is the kind of speaker who, if he were not the governor, people would shoot rubber bands at after a while. The high point of his Bartow speech comes when he holds up a can of Florida concentrated orange juice, which the crowd applauds, because frankly, and I am not trying to be cruel here, it exudes more charisma than the governor.
"Would you say, " I ask, "that spending a lot of time around cows as a child could make a person kind of dull?" Graham grew up on a dairy.
"It could have that potential, " he answers, "but on the other hand, some might say -- but I am too modest to personally say this -- that it brings out a quickness of wit, a sense of ironic humor, an ability to, with a -- not a destructive, but a positive uplifting way -- with words to bring humor into the world. That's what some people would say. I am too personally modest."
During the Bartow speech, I locate, just outside the hangar, an enormous insect of the type that you would never find in a state such as Ohio. I pick it up, using my notebook, which it spits brown glop on, to test a theory I have about Graham, which is that he will comment on anything. I show it to him, and ask: "Governor, would you comment on this insect?"
"This, " he says, picking his words very carefully, as he always does, "is an (here he says a name that sounds like "Execretius Bolemius, " which he is clearly making up). It is a Friend to Man. It is a member of the family of Almost-Flying Insects, and one of the many things that it does is that it titillates the toad."
He's very smart and he wants to be senator, and he'll do whatever it takes. He knows he can't get you with his voice or his looks. He has trimmed himself down, but his face still contains two-thirds of the known world supply of pudge. So he compensates. He meets you personally. Two or three times. If you're in the state more than 12 hours, he'll track you down. Shake your hand. Be Just Folks with you, cracker mouth talking, Harvard eyes watching. He'll write down your name in his little notebook. Send you a personal letter. Carry your luggage. Make you a sandwich. Take out your garbage. If you're a cattle rancher, he'll pet your heifers. If you're a humor writer, he'll give you funny quotes. Whatever it takes.
Back up on the campaign plane, the press is bitching to Graham that they have spent a whole day flying around with him, and he has not committed any news. Graham argues that he has, indeed, been newsworthy, and the press has missed it. Graham thinks the press should write about the Broad Sweeping Theme of his campaign, namely that Florida is a fast-growing state that must meet the challenges of the 21st Century and needs to be represented by a person of competence, breadth and vision, as opposed to some bimbo with hair like Harpo Marx. (The last part of the Theme is never actually spoken aloud.) This is the message Graham feels the reporters should focus on. So they ask him more questions about the pipeline.
Now we are somewhere around Orlando, and Graham is demonstrating his commitment to law enforcement by making a speech on the construction site for a new jail. He tells a small but extremely quiet crowd that he once did a workday as a SWAT- team member here, and -- I'm pretty sure this is what he said -- on that particular day, Central Florida was totally free of terrorists. Graham loves to refer to his workdays. They are a great idea, really: Here's a wealthy, highly educated man with all the power and prestige that go with being governor, taking off his suit and tie to go out amongst the common people and toil with them and sweat with them and get on their evening local TV news broadcasts.
By the way, if you ever need to get in touch with the governor and for some unusual reason he doesn't have a workday scheduled in your area that day, your best bet is to send a note to his wife, Adele, and ask her to tape it to the bathroom mirror. I got this tip from a story in The Miami Herald about this person named Alberto San Pedro, who is described in the story as a "crime figure, " meaning we just know he must be guilty of something, and who is trying to get a pardon in connection with his 1971 murder conspiracy conviction.
So it seems this friend of San Pedro's who is also a friend of the Grahams sent Mrs. Graham a letter about what a nice guy San Pedro is now, with two children, aged 2 and 4, and stating that he is "active in the community" (the police agree with this), and Mrs. Graham taped it to the bathroom mirror so Graham would see it. Apparently this is a standard method of communication in the governor's mansion. According to a Graham spokesperson, "It's known by acquaintances of the Grahams that, from time to time, when Mrs. Graham wants the governor to be aware of something, she tapes it on the bathroom mirror." I imagine if the note is really urgent, aides unscrew the mirror from the wall and rush it down to the state capitol so Graham can read it.
But anyway, my point is, if you need clemency or anything, this is the correct gubernatorial channel to go through, although you should be aware that, according to the spokesperson, Mrs. Graham "obviously doesn't tape all (the mail) to the mirror." Of course not! How would he shave?
Now we're at the state fair, in Tampa. Graham lulls the crowd at a luncheon featuring an opening prayer in which the Lord is asked to "have mercy on people not only in this state, but in other states, and people throughout the universe." Then Graham wanders among these truly wonderful exhibits extolling the glories of the various Florida counties, exhibits that show what you can do with a little money and practically no imagination. He admires them all with sincerely feigned interest. There is a giant papier-mche bird sitting on a humongous papier-mche hand. This is of course illustrating the concept: "A bird in the hand, " but it is not immediately clear, to the outside observer, why.
Next he goes to where they keep the cows. He knows cows. Knows their names. Seems to sincerely like cows. I think -- this is pure speculation -- that he likes cows better than people. But cows don't vote. If they did, Graham would have sent every one in the state a personal letter. But now he has to woo cow owners. Walks right up to them and talks cow. His press secretary, Ken Klein, scouts ahead for additional campaign livestock. "Governor, " he says -- I swear this is a true quote -- "we have a Palm Beach cow over here." The press corps roars at this. "We have a Key West cow over here, " we shout. We issue limp-wristed, lisping moos. Graham's Harvard eyes flash a laugh to let us know he heard us, then off he goes, bouncing away toward the Palm Beach cow.
Whatever it takes.
It's a beautiful morning in Fort Lauderdale, and the press has gathered outside the Broward County Commission building. Sen. Paula Hawkins is scheduled to hold a hearing on The Pipeline That Will Leak and Explode, and the press is hoping for a Sighting.
Hawkins has been hard to see. Her chronic neck and back problems recently forced her into a hospital for tests. The press relations for this event were handled with all the smooth, suave low-key professionalism of clowns hitting each other with dead fish. First, when Hawkins missed a couple of engagements and then disappeared, her office told inquiring reporters that she had taken an early vacation; then, when reporters found out that she was in fact in the hospital, her office announced that the previous announcement was -- these are the exact words -- no longer operative. This is of course the famous Watergate phrase that causes reporters to sprout facial hair and fangs and want to rip the flesh off everything that moves. Soon there was much speculation in the press about what was wrong with Hawkins, whether she was addicted to painkillers, whether she would drop out of the race, etc.
And so we are all standing on the corner in Fort Lauderdale, waiting to see if Hawkins will get out of the car and keel right over, or what. She does not. She gets out looking perky. She has huge perky eyes and a huge perky smile. She has perky hair. She wears lots of perky makeup and some big perky diamonds, which bring her weight up to maybe 18 pounds. One glance, and you understand why they whisper That Name behind her back. Betty Boop.
Well, forget Betty Boop. Hawkins is no nuclear physicist, and she does wear a lot of makeup (she looks like a person attempting to sneak valuable possessions through customs by hiding them under her mascara) and she does not have a dress- for-success hairstyle, but she is a very shrewd and tough woman who has managed to get herself elected to the U.S. By God Senate. She often refers to herself as "this senator, " in case anybody forgets. But the point is, she IS a senator, which is more than you can say for the people who whisper Betty Boop. They are small jungle birds, chattering from the safety of the trees; she's prowling down in the tall jungle grass, where you either kill or get killed. Where Graham's every move and statement seems carefully planed, Hawkins seems to rely more on instinct and reflex. But her reflexes are pretty good. And for now, she's the one in the Senate.
The Big Pipeline Hearing is a wonderful example of how, for all of its faults, the American system of free, open and representative government is still capable of being one of the silliest on Earth. Your Objective Observers generally agree that Hawkins' concerns about the pipeline's environmental threats are short on logic, but of course logic has nothing to do with this. What we are talking about here is street smarts. This issue lets Hawkins hit Graham right where he is supposed to be strong. Right in his bunny rabbits.
And so she is in Fort Lauderdale to hold a hearing. With her, to help, is her friend and Senate mentor, Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, a thin man with thin lips. He looks like a funeral director, only not as much fun. This is supposed to be a hearing of the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee's Subcommittee on Children, Family, Drugs and Alcoholism. But Hawkins and Hatch, both Republicans, are the only subcommittee members to show up. The Democratic senators, back in Washington, say the hearing is a sham. They say it's political.
Hatch announces that he is shocked by this charge. "This isn't a political thing, " he says, looking for all the world as though he believes there is nothing remotely unusual about a senator from Utah coming to Florida under the auspices of the Subcommittee on Children, Family, Drugs and Alcoholism to hold hearings about a pipeline.
The highlight of the hearing comes early, at the end of Hawkins' opening statement, in which she voices grave concern that leaking fuel might contaminate the groundwater. Suddenly she brandishes a bottle of Perrier at Hatch, startling him, and declares: "Not everyone, Mr. Chairman, can drink Perrier. And Perrier doesn't mix too well with infant formula."
A wonderful move. Some of us in the press are tempted to applaud. From deep left field, way out near the warning track, Hawkins has managed to drag in children, little children, babies, as victims of the Pipeline That Will Leak And Explode. It is a horrifying image: Mothers, forced to feed babies formula made with Perrier! Think of it! Think of the burping!
Hawkins brings up kids every chance she gets. Kids are HER issue. Kids and drugs. She is for kids, against drugs. She never misses an opportunity to remind everybody of this. Why not? Her concern is genuine, she conveys it well, and who on Earth is going to argue with her? Who is going to come out against kids and for drugs? Hitler?
Her critics say her near-obsession with these two issues means she is limited, as a senator. A lightweight. They chatter this, from the trees.
After the hearing, Hawkins and Hatch hold a press conference, and of course the last thing the press wants to talk about is the pipeline. (You may have noticed a pattern here: The press and the newsmakers never want to talk about the same thing. This is why the vast majority of the news consists of vague and insincere quotations.)
What the press wants to talk about is Hawkins' health. She opens with a bombshell: "The good news, " she says brightly, "is that I don't have cancer." This is a remarkable statement, since, as far as anybody knows, it was never reported that she did have cancer. Hawkins will sometimes emit offhand statements of the type that make press aides turn to hard liquor. She loves the quick quip, in sharp contrast to Graham, who usually speaks with all the spontaneity of highway construction. "Are you in discomfort?" a reporter asks Hawkins. "As long as I'm in politics, I'm in discomfort, " she shoots back. She can be very funny, very sharp, when she quips. She is far less effective in her other major speaking mode, the Soaring Ramble, where she swoops and swerves sharply from topic to topic, at some length and seemingly without mental punctuation, until you, her listener, start getting nervous for her, wondering if she'll find a safe place to land before she runs out of fuel.
Driving back from the hearing, I listen to a radio news broadcast about the great pipeline hearing. "Hawkins says she doesn't have cancer, " it says.
Now we are in Naples, where Hawkins is speaking at a Republican dinner at a very posh hotel, which is called "The Ritz-Carlton" only because it would be a little too obvious to call it "The Wealthy Protestant."
After she speaks, I corner her and tell her I'm a humor columnist for The Miami Herald.
"That must be hard, " she says. She is not nuts about The Herald.
I ask her if she sees any humor in the pipeline issue. This elicits a Soaring Ramble, which I will quote from here, verbatim, transcribed from my tape recorder, so you'll get a feel for what they're like:
" . . . So it's up to the people of Florida to decide if they want to make a safe pipeline, and that's why I'm trying to point the way towards that pipeline. I drink lots of water, and I just must tell you that we can live without a lot of luxuries we have in Florida -- we brag a lot about a lot more roads, and a lot more other of the luxuries I call them, and yet we want to keep it rural like it was 50 years ago, and we can't do that -- people are here -- but the least we can do is provide water for people who are here and for future generations -- my children certainly don't want to leave Winter Park; they love it there, and my eight grandchildren, they intend to have water, I have eight grandchildren under 8, and I want to tell you they all expect great quality water to come out of their tap. They think I should do that. I think there's a little humor that I started in politics, regulating 800 water and sewer companies. We used to regulate Florida Gas -- I don't know what they call themselves this year; they keep changing their name . . .
I interrupt. "What about Bob Graham?" I ask. "You see any humor in Bob Graham?"
She stops toying with her pearls. Her eyes cool; her smile hardens.
"None at all, " she says.
Those of you who wish to help Hawkins in her struggle to prevent drugs from being brought into Florida via pipelines and given to children are of course welcome to send in campaign contributions, but we do ask that you bear in mind an unfortunate and completely true incident recently wherein Hawkins had to return a $2,000 contribution from a Mr. Soghanalian after the television show 60 Minutes reported that he is what we in the news business refer to as an "arms merchant, " which we are not exactly sure of the definition of, but which sounds very bad. On top of that, according to 60 Minutes, Mr. Soghanalian threw Hawkins a large birthday party in his hangar, and "champagne flowed, " only Hawkins didn't show up because 60 Minutes had cameras there, although Hawkins' spokesman claimed that Mr. Soghanalian didn't throw the party, and it was his SON's hangar, and the reason Hawkins didn't show up was that it was a SURPRISE party and consequently she didn't KNOW about it, and so she was out sailing on a large boat and could not be reached, and also Hawkins, being a Mormon, doesn't even drink Coke, let alone champagne. So the point I wish to stress here is, by all means, give her a contribution, but be prepared to get it back, and if you plan to throw her a party, for God's sake TELL the woman.
About 15 reporters, mostly from Florida papers, have gathered at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., to have breakfast with Hawkins. This has come about because the reporters have been complaining that they never get to talk to her, and often can't even find out where she is. The press does not like this. The press is used to political figures like Graham, who are at least willing to pretend they think reporters are important. The Hawkins camp, on the other hand, gives the impression it wouldn't have minded if the journalist-in-space program had gotten an earlier start.
Hawkins arrives, and we have a tense little breakfast. She picks at her muffin and smiles in a bright and cheerful and obviously forced manner, so as to make it clear that she would frankly prefer to be undergoing eye surgery. Of course she doesn't want to talk about her health -- she is sick unto DEATH of reporters asking her about her health -- so we mainly ask her questions about her health.
Hawkins, always smiling, answers the questions patiently and sometimes condescendingly, as if lecturing small children. She gets in her digs where she can. Responding to a reporter's question, she begins: "I read in one of your columns -- which I don't read very often (huge smile here); I'm sorry, but they're so inaccurate that I have to get a better source . . . " then she goes on to answer the question in her sweetest, most cheerful voice. All in all, it's a fun half-hour for everybody, and Hawkins' press secretary promises we'll do it again sometime.
So there they are, your Senate candidates, both surrounded by little pieces of the molds that were broken when they were made, both desperate for the opportunity to Serve You. For the record, Graham is favored to win. Not that he's taking it for granted. He's probably mowing your lawn right now. Because he knows, as Hawkins knows, that it will be a long time before this particular storm oozes off the radar map of Florida politics. I think it's going to be a fun race. I urge you, the voters, to follow it closely, maybe even find out, by reading stories written by responsible journalists, what the issues are. Assuming there are any.
© 2010, Dave Barry
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Q: Django: Relacionamento de Entidades e Update de Dados Olá, pessoal, tenho um projeto Django que emite relatórios diários das atividades de uma empresa. O projeto é um pouco complexo, mas vou apresentar um exemplo simples de relacionamento que é similar ao problema que tenho.
from django.db import models

class Funcionario(models.Model):
    nome = models.CharField('Nome', max_length=100)
    # Fields...

    def __str__(self):
        return self.nome

class RelatorioDiario(models.Model):
    # Fields...
    funcionarios = models.ManyToManyField(Funcionario, verbose_name='Funcionários')
    data = models.DateField('Data do Relatório')

    def __str__(self):
        return f'Relatório - {self.data}'

Tenho uma funcionária chamada "Maria da Silva", que deve constar nos relatórios.
No dia 1, emiti um relatório - uma das funcionárias listadas foi "Maria da Silva".
No dia 2, idem.
...
No dia 9, "Maria da Silva" se casou e passou a adotar seu nome de casada "Maria da Silva Santos".
No dia 10, é feito atualização do cadastro da funcionária. Os próximos relatórios deverá vir com o novo nome. Até aí, tudo bem. O problema é que da forma como o modelo de relacionamento está, essa alteração de nome vai impactar nos relatórios anteriores.
O que eu quero é que, ao atualizar o cadastro da funcionária, os relatórios anteriores continuem com o nome antigo da funcionária, qual seja, "Maria da Silva".
Como implementar isso?


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John Nicholas Gray (born 17 April 1948) is an English political philosopher with interests in analytic philosophy and the history of ideas. He retired in 2008 as School Professor of European Thought at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Gray contributes regularly to The Guardian, The Times Literary Supplement and the New Statesman, where he is the lead book reviewer. He is an atheist.
Gray has written several influential books, including False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism (1998), which argues that free market globalization is an unstable Enlightenment project currently in the process of disintegration; Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals (2003), which attacks philosophical humanism, a worldview which Gray sees as originating in religions; and Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia (2007), a critique of utopian thinking in the modern world.
Gray sees volition, and hence morality, as an illusion, and portrays humanity as a ravenous species engaged in wiping out other forms of life. Gray has written that "humans ... cannot destroy the Earth, but they can easily wreck the environment that sustains them."
Gray was born into a working-class family, with a docker-turned-carpenter father, in South Shields, which was then in County Durham. He attended South Shields Grammar-Technical School for Boys from 1959 until 1967, then studied at Exeter College, Oxford, reading Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE), completing his B.A., M.Phil. and D.Phil.
He formerly held posts as lecturer in political theory at the University of Essex, fellow and tutor in politics at Jesus College, Oxford, and lecturer and then professor of politics at the University of Oxford. He has served as a visiting professor at Harvard University (1985–86) and Stranahan Fellow at the Social Philosophy and Policy Center, Bowling Green State University (1990–1994), and has also held visiting professorships at Tulane University's Murphy Institute (1991) and Yale University (1994). He was Professor of European Thought at the London School of Economics and Political Science until his retirement from academic life in early 2008.
Among philosophers, he is known for a thoroughgoing rejection of Rawlsianism and for exploration of the uneasy relationship between value pluralism and liberalism in the work of Isaiah Berlin.
Gray's political thought is noted for its mobility across the political spectrum over the years. As a student, Gray was on the left and continued to vote Labour into the mid-1970s. By 1976 he had shifted towards a right-liberal New Right position, on the basis that the world was changing irrevocably through technological inventions, realigned financial markets and new economic power blocs and that the left failed to comprehend the magnitude and nature of this change. In the 1990s Gray became an advocate for environmentalism and New Labour. Gray considers the conventional (left-wing/right-wing) political spectrum of conservatism and social democracy as no longer viable.
On liberalism, Gray identified the common strands in liberal thought as being individualist, egalitarian, meliorist, and universalist. The individualist element avers the ethical primacy of the human being against the pressures of social collectivism, the egalitarian element assigns the same moral worth and status to all individuals, the meliorist element asserts that successive generations can improve their sociopolitical arrangements, and the universalist element affirms the moral unity of the human species and marginalises local cultural differences.
More recently, he has criticised neoliberalism, the global free market and some of the central currents in Western thinking, such as humanism, while moving towards aspects of green thought, drawing on the Gaia theory of James Lovelock. It is perhaps for this critique of humanism that Gray is best known.
Central to the doctrine of humanism, in Gray's view, is the inherently utopian belief in meliorism; that is, that humans are not limited by their biological natures and that advances in ethics and politics are cumulative and that they can alter or improve the human condition, in the same way that advances in science and technology have altered or improved living standards.
Gray contends, in opposition to this view, that history is not progressive, but cyclical. Human nature, he argues, is an inherent obstacle to cumulative ethical or political progress. Seeming improvements, if there are any, can very easily be reversed: one example he has cited has been the use of torture by the United States against terrorist suspects. "What's interesting," Gray said in an interview in 032c magazine, "is that torture not only came back, but was embraced by liberals, and defended by liberals. Now there are a lot of people, both liberal and conservative, who say, 'Well, it's a very complicated issue.' But it wasn't complicated until recently. They didn't say that five or ten years ago."
Furthermore, he argues that this belief in progress, commonly imagined to be secular and liberal, is in fact derived from an erroneous Christian notion of humans as morally autonomous beings categorically different from other animals. This belief, and the corresponding idea that history makes sense, or is progressing towards something, is in Gray's view merely a Christian prejudice.
In Straw Dogs he argues that the idea that humans are self-determining agents does not pass the acid test of experience. Those Darwinist thinkers who believe humans can take charge of their own destiny to prevent environmental degradation are, in this view, not naturalists, but apostles of humanism.
He identifies the Enlightenment as the point at which the Christian doctrine of salvation was taken over by secular idealism and became a political religion with universal emancipation as its aim. Communism, fascism and "global democratic capitalism" are characterised by Gray as Enlightenment "projects" which have led to needless suffering, in Gray's view, as a result of their ideological allegiance to this religion.
The term agonistic liberalism appears in Gray's 1995 book Isaiah Berlin. Gray uses this phrase to describe what he believes is Berlin's theory of politics, namely his support for both value pluralism and liberalism.
More generally, agonistic liberalism could be used to describe any kind of liberalism that claims its own value commitments do not form a complete vision of politics and society, and that one instead needs to look for what Berlin calls an "uneasy equilibrium" between competing values. In Gray's view, many contemporary liberal theorists would fall into this category, for instance John Rawls and Karl Popper.
Agonistic liberalism is an alternative to Berlin's theory of value pluralism and liberalism. While Berlin claimed equal validity for conflicting liberal views, agonistic liberalism holds that over time solutions may be found that determine which values are correct.
Agonistic liberalism is the theory that conflict rather than discussion is the basis of social change.
Gray's work has been praised by, amongst others, the novelists J. G. Ballard, Will Self and John Banville, the theologian Don Cupitt, the journalist Bryan Appleyard, the political scientist David Runciman, the venturer George Soros, the environmental scientist James Lovelock and the author Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
Friedrich Hayek described Gray's 1984 book Hayek on Liberty as "The first survey of my work which not only fully understands but is able to carry on my ideas beyond the point at which I left off."
Gray has discussed James Lovelock's new ideas on evolution's next step: a species beyond humanity that will be better able to co-exist with other species on this planet in the distant future.
His 1998 book False Dawn was praised by George Soros as "a powerful analysis of the deepening instability of global capitalism" which "should be read by all who are concerned about the future of the global economy". John Banville praised Black Mass, saying that "Gray's assault on Enlightenment ideas of progress is timelier than ever".
His 2002 book Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals has received particular praise. J. G. Ballard wrote that the book "challenges most of our assumptions about what it means to be human, and convincingly shows that most of them are delusions" and described it "a powerful and brilliant book", "an essential guide to the new millennium" and "the most exhilarating book I have read since Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene." Will Self called the book "a contemporary work of philosophy devoid of jargon, wholly accessible, and profoundly relevant to the rapidly evolving world we live in" and wrote "I read it once, I read it twice and took notes. I arranged to meet its author so I could publicise the book – I thought it that good."
In 2002 Straw Dogs was named a book of the year by J. G. Ballard in The Daily Telegraph; by George Walden in The Sunday Telegraph; by Will Self, Joan Bakewell, Jason Cowley and David Marquand in the New Statesman; by Andrew Marr in The Observer; by Jim Crace in The Times; by Hugh Lawson Tancred in The Spectator; by Richard Holloway in the Glasgow Herald; and by Sue Cook in The Sunday Express.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb has written that John Gray is the modern thinker for whom he has the most respect, calling him "prophetic".
Gray's Straw Dogs has been criticised by Terry Eagleton, who has written: "mixing nihilism and New Ageism in equal measure, Gray scoffs at the notion of progress for 150 pages before conceding that there is something to be said for anaesthetics. The enemy in his sights is not so much a Straw Dog as a Straw Man: the kind of starry-eyed rationalist who passed away with John Stuart Mill, but who he has to pretend still rules the world".
The academic and author Danny Postel of the University of Denver also took issue with Straw Dogs. Postel stated that Gray's claim that environmental destruction was the result of humanity's flawed nature would be "welcome news to the captains of industry and the architects of the global economy; the ecological devastation they leave in their wake, according to Gray, has nothing to do with their exploits." Postel also claimed that too much of Straw Dogs rested on "blanket assertion", and criticised Gray's use of the term "plague of people" as an outdated "neo-Malthusian persiflage about overpopulation". Postel strongly condemned Gray for outlining "complete political passivity. There is no point whatsoever in our attempting to make the world a less cruel or more livable place."
John Gray has made several broadcasts for BBC Radio 4's programme A Point of View.
Greece and the Meaning of Folly: Taking the myth of the Trojan Horse as his starting point, he explores what he sees as the modern-day folly unfolding in Europe.
Kim Philby: Why Kim Philby and so many others failed to predict the future.
The Revolution of Capitalism: Why an increasing number of people believe that Karl Marx was right.
Cats, Birds and Humans: Why the human animal needs contact with something other than itself.
Believing in Belief: Argues if the scientific and rationalist attack on religion is misguided.
Churchill, Chance and the Black Dog: The chance encounters that made Winston Churchill Britain's wartime Prime Minister.
Mill on Liberty: A Defence (1983). ISBN 0-7100-9270-9.
Liberalisms: Essays in Political Philosophy (1989). ISBN 0-415-00744-5.
J.S. Mill, "On Liberty": In Focus (ed. with G.W. Smith) (1991). ISBN 0-415-01001-2.
Beyond the New Right: Markets, Government and the Common Environment (1993). ISBN 0-415-09297-3.
Postliberalism: Studies in Political Thought (1993). ISBN 0-415-13553-2.
Enlightenment's Wake: Politics and Culture at the Close of the Modern Age (1995). ISBN 0-415-16335-8.
Berlin (Fontana Modern Masters, 1995).
Liberalism (2nd ed.) (1995). ISBN 0-8166-2801-7.
Endgames: Questions in Late Modern Political Thought (1997). ISBN 0-7456-1882-0.
False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism (1998, revised edition 2009). ISBN 1-56584-592-7.
Two Faces of Liberalism (2000). ISBN 1-56584-589-7.
Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals (2002). ISBN 1-86207-512-3.
Al Qaeda and What it Means to be Modern (2003). ISBN 1-56584-805-5.
Heresies: Against Progress and Other Illusions (2004). ISBN 1-86207-718-5.
Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia (2007). ISBN 0-7139-9915-2.
Marx Reloaded, Arte, April 2011.
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Two-part interview conducted by Henk de Berg (2019).
Ian Hargearves, Professor of Journalism at Cardiff University reviews Straw Dogs.
Jose Miguel Camacho-Castro reviews The Silence of Animals, Revista de Investigaciones Inciso.
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Arsenal and Everton are both interested in signing want-away Lyon star Rachid Ghezzal, report Calciomercato.
Ghezzal came through the Lyon academy in the 2012/13 season, and immediately established himself as an important member of the Ligue 1 giant's squad. However, his 2013/14 campaign was derailed by a serious back injury that saw him ruled out of action for more than six months.
The Algerian international is fit again, however, and is enjoying a stellar season for Lyon. The 24-year-old has found the back of the net ten times in all competitions this term, with eight of those coming in the league.
His good performances in Lyon appear to have turned heads in England. According to Calciomercato, both Arsenal and Everton are interested in signing Ghezzal.
However, they will both face stern competition. Calciomercato believe that AS Roma and AC Milan are also in the race to secure his services. The Italian outlet note that he was close to sealing a £12million move to Everton last summer, but the deal was never completed.
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