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Becoming the Dark Prince: A Stalking Jack the Ripper Novella
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The angel of the Lord came and sat down under the oak in Ophrah that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, where his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress to keep it from the Midianites.
Now the angel of the Lord came and sat under the terebinth at Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, while his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the winepress to hide it from the Midianites.
When the angel of the Lord appeared to Gideon, he said, 'TheLord is with you, mighty warrior.'
And the angel of the Lord appeared to him and said to him, "The Lord is with you, O mighty man of valor."
'Pardon me, my lord,' Gideon replied, 'but if the Lord is with us, why has all this happened to us? Where are all his wonders that our ancestors told us about when they said, "Did not the Lord bring us up out of Egypt?" But now the Lord has abandoned us and given us into the hand of Midian.'
And Gideon said to him, "Please, sir, if the Lord is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And where are all his wonderful deeds that our fathers recounted to us, saying, 'Did not the Lord bring us up from Egypt?' But now the Lord has forsaken us and given us into the hand of Midian."
'Pardon me, my lord,' Gideon replied, 'but how can I save Israel? My clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my family.'
And he said to him, "Please, Lord, how can I save Israel? Behold, my clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house."
Gideon replied, 'If now I have found favour in your eyes, give me a sign that it is really you talking to me.
And he said to him, "If now I have found favor in your eyes, then show me a sign that it is you who speak with me.
Gideon went inside, prepared a young goat, and from an ephah of flour he made bread without yeast. Putting the meat in a basket and its broth in a pot, he brought them out and offered them to him under the oak.
So Gideon went into his house and prepared a young goat and unleavened cakes from an ephah of flour. The meat he put in a basket, and the broth he put in a pot, and brought them to him under the terebinth and presented them.
The angel of God said to him, 'Take the meat and the unleavened bread, place them on this rock, and pour out the broth.' And Gideon did so.
And the angel of God said to him, "Take the meat and the unleavened cakes, and put them on this rock, and pour the broth over them." And he did so.
When Gideon realised that it was the angel of the Lord, he exclaimed, 'Alas, SovereignLord! I have seen the angel of the Lord face to face!'
Then Gideon perceived that he was the angel of the Lord. And Gideon said, "Alas, O Lord God! For now I have seen the angel of the Lord face to face."
So Gideon built an altar to the Lord there and called it TheLord Is Peace. To this day it stands in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
Then Gideon built an altar there to the Lord and called it, The Lord Is Peace. To this day it still stands at Ophrah, which belongs to the Abiezrites.
So Gideon took ten of his servants and did as the Lord told him. But because he was afraid of his family and the townspeople, he did it at night rather than in the daytime.
So Gideon took ten men of his servants and did as the Lord had told him. But because he was too afraid of his family and the men of the town to do it by day, he did it by night.
They asked each other, 'Who did this?'
When they carefully investigated, they were told, 'Gideon son of Joash did it.'
And they said to one another, "Who has done this thing?" And after they had searched and inquired, they said, "Gideon the son of Joash has done this thing."
So because Gideon broke down Baal's altar, they gave him the name Jerub-Baal that day, saying, 'Let Baal contend with him.'
Therefore on that day Gideon was called Jerubbaal, that is to say, "Let Baal contend against him," because he broke down his altar.
Then the Spirit of the Lord came on Gideon, and he blew a trumpet, summoning the Abiezrites to follow him.
But the Spirit of the Lord clothed Gideon, and he sounded the trumpet, and the Abiezrites were called out to follow him.
Gideon said to God, 'If you will save Israel by my hand as you have promised –
Then Gideon said to God, "If you will save Israel by my hand, as you have said,
And that is what happened. Gideon rose early the next day; he squeezed the fleece and wrung out the dew – a bowlful of water.
And it was so. When he rose early next morning and squeezed the fleece, he wrung enough dew from the fleece to fill a bowl with water.
Early in the morning, Jerub-Baal (that is, Gideon) and all his men camped at the spring of Harod. The camp of Midian was north of them in the valley near the hill of Moreh.
Then Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) and all the people who were with him rose early and encamped beside the spring of Harod. And the camp of Midian was north of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.
The Lord said to Gideon, 'You have too many men. I cannot deliver Midian into their hands, or Israel would boast against me, "My own strength has saved me."
The Lord said to Gideon, "The people with you are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hand, lest Israel boast over me, saying, 'My own hand has saved me.'
But the Lord said to Gideon, 'There are still too many men. Take them down to the water, and I will thin them out for you there. If I say, "This one shall go with you," he shall go; but if I say, "This one shall not go with you," he shall not go.'
And the Lord said to Gideon, "The people are still too many. Take them down to the water, and I will test them for you there, and anyone of whom I say to you, 'This one shall go with you,' shall go with you, and anyone of whom I say to you, 'This one shall not go with you,' shall not go."
So Gideon took the men down to the water. There the Lord told him, 'Separate those who lap the water with their tongues as a dog laps from those who kneel down to drink.'
So he brought the people down to the water. And the Lord said to Gideon, "Every one who laps the water with his tongue, as a dog laps, you shall set by himself. Likewise, every one who kneels down to drink."
The Lord said to Gideon, 'With the three hundred men that lapped I will save you and give the Midianites into your hands. Let all the others go home.'
And the Lord said to Gideon, "With the 300 men who lapped I will save you and give the Midianites into your hand, and let all the others go every man to his home."
So Gideon sent the rest of the Israelites home but kept the three hundred, who took over the provisions and trumpets of the others.
Now the camp of Midian lay below him in the valley.
So the people took provisions in their hands, and their trumpets. And he sent all the rest of Israel every man to his tent, but retained the 300 men. And the camp of Midian was below him in the valley.
During that night the Lord said to Gideon, 'Get up, go down against the camp, because I am going to give it into your hands.
That same night the Lord said to him, "Arise, go down against the camp, for I have given it into your hand.
Gideon arrived just as a man was telling a friend his dream. 'I had a dream,' he was saying. 'A round loaf of barley bread came tumbling into the Midianite camp. It struck the tent with such force that the tent overturned and collapsed.'
When Gideon came, behold, a man was telling a dream to his comrade. And he said, "Behold, I dreamed a dream, and behold, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian and came to the tent and struck it so that it fell and turned it upside down, so that the tent lay flat."
His friend responded, 'This can be nothing other than the sword of Gideon son of Joash, the Israelite. God has given the Midianites and the whole camp into his hands.'
And his comrade answered, "This is no other than the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel; God has given into his hand Midian and all the camp."
When Gideon heard the dream and its interpretation, he bowed down and worshipped. He returned to the camp of Israel and called out, 'Get up! The Lord has given the Midianite camp into your hands.'
As soon as Gideon heard the telling of the dream and its interpretation, he worshiped. And he returned to the camp of Israel and said, "Arise, for the Lord has given the host of Midian into your hand."
When I and all who are with me blow our trumpets, then from all round the camp blow yours and shout, "For the Lord and for Gideon."'
When I blow the trumpet, I and all who are with me, then blow the trumpets also on every side of all the camp and shout, 'For the Lord and for Gideon.'"
Gideon and the hundred men with him reached the edge of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, just after they had changed the guard. They blew their trumpets and broke the jars that were in their hands.
So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the outskirts of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, when they had just set the watch. And they blew the trumpets and smashed the jars that were in their hands.
The three companies blew the trumpets and smashed the jars. Grasping the torches in their left hands and holding in their right hands the trumpets they were to blow, they shouted, 'A sword for the Lord and for Gideon!'
Then the three companies blew the trumpets and broke the jars. They held in their left hands the torches, and in their right hands the trumpets to blow. And they cried out, "A sword for the Lord and for Gideon!"
Gideon sent messengers throughout the hill country of Ephraim, saying, 'Come down against the Midianites and seize the waters of the Jordan ahead of them as far as Beth Barah.'
So all the men of Ephraim were called out and they seized the waters of the Jordan as far as Beth Barah.
Gideon sent messengers throughout all the hill country of Ephraim, saying, "Come down against the Midianites and capture the waters against them, as far as Beth-barah, and also the Jordan." So all the men of Ephraim were called out, and they captured the waters as far as Beth-barah, and also the Jordan.
They also captured two of the Midianite leaders, Oreb and Zeeb. They killed Oreb at the rock of Oreb, and Zeeb at the winepress of Zeeb. They pursued the Midianites and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon, who was by the Jordan.
And they captured the two princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb. They killed Oreb at the rock of Oreb, and Zeeb they killed at the winepress of Zeeb. Then they pursued Midian, and they brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon across the Jordan.
Now the Ephraimites asked Gideon, 'Why have you treated us like this? Why didn't you call us when you went to fight Midian?' And they challenged him vigorously.
Then the men of Ephraim said to him, "What is this that you have done to us, not to call us when you went to fight against Midian?" And they accused him fiercely.
Gideon and his three hundred men, exhausted yet keeping up the pursuit, came to the Jordan and crossed it.
And Gideon came to the Jordan and crossed over, he and the 300 men who were with him, exhausted yet pursuing.
Then Gideon replied, 'Just for that, when the Lord has given Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, I will tear your flesh with desert thorns and briers.'
So Gideon said, "Well then, when the Lord has given Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, I will flail your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers."
Gideon went up by the route of the nomads east of Nobah and Jogbehah and attacked the unsuspecting army.
And Gideon went up by the way of the tent dwellers east of Nobah and Jogbehah and attacked the army, for the army felt secure.
Gideon son of Joash then returned from the battle by the Pass of Heres.
Then Gideon the son of Joash returned from the battle by the ascent of Heres.
Then Gideon came and said to the men of Sukkoth, 'Here are Zebah and Zalmunna, about whom you taunted me by saying, "Do you already have the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna in your possession? Why should we give bread to your exhausted men?"'
And he came to the men of Succoth and said, "Behold Zebah and Zalmunna, about whom you taunted me, saying, 'Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna already in your hand, that we should give bread to your men who are exhausted?'"
Gideon replied, 'Those were my brothers, the sons of my own mother. As surely as the Lord lives, if you had spared their lives, I would not kill you.'
And he said, "They were my brothers, the sons of my mother. As the Lord lives, if you had saved them alive, I would not kill you."
Zebah and Zalmunna said, 'Come, do it yourself. "As is the man, so is his strength."' So Gideon stepped forward and killed them, and took the ornaments off their camels' necks.
Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, "Rise yourself and fall upon us, for as the man is, so is his strength." And Gideon arose and killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and he took the crescent ornaments that were on the necks of their camels.
The Israelites said to Gideon, 'Rule over us – you, your son and your grandson – because you have saved us from the hand of Midian.'
Then the men of Israel said to Gideon, "Rule over us, you and your son and your grandson also, for you have saved us from the hand of Midian."
But Gideon told them, 'I will not rule over you, nor will my son rule over you. The Lord will rule over you.'
Gideon said to them, "I will not rule over you, and my son will not rule over you; the Lord will rule over you."
And he said, 'I do have one request, that each of you give me an earring from your share of the plunder.' (It was the custom of the Ishmaelites to wear gold earrings.)
And Gideon said to them, "Let me make a request of you: every one of you give me the earrings from his spoil." (For they had golden earrings, because they were Ishmaelites.)
Gideon made the gold into an ephod, which he placed in Ophrah, his town. All Israel prostituted themselves by worshipping it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and his family.
And Gideon made an ephod of it and put it in his city, in Ophrah. And all Israel whored after it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and to his family.
Thus Midian was subdued before the Israelites and did not raise its head again. During Gideon's lifetime, the land had peace for forty years.
So Midian was subdued before the people of Israel, and they raised their heads no more. And the land had rest forty years in the days of Gideon.
He had seventy sons of his own, for he had many wives.
Now Gideon had seventy sons, his own offspring, for he had many wives.
Gideon son of Joash died at a good old age and was buried in the tomb of his father Joash in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
And Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age and was buried in the tomb of Joash his father, at Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
No sooner had Gideon died than the Israelites again prostituted themselves to the Baals. They set up Baal-Berith as their god
As soon as Gideon died, the people of Israel turned again and whored after the Baals and made Baal-berith their god.
They also failed to show any loyalty to the family of Jerub-Baal (that is, Gideon) in spite of all the good things he had done for them.
and they did not show steadfast love to the family of Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) in return for all the good that he had done to Israel.
And what more shall I say? I do not have time to tell about Gideon, Barak, Samson and Jephthah, about David and Samuel and the prophets,
And what more shall I say? For time would fail me to tell of Gideon Barak Samson Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets—

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Strawberry Fields Forever. We can bet that the delicious taste and flavors of strawberries and white chocolate chips will remain with you forever. If you like our new Strawberry Fields, just wait as more new cookies are on the way!


Innovations in music rank among America's most significant contributions to global culture, none more so than jazz. From its humble beginnings as dance hall entertainment, jazz is now embraced as an art form, respected and imitated the world over.
This music course addresses jazz from a listener's perspective, but calls on professional jazz musicians to help us engage with this often mysterious aural experience. This six-week course will enable interaction with the basic components of jazz (swing, improvisation, structure and personal expression) while providing an inside connection to the artists who perform it.
Content includes excerpts from the 300+ video interviews gathered with jazz personalities for the Fillius Jazz Archive, select scholarly readings and demonstrations offered by the instructor, a working musician. Students will engage in user-friendly activities that include listening, responding, counting, and internalizing the concepts that make jazz work. Rarely heard stories and anecdotes offered by our interviewees will stimulate the imagination and provide rich content for open discussion.
We will celebrate the completion of the course with a live concert, streamed to participants of the course, who will also have an opportunity to interact with Monk.
Jazz: The Music, The Stories, The Players will appeal equally to the casual listener, the avid fan and the proficient jazz player.
Excellent course, excellent prof, excellent introduction to jazz. I have taken both jazz courses on Edx and they are both well worth taking together. The other course "Jazz Appreciation" is more on the history & evolution of Jazz and does a fabulous job of providing an overview of the musicians whereas this course introduces you more to the structure of jazz music, what makes it jazz musically as well as some of the stories and players.


Brett Rice, an active member in the community shows his spirit with donations and his time by serving on the Board of Directors at the local Alexandria Salvation Army.
From the organization's beginning, The Salvation Army has relied heavily on volunteers who support it's programs. Sometimes referred to as "the army behind The Army," volunteers play a crucial role in The Salvation Army's ability to provide quality social services for the entire community.
These invaluable resources in The Salvation Army's efforts to satisfy the ever changing demands of our world. Through the experience and skills they bring forth to The Army, volunteers make major contributions to the local community by favorably influencing the lives of those helped. Salvation Army volunteers change lives, uplift families in need and assist local communities all through our great country.


Unlike artificial fertilizers, worm castings are 100 percent safe to use. Worm castings are an organic and all-purpose fertilizer that can help make your vegetable garden more productive.
When used properly, worm castings can enrich your garden plants. To use worm castings, mix in a cup of castings with homemade potting soil. To make your own potting soil, all you need is compost, perlite, and pulverized topsoil.
After six weeks or so, plants grown with worm castings will be almost twice as large as plants that are grown with artificial fertilizers. With worm castings, your plants will have stronger, thicker, and darker fully developed leaves. Plants that are nourished by worm castings will continue to thrive even after they're transplanted.
Worm castings are versatile, and you can use them as a dry fertilizer. They can also be used to make a potent liquid fertilizer.
Worm castings are more effective because they are full of organic material and powerful minerals like calcium, magnesium, nitrogen, phosphorous, and potassium. Plants need these ingredients so they can grow healthy and strong. Worm castings can even enhance soil aeration and water retention.
Worm castings, which are also called vermicast, are made from the dried manure of worms. The manure of other animals like chickens, cows, horses, and rabbits are hot so they still need to age or be composted. Fortunately, worm castings are perfectly balanced and you can use them in your garden right away.
Container plantings – For container plantings, you need to add 1/2 cup of castings to the soil in the containers. Once a month, add a quarter cup of castings to the top of the soil in the containers.
Hanging baskets – To make your own hanging baskets, add 1/2 of cup of castings in the potting soil during planting time. If you buy already-planted baskets, sprinkle a quarter cup of castings on top of the soil. When it rains or as you water the plants, the nutrients leach down into their roots. Re-apply worm casting every month to keep basket plants healthy.
Liquid compost tea – You can make an all-natural homemade "miracle growing liquid fertilizer" with worm castings. First, combine 1/2 to 3/4 cups of worm castings with two gallons of water. Let the solution soak for 24 hours. You can use the liquid compost tea to fertilize vegetable plants or flowerbeds. For vegetable plants, apply about 1/4 gallon of the mixture to each root zone. Water containers and hanging baskets with the solution every few weeks.
Perennials – When cultivating or transplanting perennials, add a quarter cup of castings to every new planting hole.
Seedlings – To use worm castings for seed starting, combine one part castings for every four to six parts potting soil. The slow release of nutrients can help seedlings grow big and strong.
Shrubs and trees – For traditional one-gallon containers, add one cup of castings when planting. For large shrubs and trees, use an additional 1/2 cup for every additional gallon size of the container.
Vegetable transplants – For vegetable transplants, use a quarter cup of castings mixed into each planting hole. Once this is done, sprinkle a couple of tablespoons mixed with mulch on top of the plant. This can act as a slow-release fertilizer every time it rains or whenever you water the plants.
You can read more articles about the benefits of using worm castings at HomeGardeningNews.com.


Why did the elk cross the road? To get to the other side, of course. The joke is silly, but for Colorado big game animals it's the truth. It's also dangerous for motorists as this crossing can happen without warning.
As the weather warms, elk, deer, and other wildlife are on the move to find the most delicious food and comfortable shelter.
Our roadways often cross wildlife 'roadways' and these animals think they have the right-of-way. After all, they were here first.
Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) officials see an increase in wildlife automobile collisions in the spring as the animals are very active moving from lower to higher elevations as the weather warms. I suppose they get spring fever, too.
CPW offers some tips to help reduce the likelihood of colliding with one of the state's big game animals.
Slow Down - Lower speeds give you more time to react.
Stay Alert - Especially at dawn and dusk when big game animals are most active.
Scan Ahead - Look for movement on the side of the roadway or shining eyes reflected in your headlights.
Take Wildlife Warning and Traffic Signs Seriously - These mark the most common areas where wildlife are likely to cross the road.
The Colorado Department of Transportation sees between 3,000 and 4,000 vehicle-wildlife crashes every year. They also report the average damage to the vehicle in one of these collisions exceeds $3,000. Oh, Deer!


The cameo color is coral with a beautiful women's profile right facing ivory profile. No visible signature. 4 prong set faceted glass or crystal stones. Figure (women) has figure rounded cheeks. Matte finish.
TESTES RECEIVED: 1. Sun Test (held up (back facing) against strong light; the entire silhouette of cameo was seen; as in ones made from shell.) 2. Weight Test (lighter weight). Visual Test: Matte Finish (back has an overlay on it). Temperature test: Remained cool to touch.
Measures 2 inches by 1.5 inches.
Excellent Condition. Bright and beautiful metal. Sturdy Closure.


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import os
from os import path
from nose.tools import *
from ner_ie import prepare_ner_sentence
from ner_ie import read_entity
from ner_ie.sentence_extractor import SentenceExtractor
from ner_ie import train_ner

def setup():
    print "SETUP!"

def teardown():
    print "TEAR DOWN!"

def test_pipeline():
    print "I RAN!"
    raw_dir = path.abspath('data/Raw')
    anno_dir = path.abspath('data/Annotated')
    raw_files = [
        f for f in os.listdir(raw_dir) if path.isfile(path.join(raw_dir, f))]
    raw_files.sort()
    anno_files = [
        f for f in os.listdir(anno_dir) if path.isfile(path.join(anno_dir, f))]
    anno_files.sort()
    sent_extractor = SentenceExtractor()
    all_sents = []
    # for idx in range(len(raw_files)):
    for idx in [1]:
        raw_file = raw_files[idx]
        anno_file = anno_files[idx]
        sents = sent_extractor.get_sentences(path.join(raw_dir, raw_file))
        all_sents.extend(sents)
        mentions = read_entity.read_entity(path.join(anno_dir, anno_file))
        prepare_ner_sentence.prepare(sents, mentions)
    # print 'Start training!'
    # train_ner.train_ner(all_sents)

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« Back Post Date: Tuesday, December 05, 2017
A Little Love for the Scorers
In 2017, the YRALIS awarded David Seabrook the Roger H. Shope trophy for "outstanding achievement in race management." The citation stated that "A computerized Cox Sprague scoring system has been one of the biggest improvements in race management in many years."
Photo: David Seabrook (center) with YRALIS past president Bernie Armstrong (left)
In 2017, the YRALIS awarded IHYC member David Seabrook the Roger H. Shope trophy for "outstanding achievement in race management." The citation stated that "A computerized Cox Sprague scoring system has been one of the biggest improvements in race management in many years."
What the heck does that mean?
Scorers don't get a lot of love. But without scorers much of the motivation for sailboat racing disappears. And scoring a long series of races can be a challenge. Series can consist of twenty racing days in a season with as many as eight races a day. That's 160 races to score. Multiply by that by the number of competitors (say 10), and that's 1600 data points. And we're just getting started.
Then you have to identify the competitors. Easy enough for big boats, but with club-owned boats (like Ideal 18s) the same sail number can be used by a different skipper every week. Couple that with race committees who misspell competitors' names, some who send smudged notes hand-written in the rain while aboard a rocking RIB, and you have quite a headache. Is the "Smith" who raced in week 4 with sail number RYC1 the same person as the "Smit" who sailed in week 11 with sail number 259? In 2017 the Sunday YRA Ideal 18 races had 38 different competitors and 16 different race committees from four different clubs, which meant that there were many opportunities for screwups.
Then there's the question of how to score fairly. Different numbers of boats show up each race day. If one week there are 5 boats and the next week there are 15, should the winner of the smaller race get the same points as the winner of the larger race?
Fairness extends to ranking within races. In many scoring systems, improving from 3rd to 2nd gets you one extra point. Similarly, improving from 10th to 9th gets you one extra point. But it's much more difficult to improve from 3rd to 2nd than from 10th to 9th. Shouldn't the person who moved from 3rd to 2nd be rewarded more?
The Yacht Racing Association of Long Island Sound has a scoring system called "Cox-Sprague" that is designed to be fair. For example, it rewards a person who moved from 3rd to 2nd more than someone who moved from 10th to 9th. It rewards the winner of a large race more than the winner of a small race. While it's fairer, it's more complex to score. Scorers have to look up a table to figure out how many points to allocate based on the placing and the number of competitors.
But wait, there's more! There are "throwouts," where competitors are allowed to discard their worst few scores of the season. But how do you figure out which ones to discard? If Smith came in 3rd out of 4 boats in one race and 11th out of 15 boats in another race, which score is worse? The scorer has to look at every race Smith sailed to calculate which race has the worst impact on the overall season score. And this needs to be recalculated after every race for every skipper.
Tired yet?
David Seabrook realized what a pain this scoring process was, and devised an automated way to do it online using Google Sheets and Google Apps Script. His motivations were selfish: he was Focus on Sailing co-chair back in 2012 and wanted accurate scoring for the Captain Harbor Sunday YRA Ideal 18 competition. This scoring solution was soon adopted for the Captain Harbor Friday Night Series. Then Riverside Yacht Club heard about it and adopted it for their Thursday night Ideal 18 series.
While few people understood what this automated scoring solution meant, the YRA of LIS did. Finally, a little love for the scorers!
Photo: Roger H. Shope Perpetual Trophy


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To improve the health care experience for its members and providers, MDwise will bring claims processing in-house beginning Jan. 1, 2019.
"We will have more control over the claims processing functions by performing the functions in-house," said MDwise CEO Bruce Hayes. "This change will allow us to promptly and accurately pay our providers for the high-quality services they provide to our members. It also helps us attain our goal of improving the health status of our members through the most efficient provision of quality health care services."
MDwise will use a platform called HealthRules to integrate its claims and membership system. McLaren Health Care, which acquired MDwise last year, has used the platform for five years. It has allowed McLaren to pay 97 percent of claims within seven days.
"I communicate with providers on a daily basis about outstanding claims," said Cynthia Tate Gardner, Director of Claims Management at MDwise. "Bringing the process in-house will minimize stress for our providers and members."
"We think that this change in claims processing will positively impact our providers and the MDwise members who choose Eskenazi Health," said Dan Sellers, CFO of The Health & Hospital Corporation of Marion County, the municipal corporation that operates Eskenazi Health. "We have worked with MDwise to provide Hoosiers with quality health care for 24 years, and we look forward to continuing that relationship."
Member coverage will not be disrupted by the change in claims processing.


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GOLFTEC Announces $100,000 Raised for PGA HOPE Through Their DRIVE FOR HOPE Campaign
Tony Korologos January 18, 2022 Posted in News
Denver, CO, Jan. 18, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — GOLFTEC, the world leader in golf improvement and club fitting, announced today that the company has raised $100,000 to donate to PGA HOPE through the DRIVE FOR HOPE campaign. The DRIVE FOR HOPE charity campaign combined generous public donations with GOLFTEC's donation of $1 for every lesson given during the month of November.
"We are extremely pleased with the donations we raised through our DRIVE FOR HOPE campaign," said GOLFTEC CEO, Joe Assell. "All of our students helped out by coming into GOLFTEC Training Centers for lessons in November, so that we could add to our total with every lesson given. We are very proud to be helping out our military and Veterans everywhere by making this donation to PGA HOPE."
PGA HOPE (Helping Our Patriots Everywhere) is the flagship military program of PGA REACH, the charitable foundation of the PGA of America. PGA HOPE introduces golf to Veterans with disabilities to enhance their physical, mental, social and emotional well-being.
"We're proud of the amazing work that PGA Professionals do year-round for America's Veterans through PGA HOPE, and we appreciate the wonderful support GOLFTEC has given to this special cause," said PGA President Jim Richerson. "PGA HOPE has such a tremendous influence on so many Veterans nationwide, and initiatives like DRIVE FOR HOPE help us positively impact the lives of our nation's heroes through the game of golf."
GOLFTEC gave over 80,000 lessons nationwide during November, a number that definitely was influenced by the DRIVE FOR HOPE military campaign. DRIVE FOR HOPE is part of GOLFTEC Cares, a charitable initiative with a mission to unite communities through golf and drive the game towards greater accessibility, diversity, and long-lasting charitable impact. With over $2 million in charitable giving in 2021, GOLFTEC is aiming for an even greater impact through 2022 and beyond.
About GOLFTEC
Since 1995, GOLFTEC's mission has remained the same—to help people play better golf. The GOLFTEC experience is designed for golfers of all ages and abilities to work with an expert Coach to build a game improvement plan customized to their specific needs and goals. GOLFTEC's cutting edge training systems, including new OptiMotion, gives our Students and Coaches instant and data-driven feedback. With millions of lessons given and more than 220 locations across the world, GOLFTEC is the world leader in golf instruction.
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Mönchengladbach - A few eyebrows may have been raised at the conclusion of Matchday 17, when Borussia Mönchengladbach edged above Borussia Dortmund to spend the winter break in third, but for Foals' defender , it's a fitting reward for the team's efforts.
Speaking to bundesliga.com, the versatile 24-year-old defender analyses his side's barnstorming first half of the 2013/14 campaign.
bundesliga.com: Tony Jantschke, if anybody had told you before the season started that you would be spending the winter break in third, ahead of Borussia Dortmund, what would you have said?
Tony Jantschke: I'd have said: let's just wait and see!
bundesliga.com: You wouldn't have told them they were crazy?
Jantschke: No, I wouldn't. We know we're good and it's maybe a touch surprising that we're third, and maybe it would have been hard to imagine, but when you see the way we've been playing lately, it's no longer so surprising. I think we thoroughly deserve to be where we are. What's more important than the position, though, is the number of points we've got. We've earned our 33 points. We'd set ourselves the target of 25 and we've got eight more, so we can be proud of that.
Jantschke: That was pretty frustrating, particularly because we had chances to make it 3-1. But if you don't take your chances, then things can always get tight for you. Wolfsburg brought on a giant up front in and we lost our shape a little because they threw everything they could find at us. Of course we were a bit disappointed because we'd have loved to have won, but you've also got to be realistic and note that Wolfsburg had gone nine games without losing.
bundesliga.com: Nevertheless, the joy at such an excellent first half of the season must prevail over the disappointment. What was the mood in the dressing room after the final home game of the year?
Jantschke: It was still good. The coach had a few warm words for us. We all know that we played a great first half of the season. The Wolfsburg match didn't exactly end in a good way, but it was an exciting, fast-paced Bundesliga game that swung from one end to the other.
bundesliga.com: Would it not be a good idea to raise the season's objectives a little?
Jantschke: We shouldn't do that. The league table looks good right now, but it's only momentary. We want to remain near the top, but we have still to play. We hope to carry on improving so our Borussia-Park remains a fortress next year too. Hats off to the team, the whole club and the fans. It was a fantastic six months.
bundesliga.com: The start to the season was pretty average. It's only from Matchday 10 that things took off. Was there anything in particular which sparked that streak?
Jantschke: I think it was just our development. We had a few difficult away games at the start of the season and were still looking for the right balance. You can see how some things have now sunk in – we're more compact, conceding fewer chances and not getting caught out on the counterattack as frequently as at the start of the season.
bundesliga.com: What are your thoughts on the first game of the second half of the season, against FC Bayern München?
Jantschke: That's going to be a great game, and we've got nothing to lose. It seems like Bayern have won 100 games in a row. Everybody expects us to lose. It's the first game of the second half of the season and the whole world will be watching. What more can you want?
bundesliga.com: Do you hope to move back to your usual position again soon, or have you developed a taste for playing centre back?
Jantschke: I don't really mind where I play. Anybody who knows me knows that I'm a player who wants to defend his own goal. Whether that's on the right, left or in the centre, or even just in front of the defence – I'll do anything.


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Constructivist Analyses of Foreign Policy
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics
Most constructivist work in IR has attempted to account for very general outcomes in the international system, most notably the well-known research of Alexander Wendt. Whether we live in a "Kantian," "Lockean," or "Hobbesian" world, for instance, is in a sense a socially constructed thing rather than flowing from some inevitable structure or theory of human nature. Nevertheless, some important constructivist work has focused on more specific foreign policy outcomes, research that is examined here in depth. Constructivist analyses tend to focus on "how possible" questions rather than attempting to "explain" particular decisions, and this offers a useful addition or corrective to more traditional analyses of foreign policy. They also attempt to understand the general foreign policy orientations of states, often relying on notions of culture, role, and identity. But such approaches have not yet fully matured into comprehensive approaches to foreign policy, in at least two senses. First of all, current constructivist approaches are somewhat limited by a focus on the social dimensions of foreign policy rather than individual ones, being sociological rather than psychological in nature. This is sometimes not an issue, but it becomes a problem when variation between decision makers with the same social identity is the object of interest or where norms are in conflict with one another. Secondly, there have been relatively few attempts to turn constructivism into a normative theory. Arguably, in order to become a fully rounded theory (as opposed to a loose framework), constructivism needs a mechanism by which it can influence actual decision makers, very few of whom currently describe themselves in opinion polls as being constructivists, as opposed to realists or liberals. And yet both of these problems can potentially be remedied. Firstly, constructivist approaches may be combined with psychological approaches that supplement their sociological focus. Both constructivism and the psychological approach to decision making are ideational in nature rather than material; in other words, they share the belief that what people think is "out there" is often more important than what actually is. Indeed, the psychological approach to foreign policy provided a major source of inspiration for the early constructivists. Secondly, constructivist approaches can offer policy makers prescriptive advice as to how they should or ought to behave. After reviewing the literature on understanding foreign policy outcomes, this article suggests the outlines of an applied constructivism that decision makers in government would find positively useful. There is a Realpolitik and an Idealpolitik, but can there be a "Konstruktpolitik"? At least six principles might guide the development of normative constructivism. Chief among these is the axiom, "if you can't change the physical, change the social." Other principles include the effort to initiate "norm cascades," the encouragement (or discouragement) of self-fulfilling beliefs and self-negating beliefs, acceptance of the role of agency, and the conscious use of argument and language as tools of persuasion.
Jenna Milani, Ben Bradford, and Jonathan Jackson
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology
The ability of the police to assert social control and reproduce social order depends, crucially, on the capacity to use force to achieve these ends—whether when restraining someone attempting to self-harm or shooting dead an armed terrorist. But what do we know about police use of force in the United States and England and Wales? Why does unjustified police use of force occur? And why do citizens have different views on the acceptability and unacceptability of various forms of police violence?
Normative Theory in the English School
Molly Cochran
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies
Normative thinking permeates the work of the English School and has done so since its start as the British Committee for International Politics. Ethics, or, more precisely, the tension between ethics and power or interests, was one of the original concerns of the founding members of the Committee. It was an aim of the Committee to combine ethical reflection with the historical analysis of states systems. The approach in first-generation, or classical, English School scholarship to ethical questions primarily involved the identification of traditions of political and moral speculation about international relations (IR). Another significant feature of classical English School thought was moral skepticism, which seriously challenged what could be said about ethical choices within the forms of international interaction it charted. However, keen interest in what normative agendas can be supported within international or world society—basic subsistence rights, international criminal justice, and humanitarian intervention—does not necessarily amount to a normative theory. As such, order versus justice is a more productive starting point for normative theorizing within the English School. Meanwhile, there are two modes of normative thought in postclassical English School: practical and moral–philosophical arguments. The English School is grounded in the practical, in the real-world tussle of power and interests, while at the same time it works through what it is possible to say about the nature of obligation and moral responsibility among international actors. This is where ethics and practical interest meet, and it represents the unique contribution of the English School to contemporary normative IR theory.
History of European Vernacular Grammar Writing
Gerda Haßler
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics
The grammatization of European vernacular languages began in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance and continued up until the end of the 18th century. Through this process, grammars were written for the vernaculars and, as a result, the vernaculars were able to establish themselves in important areas of communication. Vernacular grammars largely followed the example of those written for Latin, using Latin descriptive categories without fully adapting them to the vernaculars. In accord with the Greco-Latin tradition, the grammars typically contain sections on orthography, prosody, morphology, and syntax, with the most space devoted to the treatment of word classes in the section on "etymology." The earliest grammars of vernaculars had two main goals: on the one hand, making the languages described accessible to non-native speakers, and on the other, supporting the learning of Latin grammar by teaching the grammar of speakers' native languages. Initially, it was considered unnecessary to engage with the grammar of native languages for their own sake, since they were thought to be acquired spontaneously. Only gradually did a need for normative grammars develop which sought to codify languages. This development relied on an awareness of the value of vernaculars that attributed a certain degree of perfection to them. Grammars of indigenous languages in colonized areas were based on those of European languages and today offer information about the early state of those languages, and are indeed sometimes the only sources for now extinct languages. Grammars of vernaculars came into being in the contrasting contexts of general grammar and the grammars of individual languages, between grammar as science and as art and between description and standardization. In the standardization of languages, the guiding principle could either be that of anomaly, which took a particular variety of a language as the basis of the description, or that of analogy, which permitted interventions into a language aimed at making it more uniform.
The Practice Turn in International Relations Theory
Jérémie Cornut
In the social sciences, IR included, the study of practices starts from a very simple intuition: social realities - and international politics - are constituted by human beings acting in and on the world. Their ways of doing things delineate practices that enact and give meaning to the world. When seen through these lenses, the concerns of other IR approaches – war, peace, negotiations, states, diplomacy, international organizations, and so on – are bundles of individual and collective practices woven together and producing specific outcomes. Rather than as a unified approach, the Practice Turn (PT) in International Relations Theory is best approached through a series of conceptual innovations and tools that introduce novel ways of thinking about international politics. The review article here first introduces the main conceptual tools in PT's toolbox focusing on defining practices, the logic of practice, field, capital, and symbolic domination. It then situates PT within IR, and shows how it departs from both rationalism and constructivism. The article closes by focusing on the methodological, epistemological and normative debates among practice turners.
magic, Greek
Radcliffe G. Edmonds III
Greek magic is the discourse of magic within the ancient Greek world. Greek magic includes a range of practices, from malevolent curses to benevolent protections, from divinatory practices to alchemical procedures, but what is labelled magic depends on who is doing the labelling and the circumstances in which the label is applied. The discourse of magic pertains to non-normative ritualized activity, in which the deviation from the norm is most often marked in terms of the perceived efficacy of the act, the familiarity of the performance within the cultural tradition, the ends for which the act is performed, or the social location of the performer. Magic is thus a construct of subjective labelling, rather than an objectively existing category. Rituals whose efficacy is perceived as extraordinary (in either a positive or negative sense) or that are performed in unfamiliar ways, for questionable ends, or by performers whose status is out of the ordinary might be labelled (by others or by oneself) as magic in antiquity.
Norms and Social Constructivism in International Relations
Matthew J. Hoffmann
Social norms were conceptualized as aspects of social structure that emerged from the actions and beliefs of actors in specific communities; norms shaped those actions and beliefs by constituting actors' identities and interests. Early constructivist work in the 1980s and early 1990s sought to establish a countervailing approach to the material and rational theories that dominated the study of international relations. Empirically oriented constructivists worked to show that shared ideas about appropriate state behavior had a significant impact on the nature and functioning of world politics. Initial constructivist studies of social norms can be divided into three areas: normative, socialization, and normative emergence. After making the case that norms matter and developing a number of theoretical frameworks to show how norms emerge, spread, and influence behavior, norms-oriented constructivists have shifted their attention to a new set of questions, and in particular compliance with the strictures of social norms and change in norms themselves. Ideas about whether actors reason about norms or through norms can be linked to behavioral logics, which provide conceptions of how actors and norms are linked. Two types of normative dynamics can be identified: the first is endogenous contestation; the second is compliance or diffusion. In order to better understand compliance with and contestation over norms either in isolation or together, it is necessary to pay more attention to the prior understanding of who is in the community. Another topic that requires further consideration in future research is the relationship between intersubjective and subjective reality.
Ethics of Peacebuilding
Reina C. Neufeldt
The proliferation of international peacebuilding practice in the 2000s was accompanied by a series of questions that has produced a significant body of writing about peacebuilding ethics within International Relations. This growing body of literature has produced questions, debates and theoretical positions. As explored below, a limited set of meta-ethics considerations provide the foundation for normative theorizing, particularly the moral objectivist commitment to positive peace. The majority of theorizing is situated among normative ethics debates. These works respond to the questions: Who has agency or who ought to have agency in peacebuilding? What ends should peacebuilding pursue? And, what means will ensure that peacebuilding is done right? The related literature focuses on a broad range of conditions, from individuals working for nongovernmental organizations to state- and United Nations–sponsored interventions. It includes authors who write from cosmopolitan, consequentialist, postcolonial, virtue, critical, feminist, and Foucaultian perspectives, among others. Finally, there is nascent work in descriptive and applied ethics. Peacebuilding efforts to rebuild relationships and structures during and after conflict, violence and war present a series of ethical questions and challenges for international and national actors. Should the international community engage in peacebuilding? To what extent? Who ought to be involved? What constitutes good ends for peacebuilding? How can peacebuilding be done right? These questions identify the ways in which peacebuilding has been morally interrogated since its rise in prominence as a form of international intervention in the 1990s. The history of peacebuilding and peacebuilding meta-ethics must be considered with a view toward current normative ethics debates involving agency as well as the ends and means in peacebuilding.
Diasporic News and Journalism
Ola Ogunyemi
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication
Diasporic news refers to information, entertainment, and education news that is politically, economically, and socioculturally relevant to diaspora audiences. This news content is produced by diasporic news media established for and by diasporic groups. According to scholars, diasporic media plays two broad roles: an orientation role relating to information and advice to help diasporic groups adjust to the host country and a connective role relating to information about events in the homeland. The affordability of new media technology spurred the growth of diasporic media making countless platforms available to diaspora groups to disseminate their views via the legacy media of print, radio, and television; and via the new media of Internet and social media. However, their business model is still preedominantly independent and small scale, and their printed edition is circulated mostly through alternative distribution outlets such as grocery shops, churches, restaurants, and airports. Their practitioners subscribe broadly to the tenets of journalistic professionalism, but these are discursively reinterpreted, appropriated and contested in line with the cultural sensibilities of diaspora audiences. On their part, the diaspora audiences use them as a platform for political activism; to connect with their group members; to watch movies and listen to music. But in recent times, the home governments are using them to tap into the diaspora resources including remittances and skills transfer.
Violent Media Content and Effects
Robert Busching, Johnie J. Allen, and Craig A. Anderson
In our modern age, electronic media usage is prevalent in almost every part of the world. People are more connected than ever before with easy access to highly portable devices (e.g., laptops, smartphones, and tablets) that allow for media consumption at any time of day. Unfortunately, the presence of violence in electronic media content is almost as prevalent as the media itself. Violence can be found in music, television shows, video games, and even YouTube videos. Content analyses have shown that nearly all media contain violence, irrespective of age rating (Linder & Gentile, 2009; Thompson & Haninger, 2001; Thompson, Tepichin, & Haninger, 2006; Yokota & Thompson, 2000). It is therefore important to ask: What are the consequences of pervasive exposure to screen violence? One consequence of media violence exposure, hotly debated by some in the general public, is increased aggressive behavior. This relationship was investigated in many studies using experimental, longitudinal, or cross-sectional design. These studies are summarized in meta-analyses, which support the notion that media violence increase the likelihood of acting aggressively. This link can be explained by an increase in aggressive thoughts, a more hostile perception of the environment, and less empathic reaction to victims of aggressive behavior. However, the often debated notion that media violence allows one to vent off steam, leading to a reduced likelihood of aggressive behavior, has failed to receive empirical support. The effect of media violence is not limited to aggressive behavior; as a consequence of violent media usage attentional problems arise and prosocial behavior decreases.
Modern Populism: Research Advances, Conceptual and Methodological Pitfalls, and the Minimal Definition
Takis S. Pappas
Populism is one of the most dynamic fields of comparative political research. Although its study began in earnest only in the late 1960s, it has since developed through four distinct waves of scholarship, each pertaining to distinct empirical phenomena and with specific methodological and theoretical priorities. Today, the field is in need of a comprehensive general theory that will be able to capture the phenomenon specifically within the context of our contemporary democracies. This, however, requires our breaking away from recurring conceptual and methodological errors and, above all, a consensus about the minimal definition of populism. All in all, the study of populism has been plagued by 10 drawbacks: (1) unspecified empirical universe, (2) lack of historical and cultural context specificity, (3) essentialism, (4) conceptual stretching, (5) unclear negative pole, (6) degreeism, (7) defective observable-measurable indicators, (8) a neglect of micromechanisms, (9) poor data and inattention to crucial cases, and (10) normative indeterminacy. Most, if not all, of the foregoing methodological errors are cured if we define, and study, modern populism simply as "democratic illiberalism," which also opens the door to understanding the malfunctioning and pathologies of our modern-day liberal representative democracies.
Lisbeth A. Lipari
Communication ethics concerns the creation and evaluation of goodness in all aspects and manifestations of communicative interaction. Because both communication and ethics are tacitly or explicitly inherent in all human interactions, everyday life is fraught with intentional and unintentional ethical questions—from reaching for a cup of coffee to speaking critically in a public meeting. Thus ethical questions infuse all areas of the discipline, including rhetoric, media studies, intercultural/international communication, relational and organization communication, as well as other iterations of the field.
Critical Theory: International Relations' Engagement With the Frankfurt School and Marxism
Faruk Yalvaç
Critical international relations theory (CIRT) is not only an academic approach but also an emancipatory project committed to the formation of a more equal and just world. It seeks to explain the reasons why the realization of this goal is difficult to achieve. What is crucial here is not only the social explanation, but also politically motivated action to achieve an alternative set of social relations based on justice and equality. Critical theory in international relations (IR) is part of the post-positivist turn or the so-called "fourth debate," which followed the inter-paradigm debate of the 1970s. Post-positivism consists of a plurality of theoretical and epistemological positions that opened up wide ranging criticisms of the neo-realist "orthodoxy" that has dominated IR theorizing since the beginning of 1980s. Critical theory has challenged the mainstream understanding of IR, and has spurred the development of alternative forms of analysis and approaches. Moreover, since the beginning of the 1980s, different types of CIRT have become the main alternative to mainstream IR. The general aim of CIRT can be summed up by Marx's eleventh thesis on Feuerbach that "philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it." A specific tradition of critical thought in IR, derived from Marx, comprises the normative Critical Theory (CT) of the Frankfurt School—termed the "structural critical theory"—since it focuses more on the sociological features and dynamics of capitalism.
Crowdsourcing in Journalism
Tanja Aitamurto
Advances in digital technologies and participatory culture have enabled the efficient use of crowdsourcing in a broad range of contexts, including journalism. Journalism is increasingly deploying crowdsourcing as a knowledge-search method and a means of engaging readers. Through crowdsourcing, journalists can tap into the collective intelligence of large online crowds. The knowledge-search mechanism is based on access to the information held by the crowd. Using crowdsourcing, journalists can find otherwise inaccessible information that contributes to their investigations. In several countries, crowdsourced investigations have uncovered important news, including lawbreaking and corruption. Crowdsourcing can also unveil a broader range of perspectives about a story topic, leading to more inclusive and objective journalism. As a result, crowdsourcing can support the journalistic norms of accurate, objective, and transparent reporting. Moreover, it engages participants and fosters a stronger relationship between readers and journalists. Finally, in its use of crowdsourcing journalism can enact more efficiently in its monitorial role in society. At the same time, however, crowdsourcing may compromise the journalistic goals of accuracy and objectivity. A crowd is a self-selected group, so its input reflects a participant bias. If this fact is overlooked, crowdsourcing can lead to biased reporting. Moreover, a direct connection with the crowd can increase pressure on journalists to conform to the crowd's wishes instead of pursuing journalistic norms and news values. This pressure can be especially strong in crowdfunding, a subtype of crowdsourcing.
Liberal Perspectives on the Global Political Economy
Darel E. Paul
Liberal international political economy (IPE) is the offspring of a marriage between mainstream international economics with its focus on markets and mainstream international relations with its emphasis on the state. While clearly involving the traditional disciplines of economics and political science, liberal scholarship in IPE tends to be housed almost exclusively in the latter. Liberal IPE has always maintained a special relationship with its absentee father economics, looking to it particularly as a source of theoretical and especially methodological inspiration. In its earlier phase, the "American school" of IPE, also known by its practitioners as Open Economy Politics (OEP), was strongly oriented toward studying the societal determinants of state trade policy and indeed continues to expand upon this terrain. OEP has moved into many diverse areas since then. Having roots in both neoclassical economics and realist international relations theory, OEP has a strong tendency to limit its empirical interest to observable behavior, define interest in strictly material terms, and assume the psychology of decision-making to be rational and therefore unproblematic. Unsurprisingly, OEP has little room for ideas as interesting and important objects of study, and in turn some of the early pioneers of the liberal approach in IPE have lamented its becoming "too materialistic."
The Politics of Cost-Benefit Analysis
Niek Mouter
Cost-benefit analysis (CBA) is a widely used economic appraisal method that aims to support politicians in making decisions about projects and policies. Several researchers have tried to uncover the extent to which CBA actually impacts decision-making by investigating the statistical relation between the results of CBA studies and political decisions. Although these studies show that there is no significant statistical relation between the outcomes of CBA studies and political decisions, there is clear evidence that the institutionalization of CBA affects the planning and decision-making process within the bureaucracy. Civil servants, for instance, use CBAs to government projects in the early phases of the planning process. The literature identifies various barriers that hamper politicians' use of CBA when forming their opinion. First, politicians often receive results of CBA studies too late in the process. When politicians receive a CBA after they already made up their mind and communicated their viewpoint, the chance is low that the results of the CBA will (substantially) influence their decision. A second important barrier that limits the use of CBA by politicians is that they do not have enough trust in CBA's impartiality. A third barrier is that politicians contest value judgments implicit in CBA. The literature distinguishes six ideological value judgments that inevitably need to be made when conducting a CBA: (a) Which individuals have standing in a CBA? (b) Which preferences have standing in a CBA? (c) Which procedure is used to value impacts? (d) On which dimensions are standard numbers differentiated? (e) Which weight is assigned to preferences of individuals in the social welfare function? (f) Which approach is adopted to select the social discount rate? The implication of the fact that CBA analysts cannot escape from making value judgments when conducing the study is that CBA is currently a problematic tool for democratic decision-making because, when applied in practice, the analysis is based on a specific set of politically loaded premises that fosters (damages) the interests of politicians (not) endorsing these premises. It is possible to overcome this problem through informing politicians about the extent to which switching value judgements leads to different CBA outcomes. The introduction of so-called normative sensitivity analyses safeguards that politicians with different belief systems are equally equipped to use the results of a CBA to arrive at a well-founded evaluation of a government project.
Conflict Analysis and Resolution as a Field: Core Concepts and Issues
Louis Kriesberg and Joyce Neu
Core concepts of the interdisciplinary social science field of conflict analysis and resolution (CAR) are discussed. Work in the field is based on numerous generally accepted ideas about the nature of conflict and constructive approaches to conflict. These ideas include ways of waging conflicts constructively, tracing the interconnectedness of conflicts, and assessing the multiplicity of actors. Other important core concepts relate to stages of conflicts: emergence, escalation, de-escalation and settlement, and sustaining peace. Finally, current and future issues regarding CAR conceptualizations and their applications are examined.
Israel and the European Union
Sharon Pardo
Israeli-European Union (EU) relations have consisted of a number of conflicting trends that have resulted in the emergence of a highly problematic and volatile relationship: one characterized by a strong and ever-increasing network of economic, cultural, and personal ties, yet marked, at the political level, by disappointment, bitterness, and anger. On the one hand, Israel has displayed a genuine desire to strengthen its ties with the EU and to be included as part of the European integration project. On the other hand, Israelis are deeply suspicious of the Union's policies and are untrusting of the Union's intentions toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and to the Middle East as a whole. As a result, Israel has been determined to minimize the EU's role in the Middle East peace process (MEPP), and to deny it any direct involvement in the negotiations with the Palestinians. The article summarizes some key developments in Israeli-European Community (EC)/EU relations since 1957: the Israeli (re)turn to Europe in the late 1950s; EC-Israeli economic and trade relations; the 1980 Venice Declaration and the EC/EU involvement in the MEPP; EU-Israeli relations in a regional/Mediterranean context; the question of Israeli settlements' products entering free of duty to the European Common Market; EU-Israeli relations in the age of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP); the failed attempt to upgrade EU-Israeli relations between the years 2007 and 2014; and the Union's prohibition on EU funding to Israeli entities beyond the 1967 borders. By discussing the history of this uneasy relationship, the article further offers insights into how the EU is actually judged as a global-normative actor by Israelis.
Thomas Donaldson and Diana C. Robertson
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Business and Management
Serious research into corporate ethics is nearly half a century old. Two approaches have dominated research; one is normative, the other empirical. The former, the normative approach, develops theories and norms that are prescriptive, that is, ones that are designed to guide corporate behavior. The latter, the empirical approach, investigates the character and causes of corporate behavior by examining corporate governance structures, policies, corporate relationships, and managerial behavior with the aim of explaining and predicting corporate behavior. Normative research has been led by scholars in the fields of moral philosophy, theology and legal theory. Empirical research has been led by scholars in the fields of sociology, psychology, economics, marketing, finance, and management. While utilizing distinct methods, the two approaches are symbiotic. Ethical and legal theory are irrelevant without factual context. Similarly, empirical theories are sterile unless translated into corporate guidance. The following description of the history of research in corporate ethics demonstrates that normative research methods are indispensable tools for empirical inquiry, even as empirical methods are indispensable tools for normative inquiry.
Jesper Strömbäck and Adam Shehata
Political journalism constitutes one of the most prominent domains of journalism, and is essential for the functioning of democracy. Ideally, political journalism should function as an information provider, watchdog, and forum for political discussions, thereby helping citizens understand political matters and help prevent abuses of power. The extent to which it does is, however, debated. Apart from normative ideals, political journalism is shaped by factors at several levels of analysis, including the system level, the media organizational level, and the individual level. Not least important for political journalism is the close, interdependent, and contentious relationship with political actors, shaping both the processes and the content of political journalism. In terms of content, four key concepts in research on political journalism in Western democratic systems are the framing of politics as a strategic game, interpretive versus straight news, conflict framing and media negativity, and political or partisan bias. A review of research related to these four concepts suggests that political journalism has a strong tendency to frame politics as a strategic game rather than as issues, particularly during election campaigns; that interpretive journalism has become more common; that political journalism has a penchant for conflict framing and media negativity; and that there is only limited evidence that political journalism is influenced by political or partisan bias. Significantly more important than political or partisan bias are different structural and situational biases. In all these and other respects, there are important differences across countries and media systems, which follows from the notion that political journalism is always influenced by the media systems in which it is produced and consumed.


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Muto Natural Fabric Textiles
Producing a Comfortable Fabric from the Ultra-Fine Yarn Natural Materials.
By combining the finest natural materials and taking time weaving with an old-fashioned loom, they produce a fabric with overwhelming softness and lightness. It is an air-like textile that can be done only because all processes are carried out in-house.
Hideyuki Muto, President and CEO of Muto Co., Ltd.
Keisuke Muto, Managing Director of Mutoh Co., Ltd.
Mutoh Co., Ltd.
Founded in 1967. At that time, they were working on fabrics for wedding futons, but demand changed drastically due to changes in the market. In the generation of the current president, the company was re-founded as a workshop that handles fabrics for scarves, and they have worked on fabrics that are recognized all over the world.
Textiles in the northern region of Mt. Fuji
There are various theories about the origin of textiles in Yamanashi, but one theory is that during the era of the first emperor of Qin, Xu Fu, the master of medicine, came to Japan in search of the medicine for immortality, which was said to be in the "Mountain of The East Sea (Mt. Fuji)", but he could not find it. Moreover, he could not return to his hometown, so he married to a woman in the village and lived there. It is said that the textile became popular in the village because the technique of the textile was transmitted by Xu Fu to the people in the village.
It is said that this fine thread made of natural materials can only be woven in Mutoh. All kinds of natural materials such as cashmere, silk, hemp, Japanese paper, and organic cotton are finished in ultra-thin textiles.
By using an old-fashioned loom that can take time to weave, and weaving while containing air, they can express the characteristics of the material to the maximum. They study these techniques for weaving every day.


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Memorial Day: Honoring the Lives Lost Defending Our Country
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During the first national celebration of Memorial Day on May 30, 1868, at Arlington National Cemetery, then-Congressman and future president James A. Garfield spoke poignant words: "If silence is ever golden, it must be here beside the graves of 15,000 men, whose lives were more significant than speech, and whose death was a poem, the music of which can never be sung … For love of country they accepted death, and thus resolved all doubts, and made immortal their patriotism and their virtue".[1]
Five years later, in 1873, New York was the first state to make Memorial Day a holiday.[2] Today, it's still celebrated at Arlington National Cemetery, with a small American flag placed on each soldier's grave and a wreath laid at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.[3] But as we partake in our own celebrations here at home, attending barbecues with family and friends and lining up on the sidewalk for local parades, we must not forget what the holiday actually represents or overlook the hard-fought battles that helped secure this nation's principles. From our early foundations to the present, servicemen and servicewomen work day in and day out to protect our rights, values and the American way of life.
Here in New York State, there are over 800,000 veterans living today who served as far back as World War II.[4] While these brave men and women survived the harrowing circumstances of war and service, they had to leave behind fellow soldiers lost on the battlefield whose families sadly never got the chance to welcome them home. Memorial Day honors those courageous fallen soldiers and the unmeasurable sacrifices they made to keep us safe. Their sacrifice was not lost in vain as we enjoy the freedoms they fought for that we call America and it is my hope that those sacrifices are not lost by each and every one of us respecting the freedoms we enjoy today.
Memorial Day is more than a chance to get outside and celebrate the coming summer – it's a time to acknowledge the heroes who sacrificed their lives for their love of this country. It also serves as a reminder to all of us that we are so fortunate here in America to enjoy the freedoms that many have fought for in the past. The question we should ask ourselves is what am I doing to honor the remembrance of those who sacrificed their lives for others?
One way this weekend we can honor those who have passed is to share the importance of Memorial Day with our children and grandchildren. Share with them why this weekend is more than barbeques and picnics. Secondly and most importantly, let us commit to daily conduct ourselves under the guiding principles of our constitution. By that I mean we understand our rights, exercise our rights and also respect the fact that others to have those rights as well.
In today's fast paced world we are quick to react to what someone says or does and at times the conversation can be chaotic or caustic. What is often lamented today and as an elected official I am reminded of this daily is that in some way we have lost our ability to be civil. The lack of civility leads to maybe big broad headlines but also leads to decision makers talking past each other instead of to each other. This further deters our ability to address individuals concerns and that is why I feel a concerted effort for all of us to reinstate civility and respect for our fellow Americans would be the best way to honor the sacrifices of those that have laid their lives on the line for our freedoms we enjoy today.
[1] whatsoproudlywehail.org/curriculum/the-american-calendar/decoration-day-address-1868
[2] pbs.org/national-memorial-day-concert/memorial-day/history
[4] va.gov/vetdata/docs/SpecialReports/State_Summaries_New_York.pdf


The objective of this project is to promote and facilitate analysis and evaluation of the impacts of road construction activities in Smart Work Zone Deployment Initiative (SWZDI) states. This objective will be accomplished through creation of a university-based, on-demand service located at the Center for Transportation Research and Education (CTRE). This service will be modeled after a successful, safety-related service currently located at CTRE, the Iowa Traffic Safety Data Service (ITSDS). ITSDS performs on-demand safety analyses for national, state, local, and private entities, and annually addresses more than 100 requests from over 40 different agencies.
The emphasis of the work zone forecasting service will be to assist SWZDI states to determine the impacts of road construction activities on traffic patterns and congestion. The service may provide assistance in technical matters regarding application of software commonly used to investigate the impacts of construction activities as well as develop models to estimate queu length, delay, travel behavior, and cost associated with specific road construction activities and traffic control. With such a service at SWZDI states' disposal, they may be better equipped to make more informed decisions regarding implementation of construction staging and traffic control plans that minimize impacts to traffic and balance the cost of construction with the cost of delays to the traveling public.


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Home › When does independently developed software have to be licensed under the GPL?
When does independently developed software have to be licensed under the GPL?
Whether code distributed together with GPL software (especially independently developed software) has to be subject to the GPL depends on how the LGPL software and independent code interact. sec. 2 GPLv2 describes the necessary criteria. The basic rule is found under sec. 2b) GPLv2:
"You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in whole or in part contains or is derived from the program or any part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third parties under the terms of that license."
Anything that can be considered a work that is derived from the GPL software (derivative work) also has to fall under the GPL when it is distributed. The GPL only outlines when a "derivative work" exists, and this cannot always be precisely determined. Part of the reason why are the innumerable ways in which program components can interact with each other. The provisions of the GPL therefore necessarily remain abstract. Ultimately, it is a judgment call which code components are independent, and when code components can be defined as "derived" from a program. In case of doubt, legal counsel should be procured to clarify specific instances. However, a few general rules apply to frequently occurring situations:
a) Adding to an existing file
If software licensed under the GPL is changed so that existing files are expanded with independent code or existing code is replaced, this code may only be marketed under the GPL.
b) Joint distribution on a data carrier
If an independent program is distributed together with GPL software on a CD or another data carrier, the independent program can be subject to any type of license when the two programs are independent from each other.
c) Application programs for Linux
If an application program written for Linux only runs under normal system calls using the Linux kernel and remains in "UserLand," it does not have to fall under the GPL.
d) Use of software tools, editors and compilers
If GPL software tools are used to create a program and no code from these tools is incorporated in the generated software, the tools do not have to be subject to the GPL.
e) Kernel modules
The situation concerning kernel modules remains unsettled. So-called "binary-only modules" have been tolerated in Linux up to now, but this does not resolve their license requirements. Unfortunately, there are no uniform rules – one has to determine on a case-by-case basis if distribution is separate in terms of form and content.
f) Program libraries
The regulation governing program libraries that fall under the GPL is similar to that governing kernel modules: Whether or not the program accessing the library needs to be subject to the GPL depends on the type of library and the type of distribution. The same holds true in the reverse situation when the accessing program is subject to the GPL. There are those who feel that linking always generates a derivative work. This at least applies to dynamically linked libraries; however, the courts have not provided any precedents that could serve as a reference point.
g) Communication via interfaces
Independent programs as well as "dependent" components can be linked via interfaces. The mere fact that an interface is being used does not determine whether the involved code has to be licensed under the GPL. If there is only an exchange of information via communication means that are normally used for the interaction of independent programs, the outside code does not have to be subject to the GPL. This is generally the case when pipes, sockets and command line arguments are used. If there is a closer connection beyond just communication, especially when the combination affects the structure of the software components, a "derivative work" can exist in individual cases.
See also section on Derivative Work
This FAQ is based on the FAQs of the commentary "Die GPL kommentiert und erklaert" [Discussions and explanations of the GPL] published by ifrOSS at O'Reilly.
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Marina High School student Betty Nguyen will be the first in her family to attend a four-year college, with the help of a prestigious Gates Millennium Scholarship won in April 2013.
Maxwell Davitt, a Sage Hill School student from Huntington Beach, won a National Merit Scholarship before graduating in 2013.
With the end of the school year quickly approaching, national and statewide awards for Huntington Beach students rolled in last week, for everything from good test results to modifying a micro-organism's DNA.
Betty Nguyen won't have to worry about paying for higher education as the Marina High School senior became the school's first Gates Millennium scholar, a program started by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in 1999.
The Gates Millennium Scholarship covers unmet need through graduate school for 1,000 minority students leaving high school each year. It has awarded $763,628,869 since its inception, according to the organization's website.
Wait-listed at Harvard, Nguyen will be the first person in her family to go to a four-year col-lege.
"Circumstances haven't made it possible for my family to do all that they want to do or all that they're capable of doing," she said.
If Harvard doesn't work out, she'll be at either UCLA or Notre Dame next year, deciding between sticking close to her sister at a community college and "seeing more of the world," she said.
Huntington Beach local and Sage Hill School student Maxwell Davitt won a National Merit scholarship, one of 14 in Orange County to win the prize. There were 15,000 finalists in the nation.
Of those, 1,000 – including Davitt – received a corporate scholarship awarded by roughly 200 companies, foundations and businesses.
At the time of his application, Davitt was considering a career in science or research, but he since has switched to computer science after taking an Advanced Placement class in the subject. He hasn't decided which college to attend.
Edison High School senior Gina Nguyen, no relation to Betty, was named winner of an entrepreneurship award for a cancer-awareness clothing line she designed, earning a $5,000 scholarship.
She is one of five California winners of the 11th annual Young Entrepreneur Awards, announced April 22 by the small business advocate National Federation of Independent Business Young Entrepreneur Foundation.
They will travel to Washington for a ceremony in June, according to a news release.
Gina Nguyen started the headband line Dainty Dandy in October after her mother was diagnosed with the cancer she is fighting today.
Keoni K. Gandall won first place in the junior general microbiology division of the California State Science Fair.
The eighth-grader at Talbert Middle School bioengineered pink-colored salt by modifying the DNA of bacteria-like organisms to tint.
According to his project summary, the middle-schooler used his own DNA separation equipment and sought help from a group called LA Biohackers.
His teacher and project adviser, John Wood, called him a standout student.
"He is very focused on science as a way of life. He understands what it takes to look around and ask better questions based on his observations," Wood said.


A simple dinnertime classic, Ontario rib roast is slow cooked in a vegetable medley and spiced balsamic sauce until it's melt-in-your mouth tender. Adding a yummy twist, the vegetables are then puréed and poured over the finished roast, locking in all the great flavours and nutrients.
Pat meat dry and sprinkle with flour, shaking off any excess. In Dutch oven or heavy saucepan, heat oil over medium high heat; brown beef all over, about 8 minutes. Transfer to plate.
In same saucepan or Dutch oven over medium heat add onions, celery, carrots, garlic, salt and pepper. Cook, stirring often for 5 minutes. Stir in tomato paste; cook one minute. Add balsamic vinegar, scraping any brown bits from the bottom of the pan and let vinegar reduce by half. Add tomatoes, broth, thyme, rosemary and bay leaves; bring to simmer. Return beef to pan, cover; cook in oven, turning every half hour, for 2-1/2 to 3 hours. Remove roast with tongs and transfer to platter; keep warm.
Remove bay leaves and thyme and rosemary stems from sauce. Pour remaining cooking liquid in blender; process until smooth and serve over roast. Sprinkle with parsley.