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Spotify reports more paid users, continued losses
Dan Primack, author of Pro Rata
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Spotify on Wednesday reported a $49 million Q1 operating loss, in its first earnings report since going public last month via a direct listing.
Bottom line: Spotify's numbers were mostly in line with analyst estimates, but the company's stock is still taking an early aftermarket dive.
Revenue: $1.36 billion, up 26% year-over-year but down 1% quarter-over-quarter.
Monthly active users: 170 million, up 30% year-over-year and 8% quarter-over-quarter.
Paid subscribers: 75 million, up 45% year-over-year and 7% quarter-over-quarter. For context, Apple Music has around 40 million paid subscribers.
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CLEVELAND BASED NU MECCA RECORDS INKS MAJOR DISTRIBUTION DEAL
CLEVELAND, OH -- Nu Mecca Records officially has entered into a national joint venture agreement with Orpheus Music, Inc. to release the highly anticipated LP from songstress and Cleveland, Ohio native Conya Doss.
Orpheus Music, Inc., the NYC based company, is currently home to multi-platinum recording artist Juvenile's label UTP Records, and Former Heavyweight Champion Evander Holyfield's imprint Real Deal Records. Orpheus Music, Inc. will assist Nu Mecca Records in developing strategic promotion and marketing campaigns for Nu Mecca Records releases, in conjunction with EMI Music Distribution handling the manufacturing and distribution of Nu Mecca Records product throughout North America. Orpheus Music, Inc. has previously been home to gold and platinum recording artist Freddie Jackson, Najee, Compton's Most Wanted, Eric Gable, Alex Bugnon, current New Adult Contemporary sensation André Ward.
Nu Mecca Records, a Cleveland based company who is chaired by hit record producer Edwin "Tony" Nicholas, is currently home to classic soul ingenue Conya Doss. Doss' first single "Coffee" has impacted urban radio in several markets throughout the country. Nu Mecca will release Doss' critically acclaimed self-titled LP July 2002. Nu Mecca will handle financing their day-to-day operations, while maintaining full creative control and ownership rights of all production and recording. Nu Mecca will initiate publicity, marketing and promotion campaigns designed to begin the initial "buzz" in key markets for Nu Mecca product.
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Additionally, the photo studio that you pick must be ready to verify in writing and with signatures that the photo they have taken is a photo of you. If they refuse to certify your identity in the photo, you must not choose that photo studio because the Canadian Embassy will not accept a photo that has not been verified by the photographer.
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City of Culture will Now Start in May 2021
13/07/2020 06/07/2020 Author by coventrysociety
Coventry's year as UK City of Culture has been pushed back to start in May 2021, due to the coronavirus crisis. Starting in May instead of the beginning of the year will "allow a fuller programme of public events", according to the organisation team.
"The current crisis has hit our city, our region and our sector hard," the chief executive of Coventry 2021 said. The new start date will enable the maximum possible number of people to visit and take part, he added. Chief Executive Martin Sutherland said: "We are delighted that we will be able to have a year of celebration – a time when the city and country need it most – and that the dates are now set in stone."
City of Culture will not start till May 2021 When the Coventry 2021 programme commences, a currently untitled event will see two theatre and events directors – Nigel Jamieson and Justine Themen devise and create alongside international artists and residents including local young people, families, schools, faith organisations, performers, choirs and sport and community groups.
Uniting residents to explore the values at the heart of the city, and their hopes for the future, citizens of the city will take part in hundreds of workshops to create music, performance and dance for the event and build structures across the city, culminating in a spectacle on a scale the city has never seen before. It will create a powerful and diverse story about the spirit and energy of Coventry and celebrate the voices of people from every ward in the city.
Chenine Bhathena, Creative Director of Coventry 2021, said: 'Nigel Jamieson and Justine Themen are the perfect pairing to kick off our year in truly spectacular style. But they are only part of the team, and that's where it gets really exciting. The event, which will be created over the coming months, will be truly made in Coventry.'
The programme will now run until May 2022 and will enable St. Mary's Guildhall to be open for more of the City of Culture Year.
There is more on the City of Culture website.
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package org.wkp.retrieval;

import gov.nih.nlm.nls.utils.Trie;

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.LinkedList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Set;
import java.util.zip.GZIPInputStream;

import org.wkp.utils.Util;

import monq.jfa.AbstractFaAction;
import monq.jfa.CallbackException;
import monq.jfa.Dfa;
import monq.jfa.DfaRun;
import monq.jfa.Nfa;
import monq.jfa.ReaderCharSource;
import monq.jfa.Xml;

/**
 *
 * @inproceedings{tao2006regularized,
  title={Regularized estimation of mixture models for robust pseudo-relevance feedback},
  author={Tao, Tao and Zhai, ChengXiang},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 29th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval},
  pages={162--169},
  year={2006},
  organization={ACM}
}
 *
 * @author Antonio Jimeno Yepes (antonio.jimeno@gmail.com)
 *
 */
public class PseudoRelevance
{
  private static Map <Integer, Double> p_w_b =
		  new HashMap <Integer, Double> ();

  private static Dfa dfa = null;
  private static String PMID = null;

  private static Trie <Integer> trie = new Trie <Integer> ();

  private static int nu = 2000;

  private static StringBuilder text =
			  new StringBuilder();

  private static Map <String, Map <Integer, Double>> docs =
			  new HashMap <String, Map <Integer, Double>> ();

  private static Map <String, Map <Integer, Double>> docs_freq =
		  new HashMap <String, Map <Integer, Double>> ();

  private static Map <String, Double> doc_length =
		  new HashMap <String, Double> ();

  private static int token_count = 0;

  private static AbstractFaAction get_text = new AbstractFaAction()
  {
    public void invoke(StringBuffer yytext,int start,DfaRun runner)
  	throws CallbackException
	{
      Map <String, String> map = Xml.splitElement(yytext, start);
      text.append(" ").append(map.get(Xml.CONTENT));
	}
  };

  private static AbstractFaAction get_PMID = new AbstractFaAction()
  {
    public void invoke(StringBuffer yytext,int start,DfaRun runner)
  	throws CallbackException
	{
	  if (PMID == null)
	  {
		Map <String, String> map = Xml.splitElement(yytext, start);
	    PMID = map.get(Xml.CONTENT);
	  }
	}
  };

  private static AbstractFaAction end_document = new AbstractFaAction()
  {
    public void invoke(StringBuffer yytext,int start,DfaRun runner)
  	throws CallbackException
	{
      // Convert the text to a document profile
      Map <Integer, Double> doc = Util.splitTextCount(text.toString(), trie);
      docs.put(PMID, doc);

      Map <Integer, Double> doc_freq = new HashMap <Integer, Double> ();
      doc_freq.putAll(doc);
      docs_freq.put(PMID, doc_freq);

      // Add frequencies to the background probability
      for (Map.Entry <Integer, Double> entry : doc.entrySet())
      {
        Double count = p_w_b.get(entry.getKey());

        if (count == null)
        { p_w_b.put(entry.getKey(), entry.getValue()); }
        else
        { p_w_b.put(entry.getKey(), count + entry.getValue()); }

        token_count += entry.getValue();
      }

      PMID = null;
      text.setLength(0);
	}
  };

  static
  {
	try
	{
      Nfa nfa = new Nfa(Nfa.NOTHING);
      nfa.or(Xml.GoofedElement("AbstractText"), get_text);
      nfa.or(Xml.GoofedElement("ArticleTitle"), get_text);
      nfa.or(Xml.GoofedElement("PMID"), get_PMID);
      nfa.or(Xml.ETag("MedlineCitation"), end_document);
      dfa = nfa.compile(DfaRun.UNMATCHED_COPY);
	}
	catch (Exception e)
	{
      e.printStackTrace();
      System.exit(-1);
	}
  }

  private static double getKLDivergence (Map <Integer, Double> p_q, Map <Integer, Double> p_d, String pmid)
  {
    double kl = 0;

    for (Map.Entry <Integer, Double> entry : p_q.entrySet())
    {
      if (entry.getValue() > 1E-150 && p_w_b.get(entry.getKey()) != null)
      {
        double p_w_doc = (p_d.get(entry.getKey()) != null ? p_d.get(entry.getKey()) : (nu * p_w_b.get(entry.getKey()))/(doc_length.get(pmid) + nu));
        kl += entry.getValue() * Math.log(p_w_doc/entry.getValue());
      }
    }

    return kl;
  }

  private static Map <Integer, Double> get_p_t(Map <Integer, Double> p_q, List <String> top_d)
  {
	double nu = 100000;

    double discount = 0.99;

    double r = 0;

	Map <Integer, Double> p_t =
			new HashMap <Integer, Double> ();

	// Initialize p_q
	//p_t.putAll(p_q);
	// Get all the candidate term ids from the query and the documents
	Set <Integer> init_terms = new HashSet <Integer> ();

	init_terms.addAll(p_q.keySet());

	// Set random values
	for (String doc : top_d)
	{ init_terms.addAll(docs.get(doc).keySet()); }

	// Normalize
	for (Integer t : init_terms)
	{ p_t.put(t, 1.0/init_terms.size()); }

	int count = 0;

	double [] alpha_d = new double [top_d.size()];

	for (int i = 0; i < alpha_d.length; i++)
	{ alpha_d[i] = 0.1; }

    //while (count < 10)
    do
    {
      r = 0;

      nu = nu * discount;
      Map <Integer, Double> [] p_z = new Map [top_d.size()];

  	  for (int i = 0; i < alpha_d.length; i++)
  	  { p_z[i] = new HashMap <Integer, Double> (); }

      // E-step
      for (Map.Entry <Integer, Double> entry : p_t.entrySet())
      {
    	for (int i = 0; i < alpha_d.length; i++)
    	{
    	  double background = (p_w_b.get(entry.getKey()) != null ? p_w_b.get(entry.getKey()) : 0);

    	  double value = (alpha_d[i] * entry.getValue())/(alpha_d[i]*entry.getValue() + ((1-alpha_d[i])* background) );
    	  p_z[i].put(entry.getKey(), value);
    	}
      }

      // M-step
      p_t.clear();

      // alpha_d estimation
      for (int i = 0; i < alpha_d.length; i++)
      {
        double sum = 0.0;

        Map <Integer, Double> doc_freq = docs_freq.get(top_d.get(i));

        for (Map.Entry <Integer, Double> entry : p_z[i].entrySet())
        {
          if (doc_freq.get(entry.getKey()) != null)
          { sum += entry.getValue() * doc_freq.get(entry.getKey()); }
        }

        alpha_d[i] = sum/doc_length.get(top_d.get(i));
      }

      System.out.println(Arrays.toString(alpha_d));

      // p_t estimation
      double denominator = nu;

      for (int i = 0; i < alpha_d.length; i++)
      {
        Map <Integer, Double> doc_freq = docs_freq.get(top_d.get(i));

        for (Map.Entry <Integer, Double> entry : p_z[i].entrySet())
        {
          if (doc_freq.get(entry.getKey()) != null)
          { denominator += entry.getValue() * doc_freq.get(entry.getKey()); }
        }
      }

      r = denominator - nu;

      // Enter the prior from p_q
      for (Map.Entry <Integer, Double> entry : p_q.entrySet())
      { p_t.put(entry.getKey(), nu * entry.getValue()); }

      // Add counting from documents
      for (int i = 0; i < alpha_d.length; i++)
      {
        Map <Integer, Double> doc_freq = docs_freq.get(top_d.get(i));

        for (Map.Entry <Integer, Double> entry : p_z[i].entrySet())
        {
          if (doc_freq.get(entry.getKey()) != null)
          {
       	    double value = entry.getValue() * doc_freq.get(entry.getKey());

       	    if (p_t.get(entry.getKey()) != null)
       	    { p_t.put(entry.getKey(), p_t.get(entry.getKey()) + value); }
       	    else
       	    { p_t.put(entry.getKey(), value); }
          }
        }
      }

      // Divide by the denominator
      for (Map.Entry <Integer, Double> entry : p_t.entrySet())
      { p_t.put(entry.getKey(), entry.getValue() / denominator); }

      count++;

      System.out.println("r:" + r);
      System.out.println("nu:" + nu);
    }
    //while (r < nu);
    while (r < nu && count < 1000);

    return p_t;
  }

  public static void main (String [] argc)
  throws IOException, ClassNotFoundException
  {
	if (argc.length != 2)
	{
	  System.err.println("PseudoRelevance [XML file] [query_file]");
      System.exit(-1);
	}

    // Load citations
    DfaRun dfaRun = new DfaRun(dfa);
    //dfaRun.setIn(new ReaderCharSource(System.in, "UTF-8"));
    //dfaRun.setIn(new ReaderCharSource(new GZIPInputStream(new FileInputStream("c:\\datasets\\amia_set\\citations.test.xml.gz")), "UTF-8"));
    dfaRun.setIn(new ReaderCharSource(new GZIPInputStream(new FileInputStream(argc[0])), "UTF-8"));
    dfaRun.filter();

    // Estimate the background probability
    for (Map.Entry <Integer, Double> entry : p_w_b.entrySet())
    { p_w_b.put(entry.getKey(), entry.getValue()/(double)token_count); }

    // Estimate the word_document probability based on a Dirichlet Model
    for (Map.Entry <String, Map <Integer, Double>> entry : docs.entrySet())
    {
      Map <Integer, Double> doc = entry.getValue();

      int d_count = 0;
      for (Double v : doc.values()) { d_count += v; }

      doc_length.put(entry.getKey(), (double)d_count);

      for (Map.Entry <Integer, Double> t_c : doc.entrySet())
      {
    	double prob = (t_c.getValue() + (nu * p_w_b.get(t_c.getKey())))/(double)(d_count + nu);
    	doc.put(t_c.getKey(), prob);
      }
    }

    // Load queries
    LinkedList <String> queries = new LinkedList <String> ();
    LinkedList <String> cuis = new LinkedList <String> ();

    String line;

    //BufferedReader b = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("c:\\datasets\\amia_set\\cui_mesh_terms.txt"));
    BufferedReader b = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(argc[1]));

    while ((line = b.readLine()) != null)
    {
      cuis.add(line.split("\\|")[0]);
      queries.add(line.split("\\|")[1]);
    }

    b.close();

    int count = 0;

    // Run retrieval
    for (String query : queries)
    {
      Map <Integer, Double> p_q = Util.splitTextCount(query, trie);

      Map <String, Double> doc_score =
    		  new HashMap <String, Double> ();

      double qsum = 0;
      for (Double val : p_q.values()) { qsum += val;}

      for (Map.Entry <Integer, Double> entry : p_q.entrySet())
      {	p_q.put(entry.getKey(), entry.getValue()/qsum); }

      for (Map.Entry<String, Map <Integer, Double>> doc : docs.entrySet())
      {
    	double kl = getKLDivergence(p_q, doc.getValue(), doc.getKey());

    	if (!Double.isInfinite(kl))
    	{
    	  //System.out.println(doc.getKey() + "|" + cuis.get(count)  + "|" + kl);
    	  doc_score.put(doc.getKey(), kl);
    	}
      }

      List <String> top_docs = new ArrayList <String> ();

      // Rank
      List <Map.Entry <String, Double>> doc_sorted = Util.mapValueDoubleSortDesc(doc_score);

      // Get the top 10
      for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++)
      { top_docs.add(doc_sorted.get(i).getKey()); }

      for (Map.Entry <Integer, Double> entry : p_q.entrySet())
      { System.out.println("q:" + entry.getKey() + "|" + entry.getValue()); }

      Map <Integer, Double> p_q_t = get_p_t(p_q, top_docs);

      for (Map.Entry <Integer, Double> entry : p_q_t.entrySet())
      { System.out.println("q_t:" + entry.getKey() + "|" + entry.getValue()); }

      // Retrieval with the new model
      for (Map.Entry<String, Map <Integer, Double>> doc : docs.entrySet())
      {
    	double kl = getKLDivergence(p_q_t, doc.getValue(), doc.getKey());

    	if (!Double.isInfinite(kl))
    	{ System.out.println(doc.getKey() + "|" + cuis.get(count)  + "|" + kl); }
      }

      count++;

//      break;
    }
  }
}

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Blend on high for 3 minutes. Add 1/2 cup milk and blend an additional 2 minutes. Add remaining ingredients - blending quickly — and cook on hot waffle iron until golden brown.
You can also use this batter for pancakes.
Butter and flour baking sheet.
Whisk 2 cups flour, 1/3 cup sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in large bowl. Add butter and grated orange peel; rub in with fingertips until coarse meal forms. Mix in chocolate chips and dried cherries.
Whisk buttermilk, egg yolk, vanilla extract, and almond extract in small bowl to blend.
Add buttermilk mixture to dry ingredients; stir with fork until dough comes together in moist clumps. Gather dough into ball. Press out dough on lightly floured surface to 3/4-inch thickness.
Using 2-inch heart-shaped cookie cutter, cut out scones. Gather scraps, press out dough and cut out additional scones.
Brush scones lightly with milk; sprinkle with remaining 2 tablespoons sugar. Bake until scones are crusty on top and tester inserted into center comes out clean, about 15 minutes (or up to 20 minutes if refrigerated). Serve warm or at room temperature.
Prepare a boiling water bath and 4 one-pint jars or 8 jelly jars.
Place the lids in a small saucepan, cover with water and simmer over very low heat.
In a large, nonreactive pot, combine rhubarb, sugar, and tea and bring to a boil. Add the vanilla bean and seeds, lemon juice, and salt to the pot and let the mixture bubble gently over med.-high heat for 15-20 min., stirring regularly, until the rhubarb has broken down. Add the packet of liquid pectin and increase the heat to high, to bring the jam up to a rolling boil. Let the jam boil vigorously for 3-4 min., stirring frequently to prevent the bottom from burning. Remove the pot from the heat and ladle the jam into the prepared jars.
Wipe the rims, apply the lids and rings, and process in a boiling water bath for 10 min.
Place 1 pint strawberries and sugar in a food processor or blender and puree. Set aside.
Slice the challah into ½ "thick slices. Arrange one layer in the bottom of a buttered 13 x 9" casserole or baking dish. Arrange the next layer in the opposite direction. Continue with a third layer in the first direction.
Pour the strawberry puree into a large bowl and add the eggs and half and half. Whisk to blend. Pour the mixture over the sliced bread. Push down on the bread with your hands to fully submerge the bread. Cover loosely with foil and place on a sheet pan. Place boxes of pasta or stock on top of the French Toast to weight it and keep it submerged. Refrigerate 4 hours or overnight.
Meanwhile, make the roasted strawberries by arranging the berries (1 pint) on a Silpat lined baking sheet. Drizzle with the maple syrup, grapeseed oil and salt. Roast in preheated 350 oven for 20 minutes, or until the berries have darked slightly. Let cool a few minutes then dribble with a bit of balsamic vinegar. Let cool to room temperature.
Preheat the oven to 350. Carefully remove the foil. Bake until puffed, golden, and fully baked (pierce the center with a small knife to insure no liquid comes out). Let cool, then cut into squares. Serve topped with a bit of the roasted strawberries and a drizzle of maple syrup.


Before Avoid caffeine and cigarettes for at least 30 minutes, because both increase BP. So can a full bladder, so visit the bathroom just before your appointment begins.
During Sit with your back supported (lack of support raises BP), your feet flat on the floor, and your arm resting on a table. The midpoint of your upper arm should align at midchest-heart level. Don't gab. Engaging in conversation, even as a listener, can falsely elevate your numbers.After Test again if your BP seems oddly high or low (it fluctuates naturally). And if you've never done so, have your BP checked in both arms (it can vary by 20 points); thereafter, use the arm with the higher reading.


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Free flu clinics planned
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In an effort to provide additional access to the seasonal flu vaccine, your local board of health is providing flu clinics at a number of schools throughout the district.
Though the clinic is open to all, we are encouraging the vaccination of school children in an effort to reduce potential illness and absenteeism during the school year.
We ask that children (those under the age of 18) be accompanied by a parent or guardian.
A vaccine information sheet, immunization forms, and other necessary forms will be available at each clinic site. Please bring your insurance card.
The vaccination is free.
Clinics will be held Nov. 15 at Oakmont Regional High School, 9 Oakmont Dr, Ashburnham, from 3 to 5 p.m.; Nov. 16 at Blanchard Memorial School, 493 Mass Ave., Boxborough, from 3:30 to 6 p.m.; Nov. 17 at Littleton Middle School, 55 Russell St, Littleton, from 3:30 to 6 p.m.; and Nov. 18 at Thomas C. Passios Elementary School, 1025 Mass Ave., Lunenburg, from 3:30 to 6 p.m.
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Laconic Containment Procedures: SCP-2574 can't be physically contained, and too many people know about it for amnestics to work. The Foundation is trying to keep the peace with governments in affected areas experiencing the backlash, and keep them from trying to attack SCP-2574 with military force, because it won't work.
The GOC and the Foundation have a way to erase SCP-2574 from the public memory and change people's temperaments to be more docile after SCP-2574 made them angrier. It's two parts which don't work without the other, so they can't use them against each other.
Laconic Description: SCP-2574 is a giant stone lion which is slowly making its way towards the site of Franz Ferdinand's assassination. The area around SCP-2574 turns into a WWI combat zone in various different ways. Wherever it goes, it increases discontent with the government and government force against civilians, because it contains all the raw energy and conflict of WWI in itself. Things get worse and worse as it gets closer to its destination, which it will reach pretty soon.
Additional Context: SCP-2574 appears to be the subject of W. B. Yeats' poem "What Rough Beast." Yeats figured out that as it gets closer to its destination, civilization spirals out of control and into chaos. Gavrilo Princip also appears to have known about it in some way, having also seen the "spiral" pattern, and appears to have killed Ferdinand to start its journey to make society more chaotic.
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'30 Rock' cast reunion? Why the show is getting one more episode
NBC already gave us one special episode of a cast reunion when they aired the Parks and Recreation reunion special in April. Now NBC is at it again and this time the carrot they're dangling in faces is another reunion, but of the 30 Rock cast.
That's right, Tina Fey, Alec Baldwin, Jack McBrayer, Jane Krakowski, Tracy Morgan, and more of the cast will be back on NBC in July. It's been seven years since 30 Rock, created & written by Tina Fey, went off the air and it'll be good to see the old TGS crowd together again. While the Parks & Rec special didn't quite work with the remote filming schtick, we're hoping that 30 Rock's classic meta goofiness will get the job done.
On July 16th, we'll be able to watch an hour-long, commercial-free special with the 30 Rock cast reprising their beloved roles. The show will be filmed remotely due to the coronavirus pandemic and will double as an upfront event for the NBCUniversal family of networks.
We can look forward to a whole lot of crossovers from stars in the NBCUniversal family and will use that to highlight returning programming from NBC, USA, Syfy, Bravo, and others. The episode will be scripted and we can't wait to see how Tina's going to play around with the guest appearances.
NBC describes the reunion special as "a-first-of-its-kind all-audience-upfront-event". NBCU's advertising division is driving the special to tout the new stories and talent from NBCUniversal's 2020-21 television season.
Working for the future
Tina Fey & Robert Carlock, 30 Rock's executive producers, have stated that, "We're happy to have this excuse to work together again for NBC. To quote Kenneth the Page, there are only two things we love in this world, television and everyone."
NBCUniversal is excited to produce an upfront special that connects with viewers and celebrates the connections between the network, the advertisers, and the audience. The upfront promotions are historically about presenting the future of the network's programming and, in turn, are about the future of the television industry.
Linda Yaccarino of advertising & partnerships at NBCUniversal also quipped, "As the old saying goes . . . when life hands you Lemon, have her host the upfront!"
30 Rock was named one of the best comedy TV shows of its time and won sixteen Emmys during its run, including winning three Outstanding Comedy Series in a row. To watch the special tune into NBC on Thursday, July 16 8/7c. You'll also be able to find it rebroadcast later on USA, Syfy, E!, Bravo, Oxygen, and CNBC and will be available to stream on Peacock on Friday, July 17.
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Sara enjoys any weird & wonderful films that come her way, particularly serious comedies & humorous dramas. On unsupervised days, she enjoys drinking tea from a nest of blankets, a night of dancing out on the town, and penning the occasional screenplay.
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AT FIELDGATE, WE ARE COMMITTED TO SOUND PROPERTY MANAGEMENT PRACTICES WHERE PART OF OUR CORE VALUES IS THE BELIEF THAT WE HAVE A SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY TO ALL COMMUNITY MEMBERS AND WE DEEM EVERYONE TO BE OUR CUSTOMER. WHETHER YOU ARE A TENANT, CONTRACTOR, EMPLOYEE OR A COMMUNITY MEMBER, WE STRIVE TO PROVIDE EVERYONE WITH THE UTMOST CUSTOMER SERVICE TO OBTAIN A HIGH LEVEL OF CUSTOMER SATISFACTION. THIS IS REFLECTED IN OUR NEED TO BE AN ACTIVE PART OF THE COMMUNITIES IN WHICH WE OPERATE. FIELDGATE IS COMMITTED TO JOINING FORCES IN OUR LOCAL COMMUNITIES NOT ONLY VIA ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP BUT THROUGH SUPPORT OF LOCAL BUSINESSES, CHARITIES AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS.
Please come join us on Saturday August 29th, for the 2nd Annual Family Fun Bash at Highland Marketplace, located at 235 Ira Needles Boulevard in Kitchener. Between the hours of 11:00am and 4:00pm there will be face painting, fire truck, DJ, petting zoo, in-store promotions, door prizes/giveaways and much, much more…!
Shop the shops at Highland Marketplace and enter to WIN prizes!
Humberland Gives Back! On Saturday, June 20th Humberland Plaza hosted a Customer Appreciation Day. With a large customer turnout to show their support of a unique local plaza, it truly showed relationships did matter. The event housed a DJ, ample food from the bakery, face painter, balloon artist, craft for the kids, police and much, much more. Every Customer left with a giveaway and the event proved to be a great success! Hopefully this will be the beginning of a long tradition for the Humberland Plaza. Special thanks goes to Extreme Plowing and Landscaping and Paula Minuti for their participation and contribution.
Please join Humberland Plaza located at 13495 Bathurst Street for their Customer Appreciation Event on Saturday June 20th, 2015 from 11:00 am to 3:00 pm. There will be entertainment for all ages and in store giveaways and promotions.
Bring in a non-perishable food item in support of the Richmond Hill Food Bank.
The Bins are located near the Montessori. Please help Humberland Give Back!
Thank you to everyone who joined us Saturday August 23, 2014 for the 1st Annual Summer Sales Event at the Highland Marketplace.
It was truly a day filled with fun and excitement for all, from pampering yourself at one of the salons for the ladies to face painting and kangaroo petting for the kids and much much more. A very special thanks to all our retail stores at the Highland Marketplace for their participation in making the day a great success!!
Finally, a big congratulations to all of our prize winners!!
See you again, at the Highland Marketplace.
The 1st Annual Highland Marketplace Summer Sales Event is taking place on Saturday August 23, 2014 at 235 Ira Needles Boulevard, Kitchener, Ontario between the hours of 10:00 am and 3:30 pm.
This event will consist of carnival rides, DJ, raffle draws and much more for all to enjoy. Dont miss out, come shop the shops of Highland Marketplace and enter for your chance to win a BBQ!!


DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE) February 14, 2006--Robert O. Snelling, Sr.'s newest venture, RESUMESBYROSS, is a resume writing, job coaching and job interviewing business helping job candidates get the job they want. Observing that 20 million people change jobs annually and that the old ideas of a lifetime career have all but disappeared, Robert Snelling has taken his 50 year career as founder and former CEO of Snelling & Snelling Personnel Services and designed a program to help people find the job that they want. One example of a dramatic change is leaving the military and re-entering the job force. Paul Cerjan, Lieutenant General US. Army, retired, and Vice President KBR Worldwide, knows and sees these types of changes daily. "My career has allowed me to see first hand the relationships between education, military service and private employment. As a Lieutenant General in the US Army, I served for 34 years around the world in command and senior staff positions. In education, I was CEO/President of the National Defense University, the Commandant of the Army War College and President of Regent University. In private life, I have worked in management positions at Loral Corporation, Lockheed Corporation and now serve as Vice President of KBR Worldwide. As talented men and women switch roles dramatically, they greatly benefit from insightful, competent guidance. The RESUMESBYROSS job coach program provides this focus for those leaving the military, regardless of rank," states Paul Cerjan.
RESUMESBYROSS follows a proven step by step process that begins with a RESUME designed to get a YES to an interview. Then RESUMESBYROSS does job coaching to prepare the job candidate to get interviews and to find jobs even when they are not advertised. STEP by STEP Instructions guide job seekers on when to use what kind of resume as well as when and how to work with staffing services, employment agencies and recruiters. JOB SEARCH resources are available through RESUMESBYROSS including the best online search engines and private resources. Finally, RESUMESBYROSS helps each job candidate with that POSITIVE ATTITUDE that gets the job candidate re-started in life. Special discounts are available for military personnel and for students just graduating from high school or college.
The slogan for the new company is "GET A YES!". Paul Cerjan comments, "I would also recommend it for university students working through issues and perspectives that lead to long, productive careers. In today's world, you need a plan. RESUMESBYROSS with its job coaching and resume writing service should be your first step in making that plan." Whether you are leaving active military service, leaving high school or college, or making a mid-career transition, RESUMESBYROSS is the place to start if you want to "GET A YES" to that new career."
It is the desire of our heart to teach others what we have learned in a lifetime of helping millions find their place in the world. A place where they can use their skills, abilities, education, experience and leading to make a difference in their lives, the lives of others, and especially the lives of their families.
The parent company of RESUMESBYROSS is ROSS-HR, Inc., http://www.ross-hr.com, a company that hires and trains affiliates in resume, job search and interview coaching.


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Le Rende Calcio 1968 est le club de football de la ville de Rende, dans la province de Cosenza, en Calabre. L'italien Pino Rigoli est l'entraineur depuis .

Historique

Fondé en 1968, le club a disputé plusieurs fois les championnats professionnels, la dernière fois en 2006-2007 (Serie C2, groupe C).  En 2009, il est promu en excellence régional (Calabre).
En 2014-2015, il évolue en Serie D, en 2018-2019 en Serie C.

Identité du club

Changements de nom
 1968-2017 : Rende Calcio
 2017- : S.S. Rende

Logo

Palmarès

Lien externe

Club de football en Calabre
Club de football fondé en 1968
Province de Cosenza

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Commissioned from Eudetenis for Battle Fantasia by Eri Shimanouchi's player.
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The government has allocated £150m a year for aerospace projects that keep that the UK at the forefront of sector innovations.
Organisations are invited to share their ideas for future aerospace design and manufacture, with the best projects then able to apply for grant funding.
UK-based businesses, research and technology groups and academic organisations can all be the project lead, depending on the project type.
Projects can attract a maximum of 50% grant funding. Within that, individual businesses can attract up to 70% depending on funding requests from other partners.
Project themes are detailed in the UK Aerospace Technology Strategy, and include themes such as improving UK whole-aircraft design and system integration and future-proofing advanced systems technologies in the UK – specifically, smart, connected and electric aircrafts.
Additionally, securing the UK's world-leading position in large, complex aviation structures, particularly wings and developing more efficient propulsion technologies, including large turbofans are also sought after.
The competition will open on April 8, 2019, and closes at midday on April 24 2019.
An online briefing event will be held on April 15, 2019, where organisations can find out more about the competition and apply.


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I've heard it said that a great way to help grow your blog is to have people guest-post. Because my blog is already that awesome, I've asked my first guest, Stacy. She is my ever-wonderful wifey who is writing some more as we wait for Asher. She wanted to share some really good stuff regarding our misconceptions of what's actually in the Bible. Check it out!
In many ways, this is a light-hearted blog. It's a compilation of things I've been noticing over the past few months as I've spent time in the Word, as well as something I've thought about for a long time in terms of cultural misconceptions about the Bible. It's amazing to me how many biblical principles have become mainstream phrases or ways of thought (albeit often taken out of context). If anything, I hope it's a good conversation starter for you if you hear these phrases, or that this information helps you to look at these phrases in a different light.
"The blind leading the blind"- Luke 6:39 "Can a blind man lead a blind man? Will they not both fall into a pit?"
I might be alone in this, but I had no idea that phrase came from the Bible. Here Jesus was teaching multitudes of people who had come to receive healing and to learn from him. He is cautioning against judging others while ignoring your own faults. This is the same parable that goes on to talk about trying to take a speck out of your brother's eye, while ignoring the log in your own.
"Practice what you preach" - Matthew 23:1-4 "Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples, 'The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses' seat, so practice and observe whatever they tell you- but not what they do. For they preach, but do not practice. They tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on people's shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to move them with their finger."
While Jesus walked the earth he spoke some very harsh words, not to people caught in sin or rejected by the community, but often to church leaders and the religious elite of that day. The religious leaders were adding all kinds of additional requirements on people, claiming that they needed to do a myriad of additional things in order to be saved (not unlike many churches today). Jesus instructs the people here to follow what the church leaders said in terms of their teaching of the Old Testament, but to do away with all of the additional bologna that they claimed was needed to be accepted by God.
I really think here I'm revealing my ignorance. I had no idea that this familiar line from weddings actually came from the Bible.
"A fool's lips walk into a fight, and his mouth invites a beating." Proverbs 18:6. I just think this is funny!
"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." (AKA the "Golden Rule"). Spoke by Jesus himself and still permitted to hang in public classrooms everywhere. It's just that good.
"God will never give you more than you can handle."
This is a comforting thought, but I'll give you $50 if you can show me where God promises that. He actually often gives us more than we can handle, because that causes us to rely on Him and see our need for Him. He does promise never to leave us or forsake us, He promises to comfort us, to lead us, and to sustain us through difficulty. He is good like that.
"Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day, teach a man to fish and he'll eat for a lifetime."
I sadly saw this quoted in someone's eulogy....It was a quote where she said she believed in this "biblical principal." This is a truism...but I'm not sure where it came from. Aesop? Anyway, it's not in the Bible. Although there are a lot of fishermen in the Bible.
I don't know where this came from. Maybe an attempt at "Christianizing" the cultural idea of pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps? It is certainly not in the Bible. The God who we see over and over again in the Old and New Testament is a God who helps people who are utterly helpless. He chooses the small, meaningless tribe of Israel to be his chosen people. He choses Moses, a man who did not have great public speaking skills, to announce His orders to the most powerful ruler in the world, and then to communicate the 10 Commandments to God's people. He chooses Gideon, a terrified soldier, to defeat some of God's enemies. He does it in such a way that it could only have been God (I love that story...Judges 6-8). He chooses Mary, an unassuming, poor, teenager to carry and raise the Son of God. Over and over again, He rescues and saves people who make the same foolish mistakes over and over again...not because they have anything worthwhile in and of themselves, but because He is good.
Thanks for reading my very scattered thoughts! I hope that the information presented in this blog encourages you to dig into your Bible and consider it's teachings for yourself!


Reading with our Yr2 buddies.
R.E. homework is handed out once every half term.
Children are expected to read daily and have at least four signatures in their reading record each week.
All homework to be completed and handed in.
All year 6 reading records are checked.


Back after a little work induced hiatus. Continuing our photographic journey, in this lesson we learn about proper exposure, manual metering, and the impact of film speed / ISO.
1. Choose a subject of interest to you, and photograph that subject in manual mode using the technique of bracketing as described in chapter 4 of the text.
2. Try shooting your subject from four or more directions, metering and bracketing from each direction.
3. Shoot one subject using all of your available ISO settings.
4. Download your pictures or process your film using any film processing service that offers digitization of 35mm negative film so that the images can be displayed on the Web.
5. Review the pictures, and select four (4) images that you feel best demonstrate your abilities associated with this activity.
6. Post a brief self-critique of your photographic exercise (about 1–3 paragraphs). Describe the photos, how you carried out the exercise, what worked and what didn't, what you like about the photos you selected and what you would like to do differently.
Frankly, I found this exercise pretty boring which is part of the reason I took so long to do it. Bracketing is pretty simple: take three photos, one under-exposed, one at the correct exposure, and one over-exposed. My camera can automatically perform the shift in exposure through a feature called auto exposure bracketing (AEB). When shooting in manual exposure mode, the camera shifts the shutter speed to adjust the eposure. Below you have the top photo one stop under-exposed, the middle properly exposed, and the bottom one stop over-exposed. The photos are straight out of the camera with no post processing.
The exposure level of a photograph (how bright or dark it is) gets determined by three factors: the lens aperture, the shutter speed, and the film speed or ISO. Shutter and aperture, and their trade-offs (motion blur/stopping and depth of field) were covered in assignment 2. The trade off in changing the ISO is noise. Known as grain in film, noise shows up as black and white (or colored) dot patterns throughout the photo. Noise is normally greater in the darker areas of the photo. Newer and higher quality cameras tend to have less noise, even at higher ISO settings. In these images I really don't start seeing the noise until the last highest two ISO settings. The below photos show the effect of increasing the ISO while maintaining the proper exposure and go from 100 to 12800 in one stop increments (100, 200, 400, 800, 1600, 3200, 6400, 12800). Again, the images have no post processing.


"Seed-density effects on germination and initial seedling establishment" by RJ Orth, JR Fishman et al.
The influence of Zostera marina L. seed-density on germination and initial seedling success was investigated using seed-addition field experiments at 2 scales in the Chesapeake Bay region in 1999 and 2000. We first tested whether germination rates and initial seedling establishment were affected by initial seed-densities of 2.5, 25, 250, and 1250 seeds m(-2) within 4 m(2) plots. We then tested whether plot size affects germination rates, following the hypothesis that rates of seed predation might be different in large and small plots. We broadcast seeds at a single density (500 seeds m(-2)) but at a much larger plot size (100 m(2), or 25 times the size of the small plots). In the spring following seed broadcast, seedlings were present in most 4 m(2) plots (seedling densities of 0.6 to 15.4% of the number of seeds released in 1999, and 3.3 to 23.3% of those released in 2000) and in all too m(2) plots (4.3% to 13.9%). Seed-density effects were not significant in 1999 or 2000, while site effects were significant in both years. The percentages of seedlings in the larger plots were similar to those in the smaller plots. These results suggest that there were no density-dependent effects on germination and initial seedling establishment, and that within the size range of plots examined in this study, such processes are not likely to be scale-dependent. The significant differences among the sites may be related to micro-topographic complexities of the bottom caused by both biotic and abiotic factors that allow seeds to be retained close to where they settle. Our data, combined with previously published data on seed dispersal and patch dynamics, stress the importance of conserving existing beds, regardless of bed size and shoot density, since these are sources of seeds that may establish new patches. The data may also help in developing strategies for the restoration of denuded sites using seeds instead of adult plants.
Orth, RJ; Fishman, JR; Harwell, MC; and Marion, SR, "Seed-density effects on germination and initial seedling establishment in eelgrass Zostera marina in the Chesapeake Bay region" (2003). VIMS Articles. 171.


I booked a Grand Canyon Rafting Tour online. Although there was some confusion of me being originally booked on a private party trip , Sandy from Western River Expeditions handled the change professionaly and made accommodations for my being slightly inconvenienced. She was very helpful throughout the trip planning stages.
The materials the company sent me were superb! I would suggest that everyone taking the trip pay close attention to the suggested packing suggestions and follows that list closely.
We had great guides. You have gems in Cash, Anthony, Marty and Wren. They were all informative, courteous, helpful and did everything possible to assure that the trip would be pleasurable as possible.
The rapids, scenery, meals, rafts and camping equipment were all awesome. Western River Expeditions will be the only group that I will consider if I have the opportunity to take another trip, in an area where their services are offerred. I will suggest WRE to all my friends!


Christmas is nearly here, which means Houston has wound down for the holidays. But the talented photographers in our Flickr pool have been as busy as ever, capturing our winter scenes and the holiday cheer.
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International patient in Spain
HM Hospitales has been fully committed to offer its international patients the very highest standards in healthcare right from the start.
HM Hospitales is the leading Hospital Group in Madrid, covering all medical and surgical specialties, with 6 General Hospitals and 3 Comprehensive Centres super-specialised in Oncology, Cardiology and Neuroscience.
After 25 years, our Group remains faithful to the values that have made us an international benchmark, thanks to our advanced levels or specialization, research and technological equipment, and our prestigious professional medical, which altogether ensure that our patients receive a 24/7 fully international personalised and comprehensive service. Our international staff speaking over 6 languages will accompany the patient continuously, respecting their opinions and culture.
Patient oriented, a philosophy based on experience and the pillars that have made us an international benchmark in healthcare.
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Treatment abroad. Success oriented. A solution for every problem.
International patient mobility driven by access to more prestigious medical treatments and diagnoses and at a most affordable price is registering continuous growth. This phenomenon, commonly known as health tourism, positions our Hospitals in a privileged position due to their extended international experience and the highest professional standards. This encourages us to further improve not only our international patient care protocols, but also to continue seeking agreements and cooperation with other countries in order to expose the advanced specialisation of our services and facilitate better access to those services for our patients.
HM Hospitales has a long-standing experience as it has been treating many international patients for many years who come from all over the world. These international patients may come to us from their country of residence for a second medical opinion, attracted by the prestige of medicine in Spain, by our professional specialists, our advanced technologies and the well-recognised quality of our healthcare services, or they may be expatriates, such as diplomats from the different embassies located in Madrid, employees of international companies, or students who are over on an exchange program. We also assist a great amount of tourists who have required medical assistance at some point during their trip.
HM Hospitales offers a patient oriented vision of medicine that focuses on their health and needs. For this reason, each patient has a medical team created specially based on the patient´s illness, guaranteeing that each professional on the team is the best in their specialised field.
This team works in coordination with the rest of the specialists in the hospital and with the patient´s doctors at their place of residence, in the case it is needed, to guarantee the best pre and post-treatment comprehensive care.
In order to request medical assessment, you may contact us under international@hmhospitales.com or (+34) 914 452 126
Please provide as much medical information as possible. Our team will reply within 48-72 hours according to the degree of specialisation. You will receive a detailed costs estimate for the requested services.
Once the patients accept coming to our facilities and arrive at our Hospitals, our multilingual employees will meet them in our reception personally and accompany them throughout the whole process in coordination with the whole Hospital. All services and procedures are carried out directly, quickly and efficiently, so that the patient feels safe and secure and there is no potential language barrier between the doctor and the patient. After their visit, patients receive all their medical records in a clear an efficient way.
Likewise, we will ensure that the patient´s doctor at home, their family members or their healthcare insurance providers are duly and constantly informed of the patient´s medical evolution, whenever required.
Designed for you. Because your health travels with you.
From HM Hospitales we understand we must play a role in supporting international patients by seeking to build as many ties as possible with their countries of origin, so as to facilitate them the access to our medical treatments.
If you are an expatriate such as a diplomat, an employee of any international company, a student over on an exchange program or a tourist who requires medical assistance at some point during your stay in the area of Madrid, Toledo or La Coruña we will be your best option as medical provider.
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I bought a lot of dice at Gen Con 2015. I bought a set for myself, a set for my wife, and a set for all three of my children. Then I bought some special dice for Fantasy Flight Games' role playing game, Force and Destiny. Two sets of those special dice as a matter of fact. Like many gamers, buying dice is a yearly tradition at the four best days in gaming. I also decided to finally buy some of the fancy dice made by Q Workshop, and as a fan of the Pathfinder Role Playing Game, I decided to pick up one of the dice sets for the recent adventure path, Iron Gods.
The Pathfinder Dice Set – Iron Gods is designed to resemble the Numerian technology featured in the adventure path. The dice are dark, but the markings are light blue which contrasts well. No issues reading the numbers on these dice. They roll well, and I look forward to unleashing them on my players.
All the dice are belong to me!
I give the Pathfinder Dice Set – Iron Gods a 5.0 out of 5.0.


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The status of women in many countries has increased post-globalization. They started to represent in different organisations, the gender gap in the payment system decreased and legislation were made to stand for their rights. In India, even though the impact of globalization has strengthened the women movements and their rights, the patriarchal values existing in the society discriminate women in different ways. This discrimination is very high in the film industry as Films are the reflection of the society and vice versa.
Film is a reflection of society, both present and past. I think the film and it's innovations sometimes has to catch up to society but sometimes it leads society too. Movies are stories, movies are people who come out with ideas about something they want to say, something they want to tell someone. Movies are a form of communication and that communication, those stories, come from societies- not just where society is presently and what it's doing now- but where society has been. It's been that way for as long as movies have been around!
Tom Sherak
Before getting to the blog :
This Blog is the Continuation of: https://mavelysdiary.wordpress.com/2020/04/15/patriarchy-in-indian-cinema/
The survey discussed below was done through a virtual platform.
There were 364 respondents, 241 women and 123 men.
To compare the data, 123 women were selected through sampling method.
The majority of respondents of the survey belongs to Kerala State.
Indian Cinema & the Society
The societal beliefs and value system influence the film industry and vice versa. Cinema is one of the medium which brings new trends and lifestyles in the society.
From its birth, the Indian film industry has brought out new trends and revolutions through powerful films.
From the old style of MGR to the coeval actors, there were numerous adaptation of styles by the common people.
For Instance, The Malayalam movie Honey Bee, a trend changing movie in Mollywood which depicts the story of youth and film have brought a new wave among the youth with new slangs like "bro", "freak", "machan" along with new generation dressing. Like this, each film has an impact in the society.
On the other hand, the impact of the society in the film also plays a large part. Thus the society and film are interrelated.
Even being one of the largest film industry, Indian film Industry still reflects patriarchy and male chauvinism.
The patriarchy that exists in the society reflects on the screen. The societal value system which treats women as a divine or good homemaker still exist all over the community.
A film depend on the power structure of the society, which in India is male-is dominated. The Directors take preferences of taking film that go in hand with the societal mores and norms. Since the Indian society is made up of patriarchal values and beliefs, the same get reflected in the big screen.
The Religious aspects affecting the Film.
Indians are entangled by high beliefs and value system through religion and religious scriptures. Most of the religions consider women to be a divine home maker and to be the subordinate of men.
They give the men complete power to be dominant in the society. The evil practices of Sati, Child marriage and fate of a widow were all brought to the society by religion.
Empowering women through the medium of cinema is tough for the filmmakers as they will have to face consequences from the majority of people who belief in the power system.
Deepa Mehtas Fire and water were one among them, as both film shows the freedom of women but were denied by the society. The telecasting of the films were stopped by the RSS, saying that those were against Manusmrithi.
The Marketing Strategy of films upholding the Patriarchy
Marketing and publicity, initially represent about five to ten per cent of a film's success at the box office but today it determines up to fifty per cent of a film's success.
Economic liberalisation created a new wave in the marketing strategy of the Indian film Industry. Traditionally, Hindi films were screened in large single-screen theatres with separate seating sections that catered to people from a wide range of social classes and demographics.
Thus, a filmmaker could not make a niche film if he expected to make profits as a theatre owner needed to sell a thousand seat hall. The goal was to make a "super hit" film that would appeal to everyone.
While traditional notions of masculinity are still at play, mass media also influences the constructions of gender identity. Cinema halls in India are an extremely gendered space, primarily occupied by young men.
Indian male filmgoers enjoy watching male stars, making them objects of their affection. These on-screen images of male stars are objects of the filmgoers' gaze, while also promoting a strong identification that leads male audience members to view themselves as "framed by the looks of others."
This is manifested in imitation of the stars' style and swagger. Young men in particular copy the clothes, hairstyles and mannerisms of both heroes and villains, often memorizing whole chunks of dialogues.
The largest film audiences come from poor lower caste and lower class urban males. This group numbers around 165 million. They have low levels of disposable income and, as men have much higher status than women, women are more likely to be confined to the home than men, though they still attend the cinema, in lesser numbers.
As the reach of media is much narrower in rural areas than in urban centres, the rural counterparts of the urban poor are a less accessible but much larger group. Both urban and rural poor have low levels of disposable income and film choices are made carefully.
Since males are the major theatre visitors, the filmmakers look deeply to the male audience perspective to market films.
To understand this, (the number of times a female/male visit the theatre) a survey was conducted equally between the male and female.
From the graph certain conclusions can be analysed:
From the survey, it is clear that men go to the theatre more than women
The percentage of male, always going to the theatre is more than that of the female. It was found that out of 123 respondents of males twenty-three of them visit the theatre most of the times and around 13 females visit the theatre in the same manner. The positive element that we get from this analysis is that the females going to the theatre is increasing.
It's evident from the graph that most people visit the theatre, not in a regular basis and the men going to the theatre is far more than the females.
Looking closely, it is found that women, number in visiting the theatre rarely is more than the males. The females who rarely visit the theatre is far more than those who went to the theatre. Whereas men who go to the theatre always is more in number than who rarely goes to the theatre. In another study, where the respondents were only women, out of 241 respondents female who goes to theatre rarely is greater in number.
We could infer from the graph that the men going to the theatre is far more than women and hence our understanding of the male dominance in the theatre could be traced.
Thus to get the profit for the filmmakers, they always think from the male-dominant perspective, as most viewers are men. Majority of the respondents of this survey are from Kerala, one of the developed state in India. But if this is the situation of a literate state like Kerala, what would be the situation of all those other states where patriarchy is high?
Item Dance and The Marketing Strategy Behind it.
Item dance is one of the major evil, discriminating women in the film industry. Majority of them are thrilled by the Item dances, while watching Indian films.
The term "item" is used as a slang word for an attractive and promiscuous woman in the film industry and so does in the society, consequently viewing a woman as a possessive piece of property that is subject to being owned and objectified by a man. From this slang word came the term "item number" or "item song" referring to a catchy and upbeat song featuring an attractive woman who is dancing for the pleasure and entertainment of her dominantly male audience
For an Indian woman in the spotlight, it seems near impossible to escape the male gaze. Female protagonists are often depicted as objects of desire: sexy, playful, coy, flirty, and decidedly feminine. Many a time they are arm candy, or props to the narratives of men
The concept of item dance in many films are logic-less and is not justified according to the demanded situation. For instance, In certain films after the introduction or after a fight, The hero get into a bar. There will be few beautiful girls in the bar who gets admired by the hero's masculinity glamour, try to seduce him through dance and at last there will be more women and hero dancing with all of them~ Item dance end and hero go to love another girl and fight villains.
Item Dances in the films are a marketing strategy for the promotion of the film.
To know more about the opinion of the people on the topic whether item dance in films is a way of discriminating women, an online survey was conducted among 123 males and 123 females. The response were stunning.
From the graph, it is understood that the majority of the male respondents think, item dance is not discriminating women and in a way it convey the thoughts of promoting/supporting item dances in films.
Whereas the women consider the item dance as a discrimination against them. The majority of them support for removing item dance from movies.
We have described the item dance just being the marketing strategy to promote films and from the samples, it is clear that males look forward for item dances. So once again it's clear that the filmmakers look toward a male perspective while making a film to make a profit.
Most commercial movies have item dances in it, especially Bollywood showcases high number of item dances. Apart from discriminating the women, item dances has fewer or no logic.
Majority of the female respondents are against to item dance as they feel offended by seeing it. The society has to realise that the women are no more the pleasure elements for the satisfaction of man and they have equal rights similar to that of men.
Most of the respondent in the survey are from Kerala. Unlike Bollywood, there are only less films with item dances in the second decade of twenty-first century, but the item dances from the film Madhuraraja, 916, Lucifer where all topics of debate in many social platforms.
Sexism and Misogyny in the Film Industry
It is true that the support and cheers given by the audience to the sexism and misogynist dialogues, further lead the film makers to bring more such dialogues to the films.
In my last blog, I have mentioned few famous dialogues from movies like Narasimham and The King, where the male protagonist's offensive and idiotic dialogues showered over the women character were highly appreciated by the audience. To know more get into the link:
https://mavelysdiary.wordpress.com/2020/04/15/patriarchy-in-indian-cinema/
Just think! why are the audience energetic/ enthusiastic to hear such dialogues? Do women like to hear such dialogue presentations?
To understand the stance of Men and women, when they hear sexist/misogynist dialogues in the film, a survey was conducted.
From the results, it's clear that the majority (67%) of the women agreed that they get offended when they hear discriminatory dialogues against them.
26% of them at times get offended by such dialogue presentation.
7% of the respondents do not get offended to such patriarchal dialogues.
Now lets look in to the male responses:
From the graph, it's clear that 43% of the male respondents are aware of the discrimination faced by women on the big screen.
36 out of 123 (29%) of them get offended when they come across patriarchal dialogues.
28% per cent of them have no problem in hearing such dialogues
Comparing the respondent's views we could see that Majority(67%) of the women get offended while hearing dialogues which contain the element of patriarchy in it whereas only 29% of men get offended to such dialogues. Also it's visible that, around 28% of men have no offence in hearing sexist/misogynist dialogues. Maximizing the analysis, we could find that majority of the women in the society does not like to hear misogynist dialogues raised in the film industry.
The Choice of Actor/Actress
To understand the level of admiration, whether is towards male actors or to female actors the survey data were analysed.
The questionnaires were distributed among two fort six peoples, equally among male and female.
Out of this two forty-six respondents, one hundred and twenty called out the names of the male actors and only twenty-three called out female names. The mixed names and writing different answers were neglected.
From the names mentioned, the most called out name among the male actors was Mohanlal and the most called out name among the female actresses was Deepika Padukone.
This show that the rate of acting influences the audience more than the gender. On the other dimension we could also infer that more the screen appearances, the more are they recognised. Fewer the film appearance the least known.
To get an idea about the genre of the film viewed by the more audience few films were listed out.
The list contains both women-centric as well as male-centric movies.
Narasimham topped the list with the most number of views. (335)
Uyare is in the second position with 329 viewers.
Fire(1996) is the film with the least viewers.
Among the top five viewed film list two are women concentric film, which is a good sign of a shift in the thoughts of people. The people start to look at the film making and the content of the film rather than the star acting in it. The attitude of the society toward patriarchy is changing and we could witness this through films like Raazi, padmaavath, 22 FK, Mary Kom, Neerja, English Vinglish, How old Are You..so on.
Women Warriors have raised to fight patriarchy and chauvinism in the Indian film Industry. They marked their signature in the film industry through their mind-blowing works. Things have started to change from then, The films with the women-centric concepts which projected the women oppressions and their feelings, were communicated through films by these women warriors. Two things happened then:
Society understood the plight of women oppression in a different part of the country and around the globe.
Even little girls, inspired by the women warriors started to dream about their career in film and film making.
In the next Blog we will look into the subject:
The Women Warriors; a Fight against the Patriarchy and Male Chauvinism in the Indian Film Industry.
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Ashwathi says:
Hi Jose! Great analysis. It was interesting to read your inferences about the data you collected especially the part about how men and women view discrimination in the movies.
A couple of suggestions:
1. You have insightful comments on each of the domains you covered. Support it with author-backed evidence so that the readers are able to understand that what you say is also proved by others. References at the end of the article will also help.
2. The aspects you have covered in this article are research-worthy topics in itself. When it comes to South Indian film industry, we have a limited array of artists who fall under the category of 'popular'. Perhaps exploring 'why' they are popular would help you and us to understand what is it about them that supports/discourages patriarchal socio-cultural norms. Maybe another article on that? 🙂
Well done on a clean analysis of a difficult topic! Looking forward to read more!
Ashwathi
Jose John Mavely says:
Yes, there is one more article under process about the topic ( part III), but the focus will be more from a women-centric perspective. Thank you for the appreciation and critics. Definitely will look to suggestions in the coming articles.
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SSA participates in alliances and partnerships with local and regional community organizations. Currently we are charter members of the Livermore Valley Performing Arts Center, LVPAC. We conduct Suzuki Violin Classes at the Crowden Music Center in Berkeley, CCMC. SSA arranges and leads a summer youth symphony orchestra. LASYO, in partnership with the Livermore Amador Symphony Association, LAS, the local symphony. SSA has also been part of the outreach program of Del Valle Fine Arts, DVFA, the local chamber music association. We also teach music classes called Music For Mommy & Me for very young children, in the Livermore Area Park and Recreation District, LARPD's general class program.
SSA runs a year around forty-two week instruction calendar. Instrumental students have one individual and one group lesson each week. The Academy offers lessons on string instruments to children from three years old with the Suzuki Method, up through high-school age. The current students represent all levels of the Suzuki curriculum, from beginning to advanced levels. Throughout the school year and summer, students perform at numerous formal concerts and recitals as part of our concert series. They also perform at informal recitals internally at the academy and as out reach to the community. Performance is an integral part of the students' education. The program includes chamber music and chamber orchestra classes for further performance experience.
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SpaceX is sending two private citizens around the moon in 2018
Posted 1:05 pm, February 28, 2017, by Tribune Media Wire
A SpaceX rocket makes a successful launch on March 4, 2016 in Cape Canaveral, Fla. (Photo by NASA via Getty Images)
By Meg Wagner
Two wealthy but non-celebrity space tourists
Elon Musk's aerospace manufacturer and space travel company SpaceX plans to send two tourists around the moon by the end of 2018 — marking the first time that humans have traveled that deep into space in more than 45 years.
The unnamed private citizens have already paid a "significant deposit" for the weeklong cruise around the moon, SpaceX said in a statement.
Musk — who is perhaps also well known as the co-founder and CEO of electric car company Tesla, and for his new gig on President Trump's advisory council — refused to say how exactly much the would-be space tourists have paid or name them, although he admitted that they're not celebrities.
''It's nobody from Hollywood,'' he said.
If the private mission takes off as planned near the end of 2018, it will come 46 years after NASA's most recent moon landing, in December 1972.
The paying passengers will not step foot on the moon. Instead, they'll loop around it before sailing back to Earth. In the nearly two years before they take off, the pair will receive extensive training for emergencies, Musk said.
The mission announcement comes about six months after one of SpaceX's rockets exploded on a Florida launch pad, destroying a commercial satellite that was meant to help bring internet access to Africa. Musk insists that the 2018 trip will be safe, albeit not entirely risk-free.
"They're certainly not naive, and we'll do everything we can to minimize that risk, but it's not zero. But they're coming into this with their eyes open," Musk said.
A history of firsts
If the private citizens' flight goes off as planned, it'll be another first for the California-based SpaceX — for private citizens to orbit the moon.
Musk founded the company in 2002 with the ultimate goal of sending humans to live on Mars. In 2010, it became the first private company to send an unmanned capsule into orbit. Two years later, SpaceX sent one of its spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS), marking the first time a private craft docked at the governments-run facility.
SpaceX has worked heavily with NASA since its inception — in 2014, the U.S.'s federal space agency selected it as one of two private entities to transport NASA astronauts to and from the ISS (Boeing was the other company selected). Those flights likely won't take off until 2019.
In the meantime, NASA has used SpaceX rockets to ferry research equipment into space.
On Monday, NASA lauded SpaceX's private moon mission.
"NASA commends its industry partners for reaching higher," the agency said in a statement.
Next stop: Mars?
While the flight around the moon will be a major accomplishment for SpaceX, the billionaire still has his eyes set on Mars. The company's settlement program, Mars One, aims to establish a permanent human colony on the distant planet.
But the journey to the Red Planet isn't running on time. SpaceX originally planned to send a robotic probe to Mars in 2018, but that mission was rescheduled for 2020. SpaceX execs said that they were forced to push back the date to focus on trips to the ISS, and to work with NASA.
At first, SpaceX vowed to send its first crewed flights to Mars in 2024. But in 2016, Mars One unveiled an updated timeline, and now the first crews to land on the Red Planet are expected in 2032, following a seven-month-long, one-way spacecraft ride.
The company has been recruiting its frontline of astronaut-pioneers for the program since 2013 when 202,586 people applied to be in the first wave of Mars settlers. That pool that has been whittled down to 100. After more cuts this year, 12 to 24 wannabe astronauts will start training, SpaceX said.
Musk's Mars mission may be humankind's most tangible hope to get people on the red planet. While NASA has sent rovers and probes there, it has never attempted to send a human. The government agency has long promised to send astronauts to Mars, although it has never detailed a timeline or plan to do so.
"We think we're on the right trajectory to get humans to Mars in the 2030's," NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said in April, without providing specifics.
In his inaugural address on Jan. 20, President Donald Trump said the U.S. is "ready to unlock the mysteries of space," and has since urged NASA to fly back to the moon. However, he's made no mention of Mars.
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Forestville Central School celebrated the successful "Make a Difference Day" projects that helped raise $4,570.66 in memory of Pamela Cleary to the pediatric unit at Roswell Park Cancer Institute. Students participated in projects such as making stuffed teddy bears, get-well puzzles, books on tape, art posters, car washes, bake sales, read-a-thon, spaghetti dinner and penny harvest. Faculty, staff, administration, parents, children and community members all worked together toward a common goal — to help children who are affected by cancer. Coordinators for the event were Carol Peak-McDonald and Dolores Case.
The Lake Shore Savings and Loan Association has brought more good national attention to Northern Chautauqua County. A recent study by the U.S. League of Savings Institutions rates Lake Shore among the 32 best in the nation. More than 3,100 savings and loans in the U.S. were surveyed in the study, which was published in the October issue of Savings Institutions magazine. To illustrate the study, the magazine uses a bunch of bananas on its cover. Lake Shore, which has offices in Dunkirk and Fredonia, is listed among the "top bananas" because it scored well on a test in which six financial indicators were evaluated.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plans to initiate construction in February on the $5.4 million smallboat harbor project in Dunkirk. Federal funds totaling $650,000 are included for the Dunkirk harbor project in the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act that was signed into law by President Carter on Oct. 18. Dunkirk Harbor is the only major port of refuge on the south shore of Lake Erie between Buffalo and Erie. Plans for inner breakwalls have been discussed since 1945.
Fifty years ago — 1968
Susan Long, 13, of 210 Franklin Ave., Dunkirk has been named Co-Ed correspondent for the 1968-69 school year, according to an announcement by Miss Margaret Houser, editor of Co-Ed magazine. Co-Ed is published nationally by Scholastic Magazines Inc. for home economics students and contains articles on fashion, food, beauty and home furnishings and fiction. Miss Long is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Long Jr. and is the eighth grade at Dunkirk Junior High School.