San Diego — How best to survive? Should a member of Congress coddle his district or make himself a national name? After newspaper and television broadcasting careers, Lionel Van Deerlin in 1962 won a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives and served San Diego until 1980. As a House Commerce Committee member, he worked on several iterations of the national Air Quality Act. In 1976, he became chairman of the Subcommittee on Communications.
But, he tells me as we sit poolside outside his apartment in Point Loma, "You can't just go to the people and say, 'In the last two years I've managed to make sure that AT&T doesn't lock up the communications business for the future' without having something more practical for your district. So to keep getting elected, you keep an eye out for what you can do, and the trick, if you're with the in-party, is to get announcements that are beneficial to your district."
Van Deerlin, who turned 92 this summer, calls obtaining benefits for the home district "a wholesome objective." After all, citizens elect their congressmen largely to represent their local interests. "And you'd better not be too far behind, either," he says.
"I will say the Kennedy administration was very helpful to a new member in that regard. I got a call in my office one day that the president had authorized a Veterans Administration hospital for San Diego. So I was able to make that announcement, which was important to a lot of people, the only quirk being that I estimated it would be accepting patients by August 1967. And in August 1967 we were just breaking ground. So my announcement was a little rosier than the fact."
In 1967, Van Deerlin helped pass the Air Quality Act, which established anti-pollution standards states had to meet. "In the final passage of the bill on the floor of the House," he says, "I was so busy lining up votes in the cloakroom -- it didn't matter what anybody was saying [on the floor], it was going to be decided by the votes -- that the San Diego Union the next morning never even mentioned my name. Both in committee and on the floor, with one or two other members, I'd been instrumental in getting a California waiver [permitting requirements stricter than Detroit wanted]. And I felt somewhat abused until the Evening Tribune came out the same day with a seven- or eight-column story under the title 'Van Deerlin Saves Bon Homme Richard for San Diego Repairs.' The [aircraft carrier] was being sent back to the West Coast for repairs from Hawaii and had been ordered to go to the Bremerton shipyard in Washington State. I had made a phone call to the commanding admiral for the Pacific, who was headquartered in Hawaii, and I didn't talk more than five minutes. Whether the change was already decided, I don't know. I like to think I had something to do with it, but I couldn't be absolutely certain that my intervention caused the change. But this headline gave me full credit by name. So I felt these things, like hits and errors in baseball, they even out.
"The next time I was home," he continues, "I had a number of meetings around my district, and...there was this group of six or eight that had a portable gallows. They carried these gallows around and would be in the back of the hall wherever I spoke, standing, not saying a word, but with these gallows, ready to hang me in effigy. On one occasion, there was such a hubbub out at Neighborhood House that Bill Kolender, who was then community relations officer for the San Diego Police Department, thought it was getting dangerous. He ordered the lights turned out, took me into a side room, kept me there for about ten minutes, then rushed me out to an unmarked car at the curb. On both sides of the car, these guys are rocking the car. I felt like a South American caudillo headed for the airport. There was never, I'm sure, any serious danger, but police don't like to take chances. And that hung over me for a while because the people who were angry were an important part of my constituency."
During his 18 years in office, Van Deerlin worked with five presidents and through the assassinations of John and Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. I encourage him to speculate on whether President Kennedy, had he lived, would have escalated the Vietnam War the way Lyndon Johnson did. He doesn't take the bait. But he does think that Kennedy was "less obviously influenced by political considerations. Here was Johnson," says Van Deerlin, "just obsessed with the idea that people would think him, in contrast to Goldwater, somehow soft on defense. And I don't think anyone was ready to accuse him of that."
"In the beginning," I ask Van Deerlin, "what were your feelings about the war?"
"Let's see," he says, "the Gulf of Tonkin resolution was in 1964, the year I was running for reelection after my first term. And I was then, sadly, of the view that the administration had sources of information that justified the war. And I was trusting. I was one of  votes in the House for the Gulf of Tonkin resolution."
"How long did it take you to start changing your mind about Vietnam?"
"I think it was about 1968. In the South Bay, from the very start, there was Chula Vista Star-News publisher Lowell Blankfort, who had been adamantly opposed to the war. The publisher of the Oceanside Blade-Tribune, Tom Braden, who had worked for the organization that preceded the CIA, was strongly against it too. But I still clung to the supposition that those in charge had information that was unavailable to me. No elected official can safely assume that."
"It's surprising that, in the heart of San Diego's military community," I say, "those two editors were opposed to the war."
"And knowledgeably opposed," according to Van Deerlin. "They were both very good. But they caught a lot of hell for their decisions. Braden is dead now, but Blankfort remains my very good friend, even though before the 1968 election, when he was making his recommendations, he wrote a long and well-documented editorial about the reasons I should be retired. But then he concluded that given the other choice, the person I was running against, he would have to reluctantly endorse my reelection with the hope that I would change my ways. And his headline? 'For Congress' in 36-point type, 'Van Deerlin' in 14-point type."
I am curious about Van Deerlin's views on national communications. "Have there been any changes in broadcasting laws," I ask, "that have given rise to all these strident radio talk...?"
"Including San Diego shows," interrupts Van Deerlin.
"...and," I continue, "to the Fox News method of presenting content that it labels 'fair and balanced'?"
"Clearly, and I'm not one to say that it's an improper change," replies Van Deerlin, who was a proponent of deregulating the industry. "What it does mean is that the First Amendment has taken over totally in broadcasting. We used to have something called the Fairness Doctrine, which required that broadcasters give attention to public events but that they give adequate opportunity to be heard to both sides. This even has involved, in some instances, the extreme nonsense that [they] give representation to both sides in the same broadcast. Well, how do you do an important documentary if you don't take positions? The Fairness Doctrine required that you give what was called 'equal time.' And the Federal Communications Commission read that as equal by minutes and comparable time of day. In other words, you couldn't go on at two o'clock in the morning to give somebody an opportunity to respond to something that had been broadcast at 6:00 p.m.
"But that's out the window now. I think one improper aspect of [developments in communications law] has been that the same owner may have as many licenses within a given coverage area as he can afford. The purpose of licensing broadcast channels and bands was to limit the coverage that a single voice might have. What's his name from Australia, Rupert Murdoch, has even acquired American citizenship so that he cannot be barred from owning licenses, and his ambition, I'm sure, ultimately, is to have every radio band and television channel in the nation owned by Rupert Murdoch. That practically could not happen, but legally it could, almost."
Van Deerlin says that in the late 1970s his subcommittee stalled, in the face of many congressional sponsors, AT&T's attempt to extend its monopoly in perpetuity, which would have allowed it eventually to dominate future communications technologies. Early in the next decade, after he had left office, he says, federal courts ruled against the company, "using roughly the same language we had been speaking in our committee. If AT&T had gotten its way, the Internet would have been delayed indefinitely."
In 1980, Ronald Reagan defeated Jimmy Carter for president, largely on the issue of Carter's failure to solve the American hostage crisis in Iran. Van Deerlin is critical of Carter for not taking stronger action against Iran. "It was just awful," he says, "to see a great nation's ambassadors paraded around Tehran the way they were."
On Reagan's coattails, Duncan Hunter defeated Van Deerlin for the District 42 seat in the House of Representatives. (The district covered downtown San Diego, everything south of El Cajon Boulevard to the Mexican border, plus Lemon Grove and Spring Valley.) The next day, Van Deerlin complained that television coverage of Carter's concession speech before the polls closed in California contributed to the election's outcome. But Carter's handling of the hostage crisis had set up a Republican charge that Democrats were soft on defense. "I don't know about other Democrats," Van Deerlin tells me, "but according to Hunter, Van Deerlin sure was soft on defense."


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Shifted hysteresis loops characteristic of the exchange bias effect between a ferromagnet and an antiferromagnet are demonstrated in structures formed by a 2.5 nm Cr layer deposited on top of an array of Fe nanoislands (Cr/Fe-nanoislands). This effect evidences the persistence of antiferromagnetic (AF) order for Cr layers much thinner than the thickness reported in the literature. The field shift measured is found to increase for the smallest island sizes, which can be related with the enhancement of the Fe-nanoisland surface to volume ratio. The comparative study between superconducting proximity effects in Nb/Cr/Fe-nanoislands and Nb/normal metal/Fe-nanoisland hybrids (where the normal metals used are Al and Pt) confirms the presence of AF order in the 2.5 nm Cr spacer layer. A much shorter penetration depth of the Cooper pairs into the AF Cr layers than in the normal metal Pt and Al spacer layers is deduced.


The weather in the greater capital area this week is forecast to be particularly pleasant, and most other parts of the countryside may get lucky, too.
The forecast from the Icelandic Met Office may come as a relief to those who experienced the wet and windy weekend we went through.
The greater Reykjavík area will be experiencing partly to mostly sunny skies all this week and through the weekend, with relatively calm winds and almost no precipitation. Temperatures, though, will plummet—we are expected to drop into the single digits and freezing for most of the week.
In fact, the same can be said for much of the countryside. The only notable exceptions are the southeast and the Westfjords, which may experience cloudy skies and some precipitation later in the week.
That being the case, if you've just arrived in Iceland and have a rental car, this week would be a perfect time to hit the road and see more of the country. At the same time, weather forecasting is always an inexact science, so be sure to check the daily forecast and road conditions before getting behind the wheel.


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Q: What's the problem with my C LANGUAGE code Hey I'm a begginer at coding and have a little problem with my code and it would be good of you to help me in it.
Would really like your advice.
In this problem which is problem set 2 of CS50 file Substitution
we have to get a key and the text from the user in which the output should be the letter at the place at which the letter is available in the alphabetical order.
INPUT:-
#include <stdio.h>
#include <cs50.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <ctype.h>

int main()
{
    char *key;
    char *normal = get_string("NORMAL: ");
    char *coded = malloc(sizeof(normal));

    do{
        /*Asking for key*/
        key = get_string("KEY: ");
    } while(strlen(key) != 26);

    for(int i = 0; i < strlen(normal); i++)
    {
        for(int j = 0; j < strlen(normal); j++)
        {
            if(normal[i] < 91  && normal[i] > 64)
            {
                if(normal[i] == (65 + j))
                {
                    coded[i] = toupper(key[j]);
                }
            }
            else if(normal[i] < 123 && normal[i] > 96)
            {
                if(normal[i] == (97 + j))
                {
                    coded[i] = tolower(key[j]);
                }
            }
            else (coded[i] = normal[i]);
        }
    }
    printf("Coded: %s", coded);
}

They show me the segmentation fault error and I don't know at which place have i touched the wrong memory.

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This is the highest football league in Romania, formed in 1909 year and contains 14 professional clubs. The season is separated in 2 parts. First part is from 26 matches. Each team plays two matches against every other team from 1.Liga, one as host and one as guest. The clubs are ranked in table according to points won during these 26 matches. After the first part of competition is over first six clubs in end-season ranking are playing a champion play-off round to determine who will be the champion of Romania and will be qualified for UEFA Champion League. The teams from 2nd to 4th place are qualifying for UEFA Europa League same as the winner of the Cupa Romanei (Romanian Cup). If the winner of the cup is already registered for the UEFA tournament the next team gets the spot in UEFA Europa League. Last 8 clubs from end-season table are forming relegation group and play another 14 matches against each other to determine which three teams will be relegated to lower Liga II. Last two teams are relegated directly and their spots are taken from first two clubs from Liga II. 3rd last from 1.Liga and 3rd from Liga II are playing one more match to determine which one of them will play in 1.Liga and which in Liga II.


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Intern Daniel Hernandez insists he's no hero
Although he denies it, Daniel Hernandez is being called an American hero. His quick thinking and poise in the midst of Saturday's shooting outside a Tucson Safeway supermarket likely helped save his boss Representative Gabrielle Giffords' life.
In his speech at the University of Arizona Wednesday night, President Obama lauded Hernandez for his heroism but the twenty-year-old intern insists he's no hero and says, "I have to humbly reject the title of hero even though the president did call me that." American Morning's T.J. Holmes talks to Hernandez about his first-hand encounter with the President and to Rep. Giffords' Communications Director C.J. Karamargin about his star intern.
Filed under: Arizona
Reps.: Doctors stunned by Giffords' 'incredible progress'
When Rep. Gabrielle Giffords opened her eyes last night for the first time, spontaneously and on her own volition, since this past Saturdays shooting in Tucson, two of her closest colleagues in Congress were in the room to witness it. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D, New York, and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D, Florida, were visiting Giffords when the miraculous moment happened.
Today on American Morning, Wasserman Schultz tells Kiran Chetry that the doctors were amazed by Gabby Giffords "incredible progress" in the hospital last night.
Filed under: Arizona • Capitol Hill
Husband of wounded woman, neighbor of killed girl speaks
Suzie Hileman was at Representative Giffords' constituent event in Tucson, AZ when bullets started flying. She was hit three times but the bullets missed her internal organs, sparing her life.
Bill Hileman, Suzie's husband, says his wife's physical ailments will be easier to get over than the emotional toll; the Hilemans are neighbors of the Green family and were very close with the youngest victim of the shooting, Christina Green, who lost her life. Suzie was the one who brought the patriotic nine-year-old to Giffords' event and was holding her hand when she was shot. Bill Hileman tells CNN's Alina Cho about his wife's condition and about the words he exchanged with Christina Green's parents after her death.
Were warning signs missed with Jared Lee Loughner?
Jared Lee Loughner is the accused gunman in this weekend's shooting in Tucson, Arizona that killed six and left 14 injured.
But the question remains, could this tragic attack have been prevented? As you have been hearing on American Morning, the warning signs were there. Teachers and students at Pima Community College, where Loughner attended class, reported erratic behavior including outbursts in class. Loughner was suspended from school and eventually withdrew. How can you tell if a person is a violent individual? How can you identify a problem before it happens? Dr. Jeff Gardere, a clinical psychologist and a contributor with HealthGuru.com, and Paul Callan, a criminal defense attorney and former prosecutor, discuss with T.J. Holmes.
Filed under: Arizona • Crime
AZ Rep. James Farley: Gabrielle Giffords' family is "strong" & "optimistic"
Today on American Morning, Kiran Chetry is live from Tucson, Arizona after tragedy struck the city this weekend.
Six people were killed and 14 others were wounded in a Saturday shooting outside of a Safeway supermarket. One of those wounded in the incident was Representative Gabrielle Giffords. She was shot in the head and underwent surgery Saturday. As of this morning, doctors were optimistic of her chances of surviving.
This morning State Representative Steve Farley joins Kiran Chetry. He has known Representative Giffords for fourteen years and currently occupies her old seat in the Arizona state legislature. He visited Giffords in the hospital yesterday.

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Obviously these aren't all the characters in the play, but they are the major players in the first act, and they all matter whether or not they speak at all in these opening scenes. Some of them matter even if they don't speak at all in the play--especially the women like Sycorax, who are removed from the action before the play begins.
Before I even begin with close reading questions, I like to point my students to larger questions about repetitions and motifs in the play.
The first general set of themes that I ask them to think about are the sibling rivalries: 1) Prospero and Antonio, 2) Miranda and Caliban (if we think of Caliban as a type of surrogate brother) and 3) Alonso and Sebastian, a rivalry that becomes important in Act 2. I ask students to hold this in their minds, and think about possible sources for all of this pervasive sibling rivalry.
At this point in the play, the servant relationships that students can most clearly discuss are Ariel-Prospero and Caliban-Prospero. Before we get into the nitty-gritty of these two characters, I ask them to remember to think about the ways that Caliban can be a foil for Antonio or Sebastian, and Ariel can be a foil for Gonzalo. I find that it is useful to give students topics or questions to be "on the lookout for" while they are reading.
How do the characters come across in this scene? What are your initial impressions of the noble leaders (Alonso, Antonio, Sebastian, and Gonzalo) in comparison with the working sailors (esp. the Boatswain)?
Shakespeare has other plays that contain a shipwreck, but that don't show the shipwreck (ex. Twelfth Night). In those plays, the characters come on stage all wet and bedraggled and simply say, "Man, I was lucky to survive that terrible shipwreck!" Why does he show the shipwreck in The Tempest? What does that add?
The first question builds on the discussion of masters and servants in our "general themes" discussion. The students are quick to point out the kinds of hierarchies that are being either broken down or desperately upheld by the various characters. They get an immediate sense from Gonzalo's speech that social hierarchy really matters to these characters, even in the face of life-threatening catastrophe.
The second question can lead students in multiple directions. They often discuss the sense of chaos and fear that would be apparent from the scene, and good students also note that we the audience are like the characters on the stage in that we don't know yet that we are being manipulated by Prospero's magic. When we find out in 1.2 that none of the titular tempest was really as dangerous as it seemed, and that Prospero and Ariel were behind everything, we realized that we have been duped just as much as the Boatswain the the nobles. Prospero's seeming control extends beyond the stage even as far as our emotional experience.
In forthcoming scholarship, Bruce Smith argues that this scene helps to set up recurring contrasts in the play between music and noise that will enable Shakespeare to anticipate what we are now calling "sound art." Rather than listening for the sources of sound or the semantic meanings of sound, we are forced into a position of "reduced listening" where we hear the sound for what it is: raucous, terrifying noise. Whether or not we will be able to produce meaning or music out of the noise of The Tempest will depend on our position as listening subjects, rather than Prospero's position as magician (or even Shakespeare's position as playwright). Professor Smith has been kind enough to share his forthcoming essay with me, so I assign it as one of the student's presentation assignment articles.
Here, as elsewhere in this scene, I simply ask students to characterize the relationship between Prospero and Miranda. Students usually respond with some sort of comment about how it's weird that she's 15 years old and her dad has never told her about where they are from and how they came to be on a deserted island. Prospero's call to obedience is telling too, and this marks the first in many, many instances wherein Prospero tries to control another character with storytelling. He obviously and pointedly demands that Miranda listen to him over and over in this scene, but he also rehearses the story of Sycorax with Ariel even though Ariel tells him twice that he does not need to repeat the traumatic story. By repeatedly telling Ariel about Sycorax, Prospero keeps Ariel indebted to him and he is able to deflect Ariel's initial demand for liberty.
These two passages do a great job of demonstrating the two sides of Prospero's character that are associated with his paternalism: his affection for Miranda and his obsessive need for control. Students can pick on his warmly affectionate tone here, but they often remark about how creepy it is when he puts Miranda to sleep. There's something about his narcoleptic magic that makes it seem rather like Rohypnol. "I know thou canst not choose" sounds suspiciously like "I know you want it," because both expressions diminish female agency but Shakespeare brings the question of dominance to the forefront even more baldly .
Students have been bombarded in recent years with a rhetoric that people are "born" a particular way. This has been a useful and productive means for the gay community to gain political support as they fight for civil rights, especially the right to marry. Pop singer Lady Gaga even turned it into an anthem for her album.
Although the message behind the song and the slogan is one of tolerance, it is also a simplistic way to discuss a complicated idea like human sexuality. Shakespeare actually seems to endorse the opposite point of view in Prospero's relationship with Miranda. He carefully controls how she is first introduced to Ferdinand so as to precondition her to fall in love with Ferdinand. We know that this is his intention from the get-go as we see in the aside he makes to the audience in the passage excerpted above: "It goes on, I see / As my soul prompts it." He also primes Ferdinand in this scene through Ariel's song, which pours salt into the open wound of Ferdinand's grief over his father. The song describes in detail the way that Alonso's body will be taken by the sea and turned into coral and pearls. At that moment of painful grief, Prospero dangles Miranda in front of Ferdinand. The love that she offers is a form of instant pain-relief for the grief-stricken young man.
Prospero's control over the lovers' inward experience of love continues into the scene when he sets up artificial roadblocks between Miranda and Ferdinand: "They are both in either's powers; but this swift business / I must uneasy make, lest too light winning / Make the prize light." He is making Ferdinand and Miranda feel like they are the stars in their very own romantic comedy. He plays the stock character of the senex iratus, a paternal blocking figure such as Egeus in Midsummer Night's Dream. When Prospero starts playing that role, Ferdinand and Miranda fall in line as the lovers who prove the sincerity and depth of their love by overcoming and resisting his prohibition. He knows that putting up this false roadblock will only make them want each other more. They are puppets whom he manipulates, even in such a seemingly inward and intimate sphere such as their choice of whom they love and sexually desire.
The concept that we are "born" a certain way--that we have a core essence of who we are that cannot be changed no matter how much society pressures us to do so--is a humanist claim that we have a fundamental "human nature." Through Prospero, Shakespeare makes the opposite claim that our seeming essence--even something as fundamental to us as our choice in mate--can be and often is conditioned by society in ways that we are only dimly aware of. In this way, Shakespeare presents Prospero to us as a sort of post-humanist. He constructs Miranda's inward experience for her in a social experiment. Scientists use the word "controls" to describe the various elements that they can manipulate and eliminate in order to study causation instead of correlation; in the isolated environment of the island, Prospero can adjust most of the controls so that he can run his social experiment with maximum efficiency to make Miranda love the exact man whom Prospero has chosen for her. He is living the early modern patriarch's dream.
Students are generally pretty attached to the idea that they are born a certain way, and that they have a core essence that has not been constructed by society. Asking them to think about the implications of the idea that Miranda has been "programmed" to love Ferdinand usually leads to some pretty interesting discussions about how our culture might attempt to "program" their own inward experience.
One of the few things on the island that Prospero can't control (or at least can't control well) is Caliban. I will discuss Caliban more fully in next week's post!


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Luke Fickell at introductory press conference (courtesy Wisconsin Athletic Communications)
Luke Fickell named 31st head coach in Wisconsin football history
MADISON, Wis. – Wisconsin Director of Athletics Chris McIntosh announced the hiring of Luke Fickell as UW's head football coach on Sunday. The consensus 2021 National Coach of the Year becomes the 31st head coach in program history.
"I am incredibly excited to announce Luke Fickell as our new head football coach and to welcome his entire family to Madison," McIntosh said. "Luke is one of the top football coaches in the country. He is a proven winner, recruiter and developer of players. Equally as important, he shares our values. Coach Fickell is focused on giving our student-athletes the best opportunities possible and is attuned to the changing landscape of college athletics.
"I have every confidence that he will respect and honor the foundation that has been set for our football program over the years, while embracing the opportunities ahead as we work to help Wisconsin football reach even greater heights."
Fickell ushers in a new era of Badger football after elevating the University of Cincinnati football program to unprecedented success during his six seasons as head coach. Hired by the Bearcats on Dec. 10, 2016, he led Cincinnati to back-to-back 11-win campaigns in 2018 and 2019 and an undefeated regular season that culminated with a Peach Bowl berth in 2020. Then in 2021, Fickell guided the Bearcats to the greatest season in school history, leading them to an appearance in the College Football Playoff Semifinals at the Cotton Bowl and the first-ever 13-0 regular-season record in Bearcat history.
"I am thrilled with our hire of Luke Fickell as the head football coach of the Badgers," UW-Madison Chancellor Jennifer L. Mnookin said. "He is a transformative hire for our program.
"In addition to the success he has already experienced as National Coach of the Year in 2021 and steering a team into the College Football Playoff, he shares our values and appreciates the importance of the college experience for our student-athletes.
"I am excited to see him help us build from our already solid foundation to reach even greater heights."
In just six years, Fickell has emerged as one of the nation's top coaches and positioned Cincinnati football as an elite program capable of consistently contending for championships. Fickell compiled a 57-18 (.760) record in his six seasons with UC. Prior to the Bearcats' three 11-win campaigns under Fickell, the program had only accomplished the feat twice (2008 and 2009). Fickell earned his 54th win in 2022, cementing himself as the winningest coach in Cincinnati history. After going 4-8 in year one at Cincinnati, Fickell led the program to a 53-10 mark over the last five years. Over the last three seasons, only Alabama (36) and Georgia (34) have more wins than Cincinnati (31).
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Futsal is FIFA's official indoor soccer game which is, essentially, a scaled down version of outdoor soccer played indoors. It is a small sided game (5v5) played on a smaller field (roughly basketball court sized) with a smaller low bounce ball. The ball forces a player to use their skill rather than the ball's bounce to propel it. Futsal is played with touchline boundaries. There are no walls in play. This is the game that outdoor soccer players around the globe play when they are indoors to refine and maintain their control skills and touch. It is superior to walled soccer in terms of developing better skills and technique. In traditional American walled soccer, players regularly kick the ball against the boards which promotes improper technique and too often rewards errant play. In Futsal, players are constantly reminded to play the same quality control game that is required for success in the outdoor game. Futsal develops the overall fundamentals of soccer more effectively.


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using System.Collections.Generic;
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using System.Linq;
using System.Net;
using System.Threading;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Simple.OData.Client.Extensions;

namespace Simple.OData.Client
{
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    {
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        {
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        {
            AssertHasKey(command);

            var collectionName = command.QualifiedEntityCollectionName;
            var entryKey = command.HasKey ? command.KeyValues : command.FilterAsKey;
            var entryData = command.CommandData;
            var entryIdent = await FormatEntryKeyAsync(command, cancellationToken);

            var request = await _session.Adapter.GetRequestWriter(_lazyBatchWriter).CreateUpdateRequestAsync(collectionName, entryIdent, entryKey, entryData, resultRequired);
            if (cancellationToken.IsCancellationRequested) cancellationToken.ThrowIfCancellationRequested();

            var result = await ExecuteRequestWithResultAsync(request, cancellationToken,
                x => x.AsEntry(_session.Settings.IncludeAnnotationsInResults), () => null, () => request.EntryData);
            if (cancellationToken.IsCancellationRequested) cancellationToken.ThrowIfCancellationRequested();

            if (result == null && resultRequired)
            {
                try
                {
                    result = await GetUpdatedResult(command, cancellationToken);
                    if (cancellationToken.IsCancellationRequested) cancellationToken.ThrowIfCancellationRequested();
                }
                catch (Exception)
                {
                }
            }

            var entityCollection = _session.Metadata.GetEntityCollection(collectionName);
            var entryDetails = _session.Metadata.ParseEntryDetails(entityCollection.Name, entryData);

            var removedLinks = entryDetails.Links
                .SelectMany(x => x.Value.Where(y => y.LinkData == null))
                .Select(x => _session.Metadata.GetNavigationPropertyExactName(entityCollection.Name, x.LinkName))
                .ToList();

            foreach (var associationName in removedLinks)
            {
                try
                {
                    await UnlinkEntryAsync(collectionName, entryKey, associationName, cancellationToken);
                    if (cancellationToken.IsCancellationRequested) cancellationToken.ThrowIfCancellationRequested();
                }
                catch (Exception)
                {
                }
            }

            return result;
        }

        private async Task<IDictionary<string, object>> GetUpdatedResult(FluentCommand command, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
        {
            var entryKey = command.HasKey ? command.KeyValues : command.FilterAsKey;
            var entryData = command.CommandData;

            var updatedKey = entryKey.Where(x => !entryData.ContainsKey(x.Key)).ToIDictionary();
            foreach (var item in entryData.Where(x => entryKey.ContainsKey(x.Key)))
            {
                updatedKey.Add(item);
            }
            var updatedCommand = new FluentCommand(command).Key(updatedKey);
            return await FindEntryAsync(await updatedCommand.GetCommandTextAsync(cancellationToken), cancellationToken);
        }

        private async Task<IEnumerable<IDictionary<string, object>>> ExecuteUpdateEntriesAsync(FluentCommand command, bool resultRequired, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
        {
            return await IterateEntriesAsync(
                command, resultRequired,
                async (x, y, z, w) => await UpdateEntryAsync(x, y, z, w, cancellationToken),
                cancellationToken);
        }

        private async Task ExecuteDeleteEntryAsync(FluentCommand command, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
        {
            var collectionName = command.QualifiedEntityCollectionName;
            var entryIdent = await FormatEntryKeyAsync(command, cancellationToken);

            var request = await _session.Adapter.GetRequestWriter(_lazyBatchWriter)
                .CreateDeleteRequestAsync(collectionName, entryIdent);
            if (!IsBatchRequest)
            {
                using (await _requestRunner.ExecuteRequestAsync(request, cancellationToken))
                {
                }
            }
        }

        private async Task<int> ExecuteDeleteEntriesAsync(FluentCommand command, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
        {
            return await IterateEntriesAsync(
                command,
                async (x, y) => await DeleteEntryAsync(x, y, cancellationToken),
                cancellationToken);
        }

        private async Task ExecuteLinkEntryAsync(FluentCommand command, string linkName, IDictionary<string, object> linkedEntryKey, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
        {
            AssertHasKey(command);

            var collectionName = command.QualifiedEntityCollectionName;
            var entryKey = command.HasKey ? command.KeyValues : command.FilterAsKey;

            var entryIdent = await FormatEntryKeyAsync(collectionName, entryKey, cancellationToken);
            if (cancellationToken.IsCancellationRequested) cancellationToken.ThrowIfCancellationRequested();

            var linkedCollection = _session.Metadata.GetNavigationPropertyPartnerName(collectionName, linkName);
            var linkIdent = await FormatEntryKeyAsync(linkedCollection, linkedEntryKey, cancellationToken);
            if (cancellationToken.IsCancellationRequested) cancellationToken.ThrowIfCancellationRequested();

            var request = await _session.Adapter.GetRequestWriter(_lazyBatchWriter)
                .CreateLinkRequestAsync(collectionName, linkName, entryIdent, linkIdent);

            if (!IsBatchRequest)
            {
                using (await _requestRunner.ExecuteRequestAsync(request, cancellationToken))
                {
                }
            }
        }

        private async Task ExecuteUnlinkEntryAsync(FluentCommand command, string linkName, IDictionary<string, object> linkedEntryKey, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
        {
            AssertHasKey(command);

            var collectionName = command.QualifiedEntityCollectionName;
            var entryKey = command.HasKey ? command.KeyValues : command.FilterAsKey;

            var entryIdent = await FormatEntryKeyAsync(collectionName, entryKey, cancellationToken);
            if (cancellationToken.IsCancellationRequested) cancellationToken.ThrowIfCancellationRequested();

            string linkIdent = null;
            if (linkedEntryKey != null)
            {
                var linkedCollection = _session.Metadata.GetNavigationPropertyPartnerName(collectionName, linkName);
                linkIdent = await FormatEntryKeyAsync(linkedCollection, linkedEntryKey, cancellationToken);
                if (cancellationToken.IsCancellationRequested) cancellationToken.ThrowIfCancellationRequested();
            }

            var request = await _session.Adapter.GetRequestWriter(_lazyBatchWriter)
                .CreateUnlinkRequestAsync(collectionName, linkName, entryIdent, linkIdent);

            if (!IsBatchRequest)
            {
                using (await _requestRunner.ExecuteRequestAsync(request, cancellationToken))
                {
                }
            }
        }

        private async Task<IEnumerable<IDictionary<string, object>>> ExecuteFunctionAsync(FluentCommand command, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
        {
            var commandText = await command.GetCommandTextAsync(cancellationToken);
            if (cancellationToken.IsCancellationRequested) cancellationToken.ThrowIfCancellationRequested();

            var request = await _session.Adapter.GetRequestWriter(_lazyBatchWriter)
                .CreateFunctionRequestAsync(commandText, command.FunctionName);

            return await ExecuteRequestWithResultAsync(request, cancellationToken,
                x => x.AsEntries(_session.Settings.IncludeAnnotationsInResults),
                () => new IDictionary<string, object>[] { });
        }

        private async Task<IEnumerable<IDictionary<string, object>>> ExecuteActionAsync(FluentCommand command, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
        {
            var commandText = await command.GetCommandTextAsync(cancellationToken);
            if (cancellationToken.IsCancellationRequested) cancellationToken.ThrowIfCancellationRequested();

            var request = await _session.Adapter.GetRequestWriter(_lazyBatchWriter)
                .CreateActionRequestAsync(commandText, command.ActionName, command.CommandData, true);

            return await ExecuteRequestWithResultAsync(request, cancellationToken,
                x => x.AsEntries(_session.Settings.IncludeAnnotationsInResults),
                () => new IDictionary<string, object>[] { });
        }

        private async Task ExecuteBatchActionsAsync(IList<Func<IODataClient, Task>> actions, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
        {
            if (!actions.Any())
                return;

            var responseIndexes = new List<int>();

            // Write batch operations into a batch content
            var lastOperationId = 0;
            foreach (var action in actions)
            {
                await action(this);
                var responseIndex = -1;
                if (_lazyBatchWriter.Value.LastOperationId > lastOperationId)
                {
                    lastOperationId = _lazyBatchWriter.Value.LastOperationId;
                    responseIndex = lastOperationId - 1;
                }
                responseIndexes.Add(responseIndex);
            }

            if (_lazyBatchWriter.Value.HasOperations)
            {
                // Create batch request message
                var requestMessage = await _lazyBatchWriter.Value.EndBatchAsync();
                var request = new ODataRequest(RestVerbs.Post, _session, ODataLiteral.Batch, requestMessage);

                // Execute batch and get response
                ODataResponse batchResponse;
                using (var response = await _requestRunner.ExecuteRequestAsync(request, cancellationToken))
                {
                    var responseReader = _session.Adapter.GetResponseReader();
                    batchResponse = await responseReader.GetResponseAsync(response);
                }

                // Replay batch operations to assign results
                for (int actionIndex = 0; actionIndex < actions.Count; actionIndex++)
                {
                    var responseIndex = responseIndexes[actionIndex];
                    if (responseIndex >= 0)
                    {
                        var actionResponse = batchResponse.Batch[responseIndex];
                        if (actionResponse.StatusCode >= 400)
                        {
                            throw WebRequestException.CreateFromStatusCode((HttpStatusCode)actionResponse.StatusCode);
                        }

                        var client = new ODataClient(this, actionResponse);
                        await actions[actionIndex](client);
                    }
                }
            }
        }

        private async Task ExecuteRequestAsync(ODataRequest request, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
        {
            if (IsBatchRequest)
                return;

            try
            {
                using (await _requestRunner.ExecuteRequestAsync(request, cancellationToken))
                {
                }
            }
            catch (WebRequestException ex)
            {
                if (_settings.IgnoreResourceNotFoundException && ex.Code == HttpStatusCode.NotFound)
                    return;
                else
                    throw;
            }
        }

        private async Task<T> ExecuteRequestWithResultAsync<T>(ODataRequest request, CancellationToken cancellationToken,
            Func<ODataResponse, T> createResult, Func<T> createEmptyResult, Func<T> createBatchResult = null)
        {
            if (IsBatchRequest)
                return createBatchResult != null
                    ? createBatchResult()
                    : createEmptyResult != null
                    ? createEmptyResult()
                    : default(T);

            try
            {
                using (var response = await _requestRunner.ExecuteRequestAsync(request, cancellationToken))
                {
                    if (response.IsSuccessStatusCode && response.StatusCode != HttpStatusCode.NoContent &&
                        (request.Method == RestVerbs.Get || request.ResultRequired))
                    {
                        var responseReader = _session.Adapter.GetResponseReader();
                        return createResult(await responseReader.GetResponseAsync(response));
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        return default(T);
                    }
                }
            }
            catch (WebRequestException ex)
            {
                if (_settings.IgnoreResourceNotFoundException && ex.Code == HttpStatusCode.NotFound)
                    return createEmptyResult != null ? createEmptyResult() : default(T);
                else
                    throw;
            }
        }

        private async Task<Stream> ExecuteGetStreamRequestAsync(ODataRequest request, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
        {
            if (IsBatchRequest)
                return Stream.Null;

            try
            {
                using (var response = await _requestRunner.ExecuteRequestAsync(request, cancellationToken))
                {
                    if (response.IsSuccessStatusCode && response.StatusCode != HttpStatusCode.NoContent &&
                        (request.Method == RestVerbs.Get || request.ResultRequired))
                    {
                        var stream = new MemoryStream();
                        await response.Content.CopyToAsync(stream);
                        return stream;
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        return Stream.Null;
                    }
                }
            }
            catch (WebRequestException ex)
            {
                if (_settings.IgnoreResourceNotFoundException && ex.Code == HttpStatusCode.NotFound)
                    return Stream.Null;
                else
                    throw;
            }
        }

        private async Task<IEnumerable<IDictionary<string, object>>> IterateEntriesAsync(
            FluentCommand command, bool resultRequired,
            Func<string, IDictionary<string, object>, IDictionary<string, object>, bool, Task<IDictionary<string, object>>> funcAsync, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
        {
            var collectionName = command.QualifiedEntityCollectionName;
            var entryData = command.CommandData;
            var commandText = await command.GetCommandTextAsync(cancellationToken);
            if (cancellationToken.IsCancellationRequested) cancellationToken.ThrowIfCancellationRequested();

            IEnumerable<IDictionary<string, object>> result = null;
            var client = new ODataClient(_settings);
            var entries = await client.FindEntriesAsync(commandText, cancellationToken);
            if (entries != null)
            {
                var entryList = entries.ToList();
                var resultList = new List<IDictionary<string, object>>();
                foreach (var entry in entryList)
                {
                    resultList.Add(await funcAsync(collectionName, entry, entryData, resultRequired));
                    if (cancellationToken.IsCancellationRequested) cancellationToken.ThrowIfCancellationRequested();
                }
                result = resultList;
            }

            return result;
        }

        private async Task<int> IterateEntriesAsync(FluentCommand command,
            Func<string, IDictionary<string, object>, Task> funcAsync, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
        {
            var collectionName = command.QualifiedEntityCollectionName;
            var commandText = await command.GetCommandTextAsync(cancellationToken);
            if (cancellationToken.IsCancellationRequested) cancellationToken.ThrowIfCancellationRequested();

            var result = 0;
            var client = new ODataClient(_settings);
            var entries = await client.FindEntriesAsync(commandText, cancellationToken);
            if (entries != null)
            {
                var entryList = entries.ToList();
                foreach (var entry in entryList)
                {
                    await funcAsync(collectionName, entry);
                    if (cancellationToken.IsCancellationRequested) cancellationToken.ThrowIfCancellationRequested();
                    ++result;
                }
            }
            return result;
        }

        private void RemoveAnnotationProperties(IDictionary<string, object> entryData, IList<Action> actions = null)
        {
            var runActionsOnExist = false;
            if (actions == null)
            {
                actions = new List<Action>();
                runActionsOnExist = true;
            }

            if (!_settings.IncludeAnnotationsInResults && entryData.ContainsKey(FluentCommand.AnnotationsLiteral))
            {
                actions.Add(() => entryData.Remove(FluentCommand.AnnotationsLiteral));

                var nestedEntries = entryData.Where(x => x.Value is IDictionary<string, object>);
                foreach (var nestedEntry in nestedEntries)
                {
                    RemoveAnnotationProperties(nestedEntry.Value as IDictionary<string, object>, actions);
                }

                nestedEntries = entryData.Where(x => x.Value is IList<IDictionary<string, object>>);
                foreach (var nestedEntry in nestedEntries)
                {
                    foreach (var element in nestedEntry.Value as IList<IDictionary<string, object>>)
                    {
                        RemoveAnnotationProperties(element, actions);
                    }
                }
            }

            if (runActionsOnExist)
            {
                foreach (var action in actions)
                {
                    action();
                }
            }
        }

        private void AssertHasKey(FluentCommand command)
        {
            if (!command.HasKey && command.FilterAsKey == null)
                throw new InvalidOperationException("No entry key specified.");
        }

        private async Task<string> FormatEntryKeyAsync(string collection, IDictionary<string, object> entryKey, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
        {
            var entryIdent = await GetFluentClient()
                .For(collection)
                .Key(entryKey)
                .GetCommandTextAsync(cancellationToken);

            return RemoveTypeSpecification(entryIdent);
        }

        private async Task<string> FormatEntryKeyAsync(FluentCommand command, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
        {
            var entryIdent = command.HasKey
                ? await command.GetCommandTextAsync(cancellationToken)
                : await (new FluentCommand(command).Key(command.FilterAsKey).GetCommandTextAsync(cancellationToken));

            return RemoveTypeSpecification(entryIdent);
        }

        private string RemoveTypeSpecification(string entryIdent)
        {
            var segments = entryIdent.Split('/');
            if (segments.Count() > 1 && segments.Last().Contains("."))
            {
                entryIdent = entryIdent.Substring(0, entryIdent.Length - segments.Last().Length - 1);
            }
            return entryIdent;
        }

        private async Task EnrichWithMediaPropertiesAsync(IEnumerable<AnnotatedEntry> entries, FluentCommand command, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
        {
            if (entries != null)
            {
                foreach (var entry in entries)
                {
                    await EnrichWithMediaPropertiesAsync(entry, command.Details.MediaProperties, cancellationToken);
                    if (cancellationToken.IsCancellationRequested) cancellationToken.ThrowIfCancellationRequested();
                }
            }
        }

        private async Task EnrichWithMediaPropertiesAsync(AnnotatedEntry entry, IEnumerable<string> mediaProperties, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
        {
            if (entry != null && mediaProperties != null)
            {
                var entityMediaPropertyName = mediaProperties.FirstOrDefault(x => !entry.Data.ContainsKey(x));
                entityMediaPropertyName = entityMediaPropertyName ?? FluentCommand.AnnotationsLiteral;
                if (entry.Annotations != null)
                {
                    await GetMediaStreamValueAsync(entry.Data, entityMediaPropertyName, entry.Annotations.MediaResource, cancellationToken);
                }

                foreach (var propertyName in mediaProperties)
                {
                    object value;
                    if (entry.Data.TryGetValue(propertyName, out value))
                    {
                        await GetMediaStreamValueAsync(entry.Data, propertyName, value as ODataMediaAnnotations, cancellationToken);
                    }
                }
            }
        }

        private async Task GetMediaStreamValueAsync(IDictionary<string, object> entry, string propertyName, ODataMediaAnnotations annotations, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
        {
            var mediaLink = annotations == null ? null : annotations.ReadLink ?? annotations.EditLink;
            if (mediaLink != null)
            {
                var stream = await GetMediaStreamAsync(mediaLink.AbsoluteUri, cancellationToken);
                if (cancellationToken.IsCancellationRequested) cancellationToken.ThrowIfCancellationRequested();

                object propertyValue;
                if (entry.TryGetValue(propertyName, out propertyValue))
                    entry[propertyName] = stream;
                else
                    entry.Add(propertyName, stream);
            }
        }
    }
}

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Urgent care centre planned for Hamilton
By jbest · October 10, 2016 · No comments
Bermuda, News, Regional News, Regions ·
Hamilton is set to receive its first walk-in urgent care treatment centre next year in the heart of the city.
The Hamilton Medical Centre is expanding to offer blood testing and diagnostic imaging under one roof at a new location, according to a press release.
Its facility, which will be located on Burnaby Street, will boast state-of-the art technology including the world's most powerful truly open MRI, CT scanning, X-rays, ultrasound, mammography, bone density scanning and blood testing.
"As well as being a walk-in urgent care facility providing diagnosis and more immediate treatment, we also hope to provide a more convenient place for patients to have their MRI, CT, X-ray, ultrasound or other tests done as ordered by their own doctor," JJ Soares, director of Hamilton Medical Centre Ltd, said. "This means that people will not have to leave Hamilton to have their investigations.
"The opening of this facility will serve as a 'win-win' by delivering state-of-the-art service for patients while helping to keep costs low."
Dr Soares added that while it is anticipated that the centre, which is presently located on Victoria Street, will move completely, this is not yet set in stone.
The new centre, intended to make medical treatment more accessible to the public, will also include services such as a free minibus designed to shuttle the physically challenged and seniors without transport to the facility. Walk-in patient care and diagnostic imaging will be available until 10pm, seven days a week.
An on-site radiologist will be available to interpret X-rays, MRIs and other images for faster diagnosis and the facility will also have an on-site pharmacy.
According to Dr Soares, the centre will help reduce healthcare costs by offering the likes of videoconferencing technology, which will enable consultations with specialists without patients having to go overseas.
Dr Soares said: "We have heard much of late about the burden that high-cost medical care is placing on the system.
"As healthcare providers, we must meet the challenge of finding innovative solutions to keep costs down while keeping patient care at the forefront. I firmly believe that the private sector is the best vehicle by which to achieve this.
"The testing done at our centre will be achieved at a much lower cost than if a patient were seen in the hospital emergency department and if the same testing were done there."
Dr Soares added that the plans for the clinic had been shared with the Minister of Health, Jeanne Atherden, who was "quite supportive of the concept".
"We are aware of general concerns surrounding the overutilisation of equipment, and will be working with the Bermuda Health Council to ensure that best medical practices are strictly adhered to," Dr Soares said.
"We see the new centre as providing a supportive role to the hospital by allowing it to do its job even better in what can be considered an example of the public and private sectors working together to improve patient outcomes while simultaneously reducing costs."
The planning phase is complete, with construction to begin immediately, and the new centre is expected to open in the middle of next year.
• For more information, contact Dr Soares at info@hmc.bm
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Australian auction clearance rates are still sliding
David Scutt
Picture: Getty Images
Australian preliminary auction clearance rates continued to slide last week, led on this occasion by Melbourne.
Sydney's clearance rate rebounded, albeit a large number of results are yet to be reported.
CoreLogic will release updated price and listings data later today.
Australian auction clearance rates continued to slide last week, according to new data released by CoreLogic.
A preliminary clearance rate of 59.7% was recorded across Australia's capital cities, down from the 60.3% preliminary reading reported one week earlier.
The small decline coincided with an increase in properties going under the hammer, lifting from 2,100 to 2,287.
Of those auctions held, CoreLogic only received results from 1,772. Within that figure, 1,058 cleared while 714 failed to sell.
The large number of unreported results, some 515, suggests that final clearance rates for the week — released on Thursday — will be revised down towards, or perhaps below, the final reading of 56.8% seen in the prior week.
Final clearance rates tend to be revised lower as late, often unsuccessful results, are reported to the group.
As has been the case for several months, clearance rates for units continued to outperform those for houses, coming in at 64.9% and 57.6% respectively over the week.
By individual capital, a sharp drop in Melbourne, Australia's busiest auction market, drove the national decline last week.
According to CoreLogic, a preliminary clearance rate of 60.9% was recorded across 1,132 auctions held, falling from a preliminary reading of 64.2% in the prior week when 1,033 properties went under the hammer.
"It is likely Melbourne's final clearance rate this week will weaken further and fall below 60% as results are collected," CoreLogic said.
In the prior week, Melbourne recorded a final clearance rate of 62%.
In contrast to the renewed weakness reported in Melbourne, Sydney's preliminary figure rebounded after falling to a fresh multi-month low in the prior week.
A reading of 62.7% was recorded, an improvement on the 60.8% preliminary estimate reported in the prior week.
However, CoreLogic received results from just 576 of the 808 auctions held, pointing to the likelihood that the final reading may be substantially lower when released later in the week.
In the prior week, Sydney's final clearance rate stood at just 54%.
Across the smaller capitals, preliminary clearance rates improved in Adelaide and Perth but fell in Brisbane and Canberra.
Given the reasonable relationship that exists between auction clearance rates and home prices, the persistent slide in the percentage of properties selling at auction points to the likelihood of further price weakness ahead.
Many analysts, including those from the Commonwealth Bank, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, UBS and Morgan Stanley, are predicting that home prices will continue to weaken in the period ahead, led by declines in Sydney and Melbourne, Australia's largest and most expensive markets where much of the recent price has been concentrated.
Markets will receive updated data on that front later today with CoreLogic set to release weekly, quarterly and annual price movements from Australia's five mainland state capitals, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth.
That will be followed by the release of the group's more comprehensive Home Value Index — covering price movements in all capitals and regional areas during May — on Friday.
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Cancel Culture Preliminary Scorecard
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Cancel Culture is a world view that posits that all art, terminology, and symbols deemed offensive should be eliminated and that all people holding such views should be othered. Nuance and context do not matter. A key aspect of Cancel Culture is presentism. Presentism posits that historical context does not matter what matters are that the thing is viewed as offensive now.
In the last month or two, the cancel culture seems to be going at a record pace with dead people, flags, murals, and holidays being in the crosshairs. It all gets confusing and each individual incident gets lost in the shuffle. This thread is not an attempt to reargue the merits of the deletions but to look at each incident and try to figure who won and who lost with an eye on possible long term ramifications. "Won" is defined for this thread not as necessarily the overall good but were the cancelers objectives met. By nature, my judgments have to be preliminary.
Kate Smith was a singer best known for her rendition of "God Bless America" which became an unofficial national anthem. She also was the largest fundraiser for America's cause in WWII, spoke out against racism in a 1945 speech, and had blacks on her TV show during a segregated era. She and her version of "God Bless America" had a second career of sorts as a mascot and good luck charm for the Philadelphia Flyers hockey team. A caller told the New York Yankees baseball team of two "racist" songs she had sung in the early 1930s. The Yankees stopped playing her version of "God Bless America" and when the Flyers got wind of the songs they canceled her version of the song and covered in black and then removed a statue of her.
A win for the SJW's and the offense archivist, in particular, they got two prominent organizations to do what they wanted.
Owners of a bakery in Oberlin, Ohio got into a scuffle with two blacks who were later convicted of trying to rob the place. Students organized an effective boycott of the bakery alleging the bakery had long engaged in racial profiling. The boycott was aided by the Dean of Students at nearby Oberlin College. The bakery sued the college for defamation and won $33 million dollars in damages.
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A loss for SJW's and students of soon to be poorer Oberlin college.
Actress Lillian Gish is known as "The First Lady of American Cinema" had a 75-year career. A longtime Republican supporter she claimed she was blacklisted by Hollywood for her anti-interventionist views prior to WWII. Before her death she and her actress sister Dorothy gave an endowment to Bowling Green University who named a building after them. When the building was moved to the center of campus it was renamed after objections from students over Lillian's role in the 1915 film "Birth of a Nation". "Birth of a Nation" is noted for its many film innovations some still in use today was controversial from the time it was released. It was a pro "Lost Cause" mythology film that is widely blamed for the rebirth and mainstreaming of the Ku Klux Klan. Over 50 prominent directors, film critics, and scholars sent an open letter to the university objecting to the renaming. In response, the university said it is not going to reverse its decision.
Victory for cancel culture supporters but maybe a pyrrhic one if the open letter dissuades others from giving into SJW demands.
Victor Arnautoff was a Russian communist emigre who is considered one of the greatest muralists of the Great Depression era. He created a mural "Life of Washington" that depicts whites standing over a dead Native American and slaves working at George Washington's estate. That mural was put in a San Francisco High School. The school board has announced plans to paint over the mural at a cost of over $600,000 because it is triggering to students at the school which is mostly people of color. The decision has been criticized by some art experts.
A self-inflicted loss for SJW's. The mural validates their message that whites and America is racist to the core and has been that way since it's founding.
A loss for taxpayers of San Francisco.
Speaking of founding fathers Thomas Jefferson was a key intellectual behind the United States secession from England, he was the primary author of Declaration of Independence. He was the country's first vice presidents and it's second President. He founded the University of Virginia and was a science advocate. He profited from the ownership of hundreds of slaves, wrote that blacks were inferior, and probably was a rapist. The city council of his hometown of Charlottesville, Va voted to rename a city holiday named for him to "Slave Liberation Day"
Probably no real winners or losers. The slave owning part of Jefferson's life and his "affair" with his slave Sally Hemmings has been a matter of considerable public discussion since at least the 1990s. There is no indication of a massive takedown of Jefferson memorials and museums.
The "Betsy Ross Flag" was probably the original flag of the United States. In the 1870s descendants of Betsy Ross launched a successful PR campaign to credit her with it's design a claim disputed by historians to make it a both a patriotic symbol and Ross a heroine for girls to look up to. In the last few years, there have been a few reports of alt-right types appropriating it. Nike reportedly at the request of former football player Colin Kaepernick dropped a sneaker with a Betsy Ross Flag design.
Major win for cancel culture supporters with unlimited potential upside. One of the most prominent and popular companies and two presidential candidates agree with their interpretation that the symbol has been appropriated by racists and that all symbols created by past racist figures no matter the intent of the creation need to be erased.
A win for own the libs trolls who have found a seemingly endless series of situations where the flag or something that looks like it have been used for innocuous purposes or by liberals.
A win for the alt rightists who used a symbol that was largely not associated with them that now is in some important corners.
A win for Nike, their stock price went up after the sneaker was pulled
The "upside" would occur should a racist(s) under the Betsy Ross flag does a terrorist attack(s). The SJW's would completely own the issue emotionally and the racists would have a martyr(s) and a symbol.
My feeling over the last couple of years was that opposing cancel culture had a "resistance is futile" feel to it as the bottom line is things were getting canceled, we could scream and yell all we want but what was once limited to campuses was gaining mainstream agency at a dizzying pace. The cancel culture had the advantages youth and thus time on their side, knowledge of how to use technology to run circles around opponents, and willpower and the belief that "progress" always wins out at the end.
The above analysis shows mixed results. There are two ways to interpret this.
Interpretation number one is that we are at a tipping point whereby the SJW's have gone too far and people are finally getting fed up. At San Francisco and Bowling Green opposition is coming from beyond the usual Fox News and Breitbart suspects. Oberlin is a warning that canceling on the basis casual assumptions of racism might be literally costly. Biden's early lead in the polls is arguably another indication.
Interpretation number two is that the tipping point theory is desperate wishful thinking by people holding on to the inevitable disappearing past. 4 of the 5 instances mentioned that things SJW's wanted have been canceled have or probably will be canceled. The backlash and setbacks are a normal part of the march of history and progress so one should not be fooled by them.
The future will tell.
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In other words Social Justice Warriors are easily offended as*hole idiots and by guilting us and forcing us to destroy/rewrite/ignore history they are basically dooming us into repeating it.
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Never heard the term Cancel Culture...who coined that term?
Either way yes indeed those deemed SJW, get to carried away in wanting to ban any and everything someone somewhere may find offensive.
That said the thing about the Mural at the school depicting images of slavery does make sense. If multiple students were being made to feel uncomfortable, it probably is best to remove it. Not sure I'd agree with painting over it....If there is a way it could be moved it could perhaps be put in a museum or something.
But I could see how that image wouldn't be what people want to see every day at school so that one at least seems reasonable. The other ones you mentioned do seem ridiculous though.
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If it is so desired, offense can be found in ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING.....
kraftiekortie wrote:
Yes! For example I am offended by Donald Trump's hair. I might can forgive anything else about him, BUT THAT HAIR?!
Sweetleaf wrote:
Variations on the term "cancel culture" are "call out culture" and "outrage culture". I do not know who coined these terms although I assume it was a conservative(s).
The mural won't be easy to remove, it is painted on the wall (fresco).
The Nation and CBS mentioned protests against it during the 1960s.
Mural update, more details
Academics, educators petition to save controversial school mural
More than 400 academics and educators from across the country and around the world signed a petition that they plan to send to the district this week urging it to reconsider the decision.
The reason? Painting over the "Life of Washington" fresco is illogical, according to the petition circulated on nonsite.org, a peer-reviewed academic journal focused on politics, history, art history and literature.
The board, citing the feelings of students who were offended by the images, said that destroying the piece, located in George Washington High School, would be a form of reparations for historic racial injustices against African Americans and Native Americans.
In fact, petitioners argued, painting over the mural would accomplish the opposite.
"It exposes and denounces in pictorial form the U.S. history of racism and colonialism," according to the petition. "The only viewers who should feel unsafe before this mural are racists."
There is no public disagreement over the meaning of the images, said Charles Palermo, editor of nonsite.org and a professor of art history at the College of William & Mary.
"What remains is a mistake in the way we react to historical works of art — ignoring their meaning in favor of our feelings about them — and a mistake in the way we treat historical works of art — using them as tools for managing feelings, rather than as objects of interpretation."
Board President Stevon Cook, who reviewed the document online, said he was unmoved by the petitioners.
"It's another case of people trying to tell others how to respond to how their community is represented," he said. "They should let me get back to my job and, if they're so moved, they should commission their own murals. I'm focused on the real solutions, not online petitions from people that aren't stakeholders in our schools."
The petition included signatures from dozens of academics at universities across the country as well as artists, teachers, politicians and alumni from George Washington High School.
The board's unanimous vote, with one member absent, followed a recommendation by a community task force appointed by the district to address concerns raised by parents and students about the 1,600-square-foot mural.
The community group recommended covering it with white paint because it said the mural glorifies slavery, genocide, colonization, manifest destiny, white supremacy and oppression — a complete misreading of the image, said Meryl Bailey, a Mills College assistant professor who signed the petition.
"Arnautoff's work actually does the opposite," she said. "I can understand how students might be disturbed by some parts of the mural. However, if we erase all the things that disturb us, we will forget them."
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Whatever you call it, the people pushing this nonsense need to be severely beaten with a bag of dried oranges.
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BenderRodriguez
10 Jul 2019, 10:17 pm
Sounds like a "soft" version of the good old book burning
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Hmm I did not realize the purpose of the mural was to be critical of the racism in america, in that case it doesn't make so much sense to destroy it. If that is truly the case then perhaps it should be preserved and they could put a little plaque underneath or next to it, to explain about the artist who painted it and why. I mean could be used as an educational tool to remember the dark past and learn from it.
I suppose that is a good argument to keep it.
I agree. For all these years students at that high school were faced with a part of American History that was erased for my generation. We were taught he was the father of our country who at age 6 chopped down a cherry tree and could not lie about it to his dad. He kept the revolution going when it could have fallen apart during the brutal cold winter at Valley Forge. What a guy!! We were not taught about about how the Founding Fathers were slaveholders and the personal financial reasons for the revolution nor outside of Benedict Arnold were we taught how widespread loyalty to the crown was, never mind how loyalist my home area of Long Island was.
The mural is a very good example of the conflicting ways supporters and opponents of cancel culture view these representations. For the petitioners it is all about the anti racist context the mural was created. To the supporters of painting over the mural the context is irrelevant. All that counts is that it is viewed as offensive now.
The impression I got from reading about it was the mural wasn't meant to come down on a side, but simply paint the unvarnished truth of the man the university was named after.
Regardless of what you might think of what is depicted, the work is absolutely exquisite. It is a tragedy to destroy such beauty.
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Home Play Ideas & Activities How To Build A LEGO Playground Slide
How To Build A LEGO Playground Slide
Lester Ng
Slides are one of the most fun elements in a playground. It is also something which we can build out of LEGO. For gravity-powered fun in miniature, here are the steps that you can take to build a LEGO playground slide.
Building a LEGO Playground Slide
We've kept this LEGO playground slide quite simple. It consists of the ramp portion in the front and a ladder/stairs at the back. It is designed to be big enough for a LEGO mini fig to slide from the top to the bottom.
For the LEGO slide, we constructed it so that it is five bricks high. The ramp is the width of two studs.
To allow the mini figure to slide down on its own, we placed smooth sloped and curved plates on top of the bricks that made up the ramp. This covered up the studs and allowed the mini figure to slide down the ramp.
To keep the mini fig from falling off the ramp, we had bricks protrude out along either side of the ramp. This served as a "lip" to keep the mini fig on track.
At the rear of the slide, we created a set of stairs that ascend from the ground level at the bottom to the top of the LEGO playground slide.
More Ideas for the LEGO Slide
There are other ways to spruce up the LEGO playground slide. These include using LEGO pieces such as nets or fences to create the grips at the side of the ramp.
Or, if you have LEGO ladders available, you can place that at the back of the slide in place of the steps.
Some of the challenges that you can try with the LEGO playground build is to see who can construct the highest slide. Or design a slide where the mini figure gets launched out the furthest. After all, a slide is nothing more than a device that converts gravitational potential energy to kinetic energy.
Have fun experimenting!
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Pandit Arvind Mulgaonkar is a Ganda-Bandh Shagird of Ustad Amir Hussain Khan Saheb. He learned under Ustad Amir Hussain Khan Saheb for 13 years. After Khan Saheb's passing, he learned from Ustad Ahmadjan Thirakawa Saheb for 3 years. His original training was from Ustad Atta Hussain Khan Saheb of Rampur.
•State Award from the Govt. of Maharashtra in 1992 for excellence in instrumental music.
•Award of Senior Fellowship from Govt. of India, Dept. of Culture for 1995 / 1996.
•'Swara Sadhana Ratna' award from Swar Sadhana Samiti, Mumbai on 8th March 2003.
•ITC Sangeet Research Academy Award, 2006 for his lifelong and dedicated services to Indian classical music on 5th January,2007.
•Iyer Foundation, Mumbai, Award, 2007 for his lifetime achievement in music on 10th March,2007.
•Late Mrs.Vasundhara Pandit Memorial Award, 2007 for his immense contribution to Indian classical music on 26th July, 2007.
Pandit Arvind Mulgaonkar is also an accomplished author. Most people recognize him with his authorship of "Tabla", originally published in 1976 in Marathi. Since then; he has published "Gushtaki Maaf", which was for private circulation, "Athavanincha Doha" and his latest release "Ijajat".
"Ijajat" is the latest addition to Mulgaonkar-ji's repertory. This book, again in Hindi; contains only Pandit Mulgaonkar-ji's exclusive compositions including the ones from his book: "Gushtaki Maaf". More specifically, this book contains 22 Kaida's from Lukhnow, Ajrada and the Delihi Gharana in Vistaar (Mukh, Paltas & Tihai), 20 Kaidas, again from Lukhnow, Ajrada and the Delihi Gharana with Mukh only, followed by 27 Gat Tukdas and finally, 35 Gats from the Lukhnow, Ajrada, Punjab and the Delhi Gharana. This book is also accompanied with a DVD where Pandit Mulgaonkar himself shows the Nikas and the Padanth of his compositions.
Pandit Arvind Mulgaonkar on Youtube taken from his DVD "Ijajat"
- Gat-Toda composed by Pdt. Arvind Mulgaonkar "Ijajat"
Punjab Gat-Toda composed by Pdt. Arvind Mulgaonkar "Ijajat"
Lahori Gat received by Pdt. Arvind Mulgaonkar. "Ijajat"
Pandit Arvind Mulgaonkar also has to his credit a 2 VCD set entitled "Rare Treasures of the Farukabad Tradition". The first VCD is a demonstration of various traditional tabla bols and pharases. The second VCD is a compilation of 38 rare compositions as performed by the original masters such as Ustd. Amir Hussain Khan, Ustd. Munir Khan, Ustd. Thirakawa, Pdt. Khante Maharaj, Ust. Hidayat Ali Khan, Khalifa Haji Vilayat Ali Khan etc. Pandit Mulgaonkar himslef demonstrates these compositions.
Pandit Arvind Mulgaonkar on Youtube taken from his VCD "Rare Treasures of the Farukabad Tradition"
If you are interested in purchasing either the 2 VCD set: "Rare Treasures of the Farukabad Tradition" or the book "Ijajat" with the accompanying DVD, please PM me for details.
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Hello, Please could you let me know the price for Athavanincha Doha and Ijaazat. I am interested in the VCD if they are not dubbed over by someone else, I prefer the original audio from Panditji. Thank you. Postage will be to Mumbai.


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Regarding smell, although we would have preferred having it in this case there is not any or it is very light, but I feel it does not matter to me.
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Why do we insist on working at the national level again?
The BBC has posted an interesting map of Nigeria that captures the spatiality of politics, ethnicity, wealth, health, literacy and oil. There are significant problems with this map. The underlying data has fairly large error bars that are not acknowledged, and the presentation of the data is somewhat problematic; for example, the ethnic "areas" in the country are represented only by the majority group, hiding the heterogeneity of these areas, and other data is aggregated at the state level, blurring heterogenous voting patterns, incomes, literacy rates and health situations. I really wish that those who create this sort of thing would do a better job addressing some of these issues, and pointing out the issues they cannot address to help the reader better evaluate the data.
But even with all of these caveats, this map is a striking illustration of the problems with using national-level statistics to guide development policy and programs. Look at the distributions of wealth, health and literacy in the country – error bars or no, this data clearly demonstrates that national measures of wealth cannot guide useful economic policy, national measures of literacy might obscure regional or ethnic patterns of educational neglect, and national vaccination statistics tell us nothing about the regional variations in disease ecology and healthcare delivery that shape health outcomes in this country.
This is not to say that states don't matter – they matter a lot. However, when we use national-scale data for just about anything, we are making very bad assumptions about the heterogeneity of the situation in that country . . . and we are probably missing key opportunities and challenges we should be addressing in our work.
Availability isn't validity . . .
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So, to clarify one one my points from my previous post, let me use an example to show why building an index of development (or an index of anything, really) on data based on its availability can lead to tremendous problems – and result in a situation where the index is actually so misleading as to be worse than having no index at all.
The report we were critiquing made no effort to control for these alternative interpretations, at least in part because it had gathered data at the national scale for Nigeria. The problem here is that Nigeria contains seven broad agroecological zones (and really many more subzones) in which different crops and combinations of crops will be favored – averaging this across the country just homogenizes important differences in particular places into a general, but meaningless indicator. When we combined this environmental variability with broad patterns of land tenure (people's access to land), we found that the country really had to be divided up into at least 13 different zones – in each zone, the interpretation of this poverty-environment indicator was likely to be consistent, but there was no guarantee that it would be consistent from zone to zone. In some zones, a rising area under irrigation would reflect a positive shift in poverty and environmental quality, while in others it might reflect declining human well-being.
As you can see, there are several states with multiple zones inside their borders – which means a single indicator cannot be assumed to have the same interpretion across the state (let alone the entire country). So, while there might be data on poverty and environmental quality available at the state level such that we can identify indicators and build indexes with it, the likelihood is that the interpretation of that data will be, in many cases, incorrect, leading to problematic policies (like promoting irrigation in areas where it leads to land consolidation and the marginalization of the poor) – in other words, making things much worse than if there was no index or indicator at all.
Just because the data is available doesn't mean that it is useful, or that it should be used.
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