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Demi Lovato's Road To Recovery After Being In A Dark Place
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The Road To Recovery With Music Star, Demi Lovato
Since her near fatal overdose in 2018, Demi Lovato has battled with her addiction. Recently she was able to return home safely from a treatment facility in her recovery. Sources tell multiple outlets, including PageSix, that the "Sorry Not Sorry" star is doing well. Plus, she will have a living companion during her transition.
Just two months prior, the 29-year-old pop star announced that she would no longer be up for the "California sober" lifestyle and take the proper steps in moving forward in her sobriety.
"I no longer support my 'California sober' ways," Lovato writes on her Instagram story. "Sober Sober is the only way to go."
Lovato's Docuseries, Demi Lovato: Dancing With The Devil
In March of this year, the "Heart Attack" artist released a documentary series on YouTube, Demi Lovato: Dancing With The Devil. She opened up about her long-going addiction and that she still used alcohol and cannabis "in moderation."
"Telling myself that I can never have a drink or smoke marijuana," she says in the series. "I feel like that's setting myself up for failure because I am such a black-and-white thinker. I had it drilled into my head for so many years that one drink was equivalent to a crack pipe."
While the singer/songwriter continues to work on herself physically and emotionally, according to PEOPLE, Lovato is "committed to her well-being." Until then, she is focusing on the ways to grow from here.
The 'Fresh start'
Last month Lovato showed her new hairstyle on her Instagram story and which was removed in the spirit of her "fresh start." From using meth and heroin to surviving three strokes and a heart attack, the "Met Him Last Night" star is making the right turn to save her life.
Demi Lovato now uses the pronouns they/them after coming out as non-binary early this year, she continues to push towards the light. She is working towards a better lifestyle for herself.
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Former India off-spinner Harbhajan Singh is hopeful that Virat Kohli will end his century drought in the series-deciding third and final Test match against South Africa in Cape Town starting on Tuesday. Kohli, who had missed the second Test match in Johannesburg, which India lost by 7 wickets, will return to the side for the third Test after recovering from a back spasm. The Indian Test skipper has not been at the top of his game in red-ball cricket for the last couple of years. He hasn't scored an international hundred in more than two years. Kohli's last hundred came against Bangladesh in November 2019 in a day-night Test match in Kolkata.
"Virat Kohli will return in this Test. I hope his century drought breaks in this match, it's been a long time since we have seen a hundred from him," Harbhajan said on his YouTube channel.
During the pre-match press conference Kohli said he was not at all bothered about the criticism.
"This is not the first time that people have talked about my form, it has happened a few times in my career. England in 2014 was one of those phases. I do not kind of look at myself from the lens the outside world looks at me with. The standards have been set by me myself, they are not an occurrence from the outside world, and more than anyone else, I take a lot of pride in doing the best for the team and wanting to perform for the team regularly," said Kohli on Monday.
Meanwhile Harbhajan also hoped that the experienced Ajinkya Rahane and Cheteshwar Pujara will notch up big scores.
"Hopefully, alongside him, Pujara, Rahane, and the other senior players will show their might once again. They have scored 50s but I'll expect them to convert that into centuries," Harbhajan added.
Both Pujara and Rahane showed signs of returning to form with attacking fifties in India's second innings in the Johannesburg Test.
"The doubts over Pujara and Rahane's selection have subdued a bit because both batted brilliantly for their half-centuries. They couldn't convert it into centuries but because these were important knocks, I feel they have cleared the road in front a bit and shouldn't worry about getting dropped… Well done Pujara and Ajinkya Rahane, both are senior players and it feels very good when senior players come forward to perform," Harbhajan added.
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The USD Department of Theatre presents a variety of compelling and challenging productions for the public. We contract with Arts People for the processing and payment of online ticket sales. An additional $1.25 service charge is added to each ticket sold online.You may print your own tickets or pick them up at Will Call.
It's the Swinging Sixties and handsome bachelor Bernard is footloose and fancy free as he juggles three fiancees simultaneously. All three are beautiful young airline stewardesses, and he has timed their visits so there is only one in his Paris home at a time. But his perfectly scheduled life runs amok when the new, faster Boeing jet plops all three women in his lap on the same night. Translated from the French by Beverley Cross, this is one of the most popular comedies of the last fifty years. By Marc Camoletti. Performed on the Wayne S. Knutson Main Stage.
Hailed as a "once in a generation" musical by critics, this eight-time Tony-Award winning rock musical forever changed the Broadway landscape, and has electrified audiences the world over since its 2006 premiere. Based on a groundbreaking 19th century play, Spring Awakening is as relevant as ever as it explores the tumultuous journey from adolescence to adulthood. This show contains strong mature and sexual themes, and is not for children. By Duncan Sheik and Steven Slater. Performed on the Wayne S. Knutson Main Stage.
This biennial concert highlights the work of more than a dozen USD student choreographers. These students will be practicing their creative scholarship while collaborating with nearly fifty other student dancers, designers, technicians, and musicians.
Four young men dedicate themselves to scholarship and swear off the company of women, but the plan quickly goes awry when four young women arrive on the scene. Love is in the air as the men try to hold to their pledge. Audiences are sure to delight in this, one of Shakespeare's wittiest and most romantic comedies. By William Shakespeare. Performed on the Wayne S. Knutson Main Stage.
Based on actual events, this hauntingly beautiful play tells the largely forgotten story of the "radium girls." These women worked in factories during the early part of the twentieth century painting watch dials, only to later be diagnosed with severe radiation sickness. Instead of quietly accepting their situation, these women fought back and their court cases significantly improved workers' rights and health standards. By Melanie Marnich. Performed on the Arena Stage.
Take a trip to Once Upon a Time—when Cinderella, Little Red Ridinghood, Rapunzel and Jack and his beanstalk all lived in the same village. Inspired by Grimm's Fairy Tales, this musical mashup takes us on the hilarious, heartfelt and occasionally gruesome journeys these folk characters make; then it explores what happens when they get what they think they wanted. By Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine. Performed on the Wayne S. Knutson Main Stage.


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La Jolla Playhouse's WoW series taps new work by UCSD playwright Naomi Iizuka
A scene from the 2015 La Jolla Playhouse Without Walls Festival. A new play by Naomi Iizuka will be the latest WoW production.
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By James Hebert
San Diego Union-Tribune
March 28, 2018 12 PM PT
A work by the longtime head of the University of California San Diego's graduate playwriting program will receive its world premiere next month as the next project in La Jolla Playhouse's Without Walls program.
Naomi Iizuka's "What Happens Next" will run April 19-29 at the Challenged Athletes Foundation in Sorrento Valley.
The Playhouse-commissioned piece, produced in association with L.A.'s Cornerstone Theater Company, will feature San Diego-based actors as well as military veterans in its cast.
"What Happens Next" is directed by Cornerstone artistic chief Michael John Garcés. Here's how the Playhouse describes the work:
"In 'What Happens Next,' Bonnie, an idealistic but inexperienced acting teacher, finds herself paired with a group of veterans as part of a drama therapy program. As she is confronted with the reality of her reluctant new students, Bonnie struggles to find a way to build trust and find common ground.
"Inspired by stories shared by the military community, this riveting new play mixes professional actors and San Diego veterans in an exploration of the complexities of sacrifice and resilience of those who have served."
Iizuka has headed UC San Diego's MFA playwriting program for a decade, and received her own graduate degree from the program.
Her plays include "36 Views," "Polaroid Stories," "Anon(ymous)," "Language of Angels," "Aloha," "Say the Pretty Girls" and "Skin." Her play "Good Kids," staged last October at California State University San Marcos, was commissioned by the schools of the Big Ten Conference and deals with sexual assault on campus.
The CSUSM production was directed by Judy Bauerlein, an associate professor who is now part of the cast of "What Happens Next." She's joined by Parnia Ayari, Nick Borrelli, Bruce A. Lemon Jr., Nico Marcolongo, Jennie McFarling and Kionte Storey.
The Playhouse's "Without Walls" program, launched in 2011, showcases site-specific, immersive and otherwise unconventional modes of live performance, and has spawned three festivals so far.
In the show announcement, Playhouse artistic director Christopher Ashley said the theater "has proudly expanded its outreach to San Diego's military community in recent years, and 'What Happens Next' is a fantastic next step in that relationship, allowing us to perform Naomi Iizuka's powerful, insightful new play at the Challenged Athletes Foundation's headquarters.
"It also represents a chance to partner with Cornerstone Theater Co., whose transformative and often immersive work incorporates community members into their productions, making it a great fit for our WOW series."
Performances of "What Happens Next" are at 7:30 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays; 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturdays; and 2 p.m. Sundays. The Challenged Athletes Foundation is at 9591 Waples St.
Tickets are $20 for adults, $10 for students and military; call (858) 550-1010 or go to lajollaplayhouse.org.
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James Hebert is The San Diego Union-Tribune's theater critic, and has covered the San Diego arts scene for more than two decades. He earned his master's degree at Columbia University in New York and worked as a magazine editor in Boston before joining the U-T. Hebert's awards include a national arts-writing prize from the Society for Features Journalism (for a profile of the choreographer Twyla Tharp), and some two dozen local and regional journalism honors; his work also has been republished in two college writing textbooks. In 2009, Hebert served as a juror for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama.
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Interviews for the German federal election 2021
The 2021 federal election in Germany (26.09.2021) is just around the corner. Digital sovereignty, through the use of Free Software, is at the centre of our exchange with the political parties, which we have also conducted via our organisations' election questions to the parties. We are pleased that, in a further step, we were able to talk personally with candidates from all parties with a chance of participating in the next government and ask them in more depth what they and their party would like to do to advance digitisation in Germany with Free software.
There are many encouraging signals that the importance of Free Software is recognised and addressed by all the parties surveyed. In the end, it will be important for this to find its way into political work and for sovereign solutions to be used, especially in the public sector. We thank all politicians for their support and look forward to continuing the dialogue after the election when it comes to negotiating the coalition agreement and starting the substantive work in parliament and government. We will publish an interview conducted by Alexander Sander from FSFE and Karl Krüger from OSB Alliance every day from today onwards. Interviews are in German.
Nadine Schön, MdB, CDU Deputy Chairwoman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the Bundestag, responsible for the areas of Family, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth and Digital Agenda
Elvan Korkmaz-Emre, MdB, SPD Member of the Committee on the Digital Agenda and the Committee on Transport and Digital Infrastructure Infrastructure
Manuel Höferlin, MdB, FDP Chairman, Digital Agenda Committee
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Finished images don't seem to be interesting and the mechanisms of their appearance even less so. They are intentionally derivative, because all attention is concentrated on bases, principles and skeletons and this is exactly what is exhibited in Stas Bags' works.
They are about constructions and mechanisms, schematics and structure. They regenerate the reality in order to discover the variability of its composition.
The Severstal project is directed to the myths and reality of an atomic submarine TK-20 Severstal, which is the sixth ship of the top-secret project 'The Shark'. The largest rocket carrier in the world (almost 200 meters long) with 150 members of the crew on board dives into the Arctic Ocean and for a half a year escapes the enemy satellites pursuit. Then suddenly, from under the ice, it launches a rocket which, in a fraction of a second, pierces the inert mass of water and strikes the target at another continent.
The miracle of the defense technology, that received several Nobel prizes, took four years to be built and was set afloat in the spring of 1989.During the manoeuvres in the august of 1995, the submarine successfully launched a ballistic missile from the North Pole to the firing ground of Arkhangelsk; the rear admiral received a military rank of the Hero of Russia. Soon afterwards the submarine was transferred to the reserve due to the lack of ammunition load. It turned out that it would be too expensive to saw it up, and it is equally wasteful to use such a huge steel vessel as an ore and oil products transporter.
Today the gigantic hero of the navy, the USSR's swan song, is becoming rusty in the classified harbour. Nobody needs its military might, predicated in its name. The huge steel thing still remembers its power , hears the engines rumble and feels the masses of water above it. Over and over again, in a somnambulistic trance of the universe, it smoothly and quickly moves under the ice, guarding its submariners' lives, incarcerated in the steel belly, who try not to recall the word 'Kursk'.
It would seem that Stas Bags uses quite simple means. He operates with the myths of the Soviet regime, trying to find out the essence of heroism. He neither awoke the legends and its ghosts nor becoming absorbed in the pedantic formalism. The poetics of the Severstal project is making one face the bitter reality of the universe as such. The project states the severity of the ideas of the past and shows us how grave its consequences are. Nowadays only an artist can distance himself from the history so that to be able to perceive it impartially. It is easy to debunk the myth and even easier to support it, but to stop its course and to examine it closely is a difficult task.
That's exactly what Stas Bags does. He skillfully generates the sterile situation of anticipation, time lag and reversibility. What the fear of death matters when the universe is in danger? What is the historical value of all these heroic marches under the ice? What is more important not to lose a battle of the historical truth or not to miss a touching moment of everyday life?
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Starting scallions from seed in a pot. I'll transfer them after they get a little size.
Well, I've eaten thousands of cherry tomatoes this summer, not to mention a few jalapeño peppers and cucumbers. Now I'm taking advantage of the Mid-Atlantic fall weather to grow some lettuce, spinach, beets, Swiss Chard, and scallions before a hard frost hits us. I figure I've got a couple months of salads to enjoy. I should have started a few weeks earlier, but I'm still feeling good about it!
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Nature vs. Nurture at the Movies: Hollywood Turns on the Blank Slate
If Hollywood is any guide, we can put a fork in the Blank Slate. I refer, of course, to the delusional orthodoxy that was enforced by the "Men of Science" in the behavioral sciences for more than half a century, according to which there is no such thing as human nature. Consider, for example, the movie Divergent. It belongs to the dystopian genre beloved of American audiences, and is set in post-apocalyptic Chicago. A semblance of order has been restored by arranging the surviving population into five factions based on what the evolutionary psychologists might call their innate predispositions. They include Candor, whose supreme values are honesty and trustworthiness, and from whose ranks come the legal scholars and lawyers. The brave and daring are assigned to the Dauntless faction, and become the defenders of the little city-state. At the opposite extreme is Amity, the home of those who value kindness, forgiveness and trust, and whose summum bonum is peace. Their admiration for self-reliance suits them best for the agricultural chores. Next comes Abnegation, composed of the natural do-gooders of society. So selfless that they can only bear to look in a mirror for a few seconds, they are deemed so incorruptible that they are entrusted with the leadership and government of the city. Finally, the intelligent and curious are assigned to the Erudite faction. They fill such roles as doctors, scientists, and record-keepers. They are also responsible for technological advances, which include special "serums," some of which are identified with particular factions. One of these is a "simulation serum," used to induce imaginary scenarios that test a subject's aptitude for the various factions.
As it happens, the simulation serum doesn't always work. When the heroine, Tris, takes the test, she discovers that she can "finesse" the simulation. She is a rare instance of an individual whose nature does not uniquely qualify her for any faction, but who is adaptable enough to fit adequately into several of them. In other words, she is a "Divergent," and as such, a free thinker and a dire threat to anyone who might just happen to have plans to misuse the serums to gain absolute control over the city.
Alas, there's trouble in paradise. The "factions" are groups, and where there are groups, there are ingroups and outgroups. Sure enough, each "in-faction" has its own "out-faction." This aspect of the plot is introduced matter-of-factly, as if it were the most natural thing in the world. And, of course, since it can be assumed that the audience will consist largely of the species Homo sapiens, it is. Most of us, with the exception of a few aging behavioral scientists, are familiar with the fact that it is our nature to apply different versions of morality depending on whether we are dealing with one of "us" or one of the "others." It turns out that Abnegation is the outgroup of Erudite, who consider them selfish poseurs, and weak and cowardly to boot. That being the case, it follows that Abnegation is completely unsuited to run the government of Chicago or any other post-apocalyptic city state. That role should belong to Erudite.
Which brings us, of course, to the "bad guy." You'll never guess who the bad guy is, so I'll just spill the beans. It's none other than Kate Winslet! She plays the cold and nefarious Erudite leader Jeanine Matthews. These smarties are planning to overthrow Abnegation and seize control for themselves with the aid of the martial Dauntless, whose members have been conveniently mind-controlled with the aid of one of Erudite's serums. Eventually, Jeanine unmasks Tris and her amorous partner, Four, as Divergents. And with them in her power, she treats them to a remarkable soliloquy, which nearly caused me to choke on my butter-slathered popcorn. Once Erudite is in the saddle, she explains, they will eliminate human nature. Using a combination of re-education a la Joseph Stalin and mind control drugs, all citizens will become latter day versions of Homo sovieticus, perfectly adapted to fit into the Brave New World planned by the Erudites. The utopia envisioned by generations of Blank Slaters will be realized at last!
There's no need for me to reveal any more of the plot. It's a very entertaining movie so, by all means, see it yourself. Suffice it to say that, if Hollywood now associates the denial of human nature with evil bad guys, then the Blank Slate must be stone cold dead. Or at least it is with the exception of a few ancient Blank Slater bats still hanging in the more dark and obscure belfries of academia.
For the benefit of the history buffs among my readers, I note in passing that Hollywood never quite succumbed to Gleichschaltung. They were always just a bit out of step, even in the heyday of the Blank Slate orthodoxy. Consider, for example, Sam Peckinpah's 1971 movie Straw Dogs. It was directly inspired by the work of none other than that greatest of bête noires of the Blank Slaters, Robert Ardrey. The first to taste of the forbidden fruit was Strother Martin, best known for his portrayal of the sadistic "Captain" in Cool Hand Luke ("What we have here is a failure to communicate"). He, in turn, passed on Ardrey's African Genesis to Peckinpah, with the remark that the two seemed to share similar attitudes about violence in human beings. Peckinpah was fascinated, and later said,
Robert Ardrey is a writer I admire tremendously. I read him after Wild Bunch and have reread his books since because Ardrey really knows where it's at, Baby. Man is violent by nature, and we have to learn to live with it and control it if we are to survive.
That statement, rough around the edges though it is, actually shows more insight into the thought of Ardrey than that revealed by about 99.9% of the learned book reviewers and "Men of Science" who have deigned to comment on his work in the ensuing 45 years. Specifically, Peckinpah understood that Ardrey was no "genetic determinist," and that he believed that aggressive human predispositions could be controlled by environment, or "culture." As it happens, that is a theme he elaborated on repeatedly in every one of his books. The theme of Straw Dogs was taken directly out of The Territorial Imperative. According to Ardrey,
There is a law of territorial behavior as true of the single roebuck defending his private estate as it is of a band of howling monkeys defending its domain held in common. Huxley long ago observed that any territory is like a rubber disc: the tighter it is compressed, the more powerful will be the pressure outward to spring it back into shape. A proprietor's confidence is at its peak in the heartland, as is an intruder's at its lowest. Here the proprietor will fight hardest, chase fastest.
In Straw Dogs, Peckinpah's diminutive hero, timid mathematician David Sumner, played by Dustin Hoffman, travels from the sheltered campus of an American university to be with his young wife, Amy, in her native village in England. To make a long story short, she is raped by three of the locals. Eventually, these muscular miscreants are joined by other townspeople in besieging Sumner in his territory, his house, in the mistaken belief that he is knowingly harboring a murderer. Ardrey's territorial boost takes over with a vengeance, and Sumner draws on unimagined reserves of strength, courage, and resourcefulness to annihilate the attackers one by one. As badly behind the PC curve as any Disney film, Hollywood eventually repented and in 2000 churned out an alternative version of Straw Dogs, in which all the violent behavior was "learned." By then, however, getting in step meant getting out of step. Even the Public Broadcasting Network had given the Blank Slate the heave ho years earlier.
Straw Dogs was hardly the first time Hollywood took up the subject of nature versus nurture. For those whose tastes run more to the intellectual and profound, I have attached a short film below dealing with that theme that predates Peckinpah by almost a quarter of a century.
Author HelianPosted on May 26, 2014 Categories aggression, Amity-Enmity Complex, Blank Slate, Evolutionary psychology, Genetic Determinism, Good and Evil, Human nature, Ingroups and Outgroups, Morality, Movies, Robert Ardrey, territorialityTags Robert Ardrey, territoriality5 Comments on Nature vs. Nurture at the Movies: Hollywood Turns on the Blank Slate
Obama for "Dictator"
Woody Allen suggests that Obama be appointed dictator for a few years so he can get things done without Republican interference. I personally would prefer Fielding Mellish.
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South Park and Sex Addiction
I don't watch a lot of TV, but I caught a great episode of South Park yesterday. It was a spoof on the "sex addiction" meme, starring Tiger Woods, with an "Emperor's New Clothes" theme, where everyone had to pretend that they believed that rich, powerful men who enjoyed sex with multiple partners were afflicted by some terrible mental disease. It's absurd when you think about it. Is there some reason why evolution should favor rich, powerful men who decide they don't want to have children? Have these people never heard of the Genghis Khan effect, repeated on a lesser scale over and over again? And yet, we were all expected to nod our heads sagely and pretend we actually believed the "sex addiction" thing. Trey Parker and Matt Stone have lost none of that ephemeral comic edge that "Peanuts" used to have back in the 60's, and I hope they can hold on to it for a good while longer.
If you haven't seen their movie, "Team America," get the CD. I give it both of my thumbs up. You could probably count the number of films that have hit the big screen in the last decade that are creative, funny, and not relentlessly PC at the same time on one hand. "Team America" is one of them. As for the flap over the latest Muhammed episode, it speaks volumes about the times we live in. Two guys have the nobility to put their lives on the line in defense of freedom of expression, and the people whose liberties they are risking so much to defend react with incomprehension. Meanwhile, the abject sheep on the roof with their crucifixes in urine and caricatures of Mary smeared with elephant dung, who know full well they have nothing to fear from the victims of their scorn, are lionized as heroic fighters against "censorship" and avatars of culture.
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Avatar, Racism, and Hollywood Ideologues
Do you think the people on the left who are complaining that Avatar is racist realize that they are exposing their own racism?
Do you think the people on the right who are moaning about the clichés of corporate bad guys and American Indian analog good guys realize that if Hollywood films didn't reflect the world view of the people who make them they would be completely phony?
If you don't live in either one of those ideological boxes, do yourself a favor and go see the film, preferably in 3-D.
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A Clockwork Orange: The Last Chapter
A girl I knew asked me to take her to "A Clockwork Orange" back in 1971, when it first came out. It was the first time I'd heard the title, and I had no idea what to expect. I don't think she did either. She was rather shocked, but I've been a Kubrick fan ever since. Of course, the movie became a cult classic. Type "clockwork" on the Google search line, and the first suggestion that comes up is "clockwork orange," with 2,850,000 hits.
As one might expect, the links run the gamut from the ridiculous to the sublime, but there's a lot of amusing and interesting stuff out there. Among the reviews, my personal favorite is here. Of course, the academicians have added their two cents worth. There's even a site with a Nadsat glossary, and some interesting remarks by a Russian guy on the Nadsat experience.
Many years after I saw the film, I saw Burgess' novel at a second hand bookshop, and decided to have a look. I liked it even better than the movie. With a few notable exceptions, I'm usually not attracted to novels that aren't a direct reflection of the author's own life. This was one of the exceptions. Linguistically, it's a work of genius. The "Nadsat" in the book is a fantastic concoction with a much heavier tincture of Slavic than Kubrick could allow himself in the movie. If you want to read it, take my advice, and find a copy with a Nadsat glossary in the back or print out the one on the Internet. And one more thing; make sure you get the last chapter that Kubrick left out of the movie. You see, Burgess nursed an enduring grievance against Kubrick, not to mention a classic case of European anti-Americanism, because it was dropped. In his own words, "I leave what I wrote with what Dr. Johnson called frigid indifference to the judgment of that .00000001 of the American population which cares about such things. Eat this sweetish segment or spit it out. You are free." Brrrrrrr!
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Timothy Darvill OBE is an English archaeologist and author, best known for his publications on prehistoric Britain and his excavations in England, Wales, and the Isle of Man. He is Professor of Archaeology in the Faculty of Science and Technology Bournemouth University in England. In April 2008 he co-directed excavations within Stonehenge, together with Professor Geoffrey Wainwright and Dr Miles Russell, to examine the early stone structures on the site. The work featured heavily in a BBC Timewatch programme which examined the theory that Stonehenge was a prehistoric centre of healing. He was appointed OBE in the 2010 Queen's Birthday Honours.

Career
Darvill is Professor of Archaeology in the Faculty of Science and Technology at Bournemouth University. After completing a PhD at Southampton University on the Neolithic of Wales and the west of England, he worked for the Western Archaeological Trust and the Council for British Archaeology before establishing a private practice offering consultancy services in the field of archaeological resource management. He was appointed to the Chair of Archaeology in the newly established archaeology group at Bournemouth Polytechnic (now Bournemouth University) in October 1991 and between 2007 and 2010 was Director of the Centre for Archaeology, Anthropology and Heritage. The author of over twenty books and more than 200 papers and articles, he has served as Chairman of the Institute of Field Archaeologists, Vice-President of the Society of Antiquaries of London, and was a Member of the Council of the National Trust. He is currently chairman of the board of directors of Cotswold Archaeology and a Vice-President of the Royal Archaeological Institute. His research interests focus on archaeological resource management and the Neolithic of northwest Europe.

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Darvill was born and raised in the Cotswolds and has continued to contribute to the local archaeology scene including being chairman of Cotswold Archaeology. He is a keen guitarist and plays lead guitar in a band known as the Standing Stones, with  several other archaeologists including Paul Cheetham, Bronwen Russell and Kevin Andrews of Bournemouth University.

Select bibliography
New Approaches to our Past: an archaeological forum (edited with M. Parker Pearson, R. Smith and R. Thomas. Southampton University Archaeological Society, 1978)
Megalithic Chambered Tombs of the Cotswold Severn Region (Vorda, 1982)
Prehistoric Gloucestershire (Alan Sutton, 1987)
Ancient Monuments in the Countryside (English Heritage, 1987)
Prehistoric Britain (Batsford, 1987; Yale University Press 1987; Routledge 1996)
Cirencester: town and landscape (with Christopher Gerrard. Cotswold Archaeological Trust, 1994)
Planning for the Past: an assessment of archaeological assessments 1982–91 (with Stephen Burrow and Deborah-Anne Wildgust. English Heritage, 1995)
Prehistoric Britain from the Air (Cambridge University Press, 1996)
Neolithic Houses in Northwest Europe and Beyond (edited with Julian Thomas. Oxbow Books, 1996)
Making English Landscapes (edited with Katherine Barker. Oxbow Books, 1997)
MARS: The Monuments at Risk Survey of England 1995 (with Andrew Fulton. Bournemouth University and English Heritage 1998)
The Cerne Giant: an antiquity on trial (with Katherine Barker, Barbara Bender, and Ronald Hutton. Oxbow Books, 1999)
Prehistory: a teacher's guide (with Mike Corbishley and Peter Stone. English Heritage, 2000)
Anglo-Russian Archaeology Seminar: recording systems for archaeological projects (edited with Gennadii Afanas'ev and Eileen Wilkes. Bournemouth University and the Institute of Archaeology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 2000)
One Land, Many Landscapes (edited with Martin Gojda. British Archaeological Reports International Series, 2001)
Neolithic Enclosures in Atlantic Northwest Europe (edited with Julian Thomas. Oxbow Books, 2001)
The Archaeology of the Uplands (CBA and Royal Commission on the Historic Monuments of England, 1986)
Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (Oxford University Press, 2002)
--do.-- Second edition. 2008
Oxford Guide to Archaeological Sites in England (with Paul Stamper and Jane Timby. Oxford University Press, 2002)
Megaliths from Antiquity  (Antiquity Papers 3. Edited with Caroline Malone. Antiquity Publications, Cambridge, 2003)
The Long Barrows of the Cotswolds and Surrounding Areas (Tempus, 2004)
Heritage of Value: archaeology of renown (edited with Clay Mathers and Barbara Little. University Press of Florida, 2005)
Stonehenge World Heritage Site: an archaeological research framework (English Heritage and Bournemouth University, 2005)
Stonehenge: the biography of a landscape (Tempus, 2006)
Prehistoric Britain (Routledge, 2010)

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Modeling internal stress distributions in the human lens: Can opponent theories coexist?
A. Belaidi, B. K. Pierscionek
The effects of material properties and equatorial stretching forces on the stress distribution and shape pro. le of human lenses were investigated to see whether support could be found for either or both current theories of accommodation. Finite element analysis was used to create models using shape parameters and material properties from published data. Models were constructed for two lenses of different ages. Material properties were varied to show differences between models with a single elastic modulus and those with different moduli for the cortex and the nucleus. Two levels of stretching forces were applied at the equator. Comparisons between experimental and model profiles were made, and stress distribution patterns were constructed. In all models, stretching produces a flattening in the peripheral curvature of the lens. In the younger lens, model and experimental results show that central curvature at some points is steeper for stretched than for unstretched profiles. In the older lens, gradients are flatter at all central points for stretched model and experimental profiles compared to the unstretched profile. In all models, there is a region of higher stress distribution within the lens that corresponds with the position of an infection point that appears on the anterior surface and, in the older lens, also on the posterior surface. The results show that equatorial stretching forces can produce shape changes in support of both current theories of accommodation depending on the lens age, shape, and applied force.
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In this lesson, students learn about the Internet, its history and uses, through a reading text. The lesson starts with a lead-in to elicit the word "Internet". This is followed by predicting the title of the text and reading for the gist to see if the predictions are correct or not. Then, students read the text for details and finally, there will be a speaking task as their productive skill following the receptive skill.
- T asks students to read the title of the text and guess what it is about. She writes some predictions that they make on the board. - T elicits vocabulary related to some uses of the Internet by showing a picture and ask Ss in pairs to talk about the uses and writes the words on the board following MFP. blocking words: chat with friends, download music, google for information, book a hotel or ticket.
- T asks students to read the text in 3 minutes and find what it is about and to see if any ideas they predicted are in the text or not. - After reading T asks Ss to check their answers in pairs and then she gets WCFB by asking some Ss to come to the board and circle and check the ideas which were in the text on the board and shown in the picture.
While-Reading #2 (9-10 minutes) • To provide students with more challenging detailed reading tasks.
- T asks Ss to read the sentences in part "b" and scan the text and check them as true or false. they have 3 minutes to do that. - T asks Ss in pairs to discuss and check their answers. Then, the teacher gets a WCFB by giving them the wrong answer as her opinion to make them have some challenge and think of a reason for the right answer. Finally, T writes the answers on the board.
- T asks Ss to stand up and mingle to play the game "find someone who did .... " written on the slips of paper given to them. They should ask all the students in the class to find the person. To make sure they understand the task, T models the task once. Then T asks Ss to write a suitable Yes/No question in the past simple.Then, T asks Ss to write a suitable Yes/No question in the past simple (to review past simple as well). Next, she checks the questions and asks them to start mingling. - To get FB, T asks Ss to give reports of their findings. - During mingling, T monitors the Ss and collects their errors. After FB, T writes the errors on the board and asks Ss to correct them in pairs. Then, T gets a WCFB. Next, she checks the questions and asks them to mingle.


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 Ел Местењо (Парас), насеље у савезној држави Коавила у Мексику
 Ел Местењо (Сан Буенавентура), насеље у савезној држави Коавила у Мексику
 Ел Местењо (Гереро), насеље у савезној држави Чивава у Мексику
 Ел Местењо (Матаморос), насеље у савезној држави Чивава у Мексику
 Ел Местењо (Дуранго), насеље у савезној држави Дуранго у Мексику
 Ел Местењо (Коалкоман де Васкез Паљарес), насеље у савезној држави Мичоакан у Мексику
 Ел Местењо, Ла Морита (Линарес), насеље у савезној држави Нови Леон у Мексику
 Ел Местењо, Сан Хуанито (Виљагран), насеље у савезној држави Тамаулипас у Мексику


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Q: Which tagger could we use for future data? The code is in python     import nltk
import math
from nltk.corpus import brown

brown_tagged_sents = brown.tagged_sents(categories='news')
size = int(math.floor(.9 * len(brown_tagged_sents)))
brown_tagged_0 = brown_tagged_sents[size:]
brown_tagged_1 = brown_tagged_sents[:size]

t0 = nltk.DefaultTagger('NN')
unigram_tagger_0 = nltk.UnigramTagger(brown_tagged_0,backoff=t0)
bigram_tagger_0 = nltk.BigramTagger(brown_tagged_0,backoff=unigram_tagger_0)

unigram_tagger_1 = nltk.UnigramTagger(brown_tagged_1,backoff=t0)
bigram_tagger_1 = nltk.BigramTagger(brown_tagged_1,backoff=unigram_tagger_1)

eval_A = bigram_tagger_0.evaluate(brown_tagged_0)
eval_B = bigram_tagger_0.evaluate(brown_tagged_1)
eval_C = bigram_tagger_1.evaluate(brown_tagged_0

Im trying to understand the whole meaning of tagger. In the code above which tagger would we use for future data and also just why?
Eval_A and Eval_B are two different evaluations of the same tagger. Can you explain why the higher evaluation score is higher? Eval A is
Out[7]: 0.980962822685139
Eval B is Out[9]: 0.704168093591542

A: Firstly, the reason to split up the corpus is to hold-out some data so that you can evaluate the tagger. So you shouldn't use the hold-out data to train your tagger.
from nltk import UnigramTagger, BigramTagger, DefaultTagger
from nltk.corpus import brown

brown_news = brown.tagged_sents(categories='news')
trainsize = len(brown_news) * 90 / 100

train = brown_news[:trainsize]
test = brown_news[trainsize:]

There are also evaluation methods that considers the whole data without holding out, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-validation_(statistics)
Then train your taggers using only the training data and evaluate using only the test data.
from nltk import UnigramTagger, BigramTagger, DefaultTagger
from nltk.corpus import brown

brown_news = brown.tagged_sents(categories='news')
trainsize = len(brown_news) * 90 / 100

train = brown_news[:trainsize]
test = brown_news[trainsize:]

tagger0 = DefaultTagger('NN')
unitag = UnigramTagger(train, backoff=tagger0)
bitag = BigramTagger(train, backoff=unitag)

print tagger0.evaluate(test)
print unitag.evaluate(test)
print bitag.evaluate(test)

[out]:
0.126283265225
0.835044353633
0.844712448919

Now you see that using the default tagger (tagger0) gets you low accuracy and using unigrams and bigrams gets you better results.

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Commons: 12 July 2011
Commons Chamber
Delegated Legislation
Volume 531: debated on Tuesday 12 July 2011
Mr Speaker
With the leave of the House, we shall take motions 7 and 8 together.
Motion made, and Question put forthwith (Standing Order No. 118(6)),
That the draft Charities Act 2006 (Changes in Exempt Charities) Order 2011, which was laid before this House on 12 May, be approved.
That the draft Charities Act 2006 (Principal Regulators of Exempt Charities) Regulations 2011, which were laid before this House on 12 May, be approved.—(Miss Chloe Smith.)
Question agreed to.
That the draft Equality Act 2010 (Work on Ships and Hovercraft) Regulations 2011, which were laid before this House on 13 May, be approved.—(Miss Chloe Smith.)
The Speaker's opinion as to the decision of the Question being challenged, the Division was deferred until Wednesday 13 July (Standing Order No. 41A).
With the leave of the House, we shall take motions 10 to 13 together.
Offender Management
That the draft Co-operation in Public Protection Arrangements (UK Border Agency) Order 2011, which was laid before this House on 23 May, be approved.
That the draft Communications Act 2003 (Maximum Penalty for Contravention of Information Requirements) Order 2011, which was laid before this House on 23 May, be approved.
That the draft Renewable Heat Incentive (Amendment to the Energy Act 2008) Regulations 2011, which were laid before this House on 20 June, be approved.
That the draft Renewable Heat Incentive Regulations 2011, which were laid before this House on 20 June, be approved.—(Miss Chloe Smith.)
That the draft Equality Act 2010 (Specific Duties) Regulations 2011, which were laid before this House on 27 June, be approved.—(Miss Chloe Smith.)
European Union Documents
Motion made, and Question put forthwith (Standing Order No. 119(11)),
European Semester of Economic Policy Co-ordination
That this House takes note of European Union Documents No. 11491/11, relating to a Commission communication on concluding the first European Semester of economic policy co-ordination, No. 11196/11: relating to a Draft Council Recommendation on the UK's National Reform Programme 2011 and a Council opinion on its updated Convergence Programme for 2011-2014, and No. SEC(2011)736, relating to a Commission Staff Working Document on the assessment of the UK's 2011 National Reform Programme and Convergence Programme; welcomes the Commission's support for the Government's efforts to reduce the deficit, which is consistent with the conclusions reached by the IMF and the OECD in their recent reviews of the UK economy; welcomes the conclusion of the first European Semester, but notes the Government's maintenance of the scrutiny reserve at Council and European Council as part of its concerns about a timetable which has not permitted proper Parliamentary scrutiny; welcomes the Government's intention to press for more timely publication of these documents in future; and welcomes the Government's policy of securing assurances that the UK cannot be subject to sanctions in respect of the Stability and Growth Pact under existing Treaty provisions or proposed new legislation on economic governance.—(Miss Chloe Smith.)
Political and constitutional reform committee
Ordered,
That Yasmin Qureshi be added to the Political and Constitutional Reform Committee.—(Miss Chloe Smith.)


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Według danych na rok 1990 gminę zamieszkiwało 7 416 osób, a gęstość zaludnienia wynosiła 152 osób/km² (wśród 1504 gmin Kraju Loary Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez plasuje się na 45. miejscu pod względem liczby ludności, natomiast pod względem powierzchni na miejscu 83.).

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World of Tanks History Section: Battle at Lukhanino
The Voronezh Front, protector of the south flank of the Kursk salient, found itself in the way of a powerful German offensive. However, this scenario played out quite unlike what German commanders expected. Most problems were faced by the 48th Tank Corps, which got stuck at the first Soviet line of defense on July 5th, 1943. Even 200 Panthers, thrown into battle near Cherkasskoye where Grossdeutschland division was spinning its wheels did not improve the situation.
Only late in the evening, having joined forces with the 3rd Tank Division, the German unit managed to enter Cherkasskoye. Soviet forces were fully expelled only by the next morning. The offensive had to be developed further, along the Belgorod-Oboyan highway, right through Lukhanino.
Crossing with Teeth
The Lukhanino village spread across both shores of the Pena river with a bridge connecting the two halves. The Germans needed this bridge. Colonel I. Yakovlev's 10th Mechanized Brigade was ordered to defend it with its 8 T-70s and 29 T-34s. The brigade's infantry fortified inside the village and on its outskirts; the tanks took up positions to the east. Twelve 76 mm guns deployed behind the front lines. Soviet soldiers spent all night digging trenches for themselves and their tanks, camouflaging their materiel. Lukhanino was becoming a fortress.
One of the motorized regiments from Grossdeutschland received orders to capture the crossing in the village. It was reinforced with an impressive amount of tanks and assault guns. The Germans attempted to take Lukhanino from the march. Up to 40 tanks and SPGs participated in this attack, but soldiers from the 10th Mechanized Brigade deflected the attack, destroying several enemy vehicles.
Enemy commanders, enraged by this failure, called in artillery support and began storming the village again and again. Yakovlev's dug-in brigade proved a tough nut to crack. Motorized infantry, tankers, artillerymen, and mortar crews cooperated skilfully, inflicted losses on the enemy, and kept them out of the village. The effort put into camouflage during the previous night paid off: the Germans did not always understand where shells were coming from. Soviet T-34s that fought German tanks maneuvered on the battlefield, evading return fire. Tankers would take several shots from one position, move, and then keep firing.
During the evening of July 6th, soldiers from the 10th Mechanized Brigade deflected 8 attacks, each with up to a battalion of infantry (500 men) supported by 30-50 tanks and SPGs. No fewer than 10 enemy tanks were knocked out. Lieutenant Tutveridze and Lieutenant Godyn's crews performed particularly well, destroying three tanks each. Losses of the 10th brigade consisted of four knocked out T-34 tanks.
The Germans moved additional forces to Lukhanino, but only managed to capture the southern outskirts. A river stood between German and Soviet forces. Even during the night, the Soviets had to fight off several attacks.
Main Strike
The Germans had poor luck when fording Pena, not just in Lukhanino but also in nearby Zavidovka. Enemy commanders decided to forego a second attempt on the latter, but the 3rd Tank Division was sent to reinforce Grossdeutschland at Lukhanino. Its arrival was expected in the morning of July 7th.
Our forces noticed that a significant German tank force was forming on their left flank, regrouped, and waited. This time, the Germans attacked the village from three directions. The enemy dislodged the 10th brigade from several positions, but no significant progress was made.
The Germans concentrated their forces for a decisive offensive. About 300 tanks and SPGs attacked the defensive lines between Lukhanino and Syrtsev. At Syrtsev, the Germans managed to reach the village and hold height 230.1 to the east. The 1st and 3rd Mechanized Brigades were forced to retreat north, which exposed the left flank of the 10th brigade in Lukhanino.
Meanwhile, Yakovlev's brigade kept staunchly fighting for their "river fortress". Elements of Grossdeutschland attacked several times with up to two infantry battalions and 40-60 tanks and SPGs. Lukhanino did not budge. The commander of the German 48th Corps, von Knobelsdorf, was seriously bothered by the failures around the village. He ordered a powerful attack on its positions in the second half of the day on July 7th to suppress the brigade's resistance and take Lukhanino.
The German attack began at 14:30. Two regiments of infantry (no fewer than 3000 soldiers) and tanks from the 3rd division hit the village from the west and the center. At the same time, up to two battalions of infantry with tanks continued their offensive from the south. Another 30 tanks from Grossdeutschland attacked from height 230.1 towards Yakovlev's rear. Panthers formed the spearhead of the attack, PzIVs behind them. Warriors from the 10th Mechanized Brigade were under attack by numerically superior forces from all sides. They had to collect all their willpower and demonstrate all of their courage and skill.
Tanks and infantry coming from height 230.1 was met with fire from T-34s and artillery. After a swift battle, at least 10 burning German tanks, including Panthers, littered the battlefield. The German attack rolled back to the hill.
Meanwhile, on the northern side of Lukhanino, the infantry battle became a fierce deadlock, periodically turning into a hand-to-hand melee. Soldiers fought over every house, the Germans widely used flamethrowers, both sides pelted each other with grenades. Numerical superiority allowed the Germans to take one half of Lukhanino and even form a foothold on the northern Soviet shore, but they were unable to exploit that breakthrough. Our artillery and mortars quickly pummeled any groups of enemy infantry.
Soviet Il-2 aircraft made a timely appearance in the skies above Lukhanino, carrying out several successful attacks against the enemy in the village. German infantry, caught in a rain of shells and bombs, was forces to cease their offensive and even pull out from their foothold back on the southern shore. Soviet infantry took back the northern part of Lukhanino.
The battle calmed by evening. Colonel Yakovlev's soldiers fought off 11 enemy attacks and held their ground. Another section of the Kursk salient held out, and Operation Citadel skipped another beat.
Original article by Aleksandr Tomzov.
Labels: 1943, Kursk, World of Tanks
critical mass 28 August 2016 at 11:27
Dayly loss reports for the germans indicate that losses on 5th and 6th were worst for the whole campaign, which is understandable in view of the fact that they were attempting to penetrate the strongest and best prepared soviet anti tank defenses in this period.
Tank Regiment "Großdeutschland" had no more than 135 tanks servicable -and no PANTHERs among them.
But problems were not only present in the disposition but also due to personalities and lack of battlefield experience in several commanding key positions, or outright incompetence.
An example for the problem is that the command of PzBrig.10 -equipped with PANTHER tanks in PzBat 51 & PzBat52 was relegated from Decker to Strachwitz on July 6th.
Strachwitz, however, was ill suited to take command for the attack. Unlike Decker, Strachwitz had a tendency to attack ruthlessly -and in particular -without giving thought to flank protection, while attacking a well prepared defense.
Repeatedly, he mislead the brigade into mine fields or prepared ambushes where tanks were immobilized or taken out from side attack and then, caught off guard, he frequently failed to order a timely way out.
It didn´t help that Strachwitz and Decker didn´t like each others decision and often expressed openly their criticism in front of other officers. This joint conflict in effect stalled the staff of the brigade as noted by Guderians visit on july 10th.
One of the two PANTHER tank battalions, PzAtb. 52 temporarely lost it´s commanding officer to an accident, which required a hospital leave just before the battle and in effect was lead through the operation instead by a string of inexperienced commanders with no battlefield experience, messing up the general operation of the unit. i.e. the commanders replacement failed by passing general informing to his company commanders before the attack about the tactical situation, intellegence and intent or conduct of attack. During an exposure to soviet artillery attack on july 6th, he finally lost nerves and had to be relieved from command. Command was then entrusted to a senior company chief, whose tank was shortly thereafter taken out by anti tank guns in ambush after only two hours in combat.
OKH send replacement to command PzAbt52, but the person committed had no experience in conduct of tactical operations and initially was present only to report about technical issues with the new tank. He was not up to the task to command a major tank formation at all and was soon relieved from command. It took until july 22nd, that the original commander of the unit returned and resumed command and restored full functionality of the unit.
However, the misguidance on a tactical level by the Battallion was reinforced by a skilled soviet defensive and Strachwitz´s ruthless handling on the higher brigade level. The number of servicable PANTHERs dropped from 198 to 20 after two days of attack in this sector but it should be kept in mind, too, that the number of servicable tanks in Großdeutschland (no PANTHERs) dropped similarely from a high of 135 to only 32 after two days. Most of the tanks were only lightly damaged (immobilized) and could be recovered and returned to service but the number of total write offs was a significant component, indicating poow execution of command on behalf of Strachwitz, as confirmed later by Guderian, stating that basic principles of tank warfare were not followed under Strachwitz.
Motzkor 30 August 2016 at 17:42
I find curious when I see people trying to justify German defeats at WWII as mostly a German fail and not an enemy win. It seems enemy is never skilled and they don't deserve the same justificating effort for the same type of defeats.
If You think, my memo was a justification, or could be assumed as such, I am sorry. That is not my intent. I do not judge history. Historical events stand by themselve, we can describe them to the best of what the sources expose. In this regard, all factors need to be included. As You might have noticed, the memo is quite critical about and in fact highlights deficits in german command structure. I thought that would be worth sharing, as it goes some way to be relevant to the event under discussion.
szemi50@gmail.com 1 September 2016 at 04:25
thanks i confirm it did worth sharing :)
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Congress did not get to be so terrible overnight.
Feckless and incompetent, our legislative branch stumbles forward without direction or even a modest impulse toward self-preservation. But unlike the proverbial turtle on a fence post, it mostly got there by itself.
It may be dismaying for Democrats to hear just now, butPresident Trumpmost assuredly has the authority to declare a national emergency concerning matters of immigration. He has that authority because the Congress explicitly gave such power to the executive branch in 1976.
In the wake ofRichard Nixon's reign, Congress still devolved its own authority to an executive branch that had just proven itself to be an unreliable custodian of liberty.
The first president to issue an emergency proclamation was, not surprisingly,Woodrow Wilson, no fan of Congress or the Constitution. He established the United States Shipping Board which, essentially, made the government into a shipbuilding company. His three Republican successors did not follow suit,Calvin Coolidge especially abjured such monarchical power.
Franklin Roosevelt, however, had no such qualms and exerted broad executive authority over the ways Americans lived and worked, citing the emergency of a worldwide depression.
Eventually the Supreme Court did intervene, telling Roosevelt's successor Harry Truman that no, he could not nationalize the steel industry because of some murky combination of the Soviet Union and labor disputes.
Things stayed murky for a while, even as Nixon's royalist impulses led to new "emergencies," including one to address striking postal workers in 1970.
The joke here is that the devolution of congressional authority that today gives Trump the power to override a clearly stated congressional refusal came from a Congress that was trying to put a check on executive authority. It was the same Democratic congressman who oversaw the effort to bring articles of impeachment against Nixon who spearheaded the National Emergencies Act. WhenGerald Fordsigned it into law it was received as a defeat for executive authority.
Consider that. Immediately after the previous high tide of abuse of executive authority and in the wake of a president being forced from office for lying about the illegal activities of his administration the Congress of these United States went ahead and granted broad authorities to the executive branch.
When Trump said today that it would "be very surprising [to him] that [he] would not declare a national emergency" it sounded preposterous and not just for his garbled syntax. Congress has repeatedly refused the president's demands for an additional $4 billion or so in border security funding. Does the president really have the power to deploy the military to circumvent Congress?
Like many great civilizations before us, America is slouching toward authoritarianism. Democracies tend toward kingship in almost every case since charismatic leaders and demagogues are so successful at deceiving voters by appealing to emotion rather than reason.
Our founders rejected pure democracy for that very reason. That's why we have a republic in which institutions and a constitutional separation of powers prevents authority from coagulating. The same Democrats who now decry Trump's claims of magisterial power include some of those who said, for instance, that Trump's predecessor had the authority to mint a $1 trillion coin in order to circumvent congressional authority over borrowing.
There are many crises in America today. That may include our chaotic and malformed immigration regime. But it also includes our pitiful Congress, partisanship and electoral cowardice has made the branch of government intended to be the first among equals into a vassal.
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What Is Lyft Mission Statement?
Do you want to know what the key to Lyft's success is?
This transportation firm was founded almost a decade ago and has already turned the market. It has become a significant North American transportation service provider, serving the United States and Canada.
The mission and vision statements of the organization provide clues to the company's swift climb to popularity. It demonstrates the founders' clear vision and how it has inspired the company's progress.
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A company's vision statement constructs the future that a company wishes to accomplish. In contrast, a corporate mission statement depicts the actions or strategic operations the organization believes are necessary to move it towards the vision.
These are the phrases that leaders use to convey the goal and direction of their company. When communicated clearly, they have the potential to inspire your team or the business as a whole by providing an inspirational picture of the future.
Logan Green, a computer programmer, and John Zimmer created the long-distance intercity carpooling startup Zimride in 2007. Green developed the idea of Zimride after witnessing the nervousness of riding public transit in a foreign place. The idea was to remove the problem of the vehicle occupants (drivers and passengers) not knowing each other.
Zimride used the Connect application to connect passengers with drivers when Facebook extended its API to third-party applications. This enabled drivers and passengers to get to know one another through their Facebook profiles. Passengers could see who would pick them up in advance for the first time. Zimride quickly grew to become the leading carpool firm in the United States.
Lyft began as a Zimride service in 2012 and was introduced in 2013. The firm was founded to provide a safe and dependable alternative to public transit and intoxicated driving. Passengers communicate with drivers using the Lyft App and may read the drivers' profiles. Passengers can choose whether or not to be picked up by a driver depending on many critical parameters.
In 2013, the company was converted to Lyft. Lyft drivers began putting huge pink fuzzy mustaches on their cars to differentiate themselves from competing taxi services.
When you don't want to take yourself home from a night out, Lyft offers a safe and dependable transportation option for drunken driving or public transit! On top of that, Lyft pays back to local communities by contributing 1% of each completed journey (up to $1 million a year) and collaborating with local groups.
What does Lyft stand for, by the way? Let You Find Transportation Miscellaneous.
"Ride by ride; we're changing the way our world works. We imagine a world where cities feel small again. Where transportation and tech bring people together instead of apart. We see the future as community-driven, and it starts with you." The phrases define the company's goal, particularly developing a transport system that works for everyone.
Lyft's mission statement is 'To improve people's lives with the world's best transportation.'
"Be yourself, uplift others, and make it happen," according to Lyft's core values. The organization enforces these principles to shape a team of employees, drivers, and partners that support the company's interests while providing their utmost to serve the consumers.
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Lyft's core business is to provide transportation via its mobile app. Nevertheless, at this stage, the firm demonstrates that it does more than connect consumers to rides— it offers the greatest atmosphere for the two parties to communicate in a healthy and life-improving manner. The Lyft app's features and enhancement aspects effectively make the firm operate for everyone.
People are at the center of all Lyft activities, as seen by how the firm conducts business. As part of its attempts to achieve this portion of the Lyft mission statement, Lyft has launched many projects to improve transportation in various locations around the United States and Canada. Some of these include growing transport systems, supporting a cleaner future, aiding in disaster recovery, caring for the environment, and assisting marginalized groups in society. For example, the firm notes in its Lyft Local Works tagline that it invests more than $50 million yearly on projects promoting city transit.
This is how the organization facilitates people's interactions, survival, and travel, favorably improving their lives.
The Lyft App and service stand out from the crowd with its basic yet distinctive bright pink logo.
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Some of the TV shows made by the two networks include Fox's 24 starring Kiefer Sutherland, and science fiction hit Heroes on NBC. Sources say that Hulu is due to enter a private beta period this week, but after delays it will go live to some users on Monday.
It's not known whether Hulu will be open to international web users. If the networks open the site up to everyone, for example, that could have ramifications on any exclusive licensing deals it might have signed with foreign TV companies.
Put it this way: the BBC probably wouldn't be too happy if NBC allowed UK users to watch the entire first season of 'Heroes' all in one go. After all, the corporation signed a multi-million pound deal to show it on BBC 2 not long ago.