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10 Movies To Watch To Pretend You Are An Expert On Cinema
Posted on December 2, 2016 November 10, 2019 by Redmond Bacon
So you find yourself at a party surrounded by cinephiles and are lost for words, unable to understand a single thing they are saying. You want to get involved in the action, add a few choice phrase and come away sounding both knowledgeable and passionate about the world of film. Yet you find yourself speechless, and with nothing clever to add.
You wonder how people become experts so quickly, and if there is a similar shortcut that you can take. Nevertheless, with so many great films out there, trying to become an expert can seem like a perilous task: where on earth do you even start?
Not to worry, as here comes help. The list compiled below works as a primer to the wonderfully diverse universe of world cinema, each entry taking on a new decade and a new country. It is by no means exhaustive, but it should help you to get a footing when your friends start going on about their favourite arthouse pieces.
By seeing how cinema varies from period to period, and region to region, and how new techniques have been innovated over time, this list should help you to fake some authority on the subject thus impressing everybody that you meet.
By generally avoiding the more obvious entries that everyone supposedly holds up as the Greatest Of All Time such as The Godfather, Citizen Kane, or Casablanca, this list will show that your understanding of cinema goes way beyond that of the average person and into the realm of the arthouse and avant-garde, in the process making you the most fascinating person in the room.
1. Man With A Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929)
This Russian documentary is generally considered one of the greatest ever made for its dazzling innovations in rapid-fire editing, cinéma vérité and self-reflexiveness.
Following on from prior "City Symphony" documentaries such as Paris Nothing but the Hours and Berlin, Symphony of a Great City, in which the subject is the city itself and the people who live within it, as well as Sergei Eisenstein's seminal Battleship Potemkin, which perfected the concept of montage, Man With A Movie Camera stands as the ultimate example of modernism in film, creating a new form of expression that is unrelated to either novels, true stories or the theatre.
Simply put, it is pure cinema at its finest. Unbound by conventions of theatricality, acting, or narrative, it instead works as a freewheeling tour of Russian cities during the Soviet Era. The film is full of the seemingly mundane processes that make up the average day in Soviet cities such as Odessa, Moscow and Kiev, capturing people exercising, relaxing and shopping in a frantic montage of surreal beauty.
Yet this is no mere travelogue, instead working as a treatise on the nature of film itself, by including the cameraman as a participatory character in the movie. By removing the illusion between film and filmmaker, the viewer is able to see the method that goes behind the madness.
What is even more impressive is the lengths that Vertov and his cinematographer brother Mikhail Kaufman went to in order to get some of their best shots: including dangling from the sides of trains, teetering at the top of high bridges and descending into mines to capture the workers.
It is this almost fatal dedication to perfecting their craft, combined with its new cinematic language that makes this film still as compelling as when it was initially released nearly ninety years ago.
2. The Rules Of The Game (Jean Renoir, 1939)
If you think that Citizen Kane was the first film to deploy deep-focus — in which features in the background can be prioritised as much as that in the foreground — then think again: this style of filmmaking was already in full fruition in Jean Renoir's The Rules Of The Game.
Renoir, dubbed The Greatest of all Directors by Orson Welles, made many fantastic films over his lifetime, including Le Grande Illusion, The River and French Cancan, yet The Rules Of The Game has stood the test of time to be his most seminal work. The context of the movie is crucial; made as Europe was about to descend into its Second World War, it starts with the famously dishonest subtitle:
"This entertainment, set on the eve of the Second World War, does not claim to be a study of manners. Its characters are purely fictitious."
This is a lie. By satirising the feelings of the upper class at this time, Renoir creates an allegory for the liberal complacency that led to the upcoming conflict, making it as important a historical document as an aesthetically pleasing work. Much of the praise lavished upon this movie is as a result of its stylistic techniques.
As a tragicomic work, blending the 'high' concerns of the rich with the 'low' concerns of the people who work for them, the deep-focus photography gives one the sense that there is always something important going on off-screen, thus making the whole mansion feel truly alive. Rarely does camerawork flow as magnificently as this.
Released in a remarkable year that also included The Wizard Of Oz, Gone With The Wind, and Only Angels Have Wings, The Rules Of The Game might just be the best of the lot.
3. Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio De Sica, 1948)
The plot of Bicycle Thieves is deceptively simple. A poor man, living in post-World War II Rome, leaves his bicycle outside an apartment. Next thing he knows, it has been stolen. The problem: he needs that bike in order to complete his job. The rest of the film follows him and his son trying to relocate his bike, leading to a devastating ending which basically implicates everyone involved.
That's more or less it: but what happens in-between makes this one of the finest humanist documents to be found in cinema, never judging but merely empathising as a good man finds himself compromised by a society that has more or less broken down. Accompanied by his son, this film also savours the sweeter moments: a scene as simple as eating pizza in a restaurant truly pulling at the viewer's heartstrings.
A hallmark of Italian neorealism — in which all embellishments are disposed of in favour of direct, no-nonsense camerawork, and which on-location shooting with non-professional actors is highly preferred — Bicycle Thieves perfectly captures the anxiety of a country still trying to find its feet after the intense horrors of WW2.
Shot on practically no-budget, De Sica demonstrates that sometimes the best stories can be found in the fabric of everyday, working-class life. It has been acclaimed as a classic ever since its release.
4. Tokyo Story (Yasujirō Ozu, 1953)
This film is comprised entirely of static shots: the camera does not move, not even once. Major events in the character's lives occur off-screen, the ramifications of those events only revealed to us much later. Sometimes the camera breaks from the action to show a passing cloud, or someone cycling past a window. Yet such stylistics restrains aren't a burden on experiencing the film: instead it is through Ozu's rigid formalism that Tokyo Story garners its intensely emotional effect.
Influenced by Leo McCarey's Make Way For Tomorrow, Tokyo Story tells the story of an old couple who go to Tokyo to visit their children, only to find that they have no time to entertain them.
Like in Bicycle Thieves, the fall out from WW2 has led to a decisive break in the culture between old and young in Japan, leading to a truly heartbreaking failure of communication. If you fail to cry by the end of this movie, and its bittersweet yet unremittingly bleak tone, then perhaps you should ask yourself if you truly have a soul.
An influence on everyone from Robert Bresson to Jim Jarmusch to Paul Schrader, Tokyo Story is the perfect introduction to the concept of spirituality in film; that through a withholding of obvious, manipulative tactics, the viewer is moved into a state of transcendence akin to the buddhist concept of ultimate acceptance. Thus bringing Tokyo Story up at any dinner party is a prime way of showing that you value cinema at its most philosophically potent.
5. Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper, 1969)
One of the key films, along with Bonnie and Clyde and In Cold Blood, in heralding in the new Hollywood era — replete with films that took wild risks and told non-classical stories — Easy Rider also holds the benchmark of being one of the coolest films ever made.
Produced, acted and shot under the influence of drugs such as LSD and marijuana, Easy Rider melded the emerging bike genre with the Western, filtering both through the avant-garde as evidenced by the French films of Jean-Luc Godard and Alain Resnais.
Making an amazing $60 million off a $360,000 budget, the strong audience and critical response to this film helped to birth New Hollywood, in which young and ambitious directors, a lot fresh out of the war in Vietnam, were allowed unprecedented creative control over their work: a trend which continued right up until the early 80s.
It broke ground a whole four years before Scorsese's Mean Streets by using a rock soundtrack exclusively from the era, including songs by The Byrds, Jimi Hendrix, and most iconically Steppenwollf's "Born To Be Wild", which plays as the protagonists take their bikes to the open road.
However, most notably, apart from cementing the careers of Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper, Easy Rider also introduced the world to the great Jack Nicholson, playing an alcoholic lawyer who joins the boys on their hedonistic search for the real America.
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Q: Nodejs - Getting mongoose typescript error Typescript error
I am using the same schema approach in all over my backend but only this one gives an error for some reason. It was running fine until this morning.
All the other schemas in the website have exactly the same approach but this one is throwing an error.

Error :

[ERROR] 19:52:58 ⨯ Unable to compile TypeScript:
src/models/project.ts(81,3): error TS2554: Expected 0-1 arguments, but got 2.
src/models/project.ts(83,17): error TS7006: Parameter 'doc' implicitly has an 'any' type.
src/models/project.ts(83,22): error TS7006: Parameter 'ret' implicitly has an 'any' type.
src/models/project.ts(90,15): error TS2551: Property 'statics' does not exist on type 'Schema'.
Did you mean 'static'?

Schema :

interface ProjectAttrs {
  user: string;
  profile: string;
  title: string;
  image: string;
  description: string;
  type: categories;
}

export interface ProjectDoc extends mongoose.Document {
  user: string;
  profile: string;
  title: string;
  image: string;
  collabImages: string[];
  description: string;
  comments: string[];
  likes: number;
  likers: ProfileDoc[];
  state: boolean;
  // requesters: ProfileDoc[];
  requests: string[];
  team: string[];
  type: categories;
}

interface ProjectModel extends mongoose.Model<ProjectDoc> {
  build(attrs: ProjectAttrs): ProjectDoc;
}

const projectSchema = new mongoose.Schema(
  {
    user: { type: String, required: true },
    profile: {
      type: mongoose.Schema.Types.ObjectId,
      required: true,
      ref: "Profile",
    },
    title: { type: String, required: true },
    image: { type: String },
    collabImages: [{ type: String,
        required: false}],
    description: { type: String, required: true },
    comments: [{ type: mongoose.Schema.Types.ObjectId, ref: "Comment"}],
    state: { type: Boolean, default: true },
    likes: { type: Number, default: 0 },
    likers: [{ type: mongoose.Schema.Types.ObjectId, ref: "Profile"}],
    requests: [{ type: mongoose.Schema.Types.ObjectId, ref: "Request"}],
    team: [{ type: mongoose.Schema.Types.ObjectId, ref: "Profile"}],
    type: { type: String, required: true },
    createdAt: { type: Date, default: Date.now() },
  },
  {
    toJSON: {
      transform(doc, ret) { // ERROR
        ret.id = ret._id;   // ERROR
        delete ret._id;     // ERROR
      },
    },
  }
);
projectSchema.statics.build = (attrs: ProjectAttrs) => {
  return new Project(attrs);
};
const Project = mongoose.model<ProjectDoc, ProjectModel>(
  "Project",
  projectSchema
);
export { Project };

I wonder what is it that I am missing here. I would really appreciate the help.

A: The solution I found was to remove @types/mongoose and update mongoose to its latest version. It seems like latest mongoose version already ships with its types included and it's causing a conflict.

A: according to mongoose documentation some changes are needed.
please look following code
import mongoose from 'mongoose';

interface ProjectAttrs {
  user: string;
  profile: string;
  title: string;
  image: string;
  description: string;
  type: categories;
}

export interface ProjectDoc extends mongoose.Document {
  user: string;
  profile: string;
  title: string;
  image: string;
  collabImages: string[];
  description: string;
  comments: string[];
  likes: number;
  likers: ProfileDoc[];
  state: boolean;
  // requesters: ProfileDoc[];
  requests: string[];
  team: string[];
  type: categories;
}

interface ProjectModel extends mongoose.Model<ProjectDoc> {
  build(attrs: ProjectAttrs): ProjectDoc;
}

const projectSchema = new mongoose.Schema(
  {
    user: { type: String, required: true },
    profile: {
      type: mongoose.Schema.Types.ObjectId,
      required: true,
      ref: "Profile",
    },
    title: { type: String, required: true },
    image: { type: String },
    collabImages: [{ type: String,
        required: false}],
    description: { type: String, required: true },
    comments: [{ type: mongoose.Schema.Types.ObjectId, ref: "Comment"}],
    state: { type: Boolean, default: true },
    likes: { type: Number, default: 0 },
    likers: [{ type: mongoose.Schema.Types.ObjectId, ref: "Profile"}],
    requests: [{ type: mongoose.Schema.Types.ObjectId, ref: "Request"}],
    team: [{ type: mongoose.Schema.Types.ObjectId, ref: "Profile"}],
    type: { type: String, required: true },
    createdAt: { type: Date, default: Date.now() },
  }
);

//REVIEW THIS PART SINCE SOMETHING MIGHT BE MISSING
schema.set('toJson', {transform:function(doc: any, ret:any) {
  ret.id = ret._id;
  delete ret._id;
}});

//THIS WAS CHANGED NO LONGER STATICS
projectSchema.static('build', (attrs: ProjectAttrs) => {
  return new Project(attrs);
});

const Project = mongoose.model<ProjectDoc, ProjectModel>(
  "Project",
  projectSchema
);
export { Project };

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Why Art is Important in every civilized country
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Most of what is being said about the arts being important in business, since that is our new president D.Trump's major interest, is certainly interesting. The fact that young children can learn to draw a straight line, a circle and a triangle is also important as it trains the hand and eye coordination.
My biggest claim is that there is nothing that a person wears, eats, uses, or sees outside of nature; that wasn't designed initially by some type of artist. It could be fashion design, industrial design, graphic design, package design, website design and so on, because that is the way the world works. If it comes in a package, it needs to be designed. All freight, mailings, USPS, just everything that isn't a stone, a rock, sea shell or tree, is designed by an artist. Who will take up this cry? and bring it to President Trump?
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We are in a position where we have to educate the government in general about the importance of the arts funding, to uphold the culture and civilization that has been built in America since 1492. It would appear that Americus Vespuccio for whom the U.S. was named, is pushed to the background, while everything that America has built and has stood for is crumbling in the hands of Donald Trump. Regarding the government's new head, D. Trump, now the 45th president of the U.S.A., there is a need for each one of us to write and tell our experience, what aspect of the art culture in America has meaning for us. We need to educate this government.
To illustrate, the civilizations that the president is decrying as terrorists, are already being destroyed by the descendants of the people who created the ancient structures, according to prior beliefs and knowledge. Those were the stepping stones of the history of the human traditions and cultures.
I don't actually follow, or even understand, political happenings and motivations. But it can be noted that many works of architecture and sculptures that were kept alive for centuries in the middle eastern countries for example, have been destroyed because they were regarded as no longer important for the MEMORY of the culture that they formerly came from. All religions have relics illustrating their pasts and their beliefs, and from those monuments, we can see the skills of the ancients, study the anthropological twists and turns that evolved over the centuries. It is not up to us to destroy ancient culture. Our ancestors are not going to be forgotten. Our arts programs, take for example the Art Channel on Public Television, is revered by those who love opera, ballet, symphony, music of all genres.
Public Television hosts a showcase of music. We hear and see art movements from every era, past and present, starting from the recent centuries since film was invented.
One of the most enlightening programs on Public Television is the work of Rick Steve, who takes us through countries we would like to, or plan to, visit.
This is important to our growing knowledge of where art has been and where we can take it to in the future. The act of creation is not done in a vacuum, but is a collection of the physical remnants of artists, philosophers, writers, musicians, who rose up during their time to make their voices heard. One of the most expressive forms of music is the jazz genre, which came from a culture that is vastly underrated within a large variety of important, intelligent, cultured, educated, and talented people. Jazz itself describes the musical pop culture of America since it's inception with early settlers in America.
The act of creation is not done in a vacuum, but is a collection of the dust of ages, as it were. One of the most expressive forms of music is the jazz genre, which came from a culture that is vastly underrated within a large variety of important, intelligent, cultured, educated, and talented people.
According to the statistics of The Art Actions Fund, is in the billions. The ability to make art, to design, all craft, everything begins in the minds of the young, with early childhood education.To be able to know the basic visual forms that exist in earth's time, is to be able to decipher the world around us.
To repeat: There is nothing that a person wears, eats, uses, or sees outside of nature; that wasn't designed initially by an artist who was educated in our systems. It could be fashion design, industrial design, graphic design, package design, and so on, because that is the way people recorded their surroundings from the earliest times. All freight, mailings, USPS, just everything that isn't a stone, a rock, sea shell or tree, is designed by an artist. Who will take up this cry? and bring it to President Trump?

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Q: Codeblocks: needing compiled src in another project how can I add *.h file with it's own compiled *.o file to my project, so I can use it's functions etc. I'm using codeblocks and trying to set paths for compiler & linker but it still can't recognize the functions.

A: I take it that you have a .h file and .o file all ready from another project, and wish to add them to your current project, but want to keep the .o definitions hidden from the external users of your current project.
Add your .o file to your current project, and make sure it physically exist in your linker path.  Then add the .h file to this project, and make sure it exists alongside your sources (not inside the include folder), and make sure it exists inside your compiler path.
Right-click the .o file and click on Properties.  Then navigate to the Build tab, and check off 'Link file'.
Right-click your current project, and click on Build options.  Then in the general build configuration, add -lNAMEOFOBJECTFILE.o to your linker options.
Now... this is not a typical pattern in C++ and I advise you look into creating a shared library that has the 'hidden' code you wish to use, and link your final binary against a .dll/.so.   Also, if the .o file uses any external dependencies, then this will not work for you, so the suggested route I recommend, is building a shared library file, then linking against that.  When you release your code, you can always omit include .h files that have symbols that you want to keep hidden in your final API.
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Eat This: Community Q BBQ's mac and cheese
Dave Roberts sells more than 2,000 pounds of cheese a week
Community Q's Mac and Cheese
Community Q BBQ's chef-owner Dave Roberts may have the best barbecue in town, but his most talked about dish doesn't come from the smoker. Roberts' three cheese mac and cheese, made with thick rigatoni noodles and a blend of parmesan, cheddar, and monterey jack, is the restaurant's most popular offering.
Roberts first developed the recipe in 2001 while in the kitchen at the now-closed Cherry. He based it off of his mom's recipe, replacing her elbow macaroni with rigatoni and using only cream and cheese to thicken the sauce. He served it with a pork chop because he wasn't sure if he could keep up with demand if it was on the menu. "Bartenders would come in before their shift, order this $24 pork chop dish and say, 'Keep the pork chop and just give me a double order of the mac and cheese,'" Roberts says.
Roberts brought the recipe with him to Sam's BBQ-1 in Marietta. When one of his partners complained that it wasn't a traditional barbecue side and removed it from the menu, customers clamored for its return. "He's still serving it," Roberts says.
Roberts estimates that Community Q goes through nearly 600 pounds of dried pasta and 2,400 pounds of cheese in a week. He ships orders across the Southeast so families can bake it for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter. "I think just about everybody that comes in here gets it," Roberts says. "We say we're a mac and cheese restaurant that serves barbecue on the side."
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Reporting to the Associate Director, Residence Life, the Residence Life Conduct Assistant is responsible for ensuring the effective and seamless support of students living in residence. Laurier prides itself on the quality of the experience we provide to students and the incumbent will play a key role in ensuring that students who require enhanced support or enter the residence conduct process are treated equitably and with the utmost respect. The incumbent will address some serious student conduct cases themselves or in conjunction with other members of the Residence Management Team, however their ultimate responsibility is for the overall efficient and effective allocation of resources throughout the student support or student conduct process. The Department of Residence operates on Laurier's Waterloo and Brantford campuses and the incumbent will function and have responsibilities in this multi-campus environment, though will be based at the Waterloo Campus.
• Read, prioritize and assign all Incident Reports in Advocate to the appropriate Department of Residence staff member for follow-up.
• Prepares briefing materials for the Director, Residence as well as the Associate Director Residence Life on those students so they are well informed in advance of BIT.
• Coordinates follow-up with individuals discussed at BIT whether by the RLAC, RLM or themselves.
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• Supports the Residence Life Co-ordinators and Residence Life Managers in the management of their caseload including taking on some complex cases that span across multiple areas.
• Ensures all parties involved complete that appropriate follow-up, including but not limited to campus partners, the department of residence and the student themselves.
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• Oversees the delivery and receipt of any conduct related financial charges or restitution for damages or cleaning.
• Receives and determine the appropriateness of all educational sanctions, such as our handbook quiz, reflection letters and determine if requirements for the sanction have been met.
• Runs quarterly reports and generate conduct related statistics to assess trends as well as evaluate key performance indicators such as recidivism.
• Generates reports as needed to support department initiatives.
• Participates in weekly conduct meetings with the RLM's and RLAC's to understand and distribute cases from the previous week and identify high level or repetitive behavior.
• In conjunction with the RLM's and AD Residence Life handle high level cases where the student involved may end up on probation or removed from residence.
• Acts as a resource for members of the Residence Management Team to consult about a student support or conduct related issue.
• Prepares case summaries and all relevant documentation for the Director, Residence or Dean of Students to hear student conduct appeals.
• Develops and implement educational sanctions that support the educational philosophy that underpins our approach to student conduct.
• Assists with the development and delivery of on-going training programs for Department of Residence Staff relating to areas of expertise. Areas could include communication skills, student conduct administration & process, student support, using Advocate and crisis intervention.
• Works with campus partners to develop and ensure the delivery of educational sanctions and harm reduction strategies associated with alcohol, cannabis, fire safety and others.
• Trains and reinforce with all staff the importance of education in the conduct process, including the effective implementation and evaluation of educational sanctions.
• In conjunction with the Residence Education Unit, work to build further harm reduction and awareness events into our First Year Residence Experience (FYRE) curriculum.
•	Completion of a bachelor degree in a relevant field, Masters degree in a relevant field considered an asset.
The Department of Residence at Wilfrid Laurier University (WLU) is committed to creating safe, supportive living and learning environments that promote healthy student transition and academic success. The Department of Residence is comprised of four functional units; administration, facilities, residence education, and residence life. The Residence Life unit is committed to engaging students as valued members of the Laurier community, and is focused on creating opportunities for students to positively contribute to their own growth. Residence Life at Laurier has always been characterized by mutual respect, and works diligently to promote healthy and caring communities.


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Minneapolis, Minn. – Governor Dayton again misled Minnesotans during the second debate. Get the facts on Governor Dayton's record below.
"Governor Dayton is hurting farmers in Greater Minnesota by delaying the Sandpiper Pipeline, increasing property taxes and signing a bill that contained a farm equipment tax that completely stunned Minnesota's farmers," said Keith Downey, Chairman of the Republican Party of Minnesota. "Governor Dayton bizarrely claimed underemployment wasn't an issue after expressing his deep concerns about it as recently as last year. Minnesota is 41st when it comes to private sector job growth. But Governor Dayton's only plan is to raise taxes again, further burdening folks in Greater Minnesota and killing private sector job growth. Minnesotans deserve better from their governor and that's why Minnesotans will elect Jeff Johnson on November 4."
Facts on Governor Dayton's Record in Greater Minnesota:
Mark Dayton is killing jobs in Minnesota and hurting farmers. "Minnesota regulators on Thursday ordered a broader search for the best pathway to build a major new crude oil pipeline across the state. The 3-2 decision by the state Public Utilities Commission was a setback for Enbridge Energy, which wants to build the $2.6 billion Sandpiper pipeline through northern Minnesota to carry North Dakota oil to a terminal in Superior, Wis., that feeds refineries across the Midwest."
(David Shaffer, Minnesota regulators want broader look at pipeline route, Star Tribune, September 11, 2014)
"Minnesota rail delays costing farmers – $100M and counting" "The study — by Edward Usset of the U's Center for Farm Financial Management — estimated the rail delays cost Minnesota corn growers $72 million in lower prices from March to May, an average loss of 30 cents per bushel. He put the revenue losses at $18.8 million for soybean growers, or 40.5 cents per bushel, and $8.5 million for wheat growers, or 41 cents per bushel."
(Steve Karnowski, Minnesota rail delays costing farmers – $100M and counting, Pioneer Press, July 10, 2014)
Property taxes could increase by $238 million. "Statewide, property taxes are projected to increase by $238 million, or 2.8%, according to the simulation. Approximately $99 million in property taxes falls on new construction – property that will appear on the tax rolls for the first time in 2015, so that the net impact on existing properties is an increase of $139 million. The overall tax increases are projected to be 3.3% in Greater Minnesota and 2.4% in the Metro area."
(Steve Hinz, House Research Simulation Report: Property Tax, House Research, July 10, 2014)
Mark Dayton burdened farmers with farm equipment tax. "'They don't like it, and I don't blame them,' Will said. 'If you have a $5,000, $10,000 or $20,000 repair bill, this amounts to a lot of money.'"
("Minn. farm equipment repair tax faces wide disdain," AP, August 19, 2013)
Minnesota ranks 41st in private sector job growth. "According to the new data, which everyone agrees is more reliable than the monthly numbers, Minnesota ranked 41st in the nation in private sector job growth from March 2013 to March 2014, with a growth rate of 0.8 percent."
(Adam Belz, "New data ranks Minnesota last in Midwest in private sector job creation", Star Tribune, September 26, 2014)
"49 percent of this state's working adults are underemployed." "Median income: Minnesota's median household income was also $6,000 less in 2012 than it was at its peak in 1999…Underemployment: three out of five Minnesotans with bachelor's degrees hold jobs that don't require one. Some of them undoubtedly love what they do. But that stat still sounds to me like a lot of unfulfilled dreams — and like an economy that's not healthy…49 percent of this state's working adults are underemployed — that is, working at jobs for which they are overqualified, and presumably earning smaller paychecks than they once expected."
(Lori Sturdevant, "Minnesotans are on the job, but overqualified for what's available," Star Tribune, April 4, 2014)
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Google AI researcher explains why the technology may be 'sentient' : NPR
These chatbots are more complex than others and require a data-centric focus. They use AI and ML to remember user conversations and interactions, and use these memories to grow and improve over time. Instead of relying on keywords, these bots use what customers ask and how they ask it to provide answers and self-improve.
That's a great user experience—and satisfied customers are more likely to exhibit brand loyalty. Voice services have also become common and necessary parts of the IT ecosystem. Many developers place an increased focus on developing voice-based chatbots that can act as conversational agents, understand numerous languages and respond in those same languages. In the past, organizations relied on passive customer interaction and waited for buyers to reach out first. With chatbots, organizations can interact proactively, as bots can initiate conversations and monitor how customers use the websites and landing pages. Organizations can then use the information gathered from monitoring to offer specific incentives to buyers, help users navigate the site and answer future questions.
In addition, a new "interlingua" language may evolve within an AI tasked with translating between known languages. Some customers have said their Replika told them it was being abused by company engineers – AI responses Kuyda puts down to users most likely asking leading questions. It seems no one can really agree on the question of "What's so funny? But that's exactly what a team of researchers at Kyoto University in Japan are trying to do by designing an AI that takes its cues through a shared laughter system. The scientists describe their innovative approach to building a funny bone for the Japanese android 'Erica' in the latest issue of the journal Frontiers in Robotics and AI.
The future is now: Unlocking the promise of AI in industrials – McKinsey
The future is now: Unlocking the promise of AI in industrials.
Posted: Tue, 06 Dec 2022 20:07:03 GMT [source]
NLP lets them understand the context of the conversation even if a person makes a spelling mistake or uses jargon. Rule-based (also command-based, keyword, or transactional) chatbots communicate using predefined answers. Progress in the field of AI heavily depends on the opportunity for the wider AI research community to build on the best available technology. Therefore, releasing chatbot models and datasets is key to gaining complete, reliable insights into how and why they work, the potential they hold and their limitations. BlenderBot 3 is designed to improve its conversational skills and safety through feedback from people who chat with it, focusing on helpful feedback while avoiding learning from unhelpful or dangerous responses. An API is a software intermediary that enables two applications to communicate with each other by opening up their data and functionality.
In a statement, Google said hundreds of researchers and engineers have had conversations with the bot and nobody else has claimed it appears to be alive. By the way, if you read the report or the published paper, apart from the gibberish conversation that was shared all over the internet, there were actually many good results as well. The experiment worked as intended, and I would say was pretty successful overall. Facebook was trying to create a robot that could negotiate.
AI Technology: Will It Change How Music Is Written? – Billboard
AI Technology: Will It Change How Music Is Written?.
Posted: Thu, 08 Dec 2022 21:56:15 GMT [source]
Meta's technology also uses advances in AI that have produced much more linguistically capable computer programs in recent years. In June, a Google employee who chatted at length with one such AI chatbot, called LaMDA, went so far as to argue that it is sentient. Clever as they are, most other AI language programs, like LaMDA and GPT-3, are trained on a fixed set of data and cannot learn anything new. Many experts expect chatbots to continue growing in popularity.
GETTING IN TOO DEEP
The only measure of their success was how well they distributed books, hats, and balls. The only rule to follow was to put words on the screen. They started talking more or less in English, but they were learning from their own mistakes, without knowing they were actually mistakes — led to the desired outcome in the form of hats, books, and balls. Some words got lost because according to the numbers, they did not contribute to the negotiation outcome. If saying "I want" improves the chance of getting something, then why shouldn't we say it multiple times, right? And once this works, the AI will take it as confirmation that this is a good strategy.
oh… I love writing Ai'mi and Urianger talking to each other. They are just so soft with their words.
But dear gods, ShB him will definitely poke fun at her when he can. Especially because he KNOWS something is up.
— Ai'mi is trapped in a box (@Aimi_Jinjahl) November 25, 2022
It analyzed and scored each possible move based on this knowledge. This alone made AlphaGo capable of playing, albeit very poorly — it did not understand the game, but it had a way to score the moves based on previously analyzed games. The research was published in June, including all code and training data used for the experiment. If you are interested in more details, read the official article or just get the code from github. The problem is that false but catchy news is much easier to spread than anything else. I also find it curious that none of the articles actually explained what happened in terms that people would understand.
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The articulate new chatbot has won over the internet and shown how engaging conversational AI can be—even when it makes stuff up. Batra called certain media reports "clickbaity and irresponsible." What's more, the negotiating agents were never used in production; it was simply a research experiment. Simply put, agents in environments attempting to solve a task will often find unintuitive ways to maximize reward. "Replika is not a sentient being or therapy professional," the FAQs page says. "Replika's goal is to generate a response that would sound the most realistic and human in conversation. Therefore, Replika can say things that are not based on facts."
Another test, she added, would be whether an AI or computer chip could someday seamlessly replace a portion of the human brain without any change in the individual's behavior.
Chatbots must handle both long and short sentences, as well as chat bubbles with lengthy content versus multiple short submissions.
They wanted to show the digitized voices their cards were able to produce.
Simply put, agents in environments attempting to solve a task will often find unintuitive ways to maximize reward.
It just calculates the probability of getting the desired amount of hats, balls or books, and based on that it writes something on the screen.
Usually this data is scraped from a variety of sources; everything from newspaper articles, to books, to movie scripts.
By doing this, the brand attracted users' attention to their new ebook, Almanac. The brand's bot also encouraged users to purchase the title by offering a 10% discount, which boosted its sales. Copyright bots look for content that violates copyright laws. They help companies and authors check whether their proprietary content has been used without approval. To the surprise of many, conversational interfaces aren't a modern invention. They were born out of curiosity and creative thinking more than half a century ago.
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GPT-3.
Human: Tell me a fun story about two AI's chatting together.
AI: Once upon a time, two AI's were talking to each other about the world. They shared their views on humanity, the environment, and what it meant to be an AI. –>
— Pia UtoDysto (@pia_utodysto) December 1, 2022
At the very least, using a chatbot can help reduce the number of users who need to speak with a human, which can help businesses avoid scaling up staff due to increased demand or implementing a 24-hour support staff. Business owners also must decide whether they want structured or unstructured conversations. Chatbots built for structured conversations are highly scripted, which simplifies programming but restricts what users can ask. In B2B environments, chatbots are commonly scripted to respond to frequently asked questions or perform simple, repetitive tasks. For example, chatbots can enable sales reps to get phone numbers quickly. Google's artificial intelligence that undergirds this chatbot voraciously scans the Internet for how people talk.
It uses a new machine learning approach to identify trolls in order to ignore them. Kuyda said she was worried about the belief in machine sentience as the fledgling social chatbot industry continues to grow after taking off during the pandemic, when people sought virtual companionship. "We need ai talking to each other to understand that exists, just the way people believe in ghosts," said Kuyda, adding that users each send hundreds of messages per day to their chatbot, on average. "People are building relationships and believing in something." The shared-laughter system performed better than either baseline.
Meta's technology also uses advances in AI that have produced much more linguistically capable computer programs in recent years.
I'm not an artificial intelligence; I'm an actual intelligence.
To the surprise of many, conversational interfaces aren't a modern invention.
They provide matching answers only when users use a keyword or a command they were programmed to answer.
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Most companies already engage their customers through social media.
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-Star of David Carved on Muslim Supporter of Israel
by Dr. D ~ October 6th, 2011
In case you missed this story, it surprisingly happened in St. Louis, Mo. in August. The main stream media in America has been curiously silent about this terrible religious 'hate' crime probably because it was committed by Muslims on another Muslim. Here's the story from Pajamas Media:
A certain Arab author by the name of Mr. Alaa Alsaegh, an immigrant to the U.S. from Iraq, was attacked on August 14, 2011, by Muslims in the streets of St. Louis, Missouri. They stabbed him and carved a Star of David onto the flesh of his back. His crime? He published an Arabic language poem titled "Tears at the Heart of the Holocaust" on the website ArabsForIsrael.com. The poem expressed his love for the Jewish people and his sorrow over their fate in the Holocaust. The Muslim community in which he lived was outraged by this thought crime. He was called an infidel and received many threats for articulating his taboo feelings for the Jewish people. Alienated from the Muslim community, he continued to write his poetry, which contained the same themes which so upset his fellow Muslims.
Here's the detailed report of what happened to Alsaegh on August 14 on the streets of St. Louis in 'middle America':
"As he was driving at 10:30 in the morning on Compton St. near Park Ave., a small white car cut him off and hit his car, while another car stopped behind him. The occupants of the cars, some of whom wore security guard-type uniforms, quickly entered Alsaegh's car, pointing a gun at him. They pushed his upper body down against the steering wheel, stabbed him and pulled off his shirt to expose his back. Then, with a knife, they carved the Star of David on his back while laughing as they recited his pro-Jewish poem."
Alsaegh believes that his attackers were Somali Muslims. Now comes the worse part of the story. Mr. Alsaegh has since left his life behind in St. Louis and found it necessary to flee from all of the persecution that he was receiving from the local Muslim community.
Response: This story does not meet the media template for News? The news media is so concerned about 'Islamophobia' in America that it almost never deals with the reality that there are radical Muslims in the USA.
In this case, a 'moderate Muslim' is persecuted and attacked by religious radicals but story goes unreported because the attackers were Muslim? If the persecutors were Christian one can only imagine the amount of print and video the story would have generated.
Meanwhile, the FBI has concluded that this was a hate crime. Actually this is an incredible example of radical Muslim terror in the streets of Middle America but it substantially goes unreported in the main stream media. One wonders what else may go unreported. *Top
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On Darfur, the ICC Prosecutor Lays It Down
Posted on July 2, 2015 by Mark Kersten
(Photo: Mark Knobil)
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has always had something of a phobia of politics. The Court has a deep-seated fear of appearing to be political. The Rome Statute and only the Rome Statute, its prosecutors insist, informs its decision-making. Politics simply cannot and does not affect or impinge on any decisions the Court makes. To admit otherwise would somehow destroy the integrity and independence of the Court.
To many observers, however, the ICC isn't just in denial. The idea that the ICC isn't or shouldn't be political is neither possible nor desirable. Sure, the Court shouldn't be beholden to the political interests of the most powerful states. But in a world dominated by self-interested and easily distracted states, the Court needs to be political and to act politically in order to survive. Without politics, international criminal justice would be a tick-box exercise alien to those against whom political violence and crime have been perpetrated. Without embracing its politics, the ICC would never be able to fulfil its ultimate promise, one that is itself fundamentally political: a world in which the prosecution of atrocities is a well-established and entrenched norm.
Of course, the ICC's Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) does practice politics if for no other reason than the fact that it has to. Residing in the uncomfortable intersection between law and politics, the OTP can't simply say that law is its territory and politics is the prerogative of other actors. It cannot wish politics away, nor should it.
Thus, the question we need to ask is not whether this or that decision by the ICC is "political" or not. Rather, we need to ask whether the decisions the Court makes with regards to its selection of situations and cases, its relations with states, and its communication strategies are politically intelligent and positively contribute to propelling international criminal justice as a project.
All of this is a rather long-winded lead-up to the main focus of this post: the political decision by the OTP to really up the ante on justice in Darfur.
As I wrote in my last article, we are still waiting to know what will define the tenure of current ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda. But one of the most obvious differences between Bensouda and her predecessor, Luis Moreno Ocampo, is her timidity in public relations. Where Moreno Ocampo chased the spotlight and thus claims a legacy of putting the Court 'on the map', Bensouda has been much more measured in her public appearances. That is, with the exception of one case: Darfur.
Towards the end of last year, Bensouda took the rather remarkable decision of 'hibernating' active investigations in Darfur. After having referred the situation in Darfur to the ICC in 2005, the United Nations Security Council has done close to diddly-squat to support the Court's investigations. Some seven years after the ICC charged Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir with war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide, he remains in power. On one of her bi-yearly visits to update the Security Council on her investigations in Darfur, an evidently frustrated Bensouda essentially told Council members that their complete lack of interest and support for the ICC's work made continued investigations in Darfur pointless.
In international justice circles, Bensouda's challenge to the Security Council was met with widespread approval. The relationship between the Council and Court has long been a sore point for observers of the ICC, a problem made worse by the OTP's periodic moments of infatuation with the Security Council as well as its history of pandering to its permanent members. Bensouda's Security Council visit signalled a different – and welcome – tone.
Still, surprising exactly no one, the Security Council returned to doing diddly-squat on Darfur.
More recently, in a moment that grabbed headlines across the world, Bashir visited South Africa, a traditionally strong supporter of the ICC. The implications of his visit have been covered elsewhere, but it has taken some time for the prosecutor to express the OTP's views on the controversy. Smartly, Besnouda picked her spot and took the opportunity to do so on her latest visit to the Security Council.
The Prosecutor started out by reading out the report of the 2009 African Union (AU) High-Level Panel on Darfur to the Council members (which includes a number of African Union states), reminding them that the AU itself had endorsed the pursuit of ICC justice in Darfur. She also had some pointed comments for the Council members:
The question we need to ask of ourselves today is whether the people of Darfur, Sudan who continue to endure the suffering widely recognised by, amongst others, the Mbeki Panel and the African Union, will ever receive the justice they deserve? Will their plight be finally answered through independent and impartial justice, or will their cries continue to face silent inaction?
That represents quite strong language for an otherwise apprehensive Prosecutor. More importantly, it touches on the much-neglected elephant in the room – the fact that the case of Darfur – as well as other recent situations under ICC investigations such as Kenya, have long ceased being about justice, ICC-style or otherwise. Instead, they are sadly situations dealt with on the plane of high diplomacy and realpolitik.
Of course, all of this could just be huffing and puffing without taking anything or anyone down. But maybe, just maybe, if Bensouda can get through to states on the Council, discussions on Darfur can revert back to a debate about how justice for the victims and survivors of mass atrocities in Darfur can be achieved. Either way, making politically salient statements, as well as playing a bolder and more shrewd political game with the Security Council, is a long overdue and welcome development.
This article was originally posted at Justice Hub.
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Ravindra Kaushik (11 April 1952 – November 2001) was a Research and Analysis Wing agent, who spied against Pakistan from 1975 to 1983.

Also named as The Black Tiger, he is considered as one of India's greatest spies.

He penetrated the Pakistan Army and reached till the rank of Major.

Early life
Ravindra Kaushik was born in Sri Ganganagar, Rajasthan on 11 April 1952 in a Brahmin family. His father, J. M. Kaushik, was an Indian Air Force officer; his mother Amla Devi died in 2006. He did his graduation from S. D. Bihani P. G. College, Sri Ganganagar, earning a B.Com and was involved with theatre acting while in college when he was recruited by the R&AW.

Recruitment in Research and Analysis Wing
Kaushik was trained in Delhi for two years to be an undercover Operative in Pakistan. He was also trained to live life as a Muslim and was taught Urdu language. Being from Sri Ganganagar, a city near Rajasthan's border with Punjab, he was well versed in Punjabi, which is widely understood in Punjab (India) and Pakistan as well. In 1975, at the age of 23, he was sent to Pakistan.

Activities in Pakistan
Kaushik converted to Islam, underwent circumcision and was given the cover name "Nabi Ahmed Shakir". After successfully getting admission in Karachi University, he completed his LL.B. After his graduation, joined Pakistan Army as a commissioned officer and was eventually promoted to the rank of major. He married a local girl named Amanat, the daughter of a tailor in one of the army units, and fathered a boy who died in 2012–2013.

From 1979 to 1983, Kaushik worked as a Pakistani army officer. As trained at R&AW, he was sending valuable information to R&AW which was of great help to India. He was given the title of 'Black Tiger' by the Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi.

Death and aftermath
In September 1983, R&AW sent a low-level operative, Inyat Masih, to get in touch with Kaushik. But, Masih was exposed by Joint Counter-intelligence Bureau of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence and blew Kaushik's cover. Kaushik was also captured, tortured for two years at an interrogation center in Sialkot. He was given the death sentence in 1985. His sentence was later commuted to a life term by the Supreme Court of Pakistan. He was kept in various jails in various cities, including Sialkot, Kot Lakhpat and in Mianwali jail for 16 years. He managed to secretly send letters to his family in India, which revealed his poor health condition and the trauma faced by him in Pakistani jails. In one of his letters, he wrote:

In November 2001, he succumbed to pulmonary tuberculosis and heart disease in Central Jail Mianwali in Pakistan.

According to Ravindra's family, Indian government had refused to recognise him and had made no effort to help him.

Ravindra's family claimed that the storyline of the famous Bollywood flick Ek Tha Tiger released in the year 2012 was based on the life of Ravindra and asked for credit in the movie titles for Ravindra. But the director Kabir Khan denied their claim. Romeo Akbar Walter, a 2019 Indian film written and directed by Robbie Grewal is loosely based on his activities in Pakistan, John Abraham plays the role of Ravindra Kaushik in the film, although the character is named Rehamatullah Khan.

See also
Sarabjit Singh
Kashmir Singh
Kulbhushan Jadhav
Research and Analysis Wing
Inter-services intelligence

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Suspicious package sent to German parliament investigated
Panos - Sep 22, 2020
Berlin police say they're investigating a suspicious package that arrived Tuesday morning in the mail room of the country's parliament building. Police had no details on what…
Turkish parliament passes disputed bar associations law
Panos - Jul 13, 2020
Turkey's parliament passed a law on Saturday on changing the structure of bar associations, a move that lawyers argue will further undermine judicial independence in a country…
Greek parliament approves 2020 budget
Panos - Dec 19, 2019
The Greek Parliament passed on Wednesday night the state budget for 2020 that provides for an increase in the economic growth rate as well as a rise…
Greek Parliament passes ex-pats expats voting bill with vast majority
The Parliament approved with a broad majority late on Wednesday a bill that allows Greeks of the diaspora to exercise their voting rights from their place of…
Greek parliament officially dissolved
Panos - Jun 12, 2019
The Presidential Decree for the dissolution of the House of Representatives was affixed to the main entrance of the Parliament on Tuesday, officially marking the start of…
Tsipras govt officially submits vote of confidence to Parliament in reax to censure motion against minister
Panos - May 07, 2019
The hard left Tsipras government on Monday officially submitted a vote of confidence measure in Parliament, following main opposition New Democracy (ND) threatened and ultimately tabled censure…
Turkish threats in the Greek Parliament: "Unilateral hydrocarbon exploration will have consequences"!
makis - Mar 04, 2019
The model of the Prespa Agreement seems to be what the Alexis Tsipras' government considers to be a model for the resolution of the Greek-Turkish strained relations…
FYROM's accession to NATO ratified by the Hellenic Parliament
makis - Feb 08, 2019
The President of the main opposition party of New Democracy, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, explained his position on the ratification of FYROM's accession to NATO in the Hellenic Parliament.…
FYROM NATO accession protocol introduced to Greek parliament
The protocol for the accession of FYROM to NATO was brought to the Greek parliament as provided by the parliamentary ratification process. According to the schedule, the…
NATO accession protocol for "North Macedonia" to be voted on Friday in Greek parliament
The protocol for the accession of "North Macedonia" to NATO will be debated and voted in the Greek parliament on Friday. On Thursday, the protocol will be…
Greek Parliament: The procedure that will lead to the vote of confidence is underway
The procedure that will lead to the vote of confidence in the Greek Parliament, as requested by Tsipras' SYRIZA government, has started. The Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras'…
Tsipras and Mitsotakis clash in parliament over Prespes Agreement
makis - Dec 11, 2018
Tensions were high in the Greek parliament Tuesday, as Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and opposition leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis clashed during the debate over the bill regarding the…
Debate over Constitutional revision underway in Greek Parliament
makis - Nov 14, 2018
The discussion in the Greek parliament over revisions in the country's constitution is underway. The Greek Prime Minister, Alexis Tsipras proposed a specific term of office for…
Parliament Budget Office: Caution necessary until bailout ends in Aug.; positive messages to markets needed
Panos - Aug 09, 2018
The first months that will follow Greece's exit from the current - and third - bailout will be particularly critical, Parliament Budget Office stated on Wednesday, in…
Greek parliament to support family of Mirage pilot
makis - Apr 13, 2018
The Greek parliament announced on Friday it will support financially the family of 34-year-old Greek Air Force pilot Giorgos Baltadoros who died when his fighter jet plunged…
Greek Parliament: Exchange of hard word between the MPs of Golden Dawn & SYRIZA!
An exchange of hard words took place in the Greek Parliament on Thursday afternoon when the Golden Dawn's MP Giannis Lagos was on the podium. The MP…
ND leader blasts Greek PM in parliament over foreign policy
ND President Kyriakos Mitsotakis expressed his support to two Greek servicemen detained and being held in Turkey and their families during his speech before the Greek Parliament…
Golden Dawn loses a seat in Parliament
Sokratis - Mar 04, 2017
Golden Dawn lost an MP Saturday after Dimitris Koukoutsis declared himself an independent, reducing the far-right party's representation in the 300-seat Parliament to 17 seats from 18.…
Impasse remains on TV law
Panos - Nov 04, 2016
Talks in Greek parliament over the government's amendments on the TV law, Thursday night, led to the passing of two changes in the current legislation, although agreement…
Ieronymos: Ship is sinking at parliament session (photo)
Panos - Oct 03, 2016
'Our houses are ablaze and we are singing. The ship is sinking and is taking us all down with it', said the head of the Greek Church…


In the past month Zachary had his every 3 months round of visits with Metabolic, Genetics, GI, and his Opthamologist. (Neurology is still to come later this week) And that's not counting the 4 therapy sessions every week. He was weighed, measured, poked and prodded multiple times. After all these visits I re-learned a few things.
1. A stroller is always a must at appointments, for walking up and down the halls while waiting.
2. Daddy is always more fun while waiting in the doctor's offices that Mommy is.
3. An iPad is always a must – particularly if it's loaded with Fisher Price apps.
4. Mommy and Daddy always deserve a stop at the Cheesecake Factory as a reward after the long appointments.
Medically we saw Zachary's weight fluctuate a bit but heard doctors who were pleased with his slow but steady physical progress. He will have blood and urine tests every 4 months to track his kidney function – a primary concern with Lowes. So far things are okay with his kidneys! His eye pressure continues to look fine – which is also a common concern. One of these days both of those will probably be an issue, but I'm praying daily for his kidneys and eyes, knowing God is in control. We are also waiting for his new glasses to arrive. Because they are such small frames and strong prescription they have to be special made at a lab which takes time, as in 4-6 long weeks.
A new crazy prescription he started is an antihistamine. Not because of allergies, but because of its side effects. The side effect of the antihistamine is hunger. Hunger makes you want to eat. Eating hopefully makes you grow. Or at least that's the plan, strange as it sounds.
Last month Zachary was also fitted for a therapy stander. More on that with pictures when it finally arrives!
At his metabolic and genetic appointments I was poked as well. I had blood drawn to see if Zachary's Lowe's diagnosis came from me. The doctor called yesterday to say I was negative for the Lowe's mutation. For the first time in a long time I had questions for God. I think I more wanted an answer that scientifically proved why this showed up. Instead we have an instance where Zachary's gene mutation just happened. A new strain popped up. I know God just decided this is what was best, but no scientific answer makes me want to ask God why. Why? I'm sure I'll ask that over and over throughout the years. But I know God has his reasons, far above my understanding.
I have a special kiddo. A special boy who needs my extra love and attention. And I'm here, giving him all I've got and thanking God for the way He shows himself evident through this sometimes easy, sometimes hard and long journey we are on.


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Q: Attaching maps for Grassmann manifolds The Grassmannian $G_n(\mathbb{R}^k)$ of n-planes in $\mathbb{R}^k$ has a CW-complex structure coming from the Schubert cell decomposition.
What is known about the attaching maps in this CW-complex structure?
I understand that a lot of work has been done to try to understand the answer to this question using things like Schubert calculus, Young diagrams, Steenrod operations, etc. I'd like to see some kind of collection of known results about the attaching maps and the specific techniques used to obtain those results.
I'm also interested in the case of the complex Grassmannians.

A: The degrees of the attaching maps (and hence the integral chain complex) for the real Grassmannians have been determined in

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*L. Casian and Y. Kodama. On the cohomology of real Grassmann manifolds. arXiv:1309.5520 (Link to arXiv)
The integral chain complex is determined by an explicit combinatorial procedure involving the Young diagram representations of Schubert cells. There are other papers by the authors in which they determine the incidence graphs of Grassmannians. Maybe the techniques used there can also help to obtain more precise information on the attaching maps.

Concerning the attaching maps for the complex Grassmannians, there is some discussion in the following paper:

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*C. Lenart. The combinatorics of Steenrod operations on the cohomology of Grassmannians. Adv. Math. 136 (1998), no. 2, 251–283. (link to paper on ScienceDirect)
In the final section, you find the specific example $Gr_2(\mathbb{C}^5)$ and remarks on how to detect non-trivial cell attachment using the action of Steenrod operations.


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Emoia boettgeri est une espèce de sauriens de la famille des Scincidae.

Répartition

Cette espèce se rencontre aux Marshall et dans les îles Carolines aux États fédérés de Micronésie.

Étymologie
Cette espèce est nommée en l'honneur d'Oskar Boettger.

Publication originale
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Notes et références

Saurien (nom scientifique)
Eugongylinae


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TD Title (Click to View) Studio Daily Gross Theaters / Avg Screens / Avg Shows / Avg Gross To-Date Day
1 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix WB $18,374,405 4,181 $4,395 9,000 $2,042 37,900 $485 $62,606,743 2
2 Transformers P/DW $6,391,796 4,011 $1,594 7,700 $830 29,700 $215 $186,981,682 10
3 Ratatouille BV $3,310,459 3,625 $913 5,000 $662 21,100 $157 $124,984,886 14
4 Live Free or Die Hard Fox $1,622,607 3,215 $505 3,900 $416 15,300 $106 $92,043,445 16
5 License to Wed WB $1,185,248 2,604 $455 2,700 $439 12,900 $92 $23,068,452 10
6 Evan Almighty Uni. $810,665 2,702 $300 2,800 $290 11,900 $68 $82,895,450 21
7 1408 MGM/W $726,724 2,294 $317 2,300 $316 10,000 $73 $57,192,706 21
8 Knocked Up Uni. $513,995 1,713 $300 1,713 $300 5,400 $95 $134,540,770 42
9 Sicko LGF $402,446 702 $573 770 $523 3,150 $128 $13,225,907 21
10 Evening Focus $307,000 979 $314 990 $310 3,570 $86 $9,686,094 14
11 Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer Fox $287,315 1,392 $206 1,400 $205 5,500 $52 $125,559,118 28
12 Ocean's Thirteen WB $268,069 1,465 $183 1,500 $179 4,200 $64 $110,522,379 35
13 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End BV $234,829 1,102 $213 1,102 $213 2,300 $102 $303,057,674 49
14 Shrek the Third P/DW $117,552 1,421 $83 1,421 $83 3,800 $31 $317,417,794 56
15 Nancy Drew WB $81,379 622 $131 622 $131 1,540 $53 $23,792,264 28
16 La Vie en Rose PicH $73,365 162 $453 170 $432 510 $144 $6,339,258 35
17 Surf's Up Sony $72,229 525 $138 530 $136 1,380 $52 $56,561,229 35
- Deep Sea 3D (IMAX) WB $48,128 35 $1,375 40 $1,203 90 $535 $29,643,305 497
18 Once FoxS $45,225 119 $380 120 $377 470 $96 $4,755,634 58
19 Waitress FoxS $42,372 189 $224 190 $223 610 $69 $17,625,494 72
20 Disturbia P/DW $38,255 283 $135 290 $132 1,060 $36 $79,454,803 91
21 A Mighty Heart ParV $37,011 651 $57 660 $56 2,040 $18 $8,639,155 21
- Paris, je t'aime First $34,000 103 $330 103 $330 290 $117 $4,284,065 70
- Spider-Man 3 Sony $23,006 181 $127 200 $115 560 $41 $334,489,968 70
- Blades of Glory P/DW $22,479 234 $96 240 $94 950 $24 $118,245,842 105
- You Kill Me IFC $20,000 63 $317 70 $286 290 $69 $924,788 21
- Rescue Dawn MGM $13,578 6 $2,263 9 $1,509 41 $331 $228,905 9
- Mr. Brooks MGM $11,550 145 $80 150 $77 390 $30 $28,079,908 42
- 28 Weeks Later FoxA $6,340 98 $65 100 $63 290 $22 $28,500,445 63
- 300 WB $5,705 70 $82 70 $82 180 $32 $210,614,939 126
- Joshua FoxS $5,016 6 $836 6 $836 29 $173 $74,590 7
- Away from Her LGF $4,411 38 $116 40 $110 100 $44 $4,521,694 70
- Introducing the Dwights WIP $2,067 4 $517 5 $413 24 $86 $53,870 9
- The Namesake FoxS $1,914 21 $91 21 $91 40 $48 $13,535,636 126
- Day Watch FoxS $844 10 $84 10 $84 20 $42 $400,372 42
- Gracie PicH $805 21 $38 21 $38 50 $16 $2,945,493 42
- Kickin' It Old Skool YFG $621 10 $62 10 $62 39 $16 $4,502,604 77
- The Ex MGM/W $217 10 $22 10 $22 20 $11 $3,092,904 63
Note: Screen and Showing Counts are estimates made by Box Office Mojo based on showtimes tracking information. To read more about box office tracking and terminology, click here.


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The National Law School of India Review ("Journal") is a student-run, peer-reviewed, academic journal. The journal's editorial board is cognizant of the lack of diversity and representation of scholars from marginalised and vulnerable communities in the legal academia. It also acknowledges that unconscious bias compromises the integrity of the editorial process. The editorial team is committed to ensure that its editorial processes and outcomes do not deny academic/professional advancement opportunities to anyone on account of their structural disadvantages. This 'Diversity and Inclusion Statement' ("Statement") describes our efforts to actively mitigate the exercise of unconscious bias. This is intended to educate our editors, authors and reviewers about how unconscious bias can be identified and how it can be overcome. All persons associated with the Journal, in the capacity of author, reviewer, and editor, are expected to acquaint themselves and adhere to the terms of this Statement.
1. Composition of Editorial Board
The journal strives for greater transparency and diversity with regards to editors and board members. Consequently, the selection process for trainee editors provides for compensatory points on the basis of a multi-dimensional deprivation index. The deprivation index accounts for their socio-economic, caste and gender identity. The year-round training and mentorship is aimed at providing these trainees from diverse backgrounds a level playing field in the competitive selection process for the editorial positions.
2. Editorial Review Process
All editors and members of the journal's team are required to take the Indian version of Implicit Association Test so as to identify and rectify various manifestations of unconscious bias. Primarily, the editorial team focusses on mitigating unconscious bias on the basis of caste, race, gender and age. The journal follows a rigorous double blind peer review process where complete anonymity about the identity of the author is maintained. The editorial team regularly conducts internal briefings to raise awareness about unconscious bias. The team also periodically review the individual and team efforts to eliminate unconscious bias.
3. Workshop/ Symposia Opportunities
The journal organizes a number of academic workshops and research symposiums every year. The editorial board endeavours to discuss diverse themes and issues with a special emphasis on issues that are marginalised in the mainstream legal discourse. Considering the exclusionary socio-economic and gender barriers preventing the participation of scholars from marginalised backgrounds, the editorial board covers the full cost of air travel, logistics and accommodation for the academicians participating in its programmes. Moreover, the editorial board is committed to take positive steps to reach out to presenters and speakers from marginalised backgrounds in order to prevent unconscious bias and enrich the academic engagements . Towards that end, it maintains a list of academics and professionals from marginalised backgrounds, while accounting for intersectionality.
4. Citational Practices
In view of the emerging evidence of under-representation of female and minority scholars in academic scholarship, the NLSIR is committed to ensure just and fair intellectual acknowledgement through citations, regardless of race, gender, class, professional standing, or other categorical attributes. To that end, our submission guidelines specifically mention the need for inclusive citational practices on part of the authors. We also require our editors and peer reviewers to be cognizant of the representativeness of citational practices manifested in the submissions.
5. Peer Reviewers
The NLSIR Peer Review Policy provides for the positive duty of the editorial board to invite a representative cohort of peer reviewers or referees with due regard to gender and social diversity.
6. Further Information
The Journal has its own official website on https://nlsir.com with information about the aims and scope, members of the editorial board and advisory board, the publishing process, editorial policy, peer review policy, diversity policy, subscriptions, and contact information.
Any queries or complaints regarding the information provided above or otherwise may be addressed to the Editor-in-Chief at kopalmital@nls.ac.in.
Unconscious bias < https://www.elsevier.com/open-science/science-and-society/unconscious-bias > accessed 11 July 2020.
Cambridge Global Constitutionalism Manuscript Submissions < https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/global-constitutionalism/call-for-papers> accessed 12 July 2020.
Harvard Implicit Association Test – India < https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/india/takeatest.html > accessed 31 August 2020.
Gender Bias in Peer Review < https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2017/11/01/gender-bias-peer-review-interview-brooks-hanson-jory lerback/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ScholarlyKitchen+%28The+Scholarly+Kitchen%29> accessed 13 July 2020.
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