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By RJ Snell, April 9, 2010 in Editors' Picks, Pedagogy and Teaching, What is Education?
In one of his many brilliant essays, "The Alma Mater and the Necktie," Philippe Beneton suggests that the loss of the necktie (or equivalent) in the academic context indicates "equality by default" and neglects a sense of the seriousness and importance of the activity.
What does it matter what is worn to teach? From a standpoint of utility one can wear just about anything (and with online education maybe not even that) with little or no consequence to the performance of the task. So why is this relevant? We all know you buy a suit for the job interviews and never wear it again, right? In fact, we keep it in the same closet as the pipe we bought during our sophomore year to express our academic credentials.
Forms, Beneton states, reveal distinctions "among activities, times, ways of being," and in ordered work one does not dress "in the same way for a ceremony as for a picnic"; the tie-wearing professor who refuses to "consider everything as equivalent . . . is saying that this activity is worth a certain seriousness."
Since the task of teaching is not reducible to data transmission but includes teaching "attitudes of the intellect," respect for dress goes along with the forms that "make up the habitus required for intellectual life." If one respects the humanistic understanding of knowledge, which is not simply knowledge transfer, one wears a tie, he states.
I'm especially intrigued by his claim that the in world of equality by default "virtues, customs, and forms recede in favor of methods, rules, and procedures." An interesting statement: the "uniform" of academic regalia or even just the necktie doesn't depersonalize nearly as much as wearing whatever one wishes—if dress is one's own business, "an expression of the Self," "autonomous," one might expect this to express one's own personality, but doing so reveals a tryranny of method and procedures which govern the transmission of data and the institution rather than the customs and vritues which encourage and allow the encounter of persons in a relationship of a certain form. The form allows the persons to act as persons, the formless allows Selves to operate within a technique (the pajama-clad online instructor as evidence?).
I wonder if I can ask my Dean for a clothing budget? It is, apparently, for the good of the student.
As one of the few in my field who still likes to "tie one on," I really appreciate your thoughts, RJ. My only question: why do you not have a tie in your profile photo?
Let's just say that the photo was before my tie-conversion. Although I did note the irony as I posted this.
Proper attire is not only a sign of taking the activity seriously but it is also a sign of respect to oneself, one�s students, and to the profession itself. One of the strange things I have noticed in academia is that it is usually administrators (and a handful of faculty) who will wear suits to work. Although it is questionable whether they do more good than harm, administrators at least believe what they are doing is serious and therefore their work demands they approach it with dignity and respect.
Very good point. I would add that a suit is too formal, while a lovely three-button blazer, with matching tie and pocket square, is just right. Also, if you dandy it up a bit, you can get away with making all sorts of outrageous statements to provoke your students.
I'm going to sound a dissent, here. The "shabby genteel" which genuflects to a dressy norm while also reflecting honestly the lack of wealth orientation and rejection of conspicuous consumption culture which ought to be part and parcel of a vocation in the liberal arts is worth noting. I'm not at all saying that my tie-wearing colleagues are traitors to our kind, but I would strongly suggest that when academics start dressing like bureaucratic stuffed shirts or IBM salesmen, we will make it harder to reject being treated like them--and harder to distance our students from their cultural dominance.
Obviously, if you're in a B-school training IBM salesmen, then by all means look the part. And expect me to look like someone dedicated to critiquing your culture.
I agree with the last comment that one shouldn't dress like an IBM salesman. But I didn't think RJ was making that point, and that's why I also added my point about dandyism.
The tie is part of an ensemble. A nice jacket, slacks (not khakis), and, above all, a shirt with a real collar (not those button down collars that looks like one is wearing a rice paper roll around one's neck).
For details, I recommend a that wonderful work of style and political philosophy, The Suit by Nicholas Antongiovanni.
A fascinating response! I'm using Beneton to reject "equality by default" by adhering to form and manner. Beneton claims ""virtues, customs, and forms recede in favor of methods, rules, and procedures" under the tyranny of equality by default.
I wonder if in his rejection of the business school and "wealth orientation" the commentator above would agree with Beneton (or at least my use) that much of what is wrong with that world is precisely a loss of custom and form to the forces of method and procedure. If so, we have a way forward.
Does the bureaucrat/administrator dress to respect and mark social custom and humane patterns of meaning and time, or to cover an absence or loss of social custom with a patina officiousness and impersonal objectivity? Such method requires that one is de-individualized and fits into the objective method and/or procedure.
I suspect we agree that we wish to resist such culture, yes. But is the de-personalized excess of the bureaucratic cover best resisted with a robust affection for social form and manner of civitas (the necktie), or with a kind of formless "populism" (shabbiness)?
In other words, isn't this the very reason we ought to celebrate the continued existence of tweed?
I absolutely despise ties, and jackets too. They didn't make me a better teacher when I worked at a community college, and they don't make me a better lawyer now. They are uncomfortable, nonfunctional, and a waste of money. I'm a vegan, recycling, non-gun-toting, agnostic conservative, so I suppose my sartorial tastes are just one more anamoly in my life.
I didn't claim that a tie would aid one's utility, as if wearing a tie made one a more efficacious teacher or lawyer, but rather that the social form matters to moral habituation. That's something rather different.
I agree that the social form matters, and reject the argument from some of my male colleagues at the community college where I teach that we adhere to egalitarian principles in the academic setting by dressing more like our students to avoid portraying an elitist difference, thereby further distancing ourselves from them and even risking offending those students whose dress is constrained by financial limitations.
I have experimented with form and manner of dress from semester to semester, dressing as casually as khakis with open collar dress shirt; designer jeans with a dress shirt and tie; and slacks, tie and blazer. Short of polling my students, I have discovered that it is my attitude of respect for my students, for the seriousness of teaching, and my obvious interest in their learning that engages my students. Furthermore, my tie and jacket convey my respect for not only my profession, but also my students. Their importance to me is reflected both in my attitude and in the form and manner which I bring to the classroom.
Now look, the cravat is Croatia's gift to world culture, so wear one! And no budget necessary. Buy used. As the leader of the band Pink Martini has said, the world started getting less beautiful after the year 1964. If you'd care to look at my Book TV episode, that tie I'm wearing dates from about 1959, and all it collected was compliments the night through. So there. I would not however recommend it for Michael Crawford's profession -- could you imagine the consequences of the tie you're wearing getting progressvely eaten by a crankshaft?
I know I'm late to reply, RJ, but I can't help but notice that this discussion seems to be lacking its other half: women's clothing in academia. I'm not sure if it is more or less fraught a question than the issue of men's clothing. Women can skirt the boundaries of formality and informality; there is no feminine equivalent to "tie" or "no tie." Some women feel pressure to imitate masculine fashion dragging out polyester skirt suits; this probably also affects the classroom in its own way (not sure just what that would be, but it seems dreary!).
My own goal is to dress in a way that conveys respect for the students and the activity. I agree with those who maintain that it does make an important difference to the tone and fruitfulness of the class.
In reply to the "feminine equivalent" comment, I was hand-slapped by a senior colleague for wearing denim trousers to a faculty meeting. Apparently denim (even if it's expensive, quality, and tasteful) is disrespectful. Moreover, as a young faculty member, I feel the need to dress more formally to avoid looking like a student. It's less about looking superior to them and more about distinguishing myself apart from them.
I could not agree more with RJ, Jessica, and the Anonymous post of May 27th. I was surprised, my first year of teaching, how much my students noticed (and commented on!) my appearance. I have a vivid memory of a small portion of my Western Civ class informing me, in the few minutes remaining before class started one day, that they had taken a vote and it was "thumbs up on the new haircut." Another time, as I passed out papers, a couple of students asked me if I had gotten a new ring.
I am shy by nature, so I was initially horrified by this scrutiny. They vote on my haircuts? They notice my rings? Then, I realized that students looking at how I dressed or wore my hair was not so different from them paying attention to how I spoke, or thought, or my work habits. I might want it to be, but it isn't. I am not just an abstract mind or spirit but, instead, an embodied mind and soul. I communicate something about how I think about myself, how I think about my work, and how I think about my students, through each venue. I might not always succeed in conveying the level of dignity and respect that I desire--I sit in my office in what I thought were very classy denim trouser slacks at this very moment : ) --but I do think that it is an important element of my care for and responsibility towards my students to try.
I once heard someone suggest that you "should dress as seriously as you wish to be taken" and I think that is pretty good advice. One of the initial comments above paraphrases it. I've developed a preference for bow ties -- they don't get in the way -- and wear them almost any time I wear a tie. They draw attention to me and cause people to remember me even if it's "oh, you were wearing that bow tie." Since self promotion is part of my business, it makes sense.
In college I took a Chaucer and then a Shakespeare class that were taught by an interesting and brilliant guy who wore a tie and jacket every day. During the summer when the weather was particularly sticky, he would don Bermuda shorts and wear a Madras sports jacket. But the tie never left the collar.
I never noticed rings on teacher's fingers but grooming is important and does mirror ones image of self. A philosophy professor had a great gimmick for learning the names of his students. He'd pass out the first quiz results one by one walking by each desk and looking carefully at the face as he put the graded paper down. The thing I noticed that day before checking for the grade was that he bit his fingernails almost to the quick. I recalled that each time he railed against a believer who just couldn't handle Descartes. And swore off biting my nails ever again.
Sorry I'm such a latecomer to this conversation. I am the youngest member of my school's full-time faculty by about three or four years (I'm 31). While I don't believe it is necessary for a professor to dress like a business person or wear what used to be called one's "Sunday best," I confess that I self-consciously dress in this way most of the time. While I dress business casual on Fridays, on the other days I almost always wear a suit or coat and nice slacks. About 2/3 of the time I wear a tie, most often a bowtie. I do this in part because I'm not much older than many of my graduate students and I don't really want to be confused with them any more than is necessary. As it is, their gut instinct is to treat me as a chum rather than a professor because of our age similarity. Besides, I'm a bit of a curmudgeon so sports coats, starched shirts, and bowties just seems to fit.
Associate Professor and Director of the Philosophy Program at Eastern University outside of Philadelphia. Ph.D. from Marquette, MA from Boston College and BSc. from Liberty University.
I work broadly in the history of philosophy, but especially Thomism in conjunction with contemporary thought. My first book argues for a Thomist, Bernard Lonergan, against the skepticism of Richard Rorty.
Starting to do more work on the natural law and especially the epistemology of apprehending the good.


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What Is the Pink Tax? (And Are You Paying It?)
Women pay an average of $1,350 a year just for being women.
updated February 8, 2019 Kate Ashford
For all the gender equality strides that have been made, it's still difficult to be a woman in 2019. Women still only make 80.5 cents for every dollar men make, according to the Institute for Women's Policy Research. There were only 24 women heading up companies on the Fortune 500 list in 2018. And half of the companies on the Russell 3000 index have one or no women directors on their boards.
While having fewer opportunities to rise through the ranks of corporate America and earning less than their male counterparts, women, it seems, generally pay more for a variety of consumer goods. "By the time a woman turns 30, she's been robbed of $40,562 just for being a woman," said Sherry Baker, president of product development and marketing at European Wax Center, which launched the campaign #AxThePinkTax. "Every year, a woman spends more than a man for products, including T-shirts, personal care items and services, because of inflated pricing."
What is the pink tax?
Baker is referring to the practice of charging more for products marketed toward women—which are frequently pink—than the same products sold to men. This includes female-specific products that would be considered medical necessities, such as tampons. "The pink tax impacts each and every woman in the U.S., forcing us to pay more for basic necessities, for the mere fact of being a woman," said Baker.
History of the pink tax
The pink tax isn't new; in fact, it's been around for decades, when the U.S. drafted the sales tax system between the 1930s and the 1960s. "It was a very different world at a time when [legislators] were figuring out which products to tax and which to exempt," said Laura Strausfeld, co-founder of PeriodEquity.org. "It was a world in which it was single-income families with men working and women staying at home."
In other words, in the old days, these expenses were borne by a household. Today, they're often borne by women alone. "This notion of the pink tax arises from the advances women have made in the workforce and bearing individually the cost of being a woman in the world," Strausfeld said.
There are other explanations for why the pink tax exists. One such reason is that tariffs on clothing imports for women are higher. Another chalks it up to the fact that product design for women's consumer goods is often more elaborate—marketing pink women's razors, for instance—which runs up costs for a company, who then passes those costs down to the consumer.
How much does the pink tax cost women?
Estimates of how much women pay in pink taxes vary. In 1994, California ran a gender-pricing study and estimated that women paid roughly an extra $1,350 every year for personal care services, such as haircuts and dry cleaning, which is $2,135 in today's dollars.
In 2015, the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs did its own study, concluding that women and girls pay about 7% more, on average, for consumer goods than men and boys do. That breakdown looks like this:
In fact, products for women cost more in 30 out of 35 categories covered by the study. The report's takeaway: "In every industry, products for female consumers were more likely to cost more."
While studies haven't estimated the long-term cost of the pink tax, it's clear that women will generally pay thousands more than men for services and products over a lifetime.
Items that get the pink tax markup
Women frequently pay more for products that are marketed specifically to women, but they also pay more for services than men do. Some pink tax examples include:
Tampons: While other medically necessary products, such as prescription drugs and neck braces, are exempt from state sales tax, 36 states still tax women's menstrual products. It's called the "tampon tax."
Personal care products: Shampoo and conditioner, razors, lotion, deodorant, body wash and shaving cream all fall under this category. Gillette, for instance, took heat over the fact that its women's razors cost more than those for men.
Dry cleaning: It costs more to dry clean women's clothes than men's.
Toys: Even for gender-neutral toys like bikes, scooters, backpacks, helmets and arts and crafts items, those marketed to girls cost more.
Clothes: Both women's and girls' clothing see a higher markup than those for boys and men.
Mortgages: Mortgages cost more for sole female borrowers, in part because they have weaker credit overall. But other studies show women default less on mortgages than men, even controlling for credit differences, all of which says single female borrowers are paying more than they should.
Haircuts: Women pay more for a haircut than men, even when their hair is the same length.
Senior/home health care products: Supports and braces, canes, compression socks, adult incontinence products and digestive health products cost more for senior women than senior men.
How to fight the pink tax
There are a few ways to fight back against this practice. The first is to turn your shopping dollars toward companies that are taking a stand against the pink tax. Boxed, for instance, has reduced the pricing on its women's products so they're the same price as the men's. Billie, a subscription shaving company, claims to offer pricing that's comparable to men's razor subscriptions. Even Burger King has staged its own campaign against pink pricing.
Aside from supporting companies with gender-neutral pricing, you can choose not to buy products marketed specifically to women. But If you want your state to ban the pink tax altogether, get in touch with your state representatives. "Voice your outrage about it," Strausfeld said. "The more people who call their state representatives, the more support these people have to put forward bills to remove the tax." Find your government representatives here.
Kate Ashford is a writer and content creator who specializes in personal finance, careers, health and consumer trends. Her work has appeared online at the BBC, Forbes, Monster and LearnVest, as well as in national publications, including Money, Parents, Family Circle and Women's Health.
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The National dues are the foundation of the National office. The dues assist the National office in paying their financial obligations and giving to many needy charities.
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What happens if National dues are not paid on time?
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The District Deputy will verify within 30 days with the local court and the State Regent that the dueshave been paid.
If dues have not been submitted by then, the District Deputy and the State Regent will consult with the local court Regent to verify the status of the dues payment and determine the course of action that mightbe needed to ensure that the dues are paid.
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Who are the checks made out to for State businesses such as dues, Past Regents Club, Fall Food Event, and Lifesaver Campaign?
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Does the Financial Review report ask for the number of members in the court?
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Catholic schools have largely failed to attract Hispanic Catholics, but some parishes have found innovative ways to draw them in.
As her Puerto Rican immigrant mother had done with her as a child growing up in Chicago, Jennifer Bonesz sent both of her daughters to Catholic schools. Athena, 14, attended from preschool through eighth grade, and Damary, 8, from preschool through third grade.
But after a divorce coincided with a decrease in the financial aid she was receiving from her parish to put her daughters through the local Catholic grade school, the computer support supervisor says she was faced with a sad truth: The cost of Catholic education was suddenly beyond her reach.
Unable to afford the combined $1,350 monthly tuition—more than the mortgage on her home—for both daughters (one now in high school), plus preschool for 3-year-old Xavier, they moved from the city to suburban Des Plaines. The girls enrolled in a public school this year. Athena tells her mother that she now misses attending Mass on Fridays with her classmates, and Bonesz laments the loss altogether.
Increasingly aware of such situations, a growing number of the nation's Catholic schools have launched a quest to attract more Latinos, by far the fastest-growing ethnic group in the U.S. Catholic Church. It's a movement fueled by three converging trends: An estimated 70 percent of adult Latinos are Catholic, according to Georgetown University researchers. Just 63 percent of 24-year-old Hispanics surveyed had graduated from high school, compared with 87 percent of blacks and 93 percent of white non-Hispanics, according to census data. And numerous studies have found that Hispanic students in Catholic schools perform better than they do in public schools.
At the forefront of this new outreach effort, the University of Notre Dame in December 2008 commissioned a Task Force on the Participation of Latinos in Catholic Schools. The ambitious goal of this project, which reflects complementary desires to close the Latino academic achievement gap and to reverse enrollment declines in urban Catholic schools, is to double the percentage of Latinos attending Catholic schools, from 3 to 6 percent by 2020. Given population growth estimates, this goal means increasing the national enrollment of Latino children in Catholic schools from 290,000 to more than 1 million students over the next decade, according to the university.
Just more than a year into the campaign, Notre Dame's Father Joe Corpora, the task force's co-chair, says it's too soon to see significant growth in Hispanic Catholic school enrollment, but he can tell that awareness already has heightened.
Notre Dame's Alliance for Catholic Education so far is consulting with schools in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Brooklyn, and San Antonio. It has received inquiries from schools in at least 50 more cities but lacks the resources to partner with all of them, Corpora says, noting he has logged 80 trips to those five cities over the past 14 months.
While acknowledging that Bonesz' predicament is very real, the task force has discovered that it's more than financial constraints keeping most Hispanic families away from Catholic schools, Corpora says. Two other factors are at play: First, in most Latin American countries there is no such thing as a parish school, so the entire concept is new to many Latino immigrants. Used to Catholic "academies" serving only the most affluent families, families do not even check out local Catholic schools. "They have no idea there are scholarships and aid available," Corpora says.
Also, Catholic schools in the United States have been slow to realize the differences between Latino immigrants and the descendants of Western European immigrants who founded the schools.
"They're not culturally responsive to Latinos, which means the culture of the school looks nothing like the culture of their homes," Corpora says. Because many Latino immigrants work hourly wage jobs, for example, they lack flexibility in their schedules to meet with school staff as needed. Also, many schools' printed marketing materials never reach them, especially those only in English.
In an 18-month pilot project aided by consulting from Notre Dame's ACE program, the Diocese of Brooklyn is targeting 30 of its schools situated in areas with large Hispanic population growth in recent years. The goal is to boost Hispanic enrollment 10 to 15 percent by this fall, says Brooklyn diocesan schools superintendent Thomas Chadzutko.
Among the most critical elements is a plan to implement a more personal outreach to Latino parents and adopting a more culturally sensitive outlook, Chadzutko says.
"It's getting involved with Latino celebrations at the parish level, being a part of Latino prayer groups, and just providing them information on what Catholic education is in the United States," he says.
That emphasis on personal outreach rather than more traditional marketing efforts has worked well for Holy Assumption School in Peekskill, New York, one of the many New York City suburbs along the Hudson River Valley that has seen its Hispanic population surge over the past decade, says Holy Assumption principal Jim Lyons. Enrollment at the school, founded in 1908, peaked at about 900 students in the late 1960s and bottomed out at 140 in the 2007-08 school year.
Enrollment, now about 80 percent Hispanic, has climbed back to 225, with waiting lists in the lower grades.
Lyons says there has been a "learning curve" for the school when it comes to understanding the different cultures of Latinos. For instance, Ecuadorians feel a strong devotion to Our Lady of El Cisne, while Mexican immigrants revere Our Lady of Guadalupe. Strong emphasis has been placed on properly celebrating their respective feast days.
Like many other parts of the country, the Diocese of San Bernardino, California has seen dramatic growth in the number of Latino youths who attend public schools while participating in parish religious education classes on nights or weekends. Miriam Padilla, director of religious education for the diocese, estimates that in her own parish, Sacred Heart in Rancho Cucamonga, about 60 percent of the 950 students in first through fifth grade are Hispanic. She says she recently had to make the classes bilingual so that parents who don't speak English can help with homework.
Padilla says she thinks her students are "up to par in their religious formation," but many would benefit academically from being in a Catholic school. She points to well-documented statistics indicating that Latino students who attend Catholic schools are far more likely to attend college than those in public schools.
Although the affordability of Catholic schools is an issue for many of her students' parents, Padilla is trying to raise awareness of Catholic schools generally because many others have never even given Catholic education a hard look. She wants to elevate the expectations Latino immigrants have for their children.
Rosselle Azar, principal at St. Patrick's Catholic School in North Hollywood, California, where about 80 percent of the school's 191 students in kindergarten through eighth grade are Hispanic, credits several new initiatives for her school's success.
Last March St. Patrick's devoted entire sessions with parents of children in religious education classes to discussing why they should enroll their children in the school. About 90 families filled out forms saying they were interested in learning more. Fifteen of those families, accounting for 20 students, ultimately enrolled.
"One-on-one with the Hispanic community works much better than just sending out flyers," Azar says. She has found that Hispanic parents respond best to testimonials from students who are already enrolled in the school and their parents.
This year St. Patrick's also extended the school day. Students often work on homework during the extra time, allowing them more quality time at home with their families.
"We feel, with them spending more quality time at home with their family, they'll do better in school," Azar says.
Hispanic parents, many of whom work multiple jobs, also love the longer school day because it allows them to pick their children up from school after getting off work.
Rather than complaining about the added work, the longer day was the teachers' idea, despite having had their salaries frozen for the past two years.
"It was very amazing for our teachers to do that," Azar says.
Such efforts keep Notre Dame's Corpora motivated as he flies around the country to meet with Catholic school officials.
While St. Patrick's in North Hollywood has worked hard on the issue, it also has found some success by accident. When the school opened up its summer school program to public school students, several Latino families wound up so fond of the school, they enrolled their children in the fall.
Lucy Gonzalez says she couldn't be happier. Her 12-year-old daughter, Jamie, had been bullied throughout much of her first five years in a public school. By fifth grade, it had gotten so bad that Jamie cried every morning before school. Lucy so dreaded the thought of putting Jamie in a public middle school that she was giving serious thought to homeschooling.
After trying St. Patrick's summer program, Gonzalez enrolled her daughter in the school in the fall. Jamie has plenty of friends, her grades have improved, and she's like a different girl, her mother says.
This article appeared in the February issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 75, No. 2, pages 12-16).


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What we learned from Iowa
Matthew Reade	on February 5, 2016
Now that it is all said and done in Iowa, it is time to look ahead and see what the fallout will be from the first caucus of the 2016 presidential primary race. As I anticipated in my pre-Iowa rundown, Senator Ted Cruz put in the strongest performance in Iowa, followed by Mr. Donald Trump and Senator Marco Rubio in second and third place respectively. On the Democratic side, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton barely held off a surprisingly strong challenge from Senator Bernie Sanders.
Cruz took first, Trump tumbled, and Rubio surged. (NBC News)
What surprised me the most about the events of Monday night was how quickly they seemed to return the wild Republican presidential race to normalcy. Mr. Trump, who had come to be regarded by some as the "inevitable" nominee, lived up to none of the hype, losing to Sen. Cruz even after leading nearly every Iowa poll in the weeks leading up to caucus day by a significant margin. Marco Rubio, ostensibly the leading establishment candidate, nearly edged past Mr. Trump into second place after experiencing a near double-digit surge in the final 48 hours of the race. This strong result came in spite of the fact that Sen. Rubio faced down a barrage of negative advertising—over $22 million worth—in the critical final weeks of the Iowa campaign. Ted Cruz's victory also was hardly an anomaly. Sen. Cruz rode strong evangelical turnout and his anti-establishment credentials to a first place berth, just as Rick Santorum and Mike Huckabee did during the 2012 and 2008 Iowa caucuses.
Marco Rubio addressing supporters after his strong showing in Iowa. (Fox News)
Meanwhile, on the Democratic side, the results from Iowa have raised fresh concerns that a long and brutal nomination battle between Clinton and Sen. Sanders might be in store. Though Secy. Clinton's campaign is a juggernaut in every organizational respect, the momentum and enthusiasm behind her populist opponent do not seem to be fading. On the other hand, though Sanders is comfortably ahead of Secy. Clinton in New Hampshire, she still maintains a significant lead in the South—home to several critical primary states—and nationally.
Main takeaways from the GOP Iowa caucus
1) Donald Trump is toast.
We have to win in Iowa…you know, a lot of people say, "Donald, just say you'll do well in Iowa." I say I can't do that.
99 percent of the importance of the Iowa caucus results rests in the discrepancy between popular expectations for each candidate and the ultimate result of the caucus vote. Winning in Iowa is all about expectations, and no one has done a worse job of managing expectations in this race than Mr. Donald Trump.
For nearly the entire duration of this presidential race thus far, Mr. Trump has couched his appeal on his skills as a businessman and, as he puts it, a winner. Winning is a recurring theme in Trump's speeches. With his typical bombast and energetic hand motions, Trump often declares that his presidency will bring such great success and "so much winning" that the American people will "get bored with winning." The real estate mogul also predicted victory in Iowa multiple times in the days and weeks preceding the caucus vote. He constantly pointed to his high poll numbers in Iowa and nationally as evidence of the unassailability of his tremendous campaign. The media circus in the lead-up to the Iowa caucuses did not help either, playing up Trump's lead in the polls as evidence of a revolt in the Republican Party, a backlash against years of control by the so-called establishment, or the symptom of an unstoppable popular movement behind Donald Trump's candidacy.
And then he lost. The big poll numbers evaporated.1 The record-smashing turnout failed to push him past the finish line. The invincible Donald, vanquished.
Donald Trump overhyped himself and thus sacrificed his best opportunity to prove his seriousness as a candidate for president. (ABC News)
For a typical presidential primary frontrunner, a loss in Iowa would not be a big deal. But Trump's base of support comes from a narrow slice of the GOP electorate rather than from the broad conservative coalition which past Republican nominees have enjoyed. With his momentum and his monopoly over national media coverage diminishing quickly, Trump needs a miracle to revive his campaign, but his weak performance in Iowa demonstrated that this miracle is quite far from reach. Barring mass amnesia, the unfavorable sentiment toward Donald Trump within the Republican Party and beyond will continue to hamper his efforts at the ballot box. And as candidates begin to depart the race, Trump's only chance of winning the nomination—a completely fragmented, disorganized Republican field—grows ever slimmer.
2) Marco Rubio really won Iowa.
On the opposite side of the expectations spectrum is Marco Rubio. The young Florida senator's polling average did not rise above 15 percent until January 30th, only two days before the Iowa caucus. Yet after a shocking final surge, Sen. Rubio finished just behind Donald Trump, the ostensible front-runner, with 23 percent of the vote.
Marco Rubio exceeded expectations in Iowa, but he will need to deliver a strong performance in moderate New Hampshire to prove his broad appeal. (Scott Olsen/Getty Images)
Rubio has long claimed that he is more electable and has a broader appeal than the other candidates in the race. As the argument goes, he is a conservative stalwart who can appeal to the grassroots of the party while also tapping into the support of more traditional Republicans, moderates, and the youth and Latino vote. Yet for months, Sen. Rubio's poll numbers were lukewarm at best. Even as Iowans stood in line to caucus, the Florida senator polled at several percentage points below his eventual finish in the state. By delivering a strong performance, Marco Rubio proved that he really does have the potential to bring together the assortment of ideologies and dispositions within the Republican Party and capture the nomination.
Of course, it is not over for Sen. Rubio. In order to maintain his tentative position as the GOP's coalition candidate, he must perform better in New Hampshire than his main competition for the Granite State's moderate vote—Jeb Bush, Chris Christie, and John Kasich, to be precise—and demonstrate his ability to attract supporters from the more moderate wings of the party. A strong finish would prove Rubio's broad appeal and consolidate the moderate wing of the party behind his candidacy. Under these circumstances, it is hard to imagine someone other than Marco Rubio winning the Republican nomination.
3) Cruz has much more to prove.
Thanks to strong turnout from evangelical voters, Ted Cruz won the Iowa caucus by a sizable 6,000 vote margin. This victory does hold some meaning; it shows, for example, that Sen. Cruz has a deep appeal among a highly motivated bloc of conservative voters.
Iowa, however, is an anomaly in the Republican primary process. Its electorate is whiter and less educated than those of the average primary state. Additionally, the lengthy, exhausting caucus process in Iowa discourages the participation of moderate, less politically-inclined voters, many of whom will participate in the less demanding primaries and caucuses2 to come. Iowa also has a highly motivated bloc of evangelical voters, which broke heavily for Cruz in Monday's caucus. But the evangelical vote becomes much less influential once the primary process moves to northern and coastal states, which dominate the delegate counts in April, May, and June.
Ted Cruz and Donald Trump have both cultivated deep but narrow sources of support. It remains to be see whether these ostensible political outsiders can broaden their support to the more moderate electorate which they will encounter after Super Tuesday. (Carolyn Kaster/AP)
Beyond Super Tuesday, moderate voters from populous blue states dominate the calendar. New York, Pennsylvania, and California combined constitute a whopping 338 delegates, which amounts to over a quarter of the delegates required to clinch the nomination. Also, due to some mathematical quirks, the Republican National Committee's delegate allocation rules weighs votes in moderate and liberal states more heavily than those in the earlier, more deeply conservative primary states.3 Both of these factors will combine to make the primary race much more difficult for Sen. Cruz, who is popular among those who identify themselves as "very conservative" but has thus far been unable to gain traction among the more moderate segments of the party.4
Unless Sen. Cruz can broaden his support among moderates, he will have a very difficult road to the nomination. If he fails to sweep the South on Super Tuesday, it will take a miracle for Cruz to retain a delegate lead as the focus shifts to the more heavily weighted coastal states at the rear of the GOP primary calendar.
The future of the Democratic race
Bernie could win this race, but a lot needs to change.
With the departure of Martin O'Malley from the race this week, the Democratic presidential primary has become a head-to-head race between former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Senator Bernie Sanders from the state of Vermont.
Seeing the enthusiasm surrounding Sen. Sanders' White House bid, it is tempting to say that Sanders has a good chance of winning this race, but I am not yet willing to go that far quite yet. Bernie Sanders does have a chance to clinch the Democratic nomination, but whether he does or not depends almost entirely upon how far he is willing to go to exploit his opponent's fundamental weaknesses.
Sen. Sanders needs to exploit the untrustworthiness and lack of transparency of his opponent in order to become competitive in this primary race. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images)
Of course, I will preface this discussion by saying that Clinton's nomination is partially contingent upon whether any kind of criminal prosecution is brought as a result of her email scandal. (For those who do not know what scandal I am referencing, click here.5) If the Justice Department does bring an indictment against Secy. Clinton, it is hard to imagine that she survives long in the primary race, even among her staunchest supporters within the Democrat Party.
But even if no indictment is forthcoming, Hillary Clinton is vulnerable on the issue. A national Quinnipiac poll conducted in November indicated that only 36 percent of the general election electorate view her as honest and trustworthy. Among Democrats, she does not fare much better. In fact, according to a poll conducted last week by the Washington Post, only slightly more than a third of Democratic primary voters view Secy. Clinton as being more honest than Sen. Sanders.
By almost every metric, Bernie Sanders is losing this presidential race. He is viewed as less trusted than Clinton on virtually every issue except income inequality, and according to the RealClearPolitics polling average, he is losing the horse race nationally by over 15 percentage points.
But Clinton's vulnerabilities in this race are quite clear. If I were Sen. Sanders' campaign strategist, I would have the following advice for him:
Talk about trust: Hammer home the point that Hillary Clinton cannot be trusted. Continue striking at her evolving stances on issues, but expand your attack to encompass her email scandal and her lack of transparency in addressing it.
Go negative: A positive campaign is nice, but if you are not going to take money from super PACs, you need to do the dirty work yourself. Clips of Secy. Clinton's misleading statements from the campaign trail about her email scandal should be running in every state where you are in striking distance.
Crack her Southern firewall: Clinton is counting on strong African-American turnout in the South to help her hold the line against you as the Democratic primary process unfolds. Prove to this demographic, on the ground and over the airwaves, that you are much more committed to their success and prosperity than your opponent.
Emphasize your experience: Hillary Clinton is viewed as being far more experienced than you, yet you have had a long career in the Senate. Discuss your accomplishments, particularly in the foreign policy realm, to bolster the popular image of your political experience.
Hammer electability: With an email scandal hanging over her head, Clinton is a dream-come-true for any candidate that the Republicans nominate. You carry no risk of being indicted by the Justice Department, and you have a long and distinguished career fighting for liberal principles. Prove that Clinton is much less electable than she claims to be.
If Sen. Sanders takes my free advice, I think he can be a much more formidable adversary for Secy. Clinton in the Democratic primary. His strengths—among them strong favorability, trustworthiness, and the ability to connect and empathize with voters—position him well to diminish Clinton's credibility as a candidate and question her electability in light of her email issue. The only question now is whether Sen. Sanders, famous for declaring that the American people were "sick and tired of hearing about" Clinton's "damn emails," will take the gloves off and impress upon voters the danger of nominating a dishonest candidate who may very well be indicted by the United States Department of Justice, guaranteeing a Republican victory in November.
Four of seven of the polls in the week before the Iowa caucus showed Mr. Trump with over 30 percent of the vote. Five of seven, including two of the last three to be taken, showed Mr. Trump with a statistically significant lead over Mr. Cruz. ^
In Iowa, the vote for the candidates is prefaced by speeches from representatives for each of the candidates. In the Nevada caucus, there is no such advocacy period. Voters may walk in, vote, and leave, just as with a primary. ^
On average, this weighting makes a vote from a blue state worth about twice as much as a vote in a red state. In the most extreme case, a Republican primary voter in the 15th District (Bronx-area) of New York has 43 times the voting power than a voter in the reddest part of Alabama. (For a more extensive analysis, see David Wasserman's piece on FiveThirtyEight entitled "The GOP's Primary Rules Might Doom Carson, Cruz And Trump.") ^
According to the exit polls in Iowa, Cruz crushed the other candidates among "very conservative" voters, but struggled among the demographics with greater importance in later states. Though the most conservative voters gave him 44 percent of their votes, nearly double those of his nearest competitor (Mr. Trump, 23 percent), Sen. Cruz lost big among moderates (34 percent to 9 percent) and among "somewhat conservative" caucusgoers (29 percent to 19 percent).Education is another difficult demographic for Sen. Cruz. He won 31 percent of voters who did not graduate from college. Marco Rubio won among college graduates and postgraduates, pulling 27 and 29 percent of the vote in each of those categories. Unfortunately for Mr. Cruz, moderate coastal states—bound to be friendlier to a more moderate candidate to begin with—have a higher percentage of college graduates than Iowa has. ^
In 2013, a hacker illegally accessed an account of Sydney Blumenthal, a former assistant to former President Bill Clinton. This account contained several communications between Mr. Blumenthal and Secy. Clinton, which the hacker revealed to have contained sensitive information about American foreign policy. Not a big deal…except that Clinton had these sensitive conversations with Mr. Blumenthal over an unsecured, unsanctioned personal email account on her own private server. It was later discovered at various points in 2015 and in mid-January of this year that she had sent and received classified information over her personal email, a clear violation of federal statutes governing the handling of sensitive, classified information. Most recently, it was revealed that Secy. Clinton's personal email contained some information with a classification above top secret.
I personally suspect that Secy. Clinton would have been indicted a long time ago if she were a run-of-the-mill government employee who had maintained highly classified information on his or her private email account as Clinton did. There are high security standards for government email accounts which regularly handle classified information, designed for the express purpose of ensuring the safety and security of the sensitive information which must be conveyed within the government. Maintaining a private server completely negates these protections and makes sensitive information susceptible to view by foreign governments or hackers (as with Mr. Blumenthal's account). Moreover, federal record-keeping rules govern how messages from government email accounts are preserved so that any oversight by Congress may be fully complied with. By having a private email, Clinton avoided these oversight mechanisms and has made it difficult for Congress to obtain all of her emails, some of which might contain information which impugns her credibility or opens her to federal prosecution. ^
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Don Kearns and his son Mike may have the perfect summer jobs.
Both plan to spend as much time as possible this summer on the Snake and Columbia rivers catching northern pikeminnow for money.
"It's a blast," said Kearns, of Benton City. "They pay me to be out there with a fishing pole."
Since 1991, the Bonneville Power Administration has paid anglers for catching pikeminnows as part of its work to improve salmon runs harmed by federal hydroelectric dams. The largest of the pikeminnows -- called squawfish in the past -- can eat up to 15 salmon smolt in a day.
Last summer, Kearns received $15,612 in payments from the Northern Pikeminnow Sport Reward Program. That put him 22nd among earners in the program for the year, with the top money-maker earning $48,348.
But anglers like Kearns are the exception. The majority of participants in the program are sport fishermen like David Richey of Richland. When the walleye aren't biting, he'll make do with pikeminnow.
"When they hit your pole, they flat strip your line," he said.
"The main reason I like to do it is it helps the salmon recovery," said Brian Johnson of West Richland, who was fishing with Richey on a recent Sunday. "Plus you get your gas paid. It's free fishing."
The two men, both shift workers at the Hanford nuclear reservation, turned in 39 pikeminnow that day and took home some bass to eat. For casual pikeminnow anglers like them, the catch likely will bring them $156.
To encourage serious anglers, the Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission, which administers the program for BPA, increases payments for those who catch the most fish.
Catching up to 100 fish in the season that runs from May 14 to Sept. 30 will earn $4 per fish this year; 101 to 400 fish pays $5 for each and more than that pays $8 per fish. Tagged fish earn a $500 bonus.
"It's not as easy as it sounds," said Russell Porter, pikeminnow program coordinator for the fisheries commission. "We depend on people who learn how to do it to meet our catch quota."
The fisheries commission considers the season a success if 200,000 pikeminnow are turned in. Last year it paid for 240,000 fish.
It offers the reward for fish 9 inches long or larger, knowing that at 11 inches and larger the fish are preying on salmon smolt. The fisheries commission figures the program saves up to 5 million smolt a year.
"It's not going to completely solve the problem," said John Harrison, spokesman for the Northwest Power and Conservation Council. "But any program that removes predators of juvenile salmon from the river is good."
Northern pikeminnow are native to the Columbia and Snake, so the goal of the project is not to eliminate them. The program is removing 17 percent to 19 percent of the pikeminnow that are large enough to prey on salmon smolt, Porter said.
The dams along the rivers serve as a smolt buffet for the larger pikeminnow. They wait for the disoriented smolt trying to find their way downstream past the dams, then pick them off.
Interest in the program has picked up since the program started offering the $500 bonus payments for tagged fish. The tags help officials estimate the pikeminnow population, the percent removed each year and changes in size over time, Porter said. Last year 1,700 fish were tagged and 216 of them were turned in, which included about 80 tagged in previous years.
Kearns, who fishes one-handed after losing his right hand in a hunting accident, caught three of the tagged fish last summer to earn $1,500.
He started fishing for pikeminnow about three years ago to earn cash to help pay for his fishing habit.
"Then I realized it could be reasonably lucrative," he said. He made $3,800 that first year and has increased his earnings each year.
On a recent weekday, work commitments allowed only two hours of fishing, but he still caught 10 fish -- enough to earn $80. But he plans to cut back his hours working at a casino to allow more time to fish later this summer. His 16-year-old son plans to make fishing his full-time job this summer.
"You chase the fish if you're doing it for money," Kearns said.
That means taking his 16-foot boat and a camping trailer to spots where he's done well, such as near The Dalles Dam on the Columbia River and Lower Granite Dam on the Snake River.
At The Dalles Boat Basin sport reward fishery station last summer, 45,688 pike-minnow were turned in compared with 4,974 at Columbia Point Park and 9,154 at the Vernita Bridge Rest Area.
While many anglers will jump from spot to spot to find where the fish are biting, Kearns knows the pike-minnows habits. He favors a spot that's been productive in the past and waiting for the fish to show up. No sense burning extra fuel, he said.
He likes fishing at night when there's less recreation on the river to disturb the fish. He uses bait, but pikeminnow are such predators that they can be caught with just about any fishing method, he said.
When the fish are biting, Kearns may stay on the river up to 20 hours and earn as much as $700, he said.
"It's a job, but I'm still getting to fish," he said.


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Stree Box Office: 3rd 100 Crore Film For Shraddha Kapoor, Rajkummar Rao's Debut In The Club!
Souvik Saha on September 19, 2018
Shraddha Kapoor's Stree has hit the right chord amongst the viewers and has joined the prestigious 100 crore club. Interestingly it is not a new thing for Shraddha as couple of her past films are a part of this club.
Stree has surpassed 108.05 crores at the box office also going ahead to become the highest grossing film for the actor Rajkummar Rao. Rao, who is known for his astonishing acting skills in his films, but Stree has became his first movie in the 100 crore club.
The film is undoubtedly doing very well at the box office and is getting great reviews for both the actors. Fascinatingly, Bollywood movies were majorly meant to be hero-dominating affairs but Shraddha Kapoor with her massy pull has proved why heroines matter too
Rajkummar Rao has entered the 100 crore club with Shraddha Kapoor and Stree. Rao, who entered the Bollywood carrying the tag of a 'niche' actor but with his recent movies and especially Stree he is turning out to be a commercial hero. On the other hand, Shraddha Kapoor has had various hits to her credit and Stree adds one more feather to her cap.
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The priority before the state government is to rescue the stranded people from the landslide and flood-affected areas and providing rehabilitation to them. All the relief centres have been inspected. The centres do not lack any basic facilities. The victims have been asked not to leave for their houses as the landslides continue to occur in Kodagu, he said.
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Karnataka (as wll as Kerala) have followed the steps of Uttarakhand, assert noted ecologist Madhav Gadgil and well-known scientist Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan.
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Thanks for the suggestion! Previews and in-line editing is not possible today, but I've added it to the backlog for review.
I have tested with the existing available Salesforce connectors in NWC, workaround using both the 'Query record' and 'Retrieve record' to achieve the requirement, but it tool about 6 hours to retrieve 600 records of contacts. With the SOQL query, this will be in minutes.
This is supported in the Box API so can we have a 'Share Folder Link' action (or make the existing 'Share file link' action applicable to both scenarios) so that the share link can be used to update other line of business systems such as Salesforce?
Custom Connector list: It would be nice to be able to retrieve the given URL for the connector. Reason: A lot of APIs are in several regions (like those from Microsoft) and have several versions. Currently I cannot retrieve the version/url info of the API.
Most of the REST API endpoints required to supply Authorization: Bearer as part of the Header, if a different version of the "call a web service" action is provided with the capability to make use of the Connector(s) in Nintex Workflow Cloud, that will open up the opportunity of all available endpoints of the external system to which we are integrating with.
e.g. All the Actions of the Sharepoint online covers only few endpoints of the Sharepoint Online. The proposed version of "call a web service" will make the Sharepoint Connector to be used to access all the available Sharepoint online REST API endpoints. Same applies to other connectors such as Google Drive, OneDrive, etc. as they are all supports REST API with OAuth 2.0 authentication mechanism.


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Battlefront II Revisited: The Battle of Jakku
Tim Etheridge	Star Wars Battlefront II, Video Games	 May 26, 2020 May 29, 2020
Welcome back to my series "Battlefront II Revisited". When Star Wars Battlefront II was released in November 2017, a large part of my excitement was directed towards the inclusion of a single player story mode, which would be telling a new story in the canon and following a new set of characters: Inferno Squad. Having completed the story mode rather quickly, I have only really played the game in patches since as online multiplayer shooters are not really my thing, but all the recent improvements and new content have had me playing a bit more recently and I decided it would be fun to return to the story mode and give my thoughts on each level. Today looks at the 11th mission The Battle of Jakku
Please be aware there will be spoilers for the story
Previous missions:
The Battle of Endor
The Dauntless
General Distress
Under Covered Skies
Cache Grab
The time has come. Admiral Ackbar has called the New Republic fleet to Jakku, where the Empire has massed all of its remaining forces. Those little hints that we have heard about Imperials being moved to the Western Reaches was all in preparation for this climactic battle, and you can read more of how the galaxy got to this stage in Chuck Wendig's Aftermath Trilogy. The Battle of Jakku has featured in a number of stories and we were also teased it by seeing the remains of the battle on Jakku in The Force Awakens, so it was amazing to finally get to see the battle on screen in some form.
"Iden. Make sure you come back."
"Make sure I have a ship to come back to"
"'Hey Shriv. I hope you survive this incredibly dangerous mission.'…'Thank you, Del, your friendship means everything to me.'"
The Corvus emerges as part of the fleet and makes its way into atmosphere. There are ground forces, fighters in atmosphere and in space and (we know from Aftermath: Empire's End) a Star Destroyer blockade stopping New Republic capital ships getting to the planet. Iden leaves Del in command of the Corvus while she and Shriv fly out in their X-wings to provide support for the ground troops. As they are prepping for takeoff, the Corvus takes a hit, which causes it to list and tip the X-wings out of the hangar, but Iden and Shriv manage to power up their fighters just in time to avoid hitting the ground.
At this point, we take control of Iden in her X-wing in the middle of a dogfight (though there are very few TIEs that we can actually get into a fight with), with Del marking 2 nearby distress beacons for us. It doesn't matter which order we do these in. Now, you can rush to the objectives, but I chose to take a bit of time flying around and taking out what TIEs I could, which I recommend doing as it gives you a chance to hear a bit more ambient dialogue over the comms, much of which ties back into some of the books that feature this Battle: We hear of the plans to take out the Ravager, the flagship of the Imperial fleet (Aftermath Trilogy), mentions of the Starhawks (Aftermath Trilogy), Wedge Antilles and Snap Wexley of Phantom Squadron get name-checked (Aftermath Trilogy), the Star Destroyer Inflictor being set on a collision course with the planet and Thane Kyrell being onboard (Lost Stars).
We make our way to the first distress signal and for me, this was a downed Imperial Star Destroyer. As we get close, a group of TIE bombers and TIE fighters emerge, though they are easy to take out. We hear that the bombers are continuing to leave the downed ship and supplying a key position, so we land our X-wings and look to take out the hangar from the inside. We make our way through the wreckage, having to fight a large group of troopers but there is plenty of cover to utilise. There are 2 lots of explosive charges that we need to pick up in this area, which again feels like an excuse to draw out the mission and make it feel longer. When we have picked up both sets, a TIE fighter emerges from the hangar and attacks us, but luckily there is a rocket launcher right next to the detonators which makes this an easy fight. We make our way into the hangar and attach the charges to the remaining TIEs, but as we are leaving, we see 2 shuttles drop off a squad of troopers between us and our X-wings. Again, it's a relatively easy fight with the troops rather spread out and plenty of cover. With the troopers dealt with, we can get back in our fighters and make our way to the other distress call, detonating the charges as we take off.
The second distress call is coming from a crashed CR90 corvette. We enter communications with a Captain Lindsey, who says they are coming under heavy fire. We take out a squadron of TIEs trying to strafe them from the air and land by the downed ship, where the surviving troopers have set up a defensive position. There are 2 AT-ATs incoming, but we don't have the firepower to take them out. Instead, we need to push forward tot he front of the lines to pick up a set of electrobinoculars that had been left behind. Once we have these, we can use them to mark the AT-ATs while contacting Starhawk Command to request orbital bombardments from the Starhawk Unity. This is definitely not easy as each AT-AT requires 3 strikes to take out and they are really not easy to lock on to, especially when there are Imperial shuttles frequently landing in the way and dispersing troops to attack us, though if you can time and judge your throw well, you can generally take most of the troops out by hitting them with an impact grenade as they are still coming down the ramp. It was a shame to not actually get to see the Starhawks in game, but I get the feeling that they tried to stick to ship models that had other uses in the game as there is not much variation in the ships we see.
With the AT-ATs destroyed, we call in the Corvus to pick up the stranded troops, falling back to a more open position. We get here and have to hold off Imperial troops – 2 squads each dropped off by a Lambda-class shuttle. Now you'd think this battle would be easy, but clever positioning of a blaster turret dealt with the one shuttle, while an E-Web at the rendezvous point made quick work of the troops as they came down the ramp of the other shuttle… talk about an anti-climax. With the area cleared, the Corvus arrives to pick up the troops and take them to their intended destination.
"How's it going up there?"
"Hard to tell, but… I think the Empire is losing."
"I think you're right. I can feel it. It's almost over. Today, the Empire dies."
We make our way back to the X-wings and get back into the fight, but there's not really many TIEs for us to deal with. As the Corvus returns, Del tells Iden that it looks like the New Republic is winning and we make our way back to the ship to regroup with our crew, bringing an end to the mission, though the next mission follows directly on so this could be considered as Part 1 of the battle…
Battle of Jakku
Iden Versio
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Pompeo said "hundreds of Russians" in the power structures of Venezuela
BY Flyn Braun	 May 3, 2019 2:38 am GMT+0300 May 3, 2019 2:39 am GMT+0300 488 Views
In the power structures of Venezuela are "hundreds of Russians, if not more" and "thousands of Cubans," said in an interview with Ben Shapiro US Secretary of state Mike Pompeo. Transcript of the conversation published on the state Department website.
Thus Pompeo answered the question of how serious the "intervention" of Russia and Cuba in the Affairs of Caracas. "These are people who actually control the vector of Venezuela's movement <...>. They are deep. They took control of the economy, they plundered this nation," the Secretary of state continued and noted that Russia mainly protects "its economic interests."
He stressed that the US is still considering the possibility of military intervention in Venezuela in the absence of "another way out."
Earlier Pompeo accused Moscow of provocations and interference in the Affairs of Venezuela because of the appearance of Russian troops in the country. The Secretary of state said this after the arrival of two planes of the Russian Defense Ministry in Caracas with the military on board. Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov later said that military experts from Russia are in Venezuela to service the military equipment supplied to this country and do it legally.
Similarly, Russia accuses the US of meddling in the internal Affairs of Venezuela, in particular, because of the support of the United States of opposition leader Juan Guaido.
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IAAF leaves 'crack in the door' for clean athletes after upholding Russian ban
Russian athletes who can prove they are not doping have "a crack in the door" that could still see them at the Rio Olympics.
Rune Andersen, who led the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Task Force in Russia, said an athlete who had a record of clean tests from "credible anti-doping agencies" could compete in Rio but not in Russian colours.
The Russian athletics team, however, remain banned from global competition after a unanimous vote at a meeting of the IAAF Council in Vienna to continue the sanction imposed seven months ago.
Russia's athletics ban, imposed for systemic doping, remains in place
Andersen, whose team have been on the ground in Russia assessing efforts to overhaul the disgraced athletics and anti-doping structures, explained that this concession to individuals was to ensure the overall punishment was "proportionate" and who therefore stand up to legal challenge.
"The system in Russia has been so tainted, it's difficult to pick the clean athletes," the Norwegian anti-doping expert said.
"We know that one, five or even 100 negative tests doesn't necessarily mean you're clean - history has shown us that.
"But there is a very tiny crack in the door for those who have been subjected to rigorous testing abroad.
"The crack is quite narrow; not many athletes will get through it. They will have to show that they have come through a credible system and are not tainted."
Andersen added that the number of athletes who could qualify this way would likely be just a handful, perhaps as few as four.
Despite their continuing protestations of unfair treatment, this compromise will be privately welcomed by the Russian authorities as the decision to maintain the ban on their athletics federation was expected given the drip-feed of negative reports about the country's clean-up effort.
Recent days have seen the Russian public relations campaign shift from listing the various reforms they have made since November to focusing on the inherent injustice of a collective punishment.
They now have a toe in the door, so to speak, that they can try to exploit when the International Olympic Committee (IOC) meets to discuss the IAAF decision in Lausanne on Tuesday.
As IAAF president Lord Coe repeatedly said, the final decision on Olympic eligibility is "a matter for the IOC".
And while Andersen and Coe were explaining the council's decisions to the media, Russian pole vault queen Yelena Isinbaeva repeated her threat to sue the IAAF and IOC for an infringement of her human rights if prevented from competing at a fifth Games.
Isinbaeva, a double Olympic champion who has been tested around the world for almost 20 years, will be heartened by the IAAF concession, which required a rule change, but will not like Andersen's comment that she might not be able to wear national kit.
The idea of competing under an IOC banner - as athletes from disputed regions or banned National Olympic Committees have done in the past - has been mooted several times, but Isinbaeva dismissed it last month.
When asked if Russian athletes could still compete in Rio in national vests, Andersen said you can never "guarantee anything in a world full of lawyers", and both he and Coe know all of their careful work could be unpicked at the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
The central decision to maintain the ban on the federation, however, looks a lot more secure as the IAAF laid the groundwork by setting out 44 "verification criteria" before reinstatement.
"Although there has been significant progress...several important criteria have not been fully satisfied," the task force's report said.
"The deep-seated culture of tolerance (or worse) for doping that got (the federation) suspended in the first place appears not to have changed materially to date."
It then outlined continuing resistance to change from the Russian team's head coach and many of the athletes, and said the Russian anti-doping agency, which was also suspended in November, is 18 to 24 months away from "full operational compliance with the World Anti-Doping Code".
That last line means this messy and unprecedented situation could continue beyond next year's World Athletics Championships in London.
There is one Russian athlete, however, who can now definitely look forward to the resumption of her career, Yuliya Stepanova.
The 800m runner and her husband Vitaliy were the whistleblowers who helped uncover just how rotten the Russian system had become when they first took their story to WADA and then to a German documentary-maker.
Her help in the fight against doping means she is one athlete who will slip through that crack in the door.
The IAAF Council ruled that "any individual athlete who has made an extraordinary contribution to the fight against doping in sport should also be able to apply for such permission to compete, in particular, Yuliya Stepanova's case should be considered favourably."
Coe added: "I am proud also that the council accepted the recommendation to refer Yuliya Stepanova's application to an appropriate panel under this amended rule as soon as possible."


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Q: Small network: any disadvantages to downgrading to local accounts with mapped drives only? We have an Active Directory network with < 20 XP clients and one 2k3 server running in 2000 forest mode.  On a zero budget, I'm trying to avoid more MS license dollars going out the door than I need to when we upgrade the server to something with > 4GB RAM (which 2k3 won't support.)  We don't seem to use any of the features that make AD an advantage over, well, nothing, like Group Policies or anything like that.  Is there a downside to just having local accounts that map the same network drives?
Reasoning: Someone on slashdot said that's how their network was configured, I think without even a domain controller, and it never occurred to me to try it this way, since the desktops and server were purchased many years ago as a package and installed and set up without much participation (hence not really making use of advanced AD features.)

A: If you're not using anything, then there's no real advantage.
However, that doesn't mean that you shouldn't use a domain. I'd argue that if you're at 20ish clients and you're not using GPO, software deployment, and SSO for file and print services, then you're Doing it Wrong™
In your current configuration, it sounds like you could get rid of AD with minimal fuss, but I really think that you should consider leveraging the benefits instead.

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Analytická etika je označení pro morální filosofii v kontextu analytické filosofie. Jde o směr etiky 20. století, zaměřující se na analýzu mravního jazyka po stránce logické, sémantické, pragmatické nebo lingvistické. Na počátku 20. století se značná část analytické filozofie orientovala přírodovědecky (naturalisticky), empiricky a racionalisticky. Často se tak také vyvíjely utilitaristické nebo dokonce antirealistické morální teorie.

To se dnes (přelom 21. století) zcela změnilo. Jednotliví analytici morální teorie vypracovali a obhajují širokou škálu přístupů, přičemž se stále diskutuje o všech kategoriích klasické etiky, klasických etických postojích.

Vzhledem k tomu, že je již několik desetiletí mezinárodní debata o morálně filozofických otázkách vedena do značné míry teoretiky s analytickým vzdělaním, nepanuje shoda na tom, jak analytickou etiku vymezit, a odlišit ji tak od kontinentální filosofie. Morální filosofie a "analytická etika" se tak dodnes (začátek 20. let 21. století) do značné míry shodují.

Mezi klasiky analytické etiky patří:

 všichni klasičtí utilitaristé
 Alfred Jules Ayer, který hájil metaetický emotivismus: Morální výroky nejsou ověřitelné, nejsou to tedy výroky o skutečnosti (tvrzení věcná, faktická). Vyjadřují pouze pocity. "Neměl bys zabíjet!" vyjadřuje pouze emoční nelibost
 John Leslie Mackie, který mimo jiné argumentoval proti objektivitě etiky morálním skepticismem v etice

Pro přehled současných základních morálně filosofických hledisek (koncepcí) viz hlavní články Morálka a Etika.

Odkazy

Reference

Literatura

 Dieter Birnbacher: Analytische Einführung in die Ethik; Berlin: de Gruyter, 2003. (německy)
 Dieter Birnbacher und Norbert Hoerster (Hg.): Texte zur Ethik, München: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH & Co. 1997. (německy)
 William K. Frankena: Analytische Ethik. Eine Einführung. 5. Aufl. München: dtv, 1994. (německy)
 Franz von Kutschera: Grundlagen der Ethik Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2. A. 1999. (německy)
 Georg Meggle und Günther Grewendorf (Hrsg.): Sprache und Ethik, Frankfurt a. M., Suhrkamp (stw 91), 1974. (německy)
 John Leslie Mackie: Ethik – Die Erfindung des moralisch Richtigen und Falschen, Stuttgart: Reclam 1983. (německy)
 Julian Nida-Rümelin und Thomas Schmidt: Rationalität in der praktischen Philosophie – Eine Einführung; Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2000. (německy)
 Jean-Claude Wolf und Peter Schaber: Analytische Moralphilosophie. Freiburg: Alber, 1998 (Alber-Reihe praktische Philosophie; Bd. 54), ISBN 3-495-47497-8. (německy)

Související články
 Metaetika
 Analytická filosofie

Analytická filozofie

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I finally got a moment with SimulationCraft and found out they've made really nice improvements to the tool. I was able to setup several profiles on WowHead and then use those to generate information. I still haven't figured out how to get them to show up side-by-side.. I have a feeling I need to edit a config file and I haven't had time to do that.
Download the SimulationCraft project and install it somewhere.
Launch the code by clicking on the executable (simcqt.exe).
Read the instruction (ok, I know you're going to skip them.. at least skim the instructions).
Click on the "Import" tab.
Navigate to an import source (WowArmory or an already-set-up WoWHead Profile).
Click the "Import!" button on the bottom right-hand corner of the application.
Click the "Simulate!" button on the bottom right-hand corner of the application.
Marvel at the pretty pictures.
Anyway, here are the profiles I setup.
Fiddling with these I found that for my current gear this one perfomed best in SimulationCraft. Lilac 14 56/00/15 I'm oddly pleased that the best performing profile is the spec/gear set I'm using on a day-to-day basis.
– This is using -my- gear with is a set of badge gear + mostly 10-man/some 25-regular drops. MMV.
– This only works if you TRUST the algorithms in SimulationCraft. At this point it works better than anything else I've fiddled with so I'm going with it.
– SimulationCraft says I should be getting ~7.9k DPS. Usually I'm barely brushing 5k. So I'm not sure if I'm missing something.. or if I'm just that much below perfect. Probably the latter.
Did I mention I generally base my pawn scales off yours? I think I did… either way, glad you got around to doing this. Thanks. I was also "oddly" (read: in the depths of my evilest shard) pleased that an affliction spec was finally the top dog.
What would you do if you're ridiculously over hit cap? I went ahead and respecced to reduce pushback, since you can't really plop those points anywhere else as the early part of the tree requires it. I'm trying to offload hit in favor of other stats, but it just seems so easy to come by right now.
That, and good trinkets are few and far between. I picked up the T9 hit trinket just because I had tons of triumph emblems and was sick of running with the ilvl 200 and 213 stuff (as I see you're dealing with as well). What's up with no trinket love? In any case, I'm sitting on that hit trinket, hoping that I can get rid of hit elsewhere to take advantage of my situation.
This 7.9k dps calculated by Simulationcraft is for a perfect raid and perfect player on a perfect boss. There are many things that affect your real dps.
First, these 7.9k are an average over many thousand simulations. You might be higher or lower depending on crit luck.
Then, if you run 10 mans you will never have a perfect raid. You will always miss some buffs which affect the dps.
There should be options in the GUI to deselect raid buffs if you don't have them.
If you like, you can create a /combatlog during your next raid and load it on one of the various web sites. Then, try to compare the output of Simulationcraft and your log. I've noticed that the dps of Simulationcraft is always higher then what you reach but the break down of which spell did how many percent of your damage is correct.
Hey, retrieved your comment from spam and made it non-spam. Thanks for the links.
I've never used SimulationCraft, mainly because I was okay eyeballing it for most of my warlock's life and I started using Rawr once my druid started raiding. But then some Windows XP update broke my .NET and Rawr won't work. I'm going to try out SimulationCraft and see what this is about.
@TheMightyGresh Quick&Dirty Simcraft howto here: http://bit.ly/6CLq6O Update to use Dest spec and your gear.. then fiddle with it.
Hi Nibuca, I've taken this Pawn scale and converted it to a LootRank scale in the tagged blog post below. Thanks for the data, very helpful.
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