Furthermore, the Bible tells us that God gives us wisdom and hope; God gives peace; God gives strength; and God comforts those who mourn. Paul's letters have a pattern of beginning with a greeting followed by thanksgiving. He encourages the Thessalonian Christians, "Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you" (5: 16-18).
Ungratefulness is at the root of so many of our social evils while gratefulness opens our hearts and imaginations. Our capitalist market system makes virtues out of selfishness and consumption and this the source so many of our social problems. Learned dissatisfaction is a socially engineered engine that drives our economy.
Such dissatisfaction leads to distrust, broken relationships, ruthless competition, and war. It amplifies our stark social and political divides. It's connected to subtle social forces like hypermobility that undermine our neighborhoods and churches. It contributes to the kind of church shopping where we're continually looking for the latest worship experience or hip church that meets our desires.
 William Chafe, The Unfinished Journey: America Since World War II (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995), 71.
 Smith and Pattison, Slow Church (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2014), 180.


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Глобальное потепление оказывает на детей как прямое, так и косвенное влияние. Дети более уязвимы для воздействия глобального потепления на людей, чем взрослые. По оценкам Всемирной организации здравоохранения, 88 % существующего глобального бремени болезней связано с глобальным потеплением, затрагивающим детей в возрасте до 5 лет. В обзоре Lancet о здоровье и изменении климата дети относятся к категории наиболее пострадавших от изменения климата.

Дети физически более уязвимы для изменения климата во всех его формах. Изменение климата влияет на физическое здоровье ребёнка и его благополучие. Существующее экономическое неравенство между странами и внутри стран определяет, как изменение климата влияет на детей. Дети не имеют права голоса или внимания с точки зрения глобальных мер реагирования на изменение климата.

Люди, живущие в странах с низким уровнем дохода, страдают от более высокого бремени болезней и менее способны противостоять угрозам изменения климата.

Влияние изменения климата на детей

Дети страдают от разрушения домов, угроз продовольственной безопасности и потери средств к существованию семьи, что приводит к изменению климата. Воздействие на детей может усугубляться социальным и экономическим неравенством, вооруженными конфликтами и эпидемиями здравоохранения. Последствия изменения климата подразделяются на два основных аспекта: прямые или косвенные, мгновенные или отложенные. Воздействие на физическое здоровье ребёнка включает: смертельные исходы и травмы, тепловые заболевания, воздействие токсинов окружающей среды; инфекционные и другие заболевания, проявляющиеся при более высоких температурах.

Также наблюдается значительный рост проблем с психическим здоровьем и обучением, таких как посттравматическое стрессовое расстройство (ПТСР), депрессия и тревожность, нарушения сна, когнитивные дефициты и трудности в обучении. В этом примере о постпродовольственном периоде в Пакистане в 2010 году 73 % детей в возрасте от 10 до 19 лет демонстрировали высокий уровень посттравматического стрессового расстройства, что серьёзно повлияло на девочек-перемещенных лиц.

Среди других серьёзных случаев, которые были обнаружены, были страдание, горе и гнев; потеря личности; чувство беспомощности и безнадежности; более высокий уровень самоубийств; и рост агрессии и насилия.

Помимо физических воздействий, существуют факторы психологического и психического здоровья, которые угрожают благополучию ребёнка.

Здоровье и благополучие
Экстремальные явления, вызванные изменением климата, могут разрушить дома, школы, детские сады и другую важную инфраструктуру. Тайфун Хайан уничтожил целые города на островах Лейте и Самар на Филиппинах. Многие дети, пережившие тайфун Хайан, потеряли свои дома и имущество. В 2020 году тайфун Молаве вызвал наводнения и оползни, разрушившие дома, поставив под угрозу примерно 2,5 миллиона детей во Вьетнаме. В результате этого погибли 9 и было перемещено более миллиона человек во Вьетнаме и на Филиппинах.

Климатические явления нанесли серьёзный ущерб жизням и средствам к существованию. Тайфуны, штормовые нагоны и другие беспорядки привели к потере активов и капитала и снижению доходов семей фермеров, рыбаков, работников неформального сектора и владельцев малого бизнеса. Семьи с большим количеством детей более уязвимы для катастрофических личных расходов на здравоохранение. После того, как тайфун «Парма» обрушился на Филиппины, резко увеличился процент отсева учащихся из школ из-за потери семейных доходов. Детям, которые продолжали ходить в школу, иногда приходилось ходить в класс без денег, чтобы купить еду. В сельских районах были уничтожены поля, сады, пруды, посевы, рыбацкие лодки и сельскохозяйственное оборудование, а также пропал домашний скот, что отрицательно сказалось на продовольственной безопасности целых сообществ.

Воздействие на окружающую среду

Дети чувствительны к нехватке основных природных ресурсов, вызванной природными явлениями засухи и наводнений. Примечательно, что около 160 миллионов детей живут в регионах с чрезвычайно высокой засухой, и более 500 миллионов детей проживают в районах с чрезвычайно частыми наводнениями. Что касается природных явлений, стихийные бедствия приводят к перемещению семей и детей. Это перемещение происходит из-за экстремальных погодных явлений с повышенным риском ухудшения физического и психического здоровья.

По оценкам, на глобальном уровне дети переносят 88 % бремени болезней из-за изменения климата. Каждый ребёнок зависит от опекунов и в своем сообществе. Реальная угроза находится в неблагополучных районах, которые уже страдают от экологических проблем. Это приведет к различным заболеваниям, инвалидности, высокому уровню детской смертности. В 2013 году Межправительственная группа экспертов по изменению климата оценила, что глобальные температуры, вероятно, увеличатся до 4,8 ° C к 2100 году, если текущие выбросы продолжат расти. Постоянное воздействие загрязнителей воздуха влияет на массу тела при рождении, малый размер для гестационного возраста и на случаи преждевременных родов. Когда дети подвергаются большему воздействию загрязнения воздуха (O3, твердые частицы, SO2 и/или NO2), они, как правило, страдают астмой, что приводит к усилению окислительного стресса в дыхательных путях и воспалению дыхательных путей у детей с астмой. Загрязнение воздуха влияет на состояние ребёнка. Для этого, если мы подойдем к сравнению ребёнка, рождённого до закрытия расположенной угольной электростанции, после закрытия завода, имела значительно более низкие уровни аддуктов ПАУ-ДНК в пуповинной крови и более высокие уровни нейротрофического фактора головного мозга (BDNF), белок, необходимый для раннего развития мозга. В этом заключается риск.

Действия детей в связи с изменением климата

Школьная забастовка за климат

Школьная забастовка за климат (шведский: Skolstrejk för klimatet), также известная как «Пятницы ради будущего», «Молодежь за климат», «Климатическая забастовка» или «Молодежная забастовка за климат», — это международное движение школьников, которые пропускают занятия по пятницам, чтобы участвовать в демонстрациях, требовать от политических лидеров действий по предотвращению изменения климата и по переходу отрасли ископаемого топлива на возобновляемые источники энергии.

Публичность и широкая организованность начались после того, как в августе 2018 года шведская ученица Грета Тунберг устроила акцию протеста перед зданием шведского риксдага (парламента), держа табличку с надписью «Skolstrejk för klimatet» («Школьная забастовка за климат»).

Глобальная забастовка 15 марта 2019 года собрала более миллиона забастовщиков в 2200 забастовках, организованных в 125 странах. 24 мая 2019 года прошла вторая глобальная забастовка, в которой 1600 мероприятий в 150 странах собрали сотни тысяч протестующих. События были приурочены к выборам в Европейский парламент в 2019 году.
Глобальная неделя будущего 2019 года представляла собой серию из 4500 забастовок в более чем 150 странах, сосредоточенных примерно в пятницу 20 сентября и в пятницу 27 сентября. Забастовки 20 сентября, вероятно, крупнейшие в мировой истории, собрали около 4 миллионов протестующих, многие из которых были школьниками, в том числе 1,4 миллиона в Германии. 27 сентября около двух миллионов человек приняли участие в демонстрациях по всему миру, в том числе более миллиона протестующих в Италии и несколько сотен тысяч протестующих в Канаде.

Судебный иск
Джулиана против Соединенных Штатов была отклонена в 2020 году на том основании, что истцы не имели права подавать иски, но новое дело было возбуждено по более узким причинам. В деле «Дуарте Агостиньо и другие против Португалии и других», возбужденном детьми и молодыми людьми, Европейский суд по правам человека попросил 33 государства ответить к маю 2021 года с информацией о том, как они пытаются ограничить изменение климата.

Участие детей в изменении климата
Решение проблем, связанных с изменением климата, имеет решающее значение, особенно когда речь идет о его воздействии на детей. Для этого решающее значение имеет решение проблемы с помощью образовательного и художественного подхода и вовлечение родителей в процесс.

Важно включить вопросы изменения климата в учебную программу. Как только дети узнают о существовании и безотлагательности глобальных экологических проблем вокруг них, они становятся более осведомленными и заинтересованными в улучшении состояния окружающей среды в мире.

Искусство помогает детям в разных аспектах развития. Поощряя осмысленное самовыражение в отношении любых идей, изменения климата здесь, им предлагают средство для выработки устойчивых решений по отношению к своему сообществу и всему миру. Отмечается, что при установлении прочных отношений между детьми и их родителями на восприятие последними проблем могут повлиять усилия их ребёнка. Чем больше дети будут рассказывать о проблемах изменения климата, тем лучше они будут осведомлены об этом. Таким образом, развитие этого дружеского коммуникативного отношения положительно влияет на восприятие и действия родителей в дальнейшем.

Решение проблемы изменения климата для детей
Ребёнок является уязвимой личностью по отношению к любой проблеме, изменение климата — одна из основных растущих проблем для детей. Чтобы уменьшить влияние изменения климата на благополучие ребёнка, рекомендуется напоминать им, что они не одни сталкиваются с этой проблемой, разделять свои переживания и беспокойства и превращать негативные эмоции в позитивные.

Глобальные инициативы
Был начат ряд глобальных инициатив и проектов, направленных на решение проблем, связанных с воздействием изменения климата на детей.

Молодые активисты по изменению климата

Необходимо поддерживать и пропагандировать молодёжный активизм, чтобы уменьшить воздействие глобального изменения климата на детей. Наиболее известные из молодёжных активистов:

 Мари Копени
 Сье Бастида
 Отем Пельтье
 Сютескатль Мартинес
 Лесейн Мутункей
 Элла и Кейтлин МакЭван
 Леах Намугерва
 Ридхима Пандей
 Исра Хирси

Примечания

Изменение климата и общество
Дети

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Paint me 'Warts and All'
The saying 'Warts and all' comes from the time in 1653 when Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell was painted 'as he was/the whole thing; not concealing the less attractive parts'.
The portrait of Oliver Cromwell by Peter Lely.
Oliver Cromwell (1599 – 1658) served as Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland from 1653 until his death. This was following the English Civil War (1642-49) in which the Parliamentarians defeated the Royalists led by King Charles I, with Charles eventually being executed.
When in 1653, Cromwell sat for his portrait by Dutch artist Peter Lely, it was common for portraits to flatter the subject by softening or removing any blemishes (like early photoshopping). Lely's painting style was, as was usual at the time, intended to flatter the sitter. Royalty in particular expected portraits to show them in the best possible light.
But for Cromwell, there was no better way to distance himself from the vanity and self-indulgence of the monarchy than by having his likeness as accurate as possible. Cromwell did have a preference for being portrayed as a gentleman of military bearing, as a 'puritan Roundhead' rather than a 'dashing Cavalier'.
When Lely (who had also been the portrait painter to King Charles I), was brought before Cromwell, therefore, he was supposedly told by Cromwell:
"I desire you would use all your skill to paint your picture truly like me… but remark all these roughness, pimples, warts and everything as you see me. Otherwise, I will never pay a farthing for it."
Lely did just as he was told.
Peter Lily self-portrait.
Following the restoration of the monarchy in 1660, Lely was appointed as Charles II's 'Principal Painter in Ordinary'.
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The Iron Guerrillas
After losing his father to the Neminian Imperium, Ecelio and his mother joined the rebel army called the Iron Guerrillas. This group intends to take back their country from the violent Imperium zealots who are ruled by a ruthless and mystical dictator known only as Khaj. Guided by the former commander, Hallace, the Iron Guerrillas uncover a technological marvel of their country's making. With the help of this device, along with the small northern Kingdom of Ailasea, the guerrilla resistance plan to liberate their people. But as with every rebellion, not all goes according to plan. The ruthless Imperium pursue the rebels relentlessly and scheme to put a stop to them forever.
From the imaginative mind of debut author Dustin K. Lowe, The Iron Guerrillas is a military steampunk adventure that is both gritty and alluring that will have readers glued to the pages.
Ecelio
The Impulsive Hero
After the death of his father, Ecelio's mother sought the protection of the underground resistance known as the Iron Guerrillas. Under the direction of their leader, Hallace, Ecelio was training to become a soldier. His drive to avenge his father against the Neminian Imperium gets him into impulsive and heedless danger. Although being only 17, Ecelio strives to live up to Hallace and to prove himself capable of one day leading the resistance.
Hallace
The Resilient Leader
Hallace was a skilled commander in the Adorith military branch. Subsequently, following the destruction of Imenthia and the government, Hallace and a handful of soldiers retreated to the old abandoned sewer system underground. They banded together to raid and weaken the occupying Imperium forces. They were not a force to be underestimated. The Iron Guerrillas were considered saviors and became a beacon of hope for the citizens of Adorith.
Gov. Gaius Paul
The Determined Governor
After the successful takeover of the Adorith capital city of Imenthia, Khaj named Gaius Paul as the presiding governor of the occupied region. With the might of the Imperium's military, Gaius staged countless campaigns against the rest of the country. However, he was still no match for the Iron Guerrillas that have countlessly caused havoc on his army. He eventually put together an anti-rebel task force whose members were hand-picked for their ruthless tactics and ability to wipe out the rebels once and for all.
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% init - Initialize the simulation
%   This includes: (i) loading the configuration file, (ii) enabling the
%   matlabpool, (iii) checking the prerequisites for every algorithm, (iv)
%   initializing the partitions, (v) running the required methods for the
%   custom features.
%
% See also: AdditionalFeature

% License to use and modify this code is granted freely without warranty to all, as long as the original author is
% referenced and attributed as such. The original author maintains the right to be solely associated with this work.
%
% Programmed and Copyright by Simone Scardapane:
% simone.scardapane@uniroma1.it

function obj = init(obj)

    % Initialization
    fprintf('Initializing simulation...\n');

    % Clear all singleton objects
    SimulationLogger.getInstance().clear();
    PerformanceEvaluator.getInstance().clear();
    tasks = Tasks.getAllTasks();
    for i = 1:length(tasks)
        tasks{i}.clear();
    end

    % Load the the user-defined configuration
    defaultConfig = fullfile(XmlConfiguration.getRoot(), 'config.m');
    if(exist(defaultConfig, 'file') == 2)
        fprintf('Loading default configuration file...\n');
        obj.configFile = defaultConfig;
        config;
    else
        obj.askForConfigurationFile();
    end

    % Execute custom features
    for i = 1:length(obj.additionalFeatures)
        obj.additionalFeatures{i}.executeBeforeInitialization();
    end

    % Preallocate cell arrays for performance measures and training times
    log = SimulationLogger.getInstance();
    obj.performanceMeasures = cell(length(obj.datasets), length(obj.algorithms));
    obj.trainingTimes = cell(length(obj.datasets), length(obj.algorithms));

    % Check prerequisites of every algorithm
    fprintf('Checking prerequisites...\n');
    for i = 1:length(obj.algorithms)
        o = obj.algorithms.get(i);
        b = o.checkForPrerequisites();
        if(~b)
            error('Lynx:Runtime:MissingLibrary', 'A required library or toolbox is missing');
        end
    end

    % Check the compatibility of the algorithms with the datasets
    obj = obj.check_compatibility();

    % Compute shuffles and partitions for each run
    for j=1:length(obj.datasets)
        obj.datasets = obj.datasets.set(j, obj.datasets.get(j).generateShuffles(obj.nRuns));
        if(log.flags.semisupervised)
            obj.datasets = obj.datasets.set(j, obj.datasets.get(j).generateNPartitions(obj.nRuns, obj.partition_strategy, obj.ss_partition));
        else
            obj.datasets = obj.datasets.set(j, obj.datasets.get(j).generateNPartitions(obj.nRuns, obj.partition_strategy));
        end
    end

    % Reset the MATLAB pool and reopen if needed
    ParallelHelper.close_pool();
    if(log.flags.parallelized)
        ParallelHelper.open_pool();
    end

    % In the parallelized mode, output on the console is forbidden
    if(log.flags.parallelized)
        log.flags.debug = false;

        % Hack for parallelization
        % Fill the data structures with the requested configuration
        s = SimulationLogger.getInstance();
        sim = Simulation.getInstance();
        p = PerformanceEvaluator.getInstance();
        parfor i=1:ParallelHelper.get_pool_size()
            init_worker(s, @()SimulationLogger.getInstance());
            init_worker(sim, @()Simulation.getInstance());
            init_worker(p, @()PerformanceEvaluator.getInstance());
        end
    end

    % Execute custom features
    for i = 1:length(obj.additionalFeatures)
        obj.additionalFeatures{i}.executeAfterInitialization();
    end

    % Print the details of the simulation
    obj.printBeforeSimulation();

end

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Dan Cruickshank's Written in Stone
4 x '30 - BBC TWO NI (2013)
In this series expert Dan Cruickshank takes us on a personal journey to explore various aspects of Ulster's architectural history.
The series will feature four themed episodes, Forts and Castles, Country Life, Sacred Spaces, and City of Industry. In each episode Dan will examine how a particular style and form of building evolved through the influence of invasion, wealth, religion, and industry.
Episode 1- Forts and Castles
In the opening episode of a new series Dan Cruickshank examines how invasion and conflict shaped the landscape of Ulster up until the end of the 17th century.
Episode 2 - Country Houses
Dan Cruickshank explores the rise of the country house in 18th century Ulster.
Episode 3 - Sacred Spaces
Dan Cruickshank explores how the history of Ulster has shaped our religious build.
Episode 4 - City of Industry
Dan Cruickshank examines how Belfast's development as an industrial city in the 19th century shaped its buildings.


O.K., folks, the weekend is over and I am done through looking at birds for a while. Now, BACK TO WORK! For there are scores to settle before I sleep.
Said to be good for the ol' remembery. Because our once and future mayor has grown a tad forgetful. A few weeks back we did a point/counterpoint on the printed page (Blaska v. Soglin) prescribing our Rx for the criminally induced deterioration of certain neighborhoods on the southwest side of Madison. I cited former N.Y. City Police Chief Wm. Bratton's "police first" prescription for reducing crime.
Having been thoroughly trounced by your genial tour guide's superior command of facts and reason, the once and future mayor subsequently pulled the race card from the bottom of the deck. (Always the calling card of a true scoundrel.) An intense police presence on the streets and sidewalks is nothing more than "racial profiling" he pandered.
And now here comes Hiz-ex-honor to write an update in his blog that he never did accuse your genial tour guide of racial profiling and that it was a Scrooge-like rancid piece of meat that caused me to ever think such a dark thought.
Pity poor Dave Blaska. He needs help. … There is nothing in my post about racial profiling. Nothing. Nada. Zero. Zilch. Zip. Goose eggs.
Richard Nixon did the same thing a different way: "While some may call Paul Soglin a liar, I never would."
But Paul has introduced a clever variation, which goes something like, "Referring to one of Soglin's critics, David Blaska, a firm opponent of child abuse, he wrote..."
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I have no need to pile on when someone is down. If for no other reason, I like Mayor Dave Cieslewicz for his creative thinking. Prog Dane, by contrast, is all about turning Monona Terrace into a giant soup kitchen. But c'mon, Bill Clingan for economic and community development director? The man is Progressive Dane. The man is Madison Teachers Inc. The man is a Bill Keys wannabe. The man was one and out on the School Board. The man has no cred with the business community. Worse, he was supported by the afternoon Progressive Dane newspaper. That's Michael kissing Fredo.
Tom Still and Mark Bugher, both of whom I know quite well, do not rile easily. That both would quit the Economic Development Commission when its first choice was spurned was a long overdue sign that Madison's business community is taking its calcium supplements. If there is a criticism for Mark, especially, it is that he had been too willing to serve as the mayor's fig leaf before the business community. Lets face it, Mayor Dave needs Mark Bugher more than Mark Bugher needs Dave Cieslewicz.
Submit Bugher and Still's nominee for the post to the Common Council and quit trying to court the Hard Left.
And keep the original idea of developing community and economy. For that matter, hire Mark Bugher, assuming he will take a pay cut. And give him his head just as you have Police Chief Noble Wray. In the latter's case, you may have had no choice. But successful mayors should emulate Ed Sullivan: find the talent, then let them succeed.
It's awfully hard to please the taxpayers when so many of them continue to elect fools like the Lasees, Gard, Huebsch and company, who feel that state government should be defunded to the point that it can be drowned in the bathtub.
It is a balanced budget that embodies the values of the people of this great state and keeps Wisconsin moving forward.
What you seem to be advocating borders on a police state, where the smallest infractions meet with imprisonment, and where imprisonment is not used for rehabilitation but rather just to let 'em rot.
You mean a police state like Cuba? Where free speech is brutally punished? Then how is it that are you still roaming free, or does Dane County's pokey now support WiFi?
Emily, they are rotting in place where they are and they are rotting the place where they are: our neighborhoods.


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Florida police fail to stop teen before murderous stabbing attack
religion | Mar 14, 2018 | By Martin Barillas
Corey Johnson, 17, stands charged with first-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder following a confession that he unleashed an assault at a home at the BallenIsles Country Club in Florida. Johnson had already been under investigation by the FBI, Palm Beach School District Police, and the Jupiter police department for "alleged violent tendencies." According to the Palm Beach Post, law enforcement had received "intelligence gathering" on Johnson that prompted the initial investigation.
It was after reading the Koran and watching videos calling him to wage Muslim warfare against infidels that Johnson stabbed a 13-year-old boy to death and seriously injured two others at a birthday slumber party on Monday. According to police, Johnson said that on Monday he woke at 4 a.m. and felt an urge at Kyle Bancroft's home to kill kyle's mother, Elaine Simon, Kyle's brother, Dane Bancroft (13), and friend Jovanni Sierra (13). All three were sleeping at the time. An affidavit stated, "In his statement, Johnson advised he stabbed the victims because of his Muslim faith."
On the evening before the attack, Johnson and Kyle Bancroft watched violent jihadist videos. Later, Johnson used a knife he had brought to the residence to stab Sierra multiple times before ultimately slitting the victim's throat. The affidavit stated, "In his statement, Johnson advised he stabbed the victims because of his Muslim faith."
Jovanni Sierra Brand was stabbed to death Monday morning in Palm Beach Gardens staying over at a friend's house. His 13th birthday was Monday. They celebrated Sunday. Here's a video of the celebration. @WPTV pic.twitter.com/NG2SMjDCwj
— Andrew Lofholm (@AndrewLofholm) March 14, 2018
When the mother, Elaine Simon, heard the boy Jovanni Sierra's moans, she walked upstairs at about 6 a.m. It was then that Johnson allegedly lunged at her, stabbing her about a dozen times until she fell down the stairs. Dane Bancroft was stabbed 32 times when he tried to defend his mother, according to media reports. "He's a hero," the boy's father said during an interview with the Palm Beach Post. "He saved his mom."
While Sierra was pronounced dead at the scene, Elaine Simon and Dane Bancroft were hospitalized. Simon was in good condition as of Tuesday. Kyle Bancroft was not harmed in the incident.
Simon ran to a neighbor's house to call 911. A neighbor said that Simon reported that Johnson had a knife and was a "murderer." By 8 a.m., Johnson was arrested after briefly holing up in his room.
Police say 17-year-old suspect Corey Johnson stabbed a mother 12 times, then her son 30+ times as he tried to save her at a home in Palm Beach Gardens. Second juvenile, Giovanni Brand, died of stab wounds. https://t.co/uVDRan75Tf pic.twitter.com/hHOqZiRSed
— WPEC CBS12 News (@CBS12) March 13, 2018
In an effort to explain his behavior, Johnson told law enforcement that he was angry with Jovanni Sierra for calling celebrities "gods", explaining that this is contrary to Islam. He also claimed that Dane Bancroft ridiculed Islam. According to an affidavit, Johnson told police that he consulted the Koran before going to the slumber party in order "to give him courage to carry out his intentions."
Before the attack, the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office had already received information that Johnson had contacted the terrorist ISIS organization online while saying he wanted to join. In response, law enforcement authorities probed Johnson's behavior by tracking his movements and his use of social media. They also interviewed his family. He was also under investigation for various threats that caused the October 2016 evacuation of a school in the United Kingdom. Charges had already been planned against Johnson for the threats against the British school before the attack on Monday.
Johnson was a student at William T. Dwyer High School in Palm Beach Gardens, but had recently withdrawn.
Birthday pizza party held for Jovanni Sierra on March 11
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Hemiechinus auritus megalotis és una subespècie d'eriçó orellut originària de l'Afganistan i l'oest del Pakistan. Es caracteritza per la seva gran mida i tonalitat rogenca.

Amb una llargada de 23-28 cm i un pes de 700-900 grams, H. a. megalotis té més o menys la mateixa mida que l'eriçó comú. Com que viu principalment en zones muntanyoses, les temperatures més baixes probablement feren que evolucionés i esdevingués més gran que altres subespècies d'eriçó orellut. També hiberna durant uns sis mesos. Una altra adaptació són les seves urpes llargues i fer forats, que l'ajuden a escalar.

Caça insectes, serps i escorpins, però també li agraden els melons, les síndries i les baies.

Eriçons


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George Washington Contributions
"It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it." ("George Washington"). "I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country." ("George Washington"). These two quotes come from a very important man in the history of the United States of America. George Washington's ways and actions were crucial to us today and the American Revolution back then. George Washington was born on February 22nd in the year 1732. He was born in the colony of Virginia ("Biography"). His father Augustine Washington had passed away right after George had turned eleven. George's mom Mary Ball Washington, was a an only child. She was the second wife of Augustine and they had four boys including George and two girls, Mildred and Jane. When George was only six years old when his family moved to a farm called the Ferry Farm. Upon the eighty acres on the farm, George was an explorer and he was very curious. Since George's father had passed away when he was only eleven years old he did not get an education like all of his oldest brothers did due to the fact of his dad passing away. Therefore, he only had the education of an elementary school. Although he did get taught by special tutors and he was very well skilled in mathematics. Besides
Through the many obstacles, America has experienced; George Washington helped this free country become united and created by the people for the people. We know and call him by the title of the Founding Father of the United States. In three important ways, Washington helped shape the beginning of our evolving civilization. For instance, he commanded the Continental Army that won American Independence from Great Britain, known as the Revolutionary War. He was also nominated the president the U.S. Constitutional
Contributions Of George Washington
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Perennial, decumbent-spreading, rooting at lower nodes, to 1 m or more long, glabrous or sparsely pilose, the nodes not villous. Sheaths much shorter than internodes, glabrous to pilose or papillose-pilose, especially on margins; ligules thin, ca 1 mm long; blades lanceolate to obovate, acuminate, rounded and +/- clasping and asymmetrical at base, 5-12 cm long, mostly 5-15 mm wide, scaberulous, finely cross-veined downward. Inflorescences with 2 or more branches from terminal node of stem, the longest panicle 15-26 cm long and 4-5 cm wide, beginning to branch ca 11 cm from base; axillary nodes of stems producing inflorescences; spikelets 3-3.5 mm long, glabrous or sparsely pilose or hirsute; first glume acuminate, one-half to two-thirds as long as spikelet, scabrous on keel; second glume and sterile lemma acuminate, subequal; sterile lemma long-ciliate. Fruits ca 2 mm long, oblong-elliptic, the scars extending downward into very narrow wings. Croat 4228, 7893.


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Тагульская белоглазка () — вид воробьиных птиц из семейства белоглазковых. Подвидов не выделяют.

Таксономия
Иногда эту птицу считают разновидностью Zosterops minor.

Распространение
Эндемик острова Ванатинаи (Тагула), принадлежащего Папуа — Новой Гвинеи.

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Длина тела 10,5 см. Верх головы и верхняя сторона тела оливково-зелёные. Широкое белое глазное кольцо разорвано спереди, где имеется чёрное пятно. Зад и подхвостье оливково-жёлтые, грудка белая. Клюв чёрный, с сине-голубым основанием. Ноги грифельно-синие или грифельно-коричневые. Самец и самка похожи, молодые особи не описаны.

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Эндемики Папуа — Новой Гвинеи
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IRS combats fraud with advanced data analytics
The Internal Revenue Service deals with billions of dollars in identity theft tax refund fraud every year. Anomaly detection powered by advanced analytics is helping to combat it.
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) estimates that criminals attempted at least $14 billion in identity theft tax refund fraud in 2015, and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) paid out at least $2.24 billion on that amount. To combat this fraud and protect taxpayers, the IRS has turned to advanced analytics.
The IRS began developing the Return Review Program (RRP) in 2009 to replace a system that was no longer capable of keeping pace with the increasing levels and sophistication of fraud that the service faced, as well as the service's evolving compliance needs.
"Our Return Review Program is the service's primary system for detecting identity theft and pre-refund fraud in the tax system," says Michael Cockrell, director of data delivery services for IRS IT Applications Development. "Think of RRP as an engine that sits within the tax processing pipeline, scanning for potential identity theft and fraud."
The scale of data the IRS deals with is enormous. It collected nearly $3.5 trillion in gross taxes in fiscal 2018 and issued more than 122 million refunds, amounting to nearly $464 billion. According to the IRS, tax noncompliance, including refund fraud, threatens the integrity of the tax system and increases the tax burden on honest citizens. Identity theft and tax refund fraud techniques have become increasingly sophisticated over the years, requiring the service to develop an advanced response to ensure tax refunds are protected from fraudsters.
RRP, which has earned the IRS a CIO 100 Award in IT Excellence, uses predictive fraud and non-compliance detection techniques and models that seek out subtle data patterns to determine the reliability of return data, including a filer's identity. Past and current taxpayer returns, as well as data from businesses, partnerships, non-profits, government employers, estates, trusts, and whistleblowers, are analyzed to assign scores to returns that involve refunds, based on characteristics of identity theft and other refund fraud.
"As taxpayers submit their returns, whether it's electronic or paper, all of that will get fed through the tax processing pipeline, and RRP looks at all these returns and specifically those that have a refund. So, we load all this return data, but we run our analytics against those returns that have a refund and we flag those things that come out as either identity theft or potential fraud," Cockrell says.
Cockrell adds that RRP uses clustering, sometimes referred to as linked return analysis, to look at returns over time, seeking elements that might be shared and thereby indicate that something connects one fraudulent return to others. That enables the service to pinpoint whether a fraudulent return is a single instance or linked to something bigger.
"Fraudsters have access to more and more taxpayer data. In an electronic world, they can pretty much mimic a taxpayer. Things that we used to think were sensitive, that only we knew about, that isn't the case. They have access to those data through breaches that have happened over time and through data from other sources," Cockrell explains.
The IRS gets agile
Because fraudsters have so many ways of getting the real data of taxpayers in order to mimic them, and because the schemes they employ are getting ever more sophisticated, Cockrell's team relies on business partners in the service's Wage and Investment Division, Criminal Investigation Division, and Research, Applied Analytics, and Statistics Division to analyze data that's been captured over time and identify new schemes. These partners helped Cockrell's team identify the breadth of business and technical requirements. The team also leveraged external experts from industry partners to help define the capabilities, system requirements, and architecture necessary to ensure RRP could continue to adjust to evolving threats and scale to meet the increased processing demands during the tax filing season.
"The fraudsters are becoming more and more sophisticated and are trying more and more things," says Linda Gilpin, associate CIO of the IRS IT Enterprise Program Management Office. "One of the key challenges is staying ahead of them and not letting them win, in the sense of coming up with sophisticated schemes that we can't catch. We have to be on top of that. And that constant evolution is one of the key challenges that make this program so valuable."
To get there, Cockrell says the service, which has always prided itself on its ability to plan for and execute big, multi-year releases, had to learn to focus on smaller increments of well-defined features and capabilities — an agile approach. It adopted an agile development approach two years ago, which required it to change how it plans software updates and to train staff and business customers in the new approach.
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Using RRP, the IRS says it has been able to better protect federal revenues and the tax refunds of millions of Americans. A GAO report estimates that RRP prevented the issuance of more than $6.51 billion in invalid refunds between January 2015 and November 2017. As a result, RRP has become a key component of the service's modernization efforts.
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I tried to post this to the 40m topic but it would not let me. Anyway here are my results with 40yard dash, flying 30, 6 step long jump, and 4 step mid mark.
From observing other pole vaulters the most accurate thing that determines jump height potential is mid mark. Here are the results I have noticed for different 4 step mids.
When kate almond jumped 13ft she hit a 35 mid, When Cristine silva jumped 12'9 she hit a 34 mid, when Annie Burlingham hit 34'6 she jumped 12'8. When Chelsea johnson jumped between 15' and 15'6 she hit around 37'6, when Mike acceta jumped 15'6 he hit 37'6, When mike Ortega jumped 14'1 he hit 35 mid, and when I jumped 17'8 I hit a 41 mid. These are all people I observed at cuesta. I have several examples of people for all of these mids and when they hit around these marks they jump around these height's, even when there overstriding as long as they take off. This is just what I have observed and I think dj has exsperinced the same thing with the 6 step mid. This leads me to belive that the most important thing is how fast you accelerate into your last 3 strides.
Good stuff. I can't help but question from an objective standpoint- how do we quantify "over striding?"
We all know what it looks like, but is it a lower COG, a significant CHANGE in COG, stride length, cadence, etc?
Although overstriding may increase your mid, it does not lead to a positive acceleration, and so would not lead to higher jump hieght. Instead, a farther mid point is an effect of being a better runner and/or being in the right place at take off.
"Rather, become a better sprinter through both force production AND form, and this inevitably leads to an acceleration." Spot on. The important thing is to be running correctly into take off. I have never challenged the mid mark theory because I have never used it in the manner suggested - but it does not matter where your mid is if you are running poorly and cant control the pole. There are far more variables operating to create a good performance than simply hitting the mid.
There was a classic example of this at the clinic in Boone last year where a very talented young lady was hitting her mid but running like a duck - fortunately both she and her coach were prepared to accept the feedback they were given and proceeded to make changes. There is little doubt - because I have seen the video of her jumping - that this helped produce a great result this year.


If I had a dollar for every time someone asked me, "So, you like running?" I would have enough money to buy every color of my favorite pair of running shoes.
To be honest, there is no simple answer to that question. So most of the time I just laugh and nod my head. Actually, it depends on the day. There are days when I come back from a run feeling so completely satisfied with myself. I might've had a great talk with my running partner or just felt good for no apparent reason. I might've hit some fast times or went longer than I ever have before.
And then there are days when I wonder why I ever started to begin with and certainly question why I continue to put myself through such pain.
There are plenty of both days; ones where another mile is no big deal and ones where every step is a struggle.
So why do I do it? Because running is not a hobby for me. It's my life. I don't just run when I feel like it, or when I'm trying to reach a goal. I run to clear my head, to prove to myself that I'm stronger than I think I am, and to push the limits of what I think I can take. I run to learn about myself and to encourage others.
Running is so much a part of me that I plan my day around it, can tell what day of the week it is based on what kind of workout I had that day, and can tell you if I'm having a good day or a bad one based on how I felt when I finished that last mile. Running in the summer can make me question my choice in sport, and stepping into the freezing cold of winter to get the miles in usually makes me question my sanity.
But even when it's difficult, and I want to give up, I can't. I'm addicted. Missing a day makes me feel guilty, and going farther sometimes makes me reach a runner's high. Yes, it's a real thing. And it's awesome.
So if you've ever asked someone if they "like" running, or why they do it, understand that it's a love/hate relationship. And I promise, the hate is worth finding out you love it.


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Anthony Hopkins: 'I'm happy I'm an alcoholic. It's a great gift'
Alcoholism and ambition fuelled the actor's rise
Mon, May 28, 2018, 09:04
Miranda Sawyer
Anthony Hopkins is joined by a star-studded cast in the BBC's adaptation of William Shakespeare's King Lear. Video: BBC
Anthony Hopkins: 'Work has kept me going. Work has given me my energy.' Photograph: Vera Anderson/WireImage
For anyone who looks toward their later years with trepidation, Sir Anthony Hopkins ("Tony, please") is a proper tonic. He is 79, and happier than he has ever been.
This is due to a mixture of things: his relationship with his wife of 15 years, Stella, who has encouraged him to keep fit, and to branch out into painting and classical composition; the calming of his inner fire, of which more later; and his work.
Hopkins loves to work. Much of his self-esteem and vigour comes from acting – "Oh, yes, work has kept me going. Work has given me my energy" – and he is in no way contemplating slowing down. You can feel a quicksilver energy about him, a restlessness. Every so often, I think he's going to stop the interview and take flight, but actually he's enjoying himself and keeps saying, "Ask me more! This is great!"
We meet in Rome, where he is making a Netflix film about the relationship between the last pope (Benedict) and the current one (Francis). Hopkins is playing Benedict, Jonathan Pryce is Francis.
He is enjoying this – "We're filming in the Sistine Chapel tomorrow!" – and we are both relishing the lovely view across the city from the penthouse suite in the hotel where he's staying. Still, he declares that the film we are here to talk about, the BBC's King Lear, filmed in England and directed by Richard Eyre, is the piece of work that has made him truly happy.
"I felt, 'Yes, I can do this.' I can do this sort of work. I didn't walk away. And it's so invigorating, because I know I can do it, and I've got my sense of humour, my humility, and nothing's been destroyed."
He's played the part before, at the National Theatre in 1986, with David Hare directing. "I was… " – he counts in his head "… 48," he says. "Ridiculous. I didn't realise I was too young. I had no concept of how to do it. I was floundering."
Now, he feels he's got Lear right, and few would disagree. In a star-studded cast – Emma Thompson plays Goneril; Emily Watson, Regan; Jim Broadbent, Gloucester; Jim Carter, Kent; Andrew Scott, Edgar – it's Hopkins who dominates. He is fantastic: his white hair close-cropped, his manner like a heavy-headed bull, a scary tyrant losing his powers, a drinker who flips into terrifying rage.
Hopkins's theory is that Lear's wife died giving birth to Cordelia, and Lear brought her up, his favourite, as a tomboy. Of the older two daughters, Watson said, "and I agree with her, that they have become monsters, because he made them so".
Hopkins believes that Lear is terrified of women, can't understand them. Hence the awful specificity of the curses he rains on his older daughters, damning their wombs. He seeks refuge in men, surrounding himself with a boisterous male army. The scenes where Lear wants to bring his retinue to Regan's house are reminiscent of an awful, all-boys-together drink-fest.
"I come from a generation where men were men," Hopkins says. "There's nothing soft or touchy-feely about any of us, where we were from in Wales. There's a negative side to that, because we're not very good at receiving love or giving it. We don't understand it. After Richard Burton died, his brother Graham invited me to the Dorchester where they were all having a get-together, the wives and the men, all the sisters and brothers. All pissed. And I noticed the women were sipping their ports and brandy, but all the men were, 'Come on, drink! Drink!' I thought, 'There's something very Greek about this.' Men together. You know, like the bouzouki dancers. It's not homosexuality, but it is a sexuality, a kind of bonding. That's what I was thinking of."
Hopkins often uses his past to find his way into a character. Small incidents that stick in his mind, real people who inform. In the scene with Kent, Edgar and the Fool, as Lear descends into madness, he has all three line up on a bench and addresses them with the wrong names. Hopkins decided that Lear had seen his father drown three puppies when he was young and believed his friends to be those dogs.
"Cruelty to an animal stays with you for the rest of your life," he says. "I once witnessed something like that, but I can't think of it too much, it's too upsetting. But that little kernel of an event doesn't go. It grows with you." When he portrays deliberately scary people – such as Hannibal Lecter or Robert Ford in the Westworld series – he plays them quietly, emphasising their sinister control. His Lear, though, is explosive. "He's completely bonkers – he laughs at the storm. That's what I like about him."
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In the film, Hopkins uses a horseshoe as his crown. He asked a friend, Drew Dalton, a props guy on Westworld who is also an Idaho farmer, to get it for him, and he told him it was from an old horse, born in 1925. When Hopkins talks about this horse, he gets a little teary. "I carry the horseshoe with me wherever I go now. I still get emotional about it – the power, and the loneliness, and the pain of that horse. That's Lear."
Stella Arroyave and Anthony Hopkins
Tears come easily to him, especially when he talks about hard work, old age, masculinity. His father, Dick, was a baker, a tough, practical man, born of another baker. But, Hopkins says, as he got older, small things would upset him, "like if he made a mistake in his car and drove off a ramp instead of getting it just right, he'd break down crying. Towards the end of his life, he used to drink, and he was unpredictable. Never violent, but sudden turns of rage, and then deep depressions. Turned on my mother, turned on me. I was old enough, so it didn't bother me. We didn't speak much before he died. He resented me for something. I understood it, I could get it, and I thought, 'What a terrible, lonely horror, for people at the end of their lives.'"
It's easy to see how he drew on this for Lear. Hopkins has a daughter, too, Abigail, from his first marriage, but they don't have a relationship, so there was no inspiration there. "No. I accepted it years ago. It's her choice and she must live her life. I say to young people, 'If your parents are giving you trouble, move out.' You've got to let go. You don't have to kill your parents, but just leave if it's holding you back."
Lear came out of another BBC film, an adaptation of Ronald Harwood's The Dresser, also directed by Eyre and broadcast in 2015. Hopkins was the ageing, belligerent actor Sir, who is preparing to play Lear; Ian McKellen was Norman, his dresser. Hopkins had wanted to do the play since picking up a copy in a bookshop in Los Angeles, where he lives: "It opened the valves of nostalgia."
When he first became involved in the theatre, in the late 1950s, Hopkins was a stage manager, touring northern towns, meeting "old, wrecked, alcoholic, wonderful" vaudeville comedians who'd worked during the war, talking to stage hands who knew the technique of dropping the curtain for comedy (fast) and tragedy (very slow). Then he joined the National in the time of Olivier and Gielgud. He was impatient for success. "Oh," he says, "I had non-speaking parts, messengers and God knows what, and I was very disgruntled, because I wanted to be bigger. So I went to the casting director and said, 'Who do you have to sleep with to get a part around here?' I'd only been there three weeks!"
The casting director was taken aback, but mentioned him to Olivier, who gave him a part as an IRA man in Juno And The Paycock. Hopkins knows now that his hubris was ludicrous, but he was anxious to get to the action, and still is. "I think, with life, just get on with it, you know?" he says. "We're all going to die, and that's a great motivator."
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At the National, he met the actors Ernest Milton, Donald Wolfit and Paul Scofield, and he drew on these memories to play Sir (Harwood had been Wolfit's dresser). He surprised himself by how much he enjoyed making The Dresser. It was a sort of revelation. "When I was at the National all those years ago, I knew I had something in me," he says, "but I didn't have the discipline. I had a Welsh temperament and didn't have that 'fitting in' mechanism.
"Derek Jacobi, who is wonderful, had it, but I didn't. I would fight, I would rebel. I thought, 'Well, I don't belong here.' And for almost 50 years afterwards, I felt that edge of, 'I don't belong anywhere, I'm a loner.' I don't have any friends who are actors at all. But in The Dresser, when Ian [McKellen] responded, it was wonderful. We got on so well and I suddenly felt at home, as though that lack of belonging was all in my imagination, all in my vanity."
He's always called himself a loner – "alone, loner, solitary", he says to me – and in past interviews his outsiderdom has become almost his headline characteristic. But he and McKellen bonded, regaling each other with old stories instead of rehearsing. Having felt, for all those years, unwanted by the establishment, the establishment was making him welcome. He also realised that he wanted to do Lear for real.
Not on stage, though. Despite his nostalgia, Hopkins hates the theatre. In 1973, he walked out of Macbeth mid-run at the National and moved to LA. The last stage play he was in was M Butterfly, in the West End in 1989. It was a torment, he says, the tipping point being a matinee where nobody laughed, "not a titter". When the lights came up, the cast realised the entire audience was Japanese. "Oh God," he recalls. "You'd go to your dressingroom and someone would pop their head round the door and say, 'Coffee? Tea?' And I'd think, 'An open razor, please.'"
He can't stand being unproductive, working without a point; it drives him mad. David Hare once told Hopkins he'd never met anyone as angry: "And this was when I was off the booze!" He gave up drinking in 1975. For a while, he tried to quieten down his personality ("I was ever so careful"), but his mother told him it wasn't working. "She said, 'Why don't you just be the bastard that you really are?' She said, 'I know what you're like, you're a monster.' I said, 'Yes.' She said, 'Well, okay then, be a monster.'
"But the anger, you begin to channel it," he says. "I'm very happy I'm an alcoholic – it's a great gift, because wherever I go, the abyss follows me. It's a volcanic anger you have, and it's fuel. Rocket fuel. But of course it can rip you to pieces and kill you. So, gradually, over the years, I have learned not to be a people-pleaser. I don't have a temper any more. I get impatient, but I try not to judge. I try to live and let live. I don't get into arguments, I don't offer opinions, and I think if you do that, then the anger finally begins to transform into drive."
Now, if he's not acting, he paints, or plays the piano. He released an album of classical compositions, Composer, performed by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in 2011, which was well-received. "Hopkins writes with considerable flair and confidence," said one critic, while Amazon gives it four stars. He began painting at the behest of Stella, who saw how he decorates his scripts. He goes over his lines around 250 times, until he can recite them backwards, sideways, in his sleep. Every time he reads them, he draws a doodle on his script, and the doodles, which start as small crosses, grow enormously large, covering all the blank space. Stella saw this and got him to paint "favours", little presents for their wedding guests.
"She said, 'Well, if they don't work, no one's going to put you in jail,'" he says. And nobody did, because his paintings are pretty fine; they sell for thousands of dollars. He shows me some on his phone. They're expressionist, full of bright colours – "South American colours: Stella is Colombian" – and he's working towards a show next year in St Petersburg, which he's very excited about.
"Ask me more questions!" he says. He doesn't want to waste time sitting around while the photographer sets up. We talk animals. He and Stella collect stray cats and dogs. We talk politics. He doesn't care about Trump; he doesn't vote. He takes a widescreen approach to politics, because focusing on the detail makes him too unhappy.
"I don't vote because I don't trust anyone. We've never got it right, human beings. We are all a mess, and we're very early in our evolution. Look back throughout history: you have the 20th century, the murder of 100 million people, barely 80 years ago. The 1914-18 war, the civil war in America, slaughter, bloodshed… I don't know if there's a design in it, but it is extraordinary to look at it and get a perspective. I think, 'Well, if it's the end, there's nothing we can do about it, and it'll blow over, whatever happens.'"
He remembers talking to his father on the phone during the Cuban missile crisis ("and I was a raving Marxist then") and his father remarking that the bomb would be dropped on London, so Hopkins would be all right, "because the bomb will drop on you, so you won't know much about it. But in Wales, we'll suffer the fallout." His dad also once said to him, about Hitler and the second World War, "Six years later, he was dead in a bunker. So much for the Third Reich", which makes me laugh.
Now he avoids news and politics, for his peace of mind. "In America, they're obsessed with healthy food," he says. "They tell you, if you eat junk food, you get fat and you die. Well, television is run by money and corporate power and sponsorship. It's junk food for the brain. Toxic." If he's not busy, he orders books online and sends them to friends – Wake Up And Live! by Dorothea Brande, The Life-Changing Magic Of Not Giving A F**k by Sarah Knight – or watches old films and TV on his iPad. He was obsessed with Breaking Bad, and wrote a lovely letter to Bryan Cranston extolling his acting; now, he likes watching Midsomer Murders, The Persuaders and Rosemary & Thyme.
We talk a bit about the #MeToo movement . Hopkins says, about Harvey Weinstein, "I did know about the person you are referring to, about his sexual stuff. I know he is a rude man and a tyrant. But I avoided him, I didn't want anything to do with people like that. Bullies."
And actually, despite his desire to live and let live, Hopkins often calls bullies out: when John Dexter, the director of M Butterfly, started shouting at everyone in the cast, Hopkins told him to stop.
"I said, 'John, you don't need to do this. You're a great director. Stop it.' And he cried. I mean, I understand if people are bullies. They've got their problems. I can't judge them, I won't make fun of them at awards. It's correct for women to stand up for themselves, because it's unacceptable. But I don't have a desire to dance on anyone's grave."
He understands that we can all be terrible, and we can all be kind. Fame and power have nothing to do with it. I tell Hopkins something the singer Tony Bennett once said – "Life teaches you how to live it if you live long enough" – and he is delighted. "How extraordinary. What an amazing thing to say! You know, I meet young people, and they want to act and they want to be famous, and I tell them, when you get to the top of the tree, there's nothing up there. Most of this is nonsense, most of this is a lie. Accept life as it is. Just be grateful to be alive."
He shows me a picture on his phone. It's of him aged three, with his dad on a beach near Aberavon. His dad is grinning. Hopkins is a cherubic child, with golden curls, caught somewhere between laughing and crying. "I was upset because I'd dropped a cough sweet." He keeps it because it reminds him of how far he's come.
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"Chekhov for Children" Film and Discussion: NYC, October 21
October 5, 2010 in Students
When I was in fifth grade, I was part of something truly bizarre — a totally serious elementary school production of Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya.
The play is a melancholic 19th century Russian drama about middle age, inappropriate infatuations, and the sacrifices and disappointments of aging. Because it was the seventies, writer Phillip Lopate decided that this would be a perfect project for a mixed-race group of urban public school kids to take on. And so we did, and it was weirdly amazing. (I played Vanya, the 47-year-old title character.)
One of the other kids who was involved with the play is now a documentary filmmaker, and she's made a movie about the whole thing. (Trailer here.)
It's called Chekhov for Children and it's having its New York City premiere at Lincoln Center on the evening of Thursday, October 21. I'll be participating in a panel discussion after the screening.
I haven't seen the film yet, but it's getting great press — the folks at the Telluride Film Festival called it "a moving, honest exploration of the nature of childhood, a loving paean to the Upper West Side of the late '70s, and a celebration of the joyous possibilities of arts education" that "transcends simple nostalgia to explore deeper, more complex emotional terrain."
If you make it to the event, be sure to flag me down and say hi.
Update | I'll be discussing the movie with filmmaker Sasha Waters Freyer and writer Phillip Lopate on the Leonard Lopate show on WNYC radio at 12:40 pm on Monday, October 18 — the show starts at noon, and we're scheduled to go on the air at about 12:40 pm.
If you're in the New York area tune in (to AM 820 or 93.9 FM) then. If not, you can listen — and find out more — online.
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Q: Is there a RPM Spec section executed before file dependency check? I'm trying to build an RPM that will install file dependencies if they don't exist. Is there an RPM Spec Section that will be executed before the RPM checks for dependencies. (I'm refering to file dependencies not package dependencies listed in the "Requires" header).
Example:
If I have a perl file and the execution permissions bit is set. RPM will check to see if perl is installed in the location the "#!/bin/perl" specifies in the perl file. (It looks like it checks the RPM database to see if perl is installed in that location instead of checking the actual file location) If perl is not installed in the /bin/perl location I want to install it before the RPM will error out telling me "/bin/perl is needed by [MY_PACKAGE]"
Side Question:
Since the file dependency checks the RPM database is there a way to update the installed locations? i.e. If my perl script specifies "#!/usr/local/bin/perl" but my RPM database has perl located in "/usr/bin/perl" how do I update the RPM datbase? Symbolically linking "/usr/local/bin/perl" manually won't work becuase it doesn't updated the RPM database. The RPM installer will still say "/usr/local/bin/perl is needed by [MY_PACKAGE]"

A: One of the design guidelines for RPM specs is that they should not print error messages or in any way interact with the user. You don't know if they will be installed manually or via yum/GUI.
You can specify dependencies on files just like dependencies on file packages, make sure you start the filename with /. If you print out the dependency lists for your RPMs you'll see some .so libraries listed there this way.
If you are using Perl, the best way would be to include perl as your requirement in the spec and rely on it's normal location for the distro, i.e. /usr/bin/perl.

A: I think you're trying to use the wrong tool for the job. The job of rpm is to install the packages it's told to install, not to go and look for other packages. Pulling in dependencies is the job of higher-level tools such as apt, urpmi or yum.
For the example you give, if your package requires /usr/local/bin/perl, then some other package must provide /usr/local/bin/perl. That could be a package that contains a symlink from /usr/local/bin/perl to /usr/bin/perl and declares a dependency on /usr/bin/perl (I don't know how that lets you require a minimum version of /usr/local/bin/perl though).

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