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Russian President Vladimir Putin has walked back an unpopular plan to balance his country's budget that would require citizens to work between five and 10 years longer before they could retire.
Putin announced some softening of the plan to raise the male retirement age from 60 to 65 and 55 to 63 for women after a stiff backlash prompted protests and sank his popularity to a five-year-low. The controversial change first made headlines during the height of World Cup fever in July, and despite Russians' enthrallment with the tournament taking place in their country, calls to reverse the plan increased and eventually prompted Putin to respond in a televised message this week. He defended the idea but promised he would revise some of its terms.
"As far as the current authorities are concerned, the easiest and simplest thing for it today is to change nothing," Putin said in a television address, estimating that Moscow could keep paying the current pensions for another decade. "But we know that gradually a time will come when the government will not have resources for indexation of the pensions.
That means women's retirement age would go up from 55 to 60, as opposed to 63. The age would also be lowered depending on how many children a woman had. A mother of three children would be able to retire at the age of 57, while a mother of five or more children would be able to retire at age 50.
Other concessions included reducing the increase by six months for all workers who were due to start claiming their pensions in the next two years but would have to defer them under the new law. Putin also said he would urge the government to introduce new penalties for employers who fire workers nearing retirement age.
Arguing in favor of the policy, Putin said that the population drop in Russia in the 1990s, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, meant that a smaller workforce today would be paying for the pensions of a larger, older generation.
"The later we leave it, the harsher these decisions must be, lacking any sort of transition period," he said.
Much of the anger leveled at the plan stemmed from the fact that even if the increase was gradual, the Kremlin was asking many Russians to accept working until almost the age of their life expectancy. Russia's own estimates suggested that the average life expectancy for a male citizen was 67.5 years last year, which would mean less than three years of retirement for most Russian men if their lifespans did not improve dramatically. Life expectancy is about 66 years for Russia's rural population.
Public anger also stemmed from the government's decision to rush the plan through parliament during the World Cup, when the public was widely engaged with the tournament and supporting the overperforming national side. Many also called for Russia's richest citizens to bear some of the burden.
Kremlin economic adviser Andrey Belousov made public his proposal earlier this month to help boost the budget by levying a new tax on Russia's 14 major mining and metal-processing companies. The plan reportedly caused an investor exodus of $3 billion in a single day, but the president's administration had not given the bill its backing.
All major pollsters tracked a significant drop in Putin's popularity because of the pension issue. State pollster FOM estimated that only 54 percent of Russians thought positively of him—the first time since 2014 that this figure had fallen below 60 percent. Russian support for public protests increased and disapproval of the ruling party, United Russia, peaked, leaving it less than three points from its lowest ever popularity rating of 37 percent.
Putin's comments on Wednesday prompted anti-corruption blogger and opposition figurehead Alexey Navalny to conclude that the president is "frightened" and "panicking" as Navalny reminded readers of his blog to gather in protest of the move next month.
"That is why we are all obliged to go out on the ninth of September and invite all of our acquaintances, putting in all efforts so that these rallies become as powerful as they can be. The people want this," he wrote.


Stacey Solomon shared a stunning photograph to Instagram overnight showing her posing with her sons on holiday.
But the former Queen of the Jungle has admitted the idyllic image wasn't as easy to take as you'd think!
The 28-year-old's picture shows her cuddling up with Zachary, ten, and Leighton, six, as they admired a gorgeous sunset over the beach behind them.
A picture perfect holiday memory, right?
Stacey shared the snap to her Instagram on Monday night alongside a caption explaining it wasn't as easy taking the pic as you'd think!
When you look pretty calm and happy, but the truth is you had to grab your babies and put them into an armlock to get this picture.
"Sunsets and silliness," she wrote.
"When you look pretty calm and happy, but the truth is u had to grab your babies and put them into an armlock to get this picture  it's one of about a thousand!"
Stacey continued: "Is anyone else's kids totally OVER photos? I just wanted a sunset holiday memory pic and it became a WWE sequence . To rub salt into the wound I just looked at my sisters sunset pic with her two daughters and it's AMAZING."
Fans were quick to assure Stacey that understood the struggle!
One wrote: "Just coming back from hols and all 3 of mine were pains at getting photos...... soooo annoying !!!!"
Another agreed: "Yes. Hard bloody work and I always look like I'm angry saying SMILLLLE."
A third added: "Virtually impossible to get a nice family photo with my nearly 4 year old and my 11 month old! They hardly ever smile/look at camera or want to be in the photo!"
A fourth told Stacey: "You would never have guessed, lovely photo! You're always so smiley."
Stacey has been taking a well-earned break from Loose Women duties this week to soak up the sun abroad with her boys.
She recently spoke to Daily Star Online about how she balances her busy life as a mum with her TV duties.
"I wing it most of the time. It's one of those thing where you're always wondering am I doing the right thing, should I stay at home?" she said.
"I have to rationalise things. Whatever way I'd have to be working for my kids.
"Hopefully, when they get older they'll really appreciate that and it'll give them a bit of a work ethic themselves."
Do your kids enjoy having their picture taken? Leave us a comment on our Facebook page @EntertainmentDailyFix and let us know what you think!


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'Revenge of the Creature' Starlet Lori Nelson Dies @ 87
Lori Nelson, whose big-screen claim to fame was as the damsel in distress in the horror flick Revenge of the Creature, died August 23 at 87.
She got carried away with her career. (Image via Universal-International)
THR reports that Nelson, who had long suffered from Alzheimer's disease, died at home in L.A.
Leggy Nelson at the peak of her career (Image via Universal-International)
Nelson was born Dixie Kay Nelson on August 15, 1933, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, growing up in Encino, California. She won a contract with Universal-International the day she turned 17, making her film debut in Bend of the River (1952) with Jimmy Stewart, Rock Hudson and Julie Adams.
Nelson with the iconic Ma and Pa Kettle actors Marjorie Main (1890-1975) and Percy Kilbride (1888-1964) — and would you believe the hunk is "Enos" himself, James Best (1926-2015)??? (Image via Universal)
She went on to appear in Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair (1952) and Francis Goes to West Point (1952), both installments in popular movie series.
Plucked from obscurity (GIF via GIPHY)
Nelson recalled having to be persuaded to appear in Revenge of the Creature, the 1955 sequel to Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954). The 3D cult classic co-starred John Agar and marked Clint Eastwood's acting debut. Critically panned, it — like the Gill-man it creature-featured — followed her everywhere. "The one I didn't want to do was Revenge of the Creature," Nelson told Western Clippings in an undated interview. "Science fiction was considered bottom of the barrel in those days. Of course, that's the picture I am most remembered for. It's very ironic!"
One of her other most memorable roles was as brainy Greta Hanson on 39 episodes of the TV version of How to Marry a Millionaire (1957-1958). The show's top-billed star, she left the role after a season.
Nelson with Barbara Stanwyck in All I Desire (Image via Universal)
Nelson's other film work included playing Barbara Stanwyck's daughter in the Douglas Sirk melodrama All I Desire (1953); livening up the campy Jane Russell adventure Underwater! (1954); appearing in Day the World Ended (1955), directed by a young Roger Corman; a featured role in the well-regarded noir drama I Died a Thousand Times (1955); a spot between Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis in Pardners (1956); and as one of two wild sisters, the other played by Mamie Van Doren, in the teen drama Untamed Youth (1957).
Nelson making a splash in Underwater! (Image via RKO)
Mostly retired from acting after 1961, she made just two TV appearances and three films thereafter, including 2005's The Naked Monster, in which she gamely reprised her Revenge of the Creature role.
Nelson famously dated Tab Hunter in the '50s, before he came to terms with being gay. They split amicably. She was also engaged to Burt Reynolds.
Red flag! (Image via vintage clipping)
Nelson went on to marry and divorce composer Johnny Mann. In 1983, she wed LAPD Det. Joseph J. Reiner, who survives her.
Nelson & Hunter at Cinecon 14 years ago (Image via Cinecon)
She is also survived by her two children with Mann, Lori and Jennifer.
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Quiz: So you wanna be an astronaut?
Are you unsure about whether to apply for NASA's Mars program? Take this simple quiz to determine if you're qualified.
Has the faint glow of space drawn your gaze and awe endlessly, just like the great wanderers of time immemorial? Do you know why July 20, 1969 is a pivotal moment in human history? Have you watched Chris Hadfield's "Space Oddity" music video just a few too many times? If you answered yes to all of those questions, then your time has finally come.
NASA has announced that they are accepting applications for a new generation of cosmic explorers on December 14. Take this quiz to see if you might qualify to be one of the first to step on Mars by 2030.
P.S. There is no age limit.
In his poem, "Pioneers! O Pioneers," Walt Whitman called upon western youth, "impatient [and] full of action," to "debouch upon a newer, mightier…varied world." With the exception of the name by which we now address young people, and the context in which they forge their generational impact, Whitman's language is still easily recognizable today when older generations address millennials. Millennials have been subjected to scores of criticism regarding their social and academic lives. These critiques often reference young people's measures of achievement (or lack thereof), and their rejection of traditional values.
This is partly symptomatic of the fact that we, as the millennial generation, are beginning to remove ourselves from the perception that education begets employment. The cultural zeitgeist may be switching back to something resembling the baby boomer model, where effort begets income. In recent years, this mentality has been manifested in a tremendous focus on digital literacy. The worldview on success is going through a colossal change as the Internet is increasingly becoming integrated into successful career options, and a subset of creative millennials is leading the charge.
This reality frames digital literacy in a new way. When your job prospects hinge on your ability to keep pace with changing technologies, gaining digital skills and critical skills across a range of disciplines that allow you to adapt when new opportunities arise should be a central focus for those entering the labour force today.
In the digital era, interconnectivity and incessant exposure to digital platforms has created an increase in digital literacy to the extent that it has become a de facto skill, says O'Flynn. Through her extensive academic research and artistic practice in the digital humanities, O'Flynn has noted that the entirety of the millennial generation is already digitally literate — and yet "it's how critically aware you are of your digital literacy" that indicates how prepared you will be for the challenges of the emerging job market. In this area, some young people are making noticeable gains, despite an education that has hardly prepared them for these particular challenges.
Some millennials today are assailing customary expectations in a landscape where the vast majority of conventional careers are already oversaturated with candidates — it becomes difficult for youth to penetrate these industries without a unique advantage. With current youth unemployment at 13.5 per cent in Canada, roughly double that of the national average, it is unsurprising then, that a subset of Generation Y has been compelled to reinvent their ideas of success, using the connectivity of the Internet to excel in informal, adaptable careers in which they posses an advantage over older generations.
Nostro demonstrates that, for a subset of millennials, digital metrics and informal work arrangements are dictating how they view success. Across the board, university students in highly academic environments lust for similar milestones: high grades, a paid position within a viable field, and a payroll that will provide lump sums of consistent cash. Though it may have once been a unique advantage to achieve an undergraduate degree, the reality is that formal education is no longer guarantees anything besides a diploma. It seems as though educational institutions are behind the curve when it comes to embracing these new conceptions of success.
Patricia Recourt, a freelance portrait photographer, left the formal education system during her second year at Sheridan College to move to New York City. The rapid change of the Internet's landscape between 2005 and 2015 implicated itself in what she saw for her future, which allowed her "career [to] unfold very quickly based on the international responses [she] was receiving online." For all intents and purposes, Recourt has penetrated a creative industry, much like Nostro, to tremendous critical acclaim; she has had her artwork published by scores of internationally recognised publications such as Vogue Italia, and sports an internship with Annie Leibovitz on her curriculum vitae.
To Recourt, this experience is the essence of digital literacy's "influence on businesses and entrepreneurs," and it plays an essential role in "becoming successful" — much more so than formal education. She feels that "going to school for an art based program is extremely challenging and quite limiting," especially since the merit of one's work is often subject to criticism by a single individual. The negative feedback that "you'll always get" is not necessarily representative of the work's quality.
This begs many students who are hoping to embark on creative and digitally informed careers to question where the value in education lies altogether. A competitive edge in the job market is increasingly reliant upon the extrapolative and creative uses of skill sets that are not typically acquired in a classroom. The rigid environment that characterizes formal education can dissuade some from pursuing careers in freelance industries, causing some students to undoubtedly graduate with degrees that will have few applications in the future. Perhaps the experiences of Nostro and Recourt — which are increasingly ubiquitous in the modern market — indicate that formal educational institutions are behind on offering programs tailored to digital, informal contexts. Or perhaps, it means that formal education is simply losing some relevance in the changing job market. The reality is that creative people find ways to innovate and to use platforms in new ways. This is a skill that the classroom — whose primary focus is criticism — does not usually grapple with.
Considering the cultural landscape of the Internet, one might assume that there is a greater weight attributed to 'creative' intelligence than there is 'academic' intelligence in these emerging fields. It would be easy to assume that students with very academic priorities display their intelligence through good study habits and the eventual pursuit of professional careers, whereas students with creative priorities will allow their abilities to manifest themselves through alternative media; however, the two are far more relative than their topical impressions may suggest.
The more meaningful fissure, according to O'Flynn, falls not between creative versus academic intelligence, nor between creative versus non-creative industries. O'Flynn believes that "the more meaningful split [asks] how university education can best serve you," with adaptable skills. In other words, responding to the challenge of the changing job market, from the vantage point of educational institutions, is not a matter of diverting a certain subset of students to learn practical digital skills, but of integrating critical digital literacy and adaptability into all areas of study.
While professional areas of study, such as pharmaceuticals, medicine, and engineering, seem to have permanent demands, these disciplines are still bound to evolve over time. Meanwhile, degrees in the humanities have the potential to generate flexibility, enabling individuals to move laterally across industries, as well as vertically within specific lanes. This is to say that, a strong academic student –regardless of their area of study – will need to thinks creativity in the changing job market.
In digital spaces, quantifiers of success have been reimagined, largely by a group of pioneering young people. With the Internet, millennials are able to exploit their creative abilities for capital in ways and that previously were not possible.
In the digital era, success has a variety of definitions, and these definitions can be represented by anything from Instagram followers, to the number of retweets on Twitter, to the numeric value of a network on Facebook. The principle of connectivity and access underlies the Internet, and this produces a notion of boundlessness that allows millennials with the requisite know-how to invent and create a digital marketplace of ideas. Within Internet communities, digital metrics constitute feedback on the products that people publish. This happens in real time, and all the time, because of the way that people are constantly connected through smartphones and other computing devices. These modes of interconnectivity have added a new frontier to the way that we think and the way that we communicate. By effect, the criteria for success in the digital age have likewise changed. We find ourselves, therefore, at a critical juncture, in which pioneering individuals navigate new careers in digital spaces, and educational institutions no longer hold a monopoly over the path to success.
The millennial generation has brought new meaning to the notion that the 'content is the creator' in digital space. O'Flynn says that, as people increasingly pursue success on the Internet, "not everything will be brilliant, but something will." This sentiment is at the crux of this generation's efforts to incorporate digital presence into waking life. The rapid growth of digital media outlets permits youth to penetrate new, emerging industries, and to innovate in ways that were previously impossible. The education equals employment contingency has become obsolete, leaving the definition of success in the digital age largely up to the ambitions of a determined group of millennial pioneers.
A large crowd gathered at the Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre at UTSC to witness the installation of professor Bruce Kidd as the tenth vice-president and principal. Kidd was formally appointed to the position on November 20.
Prior to his installation, Kidd was serving as the interim vice-president and principal, a role that he held since 2014. He was also previously the warden of Hart House and the founding dean of the Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education. Kidd attended U of T as an undergraduate and later completed a Master of Arts and PhD in History at York University.
U of T in leadership," Kidd said.
Prior to entering academia, Kidd was an accomplished athlete. As an undergraduate student, Kidd competed in track and field both nationally and internationally. In the 1962 Commonwealth Games, he won gold for the six-mile race and bronze for the three-mile race. He also competed in the 1964 Olympic Games. Four years later, he was inducted into the Canada's Sports Hall of Fame. He is also an honorary member of the Canadian Olympic Committee.
represented Canada, raced all over the world with Toronto and that experience taught me a lot about representation," said Kidd.
After retiring from competitive track and field, sports continued to play a profound role in Kidd's life. Before becoming dean of the faculty, Kidd was a professor at the Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education and has written extensively about sports policy.
His office shelves are lined with books on sports policy and the politics of sports. The Olympic Torch that he carried in the 2010 Vancouver Olympics is mounted on his desk.
As interim vice-president and principal, Kidd oversaw the construction of the Toronto Pan Am Centre, with the aim of expanding the role of sport and physical activity in the university experience.
Kidd even expressed support for mandatory physical education at the post-secondary level. "You know, if I had the control, I would make compulsory physical education [or] physical activity part of every undergraduate's education — maybe every graduate student's education," he said.
UTSC has grown considerably over the past several years. Kidd told The Varsity that he was concerned over what he saw as a "space deficit" on campus.
"I guess our biggest challenge is the lack of adequate space for faculty, for teaching, for research, for students, from study space to club and activity space, for some of our departments to be located in the same space so they can enjoy the synergies of being together," Kidd explained.
Scarborough Campus has seen several major developments in recent years.
In 2011, the Instructional Centre was the first building that opened north of Ellesmere Ave. in an area now called "north campus." There have been more developments on the north campus: the Toronto Pan Am Centre — where Kidd's installation ceremony occurred — opened last year, in time for the Pan Am and Parapan Am games. This year saw the opening of the Environmental Science & Chemistry Building.
These developments are all a part of the UTSC's Master Plan, which also includes further expansion plans northwards onto the City of Toronto-owned lands, improving access to public transportation, and building a central campus core. Kidd reiterated his support for the continued development of the campus but said that he would like to see it done faster.
Kidd also emphasized his support for public transportation improvements on campus. According to a 2013 survey, an estimated 68 per cent of students at UTSC rely on public transit to get to school.
"The lack of public transit… is huge. It's terrible," said Kidd.
Kidd explained that he spends "a good deal" of his time lobbying decision makers with other groups and advocating for better transit in Scarborough and the eastern GTA.
"So it's in terms of education, in terms of research, in terms of environmental awareness and teaching, in terms of athletics, in terms of culture, this is an anchor institution," said Kidd.
Mental health services at the University of Toronto have long been the cause of widespread student dissatisfaction. At the beginning of the fall semester, Counselling and Psychological Services (CAPS) merged with Health & Wellness in an attempt to improve the quality of mental healthcare on campus.
Health & Wellness executive director Janine Robb believes that the organization is well on its way to accomplishing its goals of an improved experience for students. "What has happened is we are having staff which were previously fairly separated by the floors who are now communicating to each other face to face, through the electronic medical records, and also through clinical conferences that occur weekly," Robb said.
Javier,* a third-year student, had a similarly positive experience. "[A]s a service to renew and issue prescriptions and give cursory psych evaluations, it's really quite good," he said.
Does the new system help with wait times?
A common complaint about the former CAPS system was long waitlists. "I tried using CAPS back in my first year, but ultimately, the time between my initial consultation and the follow up took so long that I wasn't able to receive the care that I needed," said Maria.
"I applied in March and only got my assessment in May," recalled Anton*, another student who has experienced both the old system and the integrated model. "After I returned from the summer in September, I was told I had to wait two more months before a slot would be available." He expressed doubts that the waiting time has improved under the new Health & Wellness system.
Robb believes that the issue of waiting times has improved. "I honestly think we have managed to reduce wait times because everyone gets seen," she said. She also noted that urgency is taken into account when determining how a patient will be treated.
Javier, who only recently sought out treatment for his mental health issues, seemed to agree. "I had my request for an immediate appointment accommodated and was very impressed by that." He also spoke highly of the online application system.
U of T's Health & Wellness program offers a wide range of services for students outside of mental health issues including general medicine, immunizations, flu clinics, allergy care, and even support for smokers trying to quit.
One alternative for students with mental health problems is the OISE Psychology Clinic. Students completing their practicum for their masters of psychology staff the clinic under supervision by registered psychologists. The initiative provides both assessments and psychotherapy. Availability and wait times vary there as well, but the clinic offers its services free of charge for U of T students, though it receives no funding from the university to do so.
*Names changes at students' request.
COP 21 students. Via Climate Impact Network: YouTube.
Five student delegates have been selected to represent the University of Toronto at the Paris Conference of Parties 21 (COP21), which runs from November 30 to December 11. The delegates, Alice (Xia) Zhu, Alissa Saieva, Christelle Broux, Sophie Guilbault, and Larissa Parker will focus on different subtopics surrounding climate change including renewable energy, emission reduction targets, and the science-policy gap.
Implemented in 1992 at the Rio Earth Summit, the annual COP objective is to review the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). After hearing about previous COPs, Zhu, a third-year environmental chemistry specialist and the University of Toronto Students' Union's sustainability commissioner, approached the undergraduate student advisor for the School of the Environment, David Powell, about sending a delegation.
"For me, the main reason I wanted to form a delegation from University of Toronto is because I want students to understand and be informed about climate change," Zhu said. "COP21 is a major negotiation for the world, but most students have not heard of it before," she said.
Powell himself will not attend the conference, but political science professor Matthew Hoffman and professor Stephen Scharper, of the Department of Anthropology and the School of the Environment, will be available to students for advice and support.
"I am confident that attending COP21 will be a great learning experience for the student delegates with respect to understanding the complexity and nature of international environmental agreements," Powell said. "These agreements take a long time to be implemented, to evolve, and to achieve meaningful change, which is frustrating for everyone who is concerned about climate change, particularly young people, so coming to terms with that is an important experience," said Powell.
The delegates have organized campus events leading up to COP21 and will manage a blog, Facebook page, and Twitter account throughout their time at the conference.
"By going to Paris, I hope to be a key liaison between students at U of T and the events that are happening in Paris," said Zhu.
You can follow their blog at http://www.utcop21.org/.
Strategic Mandate Agreements (SMAs), and the Ontario Universities' Application Centre instruction booklet. The report also analyses the programs that the universities currently have in place to improve access, as well as how the institutions evaluate their efforts.
"all 20 universities mentioned first-generation students in their SMAs, but only three did so in their viewbooks," with the exception of Aboriginal students, who were featured prominently in viewbooks.
Ruth A. Childs, one of the authors of the study and an associate professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), revealed that the University of Toronto does not explicitly mention anything about first-generation students, or students with disabilities, and the services available to them in its 2014 and 2015 viewbooks.
The report also indicated that, while each university in Ontario has outreach and recruitment, access through admissions, and retention initiatives in place to improve access to post-secondary education for under-represented groups, they face challenges in evaluating the effectiveness and reach of these initiatives, particularly in Aboriginal communities.
Although U of T has a dedicated recruitment officer for Aboriginal students, Jonathan Hamilton-Diablo, director of First Nations House, said that it is difficult to measure the success of outreach and recruitment methods in First Nations communities because recruitment officers often work with younger students.
"We go to elementary schools and the reason for that is that when we go to high schools in First Nation communities, the issue that is unfortunately a reality is that there are a lot of students who have dropped out of high school already, so if we're only talking to grade 11s, we're not talking to the whole potential," said Hamilton-Diablo.
Ontario universities also have trouble ensuring they are actually reaching under-represented students, since many students may not identify with a particular group.
"There are lots of reasons why students choose not to self-identify with a particular group or situation. Fortunately, at U of T, we have a number of contact points so students can choose which services will best meet their needs," said Blackburn-Evans.
"My hope for U of T (and for all of the universities) is that they will support the full range of access initiatives — outreach to younger students in middle and secondary school, recruitment of students as they finish secondary school and later, flexibility in the admissions process, and supports once students arrive on campus – and that they would ensure they are reaching students who are not already on a path to post-secondary education," said Childs.
In the aftermath of the recent Paris terrorism attacks, Toronto has seen an influx of Islamophobic activity. Osama Omar, a University of Toronto student, wrote a Facebook post on November 17, claiming that a stranger insulted him and spat on him at the intersection of College and Spadina. Omar believes the assault was an act of Islamophobia.
According to a CBC News interview with Omar, he stated that the attack occurred while he was waiting for a streetcar at the intersection.
"[While] waiting for the streetcar home, a man approached me and straight up SPAT on me. He proceeded to verbally abuse me with swear words and attempted to swing at me, twice. I was quite caught off guard with such an unexpected incident, I didn't know what to do. There was no one around except for a couple of people at the other end of the platform. I decided to walk away. The whole time, the man swore under his breath and stared me down," Omar wrote on Facebook.
Shihipar referenced the public Facebook page, UofT Confessions, as a site where Islamophobia manifests. "At one point, every week, there was a post on Muslims, Muslim women, 'why do Muslim women wear hijabs' and stuff like that… those are U of T students and their opinions," Shihipar said.
When Shihipar heard about what happened to Omar, his reaction was mixed.
"Surprise in a sense that you're always surprised when an incident like that happens on campus, a university campus… but at the same time, not surprising because we've been hearing about this string of Islamophobic attacks, in the city," he explained. "I think we have to get over the surprise aspect, because we have to realize that this type of racism, Islamophobia does manifest itself in a city that we think is inclusive, and in a campus that we think is inclusive," Shihipar said.
Other groups have echoed Shihipar's sentiments, many choosing to release public statements condemning the incident. "[It seems like everyday, there is yet another story of a racist hate crime. This time it hits home even further, with an attack on our campus, on a fellow student," read a portion of the ASSU's statement.
"For a student to be made a target of a hate crime like this is unacceptable," said the U of T Muslim Students' Association (MSA) in an online statement. "Islamophobia and racism are real and when it hits this close to home on campus, it is cause for concern." Since then, the MSA has promoted a series of events and resources, such as a workshop focusing on self-defence for Muslim women.
The University of Toronto Students' Union (UTSU) published a statement, in which they expressed disgust at the attack and other Islamophobic incidents, and offered support for Muslim students. "To all Muslim-identifying students on campus: you have nothing to be apologetic for. Instead, you have every right to prioritize your mental, emotional and physical health above everything else," read part of the UTSU's statement.


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Kane Dane December 26, 2017 Resident Evil
Resident Evil 7 review
Who should be anxious to return a bit 'in the house of the Baker can indeed buy a few days Confidential Films Vol.1, provided however to be in possession of a PlayStation 4. The resident evil 7 dlc has in fact landed on the console exclusively Sony license plate time, before seeing the light even on PC and Xbox One on 21 February.
It is also the first of the three contents included in the Season Pass, along with Confidential Films Vol.2, coming soon, and to another package on which, however, at the moment we do not know much. A little more than a week after the game's release, we then got back our courage and soul, going to that of Dulvey to continue to face Micomorfi and go to dinner with the dear Marguerite. Let's find out how it went!
A dinner with Marguerite and Micomorfi not to end in Confidential Films Vol.1, DLC of Resident Evil 7
WAITING FOR DAWN
As the name of the package suggests, the contents of Confidential Films Vol.1 are presented in the form of VHS videocassettes, similar to those collected by Ethan Winters in the main mode of Resident Evil 7. In both cases the protagonist of the game is however put by part to put in the shoes of Clancy, the cameraman of the television show "Sewer Gators" already known on other occasions.
So we learn some other fragment of what happened before the arrival of Ethan in Louisiana, starting with the first mode of confidential video Vol.1 entitled Nightmare.
The setting is the basement of the Baker's house, also already seen in resident evil 7 ps4, where the protagonist is called to make his way through waves of enemies, waiting for the dawn to come. It is therefore a mode strictly devoted to action, derived from the type "Horde"
and punctuated specifically by the passage of time inside the basement. Faster and stronger Micomorphs alternate in order to hunt for Clancy, who can count on an arsenal composed of most of the weapons seen in Resident Evil 7, plus some enhancements that can allow him to assert himself against a number of opponents so nurtured.
To purchase equipment items, however, you must collect the materials that are distributed by the compactors in the area, thus forcing the player to move between the rooms on the map instead of standing in one place waiting for the enemies to arrive. Traps, turrets and other elements come to our aid as we try to do the task, facing a gameplay without doubt rewarding.
The desire to fight against other Micomorphs was in fact among the feelings we had left after completing resident evil 7 vr during review, and from this point of view Nightmare falls like the cheese on macaroni.
Among limited resources, claustrophobic environments and enemies in droves, this mode can also be seen as an answer offered to those who had accused the game of being too easy in normal mode, given the hard way that is able to give even more players navigated. The level of longevity is also good.
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Testing = Vaccination? You Don't Want to Go There Checker...
April 9, 2014 Douglas Reed
I generally don't feel a need to save Checker Finn and Fordham from their own arguments, but in the midst of this spring's burgeoning opt-out movement, there has been a growing tendency to equate the need for standardized testing to the need for vaccination – and to regard those who opt to opt-out as the moral equivalent of the anti-vaccination crowd. Checker's rant yesterday is a case in point. But the argument just doesn't stand. In fact, Finn and others might find that following this line of argument will – much like a good gamma globulin shot – hurt them in the rear end.
Checker contends that tests are necessary to "immunize" the community from the dangers of low standards, bad teaching and other ills of poorly run schools: As he puts it: "Test results advance the public interest much as vaccinations do. (Maybe your kid is healthy today but the classroom needs everybody's kid to be inoculated lest an epidemic start.)"
The logic is that without testing we won't know which schools or teachers are bad. But Checker expressly grants permission to private schools and homeschooled children to remain out of the testing pool – despite the fact that they account for roughly 12 percent of the U.S. school-age population.
Either Checker thinks that the 1.8 million homeschooled children (roughly 3.4 percent of the school age population) and 4.5 million private school students (8.6 percent of the school-age population) are all unquestionably receiving an exemplary education or that they don't matter to the economy the way public school students do. But if one is planning on using the vaccination metaphor such a huge loophole defeats the argument. Why should this group of private school and homeschooled opt-outers matter less than a few thousand public school opt-outers? This group enrolls more students than the entire state of California. Would he think it's alright to allow California to opt-out? I doubt it.
Checker says the difference between private and public opt-outers lies in the fact that public school parents are "asking" the state to pay for their children's education. Despite the fact that this is untrue (states are required to provide children an education), it is also irrelevant to the vaccination metaphor. If this were like vaccination, it wouldn't matter which group were omitted from the testing pool: a source of contagion is a source of contagion.
So if Checker is to persist with the vaccination metaphor he either has to require testing for private school students and homeschoolers or consider them already somehow "inoculated," clearly a fallacy given the huge range of private school instruction and the widely unevenly regulated homeschool environment. In fact, recent work shows public schools do better than private schools, when working with the similar children.
Second, the nature of the injury stemming from vaccination and testing are quite different. There is a known percentage of children who will be harmed by vaccines due to their allergic reaction. (This percentage is eligible for compensation under a fund administered by the U.S. government). At the same time there is a known (and provable) benefit from receiving the vaccine – both for the individual and for the collectivity. We can estimate quite clearly the number of lives saved by administration of the vaccine.
For testing, none of that is true. In fact, if we were to treat this truly like a vaccination, we would insist on seeing demonstrable proof that widespread application of standardized tests in conjunction with a high-stakes accountability regime has improved education (not just test scores; they are differerent, after all).
So, let's go ahead and treat testing as the equivalent of vaccination: show us the proof that this is improving educational outcomes, just as vaccines improve quality of life. This would include a full accounting of the benefits and harms: count the increased drop-outs, force-outs, the narrowing of the curriculum, widespread test cheating scandals, unrelenting test preparation, growing teacher dissatisfaction with the profession, and – particularly within early childhood education – the effects on children's attachment to school and their desire to attend school and to learn. If this really were like a vaccine, without such a tallying of benefits and harms, policymakers could not adopt an untested idea.
So go ahead with the vaccination metaphor, if you will: Then voters and parents should simply expect you produce the evidence and to apply testing and accountability regimes to private and homeschooled students.
Bowser's Win -- What Does It Mean for Education in DC? Potentially a lot
After vote counting delays, the results are (finally) in and Muriel Bowser has defeated scandal-tainted Vincent Gray in DC's Democratic mayoral primary. Although the election turned, in major part, on Gray's shady 2010 campaign dealings, another key issue spelled trouble for Gray: The absence of DC Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee.
Gray's base failed to appear at the polls yesterday in an election that saw the lowest turnout in 40 years of DC mayoral elections. Why did they stay home? Scandal fatigue may have depressed turnout among Gray supporters, but they also didn't have the fire in the belly because they didn't have Michelle Rhee to hate.
Chancellor Kaya Henderson -- while also closing schools and enduring a continuing test cheating scandal -- has been far more tactful, even respectful, of community pressures and interests while managing DC's schools. Gray could not rely on the anti-Rhee fervor to lock in big turnout (and margins) in Wards 7 and 8.
Assuming Bowser gets past Independent David Catania in the fall, the big question is will Bowser keep Henderson? She declined to state outright her support for Henderson in the primary race, suggesting she might be willing to use the powers of mayoral control to replace her, but Bowser has strong reasons to keep her. For one, Bowser is going to need Henderson's touch to push through a redrawing of school zone boundaries that is on the agenda in the coming year.
As Washington Post columnist (and Georgetown grad) Mike Debonis stated in a pre-election panel hosted last month by GU's Center for Social Justice, The appointment of Kaya Henderson "solves a lot of political problems" faced by any DC Mayor. She has shown an ability to balance the push for more transformative reforms against the needs of constituents, particularly in areas of the city facing big demographic shifts.
Bowser's natural inclination -- like her mentor former mayor Adrian Fenty -- is to support charters, or even to make DC a "portfolio district" in order to break up the existing educational regime in the city. But the dynamic pull of college-aspirant students into charters has already created enormous disruption of neighborhood schools and neighborhood affinities and ties in DC. Combine the challenge of managing those changes with the task of redrawing school boundaries and you have a full educational agenda already.
So Henderson, in my bet, stays. But there's potentially a bigger payoff here if Bowser and Henderson can work together.
The current patterns of demographic flux in the city offer what DC-based writer and activist Sam Chaltain described on the Kojo Nambe show as a "once-in-a-generation chance" to promote racially and economically integrated schools in the District of Columbia.
Populations are shifting and gentrification means that new areas of affluence are emerging in the District. School boundaries in every city organize racial and class divisions of communities; the goal is to minimize those divisions by drawing lines that do not produce schools that are homogenous, racially or economically.
The upcoming challenge in DC is to create school zone boundaries that do not create high concentrations of poverty or affluence among students, as well as figure out how charters can promote racial and economic integration, rather than segregation.
If they can do that, Bowser and Henderson have a real chance to do something transformative (and rare) in urban education in the U.S.: create a racially and economically diverse school system that is alive to educational innovation, but anchored in the strengths of communities.
The historic tensions of race and class in DC will be exceptionally difficult to navigate, but by building trust and promoting school boundaries that integrate rather than divide changing neighborhoods, the results of this election could be momentous.
Update to Petrilli's Folly
Today I ran across this report about Early College High Schools, which partner with universities to enroll high school students in college courses. Two findings jumped out at me: Early College students are 1) more likely to graduate high school and 2) more likely to go on to college. Even if they don't go on to college, the partial fusion of college and high school leads to higher high school graduation rates. Petrill's recommendation -- tell them to not go to college -- would probably not increase high school graduation rates. The changing nature of college (hybrid, fused, on-line, hands-on, community-based -- all of it) means we need to demand all students be prepared to continue learning past high school. That learning can take all kinds of forms, but it will require college-level skills. Petrilli's approach ignores the changing landscape of higher education and simply entrenches dead-end tracking.
Petrilli's Folly
Who Needs College, Anyway...
Michael Petrilli's latest salvo against the education establishment is to shout down the "College for All" mantra that many reformers who have worked with Petrilli have taken to chanting. In his piece in Slate magazine earlier this month, Petrilli begins with Georgetown's Anthony Carnevale's finding that "less than 10 percent of poor children now graduate with a four-year college degree."
The class-based inequality of higher education outcomes is indeed staggering, but Petrilli claims we are making matters worse when we tell children they can, should and must go to college, even if the facts show our admonitions to be, essentially, falsehoods.
He argues that a kid in 9th grade who can barely pass 6th grade math, is reading at 5th grade level and finds little joy and less stimulation in school should be told "you're just not college material, kid." By forcing him or her to struggle through three more years of increasingly rigorous coursework we are, in fact, preventing that youth from learning skills necessary for "high-quality career and technical education," skills with a "real payoff."
Kevin Welner and Carol Burris fired back a response in the Washington Post, arguing that if college is good enough for middle-class and upper-middle class folks, it's good for the poor too. The only route to a high-paying job in this economy is through college gates and to track students into non-college training is, in effect, to give up on American democracy.
I wholeheartedly agree with Welner and Burris, but there's another problem: Petrilli's argument takes "college" to be a static entity -- students and professors laboring behind ivy-covered walls, as they have for hundreds of years. reading books, writing papers and doing chem labs. But higher education is in the midst of an enormous transformation, one that has college presidents running scared that technology will upset their business model and students will learn on their own.
The fears are overblown (largely because it turns out no one really learns very much via on-line courses, unless they have a college degree), but there will be major transformations of higher education over the next few years. These changes gives us an occasion to rethink what college is, hopefully in creative and adaptive ways.
Many states have already done that indirectly and destructively, with states disinvesting in higher education, shrinking areas of study, and through a scarcity of resources forcing a re-definition of what colleges can and might do.
But we need to also re-invent college in positive ways -- maybe even creating new forms of higher education, ones that innovate and develop new techniques of delivering technical training that really is tied to high-paying jobs, or creating new K-16 partnerships in which college and high school is fused, so that kids can see the kind of independence and creativity that comes when you engage in deep learning.
Telling a kid, "you're not college material," fundamentally misses the point: Colleges themselves in a few short years will no longer be college material -- but, hopefully, in a good way. They still will demand the skills that are the prerequisites of learning, but they will have students exercise those skills in new ways and in new contexts. High schoolers in lower-level tracks without sufficient content and that do not build essential skills will lose out in the New College, just as those institutions will become the real sources of high quality career and technical training.
The objective for high schoolers -- and for the teachers, counselors, and parents who advise them -- should be to learn how to learn, because every high school graduate needs to leave high school prepared to adapt, think creatively, understand novel situations and solve problems. New college contexts and systems will demand it, and they will require students to be college material. I'm just glad Michael Petrilli is not a high school counselor.
Just Schools: The Limits and Promise of Education Reform
Studying educational politics and policymaking at a university in Washington, DC gives me a front row seat to some of the most aggressive efforts to remake public education in the U.S., for good or ill. These commentaries reflect on the current state of education reform and its capacity to produce truly equal and excellent public schools in the United States.
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RT @Duarte_Maria18: Today was the last day of classes in my grad program @Georgetown. 4 years ago I got rejected from this same institu… https://t.co/MuZke7qujC
RT @gu_maet: After listening to @K_M_C95 podcast, please attend the public hearing on B23-0046, the "At-Risk School Funding Tran… https://t.co/upzEtZXReL
RT @gu_maet: In this blog post, former teacher and @shankerinst Fellow @blnjama discusses consequences and impacts of exclusiona… https://t.co/xHEZiHj9ag
RT @gu_maet: In this blog post, @duarte_maria18 discusses the history of CTE in the U.S. and provides state leaders with three a… https://t.co/a7A4PQ4H6Y
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RT @Rosie11625634: @douglasreed She looks thrilled to be there, lol.
Looks like Stephen Miller is a Nats fan. And who exactly is he with? https://t.co/gcqzW9hsqx
Soooo.. at the Washington Nationals game and guess who is in the Delta Skybox seats...or whatever they're called
RT @JavierRojas_R: This group rocks! Thank you @douglasreed for bringing us together to discuss education reforms at @Georgetown. Amaz… https://t.co/o9h82T2qPp
RT @BlancaHerediaR: Great workshop on the politics of Quality Education Reform organized be @douglasreed https://t.co/Jsqr0cr4WA


Not too long ago, a very ambitious website SlotCatalog got in touch with me to help them with their budding project. The job was huge and expansive, but my skills in DevOps perfectly suited the task ahead. Given that I was already an AWS Certified DevOps Engineer to the Professional level of certification, I knew that the deployment of the development practices of DevOps would enable SlotCatalog to reach its lofty goals and allow them to continue to grow.
What's so special about DevOps?
DevOps has become a very popular practice for software development as it shortens the development cycle by combining information technology operations with software development. Using this method enables the developer to deliver fixes, new features, and frequent updates to keep the software in line with the business' new or altered objectives.
The DevOps model allows development and operations to merge and use practices which automate formerly slow and manual processes, enabling speedier yet reliable evolution. There are many benefits of using DevOps, such as the speed at which developers and operations teams can innovate to adapt to changes in the market and enable efficient growth, as well as the frequency and pace at which these evolutions can be delivered. DevOps is also perfectly suited to operating and managing the development process and infrastructure at scale with efficiency and relative ease.
The founders of SlotCatalog recognised very early on that casino gaming should be treated with the same respect as traditional forms of gaming, and that players continue to seek more information about games, particularly slot games, as the only real insights that most players get were the short bios beside some games or through word of mouth.
SlotCatalog identified a hole in the market, seeing that there wasn't a helpful or informative resource for slot gamers in existence. Slot gaming is immensely popular, and there are tens of thousands of games across the online casino scene, with many more released every single week to deliver the renewed appeal to gamers; so the desire to create a comprehensive and helpful database of slot games entailed a huge project which needed to continue to develop.
It wasn't enough to simply name each slot available and divulge its volatility and return to player (RTP) percentage as SlotCatalog wanted to build a comprehensive catalogue of online slot games to help gamers pick the next slot to play. To do this, they decided that the best method was to be objective and utilise the methods of the hundreds of online casinos to their advantage to provide a rankings system.
Online casinos are set up with game lobbies which host all of their slot games in one section. To appeal to players quickly, they put the most popular and the newest games at the top of these game lobbies. So, SlotCatalog decided to use this as the basis for their rankings system, crawling across hundreds and hundreds of websites to establish the average placement of each slot game. As of early 2019, we cover over 11,000 slot games from over 200 different game developers and crawl for data across over 1,100 online casinos. It is worth to mention that this ranking spans over several different geographical regions, with individual stats and content for 23 languages. This means that we also have data for Japanese slot games and German online casinos.
With the system of delivering key and hard-to-find information on slot games in place, as well as their constantly-updating rankings system, SlotCatalog decided to expand to deliver even more useful information to online casino gamers to offer a full service of sorts. For this, they needed to expand into other areas and host online casino reviews, information about game providers, and present the thousands of casino bonuses available online but in an easy-to-view way. Now, their casino bonuses section has many sorting options, which allow players to find the types of bonuses that they want, such as no-deposit offers.
Given the scale of the project, SlotCatalog's intention to continue to grow and develop to offer new features, and the ever-changing nature of the world of online casino gaming, using DevOps was integral to creating software that suited the client. Now, the website boasts the most comprehensive slot catalogue in the world, all of the information, images, and sometimes videos that players could want about the latest games and a huge range of older games, and they've compiled other key elements of online casino gaming to help players see all of the options available and make the best choices.


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Tanzeem-e-Islami és una organització religiosa musulmana, de caràcter islamista, amb seu a Lahore, Pakistan. Va ser fundada el 1975 per l'erudit religiós Israr Ahmed, que advocava per l'establiment d'un califat islàmic al Pakistan i arreu del món. El Tanzeem es va crear després que Israr Ahmed se separés de la Jamaat-e-Islami el 1957, quan aquest últim partit va acceptar de participar en la política electoral del Pakistan.

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George Leach
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George Leach is a Canadian musician and actor. A Stl'atl'imx from Lillooet, British Columbia, he released his first album Just Where I'm At in 2000. He subsequently performed at the National Aboriginal Achievement Awards. He won the Juno Award for Aboriginal Album of the Year in 2014 for his album Surrender.
Leach is also an actor, who has appeared on This is Wonderland, North of 60, PSI Factor and La Femme Nikita. He also appeared in the six-part miniseries Into The West as Loved by the Buffalo.
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Dialog With An Atheist
I suppose I was aimlessly looking at sites I have bookmarked when I visited dangerous idea and read Putting words into a person's mouth. The first comment was by John Loftus, who I had come across over at Vox Popoli, although I don't remember which particular articles. As his comment was spectacularly wrong, I decided to rebut. As always, verbal blows were traded, with neither side giving an inch. The final response to Loftus is after the fold. I've made minor changes to improve links and to fix a couple of typos. Read More...
Another Short Conversation...
In Who Needs Christianity, I wrote, "Man is the biological machine that doesn't do what it ought to do." Someone named "Cabal" responded, "Excuse me but exactly what should Man be doing and and [sic] according to who...and please no vacuous, meaningless answers along the lines of 'obey God and according to God.'"
The answer, of course, is evident via a little self-reflection. We don't do what we ourselves think we ought to do.
Cabal wasn't heard from again.
Three Atheists Down...
There is a saying, "Once is chance, twice is coincidence, three times is a pattern."
On 3/15, I had a conversation with an atheist in which he wasn't able to handle a question about intelligence.
On 3/23, I had almost the exact same converstation in this thread on Fark. It's 576 comments long; look for the exchange between "poundgrayly" and "Epicedion".
Today, the same thing happened on this thread on Vox Popoli with "Nicholas_Gascoine".
Because the Fark thread is so extensive, I'm working on diagramming it for presentation and further analysis. But the short form is that those who claim that science is the only means for obtaining "true knowledge" have trouble with these questions:
What is the scientific definition of intelligence?
What is the scientific test for intelligence?
If they respond, "I don't know", then ask:
Are you intelligent?
They balk. They hem and haw. They stop responding.
As a certain pointy-eared green-blooded epitome of rationality would say, "Fascinating!"
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Back in December, I wrote some preparatory remarks toward a formal article on evidence for God. I haven't had time to work on it, but this discussion at Vox Popoli gives the sketch of one approach. One commenter remarked on the atheist's demand for scientific proof of God's existence. I wrote that science is self-limited on what it can know:
The scientific method is only applicable to a subset of things we know about. For example, it can tell us about what is, but it cannot say anything about what ought to be. It also cannot prove itself. So, their epistemological foundation can't support them.
To this, I should add that I suspect that Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem can be applied to the scientific method. What this means is that there are things which can be known to be true, but which cannot be proven true by science.
I then wrote:
Having said that, the scientific method can still be useful. How can one test for God? What science isn't good at, right now, is testing for intelligence. At best, the Turing test can be used. But intelligent beings are not things that respond in predictable ways. How does one test an intelligent computer that doesn't want to talk to you, but will talk to someone else? When scientists have an answer to that, they can then try to apply the scientific method to God.
The discussion picks up where "Victorian dad" uses Occam's Razor in an attempt to exclude God on philosophical grounds.
These are "Victorian dad's" words.
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Il singolare del torneo di tennis Pennsylvania Lawn Tennis Championship 1972, facente parte della categoria Grand Prix, ha avuto come vincitore Roger Taylor che ha battuto in finale Malcolm Anderson 6-4, 6-0, 6-4.

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Veteran Duo of Sue Bird, Diana Taurasi Looks to Lead USA To Another Gold
Camille Buxeda September 27, 2018
The value of some players to a team cannot be simply summed up in stats or numbers.
Whether in visualization of the game or just pure experience, the dynamic, battle-tested duo of Sue Bird and Diana Taurasi adds a level of superiority to the U.S. Women's National Team's place in the FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup. Such experience comes as a major advantage, especially when the 12-woman roster needs to gel in a short period of time.
Bird joined the squad most recently, fresh off her third WNBA title, basically jumping on a plane immediately after the Seattle Storm's celebratory parade.
"Once that parade was over, a few of us got some food, hung out for a little bit, and then 7 o'clock rolled around and I was like, 'Alright, I gotta go pack — my flight is tomorrow morning,'" Bird said.
Days before the Storm took home the title, Bird and Taurasi were on opposite sides of the court in what turned out to be an epic WNBA Semifinals matchup. The ultra-competitive natures of both legends pushed the series to a winner-take-all Game 5 in which Bird, in her 16th season, took matters into her own hands, knocking down four fourth-quarter three-pointers. It was a battle for the ages and to see the two USA Basketball teammates — and former college teammates — compete showed the respect they have for each other when they share the court.
"It's always a pleasure to play with Sue," said Taurasi. "We've been doing it for so long, but we never take it for granted. When we get to share a court and a locker room, we just really enjoy it. We have such a great vibe out on the court and as we're getting later on in our careers, we really appreciate it."
Bird and Taurasi have both been vital pieces of the USA Basketball puzzle since 2002. Their history from their University of Connecticut days to now has translated to on-court chemistry, aiding the development of National Teams both past and present.
"There's something special when you're on this team," Taurasi said. "We've got a great group of women that have committed their time and their energy. We're building little by little to try and hopefully bring home to gold medal."
They've developed into two of the best on-court coaches in basketball, and that was apparent throughout the WNBA postseason. One of the unforgettable moments of Game 5 of the Semifinals was when Bird got right in the middle of the huddle and started drawing up plays. This ability to lead by example has benefited the National Team in speeding up the overall development process.
"The good thing is, I was doing that all year (in Seattle) with a lot of our younger players. So, to be in this role again is second nature to me," Bird said.
It's one of the many qualities that makes them champions, and one that helps USA immensely in the World Cup. As the team continues to develop throughout the tournament, Sue and DT will surely be sharing her experiences with some of the new faces on the roster.
"More than anything, you just want players to feel good out there," Bird explained. "You want them to feel comfortable, at ease, like they know what's going on. And if I can verbally talk people through some things and get them to that point, then great."
Having helped lead the American teams over the years to four Olympic gold medals and three FIBA gold medals, the close friends just know how to win.
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USA Basketball head coach Dawn Staley, who played alongside Bird and Taurasi on the National Team in the 2004 Olympic Games, now works with the duo in a different capacity. As a successful NCAA head coach and USAB assistant coach over the years, she knows just how much these two add to the on-court product.
"Any time you can add two Olympians, two teammates that have played together for a long time, they're bringing to the table some experience that we didn't have on this particular team. They're only helping the level of play out there on the court," Staley said.
USA assistants and highly successful WNBA coaches Cheryl Reeve and Dan Hughes also spoke volumes about what the veterans add to the roster.
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Ask the Rabbi » The Bible » Oral Law & Torah Study » Bible Codes
https://www.aish.com/atr/Torah_Codes_Explained.html
Torah Codes Explained
I found the Discovery Seminar's presentation on Bible Codes very convincing and it has captured my interest. How exactly do the Codes work?
According to some researchers, the Codes foretell names and places of events throughout human history: Holocaust, Sadat, AIDS. Torah Codes cannot tell us information we don't already know. But what they do tell us is that the author of the Torah knew minute details of world history, to our very age.
The concept of "encoded information" and a "hidden text" in the Torah is a longstanding Jewish tradition. Nachmanides, Rokeyach, the Maharal, the Vilna Gaon, and others refer in their writings to "hidden information in the letters of the Torah."
The reason why Codes have become more "popular" in our time is because modern statistical methods and computers have given us the ability to more easily discover and evaluate these codes.
Before I answer your specific questions, let's first briefly clarify how the Torah Codes work:
1) ELSs (Equidistant Letter Sequences) are words spelled out in a text by skipping an equal number of letters.
2) Any word may appear several times at different skip intervals in the same text – i.e. the Hebrew word "hammer" may appear in a text every 4th letter at a certain point, somewhere else every 29th letter, somewhere else every 245th letter, etc. One of these occurrences will be the "minimal" ELS. (in this example, the ELS of 4).
3) In the Hebrew text of the Torah, the minimal ELSs of related words (e.g. "hammer" and "anvil") appear encoded in close proximity to each other.
4) Objective experiments are performed on large sets of pairs of words to demonstrate that this effect (the proximity of related ELSs) occurs in the Torah much more often than would be statistically expected.
They are a facet of Torah akin to numerology (Gematria), a mathematical/linguistic forms that the Talmud itself uses to establish certain facets of Jewish law. An example of an ELS code is explicitly mentioned in a commentary on the Torah written by Rebbeinu Bachya in 1291 (Genesis 1:2).
The renowned Rabbi Moshe Cordovero was head of the Rabbinical Court of 16th century Tzfat, Israel. In "Pardes Rimonim," his commentary on the classic kabbalistic work, The Zohar, he writes that the secrets of the Torah are revealed in its letters through many means, including "skipping of letters" (dilug otiot).
While awaiting his fate during the Holocaust, Rabbi Michoel Weismandel discovered many codes in the Torah, by using index cards and his amazing mental powers.
Yet in the end, two key questions remain: Are the Codes statistically significant? And if so, did God put it there, and why?
Although the answer to the first question has been fiercely debated, several prestigious scientists concluded that they are. After years of rigorous research, two Jerusalem researchers – Doron Witztum and Prof. Eliyahu Rips – produced the extraordinary "Great Rabbis Experiments." They repeatedly demonstrated a level of statistical significance far beyond expectations. They then checked other secular and theological texts – as well as millions of control experiments – but the phenomenon persisted only in the Torah.
To avoid any accusation of tampering, the task of deciding on spellings and constructing the list was delegated to an outside expert, Professor Shlomo Zalman Havlin, head of the Department of Information Studies and Bibliography at Bar Ilan University.
In 1994, the results of their research was published in the prestigious peer-reviewed journal, Statistical Science. Since then, the Codes phenomenon has been reported on all the major television networks, as well as in Time magazine and the Wall Street Journal.
Harold Gans, a cryptologic mathematician with nearly three decades of experience cracking codes for the United States Dept. of Defense, was initially highly skeptical of their results, and conducted an independent experiment to verify the integrity of the data. He was not only able to validate their work, but using their method was able to extend it by pairing the cities of birth and death with the names of the rabbis on their list. Statistical analysis shows that the presence of these names, dates, and cities cannot be reasonably attributed to mere coincidence, the probability of such an occurrence being vanishingly small.
Dr. Robert Haralick, Boeing Professor of Electrical Engineering and an expert in Pattern Recognition at the University of Washington, has also confirmed the statistical significance of the original Great Rabbis experiment by redoing the experiment using an entirely different methodology.
Despite the controversy, there is high-level rabbinic endorsement for codes research. In 1997 a public statement was issued in Jerusalem by the renowned Rabbi Shlomo Fisher endorsing the validity of codes research, vouching for the integrity of the researchers, and encouraging its presentation to lay audiences.
Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach met with the Codes researchers on several occasions, and not only gave his approval to Codes research but also encouraged its use in Jewish outreach efforts.
I'm sure the Codes debate will rage for many years, probably until the Messiah comes. In the meantime, for further research you can read the works of Doron Witztum, the leading codes researcher, whose first book in Hebrew is entitled Meimad HaNosaf (The Extra Dimension).


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Q: Dagger 2 injecting two retrofit objects I'm using Dagger 2 with retrofit2 library while using MVP. Everything went well till I tried to integrate another service (basically I tried to initialize another retrofit object to another service). I followed this answer but without any success.
Every time I'm getting an errors that each of my fragments and application classes don't seem to recognize the component classes.
error: cannot find symbol class DaggerApplicationComponent
error: cannot find symbol class DaggerEpisodeComponent
Code
ApplicationComponent
@Singleton
@Component(modules = ApplicationModule.class)
public interface ApplicationComponent {

    Retrofit exposeStreamingRetrofit();

    Retrofit exposeRetrofit();

    Context exposeContext();

    AppPreferenceHelper exposePrefs();

}

Application Module
   @Module
public class ApplicationModule
{
    private String mBaseUrl;
    private Context mContext;
    private AppPreferenceHelper mPrefsHelper;

    public ApplicationModule(Context context,String baseUrl)
    {
        mContext = context;
        mBaseUrl = baseUrl;
        mPrefsHelper = new AppPreferenceHelper(context, Consts.PREF_NAME);
    }

    @Singleton
    @Provides
    GsonConverterFactory provideGsonConverterFactory()
    {
        GsonConverterFactory gsonConverterFactory = GsonConverterFactory.create();
        return gsonConverterFactory;
    }

    @Singleton
    @Provides
    @Named("ok-1")
    OkHttpClient provideOkHttpClient()
    {

        HttpLoggingInterceptor logging = new HttpLoggingInterceptor();
        logging.setLevel(HttpLoggingInterceptor.Level.BODY);

        return new OkHttpClient().newBuilder()
                .connectTimeout(500, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS)
                .readTimeout(500,TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS)
                .addInterceptor(logging)
                .build();
    }

    @Singleton
    @Provides
    RxJava2CallAdapterFactory provideRxJava2CallAdapterFactory()
    {
        return RxJava2CallAdapterFactory.create();
    }

    @Provides
    @Singleton
    Retrofit provideRetrofit(@Named("ok-1") OkHttpClient client, GsonConverterFactory convectorFactory, RxJava2CallAdapterFactory adapterFactory)
    {
        return new Retrofit.Builder()
                .baseUrl(mBaseUrl)
                .addConverterFactory(convectorFactory)
                .addCallAdapterFactory(adapterFactory)
                .client(client)
                .build();
    }

    @Provides
    @Singleton
    Retrofit provideStreamingRetrofit(@Named("ok-1") OkHttpClient client, GsonConverterFactory convectorFactory, RxJava2CallAdapterFactory adapterFactory) {
        return new Retrofit.Builder()
                .baseUrl(Consts.STREAMING_BASE_PATH)
                .addConverterFactory(convectorFactory)
                .addCallAdapterFactory(adapterFactory)
                .client(client)
                .build();
    }

    @Singleton
    @Provides
    Context provideContext()
    {
        return mContext;
    }

    @Singleton
    @Provides
    AppPreferenceHelper provideAppPreferenceHelper(){
        return mPrefsHelper;
    }

}

StreamingService
public interface StreamingService
{
    @GET("search")
    Observable<StreamingItems> getStreamingItems(@Query("keyword") String query);
}

Streaming Module
@Module
public class StreamingModule
{
    private StreamingView mView;

    public StreamingModule(StreamingView view)
    {
        mView = view;
    }

    @PerFragment
    @Provides
    StreamingService provideStreamingService(Retrofit retrofit)
    {
        return retrofit.create(StreamingService.class);
    }

    @PerFragment
    @Provides
    StreamingView provideView()
    {
        return mView;
    }

    public void disposeView()
    {
        mView = null;
    }
}

Streaming component
@PerFragment
@Component(modules = StreamingModule.class, dependencies = ApplicationComponent.class)
public interface StreamingComponent {
    void inject(StreamingFragment streamingFragment);
}

Streaming Presenter
public class StreamingPresenter extends BasePresenter<StreamingView>
{
    private long                    mMaxPagesOfTopSeries;

    @Inject
    protected StreamingService mApiService;

    @Inject
    protected Mapper                mTopSeriesMapper;

    @Inject
    protected AppPreferenceHelper   mPrefsHelper;

    @Inject
    public StreamingPresenter()
    {
        mMaxPagesOfTopSeries = 1;

    }
}

The problem might be connected to the exposing another instance of Retrofit in the component application class, but I'm not sure.
Update 1
EpisodeModule
@PerFragment
@Component (modules = EpisodeModule.class, dependencies = ApplicationComponent.class)
public interface EpisodeComponent
{
    void inject(EpisodeFragment episodeFragment);
}

After I created the streaming classes (service, presenter, module, component) I didn't change anything in other classes so I think the problem is somewhere in Application module/component or streaming classes but I'm not sure because I might change the retrofit object for the other fragments because I added a new instance of retrofit for streaming.

A: You are right the problem is the second exposed instance of Retrofit in application module.The solution is to use dagger qualifiers. Just replace appropriate code blocks with:
Define retrofit provider with qualifier @Named("streaming") in Application Module
@Provides
@Singleton
@Named("streaming")
Retrofit provideStreamingRetrofit(@Named("ok-1") OkHttpClient client, GsonConverterFactory convectorFactory, RxJava2CallAdapterFactory adapterFactory) {
    return new Retrofit.Builder()
            .baseUrl(Consts.STREAMING_BASE_PATH)
            .addConverterFactory(convectorFactory)
            .addCallAdapterFactory(adapterFactory)
            .client(client)
            .build();
}

Don't foreget to expose retrofit instance with exact same qualifier in Application Component
@Singleton
@Component(modules = ApplicationModule.class)
public interface ApplicationComponent {

    @Named("streaming") Retrofit exposeStreamingRetrofit();

    Retrofit exposeRetrofit();

    Context exposeContext();

    AppPreferenceHelper exposePrefs();

}

Whenever you need the streaming service retrofit instance - don't forget to set qualifier. Example in Streaming Module
@PerFragment
@Provides
StreamingService provideStreamingService(@Named("streaming") Retrofit retrofit) {
    return retrofit.create(StreamingService.class);
}

A: You can use the @Named annotation as described by @ilosqu but I could not get over the use of magic strings and the resulting code smell. In a large project with many Retrofit instances developers would need to remember, or worse lookup, the Name values each time the instance is required. This seems tedious, unmanageable at scale and difficult to refactor. I am not judging here, I just want to state my reasoning for another approach.
My solution (Kotlin) was to create unique Classes for each Retrofit instance similar to the idea of marker interfaces in Java. Since Retrofit is a final class and does not provide any interfaces to allow for easy extension was forced to create an abstract wrapper class instead which accomplishes the same result.
/**
 * This abstract class allows for extension and can expose
 * convenience functions to Retrofit functionality by composition
 */

abstract class RetrofitContainer(private val retrofit: Retrofit) {
    fun <T> create(service: Class<T>): T {
        return retrofit.create(service)
    }

    fun getRetrofit(): Retrofit {
        return retrofit
    }
}

For each unique instance of Retrofit you will need to create a concrete class extending RetrofitContainer.
/**
 * This class can be injected anywhere you want the Streaming Retrofit instance
 */
class StreamingRetrofit(retrofit: Retrofit): RetrofitContainer(retrofit)

Now in your Modules you can create @Provides methods for each "marker" class and inject via Class without the need for @Named
@Provides
@Singleton
fun provideStreamingService(retrofit: StreamingRetrofit): StreamingService{
    return retrofit.create(StreamingService::class.java)
}

@Provides
@Singleton
fun provideStreamingRetrofit(
        client: OkHttpClient,
        adapterFactory: RxJava2CallAdapterFactory,
        converterFactory: GsonConverterFactory
): StreamingRetrofit {
    val retrofit = Retrofit.Builder()
            .baseUrl(Consts.STREAMING_BASE_PATH)
            .addConverterFactory(convectorFactory)
            .addCallAdapterFactory(adapterFactory)
            .client(client)
            .build();

    return StreamingRetrofit(retrofit)
}

This technique allows concise lookup and refactoring without needing to remember any magic. It is probably possible to use the same approach in most cases that you would otherwise need to use @Named instances.

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