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Assumo l'incarico affidatomi dall'ONU in Sahel con la consapevolezza della sua difficoltà
Comunicato del Presidente Romano Prodi
"L'incarico affidatomi dall'ONU mi onora profondamente: si tratta di un impegno di estrema delicatezza e di grande responsabilità.
L'area del Sahel è stata destabilizzata da lontani e da recenti eventi politici e vi si concentrano situazioni drammatiche di carattere politico, economico, sociale e umanitario.
Assumo questo incarico con la consapevolezza della sua difficoltà ma anche con la mia più completa disponibilità e speranza".
Statement Attributable to the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General
Appointment of Special Envoy for the Sahel
The Secretary-General announced today the appointment of Mr. Romano Prodi of Italy as his Special Envoy for the Sahel. The Secretary-General looks forward to Mr. Prodi's leadership in shaping and mobilizing an effective UN and international response to the complex crisis plaguing the countries and people of this region.
Mr. Prodi will work closely with the members of the UN family, both at Headquarters and those in the field, to coordinate UN system-wide efforts to finalize and implement the UN Integrated Regional Strategy for the Sahel. Mr. Prodi will also conduct wide-ranging consultations with Member States of the region, regional and sub-regional organizations and other international partners on the finalization and implementation of the Strategy.
The Special Envoy will undertake good offices on behalf of the Secretary-General, particularly in support of national, regional and international mediation efforts in the sub-region, especially regarding cross-border and transnational issues. He will help generate, sustain and coordinate international engagement in support of national efforts of Sahelian countries to address the multifaceted crisis, including with an initial focus on Mali.
Mr. Prodi has an extensive career in international diplomacy, academia and at the helm of international organizations. He served as Prime Minister of Italy from 2006 to 2008 and from 1996 to 1998. Mr. Prodi also served as President of the European Commission from 1999 to 2005, overseeing the introduction of the euro, the enlargement of the European Union to ten countries from Central, Eastern and Southern Europe and the treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe.
Earlier, Mr. Prodi served as Italian Minister of Industry (1978-1979) and head of the Institute for Industrial Reconstruction.
After serving as the Prime Minister, Mr. Prodi continued to work in academia and international diplomacy. He held academic teaching positions at Brown University and at the China-Europe International Business School. He continues to serve as President of the Foundation for Worldwide Cooperation, whose objective is to tackle "social, cultural, political issues in the world", developing and offering new proposals of cooperation in the international context. In 2008, he served as Chairman of the UN-AU High Level Panel for Peacekeeping in Africa.
New York, 9 October 2012
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Lucy Minnie Baldock (née Rogers; 20 November 1864 –  10 December 1954) was a British suffragette. Along with Annie Kenney, she co-founded the first branch in London of the Women's Social and Political Union.

Life and activism
Lucy Minnie Rogers was born in Bromley-by-Bow in 1864. She worked in sweated labour shirt factory and married Harry Baldock in 1888, and they had two children. The East End of London was known for its poor conditions and the Baldocks joined the Independent Labour Party (ILP) after the socialist Keir Hardie became their local Member of Parliament (M.P.) in 1892. She worked with Charlotte Despard and Dora Montefiore. She took charge of the local unemployment Fund that was used to mitigate extreme hardship. Women were not then allowed to be Members of Parliament, but the ILP chose her as their candidate to sit on the West Ham Board of Guardians in 1905.

Baldock and Annie Kenney formed the first London branch (although it was in Canning Town, then in Essex) of the then Manchester based Women's Social and Political Union in 1906, holding meetings at Canning Town Public Hall.

Baldock attended 21 December 1905 pre-election meeting of the Liberals at the Royal Albert Hall dressed as a 'maid' to Annie Kenney (who wore a fur coat) and both sat in a box and Kenney hung a banner over the edge saying 'Votes for Women' and called out, resulting in a disturbance. The next day Baldock visited Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman with Kenney and Teresa Billington to ask about when Liberals would deal with female suffrage, resulting in Dora Montefiore congratulating Baldock's 'noble stand' in a postcard.

Baldock became a paid employee of the WSPU and a mentor to Daisy Parsons, and had a postal order for 30shillings from Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence to cover the costs of attending meetings in Long Eaton, Derbyshire. Speakers invited to address the Canning Town group included Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, Annie Kenney and Flora Drummond.  Baldock also organised and spoke at an open air meeting in Upton Park. Baldock was arrested on 23 October 1906 (along with Nellie Martel and Anne Cobden Sanderson) for disorderly conduct during the opening of Parliament.

In 1907, she reported to the group on her visit to Jane Sbarborough in Holloway Prison when she heard about signalling between suffragettes, imprisoned at the same time, but not allowed to talk to each other. Baldock was also at the prison gate with Christabel Pankhurst to support Flora Drummond and others released to have a celebratory hotel breakfast. She also spoke in June 1907 at a Knightsbridge home event at the request of Louise Eates, Kensington WSPU and in August at a home in Kensington with Emmeline Pankhurst as noted by Sara Jessie Stephenson in her pamphlet No Other Way.

In November 1907,  Baldock was recording being ejected from a Liberal MP's event on the Isle of Dogs but stood on a chair outside a window calling out "Votes for Women".  In summer 1908 she was in Nottingham with Elsa Gye to build up its WSPU. In April 1909 she was with around 500 suffragettes at breakfast in Picadiily for Mrs Pethick-Lawrence's release from custody.

Arrest

Baldock was with twelve women who were arrested after walking single file through the streets towards the House of Commons with Mrs. Pankhurst in February 1908 "to present a petition from the Conference at Caxton Hall, and to the refusal of the authorities to treat suffragist offenders as first-class misdemeanants." Baldock was arrested along with Mrs Pankhurst and others and was charged with resisting and obstructing the police.

Baldock had to leave her two boys with their father whilst she served a month in jail and her fellow suffragettes assisted, including Maud Arncliff Sennett sending toys. Baldock got out a message published in Votes for Women in 1908, that "I love freedom so dearly that I want all women to have it, and I will fight for it until they get it" In April that year, Emily Cobb, WSPU, offered to sponsor the cost of a house help so that Baldock could be 'set free to do work you can do [ for the Cause] and many of us can not', and in May Baldock was with Annie Kenney in Bristol , renting a house near the venue  Augustine Birrell Liberal MP and Irish secretary of state, was to be speaking at, to help Elsie Howey and Vera Holme who hid overnight in the Hall to get into the event. In October 1909, Baldock was arrested again with Flora Drummond and the Pankhursts back at Clement's Inn.

As a suffragette who had been to jail she was given the honour of planting a commemorative tree at Eagle House in Somerset in February 1909. The house was the home of Mary Blathwayt's parents who supported the cause. Her father took commemorative photographs and afterwards he sent her flower plants in the following April for her garden. The following year, Baldock spoke on Wimbledon Common, and had her travel paid by Minnie Turner, to support Mary Clarke campaigning in Brighton for a week in the summer.

In 1911, Baldock was diagnosed with cancer and she underwent surgery performed by Louisa Aldrich-Blake. Baldock recovered but broke contact with the increasingly militant WSPU. She did keep in contact with Edith How-Martyn and she was still a member of the Church League for Women's Suffrage. At the start of 1913 she and her family had to move to Liverpool for her  sons to seek work in shipyards, although she and husband were also reported to be in Southampton in 1914.

Baldock took part in Emmeline Pankhurst's funeral, carrying the purple white and green colours (1928) and attended her statue unveiling in 1930.   Baldock also supported How-Martyn in documenting the movement in the Suffragette Fellowship.

She died at age 90 in Poole in 1954.

Posthumous recognition
Her name and picture (and those of 58 other women's suffrage supporters) are on the plinth of the statue of Millicent Fawcett in Parliament Square, London, unveiled in 2018.  In 2011, Poole Museum and the National Lottery funds sponsored a short film on Baldock's life called The Right to Vote by Kate O'Malley starring Michelle O'Brien.

See also
 History of feminism
 List of suffragists and suffragettes
 Suffragette
 Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom

References

External link

British feminists
English feminists
English suffragists
British socialist feminists
1864 births
1954 deaths
Eagle House suffragettes
Women's Social and Political Union

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The St. Louis Blues vs. Winnipeg Jets series is turning out to be just the hard fought battle fans expected it to be. The Blues managed to go up 2-0 in the series against the Jets in Winnipeg but lost their first game in St. Louis on Sunday night, 6-3. Until Game 3, Jordan Binnington seemed to be leading the Blues right to the second round.
But, the Blues have left Binnington out to dry. A goaltender can only stop so many shots. Your offence has to be able to score more than your goaltender gives up. While the Blues won the first two games, it has been frightening that their top line has not been contributing as much as they should. The Blues and Winnipeg's top lines could wind up being the difference in this series.
The Jets top line got them to the playoffs for the second consecutive season. Last season, the Jets lost to the Vegas Golden Knights in the Western Conference Final. This season, they ended the regular season in second place in the Central Division and are looking to make another deep playoff run.
In Game 1, the Jets top line of Kyle Connor, Mark Scheifele and Blake Wheeler combined for no points and only five shots.
In Game 2, the Jets top line combined for two goals and three assists. They had a hand in all three goals they scored in Game 2.
In Game 3, the Jets had two goals and two assists from their top line and won the game 6-3.
Overall, the Jets top line has nine points, seven more than the Blues.
The Blues top line last year lacked a number one centre. With the addition of Ryan O'Reilly, the Blues have become a force to be reckoned with in the latter half of the season. They missed the playoffs last season without him. If he doesn't start contributing more in the playoffs, the Blues won't make it any further.
In Game 1, the Blues top line of Brayden Schenn, O'Reilly and Vladimir Tarasenko combined for no points and five shots, but the Blues managed came out on top, 2-1, thanks to goals by the second line right winger David Perron and the third line centre Tyler Bozak.
The Blues top line only had one goal by O'Reilly. However, the line had 13 shots on goal and the Blues won, 4-3. However, It was bound to catch up to them that Schenn and Tarasenko were having a hard time scoring. Specifically Tarasenko, who had six of their 13 shots.
In Game 3, Tarasenko finally scored, but it was the only point the top line got despite having eight shots on goal. The Jets had two goals and two assists from their top line and won the game 6-3.
Overall, the Blues top line only has two. The Blues are a talented team up and down the roster, but this is not acceptable from their best players.
The Blues were successful the latter half of the regular season because every line and defensive pairing had chemistry and was producing points. The chemistry specifically between Tarasenko and O'Reilly has been unlike any other top line chemistry in the recent history of the Blues. It has to be the same way in the playoffs if they Blues have any chance at beating the Jets.
While it is great that the Blues are getting offensive help from their lower lines and their defencemen, there is no way to know they can depend on them game in and game out. The Blues are depending on their depth as much as they can, but they need the top line to produce more. The Blues don't stand a chance against the Jets top line if their top line cannot start producing more points. It would be great for the Blues top line to get three or more points a night.
At the very least, they need to get more points than the Jets top line if they want to keep the series lead. Maybe that means the Blues should move another forward up to the top line like David Perron or Jaden Schwartz. Whatever the solution, it needs to happen quickly because Winnipeg is not going to sit back just because they won one game. They are going to fight with everything they have, including hard hits and impressive goals because they want to win. The question now is: Do the Blues want to win more than the Jets?


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Features, December 2019
William (Bill) Andreas
Bill served four years in the Army Air Corps. (enlisted in 1941 and discharged in 1945). He passed away on Nov. 5, 2019, at his home.
Bill is survived by his son Norman Andreas, daughter Judy Lawhorn, granddaughter Andrea Fain, and great-granddaughter Robin Fain. His wife Maurine Andreas passed away in 2006 after 64 years of marriage.
He loved the outdoors, his cabin, fishing, hiking, his Thursday carving group, and breakfast with friends on Saturdays. He was good-natured and well known for making up his own rules when playing any game.
He was a member of the Silver Sneakers and as of a month ago, was seen walking around the block two to three times a day. Celebration of Life Services are pending.
In lieu of flowers, please donate to Hospice of the Valley in Chandler.
James Richard Andrysiak
James Richard Andrysiak was born on Sept. 5, 1937, to Mary and Michael Andrysiak in Chicago, Illinois. He entered into eternal life on Oct. 15, 2019.
He grew up in Tinley Park, Illinois. He joined the United States Air Force and served for four years. In 1960 after leaving the military, James met his wife Marilyn. They were married in 1962 and shared 57 years together. They enjoyed going to the movies, swimming, and attending football games.
He always encouraged his sons in their sports activities. He liked to camp and fish with the family. He enjoyed workin' the barbeque, too.
James taught his children to stand up for themselves and always help others in need by being an advocate or protector for those who could not protect themselves.
He was a "Jack of All Trades." He had an incredible sense of energy and was always someone you could turn to. His work ethic was "over the top". James was his family's "rock".
He is survived by his beloved wife Marilyn and their two sons: Jim (Kathy) and Robert (Karen), as well as his brother-in-law Charles Ahlberg.
He is preceded in death by his brother Robert Andrysiak.
He will be greatly missed. He had a great smile and was a friend to everyone who knew him.
Kathleen "Kathy" (Shull) Downing
Kathleen "Kathy" (Shull) Downing, age 75, of Sun Lakes, Arizona, passed away on Oct. 15, 2019, after a courageous battle with cancer. She was surrounded by her family.
Kathy was born in Central City, Nebraska, and raised in Chapman, Nebraska. She attended Grand Island High School.
Kathy worked in various occupations throughout her life, which included restaurant food and beverage manager of the Holiday Inn in Norfolk, Nebraska. Later, after relocating to Omaha, Nebraska, she became a certified gemologist. For the next 31 years, Kathy worked in the fine jewelry industry in both Omaha, Nebraska, and Chandler, Arizona. She loved and excelled in her career up until her retirement in 2017.
Kathy was a devoted mother, sister, wife, and a compassionate friend. Her family meant the world to her. She had a bright beautiful smile, sharp wit, and a very big and generous heart. She leaves behind nothing but beautiful, happy memories.
Her hobbies included being a shopper extraordinaire. She had a wonderful sense of style, always was impeccably dressed, and loved to shop for anyone and anything. She never met a sale she didn't like! She also loved listening to Frank Sinatra, reading a good book, interior decorating, and spending time with her family and friends.
Kathy is predeceased by her beautiful daughter Sherry Carstens, her loving husband Jerry Downing, and her parents Donald and Wilma Shull.
She is survived by her son Terry (Vi) McShannon; daughter Kristie Caskey; stepsons Terry (Maria) Downs, Randy (Carol) Downs; brother Dr. James (Sara) Shull; and sisters Sami Dietrich and Susan Carstenson; aunt Jeanenne Hiett; grandchildren Michelle Hunter, Paul Hunter, Austin Carstens, Katrina Caskey, and Carrissa Caskey; great-grandchild Jade Curtis; and her loyal little dog Max.
A Celebration of Life was held Friday, Nov. 1, 2019, at 2 p.m. at the Valley of the Sun Cemetery, 10940 E. Chandler Heights Road, Chandler, Arizona 85248.
Her family is truly grateful for the loving care from Hospice of the Valley. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests donations be made to the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center, www.supportuw.org, 600 Highland Ave. K4/658, Madison, WI 53792-6164, or Hospice of the Valley, www.hov.org, 1510 E. Flower Street, Phoenix, AZ 85014.
James C. Kirkpatrick
James C. (Jim/Kirt) Kirkpatrick was born Nov. 30, 1927, in Tipton, Iowa. He graduated high school in 1946. Upon graduation, Jim entered the U.S. Navy in San Diego, California. He was very proud of "his" Navy.
In the Navy, Jim was a Radarman and retired in August, 1971. He was Company Commander during boot camp in Great Lakes, IL. During his 20-year naval career, Jim served on four aircraft carriers (USS Midway, USS Princeton, USS Essex, and USS Constellation) in the Harbor Defense Unit at Subic Bay, Philippines, Naval Training Center at Great Lakes as Company Commander and at the Naval School Command Treasure Island as an on-platform Instructor for over five years.
Jim lost his wife Patty to cancer in August, 2003, after over 46 years of marriage. They had two sons, Jim and Jerry, and one daughter, Jane. He always cherished memories of Patty and is proud of Jim, Jane, and Jerry.
Jim never climbed Mt. Everest. He didn't invent anything. He never wrote a novel. He DID enjoy his work. He really liked people and enjoyed working and remembers fondly those he worked with and for.
In March, 2003, he relocated to Sun Lakes, Arizona. He loved Arizona and had many treasured friends there. His new business card read: "Retired/Still Very Active (recycled teenagers)."
On November 11, 2009, he was so happy that his daughter Jane came from her home in Bali, Indonesia, to be at his wedding. Also at the wedding were his youngest son Jerry, who was in Italy for his employer, and his oldest son Jim, who lives in Arizona. It was so precious that they were all there in the front row. The wedding joined Jim and Del in marriage. All who knew him knew of his great love for Del. They were so happy traveling in and out of the USA and Canada, as well as a Rhine River cruise in July 2010 and a trip to China in September 2010. They traveled to many places in the States and to Ireland/Scotland in 2011.
Shortly after arriving in Arizona, Jim became involved in attending opera, ballet, symphonies, and plays. Jim and Del so enjoyed all of these. Jim was in a writers group, which he especially enjoyed.
Some of their friends from these activities were at his outdoor wedding at the San Marcos Hotel in Chandler, Arizona, on Nov. 11, 2009. Jim and Del considered themselves so blessed in their love and their health.
Jim had many fond memories of growing up in small town Iowa (Tipton). He felt it was a great place to have lived. Jim often remembered many he had worked with and for. He received his Social Security card in 1937 and felt that he had learned so much from the "jobs" he had before entering the Navy.
The last years of retirement with Del and their many wonderful friends were truly his happiest days. He would have told you that he and Del had so much to be thankful for. Jim and Del moved into Renaissance in Sun Lakes to spend their last days. Jim died a contented man.
Katherine Schaefer Larson
Katherine Schaefer Larson was born in 1921 in Oklahoma. She attended Northwestern State University and pledged Tri-Sigma Sorority. She married Virgil Schaefer, and they spent their married life in Colorado, operating a wheat and cattle business in Eastern Colorado.
Katherine was a member of the Colorado Cow Belles Association. She spent many years volunteering at Penrose Hospital in Colorado Springs.
In 1972, after being widowed, she married Ordell Larson, a native of Arizona. They retired in Scottsdale and later moved to Sun Lakes. She is survived by her daughter Tanya Oslund of Sun Lakes and her great-granddaughter Nicholette Williams-Fortuna of West Lake Village, CA. Nicholette is the daughter of Ben Williams, the deceased son of Tanya.
A Celebration of Life was held October 30.
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Pragmatism is the one distinctively American contribution to philosophy (think Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, John Dewey, and more recently Richard Rorty and perhaps Hilary Putnam), but because the word "pragmatic" has both a technical/philosophical and a colloquial sense, the declaration that someone is a "pragmatist" is often more confusing than illuminating.
In law, for example, the Ur-Pragmatist was certainly Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., who was in fact part of the "Metaphysical Club" with the philosophical pragmatists. Yet our leading contemporary legal pragmatist, Richard Posner, sometimes invokes Holmes as an exemplar of the more prosaic notion of pragmatism as simply a rejection of core principles in favor of "muddling through" (in Charles Lindblom's phrase). That also appears to be the notion of pragmatism favored by Justice Stephen Breyer. Both espouse pragmatism as a kind of post-ideological moderation. And of course, the pragmatist du jour is the President-elect, who has been described as "ruthlessly pragmatic."
Here I won't attempt a full-scale exegesis of the points of overlap and discontinuity between philosophical pragmatism and prosaic pragmatism. Instead, I want to briefly respond, on behalf of both sorts of pragmatists, to a very common but in my view quite mistaken criticism. Pragmatists (of both the philosophical and prosaic sort) often say that they simply want to find out "what works," and do that. Anti-pragmatists then say something like this: Figuring out what works is fine when there are shared goals, but many of our most pressing issues, and certainly our politics, involve questions about what the goals should be; pragmatism is a good way to choose means to agreed ends but has nothing to say about choosing ends.
The mistake in the anti-pragmatist view is its assumption that human beings can have fixed ends except in the most abstract and thus unhelpful way. First I'll give a homey example (literally). Earlier this year, my partner and I were trying to decide where in Ithaca to live. We drew up a list of criteria: good elementary school district; walking distance to either elementary school or Cornell campus; modern plumbing and appliances; etc. We soon discovered that there was no place to live that met all of our requirements. So, like anybody would under the circumstances, we re-evaluated our goals. We would have to have a car to go shopping anyway and for half the year I could ride my bike, so maybe it wasn't crucial to live within walking distance of Cornell; the school district that had the best test scores used methods that we had seen turning one of our daughters off to homework in her previous school, so perhaps we should consider an alternative school; etc. As we found ourselves frustrated in the pursuit of our original goals, we realized that we needed to change our goals, so we did.
This is a universal phenomenon. You set a goal: To find the best Chinese restaurant near the movie theater. You locate it, but then you discover that they don't take reservations and can have long waits for tables. Maybe then you decide that you don't really want to see the movie so much after all and instead want to go to this great restaurant. Or you really do want to see the movie and realize that you'll probably eat so much popcorn there that you'll only want a salad afterwards, so you can go to a different place, that does take reservations, or isn't crowded. As you pursue an end, the means available cause you to re-evaluate that end continually.
The fancy way to put this point is that ends and means are reciprocal. If there are not good means of achieving your ends, you change your ends. And not just on trivial stuff like where to eat or on medium-level stuff like where to live, but on the most important decisions in your life like what career to pursue. You thought that getting a law degree would be a good way to give you credibility in negotiating contracts in the music business, but in law school you discover that you have a passion for criminal defense work, so you completely change your career plan. Or you start dating someone in law school who is on a student visa, and so you move to Thailand where, because of the different legal system, you're unable to practice law, so you go into business with your new father-in-law. As means unfold, ends change, often radically.
Here the anti-pragmatist objects that such adjustments are fine for an individual but that in the world of politics one is trading off the welfare of some for the welfare of others. But this is either just wrong or irrelevant. The problems real politics addresses are almost invariably very complex. As a result, pursuing any objective stated at even a medium level of abstraction--like "improving high school graduation rates"--will lead to unexpected obstacles and learning that, in turn, will lead back to re-evaluation of the goals.
What we discover is that the sorts of ends that remain fixed typically fall into one of two categories. First, some ends are fixed in a given time and place because they are not salient. Thus, "not enslaving people" is a fixed end of our domestic politics today but only because it doesn't take any effort to achieve this end. Second, some ends are fixed only because they are stated at such a high level of abstraction as to provide no guidance. "Respect individual rights" or "promote human flourishing" are examples.
Perhaps the anti-pragmatist means only that goals such as these irrelevancies and bromides must be fixed for pragmatism to get off the ground. If so, we pragmatists can concede the point without conceding anything of importance. Figuring out "what works" will still play a very substantial role in defining our ends at a level of generality that is more useful. That, at any rate, is what I mean by pragmatism.
In politics, to me "pragmatism" means 1) adjusting your prism so you don't first and foremost see ideology in some pursuit, and 2) assessing the best chance of building consensus. In this spirit, it's possible to set a goal of say, "ensuring universal healthcare coverage" -- leveraging public and private sector solutions without thinking you're giving up ground simply because you've partially left your natural ideological comfort zone.
On the other side, the Bush Administration's hard-line foreign policy doesn't seem pragmatic at all, since it stubbornly breaks both of those rules.
Also, I sometimes read that Barack was a "pragmatist" as president of the Harvard Law Review. I wonder what the term means in that context.
In the Harv Law Rev context circa 1990-91, being a pragmatist would mean just about what it means in politics today--not being an ideologue. Law students (and especially those on the staff of the Harvard Law Review)had an unrealistic impression of the importance of what they were doing, and so took left/right politics very seriously. I sometimes think that when Obama says he wants to get beyond the tired politics of the past, he's talking about law school politics of the late 80s and early 90s (including tenure and hiring debates) almost as much as the actual politics of the late 1960s.
Hmmm...I don't think I agree with you, Mike. Maybe it's because I disagree with your characterization of the anti-pragmatist position, or maybe it's actually because it isn't a complete statement of the anti-pragmatic position.
The anti-pragmatist says, first, as you righly note, that muddling through is fine when we agree on ends, but not when we don't. Then you, the pragmatist, say, means and ends are related. As we find out that our ends are unrealistic, unachievable, not all we thought they were cracked up to be given the difficulty in achieving them, etc., then our ends change. So both pragmatist and anti-pragmatist are really engaged in the same exercise.
But "muddling through" will take radically different forms depending on what kind of ends we still have in mind. Going to a chinese restaurant or going to the movies are ends that someone like you might have, so the means change within a fairly narrow range of acceptable ends. But your ends would (I think, given your character) not include cow tipping. Whereas for a different sort of pragmatist, they might include cow tipping as an alternative to dining at a chinese restaurant. So ends do, in the end, figure prominently in the picture, just in a broader way than you have presented. Now, whether we still want to call both types of people 'pragmatists' seems to me a question of semantics. The "anti-pragmatist's" point still holds -- it just holds when the options are more wide open than as you have described them.


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Since then there have been debates about the true authorship of the film and to what extent Svala Hannesdottir, who was originally credited as the director, was involved in the production of the film. It is now widely accepted that she did indeed direct the film and is therefore the first Icelandic woman film director.


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$f(x)=\sum\limits_{s=-\infty}^{\infty}f_{s}\exp(2\pi isx)$. What can one
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$$\sum_{s=-K}^{K}\left(\frac{s}{K}\right)^{q}f_{s}\exp(2\pi isx)$$ for $q>w$
and $K\rightarrow\infty$? Is it just a constant?

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USA tourism is by far not a singular concept. As it is the third largest country in the world, one cannot possibly cover all the places at once. However, there are some places which no one should miss out on their maiden America trip.
Often referred as 'the USA', the United States of America has a history of mass immigration since the 17th century. Hence, it is a melting pot of different cultures from across the globe, where one can witness the cultural landscape like nowhere else. As many European nations started colonizing the North American continent during the late 16th century, the original British colonies in Massachusetts and Virginia with their cultural, political and economic core formed what is known as United States today. Housing a plethora of major attractions, from skyscrapers to sunny beaches and natural wonders, an excursion to the USA offers a one-of-a-kind experience.
Housing a wide array of ethnic groups and their culture across the country, USA is definitely a potpourri of cultures. However, despite cultural differences, there are certain cultural portraits and a strong national identity that unite inhabitants of the USA. Primarily western, the culture of the US is influenced by Africa, Asia, and Latin America. As far as the language is concerned, there is no particular official language. However, locals can be found speaking English.
There is a saying, "American as apple pie", and it has been for a reason. No tour to USA can be complete sans munching on this popular dish of the USA, called Apple Pie. Besides that, on an excursion to the USA, it is recommended to try dishes, like: Clam Chowder, the Hamburger, Bagel and Lox, Texas Barbecue, Hominy Grits and much more.
Grab an opportunity to explore the great outdoors of America with our USA travel packages. Have an exhilarating rendezvous with nature and wildlife with a visit to some of the best national parks in the USA, like: Zion, Yosemite, Sequoia, Rocky Mountain, Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, Grand Teton and more.
A holiday in the USA can be best enjoyed during the celebration of Christmas party, when towns and streets are all decked with lights, Christmas tree, and with statues of Santa Claus. Visitors can also get a chance to savour delicious cuisines at this time.
Crammed with many romantic destination to make a visit to, USA has a bounty of offerings to enjoy honeymoon amidst the natural beauty. On a honeymoon tour to the USA, it is recommended to enjoy an excursion to places, like: San Juan Island, Key West, Hawaii, Mendocino, Cannon Beach, and more. To enjoy some relaxed time at the beach or shopping, dining and wining together, Santa Barbara and Napa Valley are perfect locations. For a more medieval ambiance, one can try out St Augustine, Florida or Savannah Riverfront area. Ideal honeymoon destinations are Maui or Kauai beach resorts in Hawaii Islands.
Besides Christmas, get to experience other traditional festivals of the USA, including Thanksgiving, Halloween, Valentine's Day, Easter and Independence Day which are celebrated with much fervour.
The US is surrounded on both east and west by two great oceans – Atlantic and Pacific. Needless to say, there are some great beach destinations to include in your US travel. Hawaii obviously has a whole lot of them. Manele Beach and Kauna'oa Bay in Hawaii make for two of the most perfect beach holidays in America. Florida is known worldwide for its tempting public beaches. Clearwater Beach, Key West, Sanibel Island, Captiva Island, Palm Beach, Siesta Key, Naples, Delray Beach, and Atlantic Beach are the best beach vacations in the US.
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When you go to America, the first city to travel is certainly the iconic New York City. Home to America's heart Manhattan, the beautiful Central Park, the majestic Empire State Building and the legendary landmark Statue of Liberty, New York City is the place where the whole world meets for business and pleasure, quite literally. Other than Manhattan, there are four more boroughs – Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx, and Staten Island and all of them have a lot of attractions to offer.
USA vacation packages are incomplete without a visit to the home of Hollywood, Los Angeles. The city of the rich and famous is divided into many destinations to explore – Venice Beach, Santa Monica, Beverly Hills or Hollywood itself in the center of the dazzling city. Behind-the-scenes tours of famous studios and the Walk of Fame Boulevard are not-to-miss locations.
Bordering the states of Maryland and Virginia is the capital of the United States, Washington DC over the Potomac River. Iconic neoclassical buildings make up the urban map of the city, including the three pillars of the US government – White House, Supreme Court, and Congress Capitol.
When you visit the USA, San Francisco is a city you simply cannot miss. Perched at the tip of the peninsula by the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, it is home to the iconic Golden Gate Bridge, colourful Victorian homes and the notorious prison island Alcatraz.
"What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas" because the rest of the world cannot match up to its level of hysteria. A city that is celebrating life 24x7, Las Vegas is the thumping nerve center of America's entertainment fantasy, complete with a variety of bars, clubs, pubs, casinos, theme parks and so on.


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Twitter is developing a dedicated page on its service where you'll be able to catch streamed coverage of live events. With its expected launch, it'll be easier to watch videos from the NFL, PGA, NHL, NBA, MLS, and other content providers without needing to search endlessly for a link.
There's no public timing for when this page will be rolled out, but one could hazard a guess that it might be right when the NFL's regular season kicks off this year.
Earlier today, Twitter's chief financial officer Anthony Noto confirmed the livestreaming effort in a tweet. As Twitter signs content partnerships with major sports leagues and other groups, the company has begun testing out its video capabilities to ensure that it can scale.
The best way to do this is open it up to the service's 313 million monthly active users, but in a way that doesn't overload the system. That's probably why users are seeing notifications within the Twitter app inviting them to watch things like the Republican and Democratic National Conventions, the PGA Tour's Barclays golf tournament, Wimbledon, and other events.
Should Twitter work out all the kinks of its platform, it'll likely move into the next phase of more active promotion. After all, having a service that fails at a time when you absolutely need it to work won't look good for the company.
It's possible that when a permanent place is set up on Twitter, the company will enable users to not only watch games and other events live on the site and apps, but also interact with fans and followers, share moments and GIFs with one another.


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When I was about twelve, I was lying on the sofa in my living room one evening watching a horror movie called Gargoyles.
From the perspective of a few more decades of living, I can say now that Gargoyles was a pretty derpy movie. The general gist was that the people who put gargoyle statues on Gothic cathedrals were sculpting from life, and that all over the world there were caves occupied by the great-great-great-etc. grandchildren of those medieval monsters. So of course there's the intrepid scientist character who is convinced that gargoyles exist but can't get his supervisors to believe him, but he goes and investigates them anyhow, and in the process hits one of them with his pickup truck. (The gargoyles, not his supervisors.)
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Well, the scientist is just thrilled by this development. He thinks, "Wow, now I have proof!", loads the deceased gargoyle into his truck, and then stops at a motel for the night. Then he does what you would do if you had never ever ever watched a horror movie in your life, namely: he decides that he can't leave a gargoyle corpse in the open bed of his pickup truck in the parking lot of a motel, so he drags it into the room with him.
He gets undressed for bed, turns out the lights, and -- of course -- it turns out the gargoyle isn't dead. There's a soft, stealthy noise, and then a vaguely humanoid-shaped shadow rises, looming over the foot of the sleeping scientist's bed.
This was when my father, who was sitting in the recliner next to the couch, reached out and grabbed my shoulder and yelled, "THERE'S ONE NOW!"
After he peeled me off the ceiling with a spatula and my heart rate began to return to normal, I at least was thankful that I hadn't pissed my pants. It was a close-run thing.
It's a wonder that I actually watch horror movies at all, because I am seriously suggestible. When the movie The Sixth Sense first was released on DVD, my girlfriend (now wife) and I watched it at her house. Then I had to make a forty-five minute drive, alone in my car at around midnight, then go (still alone) into my cold, dark, empty house. I might actually have jumped into bed from four feet away so the evil little girl ghost wouldn't reach out from underneath and grab my ankle. I also might have pulled the blankets up as high over me as I could without suffocating, following the time-tested rule that monsters' claws can't pierce a down comforter.
So yeah. I might be a skeptic, but I am also a great big coward.
This was why I found some research that was published in the journal Neuroimage last week so fascinating. It comes out of the University of Turku (Finland), where a team led by neuroscientist Lauri Nummenmaa had people watching movies like The Devil's Backbone and The Conjuring while hooked to an fMRI scanner.
They had participants (all of whom said they watched at least one horror movie every six months) rate the movies they watched for suspense and scariness, count the number of "jump scares," and evaluate their overall quality. The scientists then looked at the fMRI results to see what parts of the brain were active when, and found some interesting patterns.
As the tension is increasing -- points where you're thinking, "Something scary is going to happen soon" -- the parts of the brain involved in visual and auditory processing ramp up activity. Makes sense; if you were in a situation with real threats, and were worried about some imminent danger, you would begin to pay more attention to your surroundings, looking for cues to whether your fears were justified. Then at the moment of jump scares, the parts of the brain involved in decision-making and fight-or-flight response spike in activity, as you make the split-second decision whether to run, fight the monster, or (most likely in my case) just have a stroke and drop dead on the spot.
Nummenmaa and his team found, however, that all through the movie, the sensory processing and rapid-response parts of the brain were in continuous cross-talk. Apparently the brain is saying, "Okay, we're in a horror movie, so something terrifying is bound to happen sooner or later. May as well prepare for it now."
What I still find fascinating, though, is why people actually like this sensation. Even me. I mean, my favorite Doctor Who episode -- the one that got me hooked on the series in the first place -- is the iconic episode "Blink," featuring the terrifying Weeping Angels, surely one of the scariest fictional monsters ever invented.
Maybe it's so when the movie's over, we can reassure ourselves that we might have problems in our lives, but at least we're not being disemboweled by a werewolf or abducted by aliens or whatnot. I'm not sure if this is true for me, though. Because long after the movie's over, I'm still convinced that whatever horrifying creature was rampaging through the story, it's still out there.
And it's looking for me.
So maybe I shouldn't watch scary movies. It definitely takes a toll on me. And that's even without my practical joker father scaring me out of five years of my life expectancy when the monster appears.
The brilliant, iconoclastic physicist Richard Feynman was a larger-than-life character -- an intuitive and deep-thinking scientist, a prankster with an adolescent sense of humor, a world traveler, a wild-child with a reputation for womanizing. His contributions to physics are too many to list, and he also made a name for himself as a suspect in the 1950s "Red Scare" despite his work the previous decade on the Manhattan Project. In 1986 -- two years before his death at the age of 69 -- he was still shaking the world, demonstrating to the inquiry into the Challenger disaster that the whole thing could have happened because of an o-ring that shattered from cold winter temperatures.
James Gleick's Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman gives a deep look at the man and the scientist, neither glossing over his faults nor denying his brilliance. It's an excellent companion to Feynman's own autobiographical books Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! and What Do You Care What Other People Think? It's a wonderful retrospective of a fascinating person -- someone who truly lived his own words, "Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough."
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WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 15: (L-R) U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) speaks as Reps. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) listen during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol on July 15, 2019 in Washington, DC. President Donald Trump stepped up attacks on the four progressive Democratic congresswomen, saying that if they're not happy in the U.S., "they can leave." (Photo by Alex Wroblewski/Getty Images)
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In 1780, Major General Benedict Arnold succumbed to his empathy for the enemy and defected from his trusted service to the American Colonies – to fight for the British cause. This was not an instantaneous act, but rather a slow and constant progression of his loyalties from resolved colonial policies to instead favor the emotionally-charged reactionary and desperate plight of the British in America.
Many historians speculate that among the reasons for his defection was a jealously he harbored toward fellow generals who had received promotions ahead of him following their battlefield accomplishments, which had overshadowed Arnold's accomplishments in the eyes of General George Washington.
When you consider the ideals that drove Arnold to abandon America – envy, insecurity, animosity, empathy for antagonists, and disregard for one's entrusted loyalties – it is not a stretch to liken those exact transgressions to modern-day Democratic leaders in Congress. And arguably worse, the way their insecurities are being perpetuated by their leading Presidential hopefuls.
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Joe Biden is among those whose insane hyper-critical ramblings have highlighted the airwaves of digital toilets like CNN and MSNBC.
No, Uncle Touchy, President Trump owes the American people no explanation for doing his job and defending the lives of Americans and sovereign American diplomatic facilities abroad. The only explanation Americans are owed is one from your former limp-wristed boss. An impotent leader who refused to let his sleep be disturbed by the cries for help from a senior American Diplomat and his security detail who were being overrun and murdered in the middle of the night, while their country's leadership abandoned them on a rooftop 6,000 miles from home.
We're still waiting for our explanation, as well as for accountability from that incident. No matter how often you try to deflect from it, we will never forget and we remain relentlessly resolved to see that justice is served for those American heroes, Joe.
The more our President accomplishes, the more Democrats seem to loathe him with juvenile insecurity. Even and especially when he acts faithfully according to his oath to protect We the People.
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In 2018, Soleimani posted a picture on his Instagram Account of him standing in front of a burning White House. Democrats seem to ignore the inconvenient fact that Obama once sat in that sacred House, too. Perhaps it was from the millions of dollars sent to Iran by the Obama Administration that Iran could afford such repugnant, anti-American propaganda. Propaganda that Iran has used to subvert American interests and launch military activity against American and Israeli personnel across the Middle East.
Democrats have renewed their insensitivity toward those killed in Benghazi under the heinous failures of Obama Administration and Hillary Clinton's State Department. With every protest against the killing of a monster who sought to destroy the US, Democrats are arrogantly and irresponsibly showcasing their hatred for our Constitutional ideals and the American way of life. They are in fact giving aid and comfort to the enemy, the very language used in Article 3, Section 3 of the US Constitution to define treason.
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Imagine being so far removed from reality and reason that you take to the streets in tears, dressed as a polyester vulva, to emote disdain that restrooms have a "men's" or "women's" designation; but, you swear an empath of allegiance for a man who has raped and slaughtered hundreds of thousands of people, including your own fellow Americans.
Acute mental illness doesn't even begin to describe the type of anti-social and outrageously manic behavior that is being displayed by liberals in Congress, the media, Hollywood, and on the streets of America. That these shortsighted imps protest the killing of a man who had subjugated, tortured, and killed hundreds of thousands of women is pathetic and irreversibly embarrassing. They should be ashamed of themselves, yet they scream pride for their own hypocrisy and intellectual inferiority.
Over the past three years, we have watched the already-thin judgment of Democrats rapidly dissolve to the point of complete erosion. From the premeditated and unsubstantiated attacks on Justice Kavanaugh, to the orchestrated false cries of racism by bottom-feeders like Jussie Smollett, to the sham impeachment hearings by the congressional band of nitwits led by losers like Adam Schiff – we have witnessed the absent-minded resolve of American liberals to destroy this country.
And they continue to up the ante with every passing day of the Trump Presidency.
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If they cannot have their way, they will sacrifice everyone out of jealous spite. Their petulance is disgraceful, and what's more destructive is that they continue to infect young minds with their toxic and displaced, selfish rage. That is precisely how we end up with demonstrably ignorant and childish, inept clowns like those in "the squad." Individuals who have no argument that isn't prefaced by a label or false narrative that continues to be parroted by their intellectually-negligent base.
We've reached an apex of division in America that has exposed the unquestionably treasonous behavior of the Democratic Party. Those who continue to vote for and support these elected officials are fully complicit in treason against the Constitution and We the People.
What the Democrats have continued to underestimate with their spineless insecurities and their envy of Trump's accomplishments, is the absolute unwavering resolve of America's Patriots. Their blind rage, their jealousy, their passive ignorance – none of it will defeat the determination of Americans whose values are rooted in traditional goodwill and devotion to our founding principles.
With every contemptuous attempt to dislodge our President's character and the will of the country's faithful citizens, Democrats are one step closer to bringing their party and their hateful ideals to extinction. Americans will not allow themselves to be imprisoned by the ignorant and repugnant groupthink of radical liberalism. We've had enough, and the gloves are off. We're taking our country back.
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Home Finance Secured vs Unsecured: Is A Security Ever Necessary?
When looking for the right type of loan for your business, you have two main options to consider; secure and unsecured loans. Both types of loan offer a different amount as the max that you can borrow, different interest rates to take into account and so much more. Here, we are going to look at the two styles of the loan and if security is even necessary.
Secured loans are one of the leading options for those seeking larger sums of money for longer periods of time. If you are looking to borrow a large amount of money from a bank for a business, you are likely to place elements down as security such as an office space, equipment or other business assets; this then acts as a barrier between you and the lender should you miss repayments.
However, with unsecured business loans, you are restricted to the amount of money that you can borrow. However, with no assets places as collateral, the lender has full responsibility should you miss your repayments. This is an ideal solution for small businesses or those who may be looking for a shorter-term cash injection.
When applying for a loan, the security that you may or may not need to present is in part down to the amount that you borrow. If you are looking to borrow a large sum of money with a long-term loan, you are more likely to require an asset as a security, while those seeking short-term loans of smaller amounts may escape this necessity.
If you are borrowing a large sum of money then you may need to provide a level of security depending on the lender. Due to this level of security, you are able to borrow more and this acts as the payment should you be unable to pay. Although this is often only as a precaution, it puts the risk in the borrower's hands as they may lose their assets or collateral should a payment be missed.
In addition to the amount that you are looking to borrow, the lender that you borrow from can also decide whether or not you are required to place down a level of security. With some lenders offering unsecured loans only, though often with a restricted price, and some offering a secure loan for larger sums like commercial mortgages, it is important to do your research before applying. This is so that you can have the best possible interest rate when finding a loan that works for your business.
If you are an individual looking for a short term loan for a small startup, then you will often be met with an unsecured option, this is not only down to the amount that you are eligible to borrow but also the time frame in which you will be making the repayments. Due to the short-term nature of the loan, lenders often do not require security, as repayments are made quickly, reducing risk. However, if you fail to make the repayments on your unsecured short-term loan, it is imperative that you contact the lender directly. This is so that you can reorganise a repayment schedule with them and avoid further debt.
If you're seeking business loans for your company, understanding which loans are best for you in the long-term is a must. Hopefully, this guide has given you a starting point in deciding which suits your financial situation best – which will you opt for?


It isn't news that China is a very important market for consumer electronics, in fact most experts agree that it will soon surpass US as the primary market. Unsurprisingly Consumers Electronics Show (CES) has chosen China, and specifically Shanghai as the venue for its first non-Las Vegas based event: CES Asia 2015.
We went to the show eager to see the latest innovations and newest products and were not disappointed, although the show was a bit smaller than the main event in US. We were a bit surprised not to see Lenovo - our good client - there, and Samsung was missing as well, however we did see many other global brands trying to gain their portion of the market in China and many Chinese brands looking outward to the global market. These brands need to make sure that their offers fit the Chinese consumer context and their quickly evolving preferences, as we wrote a few years ago.
The show's areas were divided into interest sections, from "Video" lit by bright and thin 4K displays, "Lifestyle" section filled with portable speakers, "Digital Health", booths filled wearable devices, to "Smart Home" area filled with connected light bulbs and WiFi connected power outlets.
Internet of Things (IoT) was a hot topic this year, with many, large and small, companies showcasing their vision for connected future. Intel expects that there will be around 50 billion connected devices in the world within the next 10 years, and China Mobile aspires to become China's leading data provider for the Internet of Things. On the consumer-side of IoT ecosystem is the Smart Home, which may sound like a new concept but in fact is decades old. Many companies offered smart home products or services for years now but they only served the very high-end market accessible to wealthy individuals or institutions. Now, with the democratization of technology, Smart Home offerings are accessible and affordable to most individuals. However a lot of the products and services seem not be utilizing the customer-centric approach and focus too much on novelty and features that seem interesting but don't necessarily represent consumer needs. On top of that, lack of standardization, security, and privacy issues still need to be resolved before wide-scale adoption will take place.
Regardless, it's a market that is sure to grow in the near future, and as it grows it will mature. Itai Ben-Gal, Co-Founder of iRule thinks that just as ABS and airbags used to be options in vehicles but became standard as consumers demanded more safety features security and privacy solutions will become the norm for Smart Home systems.
Automakers were also present; Ford was showcasing their vision for the future of personal mobility with their in-car connectivity tech and MyEnergi Lifestyle ecosystem. A pilot program in Shanghai and Beijing between Ford, home appliance manufactures, renewable energy and power management industries with the goal of reducing families' energy costs and carbon footprint.
SYNC 3, Ford's much improved in-car connectivity system features voice commands, including Siri Eyes-Free control, a more user friendly and intuitive touch screen, and AppLink – allowing connection between smartphone and the car.
Audi brought its driverless, all electric sports car of the future - R8 e-tron, with a maximum range of 450 km and a fast charging system that can recharge the battery in less than two hours. The car uses multiple cameras, radar, lidar and other sensors to create a 360-degree digital view of its surroundings to navigate, but still requires a driver to sit behind the wheel due to legal reasons (for now).
VW was also showing some innovative car interface features, such as gesture-control and haptic feedback. Volkswagen's goal was to replace all of infotainment and climate controls with proximity-aware and gesture controls. Swiping a hand near the sunroof would make it open; similar gestures would also control windows and headlights. Gestures also controlled the audio system, adjusting the volume or switching songs. The gesture-control is meant as a complement to other interface options, including voice commands and touchscreen control – with the latter featuring haptic feedback to give the user an impression they are pressing actual buttons through vibration. It's exciting to see automotive manufacturers speeding up their development cycles and starting to integrate the latest technologies.
It's great to finally see CES in the "city of the future," where so many exciting and new things are happening. We're already looking forward to what next year will bring.


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Seth Rogen made 'Green Hornet' happen
LOS ANGELES • It's not easy being a hard-luck hero. Just ask Seth Rogen, who for the better part of four years has been trying to get "The Green Hornet" feature film off the ground despite changes to the script, the tone, the director and, well, pretty much everything except the hero's cool customized car.
The comedy-action movie, finally, has a solid release date set for January and Rogen, who stars in the title role and co-wrote the script, brought the film to Comic-Con International in San Diego on Friday to begin a public campaign to take the film's street credibility from zero level to hero level. You'll have to forgive the 28-year-old Vancouver native if he moans about all the other superhero properties that fly much faster and far straighter on their way to movie theaters.
"I had a meeting with Fox the other day and they have all of the 'X-Men: First Class' stuff up on the wall," Rogen said of the Marvel Comics adaptation, which didn't even have a director until May but is now being fast-tracked for release next summer. "Look at the way that movie is happening. It could have the worst script in the world, the worst director in the world — not that it does, but it could have those things — and there's no way the movie isn't going to get made. Our movie was not like that."
Rogen, sitting in a Los Angeles restaurant, sighed and then jabbed at his side salad with a fork. The actor, who shed plenty of weight to play the title role in "Hornet," seems alternately irked and impressed by his struggle to make "Hornet," which Rogen cowrote with Evan Goldberg, who was also his scripting partner on the cinematic bong-hits "Superbad" and "The Pineapple Express."
"It's been a project of passion, and that's the only reason we kept it going," Rogen said.
In the movie, Rogen plays Britt Reid, a rich, shallow party animal who inherits the job of being a newspaper publisher when his father (Tom Wilkinson) dies suddenly. He also inherits the services of a mysterious employee named Kato (Taiwanese actor Jay Chou) whose martial arts and mechanical skills inspire Reid to become a masked vigilante.


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Q: VBA "INSERT INTO" error - Importing data from Excel I'm using a VBA code in excel to pick some data and insert it into an Access DB. I need this for several tables.
The problem is: For some of those tables, I get an error like: "INSERT INTO syntax error". But, if I get the string the code generates and uses for inserting, and use it in SQL mode form Access, the query works just fine. So that doesn't make any sense. Here is a piece of it:
For j = 6 To lastrow

            SQLStr = "INSERT INTO TENSILE(REFERENCE, REF_ID, POSITION, RATIO, YSL0, YSL90, YSL180, YSL270, YST0, YST90, YST180, YST270, UTSL0, UTSL90, UTSL180, UTSL270, UTST0, UTST90, UTST180, UTST270, EL0, EL90, EL180, EL270, ET0, ET90, ET180, ET270, ARL0, ARL90, ARL180, ARL270, ART0, ART90, ART180, ART270) SELECT '" & ws3.Cells(j, 1) & "', REF.ID,'" & ws3.Cells(j, 60).Value & "'"

            For i = 61 To 93

                SQLStr = SQLStr & "," & ws3.Cells(j, i).Value

            Next i

            SQLStr = SQLStr & " FROM REF WHERE REF.REFERENCE LIKE '" & ws3.Cells(j, 1) & "'"
            ws3.Cells(7, 3).Value = SQLStr
            MsgBox (SQLStr)
            'rs.Open SQLStr, con, adOpenStatic, adLockOptimistic 'Opening the query

        Next j

it's important to notice that this same structure is used for other tables and works normaly, like in:
For j = 6 To lastrow

            SQLStr = "INSERT INTO METALOGRAPHY(REFERENCE, REF_ID,  AUSTGRAINSIZE) SELECT '" & ws3.Cells(j, 1) & "',REF.ID ," & ws3.Cells(j, 18).Value & " FROM REF WHERE REF.REFERENCE LIKE '" & ws3.Cells(j, 1) & "'"
            'MsgBox (SQLStr)
            'ws3.Cells(2, 3).Value = SQLStr
            rs.Open SQLStr, con, adOpenStatic, adLockOptimistic 'Opening the query

        Next j

What is going wrong?

A: Have you considered changing how you are linked to the Access DB so that you could use a statement like:
db.execute SQLStr

This should solve your problem


My work over the years has used both three-dimensional elements and painting with an ongoing interest in enlivening a minimalist vocabulary of form through texture, paint application and color. That interest has often used geometric abstraction and collaged materials.
In this work, found and salvaged pieces of wood with a history of color and wear are juxtaposed with decisive color choices, an uninflected paint application, and use the vehicle of a sparse geometry. The colors are always mixed to a matte, light-absorbent quality and tweaked according to my desired and subtle sense of hue and light. I use color chips as my color reference, and inspirations for those choices are varied.
Abstraction has always been my expressive vehicle. I like its openness and presentation of qualities rather than narrative. This work, which merges minimalism, construction, and geometric abstraction with my deepest experiences of color, represents the most recent development in a my years of painting and has been decisively influenced by the landscape and weather of the Hudson Valley.


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New Large Order from Iran for 1,300 Volvo Trucks
September 20, 2002 03:21 ET | Source: Volvo Volvo
GOTEBORG, Sweden, Sept. 20, 2002 (PRIMEZONE) -- Volvo Trucks has secured an order for a total of 1,300 trucks from Iran, encompassing FH12 4x2 and 6x4 tractors. The order is valued at a total of about 600 million Swedish kronor (EUR 66 million).
The trucks will be delivered in kit form (CKD), featuring an agreed locally produced content and assembled on site in Teheran. The specification is tailored to meet European requirements, with Euro 3 engines, and the trucks will mainly be used in transit haulage operations.
The new order is part of Volvo's joint cooperation agreement previously signed with Saipa Diesel of Iran.
"So far this year, we have signed orders for more than 2,000 trucks for delivery to Iran, which is extremely gratifying," said Claes Svedberg, head of the International Division at Volvo Trucks.
Claes Claeson, Volvo Truck Corporation,tel: +46 31-663908 or +46 708-363908
The Volvo Group is one of the world's leading manufacturers of trucks, buses and construction equipment, drive systems for marine and industrial applications, aerospace components and services. The Group also provides complete solutions for financing and service. The Volvo Group, which employs about 71,000 people, has production facilities in 25 countries and sells their products in more than 185 markets. Annual sales of the Volvo Group amount to 18 billion euro. The Volvo Group is a publicly-held company headquarterd in Goteborg, Sweden. Volvo (Nasdaq:VOLVY) shares are listed on the stock exchanges in Stockholm, London, Brussels and Frankfurt and on NASDAQ in the U.S.
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St. Patrick' s Day, the national day of Ireland is celebrated not only in Ireland but all across the world especially in the United States, Canada, Australia & New Zealand by Irish people, their descendents & people of all back grounds interested in Irish culture or in just having a fun day out.
Yokohama, long famous as a cosmopolitan multi-national city 1st celebrated St. Patrick' s Day in 2004 and where better to celebrate this world famous festival than in Motomachi, the most fashionable quarter of Japan 2nd biggest city.
St. Patrick was a bishop who lived in the late 4th and early 5th century and helped spread Christianity to Ireland. Many myths exist about him most famously that he rid Ireland of all snakes. There are no snakes in the wild in Ireland.
Although the holiday began as a religious occasion and is still marks by attending church in Ireland, it' s primary function now is to allow Irish people to celebrate their rich culture & heritage & to allow people from all cultures to celebrate with them.
Ireland is known as the Emerald isle because of its great beauty and green landscape. The national colour is green and it is therefore traditional to wear green on St. Patrick' s Day.
So come along to Motomachi dress up in green and join in the fun!
The Irish are renowned for their friendliness and love of fun & Japan got to experience this during the FIFA World Cup 2002. Interest is growing in this unique & wonderful country as more Japanese travel to Ireland as tourists & students & experience the warmth of the Irish people.
Welcome to the STPDY homepage. My name is Louise and Ive been the director of STPDY since 2007. We are based in the Yokohama/Tokyo area and every year help to organise the St. Patricks day parade in Motomachi, along with promoting Irish culture at different events throughout the year.We are always looking for new members from Japan and all over the world to join us so come along to our next meeting. Its a great way to meet new people and participate in a great event. So if you'd like to experience some of the "ceol agus craic" then send us an email.
People whom releted to Ireland.
If you'd like to experience some of the "ceol agus craic" then send us an email.
Copyright (c) 2016 St. Patrick's Day Parade Motomachi, Yokohama Committee All rights reserved.


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DataSift API
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This is the new Java library for accessing DataSift. See the tests and examples folder for some simple usage.
This version of the library is currently in alpha. It is incompatible with older versions. If you used a 2.x.x or lower version of the library then we have written a migration guide to help the transition.
See [MIGRATING_TO_V-3.0.0.md](MIGRATING_TO_V-3.0.0.md)

Getting Started
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**Read our [Java Getting Started Guide](http://dev.datasift.com/quickstart/java) to get started with the DataSift platform.** The guide will take you through creating a [DataSift](http://datasift.com) account, and activating data sources which you will need to do before using the DataSift API.

Many of the examples and API endpoints used in this library require you have enabled certain data sources before you can receive any data (you should do this at [datasift.com/source](https://datasift.com/source)). Certain API features, such as [Historics](http://datasift.com/platform/historics/) and [Managed Sources](http://datasift.com/platform/datasources/) will require you have signed up to a monthly subscription before you can access them.

If you are interested in using these features, or would like more information about DataSift, please [get in touch](http://datasift.com/contact-us/)!

Requirements
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The following libraries are required [Netty](http://netty.io), [Higgs.IO](http://higgs.io), [HighScale lib](https://github.com/boundary/high-scale-lib) and JUnit for testing.
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License
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All code contained in this repository is Copyright 2011-2015 MediaSift Ltd.

This code is released under the BSD license. Please see the LICENSE file for
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Technology Startups
Legal Tech - Taking Law Into Their Own Hands, For Good
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Sandeep Soni
Former Features Editor
January 28, 2017 10 min read
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Deep down we dread legal. And reasons are twofold - part because, we know justice delayed is justice denied, coming from an overburdened, archaic, and a broken judicial system - much like a broken lorry laden with more weight than its capacity. And part because, it is downright mentally and emotionally harassing, since not just most of us are pleasantly unaware of our basic legal rights but neither do we give a damn about it unless it becomes a necessary evil. Legal technology – the new kid on the 'Internet' block is here for some respite from the latter part.
Anita Singh is a semi-literate housewife living in Sonipat, a satellite town of Delhi, and was looking for ways to file divorce just after eight months of her marriage. For the next two months, Singh continued her futile pursuit to find the right lawyer and understanding terms of what legal recourse she can take. This was until a local attorney explained to her, her rights as per the Hindu Marriage Act 1955 and referred few online platforms for legal advice and even to find a suitable lawyer.
"I never knew that law doesn't permit you to file for divorce within one year of the marriage except in few severe circumstances. The website actually told me this. The attorney even helped me get a lawyer from here. I am less worried now," says Singh.
New Law of the Land
That's the core belief for few start-ups, like LawRato, MyAdvo, MeeturPro, LegalRaasta, and Legistify, to break the fundamental barrier by making justice more accessible for people and businesses (small businesses and start-ups) –by helping them understand their basic legal rights, find right lawyers, as there is no public record for around 20 lakh lawyers' performance data in India, and handle legal aspects of setting up and running hiring lawyers and free legal advice. Mahajan, an alumnus of Faculty of Law, University of Delhi – among top law colleges in India, started LawRato in February 2015.
A former associate vice president for media and entertainment company, Wizcraft, and son of a Delhi High court advocate, Mahajan realized things were quite old school and non-uniform in terms of paper works and finding the right lawyer or right legal advice in courts. The market size is equally overwhelming for Mahajan. It happens to be largely volume game for which there is no shortage. "There are about 16 lakh new cases filed every month in courts excluding consumer courts. This means 32 lakh new litigants coming into the market every month," adds Mahajan.
This is in addition to the cases pending. "There is a pendency of around 3.5 crore cases. Also, 90 per cent of people who lose case in district courts go to high courts. The good thing about India is anything you do, volume automatically comes in," claims Mahajan. On the business-to-business (B2B) side, start-ups like LegalRaasta offer services such as company registration, return filing, and legal connect for small businesses, similar to existing platforms like IndiaFilings and Vakilsearch. The idea is to cut the middlemen involved in offline route and allow entrepreneurs to fill forms for various documents via do-it-yourself platform like company registration. Preparing application, submitting documents to the registrar and obtaining registration certificate are done by the start-ups.
"Small medium enterprise is the larger segment worth more than Rs 20,000 crore in market size including registration and return filing, and Rs 10,000 crore for legal consultation, documentation etc.," says Himanshu Jain, Co-founder, LegalRaasta. Started in 2015, Jain, who comes from a business family, faced challenges in legal compliances and transparency that drew him towards launching LegalRaasta. a business. This not just brings mental relief but also save time and cost.
Users can ask for basic legal advice for free (and pay for subsequent advice with the chosen lawyer either via call, chat or e-mail depending upon the duration of the interaction) and choose lawyers on the basis of their experience, area of expertise, city, court, etc., and further via reviews or ratings. Lawyers who are continuously rated low are taken off. The charges are prepaid for paid advice.
"Law is a complicated topic unlike healthcare to which we are exposed since childhood. Common man doesn't deal with legal issues unless a situation demands for it. It is expensive and complicated because people are unaware. Hence, it is important for them to understand law," says Rohan Mahajan, Founder, LawRato – a Delhi-based business-to-consumer (B2C) platform for hiring lawyers and free legal advice. Mahajan, an alumnus of Faculty of Law, University of Delhi – among top law colleges in India, started LawRato in February 2015. A former associate vice president for media and entertainment company, Wizcraft, and son of a Delhi High court advocate, Mahajan realized things were quite old school and non-uniform in terms of paper works and finding the right lawyer or right legal advice in courts.
The market size is equally overwhelming for Mahajan. It happens to be largely volume game for which there is no shortage. "There are about 16 lakh new cases filed every month in courts excluding consumer courts. This means 32 lakh new litigants coming into the market every month," adds Mahajan. This is in addition to the cases pending. "There is a pendency of around 3.5 crore cases. Also, 90 per cent of people who lose case in district courts go to high courts. The good thing about India is anything you do, volume automatically comes in," claims Mahajan.
On the business-to-business (B2B) side, start-ups like LegalRaasta offer services such as company registration, return filing, and legal connect for small businesses, similar to existing platforms like IndiaFilings and Vakilsearch. The idea is to cut the middlemen involved in offline route and allow entrepreneurs to fill forms for various documents via do-it-yourself platform like company registration. Preparing application, submitting documents to the registrar and obtaining registration certificate are done by the start-ups.
"Small medium enterprise is the larger segment worth more than Rs 20,000 crore in market size including registration and return filing, and Rs 10,000 crore for legal consultation, documentation etc.," says Himanshu Jain, Co-founder, LegalRaasta. Started in 2015, Jain, who comes from a business family, faced challenges in legal compliances and transparency that drew him towards launching LegalRaasta.
Driving Merit to the Top
For lawyers too, such platforms act as a gateway to not just more business but also act as a filter to avoid crook lawyers plaguing the system. Lawyers like Jai Dehadrai, a commercial litigator, practicing in high court and Supreme Court, have found such platforms to be good for the legal profession.
"It all comes down to free competition. Wherever governments or professional community like lawyers have allowed competition to thrive, the best have come to the top and merit has succeeded. These platforms are driving that merit to the top," says Dehadrai, who has a niche interest in medical negligence cases. Dehadrai, available on platforms like LawRato and MyAdvo has been able to attract five-10 extra cases through them every month.
Investors too are upbeat about Driving Merit to the Top For lawyers too, such platforms act as a gateway to not just more business but also act as a filter to avoid crook lawyers plaguing the system. Lawyers like Jai Dehadrai, a commercial litigator, practicing in high court and Supreme Court, have found such platforms to be good for the legal profession. "It all comes down to free competition. Wherever governments or professional community like lawyers have allowed competition to thrive, the best have come to the top and merit has succeeded.
These platforms are driving that merit to the top," says Dehadrai, who has a niche interest in medical negligence cases. Dehadrai, available on platforms like LawRato and MyAdvo has been able to attract five-10 extra cases through them every month. Investors too are upbeat about legaltech start-ups. There have been few small ticket investments in the space. The recent being an angel round raised by LawRato from Indian Angel Network in November 2016. Kumar Shiralagi, managing director at the tier one venture capital firm, Kalaari Capital, which invested in Vakilsearch, affirms the potential of the market.
"Online legal service is a very much fragmented hence there is a large market where Internet can make a difference," says Shiralagi.
More than the expertise, Shiralagi is hoping for more clarity on how such businesses will fare against the lowcost services offered by local notaries sitting outside courts. "There is a good margin made by such service providers. The question is how it translates into an Internet-based business.," asserts Shiralagi.
Lawyers – The Less Tech Savvy Community Since the Bar Council of India doesn't permit lawyers to solicit clients or advertise in any manner which may influence users' decision, there is not cut or commission involved in the revenue model of such start-ups. Usually lawyers are billed monthly or sometimes weekly or fortnightly.
"Lawyers who are associated with us on drafting lease agreements work on fixed salary basis," says Akshat Singhal, Founder and CEO, Legistify – Noida based start-up offering online agreement making, lawyer consultation and legal advice services, started in January 2016. Started as a platform for answering legal queries, Legistify expanded to other services. The user fills up the legal form which is then drafted by the lawyer following which the Legistify technology team works on it and puts it online for the user.
"The charges are prepaid wherein typically 30-40 per cent goes to the lawyer or the chartered accountant and rest comes to us. In some cases, payment is also in installments," says Jain. If the customer is not convinced with the service, then he/she is offered another lawyer of equal or more experience. Still not convinced, the money is refunded.
Mindset is an obvious challenge to maintain demand (customers) and supply (lawyers). For customers, it is like asking our relatives and people in network of a good doctor or hospital few years back as they are not used to find lawyers online.
"In India, lawyers are not allowed to advertise as bar council of India, so we faced challenge in on boarding lawyers but now they understand that it is only listing," says Singhal. Moreover, lawyers, as a general belief, are a less tech savvy, much like doctors and teachers around half a decade back. "Apart from around 10 per cent, most of them are not very tech savvy," adds Singhal.
However the young first generation lawyers entering the sector are all very much tech-savvy and so are expectations from the customers looking for techie lawyers to drive efficiency. Demonstrable value in terms of convenience, cost saving, etc., is what will bring them on the platform. Nonetheless, the market is very nascent and will take another threefour years to show sustainable action.
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