Jump to navigation Jump to search The term "Latin America" primarily refers to the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking countries in the New World. The region came under control of the crowns of Spain dating history in america Portugal, which imposed both Roman Catholicism and their respective languages.
Both the Spanish and the Portuguese brought African slaves to their colonies, as laborers, particularly in regions where indigenous populations who could be made to work were absent. In the early nineteenth century nearly all of areas of Spanish America attained independence by armed struggle, with the exceptions of Cuba and Puerto Rico. Brazil, which had become a monarchy separate from Portugal, became a republic in the late nineteenth century. Political independence from European monarchies did not result in the abolition of black slavery in the new sovereign nations. In the mid-twentieth century, especially in the United States, there was a trend to occasionally classify all of the territory south of the United States as "Latin America," especially when the discussion focused on its contemporary political and economic relations to the rest of the world, rather than solely on its cultural aspects.
Since, the concept and definitions of Latin American are very modern, going back only to the nineteenth century, it is anachronistic to talk about "a history of Latin America" before the arrival of the Europeans. What is now Latin America has been populated for several millennia, possibly for as long as 30,000 years. There are many models of migration to the New World. Precise dating of many of the early civilizations is difficult because there are few text sources.
Christopher Columbus landed in the Americas in 1492. Subsequently, the major sea powers in Europe sent expeditions to the New World to build trade networks and colonies and to convert the native peoples to Christianity. During the European colonization of the western hemisphere, most of the native population died, mainly by disease. In what has come to be known as the Columbian exchange, diseases such as smallpox and measles decimated populations with no immunity. The conquerors and colonists of Latin America also had a major impact on the population of Latin America. The Spanish conquistadors committed savage acts of violence against the natives. According to Bartolomé de las Casas, the Europeans worked the native population to death, separated the men and the women so they could not reproduce, and hunted down and killed any natives who escaped with dogs.
Because the Spanish were now in power, native culture and religion were forbidden. These codices contained information about astrology, religion, Gods, and rituals. Dresden Codex, Paris Codex, Madrid Codex, and HI Codex. The Spanish Crown regulated immigration to its overseas colonies, with travelers required to register with the House of Trade in Seville. Francisca de Figueroa, an African-Iberian woman seeking entrance into the Americas, petitioned the Spanish Crown in 1600 in order to gain a license to sail to Cartagena.


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By Elizabeth Maxwell
What has the writers workshop meant for you?
What has the writers workshop meant for you?" I asked Joe. He has been a guest, and then a volunteer, at our soup kitchen for several years. He's been involved in the writing program for the last two. "Has it been a safe space?"
"Much more than a safe place!" Joe replied with some passion. "It has been more like a cauldron!"
This image of a cauldron - magician's brew, or maybe just a humble soup pot - strikes me as weirdly, wonderfully apt for a writing program in a soup kitchen. The participants bring to it their hunger to tell their stories, to find their voices, to learn a craft, to be heard. The stew of poetry and prose, honesty and courage, nourishes them as they share their work and hear and support their colleagues. In the mix, there can be alchemy, though like all alchemy it is impossible to say exactly how it happens or where its magic resides. People touch a place within them where something new comes into being, and, maybe, they change. Sometimes the world changes too. In any case, the world is richer for the stories that have come into it.

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Pazhamudhircholai Murugan Temple,also named as 'Solaimalai Murugan Temple' is located near the city Madurai of Tamilnadu, dedicated to Lord Murugan and also one of the 'Arupadai Veedu Temples'. Pazhamudhircholai temple is situated atop a hill with dense forest about 19 kilometers from the Temple City Madurai. This hill is also known as Vrishabhadri or Idabagiri. Azhagar Kovil, one among the 108 Divya Desam temples is located very close to the Pazhamudhircholai Murugan Temple.
This is the only temple among the six abodes of Lord Murugan, where He blesses His devotees with His consorts Goddess Valli and Goddess Deivayani. There is an idol of Goddess Rakkayi Amman, who is considered as the Guardian deity. The Sthala Theertham (temple tank) of this temple is Noopura Ganga, where the devotees take bath and worship the Guardian deity Goddess Rakkayi Amman. A blackberry tree is considered as a Sthala Vriksha (temple tree) of this temple and the fruit become ripe during the Skanda Sashti festival (October to November).
This temple is situated in a dense forest area which is filled with fruits, vegetables and flowers. Thousands of bats hanging from the trees close to the temple premises. Here, 'Avvaiyar' the famous female Tamil poet and a great devotee of Lord Murugan, was said to be examined by Lord Murugan from His playful drama. The drama of Lord Murugan concerning Avvaiyar was to acquire an answer from her raising the question, "Which fruit is she needed, whether cooked or uncooked", which is popularly mentioned in Tamil language as "Sutta Pazham or Sudadha Pazham".
Avvaiyar started thinking, "Is there any cooked fruit in the World", and thought that the boy was even unaware about this simple thing. However, being hungry she did not wanted to argue about this with that boy and asked Him for uncooked fruit. The boy trembled the tree and fruits on the tree started falling down on the mud. Avvaiyar took the fruits and blew the fruits to remove the mud. After this act of Avvaiyar, the boy asked her whether the fruits were warm. Avvaiyar was surprised by the intelligence of the boy, realizing puffing on the fruit to remove mud is likely blowing air to reduce the heat on the cooked fruit.
Avvaiyar was astounded by this great comparison and asked the boy surprisingly, "Who are you actually?" And the boy was suddenly disappeared and appeared in the form of Lord Murugan. Avvaiyar bowed before Lord Murugan with pleasure and she requested Lord Murugan to confer her with bountiful knowledge.
Azhagar kovil is 23 km from Madurai Central Bus Stand. Sholaimalai Murugan temple is 3 km from this place. Temple administration operates bus service to and fro from the temple.
Madurai Railway Station is the nearest station.
Madurai Airport is the nearest airport.


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Russia says it fired warning shots at Turkish ship to avoid collision
The incident, which occurred on Sunday morning, is likely to heighten tensions between the two nations.
Russian destroyer Smetlivy leaves the harbor at the Crimean port of Sevastopol on September 12, 2013.
By By Katya Golubkova and Andrew Osborn Reuters
The Russian Defence Ministry said on Sunday one of its warships, the destroyer Smetlivy, had been forced to fire warning shots at a Turkish vessel in the Aegean Sea to avoid a collision and that it had summoned the Turkish military attache over the incident.
It said in a statement that the Turkish fishing vessel, which it did not name, had failed to respond to earlier warnings, but had sharply changed course after shots were fired before passing within just over 500 meters of the warship.
The incident, which occurred on Sunday morning, is likely to heighten tensions between the two nations who are seriously at odds over Syria and the Turkish shooting down of a Russian military jet last month.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, who called the downing of the plane a "stab in the back", has since imposed economic sanctions on Turkey as a retaliatory measure.
Earlier this month, Turkey complained to Russia over an incident in which a Russian sailor was pictured brandishing a rocket launcher on the deck of a naval ship passing through Istanbul.
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Five #MustRead Releases – July 2018
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Sydney Smoke star recruit Kyle Leighton can't believe the best sex of his life was just a one-night stand. He didn't even know her name… Until she shows up at the locker room two weeks later and he connects the dots.
Val King. Oh shit.
Coach has one hard and fast rule: Never, ever date (much less f*ck ten ways to Sunday) his daughter. And not only did Kyle break that rule, but he wants to break it over and over again. In the shower. Against a wall. On every flat surface in his home.
But the coach and his daughter share more than just DNA. Their issues run deep and fooling around with her could widen the family chasm.
And get Kyle benched for life.
So why can't he stop thinking about her? Flirting with her? Suggesting they date for real and damn the consequences?
Shadow of the Corsairs
The Past Casts a Shadow Over a Second Chance For Love….
Palermo, 1810
Morwena Gambino is struggling to keep her family's business going against mounting troubles. Her widowed father, once shrewd, is now increasingly forgetful, letting debts mount and disavowing his sons. Morwena runs the shop behind his back, forced to hide her enterprise not only from her father but also her bitter older brother.
In Tunisia, Tewodros "Jonathan" Afua is struggling to stay alive. Once an Ethiopian prince, he is a captive of the corsairs who slaughtered his wife and children. When a US naval bombardment provides an opening for escape, Jonathan falls in with a seemingly deranged English pirate. Aboard Kit Hardacre's rundown ship with its ragtag crew, Jonathan learns the real reason he was taken by slavers.
Reluctantly joining Hardacre's crew, he meets Morwena in Palermo. The fiery young Sicilian woman is the opposite of his quiet reserve, but he is attracted to her despite mourning for his late wife. As he and Morwena grow closer, it emerges that they have something in common – secret betrayal by those close to them – and they must count what they're willing to risk for a future together.
Dumped on the eve of her brother's wedding, schoolteacher Sophie Faraday throws caution to the wind and winds up in the arms of the sexy best man. It was meant to be a one–night fling, but an unexpected consequence means Sophie must face one of the hardest choices a woman ever has to make…
Older sister Beth finds life is tough enough juggling a mortgage, shift work and raising her ten–year–old daughter alone. When she meets Harry, the quiet gardener with a heart of gold, she's determined to place him firmly in the friend zone. How can she let herself love again, when the guilt she carries every day reminds her what love can cost?
Hannah, Beth's twin, has her own reasons for avoiding relationships. But when Irishman Declan walks into her veterinary clinic with an orphaned joey in his arms, she's seriously tempted. But isn't resisting the attraction the safest option? Especially when the secret she's held close for so long can only guarantee heartbreak…
Penelope Janu
A traumatic past, a charismatic stranger and a family legacy … Golden's quiet country life is about to get messy …
When the diminutive but fiery Golden Saunders falls from her horse and smashes her leg irreparably, and her racing family is disgraced by a corruption scandal, she thinks she's hit rock bottom.
Then the enigmatic Tor Amundsen, United Nations diplomat (read: spy), arrives on the scene and proves her wrong. His investigation into her family pulls her back into a world she had escaped, and the branch of the family she has tried to avoid at all costs. Tor is infuriated and frustrated by the impossible mixture of fragility and fierceness that is Golden, true, but he is also strangely protective of her.
Golden wants no part of it. Men have pushed her around her whole life. The last thing she needs is an arrogant, irritatingly handsome man telling her what to do. But it turns out Tor has a way with animals, children and, well, Golden…
Before too long, she finds their overwhelming attraction is overriding her good sense, and as they are both pulled deeper into the murky world of dirty money, things are about to get messy, and Golden's small, quietly ordered life will change beyond recognition…
Can Golden overcome her fears and the shadows of the past and reach for a new kind of future? Will she ever be able to get her life back on the right track?
The Greek's Virgin Captive
Three years ago, undercover journalist Eleanor Jones published a story that led to Apollo's father's fatal heart attack. So when the powerful and ruthless Greek billionaire discovers her working in his sister's palace, he knows she's up to no good! Not wiling to risk more harm befalling his family, he kidnaps Eleanor, spiriting her away to his isolated Greek island. White sand, turquoise ocean, and all the privacy in the world – now if only he can resist falling under Eleanor's spell twice!
Eleanor Jones had fallen hard for Apollo, which made it impossible for her to write the story she'd been commissioned to research. Rather than betray the man she loved, she quit her job as a junior reporter. Only her editor took her notes and used them to publish the article that would go on to define Eleanor's career. Apollo will never forgive her for her part in his father's death, but that doesn't mean he doesn't want her… Can the innocent Eleanor find a way around Apollo's shielded heart and remind him of what they once felt for one another?
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Jumpmasters validate skills for Operation Toy Drop
Chief Warrant Officer Mike Rich, a jumpmaster and the Command Chief Warrant Officer for U.S. Army Civil Affairs Psychological Operations Command (Airborne), stands up after jumping from a helicopter as part of the first jumpmaster validation exercise for Operation Toy Drop at Fort Bragg, N.C., Nov. 30, 2017. Established in 1998 by a USACAPOC(A) Soldier, Operation Toy Drop draws thousands of Soldiers each year with the opportunity to participate in a collective training and airborne operation conducted by U.S. and foreign jumpmasters.
Chief Warrant Officer Mike Rich, a jumpmaster and the Command Chief Warrant Officer for U.S. Army Civil Affairs Psychological Operations Command (Airborne), begins pulling in his parachute after jumping from a helicopter as part of the first jumpmaster validation exercise for Operation Toy Drop at Ft. Bragg, N.C., Nov. 30, 2017. Established in 1998 by a USACAPOC(A) Soldier, Operation Toy Drop draws thousands of Soldiers each year with the opportunity to participate in a collective training and airborne operation conducted by U.S. and foreign jumpmasters.
Chief Warrant Officer Mike Rich, a jumpmaster and the Command Chief Warrant Officer for U.S. Army Civil Affairs Psychological Operations Command (Airborne), packs up his parachute after jumping from a helicopter as part of the first jumpmaster validation exercise for Operation Toy Drop at Ft. Bragg, N.C., Nov. 30, 2017. Established in 1998 by a USACAPOC(A) Soldier, Operation Toy Drop draws thousands of Soldiers each year with the opportunity to participate in a collective training and airborne operation conducted by U.S. and foreign jumpmasters.
Columbian Marine Master Sgt. Fredrick Monroy, a jumpmaster, packs up his parachute after jumping from a helicopter as part of the first jumpmaster validation exercise for Operation Toy Drop at Ft. Bragg, N.C., Nov. 30, 2017. Established in 1998 by a .S. Army Civil Affairs Psychological Operations Command (Airborne) Soldier, Operation Toy Drop draws thousands of Soldiers each year with the opportunity to participate in a collective training and airborne operation conducted by U.S. and foreign jumpmasters.
NEWS | Dec. 1, 2017
By Staff Sgt. Michael Crawford 326th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment 
FORT BRAGG, N.C. – U.S. paratroopers conducted the first jumpmaster validation exercise in preparation for Operation Toy Drop with eight partner nations here Nov. 30, 2017.
"This is where all the jumpmasters, both foreign and American, are familiarizing themselves with the jump procedures," said Col. Robert Sentell, U.S. Army Civil Affairs Psychological Operations Command (Airborne) operations officer and airborne commander for Operation Toy Drop. "Prior to jumping, you have to do actions in the aircraft, which means … no matter if you're a jumpmaster or jumper, you have to run that crew through what happens in the aircraft."
Prior to jumping, jumpmasters gathered before sunrise to conduct jump rehearsals and jumpmaster inspections.
"That's going through and making sure, once each individual rigs up the parachute, they don't have any deficiencies and that they're safe to jump and ready to load the aircraft," said Master Sgt. Randall Austin, a jumpmaster with 3rd Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group. "Anytime anyone rigs up, a jumpmaster will always make sure they inspect the jumper … from head to toe, starting at the helmet working all the way down to the leg straps."
Established in 1998 by a USACAPOC(A) Soldier, Operation Toy Drop draws thousands of Soldiers each year with the opportunity to participate in a collective training and airborne operation conducted by U.S. and foreign jumpmasters.
"I've been jumping nonstop for 32 years, and this is the 20th anniversary of Operation Toy Drop. I've been doing [Toy Drop] the last seven years," said Chief Warrant Officer Mike Rich, a jumpmaster and the Command Chief Warrant Officer for USACAPOC(A). "We're training a lot of partner nations, so we want to make sure that everybody understands the procedures with all qualified jumpmaster personnel before we put the Joes in the aircraft."
Eight partner nations - The Netherlands, Poland, Latvia, Sweden, Canada, Columbia, Italy and Germany - joined U.S. paratroopers for this year's Operation Toy Drop.
"Every year we do Operation Toy Drop, and every year we work with different countries," said Austin. "I've been in the military for 21 years, so I've jumped with nine or 10 different countries. It's a chance for them to see how we jump, and then to go through the jump process with them, hear their commands and see how they do it. This jump we've got the Netherlands, Poland, Latvia, Sweden, Canada and Columbia. It's different every year."
Upon completion of Operation Toy Drop, participating paratroopers will receive foreign jump wings from jumpmasters of each of the partner nations.
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Elizabeth Maxwell
ELIZABETH MAXWELL is an accomplished actress and lifelong lover of genre films and all things geek. She received her BFA in Theater from Chapman University, and has gone on to play roles in mainstream entertainment (From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series, Criminal Minds, A Perfect Getaway, Lost Tapes), as well as in the indie film world (Little Woods, Virgin Cheerleaders in Chains, Tip Your Waitress, Star Trek Continues, Hard Reset 3D).
She is also a prolific voice actress with countless anime, video game, and cartoon credits, and has worked with such clients as Nintendo, Warner Bros., Rooster Teeth, FUNimation, Capcom, Atlus, Square Enix, and Bandai Namco. She has received numerous awards for her voice acting, and appears regularly at comic and anime conventions across the country.
When she's not behind a mic or camera, Elizabeth enjoys super hero training (aka stunt fighting and kickboxing), watching John Carpenter and Miyazaki movies, reading fantasy novels, and planning for the zombie apocalypse.
More info on IMDb (http://www.imdb.me/elizabethmaxwell) and www.aboutelizabethmaxwell.com, and keep in touch on Twitter (@AboutElizabethM) and Instagram (@elizabethmaxwell).


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Pagan Peak
Crime, Drama, Horror
When a gruesomely staged body is found near the German-Austrian border, two detectives, from opposite sides, are sent to investigate. Soon they discover more crime scenes, reminiscent of pagan rituals, which they believe are part of a sinister plan.
A gruesomely staged body is found on the Austro-German border. Police Inspector Gedeon Winter from Austria and Commissioner Ellie Stocker from Germany join the case and suspect this murder is merely the beginning of a larger scheme.
The Red Season
A German entrepreneur has been killed in Austria; evidence links this case to the first murder. Ellie and her Austrian counterpart Gedeon realise they are dealing with a highly intelligent and cold-blooded killer, who sees his victims as symbols.
The Man From the Forest
The investigators unearth the Krampus legend - a symbolic creature infamous for punishing the naughty and unworthy. This leads them to Sebastian Brunner, head of a rural sect, whose books on the end of civilization seem to have inspired the killer.
Ellie and Gedeon team up with cultist Brunner to set a trap for the killer. But, they have to overstep legal boundaries in order to get this plan to work. They fake a copycat murder, hoping their target would be lured into reaching out to Brunner.
The investigation takes its toll on Ellie and Gedeon, after they hit one dead end after another. However, when they dive into the case files of unsolved murders, they discover the Krampus Killer's connection to a strange slaying in Vienna.
From Flesh and Blood
In Salzburg, a fashion mall becomes a war zone after a deadly bombing which strikes fear in the general public. Politicians and the media demand immediate results from the police; the Krampus Killer makes it personal when he goes after Ellie.
A man wearing a Krampus mask is shot during a gunfight with the police and it appears as though he is the sought-after Krampus Killer. However, Gedeon suspects this is merely a copycat, a theory which the politicians and the press refuse to believe.
The Grab
In the Austrian region Steiermark, a decomposed female body is found buried in a box. Gedeon senses the Krampus Killer has struck again and he convinces Ellie to start an unofficial investigation with him. They discover new facts about the victim.


When the last golden rays of summer fade and the leaves gently fly in the wind, you know fall is here. This beautiful Autumn All Occasion Collection is loaded with lovely fall foliage with gold accents. Share the season of wonder and add a warm, personal touch for all of life's occasions.
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Personal imports to Israel. The planned reform.
Online shopping in Israel is growing in popularity. Whether you are ordering a bottle of nail varnish from Romania, a cover for your smartphone from China or an external hard-drive from the USA it's important to know the regulations. Local import duties (meches), VAT ( M'AM), shipping fees (dmei mishloach) and handling fees (dmei tipul) can be applied to your personal import to Israel.
Announced on 19 February, 2018 a reform to lift the value of personal imports to Israel, without having to pay import duty, is now being planned. The reform will allow imports to the value of $1,000 without having to pay import duty as opposed to the current $75.
M.K. (Member of the Knesset) Rachel Azaria was interviewed on 'Orly & Guy' - Channel 14 on 20th February, 2018 and according to her the reform is necessary. Thousands of parcels are never collected and remain in warehouses as import duties and clearance fees on certain items far out-way the value of the item originally purchased. One example is the local retail clothing industry has dropped by 18 percent as more and more Israelis order clothing online. Azaria mentioned that this type of limitation on personal imports does not exist in other countries like the USA and the EU and Israel should follow suite.
The Finance Committee met several weeks ago and accepted the decision, and now it has to be formally drafted and submitted to Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon.If Kahlon approves the recommendation, the recommendation will be passed to the Knesset Finance Committee for approval.
How much does an Aliyah shipment cost?
Any personal imports/purchases over $500 are subject to all taxes: customs, VAT at the current rate as well as Purchase tax.
Any item with a value of over US$1,000 will require the services of an import agent.
A customs clearance fee of approximately 35 shekels may be placed on items of up to US$75 if shipped with an international delivery service (UPS, Fedex, DHL etc.). If the value of the item is more than US$75 the clearance fee can be higher.
The purchase tax is based on the value of the item only and not on the cost of shipping. Therefore, for example, if a $100 dollar item costs $15 to ship, the purchase tax will be levied on $100.
If the item it is found to be taxable, however, applicable taxes will be calculated on the purchase price + the shipping price.
There is no room for a "kombina" (local slang for a way to work the system - a combination) here; don't think that you can order 3 different items every day to keep the value down. If you order more than one item from the same vendor within 72 hours the orders can be combined and the purchase tax will be based on the value of all 3 items.
If you have ordered an item that is to be shipped by an international delivery service, make sure that you have all your paperwork on hand as you may be asked to come down to the customs office to prove the value of the item you purchased. They Israeli customs are vigilant, so be warned if you are ordering electronic devices.


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Tag: "life expectancy"
Life Expectancy Drops First Time Since 1993
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a federal agency, has reported the remarkable news that U.S. life expectancy has dropped for the first time since 1993. According to Mortality in the United States, 2015 (NCHS Data Brief No. 267, December 2016):
Life expectancy for the U.S. population in 2015 was 78.8 years, a decrease of 0.1 year from 2014.
The age-adjusted death rate increased 1.2% from 724.6 deaths per 100,000 standard population in 2014 to 733.1 in 2015.
The 10 leading causes of death in 2015 remained the same as in 2014. Age-adjusted death rates increased for eight leading causes and decreased for one.
The one death rate which improved was for cancer. So, we are "winning" that war, at least relatively speaking.
The entire decrease was for life expectancy at birth. Life expectancy at age 65 was unchanged from the previous year. In other words, children and working-age people are bearing the burden of this decline.
Dec 30, 2016 | 8 comments | by John R. Graham
5 Myths about Cancer Care
In this month's Health Affairs, leading health economists Dana P. Goldman and Tomas Philipson challenge five myths about cancer care. To the right we have an infographic that explains them very clearly.
The most economically interesting one is the fourth. This appears to challenge the notion that we should be skeptical about paying high prices for therapies that might buy only a short time of good life. (In health-economics, we use terms like Quality-Adjusted Life Year [QALY] and Disability-Adjusted Life Expectancy [DALE].)
The classic approach to these calculations was illustrated by Professor Christopher Conover in a recent article:
…[M]ost of the gains were concentrated in the 35-64 age group, which narrows the plausible range of what the average gain in life expectancy might be. Someone who is 60-64 is 7.3 times as likely to die in a given year as someone age 35-39. The reason this matters is that there are reasonably well-accepted rules of thumb about the value of what's called a quality-adjusted life year (QALY).
Oct 10, 2014 | 4 comments | by John R. Graham
Liberals in a Funk Because Inequality Doesn't Seem to Matter
Lane Kenworthy, a sociologist at the University of Arizona…finds no meaningful impact of inequality on growth one way or the other. "Income inequality isn't the only thing that differed between these two periods," he said.
Similarly, Mr. Kenworthy found no significant relationship between increasing inequality and life expectancy, infant mortality or college graduation rates, among others. Even when some patterns do mesh — teenage pregnancy rates fell a little more slowly in countries where the share of income going to the top 1 percent grew fastest — the relationship is weak. If you take the United States and Britain off the list, the relationship disappears.
Source: Eduardo Porter, The New York Times.
Mar 27, 2014 | 15 comments | by John Goodman
Health Inequality (Hint: It Doesn't Have Very Much to Do With Medical Care)
Depending on where you live in Cook County, your prospects for reaching a ripe old age vary dramatically — from about 65 years in the poorest sections of Austin on Chicago's West Side to 85 or so in parts of neighboring Belmont Cragin. Living a longer, healthier life goes with owning your home, having a college education and earning a high income…
How long and how well you live have more to do with your ZIP code than with your DNA code — or your medical care. If you live in a neighborhood where the median household income is less than $25,000 a year, your life expectancy is about 14 years shorter than that of someone in a neighborhood where the median annual household income is more than $53,000…
We are co-chairs of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Commission to Build a Healthier America, which releases its report [today]…The commission's recommendations for improving our nation's health have little to do with the health care system. They highlight three priorities: expanding access to high-quality early childhood development services; revitalizing low-income neighborhoods; and broadening the mission of doctors, nurses and other health care providers to go beyond medical treatment and help address nonmedical factors affecting health.
Alice Rivlin and Mark McClellan in the Chicago Tribune.
Jan 13, 2014 | 19 comments | by John Goodman
The Last of Life, For Which the First Was Made?
This is from a NBER Working Paper by David Cutler, Kaushik Ghosh, and Mary Beth Landrum:
H ealth status in the year or two just prior to death has been relatively constant over time; in contrast, health measured three or more years before death has improved measurably…We show that disability-free life expectancy is increasing over time, while disabled life expectancy is falling. For a typical person aged 65, life expectancy increased by 0.7 years between 1992 and 2005. Disability-free life expectancy increased by 1.6 years; disabled life expectancy fell by 0.9 years. The reduction in disabled life expectancy and increase in disability-free life expectancy is true for both genders and for non-whites as well as whites. Hence, morbidity is being compressed into the period just before death.
HT: Timothy Taylor.
Dec 18, 2013 | 13 comments | by John Goodman
Does ho w fast you walk affect your life expectancy?
Scott Sumner: great piece on stock market crashes.
Why liberals are more rude to conservatives than vice versa.
Scott Sumner: Keynesianism does not imply support for big government.
Arnold Kling: Sumner may be right in theory, but he's wrong in practice — "nonideological" and "macroeconomics" are nearly oxymorons.
Oct 22, 2013 | 15 comments | by John Goodman
The Value of Greater Life Expectancy
Goldman and his colleagues estimate that delayed aging could increase life expectancy by an additional 2.2 years and generate more than $5 trillion in social value. When aging is delayed, say the authors, all fatal and disabling disease risks are also lowered. Although delayed aging would also greatly increase entitlement outlays, the researchers demonstrate that these costs can be managed through modest policy changes, such as indexing the eligibility ages for Social Security and Medicare.
Dana Goldman, David Cutler, etc., in Health Affairs.
More Evidence that Medical Care Improves Life?
A great deal of medical care is wasteful, we are told, because doctors do too much, patients want too much, and death comes anyway.
Yet, even if medical spending does not prolong life it may nevertheless do a lot to reduce the years that people spend disabled. Many people would consider money spent reducing disability money well spent.
Evidence for Significant Compression of Morbidity in the Elderly is a new NBER Working Paper by David M. Cutler, Kaushik Ghosh, and Mary Beth Landrum. Its authors report that although Americans over 65 have more diseases than they used to, disability "has been compressed into the period just before death." Their results show that although life expectancy increased .7 years (from 17.5 to 18.2) between 1992 and 2005, disability free life expectancy increased 1.6 years (from 8.8 to 10.4).
Throughout the sample period, they find that the prevalence of major disease in the elderly was relatively constant. About 80 percent of the elderly had at least one major condition in the year before death. Many suffered from more than one. Heart disease afflicted about 38 percent of the elderly 12 months before death. Cancer, Alzheimer's disease, pulmonary disease, heart attacks, and stroke each afflicted about 25 percent. Hip fracture rates afflicted about 9 percent, and Parkinson's rates about 4 percent.
The increase in disability free life expectancy occurred despite the fact that the prevalence of chronic disabling conditions like Alzheimer's and pulmonary disease increased. Though medicine may be able to alleviate the suffering of those with these conditions, the increase in disability free life expectancy may have resulted from progress in preventing heart disease, strokes, and hip fracture. The proportion of the elderly population affected by those acute conditions fell from about 40 percent of the population in 1991 to 30 percent in 2009.
The authors are agnostic about whether medical care has caused the improvement, noting that other unnamed "social and environmental factors" might be also be responsible for at least part of the trend.
Sep 27, 2013 | 15 comments | by Linda Gorman
Taking the Fun Out of Life
A recent Bloomberg article ranked the U.S. health care system 46 out of 48 in efficiency based in part on life expectancy statistics. But Matthew Yglesias at Slate explains that life expectancy is a poor measure of a health care system's performance:
If we raised the taxes on alcohol and gasoline and then spent all the revenue on a pointless bridge in Alaska, American life expectancy would go up. Not because our health care system would become more efficient, but because fewer people would die in car wrecks and murders. And as it happens, raising those taxes would be a good idea. Fewer people would die in car wrecks and murders!
Aug 30, 2013 | 17 comments | by Devon Herrick
Is Equality the Right Public Policy Goal?
A new Health Policy Brief from Health Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation examines research on health disparities in the United States:
Researchers Erika Cheng and David Kindig found that life expectancy varies from county to county by as much as ten years or more…
In [another] study, the country was divided into race-county units, and the researchers found that the life expectancy of one subgroup of black males, which the authors identified as high-risk urban black males, was more than 20 years shorter than Asian females' life expectancy.
The brief then asks:
What are the policy implications? The brief discusses what policies can be put in place to ameliorate preventable disparities…
But this runs counter to the normal approach that has dominated health policy research for some time, which is also the economic approach: That is to ask how many additional years of life are produced by spending a dollar on various policy alternatives. The economist's answer is: we should spend money on various programs until the extra years of life gained per dollar spent are the same across all policy options. When that happens, we are maximizing the years of life gained for a given budget. Alternatively we are minimizing the cost of the extra life expectancy we produce.
If we maximize years of life saved per dollar of expenditure, we may not get more equality. We may get more inequality. I think I can say with some confidence that we definitely would not get absolute equality.
Aug 20, 2013 | 12 comments | by John Goodman


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C Spire Wireless to expand 4G LTE service in Mississippi this summer
Carrier plans to deliver high-speed wireless data services in Mississippi with data speeds up to 10 times faster powered by an advanced fiber optics-based network infrastructure
Ridgeland, Miss. (May 24, 2013) – C Spire Wireless, the only U.S. provider that offers consumers and businesses a suite of personalized wireless services, announced plans today to expand its 4G LTE (Fourth Generation Long Term Evolution) high-speed mobile broadband services to nearly a half million consumer and business customers in Mississippi this year.
The company plans to continue the roll out of 4G LTE mobile broadband services beginning in August to new areas that cover 5,993 square miles, a population of 496,000 and 205 cell sites across the state. When completed in November, the new service will provide consumers and businesses in the state with wireless data speeds up to 10 times faster than currently available.
C Spire introduced 4G LTE services last year as part of a multi-million dollar investment to bring the next generation of high-speed wireless technology to consumers in 37 Mississippi markets covering 2,700 square miles, a population of 1.2 million and 388 cell sites. 4G LTE service will be available to nearly six out of every 10 consumers and businesses in the state when the latest phase is completed this year.
"4G LTE helps us deliver on our commitment to provide a personalized mobile broadband experience that gives consumers and businesses unmatched speed and reliability powered by an advanced fiber optics-based network infrastructure," said Kevin Hankins, COO for C Spire Wireless. "We will continue to lead the way with 4G LTE so that our customers have the wireless services that allow them to do what they want to do when they need to do it in more places that matter to them – powered by an infrastructure that moves at the speed of light."
Expansion planned for 71 cities and 51 counties in Mississippi covering a population of nearly a half million
Hankins said the company plans to continue the roll out of its 4G LTE mobile broadband services in the following new markets, many of which will be the first time consumers will have access to the high-speed technology:
East Mississippi: including cities of Forest, Morton, Newton and Scooba
North Mississippi: including cities of Grenada, Winona, Batesville, Courtland, Water Valley and Pope
Northeast Mississippi: including cities of Louisville, Kosciusko, Caledonia, Eupora, Fulton, Ackerman and Macon
Northwest Mississippi: including cities of Marks, Jonestown and Lambert
Central Mississippi: including cities of D'Lo, Florence, Magee, Mendenhall, Terry, Crystal Springs, Hazlehurst, Byram, Raymond and Port Gibson
Mississippi Delta: including cities of Indianola, Belzoni , Charleston, Jonestown, Lambert, Louise, Rolling Fork, Hollandale, Leland, Rosedale, Drew, Moorhead, Merigold, Mound Bayou, Shaw, Sunflower and Ruleville
South Mississippi: Lumberton, Waynesboro, Wiggins, Taylorsville, Soso, Beaumont, Bay Springs, Ellisville, Collins, Leaksville, Purvis, Prentiss, Picayune, Poplarville, Sumrall and Seminary
Mississippi Gulf Coast: including cities of Long Beach, Pass Christian, Waveland, Bay St. Louis and Diamondhead
Southwest Mississippi: including cities of Meadville, Summit and Tylertown
The company also plans to extend 4G LTE services in 21 cities and 6 counties in south Alabama and along the Florida panhandle by the end of the year.
Mississippi business leaders praised C Spire for its wireless technology infrastructure investment and the resulting benefits to consumers and businesses with high-speed data communication needs.
Tony Jeff, president and CEO of Innovate Mississippi, said the expanded deployment of 4G LTE services in the state will help both consumers and small businesses. "Wireless broadband can be one of the great equalizers for consumers and businesses – eliminating time and space restrictions and making it easier to compete and lower prices while increasing performance and productivity," Jeff said. "C Spire is helping make that a reality with technology investments that will ensure the long-term economic competitiveness of our state."
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Antigo�s Nevin Cornelius attempts a 3-pointer over Rhinelander�s Kirk Mathews during the second half of a Great Northern Conference boys� basketball game against Antigo at Sheldon Fieldhouse Friday, Jan. 10. (Bob Mainhardt for the River News)
Antigo edges Hodag Hoops 53-47
ANTIGO - The Rhinelander High School boys' basketball team struggled again Friday to put away a Great Northern Conference foe in the second half.
Nevin Cornelius scored a game-high 20 points, including a go-ahead 3 as Antigo inched away in the second half to defeat the Hodags 53-47 at Sheldon Fieldhouse.
Cornelius hit a triple with 10:54 remaining that sparked a 7-0 run that gave the Red Robins the lead for good and then hit another 3 to stretch Antigo's lead to five down the stretch.
Rhinelander has held second-half leads in all five of its GNC contests this season but fell to 2-3 and into fifth place in the league standings.
"They made some big shots and we missed some big shots. That's what it came down to," Hodag coach Derek Lemmens said. "We had a couple of lapses there where we tried to do a little too much defensively and it led to some wide open shots that they capitalized on."
Rhinelander (3-7) lost for the first this season when allowing few than 60 points, in part because Antigo (3-6, 2-2 Great Northern) went 14 of 19 from the foul line in the second half and in part because Cornelius and fellow senior Tanner Resch took over.
Antigo's two leading scorers combined for 25 points in the second half, and both nearly finished with double-doubles. Cornelius had nine rebounds to go along with his 20 points, while Resch had 16 points and 13 rebounds.
"That's frustrating, especially when that's one of the emphasis," Lemmens said. "With Resch, we didn't win the position battle. We're already down in the size battle and we didn't win the position battle. With Cornelius, there were times where, for whatever reason, we just didn't know where he was on the floor. We can't do that moving forward."
Though the Hodags committed only 12 turnovers in the game, they struggled to find a rhythm offensively against Antigo's 1-3-1 trap. Rhinelander was held to 37 shots attempts and made more 3-pointers (8) than 2s (7).
"I thought guys were standing a lot. We haven't faced a lot of 1-3-1, but we did have something we were expected to do and we didn't execute it very well," Lemmens said. "I thought we got decent reps in practice, but it's just something we'll just keep working on as the year goes on. We didn't have a great offensive rhythm. We had only three turnovers in the second half, but Antigo just disrupted what we wanted to do offensively and it led to us having trouble making shots."
Rhinelander led virtually the entire first half, and was ahead 18-10 with 5:59 remaining before the break, but Antigo closed the half on a 8-2 run to cut the lead to two.
Rhinelander and Antigo traded buckets early in the second half, with Antigo tying the game on four separate occasions before a Cornelius free throw put the Robins in front 26-25. Rhinelander answered with back-to-back buckets by Drake Martin, but Antigo went inside to the 6-3 Resch for back-to-back scores to give the Robins a 30-29 lead.
Ross Skeen hit a 3 to put Rhinelander up 32-29, but Cornelius answered from deep for the Robins, who never trailed the rest of the way. Rhinelander got to within one on a Jacksen Smith free throw with 6:20 left, but Elliott Orgeman answered with his only 3 of the game to put Antigo ahead 40-36.
Quinn Lamers finished with a team-high 15 points for Rhinelander including a 3 with 27.9 seconds remaining that cut Antigo's lead to 49-47, but Orgeman hit a pair of free throws on the other end and then Cornelius recorded a steal, and made two subsequent free throws after getting fouled with 9.4 seconds left to ice the game.
Skeen had 10 points while Martin and Peyton Erikson both had eight. Antigo held a 35-24 edge in rebounding in the contest.
Elsewhere in the GNC, Medford defeated Mosinee 68-53 to take command of the conference race at 5-0, 2 1/2 games ahead of a three-way tie for second between Antigo, Lakeland and Mosinee. The Hodags dropped to fifth, three games behind Medford and only a half game up on both Northland Pines and Tomahawk in sixth.
"This changes our goals a little bit but, at the end of the day, our goal is to get a little better every day," Lemmens said, looking at the conference picture. "We just have to keep doing that and, as the season comes to an end, we want to be playing our best basketball."
Rhinelander travels to Tomahawk this evening.


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Novice > Open Access in Slovenia
This page is a brief overview of open access situation, research environment and major initiatives in Slovenia for our foreign visitors. The rest of the site is in Slovene only.
Open Access Situation
The Government of the Republic of Slovenia adopted the National Strategy of Open Access to Scientific Publications and Research Data in Slovenia 2015-2020 in September 2015 (ROARMAP record) and the action plan in May 2017. Slovenian research performing organizations have not yet adopted the Open Access policies.
Mrs Petra Tramte from the Ministry of Education, Science and Sport was nominated as the National Point of Reference in accordance with the Commission Recommendation of 17. 7. 2012 on access to and preservation of scientific information. She also coordinates the activities of the working group on open access, nominated by the Minister.
Information on Open Access in Slovenian language is available through the national portal Open Access Slovenia. 52 Slovenian scientific journals are indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals. The electronic versions of all publicly co-financed Slovenian journals (138 titles) and final reports of research projects, financed by the Slovenian Research Agency, as well as doctoral dissertations must be deposited into the Digital Library of Slovenia. Many of the scientific journals use Open Journal Systems for managing the publication process. The country does not have a national portal for the Open Access journals or for the Open Access monographs.
The Open Science Slovenia portal was established that harvests metadata from Slovenian repositories and other archives for scientific publications and research data which enables joint display and federated search at the portal. Slovenian repositories for the research outcomes (Digital Library of the University of Maribor, Repository of the University of Ljubljana, Repository of the University of Primorska, Repository of the University of Nova Gorica, Digital Repository of the Research Organizations of Slovenia) enable collection, storage and making scientific publications available to the public. Repositories are compatible with the OpenAIRE Guidelines and are included into the OpenAIRE portal. Slovenia takes part in the OpenAIRE2020 project (the National Open Access Desk at the University of Ljubljana). Social Science Data Archives, a member of CESSDA, maintained by the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Ljubljana, is collecting research data from the social sciences research. CLARIN.SI is the Slovenian research infrastructure for language sources and technologies. SI-DIH DARIAH search engine enables search for research data in different repositories and archives of institutions and societies from the humanities and the arts.
Publications on Open Access in Slovenia or on Open Access by Slovenian authors
The National Research Environment
The organization of the Slovenian research environment is defined in the Research and Development Act, which also specifies how research and development policies are implemented and how research is funded from the government funds and other sources (European programmes and frameworks, local communities, and business enterprises). Research and development activities are carried out by the research performing institutions through programmes and projects, and by private researchers through projects. The Research and Development Act states that results of research and development activities, financed from the government funds, should be made publicly available with the only limitations being those set by the regulations on intellectual property, authors' rights and personal data.
The Resolution on Research and Innovation Strategy of Slovenia 2011-2020 determines Open Access to raw research data from publicly financed research and preparation of an action plan till the year 2014 as a basis for a national Open Research Data policy.
The Research Infrastructures Roadmap 2011-2020 envisages the international cooperation of Slovenia in ESS, DARIAH and CESSDA projects. National repositories for scientific publications and for raw research data are planned and are to be connected to the national Current Research Information System (SICRIS). Deposit of research publications and raw data is to be made mandatory when the infrastructure is established. Building of an open social sciences and humanities research infrastructure is also anticipated.
Research and development activities are carried out at approximately 400 research institutions. There are three public universities in Slovenia: the University of Ljubljana, the University of Maribor, and the University of Primorska. The largest among the private academic institutions is the University of Nova Gorica. The four universities form the Rectors' Conference of the Republic of Slovenia. The largest research institutes in Slovenia are the Jožef Stefan Institute, the Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, the National Institute of Chemistry, the Institute of Oncology, the Agricultural Institute of Slovenia, and the National Institute of Biology. The umbrella interest association of research institutes is KOsRIS (Coordination of Independent Research Institutions of Slovenia).
Data on Slovenian researchers, organisations, research groups, projects, and programmes are available via the Slovenian Current Research Information System SICRIS (personal bibliographies of researchers are also used for research evaluation).
More information on the national research environment is available at Research and Innovation Observatory (RIO) – Slovenia.
Major Research Funders
Major funders of research are the Slovenian Research Agency and the Ministry of Education, Science and Sport.
EC Research Funding
In 2014, Slovenia spent 2.39 % of its gross domestic product to finance research and development activities. In the same year the total funding for R &D expenditure from abroad amounted to 82.48 million EUR, out of this 38.19 million EUR from the European Commission.
Major Open Access Projects/Initiatives
Open Access Slovenia portal, Jožef Stefan Institute, Dr Luka Šušteršič
Open Science Slovenia portal, University of Maribor, Dr Milan Ojsteršek
OpenAIRE National Open Access Desk, University of Ljubljana, Dr Mojca Kotar
Open Data Project, University of Ljubljana, Dr Janez Štebe
COAR, EIFL-OA coordinator, National and University Library, Dr Alenka Kavčič-Ćolić


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ISS' Expedition 57 Crew Returns Home From 197-Day Mission in Space
Three astronauts have returned home after their extended mission in space, completing hundreds of experiments.
By Donovan Alexander
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At around 12:02 a.m.EST on Thursday, December 20th, three members from the International Space Station returned home safely after the team's long 197-day mission.
The mission included a host of experiments in a wide range of sciences in space's very unique and harsh environment.
Landing in Kazakhstan, the Expedition 57 crew had three astronauts return home, Sergey Prokopyev of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, Serena Auñón-Chancellor of NASA, and Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency.
In Case You Missed It: Earlier today, three @Space_Station crew members returned to Earth, safely landing at 12:02am ET. @AstroSerena, @Astro_Alex, and Sergey Prokopyev spent 197 days in space where they circled the globe 3,152 times. Learn more: https://t.co/P06YORg97P pic.twitter.com/IrxauwiW9N
— NASA (@NASA) December 20, 2018
Impressively, during their 197-day journey, the Expedition Commander circled the globe 3,152 times traveling well over 83 million miles.
As mentioned above, there were hundreds of different experiments that were conducted during the mission. These experiments included progress in biology, biotechnology, physical science, and even earth science.
New ISS Crew Safely Blast Off From Kazakhstan
Nevertheless, some of the most interesting experiments conducted during the mission include new potential treatment methods for cancer as well as the further investigation of algae growth in space.
The team also had the opportunity to test out the new Life Science Glovebox.
As stated by NASA, this research area "is a sealed work area that accommodates life science and technology investigations in a "workbench" type environment. Due to its larger size design, two crew members can work in the LSG simultaneously."
Welcome home! @AstroSerena, @Astro_Alex, and Sergey Prokopyev are back on Earth after a 197-day mission aboard the @Space_Station, landing at 12:02am EST in Kazakhstan. Check out the first photos from landing ? https://t.co/HPRs08iCmn pic.twitter.com/Ov5cAkS8Vv
— NASA HQ PHOTO (@nasahqphoto) December 20, 2018
Some other major milestones of the trip include Alexander Gerst's ESA record breaking 362 days in orbit before finally coming home, while this is the first flight for Auñón-Chancellor and Prokopyev.
To this date, more than 230 people from 18 countries have visited the International Space Station, completing well over 2,400 research projects from over 103 different countries.
The ISS is and will continue to be a home away from home for those looking to brave the great beyond of space.
Be sure to keep up with the latest space news here on Interesting Engineering.
This Photo of a Sunset from Space Will Make Your Day
Falcon 9 Launch Scrubbed Due to Landing Barge Malfunction
NASA and SpaceX Are Still Investigating the "Anomaly" That Led to the Crew Dragon Explosion
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Indian Space Organization to Launch 'Small' Space Station


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When you live a globally mobile life, your goals sometimes feel elusive. Often it seems like there are so many things you'd like to do, but every time you take a step forward – some unexpected circumstance pulls you back.
Goal Setting for Globetrotters will give you an entirely new way of thinking about your goals. By focusing on flexibility and by inviting you to turn towards deeper values so that you can reframe goals into priorities this course will help you get where want to be. You'll have the opportunity to rethink past assumptions, try a new approach, and give new life to the aspirations that have felt out of reach for far too long.
You're free to complete the course at the pace that suits you. For the best insight and growth, I recommend you allow yourself 1-2 weeks.
The program includes 5 instructional videos and 4 downloadable PDF worksheets including a fabulous use-it-forever set of self-coaching questions.
Because I know that a globally mobile life means new goals will pop up all the time – all of the content here is yours to use at your own pace, for as long as you like, again and again. In fact, I encourage you to make this goal-setting program your go-to resource for rethinking how you approach your goals no matter where life takes you.
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All of my program are created with the globally mobile in mind. However, anyone can benefit from taking a closer look at their goal setting. If the content sounds appealing to you - go for it! I think you'll love it even if you plan to stay in one place.


Have I mentioned that I'm now teaching at one studio in Center City, one studio out in the 'burbs, one high school in New Jersey and two different college campuses? Well, I am. And that doesn't even include rehearsals.
Which is why I have finally become one of those people who uses GPS for everything.
It's not that I don't know how to get to work, it's just that I can never remember which "work" I'm supposed to be getting to.
I'm constantly losing my car keys, and because I have three different dance bags (one for when I'm driving to work, one for when I'm taking the train to work and one for when I'm rehearsing) I'm never really sure where my tap shoes are, which is kind of stressful because the total combined cost of my tap shoes is over $800 and when I lose my car keys, I can't actually lock my car.
The Only Babyless Woman in the WORLD???
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This work discusses the complexity of Mikhail Bulgakov's novel The Master and Margarita. It investigates the challenges encountered when translating the novel into a different language as well as into a different medium. The first part of the thesis briefly examines the history of creation of the novel, as well as an overview of the most popular translations. Through comparative analysis of the original text with its English variants the thesis then demonstrates how Bulgakov's messages were communicated. The methodological framework is based on the works by Jean-Paul Vinay and Jean Darbelnet, Eugene Nida, Antoine Berman and others. Through close reading and its comparison to cinematic adaptation, the thesis analyzes how Bulgakov's messages were rendered into a different medium. Theoretical works by Patrice Pavis, Linda Hutcheon, Robert Stam and others serve as a foundation for this analysis and reveal the changes in approach towards adaptation.


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Madonna and her children
ReutersU.S. pop star Madonna and her daughter Lourdes arrive at the world premiere of "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" at Leicester Square, London, November 6, 2005.
ReutersMadonna and then-husband Guy Ritchie stand with their children Rocco and Lourdes as they attend the premiere of the film "Arthur and the Invisibles" in Leicester Square, London, Jan. 25, 2007.
ReutersMadonna carries her adopted son David at the Home of Hope orphanage in Mchinji village, Malawi, April 17, 2007. Malawi police and stone-throwing school students blocked journalists from covering the pop star's visit to the orphanage, where the boy was due to meet his biological father. At right is Madonna's daughter Lourdes.
ReutersMadonna and her daughter Lourdes walk at the compound of Home of Hope orphanage in Mchinji village, Malawi, April 17, 2007.
ReutersMadonna holds her adopted son, David Banda, at an orphan care center run by Raising Malawi, a grassroots initiative by Madonna, in Mphendula Village, Malawi, April 19, 2007. Madonna was at the center to hand over the keys to the orphanage.


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Q: SQL Frequency report with null values in columns I need help creating a frequency report for data that crosses multiple columns of data. Here's an example of my data:
[Sample Data Example]

And here's how I need for the data to read, except that I can't figure out how to get the frequency.
[Frequency Report]

There may be null values in a column in a particular row, but I still need that distinct row counted. I have all of the code working except how to get the frequency/count.
This is what I've tried, but all I get are 0s for the frequency.
select distinct TEST, PANEL, UNITS, LOINC, count(distinct TEST, PANEL, UNITS, LOINC) as FREQ
from DEV_HEALTHTERM.SOURCE.LAB
GROUP BY TEST, PANEL, UNITS, LOINC
ORDER BY FREQ DESC;

Can someone please help?
Thank you.
Robin

A: you should count columns that are not participating in the group by .in your case you can just use * :
select TEST, PANEL, UNITS, LOINC, count(*) as FREQ
from DEV_HEALTHTERM.SOURCE.LAB
GROUP BY TEST, PANEL, UNITS, LOINC
ORDER BY FREQ DESC;

also you don't need distinct , since you are groping by , It's redundant.

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hey guys. got a 04 ttr 225 here and alot of ticking in the head. went to adjust valves and intake checked out ok. exhaust on the other had is messed up. the little adjuster bolt thing with a square head wont thread in the rocker arm any more. it threads so far untill it just starts to stick out the bottom of the rocker then stops like it wont go any farther. almost like stripped or wrong bolt or something. very frustrating. it will run but with the most god awful head noise in the world!
You might take the nut to the hardware store and determine the thread size and pitch and then get a tap to clean out the threads. I have had to replace the valve adjusting screw in the past (on a TTR230). Don't really know how the threads could get that messed up.
ok. thank u very much for the reply. this is what i was ultimately what i was going to do but wanted to see if there was anything else first. been swamped with work so i apologize about delay. i will post results later on today.


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Lukácsian film theory and cinema
A study of Georg Lukács' writing on film 1913-1971
By Ian Aitken
BIC Category: Film and Media, Television, Radio, Electronic, holographic & video art, ART / Film & Video, The arts / Film, TV & radio, The arts / Film theory & criticism, Films, cinema
Lukácsian film theory and cinema explores Georg Lukács' writings on film. The Hungarian Marxist critic Georg Lukács is primarily known as a literary theorist, but he also wrote extensively on the cinema. These writings have remained little known in the English-speaking world because the great majority of them have never actually been translated into English - until now. Aitken has gathered together the most important essays and the translations appear here, often for the first time.
This book thus makes a decisive contribution to understandings of Lukács within the field of film studies, and, in doing so, also challenges many existing preconceptions concerning his theoretical position. For example, whilst Lukács' literary theory is well known for its repudiation of naturalism, in his writings on film Lukács appears to advance a theory and practice of film that can best be described as naturalist.
Lukácsian film theory and cinema is divided into two parts. In part one, Lukács' writings on film are explored, and placed within relevant historical and intellectual contexts, whilst part two consists of the essays themselves.
This book will be of considerable interest to scholars and students working within the fields of film studies, literary studies, intellectual history, media and cultural studies. It is also intended to be the final volume in a trilogy of works on cinematic realism, which includes the author's earlier European film theory and cinema (2001), and Realist film theory and cinema (2006).
"Aitken has done a brilliant job in articulating Luka´cs's contributions to film in Luka´csian Film Theory to the extent that I would deem it absolutely essential to read Aitken's contextualizing chapters alongside the pieces written by Luka´cs himself." (Richard Rushton, The Years Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, 22, April 2014)
'What makes Aitken's analysis peculiar is the seriousness and consistency with which he delves into Lukács' philosophical and political universe. He explicitly takes the time to unravel the philosophical framework through which the aesthetic notions are then analysed. The filmic medium is thus understood for itself, in its own terms, but also as embedded in a complex of conceptual relations exceeding it. Hence, his book not only gives a comprehensive insight into Lukács' original thinking and the way he correlates politics, philosophy, art and film, but also an illustration of the fruitfulness and the need of trespassing (while respecting at the same time) the intellectual division of labour in the analysis of specific art forms, particularly the filmic medium.'
Stefanie Baumann (IFILNOVA)
1.	The early aesthetic and 'Thoughts Towards an Aesthetic
for the Cinema' ('Gedanken zu einer Ästhetic des Kino')
2.	Narrate or Describe? Lukács' literary 'typology'
3.	Lukács' late aesthetic and film theory: The Specificity of the Aesthetic (Die Eigenart des Ästhetischen)
4.	The late writings on film, socialist humanism, and Toward the Ontology of Social Being (Zur Ontologie des gesellschaftslichen Seins)
5.	Lukácsian aesthetic and cinematic realism
6.	The Leopard (Il Gattopardo) (1963)
7.	Thoughts Towards an Aesthetic of the Cinema
8.	Film
9.	Blue Devil or Yellow Devil?
10.	Cultural Manipulation and the Role of Critics
11.	Film, Ideology and the Cult of Personality
12.	Technique, Content, and the Problem of Language
13.	The Expression of Thought in the Cinema
14	Revolution, and the Psychology of Everyday Life
Ian Aitken is Professor of Film Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University
Realist film theory and cinema
The documentary diaries
Alain Robbe-Grillet
The British monarchy on screen
Marcel Carné
Hispanic and Lusophone women filmmakers
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Airbender actually ended a few years ago and its sequel, The Legend of Korra, just wrapped up its first season. So, why am I talking about Airbender now? The complex answer is because the show is everything we love here at With An Accent: it uses media to educate, especially about other cultures, it's American but in many ways doesn't feel so, and it delves into settings and concepts not often examined on American TV, especially in kid's entertainment. In other words, it's super geeky.
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The show is set in a fantasy world, but one that's clearly Asian in culture (the way that many pseudo-medieval fantasies are in vague British/European settings). The world is divided into four great nations: Water, Earth, Fire, and Air. Some members of each nation are born with the ability to "bend," or control, the element of the culture to which they belong (one's chances of being a bender are greater if one's parents are benders, though two benders can produce a non-bender and vice versa).
Only one person in each generation can control all four elements: The Avatar. The primary purpose of the Avatar is to maintain balance in the world, to prevent any one nation from assuming too much power over the others.
The Avatar is born every generation into one nation and then reincarnated next into another, continually cycling through all four. Thus each Avatar tends to be the strongest in the element of his or her birth nation, but learns through time to master the other three elements as well. The Avatar is also connected to the spirit world, and when he or she traverses it can speak with incarnations of prior Avatars to gain their wisdom.
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Around the League
Osi Umenyiora sings new tune at Giants OTAs
Published: Jun 05, 2012 at 02:15 AM
Marc Sessler
We encountered a newOsi Umenyiora on Monday. With his long-running act as a disgruntled New York Giants defensive end in the books, Umenyiora has moved on to play the role of "delighted company man," happy with his refurbished contract and singing the praises of the team's front office.
Now that he's been paid, Umenyiora believes the Giants were correct to place him in the middle of the pecking order on their talented defensive line (not a full 180 from Osi, but close).
"If I was them I'd do the same thing," Umenyiora told the New York Post on Monday after wrapping his first OTA session of 2012. "I mean obviously you have (Justin) Tuck, who's the face of the franchise, and you have (Jason Pierre-Paul), who's a young phenom. Obviously I'm still a very good football player, but ... you can't pay us all that kind of money, there's just no way you can do that. All of us are All-Pro players. You can't pay us all like All-Pros. They had decisions to make and I completely respect them. If I had to pay two defensive ends top defensive end money, it would be JPP and Tuck."
A source told NFL Network's Albert Breer that Umenyiora is set to make $6.5 million in 2012, a deal he struck with the team after firing his agent. He's since mended that fence and plans to bring Tony Agnone back into the fold to help hammer out his next contract.
We doubt that will take place in New York. As we've mentioned, this is shaping up to be Umenyiora's final year with the Giants. We'll wait until 2013 to find out. For now, we can steer into the days of summer -- the first in some time -- minus daily updates on Umenyiora's unhappy soul. The man has been paid; it's time to go to work.
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