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Seeds of September #3
Submitted by Editor on 9/8/2001
Phillip Wheaton, et. Al.
There follows our latest report on a range of ways of commemorating the 9/11 attacks so as to encourage reflection and peacemaking rather than rushing into action, especially into violence.
See the other articles under: "11 Days in September"
Rabbi Arthur Waskow
The Unitarian Universalist Association has worked closely with "11 Days" in building a Website for 9/11 commemoration. Check in on its progress at http://www.uua.org/news/2002/91102/.
U.S. Muslims Call for Sept. 11, 2002 "Day of Unity and Prayer"
In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful
Faiz Rehman, Communications Director
media@amconline.org
ISSUED BY: American Muslim Political Coordination Council (AMPCC)
A national American Muslim political council today announced a "National Day of Unity and Prayer" designed to coincide with the one-year anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
The American Muslim Political Coordination Council (AMPCC)*, made up of the nation's four most prominent Muslim political advocacy groups,* called on all faith communities to participate in the national observance by opening houses of worship on September 11, 2002, for interfaith visits, prayers, congregational exchanges, and other activities intended to foster national unity and religious tolerance.
A web site will be established to allow local mosques, churches, synagogues, and other religious institutions to register their participation in the national event.
A joint AMPCC statement read in part: "It is imperative that all Americans come together on the first anniversary of the terrorist attacks to show that we are united as a nation and to reject efforts by any parties, whether overseas or within our borders, to divide the United States along religious or ethnic lines. The Muslim community is part of this country, and we join our fellow citizens in mourning those who were killed or injured on that fateful day."
AMPCC member groups will help coordinate the American Muslim community's participation in the National Day of Unity and Prayer. As part of the AMPCC campaign, a step-by-step guide to holding local mosque open houses will be distributed to Islamic centers nationwide.
Other religious organizations, such as the National Council of Churches, are organizing similar observances.
SEE: http://www.ncccusa.org/interfaith/openhouse-intro.html
American Muslim groups jointly and individually condemned the 9/11 attacks.
*AMPCC consists of American Muslim Alliance (AMA),
American Muslim Council (AMC),
Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR),
and Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC).
AMA - 510-252-9858, http://www.amaweb.org/
AMC - 202-789-2262, http://www.amconline.org/
CAIR - 202-488-8787, http://www.cair-net.org/
MPAC - 213-383-3443, http://www.mpac.org/
Three Prophetic Reflections
Towards Developing A New Prophetic Theology of Liberation In Light of September 11th
By Philip E. Wheaton
[This is the beginning of a discussion that is in the "Eleven Days in September" section.]
Prologue: Secular Wisdom and Prophetic Insights on a New America
An unexpected thing happened as a result of September 11th, especially for us religious types: we not only began to hear secular insights on the tragedy which sounded very much like prophecy but we saw how that event shook and silenced us as a people and, most surprisingly, our religious leaders, while sometimes pastorally helpful were seldom prophetic. My good friend, Scott Wright, in response to the Catholic bishops' pastoral Letter "Living with Faith and Hope after September 11," expressed his lament at this prophetic silence, writing, in November:
Where we are disappointed, however, is in the desire of the bishops to present "a balanced document," they have failed to present a prophetic one in such times as these that cry out for justice and for peace.
— EPICA, Washington, DC, Nov. 21, 2001
Is this not because in seeking to protect the "Church" (as if the Body of Christ is here on earth to be protected) the good bishops became unwittingly "false prophets" in vainly trying to perpetuate the privileged status which the Church enjoys within our American empire?
And they were not alone. Very few prophetic voices came forward after September 11th from the Protestant churches or from the Jewish synagogues, to say nothing of the "faithful" who followed lockstep, blind and dumb, after President Bush's totally unfaithful cry for us to take sides against the evil ones, saying: "Either you're for us or against them."
His jingoism not only failed to lift our sights towards taking a "higher" moral stance but led us back into the morass of the old Wild West ethic — get them "dead or alive" — and offering up war as the only solution, war against some of the poorest and most desperate human beings on earth, the suffering peoples of Afghanistan.
And most Americans, a majority of them religious, went right along without questioning or doubting. Was that not because the values of power and the norms of wealth have become so inculcated into the hearts and minds of most citizens, they couldn't even recognize how their pseudo-patriotism was a sell-out on the Prophetic word and a compromise of the Gospel? But several secular voices did speak out, loud and clear, so we should give thanks that God has raised up "children of Abraham from these very stones..." [See the rest of these "Prophetic Rteflections" at the Website listed above.]
On the phone with Andy — remembering Nine Eleven
By Rabbi James Stone Goodman
Tzimtzum: the contraction or concealment of God
"I was reading last night about the holy Ari and tzimtzum," Andy said.
God is withdrawing. It's a tzimtzum, for sure. I knew it, Andy said.
It's God in conflict with Itself, Andy said. Tzimtzum. God withdraws in the sense that God is still surrounding, but there are places where God isn't, in an inner way, like a bagel.
This was Andy's new take on tzimtzum, Andy's chidush [angle].
If you write about this, Andy said, make sure you mention the bagel. There's this space where God is not, deep in the center, where God allows us to free-fall. What do we do?
Hakadosh Barukh Hu [the Holy Blessed One] is withdrawing, Andy said, but the Shekhinah [the inner Presence] is entirely accessible. But She is the subtext. The Shekhinah. She's subtle. We have not made her overt. Except for Shabbes. Except for the occasional transcendent drop-dead experience of holiness.
Maybe that is what happened to us at shul the Shabbat after nine eleven, I said, we went to the center where it was empty but quiet, and because when we sat in the center emptiness, we knew that all around us, or perhaps underneath us, in the deep story, or around us in your imagery, was God. Still. Waiting.
When we finished praying, everyone just sat there. No one moved. It felt good there, after such a week. The week of nine eleven.
God is waiting for us to redeem the world, Andy said. I am always waiting, God says.
That's what happened at shul that Shabbes, I said, for sure, the Shekhinah, that which was hidden become known, that which was subtle, unloosed. Covert became overt.
You know what Andy? That's how we will remember it, with silence.
We went to the center and I think we were not afraid. We went to the center, where even if God had accomplished a tzimtzum there, a contraction, an emptiness, it was quiet, comforting strangely comforting, was it because it was the center or was it because we had all arrived there together?
The Shekhinah is always entirely accessible, said Andy. On Shabbat she comes out of hiding, and that is why we welcome her so eagerly.
It happens, in spite of ourselves, and no one has the power to interrupt the flow, the process. It happened to us the Shabbat after nine eleven, shabbat Nitzavim, we were all standing there that day, silent, and we all sat there when the prayers were over, and we sat there looking inward, and we sat there looking into the center of this disaster where God had exited, but we felt the presence everywhere around us, underneath us, enveloping us, waiting, waiting.
That's how we will remember, said Andy, we will be waiting, at the center, in our silence.
I am always waiting, God says.
We are waiting with you.
Jim Vogt, Administrator/Coordinator
Parenting for Peace and Justice Network (PPJN)
Families Against Violence Advocacy Network (FAVAN)
523 E. Southern Ave. Covington, KY 41015
859-291-6197; Fax: 859-291-4742
ppjnvogt@aol.com;
website: www.ipj-ppj.org
Jayna E. Powell
Director, Volunteers in Mission
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Carbob Hill, OH
www.homelandministries.org/missions/vim
NEWTON, Kan. (MC USA) — At a time when many people will commemorate the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C., through patriotic flag-flying, Mennonite Church USA is providing an alternative with its new peace flags.
MC USA's Peace and Justice Support Network is making available white flags with the green message, "Pray for Peace, Act for Peace." The flags — introduced on the network's Web site at http://peace.mennolink.org — and materials such as worship resources, a peace litany and related links can help Sept. 11 be a time of remembrance, not revenge.
With the help of these resources, congregations can show compassion to one's neighbors, provide an alternative to violence and offer solidarity to those suffering from violence around the globe, MC USA leaders said.
"We don't want to underestimate the impact that Sept. 11 had on many of our neighbors, or thumb up our noses in disregard for the insecurities it creates, or the patriotic responses it elicits," said Ervin Stutzman, moderator of MC USA.
"But as we share the pain of those losses, we also need to think through some alternatives we can offer for how our country should respond. We don't want to mindlessly support a retributive response ...but work for a way to build understanding and reconciliation."
The prayerful and peaceful ways Mennonites commemorate Sept. 11 can also provide an alternative definition for patriotism and show solidarity with those who have lost loved ones in other countries through violence, said Leo Hartshorn, minister of peace and justice for Mennonite Mission Network.
He and Susan Mark Landis, peace advocate for MC USA's Executive Board, worked with Cindy Snider, director of the Executive Board's Office of Communications, to develop the peace flag idea.
"We need to provide an alternative voice, particularly in times when the public voice is so loud in supporting war," Hartshorn said. "It's also a sign of patriotism to support democratic principles that allow alternative voices. We need to speak up publicly and show that the voice for war is not the only voice that can be heard in a free democracy. ...
"As we share our alternatives to violence, we can also convey that we in the United States are not the only people suffering from terrorism. As we grieve, we also need to connect our grief with the grief of the world, where violence is a daily reality."
Those congregations who want to use the peace flags to help establish this kind of peace witness in their communities by Sunday, Sept. 8, need to order the flags immediately, Landis said. To order, call the MC USA toll-free number at 1-866-866-2872 (1-866-TO MC USA) and ask for Roberta Harms, extension 277. The flags come in large, medium and small and can be used in the front yard, by a congregation's sign, in front of businesses, at college, as a worship area banner, at a work desk or in a school locker.
Landis created "A Litany of Many Voices," taken from the statement of faith written last September. It's also available on the Web site, along with worship resources, "To become as a watered garden," based on Jeremiah 31, for use Sept. 8. Marlene Kropf, director of the Executive Board's Office of Congregational Life, adapted these worship materials from a service she prepared with musician Ken Nafziger for the annual music and worship leaders' gathering in January.


I've decided to once again leave my prediction for when human level AGI will arrive unchanged. That is, I give it a log-normal distribution with a mean of 2028 and a mode of 2025, under the assumption that nothing crazy happens like a nuclear war. I'd also like to add to this prediction that I expect to see an impressive proto-AGI within the next 8 years. By this I mean a system with basic vision, basic sound processing, basic movement control, and basic language abilities, with all of these things being essentially learnt rather than preprogrammed. It will also be able to solve a range of simple problems, including novel ones.
Could you specify the "basic" capabilities a little to help distinguish them from the current state-of-the-art and make the predictions more testable?
It's not so much that this system will be able to do something specific that current specialised systems cannot. For example, such a system will likely be unable to play table tennis, even though people have already built computers that can do this to some degree.
The important difference is that it will be able to learn to do many things, rather than needing people to program it to be able to do each task. In other words, it's not so much about what it can do, but about how it gets there. The resulting system would be much more integrated, adaptable and extendable as a result. As such a list of specific capabilities would not only be very difficult, it would also somewhat miss the point.
The acid test of this agent I'm predicting is: if a smart person with a background in AI had the workings of the system explained to him over an hour or two, and then got to see it in action and interact with it, they would be highly likely to conclude that full human level AGI wasn't more than a decade away.
Let me add a small meta comment: this might be my last annual prediction.
One reason is that it's kind of a lose-lose proposition. If my predictions are wrong then I have a cost now from people who think I'm crazy, plus more of the same in the future when I'm wrong. If my predictions are right, then I still have the same cost now, and in the future I doubt anybody will care much to give me much credit. Most likely the ardent skeptics will have somewhat forgotten just how skeptical they were. The main upside, I think, is that it might encourage people like yourself working on safety to consider whether they should devote more time to relatively near term practical approaches to AGI safety. The impression I get is that in the last 5 years this has happened to some extent. Hopefully my predictions have helped this along at least a tiny bit.
There is also a second reason why I'm most likely going to stop: I think the time has come now not for predicting and debating, but for doing. Predictions and arguments are useful food for thought, but in the end only two things actually matter: formal mathematical proofs (not merely the mathematically phrased arguments I keep on seeing), and thorougher empirical demonstrations. Once the assumptions in the proof or the range of testing conditions are properly understood, there isn't much left to argue about.
As Hanson says, in practice making predictions does not pay the bills since people aren't really interested in the truth or accurate forecasts. If it makes you feel better, if you are right, I at least will be impressed (http://predictionbook.com/predictions/5037).
One complication with this prediction is that it might be impossible to falsify. For example, if a major military managed to build such a system, and thus it become clear to them that human level AGI and beyond wasn't far off, there would be a strong incentive for them to keep this knowledge secret.
There are already some partial successes but I am not too fond of this kind of piecemeal approaches, because this is not bootstrapping our knowledge.
We will end up with unmanageable "Frankeistein" AI if we don't master the big picture of the how and why of intelligence and just throw together gimmicks that "work".
Singularitarians are right on this point about unfriendly AI and this is not the way to go.
I think it's unlikely that there is one clean super algorithm to rule them all. And if there is such an algorithm, I suspect it won't be the first solution to AGI that we find, rather an AGI will find this.
What I think we will end up with is an integrated system that consists of multiple components that work together in a complementary way. I think this might be best explained by analogy. Image that you didn't really know how to make a car. One approach might be to think as follows: Ok, so we need to be able to drive in straight lines so we need a driving in a straight line module, plus we need to be able to go around corners so we need a module that handles that case too, and then there are hills so we will need a subsystem designed for going up and down hills… and so on. This approach isn't going to work for car building, and it won't work for AGI either.
An alternative is how cars actually work: you need pistons, and a carburettor, and a fuel tank, and seats, and wheels, and gears and a clutch… and so on. It's still a complex system with many parts that have functionally specific roles, but these roles are typically complementary and integral to the overall system. I think that this is how the brain is designed, for the most part, rather than having specific modules for, say, language.
> I expect to see an impressive proto-AGI within the next 8 years. By this I mean a system with basic vision, basic sound processing, basic movement control, and basic language abilities, with all of these things being essentially learnt rather than preprogrammed.
Could you elaborate on which developments in AI research make you think that a proto-AGI may appear so soon? Is it some new ideas (refs to published work or just names of researches would be helpful)? Or is it some old ideas + progress in CPU speed? Basically, what is the critical difference between today and 8 years ago?
1) The simplest and least interesting is computer performance. Seeing the same again over the next 8 years probably isn't necessary, but it will clearly make it more likely that an impressive proto-AGI will be developed.
2) Machine learning methods that I expect to be relevant to making a proto-AGI have made a lot of progress in the last 8 years, especially the last 3 years.
3) Neuroscience is making a lot of progress. Some important parts of the brain's design are now fairly well understood, and I think we're making reasonable progress on a number of other important elements of the brain's design. This is providing us with many AGI design hints.
Thanks for the answer. Computer performance, machine learning, neuroscience advances, it all makes sense. But could you be a little more specific about the machine learning methods? It seems you imply significance of recent progress. If it is not a secret, could you name some of these new methods? Thanks again!
As I'm currently working with collaborators in many of these areas, I prefer to talk about it after the research is published.
In the last 6 years, big progress was done in unsupervised feature learning. You can see some successes in Andrew Ng's talk.
In the future, we will see progress in: sequence prediction, integration with reinforcement learning, scaling to scenes with multiple objects. And new problems will be discovered on the way.
Ivo, thanks for the link. Yes, unsupervised learning is essential for AGI, and some progress is happening all the time in various branches of machine learning. But I would not take the results presented in the talk as an indication of the breakthrough leading to a proto-AGI in 8 years. The ideas of sparse coding / independent component analysis date back to 90s. And a lot is still missing. For example, how to deal with invariances (geometric, photometric etc) is poorly understood, especially in the unsupervised learning framework.
From what Shane said (since he did not name a single ML approach), I assume that his forecast is (mostly) based on recent progress within the group of his collaborators. I look forward to seeing those results, when they get published.
Really interesting website, please post any possible amendments to the date now that google has turned their attention to this area in ernst.


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WWII veteran has never stopped serving
Bobby Wilson treats local veterans every Saturday with soft drinks, bananas and candy.
WWII veteran has never stopped serving Bobby Wilson treats local veterans every Saturday with soft drinks, bananas and candy. Check out this story on thenewsstar.com: http://tnsne.ws/1GbOJkz
Scott Rogers, lsrogers@thenewsstar.com Published 4:05 p.m. CT April 20, 2015 | Updated 4:45 p.m. CT April 20, 2015
Bobby Wilson, a 90-year-old veteran, delivers treats and root beer to residents of the Northeast Louisiana War Veterans Home. He delivers more than 100 root beers, bananas and candy to fellow veterans every Saturday. Here he talks with one of the home's resident, Lee W. Douglas.(Photo: MARGARET CROFT/THE NEWS-STAR)Buy Photo
World War II veteran Bobby Wilson has lived a life worthy of any bestselling biography.
He has met with presidents, Pope John Paul II, royalty, famous athletes and movie stars and visited every corner of the world. Though his most memorable moments happen at home every Saturday when he visits fellow veterans at the Northeast Louisiana War Veterans Home.
Every Saturday morning Wilson, 90, drives his car to the Brookshire's Grocery Store on U.S. 165 North and loads his trunk with nine cases of soft drinks, 100 bananas and bags of candy.
Inside the war veterans home, he shares his story of faith while passing out treats to the men and women who served their country and their families and the staff.
For the past eight years, Wilson faithfully has visited at the war veterans home. He started this tradition when his brother, Jackie, lived in the Alzheimer's ward.
Wilson's heart is particularly soft for the Alzheimer patients.
"I got started in the Alzheimer's ward because one day my brother asked me to bring him a root beer, so I brought him one, and the next thing I knew one root beer lead to 40 root beers. They liked bananas, so I started buying a crate of bananas. I also bring about 300 pieces of candy," Wilson said.
He has instructed his family to put him in the war veterans home if he ever develops Alzheimer's. He has seen the level of care those Alzheimer's patients receive and wants the same.
Though Wilson says his mind and body show no signs of wearing down, most are amazed a man his age is still able to do so much. He credits his vitality to years of hard work.
"I think I found the fountain of youth. I'm 90 years old, and I've got the body of a teenager," Wilson said.
He worked at a grocery store in West Monroe as a package boy when he was 12. He started at 7:45 a.m. and ended his day around 10 p.m. He brought home $1.25 a week for his work. He went to work for the paper mill when he was 16.
"I grew up working, and I have the body to prove it," Wilson said. "But this is not work. It's an honor. God has really blessed me, and I'm proud to walk with our fantastic God. Just being alive is an honor. Life is a great adventure. I just love doing it. I love working with people. The Almighty up there has been so good to me."
He performs this service in honor of his church — First Baptist Church of West Monroe — where he's been a member since he was 2.
Wilson served in the Marines from 1943 to 1946. He was part of the wave that was prepared to invade Japan, but two atom bombs changed the direction of the war.
"Thanks to my good friend, and the greatest president who ever lived, instead of going over there to die, we got to come home and raise a family," Wilson said.
And countless local families have benefited from his generosity ever since.
Northeast Louisiana War Veterans Home Executive Director Ken Houston said Wilson is one of the most loved visitors at the home. He brings energy and a sense of excitement that's contagious.
The residents look forward to Wilson's visits, not just for the treats, but the interaction with a remarkable person, Houston said.
"I cannot say enough about his self sacrifice and generosity. He is a special person doing special things for the heroes out here. Words cannot express how much he means to the veterans," Houston said.
Follow Scott Rogers on Twitter @lscottrogers.
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Kuzma was named the Western Conference Rookie of the Month for games played in October/November. In 20 games, he averaged a team-high 16.7 points while shooting 50.4 percent overall and a team-leading 37.9 percent on three-point-field goals. He was the first ever NBA rookie to compile at least 330 points, 120 rebounds and 30 made three-pointers in his first 20 games.


PHNOM PENH, Cambodia: Plans to begin the trial of a former Khmer Rouge jailer will be delayed by the prosecutors' attempt to have more charges added to the indictment of the suspect, judges for Cambodia genocide tribunal complained on Friday.
The delay is regrettable, the judges said in a statement a day after the tribunal's prosecutors decided to appeal the indictment for Kaing Guek Eav, also known as Duch.
Duch headed the S-21 prison in Phnom Penh in the late 1970s. About 16,000 men, women and children are believed to have been held at the prison, which served as a torture center for the Khmer Rouge. Only 14 are thought to have survived.
The number is a small fraction of the estimated 1.7 million deaths attributed to the radical policies of the communist Khmer Rouge, who held power in 1975-79.
The trial for Duch, 66, had been expected to open in late September.
But it now "will be delayed by the appeal" of the prosecutors, the investigating judges said in a brief statement Friday.
While "regretting" the delay, the judges said they "remain determined to do their utmost to ensure that justice is rendered to the Cambodian people as speedily as possible."
It is not clear how long it will take to rule on the prosecutors' appeal.
Many fear the five former Khmer Rouge leaders in detention may die before they face justice.
On Thursday, the tribunal's prosecutors said they will seek to have charges of homicide and torture — crimes under Cambodian national law — added to the indictment.
They said limiting the indictment to charges of crimes against humanity and war crimes, which fall under international law and for which Duch has been indicted, "may prevent the trial chamber from fully accounting for Duch's criminal responsibility" during his tenure at the prison.
The prosecutors argued that Duch should also be charged "for his responsibility as a co-perpetrator for a significant number of crimes that occurred as part of a joint criminal enterprise inside" the prison.
They said their mandate "is not just to prosecute certain individuals but ... also to ensure the recording of a full and truthful account of the crimes of the Khmer Rouge and the individual criminality of those responsible for them.


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With partners from the University of Oxford, LSHTM, the University of Bath and CEDAR is leading a major natural experimental evaluation study of the Soft Drinks Industry Levy (SDIL).
Grounded in a 'systems approach', the SDIL Evaluation aims to examine:
whether, how and for whom the levy has an effect on health
the process by which the tax came about
wider change in public, political, societal and industry attitudes to sugar and the SDIL over the period from 2014-2020.
What public health problem is the SDIL intended to tackle and how?
People who drink a lot of sugary drinks are more likely to develop tooth decay, obesity, diabetes and heart disease. Sugary drinks often contain lots of calories, and people can easily consume many calories from sugary drinks without feeling full. New UK guidance recommends that we reduce the amount of sugar we consume.
In 2015, Public Health England said a tax on sugary drinks would be a way to help us all consume less sugar. In March 2016 the UK Government announced a new levy in the budget, directed toward producers and importers of soft drinks that contain added sugar. Companies will have to pay 18p/L for drinks containing at least 5g of sugar per 100ml, and 24p/L for those with more than 8g per 100ml. The design and implementation of the levy was led by HM Revenue and Customs and HM Treasury. They consulted on the plan in August 2016 and it was included in the Finance Bill 2017, which received Royal Assent in May 2017. The SDIL will take effect from April 2018.The two year delay allows companies the time to reduce the amount of sugar in their drinks and avoid the tax. As no other country has tried this sort of tax, we don't know what the effects will be.
What does the SDIL Evaluation Study plan to learn and how?
We have talked to people working in government, public health, drinks companies and health advocacy groups. They think the tax will have all sorts of effects, and not just on health. Our study will look at the most important of these effects, tracking how things change over time. Studying a wide range of effects of the tax will help us be more certain that the results we see are true. For example, if purchases of sugary drinks, tooth decay and childhood obesity all go down, and purchases of other drinks go up, this will increase our confidence that the tax has had a positive impact on health.
Because we want to study how things have been changing since before the tax was announced to after it is implemented, we will mostly rely on information that is regularly collected by other organisations. We will study:
data from supermarkets to explore the effects of the tax on the price, sugar content, and range of drinks available
market research data to track changes in purchases of drinks.
purchases of confectionary to see if people switch from sugary drinks to sugary foods.
government data to study effects of the tax on: diet, childhood obesity, and hospital admissions for tooth decay.
Modelling long term health and economic effects
Because any effects of the tax on what people eat and drink will take time to change their health, we will also use statistical methods ('modelling') to predict the effect of any changes in sugary drinks and diet on diseases and deaths 5-15 years later. From this, we will be able to predict potential financial savings for the NHS.
The tax's effects might go beyond health. For instance, a healthier population should be more economically productive. Or people drinking fewer sugary drinks might mean fewer jobs in the food industry. We will use economics to predict the impacts of the tax on the whole UK economy.
Studying how different groups respond to the tax
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Another day, another question. Ravenously tapping upon the keyboard there's yet another stumble. Chris Roberts made a comment on how ejecting will be handled a while back, but its lost in the ether of the internet and hours of footage. Without the quote, it's difficult to make the point. If only there was an easy way to dig through episodes of 10 for the Chairman. This is where MikeWillisUK came from, and where he was tired of ending up.
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A Star Citizen community member, he has experience with Java, HTML, and CSS before teaching himself some JavaScript to work on his MVP winning project. It took him several days just to work up the coding and layout of the site, and many hours for the on-going transcription portion. The transcription being an eye opening experience for him. "I didn't realise it was quite such a pain in the ass! I'm a reasonably fast typist (about 70-75 WPM) . . . but listening and typing at the same time is a whole different ballgame."
MikeWillisUK also expressed similar difficulties of other transcribers, citing problems of editing out filler words and playing back hard-to-hear phrases. The experience made him understand the difficulties subjected to others, but his solution was at hand. Instead of relying only on his typing talents, he used his coding experience to work up a webpage for his transcription experience. With an embedded YouTube player, text box, and controls all near by he was able to cut down on the time it took him to go through the episodes. Where all of this lead him was the creation of a website, Star Citizen Q&A.
Many people, including at CIG, find it can be difficult to remember exactly what was said on a particular topic in regards to Star Citizen. Every week there's a new 10 for the Chairman/Writers/etc, Around the Verse (or previously Wingman's Hangar), and other multimedia episodes released by the creators of the game. Avid fans can often find themselves struggling to work up the exact quote, or even point to an episode, that a question was answered or a statement was made. MikeWillisUK first sought out a database and, after not finding one, created one. As he completed the project he soon discovered he wasn't the only one.
The similarities in the Star Citizen community didn't stop at trying to find a quote, but extended even into the creation of the database. "Judging by the response I got when I unveiled the site, I think I wasn't the only one who had been through that experience! I also received a few messages from people who had been planning to make, or were in the process of making very similar tools, so I guess a lot of us were on the same wavelength."
MikeWillisUK intends to keep updating his project moving forward, but he believes he will only focus on the 10 for the _ series. He's also expressed a desire to talk with INN in regards to sharing data for a combined database containing StarCitizen media.
Below is the cleaned up Q&A with MikeWillisUK
Q: I'm guessing you're from the UK. Do you mind saying which part?
A: I am indeed from the UK. I'm from Surrey.
Q: I believe I saw you commenting on Formula 1. What sort of hobbies do you have?
A: You're right I enjoy Formula 1. Primary hobbies are gaming (obviously!), tennis – I enjoy both playing and watching (big Andy Murray fan), and snowboarding – I'm actually a qualified snowboarding instructor. Went to Canada in 2007 and trained for 3 months to get my qualification. Ended up deciding that I enjoy the riding part a lot more than the teaching part, and decided not to pursue it as a profession! But I try my best to get to the slopes every year, and I do teach my friends on occasion.
Suppose I could also add that I enjoy puzzles, etc. I play a lot of Sudoku, I enjoy solving Rubik's Cube – always working on reducing my time, and also can solve it blindfolded given enough time and concentration.
Q: For that matter, do you mind saying what you do outside of the SC community?
A: What do I do? Well, I'm currently… between jobs… haha. I'm planning to get into the game development industry – hence my Java qualification, and I'm also looking into learning C++. I struggle sometimes with being interested in too many areas of development. For example, I've also tried my hand at modelling and level design at a casual level, and I enjoy creating my own art and graphics for my little game projects too; but I think, although I enjoy being a jack of all trades, ultimately my focus is going to have to be on the coding side of things, because that's where my main strengths lie.
Q: How long have you been following Star Citizen?
A: I was a backer during the initial crowd funding campaign back in 2012. I caught wind of it fairly early on and followed progress for a week or so before deciding to dive in and become a Citizen.
Q: What about the game drew you to it?
A: Space! I've enjoyed space games ever since my dad first let me play Elite on his Tatung Einstein when I was a small kid. From there I eventually progressed into the Chris Roberts world. The visuals in Wing Commander 3 blew me away when I played it (admittedly I never played 1 and 2) and then a few years down the line I discovered Freelancer. I sank hundreds of hours into Freelancer, playing online with friends, hauling cargo and scouring the galaxy for the best ships and weapons. I look back on those days very fondly, and Star Citizen seems like it can be everything Freelancer was and much, much more.
Q: What do you think you'll be doing in Star Citizen?
A: I think I probably want to try my hand at everything! Whether it's hauling cargo, mining asteroids, flying missions to shoot down Vanduul or capture criminals, searching for wrecks and hidden treasures, or helping to crew a research vessel in a distant sector of space. I want to experience everything that the game intends to offer. My favourite feeling in Freelancer was starting off in a little Starflier and progressing my way up to a Sabre or an Eagle with hard work, so I intend to start from the bottom rung of the ladder in Star Citizen too – I'll begin with nothing but an Aurora, and see how much success I can carve out for myself in the universe!
Q: Why in the world did you want to create that massive list of questions contained within one tiny website?
A: Haha! I've often read discussions on the r/starcitizen subreddit, and found myself thinking, "no, that's wrong! I'm sure Chris actually said xyz"… but it was always a huge struggle to actually track down the source and check that I wasn't crazy, and then reference it in my response. I looked around to see if any kind of question database already existed, and I couldn't find one, so I decided to bite the bullet and do it myself. Judging by the response I got when I unveiled the site, I think I wasn't the only one who had been through that experience! I also received a few messages from people who had been planning to make, or were in the process of making very similar tools, so I guess a lot of us were on the same wavelength.
Q: Can you give me a rundown of how you made the whole thing?
A: Okay, so I guess I made it by building on experience from my previous jobs and hobbies, and also with a lot of help from Google! I think that's pretty common for most programmers – if you're not sure exactly how to do something, Google usually has the answer. I've built a few small websites in the past as a hobby, so I picked up the basics of HTML and CSS doing that. I'm also a qualified Java programmer, and so although there are some big differences I was able to adapt over to JavaScript – which was needed for the SCQA project – without too much difficulty. My previous job involved a lot of spreadsheet, database, and data management work, so I applied my experience from there too.
So the technical side of things – the construction of the actual framework of the websites, and the scripts to make it function – was not too difficult! The hardest part was probably sourcing all of the actual data – the questions and answers from each episode – which was spread out all over the place over the past 2+ years. Obviously you guys at INN helped tremendously with that, having started putting transcripts on your site around episode 50 of 10FTC.
A lot of the episodes in the middle were simply never transcribed accurately by anyone, and so I took it upon myself transcribe many of the missing episodes. But whether I wrote the transcripts myself, or located them, I still had the fairly time consuming process of bringing them all together into one cohesive spreadsheet, which involved a lot of manual copying and pasting! I'm also a bit of a perfectionist and a stickler for detail, so I spent a lot of time making sure things as simple as question timestamps were completely accurate.
A lot of the existing transcripts had slightly lazy timestamps which, if you cut to the video at that moment, would already have CR 3 or 4 seconds into reading the question! Not good enough for me, so I had to go through every single video and note down all the exact timestamps when CR would finish his last sentence and move onto the next question. I want users on my site to feel like it's a smooth and seamless experience when they click on a question to watch that part of the video.
So once I'm happy with the transcript data in the spreadsheet, it's a fairly simple matter of converting that into a text file format and uploading that to my web server. Then when a user visits the webpage, an XML request loads the text data, and JavaScript parses the data into a list of questions and answers which can be easily searched through and displayed. The data side of things is still a work in progress too. Every episode of 10FTC is included now, but I'm gradually working on adding in the spin-offs like 10 for the Writers, 10 for the Producers etc. I'd also like to go back over the older episodes at some point and improve the accuracy of the transcripts, to bring them in line with the newest ones.
Q: About how long did it take you to do all the coding for the site?
A: I think I did the coding and layout side of things over the course of 3 or 4 days, spending a few hours on it each day.
Q: You mention that you did some transcription yourself, can you describe the process you took for it?
A: To start with, my process was very basic. I opened the YouTube video in one window, and my notepad program in another. I played the video, listened to a sentence (or part of a sentence if it started to drag on) and then stopped the video, tabbed back over to my notepad and wrote down the words from short-term memory. Then I would tab back, play a bit more, stop, tab back, type… rinse and repeat.
That quickly became very tedious, and if I wanted to skip back through a small amount of the video to double-check a sentence, it involved a lot of switching hands between mouse and keyboard. I wanted to come up with a more efficient way, so I actually created myself another little webpage with some tools to help me transcribe. The webpage has an embedded YouTube video pane, a textbox where I can do my transcribing, and most importantly it also allows me to manipulate the video via my keyboard without ever tabbing away from the textbox. So I can pause/play, or rewind, or speed up/slow down playback all with minimal effort and hand movement.
I also created my own little autofill system, so that I could write shorthand for commonly repeated words and phrases – for example whenever someone says "Star Citizen", or "Persistent Universe", I just type "-sc" or "-pu" respectively, and my shorthand is replaced with the full phrase automatically. I think having those tools has been a huge boon and made the transcribing process much less painful.
Q: Considering your transcription, how did that change your outlook on transcribers?
A: I've always appreciated the effort that transcribers put in… but I didn't realise it was quite such a pain in the ass! I'm a reasonably fast typist (about 70-75 WPM) and reckoned that would be enough to see me through without too much trouble, but listening and typing at the same time is a whole different ballgame. If people are able to transcribe while simultaneously listening, and not get their words jumbled up, I take my hat off to them! My brain does not enjoy multi-tasking like that.
Sometimes it is easy to burn 5 or 10 minutes just playing back one near-inaudible phrase, trying to figure out exactly what is said. And it can be hard deciding when to edit out the numerous cases of "umm", or "ahh", or "you know", or "I mean" … or when to leave them in to help convey the flow and tone of the sentence. I definitely have a lot of respect for the guys who do this work multiple times every week, and for much longer shows like ATV and RTV!
Q: Do you think that you'll continue updating your project as you move forward?
A: I'm still often tinkering with small things on the site. I'm always trying to improve the look and feel of the site and make sure the search runs well. And of course I'll continue to update the database with new questions each week. But I'm not sure I'll update it much further beyond that – it serves its purpose! If people do have any ideas for improvements though, I would always encourage them to contact me.
Q: Do you think you'll do it for other videos done by CIG down the road (Such as AtV, Wingman's Hangar, etc)?
A: I've thrown the idea around… but of course it would mean a lot more work, so I'm leaning towards keeping it "10 for the …" focused. I've spoken with some of the guys at INN and I hear you may also have a database in the works, which would be more all-encompassing. Perhaps we can share data, but we'll have to see how it goes!
Q: What's your favorite ship and why?
A: That's a really tough one! I do love the idea of earning enough cash to buy an 890 Jump and cruising around the universe living a fat cat lifestyle while the money rolls in. But I'm going to give the Genesis Starliner some love. It's a beautiful shape and I do think passenger transit is a pretty cool idea. Maybe I could start my own Org version of EasyJet, with a fleet of Genesis, and manage my empire from my 890 Jump.
Q: How did you feel when you were announced as MVP?
A: I felt very honoured, but also slightly sheepish, as I hadn't even finished adding in every episode of 10FTC at that point! It felt like I was being congratulated for a job I hadn't even finished. But I am pleased that my hard work has been recognised and that my site is being used regularly and appreciated.
Q: If you had something you wanted to say to the community as a whole, what would it be?
A: Remain patient! It can be tough when we're all chomping at the bit, waiting for new content. But the reason Chris and CIG are able to make this game with unfathomable depth and detail is because they don't have a publisher breathing down their necks, pushing for deadlines and requesting cuts. What good are we if we start making those same demands? Just sit back, relax, and have some faith that the game will be incredible when it's done!
Q: Is there anything you'd like to add?
A: Nope… I think that about covers it.
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What innocent people have been put to death? Are there innocent people killed by capital punishment? In the justice system there are cases that slip through. It is an unfortunate flaw that for some, means that a wrongfully accused innocent is sent to death-row. In some of these cases the inmate was granted a full pardon after their execution. Still some are still being considered to this day, though there are many that believe them to be wrongly accused.
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In August of 1989 Troy Davis was convicted of the murder of Mark MacPhail, a local off-duty police officer in Savannah Georgia.
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Davis was indicted for murder and assault. He plead not guilty. During the trial multiple witness stated that he had beaten the homeless man and shot the officer as well as shooting another person earlier in the evening while driving to the Burger King. Cole was one of the people testifying against Davis, even though there was evidence that he had the same type of gun used in the crimes, though he stated that he had given the gun to another person that night.
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Q: what does "./" path specification means? I have been reading through RequireJS
i dont get the difference between
define(["./cart", "./inventory"], function(cart, inventory) {...}

and
 define(["cart", "inventory"], function(cart, inventory) {...}

what difference does the "./" makes?? and what alternative do we have to do , to use dependency paths without "./" ?

A: Generally speaking, the presence of ., .. and / in module names in RequireJS has the same meaning as for HTTP paths.
The presence of ./ in a dependency tells RequireJS to start its search from the current directory. It is extremely useful if what you want is use a module which you know is located in the same directory as the one that needs it. Let's say moduleA needs moduleB and both are in the same directory then moduleA can just require "./moduleB". One advantage of doing this is that you then don't have to worry about where the modules are stored. If you move them around but they are always together in the same directory then moduleA will always find moduleB.
Another thing is that if you require("moduleX") and there are multiple modules named moduleX available, which module are you going to get? Relative paths clarify which one you are going to get.
You ask how you can get rid of the ./ First, I'd ask do you really want to get rid of it? In the scenario I gave where two modules are in the same directory and this relation is meant to be stable, then it does not make sense to get rid of ./. It actually helps people reading the code. If what you are requiring is something like jQuery, which happens to be located in the same directory as another module at some moment but could legitimately be installed somewhere else, and which you would conceivably want to be unique for a given application, then it makes sense to have it be at a global well-known location. To do this, you use paths in your requirejs configuration, like:
paths: {
   'jquery': 'external/jquery-1.9.1'
}

This is an actual piece of code part of an actual application. No matter which module wants jquery, it just issues require("jquery"). It does not have to worry about were jquery is located relative to itself. You can specify a path like this for any module you like, not just jQuery. If jQuery moves to a different location in the future or you want to serve it from a CDN, then this mapping in the snippet above is edited, but require("jquery") still works.

A: In context of your code, it means define cart in same directory as the current executing script.
The alternative is to use absolute paths:
/var/www/site/cart
as:
define(["/var/www/site/cart", "/var/www/site/inventory"], function(cart, inventory) {...}

A: Wikipedia
define(["./cart", "./inventory"], function(cart, inventory) {...}

it search specific file in current directory in filesystem
define(["cart", "inventory"], function(cart, inventory) {...}

it search specific file in root directory in filesystem

A: ./ is refers to the current directory, to get the module currently in the same directory as the script. No ./ refers to the node path, where native and installed modules go (e.g.: net, fs, and anything use install via npm) Using an absolute path can get anywhere in the filesystem (/i/like/node/js/modules.js)

A: '/' refers to the root directory and
'./' refers to the current directory
define(["./cart", "./inventory"] : This will refer cart in the current directory where script is being executed.

A: ./ means that you'll stay in the same directory.

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Welcome to the first episode of 99 FROM 99 and join us as we take a chronological look back at the films from 1999, the greatest year in movies! Your hosts Michael Denniston and Ben Zuk begin, as most years at the cinema do, with the entertainment with no hope for Oscar gold... but maybe, just maybe, a whipped cream bikini temptress will prove enough. VARSITY BLUES and SHE'S ALL THAT were early box-office hits of this year, and we'll see how they hold up now that your hosts are decidedly not in the target demographic, BUT the waves of nostalgia may be just strong enough to break them. Find out if our hosts and this podcast survive by hitting that play button!


There are a gazillion different ways to plan your goals, but I am sharing 5 questions to help you start defining what your really great goals are.
That's right! If you have no idea what your goals should be, this is for you...and you are not alone.
Here is what happens every year..I LOVE planning and spend a ridiculous amount of time doing it. When I am planning, everything seems possible, there is no failure, no pitfalls...just opportunity! Who doesn't love that!
See how it works? Immediately I made myself ten times more excited about my goal, because I am not working towards making some random amount of money, I am creating a lifestyle that fills my brain with endorphins!!
What works for me (and helps me set goals I can actually reach) is taking a step back to ask myself why I care about each goal that I'm setting. These five questions help me do just that, and make sure I set myself up for success each year.
5 Questions to set goals that you will actually hit!
1. What makes you get out of bed an hour earlier to put in the work?
What is that you TRULY WANT? Go deep with yourself on this one!
2. What is the MINIMUM you need in your life?
Where are you getting that from? Whatever it is, set that goal first. Get those things done, and then you'll have more bandwidth to focus on what you really want to be doing.
For me, this looks like working a full-time job to cover my minimums–running my business is how I make all the "extras" work, how I fund my dreams.
3. What are YOUR NUMBERS saying?
When I stopped looking at other people's numbers, I actually started creating better goals for myself. While everybody was investing in social media, I personally invested in relationship marketing, and that worked really well. So this year, I am setting a goal to expand my relationship marketing efforts. Cool? Check out your own numbers and figure out goals that build on them.
4. What are the goals that build on my LONG TERM PLAN?
We're talking life-long goals here!
1 goal of mine per year is dedicated to working towards my long term goals. To be honest, I sometimes achieve that goal and sometimes don't, but I like to set them anyway. I would like to work fully remotely by 2025, so this year, my goal is to grow my remote team.
5. You gotta watch the video friend :) but I'll give you a hint: this one is a no-brainer that most people choose to avoid!
SO...DO YOU USE ANY OF THESE QUESTIONS TO SET YOUR GOALS? Or am I the only one that sets goals in this funny way? Let me know in the comments!
Why did I kill my best idea ever?


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Tour de france theme updated
Few years back , six to be precise, I was fascinated about chrome and its features so much that I created a chrome theme for tour de france. Now, I don't use chrome, except for testing purposes. Safari rocks my life these days 🙂
That said, I was pretty surprised that my theme had 500 weekly users as on date. I was mind blown by the audience that the theme receives after 6 years of dormancy. Given the Tour de France season now, I thought I will give it some love. I did a minor update to the theme. Given the friendly chrome developer I am 😛 , I wanted to ensure that the chrome web store policies and other conditions are met. I made some minor tweaks to the theme and updated the screenshots.
Unfortunately, due to lack of time, this theme isn't retina optimized yet. Yeah kinda non starter, right? If you are one of them. Sorry! The minor update was not so minor when you consider that I spent 3 hours fixing things to adhere to chrome web store standards. But optimizing is a time consuming enough that I could work on creating a new theme than change this one. May be I will get to that later one of these days. The theme still great for the tour de France season. Until the next big update, please try out the theme and let me know how it works for you.
Get the updated chrome theme from the chrome webstore here.
Google Sells Motorola
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Google has sold struggling US mobile phone company Motorola Mobility to Chinese computer maker Lenovo for $2.91bn (£1.8bn), in a surprise move.
Google had paid $12.5bn for the company less than two years ago.
Lenovo plans to build up its smartphone unit through the Motorola purchase, which may help offset its slowing personal computer business.
Well this is surprising not in the sense that, Google is selling Motorla, in a sense that Google sold off a company after acquisition, their modus operandi after acquisition is either to integrate it into their own products or just kill it. Google is surely sending mixed signals here given they recently acquired NEST. It seemed like they wanted to get into the consumer devices space more aggressively with the acquisition of NEST and now this sale of Motorola. Not sure where they are headed but they sure are unpredictable.
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Something Happened in Our Town: A Child's Story about Racial Injustice was published by Magination Press in May 2018. This picture book was designed to help parents talk about race and racial injustice with children ages 4-8. As the story begins, some schoolchildren overhear news of a police shooting of an unarmed Black man. The story follows two families as they address their children's questions about this incident. WeStories had an opportunity for a virtual conversation with the authors of this unique and timely book, and we wanted to share their responses with our community. The book is available from online retailers and in local bookstores.
1) What compelled you to tell this story at this time? How did your team come together?
We are three child and family psychologists who had worked together for over two decades at an Atlanta hospital serving primarily economically disadvantaged African-American families. Thus, we all shared a commitment to underserved families and knew each other well enough to be able to talk openly about race.
In 2016, we were all feeling upset by the more open expression of racist sentiments in the U.S. and continued police shootings which disproportionately targeted Black individuals. We wanted to do something proactive to address racial injustice and thought that as psychologists, we could write a book that would be relatable for children and parents. We also felt that it was critical to have a multi-racial team to write a book that was relevant for diverse families (Marianne & Ann are White and Marietta is African-American). We began writing and 18 months later, the book was in print!
2) Your book has the intention of helping families talk about incidents of police brutality. What made you decide to tell this story through a Black family's perspective and a White family's perspective? Did you always plan to tell a story from two points of view defined by race, and if so, why that rather one or the other, or a range of perspectives? What went into that thinking?
Because of our own racial backgrounds, we felt best prepared to focus on the perspectives of a fictional White family and a Black family. We also felt that featuring both perspectives was helpful in introducing the topic of racism to children in the U.S. Negative attitudes towards African-Americans have been used by White people to excuse slavery in our past and remain entrenched in many institutional practices today. Of course we recognize that racism negatively affects other people of color in the U.S. and the storyline addresses prejudice towards of children of other ethnicities. Finally, although it was challenging to include both White and Black perspectives (within a 1000 word limit), we also wanted to demonstrate the ways in which their viewpoints were both similar and different.
3) What conversations has your book fostered so far and what are your hopes for how it's taken up in homes, classrooms and communities?
The children with whom we've read the book readily understand that it is unfair to treat others differently based on race, which is the language we use to discuss racial injustice. They are actively engaged in the book, with lots of questions and comments.
Most parents of African-American children have enthusiastically embraced the book as an honest and bold examination of modern-day racism and a tool to assist in the race-related conversations they have often already begun. Many White families have also been receptive, but a few have expressed anxiety about their children's "loss of innocence". For those parents, we try to help them consider that White "innocence" unfortunately translates to White complacency with inequity and that there is greater value in helping children recognize and advocate against racial injustice.
Our hope is that diverse families will use the book to spark multiple conversations about racism and to become more involved in advocating for fairness in their daily lives. The book could also be an important addition to classroom curricula in social studies (e.g. civil rights or social justice units) or social-emotional learning (e.g. anti-bias or anti-bullying programs).
4) What has been the reaction to your work from law enforcement families?
We have shared the book with several African-American police officers who thought the book was "fair" and chose to read it to their children. One officer said that he anticipated some police officers might be defensive, however. A few parents have also been worried that the story might lead young children to view police officers as "bad guys."
We tried to balance our presentation of the police in the book. We felt it was essential to honor the very justified feelings of anger in most Black families about racial profiling and excessive use of force by the police, which we view as a manifestation of historical and modern-day institutional racism. On the other hand, we recognize that police officers have a difficult job and many treat citizens equitably and respectfully. Further, there is value in children seeing police officers as helpers in most situations. The African-American father in the story states that, "There are many cops, Black and White, who make good choices. . . but we can't always count on them to do what's right." Children's comments after listening to the story suggest that most continue to see police officers in a primarily positive light, but now recognize that police officers can make serious mistakes.
5) Explain the story's resolution. What lessons did the characters draw from the news event and their conversations with their families? Why did you find it important to introduce the two final characters - Omad and Daniel - and the subplot of othering/bullying?
As a result of the news event and her family's discussion, Emma (the White child) is more aware of race as a social construct and learns about historical and current examples of racism. We tried to portray Emma as starting out where we see many White children. She takes her race for granted and is initially fairly oblivious to racial injustice because she hasn't been directly negatively impacted by it in her life. Josh (the Black child) hears his family acknowledge the reality of racial injustice in the U.S., but also receives positive messages about his cultural identity and the possibility of change through collective action.
The final section of the book shifts back to the classroom; an immigrant child (Omad) is introduced and subsequently excluded by classmates. This provides an opportunity for Emma and Josh to apply the lessons of fairness that they have been discussing with their families. We wanted to leave children with a sense of empowerment to counter racial injustice in their daily lives.
by Marianne Celano, Ph.D., Marietta Collins, Ph.D., & Ann Hazzard, Ph.D.