Gary Lee Perry, 55, of Orange died Friday, June 26, 2009, in Winnsboro, Texas. Funeral services will be at 4 p.m., Wednesday, at Claybar Funeral Home in Orange. The Rev. Mike Fredrick will officiate. Burial will follow at Harris Cemetery in Orange. Visitation will be from 5-8 p.m., Tuesday at the funeral home.
Gary was born on July 30, 1953 in Bryan. He was the son of Lyndon Deerwood Perry Sr. and Elma (Delano) Cosper. He worked for American Eagle Lines as a truck driver. He also worked as a graveyard cook at Gary's Coffee Shop for seven years. Gary loved helping people and his family. He also liked kids and coaching little league.
He is preceded in death by his parents, Lyndon Perry and Elma Cosper; daughter, Brenda Perry; and sister, Debbie Kyle.
Gary is survived by his daughters and son-in-law, Denise Crumpler of Winnsboro and Tiffany and Shahid Mahmood of Orange; son, C.J. Perry of Orange; grandchildren, Austin Crumpler and Ryan Graham; brother, Lyn Perry of Winnsboro; sisters and brothers-in-law, Sharon and Carol Young of Orangefield and Margaret and Tony West of Winnsboro.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the family for the funeral expenses.


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IAF chopper crashes in Jammu and Kashmir's Budgam; 2 pilots, civilian dead
The crash has come a day after the IAF targeted terrorist training camps in Pakistan.
Statesman News Service | Jammu | February 27, 2019 3:51 pm
Smokes billows from the remains of an Indian Air Force helicopter after it crashed in Budgam district, on the outskirts of Srinagar. (Photo: AFP)
Two pilots and a civilian were killed on Wednesday when a chopper of the IAF crashed near the Garend Kalan village of Budgam district in the central Kashmir. Sources said that the chopper MI-17 had crashed due to some technical snag.
Police said that two bodies have been recovered from the wreckage of the helicopter that had caught fire.
An official statement about the crash from the defence authorities was awaited. A court of enquiry has been ordered into the mishap.
Reports said that a 30 years old civilian, Kifayat Ahmad Ganaie, who was standing there was killed as the helicopter crashed. Three other villagers had a miraculous escape.
A large number of villagers reached the crash spot and the police and Army dispersed them. The fuselage of the helicopter was burning when it fell down in an open area.
The crash has come a day after the IAF targeted terrorist training camps in Pakistan. The Pakistan Air Force violated the Indian airspace this morning and dropped bombs near four military installations.
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BELLA VISTA (KFSM) - An art exhibit about human trafficking and modern day slavery opens Tuesday (Apr.28) at Mercy in Bella Vista. All of the artwork is part of the Faces of Freedom art exhibit. The exhibit takes you on a journey with survivors through their stories of oppression, injustice, and freedom.
Each portrait has a story about the victims and how they were rescued.
Human trafficking is of critical concern for the Sisters of Mercy. That's why they're partnering with Mercy Hospital and the Freedom 58 Project to raise awareness.
The project started with Bob and Libby Swenson of Colorado and their objective is to raise awareness about modern day slavery. According to statistics, 12 to 20,000 young girls are trafficked every year in different countries.
Libby Swenson said the idea to raise awareness came from her husband. "He said what if we could have protrait artists use their skills to tell the story of an individual person whose life has been transformed," said Libby. Bob Swenson contacted portrait artists from all over the world said Libby. "When they heard about this project and how they could be involved, all of them got so excited."
According to Bob, "I wanted to do something expectional. The only thing I could think of was to start an art exhibit."
"I had one painting and took that around to different parts of the country, and the next thing I know I was getting one painting a week donated from artists from across the country," said Bob.
The exhibit is open to the public and will be on display through June 5th.
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Celebrate Cardiff Met's cultural diversity!
4th March 2019 - 8th March 2019.
Grab your passport and take a trip around the globe in just five days at Cardiff Met's Global Week!
With activities, classes and exhibits happening at both Llandaff and Cyncoed campuses, Global Week certainly has something for everyone.
Ever fancied trying a new language, tasting some international cuisine, having a henna tattoo or trying on a saree? Well this is the perfect opportunity for you to be involved! Global week is an opportunity for students and staff to interact with their peers and learn about other cultures in celebration of our diversity on campus.
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«Пла́чу на техно» — песня группы «Хлеб» из альбома 2017 года «Пушка». Большей популярности добился совместный с «Cream Soda» ремейк песни, выпущенный в 2020 году во время коронавирусного карантина. Оригинал песни музыкальные журналисты называли одним из предвестников популярности наследия стиля группы «Руки вверх!» в русскоязычной поп-музыке конца 2010-х и начала 2020-х, а ремейк стал одним из самых популярных русскоязычных треков 2020 года.

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Оригинальная песня была первой на альбоме «Пушка» и вызвала удивление рецензентов, ожидавших пародийного рэпа. Вместо этого очевидно влияние на песню творчества группы «Руки Вверх!» и конкретно хита 2002 года «Он тебя целует»; группа даже предлагала Сергею Жукову сняться в клипе, но они не смогли договориться по срокам. Авторы признавались, что источниками для этой песни послужили не только «Руки вверх!», но и «Гости из будущего» и «Демо». Вокал в версии группы «Хлеб» принадлежит участнику группы Кириллу Трифонову, чей голос по мнению участников группы наиболее похож на голос Сергея Жукова. Также участники группы рассказывали, что предлагали песню Басте, но тот посчитал, что в их версии уже всё неплохо, и не взялся.

Песня описывает страдания расставшегося с девушкой героя, пришедшего на технодискотеку, где его бывшая пассия танцует с другим. В тексте упоминаются закрывшийся московский фестиваль электронной музыки Outline, а также диджеи Рикардо Вильялобос и Нина Кравиц, играющие техно. 17 ноября 2017, через неделю после выхода альбома «Пушка» был выпущен клип на песню, соответствующий тексту: герой (участник «Хлеба» Денис Кукояка) приходит на дискотеку, где видит свою бывшую (модель Карина Истомина) с другим.

Версия Cream Soda

В 2020 году команда, близкая к YouTube-каналу «Чикен Карри» и телешоу «Вечерний Ургант» занялась производством YouTube-шоу «Поменялись хитами», в рамках которого два приглашённых артиста или группы исполняли кавер-версии песен друг друга. Ведущий шоу Константин Анисимов предложил группе «Хлеб» поучаствовать в выпуске с Валерием Меладзе, предполагалось, что он исполнит «Шашлындос», а «Хлеб» какую-то из его песен. Одновременно с этим группе Cream Soda поступило предложение поучаствовать в этом шоу, записав кавер-версию песни «Королева танцпола» дуэта Джаро и Ханза. В итоге «Cream Soda» не захотели исполнять предложенную версию, а Меладзе не смог поучаствовать в съёмках, и было решено по обоюдному согласию свести между собой коллективы «Хлеб» и «Cream Soda». В итоге «Хлеб» записал свою версию «Никаких больше вечеринок», а «Cream Soda» — «Плачу на техно».

Александр Гудков рассказывал, что весной 2020 года он с группой собирался снимать клип на песню «Сердце лёд» с готовившегося к выходу альбома «Интергалактик», уже был готов сценарий на тему переработки отходов и zero-waste, но солистка «Cream Soda» Анна Романовская отклонила этот проект. В качестве альтернативы участник группы Дмитрий Нова предложил созданный для шоу кавер на «Хлеб», а Гудков решил, что концептуально клип должен будет пародировать проходившие в марте 2020 года в условиях коронавирусных ограничений в европейских странах флэшмобы, участники которых пели, танцевали и устраивали диско-рейвы на собственных балконах. Съёмочная группа выбрала для создания клипа московский ЖК «Мещерский лес», принадлежащий застройщику ПИК. При этом большинство квартир, на балконах которых танцевали герои клипа, были уже заселены, и создатели клипа договаривались с жильцами каждой квартиры, где проходили съёмки. Съёмки клипа велись всего один день — в субботу, 28 марта 2020, а с понедельника, 30 марта, по всей стране вводился режим нерабочих дней, и множество людей отправлялись на удалённую работу из дома.

Сюжетно второй клип никак не пересекается с первым — его героями являются персонажи, выходящие на балконы квартир и поющие, танцующие и играющие музыку там в одиночестве. Кроме участников «Cream Soda» в клипе снялись участники шоу «Танцы на ТНТ» Никита Орлов, Дима Бончинче, Александр Перцев, Ульяна Пылаева, Дмитрий Красилов, получивший известность после клипа на песню «UNO», а также Александр Гудков. Кроме того, на одном из балконов был показан экран, на котором пел участник группы «Хлеб» Денис Кукояка, сидевший в домашней обстановке. Поскольку пол вокалиста изменился, соответственно был поправлен текст: повествование ведётся от лица девушки, а «бывшая» превратилась в «бывшего». При этом если оригинальная версия интерпретировалась больше как пародия на слезливые мальчишеские песни, то версия от женского лица потеряла ироничность и прибавила трагизма.

Премьера выпуска шоу «Поменялись хитами» с «Хлебом» и группой «Cream Soda» состоялась 9 апреля 2020. На следующий день, 10 апреля, был выпущен клип, который сразу привлёк внимание СМИ. Исполнителями версии был указан дуэт «Cream Soda & Хлеб», хотя вокал принадлежит только участнице Cream Soda Анне Романовской, а музыка не содержит записей первоначальной версии. Участники группы «Хлеб» рассказывали, что по договору они и «Cream Soda» разделили роялти от этой версии поровну. За первые 3 месяца клип посмотрели 25 миллионов раз, песню называли одним из главных хитов карантина. По мнению культуролога Дарьи Журковой, исследовавшей влияние карантинных ограничений на русскую поп-музыку, страдания из-за неудавшегося романа лирических героев песни отзывались в людях тоской по прошлому, по докарантинным временам.

Клип вдохновил ряд флешмобов и пародий. Песня получила премию Jager Music Awards как лучший трек и Российскую национальную музыкальную премию как лучший танцевальный трек. Для предновогодней программы «Вечернего Урганта» «Ciao, 2020!», в которой главные хиты года исполнялись на итальянском языке и в ретро-стиле, «Cream Soda» записали версию песни под названием . Также «Cream Soda» исполняли «Плачу на техно» на церемонии «Человек года», проводимой журналом GQ. По итогам года песня вошла в десятку самых популярных композиций года среди слушателей сервиса «Яндекс.Музыка», заняв восьмую строчку итогового хит-парада. Также композиция достигала 5 позиции в чарте «Top Radio & YouTube Hits», а вообще в этом чарте находилась 26 недель, что является лучшим результатом как среди песен группы «Cream Soda», выпущенных до конца 2021 года, так и среди песен «Хлеба».

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People have been using them again lately! Good news!


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Spain Could Agree to a "Credit Line" Rather Than A Bailout
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Spain Could Agree to a "Credit Line" Rather Than A Bailout David Dayen 2012-10-16
Markets in the US and Europe rose today on this Financial Times story, suggesting that Spain would submit to a bailout request. The stabilization of sovereign debt yields in Spain as well as the anti-austerity forces threatening the political class raised hopes that Spain would not take this step. And it's still a very dicey scenario for a Prime Minister who vowed not to hand over decision-making capabilities for his country to unelected bureaucrats in Brussels.
But the report itself tried to frame this in terms of something less than a bailout. The Spanish leadership wants to call it a credit line. This actually sounds worse to me:
A senior official within the Spanish ministry of economy said Spain did not require any money from the European Stability Mechanism, the eurozone's state rescue fund, but would be comfortable making a request for a credit line only in order to satisfy the conditions of the ECB to begin buying bonds.
Before this can happen, there would have to be agreement over timing with Spain's European partners – breaking with market perceptions that one of the main reasons for a delay was the reluctance of the government of Mariano Rajoy to take the politically damaging step of requesting aid. Some European officials have been frustrated by Spain's apparent reticence to take a step that would benefit its economy.
Lawmakers in Germany, the key country needed to assent to this scheme, gave it positive remarks today, so this looks to be the way things are moving.
It's unclear what a precautionary credit line would mean for Spain. The ECB would be able to start their bond-buying program, with their commitments satisfied. But would Spain be forced into labor market changes as a result? Their most recent budget already added a degree of austerity, perhaps what the troika would have sought anyway.
Certainly, economists and the ruling class have ganged up on Spain, demanding that they agree to the aid request. The credit line fudge may allow the Prime Minister to say that he retained sovereignty while improving the economy. But it's not entirely clear what's being agreed to here. At any rate, the continent is moving toward stripping sovereignty, with the German Finance Minister's plan of a "currency commissioner" who can veto national budgets looking like the end goal.
Spain certainly has a sick economy, but the prescriptions offered by the outsiders are worse than the disease.
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2 Neil Woodford high-yield stocks I'd buy for 2018
G A Chester | Friday, 29th December, 2017 | More on: DRX GYG
Renowned fund manager Neil Woodford has built his success over a quarter of a century primarily by investing in great dividend stocks. Currently, his Income Focus Fund is a particularly rich source of high-yield ideas.
I don't share Woodford's enthusiasm for all his holdings — for example, I've recently turned bearish on Lloyds (one of his top picks) — but there are plenty of stocks where I do see great value for investors buying today.
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An under-the-radar AIM-listed firm, which joined the market as recently as July, may not appear a particularly obvious choice. However, Woodford participated in the IPO at 100p a share, taking a 17.15% stake in the business, and he noted: "The company is the leading provider of painting and refit services to the superyacht industry. It is a cash generative business, which is expected to pay an attractive dividend and support a progressive dividend policy going forward."
The company in question is GYG (LSE: GYG) — Global Yachting Group — and when I first took a look at it, I liked the cut of its jib. In particular, the board intends to pay a dividend for 2017 equating to a yield of 3.2% (calculated on the 100p IPO price and its six months as a listed company and thus based on an annualised yield of 6.4%). The generous dividend policy caught the market's eye and the shares soon climbed to 145p.
Through choppy waters
A profit warning from the company in November didn't dampen Woodford's enthusiasm. Indeed, he bought more shares in the wake of it, taking his stake up to 18.2%. GYG said the reason for profit being below previous expectations was refit decision-making delays by owners, due to the two hurricanes that hit the US and Caribbean in Q3, and also a delay to one substantial scheduled contract, due to the vessel arriving in dock six weeks late. It said none of the group's contracts had been cancelled, the work merely having been pushed over into 2018.
As I'm writing, analyst forecasts for 2018 show a dividend covered twice by earnings and a yield of 4.6%. The stock looks very buyable to me on this basis because, like Woodford, I believe GYG has good prospects of delivering strong earnings and dividend growth in the coming years.
Energised dividend
Drax (LSE: DRX), the FTSE 250 energy firm, will be better known to most investors than GYG. Woodford began building a stake in the company for his Income Focus Fund in July. This was on the basis that he believed the share price didn't adequately reflect "recent strategic developments … [which] have diversified and improved the quality of Drax's earnings streams and have allowed the company to introduce a progressive dividend policy".
I agree with Woodford, particularly as the share price has drifted a good deal lower since July. Drax's new dividend policy has been set at a level it says "is sustainable and expected to grow." It intends to pay out a gross £50m for 2017, which equates to a yield of 4.6%, and analysts expect this to rise to over 5% for 2018. Again, the prospect of a high starting yield and strong growth lead me to rate the stock a 'buy'.
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Samsung Galaxy 3S Specs
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I wonder what this means to others. I know what it means for me.
Ever since I was a kid, Lets Play, has always meant adrenaline charged, sweat streaked running on a playground with other kids and reading story books and making up stories. The saga lives on. And, for that, I am eternally grateful.
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Q: check if the latitude and longitude lie in the range of my google map start and end destination I am retrieving the latitude and longitudes from the database and want to check if those lie on my route(found from google direction API)
I was thinking of using geofencing but I want to show a marker of the latitude and longitude on my route only

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Nate Campbell will exert significant influence on the RIM services industry this year. As the Chief Operating Officer at Access and the new President of the PRISM International Board of Directors, I wanted the chance to speak to him about both roles.
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Handbook Archive
Course B-ARTS (2011)
Note: This is an archived Handbook entry from 2011.
This is a
New Generation course
, part of the
Melbourne Model
and is available from 2008
Year and Campus:
2011 - Parkville
CRICOS Code:
Fees Information:
Subject EFTSL, Level, Discipline & Census Date
Duration & Credit Points:
300 credit points taken over 36 months full time. This course is available as full or part time.
Refer to each major/minor
Arts & Music Student Centre
The Bachelor of Arts offers unique flexibility with the opportunity to focus on one or two majors or a major and a minor chosen from a broad range of Arts programs in the humanities, social sciences and languages.
Students can:
Create an individual study program by choosing subjects in University breadth subjects or by undertaking breadth studies in areas such as bioscience, commerce, environments, music and science.
Undertake specialised fieldwork, research options and integrated internship programs which provide opportunities for professional work experience and community engagement.
Broaden their horizons and undertake international study exchange at any one of 120 universities worldwide, receiving credit towards your Melbourne Arts degree.
Study a new language with most areas available from beginners to advanced level.
Benefit from studying with high achieving local and international students with Melbourne Arts having the highest entry requirements for arts disciplines in Australia.
Learn from internationally recognised scholars and industry professionals.
Create pathways into further postgraduate study in Arts' vocationally focused coursework masters programs, and with the completion of an Honours year, entry into research higher degrees.
Enjoy a rewarding professional career, with Melbourne Arts graduates enjoying employment rates well above the national Arts average.
The objectives of the Bachelor of Arts are to provide students with an outstanding education in the humanities, social sciences and languages as well as a broad
understanding of selected fields of study outside these areas. The degree is designed so that a Bachelor of Arts graduate should be able to:
Demonstrate a detailed knowledge and understanding of selected fields of study in core disciplines in the humanities, social sciences and languages.
Reflect a general understanding of the concepts and principles of selected areas of study outside core disciplines of the humanities, social sciences and languages.
Access and appreciate national and international debates in specialised areas of study.
Demonstrate an independent approach to knowledge that uses rigorous methods of inquiry and appropriate theories and methodologies that are applied with intellectual honesty and a respect for ethical values.
Apply critical and analytical skills and methods to the identification and resolution of problems within complex changing social contexts.
Act as informed and critically discriminating participants within the community of scholars, as citizens and in the work force.
Communicate effectively and, in the case of those students undertaking a language major, to read, write and speak another language with fluency and appreciate its cultural context.
Qualify for employment in a wide range of occupations.
Commit to continuous learning.
Be proficient in the use of appropriate modern technologies, such as computer and other information technology systems, for the acquisition, processing and interpretation of data.
Course Structure & Available Subjects:
The Bachelor of Arts requires the successful completion of 300 points (24 x 12.5-credit point subjects) comprising of:
225 points of Arts discipline subjects:
at least six arts discipline subjects (75 points) at level 1, including two Interdisciplinary Foundation Subjects, with one taken in the first semester of enrolment;
at least six arts discipline subjects (75 points) at level 2;
at least six arts discipline subjects (75 points) at level 3
50 points of breadth
at least 12.5 points at level 2 or 3 (minimum of 12. 50 points at level one and a maximum of up to 37.5 points).
25 points of arts discipline or breadth at levels 1 to 3
Students usually complete 100 points of study at each of first, second and third year levels.
Students must complete one major; a major consists of 100 points of study within a single discipline, taken as two subjects (25 points) at first-year level, including an Interdisciplinary Foundation subject; three subjects (37.5 points) at second-year level; three subjects (37.5 points) at third-year level, including a capstone subject (for non language majors).
Students who undertake a major in Psychology will complete 125 points with 100 points taken as Arts discipline subjects and 25 later year points taken as breadth.
Students who undertake a major in Economics will complete 112.5 points with 37.5 points taken as Arts discipline subjects, 50 points taken as breadth and 25 points taken as free subjects.
Students who undertake a major in Geography will complete 100 points, 25 points of Arts discipline subjects, 50 points as breadth and 25 points as free subjects.
Students must complete a minimum of 50 points of study at one year-level before proceeding to the next year-level.
For information on policies that govern this degree, see Academic Services Policy listed as part of the University Melbourne Policy Framework. Students also should also refer to information the Student Policy Directory
Majors/
Minors/
Students must complete one major; a major consists of 100 points of study within a single discipline.
A major comprises 100 points of study:
25 points at level one (including an Interdisciplinary Foundation subject);
37.5 points at level two;
37.5 points at level three (including a compulsory capstone subject in all non-language majors - see Capstone Subjects below)
A minor of 75 points is available in all programs that offer a major in the BA (below), as well as several additional programs.
The minor comprises 75 points of study:
25 points at level one;
25 points at level two;
25 points at level three.
12.5 points at level one;
37.5 points at level three.
Capstone subjects are not available in the minor.
Students may take a maximum of 125 points in any one discipline area.
Interdisciplinary Foundation Subjects:
Majors/Minors/Specialisations:
Interdisciplinary Foundation Subjects
Majors and minors are available in the following areas of study:
Ancient World Studies
Anthropology & Social Theory
Australian Indigenous Studies
English and Theatre Studies
Hebrew and Jewish Studies
Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
Politics and International Studies
Screen and Cultural Studies
The following areas of study are available as minors only:
English Language Studies
Additional notes about the stucture of the Bachelor of Arts
- Subjects cannot be credited to more than one major or minor. Students planning to complete two BA majors must complete two separate majors with no overlap in subjects. Similarly, students completing a major and a minor must complete a separate major and minor with no overlap in subjects.
- It is not possible to complete a major and a minor in the same area of study.
- Language study requires the completion of two subjects at level one. It is, therefore, not structurally possible to complete more than two languages within the BA. The concurrent Diploma in Languages provides an alternative way of completing additional language study alongside the BA degree.
- The beginners stream Chinese major in the BA comprises 125 points. Students who wish to complete a major in this stream of Chinese will not be able to complete a second major due to the structural constraints of the degree. However, with careful planning from first year a minor sequence may be completed as well as the 125-point beginners stream Chinese major.
- Please note: Bachelor of Arts subjects have a minimum hurdle requirement of 75% tutorial attendance, regular participation in tutorials is required. Assessment submitted late without an approved extension will be penalised at 10% per day. In-class tasks missed without approval will not be marked. All pieces of written work must be submitted to pass BA subjects.
- For students who commenced the Bachelor of Arts in 2008, additional information on majors in cultural studies, English literary studies, international studies, political science, screen studies, theatre studies, and the minor in socio-legal studies can be found in the 2008 Handbook.
Subject Options:
Capstone Subjects
All non-language majors in the BA include a compulsory level three capstone subject. Capstone subjects are usually only available in semester two and are therefore completed in the final semester of enrolment. Students who commence the BA mid-year may need to plan their final two semesters of study carefully to ensure that they complete the capstone in the year prior to that of their final semester of study.
Capstone subjects are not available in the minor. Capstone subjects are not available as breadth.
Study Period Commencement:
Credit Points:
ANCW30017 Interpreting the Ancient World
ANTH30013 Theory & the Anthropological Imagination
Not offered in 2011
AHIS30019 Art History in the World
ASIA30002 Identity, Ideology & Nationalism in Asia
AIND30007 Critical Debates in Indigenous Studies
AUST30001 Researching Australia: Issues, Agendas
CICU30012 Contemporary Film and Cultural Theory
CWRI30004 Encounters with Writing
CRIM30001 Crime and Public Policy
ENGL30002 Critical Debates
HIST30060 Making History
HPSC30035 Knowledge in the Making
ISLM30001 Islam in the West
JEWI30005 Research in Contemporary Jewish Studies
LING30001 Exploring Linguistic Diversity
MULT30018 Applied Political Research
PHIL30007 The Philosophy of Philosophy
SOCI30001 Contemporary Sociological Theory
Breadth Options:
Breadth subjects offer you the opportunity to choose additional subjects from outside your major study area (learn more about breadth subjects) .
View breadth subjects for this course.
Breadth Tracks:
Available Breadth Tracks
Entry Requirements:
For the most up-to-date admission requirements visit:
www.futurestudents.unimelb.edu.au
CRICOS Code: 002167E
Core Participation Requirements:
The Faculty of Arts welcomes applications from students with disabilities. It is University and Faculty policy to take all reasonable steps to enable the participation of students with disabilities, and reasonable adjustments will be made to enhance a student's participation in the Faculty's programs.
The inherent academic requirements for study in the Faculty of Arts are:
the ability to attend classes and actively engage in both independent and group learning;
the ability to comprehend complex disciplinary and interdisciplinary information related to the courses taught in the faculty;
the ability to explain and evaluate complex concepts, theories and issues at work in a variety of texts;
the ability to clearly communicate a knowledge and application of humanities, social sciences and language principles and practices during assessment tasks.
All students of the Arts Faculty's courses are required to possess intellectual, ethical, and emotional capabilities required to participate in the full curriculum and to achieve the minimum levels of competence required by the Faculty. Candidates for the BA degree must have abilities in comprehension, theorization, and communication.
Communication: Students must be able to communicate effectively and efficiently in oral and written form. They should also be able to communicate with fellow students, professional and academic staff, and the wider public. They must have the capacity to clearly and independently communicate knowledge and application of Arts disciplines.
Intellectual and Organisational Abilities: Students must have the ability to establish study plans and prioritise learning objectives. They are also expected to have the ability to develop problem-solving skills and to comprehend complex disciplinary and cross-disciplinary information related to the BA degree.
Behavioural and Social Attributes: Students must possess behavioural and social attributes that enable them to participate in a complex learning environment. They must take full responsibility for their own participation and learning. Students also contribute to the learning of other students in collaborative environments and must therefore demonstrate a wide range of interpersonal skills which consider the needs of other students. Assessment may include the outcomes of tasks completed in collaboration with other students. Integrity, concern for others, interpersonal skills, interest, and motivation are all personal qualities that are deemed necessary for students enrolled in Arts courses.
Students who feel their disability will prevent them from participating in tasks involving these inherent academic requirements are encouraged to contact the Disability Liaison Unit: http://www.services.unimelb.edu.au/disability/
Adjustments can be provided to minimise the impact of a disability; however, students should participate in the course in an independent manner.
Further Study:
High-achieving BA graduates may apply for entry to an Honours year, which represents a fourth year of study in the BA. The BH-Arts comprises a research project as well as specialist fourth year level subjects. For more information on entry to Honours, see the Arts Honours webpage.
Coursework Masters
If you wish to continue your professional studies at postgraduate level, the studies you undertake in your major can provide a direct pathway to coursework masters degrees in the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences. The Executive Master of Arts and Master of International Relations are two new Arts masters degrees that will commence in 2010. Other coursework masters degrees are available in areas such as criminology, editing, media and communications, public policy and management, arts management, cinema management, development studies and many more. Entry is based on academic merit and in most cases requires completion of a Bachelors degree or equivalent.
You will also be well-prepared to undertake a Melbourne Model Graduate Professional Degree in areas such as law, teaching and commerce.
For more information on entry into a coursework masters degree see - The Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences webpages , or the University graduate programs webpages.
Research Higher Degrees
If you wish to undertake advanced research and explore particular study areas in more depth, there will be opportunities to proceed to a range of Research Higher Degrees at masters and doctoral level. For more information about research higher degree study in Arts and the entry requirements, see the Arts Graduate Research Programs webpages and the Melbourne School of Graduate Research webpages .
Graduate Attributes:
Academically excellent
The Bachelor of Arts will be subject to a continuous cycle of review through Australian and international benchmarking, and through constant refinements in teaching and
learning principles and approaches. The mandatory completion of a major designed as a coherent progression of study from first to third year and culminating in a capstone experience, ensures the acquisition of disciplinary depth. Students in the BA are taught by outstanding scholars.
Knowledgeable across disciplines
The Bachelor of Arts offers students majors in 33 areas of study, including 11 languages, and in most cases allows students to complete two majors during the course of their
degree. All BA students will complete two interdisciplinary first-year subjects which offer cross-cultural perspectives on a number of historical and contemporary themes, and each of which has been designed collaboratively by teachers drawn from a number of different disciplines. All BA students will complete 75 points of subjects drawn from other degree programs or elsewhere across the University.
Leaders in communities
The Bachelor of Arts facilitates the development of excellent interpersonal and communication skills through subject content and assessment practices, and through commitment to small-group interactive teaching and learning environments. The provision of research and knowledge transfer opportunities enables the development of public discourse skills and an extensive awareness of community issues and global needs.
Attuned to cultural diversity
The Bachelor of Arts offers students a sustained and detailed education in aspects of cultural diversity and indigeneity. Many of the core discipline areas are concerned specifically and analytically with cultural diversity, from language, area and historical studies, through comparative social science studies, to the explicit study of culture itself. The BA offers an Australian Indigenous Studies major. In addition, all students will be exposed specifically to cross-cultural issues through the first-year teaching program. Many BA students will take advantage of the opportunities for Exchange overseas, and others will undertake on-line international subjects, to provide them with experiences outside their own immediate cultures.
Active global citizens
Bachelor of Arts graduates will be equipped to be active global citizens by virtue of their academic excellence, their inter-disciplinary knowledge, their community leadership capabilities and their cultural awareness.
Generic Skills:
Arts students are encouraged to pursue their academic interests and professional aspirations by taking a variety of subjects in a range of different areas of study. All arts subjects provide students with transferable generic skills that prepare them for further study and the workplace.
As a result of attendance at scheduled classes, participation in planned activities and discussion groups, and timely completion of essays and assignments, Arts graduates should acquire transferable generic skills in the following areas:
through competent use of the library, electronic databases, and other information sources, and the definition of areas of inquiry and methods of research;
critical thinking and analysis
through recommended reading, essay writing and tutorial discussion, and by determining the strength of an argument;
thinking in theoretical terms
through lectures, tutorial discussion, essay writing and engagement in the methodologies of the humanities and social sciences;
thinking creatively
through essay writing, creative writing, tutorial discussions and presentations, conceptualising theoretical problems, forming judgements and arguments from conflicting evidence and by critical analysis;
understanding of social, ethical and cultural context
through the contextualisation of judgements, developing a critical self-awareness, being open to new ideas and possibilities and by constructing an argument;
communicating knowledge intelligibly and economically
through essay writing and tutorial and seminar discussion;
written communication
through essay preparation and assignment writing;
through tutorial and seminar discussion and class presentations;
through essay preparation and writing, and examination revision;
time management and planning
through managing and organising workloads for recommended reading, essay and assignment completion and examination revision;
through joint projects and group discussions.
Links to further information:
http://www.arts.unimelb.edu.au/
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For every setback, spin spin spin.
For the above-stated reasons, the Court hereby FINDS and CONCLUDES that the Sticker adopted by the Cobb County Board of Education violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment and Article I, Section II, Paragraph VII of the Constitution of the State of Georgia.
Creation Apologists should take note of that final point, lest they attack the ruling as if it were based solely on the federal constitution.
In a somewhat bizarre ruling, the judge found that the sticker's "fostering critical thinking" about evolution "is a clearly secular purpose." And, the judge also found that the Cobb County school district had secular, not religious reasons for adopting a textbook sticker dealing with evolution. Yet, he somehow concludes that the "effect" of the sticker would be to advance religion.
The Discovery Institute is just plain wrong about Judge Cooper's ruling. He did find that the Cobb County School Board had religious reasons for adopting the disclaimer.
The school Board's decision to adopt the Sticker was undisputedly influenced by sectarian interests . . . .
However, he also found that the board had two honest secular reasons for the disclaimer: primarily appeasing creationist parents and secondarily fostering critical thinking. The judge ruled that these secular reasons outweighed any additional religious reasons. Of course, it can be debated whether the primary reason is non-sectarian.
Furthermore, the Discovery Institute is again just plain wrong in stating that the judge found the disclaimer to be fostering critical thinking about evolution. In fact he found that the disclaimer did not live up to the board's goal of fostering critical thinking.
Judge Cooper also found that the disclaimers undermined biology education in general, to the benefit of creationists.
this Sticker misleads students regarding the significance and value of evolution in the scientific community for the benefit of the religious alternatives. By denigrating evolution, the School Board appears to be endorsing the well-known prevailing alternative theory, creationism or variants thereof, even though the Sticker does not specifically reference any alternative theories.
distracting tangential issues [caused by the Sticker] effectively dilute evolution instruction to the benefit of the anti-evolutionists who are motivated to advance their religious beliefs.
This is a very important part of the ruling, one which the Discovery Institute is happy to ignore.
There is nothing bizarre in this ruling, despite the Discovery Institute's spin. It is plainly obvious that a public policy could be enacted for secular reasons, but still have the primary effect of advancing sectarian interests. For instance a school board, having been misled by activists, might actually believe that "intelligent design" creationism is revolutionary science and add it to their curriculum. Such subterfuge and innocence would not change the primary effect of the policy, which would be to introduce religion into a public school science class.
And, the judge acknowledges that there are scientists who are critical of Darwin's theory on a scientific basis.
the amicus brief filed by certain biologists and Georgia scientists indicates that there are some scientists who have questions regarding certain aspects of evolutionary theory . . . .
The ACLU's focus on the whole theory vs. fact issue was just a side-show. The real issue is whether or not students should learn about both the evidence for Darwin's theory, as well as that which challenges it.
the narrow issue raised by this facial challenge is whether the sticker placed on certain Cobb County School District science textbooks violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment of the United States Constitution and/or Article I, Seciton II, Paragraph VII of the Constitution of the State of Georgia.
unlike the Edwards and Epperson Courts, the Sticker does not reference "evolution" as a "scientific theory" or a "prevailing scientific theory." To the contrary, the Sticker appears to purposely leave to question whether evolution is an accepted or established theory in the scientific community, even if evolution is subject to scientific critique.
The Court's review of pertinent law review articles affirms that encouraging the teaching of evolution as a theory rather than as a fact is one of the latest strategies to dilute evolution instruction employed by anti-evolutionists with religious motivations.
Nevertheless, the Sticker here disavows the endorsement of evolution, a scientific theory, and contains an implicit religious message advanced by Christian fundamentalists and creationists, which is discernible after one considers the historical context of the statement that evolution is a theory and not a fact.
We're not surprised at the ruling because the defense attorney mounted a weak defense – which we noted (here and here) during the trial in November. Although the plaintiff's attorney called scientists to testify, the defense never called a scientist to rebut that testimony, even though there are over 300 - many of them right in Georgia -who have questions about the scientific validity of parts of Darwin's theory.
I've already addressed such statements in detail. Briefly, the scientists for the plaintiffs testified as a textbook author, biology teacher, and county resident. The defendants had a Chemist lined up as a resident to testify against evolution. He dropped out at the last moment, probably because it became known that we were preparing a strong cross against him. It is not the fault of the lawyer for Cobb County that their scientist got cold feet. Personally, I think it is funny that the Discovery Institute is using the school district's lawyer as its scapegoat. Is there no honor among anti-evolutionists?
There are more than 300 scientists who doubt Darwinism, that's evidence that proves this is a scientific debate.
I'm going to be repeating myself. When real controversies exist in science, they are between scientists in relevant fields actively researching, experimenting, publishing their results on the issue in critically peer-reviewed journals, and actively defending their work at mainstream, general conferences and in further scientific publications. The individuals in the Discovery Institute's list do not fit this requirement.
This ruling has been a victory for the scientists, educators, clergy, and ordinary citizens who want quality science education. The Discovery Institute seeks to undermine biology education in an effort to "renew" America, and an opinion like this hurts their campaign considerably. Their misrepresentation of the opinion is little more than a baseless, rhetorical attempt to convince their supporters that all is not lost.


One of the reasons why Shakespeare is so thoroughly read today is because of his ability to portray human nature so accurately through his characters. Shakespeare's play, King Lear shows us that humans are treacherous and selfish. We can also relate to the play because of the family issues that Shakespeare incorporates throughout the work. Lear's family is definitely a dysfunctional one. However, the disrupted family unit is the basis for the play's tragedy. The Contemporary Guide to Literary Terms defines tragedy as "a piece of writing that inspires fear or pity, through which the audience/reader experiences catharsis" (a purging of emotions). Tragic plots should have a clear beginning, middle and end that all involve the protagonist in some way. It is essential in this play for King Lear to have serious family problems in order for him to become a tragic hero. The whole premise of the plot is based on his conniving daughters (with help from Lear's ego). These family problems turn Lear into a tragic hero. Much the same could be said about Gloucester, which will also be examined in this paper.
...otagonist in the work who suffers great emotional and physical pain, which the reader/audience can identify and sympathize with. This hero must also suffer and/or die, which is unacceptable but inevitable. King Lear is such a hero, the result of both egocentrism and family problems.
Frey, C. Experiencing Shakespeare. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1988.
Granville-Barker, H. Prefaces to Shakespeare. London: B.T. Batsford INC, 1984.
Halio, J. The Tragedy of King Lear. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Thompson, A. King Lear Criticism. NJ: Humanities Press International, 1988.
Vickers, B. Appropriating Shakespeare. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993.


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Arzt & Wissen · 02. März 2020
To stop the corona panic, isolate alarmists!
translated 2/3/2020
by Wolfgang Wodarg
The corona hype is not based on any extraordinary public health danger. However, it causes considerable damage to our freedom and personal rights through frivolous and unjustified quarantine measures and restrictions. The images in the media are frightening and the traffic in China's cities seems to be regulated by the clinical thermometer.
The carnival in Venice was cancelled after an elderly dying hospital patient was tested positive. When a handful of people in Northern Italy also were tested positive, Austria immediately closed the Brenner Pass temporarily.
Due to a suspected case of coronavirus, more than 1000 people were not allowed to leave their hotel in Tenerife. On the cruise ship Diamond Princess 3700 passengers could not disembark, congresses and touristic events are cancelled and economies suffer.
At the beginning of February, 126 people from Wuhan were brought to Germany by plane and remained there in quarantine two weeks in übeperfect health. Corona viruses were detected in two of the healthy individuals.
There have been several similar horror scenarios in the last two decades. But the WHO's "swine flu pandemic" was in fact one of the mildest flu waves in history and it is not only migratory birds that are still waiting for "bird flu". Many institutions that are now again alerting us to the need for caution have let us down and failed us on several occasions. Far too often, they are institutionally corrupted by secondary interests from business and/or politics.
If we do not want to chase frivolous panic messages, but rather to responsibly assess the risk of a spreading infection, we must use solid epidemiological methodology. This includes looking at the "normal", the baseline, before you can speak of anything exceptional.
Until now, hardly anyone has paid attention to corona viruses. For example, in the reports on ARI of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), they are only marginally mentioned because there was SARS in China in 2002 and because since 2012 some transmissions from dromedaries to humans have been observed in Arabia (MERS). There is nothing about a regularly recurring presence of corona viruses in dogs, cats, pigs, mice, bats and in humans, even in Germany.
However, children's hospitals are usually well aware, that a considerable proportion of the often severe viral pneumonia is also regularly caused or accompanied by corona viruses worldwide.
In view of the well-known fact that in every "flu wave" 7-15% of acute respiratory illnesses (ARI) are coming along with coronaviruses, the case numbers that are now continuously added up are still completely within the normal range.
About one per thousand infected are expected to die during flu seasons. By selective application of PCR-tests - for example, only in clinics and medical outpatient clinics - this rate can easily be pushed up to frightening levels, because those, who need help there are usually worse off than those, who are recovering at home. The role of such s selection bias seems to be neglected in China and elsewhere.
Since the turn of the year, the focus of the public, of science and of health authorities has suddenly narrowed to some kind of blindness. Some doctors in Wuhan (12 million inhabitants) succeeded in attracting worldwide attention with initially less than 50 cases and some deaths in their clinic, in which they had identified corona viruses as the pathogen.
The colourful maps that are now being shown to us on paper or screens are impressive, but they usually have less to do with disease than with the activity of skilled virologists and crowds of sensationalist reporters.
We are currently not measuring the incidence of coronavirus diseases, but the activity of the specialists searching for them.
Wherever such the new tests are carried out - there about 9000 tests per week available in 38 laboratories throughout Europe on 13 February 2020 – there are at least single cases detected and every case becomes a self-sustaining media event. The fact alone that the discovery of a coronavirus infection is accompanied by a particularly intensive search in its vicinity explains many regional clustersi.
The horror reports from Wuhan were something, that virologists all over the world are waiting for. Immediately, the virus strains present in the refrigerators were scanned and compared feverishly with the reported newcomers from Wuhan. A laboratory at the Charité won the race at the WHO and was the first to be allowed to market its in-house tests worldwide. Prof C. Drosten was interviewed on 23rd of january 2020 and described how the Test was established. He said, that he cooperated with a Partner from China, who confirmed the specific sensitivity of the Charitè-Test for the Wuhan coronavirus. Other Tests from different Places followed soon and found their market.
However, it is better not to be tested for corona viruses. Even with a slight "flu-like" infection the risk of coronavirus detection would be 7% - 15% . This is, what a prospective monitoring in Scotland (from 2005 to 2013) may teach us. The scope, the possible hits and the significance of the new tests are not jet validated. It would be intersting to have soe tests not only on airports and cruising ships but on german or italian cats, mice or even bats.
If you find some new virus RNA in a Thai cave ore a Wuhan hospital, it takes a long time to map its prevalence in different hosts worldwide.
But if you want to give evidence to a spreading pandemic by using PCR-Tests only, this is what should have been done after a prospective cross sectional protocoll.
So beware of side effects. Nowadays positive PCR tests have tremendous consequences for the everyday life of the patient and his wider environment, as can be seen in all media without effort.
However, the finding itself has no clinical significance. It is just another name for acute respiratory illnesses (ARI), which as every year put 30% to 70% of all people in our countries more or less out of action for a week or two every winter.
According to a prospective ARI-virus monitoring in Scotland from 2005 to 2013, the most common pathogens of acute respiratory diseases were: 1. rhinoviruses, 2. influenza A viruses, 3. influenza B viruses, 4. RS viruses and 5. coronaviruses.
This order changed slightly from year to year. Even with viruses competing for our mucous membrane cells, there is apparently a changing quorum, as we know it from our intestines in the case of microorganisms and from the Bundestag in the case of political groups.
So if there is now to be an increasing number of "proven" coronavirus infections. in China or in Italy: Can anyone say how often such examinations were carried out in previous winters, by whom, for what reason and with which results? When someone claims that something is increasing, he must surely refer to something, that has been observed before.
It can be stunning, when an experienced disease control officer looks at the current turmoil, the panic and the suffering it causes. I'm sure many of those responsible public health officers would probably risk their jobs today, as they did with the "swine flu" back then, if they would follow their experience and oppose the mainstream.
Every winter we have a virus epidemic with thousands of deaths and with millions of infected people even in Germany. And coronaviruses always have their share.
So if the Federal Government wants to do something good, it could learn from epidemiologists in Glasgow and have all clever minds at the RKI observe prospectively (!!!) and watch how the virom of the German population changes from year to year.


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Georg Thiel (* um 1490 in Geyer; begraben 23. Oktober 1546 in Platten) war ein deutscher Bergmeister, Grubenvorsteher und Stadtrichter.

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Georg Thiel stammte aus Geyer und wurde in 1534/35 als Berggeschworener in die neu gegründete Bergstadt Platten im Erzgebirge berufen. Dort war er am Zinnbergbau beteiligt. Er war Betreiber eines Pochwerkers am Schwarzwasser sowie Besitzer der hiesigen Gruben St. Christoph und St. Ursula. 1537 (anderen Quellen zufolge bereits 1534) wurde er auf Befehl der Schneeberger Hauptleute zum 3. Bergmeister von Platten und Melchior Steiger zum Geschworenen ernannt. Sein Jahresbesoldung betrug 50 fl. Seit 1538/39 erscheint er als Grubenvorstand, u. a. der Zeche Schneebergl. 1540 übernahm er die Funktion des Stadtrichters. 1542 und 1546 ließ er in Platten die Töchter Barbara und Judith taufen. Er starb laut Sterbebucheintrag 1546 im Waldrevier auf dem Hirschberg nahe dem Schwimmiger und wurde Dienstag nach Ursula begraben. Das Amt des 6. Bergmeisters übernahm 1546 Lorenz Petzelt. Seine Witwe heiratete 1549 in Eibenstock den Bergmeister und Freihofbesitzer Lorenz Siegel. Sein Erbe wurde unter seinen Söhnen Hans, Jacob und Gregor Thiel aufgeteilt. Einer seiner Brüder war der ebenfalls aus Geyer stammende Hofstättenbesitzer Oswald Thiel.

Literatur
 Erich Matthes: Das Häuserlehnbuch der sächsisch-böhmischen Bergstadt Platten im Erzgebirge, 1967

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The story is made up of themes from several original Roma stories. At fifteen minutes I thought it may be a bit long, but the action comes pretty quickly and audiences seem to like it.
Any thoughts welcome. Having watched both videos several times while I edited and posted them, I've decided I really need to leave the waistcoat open in future.


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Maxine Lewis Shelter is a homeless shelter that provides 50 beds nightly year-round. The shelter offers meals, showers, mail, phone and message services, information and referrals, and access to case management. The shelter operates exclusively during the evening hours.
This is an opportunity for those 18 and older to come and help beautify the Maxine Lewis Shelter. Work includes weeding, hoeing, raking, and trimming overgrown outdoor plants and garden.
**Please bring close toed shoes, work gloves, rakes, hoes, weeding tools, yard waste bags (if you have them).